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Valentino Spring 2012
As four weeks of shows draw to a close, it's apparent that the value of the sincere and personally felt vision is almost the paramount thing in fashion. To make a lasting impression, any house or individual designer needs the ability to open a window on a world of their own—and then make us believe we can be part of it. Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli have reached that state of grace at Valentino—a house which has always "owned" such nebulous qualities as prettiness, fragility, and romance. At one point, it seemed as if those notions could have slipped into history with the retirement of Valentino himself. But now his successors are achieving an effortless balance between maintaining the fantasy, and making it beautifully accessible to a modern girl. Their spring show was a long essay on Valentino's supremacy in the art of finessing everything that can be done with lace – but brought wholly into a contemporary context.
Chiuri and Piccioli said they'd been looking at Mexican folk embroidery and the photographs of Graciela Iturbide and Edward Weston—not that you really need to know this. The knack they have is for using intricate and delicate fabric and making it simple to wear. Their first looks, which they said were derived from "dowry lace," were made in a cotton canvas—reminiscent of the linens you still see used in Italian homes. From there, they worked on lace appliquéd onto organza in flounces, fine Chantilly net, lace worked into micro-flowers, denser, and crunchier guipure right through to silvery, slightly Deco metallic lace for the finale.
It could easily have been a case of overkill—or just an exhausting exhibition of couture-grade fabric wares. But for all the labor that goes into the materials, the clever part is the way the designers reined it back from being cloyingly ingénue or sugary.
Part of that is due to their modest but flattering shapes, usually neatly fitted into a slightly raised waist, with high necklines and some kind of quiet emphasis on the sleeves, which bloom into gentle puffs or soft balloons caught into the cuff. And part of it is their modern and realistic understanding of how a girl wants to feel and move when she goes out. Most of their girls walked in flat thong sandals with tiny, glittery block heels, looking as if they'd just shrugged on their dresses and run out, feeling easy and comfortable with themselves. And who wouldn't want to be one of them?


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Short review: It's pleasure by the pound from this site, so for anyone that enjoys the thickness of a BBW, they are going to make you extremely happy. Beautiful girls spreading through the age span of what looks like late teens to early 30's are getting naked and sharing every stretch mark with the world. The quality is nice for viewing video clips and the images enlarge to pornographic proportions.
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Apron Strings: Ties to the Past
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum
315 W Ave B
Temple TX 76501
Although taken for granted by many social and art historians, the apron is the subject of a fascinating reevaluation in this popular ExhibitsUSA exhibition. Featuring 51 vintage and contemporary examples, Apron Strings: Ties to the Past reviews the apron's role as an emotionally charged vehicle for expression with a rich and varied craft history that is still relevant today.
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I bought this laptop about a month ago. The series was reaching the end of life, new models coming in, I got it for a very low price. My previous laptop was dying and I was looking for a smaller machine (this one is 13″3). Searching the internets did not show issues with Ubuntu, intel video, wireless and sound cards, so I spent the money.
- Only after starting the hardy Live CD did I stumble upon this bug. No boot at all, with this message:
ACPI: EC: acpi_ec_wait timeout, status=0, expect_event=1 ACPI: EC: read timeout, command=128
The workaround is to boot the laptop on battery or disable the "quiet" argument to the kernel. The power cord can be plugged in after login into the session.
- CPU: Intel Core2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz
- Video: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller, working out of the box, compiz enabled
- Network: Marvel 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller + Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection, working out of the box
- sound: Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller, working out of the box
- Not tested: Bluetooth, 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
- No proprietary driver required
- Moving this laptop from one location to the other, with very different networks, is finally easy
Except the boot bug, which can be a stopper to many users,
2.6.24-19-generic runs fine.
All in all, I'm happy :)
Edit: the boot bug is now solved in Ubuntu Hardy.


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Kelly, Cards 'pen team up to take down Cubs
CHICAGO -- It was the kind of game that showed why the Cardinals are on top of the National League Central with two games left before the All-Star break.
After jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning of a 3-2 win against the Cubs on Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field, the Cards were forced to battle the rest of the game to stay ahead. Carlos Beltran was the offensive star, going 3-for-4 with an RBI, but St. Louis won because of an impressive team effort.View Full Game Coverage
CHICAGO -- It was the kind of game that showed why the Cardinals are on top of the National League Central with two games left before the All-Star break.
After jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning of a 3-2 win against the Cubs on Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field, the Cards were forced to battle the rest of the game to stay ahead. Carlos Beltran was the offensive star, going 3-for-4 with an RBI, but St. Louis won because of an impressive team effort.View Full Game Coverage
"I think when you win ballgames that are this close it really shows the type of team that we have," said Beltran, who hit third instead of second because of star left fielder Matt Holliday's right hamstring injury. "The bullpen, the guys coming off the bench, our defense … it's really a big lift when you win the type of games like this one."
It started with a solid outing by Joe Kelly (1-3), the fifth starter who has also worked out of the bullpen as a long reliever this season. Kelly went 5 1/3 innings and allowed just one run, but he wasn't the lone reason for the blue "L" flag atop the flag pole above the scoreboard afterward.
The Cardinals also got a great play by shortstop Pete Kozma in the third that kept them in front 2-1 and squashed a potential Cubs rally. They got a pinch two-out triple in the seventh by journeyman catcher Rob Johnson, who scored the game-winning run on Matt Carpenter's double in the next at-bat. They also had five relievers allow just one run and put out a couple of smoldering fires to make sure Kelly got his first win.
Afterward, Kelly said his friends from the 'pen started joking around that nobody really started the game for the Cardinals -- it was just one big relief effort.
"They were joking around, saying it was a bullpen day," Kelly said, smiling. "I wasn't a starter today. They said, 'Oh, big bullpen day … even Joe, our long reliever, got a chance to start.' But our bullpen's lights out. They're pitching well. We had five guys today pitching out of the bullpen and they're all excellent. That's good to see."
Thanks to a quality start by Jake Westbrook on Thursday, the Cardinals' bullpen came in better rested Friday. It showed in the last four innings, after Kelly handed the game over with one out in the sixth and Anthony Rizzo standing on second with the Cubs trailing 2-1.
Randy Choate was summoned to face back-to-back left-handed hitters and wound up getting out of a sticky spot. He walked Nate Schierholtz to put the potential go-ahead run on first, but then got Brian Bogusevic to ground into an inning-ending double play and preserve the lead.
In the seventh, Seth Maness and Kevin Siegrist got the Cardinals out of another tricky situation by combining to strike out the side. Maness racked up one strikeout before allowing a single to Welington Castillo and then Siegrist took over -- striking out Julio Borbon and Luis Valbuena to close out the frame.
Siegrist gave up a solo homer to Starlin Castro starting the eighth to make it 3-2 and put some pressure on the visitors. Cardinals manager Mike Matheny called up Trevor Rosenthal after Siegrist struck out Rizzo, and he retired two straight to close out the frame.
Edward Mujica closed things out with a 1-2-3 the ninth for his 26th save.
"We have confidence in the bullpen, we can pitch anybody in [any] situation, lefty on lefty or righty on righty," Kelly said. "They all work to give Mujica the ball at the end, but those guys pitched lights out today."
Both starters settled in during the middle innings to keep it tight.
After allowing a leadoff single to Beltran in the third, Cubs starter Carlos Villanueva (2-5) retired the next 12 hitters to keep his team close. Kelly set down seven in a row after allowing his first run in the third on Alfonso Soriano's single that scored Valbuena.
Kelly also got some help defensively by a great play from Kozma, ranging far into the hole at short and firing a bullet to second to get the second out in the third. Valbuena advanced from second to third on the play and then scored, but Kelly got Schierholtz to ground out and really put the spotlight on Kozma's effort to prevent more damage.
Kozma went 0-for-4 at the plate and is hitless in his last 26 at-bats, but he continues to prove his worth in the lineup with his fielding skills.
"We have to stand by what we believe about how much value he brings to us defensively," Matheny said. "Either we're lying or we truly believe that, and if we really believe that … we let him continue to battle at the plate while we take our best shot at winning -- which is oftentimes putting our best defender out there in certain situations."
The Cardinals got off to a great start against Villanueva. Carpenter led the game off with a single and scored on Beltran's one-out triple two batters later. Beltran then made it 2-0 when he scored on Allen Craig's single.
Villanueva walked Matt Adams with two outs to give the Cardinals two runners aboard for David Freese, but he flew out to end the inning. Villanueva got stronger with each frame before he left it up to the Cubs' bullpen -- going six innings, allowing four hits, walking two and striking out four.
"I just couldn't put those guys away," Villanueva said. "We did exactly what we wanted to do but didn't execute the pitches [early]. It just comes down to that."
Brian Hedger is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Tina Rosenberg, an American journalist with a new book to plug, makes a passing reference to my Policy Exchange report, Choosing our Friends Wisely, in a new essay for Foreign Policy magazine. The crux of her piece repeats the hackneyed wisdom of Robert Lambert and Jonathan Githens-Mazer.
What has transpired in Egypt is truly historic. After covering events there for this magazine and spending long periods of time with protesters in Tahrir Square I'm disappointed to have missed their celebrations this evening. I've been speaking by phone to some of the people I met while out there and they tell me a massive party is underway.
In last week's issue of the Spectator, Peter Oborne threw his weight behind a faction within the coalition government, headed by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who are urging David Cameron and some of his closest allies to reassess their current stance on the role Islamist groups should play both in the direction of British Islam and in the government's counter-radicalisation efforts. He believes that Cameron's neoconservative cabal in Whitehall has fundamentally misunderstood what constitutes extremist Islam, and is mistaken in its rejection of a wide array of British Islamist organisations. Instead, he thinks Cameron and his allies must understand that non-violent Islamist groups can act as a useful bulwark against violent extremism. As well as being flawed, his argument also reveals a surprisingly low opinion of Britain's Muslims.
The Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has promised 'decisive measures' against protestors today. Large scale demonstrations are likely to follow Friday prayers today, which will end within the next hour.
Internet traffic is already being disrupted and the country's text message service is down.
We'll keep you posted on any significant developments.
Press TV, the propaganda arm of the Iranian regime, has had its bank account frozen by NatWest Bank. AFP reports:
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BOULDER — Congressman Cory Gardner easily captured the GOP nomination for Senate on Saturday, a clear affirmation from the Colorado Republican party that he's the best candidate to challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Udall in this fall's midterm elections.
Gardner received 73 percent support from the more than 3,900 delegates at the state assembly.
His challengers, state Sen. Randy Baumgardner of Hot Sulphur Springs and Tom Janich of Adams County, failed to gather enough votes to make the ballot.
Gardner took to the stage inside the Coors Events Center earlier Saturday to address delegates, calling for new leadership in the U.S. Senate and touting a message of economic growth, lower taxes and advanced energy development.
"Every day I see faces that are a result of the failure of Washington," Gardner said. "Faces of failed leadership. ... People who have lost their doctor, who are out of work."
Gardner, in his brief remarks, took aim at Udall, saying the senator "just went along for the ride" with President Barack Obama on the Affordable Care Act, a measure polling far from favorably in Colorado.
"Obamacare is the biggest and worst boondoggle this country has ever seen," Gardner said.
The Republican from Yuma, who entered the race in February to widespread applause from the party, cleared the field of most of the high-profile names who at the time were vying for the seat.
Danea Buell, 28, a delegate from Morrison, said the focus for the party needed to be on November.
"Gardner is our best shot at winning the seat," Buell said. "It's about outing Democrats. They've had a chance to lead and haven't done it."
Democrats from around the state gathered in Denver at the Bellco Theatre on Saturday to officially nominate Udall.
"Our Western heritage teaches us to be self-reliant and independent. To be ready for the times in life we've got to stand on our own. But we're also rugged cooperators — we work with our neighbors, no matter what their political philosophy may be," Udall said.
Last week both candidates posted lofty fundraising totals as Gardner raised about $1.4 million and has $2.1 million in his bank account, compared with Udall's $2 million haul and $5.9 million cash on hand. Millions of dollars for TV advertising has already entered the state, with spending coming from third-party groups — a clear sign that underscores Colorado's importance as Republicans in Washington look to take control of the U.S. Senate.


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Jon Benson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
I will be taking the logo that is designed for http://99designs.com/contests/21180 and using it for a line of supplements. This logo will be smaller on the label. If you can do both, great. If not, I will use the winner of the logo contest and pick a supplement label winner from here.
Jon Benson Fitness | Radical Body Transformation
I have a line of supplements that need to have a super-clean, sharp, and "elegant meets powerful" look. Not "bodybuilding" look but not a "foo-foo" look either -- open to a "clinical" look (something almost like a glorified prescription bottle look, but again this is just one suggestion -- open to much more.)
The JBF brand is not the name of the supplement. The supplement names are below (feel free to use one or two in your comps). All names need to look the same and the brand needs to be uniform.
There are many more, but this should do for the comps.
Also required: Typical supplement requirements; Ingredients (there's a standard look for that), instructions for use (comp for now) and a 'back-label' description of what the product does.
Obviously the label itself needs a look that fits with the JBF logo, but that should be pretty simple.
- Uniformed brand look, powerful yet classy, open to very cool ideas re: creating a medical feel or a 'science' feel, but not married to the idea
- Anything cheesy or that looks like it belongs on the shelf at Walmart, a feminine look, or some hard-core bodybuilding look. This is for men and women who are serious about radical body transformation but who are also regular folks.


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PCO5000000EM0 - PCO5 Medium version + PGD1 BUILT IN
Digital Inputs: 14
Digital Outputs: 13
Analogue Inputs: 8 (of which 8 = NTC, 6 = 0..10V / 4..20mA / 0..5V, 2 = PT1000)
Analogue Output: 4 (0..10V)
Communication ports:
- 1 MODBUS Master Built in
- 1 MODBUS Master/MP-BUS Optional (optional card required)
- 1 MODBUS Slave Built in
- 1 BMS (Optional cards required)
- 1 pLAN port Built in
The pCO5 offers more demanding designers up to five serial lines, three of which are always available and allow the protocol to be configured, plus two optional lines that can be configured in terms of both the protocol (Modbus®, BACnet™, CAREL, CANbus, Konnex LON) and the physical support (RS485, Ethernet, CAN, Konnex, Echelon®). Versions are available with both "Host" and "Device" USB ports for connecting a standard USB pendrive and connecting directly to a PC without needing serial coverters.
Technical characteristics
Power supply
24 Vac (±15%), 50/60 Hz or 22 to 40 Vdc
Power input
40 VA or 15 W
Operating conditions
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-40T70 °C, 90% rH non-cond.
Index of protection
IP20 - front panel IP40
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Melbourne, Australia – MiBooks today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Santa and the Christmas List Muddle, their brand new holiday-themed kids adventure book for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It's the night before Christmas and Santa's head elf Simon makes a startling discovery – the pages of Santa's christmas list have all been muddled up! Join Simon, Santa and all the elves as they fly around the world to ensure everyone gets the right presents on Christmas morning.
Santa and the Christmas List Muddle's interactive style engages children whilst they are reading, allowing them to touch and interact with objects and characters that provide rich visual and aural feedback to the reader, including story-driven animation. The illustration style of Santa and the Christmas List Muddle is also particularly appealing to young children.
In Santa and the Christmas List Muddle, the reader can get involved in the story by making decisions about which direction the story should take. This type of interaction allows the reader to feel more involved in the flow of the story.
Santa and the Christmas List Muddle, as with the other books in the MiBooks brand, allows the reader to read the book themselves, with a parent, or have it read to them with the aid of voiceover audio. This is perfect for some younger readers, who aren't yet ready to read the book themselves but still want to enjoy the adventure and fun of Santa and the Christmas List Muddle.
Santa and the Christmas List Muddle also features two fun mini-games during the book, allowing the reader to be immersed in the storyline and take part in helping Simon and Santa get all the people of the world the right presents.
* Explore over 10 different locations at the North Pole and around the world
* A fully animated and interactive environment for kids
* Touch and interact with different items during the story
* Complete two mini-games to help Simon and Santa on their quest
* At certain points in the book, YOU get to choose the direction the story takes
* Read the book yourself, with a parent, or have it read to you
* Designed for children ages 4 and up
Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 4.3 or later
Pricing and Availability:
Santa and the Christmas List Muddle 1.0 is $2.99 AUD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Books category.
Santa and the Christmas List Muddle 1.0
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MiBooks, part of the Hamson Design Group, produce Australian-made interactive, illustrated children's books for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, that kids will love to explore and read over and over again. The MiBooks stories take place in a variety of locations, including on the farm, at the beach, in space and many more. All books feature interactive sections, sounds and the option to read the book yourself or have it read to you, and allow the reader to complete various tasks or choose the direction or path they want the story to take, meaning the story can be different and remain engaging on the fourth or fifth read! Copyright (C) 2012 Hamson Design Group. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.


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Onto the Web
About two years later, Berners-Lee created his own World Wide Web browser, then released the coding library for the project so that programmers could develop their own versions. Soon a group of students in Finland developed a browser called Erwise. Unfortunately, the country was mired in a deep recession at that point, severely limiting Erwise's prospects.
"We could not have created a business around Erwise in Finland then," one of the team members explained. But other developers had also downloaded Berners-Lee's code. These included Pei-Yuan Wei, working on UNIX X-terminals at UC Berkeley's Experimental Computing Facility. Where did Wei derive inspiration for his "ViolaWWW" web browser? He took his lead from a program that he found fascinating, even though he did not have a Mac of his own.
"HyperCard was very compelling back then, you know graphically, this hyperlink thing," Wei later recalled. "I got a HyperCard manual and looked at it and just basically took the concepts and implemented them in X-windows," which is a visual component of UNIX. The resulting browser, Viola, included HyperCard-like components: bookmarks, a history feature, tables, graphics. And, like HyperCard, it could run programs.
This was around 1992. By then, an actual Mac-based Web client was in the works—Nicola Pellow and Robert Cailliau's Samba, also influenced by HyperCard.
Admiring all this activity was a young developer named Marc Andreesen of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. Andreesen's team launched Mosaic in January of 1993; it was the first browser available on PCs, Macs, and UNIX systems. Mosaic morphed into Mosaic Netscape a year later.
Not long after that, I downloaded a copy of Netscape onto a Dell PC. "Wow," I thought, as I surfed various sites. "This looks like HyperCard."
HyperCard's legacy
Where does HyperCard fit in the narrative of innovation? It's always tempting to go the condescending route and compare the program to, say, the optical telegraph, which was the magnetic telegraph's largely forgotten predecessor; or to John Logie Baird's mechanical television set, a forerunner to electronic TV; or to the cable/satellite music download experiments of Bill Von Meister, all of which tanked but eventually inspired America Online.
But these were all flops. In its two decade life span, HyperCard was enormously successful, and it succeeded all over the world. The Victoria Museum of Melbourne, which keeps track of Australia's scientific and cultural history, has published a list of ways that educators in Melbourne used the program:
• a stack of multiple choice test questions
• assembling, storing and delivering teaching materials that included graphs from Excel
• making class KeyNote-like presentations and handouts for students
• a calculator that included a variety of mathematical functions and graphing capabilities
• computer aided instruction in the sciences incorporating animation and sound
• fractals
• Geographical Information System tutorial
• oil-spill modelling
• literacy development
• road safety
• a database front-end to an Oracle database
• a database in toxicology
• selecting and playing tracks on a videodisk
• an interactive educational presentation showing jobs in the wool industry
• educational interactive games 'Flowers of Crystal' and 'Granny's Garden'
• 'Beach Trails' - exploring the local sea shore and shells.
• TTAPS ('Touch Typing - a Program for Schools').
As late as August 2002, there were probably 10,000 HyperCard developers. Three years after its initial episode on the software, the Computer Chronicles TV show did a followup show on HyperCard's development. They found HyperCard software designed to run a television studio. MIT had produced an interactive video magazine via the program. A seventh grader was writing a timeline of Russian history on HyperCard, and children as young as kindergarten played with the application.
No surprise, then, that programmers for the Cyan software company originally wrote their hugely popular puzzle/adventure game Myst as a HyperCard stack. That explains the game's beautiful graphics and slow motion quality, punctuated by ambient sounds or an unexpected video. But even in 1987, when Macs displayed in black and white, HyperCard developers and graphics artists produced subtle, fascinating landscapes that often escape the Web to this day.
How did creator Bill Atkinson define HyperCard? "Simply put, HyperCard is a software erector set that lets non-programmers put together interactive information," he told the Computer Chronicles in 1987.
When Tim Berners-Lee's innovation finally became popular in the mid-1990s, HyperCard had already prepared a generation of developers who knew what Netscape was for. That's why the most apt historical analogy for HyperCard is best adapted not from some failed and forgotten innovation, but from a famous observation about Elvis Presley. Before anyone on the World Wide Web did anything, HyperCard did everything.


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Pat & Lorna Shanks needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 187 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We are a couple that create spectacular presentations online which include audio, visual and kinetic components. These presentations are designed to teach and inform others how to create content, information and presentations for their own online businesses. We do this because we get frustrated just listening to or reading other people's content and have a greater appreciation for it if there are visuals involved. We're pretty sure that there are other people who feel the same as we do. We want people to be able to understand how to get started on their online business and how to create the content for it. We get juiced when others succeed from what we help them with. We are a heart-centered company... and the Coolest Couple on the planet (search Google and see).
The audience for our trainings are people who have their own online businesses. This market is not new, will have a large range of age groups and will have people from both genders. We are looking at mostly mature clientele, and not those who are just looking for the "easy money". Their first interest is in helping their clients and customers, and they put them and their needs first. They are people who take action and put what they've learned into practice.
We are looking for a logo/web header graphic.
Go to http://www.PatAndLorna.com and take a look at the header at the top of the blog. We want to have our picture (on the left) and the SP with star and red arrow included in the Coolest Couple graphic that you are designing.
The header graphic needs to be 950 x 150 pixels.
We want the logo/graphic to read "The Coolest Couple.com" and to lean heavily on the cool theme (not temperature cool). Some theme cues: confident, laid back, and positive.
Concept image for header graphic:
The concept image is just that... a concept. We are looking for creative and imaginitive ways to create "cool" in our graphic.
We require the logo/web graphic in an Adobe Photo Shop format.
We currently have logos/web header graphics for our Spectacular Presentation company. You can see these images at:
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Seth.singham necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 174 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
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Consilium Technology Pty Ltd is a professional services company specialising in software development and technical business analysis.
Consilium Technology Pty Ltd follows a principle based approach to software development leveraging proven requirements, design, and implementation techniques that have evolved over the past 50 years. Some techniques include but are not limited to:
- maintaining regular and open communications with the customer;
- Agile SDLC incorporating a flexible v-model for each iteration;
- practical use of design patterns;
- Model Driven Architecture (MDA) with the Unified Modelling Language (UML); and
- modelling complex legacy systems for improved maintainability;
More details can be found at the website, consiliumt.com.
The target audience is for the following types of businesses/organisations:
- existing technology solutions providers who require resources to implement their solutions;
- small businesses who require a technical business analyst to design a system solution and provide follow on implementation
- defence research industries who require software development support
- defence acquisition organisations who requires systems engineering support
The types of people the logo should appeal to are:
- technology professionals
- small business owners
- project managers
- executive level business people
- mid to upper management types in large organisations
Some examples of businesses in the target audience are:
- raytheon.com.au
- saabsytems.com.au
- smsmt.com.au
- baesystems.com
- asc.com.au
1. The logo shall have a tone of professionalism.
2. The logo shall have a tone that indicates the company is technology based.
2. The logo shall contain the word "Consilium" in it.
3. The logo may optionally contain the entire company name "Consilium Technology" if the design looks more appealing then only having the word "Consilium" in it.
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- JPEG and GIF formats — For web or email use. The GIF graphic should be created with a transparent background.
- TIF format at 300 dots per inch (DPI) resolution, in RGB color format — For use in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files.
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In the Name of Democracy: U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the Reagan Years, Thomas Carothers
The Rise and Fall of Colin Powell and the Powell Doctrine, Walter LaFeber
The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century, Charles A. Kupchan Reviewed by Walter LaFeber
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals, David Halberstam Reviewed by Walter LaFeber
The Post September 11 Debate Over Empire, Globalization, and Fragmentation, Walter LaFeber
Years of Renewal, Henry Kissinger Reviewed by Walter LaFeber more by this author
The Turning Point. Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, and Chiang-Kai-Shek, 1943: The Moscow, Cairo, and Teheran Conferences, Keith Sainsbury
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The Reagan Administration and Revolutions in Central America, Walter LaFeber
Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of Our Time, Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George
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Defending America, Theodore Draper
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• Jaguar C-X17 Concept unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show
• The marque's first sports crossover concept
• All-new advanced aluminum architecture will be tested on C-X17
• Range of engine outputs include four-cylinder diesel and gasoline engines, and the powerful V6 engine
• Engines will allow top speeds of 186mph and lower emissions
Earlier this month, Jaguar released the first official teaser image of its C-X17 concept, which revealed Jaguar's first foray into the CUV/SUV segment. Today, Jaguar has finally unveiled its first ever highly anticipated sports crossover concept vehicle – the C-X17 at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show.
Jaguar is using the C-X17 as a guinea pig to test out its all-new advanced aluminum architecture, which will be the new platform on which future Jaguars will be built. Land Rover, which happens to be Jaguar's sister company, recently began implementing aluminum architecture, starting with the new 2014 Range Rover Sport, which was Land Rover's first car to feature an all-new aluminum unibody. As a result, the new Sport's weight was reduced by 800lbs. Jaguar's F-Type as well as various other Jaguar models are made of aluminum, so what makes this new technology special? According to Jaguar, the advanced aluminum architecture is high-strength, lightweight, extremely stiff and incorporates innovative efficiency technologies.
"The C-X17 sports crossover represents an exciting new direction for Jaguar. Its purpose is to highlight our all-new aluminum architecture. With this technical foundation, we will dramatically expand Jaguar's product offering, market potential and customer appeal. This new philosophy will bring technology from our top-of-the-range products into new growing premium segments, and when combined with our new ultra-efficient engines, we will set a global standard. Add to these rational values, the class-leading dynamics, and the beauty and purity of form that Jaguar is renowned for, and we have the formula for a monumental leap forward."
Adrian Hallmark, Global Brand Director, Jaguar
And if you're wondering what you'll find under the hood of these future Jaguars, we'll tell you right now. The range of engine outputs for Jaguar vehicles featuring the advanced aluminum body will include all-new four-cylinder diesel and gasoline engines, and the powerful V6 engine seen in the Jaguar F-TYPE sports car. These engines will allow top speeds of over 186mph, as well as lower emissions.
The C-X17 concept in particular, is equipped with an All-Wheel Drive system, driving modes such as Road, Sport or All-Road, and a low-sitting stance, which pretty much rules out the possibility of going on any off-road excursions. It also comes with 23in alloy wheels, LED headlamps, J-shaped running lights and frosted-glass foglights set into the large front intakes, and a grille is inspired by the XJ.
The interior features four individual bucket seats, and two leisure seats finished in Connolly saddle leather that swing up and out of the cargo area floor for use when the car is stopped and the rear hatch opened. The C-X17 also comes equipped with an Interactive Surface Console made up of interconnecting touch screens, which allow the occupants of the vehicle to interact with one another via an in-car Wi-Fi network. This sounds like a useful tool for the soccer moms that want to keep little Johnny and Sally entertained.
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Width 1959
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Student or Learner
How to write a Narrative Essay
indeed ,,I have problem in the writing subject especially in writing the Narrative Essay..
can you help me,,please by using the specific steps and examples if you can
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can u help me??
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If so, what problems are you having?
Basically, writing a narrative essay is writing a narrative. A narrative is a story - you narrate a series of events, a tale. For example, the tales of Sinbad and 1001 nights are mainly narratives. The focus is on action rather than description or dialogue or poetic imagery.
So, you don't give a lot of description of people or scenery, or use much dialogue. You tell a story in which things happen.
but in my last exam ,,they gave us this topic to write about it
1_ write by using a narrative paragraph about
- the place that you can't forget it ,whether indoor or outdoor,,and why??
<<describe it
I think that's wrong,,, the best is by using a descriptive paragraph
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Signups for the youth baseball and softball programs are now under way and will continue through Feb. 22.
Bastrop-Morehouse Dixie baseball and softball signups are under way and will continue through Friday. Feb. 22. Signups are being conducted at the Bastrop Parks & Recreation office, located in Room 224 of the City Hall Complex, from 8 a.m.-noon and from 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Participants are advised of the following guidelines:
* Each participant must present a birth certificate even if he or she has played previously. No Exceptions!
* Girls who turn age 5 on or before Jan. 1, 2013 are eligible to participate. Any girl over the age of 19 as of Jan. 1, 2013 is ineligible.
* Boys who turn age 5 on or before Dec. 31, 2013 are eligible to play. Any boy over the age of 14 on or before May 1, 2013 is ineligible.
* Girls ages 7-18 will be divided into age groups and placed in the Darlings, Angels, Belles, Debs and Ponytails leagues.
* Boys ages 7-14 will be divided into age groups and placed in the Rookie (pitching machine), Minor, Youth and Boys leagues.
* Youth ages 5-6 will play in the T-Ball (boys) and Sweetees (girls) leagues.
* Players are responsible for purchasing their own uniforms.
* All players for the 2013 season are required to purchase Dixie Youth Insurance at the time of registration.
* Participants are not required to be present for signups.
* No refunds will be paid after March 15. No Exceptions!
* A late fee will be charged after Monday, Feb. 25.
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Owens-Illinois Inc. (OI) Falls 4.58% for January 12Equities Staff Follow |
One of the S&P 500's big losers for Tuesday January 12 was Owens-Illinois Inc. (OI). The company's stock fell 4.58% to $13.95 on volume of 2.4 million shares.
The stock opened the day at 14.77 and traded between a low of $13.86 and a high of $14.89. The stock finished the day down $0.67 per share. Owens-Illinois Inc. has an average daily volume of 1.74 million and a total float of 160.84 million shares. The 50-day SMA for Owens-Illinois Inc. is $18.54 and its 200-day SMA is $21.74. The high for the stock over the last 52 weeks is $26.62 and the low is $14.37.
Owens-Illinois Inc is a manufacturer of glass containers in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and South America. The main product lines are glass containers for the food and beverage industries.
Owens-Illinois Inc. is centered in Perrysburg, OH, and has 21,100 employees. Today's trading day leaves the company with a market cap of $2.24 billion. The company has a P/S ratio of n/a, P/B ratio of 2.92, and a -0.9.
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Cross-posted from the Airheads listserve:
A ride is being put together from the Houston, TX area to San Antonio, TX and Ft. Sam Houston to visit with the wounded veterans in the hospital there. Small gifts will be delivered along with pre-paid phone cards. These vets are among our most seriously wounded from the Iraq / Afghanistan area.
The ride is tentatively set for Dec 24. It will be a turn around, leaving early AM, returning late afternoon, early PM. In case of rain for all or most of the route, or snow/ice in the San Antonio area an alternate date would be used. If same weather conditions apply for the alternate date, ride would be canceled, and all gifts mailed to the hospital.
If you sign up, please bring something to give them. Pre-paid phone cards can be used by the troops from their barracks there. If you wish only to contribute a small gift, a pre-paid phone card, or send a contribution to buy a phone card, that's great too. A PayPal account has been set up at: firstname.lastname@example.com. Contributions can be sent to that account. As of Dec 20, more than $300 has been collected in phone cards and phone card donations for these service members.
Any questions or to sign up, contact Sarge at the same above email.
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Lamar Odom's ex college roommate, and former NBA player Cuttino Mobley believes L.O. can shake off his drug problems in time to make it back to the NBA ... THIS SEASON!
Mobley, who's 38 and attempting his own comeback, was cruising through the Grove Monday when he said, "Hopefully Lamar will be back before mid (season)."
Lamar is 5 years younger than Mobley, but as TMZ first reported ... he's also battling crack addiction -- so pretty shocking to hear Mobley say Lamar will comeback before he does.
Thing is ... Cuttino looks to be in really good shape.
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bjwil1991 wrote:The only memory managers that work with the SoftMPU program are only emm386 and qemm at the moment.
Since Jemm386 is part of FreeDOS, the memory manager doesn't work with the software quite yet since the SoftMPU program needs sets of instructions or commands to allow Jemm386 to work with the SoftMPU program itself.
Thanks for answer, well no choice, dual boot for now
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What happened to all your Happy Meal toys from years past? The new Toy Story short, "Small Fry" shows that life isn't easy for the old plastic food toy, even if you do transform from a steak into a robot. Watch a clip right now!
Director Angus MacLane told USA Today that Small Fry, "is like the Prince and the Pauper tale for toys. Except one of them happens to be 3 inches tall." And yes, that Mermaid is Jane Lynch who is the "narcissistic support-group leader Neptuna." "Small Fry" will be screened before The Muppets starting November 23.


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June 08, 2012
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June 8, 2012 (Fullerton, CA) - Cal South presented a donation check in the amount of $24,640 on Wednesday, June 6 at the Cal South Corporate Office to University of Texas midfielder and Cal South ODP alumnus Kylie Doniak and her family to help with the huge medical costs incurred after Doniak was struck by a drunk driver in Austin, Texas in February.
The money was raised at a special event hosted by Cal South on June 2-3 called "Coaches for Kylie." The special college identification event for girls (ages 12-18) was held on the Cal State Fullerton campus, and was run by numerous top college coaches, each of whom graciously donated their time for the clinic.
"The biggest part is that it brought us a lot closer as a family," said Dave Doniak, Kylie's father. "Thank you so much to Cal South, and Steve and Kathy Hoffman. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart, and my family's."
In attendance at the ceremony were not only the Doniak family - Kylie, Dave, her sister Makenzy and mother Lori - but also some of the coaches instrumental in putting together the event: Demian Brown and Diego Bocanegra (Cal State Fullerton), Ali Khosroshahin (USC), and Ramon Reid and Walid Khoury (Slammers FC). Also in attendance were Cal South's CEO John Weinerth and Director of Player Development and Coaching Education Steve Hoffman.
"Without the camaraderie of the college coaches… for them to come together for Kylie last weekend is one of the most special things I've have seen in my life," said Hoffman. "I'm so proud and pleased to be a colleague of all these coaches. These two young ladies, Makenzy and Kylie, are fantastic players for Cal South. We are just so happy that we can help them."
Doniak was struck by a drunk driver on February 3, 2012 in downtown Austin as she was using a crosswalk. The accident left her with a massive head injury, a broken neck, a broken collarbone, a punctured lung, several broken ribs, facial lacerations, severe road rash, and broken leg bones.
She was taken to intensive care, where the swelling of her brain caused doctors to place her in a medically induced coma. After several operations and a move to a hospital in California, Kylie began to slowly recover and undergo rehab for her brain injury. In mid-April, she finally returned home after over two months in medical care. Walking once again, Kylie still has a long way to go to full recovery.
• To learn more about Kylie's recovery, please visit http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/kyliedoniak


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Portia and Ellen OUT with kids
There is a feeling among us of wanting to have children together, right? They seem lovely and genuinely in love with each other so it's easy to project our own baby desires (or mine, anyway) onto them. Also their wedding was flawless so imagine what they could do with a kid's birthday party? Still, no babies for Hollywood's #1 power lesbians, not now, not ever.
They've both talked about the issue before and now Portia is confirming they're going to continue living baby-free in the new issue of OUT. It's pretty cool of them to be so open about a rather personal decision, one that lots of people must struggle with. Portia admits to second guessing herself but says in the end simply "you have to really want kids and neither of us did."
Here's my question - is not having children something that people are judged for, still? I guess it must be on some level, since this news is blowing up. What's at the heart of that though? Do we think they're selfish for not sharing their lives (and LBR dat $$$!) with a baby? Or is it still hard for us to imagine a completely satisfied life that doesn't include raising the next generation? Seems like if we should be judging anyone's procreation choices, it's the 10-kids-and-counting Duggars of the world, which just feels wasteful, if you ask me (not that I know anything about having children).
The obviously way more important thing that Portia actually is giving birth to though is more Arrested Development! She paints a really attractive picture of making a TV series for Netflix, saying "we didn't really feel the presence of a studio or a network. It felt like an independent feature, very creative and loose." Sounds great. I, for one, can't wait to see to see how Lindsay Bluth is handling 2013. She's for sure trying to become internet famous, right?


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In 2013, the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) designated the Forever Wild Land Trust's Coldwater Mountain tract near Anniston as a Bronze Level Ride Center, a large-scale mountain bike facility that offers a wide variety of ride options for riders of all skill levels. The IMBA has also inducted Oak Mountain State Park's mountain bike trails into its Epic Ride Hall of Fame. That makes Greg Lein very happy. Lein, former administrator with Forever Wild, is currently the director of the Alabama State Parks Division.
"Alabama is one of the fastest growing states in terms of mountain bike trail construction and ridership," Lein said. "With dramatically varied terrain throughout the state and weather suitable for riding year-round, Alabama as a biking destination makes perfect sense both economically and geographically."
While Coldwater Mountain might be a focal point for mountain bike trail construction, it isn't the only part of the state courting mountain bikers. Nine of Alabama's 22 State Parks and a handful of other Forever Wild properties offer mountain bike trails as well. For example, trail restoration and construction is currently a priority at Chewacla State Park in Auburn. The park now has many new miles of trail thanks in part to the Central Alabama Mountain Pedalers (CAMP). CAMP President Philip Darden says that mountain biking and Alabama State Parks perfectly complement each other and create a benefit for all park visitors.
"Mountain biking and state parks go hand in hand because we both need each other," said Darden. "So many parks around the state are searching for visitors just to stay afloat and many mountain bikers are looking for new, interesting places to ride. We can help each other out by volunteers coming into the parks and building multi-use trails. Not only do mountain bikers ride the trails that many organizations such as CAMP build, but hikers and walkers utilize the trails as well. It's truly a win-win for all Alabamians."
In addition to mountain bike and hiking trail construction, Alabama State Parks have branched out into new territory with biking attractions such as pump tracks and BMX tracks. While Oak Mountain State Park's BMX and pump tracks are well-established, CAMP and other volunteers are helping construct a new BMX and pump track at Chewacla.
"As we enter the 75th year of Alabama State Parks, we will be expanding what is available to park visitors," Lein said. "In 2013, we saw the introduction of a zip line at Gulf State Park, a new gem mining facility at Cheaha, and other new park facilities across the state. We will continue to improve and expand the Alabama State Park experience in 2014 and encourage everyone to visit a park to see what's new this year."
Last year the Forever Wild Land Trust and Alabama State Parks received widespread media attention for their expansion of mountain biking opportunities across the state and Richard Edwards, IMBA Trail Solutions Manager, has named Coldwater Mountain the IMBA's Southeastern trail laboratory. To see videos of various bike trails in Alabama, visit these links:
Coldwater Mountainhttp://vimeo.com/65914390http://vimeo.com/71734493In print, Outdoor Alabama magazinehttp://www.outdooralabama.com/outdoor-alabama/spotlightcoldwater.pdfIMBA's Coldwater Mountain profilehttp://www.imba.com/ride-centers/current/coldwater-mountain
Oak Mountain State Park Pump Trackhttp://vimeo.com/40884848IMBA's Oak Mountain profilehttp://www.imba.com/epics/oak-mountain
Chewacla State Parkhttp://vimeo.com/70590006http://on.fb.me/1bLIl1A
For a complete list of Alabama State Parks with mountain bike trails, visit www.alapark.com/Trails/. For a list of Alabama Forever Wild Land Trust tracts with hiking and mountain biking opportunities, visit http://outdooralabama.com/public-lands/stateLands/foreverWild/.
Alabama's growing network of mountain bike and hiking trails would not be possible without the hard work of organizations such as the IMBA; CAMP; the Birmingham Urban Mountain Pedalers (BUMP), which helps build and maintain trails at Oak Mountain and other sites around the Birmingham area; and the Northeast Alabama Bicycle Association (NEABA), which has assisted in the construction and maintenance of the trails at Coldwater Mountain and other sites in northeast Alabama. Currently, many other organizations and volunteer groups are investing countless hours in locations across the state to make Alabama a mountain biking mecca.
More information about the Alabama State Parks 75th Anniversary Celebration will be posted at www.alapark.com during the coming months. Visit the website often for new trail openings, lodging, camping and dining specials and event announcements.
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources promotes wise stewardship, management and enjoyment of Alabama's natural resources through five divisions: Marine Police, Marine Resources, State Lands, State Parks, and Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries. To learn more about ADCNR, visit www.outdooralabama.com.


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First, if the "Outdoor Industry Association" wants to take their trade show somewhere else, let 'em. They don't live here, and I can't say that I miss having them as my neighbors.
Second, I have always known Negro Bill Canyon as that. I say we should leave it as that. I imagine with him being the success he was, he'd be a fine man to sit and chew the fat with. Imagine the education one would get from that chat. I think that having the name like it is provokes inquiry as to why it's called that. People aren't going to be as prone to ask, "why is it called Grandstaff Canyon" as much as they are with the name it has. I don't see any room for "political correctness" in history because that destroys the unique flavor that history has.
Third, the homeless issue is a losing proposition no matter how you look at it. A lot of people try to help, and more often than not their help is accepted until the homeless realize there's strings attached. Like getting out of the slump they're in that causes them to be homeless.
More often than not you will find mental illness to be the primary cause. And addictions feed into the mental illness. Addictions like booze and drugs. But there is a third that you likely missed – attention. Yeah, attention. I met a homeless fella last summer, and I helped him every which way I could. I befriended him and listened to his worries and complaints; I gave him a ride once in a while to somewhere he had to go to. I even gave him some food. I contacted a local charity that can help with housing and helped the two meet.
What I received in return is a man that is afraid of change. And you will find that many of the long-term homeless are like that. They get used to using people. They get used to a way of life and they really don't want to change. Feeling lonely and depressed and not having the resources that people with housing typically have, it becomes more of a security blanket for them.
I feel the best way to learn how to help the homeless is to go live homeless yourself for a while and learn what it's like from the inside. It's very educating.
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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Saturday, July 09, 2005
History of Turks and Caicos Islands
The Turks and Caicos Islands are situated over 575 miles southeast of Miami, Florida and 39 miles south east of Mayaguana in the Bahamas. Covering over 193 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean, the Turks and Caicos Islands has one of the longest coral reefs in the world.
The history of the islands has some exciting events. The British, French, and Spanish fought over the islands repeatedely in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Pirates were a common site in those days as well. Recent history is mostly political and a lot more tame.
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The islands were uninhabited when, about 1678, the Bermudians began to visit them to rake the salt found in the ponds. These visits became annual and permanent settlements were made. In 1710, the British were expelled by the Spaniards, but they returned and the salt trade (largely with the American colonies) continued to be carried on by the Bermudians despite attacks by Spaniards and French, and counter-claims to the islands by the British authorities at the Bahamas, who about 1765 made good their claim.
From about 1690 to 1720, pirates hid in the cays of the Turks and Caicos Islands, attacking Spanish treasure galleons to Spain from Cuba, Hispaniola and the Spanish posessions in Central America and Peru.
In 1799, the islands were given representation in the Bahamas Assembly, and they remained part of that colony until 1848, when on the petition of the inhabitants they were made a separate colony under the supervision of the governor of Jamaica. This arrangement proving financially burdensome the islands were in 1873 definitely annexed to Jamaica.
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- TeaRoseFury said...
Hello - I could not find an e-mail, so I trying to contact you through here. I was just happy to find another history focused - exclusively, in fact - blog. My blog, at http://tearosefury.blogspot.com/, covers many topics and also acts as a personal blog, but I blog extensivley about historical topics, mostly relating to the 18th century, and thus was glad to see I was not entirely alone. Thanks, keep it up :).
- Miland said...
Thanks tearosefury. I looked at your blog and it is very interesting. I enoyed several of your posts about Jefferson.
And yes, you are cuter than Lindsey Lohan in front of Herbie. That personal touch to a history blog annoys some and makes it more endearing to others. I personally like it.


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Today I wanted to share with you my thoughts on Warby Parker's new Spring and Palm Canyon collection. They have both prescription glasses as well as sunglasses, their prices start from $95 and their glasses are available from their website here and their showrooms.
What I love about this brand is their amazing prices and large selection of different colours and designs to chose from. They have definitely something for everyone! Also another plus for me is their website, which is so appealing and easy to navigate.
"With the Palm Canyon Collection, we've refreshed some of our best-loved frames—Winston, Duckworth,
Preston, and Wheeler—in a Palm Springs palette of mesquite, acacia, ironwood, and sand"
If you are looking to invest in a good pair of sunglasses I think it's better to invest in more neutral/earthy tones as they will look good with every outfit you wear. This collection is definitely what you are looking for, perfect colours but unique designs.
Some of my favourites from this collection (click on the images to find out more):


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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Italian-style chicken with capers, anchovy and tomatoes
After lousy November and December (read: dark, wet, cold, windy) we are now in the middle of beautiful January (read: bright, snow, cold). Proper winter weather, which I enjoy, even though it's much harder to push a pram on a snow-covered street, and it's occasionally slippery and icy - sometimes I think that holding on to a pram is the only thing that keeps me upright and in balance :) Ah, the joys of snow-filled cold Nordic winters :)
You need proper hot food to keep your body and soul warm on days like these - and this chicken stew is just the thing. Rosemary and tomatoes, capers and anchovies give this dish plenty of character and a strong Mediterranean feel, almost taking you back to those sun-drenched summer days and warm sea breeze.
I used a whole chicken, cut up to feed six, but you can easily use just drumsticks or bone-in thighs or just breasts, if you're ready to give up some of the chicken flavour.
The recipe is adapted from a recent issue of a Danish food magazine, Mad (that's 'food' in Danish, not a state of mind ;)) They suggested serving this with quinoa. Though I loved quinoa, it seemed too mushy to accompany this dish, so I opted for good Italian bulgur wheat instead.
Italian-style chicken with capers, anchovy and tomatoes
(Mõnus tomatine kanahautis kapparite ja rosmariiniga)
Serves six
Takes about an hour
1 whole broiler chicken, cut up into 8 or 10
some olive oil
4 good anchovy fillets, chopped
6 garlic cloves, sliced thinly
2 onions, peeled, halved and sliced thinly
250 ml (a cup) of dry white wine
300 g cherry tomatoes, halved
400 g can chopped tomatoes
2 Tbsp chopped fresh rosemary
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 Tbsp capers, rinsed and drained
Heat oil on a large heavy sauté pan. Brown chicken pieces on all sides (do that in batches, avoid over-crowding the pan). Put browned chicken pieces on the side.
If the pan looks too dry, add another splash of oil. Add anchovies, sauté for a minute. Add the onions and fry gently for a few minutes. Add garlic, fry for another minute. Do not brown!
Return the chicken pieces on the pan, pour over the wine. Simmer for 5 to 10 minutes, until the wine has reduced by half.
Add the tomatoes (both crushed and halved), season with salt, pepper and rosemary. Simmer gently for 25 minutes or so, until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce has thickened.
Add capers, taste again for seasoning and serve.
3 comments:
- Chloe Martin said...
Thanks for the recipe I'll try to cook this one.
Please visit: Just Eat
- 10:45 am, January 20, 2012
- Andrew said...
wow - the colour of that stew! looks stunning
- 3:17 pm, January 23, 2012
- Pille said...
Chloe - hope you will!
Andrew - I know!!! So, which wine would you recommend with this? ;)
- 12:10 pm, January 25, 2012
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I'm new to figuring out all these laws. Everyone mentions outside of Chicago, but what would be legal in Chicago?
I'm pretty sure you can still arm yourself with a spork! I don't think that is a banned weapon yet!
Are you talking about a metal or plastic spork?
Ahh,,,, the evil plastic spork that is undetectable by metal detectors at security screenings.


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Remember that Neon Genesis Evangelion hotel room in Fujiyoshida, Japan we mentioned last month? Here's footage of this $450-a-night pleasure chamber. You can sleep in the plug-shaped bed with two of your closest friends!
You can watch a full 10-minute video about the room (in Japanese) over at Yahoo. It goes over some of the room's quirkier features, like the text written on the walls that appears with black lights and the television attached to the ceiling.
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AT&T New Wireless Plans And Femtocell (Microcell) Costs More?
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As usual Andy from VoIP Watch has brought up a questions and three answers regarding AT&T's press release on new wireless plans yesterday or rather what is not in the press release,
"The other detail missing from the press release is the apparent fact that femtocell traffic ("Microcell" in AT&T parlance) is *included* in counting towards the quota, but WiFi traffic is *excluded*." Dean Bubleythat makes you think AT&T is out to gouge you while helping other carriers like cable gouge you as well. You might find paying for the same service twice. Here are Andy's answers, you can find the question on Andy's post;
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2) You will pay for the the pleasure of having a Microcell in your own network, possibly carrying your neighbors traffic because of coverage gaps in the AT&T network
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Friday night we had our family Christmas party with the Rileys hosted by Jenn and Matt. I again, failed at taking pictures. But dad got some good ones! It was a lot of fun, as usual, and I ate way too much, as usual.
Saturday we spent our first day off together in 5 or 6 weeks by organizing the house.
Sunday, after church, we realized how much free time we actually had. Choir practice was canceled, which meant we didn't have to be back at church until 7:00. Whoa!! After spending the day cooking, eating, organizing more nursery stuff, watching a movie, and generally being lazy, I realized why so many people skip night church. It felt like we had been at home for ages!
Monday was our December doctor's appointment. I knew it was going to be a real nothing appointment, but good grief, I hardly even saw the doctor's face! We were definitely in the waiting room much longer than in the room with him, although I guess that is the norm for doctor's appointments. All they did at this appointment was weight and blood pressure, listened to her heartbeat, and measured me for the first time. I wasn't privy to her heartbeat number or if I'm measuring correctly, but based on the quick, "Everything's perfect!" I got as Dr. B raced out the door, I think that's a good sign.
So now it's Christmas Eve! We will celebrate Christmas with Stephen's family tonight, which is always fun because we do the White Elephant/Chinese gift exchange. Tomorrow we can relax because we don't have anything until dinner with my family at 5:00. That means I will cook a delicious breakfast and I plan on staying in my pajamas until I feel like taking a shower.
I am so grateful that for the past couple of years both mine and Stephen's families have decided gifts are overrated. Our family picks donations instead, and you can give any dollar amount you can afford. With Stephen's family, we have tried different things over the years. One year we picked two names and got gifts under a certain amount. One year we had to give a $20 bill to two different people in the most creative way we could think of. This year we just drew one name each, and our gift(s) has(have) to be able to fit into these small boxes we have. That is going to be one hard task, considering I drew Stephen's name. What I got for him is definitely going to have a hard time fitting in there. We haven't bought each other Christmas presents in probably four years or so, so I was actually really excited to be able to buy him something just for fun. I don't think he's ever read this blog except for when I make him ("I live our life - why should I read about it?!") but I don't want to put what I got him just in case.
I will be very slack about updating for a while because on Friday we leave for Georgia, where we'll be until after New Years. So, Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year!!! Be safe, eat a lot, take lots of naps, and be blessed!!


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I can't believe it, but it's been over two months since I last posted anything here! It's been busy for me, with a birthday, a vacation, work, planning baby showers and family reunions, the start of baseball season, and other hobbies. I haven't done much in the way of genealogy, since my Ancestry.com and Genealogy Bank memberships expired and FamilySearch is often to buggy too use properly and I haven't gotten any road trips in.
But I did get one thing done: I finished and published my Family History Writing Challenge project! I finished my Albea Family History book, which I wrote using Blub.com's BookSmart program. My goal was to write an overview of one family line, including as many documents as I could. You can see a few of the pages below, which include census and marriage records, as well as cemetery photos. I also included birth and death certificates, deeds, wills, voter registration, draft cards and photographs. In the end, I covered seven generations in 78 pages. I did this, in part, because I love the original documents, but also as a way to cite my sources without... citing my sources.
I love how the book turned out. The quality is fantastic; my book feels sturdy and tight and the print quality is great. I tried to make sure that my photos and documents were bright, with even contrast. Just because it looks good on screen, doesn't mean it will turn out well in print! But in the case of this book, everything turned out well.
The cost set me back a little, but wasn't prohibitive. This book was created as a Standard Landscape, 10x8 inches. I had a variety of options for publishing my book: will the cover be a hardcover with imagewrap, hardcover with dust jacket or softcover; will the pages be matte, lustre, standard or an upgraded lustre? What color will the end sheets be? Do I want an extra copy of the book in PDF?
The cheapest option would have been a softcover with standard pages and would have cost $31.59 + shipping. However, I had a coupon to save 25% (they send out lots of coupons!), so I decided to upgrade. I chose the ImageWrap with Lustre paper, which cost me $51.21. I also sprang for the PDF copy for $4.99. Shipping cost $7.99. After my 25% coupon, my book ended up costing me $51.39.
I'm very happy with the end result and highly recommend using Blurb to publish your family history book.


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As usual, Dr. Miller sheds plenty of light on the ITF's pro-active approach to investigating potential anti-doping violations like the Biogenesis case...
The Biogenesis case in the US is still going on, reportedly with links to tennis. Are you still monitoring the case?That is amazing candor from Dr. Miller, no?
We're monitoring proceedings in the US.
Are you actively investigating any players as a result of it?
Not going to comment on that.
Did the Biogenesis case take you by surprise?
There have been precedents, Balco, and similar, so the fact that there appears to be a rogue supply of prohibited substances through a type of black market is not without some kind of historical equivalent. So from that point of view, no.
In Part 1 of the interview, Dr. Miller answered questions about off-testing at Grand Slam events:
I understand you now test players on their days off in grand slams. When did that start?I'm pretty sure Dr. Miller didn't actually answer the question...He also answered a question regarding the storing of samples, but his response is so convoluted and unclear that I won't bother posting it.
That's been permitted under the rules for as long as I can remember. I can't talk about before my time but it's been an option for many years.
Has it been stepped up recently?
There is more, around the programme in general, not just in single events, there is more sample collection when players are not competing than there used to be.
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NWSB Insider and Seattle Seahawks' blogger Brett Bivens once again brings you Monday Morning Quarterback! Breaking down yesterday's win over the St. Louis Rams. Brett says offensively Golden Tate stole the show with his 8 receptions for 129 yards and a touchdown. Typically Russell Wilson spreads the ball around pretty evenly but on Sunday Tate accounted for 39% of Wilson's passing attempts. The D was just HUGE. Earl Thomas & Bobby Wagner were special.
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Earlier this week, I noted the surprisingly restrained coverage of the Obama Administration's mandate that religious institutions provide health insurance that includes subsidized contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs, even if that coverage would violate their religious beliefs and consciences. Even when Catholic bishops came out en masse against the Health and Human Service's regulation, the coverage was pretty subdued, if it was even found. Turns out that the media restraint wasn't due to lack of interest in abortion or related issues (you probably already knew that). See, on Tuesday, Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced a new policy about which groups it would fund. The prominent breast cancer charity is one of the best funded and most popular charities out there and it has raised and distributed nearly $2 billion in funds for breast cancer research, education, advocacy and health services.
The new policy, which implements more stringent performance criteria, means that Planned Parenthood is not currently eligible to receive funding from the group. Now, Planned Parenthood is, of course, the country's largest abortion provider, a $1 billion operation that ends about 330,000 pregnancies each year. This makes them unbelievably controversial. That Planned Parenthood doesn't offer mammogram services (unless you count referring women to go get mammograms at places that do offer them) made the relationship with Susan G. Komen quite troubling to many people. All of this, however, was apparently completely unknown to the mainstream media.
Allow me to share a brief story. The woman I called my grandma (out of great affection rather than actual familial ties), died of breast cancer in 2004. Her awesome son made a goal of walking in all 14 3-day Susan G. Komen walks in 2011 (a goal that was almost derailed when Grandpa H. died on the eve of one walk in mid-November). He succeeded in that goal and you can read about it here or watch him talk about it here. When he started his fundraising, I offered some ideas and put a note about the goal on Facebook with a link to his donation site. Instantly, I was bombarded with alarmed notes from friends and family. Did I know, they asked, about Komen's grants to Planned Parenthood? They gave me links and documentation and I shared them with my friend. He felt that the money offered to Planned Parenthood would not go to support abortions and therefore was not a dealbreaker. I could not in good conscience support a group that supported Planned Parenthood, even though I really wanted to support him in honoring his mother. Now, I can (and already have and will continue to do so). See, Planned Parenthood is an extremely controversial organization that inspires strong feelings from those who support it and those who don't. If you were familiar with Susan G. Komen for the Cure but weren't familiar with the fact that this funding arrangement was extremely controversial, something is off. If you are currently uncertain about the polarizing or political nature of Planned Parenthood, you might check out the video below, put out by a Planned Parenthood affiliate a few years ago.
And yet the mainstream media apparently only realized that Planned Parenthood was a lightning rod after Komen made changes to their funding policy. I'm not exaggerating. Take this amazing Politico story by Kate Nocera headlined:
Did Susan G. Komen turn itself into a lightning rod?
Turn itself into? Turn itself into? Help me out here. Funding a group that terminates 330,000 pregnancies a year is not controversial but deciding not to fund that same group is? In what world? It's important to note that Planned Parenthood doesn't just do abortions. But many of the other things they do -- teaching kids about sex through a text-chat program, receiving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, spending high sums on fundraising and public policy to fight political opponents, selling or otherwise distributing contraception and abortifacients -- are also controversial. Giving a woman a slip of paper to get a mammogram somewhere else is not controversial, unless by the standard that it's not sufficient work for scarce breast cancer dollars, but you have to put the controversy in context.
Kate Nocera knows none of this controversy about Planned Parenthood, apparently. Here's the top of her report:
Susan G. Komen for the Cure says there wasn't anything political about its decision to stop giving grants to Planned Parenthood.
But in Washington, every decision is political — and now the cancer-fighting organization may have turned itself from a "safe" charity into just another political lightning rod.
It may have ruined its fundraising, too, as its Facebook page filled up with messages from Planned Parenthood supporters promising they'll never give a dime to the charity again.
There's a word for so many unsubstantiated uses of the word "may" in the first three sentences of a report and that word is not journalism. It's unfiltered advocacy. Clueless and unfiltered advocacy. Now, perhaps people who prioritize funding Planned Parenthood over funding Komen's breast cancer work will lower their funding. People such as myself are only now eligible to fund Komen in light of this week's reform. Will it all balance out? Will it cause problems? Who knows? But using, of all things, Facebook rants to predict funding streams is not reporting.
Further, only seeing (and deriding) "political pressure" when viewing the issue from one side has colored not just this report but many others. You can probably pick any story at random to see that.
Take this New York Times report that begins:
Pink ribbons have for decades been a symbol of resolve and compassion in the face of the deadly disease of breast cancer. Now, that nearly ubiquitous icon has many women seeing red.
See, there's this whole chunk of America who have been seeing red about the Planned Parenthood funding Komen for years. Did reporters cover that? I figure they must have, somehow, somewhere, but I don't recall seeing it. I read a lot about it in the pro-life press. There were the LiveAction stings such as the one embedded above, for instance, although those were in response to Planned Parenthood claims about federal funding. Here's a USA Today piece on that angle from last year, for instance. Anyway, at the very end of this article, after some dramatic language about betrayal and counter-betrayal do we learn:
Foes of abortion and Web sites critical of it have criticized the Komen foundation's financing of Planned Parenthood for years. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis and several bishops in Ohio issued statements last year raising concerns about donating to the Komen foundation. In December, LifeWay Christian Resources, which is owned by the Southern Baptist Convention, said it was recalling a pink Bible it was selling because a dollar per copy was going to the Komen foundation.
"We are very grateful Susan G. Komen for the Cure will no longer fund Planned Parenthood affiliates," said Thom S. Rainer, president of LifeWay.
You don't say.
It's just so interesting to me that when millions of Catholics were read letters from their bishops about the HHS mandate targeting Catholic groups, it took days for a few stories to trickle out. When Susan G. Komen announces that roughly $700,000 in grants will be targeted to groups other than Planned Parenthood next year, it couldn't be bigger news. There are thousands of stories already written. It says something about what the media prioritizes as well as what it considers sacred. There's an almost religious fervor at play here. Looking at which stories capture that frenzy and fervor are interesting, no?