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RESTON, Va. and LONDON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ — Rivet Logic Corporation, a leading provider of consulting and system integration services focused on open source content management solutions, has been selected by New Gravity Ventures to develop ConnectedWeddings.com, a large-scale application targeting domestic and international consumer markets using the Alfresco content management system and the Facebook Platform.
For the project, New Gravity Ventures announced the Connected Weddings application built on the Facebook Platform has been awarded a grant through Facebook's fbFund. The announcement was made today at f8, Facebook's annual developers' conference.
ConnectedWeddings.com offers a new and easier way to plan weddings, allowing couples worldwide to use Facebook, an iPhone, or the web to manage planning tasks and create a customized, professional looking wedding webpage – all for free.
According to Mike Vertal, CEO of Rivet Logic: "We are thrilled to be selected for such an exciting project. We are leveraging our award-winning expertise in building scalable and reliable enterprise solutions using Alfresco and other open source software, and enabling the next generation of social networking applications that will drive business."
New Gravity Ventures develops consumer applications for the US and Indian markets. Dan Kerzner, CEO of New Gravity Ventures said "We are building a unique, socially-aware application so we needed a trusted development partner who had a proven track record of building rock-solid solutions. And because of our emphasis on building content-rich applications, we chose Alfresco as our content management platform."
Alfresco Software was named as one of Linux Magazine's Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008 earlier this year, being recognized for its enterprise social computing platform, which includes integration with Facebook.
John Newton, Chairman and CTO of Alfresco Software commented: "We are very excited about the use of Alfresco in the ConnectedWeddings.com project. It demonstrates the increasing significance of content services in the Web 2.0 environment and how content is connected to people in the context of social networking."
A pre-release version of the application is being demonstrated today at Facebook's annual developers' conference, and the beta version will be available to users who join the Connected Weddings Facebook group through ConnectedWeddings.com.
About Rivet Logic Corporation
Rivet Logic is an award-winning consulting and systems integration firm with offices in Reston, VA and Boston, MA. Rivet Logic specializes in open source content management, portal, and next generation web solutions using best of breed open source technologies. Rivet Logic has been named Alfresco's "Partner of the Year" in North America for the past two years. For more information, visit www.rivetlogic.com
About New Gravity Ventures
New Gravity Ventures is a web technology and content provider with offices in Arlington, VA and Mumbai, India. In addition to ConnectedWeddings.com, New Gravity Ventures also owns and operates Trendy.in, a lifestyle site for women in Indian cities.
About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software, Inc. is the first and leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell, Alfresco is based in London. For more information, go to www.alfresco.com.
Facebook(R) is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc. Media contact: Stacy Weng, Rivet Logic Corporation 703.234.7761
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This Bad Buford Bucks The Chevy Trend Beautifully.
You know, Kris could have really messed this thing up. But his brains, his sense of tradition, and a large capacity for fun to build a damn Buick took over straightaway. His younger and very patient brother, Kirk, was his monitor, his fail-safe device. "He can see the big picture a little better than I," said Kris.
To old hands like us, there's no better way to spend money or time. Our world is way too polarized around the trite and the mundane. Dream something. Build something. Do something different. Make people react. They'll either dig it or not, but at least they've been poked, shaken rudely from some impossible Bow Tie reverie.
Underneath the midsize A-body sheetmetal, the chassis could have been for a Chevelle (in this case, it's from a '70 GTO), so if you put the car on a hoist, it would be difficult to tell what the sheetmetal was. All the easier to slip in a Rat or some other Chevy V-8, thereby bastardizing the entire project. This car is from back in the day, kiddos, before the confusion and embarrassment of the let's-win-a-lawsuit "corporate small-block," a Chevy by any other name. When the dinosaurs were scourging the primitive landscape, they did it with an engine specific to their breeding and idiosyncrasies, unique and unto itself. That was brand loyalty at its most fervent.
On the other hand, anything that can be done to a Chevy can be done to a sister Oldsmobile, Pontiac, or Buick chassis, so Kris didn't have to creep around at night sourcing "special" Buick stuff.
"I was going to do a major transformation with a completely different look and style, but I decided instead that I wanted to bring back those cherished memories I have of Graddy," said Kris. Graddy was granddad Earl Herbert Kyle, Kris' link to the past, his mentor, his pal. "Graddy and I shared a very special relationship. He was a major influence in my life. He taught me how to golf, mow the lawn, work on cars, and so much more. I remember him as a WWII vet, a retired postal service worker, and an award-winning Buick mechanic, but most importantly, my grandfather."
In the beginning, the Skylark Custom raggy was just wheels. Graddy had walked the ragtop home from the Buick store where it became another member of the family. It was Kris' high school ride and then summarily passed on to other family members. The change of keepers brought disparate habits, and over time and elements, the Skylark did naturally suffer. It was no longer a special car. It was just a beater–but a beater with history and a tangible connection to grand daddy Earl. In Kris' mind, it was Earl. "Graddy suffered in his later years, but before he died, I was able to share with him my extensive plans for his old car," he said. "I maintained much of the original interior look and color scheme, but added quite a bit of muscle and an aggressive stance to give more of a hot rod feel."
Back in the Nailhead days, we have a fond remembrance of a pal's '55 Special, a big pink-and-white bomb that coalesced around a 236hp 322ci engine and three-on-the-tree. It was the only Buick clutch combination we ever saw, as the preponderance of them were equipped with the rotten and worrisome Dynaflow automatic. My first thought about it was how long a tire patch (yes, peg leg) the big Bu' could lay with relative ease. Our hot-car partner had one, too, but it was an automatic. We drag raced the clod, plumbers' pipe exhaust cutouts and Atlas Bucron drive tires (whitewalls, naturally, and once made by Exxon) notwithstanding. We never won anything with it.
Kris isn't in Graddy's old car for nothing. Though elapsed timeslips aren't a prime motive, he still built it around a kickin' 464ci Buick big-block. Since ragtops, especially vintage ragtops, aren't known as pillars of stability, as a hedge against torsional and bending forces, Kris had the frame fully boxed. That soon led to mini-tubs to encapsulate the fat 18-inch Pilot MX3s hugging either end of the narrowed 9-inch.
Kris drives the balls off his project, so he sought the most efficient way to make the car handle and corner like a whiz, and there's nothing better than suspension pieces purposely crafted for that assignment. Aside from shedding unwanted weight, the Global West tubular control arms correct the factory steering geometry with negative roll to keep the outside tire straight up and down on hard cornering to eliminate bumpsteer, and to prevent front tire tramming on uneven road surfaces.
These new bones work right along with Hotchkis components, including one of John's fat antisway bars. Thank those QA1 coilover shocks for the Bu's dead-on stance … and ground clearance of just four inches. Considering Kris' ultimate disposition, air springs might have been a better idea with their near-infinite adjustability, but he actually likes the strictly mechanical bent of the coilovers and manually adjusted ride height.
Adjunct to the enhanced suspension, Kris chose an AGR Performance quick-ratio power steering box. It has a straight 12:1 ratio and race-like valving that provide a very linear and perfectly weighted feel. Since most factory equipment includes a 14 to 16:1 ratio, the quick ratio box's reactions are immediate, almost intuitive, yet steering effort is minimal (as we discovered for ourselves in PHR's own '68 Chevelle with a similar 12:1 Saginaw-sourced steering box from CPP).
As a firefighter, Kris is always bound by other people's agendas. He felt that doing the car himself wasn't something that would fit with his schedule or pocketbook. His one day on and one day off schedule availed him lots of elbow grease time with the Skylark. As it was, the project took nearly three years to consummate. Those involved with Earl's rising include brother Kirk (encouragement, wrench turner), Joe Dahl (Joe's Hot Rod Shop, Mesa, Arizona), Mike Henry (Henry's Restorations, Mesa), Art (Art's Antiques & Classic Auto Services, Tempe, Arizona), Chuck and Kim (Metro Plating, Mesa), and Doug (All American Upholstery, Tempe). Joe Dahl let Kris use his facilities to clean and sandblast, and to hold costs down.
Can't you see granddad feathering this thing down Main Street, a couple of hotties perched on the boot, throwing kisses to the crowd from their bee-stung lips and their ample bosom? Nah. Earl wasn't that kind of guy. Neither is Kris. "I wanted the interior to be like it was when I was a kid."
Although it has been revitalized down to the last stitch, it deviates little from the old days. A repro Buick Rallye steering wheel and but three Stewart-Warner gauges in a blacked-out panel are in that niche between the stock console and the bottom of the dashboard. Kris remembers Graddy's hand on the original horseshoe shifter, but now it's his hand making the upshifts on the modern 700R4 overdrive. Kris: "The pot metal shifter literally fell apart one day, and Kirk spent many hours revitalizing the unit, making a new gear selector handle in the image of the original piece."
If the moon and stars are right, Kris might be out burning rubber two or three times a week, but only if the streets are dry. Living on the outer hub of Phoenix, Arizona, that's mostly a done deal (except for the summer monsoons, of course). At this writing, he'd racked up 875 miles on the reborn Buick.
|By The Numbers
|1969 Buick Skylark
|Kris Osterhoudt; Queen Creek, AZ
|Vehicle weight w/driver: 3,750 pounds
|Buick displacing 464 cubic inches
(4.35 bore x 3.90 stroke)
|1975 455 Buick
|Compression ratio:
|custom-built, 7-quart deep sump pan
|Rotating assembly:
|factory iron crank and rods, JE forged pistons,
Total Seal ring packs
|Cylinder heads:
|T/A Performance Stage 2 aluminum,
2.130/1.755 valves,
350-cfm exhaust ports, 1.6:1 shaft rocker arm system
|Crane hydraulic roller, 0.525-inch lift, 234-deg. duration
at .050
|T/A Performance SP-2 single-plane intake manifold,
1,000-cfm Holley carburetor, Edelbrock 160-gph
fuel pump
|Power adder:
|Mallory breakerless distributor, coil, HyFire CD box
|McCabe Racing step headers, 1 7/8-to-2-inch primaries,
H-pipe, 3-inch exhaust system, Spin Tech mufflers
|Ron Davis aluminum core with dual electric fans
and built-in transmission fluid cooler, ancillary Earl's
Performance fluid cooler
|Built by:
|T/A Performance, Scottsdale, AZ
|700R4, 2,500-rpm stall speed converter,
built by Gary Rodgers at Arizona Precision
|custom steel, 4340 1350-series yokes
|Rear axle:
|Ford 9-inch housing narrowed,
Tru-Trac differential, Yukon 3.73:1 ring-and-pinion,
Strange Engineering 31-spline axle shafts
|Front suspension:
|Global West spindles, tubular upper and lower control
arms, Hotchkis 1 3/8-inch hollow antisway bar,
QA1 adjustable coilover shock absorbers
|Rear suspension:
|Hotchkis control arms, frame stiffeners,
QA1 coilover shock absorbers
|Baer vented, slotted, cross-drilled 12-inch discs,
front and rear
|Budnik Muroc III, 18×10, front; 18×12,
|Michelin Pilot MX3, 275/35ZR18, front;
345/35ZR18, rear

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August 15–17 Spectacular Sharks main content.
by AMNH on
From the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life to the Hall of Vertebrate Origins and the IMAX film Great White Shark, the Museum is a great place to learn about these often-misunderstood predators.
Sharks began evolving about 450 million years ago. Of the roughly 340 living species some have changed little in the past 100 million years. They were the first vertebrate to develop an immune system and may have a greater immunity to cancer than humans. The jaws of Carcharodon megalodon, one of the most famous extinct sharks that lived 10 million years ago, is on view at the Museum.
Shark teeth are made of hard enamel, which may explain why ancient shark teeth are the most commonly found vertebrate fossils today. Some living species replace old and broken teeth as frequently as every ten days. There are no less than 12,000 bull-shark fossil teeth on view in the Museum's Hall of Vertebrate Origins—approximately the number of teeth a bull-shark will have during its lifetime.
Shark bones are made of light, tough cartilage, which is rarely fossilized. Like other cartilaginous fishes, sharks do not have a gas bladder to keep them afloat so many species must move constantly to keep from sinking. Many sharks have large, oil-filled livers that make them more buoyant. Learn more in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life.
Most sharks bear live young. Some species can remain pregnant for over two years, longer than any other vertebrate. Sharks typically bear three to 12 pups and many do not reproduce until age 30, making it hard for them to recover when large numbers are killed by humans.


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But, such is life. Between stress, a general run-down, and Austin being not the place I get pumped to train when brunt out with life and 13 years of hard racing (sorry, but with the work/family obligations I am confided to 4 loops, 2 on trails, 2 on roads, and eventually they get to you), I am just taking my time to see if I rebound. May be not, and it aligns with the fact that I am planning to things next year mostly non-competitive, even if few happen to be races. I just need to ensure I can make it through 50 miles:)
May be I also need a trip elsewhere where the mountains are.
I have my best friends from Portland coming over to visit...hope I can actually take them out on trails!
Stay well, have fun, make the best out of everything.
I am not complaining, by the way, just stating facts. May be I need it. I trust myself.
p.s. my friend and former best running partner Bushwhacker Mike once told me that athlete's life goes in 3 year cycles: 2 years great, one year down. Come to think about it, my last 2 years were damn productive. In fact, I already contemplated about this very cycle in one of the previous years (or couple), and I guess it's been confirmed. I am officially on my "down" year!
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Dr. Conrad Murray not only has a right to remain silent ... he's exercising it.
Murray was at a 24 Hour Fitness in Las Vegas last night at around 7:00 PM. He worked out for about an hour with a spotter at the ready.
As far as we know, she didn't leave his side to make a phone call.
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131 dried pressed herbarium specimens collected from Trinidad and Tobago in 2015.
The recent acquisition to World Museum's herbarium of 131 specimens from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago has been an interesting and welcome addition to Botany's collection.
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Michael Jackson's name once again is on display at Gardner Street Elementary School after the boards covering his name were removed.
As TMZ first reported, a group of Michael Jackson fans had petitioned to get the sign uncovered. The sign had been in place from 1989 until 2003, when it was covered up due to the child molestation charges against Jackson.
The sign was unveiled yesterday, where a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education said, "It's important for the district to value the artistic impact and
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In Your Face
Evgeny Morozov
- Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance by Kelly Gates
NYU Press, 261 pp, £15.99, March 2011, ISBN 978 0 8147 3210 6
Until last summer, hi-tech riots – broadcast on YouTube and organised by BlackBerry – were mostly the preserve of enterprising dissidents in Iran and China. But in June hordes of ice hockey fans in Vancouver, outraged by the local team's loss to a Boston rival, filmed themselves smashing cars and burning shops. Then it happened here. The crackdowns that follow such riots are equally hi-tech. In both Britain and Canada ordinary members of the public set up Facebook groups to share pictures and videos from the riots, using Twitter to name any identified perpetrators and alert the police. This was cyber-vigilantism at its most creative.
The day after the Vancouver riots, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia – a state-owned insurance company which also handles drivers' licences and vehicle registration – offered to help the Vancouver police by running its facial-recognition software on photos from the riots, comparing them with its database, a collection of photos of more than three million individuals, normally used in investigations of fraud and identity theft. Not much came of it: there were no reports of any arrests made thanks to the database. Attempts to automate the process of facial recognition after the British riots failed too: most rioters, after all, didn't already have their mugshots in police records. Since the UK doesn't (yet?) have a Canada-style photo database and Canada doesn't (yet?) have a UK-style CCTV surveillance infrastructure, such efforts in both countries were probably doomed. China and Iran – where excessive surveillance goes hand in hand with excessive documentation requirements and weak or non-existent privacy laws – are a different story. And the technology is improving.
In September 2010, satellite photos of Abbottabad showed a man who looked a lot like Osama bin Laden exercising in a yard; the satellite's facial recognition system confirmed it was him. It's said that after shooting him, the Navy Seals ran his picture through another facial recognition system, which reported that there was a 95 per cent chance they had got the right man. Given that half of bin Laden's face was presumably missing, they must be rather proud of their technology. The Navy Seals may have been using gear similar to the Robocop-style glasses the Brazilian police have developed in preparation for the 2014 World Cup. Fitted with a small camera that sees as far as 12 miles, the glasses can capture 400 images a second and compare them with a central computer database of 13 million faces – or so the police claim. The surest sign that facial recognition technology has made it comes from China, where at last year's Sex Culture Exhibition in Xi'an a firm called the Love Sex Company presented a £3000 sex doll that speaks in a variety of languages and, thanks to onboard software, can recognise its 'owner'.
It isn't easy to teach a computer to recognise a face. Definitions don't help: if you describe a face as 'a blob-like region with two eyes, two ears, a nose and a mouth', you still need to define an eye, a nose, an ear and a mouth. Humans can easily locate a face in a picture even if parts of it aren't clearly visible; for computers this is very hard. What computers can recognise is the similarity between specific regions in two or more pictures. Given enough computational resources, they can be trained to calculate what a particular segment might look like under certain abnormal conditions – e.g. when the lighting is low or when the person in the photo has aged. As the number of potential differences between any two pictures of the same face is infinite, it's impossible to write an algorithm that can take account of all such variations. However, even imperfect FRT can be useful.
Suppose you have just photographed a man who claims to be John Smith. How can a computer establish whether he is the same John Smith who exists in your database? First, it needs to find the man's face in the picture – by looking for blob-like regions with consistent brightness and colour. Then it has to find facial landmarks – nose, mouth, eyes etc (there are more than a hundred significant features). Then the face must be 'normalised' by making it look like other images in the database with regard to size, pose, colour intensity and illumination. Finally, the computer has to produce a numerical representation of the face and compare it with the equivalent representation of the picture associated with the John Smith in the database. There are two ways to generate such representations. One is geometric, relying on the shape and position of facial landmarks; the other is photometric, using statistics to distil an image into values.
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Russian Pole Vault Great Condemns Homosexuality At World Championships
Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva apparently needs to remove a stick (pole??) from her ass.
Isinbayeva, a two-time Olympic champion spoke out strongly against homosexuality after winning the World Championship title on Thursday in Russia.
Pole vault great Yelena Isinbayeva condemned homosexuality Thursday after criticizing fellow competitors who painted their fingernails in rainbow colors to support gays and lesbians in the face of a new anti-gay law in Russia.
The Russian, who won her third world title Tuesday in front of a boisterous home crowd, came out in favor of the law which has drawn sharp criticism and led Western activists to call for a boycott of next year's Winter Olympics in the Russian resort of Sochi.
"If we allow to promote and do all this stuff on the street, we are very afraid about our nation because we consider ourselves like normal, standard people," Isinbayeva, a two-time Olympic champion, said in English. "We just live with boys with woman, woman with boys.
"Everything must be fine. It comes from history. We never had any problems, these problems in Russia, and we don't want to have any in the future."
At least two Swedish athletes competed Thursday with their fingernails painted in rainbow colors at Luzhniki Stadium, the venue that also hosted the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Isinbayeva said it was wrong for the Swedes to make such a statement while competing in Russia.
"It's unrespectful to our country. It's unrespectful to our citizens, because we are Russians. Maybe we are different from European people and other people from different lands," Isinbayeva told reporters. "We have our home and everyone has to respect (it). When we arrive to different countries, we try to follow their rules."
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That's interesting Chris.
Which scents would you say contain them at high levels?
Also, why do you think such synthetic notes were created?
Lack of natural resources? Lack of versatile natural notes?
Thread: Woods - Norlimbanol / Timberol
Two different perspectives on Norlimbanol / Timberol:
Timberol - this is also known as Norlimanol and one of my favourite synthetics. Chandler Burr described it as 'the scent of dryness', very strong, very persistent dry woody scent. I use mine at a 10% dilution, but you might want to start with less - 5% or even 2% as it is quite potent. One of the most useful woody base notes because it's so clean.
It combines well with other wood-scented synthetics and naturals.
Timberol: 2% Very buzzy and I get the sense of a "dry male underarm". I find this one very intense and a bit scary. It's so tenacious. I can smell it days later on the smell strip.
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I think that Amouage Opus V has a lottttttttttttttttttttt of Norlimbanol on the drydown, even they say is oudh and "Dry woods"......
As to why I think there are two factors here, first there are people working in the area of creating novel molecules just because its such an interesting area of organic chemistry to work on (if you are into that kind of thing). But a lot of this sort of work is very much targeted - so in the big firms like Firmenich, Givaudan and IFF you have chemists being asked to look for a molecule with a particular scent: a musk that is biodegradable, smells as good as tonkin musk and has no biological activity in the human body for example.
In the case of norlimbanol in particular I dont know how it first came about though I would guess it was targeted research as its a product of Firmenich. The need it fulfils is for something woody that does not impart sweetness to the blend (as for example sandalwood does) and which lasts for a very long time with no ambery quality such as existing chemicals like cedryl methyl ether have.
The advantage and disadvantage that almost all synthetics have when set against naturals is that they are much simpler. So if you want tight control of exactly what notes you are putting in (as Jean Claude Ellena does when hes building up one of his famous minimalist compositions) then synthetics are ideal. They also often have properties you cant get in a natural at all such as being very long lasting, smelling like fresh air or whatever. On the other hand if you build a fragrance only from them, you get two disadvantages:
* they can lack sufficient complexity to retain our interest over long periods of time (unless you are a blending genius like JCE)
* they are much easier to completely analyse using GC-MS, which in turn means that they can be easily copied
All of which goes to say, what Ive said in rather more detail in my article on this, namely that I think you need to use both natural and synthetic materials to make good fragrances.
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Hello Chris, do you find any similarities between the scent of norlimbanol and androstadienone (or androstanol)? To me the scent of norlimbanol is very much like androstadienone. Although norlimbanol seems a bit sweeter than either of the androstenes. But I'm surprised by their overall similarity since their chemical structures are so different. Norlimbanol is structurally closer to beta-ionone than to androstadienone.
I'm not sure what came first, the fashion for Oud fragrances or the development of these very strong, very animalic, sweaty woody notes (you didn't think that all Oud containing fragrances actually contained Oud did you?). They are terrifically powerful (the one I am most familiar with is called Ambrocenide), and I guess that anything that is that strong and that long lasting and that tenacious is going to be of interest to a Perfumer. I smell this type of note in many, mainly masculine, fragrances. Timbuktu is a good example. They definitely have a note of sweaty hormones about them. I can see an odour similarity between Norlimbanol and androstadienone. There is a very old aroma chemical called Aldron, which again has that same weary note. It is an interesting material in that only about 50.0 % of the population can smell it; and many women find it utterly revolting, whilst most men (if they can smell it) find it quite tame. Norlimbanol is, I think, smelled by most people.
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Thanks for your comments. I didn't mention this earlier but my wife finds norlimbanol about as nauseating as androstadienone (another example of their similarities).
For myself I don't see much similarity. I find Norlimbanol so dusty dry and woody that I struggle to imagine anyone not liking it (except by reason of it being overwhelming - it is very powerful) so I'm not sure I'm best placed to help here.
I also don't believe in the concept of human pheromones - chemical signals we read unconsciously are well established in the science, but pheromones would need to work on all of us & we clearly all react quite differently to a given stimulus so a material that worked on everyone in the same way is not really to be expected anyway.
I'm not sure that helps a lot!
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Oh and I should have mentioned on structure: there are a great many examples of chemicals with radically different structures that smell similar & vice versa (think of the huge range of musks, with 5 different structural types & many smaller variations yet all smelling similar). On the other hand think of all those stero-isomers that are structurally almost identical yet often smell quite different or one smells strongly & the other not at all.
There are competing theories about what's going on & it's far from clear how the process works as yet.
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Is it Norlimbanol that predominates the top note of Ramon Monegal's Dry Wood? I get a dry oud and wood with a sharp astringent edge...I am addicted to Dry Wood.
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It would be interesting to know in which form Burr likes Norlimbanol. Is it by smelling it just like that, in a compound, or in an accord. I rarely use it because I think it needs a lot of careful blender if I want to make it interesting, otherwise it just diffuses as itself, hardly helps other notes to diffuse in harmony, even in trace amount. It may go along with woody and earthy notes, but in my point of view that doesn't mean that it helps the diffusion of those woody earthy notes, but it's just simply because it has a woody earthy note and they diffuse together. I can say this because when I wanted to use it with other non woody and non-earthy notes, it just makes a separate facet, not even making a compound or a special dry effect to other notes, even in a very trace amount 0,01%, unless of course if I can find best blender(s) to hook it. But getting the right blender is when it's getting more interesting and challenging of course. Not that I make a special quest about it either, I still only use instinct and trial-error when it comes to blender.
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You'll find norlimbanol in Another Oud, from the French house Juliette has a gun. Marketed as a woman's fragrance, I imagine it would work for a man also. Gorgeous, very deep and strong.
I haven't had the opportunity to try Norlimbanol/Timberol. Firmenich describe it as having a dry woody note in the patchouli direction. Would you say that this is more in terms of it having a similar depth, i.e. almost black, or does it have a similar earthy, minty aspect? Many thanks.
not as earthen as patchouli to me. its a real sturdy woody brown note. more like the spine of patchouli without the 'patchouli' facets
To me norlimbanol smells extremely similar to Cashmeran. Along with amber extreme, they are all nearly identical, if you know one of these, you'll know the scent or norlimb. I was excited to get a new wood note, but to me, it doesn't really smell woody, more like some type of alien spice or something haha. Maybe I just need to experiment with it a little more, but I compared them all on strips and norlimb is basically a little less sharp, more "blended", a less jarring and sophisticated, just slightly toned down but not much: Cashmeran.


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After selecting Stanwick, the team drafted midfielders Robert Rotanz (8th Overall - Duke), Anthony Biscardi (21st Overall - Massachusetts) and Bobby Eilers (34th Overall - Syracuse) and attackman Billy Eisenreich (21st Overall - Bucknell). The four rookies played in a total of 11 games for the Machine.
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
Year of the Pig! Oink Oink!
We started off our visit with a trip to her farmer's market. It's always fun to go to another farmer's market and see the goodies. We got some produce, some 100% apple juice, some apricot-walnut bread, and a few other delicious goodies:
They have an Afghan vendor selling lots of tasty things, many of which are vegan. I got a packet of 2 spinach bolanis, 2 lentil bolanis, and 3 condiments: lentil curry, cilantro chutney, and eggplant pesto. OH YUM. The bolani is a thin bread with a layer of spinach/lentil/whatever inside, and folded into a half moon. I toasted up one and had it with the condiments for lunch today and it was exceptional. What delicious flavors!
I also stopped by the legendary Big Paw booth. Oh my! They sell the most amazing vinegars, olive oils, and other goodies. I bought a bottle of Apricot-Lavender vinegar which is just fantastic. I can use it as a fat-free salad dressing all by itself & it's wonderful. I also got two new items:
Fig Syrup - which is only boiled down figs and sugar. It tastes like fig molasses. AMAZING
Grilled Figs - with basil and balsamico. Deep, smokey, rich, sweet, complex... very interesting flavor!
Tonight for dinner I made some roasted veggies, just a simple dinner: roasted potatoes, beets, and butternut squash. We also had a big bowl of steamed chard. Simple and good.
For dessert, I wanted to make something special to celebrate the Year of the Pig... so I made these little marzipan piggies! Or, as Musty calls them, Marzipigs! I read an article in the newspaper about celebrating the Year of the Pig with a whole fancy pork-centric meal... Not for me, thanks!! I wanted something a little more pig-friendly. I had a little bit of marzipan in my cupboard from last month's big grocery trip in SF. These guys are pretty small, just a bite or two each. :)
As a side note, I really love pigs. They are such smart, and sensitive, and responsive creatures. They look so much like people... the skin, the eyes... I love them. So, let's all say a joyful "oink" in honor of the pigs!
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I love the Afghan food you found at the market while visiting your friend... bolanis sound like something I would love to try, and those dipping sauces sound fantastic. Your marzipigs are so crafty! I love pigs too--they're very sweet animals, and yes, very smart too. Oink!ReplyDelete
Oh those marzipigs are too adorable! Amazing detail...right down to the curly tail!ReplyDelete
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What great farmers market finds! I can't wait to see what you do with the fig goodies. You are so creative it just kills me! Those marzipigs are adorable. I too love pigs.ReplyDelete
I love the little piggies!ReplyDelete
I can't wait to get back to my farmers market, hopefully this weekend. There is usually an Ethiopian vendor with lots of vegan items. The Afghan breads and pestos you got sound delicious. It's so fun to sample foods from different cultures.
What will you do with the grilled figs?
The Afghan food sounds so yummy and the Marzipan pigs are just adorable. So cute :)Marzipigs....what a fun name for them.ReplyDelete
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Thanks for loving the little marzipigs as much as I did! I had a hard time eating my little cutie. Yeah, I molded them by hand... It took a little finesse-ing, but wasn't too hard! :)
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Reliever Vic Black has been optioned and will begin the season in Triple-A Las Vegas, the team announced via Twitter on Wednesday.
"I didn't see it coming, but I also couldn't expect anything different really because what I did was struggle all spring," Black said. "And that's not what they're trying to put together on the team right now. Like they said, especially starting off, you're trying to get hot out of the gates, and I didn't give them the best opportunity for what they were hoping. I know they were disappointed, as am I, which is part of it. But I'll be back."
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Once a Valley Girl...
Beth Adams lives in Brooklyn now, but she hasn't lost sight of her Silicon Valley roots. Here's how to enjoy San Jose her way.
A century ago, what's now Silicon Valley, Calif., was called the Valley of Heart's Delight because of the region's mineral-rich soil and temperate climate (San Jose gets 300 days of sunshine a year). By the time I left for college in 1997, however, most of the cherry orchards had been gobbled up by office complexes. San Jose was in the hopeful early stages of the Internet boom, and although I didn't have an e-mail account yet, the technological advances that would change the world were already making their mark on my hometown.
The city has actually attracted techies for decades; my parents moved to the area for my dad's aerospace job in the 1970s. But with the rise of the dot-coms came something new: money—and lots of it. Suddenly, San Jose wanted to be recognized for more than its proximity to San Francisco. (We're an hour south, for the record.) Today, the city is teeming with evidence of civic success: sleek glass buildings, luxury condos, and light-rail trains.
Fashionistas with tech-stock options have plenty of places to find designer duds at Santana Row, a high-end shopping center. But I prefer browsing Willow Glen, a neighborhood of bungalows and boutiques that was incorporated into San Jose in 1936. My first stop is usually Monsieur Beans, a café with mismatched couches and an arcade-style Ms. Pac-Man machine. "We mostly get locals," says manager Chris Mendez. "I know everyone's first name and their drink of choice."
Directly across Lincoln Avenue is Willow Glen Books, which is pretty much the last independent bookstore in the area. The shop stocks local-interest books written by San Jose natives and holds regular poetry readings. Owner Cathy Adkins feels the pinch from online competitors, but she insists, "This is how I want to spend my time—this is what I love." She makes it a point to support authors from the region, such as April Halberstadt, "a historian who knows everything about San Jose." Another shop worth checking out is Park Place Vintage, which is packed with mid-century furniture and collectibles. Last time I was there, I seriously considered carting a 1950s TV back home with me.
I love eating almost as much as shopping, and San Jose's ethnic diversity means there's an array of cuisines to choose from. Jalisco Taqueria, on the Hispanic east side of town, used to be a dive, but it now caters to a clientele that's always in a hurry. In other words, what I remember as a trailer now looks suspiciously like a Taco Bell and has a drive-through. The burritos, however, are still fat, fresh, and loaded with zesty pinto beans. For dessert, the nearby Pink Elephant Bakery sells sweet Mexican breads and doughy concha cakes.
Downtown San Jose is where many of the new Asian restaurants have opened, including 19 Market, a chic Vietnamese bistro that pairs inventive dishes—the spicy pulled pork is served in molded lettuce cups—with saketinis. For a quick bite, San Jose Tofu Company has pillow-soft, creamy tofu cakes. Husband-and-wife team Chester and Amy Nozaki scoop the tofu out of giant vats behind the shop's counter.
I've come to appreciate other novel additions to my hometown. Right by the HP Pavilion stadium, where the San Jose Sharks play hockey, is the tasting room for J. Lohr Vineyards. The cabernets and chardonnays are bottled on-site, and the daily tastings are free. If you're more of a beer drinker, the Tied House Café and Brewery also makes its microbrews in house, including the popular Cascade Amber.
To burn off some of those calories, I stroll around the world's largest outdoor Monopoly board in Guadalupe River Park. My other favorite place to unwind is Alum Rock Park. The mineral springs are believed to have medicinal benefits, but the real draw is the network of trails that wind up from the canyon floor into the hills above San Jose.
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It is with great frustration as a tax paying citizen, private business owner and employer of 80 people between the USA and Hong Kong that I listen to the continued FALSE CLAIMS in the rhetoric emanating from Washington in regards to tax policy.
We pay taxes, health care and retirement benefits in both Hong Kong and the USA for our employees in accordance with all laws. (Read More: What is the 'Fiscal Cliff'?)
CNBC's Gary Kaminsky recently did a piece on FSA for employees. Thank goodness someone recognized the harm caused to our employees by the Affordable Health Care Act! As a Sub-Chapter "S" Corporation shareholder I am not eligible for FSA, but my employees went from a pre-tax maximum deposit of $6,500 to a legal maximum of $2,500. Any employee with children is devastated by this change! We put in FSA to offset the burden of higher deductibles so as to keep benefits, yet manage health care costs for our company and employees.
Also, as a Sub-Chapter "S" my income is all either K-1 ordinary or W-2 driven. As a resident of New York with business in California as well, my effective tax rate on 98 percent of my annual income is already 40 percent. I do not enjoy much in carried interest, capital gains, or qualified dividend income. I also have yet to see any "tax benefit" for having jobs in Hong Kong! Now I am being told that after January 1, my rate should go to 39.6 percent, which given my circumstances will mean a tax rate near or even exceeding 50 percent — including the 3.8 percent from the Affordable Care Act. (Read More: What a Post-'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Will Cost U.S. Households)
These increases will be in addition to increases in capital gains and qualifying dividend income. When am I paying enough? When am I considered to be doing the "right thing" in the eyes of government officials? (Read More: Fiscal Cliff - Complete Coverage)
I am not pleading poverty as I earn over 7 figures, give over 6 figures annually to charity, treat my employees as family members with liberal time off and their many benefits. I want fiscal reform to insure these potential benefits and standards of living for future generations. (Read More: Why CNBC's Rise Above?)
However, enough already! An exit poll taken after voting claimed 60 percent of those who voted wanted the wealthy to pay higher taxes. What a surprise? Did you expect them to say they wanted to pay more and are under paying currently? How about asking someone like me if I already pay a lot and 60 percent of the time the response would be of course. (Read More: 'Fiscal Cliff' Mess Is a 'Grand Canyon' - Bill Gross)
However, the most disingenuous comment belongs to Mr. Buffett who says, "it is wrong his secretary pays a higher rate than he does". Really now, why not tell Mr. Buffett he no longer gets preferential tax treatment on his income and must declare it ALL as ordinary and pay AT LEAST 40 percent instead of 15 percent -20 percent? The extra 25 percent he would pay far exceeds the extra I will be paying going from 40 percent to 50 percent. (Read More: Prescriptions for America)
The claims that the "richest Americans" should pay the Clinton rates is an example of government officials castigating the wrong people. Unless carried interest, and other loop holes are closed business owners/job creators like me will be unfairly punished while those who truly are the richest continue to enjoy more of their rewards. How about doing a piece on that travesty and fallacy?
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But the real chaos is not going on in the sanctuary of my Den, the Den was merely a little diversion. We have never decorated our bedroom since we moved into the HenHouse and it really is (past) time. Yes, that plastered patch on the wall was a doorway that was blocked up and has remained unpainted ever since. Shameful. My beautiful silk curtains took a battering in the fierce sun that floods this room and have become tattered so have now been taken down.
Friday, 14 October 2011
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But the real chaos is not going on in the sanctuary of my Den, the Den was merely a little diversion. We have never decorated our bedroom since we moved into the HenHouse and it really is (past) time. Yes, that plastered patch on the wall was a doorway that was blocked up and has remained unpainted ever since. Shameful. My beautiful silk curtains took a battering in the fierce sun that floods this room and have become tattered so have now been taken down.
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- Rachel F14 October 2011 at 14:01
Enjoy your weekend away - a good time to go! Cant wait to see the newly decorated bedroom. I must do that thing of taking everything out of the wardrobe soon - so daunting.However, its how you rediscover treasures too!ReplyDelete
Cant believe the time is flying - he will be a teenager before you know it! Mine were only 8 and when I looked again, 24 and 19! Enjoy it all! xx By the way - your dresses and brooches look so pretty
Beautiful brooches.ReplyDelete
Your bedrooms look like home from home. We seem to continually live in chaos here!!
Have a great weekend (decorating?)
Oh for just a 5 minutes supermarket style sweep through that fabric stash ;)ReplyDelete
One day we'll get round to decorating our bedroom - perhaps next year!
Oh dear Hen, you are worse than me! Seriously, you could charge for people to just come and admire your den! TiinaReplyDelete
Your house looks amazing, bet the bedroom looks great when you do finish it :) loving your fabric piles, so colourful and pretty, so envious!!ReplyDelete
Bee happy x
Have a delicious day!
Your fabric stash is truly adorable i could have a field day in there looking through each one ,i love it and the broches are so sweet ,your such an inspirationxxReplyDelete
Your blog always cheers my day - which I really needed :)ReplyDelete
Hen, thank you for showing us those pictures of the bedroom before the big transformation. It's somehow reassuring to see that even someone as dedicated to order and beauty and style could also face a very big challenge. And...take it on!ReplyDelete
Those vintage almost-done brooches are really delightful. Wonderful that you have given them that final touch that allows them to get out and about.
As always, best wishes to you. xo
Oh your fabric stash is amazing!!! I could look at it for hours... and its making me want to go and sort mine out.. Good luck with the decorating, cant wait to see finished pics. :O)ReplyDelete
Munchkin is pretty cool, isn't he? Enjoy your weekend.ReplyDelete
Have a nice weekend!ReplyDelete
Pomona x
All that fabric I would be in heaven if I had that amount!ReplyDelete
Those brooches are amazing.
Can't wait to see your room when it is finished
Julie xxxxxxxx
I have to admit to having serious fabric envy when I first started reading this post :o)ReplyDelete
But as I read further down, I now also have 'a happy helper' envy too :o)
What a sweetie your little boy is.
I'm (hopefully) looking forward to seeing some photos from your upcoming weekend. It's lovely seeing you all dressed up from the forties, and most inspiring too!
Your dresses all hanging up look gorgeous Hen, as does your new one ready to wear this weekend :o)
I really do love those vintage posy corsage/brooches...they remind me of some my mum had from the war!
Have a fantastic weekend, and may you come back to a most gorgeous bedroom :o)
Kindest regards,
Donna x
Oh my all that fabric is just beautiful! <3ReplyDelete
Oh bless the Munchkin - he's a real star.ReplyDelete
Looking forward to seeing how this room is transformed; bet it's going to be magical. x
That's a serious ammout of stash you have there Hen I've seen a well stocked shop with less fabric than that!! Love the little felty brooches they're so sweet and look lovely on your dress have a fab time and don't forget your ration book!! Lucey xReplyDelete
The 40's brooch found the perfect home with you Hen - I know that you will love wearing it. Thanks for the mention, and again, it was lovely to see you and the boys - thank you for visiting my little shop.ReplyDelete
Good luck with the decorating - Hope you'll be all sorted soon,
Have a lovely weekend,
Niki :)
What great finds the little felt corsages are and you've done a lovely job with the anemone - I especially like the "V" one and it looks great on your dress.ReplyDelete
Enjoy your trip back in time this weekend :o)
Two words:ReplyDelete
fabric heaven
What a fabulous fabric stash!ReplyDelete
Lovely brooches & your fabric stash is growing!!! :) xReplyDelete
I'm loking forward to seeing your finished bedroom - it's always nice to redecorate but quite a mess while it's happening.ReplyDelete
How did I miss those brooches - that's the trouble with being behind a stall!
I know what you mean about the feeling of out of control...currently the garden and the studio and the conservatory are suffering...argh!ReplyDelete
Love the brooches.
- Anonymous15 October 2011 at 09:13
ooh are you going to Pickering war weekend I might see you there if you areReplyDelete
xx fee
Thank you so much! I showed my lovely husband your fabric stash and was able to say "Well, my little collection is nothing like this!" I was thinking that if I had a seriously fabulous stash like your one I would be like the cat who got the cream. XXXReplyDelete
Great colours and so beautiful house!ReplyDelete
Have a nice Sunday!
oh how I love to see your Den! What a lot of fabric and it's great you have a happy helper. I hope you had a nice weekend away escaping the decorating going on at your house. Did you get my email I sent last week about your notecards?ReplyDelete
Take care, Ali :)
Hi! I love all your things here! Best greetings Riitta Sinikka / Romulyyli-blog.ReplyDelete
Wow! You have a very voluminous fabric stash. Wonderful! I love your pretty brooches.ReplyDelete
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All Things Alhambra, Part III
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The Sears Alhambra was one of Sears' most popular houses. In fact, I'd say it was one of their top ten best sellers. And, it was a pretty house with a distinctive Spanish flair and with a splash of mission style. If you take away the fancy accoutrements, you'll see it's little more than a classic American foursquare.
The first photo is from the 1921 Sears Building Materials catalog. It's a letter from a happy, happy Alhambra homeowner. (Say that four times fast.)
Click here to read All Things Alhambra, part 2.
To see more pictures of Sears Alhambras, visit All Things Alhambra, part 2.
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The Cadillac CTS-V Coupe posts impressive numbers: 556 horsepower, a 0-to-60 mph time near four seconds, and top speed around 190mph. Also impressive is the car's ability to make a passenger go from restrained and controlled to squealing and cursing and giggling in well under four seconds.
Most car guys like to think that their car impresses girls. Most car guys are wrong. Most car guys don't drive a CTS-V, though. WARNING: Some may consider this slightly NSFW due to language and bouncing breasts.
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NWSB Inside and Sounders FC Blogger Jason Green weighs in with his gameday preview for Saturday's matchup between Colorado Rapids vs. Seattle Sounders. The Sounders started off hot but have cooled off as of late. With David Estrada scoring 4 of 5 Seattle goals this season, someone will need to step up when the pressure is on him.
MLS Matchup Report: Seattle Sounders FC vs. Colorado Rapids
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This October will see the World Premiere of the first ever official exhibition about iconic superstar and legendary performer Prince. Opening on 27 October 2017 at The O2 in London, My Name Is Prince, will give fans the chance to get up close and personal with the music legend's life and work, which will celebrate the legacy of one of pop music's most influential figures, Prince Rogers Nelson.
My Name Is Prince will showcase hundreds of never before seen artefacts direct from Paisley Park, Prince's famous Minnesota private estate. Visitors will get a unique insight into the life, creativity and vision of one of the most naturally gifted recording artists of all time.
Fans visiting My Name is Prince will have the chance to witness awe-inspiring exhibits including instruments, stage outfits, awards and handwritten song lyrics. Artefacts leaving Paisley Park for the first time in this unique exhibition include:
· Clothing from the 1984/1985 Purple Rain tour and the 1988/1989 LoveSexy tour
· Wardrobe from the 1990 film, Graffiti Bridge
· Gibson L65 guitar that Prince used when he made his national television debut on American Bandstand in 1980. Also used on the Prince tour and Dirty Mind tour
· The original bass that was the inspiration for the Cloud guitar
· The orange Cloud guitar made for Prince's 2007 Super Bowl halftime performance (used during The Earth tour in 2007)
· Third-eye sunglasses from 2014
· Diamond studded cane from 2015
· Clothing worn during the 2007 3121 shows, 21 nights at The O2 shows and many more
· Diamond vest worn during his 2013 V magazine shoot
· The Raspberry Beret cloud suit from 1985
My Name is Prince will be in London for a limited 21-day engagement, reflecting the 21 unprecedented record-breaking, sold-out concerts that Prince played at The O2 in August and September 2007 – a record that still stands today. The exhbition dates have since been extended.
A family ticket is available for £60 (2 adults and up to 2 children). To purchase, please select '1 ticket' above and you will be able to choose the Family Ticket on the next screen.


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Illinois game wrap (with pics!)
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"Play hard and play with great effort"
Immediately after the game, I was struggling to come up with a thru-line for what had just happened. But then Brian posted "Defensive Annhilation Muppets" and then the video of Mattison getting emotional surfaced. And for a moment I thought, 'you guys are over-reacting. Illinois does not have a good offense'. I like when coaches just give coachspeak. But then I thought about the last three years and yeah, it makes sense. The difference in emotion between Chip Kelly's comments and Mattison's are where you're starting from.
A couple of years from now, a win like this will only be notable for constructive criticism. There were a lot of bad plays that need to be corrected. But given the circumstances of where we were last year and what we were expected to be this year and the fact that we're 8-2 with a decent chance of picking up at least one more win and a very small chance of getting to 11 wins, emotional celebration is more than appropriate.
What a difference a week makes!
Al Borges didn't have a great game against Iowa, and I pointed that out. He had a much better gameplan this week. I don't know if he or anyone close to him reads blogs or not, but he responded to several very specific criticisms leveled here last week.
Holding the backside DE
I mentioned something about a lack of reverses.
Thanks Al! Odoms is coming from his slot position to take an end around fake. Not only did it hold the backside OLB and prevent the DE from crashing down on Denard, it also froze the MLB just enough for Fitz to run right by him.
But that wasn't the only trick up Al's sleeve. He pulled out another wrinkle from the Richrod days.
One of the problems with protecting Denard and limiting his carries is that the DE that you're optioning on the zone read doesn't have to respect the keep and is free to chase the TB. But here we see Koger coming from his H-back wing to block #9.
The O-line is getting good lateral movement and both Denard and Koger are eliminating defenders from the pursuit.
One caveat is that their safeties were pretty bad (someone mentioned they had backups in the game). #5 has badly misread this play, and he's too slow to catch Fitz anyway. Meanwhile, if you wonder how a guy can get over 100 yards in the first quarter, you can bet he's breaking tackles. This arm tackle didn't even slow him down.
This arm tackle slowed him down,
but it didn't stop him.
So Fitz had about 45 yards of YAC from the first arm tackle and then about another 15 yards of super YAC downfield.
The offense as a whole had a much better day (despite some derpiness in the 2nd and 3rd quarters). The O-line was doing a great job with the zone blocking in the first quarter and opened up some nice running lanes.
Here we've got Hopkins blocking the DE from his FB position instead of Koger, but the result is about the same. Gallon cracks down on his man and Omameh does a good job scraping off the double team and getting to the linebacker.
Huyge takes his man where he wants to go and it opens up a nice line.
On this next play, there's only 5 in the box because the OLB's are out on the slot receivers.
Molk does an excellent job of tracking down his man and we've got a hat on a hat.
The Zen of zone blocking is you just get on your man and take him away from the play using his own impetus. Of course you need a guy like Fitz back there who is patient enough and has good vision to see the hole developing.
Even though the OLB crashes down for contain, he's nowhere near Fitz and Denard has read him properly. If this were the pros Fitz would be owing five really large guys a nice dinner for this play.
The Numbers Game
We had some issues in the red zone last week. Part of that is due to Iowa's talent on the D-line and part of it is having Denard sitting in the pocket or handing off or otherwise not putting pressure on the defense to account for him.
If this were a normal pitch play or off-tackle dive, it would've been completely stuffed because they've got more defenders than we've got blockers on the playside. But when Denard keeps it, we've got an even matchup and Denard just has to pick his way through and find a hole.
But what really makes this play work is that Omameh gets a great cut block, upending his man. Now we've got 6 blockers against their 5 defenders and Denard with no one to track him down.
Omameh's block freed up Molk to get on the pursuing linebacker and the result is an easy touchdown for shoelace.
So what happened in the 2nd Quarter? Well let's compare to a play where we don't have a numbers advantage.
They've got 9 defenders in the box with both safeties playing up. If Denard has the freedom to audible (or we had gotten to the line with more than 8 seconds so that the coaches could call a check play #misshightempo), then he should be throwing a fade or "z out" to Roundtree at the bottom of the screen. We've got 9 in the box, but because we're in I form, the defense doesn't have to account for the QB (as his first 5 steps are backwards).
The play is a lead draw. The line shows pass blocking and then the center or whoever is free is supposed to head upfield after a couple beats. But this call means that Illinois has a lot of unblocked defenders. It doesn't help that Molk misreads the defense and doesn't scrape off to one of the linebackers. This means that Hopkins has three unblocked people he has to choose from. If Denard had been running, then both Hopkins and Fitz would have hit the MLBs so Denard would just have to juke the safety to get in the endzone.
Instead, Hopkins gets one LB and the other stuffs Fitz for a loss with both safeties racing up to make sure he doesn't fall forward.
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The following is a list of public meetings and special events for the coming week. Readers should know that meetings are subject to change without notice. THURSDAY, November 6 •Ladies Auxiliary of the Massapequa Fire Dept. Meeting: 8 p.m., Firehouse, Hicksville Rd. and Brooklyn Ave. For further info., call 798-9849.
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Cfschafer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 6 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
Beyond What's Possible - Psychologist
We are psychologist with extensive experience in therapy / councelling and in the corporate world..
We believe tomorrow you can achive things that today where impossible. We support you and take you through that journey until you can be who you want to become. In the corporate word we achive improvments directly to your bottom line by challenging your believes and devloping your company capability.
We do what we know and what we believe we can, so things sometimes apper impossible. If I know different or I believe different the impossible becomes possible. The core believ of Beyond whats possible is that there is no impossible. (from a personal point of view or from a company point of view)
We are warm approchable, will support you and be with you.
Some frase - ideas but we havent decide on any so feel free to create any if you need , this is just to give you a sense of what we are trying to communicate
The impossible doesn't exist -
what you can achive depends on what you bring
beyond current limits
This is a bit of a tricky one since we have a diverse range of audiences.
Firstly there are 2 main types of Clients. Corporate and therapy / counselling clients
Our counselling clients are over 20 years of age from all walks of life, they are corporate people looking for support, moms, couples, drug addicts etc. In general they are high income earners that want to produce a change in their life's.
Our corporate clients are high income earners that need to take their organisations out their next stage and believe that there are other possibilities out there. The services we provide in the corporate space are HR, creativity and organisational development and strategy.
What I need. is to bring the logo to life. So please have fun with the project and use the logo as the base. It should take motion and life!!
Please make people believe that the impossible is just beyond what possible and that you can achive it!!!
Business cards - two sets - the ones I use as business cards and those that I use to give appointment times, this ones read at teh back date and time of next appointment.
If you want to design cards double sided to create an impact that is ok. Be creative
Folders - A4
Trifold brochures, templates with space to insert pictures and text
The logo is attched, I have 2 colours red and blue. and 3 different applications.
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Mayor's Office
Community Forestry crews continue to work throughout the City to clear trees and branches that fell as a result of this weekend's storms. To report City street tree branches down on sidewalks or in the public right of way between the sidewalk and the curb, call Community Forestry at 402-441-7035 during regular business hours, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays or e-mail the location to email@example.com. During non-business hours, call the Lincoln Police Department's non-emergency number at 402-441-6000.
If power lines have fallen into trees or branches, call the Lincoln Electric System (LES) at 888-365-2412. LES advises residents to stay away from any downed lines, even if they appear to be dead.
Those with damage from privately-owned trees have four options:
The City Forestry Office is acting on all messages left on the Forestry Office voice mail. Calls are being recorded with names and residences added to the list for service.
More information on Community Forestry is available at parks.lincoln.ne.gov.


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Chocolate chip bread. The last of the chocolate recipes for February, but defiantly not the last that you will ever see, not even soon. Two recipes for you two choose from this week. The first recipe is just an adaption from a past recipe. Remember the Crusty Bread recipe I shared with you last year? Its one that I use all the time for a lot of our wine and cheese socials. I am always playing around with different ingredients and this time I threw in some chocolate chips and a little extra sugar in it. Last week, I cubed up the bread and used a mascarpone cheese spread with it. Delicious! You can grab the recipe by clicking on the crusty bread link above. The next recipe is a bit different. I got it from my Taste of Home cookbook that I have had for years. Its a little sweeter and does not have the crunchy outer shell. I would say this is more of a dessert bread. It would be fun to hear which you prefer. I know my favorite.
Crusty Chocolate Chip bread.- Cut into cubes and serve with honey butter, cinnamon butter or mascarpone.
Chocolate Chip Egg Bread – 2 loaves
3 1/2 C flour, 1/4 C sugar, plus 1 TB divided, 3/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 TB yeast, 3/4 warm water, 3 TB oil, 2 eggs, and 4-5 oz. semi sweet chocolate chips.
Egg wash – 1 egg and 1 tsp. water
Whisk flour, sugar and salt in a stand mixer. In another bowl whisk 1/2 TB sugar, yeast and water together. Set aside for 5 minutes until foamy. Whisk in oil and eggs. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Beat first until blended. Then use your dough hook and knead until incorporated. Knead in chocolate chips by hand.
Divide dough in half and place in two separate greased bowls, turning dough to coat. Cover and allow to rise about 90 minutes until doubled in size.
After 90 minutes, roll each each a smooth round loaf. Place both loaves on a parchment lined baking sheet. Cover an let rise until doubled or proof in the oven until happy with the size.
Beat egg and water. Brush over loaves. Sprinkle remaining sugar over the top of each loaf. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Cover with foil and bake and additional 15 minutes until golden. Cool before cutting.


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James Cooper needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 162 designs submitted by 40 freelance designers.
We are a Web 2.0 startup that allows developers and quality assurance staff test their web application across a variety of web browsers. Our goal is to dramatically lower the cost and difficulty of web test automation.
We want to convey that we are:
- professional
- established
- modern
- Web site developers
- Quality assurance staff
- Project managers
Overall our audience will be web savvy and somewhat technical. Age range 25-45. Primarily male.
- Primary design element should be the name: regressr
- No ".com" in the logo please
- Simple vector illustration in the logo might be nice (stackoverflow does this very well)
- We have no existing color palette, so feel free to experiment
- Logo should be suitable for a web site and for business cards
- Simple and bold is preferred.
Sites with logos we like (and who appeal to a similar target audience):
- http://unfuddle.com/
- http://stackoverflow.com/
- http://www.zendesk.com/
- http://www.wesabe.com/
Companies with similar products (don't emulate their design, but it may help you understand our product space better)
- http://www.cloudtesting.com/
- http://saucelabs.com/
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Serving Size: 2 quarts
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
I love how refreshing this is to drink. I use Spelnda in my version so I can make the hibiscus tea diet friendly. I always make sure I have a batch in the fridge every week. thanks!
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UPDATE: This story was originally published on August 24.
Most days we moisturize, mascara-ize, rinse, and repeat. So, when we come across an A.M. routine that's a bit more elaborate, we can't help but be fascinated. Think: hair-wrapped high ponies, multiple fragrances in rotation, and literally thousands of brightly packaged products to choose from. We're talking about the founder and editor of Beauty Banter, Sarah Howard. Her primping prowess is no surprise, since she was born into a makeup family (her father once owned Make Up For Ever and now runs Pierre Michel salon). And she puts it to good use, with a love of all things blushed, bronzed, polished, and perfumed.


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Electric Wax Melt / Oil Burner - Pink Petals
Simply add your Creations Wax Melts (Min 2 pieces) onto the top.
Mix and match by breaking up the Melts to create your own unique fragrance.
Plug your burner into your nearest electric socket and the Creations Melts mix and blend with each other.
Dimensions: 105mm Diameter, 140mm Height
Cable length: 1 Metre from Plug to Inline Switch plus 30mm from Switch to Lamp
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The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of AgWeb or Farm Journal Media. The opinions expressed below are the author's own.
Matt's primary interest is in the biotech industry and ag policy.
By Matt Bogard
My recent discussion about labeling biotech foods may have led some to believe that I'm against informing the consumer about what's in their food. I'm not. Let's pose a hypothetical. Let's label biotech foods on the premise (supported by evidence or not) that recombinant DNA technology presents uncertainty about food safety.
What kind of label then should we put on conventional foods? Most research indicates that non-biotech foods pose nearly identical if not other more certain risks. In fact biotech ('GMO' if you must) crops actually reduce some of these risks. What about exposure to chemical weed killers? Roundup Ready biotech crops have lead to a substitution away from much more toxic and environmentally persistent chemistries toward much safer options. Biotech corn with the Bt trait actually reduces the ear mold toxin fumonisin which is known to be carcinogenic and related to throat cancer. The Bt trait in general has greatly reduced or eliminated the use of many very toxic chemical pesticides.
Researchers in the journal of Ecological Economics have found that "Bt cotton has reduced pesticide applications by 50%, with the largest reductions of 70% occurring in the most toxic types of chemicals." And that " Bt cotton now helps to avoid several million cases of pesticide poisoning in India every year."
In the journal Nature Biotechnology, Henry Miller and Gregory Conko go so far as to say that companies that purposefully exclude biotech ingredients could be liable for increasing consumers exposure to these types of risks.
This is a case where government interventions that require labeling could actually do more harm than good. Labels help consumers concerned about fat and sodium make healthy choices, however sensational 'GMO' labels could be misguiding and lead consumers to actually make choices that are either worse for them, the health of producers, or the environment.
Consumers certainly have a right to know about what's in their food. They also have a right to not be misguided by the improper application of food labels. Our farmers and educators are in the best position to inform consumers about the very specific and complicated processes and technologies involved in food production as opposed to some blunt uninformative term on a label that could easily be manipulated for political ends or sensationalized by media.
Comparison of Fumonisin Concentrations in Kernels of Transgenic Bt Maize Hybrids and Nontransgenic Hybrids. Munkvold, G.P. et al . Plant Disease 83, 130-138 1999.
Indirect Reduction of Ear Molds and Associated Mycotoxins in Bacillus thuringiensis Corn Under Controlled and Open Field Conditions: Utility and Limitations. Dowd, J. Economic Entomology. 93 1669-1679 2000.
"Why Spurning Biotech Food Has Become a Liability.'' Miller, Henry I, Conko, Gregory, & Drew L. Kershe. Nature Biotechnology Volume 24 Number 9 September 2006.
Genetically Engineered Crops: Has Adoption Reduced Pesticide Use? Agricultural Outlook ERS/USDA Aug 2000
The problem is, in most respects, you're right. American Business of every kind has it's collective noses up the collective keisters of those who should be regulating them. I'm glad to see someone whipping out some science, but of course we both know we BOTH could do that until we get woozy from the effort. IF ALL sides of this issue were to get down and dirty with the newest emerging Science, Technology and Methodology, and IF our standards could once again be the highest in the world, and IF we could once more be the innovators, honest business competitors we once were-who knows what could happen. But, that's a lot of "ifs".


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Get directions to Wabash College Fine Arts Center
Wabash College's Visiting Artists Series will present Lucia Pulido and ensemble Palenque at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 30 in Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center.
A pioneer of Neuva Cancion (New Song) in Colombia, Luca Pulido moved to New York City in 1994 and continues to mine the musical traditions of her native country while incorporating elements of jazz, contemporary music, and Latin American song in her ongoing search for new musical possibilities. Pulido has one of the richest voices on the Latin American musical scene, and her musical explorations include collaborations with musicians from Argentina, Japan, and Brazil. In February 2006 she recorded with Palenque, a guitar, clarinet, and percussion ensemble that will perform with her on the Salter Hall stage.
The New York Times says, "Ms. Pulido holds on to the rawness of the original melodies while giving them a sophisticated new context."
Palenque is an ensemble that pays homage to the "chirimía", one of the many types of Colombian street bands, through a highly experimental style. Traditional genres such as cumbia and bullerengue from the Atlantic Coast, currulaos from the Pacific Coast as well as joropos of the Colombian Eastern Plains are the point of departure for musical creativity. Lucía's vocal sophistication is enhanced in genres such as herding songs (cantos de vaquería), funeral laments (alabaos) and harvest chants (cantos de zafra) which give the singer the liberty to explore her voice fully. The ensemble also performs songs written for Lucía by composers Iván Benavides and Sebastián Cruz. Cruz is currently the ensemble's arranger and musical director. Palenque's core group consists of percussion, clarinet, bass, guitar and voice.
Seating for Visiting Artists Series events will be by general admission, though free tickets are required for Visiting Artists Series programs.
Contact the Fine Arts Center Box Office by email at email@example.com or phone: 765-361-6411. Box Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1:30 to 4 p.m. The box office will open 90 minutes before curtain time for Visiting Artists events. Tickets not claimed at the Box Office 10 minutes prior to curtain will be released to the general public.