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Chocolate Covered Praline Pecan Pie
We start with four (count em) heaping cups of fresh Texas pecan pieces, fold them into our exclusive praline filling (made from honey and fresh-cooked caramel), then gently pour the mixture into a delicate, hand baked buttery pie crust. It is toped with a layer of rich, dark Puddin Hill chocolate. Each 8" pie is carefully packed in a beautiful gift box. Chocolate-Covered Pie 2 lb. 6 oz.
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Ingredients: 4 cups of pecan pieces folded into our praline filling (made with honey & fresh cooked carmel) & poured into our buttery pie crust...does contain eggs then topped with dark chocolate and string of milk chocolate.
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For those suffering uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, endometriosis, menorrhagia, uterine prolapse, urinary incontinence or cervical and uterine cancer, St. Joseph's has a long standing history of exemplary gynecological surgeons. From 1999, as the first hospital in Central New York (CNY) to perform minimally invasive anti-incontinence procedures, to 2008 as the one of the first CNY hospitals to utilize the da Vinci® robot for sacrocolpopexy, St. Joseph's is committed to your care.
Today, St. Joseph's performs more than 300 hysterectomies a year, 98% of them minimally invasive vaginal, laparoscopic or robotic procedures. As compared to traditional gynecological surgeries, laparoscopic or robotic procedures require smaller incisions, take less time and patients have less pain and recover more quickly.
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Endometriosis occurs when endometrial tissue, the tissue that lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation, grows outside the uterus – on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, the ligaments that support the uterus other organs in the pelvic cavity. As the growth occurs outside the uterus, your body reacts by creating scar tissue.
Menorrhagia is abnormally heavy and prolonged menstrual periods at regular intervals. Menorrhagia can be caused by abnormal blood clotting, disruption of normal hormonal regulation or disorders of the lining of the uterus.
Ovarian Cysts
An ovarian cyst is a fluid-filled sac that forms on or in the ovary. Most cysts are harmless and have no symptoms. When symptoms do occur, they are typically pain or a late period.
Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Pelvic organ prolapse is when the muscles and ligaments supporting a woman's pelvic organs weaken and the pelvic organs slip out of place (prolapse). Pelvis organ prolapse can affect the bladder, uterus, vagina or rectum. Some women develop prolapse after menopause, childbirth or a hysterectomy.
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Fibroids are the most common type of abnormal growth in the uterus and the most common reason for hysterectomy in U.S. women. Although fibroids are benign, or non-cancerous, their symptoms and side effects can include pelvic pain, heavy bleeding and infertility. The exact cause of fibroids is unknown, but experts suspect the female hormone – estrogen – plays an instrumental role in the formation of fibroids. Typically, fibroids worsen as a woman enters her 30s and 40s. Then, when estrogen levels drop at menopause, fibroids may shrink.
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Uterine prolapse is the falling or sliding of the womb (uterus) from its normal position into the vaginal area. Muscles, ligaments and other structures hold the uterus in the pelvis. If these muscles and structures are weak, the uterus drops into the vaginal canal. This condition is more common in women who have had one or more vaginal births.
Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus. It is possible to have a total hysterectomy or a partial hysterectomy. It is the most commonly performed gynecological surgical procedure. A hysterectomy is normally recommended as a last resort to remedy certain intractable uterine/reproductive system conditions.
Lymphadenectomy is the surgical removal of one or more groups of lymph nodes. It is usually performed as part of the surgical management of cancer.
Myomectomy is the surgical removal of fibroids in the uterus. Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous growths that can grow on the inside of the uterus, within the muscle wall of the uterus or on the outer surface of the uterus.
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Sacrocolpopexy is the surgery used to fix a pelvic organ prolapse. Pelvic organ prolapse is when the muscles and ligaments supporting a woman's pelvic organs weaken and the pelvis organs slip out of place.
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Seismologists say a magnitude-6.2 earthquake has struck off Chile's northern coast, alarming local residents but causing no reported damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit at 7:59 a.m. (8:59 EDT; 1259 GMT) and it was centered 60 miles (96 kilometers) north-northwest of the coastal city of Iquique.
Chile's national emergency office said there were no reports of damage or problems with infrastructure.
Officials discounted any possible tsunami. They had evacuated thousands of people from the shore last week as a precaution after a magnitude-6.7 quake in the same region.
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Congratulations! You've started your own business. You've been handed the keys. You've managed to turn your dream into a reality.
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Running a business is rewarding and demanding, and we want to be sure that you are prepared to protect your business and its assets to continue on your path to success.
Below, we have collected four standard contracts you will need to be familiar with to do just that.
1. Bill of Sale: Most likely, you are going to engage in many transactions when first starting out. This contract will protect and complete a purchase of a valuable asset (large items like a car or TV). The bill of sale will help prove you legally own the item and can determine how much sales tax you will pay. It can also release the seller (possibly you) from liability to keep both buyer and seller from any future disputes.


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Cambro, a supplier of foodservice equipment, continues its steadfast commitment to food safety and launches its "Ask Shelly" campaign that offers foodservice operators a chance to submit questions for advice from accredited health inspector and food safety educator Shelly Wallingford, an MS, REHS, Credentialing Coordinator with 13 years of field experience.
Wallingford will be making a personal appearance and presentations at The NRA Show on May 18 and 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m to give foodservice operators the opportunity to ask their most pressing questions, share concerns, or vent in a risk-free, casual forum.
No topic is off the table and everyone benefits from Wallingford's expertise on everything from best practices for caterers, sanitation, proper storage, and potential risk areas in the kitchen.
Foodservice operators can submit their questions ahead of time and are encouraged to ask any question, share concerns, or consult about an issue they are experiencing in an anonymous, friendly, and risk-free forum.
Promoting food safety through its StoreSafe program, Cambro will make this a multifaceted event, featuring online and on-site tips on proper storage, food transport do's and don'ts, common mistakes operators make, daily product giveaways, StoreSafe care packs, and an opportunity to meet with a registered health inspector.
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10.18.12: The CCRI Lady Knights soccer team hosted the Pride of Springfield JV team for their final home game for the final home game of the 2012 season. It was also Sophomore Day, celebrating the final home game for sophomores: Tri-Captain Cait McGarry (Warwick, RI), Tri-Captain Jess McCaughey (Warwick, RI), Tri-Captain Britt LeClair (Westerly, RI), Jess Sandin (Warwick, RI), and Alyssa DaSilva (Rehoboth, MA) (who is injured but was still in attendance to be honored). The Lady Knights lost a heartbreaker to the Pride 3-2 on overtime. With the loss the Lady Knights fall to 8-4-2 on the season.
There was a huge crowd on hand at the CCRI soccer complex in Lincoln with hundreds of cheering fans to watch the Lady Knights in their final home contest and they were treated to a game that had tremendous excitement with lead changes and momentum swings. As the game began Springfield threatened early after being awarded a penalty kick just a couple minute into the contest. However, CCRI Keeper Alex Place (East Greenwich, RI) stoned the attempt smothered the ball so there was no second chance opportunity. But I the 21st minute Springfield got on the board scoring on a breakaway giving them a 1-0 lead. The Pride would go into halftime leading 1-0.
In the second half Sophomore Tri-Captain Jess McCaughey scored on a pass from Jess Hammond (Warwick, RI) which McCaughey lofted over the Pride Goalkeeper with a high arcing shot that found the top corner of the net tying the score at 1-1. About fifteen minutes later the Lady Knights tallied another goal as Jess Hammond received a long crossing pass and was able to tuck another goal into the bottom corner of the Springfield net to give CCRI the 2-1 advantage. The second goal was assisted by Tri-Captain Britt LeClair and Sarah Mauricio (Tiverton, RI). The Lady Knights kept the lead until 15 minutes left in the game when Springfield was able to score again on a counter attack breakaway tying the game for the second time this time with the score 2-2. Each team was looking to get the game winner as time winded down in the game and with less than five minutes left Tri-Captain Cait McGarry forwarded the ball towards two fast-breaking Lady Knights: Britt LeClair and Jess Sandin who were sprinting with a Springfield defender as the Springfield keeper charged from the net. Sandin was able to get her toe on the ball first, beating the keeper but deflecting off the crossbar, deflecting down to the goal line with back spin and the Springfield defender made an excellent play to head the ball out of bounds before Sandin or LeClair could finish, leaving the CCRI fans heartbroken.
As the teams went to extra time CCRI controlled much of the play but could not get the finisher. However, about half way through the first overtime period Springfield stole the ball on a breakaway and put away a winner to with by the final tally of 3-2.
The final regular season game for the Lady Knights will be next Wednesday October 24th when they will travel to Franklin, MA to play the Bulldogs of Dean College at 3:30pm.
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Trying to Evolve…My Rays Way
So I have gone the way of providing every photo for my blog posts so far this season from my little Fuji digital camera, and I know they are not as sharp or as professionally poised and postured as the old Associated Press or Getty Images photos I have used in the past, but they are free and mine to use in any way I desire this year. And with that, you will see my photos hopefully improve and get extremely better over the course of the season. But they will all be taken from one vantage point in the stadium, my Season Ticket blue seat. That's right, the one blue seat within Tropicana Field that has a warm body in it every Home game will also try and provide a few timely and game action shots.
But the problem with learning "on-the-fly" like I am this season is sometimes I will also be coloring outside the lines , and hopefully they are mostly in some kind of focus range. This is the biggest obstacle for me since I can not take a lens larger than a foot into the stadium without the proper Rays photo credentials, and I am still trying to get on "double-secret probation" with the Rays to even stand in the back of the room taking panoramic views during any type of team event. But that is also fine because I know I have a few mountains to cross and a few rivers to swim before I can say I even remotely "get it".
And another reason I have come to trying and getting my own photos is the recent decisions by some of the photo agencies to offer limited "royalty-free" photos to people like me who write small "Mom & Pop" blogs posts and usually only want 2-3 photos to accent the piece, not bury it in a visual jungle. But those same "free" photos are not the kind I would post on my site anyways as they are more still action shots not even of the baseball nature. The sports shots I might desire are now considered "rights-managed" images, and being unemployed and a blogger who doesn't submit to a site where I can gain income from advertising or even selling my printed products on Cafepress.com , my options are limited.
But this is not a rant on the tightening of the grip by the photo conglomerate so that even us little guys have to squeeze out some greenbacks to get great photos. There are still a vast majority of photos on websites or even local newspaper media Sports sections that we can still "right-click" with our computer mouse and save to our computer files. But I think that free practice might come to a quick halt soon as the general media is also aware of the royalties and the provisional monies lost by people taking their " copyrighted" images and throwing them up as their own photos.
That is one of the reason I started to post "by-lines" under each photo a few years back to at least show that I am trying to give the proper credit where credit is due. No matter if it was "Joe Shmoe" on Flickr.com, or Associated Press photog Steve Nesius, I have tried to give them at least a form of photo credit acknowledgment over that span of games. And I truly think everyone should do the same online, but it all starts with one person doing it until someone else does it and soon enough you have a revolution heading in the right direction. I loved writing stories and taking pictures as far back as Junior High School and always wanted to work at a newspaper or magazine.
I am still not sure what disillusioned me when I was working as a Sport Correspondent and occasional Sports Copy Clerk at the now defunct Evening Independent afternoon paper in St. Petersburg, Florida back in the early 1980's. To this day I am seeing an ex-Dixie Hollins graduate Rick Stroud still employed by the St. Petersburg Times and I wonder if I too could have stayed on the path any maybe be the one in the Rays Press Box ( not knocking current Rays beat writer Marc Topkin). But then again, I am a bit more relaxed and pressure-free considering I write what I want and there are no political battle line or subject limitations on my blogs posts. But still, I find it simply ironic that the National media journalists blast bloggers, but have the smug audacity of calling their own postings "blogs".
But I am not going to digress into that segment right now but instead sit here at the bottom of Section 138 at the Trop. with a direct shot of the Batter's Box and a clear view (but a wide angle) of the entire Tropicana Field playing surface to partake in seeing, shooting and hopefully capturing some exciting Rays moments in 2010. Evolving as a person and a more consistent writer was one of the main goals I set for myself personally on New Year's Eve. I have begun that journey, plus added a new notch in trying to gain some photographic cubbyhole for myself. I will probably never be considered more than a closet sports photographer, but then I am also not trying to be a provocative modern day sports "Anne Lebowitz" either.
Maybe it is my next evolution as a fan too to make some awesome photos and treasure the games with a few odd or wild shots such as the entire Rays Bullpen wearing Rays Manager Joe Maddon's black rimmed glasses, or the bad angled shots of fireworks going off within the confines of Tropicana Field. My photos submitted and posted on several photo storage sites along the Internet Superhighway will never have a place in the annuals of Sports Illustrated or even a moments notice in ESPN, the Magazine, But then again, it is not someone elses work I am not acknowledging here, it will be mine, all mine and if I pop it up online for the world to see you can bet the byline will read "RRCollections".
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Price was spot on last night. but then again….We do know Javier Vasquez pretty well from the past.
I just decided to try something different this year and try and add to my resume as a multi-tasking journalist. It is fun, plus it keeps me deep into the game way more than I ever thought.
But then again, that is a good thing.
And since my 3.5X telephoto lens came in today, hopefully I can get a few more clearer shots in the coming day without a 2 foot lens on my $ 500 dollar camera (lol).
Rays Renegade
So you're adding photographer to your many talents? Why not? Annie Lebowitz: watch out! Congrats on a stellar performance last night by David Price. Your guys looked as tough as always, as they kicked the Yanks to the curb.
Good for you! I think having your own photos posted gives the blog more charachter and shows your own personal view of the game. We don't care if they are not SI quality; they show people another side of you, which is a good thing :O)
Thanks for that, but I guess it is all a pipedream thanks to a careless New York POS who knocked it off the railing today and busted the battery compartment lid off my Fuji camera.
Sure I can but another one, but I need a job first.
Sure it was my fault I was sitting in my seat and he reached over me and the railing to yell at a Yankee player.
And sure it was my fault my right knuckle met his throat and he went down like a sack of potatoes.
But I will use duct tape, masking tape or whatever I can find ( maybe even rubber bands) to try and get it working again…Hopefully.
Sometimes it is just not your day!
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Double R ~ You in particular should not reduce the typed word of your work for a token picture, unless it's truely your want. Then, by all means do so. This is an honest editorial I know you can appreciate….and that is, this country's dwindling ability to write, in all manners of speaking. Writing requires thought not many people are willing to put effort into anymore. I've always said if you have complete mastery of the english language one can achieve genius. We're too impatient and spoiled AND dumb-downed by technology. Too many are loosing the abilty to simply sit with pen and paper, and write…, and write well. Having said that, I have taken 4000+/- pics since December alone. LOL! Photography screams for my attention more and more these days.
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It is not for lack of want, or ability, but I took my first photography class back in Jr. High and I loved it so much I concentrated on Mass Communications in my class load all through Jr and Senior High.
Even branched out with a journalism minor in my Mass Communications degree that is worth as much as the paper it is written on now.
Just wanted to evolve the blog into a one-man band thing. Writing, photos and comments all done by one entity…Double R.
Rays Renegade
Your own pics are awesome i think, things you can capture in your own photos are sometime removed from stock images or the AP type images….
Phillies Outside
In 2008-2009 I did use a lot of AP and private photos, but I always gave photo credits to the one they produced and gave my own my credits.
They do pop up on Twitter and some other blogs sometimes, and I notice I do not get any credit on their posts, but that is fine.
I am not a media multi-million dollar conglomerate that can have a bushel of legal beagles ready to bite your head off either (lol).
Competitve business this simple picture taking.
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Steamed Lotus Buns
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- Elra's cooking and baking said...
Yummy! I love steam bun. Never made it with lotus, but will try it asap.
Btw, thank you so much for your info about YUZU lime, I am totally in love with it. Do you have any Japanese recipe that using this lime. Thanks Murasaki!
- September 16, 2011 at 3:25 PM
- Murasaki Shikibu said...
Elra: My recipes used Yuzu, not Yuzu Lime, but I'm sure it will be really nice with Yuzu Lime. If you ever have miso soup try putting a little bit of rind in the soup. It should jazz it up. You can also make deep fried gyoza with shrimp. So it would be shrimp, yuzu lime rind, scallions, garlic, sake or sherry, soy sauce. Make a dipping sauce with soy sauce and yuzu lime for these. :)
- September 16, 2011 at 11:16 PM
- Jay said...
sounds irresistable..:P
Tasty Appetite
- September 17, 2011 at 4:29 AM
- Amelia's De-ssert said...
Delicious steam bun, good ideal for left over lotus paste.
- September 17, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Murasaki Shikibu said...
Amelia: Yes, unlike the lotus paste, these were very easy to make. I had trouble before when I didn't have a steamer but the couscoussier works fine. :)
- September 17, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- Smoky Wok (formerly Tastes of Home) said...
Glad that this recipe worked out for you! Interesting that you only used cake flour, shall try it when I get a chance :)
- September 17, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- Murasaki Shikibu said...
Smoky Wok: The AP flour here is geared toward bread baking and has a high protein content and none of the flour is bleached. This is why I tried using 100% cake flour. Thanks for posting the recipe. Now I can make steamed buns! :)
- September 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- Smoky Wok (formerly Tastes of Home) said...
Hi again! Oh I see, that's a great alternative when you can't get pao flour, but I did see pao flour in a lot of Asian grocery stores e.g. Ranch 99 but then I used to live in CA, not sure where you are :)
Oh, when you have a quick minute, would you mind changing just the first part of the link to the buns by replacing "http://tastesofhome.blogspot with www.smokywok.com instead?
Thanks ever so much!
- September 17, 2011 at 3:50 PM
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- September 17, 2011 at 5:12 PM
- Taste of Beirut said...
I like how you used techniques and utensils from other cultures to make your mooncakes! I bought mooncake molds years ago and used them to mame cookies with rice flour from the middle-east; but I am itching to try my hand at mooncakes and will consult you when the time comes!
- September 17, 2011 at 6:33 PM
- Anncoo said...
Oh I love Lotus Buns (莲蓉包) especially eaten when it is piping hot.
- September 18, 2011 at 5:52 PM
- Murasaki Shikibu said...
Taste of Beirut: When we eat lots of food that's not local (as you know), we have to be innovative sometimes to satisfy our own food cravings. ;)
Anncoo: Thanks for the idea. It was great!
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The 'Cosmological Constant Problem' is one of most outstanding problems in theoretical physics. It is a significant theme of many current areas of research, both at theoretical level, and at the experimental level, via the increasing observational evidence for dark energy. However, the way researchers address this problem varies tremendously between different scientific communities.
The principal aim of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers in neighboring fields, to reach a common understanding of the nature of the problem, and to share the tools used in addressing it. In parallel, this workshop aims at understanding how the different directions in solving the Cosmological Constant Problem are related as well as searching for genuinely new approaches to tackle the question.


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Sex, money, murder keep 2 in jail
NEW HAVEN -- They called themselves the Marina Village Bloods and lived under the motto of `Sex, Money, Murder'.
Now two members, Stefan "Cuda" Winston, 31, and Alexis "Snake Rattle" Ramos, 31, will be residing for much of the next two decades in a federal big house.
U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton sentenced Winston to 13 years and nine months and Ramos to eight years and four months in prison.
Both pleaded guilty to participating in a heroin- and crack-distributing conspiracy and have prior convictions. Winston also admitted that he dealt heroin and crack.
The pair were nabbed in what the FBI dubbed "Operation Slim Fast" a lengthy law enforcement operation that uncovered a drug trafficking ring that included supply lines in Hartford; Springfield, Mass.; and Puerto Rico.
Prosecutors said the operation produced $1.67 million in annual drug sales.
The operation, protected by an arsenal of guns including an SKS assault rifle, served as many as 50 customers a day. Some arrived by train, but most by car. Many were women from the suburbs.
The gang used a woman, who had no criminal record, to purchase two of their guns. Shortly after buying them, she reported them stolen.
Investigators said they recorded 20,000 telephone conversations and seized thousands of text messages during a seven-month investigation. They also recorded video with a camera installed atop a utility pole on Bridgeport's Johnson Street and focused on an abandoned house at 105-107 Johnson Street from which drugs were being distributed. FBI Special Agent Matt King said it would have taken a year to watch all the video recorded.
The joint FBI/Bridgeport police investigation resulted in 19 arrests during a Jan. 5, 2011, roundup. While the arrests were taking place, text message were flying reporting "Da White House got hit" and "Don't go 2 work."
It intensified following a July 17, 2010, shootout near the Johnson Street house that killed Richard Gee, whose brother Damont is accused of operating a rival gang, and Kwan Jeffries, a reputed Bloods' member. A third man was wounded.
Damont Gee has pleaded not guilty to federal drug charges and is awaiting trial before Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns.
Meanwhile, Joseph "Fat Joe" Reyes, 27, the reputed leader of the Marina Village Bloods, and Richard Daniels, 29, formerly of Myrtle Avenue, are awaiting Feb. 28 sentencing before Arterton.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Tracy Dayton and Douglas Morabito are prosecuting the cases.


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REVO Creative necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 215 diseños de 53 diseñadores freelance.
REVO Creative
Small studio that specializes in User Experience Design (Visual and Interaction design) for small to mid-size businesses. We also provide comprehensive solutions in all areas of design, like web design and development, and multi-channel internet marketing (including emails, landing pages, banners, and microsites).
small to mid-size businesses
A single logo in AI/Vector format
(1) Color version
(2) Black & White or Duo-tone
Look & Feel
(1) Modern; Bold, yet "simple" – a delicate balance
(2) Colors should be trusted, warm, friendly, earthy; but feel free to explore other colors.
What I'm looking for, is a clear focus on typography and an elegant incorporation of graphics and shapes into the logo. REVO is short for revolutionary, so feel free to interpret it the way you'd like. In my conception of "revolutionary," I was thinking along the lines of using circles (relating to revolving/revolutions), but somehow having an indication that one(us) is deviating from the rest. The thoughts are not thoroughly fleshed out, so I'm looking to you, designers, to help me execute.
The current website is a bit dated, but we're going through somewhat of a re-branding phase, hence this contest. Visit our site at: http://www.revocreative.net.
Good luck, everyone!
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Major tour operators in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark said Tuesday they have canceled at least 60,000 trips to Egypt through the winter season that lasts until April due to recent unrest.
Last week, charter companies and travel organizers flew back hundreds of Scandinavian holidaymakers from resorts in Egypt and halted all tours there until mid-October. The move came in the wake of Nordic governments' revised travel advisories warning against all non-essential travel to Egypt.
Denmark's largest tour operator, Spies Rejser, said Tuesday it will refund or find alternative holiday breaks for some 3,000 customers.
Torben Andersen of Spies Rejser says Egypt "remains a rather big player" in the Danish tour industry, representing more than 10 percent of all winter destinations.


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Smooth Motion Media needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 78 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
'Magic Fold'
Magic Fold is a plastic folding device which folds your t-shirts, pants, shirts and any type of clothing quickly and neatly. The product (unfolded) is around 2ft by 2ft big. You put your tshirt onto the Magic Fold, do 3 quick folds and presto- your Tshirt is magically folded perfectly! It will save hours folding laundry!
A large infomercial campaign will be run for this product and hopefully millions of Magic Fold units will be sold world wide.
I am sure we can throw a free Magic Fold in to the winning design too :)
We are targeting 'moms at home'. Logo should be fresh, snappy and stylish and appropriate for a laundry folding device.
The more simple, the better. Logo will be embossed onto the Magic Fold product which is made from plastic.
A simple logo that should be fresh, snappy and stylish and appropriate for a laundry folding device.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Monday, October 06, 2008
Our first print run
'OMG OMG OMG' - such was the soundtrack I provided to the girls during the last two hours we just spent in the studio. There's really nothing more exciting than screen printing one's own design onto fabric. By hand. In one's own studio. And the fact that our very first run of test prints was almost perfect - was just the icing on the cake.
My funny 'concentrating' facial expression
Tegan and Bianca at work
My excitement was only somewhat diminished by my inexperienced use of the high pressure water cleaner that left me (and everything else within the 'Dexter' curtain) covered head to toe in yellow ink whilst trying to clean the screen. But lessons were learnt, and all worked out in the end.
Clean screen behind the 'Dexter' curtain
Birch Forest screen ready to go (a little larger scale than before)
You can not imagine how much of a burden has been lifted from my shoulders to have that first run turn out so well. There have been so many fretful moments over the last few months. We've had some great guidance from yardage printing gurus around Australia ... but the end result was a sort of mish mash of everyone's advice which I just had to cross my fingers was going to be okay. And it was!
One test repeat of the wattle - looking good!!
We'll start printing on some proper fabric soon, and once it's printed and heat set I'll have some new stock for the shop :)
47 comments:
- anne-cecile said...
Waw! Sounds exciting! I really like the wattle pattern...
Good luck!
- 7:50 pm
- renae said...
Oooh it looks great! Can't wait til it's in the shop =)
- 8:16 pm
- Cherry Rockette said...
are you planning to offer a printing service to local designers as well? or just your own fabrics?
- 8:16 pm
- Jodie said...
Congratulations - you must be so thrilled. How very very exciting!!!
- 8:18 pm
congratulations Lara, looks fantastic (we knew you could do it)
- 8:38 pm
- trashalou said...
Ack! That is so exciting!! I really, really, really want the wattle print.
- 8:38 pm
- Cicada Studio said...
I am so excited for you! This is momentous. You have my deepest admiration!
- 8:51 pm
- nicolette said...
The fabric looks great!
I have wonderful memories of screen-printing... and less wonderful of the high pressure water cleaner!
- 8:59 pm
- Danielle said...
Yay!! That is so exciting!! Well done :-)
- 9:03 pm
- leslie said...
whoohooo. super exciting. i am so glad the first time through went so smoothly. i can only imagine what you are going to create in the future. whoohoo!
- 9:09 pm
- goddessjodi said...
congrats, this is so exiciting!
- 9:10 pm
- Fibo said...
that looks great Lara, I know absolutely nothing about screenprinting but congratulations anyway!
- 9:16 pm
- pippijoe said...
How very exciting!! The wattle design looks fantastic too!!
- 9:54 pm
- Heids said...
OMG indeed!! Love the wattle print. Love that you girls are following your dream. Love how you tell it with such enthusiasm. Love it all. Congrats!
- 10:27 pm
- Cheeky Beaks said...
Well that was quicker than I thought! Well done girls.
- 10:34 pm
- Michelle said...
That is so exciting! Congratulations on your first trial!
- 10:42 pm
- Julie said...
Wow! these are really beautiful. Love the wattle so much.
- 10:49 pm
- Silkscreen and Scribble said...
Wow, I have been reading your blog and the Ink & Spindle blog for a while and these prints look great. Speaking from experience here, getting it right first time is hard so you guys should be really proud!
I shall be eagerly waiting to see the first Ink & Spindle fabrics!
- 10:52 pm
- Like Butter said...
pretty freaking exciting!! congrats to you and the team.
- 11:12 pm
- cindy said...
Wow congratulations - it looks like it is going great. The wattle is looking salivating, truly beautiful.
- 11:19 pm
- Billy said...
Congratulations! Both screens look great at they made my "let´s screenprint-cells" itch. :)
- 1:02 am
- daisy janie : scoutie girl said...
Just the absolute coolest! Brings a whole new level of excitement to your work! Enjoy!
- 1:07 am
- Courtney said...
That looks like so much fun and makes me long for the day when I'll be able to set up my own silkscreening space!
So happy your first run went well! It looks like no small task with such large screens.
- 1:16 am
- Laura Bucci said...
Neat to see this. Thanks for sharing. Those screens are huge! I like your work.
- 2:16 am
- Adélie said...
I never commented before but I really have to congratulate you for that whole big, exciting adventure. Good luck !
- 4:09 am
- Becky O. said...
Oh, congratulations!!!
- 4:38 am
- Craftlover said...
that's wonderful work!
your work inspired me to start working on my fabric printing.. :)
- 5:22 am
- Lexy. said...
Oh, that IS exciting!
And it does make you feel SO much better when things work first go. Now you can squash all those little 'what ifs!'
Have fun :)
- 8:16 am
- Jhoanna said...
So exciting! Thanks for sharing the behind the scenes shots and sharing the journey with us.
- 8:47 am
- liza said...
You should be really proud of yourself! It looks beautiful. I will look forward to shopping!
- 9:28 am
congrats, very excited for you guys! the prints look great!
- 10:29 am
congratulations lara and friends
- 10:40 am
- paintergirl said...
holy bananas - so good! you must be super satisfied and happy!!!! yayyyyy!!!
- 11:36 am
- gretchenmist/belkemp said...
that's so great! congrats. was thinking half way through the post how clean your clothes were looking! the fabrics look fantastic :)
- 12:44 pm
- Fer said...
Woohoo!!!! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside for the 3 of you!
- 1:14 pm
- Jesse said...
That pattern looks great! I'm so envious of your studio, too - imagine, a whole room for printing stuff in!
- 6:03 pm
- mizu designs said...
OMG this is soooooooooo exciting! Congratulations!!!
- 6:25 pm
- Heather Moore said...
Eeeek! That's so exciting! Wow wow wow! Well done to all of you.
- 6:51 pm
- ShiriMe! said...
congrats! love seeing the process. it's like i'm almost there.
- 6:53 pm
- flurogoddess said...
Wow! That is a big squeegee!
- 7:51 pm
- monda-loves said...
ooohh that is so exciting!
I never really enjoyed cleaning my screens after printing - those pressure washers are really really noisy, and so powerful too - you'll have muscles of steel in no time at all!
- 7:12 am
- Kim said...
Jealous! Oh please tell me you're outsourcing the screen burning -- you're supposed to have weeks of frustration trying to perfect that process then even more weeks of frustration trying to get a good print.
Really though -- it looks so beautiful -- congratulations!
And P.S. I love power washers.
- 12:51 am
how exciting!
But,,wait,,,where are your in-house-design ink and spindle aprons...you look like you could use some cute splat protection there ;)
- 7:24 pm
Oh! Looks like so much fun and beautiful too!
: )
- 10:21 am
- Uncle Beefy said...
Lara, this is SO amazing!!! I just cannot tell you how much I am applauding you all for making this whole thing happen...extraordinary! And, from one silk-screener to another, that mixer idea for the ink is AH-MAZING! BRILLIANT!!!
- 7:35 am
I clicked on the link to your blog and I am blessed. I loved seeing the steps you take to print fabric. you are inspiring. I'll sleep well tonight after viewing this process and your creative designs
- 2:10 pm
- Anupam said...
Congratulations your first print run is wonderful.
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The Parrish Art Museum will open "Artists Choose Artists," its second juried exhibit, to the public on Sunday. The show will feature groupings of one "jury" artist who was selected by the museum to choose two other artists who seemed to share affinities or stylistic similarities. The exhibit will include displays of one of the juror's works along side those artists chosen by the juror.
The seven jurors in the show include Alice Aycock, Ross Bleckner, Dan Rizzie, Matthew Satz, Gary Simmons, Agathe Snow, and Frank Wimberley. Those chosen include Kryn Olson, Mike Solomon, Perry Burns, Melinda Hackett, Renate Aller, Mary Ellen Bartley, Terry Elkins, Liliya Lifanova, Ross Watts, Tad Wiley, Alice Hope, Nella Khanis, Fulvio Massi, and Julie Small-Gamby.
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text: Tom at Roxio 1 Report post Posted September 6, 2007 (edited) Santa Clara, California (September 5, 2007) — Roxio®, a division of Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today launched Easy Media Creator™ 10, a substantial upgrade to the company's flagship suite of digital media applications that enables consumers to quickly and easily turn their photos, video and music into impressive multi-media projects that can be shared on CD, DVD, the Web, or a range of mobile devices. The only complete digital media suite Certified for Windows Vista, Easy Media Creator 10 provides all of the tools users need to express their digital lives. Roxio Easy Media Creator® 10 will be available in retail stores worldwide this month and is available today directly from Roxio at www.roxio.com for $99.99 USD. The latest version of Easy Media Creator is the ideal complement to Windows Vista. With a stunning new Aero user interface, it is easier than ever for consumers to manage their digital content from one project to the next, whether it is burning a DVD or uploading videos to YouTube. Creator 10 also includes great new Gadgets for Windows Vista, which make it incredibly convenient for users to capture internet and PC audio streams and convert their media files into their preferred format for easy playback on popular mobile devices, like the iPhone or Microsoft Zune. "We are pleased to have a working relationship with Roxio, a global provider of digital media software," said Dave Wascha, director of marketing for Windows Vista at Microsoft Corp. "Microsoft recognizes Sonic's commitment to delivering quality solutions that enhance our users' experience with Windows Vista." In conjunction with the launch of Easy Media Creator 10, Roxio is introducing Roxio MyMoments™, a program designed to help educate consumers on how to make the most of their digital lives. More than just online video tutorials, the MyMoments program starts with informational articles covering a broad spectrum of topics such as tips on buying and using a digital camcorder and how to capture great indoor photographs, and then moves on to step-by-step guides that lead users through the process of completing a wide range of personal digital-media projects. MyMoments also incorporates project examples that are designed to inspire creative experimentation. The Roxio MyMoments program is available to all consumers at Roxio.com and will be delivered directly to Easy Media Creator users through Roxio Central, the suite's Web-aware "Home Page." "Easy Media Creator has always provided digital media enthusiasts with the tools, features, and controls which users of any experience level need to easily create, manage, and enjoy photos, music, and videos," said Mark Ely, executive vice president of strategy, Sonic Solutions. "Understanding that the audience for digital media activities and devices is expanding, Roxio is going a step further with the launch of Creator 10 to provide not only the state-of-the-art digital media software tools designed for the broadest range of users, but also the training and creative inspiration consumers need to get the most out of their digital lives." Feature Highlights: Mobile Companion Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 includes a range of features to help users optimize their mobile enjoyment of personal digital media content. For example, Mobile Phone Doctor quickly and easily corrects problems common to photos taken with cell phone cameras, while Mobile PhotoFit optimizes digital photos for mobile device displays. In addition, Creator 10's Media Manager enables users to synchronize media between the desktop and their portable devices such as iPods, BlackBerrys, PSPs, and other popular mobile devices. 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Friendship with Darwin
Shortly after his return from the Antarctic, Hooker received a letter from Darwin congratulating him on his achievements, offering specimens from Tierra del Fuego, and asking whether Hooker would be interested in classifying the plants Darwin had gathered in the Galapagos. At this time, the two men hardly knew each other, having met only once, shortly before Hooker set sail. Nevertheless, Hooker was flattered by his scientific hero's attention and began the Galapagos work.
These first letters marked the beginning of a lifelong correspondence, through which the two became friends and collaborators, and debated their many scientific interests – notably over questions of plant distribution.
The rapid deepening of Hooker and Darwin's friendship is evident from a letter Darwin wrote on 14 January 1844: 'I am almost convinced,' he told his new acquaintance, '(quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable,' adding that 'I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends' (Burkhardt and Smith 1987: 2). The 'simple way' was, of course, natural selection, and Hooker was the first in the world to hear of Darwin's secret.
In the early 19th century, the transmutation of species was still a controversial, and indeed dangerous, topic for naturalists. Their 18th century predecessors had divided the study of nature into descriptive natural history and explanatory natural philosophy. However, in Hooker's day, this distinction between catalogues and causes was breaking down and various attempts were underway to explain the world using natural – rather than divine – laws.
The origins and nature of species, including humans, were one of the most contentious topics naturalists faced. So, despite his tongue-in-cheek description of himself as 'confessing a murder,' Darwin genuinely feared that Hooker might be appalled by his ideas; he must have been relieved when Hooker replied that there might well have been 'a gradual change of species,' adding, 'I shall be delighted to hear how you think that this change may have taken place, as no presently conceived opinions satisfy me on the subject' (Burkhardt and Smith 1987: 6–7).
I remember once dreaming you were too prone to theoretical considerations about species ... which I thought a more intimate acquaintance with species practically might clear upJoseph Hooker counseling Darwin on how to advance his theory of natural selection in a letter from Calcutta 6 Apr 1850
Hooker's calm reply was probably shaped by some degree of deference, but also suggests a pre-existing interest in the species question. Although Hooker said little about his own opinions until the late 1850s, his willingness to listen to Darwin's ideas opened the way to a long and fruitful correspondence.
As Darwin worked out the details of his theory over the next 14 years, the two men regularly discussed natural selection and Darwin would later acknowledge Hooker as 'the one living soul from whom I have constantly received sympathy' (Burkhardt and Smith 1991: 174).
Yet Hooker never hesitated to criticise Darwin when he disagreed with him. Writing to Lyell in 1866, Darwin noted that Hooker's 'mind is so acute and critical that I always expect to hear a torrent of objections to anything proposed; but he is so candid that he often comes round in a year or two' (Darwin and Seward 1903: 138).
The Nango glacier in the Himalayas helped Darwin and Hooker to understand the distribution of isolated alpine plants. For an example of Hooker and Darwin's scientific exchanges and how they helped to shape Darwin's theory of evolution take a look at the video in the link below.
Text by Dr Jim Endersby. Reproduced with the permission of the author and Oxford University Press. Full biography also available free online on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography website.


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Humanity was in chaos before the First Battle of Harvest in 2525. The UN was waging a bloody struggle against groups of terrorists (or freedom fighters) called the Insurrectionists, who wanted independence from the Unified Earth Government. The UNSCDF, the military branch of the UNSC, constantly battled the Insurrectionists. In an attempt to help end the long-running war against the rebels, the UEG commissioned the ORION Project (also known as the SPARTAN-I project) and later the SPARTAN-II Program, which created a group of elite super-soldiers to combat the separatists and the insurrections that they spawned. When the Human-Covenant war began, and the technologically superior aliens began decimating the Outer Colonies, these SPARTANs became humanity's best hope for survival. Faced with genocide on an unprecedented scale, the UNSC mobilized for total war.
The dire circumstances of the Covenant conflict allowed the UNSC to override civilian rule and establish itself as humanity's primary government. Although the Unified Earth Government was more open to step down, the CAA, the arm of the UEG ruling over the colonies, resisted the UNSC's rise to power, and was thus stripped of its power.
By the time the war began, humanity had reached Tier 3 of the Forerunner civilization ranking system. Technological improvements continued to rise due to the capture of advanced Covenant equipment, which was studied and adapted for human needs. The very best and cutting edge of UNSC war assets were supplied to the SPARTAN-II Program. Other enhancements geared towards mass production were distributed to the SPARTAN-IIIs and IVs. One such example of war time innovation was the energy shielding adapted and improved for use on the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor.UNSC Infinity, built near the end of the conflict, was perhaps the height of UNSC technical achievement during this troubled period. Incorporating every scrap of technical knowledge that had been scavenged and reverse-engineered from Forerunner ruins, the Infinity stood apart as the most formidable warship and exploration vessel in human history.
By 2552, after the fall of the military fortress world Reach, Earth was the last remaining human bastion, and nearly all surviving UNSC forces were committed to its defense. The Battle of Earth saw some of the greatest bloodshed of the entire war, both in space and on the planet's surface. For several weeks, only a grueling campaign of attrition with heavy participation by surviving Spartan units stood between mankind and extinction. After a desperate struggle, the Human-Covenant war finally ended after a combined UNSC and Covenant Separatist strike force eliminated the Covenantleadership and destroyed the Flood threat.
Background Edit
The United Nations Space Command was created by the United Nations during the Interplanetary War of the mid-twenty-second century. After the UNSC victory, overpopulation on Earth became a major issue in the early twenty-second century. The issue was resolved by colonizing and constructing vast cities on other planets in the Orion Arm of thegalaxy, the Inner colonies and later, the Outer Colonies.
The UNSC's defensive militia forces is the UNSC Defense Force (UNSCDF), and consists of the UNSC Air Force, theUNSC Army, the UNSC Marine Corps, and the UNSC Navy.
History Edit
Interplanetary War Edit
The UNSC has its roots in World War I, which led to the creation of a League of Nations. The League of Nations led to the formation of the United Nations afterWorld War II. The UNSC itself was formed and fashioned as the result of a series of brutal conflicts across the Solar System between 2160 and 2164; most prominent among them were the Jovian Moons Campaign, the Rain Forest Wars, and a series of battles on Mars.
The United Nations Space Command, as organized and orchestrated as it appears, was planned as an emergency military government. UN clashes with dissident political movements, the most important of which were the "Koslovics" and the "Frieden," began the crisis that led to the formation of the UNSC. The Frieden movement was a fascist organization based on the Jovian Moons, a group that received backing from some corporations operating in the Federal Republic of Germany on Earth. Their ideological opponents, the Koslovics, formed a Marxist–Leninist group centered around the leadership of Vladimir Koslov around the same time.
The war began with an attack on United Nations officials on the moon of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, but would spread to Mars and parts of South America in the Rain Forest Wars. These events culminated in a UN build-up in the mid to late 2160s, which would result in the UN establishing a unified military and a permanent Unified Earth Government as an ultimate power to lead the human race by 2170.
Colonization Edit
The four-year long war put the spotlight on problems facing the overpopulated planet, and the Rain Forest Wars also exacerbated the problems relating to food distribution. The ensuing famine and societal problems related to the post-war population boom provided the spark to change the political nature of governance on Earth and elsewhere, leading to the political system seen in the 26th century.
These pressures also helped make space colonization seem more attractive in later centuries, as the Unified Earth Government would sign off on a colony ship program that was revealed in 2310 to ease the burden of an overpopulated planet. This would not have been possible without the invention of the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine in the late 2200s, which allowed the ships to travel far greater distances than ever before by means of allowing access toSlipstream Space.
It took 52 years before the first colony ship, the Odyssey, was launched, and what became the so-called Inner colonies were not fully established until the end of the 24th century. The apex of human expansion would come in 2492, when more than 800 worlds were considered part of UNSC territory, many developing into full-fledged colonies. By this time, a ring of Outer colonies was providing the UEG with the raw materials that made the macro-economy function; with the political power remaining with the Inner colonies. The massive difference in wealth distribution and political power, which became a hallmark of humanity by this period, led to new threats of secession from the outer ring. Fearing the consequences of the breakup of the fledgling interstellar empire, and seeing the benefits of avoiding all-out war to defend their hold on the colonies, the Earth government would embark on the creation of the SPARTAN-Is. These predecessors to the SPARTAN-II Program began their training in 2491, as part of the ORION Project.
The Human-Covenant War Edit
2525 marked the most important turning point in human history; it would mark the beginning of great technological advancement, the unification of a divided and fractured human race, and the first contact of humanity with an extraterrestrial intelligence: the Covenant. It would also see a majority of the Earth government's colony worlds destroyed, and billions of colonists and military personnel slaughtered by planetary invasion and orbital plasma bombardment (a strategy later termed glassing). Thus began the Human-Covenant war with the First Battle of Harvest.
Stemming from the chance encounter of human and Covenant forces at Harvest, the first contact made between humanity and the Covenant involved the ship Minor Transgression, and was less peaceful than the second contact made between the two factions. A meeting between representatives of the two factions took place on the fields of Harvest, but the peaceful meeting soon turned into a blood bath, with the Covenant claiming the planet for the numerous "Forerunner relics" present. Ironically, the Covenant was unaware their new enemies were known to the Forerunners by another name: Reclaimers. Slaughtering most of the colony's population, the survivors fled the Covenant due to a trap laid for the Brute ship Rapid Conversion.
On April 20, the CMA sent in a scout ship, the CMA Argo, to investigate the cessation of communications between Harvest and the rest of the UEG's colonies. Before being destroyed by Covenant forces, it discovered that everything, and everyone, left on the planet had been completely incinerated, its surface was covered by fields of magma. Soon after,Battlegroup 4, consisting of the frigates CMA Arabia and CMA Vostok and the destroyerCMA Heracles, were sent to investigate. On October 7, the battle group dropped out of Slipspace and took up orbit around Harvest. In orbit around the remains of the colony world was a single alien ship. The vessel proceeded to attack the human battle group, destroying all but one. Intercepted communications identified the enemy as the Covenant, a caste-driven, theological organization made up of several alien species.
The beginning phase of the war was marked by disastrous defeats, and even more costly victories. Aside from theSecond Battle of Harvest in 2526, where a large force led by Vice Admiral Preston Cole barely defeated a smaller Covenant fleet, the UNSC's influence on their territories quickly dwindled in the course of their struggle. In the span of a few years, the Covenant had managed to capture the majority, if not all of the Outer Colonies, and a small portion of the Inner colonies.
By this time, the UNSC overrode the UEG, and thus the central civilian authority, throughout human territory. Although the central government was more willing to step down, the Colonial Administration was far more reluctant to this idea, and thus the UNSC stripped it of most of its power. By the middle to late stages of the war, the government of humanity could be more accurately described as an, "emergency military" government.
By 2552, the UNSC, though heavily outnumbered and outgunned, had nonetheless slowed the Covenant's inexorable progress through human space. However, the overall situation remained dire. In desperation, HIGHCOM ordered a high-risk operation. SPARTAN-II super soldiers were to insert into Covenant space, with a captured Covenant vessel, capture a high-ranking Prophet, and return to UNSC space in an attempt to ransom their own leader for a truce. Before the operation began, the Covenant found and destroyed the fortress world Reach, killing a large portion of the UNSCDF, and rendering most of the SPARTANs that were to execute the mission KIA or MIA. The Covenant endured heavy losses, both in space and on the planet's surface. However, the largest and most important military world protecting the Sol system had fallen silent. Little hope of continued, successful resistance remained.
A single ship, the UNSC Pillar of Autumn managed to escape the planet, with two SPARTANs on board, Linda-058, who was presumably dead in the Fall of Reach and John-117. The ship followed coordinates derived by the A.I. Cortana led to a ringworld known as Halo. It was there the SPARTAN encountered a parasitic lifeform known as the Flood, a species so dangerous that weapons of mass destruction were built on a galactic scale to combat them: the Halo arrays. The only limit to Flood expansion proved to be their food supply, sentient lifeforms. After centuries of conflict with the parasite, the builders of Halo, the Forerunners, considered the array their last resort to preserve future galactic biodiversity. The ringworld known as Installation 04, one of twelve such weapons, was designed with a single purpose: to kill all sentient life within three radii of the galactic center, scouring the Flood and any biomass capable of supporting them. Having discovered the truth from the Installation's Artificial Intelligence, 343 Guilty Spark, John-117 destroyed the Flood, Halo, and a large Covenant fleet by detonating the reactor of the Pillar of Autumn. After hijacking a Covenant Flagship known as the Ascendant Justice, the SPARTAN reunited with the survivors from Installation 04. Linking up with other soldiers and SPARTANs evacuated from Reach, John-117 led an assault on a massive force of five hundred Covenant ships inOperation: FIRST STRIKE. This mission, along with the Battle of Installation 04, proved to be amongst of the most important victories in the entire war.
By October of 2552, the Covenant had found the position of the human home world, Earth, and sent a preliminary task force there. Believing it to be the location of the Ark, an ancient Forerunner relic, the Covenant brought only a small flotilla of warships. They encountered staunch resistance, and were initially fended off. A brief reprieve came from the political and religious crisis that wracked the Covenant in the wake of a UNSC operation to assassinate the Prophet of Regret, and following secession of the Sangheili from the Empire's hegemony. These events, combined with the fortuitous Flood infection of the Covenant homeworld of High Charity, would shatter the Empire's political unity. TheGreat Schism, also known as the Covenant Civil War, would last for seven years. Nevertheless, by November, the remaining Covenant Loyalists had subjugated large parts of Africa, devastating much of the planet. The UNSC Homefleet and Orbital Defense Platforms fought with stunning ferocity, but in the end only a handful of ships survived the Loyalist onslaught. However, the surviving Covenant were obsessed with the completion of the Great Journey, the culmination of their religious beliefs, by activating the Forerunner portal in Africa. The resistance effort led by Lord Hood, Miranda Keyes, John-117 and the allied Fleet of Retribution was able to prevent the utter destruction of Earth, but only by the slimmest of margins.
The UNSC and Covenant Separatist forces launched a joint operation to destroy the Covenant Loyalists once and for all at the Forerunner command and control installation: the Ark. After stopping the planetoid from firing the Halo array, the alliance succeeded in killing the Covenant's last remaining leader, the Prophet of Truth. Despite being outnumbered 3:1 in orbit, and even more so on the ground, the allies destroyed the bulk of the Loyalists' remaining forces. On March 3,2553, the Human-Covenant war officially ended in victory for the UNSC and the Covenant Separatists, but at a staggering price. An estimated twenty-three billion human civilians were killed between 2525 and 2553. Most of the UNSC's major military outposts were destroyed, with the exception of Earth which sustained heavy damage. However, with the defeat of the Covenant, the UNSC now had a second chance to rebuild, and thrive.
Reconstruction Edit
Following the inauguration of Dr. Ruth Charet in January 2553, the UNSC handed back its emergency powers to the UEG on January 8 of that year. Since 2553 the UNSC has engaged in an extensive period of reconstruction in order to restore stability to the shattered remnants of human space. The UNSC has moved to reclaim those worlds that were not completely destroyed during the Human-Covenant war. By 2589, the former human stronghold of Reach had been restored and resettled by the UNSC. The UNSC also maintains its earlier truce with the members of the Covenant Separatists initiated by Lord Hood and the Arbiter. Nevertheless, a black-ops team from the Office of Naval Intelligencehas been supplying arms to a Sangheili faction, one ideologically opposed to the Arbiter, to destabilize their government rendering them incapable of threatening Earth. It remains to be seen how effective this strategy will be. As of 2558 the Sangheili Remnant was actively engaged against the UNSC possibly showing that the destabilization had partially failed.
Organization Edit
- United Nations Space Command
- UNSC Security Committee
- UNSC Security Council
- UNSC Defense Force
- High Command
- Administrative
- Personnel Command
- Unified Ground Command
- Special Warfare Command
- Colonial Military Administration
- UNSC Astrophysics
- UNSC Medical Corps
- UNSC Engineering Corps
- UNSC Test and Evaluation Corps
- UNSC Ordinance Committee
- UNSC Procurement
- Uniformed Services
- UNSC Navy
- Naval Command
- Fleet Command
- Office of Naval Intelligence
- Beta-5 Division
- SPARTAN-III Program
- Department of Colonial Security
- UNSC Prowler Corps
- ONI Security
- ONI Signal Corps
- Beta-5 Division
- Office of Naval Intelligence
- UNSC Marine Corps
- UNSC Infantry
- UNSC Marine Aviation
- UNSC Marine Logistics
- UNSC Marine Military Police
- UNSC Marine Chaplain Corps
- UNSC Marine Special Operations
- Orbital Drop Shock Troopers
- UNSC Army
- UNSC Army Infantry
- UNSC Army Military Police
- UNSC Army Logistics
- UNSC Air Force
- SPARTAN Program
- SPARTAN-IV Program
- Fleet Command
- Naval Command
- UNSC Navy
- Administrative
- High Command
- UNSC Defense Force
Military Edit
The defense of UEG colonies is handled by the UNSCDF. The Defense Force was involved heavily in the Human-Covenant war.
The UNSCDF is run by the UNSC Security Council, with the professional head being UNSC High Command, based on Earth. Control is exercised through regional CENTCOMs, which have responsibility over certain areas of space. The Navy houses the divisions of UNSC Marine Corps (including the special forces branch of the UNSC Marines known as Orbital Drop Shock Troopers), Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), and the Fleet. The UNSC Army and UNSC Air Force maintain garrisons on colony worlds. When certain rebellious factions began to rise in the late 2510s, the UNSC was forced to police its protected colonies tirelessly to keep privateers and pirates from raiding the colonies and any UNSC ships.
Unlike the Covenant, UNSC military technology is still based on comparatively primitive, but effective, mechanisms - projectile weaponry, wheeled vehicles, and combustion engines. The UNSC's grasp of scientific concepts is far more advanced than the Covenant, but turning these concepts into functional machinery has proven more problematic, however not so for the Covenant. Recently, the UNSC has introduced a variety of Covenant-derived technologies into their arsenal: gravity plating aboard ships, energy shielding to protect SPARTAN-II soldiers, and limited use of Directed Energy Weapons, usually lasers, such as the Spartan Laser.
UNSC starship weaponry is based around missiles and Magnetic Accelerator Cannons. Their technological inferiority in the face of the Covenant means that it was often necessary for the UNSC to have a three-to-one numerical advantage against them in ship-to-ship combat. The UNSC also possesses a weapon of mass destruction in the form of the NOVA Bomb.
The UNSC also appears to maintain a seaborne surface navy on planets with large bodies of water, such as Earth. At the very least, they had aircraft carriers available to provide air support in the form of Pelicans and F99 UCAVs.