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Qanat Quartier is a colorful, Venetian-like precinct carefully planned around intricate canals and pedestrian-friendly squares and plazas. Edged by sandy bays, Qanat Quartier is an intriguingly complex area in which a true Riviera lifestyle can be enjoyed. Proximity to water is a feature of all townhouses, with many enjoying direct views over the stunning beach, and some even featuring rooftop gardens.
Offering our tenants a vast range of boutique-style shopping contributes to the intimate village feel and provides a heart for the community that thrives in this district. Qanat Quartier's scenic beach and stylish canals house a sailing club as well as a beachfront luxury five-star hotel.
Come visit us at The Oyster, Sunday - Thursday, 07:30 – 17:30, Saturdays, 10:00 – 16:00, located near the entrance on the pearl on the right hand side prior to reaching Porto Arabia.
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Jessamy necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 220 diseños de 60 diseñadores freelance.
Blue42 - Anthem
Launching a new women's sport apparel label that is designed specifically for the female sports fan. She's feminine, fashion conscious but loves sports. Our line goes way beyond the same boxy t-shirts and sweatshirts that are currently in the market, taking current fashion trends and incorporating them into the sports apparel market.
We are considering 2 names for this line: Blue42 and Anthem- so please design for both or just one.
Young women, ranging in age from 17-30, most likely attending a big university with a sports program. They follow fashion trends but also love a good football game!! Being cute is important to them!!
She wears expensive jeans, is very social and is conscious of her appearance.
Clean with a feminine twist. We don't want anything too cartoonish. Must have a feminine touch to it! Our style is a higher end fashion line and we want the label to reflect that as well. Interested to see your interpretation.
The logo/design will be used for clothing tags and website- Will need future website design that will incorporate the brand from this contest.
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A while back I showed you the nursery (check it again- so good) of Bijou & Boheme blogger Christine Dovey, and now we get to see MORE of her amazing home thanks to Style Me Pretty Living. Her space is such a great mix of vintage and modern, whimsical and bad-ass. I'm not sure I could get this much pink by my husband, but I adore the feminine touch in a lot of these images.
Oh that island……
Love this hardware so very much.
I mean, woah. That is some amazing lighting and I adore the mix of modern chairs and table with the vintage fixtures and traditional wallpaper panels.
This room is much more stark and modern and I adore it. Those chairs are so killer.
Her adorable little family.
This is such a good bathroom. The venetian mirror over the subway tile is perfection. As is that sink.
Oh hello brass shower situation, you will be MINE.
An amazing HUGE traditional print looks insanely good when offset by modern furniture and lighting.
Magic 8 Ball, will I ever stop loving brass?
Outlook not so good.
This picture gives me goosebumps. It's everything I love in one image: black, leopard and brass.
An example of a good looking and well styled TV console.
Do you not DIE for this laundry room? Because I do.
This is one of her daughter's rooms- luckiest little one ever?
This is her older daughters room. Again, lucky, lucky little children. I am quite jealous of them.
See more images and get info on some of the items in her home on the SMP site here.
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New York, August 18, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to reverse a six-year prison sentence against Iranian journalist Badressadat Mofidi.
Mofidi was formerly the secretary-general of the Association of Iranian Journalists in Tehran, an organization that was established by prominent journalists in 1997 and shut down by the authorities in 2009.
On August 3, Branch 26 of Iran's Revolutionary Court sentenced Mofidi to six years in prison and banned her from working on "press-related activities" for five years. Many press and political prisoners have been tried in Branch 26 and given heavy sentences in the past year, according to CPJ research.
Mofidi was sentenced for "assembly and collusion to commit a crime" and "propagating against the regime," according to her lawyer, Mohammad Sharif.
"We are shocked by the harshness of Badressadat Mofidi's sentence, which is yet further proof of Teheran's determination to stifle the critical and independent press," said CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney. "We call on the authorities to overturn both the prison sentence and the ban on Mofidi's writing."
Sharif told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization, that there was no legal foundation for the charges. He pointed out that Mofidi was head of a legal organization that was licensed to operate. Sharif said he plans to appeal but "cannot be too hopeful about the appeals court's ruling." Iranian law stipulates that a defendant has 21 days after the sentence to appeal the decision.
Mofidi was arrested on December 29, only a few days after she discussed the government's press policies in a December 22 interview with the Persian service of the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle. She was held in Evin Prison, along with dozens of other journalists who have been rounded up since the June 2009 presidential elections. In June 2010, she was temporarily released on bail while awaiting trial. CPJ was unable to determine whether she has returned yet to jail.
As of CPJ's last comprehensive census, on June 1, there were 37 journalists (not including Mofidi) in prison in Iran.


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On Saturday, April 21, as part of the Green Neighbor Family Fest at Deering High School, City officials and representatives from Recycling Partnership, L.L. Bean, Sappi North America, and Catalyst will unveil new public space recycling containers. These units will be installed in highly visible locations around the city in order to allow residents and visitors to recycle bottles, cans, and paper packaging just like they do at home.
"Portland residents are remarkable recyclers," said Jon Jennings, City Manager. "It only makes sense that we provide an opportunity to support their efforts in our public spaces as well as at home."
The 18 new containers are funded by donations from L.L. Bean, Sappi North America, and Catalyst as part of their involvement with The Recycling Partnership, a non-profit organization focused on supporting municipal recycling programs around the country with financial grants and technical assistance. Deploying the public space recycling containers builds on the momentum gained from the deployment of curbside recycling carts to Portland residents last fall.
The City's Sustainability Coordinator, Troy Moon, notes that, "The recycling carts the City rolled out last fall with help from The Recycling Partnership significantly improved Portland's recycling program. The carts fully contain the material people set out for collection so there is far less wind blown litter on the street. The carts hold more material than the old, open top bins so people can recycle more. So far under the new collection approach, we've seen our monthly recycling rate increase 15%. People often ask for better opportunities to recycle when they're away from home so we're excited to provide these new containers to make it possible."
The new recycling containers have onboard sensors that will allow City staff to quantify the amount of material collected from each of them. The sensors will also alert collection personnel when the containers need service. These features will make collection efficient as staff will only need to visit them when they are full.
Jennings added, "The Recycling Partnership has been an outstanding supporter of the City's efforts to improve our recycling and solid waste program. They provided funding that helped to make cart based recycling a reality in Portland and now they've brought some leading Maine businesses to the table to support public recycling in Portland. I'd like to thank L.L. Bean, Sappi North America, and Catalyst for their generous support of our program. This is a great example showing how the public and private sectors can collaborate to benefit the community."
Scott Reed who's Catalyst's Environmental Manager at the Rumford mill added "Catalyst and our team in Rumford are big supporters of taking responsibility for waste streams and we continue to believe there's real opportunity to improve collection and recycle of paper wastes throughout the country and here in Maine. These bins provide that recovery drop-off point but also serve as a visual reminder to everyone that recycling is important."
"As an engaged member of the larger Portland community, Sappi North America is pleased to sponsor the new public space recycling containers," said Mike Standel, Managing Director of Sappi North America's Westbrook Mill. "All our locations, including our Westbrook Mill and Technology Center as well as the South Portland Shared Service Center, share the mission of The Recycling Partnership to avoid waste through efficient operations and to reuse and recycle material wherever possible. We look forward to working with the City of Portland and The Recycling Partnership to extend our efforts into the community and make it easier for all of our neighbors to do their part."
About The Recycling Partnership
The Recycling Partnership (www.recyclingpartnership.org) is a national nonprofit organization that leverages corporate partner funding to transform recycling for good in cities and towns all across America. As the only organization in the country that engages the full recycling supply chain from the corporations that manufacture products and packaging to local governments charged with recycling to industry end markets, haulers, material recovery facilities, and converters; the Recycling Partnership positively impacts recycling at every step in the process. The Partnership is also leading the charge to fight contamination in the residential recycling stream, building, testing and sharing its quality-improvement model through on-the-ground programs and free online open source tools and resources. By the end of 2018, The Recycling Partnership expects to have served 750 communities with tools, resources and technical support, provided 500,000 recycling carts, reached 40 million households, and helped companies and cities invest more than $33 million in recycling infrastructure.
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Sappi North America, headquartered in Boston, is a market leader in converting wood fiber into superior products that customers demand worldwide. The success of our four diversified businesses – high quality Coated Printing Papers, Specialised Cellulose, Release Papers and Specialty Packaging – is driven by strong customer relationships, best-in-class people and advantaged assets, products and services. Our high quality Coated Printing Papers, including McCoy, Opus, Somerset and Flo, are the key platform for premium magazines, catalogs, books and high-end print advertising. We are a leading manufacturer of Specialised Cellulose used in a wide range of products, including textile fibers and household goods, and one of the world's leading suppliers of Release Papers with our Ultracast, PolyEX, Classics and Neoterix lines for the automotive, fashion and engineered films industries. Our Specialty Packaging products, such as LusterPrint and LusterCote, represent an important asset in the food packaging and labeling industries. Customers rely on Sappi for high technical, operational and market expertise; products and services delivered with consistently high quality and reliability; and, state-of-the-art and cost-competitive assets and innovative spirit.
Sappi North America is a subsidiary of Sappi Limited (JSE), a global company headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, with more than 12,000 employees and manufacturing operations on three continents in seven countries and customers in over 150 countries around the world. Learn more about Sappi at: www.sappi.com.


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The metaphors of motion and growth are appropriate ways of considering a time-based art like electroacoustic music. Traditional concepts of rhythm are inadequate to describe the often dramatic contours of electroacoustic gesture and the internal motion of texture which are expressed through a wide variety of spectromorphologies. Since motion and growth have spectral contours, they are set in spectral space. Therefore their occupancy of spectral space and their spectral density will be important additional qualifiers. In addition, motion and growth can be enhanced by actual spatial distribution. Motion and growth have directional tendencies which lead us to expect possible outcomes, and they are helpful guides in attributing structural functions. (Condensed from Denis Smalley (1997). Spectromorphology: Explaining Sound-shapes. Organised Sound Vol. 2, No. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.)


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Audrey Hepburn channels The Winged Victory of Samothrace in the movie Funny Face, 1957.
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Madame Alexander 2009 :This Funny Face features Alexandra Fairchild Ford as Jo Stockton in fashions from Paramount Pictures Studios 'Funny Face.' Set includes 16" dressed doll in black turtleneck, pants and ballet flats. Also includes red gown, shawl, matching shoes and panties.
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TORONTO - A Montreal photographer is speaking out after a U.S. news website accused him of inadvertently playing a role in the capture of American journalist Steven Sotloff in Syria last year.
Yves Choquette says he's the freelance photographer anonymously referred to as "Alex" in a controversial report published Friday on The Daily Beast.
The report alleges the photographer identified his local Syrian guide, commonly called a fixer, to suspected militant Syrians on Facebook.
It says that may have compromised the safety of the American journalist, who worked with the same fixer days later.
Choquette denies the allegations, which he says distort the events of August 2013 and unfairly suggest he's to blame for the kidnapping.
He says he sought out advice from journalists on a private online group called The Vulture Club in an attempt to find a reliable fixer.
The online report says the photographer contacted up to 30 Syrians on Facebook, choosing those who were shown in pictures holding guns and opposition flags, in his search for a fixer to guide him across the Syrian border from Kilis, Turkey.
In an interview with The Canadian Press, Choquette called the report a personal attack "not based on any proof on any real fact" and accused its author, Ben Taub, of making up much of its contents.
"I'm not an adrenaline junkie, I'm 55. I'm not stupid, I prepared this for months and I want to be sure that I do it the safest way that I can," he said Saturday.
Choquette admits he was inexperienced in the region and it was his first attempt at entering Syria, but said he heeded other journalists' warnings about the risks involved.
Only the fixer, the online group, Taub and two other local journalists knew of his plans, he said.
"Everything was decided the night before, when I made the appointment with the fixer it was the night before I [went]. It was not a week before so that I started talk to everybody about it, it was the night before and I was in my hotel in Tilis," he said.
Taub, meanwhile, said he stands by his story but purposely didn't name the photographer so as not to suggest he directly caused the kidnapping.
"While he made Kilis a more dangerous town than it already was, a lot of factors could have triggered the abduction. It was a dangerous town. People were being watched. Many people had recently disappeared on the road to Aleppo. He is relevant, but he can't be blamed for what happened," Taub said.
He said he didn't give Choquette a chance to respond to the allegations because he thought the photographer would likely "release information he shouldn't which could endanger more people on the ground."
Choquette said he doesn't believe Taub's explanation.
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. Photographer said previously he reached out to Radio Free Syria


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House of Raeford Farms closing NC turkey plants; 950+ workers affected
A North Carolina poultry processor is shedding about 950 workers by closing a turkey slaughtering plant at the heart of a federal environmental crimes case.
House of Raeford Farms Inc. said Thursday it will shut down the Raeford plant within six months, after turning out frozen turkeys for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season.
The Rose Hill-based company says declining consumption led to the decision to end its production of frozen turkeys that are later thawed and cooked.
House of Raeford spokesman David Witter says the decision is not related to the federal sentence of probation and a $150,000 fine imposed two weeks ago for knowingly committing Clean Water Act violations.
Prosecutors said the company discharged water containing turkey blood and internal organs into Raeford's municipal sewage treatment plant.


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It's late summer with hints of autumn, and the mourning dove nest in the pot on my baker's rack sits empty now. My family watched as the two little chicks had their flying lessons. The young doves lingered near the nest for another two nights, and then they left for good. On occasion, I still see them foraging in my vegetable garden. They are not quite fully grown, nor altogether capable, but they do all right on their own.
It has been a long time since I posted here, with many changes. As initiator of Transition action in Los Angeles, and one of the original circle that created the Transition Los Angeles city hub (TLA), I've been doing a bit of the "empty nest" syndrome myself. For successful initiators in large areas worldwide, this too is part of the natural and evolving Transition journey of building local community. The empty nest phenomenon is something I haven't seen discussed much.
People often ask me "Which comes first, the city hub or the local groups?" For us in L.A., the answer will probably be "Yes." As in both. As in: first we created the hub; then we launched local groups; and one day we'll need a city hub again.
I have described here the origins of the TLA city hub -- how it launched in 2008 out of a "Training for Transition" hosted by the Environmental Change-Makers group that my co-conspirator and I had founded.
The Los Angeles area is a megacity of 4,652 acres and 11+ million people. From the "Training for Transition" discussion circle that was TLA's origins, we have always known that the L.A. area would need many, many Transition groups. Transition US has, at times, considered TLA to be almost a "region" rather than a single initiative.
Yet in the early years the TLA city hub met as a single circle in my living room. We local initiators were few and far between (miles between). We needed each other because we were a peer group that understood the path ahead. We gathered and grew close.
From the start, each local Transition group developed its own unique personality. Transition Mar Vista took an early interest in health care and inner transition. San Fernando started a time bank.
In the early days, attendees to our events would drive miles to events that interested them -- attendance seemed topic-centric rather than localized. Thus centralized messaging about all events was very important -- the TLA city hub maintained an active email list on which we attempted to give the full picture of all the Transition action going on in the greater L.A. basin.
The groups began to develop their own, local email lists. People who arrived first through the city hub list were helped to find their local group. Early members were simultaneously on the city hub list, but as time went on many local newcomers had no interest in doing so.
Local steering groups met more frequently than the city hub group did. The local groups had the vitality of a colorful list of shared activities (the city hub hosted city-wide events only occasionally), plus they had the intimacy of shared local geography.
Over time the individual groups grew stronger. Most of them developed a web presence and began hosting a schedule of activities. Attendance at events in my own "back yard" -- the meeting site two blocks from my house where Environmental Change-Makers was started in 2005 -- thinned out considerably.
I realized that in the early years people had traveled miles to attend ECM events because it was pretty much the only What We Can Do game in town. Now that there were so many more events, people were -- rightly so -- localizing their attendance. For many meetings, this left me with an empty hall, sparsely attended events (with the same workload to publicize and produce them) ... and an empty heart.
Our city hub in-person steering meetings became less important. Now there were scheduling difficulties and excuses and lower attendance. We still yearned for the personal connection with city hub individuals, and reminisced fondly about it on the occasions when we did see each other. But our attention was now necessarily focused elsewhere: locally.
I tried hard as Momma Bird to keep the city hub steering group functioning for as long as it could, for as long as it had a viable purpose. The fledglings would return to the nest -- some one month, others another, but no longer the full brood together.
Meanwhile things began popping in my own local neighborhood too (we were in construction on a one-acre community garden plus setting up the framework for the 501c3 organization to support it). I missed my old friends but I was far too busy to mourn.
Mourning doves do not gather sticks or grasses to make a nest. They are kind of ground dwellers, so in my flowerpots they simply pushed the plant aside and crouched on the potting soil. When they eventually left "the nest" there was little evidence remaining behind. A few extra bird poos but not much else. You would hardly know they had been there.
Suddenly, and all at about the same time, the community garden elected a successor Board, my landscape-architect friend took on management of the heavy construction, and the city hub pods found their wings.
The TLA city hub has never been incorporated nor become a 501c3. (I wrote about its premises-free, employee-free nature here ). There was no Board nor empty offices left behind. There was simply nothingness.
It felt to me, accustomed to my very vital and central role as initiator, so sudden and so final. I have never been great at this "letting go" stuff. The emptiness was crushing -- even if it was the emptiness that is the natural result of phenomenal success.
Don't get me wrong – I still found plenty to keep me busy. I reworked parts of my Economic Resilience manuscript, I started a Meetup about Transition economics (more on that in another post), I had some family issues to iron out. But it was with a profound sense that the Chicks had flown the Nest. I fell silent here on this blog, not able to find much positive to write about.
I began work on a food gardening book for high-yield production in our unique local climate – that made me feel happier. I sought solace with close friends – some had been members of the city hub steering group, others had worked with me on the two community gardens.
In my back yard I raised a bumper crop of early string beans, a fair crop of peaches. Abundant late tomatoes are ripening now and volunteer cucumbers threaten to overwhelm me. I "thought about" doing a major overhaul of my front yard landscaping but couldn't get shovel to dirt.
I knew I needed to get back to building up our local neighborhood action but my heart wasn't in it. I often missed publicity deadlines so event attendance in my local neighborhood became thin and dispirited.
Mourning doves in our area raise multiple broods per year. There was an early summer nest too, in a different pot, on a different baker's rack. Its occupants grew up and flew away, and after a brief time the parents started the late summer nest.
Now I'm starting new ventures too. After years of asserting that resilient nonprofits can exist and thrive without cash accounts and without legal structures, I'm doing the reverse of what I said. After 7 years of such existence (and plenty of success) we're in the midst of incorporating Environmental Change-Makers and making it into an official 501c3 so that we can do even more. (Yes, even more than building two community gardens, experimenting with time banking, and launching the Transition movement in Los Angeles. We are nothing if not ambitious.) Starting a new nonprofit is a big project which I hope to blog about here.
We're going at it a little differently – with complete consciousness of economic descent. Our plan is to explore how the gift economy ideas of Charles Eisenstein (Eisenstein website ; Hopkins comments ; my comments ) might "dovetail" with nonprofit finances. I'll let you know.
I've worked with social change organizations and nonprofits for decades but never had to for-real run a nonprofit entity. So I'm skilling up: learning about strategies and Boards and fundraising. Also learning about using social media in new and different ways.
The TLA city hub isn't dead, it is "in Transition." It is becoming something new, something yet to be discovered and defined. The central core team in-person gatherings of the original initiators are no longer. But its hub nature – its wiki web presence, woven feeds from all the Transition action in L.A. – continues. It continues to serve as a single-stop place for people to find out about the Transition movement and to find their local groups in the greater L.A. area. It continues – albeit morphed – its "cross-pollination" functions, of sharing between the many local groups. And, I believe, one day an area-wide steering group will be needed again.
The Business-in-Transition and economic resilience ideas have grown beyond my local geography – Transition US has asked me to do a webinar about them (info coming soon ).
And I'm rebuilding my front-yard garden. The Good Karma Gardens group – a project of Transition Mar Vista/Venice – came and built some urbanite terracing. I'm (finally) hiring a local Transition entrepreneur to help me clear the worst weeds and get things started again. Do-it-myselfer that I am, it has been a big hurdle to admit that I really need the help, and to accept their eager care.
Fledglings grow up. My family often sees several mourning doves sitting on nearby telephone wires and we suspect they are the parent doves plus the young adults from the early summer nest. ...
Which comes first, the city hub or the local groups? Each one in its turn: The initiating hub. The local groups. Probably one day a mega-city hub. Let it go where it needs to go.
... The doves gather on the wire, occasionally close enough to touch shoulder-to-shoulder. They look out for each other and – we believe – together they watch over the youngest generation feeding in the garden. One day the new generation will grow big enough to have their own brood.
Joanne Poyourow is the initiator of Transition action in Los Angeles. She is the co-founder of the Environmental Change-Makers in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles. At present there are several active local Transition groups around the greater L.A. area: Transition Culver City, Transition Mar Vista/Venice, NELA Transition, Transition San Fernando Valley, Transition South Bay LA, Transition Whittier, groups in Inglewood and Brea in-formation, and the Environmental Change-Makers.
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Yay! It's the weekend! I am so excited for this weekend. We are heading to Gainesville, Ga for a friends baby shower and some much needed friend time.
Most every weekend we find ourselves grilling out and I wanted to share one of our new favorite recipes to grill. Yes! Its a salad and it is delish!
I tore this out of Better Homes & Gardens Magazine and we have made it so many times now.
You have to give it a try.


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Rose and white gold wedding rings, richly decorated with beautiful brilliants for the ladies.
These Wedding rings are members of our GLAMOUR collection. Using diamonds or Moissanite gems are also available.
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Rose and white gold wedding rings, richly decorated with beautiful brilliants for the ladies.
These Wedding rings are members of our GLAMOUR collection. Using diamonds or Moissanite gems are also available.
Affianced Exclusive – click here.
This collection was born from fragments and ornamental thoughts of our rich folklore, using our own imagination.
The most common elements of design in this collection are the heart and the tulip.
Long ago, these two symbols were joined together, decorating gifts of affection. The tulip symbolizes the woman, whilst the heart symbolizes the man.
We compiled a selection, where you can see our wedding rings on fingers, so you can imagine them, how they would look on your hands. Click here to see the photos of the rings on hands.
Picking wedding rings is a unique experience for couples, because they do not really know each other's tastes. But here, they could catch a glimpse of the mysterious world of jewellery making. In the last couple of years, we helped many happy couples to find the most suitable wedding rings for their personality and style. To make our costumers' lives easier we have gathered some questions and answers in connection with wedding rings that might be helpful. With love, Affianced Fine Jewellery.
Our experience shows that men prefer less decorated, simple rings, which is absolutely understandable. We suggest couples, whatever decision they make that between the two rings there should be some sort of a connection, shape or design wise, so one can see that they belong together. However, the most important detail is that the rings should be comfortable to wear.
We work with different coloured gold alloys: white, rosé and yellow gold, naturally we can combine these alloys upon request. There are many factors to consider when deciding on the colour or colours. For example: clothing, personalities, style, and maybe an already beloved piece of jewellery or watch that the bride or the groom wears every day.
More often than not, ladies wear jewels, this is the reason why men try to adapt to the ladies. Although, there were occasions when the other party (the groom) holds onto an antique piece and we created their wedding rings accordingly. Therefore, we suggest that couples should choose wedding rings that reflect their personalities, and also something that is suitable for different kinds of mood and clothing. (You can see the three different coloured gold alloys in this wedding ring pair: Myreille)
For the ladies we recommend white diamonds, or to be more exact transparent diamonds. We usually decorate ladies' jewellery with this gemstone. For the gentlemen we suggest brown, cognac diamonds if they do not oppose to gemstones in their rings. We decorate our wedding rings exclusively with different cut diamonds, which can keep their glory for generations because of their hardness. We do not recommend zircon because wedding rings are worn every day and these artificially created stones can lose their sparkle in a couple of years.
There is no general rule in connection with width. Couples should choose something that they truly love, this has the utmost importance. Before you say the final yes for the rings, you should definitely try them on more than once. Usually, for shorter fingers we recommend narrow ring and for longer fingers, implicitly wider rings fit better, although, it all depends on one's personality and style. Also, a pair of wedding rings does not necessarily have to be the same width. For example the man's ring can be proportionately wider than the ladies' ring; but if the design requires the ladies' ring to be wider than that should be wider. (In the picture, you can see the different widths on an average female hand)
Couples can find many jewels that are photographed on hands (click here) this can ease the decision a little, but we strongly recommend to come and look around in person and try the rings on. Many times people decide with their hearts, not with their eyes, so this is the reason why a personal meeting is essential, you can fall in love with a ring that you haven't even considered before. So the best choice is when it comes to jewellery shopping to let your feelings decide.
The surfaces of the wedding rings can be polished, matte, rustically worked or decorated with manual engravings. Gold alloys are soft materials, softer than other objects that we use every day, so scratching is inevitable. The rustic and engraved surfaces can keep their original glory for the longest period of time. We strongly recommend the annual care and renewal. Naturally, our jewellery store provides this service for 5 years, free of charge.
Gold alloys apart from fine gold contain fine silver and fine copper which are not allergic materials that's why wearing them shouldn't evoke allergic reactions, except those gold alloys that contain nickel. However, we use the newest European standard alloy, which contains less than 3% of nickel. Those who have serious metal allergy we recommend a white gold alloy with palladium, this cannot cause any kind of allergic reactions.
When it comes to form we create round and square rings. The square rings have a very comfortable rounded inside, that's why they fit nicely together with the fingers. Square shape rings can be as comfortable as the round ones. 1. Traditional, round wedding rings 2. Square wedding rings with rounded edges 3. Square wedding rings 4. Wedding rings with three corners.
Our jewellers create the rings with a slightly convex inside which makes them rather comfortable. They are not sharp on the edges; they perfectly fit the wearer's hand.
When creating a wedding ring, we design them in the following manners:
1. Flat profile- rounded edges,
2. Flat profile, comfort fit in the inside (rounded)
3. Slightly convex profile and comfort fit in the inside (rounded)
4.Convex profile, comfort fit inside (rounded)
5. Oval profile
6. Concave profile, comfort fit inside (rounded)
This is usually an issue among the grooms, because they do not wear jewellery beforehand. If somebody is worried about how comfortable the rings will be, that they might bother them while working then let us assure you that anybody can get used to wearing them in a couple of weeks. You are not going to feel them on your finger.
We hope that we have been helpful in deciding and we wish you fun times, searching for the perfect pair of wedding rings as future husband and wife.
When designing wedding jewellery, we take exceptional detail in creating products that define harmony and the bond between the couple, using different shapes and ornamental designs. Plus, we strive to make wedding rings which will show the personality of the groom and the bride as well. The first step of making wedding rings is determining the habits of the young couple. Usually we do this at sight, seeing how our customers act, or what their style is. This'll help us decide if we have to use the classic or more extravagant shapes.
During consultation, we give the utmost of our attention to the needs of the grooms, since to them, finding the perfect jewellery is harder. Probably because to most of them, the wedding ring will be the first piece of jewellery they buy, and without any experience they won't have any ideas, whilst the ladies can choose almost instantly, what would look good on them.
Different rings look good on different shaped hands. On long, graceful fingers, wider models are the best choice, while on shorter fingers the thin, nicely shaped ones look good. To those with more chubby fingers we advice trying out a ring that is domed on the inside to see how comfortable it is. The same design won't be as good with those who have thinner, bony fingers with large articulation as such rings will be too big and come loose around the base of the finger. It's a good idea to try different shaped and sized rings, as the item we fell in love with on a photo might not be the one that fits best.
One of the curiosities of our wedding rings is that they are made with combinations of different coloured gold alloys. It is well known that pure gold – which has a strong yellow colour – is not the best choice for jewel. The endurance of it is rather low, and it's really soft. This is the main reason we make alloys out of it. Combining with different metals, we can give it more fitting physical properties, and also, a whole new range of colours.
In the case of jewel pieces, we can give a rather lovely composition by choosing the right alloy as base material. Choosing the colour can be vital in the means of fashion. To some, yellow tinted alloys is the better choice, while there are others whose skin makes red tinted metals look best. This is completely personalized, and strangely the fact that some jewels look best with one particular colour scheme is too. For the decoration of our wedding rings, we use only small diamonds, mainly brilliant and princess (rectangular shaped) rough samples.
For the more daring of men, we gladly recommend using precious stones, since they are not only the privilege of women. Amongst our male customers, the so called cognac coloured diamond is a popular choice, which has a really masculine appearance when refined into a square shape. To women, the smaller, snow white coloured sparkling multitude is the one that appeals in general, making a wide selection of variants available.
Based on the information above, it is clear that the frequently asked questions about making jewellery are quite versatile.
For the truly and completely successful execution, utmost cooperation is required between the customer and the jeweller.
In our jewellery, we help our Guests find the best solutions with the experience of decades, making the joy they receive to last for long years, bride and groom alike!


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2013 NFL Draft Stock Up
Lane Johnson, OT, Oklahoma
Oklahoma offensive tackle Lane Johnson's steady rise took another dramatic leap forward with a tremendous showing at the Combine. He was one of the stars at the Senior Bowl and displayed his phenomenal athletic skill set in Indianapolis at the Combine.
Johnson was the second-fastest offensive linemen. Even though Terron Armstead beat him in the 40, Johnson had the best overall showing as he was phenomenal in the field work. Johnson ran the 40 in 4.72 seconds officially and 4.75 unofficially. His 10-yard split was the fastest of any of the offensive linemen at 1.61 seconds. That is a tremendous time for an offensive lineman.
Clearly, Johnson (6-6, 303) is a superb athlete. He showed off great feet in the field work and jumped 34 inches in the vertical leap - a number like a wide receiver. The fast and agile Johnson showed that he has elite athleticism. Following his great senior year, Senior Bowl and Combine, Johnson now has a shot of going in the top 10 of the 2013 NFL Draft.
Sharrif Floyd, DT, Florida
Sharrif Floyd illustrated why he is rated at the top of the 2013 NFL Draft. He had a great workout at the Combine. Floyd ran the 40 in a stunning 4.87 seconds unofficially with a 10-yard split of 1.68 seconds. He was phenomenal with quick feet and good movement skills in the field drills, too. It was obvious that the 6-foot-3, 297-pounder has amazing athleticism for an interior defensive lineman.
Floyd recorded 46 tackles, 13 tackles for a loss, one forced fumble and three sacks in 2012. He made a real impact against Texas A&M and Tennessee when Florida's defense played great in the second half to lead to comeback road wins. Floyd also played well against LSU. He ended the season with dominant performances in his final two games against Florida State and Louisville.
Floyd has a ton of upside and is the top three-technique defensive tackle in the draft class. With his tremendous Combine performance to confirm his massive potential, he looks like a top-10 pick.
Knile Davis, RB, Arkansas
Arkansas' Knile Davis had the best Combine performance among the running backs. He truly was a workout warrior. The 5-foot-10, 227-pounder blazed a jaw-dropping 4.37 time in the 40-yard dash. Davis also led all running backs with 31 reps on the bench press. He did a better-than-expected job of catching passes in the field drills.
Davis was one of the best backs in the SEC back in 2010. He injured his ankle in August of 2011 and missed the season. It wasn't Davis' first ankle injury as he broke the same ankle during his senior season of high school. Davis was rusty in his return this season and didn't have the same power or explosiveness. He averaged 3.4 yards per carry on his way to just 377 total yards and two touchdowns. Davis also had 11 receptions for 157 yards and one touchdown. He lost three fumbles against Texas A&M.
Davis showed a great combination of size and speed at the Combine, and his performance should really help him to get more consideration from teams.
Dion Jordan, OLB, Oregon
Oregon outside linebacker Dion Jordan is dripping with athleticism. He put on a clinic at the Combine with a blazing unofficial 40 time of 4.53 seconds (4.60 officially) and a 10-yard split of 1.57 seconds. While that time is excellent, Jordan was even better in the field work. He was extremely fluid with super-fast feet as he flew through the bags. Jordan looked awesome dropping into coverage as a linebacker. He did that well in college, so it wasn't a surprise that he looked like a natural in these drills.
Jordan recorder 44 tackles, 10.5 tackles for a loss, three forced fumbles and five sacks in 2012. His pass-rush opportunities were hurt because he often dropped back into pass coverage.
Jordan (6-6, 248) needs to gain weight, but he'll be able to do that once he gets over his shoulder injury. Jordan is an obvious, perfect fit as a 3-4 outside linebacker, and his Combine performance should result in a firm high-first round grade.
Desmond Trufant, CB, Washington
On the heels of a great Senior Bowl, Washington cornerback Desmond Trufant made himself some money with an electric time in the 40-yard dash. He turned in the third-fastest time of any defensive back at 4.38 seconds. The 6-foot, 190-pound corner has man-coverage skills and is gritty, confident and physical. Trufant had solid numbers on the bench press (16 reps), vertical leap (37.5 inches) and broad jump (125 inches). His tremendous Combine performance should solidify him with a first-round grade and could prompt a team to take him in the top 16.
Trufant was an excellent man-cover corner playing on an island in 2012. The senior recorded 36 tackles, 4.5 tackles for a loss, one interception, five passes broken up and a sack. Man corners are in serious demand, so it seems increasingly possible that he could land in the first half of Round 1.
Every year there seems to be a cornerback prospect who steadily climbs up draft boards in the final months before the NFL draft. South Carolina's Stephon Gilmore took that role in the 2012 NFL Draft; he rose all the way to the 10th pick. This year it looks like it is happening again courtesy of Trufant.
Xavier Rhodes, CB, Florida State
Another cornerback who made some money at the Combine was Florida State's Xavier Rhodes. There some concerns about the 6-foot-2, 210-pound corner's speed and the ability to turn and run with wide receivers. The speed questions were laid to rest when he rand the 40 in 4.43 seconds with a sparkling 10-yard split of 1.47 seconds. That was tied for the second fastest time for a corner in the first 10 yards. Rhodes also showed some explosion as he had the best vertical leap (40.5) among the defensive backs and tied for the best broad jump (132) among the cornerbacks.
Rhodes totaled 39 tackles, seven passes broken up and three interceptions in 2-12, but teams mostly avoided the junior. Given the success of the Seahawks' big corners, there will be plenty of teams looking to copycat the Seattle defense. Rhodes could benefit and go on Thursday night.
Ryan Swope, WR, Texas A&M
Texas A&M's Ryan Swope stood out and surprised at the Combine. The 6-foot, 205-pounder ran the 40-yard dash with an official time of 4.34 seconds. That tied Tavon Austin for the second-fastest time, behind Marqise Goodwin. Swope ran good routes in the field work and displayed that quickness and speed. He had a couple of dropped passes, but he can rectify that in the NFL. It was a superb Combine that helped Swope to stand out.
Swope needed a good performance at the Combine. He struggled at the Senior Bowl before leaving early with an injury. Swope got off to a slow start in 2012 before turning it on in the second half of the season. The senior totaled 72 receptions for 913 yards and eight touchdowns. Swope was the No. 1 receiver for Ryan Tannehill in 2011, and produced a superb season. Swope caught 89 passes for 1,207 yards and 11 touchdowns. There is talk that he could be a second-round pick.
Terron Armstead, OT, Arkansas Pine-Bluff
Arkansas Pine-Bluff offensive tackle Terron Armstead won the title of the Combine star of offensive linemen. He blazed a 40-yard dash of 4.71 seconds officially and 4.65 seconds unofficially. Armstead's unofficial 10-yard split came in 1.64 seconds. It was the fastest 40 time of an offensive lineman.
The 6-foot-5, 306-pounder had a good showing at the East-West Shrine and has a lot of athletic upside. He used the Combine to make the case to be a mid-round pick.
2013 NFL Draft Stock Down
Johnthan Banks, CB, Mississippi State
Honestly, Banks hasn't looked the same since he injured his knee against Middle Tennessee State partway through the 2012 season. Banks was slowed down while playing injured in the second half of the season. He amassed 63 tackles, four interceptions and seven passes broken up in 2012, while averaging 9.8 yards per punt return. That knee kept Banks out of the Senior Bowl, and he had a rough Combine performance.
There were speed concerns that Banks justified with an ugly official time of 4.61 seconds in the 40-yard dash. He had a slower 10-yard split of 1.59 seconds. Banks did poorly on the bench press with 10 reps and did not stand out in the field drills. The Combine performance could cause some teams to drop Banks and view him as only a zone corner in the NFL. Some now feel that he will fall to the second round.
Damontre Moore, WR, Texas A&M
Moore had one of the most disappointing combines of any of the highly regarded prospects. He ran a slow 40 time at 4.87 seconds unofficially (4.95 officially) with 1.69 in the 10-yard split. The second 40 attempt didn't go any better as Moore pulled up with a leg injury.
Worse than the 40, Moore (6-5, 250) had only 12 reps on the bench press; the lowest total of any defensive lineman. Moore had good numbers in the broad jump (122) and vertical jump (35.5). The strength is the biggest red flag and it could cause teams to reevaluate him. He has to improve at his pro day to stabilize his draft stock.
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DR. HOOK- Bottoms up! Kathy, get your PAP test on TV!
Kathy Griffin is a goddess. Yes, move over Venus– Kathy is here! She recently performed at The Paramount– run by the fabulous Chad Hershner– and brought da House down (as Queen Latifah would say).
Kathy has a Bravo network reality show that documents every funny and bold moment of her life as a stand-up comedian and actress. She brought the Bravo cameras to Charlottesville, and guess who made a cameo appearance on her reality show?
Yes, police chief Tim Longo is on season two of "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List." But that's not who I meant! You get one more guess, and it rhymes with Kong– and you better not get it wong.
That's right. I showed up at her show and got to meet her in the basement. Little did I know I would be on her show or that Bravo would release a half-hour video preview with me on it, titled "Dr. Hong, Very Shy Fan." (I am shy– deep down inside.)
Okay, so I jumped up and down a few times as if I were in a Richard Simmons video and screamed at the top of my lungs like Kurt Cobain. I had a mission. I bought her DVD– allegedly– and wanted her to sign it, "Dr. Hong, PAP smear me! Xoxo Kathy Griffin."
Haha, little did she know I would ask her later to actually do it for HPV awareness! (Is it too bold of me to ask?) We can bring in the cameras, but instead of seeing Katie Couric's colon, I can discretely perform Kathy's PAP and HPV testing. Would Nicole Kidman do this? (That's the question Kathy always asks herself.) It just might get her off that D-List.
HPV does not stand for "HaPpy Virus." It's Human Papillomavirus, and it's the #1 cause of cervical cancer. If you're having a dinner party, I bet at least one person at the table has HPV. Twenty million Americans are afflicted, and there are more than six million new cases each year.
Now listen to this: in one study of sexually active urban teenage girls, 64 percent had cervical HPV; in college freshmen the rate was 26 percent (three years later, when they were seniors, it was 43 percent); among women 18-40 years old, 39 percent had the virus. (The Weather Girls start to sing, "It's Raining Men!")
Speaking of which, what about men? Men are the ones who infect the women. Well, we don't have much data on men, and there really isn't a screen for detecting HPV on the penis. For men having sex with men, a study spanning four cities showed anal HPV prevalence to be about 57 percent, which is why I'm starting to do anal HPV "PAPs" on my gay patients or men who have had sex with men. (I wonder if Kathy Griffin's husband, Matt-– who is so not gay– would be willing to get his "PAP" to bring awareness to men who are at risk? I know it would not be like having side-by-side massages with Kathy, but still!)
The vaccine doesn't get rid of HPV in infected women, but since HPV can go away on its own, wouldn't it be worthwhile to prevent reinfection? What about men? Shouldn't men be vaccinated to prevent spreading infection to their partners or developing rectal cancer?
Merck is releasing the very first available HPV vaccine this summer. You might already have seen the "Tell Someone" campaign on TV to heighten awareness that HPV 16 & 18 can cause cervical cancer. Maybe they can get Billy Joel to sing "Tell Her About It," but with HPV lyrics.
I'm on the special half-hour sneak peek of Kathy Griffin's show which plays online on tv.Yahoo.com. The six new episodes of the hour-long show began on Tuesday, June 6 at 9pm on Bravo. (I'm still waiting for her answer to my on-air PAP proposal.)
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Learning the Viennese Waltz was nerve-wracking. Everyone thinks I have a lot of dance abilities because of my music career, but I promise you I have never been formally trained as a dancer. Maks being the professional didn't want to push me so hard for the first few weeks and the first dance. The choreography of the Waltz was difficult because of my lack of experience but Maks was considerate to choreograph the waltz in a way to build confidence and allow me to feel comfortable on the dance floor with minimum pressure. I appreciate that Maks, thank you! I got the steps right away but knowing the steps and adding personality was a little hard to combine when you are not a professional dancer. Three weeks of rehearsal before your first live performance is definitely a plus.
Monday, September 20, the energy level throughout the whole DWTS family was very high. Everyone was excited and ready to show off weeks of rehearsals in their first live performance with an audience. All the teams were excited and felt confident that rehearsals had paid off. I have always had a certain level of nervousness performing in front of an audience, whether it is music or TV. It's just a natural thing for me. I usually talk to myself thinking and speaking positive words of encouragement to me. When it was our turn to dance, I kept repeating to myself, "I can do this; just stay focused on Maks and follow his lead". As we stepped onto the dance floor, the audience melted away, and it was just Maks and I dancing in our rehearsal space. It was a wonderful feeling and experience. After the dance was over, I felt relieved. I had achieved another new milestone, learning to do something I've never done before. Now for the judges scoring, I felt the judges scoring were fair. I did blunder on a step and was able to recover. More importantly, I didn't trip over my feet and was able to finish the routine. I was pleased with the scores. I can always improve and I'm thankful to have another week to do just that.
Tuesday, September 21, the night my nerves were really jumping. I knew my family, friends, and fans would vote for Maks and me, but I wasn't sure about the rest of the world. Hearing Tom announcing the teams that were safe and Maks and I were not among them, my body started to tremble. I truly didn't want to go home! Your mind can play negative tricks on you, especially if you have to wait through several commercials to find out the results. I tried to stay calm by being positive. I looked over to my daughter and over to my family and saw the love and support, I had to smile. At last, Tom announced Maks and I were staying, what an overwhelming feeling of excitement and happiness I felt. I thanked God, the Universe, family, friends, and fans. The most memorable moment was the proud look of my daughter for her mother. Lots of our conversations have been about overcoming fear.
I'm looking forward to dancing the jive this week. The moves are so fast and Maks' choreography is so complicated, I'm definitely having issues. All I can say is "feet get ready," and "I can do this." As long as I stay focused on Maks, he will keep me moving throughout the routine. Tonight is the night that you'll see if all of our hard work pays off! I hope that you'll feel the excitement of the dance and feel our chemistry that we have worked hard to show through our moves and our music choice. Believe me when I say, it's harder than it looks and all we'll give is our best. The best to all DWTS teams, each team works hard at rehearsals and when we get on the dance floor we've got one shot to make the magic happens.
My desire is to touch the heart and souls of our viewers through dance. Thank you so much for allowing me this opportunity to talk to you and share my first performance experiences with DWTS. I will be blogging my experiences twice a week so you can expect to hear a little worrying, a lot of dance-talk, experiences with my fellow DWTS team members and sharing what's it like to be a student of Maksim Chmerkovskiy. I look forward to your questions, so be sure to write in your question and I'll make sure to answer a few of them at the end of each of my blogs and give you a special shout out!!!
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text: Updated 2016 Romania is one of Eastern Europe's great values for travelers with Euros in their pockets. Hence, we've added it to our Top 10 Value Destinations for Australian Dollar Travelers. Don't wait! Romania is a country on the move. After years of languishing under a dictatorship and as an Eastern European backwater, the country has joined the European Union. Walking along the streets of Bucharest and in other parts of the country you can sense the optimism. The young people are ready for change and they are ready to lead their country in a new direction.


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text: Dr. Gary M. Lovett Forest Ecologist Share: August 30, 2009 Invasive Forest Pests, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid It's hard to describe the feeling of being in an old-growth hemlock forest. The trees are large, up to three feet across, and may be hundreds of years old. The canopy is dense and casts a deep shade, making the air below cool and moist. Because of the deep shade, there are very few saplings or ground plants, and the accumulation of dead needles makes the forest floor springy underfoot. The dark and cool and quiet lends the forest a cathedral-like atmosphere.This is a feeling that I am afraid my grandchildren, should I ever have any, will never know. Ironically, the giant hemlock trees that create this environment are threatened by a tiny bug called the hemlock woolly adelgid. Accidentally imported from Asia into the eastern U.S. in the 1950s, the adelgid spread through the mid-Atlantic States and reached our area several years ago.The little insect, which is related to an aphid, settles at the base of hemlock needles and sucks nutrients from the tree. It multiplies rapidly and covers itself in a woolly mass, which is visible on the underside of twigs in the fall, winter, and spring. Large infestations always seem to result in tree death, so the prognosis for the hemlock population is not good.This is not the first time hemlocks have been in trouble. By examining pollen grains preserved in sediment taken from the bottom of lakes and bogs, and using an aging technique called carbon-dating, scientists have been able to establish plant growth patterns that date back thousands of years. Pollen studies in our region tell us that after the glaciers retreated some 12,000 years ago, forests began to colonize the newly ice-free space. Hemlocks were a dominant tree species in post-glacial forests. Then, about 5,000 years ago, their pollen nearly disappeared from the sediments.The reason for this decline is still being debated, but in the same sediment layers scientists also discovered the remains of the hemlock looper, an insect that feeds on hemlock trees. Some scientists think the looper killed the hemlocks, while others think that climate changes caused both the hemlock decline and the looper outbreak. We'll probably never know for sure. We do know that the hemlocks eventually recovered, but it took about a thousand years.People caused the next assault on hemlocks. In the mid 1800s, their tannin-rich bark formed the base of a thriving leather tanning industry. Many current Catskill towns, such as Phoenicia and Tannersville, started out as tanning mills. Millions of hemlock trees were cut; their bark was stripped and hauled on sleds to tanning mills, where it was added to large vats for tanning hides. In the process, most of the hemlock trees in the Catskills were destroyed. By the end of the 1800s, all the readily accessible hemlocks had been cut, and new methods of tanning with metals were developed.The hemlocks in the Catskills and Hudson Valley have been recovering from the tanning devastation for the last century, only to be confronted with the hemlock woolly adelgid. Our area is currently at the northern end of the pest's range, because it is sensitive to cold temperatures. However, our winter climate is becoming milder, and at the same time the insect is evolving greater cold tolerance. In time, it seems likely that the insect will spread throughout the entire hemlock range.Like many forest pests, the adelgid was imported to our country through foreign trade. The list of foreign invaders currently assailing our forests is daunting. Ash trees are being killed by the emerald ash borer, beech trees are declining due to the beech bark disease, dogwoods are being decimated by the dogwood anthracnose fungus, and many species of hardwood trees are threatened by the Asian longhorned beetle.The two most important pathways of entry into the country for these pests are wood-packing materials such as pallets and importation on live plants in the nursery trade, which is how the hemlock woolly adelgid got here. The regulations governing such imports are inadequate and the port inspection program is overwhelmed and underfunded.The government agency charged with overseeing these imports (The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or APHIS) has just proposed a new rule that would help the situation substantially. Current regulations allow importation of any plant or insect as long as it is not known to be invasive itself or to harbor noxious pests. The new rule would create a separate category for those imported plants for which the risk is unknown.Plants in the "unknown risk" category could not be imported until a risk analysis has been done, and the plant has been placed on the list of approved plants. By allowing APHIS the time to assess the risk of potentially dangerous imports, the new ruling may help prevent the next introduction of a serious pest like the hemlock woolly adelgid.The proposed rule is open for public comment until October 21, 2009. Anyone concerned about the future of our trees should take this opportunity to comment in favor of the proposed regulation. Our grandchildren will appreciate it. Share: Dr. Gary M. Lovett Forest Ecologist Northeastern forests are threatened by air pollution, climate change, and invasive forest pests. Gary Lovett studies the impacts of these stressors on forest productivity and water quality.Through Congressional briefings and interactions with state and federal agency staff, Lovett is promoting Tree-SMART Trade – a series of federal policy actions that would reduce the introduction of new forest pests.


text: Bennybear 3 Posted October 10, 2009 i just got back into playing after a 6-7 year break lol i played all through high school, but just sort of stopped one day. Ive got my first guitar which is just a cheap Ibanez Stagestar, but i cant ever get rid of it cuz its my first guitar and i played all the gigs i ever did on it. It needs a bit of servicing after hibernating for over 6 years but yea lol. i also recently bought an Epiphone Les Paul Studio. Its only a cheap one but I always wanted a Les Paul as Jimmy Page was and is my fav guitarist. I'll post some pics up when i get a chance. for now its sore finger tips and lots of practice ahead. I love how much denial i have, i thought i could jump back on and bust out the solos i used to do with my eyes closed. What used to seem slow seems bullshit fast now LOL I know how you feel mate, I put it down for a few years when I started listening to rap/hip hop and my parents were devastated. Once I got past the whole rap phase I picked it up again and never looked back. If you are looking for something cool to cut your teeth on, 'Since I've been loving you' by Zep is a fantastic way to re-introduce yourself to scales and modes etc. My warm up is to play every note between the first and 7th frets then back again, concentrate on clarity rather than speed. Once it becomes comfortable, try putting some musicality into it i.e. think of a song in your head and hit the notes to the beat//use string skipping etc. I still can't shred a solo as fast as I would like but I am having informal lessons with a guy near my house that is a studio guitarist & his playing ability is out of this world. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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As Christians, circumstances can seem discouraging at times. We feel like our world is crumbling around us. We wonder how much more pain and suffering we have to endure. There are great sacrifices involved in following Christ. Sometimes we wonder if it's really worthwhile.
Jesus knew there would be times like that in our lives. So He gave us a great promise to remember - and backed it up with a guarantee. He said there's coming a day when He will return in full glory and we'll have eternal blessing and joy.
What was the guarantee? At a time when the disciples were discouraged, our Lord took three of them up a mountain and revealed His future heavenly glory to them. That was proof He could fulfill His promise to return in the future.
That great event is now known as the transfiguration. In the series Christ Displays His Glory, John MacArthur examines the fascinating details of what happened and why.
Discover how to have a heavenly perspective in the midst of earthly pain. It will help you overcome the frustration of living in an ungodly world!
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This is the ninth year that Investment Advisor, AdvisorOne and Prima Capital, now Envestnet | Prima, will have researched, nominated and chosen the best separately managed account managers in multiple categories.
Below, we name those strategies, in alphabetical order, chosen as finalists by the 2013 SMA Managers of the Year Awards Committee in the international or global equity category. This year, the winners of the SMA Managers of the Year honors in this category and the others will be celebrated at a live event in Chicago, in online interviews posted to AdvisorOne and in the cover story of the June issue of Investment Advisor.
(See our 2013 SMA Managers of the Year home page for more information on the process, the finalists and, on and after May 1, the winners of this year's awards.)
Nominee 1: Harding Loevner Global Equity ADR
Harding Loevner has a four-stage investment decision-making process in its global equity strategy, the first of two nominees presented for an SMA Manager of the Year award. The strategy is co-managed by Ferrill Roll, CFA (left) and Alexander Walsh, CFA.
The first stage is the initial qualification for companies for further research. Proposals to include suitable candidates within the universe of non-U.S. stocks are made by global industry sector analysts.
"Analysts focus on 10 factors to qualify a company, which collectively are called the company's 'Quality Quotient,'" according to Envestnet |Prima's analysts in making a recommendation for the strategy to the 2013 Awards Committee. "The quality quotient consists of: threat of new entrants; threat of substitution; buyers' bargaining power; suppliers' bargaining power; intensity of rivalry; growth persistence and variability; strength of free cash flow; balance sheet strength; foresight and change management; and corporate governance."
The firm then performs qualitative assessments of the competitive structure of the industry, and each company's position within it, by estimating "the durability of margins and growth rate, evaluating the level of business risk, analyzing the risk factors related to domicile of operations, and continual communication with managements prospects and holdings."
After the qualitative assessments are completed, the analysts perform valuations using projected earnings with the DuPont Model based on the de-composition of return on equity. The analysts also estimate the intrinsic value using the Dividend Discount Model.
The construction of stocks is selected from among the most promising candidates by the portfolio management team. To accomplish this, the team builds unconstrained virtual portfolios from among stocks rated by the analysts.
Comprehensive and repeatable certainly apply to Harding Loevner's strategy—the reason they made this year's cut.
Nominee 2: Thomas White International Ltd International ADR
If you say someone or something needs no introduction, you'd better be confident it's the case. When it comes to Thomas White International, we're very confident. Tom White, chairman and president of the firm, has more than 40 years of investment experience, beginning in 1966 at Goldman Sachs. Stints as an officer at Lehman Brothers and managing director at Morgan Stanley soon followed, and White founded the firm that bears his name in 1992.
Its international ADR strategy won the category in 2011 SMA Managers of the Year Awards, and is once again nominated this year. What sets it apart, White told us two years ago, is the firm's research-driven approach, one that translates to having "people on the ground," most notably with the opening of its office in Bangalore, India.
"We have the capability not only to buy ADRs in many countries, but we often can actually trade securities on their exchanges, which gives our clients a distinct advantage," White added.
"The investment universe includes several international companies," Envestnet | Prima's analysts wrote in forwarding the nomination of the Thomas White ADR strategy to the 2013 SMA Managers of the Year Awards Committee. "These stock are divided into approximately 100 valuation groups that include sectors by regions (e.g., Consumer Staples in Europe) and by countries (e.g., Healthcare in Japan). In each valuation group, stocks are placed into deciles based on analytical factors that have been identified by the investment team as having significant predictive power based on results from single-factor models and an optimization process."
The highest-ranking stocks (top decile) are then analyzed qualitatively by assigned team members to evaluate the quality of each company's accounting practices, management team, and products. The most attractive stocks from the most attractive valuation groups are then selected for the 50- to 70-stock ADR portfolio.
We invite you to return to the 2013 SMA Managers of the Year home page to read about the finalists in the other three categories, and for additional and ongoing coverage of the winners, beginning on May 1, and the awards ceremony


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Rush: I deserve finder's fee for Fluke
Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday he deserves a "finder's fee" for Sandra Fluke, who is campaigning with President Barack Obama in Colorado.
"Obama's out there today, he's at a fundraiser, and guess who is introducing him? Well-known contraception expert Sandra Fluke," the conservative radio host said.
"When you mention her name, my name is what most people think of," he continued, according to audio posted by The Daily Rushbo. "I should be getting a finder's fee."
Fluke is scheduled to introduce Obama at a campaign rally — not a fundraiser — in Denver on Wednesday.
She first came to prominence after House Republicans refused to allow her to testify at a February hearing on a contraception mandate included in the health care reform law. Democrats later held a protest hearing where she was allowed to testify. The next week, Limbaugh attacked Fluke two days in a row on his radio show, repeatedly calling her a "slut."
In her testimony, Fluke had said many women at Georgetown University — where she was a third-year law student — find it difficult to afford birth control since the school's health care plan doesn't cover it. Limbaugh said this was because "she's having so much sex." Limbaugh said that if Fluke wanted federally funded birth control, she should post sex tapes online "so all of us can watch."
Limbaugh's comments provoked a massive outcry. He lost almost 100 advertisers and eventually issued an apology.
The conservative talker opened Wednesday's segment by wondering whether he should "ignore" or "talk about and have a little fun with" Fluke's appearance. Choosing the latter, he took another indirect shot at Fluke, who has endorsed the president in his reelection bid.
"I don't know if they give out condoms at Obama's fundraisers," he said, apparently answering a question from one of his producers.
Limbaugh also questioned a Huffington Post story linking some of the families that helped seed Bain Capital, the private-equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, to 1980s Latin American death squads.
"Let me ask you a question: What's the difference in that and the Democrats being underwritten by Planned Parenthood and NARAL?" the conservative talker asked. "If they're not death squads, I don't know what is. How many abortions every year? 1.73 million or something?"


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Almonte steady at the top for Mariners
MIAMI -- Even with the shuffling of Sunday afternoon's lineup, one thing remained a constant for the Mariners: Abraham Almonte starting in center field and leading off.
Including Sunday's series finale at Marlins Park, Almonte had started all 18 games for Seattle this season, reaching base in 14 of them, with hits in 13, including four multi-hit games.
"I don't try to do too much," Almonte said. "I do what I know and play the game the way that I know and if anything doesn't go well, I adjust the way I'm supposed to. I go to my coaches and figure it out. So far, I'm just trying to be the same guy."
Consistency is tough for any young player to achieve, and the 24-year-old outfielder is no different.
A night after going 2-for-5 with two extra-base hits and two strikeouts, Almonte went hitless in four at-bats against Marlins right-hander Henderson Alvarez on Saturday.
"It's one of the biggest things I've seen in baseball, always," said Almonte, who is batting .233 with four doubles, a triple, a homer and six RBIs. "It comes with confidence and relaxing and believing you can do it. Working hard and trusting yourself so you can do it. Bad days are going to come. If you don't trust that you can do it it's going to be tough."
Almonte's mentality is in the right spot -- working on seeing more pitches, striving for patience and finding a way to get on base for RBI guys like Robinson Cano and Corey Hart. He ranks 45th in the big leagues with 3.97 pitches per plate appearance.
Prior to this season, Almonte had played in just 25 games at the Major League level, so his experience is low and his learning curve high.
"I think he'll get better as he gets around the league a second time and just learns the pitchers," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said. "I think he's making a conscious effort with two strikes to be a better hitter. The other part of that comes with knowledge -- knowledge of the league. He'll get better."


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Kudos to the Financial Services Pipeline (FSP) Initiative supported by Chicago-based financial institutions. The goal is to address the lack of diversity in Chicago's financial services industry, particularly Latinos and African Americans. The initiative includes 16 members representing more than 30,000 professionals in Chicago's financial service industry. FSP released findings from a report which will be utilized to develop an action plan to address the lack of diversity in its industry. While focused on one city and industry, the report's findings can provide insights about the experiences of Latinos in other industries and regions.
In regards to career outlook, the report suggests that "Latinos indicate that they are dedicated to their careers, and are more likely than their white counterparts to indicate that career is their first priority." However, many Latinos feel that the pace of their progression has been too slow. The report cites a "choke point" where career progression is halted, particularly into senior positions.
Hence, many Latino Executives and Senior and Managers "recognize that relationships with senior members of the industry are important for their career growth. They are more likely than whites to cite sponsorship programs as being helpful to their career and are just as likely as their white counterparts to have a mentor or sponsor within the company"
One comment from an interviewee in the study noted:
There is only one thing — hire more people of different races and ethnicities. Too much hiring in the financial services industry is based on internal networks, so excludes people that aren't traditionally part of those financial industry networks.
This is a telling comment that is common among most industries. The "who you know not what you know" barrier. These are only a few highlights that caught my eye – there are a number of good takeaways in the details.


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Recently my hard disk went bad (some bad sectors developed), my boot.ini (Windows XP boot file) corrupted. I was using NT boot loader to load Linux. So I need to repair the Grub i.e. restore Grub in master boot record (MBR).
Today is national holiday (I-DAY) and I wanna watch TV. Problem is neither I can boot to Linux nor using XP. So I just took my Debian GNU/Linux DVD and booting started when I had presented installation option (after networking dialog prompt) :
1) Press ALT+F2 (or ALT+CTRL+F2) to get shell prompt
2) Then get the partition tables for the devices using fdisk command:
# fdisk -l
3)When you type fdisk -l, you should see your partition name: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 (for IDE disk it display same device file in IDE directory)
4)Once you identified your device file, mount disk using mount command:
# mkdir /mydisk
# mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mydisk
5) Next use chroot command to start interactive shell with special root directory i.e. /mydisk will act as root directory.
# chroot /mydisk
6)Use grub-install command to reinstall grub (SCSI disk):
# grub-install /dev/sda
If you have IDE device following command :
# grub-install /dev/hda
Again replace /dev/hda and /dev/sda with your actual device names.
7)Type exit and reboot the system. You should see your GRUB and Linux again.
# exit
Other choice was to use Linux Live CD (e.g. Mepis) and do the above procedure. Well, I could have used the Mepis to watch TV but I had some data and emails in Tunderbird so I opted to restore the Grub; watched TV, took backup of emails and now I will put new 120 GiB hard disk tomorrow 😀


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Monitoring ECVET implementation strategies in Europe
While many countries are well on their way to implementing the European credit system for vocational education and training, credit transfer is still not an integral part of vocational education and training systems. Moreover, there is still work to be done on making all common European tools - the European Qualifications Framework, quality assurance mechanisms and lifelong guidance, as well as ECVET - work as a seamless whole.
This is Cedefop's third analysis of developments in ECVET from June 2011 to September 2012 in 32 countries. The Council recommendation on ECVET (DATE) calls on Member States to 'create the necessary conditions and adopt measures so that as from 2012 it is possible for ECVET to be gradually applied' to vocational education and training (VET) qualifications at all levels of the European Qualifications Framework.


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A rescue team found the body of Matra'is near the
Matra'is, a reporter for the local broadcaster Merauke TV, had been covering plans for a large agribusiness development in Merauke, according to the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AIJ). With its potential for bringing wealth to the remote region, the project had led to a heated competition for the position of regional chief, Victor Mambor, chairman of AIJ's local branch, told the newsmagazine Tempo. Matra'is' death came in the run-up to local elections.
In the week before his death, Matra'is had received threatening text messages similar to those sent to at least three other local journalists, news reports said. The news website Kompas translated one threat as saying: "To cowardly journalists, never play with fire if you don't want to be burned. If you still want to make a living on this land, don't do weird things. We have data on all of you and be prepared for death."
Initial news reports said Matra'is' body showed signs of torture, although local police later denied finding signs of abuse. Matra'is's family declined to have an autopsy conducted, as is often the case in Islamic cultures.


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