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With that said, chemistry was my worst subject in high school, and I took general science classes in college to avoid the subject all together. I don't want to have to be a board-certified chemical engineer in order to buy my family's snacks or shampoo. But I still want the safest or healthiest products I possibly can find... and can afford.
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So, what should I buy when I go to the store? Which products in my house are really toxic? Which products in my house does my toddler have the most contact with? Which products or foods are safer and won't break my grocery budget!?
It's overwhelming. So just like any big project I take on, I decided to start small. A few small changes can lead to bigger, better ones. After all, a marathon starts with a few steps. Stop back on Mondays to hear about the small changes my family and I have made to Make Better Decisions.
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Some years ago, while researching an article for Walrus Magazine on art theft, Joshua Knelman interviewed a convicted art thief in a local restaurant. While providing some quotable patter, the thief threatened to break Knelman's legs if he used his real name, and handed him some rolled-up items, which proved to be stolen artworks, now bearing Knelman's own fingerprints. But the Toronto writer survived this brush with danger and found that rogues can also be gentlemen. After his story appeared, the thief phoned to let him know "how much I enjoyed your piece."
Review of Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art, by Joshua Knelman
For some reason probably having to do with Hollywood, the subject of art theft seems sexy, even glamourous, and Knelman soon won a contract for a book. Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art (Douglas & McIntyre, 2011), is a colourful, tautly written narrative in the true-crime genre, featuring characters from both sides of the fence: sharp detectives, wealthy collectors, talkative rogues, and art dealers and gallery owners. As Knelman shows, some dealers and gallery owners sit on both sides of the fence — simultaneously fencing stolen goods while fencing off suggestions of their complicity in the highly profitable black market.
Hot Art opens with a CSI-type investigation of a burglary in a Los Angeles gallery, conducted by LAPD Detective Donald Hrycyk, one of only a handful of police specialists in stolen art in the world. Another chapter introduces us to Richard Ellis, the detective who started Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques Squad, who has helped to recover Edvard Munch's The Scream and works by Vermeer, Goya, Rubens and other high-profile artists. Here the narrative veers deliciously into ransoms, raids and other cops-and-robbers-type high-jinx. Knelman also interviewed Special Agent Robert K. Wittman, senior art investigator for the FBI, as well as Alain Lacoursiere, a dedicated stolen-art detective in Montreal.
Although Toronto doesn't have a dedicated police pro, the city may claim lawyer Bonnie Czegledi as its own; Czegledi is a leading international authority in stolen art and a key source for Knelman. After years in the art world, she is still amazed when lawyers ask her advice on how to sell a valuable antique tapestry that had been stolen during World War II. "You shouldn't be selling a piece of art if it's been stolen! And you don't need to be a lawyer to understand that," she tells Knelman after receiving such a call. But she long ago realized that the lawyer's attitude is typical and that it is her own that is deviant.
Paul, the brash British career-thief and "Brighton knocker" who steals much of the limelight in Knelman's narrative, seems to understand this attitude better than anyone. "I'd go as far as to say that the term 'honest antique dealer' is an oxymoron," he comments. "No one cares about selling stolen art as long as you're smart about it. It's not even considered criminal. It's more as if it's naughty behaviour. You know . . . wink, wink. It's the norm."
Paul apprenticed by knocking on doors in the seaside retirement community of Brighton, England, offering to buy antiques from residents while secretly casing their premises for valuables to loot. Eventually he knocked on doors across England and had teams of thieves working for him. He disposed of the merchandise in antique markets, usually for 10 per cent of its presumed value.
To what did he attribute his largely successful career? For one thing, he never attempted to do the burgling himself, realizing after one early bungled attempt that he was terribly clumsy at it. "I'm so sorry to disturb you," he had told the couple he had awakened in the middle of the night. "You have my word that I will never break into another house again in my life." He supposedly kept his promise.
Paul "kept below the radar," never pulling spectacular heists, never keeping stolen goods in his possession for long, and never going after what he called "headache art" — high-profile works with equally high price-tags that would be impossible to fence. "I became very good at a bad thing," he told Knelman. "Actually, I became ruthless. Margaret Thatcher had swept to power in Britain in 1979, her Conservative Party preaching an aggressive brand of capitalism. These were the eighties. It was a decade of excess, and I was a pure, cutthroat capitalist."
In a chapter titled "Headache Art," Knelman recounts the tale of a 1981 theft of ten paintings from a major London gallery, including a small Rembrandt then worth more than $20 million. Another chapter is devoted to the looting of the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad after the second U.S. invasion, and the largely futile attempts of a U.S. military investigator, Matthew Bogdanos, to recover the scattered antiquities. At the international level, as at the domestic level, there is a pathetic lack of official attention paid to the problem of the black market in stolen art and its links to organized crime.
Knelman describes several noble attempts to create a comprehensive catalogue of stolen art, most notably the Art Loss Register, which allows dealers to research works of unknown provenance being offered to them at bargain-basement prices. Understandably, many dealers prefer not to do so. As art prices continue to soar, some estimate stolen art as a $4-to-$6-billion industry globally. It may be much higher: no one knows for sure.
Although Hot Art lacks a neat conclusion and seems to repeat itself towards the end, it is still, for most of its length, an enjoyable and compelling page-turner in the best true-crime tradition.
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Matti Friedman's The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Book is a true-life detective story that provides a new theory as to how the 10th-century Codex, a sacred Hebrew Bible, was spirited from a grotto in Aleppo, Syria in 1940 to its new home in Israel's National Museum in Jerusalem, losing some pages enroute.
Upon first encountering the Codex in 2008, Friedman, a staff reporter of the Associated Press in Jerusalem, resolved to uncover its secret journey. He found that official accounts of the Codex seemed "oddly blurred and contradictory" and that when he asked pointed questions, many doors were closed in his face. That made him even more determined to delve into the "real-life mystery with clues still hiding in forgotten crates of documents and in aging minds." Friedman's book is being published this month by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. ♦
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Glen79 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Our company name is Sphenic Technologies based in Kemptville, Ontario, Canada. We are a clean energy (green) company focusing on improving combustion efficiency and lowering emissions by controlling the fuel burning process with plasma ionization. Our process applies to fossil fuels and bio fuels. We care about the environment and want to produce products that help reduce the consumers carbon foot print and overall energy consumption.
Our company is launching its first product called SPDI-Spark (pronounced Speedy Spark)
SPDI stands for Spatial Plasma Discharge Ignition.
SPDI-Spark can be used on internal combustion engines and open flame gas burning processes.
Initially SPDI-Spark will be used on cars, trucks, motorcycles, boat motors, lawn mowers etc to achieve greater performance while using less fuel and generating less emmissions.
Our SPDI tag line is: More Power, Less Fuel
In the future we hope to also produce SPDI based units for oil and gas fired furnaces.
Ourlong term goal is to get SPDI installed on manufacturers vehicles (toyota, Ford, Honda, etc) To reach this goal we need to initially establish our products as aftermarket alternatives to gain credibility and market acceptance.
Our initial target audience is the aftermarket automotive tuner. We need to create a market presence in the automotive tuner market to gain credibility with original equipment manufacturers. The typical customer is a 39 yr old male, owns 3 or more cars and likes to upgrade their vehicle for appearance and performance. They are likely to read magazines such as Grass Roots Motorsports. http://www.grassrootsmotorsports.com They are also likely to compete in motorsports events/shows or wish to compete in these events.
The market we are entering is mature and the dominant company is MSD.
We want to project an image that will attract the aftermarket performance tuners but is also conservative enough to be attractive to large scale manufacturers such as Toyota, Ford, Honda etc. who we hope will be interested in our clean energy approach.
The goal is to design a SPDI-Spark Logo
The SPDI-Spark logo will be used on
-web site
-product material (packaging, documentation, instruction sheets)
-promotial material (hats, shirts, banners, brochures)
-product (example product picture attached)
-Clean Energy/Green
-Auto Racing Performance (yes it is possible to be clean and still promote performance)
1) I like simplicity
2) A version of the logo will be silk screened onto an anodized aluminum plate that will be part of the product. The plate will be approximately 50mm x 40mm.
-A single colour is required. for example: White silk screen on blue anodized plate.
-The logo should be recognizable when it is presented in a single colour.
-The size of the logo on the product should be no larger than 20mm x 20mm
3) A version of the logo will be used on clothing.
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1 jalapeno, thinly sliced
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon mustard seed
1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
Place all ingredients in a 8-oz mason jar. Cover and shake until the salt dissolves. Allow to marinate at room temperature for 25 minutes.


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Billy Joel Gossip
Billy Joel gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Year-end Tiger dramas
The Squawking Chicken called it all along that the Year of the Open Mouth Tiger would bring the drama. It's come in the form of natural disasters, international conflict, digital warfare, economic crises, and much, much more. My mother, who is of the Tiger sign, had a rough one herself. She forgot to get a blessing from the contrarian temple even though she had advance notice that the year would try her. Full Story
GOOPy gets smacked!
Last week's GOOP featured cookie recipes, one of them courtesy of Katie Lee Joel. You'll recall my Gwyneth referred to him as "William". Now his rep is telling Us Magazine Full Story
GOOPy calls him William
It's Thursday. It's GOOP day! Unfortunately this week's GOOP is all about recipes. Cookie recipes. Boring. Also unfortunate, for her that is, careless staff. At the bottom of the newsletter that was sent out, you'll note they're still waiting for next week's copy. And this is not the first time. Full Story


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Valentina1975 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Zuni is a digital agency based in Sydney we are young and have just started out, we are only 8 month's old. Zuni people are a happy bunch, no egos and have a combined experience of 35 year's in digital marketing from developing websites, mobile games to rich media to full online marketing campaigns, we are also very active within social media. We are a collective of talented people who enjoy our work and have some fun along the way.
Marketing Managers - Clients split 50/50 ages from 25 to 50 who manage big blue chip clients to small medium businesses.
People we have worked with us over the last year from designers, art directors, copywriters to production houses (overall creative Johnnies)
Trade mags- jouros - who if sent a case of beer from zuni would possibly do a small piece on.
We have approached a company called Brew Topia who produce personalised beer - we're looking to order a case of personalised beer with our Zuni logo on it. We are looking for a fresh bold design with a bit of a twist, we want the feel in the design to be fun but have that professional feel to it- nothing stuffy, consider illustration or photography and we also kind of like dots especially red ones :) No Christmas themes please.
To be included:
Zuni logo with colour palette (Attached)
Work within the design template (Attached)
Font used for any copy Helvetica Neue
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Snap o' the day: New AG
No, this isn't Bob McDonnell, who resigned February 20 to run for governor. Bill Mims now has the attorney general job until January 16, 2010, and he was in town March 20 to spur lawyers to a Legal Food Frenzy in support of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Last year attorneys pulled in 65,000 pounds of food.


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Distributing something as relatively unimportant as comic books around the world is pretty low priority, when compared to things like food supplies and medicines, but it can still be frustrating how much of a half-arsed effort is put into getting physical comics where they're supposed to be.
Talk to any comic shop manager for five minutes, and you'll head horror stories of distribution nightmares – shipments lost, books billed for that never arrived, and a huge effort to get things sorted out again. It's nothing new, but it certainly hasn't been helped by the fact there has been one company that has had an almost total monopoly on the distribution market for more than a decade and a half.
It can be bad enough in the States, where the comics just need to be shipped around the country, but getting them overseas puts too much stress on the distribution system and there are inevitable breakdowns.
It's not as bad as it used to be, when a missed issue of Uncanny X-Men might be unavailable for years, but it's still happening.
Comics used to be everywhere in New Zealand, every bookshop and every corner dairy had some kind of collection of comic book fun. But it was always crazily random – one store might always get the Justice League of America semi-regularly, another place might be the only shop in a hundred kilometres to offer Avengers comics.
And it was always late. Until the mid-nineties - around about the time the internet became ubiquitous - American superhero comics were always at least three months behind, (and independent comics might take years to show up). 2000ad took at least five months to ship over from the UK, I could tell because each new issue had an old cover date.
Now they usually arrive here within days of being released in the States, which makes it a hell of a lot easier to avoid spoilers. But I can still remember the thrill of going in to my first comic shops and finding issues of GI Joe or Excalibur which were three whole months ahead of the stuff I was reading, at an age when three months was an eternity. And I can still remember how insanely jealous I was when my mate Kyle got to go to Christchurch and got a copy of X-Men #4 by Claremont and Lee when I hadn't even got a copy of the first issue yet (and it also became one of those issues that NEVER SHOWED UP AT ALL).
And it wasn't just random and late. It was always maddeningly inconsistent. The first time I really tried to follow a monthly American series was The Further Adventures Of Indiana Jones when I was eight, and I only managed to get four issues before missing the next two, and only getting one more issue before it disappeared entirely, two-thirds of the way through the comic's run.
2000ad was the worst – possibly because it was coming from literally the other side of the planet, probably because it was a weekly comic – but every now and then, at least once a year, an issue would never appear on local shelves. It would take me so long to find these missing issues that I can still remember the individual numbers amongst a thousand issues, because I spent so long looking for them, (419… 463… 642… 912…)
They often didn't even arrive in the country, (or at least the South Island, which was the same thing when I was 12), and I ended up finding these ached-for treasures in places like Sydney and Dublin. Finally scratching that itch felt so fucking good.
It is much better than it used to be and there hasn't been any of those long-lost comics since I started living in towns that actually had comic shops.
There is the odd missed issue, but that can usually be picked up on back order, and even if there is a gap, it's one that can be filled in reasonably quickly.
I also travel a lot more than I used to, and come back to New Zealand from overseas trips with luggage bulging with vital comics, finding those elusive issues by dragging my poor wife down back alleys in London, Amsterdam and Ventura County, looking for those gaps.
But I'm still a little surprised that there are still missed issues, even in this sci-fi year of 2013. I can live with the fact that we don't have jetpacks and rocket cars, but it's still annoying that comic distribution remains so spotty.
My local store sometimes goes through terrible droughts of product, as shipments remain stuck at LAX as low-priority items for weeks, as vague delivery promises went unfulfilled. Unless international shops are willing to pay way more for premium shipping rates (which would put some of them out of business faster than the Flash), these products can be deliberately left to languish, no matter how much I need my fix.
And while distribution issues here pale in comparison to the States, 2000ad is maintaining a fine 35-year tradition of the missed issue, especially around this time of year, when the arrival of regular comics is severely disrupted by Christmas and New Year. I usually pick up the new issue of 2000ad every Thursday (and we're only about 10 weeks behind these days, so we're getting there), and there wasn't one on the Thursday between Xmas and New Year, but the next week the comcis picked up again as if they had, leaving out number 1808.
I keep expecting these gaps to show up, because there are still a couple of similar holes in my 2000ad collection from recent years, some of which I still haven't filled in. This one is particularly painful, as the thoroughly bloody excellent Dredd/Low Life/Simping Detective story is really starting to take off. There is always the chance it will suddenly show up sometime in the next couple of weeks (which has happened before), but it's more likely that the people in the warehouses who are sorting all this stuff out don't really give a shit about comics, and will just carry on as usual, leaving that itchy, itchy hole.
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no gaps with digital comics. But they're not proper comics, so that doesn't count.)
It's not that bad (and it's such a First World Problem that I feel a little embrassed by it). I'm always gutted when I realize there has been a missed issue, but it's not the end of the world.
After all, anybody who has tried to read any kind of regular comic will be used to the weird, non-linear way we often read them. While many comics are packaged together in nice, thick collections these days, my reading experience of something like, say, the Teen Titans has been all over the show. I never read more than a couple of issues of the Wolfman/Perez stuff in order, and figuring out what the heck was going on was half the fun.
It's also incredibly easy to find the odd synopsis or review that helps fill in the gaps, and I've already gone to the fine fellows at Everything Comes Back to 2000ad to help figure out what was going on in that missed issue of 2000ad.
And I know I'll still find that issue sometime, somewhere, somewhen. Everything else is detail, and I can sort out my own distribution.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Missed! (Try again later)
Posted by Bob Temuka at 7:32 PM
2 comments:
- Tam said...
I really enjoyed article! As a UK resident I empathised with the problem of missing certain issues of US comics, especially the giant sized ones which never seemed to turn up on these shores. I also felt an acute sense of smugness/gratitude when I brought my freshly printed copy of prog 1815 of 2000 ad this morning...
- January 16, 2013 at 10:42 PM
Hi, almost hate to say this, but I'm in Wellington and Prog 1806 showed up just fine down here. Try giving Magnetix a call:
- January 20, 2013 at 1:39 AM
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Land owners can continue to clear native vegetation when undertaking every-day land management activities, such as environmental protection works, collection of firewood, building and operating rural infrastructure, such as fence-lines, dams, sheds and tracks.
Allowable activities give land owners the opportunity to continue to operate many routine aspects of their properties without the need to seek approvals.
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Land management (native vegetation) code
The new land management (native vegetation) code supports landowners to manage their land and ensure more productive farming methods and systems while responding to environmental risks. The code allows greater flexibility for landowners to make the right decisions about land use on their properties.
The code applies to all rural lands throughout NSW and is divided into five parts. Each part provides practical directions on what vegetation can and cannot be cleared, how much clearing is permitted and under what circumstances.
The five parts of the code are:
- Invasive native species - enables the removal of invasive native species that have reached unnatural densities and dominate an area. These activities are to promote the regeneration and regrowth of native vegetation.
- Pasture expansion - enables the removal of woody native vegetation by uniform or mosaic thinning to promote native pastures and increase farm efficiency and productivity.
- Continuing use - enables the continuation of lawful land management activities that had been in place between 1990 and the commencement of the new arrangements.
- Equity - enables the removal of paddock trees, compromised native groundcover, and native vegetation from small areas in exchange for set aside areas containing remnant vegetation.
- Farm plan - enables the removal of paddock tree areas and clearing regulated rural land in exchange for set aside areas containing remnant vegetation or set aside areas where revegetation will be required.
Depending on the extent of your proposed clearing under the code, before you commence you will either need to notify Local Land Services or seek their certification.
The code does not apply on some sensitive land types including critically endangered habitat. In the coastal zone, you can only apply the code if your primary land use is agricultural.
If you would like assistance to determine if using the code is right for your circumstances then speak to a member of the Local Land Services team or arrange a visit to your property.
More information about the parts of the code and how it can be applied are provided in the following fact sheets:
- Overview of the Land Management (Native Vegetation) Code
- Farm Plan Code
- Equity Code
- Can I amend my PVP?
- How to measure stem diameter?
The native vegetation regulatory map
A new Native Vegetation Regulatory (NVR) Map is being developed that shows rural land where clearing of native vegetation can occur without approval (category 1 (exempt) land) and rural land where clearing requires approval (category 2 (regulated) land).
The exempt and regulated layers of the NVR Map will not come into effect until stakeholders are satisfied it is accurate.
Three layers, showing sensitive areas and vulnerable land and excluded land, will apply from commencement on 25 August 2017.
Transition period
While the NVR is being finalised, landowners will be responsible for determining the categorisation of their land, in accordance with the Local Land Services Act 2013.
A fact sheet to assist landholders undertake this process is available. If you would like assistance with this process, speak to a member of the Local Land Services team or arrange a visit to your property.
For more information:
The native vegetation panel
In some instances proposals, for clearing don't fall within allowable activities or the Land Management (Native Vegetation) Code.
In July 2018 a new Native Vegetation Panel was established to determine the conditions that will enable landholders to offset the impacts of clearing in these areas.
It is an independent panel of experts in
- planning
- social assessment
- ecology
- economics
- agricultural economics
- agricultural land production systems
- government and public administration.
An approval process by the new Native Vegetation Panel will enable landholders to use biodiversity credits (from a biodiversity offset site) to offset the biodiversity impacts of developing their land for agriculture.
This pathway is also available for landholders if they do not wish to have a set-aside, where required, established on their property.
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5 cloves garlic, minced
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
2 tablespoons Italian parsley, minced
2 teaspoons Parmesan cheese, grated
black pepper
shredded fresh mozzarella (optional)
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Coca-Cola Company have announced a $7 million joint investment in nine new water projects in Africa. The projects will be located in Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Ghana/Ivory Coast.
Working together since November 2005, USAID and The Coca-Cola Company have supported water partnership activities in Bolivia, Mali, Indonesia, Malawi, Egypt, Thailand, Uganda and South Africa. The new projects in Africa provide locally driven solutions to address the global water crisis, growing the global partnership's investments from $3 million to $10 million.
More than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and 2.6 billion people have no access to basic sanitation. There are growing shortages of water to meet human needs for food and economic activity and to ensure the sustainability of critical ecosystems. In an effort to tackle these challenges, the partnership between USAID and The Coca-Cola Company was established in 2005.
Dr. Sharon Murray, Freshwater Program Manager with the USAID Water Team said of the partnership, "Our alliance with Coca-Cola is an excellent example of how a development agency can effectively join forces with a private sector partner to address our common concern about the global water crisis, bringing tangible benefits to communities in the developing world. We are excited about the launch of the second year of activities and our involvement in this successful water partnership with The Coca-Cola Company."
In its first group of projects, the USAID/Coca-Cola water partnership has improved water supply services, hygiene, household water disinfection and watershed management among 25,000 underserved residents near Jakarta, Indonesia; in Mali, 21,000 people have seen an increase in access to clean water, improved sanitation and hygiene, and 1,000 people have been able to carry out small-scale garden irrigation to increase nutrition and incomes. Around Malawi's Mt. Mulanje, residents are benefiting from clean water and soil conservation efforts. In cooperation with implementing partners in 16 countries, USAID and The Coca-Cola Company are helping more than 300,000 people who struggle for daily access to safe and sustainable sources of water. Planning is underway to expand and deepen the impact of the USAID/Coca-Cola partnership in future years throughout the countries where both organizations work.
A multi-year effort, the partnership capitalizes on the strengths and experience of its partner institutions, which include USAID, The Coca-Cola Company and the Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF). These three partners work together on the collaborative development and implementation of water activities. The relationship demonstrates how government, business and the NGO community can engage to solve global water problems in innovative ways.


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The debut of two brand-new new cruise ships — Cunard's new Queen Elizabeth earlier this month and Royal Caribbean's massive 16-deck Allure of the Seas in December — coincides with the beginning of "wave period," a time of year when most people book their cruise vacations.
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But talk of cruises inevitably raises the subject of cruise safety. A few weeks ago, a 79-year-old British man disappeared from a cruise ship in the English Channel. He's only the latest in a list of passengers who either vanished or fell overboard.
The cruise industry contends a trip on the high seas is safer than a drive to the airport and a stay at a hotel. But just how safe is it?
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There is little evidence that people are not booking a floating vacation because of safety concerns. But this summer, President Obama signed the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act, which requires cruise lines to report all deaths, missing persons, theft, sexual harassment and assaults. However, the Department of Homeland Security hasn't yet published the data and did not offer a timeline for its release.
Until that happens, experts say, safety can depend on your behavior.
Stay in your cabin and order room service for the duration of your cruise, and short of your ship sinking, you'll probably be just fine.
But stay up all night drinking, do your "I'm-the-king-of-the-world" impression from the bow of the ship, and take the unauthorized shore excursion to the slums — well, maybe not.
That's not to say the cruise line isn't responsible for your well-being. It's just that there's only so much it can do to keep you out of harm's way while you're at sea.
Sexual assaults
Cruise industry representatives claim sexual assaults are practically unheard of at sea — according to the industry, you have a less than 0.1 percent chance of becoming a victim onboard. However, as cruise expert Ross A. Klein testified before a Senate hearing in 2008, the rate of sexual assault on cruise ships is almost twice the U.S. rate of forcible rape — about 56.9 per 100,000.
"It is common knowledge in our field that cruise ships are flat-out dangerous for women," said Amelia Stinson-Wesley, the former executive director of a battered women's shelter and rape crisis center. "Not as dangerous as countries at war where rape is used as a weapon of war, but more dangerous than even a college campus and certainly more dangerous than the general population of most cities in the United States."
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Passengers can protect themselves by taking some common-sense precautions, including keeping your cabin door locked, not opening your door for strangers and checking in with a travel companion, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.
Stomach ailments
Gastrointestinal outbreaks spread easily from person to person and can occur aboard cruise ships or in hotels, nursing homes or day care centers.
But there's a reason the Norwalk virus is sometimes also called cruise-ship sickness: because it happens on cruise ships. Here are the ones reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (These are just the ships where 3 percent or more of passengers or crew reported symptoms of diarrheal disease to the ships medical staff during the voyage.)
More people are at risk for gastrointestinal illnesses while traveling than ever, according to the CDC. "Cruise ship passengers and crews are also at risk for new patterns of old diseases or newly recognized causes of diseases," the agency warns.
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You can prevent an infection by frequently washing your hands, carefully washing fruits and vegetables before eating them and cleaning and disinfecting contaminated surfaces, according to the CDC.
Sick at sea
Cruise experts say today's ships are so big, you won't even know you're at sea. Mention the word "seasickness" and those same insiders reassure you with talk of stabilizers and almost-always calm waters.
But waves still happen. And seasickness happens. Ann Azevedo took an Alaska cruise during the spring and on the way back, she encountered some rough weather. "The decks were shut down," she recalled. "The weather information on the TV stopped updating. We tried to go to bed, but there was no way we could sleep — we were near the bow, and every fourth wave or so would hit with a shattering boom. They were breaking across our balcony — and we were on the ninth deck."
That's no exaggeration. Some waves are even bigger, like this set that hit the P&O Pacific Sun in 2008.
Rough weather can normally be avoided by steering clear of cheap off-season cruises (the Caribbean during hurricane season or Alaska during the late spring or early fall).
Is there a doctor on board?
Medical care on cruise ships isn't necessarily up to Western standards. "The last place you want to become ill or injured is on a cruise ship far away from a U.S. port," said Jim Walker, a maritime attorney and cruise expert based in Miami. "Cruise ship medical care is limited. Ship doctors are usually from foreign medical schools. The shipboard facilities are often inadequate and the medical care is sub-standard."
David Deehl, an attorney in Miami who has handled multiple cruise line cases, agrees. "I have seen my share of people injured on cruise ships," he said. It is difficult to say exactly how many people are injured or get sick on cruise ships, although the government's yet-unreleased numbers may shed some light on that question.
Cruise lines don't assume liability for the medical care you receive on a ship, according to many cruise contracts, so experts recommend taking out a good travel insurance policy with a provision for medical evacuations.
Even with all of these unacknowledged dangers, it's possible to have an incident-free cruise vacation, and a vast majority of passengers return safely from their cruise.
Knowing the perils — not downplaying or ignoring them — is a key to avoiding them.
Christopher Elliott is the ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler magazine. You can read more travel tips on his blog, elliott.org or e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com .


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Jackie Robinson Award,
for the late Major League Baseball Hall of Famer and former Brooklyn
Dodger, is awarded annually to the Perfect Game National Player of
the Year – the All-American considered the nation's top high
school prospect. The award is presented to the player who exhibits
outstanding character, leadership, is involved in his community and
embodies the values of being a student-athlete.
Robinson came from humble beginnings as the son of a sharecropper in
Cairo, Georgia, to become the first black player to break Major
League Baseball's color barrier that had segregated the sport for
more than 50 years. Jackie Robinson was not only a skilled baseball
player, he was an excellent all-around athlete. At UCLA, Robinson
became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports:
Baseball, football, basketball and track.
attending UCLA, Robinson briefly served in the U.S. Army, and after
receiving an honorable discharge, he played one season in Negro
Baseball League in 1945. Two years later in 1947, Robinson was
approached by the Brooklyn Dodgers about joining their franchise.
When he donned their uniform, he not only became the first black
player in Major League Baseball since the sport was segregated in
1889, he pioneered the integration in professional sports in America.
Through his integration, Robinson courageously challenged the racism
that existed in both the north and the south in America at that time.
At the end of Robinson's rookie season with the Dodgers, he won the
National League batting title (.342) on his way to earning the
league's Rookie of the Year and MVP honors.
was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 and was inducted
into UCLA's Hall of Fame in 1984.
April 15, 1997, exactly 50 years after he broke the color barrier in
Major League Baseball, the entire nation honored his legacy.
Robinson's No. 42 jersey number was retired league-wide, the first
and only player to earn this honor. That same day, President Bill
Clinton paid tribute to Robinson at the New York Mets' Shea Stadium
in a special ceremony. Robinson was also honored by the United States
Postal Service that year with a commemorative postage stamp.
Robinson's life and legacy will continue to be remembered as one of
the most important in American history.
Jackie Robinson Award Finalists
Taylore Cherry
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Joey Gallo
.471 with 25 home runs and 76 RBI; 1.12
ERA with 29 strikeouts in 19 innings
Lucas Giolito
record with a 1.00 ERA, 78 strikeouts in 70.33 innings
C.J. Hinojosa
.405 with 17 home runs, 61 RBI, a .461 on-base percentage at 12
stolen bases
Lance McCullers
.422 with 7 home runs and 24 RBI; 2.02
ERA with 79 strikeouts in 52 innings
Duane Underwood
.361 with 5 home runs and 20 RBI; 6-1
record with a 2.32 ERA
Nick Williams
.537 with 13 home runs, 30 RBI, a .627 on-base percentage and 14
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Trey Williams
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Tortoise Run After Mario is an exciting game in which your mission is to help the tortoise get to the exit in each level by solving the puzzles.
Slime Run Away game features a total of 25 stages. Guide the slimes escape from the castle by moving and complete missions in this game.
In Batman Cave Run game, Batman is stuck in the cave and you must help him escape from it by jumping
Home Run Hitter is a baseball game. Hit the ball with as much accuracy as possible to win the most important competition concerning baseball in the United States
Little Red Riding Hood arrived to her grandmother house and look what she found... the Big Bad Wolf. Help little red riding hood to run away from it.
Play the free online game Mafia Run Game - A rival gang is threatening your territory and you must find them with the car and get rid of them without alarm.
Runner Bot is a free online Action game. You task is to escape from the mechanic invaders by running as fast as possible
Play Run ninja run 3. This game will test your skills and reflexes. Run, jump and slay dangerous enemies before the warriors manage to catch you.
Run Robert Run - Join the Adventure of Robert. You can fly, customize, and upgrade Robert's skills in this game. Have fun!
Pokemon Run is a fun game that can be played on any device. Pikachu has lost in an unknown area near Lavanda Town. He needs your help to find a way out.
Tortoise Run After Mario is an exciting game in which your mission is to help the tortoise get to the exit in each level by solving the puzzles.


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Jeff Saunders necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 323 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
We are Switzerfilm. Fun!! Young. Happy. Energetic. ULTRA creative. Full of innovation. Professional. But most importantly, absolutely love what we do. Although we feel the best way to learn and understand us is through our work, I will try my best to describe us. We are 5 young professionals, that have found a niche through a completely different style of shooting weddings and corporate photography and video. We want our brand/logo to represent not only the revolutionary creativity and passion behind our work, but US. We are 5, fun people that love what we do. So both of these would like to be presented in the design.
Here is our mission Statement: Our lives, our passions, our imagery; this is what defines Switzerfilm. Combining untouched creativity with unmatched professionalism--we strive everyday to push the boundaries of traditional photography and film. Besides the individual talents of each member on our team and cutting-edge technology, the most important factor to our craft is our customers. The relationships we build and friendships we make, are the number one factor in the continuing growth and success of Switzerfilm. Our abilities to truly connect with our customers, is what makes our final product shine. We love what we do. We hope that our work conveys this.
Our Target Audience would be 20-30's Female and Male. Our logo will be primarily be for our wedding market, but it should appeal to our corporate clients as well. Our corporate clients appreciate our youth and energy so we don't want the typical stuffy corporate look but we would still like this to look professional. We would like to appeal to stylish, high-end, modern fun brides.
Most important: We are looking for switzerfilm to be in a clean modern font along an icon to be used in all our branding. We would like the icon to be a very simple but fun symbol that can be easily placed on photos. It would be nice if people could recognise us just by our 'symbol'. But just keep in mind: clean, simple, classy, modern and fun!:)
This is a great example:
Cool, sleek, simple, fun!
Love the element of nature in there. How cute and creative!
Love this logo, how beautiful! Delicate and lovely but still works for corporate. This is a great example of what we want :)
Clean and classic.
- We want this to represent not only are fun, creative, innovative style of work as a company, but also represent us as a team. Half of the reason to our success is US as a team. We make it fun for our clients and they love the experience of working with us, this should be represented in the brand/logo design please:).
- Our website currently is a black backdrop it would be good for this to matchup. I don't want your creative vision to be interrupted over this color demand. So please send your best, but keep in mind the black backdrop of our website is something that we will need to work with.
- We do not want any type of film strip, photography, cameras, in the logo.
-Please review our work, Facebook page, and Pics. This will really give you a good definition of us!
VERY IMPORTANT, please review. LInks to US:
Video: http://vimeo.com/8827237
Photo: http://vimeo.com/10416468
Corporate Video: http://vimeo.com/11143425
Facebook (3000+) fans internationally:
Website: Switzerfilm.com
- Have fun with this, bring your best creativity!
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All right, I'm way late in getting to the Yale study on discrimination that everybody was talking about last week, but it's still worth a mention.
The hook most media outlets have been using is "weight discrimination is more common than racial discrimination," which irritates me, because it plays into the "fat is the last acceptable prejudice" fallacy. So let's make sure we don't have any of that here. But let's at least talk about this:
Losing out on a job or a scholarship, being refused a bank loan, getting poorer service in a restaurant, receiving inferior medical care, and being harassed by police were among the inequities listed by overweight people responding to a national survey whose results appear in the journal Obesity.
That's one of those things where my response is simultaneously, "No shit, Sherlock" and "Thank Maude someone outside the fatosphere is finally saying it." I never quite know how to feel about those.
Here's the most exciting part:
Instead [of an increase in weight explaining the increase in weight-based discrimination] the authors point to media reports and the weight-loss business. Both frame obesity as a matter of personal responsibility requiring individual solutions, they say, citing other studies.
"Attributions about personal responsibility for obesity, whether perpetuated by media coverage or by diet industry marketing, could potentially contribute to higher levels of weight bias and perceived discrimination." they write.
The authors call for national action to reduce weight discrimination.
I'm kind of stunned that a bunch of researchers not only noticed that discrimination against fat people exists, they correctly identified a major cause of it. (Did hell freeze over while I was neglecting the blog last week?) I am so fucking sick of the phrase "personal responsibility," which always seems to be used by people who want to justify their prejudices, so I LOVE that they identify that phrase–and the thinking behind it–as the hate-fueling horseshit it is.
And that, I might add, is why this blog continues to work toward busting the myth that all fat people eat non-stop and never exercise. Sure, some fat people do, and they deserve the same respect as any other human beings, but as long as the culture keeps insisting that fatness is a failure of "personal responsibility," I'm going to keep screaming that there are fat people who live "healthy lifestyles," and thin people who live "unhealthy lifestyles" (see below for more on that odious framing) and you just can't know how much "personal responsibility" any given person is taking by looking at them. So, you know, maybe you should shut the fuck up about "personal responsibility."
Getting people to shut up is only a band-aid, of course, since the ultimate goal is getting everyone to take "personal responsibility" for making the world a kinder, more compassionate place. But you gotta start somewhere.
Speaking of phrases I hate, please check out Debra Sapp-Yarwood–known as DebraSY over at Big Fat Blog–going after the word "lifestyle" in a column for the Kansas City Star. (She reports that her suggested headline was "Why I Hate the Word Lifestyle and You Should too"–so naturally, they replaced that with a headline that makes no sense whatsoever.) Debra's among the tiny percentage of people who've maintained a substantial weight loss for over five years, yet she is smart enough to know that doesn't automatically mean "You can, too!"
Healthy lifestyle is often code language for the opposite of "fat." It presents a false choice: If you choose a healthy lifestyle, you won't be fat. If you are fat you must have chosen the unhealthy, fat lifestyle. How insulting!
Amen, Debra.
And now, Shapelings, over to you. Do you hate the phrases "personal responsibility" and "healthy lifestyle" as much as I do? And have you got any others? Rant away.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 176 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
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We are the world leader in business automation and web integration software for the art business. Currently we work with over 1000 art galleries and 10's of thousands of artists around the world. Our branding and web presence has not kept up with the times and it needs a radical face-lift (we're programmers - not designers!). We currently host over 400 art gallery web sites, as well as a major online art marketplace that is the fastest growing art destination on the web.
Art professionals world-wide. Our primary markets are are gallery owner/operators; museum directors; professional artists and art collectors and enthusiasts.
We need a family of logos that instantly communicate our focus upon the art industry AND that we are a leading technology company. The logos will serve as the foundation for our redesign of all web sites and marketing materials. The logos need to be clean and inspire confidence; reflecting our leadership position in the marketplace.
We will need the logo to be uses as an icon as well as icon+text
Go wild. We are not tied to any color scheme or icon. Please no clipart or stock images.
The family of logos include:
Masterpiece Solutions - the parent company
Masterpiece Manager - art gallery software
Masterpiece Artist - artist management software
Masterpiece Online - our online gallery and artist marketplace
We made a failed internal attempt at this last year. See attachment. Mona Lisa has been consistent in our past, but not required for the future. If you use it we would prefer more abstraction.
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We have no press agent, we normally avoid publicity and editorial requests, and we have enough to do just keeping up with all of our client demand and orders for our work, and constantly building our human organization, skills, research and extreme hand technologies to stay ahead in the race for innovation and excellence at the Paris avant-garde collections level. As such, we have no press samples, and when media people and stylists ask us to "loan" our Paris prototypes for fashion shoots we always respectfully decline.
But last May, when Katie Dufort, the impeccable Assistant to the Creative Director at British Vogue contacted us for a shoot that was being planned by Mario Testino and Lucinda Chambers (Creative Director at British Vogue) for the September 2017 issue, and we realized the people contacting us were real, and were really serious about the project and pieces from our 'secrets' AW17 Paris collection, we decided take a risk and make an exception. At great expense and risk (we were already in production for AW17 and needed the prototypes for the production samples), we sent our prototypes to Vogue House in London where they were to be taken out into the fields of Cornwall and shot by Mario Testino for what we felt might be a major editorial. Big changes were going down at British Vogue. In April, news hit that Editor in Chief Alexandra Shulman was out, and Edward Enninful, the first black editor-in-chief in the history of Conde Nast, was coming in from W in September. The prototype pieces all came back a week later without too much of a hitch, we were told the shoot well, our clothes were used in it, and we thanked Katie and the Vogue UK staff profusely for not losing or damaging any of the prototypes.
Then a little bit later, the news that more heads were rolling at British Vogue came out, Lucinda Chambers was ousted after many years as the magazine's creative director. A long-time collaborator with Mario Testino, it was Lucinda Chambers who styled the Cornwall shoot and requested our clothes. The ousting was not smooth and Chambers soon penned a controversial article in Vestoj that got industry-wide publicity and created a huge rift between her, Conde Nast, and a lot of the fashion media industry powers-that-be. At Cavarzere, we suddenly felt like there was a very good chance that the editorial might be snuffed, another victim of battle in the ongoing game of fashion thrones. After not hearing from the magazine for several months, I tried to contact Katie Dufort hoping that as Lucinda Chamber's chief assistant, her position was not changed either, and queryied whether the controversy over the leadership of the magazine had affected the publication plans for the editorial. Thankfully she was still there and able to explain to me that although the new Editor in Chief Edward Enninful was starting his post in September, the September issue was already in the can and in effect, would be the last one published under the old regime-- a historic final edition from Alexandra Shulman and Lucinda Chambers... with our work from Cavarzere somehow in it as well, beautifully photographed by Mario Testino. Wow, sometimes you can get lucky. With many thanks and appreciation to everyone we provide a rundown of the coverage below, Cheers Geoffrey & the team
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Oil Search Ltd, the Australian partner of ExxonMobil Corp. in a major gas-export project in Papua New Guinea, Tuesday booked a 13% fall in annual net profit after it more than doubled spending on exploration and suffered several shutdowns at its oil facilities.
Net profit for the year to De. 31 fell to US$175.8 million from US$202.5 million a year earlier. The result beat the US$161 million average of six analysts' forecasts compiled by Dow Jones Newswires.
Oil Search's production was affected by the shutdown of the Kumul Marine Terminal in Papua New Guinea in late July after an oil sheen was spotted on the surface of the water. The company checked the facility, which has since reopened, but was unable to find the source of the oil leak.
In a statement, the Sydney-based company said the shutdown of the Kumul terminal had led to 400,000 barrels of oil equivalent being deferred, although overall production of 6.38 million barrels of oil equivalent for the year as a whole was within its guidance range.
Oil Search said it spent US$144.0 million on exploring for new reserves of oil and natural gas in the year, up from US$60.6 million in 2011. In addition to its operations in Papua New Guinea, the company has assets in Iraqi Kurdistan and Yemen and last month began drilling in Tunisia.
Oil Search is betting on Asian demand for clean-burning fuels to remain strong as it transforms itself from an oil producer into a company that generates a larger proportion of its revenues and earnings from natural gas. It owns 29% of the PNG LNG project in Papua New Guinea, which aims to produce 6.9 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas a year.
Oil Search said PNG LNG was 75% complete at the end of last year and remains on track to deliver its first cargo of liquefied natural gas to customers in China, Taiwan and Japan in 2014. Construction costs for PNG LNG jumped by about 20% to US$19 billion in late November because of foreign exchange fluctuations, landowner disputes and torrential rain.
"As previously indicated, the capital cost increase is expected to be funded 70% by debt and 30% by equity. Discussions are currently underway to secure the US$1.5 billion of supplemental debt that is provided for under the existing project finance agreement, to fund the 70% debt component," managing director Peter Botten said in a statement.
Oil Search said it expects to produce between 6.2 million and 6.7 million barrels of oil equivalent in the current fiscal year. It forecast capital expenditure this year in a range of US$1.93 billion to US$2.1 billion, up from US$1.86 billion in 2012.


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Nevitt supporters help soon-to-be Auditor Tim O'Brien retire debt
Denver Auditor-elect Tim O'Brien shocked the city's political establishment when he beat City Councilman Chris Nevitt by 6 percentage points on May 5.
Now several of Nevitt's supporters are helping O'Brien pay back $40,000 in loans he made to boost his campaign when big-money supporters were hard to find. Lawyers, business types and lobbyists are joining union officials in hosting a Wednesday fundraiser at 5:30 p.m. at a Cherry Creek North restaurant.
The list of hosts includes attorney Steve Farber, businessman Walter Isenberg and lobbyists Josh Hanfling and R.D. Sewald. Also co-hosting the event — donating up to the maximum $2,000 to O'Brien — are the UA Rocky Mountain Council No. 5, Plumbers Local No. 3, and the Colorado Building and Construction Trades Council.
All of those individuals and unions gave to Nevitt's well-financed campaign, often heavily, in the race to succeed three-term Auditor Dennis Gallagher. Also joining Wednesday's fundraiser for O'Brien as a host is former Mayor Wellington Webb.


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MIT's Ellerman discusses new report on Europe's emissions trading scheme
As the European Union begins the second phase of its emissions trading scheme (ETS), what are the lessons that the United States can apply to its own carbon trading program? During today's OnPoint, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Denny Ellerman, discusses his new report, "The European Union's Emissions Trading System in Perspective." Ellerman assesses the success of the ETS thus far and explains which areas the United States should focus on for improvement. Ellerman discusses some of the key issues with the first phase of the ETS and explains how the United States can minimize the price volatility of carbon credits that Europe experienced early on.


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Ducks at Kilspindie partners with The Scotch Malt Whisky Society - 23rd November, 2012
Ducks at Kilspindie is thrilled to announce that it has been welcomed a partner bar of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society – the world's foremost malt whisky club. Ducks is now an official 'home from home' for Society members and whisky lovers alike where they can enjoy an extensive range of the Society's exclusive cask whiskies in the comfortable and relaxed atmosphere of Ducks' new whisky snug.
Open to everyone, guests at Ducks will have the unique opportunity, initially, to sample sixteen of the Society's distinctive single casks which are usually only available to members and their guests, making it the premier destination for any true malt whisky lover. The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has worked closely with bar staff at Ducks to ensure that they can share the Society's vast knowledge with their customers, providing an authentic Scotch Malt Whisky Society experience.
Ducks will also be hosting exclusive Society tasting dinners, where meals will be served based on their ability to compliment each whisky, they are also happy to arrange private whisky tastings for groups of two to eighty people.
Commenting on the venture, Mark Van Der Vijver from The Scotch Malt Whisky Society said:
"Ducks is synonymous with superb food, drink and service in the heart of East Lothian and with their hand-selected range of SMWS single cask whiskies, they have a rare and exclusive string in their bow. Malcolm and the team are now able to offer local malt enthusiasts and Society members an ever-changing variety of SMWS whiskies across their bar, award-winning restaurant and private events."
Malcolm Duck added:
"This is massively exciting for us at Ducks. Members of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society can now use Ducks as their own wee bar, whilst non members will also be able to sample these one off single barrel bottlings. We will be starting out with sixteen different bottles, including one from Japan. We go live on Monday 19th November, so come in and see us."
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ClairTII brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 105 Designs von 29 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I learn online is an online learning portal that users subscribe to to watch & learn video lessons in a variety of subjects (including music, language and fitness etc). We want a fantastic logo that conveys our brand image.
I Learn Online
I learn online is an online learning portal that users subscribe to to watch & learn video lessons in a variety of subjects (inc music, language and fitness etc).
We want a logo that is strong, bold and simple, that conveys our brand.Key words to think about when designing include internet, learning, online, video etc.
The logo will initially be used for our website, but will eventually beused for stationery etc. It would be ideal if the logo could be used onboth a white and coloured/black background. We would also like theimage in the logo to be able to be separated from the text (possiblefor use as a button on the website).
For our style think http://www.apple.com(clean, simple, web2.0). Other good examples of the style we likeincludes mozilla.com, twitter.com, mosso.com etc. We don't really haveany colour preferences.
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- Image associated with text to convey our brand (internet, learning, online, video etc)
- Image available in a range of formats (jpeg, EPS, photoshop etc)
- As long as you are creative, we don't mind
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J&G sales has them.. just make sure you request that there is no rust..on them.. B2B
just orderd a "good" psl kit from copes and the page said xxxx and mags. could not find mags on web sight will be needing some soon. muttman
J&G sales has them.. just make sure you request that there is no rust..on them.. B2B
Cfs has the $9 rusty ones. Orderd 3 @ $29 total. No hits on the cc yet. J/g has them 4 $20+ ea so I'll whate and see. Have read that cfs rusty ones are bad looking but work, that's all I need. Muttman
just order about 20 PSL mags.............
Damn Bluejack, you make me soooo jealous!!!! LOL.
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
did not order from J&G , I was place order from other place, $20 pre mags, I will let you know more later
Ok blue,
What other place? The 3 rusty ones I got from cfs (2 working and one spair parts) will work for range mags but need at least one good one.muttman
these I got had some rust , not much but not as bad as I see in pic. will post some picture later , it's shooter mags for sure
i ordered 10 from j&g earlier this year ,around june or july i think that was when it was.
they were perfect no rust ,no pits. also this was after there 1st batch ran out the early part of this year, these were the back ordered shipment.
buying up all the guns and ammo i can just to PISS OFF the douche bag liberals


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text: Dubai - Pakistan cricket officials were fuming over the second Test ball-tampering row which saw South Africa's Faf Du Plessis hit with a small fine, claiming punishment would have been more severe had a sub-continent player been involved.VIDEO: Faf's ball-tampering?Du Plessis was fined 50 percent of his match fee after admitting tampering with the ball during the third day of the second Test on Friday.South Africa, who won by an innings and 92 runs on Saturday to level the two-match series 1-1, were also penalised five runs.But Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairperson Najam Sethi said he will protest the fine with the International Cricket Council (ICC)."The PCB is writing a letter to the ICC seeking an explanation of the inconsistency by the match referee in application of the ball-tampering rule to Afridi vs Faf," tweeted Sethi.He was referring to Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi's ban for the same offence in Australia in 2010.The 29-year-old du Plessis is the first South African to be charged with ball-tampering.Former Pakistan players also blasted the game's governing body for taking what they saw as overly lenient action against du Plessis, who was spotted rubbing the ball near to a zip on his trousers."I am surprised at the decision," former Pakistan paceman Shoaib Akhtar said.Akhtar, who was banned for two one-dayers and fined 75 percent of his match fee for tampering during a tri-series in Sri Lanka in 2003, said Pakistan have "no say" in the ICC."We can't raise our voice, so this will go on like this," he added."How can you give such a lenient decision on such hard evidence. He should have been banned for six months at least and the captain Graeme Smith should also have been punished," said former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif."If you look at the rules, they (ICC) ban a captain for a slow over rate but not on ball tampering done in front of the whole world."I am sure had it been a Pakistani or a sub-continent player he would have been banned."But another former captain, Aamir Sohail, believed the punishment was fair."I don't think it's lenient," said Sohail. "The punishment is within the rules and since Du Plessis did not contest the charges you have to show some leniency."South African team manager Mohammed Moosajee said the team accepted the decision which was announced earlier in the day by match referee David Boon."As a team we proceeded not to contest it... because as per the ICC regulations a full hearing could lead to more severe punitive measures which could include a heftier fine or even a match ban," he said.Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq said the matter was between the ICC and South Africa."I think it has nothing to do with us," said Misbah. "It's a matter totally between match officials and their team, it's none of our business."South African vice-captain AB de Villiers backed du Plessis on Friday, saying: "Honestly, we're not the team that scratches the ball."We play in a fair manner. Obviously we want to swing the ball as much as you can and try to get it to reverse. We don't cheat, it's as simple as that."