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France just keeps building on its reputation of hypocritical racial intolerance. Right on the heels of the controversy surrounding the Miss Black France pageant in Paris, news has come out that Steve Harvey's highly successful film "Think Like a Man" has been banned in the country because of the lack of diversity in its cast. Global Voices exposed the issue rather pointedly, writing:
"Surprising as it may be, the answer lies in the fact that the film has an all-black cast. French cinema is often pointed at for not fairly displaying all components of the country's multiethnic population. Although the recent success of the movie Les Intouchables, which earned French African actor Omar Sy the Cesar award for Best Actor in 2012, caused great pride and hope among French nationals from Africa and the Caribbean, it was not to be the turning point for a deep and lasting change."
Much like the argument that the Miss Black France pageant was exclusionary in its celebration of black beauty, a note from the Facebook page of "Negro News" reposted on Martinican blog People Bo Kay, suggests that same thinking is at play with the ban on Harvey's film.
"The French state has had a sociopolitical strategy which favors interracial relationships rather than valuing communities," the post reads. "In the comedy 'Think like a Man', the focus is on black couples."
Interesting that Gabrielle Union's on-screen romance with Jerry Ferrara didn't meet the country's unspoken interracial quota. It seems the goal is to flip the script on the black community's cries of disenfranchisement by arguing that all-black efforts do the same thing, without any regard for why such all-black projects exist. Steve Harvey isn't the only black contemporary film that's been banned either. The note also adds:
"Black actor and producer Tyler Perry's movies are never scheduled in any French movie theaters or are only released in DVDs, even though he has been used to leading the US box-office, as with 'Why did I get Married' and 'For Colored Girls'. The French society acts hypocritically, when it refuses to show movies from black producers who earn millions from conveying a positive message to the African diaspora through their films."
Other bloggers suggest that beyond the racist undertone of the ban, the French people don't believe that a movie with an all-black cast could actually lead the box office. That sounds awfully similar to expectations here in the U.S. before the film knocked The Hunger Games out of its four-week run at the #1 spot and brought in double the revenue that was expected. If the success of Tyler Perry's movies hasn't sparked a change in France's thinking, it's not likely "Think Like a Man" will either. Unfortunately, it seems films like Les Intouchables will continue to be outliers as long as the country keeps pushing for a more nationalist approach to country unity without acknowledging that all French people aren't allotted the same freedom of expression.


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Hi! I'm Bart Bonte, a Belgian independent game designer and bontegames.com is where I blog about new interesting browser and mobile games. My own games are all in the left column (or at the bottom of this page on mobile). More info about me and my games on bartbonte.com.
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December 19, 2007
a bonte games flashback: the bonte room 2
Subject of this flashback post is the bonte room 2, which went online back in June 2006. Of course this was a follow up to the bonte room 1, with the same simple room layout and the introduction of the notoriously squeaking parrot. Let's move on to the walkthrough, so you'll definitely have to stop reading here if you haven't played the game before and don't want me to spoil the fun. Squeak!
Take a left turn and grab the coin that's on top of the second parrot painting. Take another left turn and grab the ruler from the blackboard. Take another left turn and notice there's something inside the fan. Unscrew the four screws of the fan using the coin, remove the grid from the fan and block the fan using the ruler so you can grab the chipcard without cutting your fingers. Insert the chipcard into the slot of the peanuts machine and push the flashing button to get some peanuts. You could feed these to the parrot, but the parrot will just eat them ...
Take a look at the code on the blackboard: 1,2,3underlined,2,1underlined. Notice there are 3 white and 1 red button on the fireplace. With the blackboard code you can light the fireplace, oh yes you can: the 1,2,3 digits refer to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd white button on the fireplace, the underlining refers to the fact that you have to combine the white button with the red button (with the red button you can make the white buttons stay lit). So, to light the fireplace: press first white button (1), second white button (2), red button and third white button (3underlined), red button again otherwise the next button will stay lit, second white button (2), red button and first white button (1underlined). The fireplace should be full of flames!
Now put the grid of the fan on top of the fire in the fireplace. Makes a nice grill, not? You could grill the peanuts on the fireplace now and feed them to the bird, but the parrot will again just eat them, we're still missing something to make the peanuts really tasty :)
Grab the ruler that's still blocking the fan and use it to reach the niche under the fireplace: you'll find a piece of metal wire. Try to stab the cactus with the wire: it's too blunt. Put the wire into the fan, it'll slice the wire sharp. Stab the cactus with it to produce some delicious cactus milk :) Put the peanuts in the cactus milk for that extra flavour :) now roast them on the fireplace and feed them to the parrot. He'll so love his cactus flavoured roasted peanuts, that he'll throw you a key out of his cage! Of course the key opens the door!
As a bonus you can go and watch the parrot squeaking at you as you click it :)
I hope you enjoy these bonte games flashbacks and please feel free to leave your comments! I'll keep on flashing back in the next weeks but of course there'll be new bonte games as well!
71 comments:
Thnx Bart :D
I love Your Games!
Make more Room Escape games ;D
- 19 December 2007 at 20:54
Mr. Bart,
i can not figure out for the life of me the silly grain thing. I know there is a video on how to solve it...but i still can't figure it out...i swear during the first fuzz there is a step missing...any info would be great!!
- 20 December 2007 at 02:52
- Bart said...
I think you are talking about the Chicken Grow game, right? Well I still need to a flashback on that one, but to help you with the grains, why don't you have a look over here:
- 20 December 2007 at 09:00
how are you serpose to get the grill on the fire place
- 22 February 2008 at 22:46
wt was really a pain in da ass, was da fire place, da combination was like wow, or am jus too stupid :D
- 11 April 2008 at 16:04
very good indeed.. i had a good 33 minutes with this
- 7 September 2008 at 00:31
when i was playing the game i was stuck on the fire place i tried the code but it did'nt work it said 1,2and3 underlined and 2and1 were underline but when i played it only 3 and the 1 on the end were underlined so i played antother game.
- 2 November 2008 at 19:01
- Bart said...
Hope this is clear:
To light the fire place:
- press first white button
- press second white button
- press red button
- press third white button
- press red button
- press second white button
- press red button
- press first white button
- 12 November 2008 at 15:26
I got everything right, but I'm stuck with trying to stop the fan. The ruler doesn't work, and neither does the wire...=/
- 16 November 2008 at 10:58
i cant put the roasted peanuts in the cactus milk!!
- 31 December 2008 at 00:16
the fireplace cheat on the parrot game doesnt work 4 me :-( LOL
- 1 February 2009 at 21:35
I cant turn to left or right, stuck in first 'room' though I can interact with other things in the screen. Flash player 10 ;/
- 9 February 2009 at 16:07
- Bart said...
It works for me in flash player 10.
You can turn around in the room by clicking the very left and very right...
- 9 February 2009 at 16:17
i cant find the hole to put the card in
- 11 April 2009 at 13:03
im bored =]
- 11 April 2009 at 21:51
how do get the grill on the fire place
- 22 April 2009 at 07:35
i dont get the code for the fireplace im so confused
- 25 May 2009 at 23:54
I have chicken growing issues. :(
- 12 June 2009 at 01:53
How do you get the grill on the fireplace??
- 14 June 2009 at 04:45
- SrahTheAwesome said...
Awesome game. The fireplace was tricky, but I love your room escape games! Make more!
- 16 August 2009 at 17:36
Dear Bart,
I really love playing the game doggnation. But now I don't kwow how to play level 44.Maybe you can help me?
- 29 September 2009 at 21:10
the ansver at the BONTE room 2 game when you have to leave a code at the grill but i dosent work
- 23 November 2009 at 19:00
Hello, Bart! I need with the fireplace! The code doesn't work! I have tried everything!
- 30 January 2010 at 06:45
i need help on youre fire place game my peanuts wont go in cactuse milk please leave step by step instructins
- 14 February 2010 at 19:22
answer do not roast nuts till after you put in cactuse milk
- 14 February 2010 at 19:24
im not sure if its only on mah computer but, if you highlight from where it says 'So, to light the fireplace:' to the first perenthesisand right before the second one, and keep holding the left button on your mouse, the letters move!! >.>
- 27 May 2010 at 01:01
If you feed the parrot cactus flavor roasted peanuts when you already have a key... he gives you another!
And another and another and another...
It's just that you only see one in your inventory. :)
- 20 July 2010 at 21:56
Edit: You can only use the above tactic once. :( If you try it after you have two keys, the peanut machine says you already have a peanut.
- 23 July 2010 at 01:07
- Unknown said...
I paricularly liked the doghop game and the clue to opening the safe.The part with the vending machine seemed highly unintuitive to me.
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- 14 August 2010 at 10:13
Mr. Bonte, please help me with getting the wire out! I have tried everything! I am using the ruler but it still won't come out. What exactly do I have to do? Please advise.
- 10 December 2011 at 22:43
- Jennie said...
Hey Bart! My boyfriend just got me addicted to flash games, or so he thinks...It was Factory Balls that got me addicted and then I found "sugar, sugar", found out it was by you and looked up your website. :D
I figured out how to escape from Room 2, but no matter where I click, the fire will not accept my peanuts, even when they are highlighted. :'( Maybe there is a way to fix that?
Can't wait to play more games!!!!
- 13 December 2011 at 07:24
- chimney repairs said...
This game sounds fun, I'll be sure to try this out. Thanks.
- 15 May 2012 at 08:09
that game was so cool i want you to make more
- 28 May 2012 at 00:20
How do you get the fan blocked by the ruler?
- 26 June 2012 at 02:48
my parrot just sits there after eating the cactus peanuts. isnt it supposed to throw keys at me?
- 14 December 2012 at 22:52
- Emily said...
The fireplace code doesn't work,HELP!!!
- 29 December 2012 at 06:13
For anyone who scrolled to the bottom of the comment list in 2013 here is a walkthrough on how to solve the game: When you get on the game go to your left. Get the coin that is located on the second picture of the parrot. Make another left. Note the code on the chalk board. 1 2 3underlined 2 1underlined. Grab the ruler which is located on the chalkboard. Make a left. You see that there is something stuck in the fan. The fan is screwed on. What do you have with you that might unscrew the fan? A coin! Equip your coin and make sure that you are clicking on the screws. If you do it should have a message that says: Nice one! I can unscrew this screw with a coin. After you get all of the screws taken off, click on the fan and you will get a grate. You see what looks like a card. What do you have that might be able to stop the fan? A ruler! Stick the ruler in the fan. You just click anywhere on the fan and it will go in. But if click on the card with the ruler a message will pop up. Grab the card. And take the ruler back. Make a right. If you have tried putting a coin in the slot by the blinking light on the peanut machine then you know a chip card goes there. Take your card and click on the slot. Now press the blinking light. I will give you peanuts! make a right. Now remember the code for the fireplace? 1 2 3 underlined 2 1 underlined You use it on the fireplace to light it up. Note that the fireplace has a red button and 3 white buttons. Those are the buttons you will use to enter the code. Now enter the code like this:
-click 1st white button
-click 2nd white button
-click red button
-click 3rd white button
-click red button
-click 2nd white button
-click red button
-click 1st white button
Now you should have a fire. Take your metal grate and put it in the fire place where you see little slots sticking out. Now take your ruler. Find the gray are under neath the fire place. See the black line? With your ruler equiped click the black line, you should get a wire. Make a right twice. If you equip the wire and poke the cactus it says the wire is to dull. What do you think could sharpen it? The fan! Click the wire, then the fan. Now the wire is sharp. Now you can poke the cactus. It should squirt out milk. If you haven't roasted the nuts yet then click on them then the milk. If you have roasted them then follow these steps:
-make a left
-click the nuts
- click the bird
-make a right twice
-click the blinking light on the peanut machine
-make a left
-put the peanuts in the milk
Now you have peanuts in cactus milk. Make a right twice. Click the peanuts, then the grate. Click the grate again to get the peanuts. Make a right. Feed the parrot the nuts. It will drop a key to the door. Viola! You escaped!
- 10 March 2013 at 23:37
- Anonymous said...
- 3 May 2013 at 03:27
i cant put the roasted peanuts in the milk, it just says "it's a puddle of cactus milk!"
- 2 June 2013 at 08:49
AshT: maybe you're clicking on the wrong area.
- 6 June 2013 at 23:06
- hi said...
Can you make a solution for Loose The Moose??
- 23 June 2013 at 19:36
- hi said...
can u make a solution for Loose The Moose
- 23 June 2013 at 19:37
- Bart said...
Yes I should still make a Loose the moose walkthrough. Here's already a text walkthrough:
Go to the coatrack, take the hat, shake the coat multiple times to get the key and the coin.
Examine the painting, you must make the safe box resemble the colored sections of the painting, this will get you the CD.
Use the glove to take out the lightbulb from the lamp and put it in the desk lamp.
Click on the cord above the keyboard to drop it down and plug it in: you need a disk.
Use the coin to buy a gumball and place it in front of the mouse hole.
When the mouse comes out to get it, trap it under the hat and block his mousehole with the cd before lifting up the hat.
The mouse will go under the couch, click the pillows to get him to move and play with the computer cord to get him up on the desk.
Move the lamp so it is the lowest position.
Move the antlers so they're open and the little parts of it are all open (pointed away from his head). This will open the moose's eyes.
Then do the exact opposite (everything moved in) and the moose will give you the disk.
Put the disk in the computer, the mouse will jump to the lamp. Fling the mouse with the lamp.
Get the bulb out of the desklamp and put it back in the hanging fixture.
The mouse will jump on the moose, leaving a crack in the wall.
Repeat the procedures to get the mouse back up and jump into the crack in the wall.
Get another coin and gumball, trade the gumball for the key with the mouse...
- 29 June 2013 at 10:51
Hi mr bart, i love your games but i just can't do the fireplace sequence. I did it right but it didn't work. Can u help?=)
- 9 February 2014 at 09:23
hi bart ,I actually solved it. I'd just like to know could u possibly make a factory balls 5? I love those a LOT. thanks.=)
- 9 February 2014 at 09:32
- Bart said...
Cheers! Well maybe I'll make FB5 one day, but first I have some other games to make on my list :)
- 10 February 2014 at 09:38
Hi mr bart I'd like to know what game systems do u use to make your games
Thanks =)
- 5 April 2014 at 05:34
hi mr bart just to let u know i'm the same person who asked u about fb5 and also with the game system (btw please reply)
just a random thing i thought u might want to know =)
- 5 April 2014 at 06:48
- Bart said...
I'm using Adobe Flash, cheers!
- 7 April 2014 at 11:56
Hi mr bart it's me again. I decided to play one of your other games :fields of logic and i can't seem to pass a level. Do u have a solution or walkthrough ?
:)(FYI I changed my smiley faces):)
- 15 April 2014 at 04:56
- Bart said...
No there's no solution online.
What level are you having problems with? Cheers!
- 15 April 2014 at 11:09
Hi Mr bart. I'm stuck on level 4 (fields of logic just in case).
:)P.S. I'm really dumb :) Please reply
Anonymous P.S.s. I'm the same person!!!!:)
- 24 April 2014 at 05:28
Hi mr Bart turns out ifigured it out. Sorry:)
But just in case please write back with the whole solution.:) Sorry to waste your time:)
P.S.I'm the same person!!!!!
P.S.S. never would have guessed that would u?
- 24 April 2014 at 05:33
I am confused over the fireplace. Are the lights supposed to stay lit?
- 28 May 2014 at 05:04
- Bart said...
No: press white button 1, white button 2, red button, white button 3, red button, white button 2, red button, white button 1
- 8 June 2014 at 08:47
Mr Bart,I've been waiting for the solution for ageeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss. Can u plz type it up? P.S U haven't commented back yet. :(
- 16 September 2014 at 10:56
- Bart said...
Oops sorry, but here it is, the Fields of Logic walktrough!
1: Just click all of the screens
2: Just click all the screens again
3: Click the screens that don't have cows
4: Click all the dark green screens, then the light green screens
5: Make an x with all the screens
6: Bring all the screens upfront and click on them again.
7: If you have the cow showing turn the screen that's one closer to you, flip it, and repeat until the cow is at the front
8: You have to click the screens in order. (x equals turned)
9: Make a chess board crisscross by turning the screens
10: Complete the puzzle
11: Click furthest center screen, then furthest right and furthest left screens, click on center screen, lastly click on the nearest center screen
12: Turn all screen to blue
13: Click the center screen, click the nearest right screen, click the screen located on the left side of the center screen, click the most left screen, click on the furthest center screen, click on the furthest right screen (in front of the nearest one). Now left with 2 screens, click on the further one then the nearer one.
14: Click on the nearest screen, click all the screens twice on the left and right sides, lastly click the furthest screen three times
15: Have all the screens with same color: pink
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16
Click screen 9, 12, 3, 1, 6, 15, 11, 16
- 16 September 2014 at 14:00
Hey, Bart, I'm stuck on the oven on The Bonte Room 2, even though I did what you said! :(
P.S I LOVE your games!!! I'm always playing logic games and coming on this website. I hope you can make more games (if you have time) ;)
Please answer me back soon
- 21 September 2014 at 21:40
- Bart said...
Thanks for the compliments Julianna :)
Ok, let me try to explain how to operate the oven a bit more clearly:
To turn on the fireplace:
Look at the 3 rectangular buttons on the right (#1 to #3 from left to right) and the red one on the left.
Click on #1 and then click on #2.
Click on the red button (turn on).
Click on #3.
Click on the red button again (turn off).
Click on #2.
Click on the red button (turn on).
Click on #1.
I hope this is clear now, or are you having problems with another part?
- 22 September 2014 at 10:39
- Anna Schafer said...
Let's face it: most of us don't use our dining rooms on a daily basis and to relegate such prime real estate to only the occasional dalliance seems like a waste of beautiful space.kansas city granite and quartz
- 27 September 2014 at 15:37
Thank you so much for the fields of logic solution. i completed some of the levels though.
P.S I hope i didn't waste your time
- 30 September 2014 at 04:24
- di said...
the darn bird will not drop a key, even though i fed it roasted and catus-flavored peanuts D:<
- 29 November 2014 at 18:41
I cannot put the ruler into the fan for some reason
- 24 June 2015 at 23:45
- Bart said...
Are you sure you unscrewed the 4 screws with the coin and removed the grid first? After that you can put the ruler.
- 25 June 2015 at 08:49
Wow! I completed Fields of logic in less than 5 minutes!!!
- 11 January 2016 at 07:05
Hey Bart, I was wondering what game engine you use to make your games. Thanks! ~Anonymous
- 3 April 2017 at 17:51
- Bart said...
I'm using Adobe Flash or Adobe Animate as it is called now :) cheers!
- 4 April 2017 at 09:46
couldn't roast the peanuts...?
- 8 May 2017 at 19:03
- Bart said...
Did you light the fireplace? A walkthrough is in the post text, cheers!
- 9 May 2017 at 09:26
how do you get the meatl grate on the fire place help with that please bart?
- 2 November 2017 at 16:57
- Bart said...
Use the coin that's on top of the second parrot painting to unscrew the screws of the metal grate before the fan.
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This lush monograph is the first major publication of Hilliard's work. Included are works from the artist's ongoing series of his father that demonstrate Hilliard's ability to tangle fact with fiction as the resulting images, underscored by the artist's wry outlook on the world, convey a distinct poignancy. Other works engage issues of intimacy, homoeroticism, and identity. The resulting scenes are as often elegiac as they are comical, always orchestrated with precision, and with a marriage of form and content that work together to immerse the viewer in the visual narrative.
"Hilliard's vision embraces the playful aspects of contemporary life as readily as its pathos." —Los Angeles Times
David Hilliard holds an MFA from and is a professor of photography at Yale University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001, and is widely collected and shown. His work has appeared in publications such as; Blind Spot; and ARTnews. He is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York; Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston; and Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta.


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lisazisa brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 92 Designs von 44 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Our company is a safe, secure online document management and storage facility. Documents and contracts are stored with "tags" that allow users with appropriate access to sort and view documents.
Initial target customers are financial, legal and corporate companies so the corporate logo needs to convey trust and security. Although we're an IT company, we need to look very "serious" due to the sensitive nature of our business.
Document Depository Corporation (DDC)
As described above, I am looking a corporate logo design that reflects the image of our new company .... and that can be used on all business communication including business cards, letterhead, powerpoint presentations and website. Trust is the word I would use most to describe that image since companies will be trusting us to safely and securely store their documents.
Eventually, company will offer consumers online storage service for personal docs such as mortgage, wills, passports, etc.
- Logo ideally should be no more than 2 colors
- Would like to include graphic or symbol
- We refer to ourselves as DDC but perhaps the name of the company should be included in the logo (what do your think?)
- Needs to look good as a grey scale image for printed docs
- Logo needs to convey TRUST and should look bold/clean and professional
- Needs to replicate well on website, business cards, letterhead, etc.
- fyi - many legal & financial firms use the color BLUE to convey trust and professionalism
- Nothing cutesy
- No usage of cartoon images
- you get the idea
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Charlie3001 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 248 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
I've been involved with the sport of triathlon for 20 years. My passion lies in the sport and everything about it. I just completed two Ironman races this season. I'm looking to create a blog that will be a focus point for the sport utilizing social media in additional to all SEO techniques to draw users in. This could potentially evolve into a website at some point. I realize that's going backwards but the way Wordpress Premium sites look these days they're almost websites in themselves.
Age-groups and professionals. Pretty much mid 20's and up. All active triathletes or those looking to get into the sport; male and female audience.
The blog title is representative of what I hope will be an all encompassing blog that covers all facets of the sport of triathlon; training, coaching, nutrition, tech, products, professionals, race calendars, everything. It will promote blog contributions from all around the world to be included in various sections. There are variations of the three sport disciplines out there for research on various coaching websites (in terms of icons to incorporate into design); typically a swimmer, biker, runner. Most are in similar formats. The wordpress premium template I'll be using will be WP Prosper. The logo should be clean and crisp but professional in nature. Bright colors would be better. I've attached a biz card I had designed for a coaching co I never implemented - for the image examples only (of the swim/bike/run icons). You can look at http://www.qt2systems.com as well; similar images. It doesn't have to utilize those; just suggestions. Water, Roads, Sweat, Bikes Running, all ideas.
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Mark Kaboly of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians wants the team to sign Byron Leftwich as a backup quarterback/tutor for Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III. Leftwich spent three years playing for Arians with the Steelers, who have expressed interest in keeping Leftwich around as Ben Roethlisberger's backup.
The Steelers are tight against the cap, though, and are still looking for free agent help at other positions. The Colts could offer Leftwich more money, although it's unclear how much they would be willing to spend to bring Leftwich to Indy.
See ya later dude, if Arians wants you that bad then have fun. That would guarantee that Charlie Batch is retained for another season. Also would open the door for someone like Troy Smith to possibly lock down the 3rd QB spot if he's up to the challenge.


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Ao Vodka Could Change Your Mind About Vodka
New brands and bottles you should know.
My personal bias toward the complex flavors and lingering finishes of brown spirits makes it difficult for me to see the value in expensive bottles of vodka. However, Suntory's newest release, Ao Vodka, has me seriously reconsidering that prejudice.
Ao is Suntory's bid to enter the top shelf vodka marketplace, despite the fact that vodka as a category isn't very popular in Japan. They've just released the juice stateside in select markets and online, hoping to build buzz and a base for the product to eventually drive sales back home. Ao gets its name from the Japanese word for blue, a term also used to describe shades of green found in nature. Landscapes of rice paddies are poetically called ao for their mingling of blue and green. The vodka is made from 100% Japanese rice and water sourced from the island of Kyushu. The rice mash is distilled in small pot stills and clarified through a bamboo filtration process.
Sipping Ao neat is a revelation. The scent is clean and crisp with the slightest hint of roasted rice and vanilla. The flavor maintains that clarity—slightly green, rice-y, and juicy with a subtle almost custardy sweetness. Finishing like a fresh breeze off the rice fields, it leaves just ghosts of the spirit to chase and watch disappear. The experience reminded me of tasting a delicious sake, carefully distilled.
Way too delicate for a vodka tonic or other strongly flavored cocktail, I tried Ao in a very dry martini with a paper thin slice of cucumber for garnish. The result is almost impossibly subtle drink, ethereal and gorgeous. This could be the perfect cocktail to pair with sushi or sashimi.
Listing at $50 for a 750 mL bottle, it's priced quite a bit higher than many of its competitors. Is Ao worth it? At the end of the day, I think I'm still not enough of a vodka guy to justify shelling out that much cash for any vodka, period. But if I were, this would be the very first bottle I'd pick up.
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Coalition airstrikes in Syria killed over 500
October 23, 2014
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Syria have killed more than 500 people since they began last month, mainly Islamic militants, activists said Thursday, as fighting flared yet again in the northern Syrian border town of Kobani.
Despite the large death toll and international intervention to aid Kurdish forces fighting to defend Kobani, Islamic State forces on Thursday seized a hilltop overlooking the town along the Syria-Turkey border, activist said.
To aid their brethren, Iraqi Kurds pledged to send dozens of fighters over the coming days to battle alongside Syrian Kurdish forces in Kobani. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of activists on the ground, said 553 people have been killed in airstrikes since they began Sept. 23, including 32 civilians. The civilians included six children and five women.
The group said it documented 464 deaths among fighters of the Islamic State group but said the number could be much higher. Also, 57 fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front were killed in airstrikes elsewhere in northern Syria, the Observatory said.
Many of the Islamic State fighters died in the battle for Kobani, which the militants have been trying to seize since mid-September. The IS group also captured dozens of surrounding Kurdish villages, compelling more than 200,000 people to flee to neighboring Turkey.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Central Command said its forces conducted more than 135 airstrikes against the militants in and around Kobani, killing hundreds of fighters. "Combined with continued resistance to ISIL on the ground, indications are that these strikes have slowed ISIL advances into the city, killed hundreds of their fighters and destroyed or damaged scores of pieces of ISIL combat equipment and fighting positions," Central Command said in a statement, using one of the acronyms for the militant group.
In northern Iraq, Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff for the Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani, told The Associated Press that the largely-autonomous Iraqi Kurdish government would send some 150 peshmerga fighters to Kobani through Turkey to support Syrian Kurds there.
Hussein said they would take light weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, and in a response to Turkish concerns about armed Kurds on their territory, said the peshmerga would bring the weapons back once they returned.
"The fight in Kobani is very important to us," he said. "We are fighting the same enemy." On the Turkish side of the border, heavy machine gun fire was heard on Thursday coming from Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab in Arabic.
The clashes were some of the fiercest since the battle for the town began, Kurdish activist Farhad Shami said over the phone. Speaking from the area, he said the Islamic State group launched an attack from three fronts late Wednesday.
By Thursday, the militants captured the Tel Shair hill that overlooks parts of Kobani, closing in on the town from the west, the Observatory reported. Shami said the Kurdish fighters had withdrawn from the area. The Observatory said Islamic State fighters were also trying to advance from the eastern side of the town.
Capturing Kobani would give the Islamic State group, which already rules a huge stretch of territory spanning the Syria-Iraq border, a direct link between the Syrian province of Aleppo and its stronghold of Raqqa, to the east.
NATO's supreme military commander, U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, said in Turkey on Thursday that the alliance was ready to come to Turkey's defense if the situation on its border deteriorated and it sought help from the organization.
He said that NATO had already provided Turkey will a Patriot missile defense system that it had deployed on the border with Syria. "NATO is ready," Breedlove said. "We will work together to face this challenge that we see on the border."
The Observatory meanwhile reported four coalition airstrikes on oil wells in the Jafra field in eastern Syria late Wednesday. Central Command said they had conducted six airstrikes since Wednesday; four near Kobani, and two that targeted oil-holding tanks.
The U.S.-led coalition has been shelling IS-held oil facilities in Syria, which provide a key source of income for the militants. But such strikes also endanger civilians, which could undermine long-term efforts to destroy the militant group.
The attacks on the oil industry, including refineries, have also led to a sharp rise in the price of oil products in rebel-held areas of Syria. Meanwhile, the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad has stepped up its efforts to reclaim rebel-held areas surrounding major cities. On Thursday, state-run media said government forces wrested the town of Morek in central Syria from rebels. The town is seen as a strategic prize, because it lies on the highway between the key cities of Hama and Aleppo.
Also Thursday, neighboring Lebanon said it would not accept any more refugees from Syria, except in what authorities deem to be "exceptional" cases — a move that could prevent tens of thousands of Syrians from escaping the civil war.
There are over 3 million Syrian refugees from the war, mostly in neighboring countries. Another 6 million have been displaced within Syria, making it one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Lebanon itself has at least 1.1 million Syrian refugees, forming a quarter of the tiny Mediterranean country's population of 5 million. The refugees have stretched Lebanon's already fragile infrastructure and compete with the country's poorest for low-paid jobs, causing tensions. Tens of thousands of Syrian children are out of school because there is nowhere to place them.
Lebanese Information Minister Ramzi Jreij said Lebanon can simply not handle any more refugees. Ninette Kelley, the U.N. refugee agency's representative in Lebanon, said the country had begun restricting the entry of Syrians since August.
Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Diaa Hadid in Beirut, Patrick Quinn in Izmir, Turkey, and Bram Janssen in Irbil, Iraq, contributed to this report.


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Hope Solo con Solo: A Memoir of HopeHope Solo is the face of the modern female athlete. She is fearless, outspoken, and the best in the world at what she does: protecting the goal of the U.S. women's soccer team. Her outsizetalent has led her to the pinnacle of her sport—the Olympics and the World Cup—and made her into an international celebrity. But her journey—which began in Richland, Washington, where she was raised by her strong-willed mother, is haunted by her family history. Her father, a philanderer and con man, was convicted of embezzlement when Solo was an infant. She lost touch with him as he drifted out of prison and into homelessness. By the time they reunited, years later, in the parking lot of a grocery store, she was an All-American goalkeeper at the University of Washington and already a budding prospect for the U.S. national team. He was living in the woods.
Despite harboring serious doubts even about the provenance of her father's last name (and her own), Solo embraces him as fiercely as she pursues her dreams of being a world-class soccer player. Moving, sometimes shocking, Solo is a portrait of an athlete finding redemption by staying true, above all, to herself.


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Swarovski 1003312 - Owls - Products informations and Price comparison - Abapri UK
Swarovski - 1003312
A special moment in nature is captured beautifully in crystal, as two precious owls lean affectionately towards each other. This pair in faceted clear crystal, perched on a faceted matt clear crystal branch, will not go unnoticed. Their eyes in Light Topaz crystal and Jet crystal sparkle knowingly, reflecting complete harmony and togetherness. Decoration object. Not a toy. Not suitable for children under 15.
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Matt Cutts first mentioned speed publicly, as a potential ranking signal in November 2009 but, speed has always been important at Google. Google's homepage for example, is intentionally sparse so that it loads quickly. Larry Page recently said he wants to see pages "flip" online. Clearly the concept of speed and it's importance at Google is nothing new. Robert Miller, actually conducted the first research in this area over 40 years ago. According to Miller, when a computer takes more than one tenth of a second to load, the user feels less and less in control. When Google and Bing conducted their own tests in 2008 the results were similar to what Miller had predicted. Bing experienced a 1.8% reduction in queries when slowed by 2.0 seconds and Google experienced a 0.59% reduction in queries when slowed by 400 milliseconds. Bottom line, fast pages help marketers because users are far less likely abandon fast loading sites. Users expect pages to load quickly!
Page Speed was introduced as a ranking signal for English queries executed via Google.com nearly a month ago. It's defined as "the total time from the moment the user clicks on a link to your page until the time the entire page is loaded and displayed in a browser." In their first major update to Webmaster Guidelines in over a year, Google recommends webmasters monitor site performance and optimize page load times on a regular basis.
Because Page Speed data is missing from Analytics and other tools, it's best to use the Site Performance in Google Webmaster Tools for regular monitoring and optimization. To view Site Performance data in Google Webmaster Tools, you'll need to add and verify your site first. In Google Webmaster Tools, Site Performance data is processed in aggregate and without personally identifiable information. "Example" URLs are derived from actual Google Toolbar user queries and as a result query parameters are removed. "Suggestions" are based on URLs crawled by Google and not truncated. "Average" site load times are weighted on traffic. Site Performance data accuracy is based on the total number of data points, which can range from 1-100 data points (low) up to 1,000+ data points (high). As mentioned earlier, this data comes from Google Toolbar users with the PageRank feature enabled. While Google hasn't provided Toolbar PageRank user demographic information, this data seems fairly reliable. If anything, it would seem that Toolbar PageRank bias would point to more savvy users and that as a result Google Webmaster Tools Site Performance data might be faster than actual.
During our "Speed" session at SMX, Vanessa Fox and Maile Ohye (Google) seemed to agree that less than 4.0 seconds was a good rule of thumb but still slow. According to Google AdWords, "the threshold for a 'slow-loading' landing page is the regional average plus three seconds." No matter how you slice it, this concept is fairly complex. Page Speed involves code, imagery, assets and a lot more not to mention user perceptions about time. For example, the user's internet connection (Google Fiber), their browser (Chrome), device(Nexus One), its processor (Snapdragon), the site's host and other issues all impact user perceptions about speed. Don't worry though, according to most expert estimates, 80% to 90% of page response time is spent on the front-end. At the end of the day, relevance is critical but speed follows quickly behind.
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"New" is such a thrilling word, don't you think? At Vero Modero there are plenty of thrills awaiting you in new releases! Plus, if you are a group member, you'll be thrilled with the new monthly group gift and a wonderful group gift every day until Christmas! If you are not a member, joining is free and maybe these creations will inspire you to make room for joining the group!
As mentioned, Vero Modero has treated fashion lovers to several new releases. One of the newest releases is the Rinaldi set! I simply adore the delicate lace, and the romantic period appeal of the set. This lovely creation includes the top, skirt, bolero, gloves, and the lace collar with jewel accent.
Another new release is the Rossi Paint Dress! This fabulously artistic creation includes the dress, belt, and matching boots! This would make a beautiful gift for a friend, or your own closet!
Of course, Vero Modero is also very generous to their group members. The photo on the left shows the stunning "4th Day of Christmas" gift. You can check the Vero Modero website to see the beautiful gifts from the previous days. I'll warn you, have a tissue handy because you will shed some tears over the gifts you have missed. The photo on the right shows the lovely December group gift! I think you will agree, it is a wonderful time to be a group member of Vero Modero!
While you are at Vero Modero, be sure to check out the other exquisite creations! And again, join the group to stay informed on releases, events, and the group gifts!
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PepsiCo Canada employs nearly 10,000 Canadians and is organized into two business units - PepsiCo Beverages Canada, which includes brands such as Pepsi, Gatorade and Tropicana; and PepsiCo Foods Canada, which includes Frito Lay Canada and Quaker foods & snacks. PepsiCo Canada, in turn, belongs to the global PepsiCo, Inc., family.
At PepsiCo Canada, we're committed to achieving business and financial success while leaving a positive imprint on society - delivering what we call Performance with Purpose. Performance with Purpose is at the heart of every aspect of our business.
Our people are our greatest asset. By supporting their ability to work effectively together and providing them with the tools they need to succeed, we are ensuring that PepsiCo Canada is the kind of company where talented people of all backgrounds want to work.
PepsiCo is an Employer of Choice:
* Opportunity to work for a Tier 1 global organization company with Billion Dollar Brands
* One of Canada's Top 100 Employers
* We take people development seriously offering career growth opportunities through robust full cycle career planning, talent development programs, challenging and rewarding assignments nationally and internationally
* Work within a fast paced ever evolving business, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds, experiences and needs
* Participation in our competitive Total Rewards Program
You will develop and sustain a growing snack foods business and leverage your current skills by selling, delivering and marketing our products to your assigned group of retail customers.
Schedule: Thursday-Monday
Your responsibilities will include:
Selling and Developing the Business
- Identifying changing customer needs through a constant review of the highest selling products and frequent communication with store managers.
- Developing all assigned accounts relative to sales volume, market share, product distribution, space allocation and customer service objectives.
- Selling and executing national and local promotions, soliciting placement of incremental marketing equipment, displays, racks and selling sufficient product inventory for customer volume demands.
Delivery and Merchandising
- Managing inventory according to PepsiCo Foods Canada best practices to ensure balanced accounts and fresh products for customers and consumers.
- Executing hands on activities with excellence, including but not limited to managing product placement on shelves, increasing shelf facings and racks, handling carton returns, managing inventory movement and cleaning shelving and racks.
- Operating a Route Sales Truck including loading and unloading of product
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- Preference for a current post-secondary student with first year completed
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- Strong work ethic - able to work with minimal supervision
- Strong attention to detail
- Previous sales experience with a consumer packaged goods or retail organization preferred
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- Ability to travel on occasion for 1 week at a time (to cover rural routes)
- Must be able to work weekends and holidays
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John Metcalfe was CityLab's Bay Area bureau chief, covering climate change and the science of cities.
A river in southern Dallas has turned red with the fresh blood of swine, alarming environmentalists and creating the ultimate nightmare for hemophobiacs.
The bloody saga of Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River that cuts Dallas in two, splashed onto headlines this week after a model-plane enthusiast spotted a suspicious red patch in the water through his drone's camera. The man submitted a photo to sUAS News, a site devoted to the topic of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, which then helped break the story of the gory river (and to many, the news that people are flying drones above our heads this very second).
Here's the money quote from the airplane guy: "I was looking at images after the flight that showed a blood-red creek and was thinking, could this really be what I think it is? Can you really do that, surely not? Whatever it is, it was flat out gross."
It's even grosser when you get into the grisly details of the plasma's provenance. It turns out that right next door to Cedar Creek is the Columbia Packing Company, a nearly century-old source of ham, bacon and brisket.
When federal and state officials raided the plant on Thursday, they discovered that Columbia had apparently built bypass pipes that were dumping hog blood and other chemicals straight into the creek. From there, the gore drifted into Trinity, a name that should please at least one fan of Dexter's season four. The river is home to Dallas' new $4 million kayaking park.
Just how long this had been going on is unclear, but looking back, locals said they should've guessed something strange was happening. "To me, it should have been checked a long time ago, because I had an idea that something was going on with that," one man told Dallas TV station WFAA. "You never see trucks come out that carry waste material."
And then there's this chilling nugget, also from WFAA:
In court documents, an investigator says that on Dec. 15, 2011, he heard swine cries that appeared to be coming from Columbia Packing. A few minutes later, the water volume increased and the water turned blood red.
We could be wrong, but the stained river even seems to be visible on Google Maps. Look at how the tributary turns from muddy brown to dark claret in the middle of this aerial shot, taken directly north of the meat-packing plant:
This is an even more disturbing photo, for all the forensics students out there.
Columbia has denied any wrongdoing. Said the company in a statement released yesterday:
Columbia has never and would never intentionally engage in the activities recently alleged in the media. It was surprised by the allegations raised last week and was previously unaware of any such concerns. When notified of the potential issues, it fully cooperated with the government officials to answer any questions and to take any necessary action. Columbia ceased operation pending approval from the governmental agencies to resume its normal operation.
In the spirit of that cooperation, when a city councilman and deputy police chief showed up at the factory last week to see what was going on, Columbia officials reportedly kicked them off the property.
(For more apocalyptic bodies of water recently in the news, here's a crimson reservoir in Texas and another blood-colored river in China.)
Top photo used with permission from sUAS News.
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Clean animals result in fewer E. coli
Sigrun J. Hauge has studied the effect of the measures implemented on farms and in slaughterhouses. The aim of the project "Uncontaminated Carcasses" was to uncover data that would help to improve the hygienic quality of meat from cattle and sheep by means of cleaner animals and efficient ways of slaughtering high-risk animals.
E. coli is a commonly occurring bacterium in the digestive tract of humans, animals and birds. Just a few strains are pathogenic and can cause diarrhea and kidney failure, particularly in children. The bacteria die at temperatures over 60-70 °C and are therefore normally eliminated by boiling and roasting. Hauge has shown that a new, rapid enzymatic method for detecting E. coli is equally as reliable as the traditional method of growing bacteria culture. This new method is therefore suitable for monitoring E. coli in abattoirs.
High-risk animals
Slaughterhouses have systems for categorising animals according to how dirty they are. Around 3-5% of the animals that arrive at abattoirs are so soiled that they are categorised as high-risk. Every year, deductions in the price of meat due to dirty animals amount to over 9 million Norwegian kroners. Soiled slaughter can pose a risk to food safety because faeces on hides/wool, intestines, knives and the hands of the butchers can be transferred to the meat during the slaughter process. Hauge studied the factors affecting the cleanliness of animals on farms and how clean or soiled hide affects the contamination of skinned carcasses. Her experiments confirmed that meat from dirty cattle has more E. coli than meat from clean cattle.
Sheep farmers are also subjected to price reductions for dirty and unshorn animals. Hauge's research showed that the surface of meat from shorn sheep has less E. coli than that of unshorn sheep immediately after skinning and that the point in time that the sheep are shorn before slaughtering is also significant when it comes to the amount of bacteria immediately after skinning. But towards the end of the slaughtering process, all the meat had equal amounts of E. coli on its surface, regardless of when the sheep were shorn.
Dirty and unshorn animals are considered a high risk. They are treated in separate product streams in the slaughterhouses and their meat is not used for raw products such as minced meat and cured meat, but for products that are heat treated before sale (such as sausages and meatballs etc.)
99.5% reduction of E. coli
Meat from lambs was hosed with water at 82 °C for 8 seconds in an enclosed "shower" - so-called hot water pasteurisation - before it was cooled. This treatment reduced the amount of E. coli on carcasses by 99.5%. After 5 days of cooling, no further E. coli were found on the meat. The recycled water in the shower was of a good microbiological, chemical and physical quality. Immediately after pasteurisation, the meat was rather pale, but it regained its normal colour after being cooled for 24 hours.
Hot water pasteurisation is not generally accepted as a hygiene measure in Norway and the EU and the Norwegian Food Safety Authority would have to give its approval, if the method is to be used at slaughterhouses. Hot water pasteurisation will obviate the need for separate product streams in abattoirs for high-risk sheep.
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Brittany Pettersen and Brian Carroll will square off for the Democratic nomination in the June primary. The winner faces Republican Amy Attwood.
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1/4 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
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frites sauce #2: whisk all ingredients together.
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Soak the cut up potato in cold water for 10-15 minutes. Drain and pat dry. Meanwhile, bring a heavy, tall sided pan of oil up to 300. Add the fries in a fry basket if possible) and cook for about 6 minutes. They should look pale but when broken in half, they should look nearly cooked inside.
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text: The International Coastal Cleanup is an annual coordinated volunteer effort to remove debris that has accumulated in our oceans and on our coasts. It is a chance for world citizens that are concerned about the health of our oceans and waterways to participate in meaningful action that will make a difference. In 2012, more than 560,000 volunteers from 97 countries picked up more the 10 million pounds of trash. This year's efforts begin this weekend and will last throughout the coming weeks. All types of volunteer groups will join forces over the next couple of weekends to remove and quantify the trash ending up in our waters. Because this is a coordinated effort led by the Ocean Conservancy, each volunteer will be asked to fill out a standard data sheet. This allows event coordinators to track the amount and types of trash that end up on our coasts every year and to make comparisons across the globe and through the years. Ultimately, it informs and focuses the efforts being made to change behaviors that will benefit our natural world. The top ten list of items found on our beaches during the cleanup should come as no surprise to anyone. The list includes cigarettes, plastic bottles, plastic bags, food wrappers and straws - all single use items that we've come to rely on in our society of convenience. With the exception of cigarettes, the global list closely mirrors the list the National Aquarium has been tallying at Fort McHenry over the past 14 years. Of the 600,000+ items collected in this area over the years, more than 95 percent has been plastic or foamed plastic. These items weren't born in the ocean or the harbor, they were carelessly discarded on land and delivered to the nearest stream (often via storm sewers). From here, there are carried downstream by the tides and water flow until they end up on a shoreline somewhere. We know, if we want to make a difference, we need to stop the debris at its source - cleaning it up after the fact is not a long-term solution! We need to look at our own behaviors and determine how to eliminate the flow of debris from our homes to our streets to our waterways. We thought that if we focus on the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) we would be successful. For many years, the emphasis has been on recycling. In truth, recycling should be our last choice. Our ultimate success will depend upon how well we can assimilate the fourth R into the equation - Refuse. This world does not have unlimited resources and we need to stop acting like it does. We need to be thoughtful in our everyday consumer decisions so that we look beyond the gratification of that warm cup of coffee or cold soda and begin to consider the real-world costs of the decisions we make. The real-world cost of using non-degradable, oil-based, disposable drink ware instead of carrying a reusable coffee mug. In the mean time, while we are figuring out how to turn our consumer society on it's ear, we have a big mess to clean up. In my job, I get to see much of the Chesapeake Bay. I get to travel to it's islands and remote wetland habitats and enjoy all of the benefits our natural world has to offer. In all of those travels, I have never seen a shoreline unmarred by the sight of trash. It's everywhere. Baltimore and the more populated areas of the watershed are admittedly more affected by debris, but there is no place that is immune. If we want to truly champion a healthy Chesapeake (healthy for humans and animals alike), we need a trash-free environment. It is possible and we can start today. If you haven't already, register to join us at our October 5th Fort McHenry event in Baltimore or find another International Coastal Cleanup event near you! Tags: baltimore, coastal-cleanup, Conservation, fort-mchenry, international-coastal-cleanup, marine-debris, national-aquarium-2, national-aquarium-in-baltimore, ocean-conservancy, thoughtful-thursday Categories: Conservation, News Previous Post Next Post


text: beowulf101 0 Posted April 4, 2012 Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, Deathwatch and Black Crusade are enough. Black Crusade should have been the end of the 40K line and the existing products expanded and built on. All things considered, four RPG games in the same setting already pushes the boundary. Five? I'm not buying. The idea that throwing out content and sooner or later something will be a success is a real turn off. If anything, build what's already out and then learn the lessons of this set of mechanics and let's move on to 40K second edition - an edition that hopefully means the release of one core book, the unification of the disparate Psi powers and releases additional material for that one book. In short, there's no need for what's happening, and I personally am rather angry with the release of another rulebook. I don't want a flame war with anyone on here, this is my own personal sentiment. There are better ways of doing things, especially when the books cost so much - enough already. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Award winning actor R M Lloyd Parry (who featured on the cover and in a 8 page feature on M.R.James in the September 2012 issue of Fortean Times magazine) returns to Lincoln (first time at The Ritz Cinema & Theatre) to perform his highly acclaimed one man show 'Oh, Whistle...' (part of his M R James Trilogy.) Here he will regale us with two ghostly tales by the master of the ghost story, M R James.'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' - a tale of nocturnal horror on the Suffolk coast - is considered by many to be the author's masterpiece. It is beautifully complemented here by ' The Ash Tree,' a story of witchcraft and vengeance down the generations.
Montague Rhodes James (M R James) 1862-1936, was a medieval scholar, the Provost of King's College Cambridge, and the author of some of the best supernatural tales in the English language. He produced roughly one story a year between 1893 & 1930, many of them composed to be read aloud to friends at Christmas.
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FEH necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 551 diseños de 87 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for an up to date logo for a growing company. We specialize in selling discount health plans. We need a logo that is fresh, clean, distinctive, (Red and Blue, Green preffereable colors). This will be used on our website, business cards, enrollement packages, letterhead etc. PLEASE PUT BestFit Healthcare ON ONE LINE.
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We are looking for a bold, vibrant, vivid, current logo that can appeal to a broad audience and portray a professional image. It would be great if it could convey stability, reliability, and trust. We want to also convey the idea that our service is truly BestFit and our selections of plans will be able to fit anyones needs across the nation.
Our goal is to provide a BestFit alternative to health insurance for individuals who are uninsurable or who cannot afford costly health insurance programs.
We're here to help you find the right discount healh plan for your needs and pride ourselves on customer service, and our reps are available to help select the plan that's right for you by phone.
We are open to creative idas of all types, but would like to avoid logos that are above the text. We would prefer something that can act as a stand alone logo and still convey what we do, and is still fluid with the company name. Please provice both views. We are looking at the colors red and blue and our company name is as follows with the caps. BestFit Healthcare.
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Rangers overcome injuries to post two walk-off wins
Washington pleased with Texas' ability to battle through tough 10-day stretch
ARLINGTON -- Rangers manager Ron Washington had some advice for any pitcher wondering what is going to happen in the next month or so.
"Think about the job right now, not what the job is going to be a week from now or a month from now," Washington said. "Stay in the moment."
That seems like sage wisdom after 10 days that shook the Rangers, when injuries piled up in the waning hours of Spring Training, when a roster seemed to be put together on the fly and decisions weren't made until the last possible transaction had moved across waivers. There were three players on the Opening Day roster who nobody had even thought about a week before, and a fifth starter not even on the big league Spring Training roster who was pulled from the anonymity of Texas' farm system.
Even with the regular season officially here, this is a team that seems stuck in the Spring Training decision-making mode, what with the first transaction made on the second day and a starting rotation locked into a perpetual state of suspense. When four starters from the 2012 Opening Day rotation are still in the organization, yet none are active on Opening Day, it does reaffirm the notion that nobody is quite sure what will happen next.
The Rangers do seem fairly confident Yu Darvish will start on Sunday, but nobody has said yet what will happen with Colby Lewis before his April 10 opt-out date, and there is still Matt Harrison making inexorable progress toward a late-April return. Derek Holland, whose fall over a dog on the stairs in January seemed to serve as the keynote address for all this madness, hopes for a return sometime in June.
What all that means to converted relievers Tanner Scheppers and Robbie Ross Jr. remains a mystery, and veteran Joe Saunders pitches Friday night with the idea he can be a stabilizing innings eater, at least until some familiar names return. Nick Martinez starts on Saturday, a cameo appearance before Darvish returns, and Martinez almost certainly will go back to the Minor Leagues to resume his development.
But if Martinez and Chris Gimenez -- the Opening Day third catcher now in designated-for-assignment limbo -- only spend one day on the active roster, they're still eligible for a World Series ring. Jarrod Saltalamacchia has an American League championship ring for one day of service with Texas in 2010.
Yet through all the extraordinary developments, the Rangers walked away from their first homestand with two exhilarating walk-off wins over the Phillies. They open a three-game series with the Rays on Friday night with a 2-1 record, giving them hope of being able to stay with the undefeated Mariners and Astros for the rest of the summer.
Though silence often echoes from beyond center field at Globe Life Park, Washington remains the stabilizing voice for the Rangers, and the "tremendous winning culture" -- as general manager Jon Daniels referred to it -- the manager has established continues to keep the team on course through the turbulence.
"There's no panic here," Washington said as the Rangers got ready to leave Arizona without their starting catcher, second baseman, former All-Star closer and 2012 rotation. "Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. We're going to show up with 25 guys on Opening Day and win some ballgames."
The Rangers don't have catcher Geovany Soto or second baseman Jurickson Profar until June. But there was backup catcher Robinson Chirinos, undefeated as a starter behind the plate, deftly guiding Martin Perez through his start on Tuesday night and Donnie Murphy drawing a big four-pitch walk in Wednesday's wild ninth inning. Josh Wilson began the homestand as the surprise starting Opening Day second baseman and ended it with three more RBIs than Prince Fielder.
Then there was Jim Adduci, a left-handed-hitting outfielder with over 3,000 career Minor League at-bats who seemed to have no chance of making the team out of Spring Training. The Rangers kept saying they needed a right-handed hitter -- Kevin Kouzmanoff seemed a lock -- for the last spot on the bench.
Even if they wanted a left-handed-hitting outfielder whose best asset is speed, Engel Beltre seemed the logical choice. That was before anybody realized that Beltre played the entire spring with a crack of the tibia bone in his right leg as the result of getting hit by a pitch in winter ball.
But Adduci made the team because the Rangers wanted a left-handed hitter and speed off the bench, a move that now seems positively prescient after his pinch-hit infield single was also crucial in Wednesday's ninth-inning rally. Somebody upstairs is thinking this through.
Rule 5 Draft pick Seth Rosin was with the Dodgers on Opening Day in Australia, then he was plucked by the Rangers off the waiver wire and put on their Opening Day roster. Two Opening Day rosters in one season may be unprecedented in Major League history, but he now has three scoreless innings and his first big league win.
Rosin still has to stay on the big league roster or be offered back to the Phillies for $25,000, which could be a tricky proposition for the Rangers. After what happened this week in Arlington, the Phils would gladly write that check and make Rosin their No. 1 setup reliever.
That's a decision for a later date. "Just stay in the moment," Washington said. One moment, Mitch Moreland is rolling over a sinker and grounding into a rally-squelching double play, the next moment he is flying headfirst into third base for a triple that awoke the offense or lining a double into the right-field corner off of Jonathan Papelbon in the ninth inning on Wednesday.
Moreland scored on a single by No. 8 hitter Leonys Martin, who now leads Texas with four RBIs. Ten days shook the Rangers, and who knows what's to come. But two walk-off victories against the Phillies show they might be able to withstand almost anything, including their undefeated division rivals.


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Recipe: Kale chips. So easy. And so much better for you than Fritos.
OK, so they aren't Fritos. But kale chips are really good, too. Even people who hate kale will eat them. That's because they crunch, and because they have a little salt on them.
The benefits are real: According to the USDA, kale is loaded with vitamins, minerals, fiber, and all kinds of other stuff.
One thing that kale chips do have in common with Fritos is that they make good happy-hour snacks. They also look great floating on top of a bowl of potato soup (hot or cold). And they take seasoning like a champ: This basic recipe calls for salt, but a little chili powder, a dash of celery seed, and, believe it or not, a pinch or two of sugar are nice too. (If you're using sugar, add it after the kale has cooked but before it has cooled.)
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BRONSugar a journey through sweetness
BRONSugar is cane sugar of specified origin that D&C, which owns and distributes the brand, has now launched on the Italian market, triggering once again, as in the past, a quiet revolution in consumer food habits. Indeed, in over 50 years in the business, D&C has taught Italians not just to appreciate fine quality tea, but also to accompany aperitifs with peanuts or cashew nuts, to savour a flute of champagne and to discover wines and liqueurs from every corner of the globe.
With BRONSugar, D&C has set itself an ambitious new goal: to foster among consumers a modern, sophisticated approach to the world of sugar.


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I had noticed a lack of sand stuff in Minetest. There is sandstone and things for normal sand (aka beach sand), but not desert sand? What? And then there is silver sand (new to Minetest as of 0.4.15), which doesn't have sandstone and things either (although that's not suprising since it's new)*. So you might have guessed by now what this mod is for. I present to you:
This mod adds:
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-Stairs/Slabs of all listed above
Crafting recipes are the same as normal sand things, but with desert sand and silver sand instead.
If Technic is enabled, all recipes will be replaced with grinder/compressor.
Screeny Shots! (I used the greenscreen mod btw...)
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-The mod is born!
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-Changed license to CC0 (Creative Commons)
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-Changed nodes with "sandstonebrick" to "sandstone_brick"
-Added aliases to change sandplus nodes to default nodes in Minetest versions >0.4.15
Download Me! ...or click the one below...your preference.
GitHub Repo
Depends: Default, Stairs, Technic?
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The Arctic Sunrise has arrived in her home port of Amsterdam, following the departure from Murmansk on August 1st. The Greenpeace ship was detained in the Russian port city for over 300 days following a high profile protest against Arctic oil drilling in September 2013.
9th August. The Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, accompanied by a welcoming flotilla, arrives in Amsterdam.
© Greenpeace / Marten van Dijl
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