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"Viral Bars " is the latest video from Bronx, New York rapper J-Jon, different from his last two viral videos C.O.P and Pretty Again which collectively amassed over 10 million views on Facebook. J-Jon decides to take things back to the essence of hiphop by spitting straight bars over the Swizz Beats "Classic" instrumental. Shot in the birth place of hip hop Bronx NY, J-Jon modernizes every bar with references of today's most trendy internet topics from El Chapo escaping prison to Donald Trump's recent comments about Mexicans.
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- 02 Apr 2013: Follow Flaxwood on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
Flaxwood On Tour
Over the past couple of years, Flaxwood guitars have found their way into the hands of many of today's top players in various genres, becoming both studio and onstage staples in their rigs, and are currently used on tour by the guitar players of the bands of Santana, Reba McEntire, Rascal Flatts, Bonnie Raitt, and many others.
Flaxwood Guitars is proud to present this photo and video scrapbook of Flaxwood onstage with some of the finest players in music today.
George Marinelli onstage with his Liekki
Tommy Anthony (right) onstage with Carlos Santana
Tommy Anthony and Santana trading licks
David Carr and his new FW 2HM-T hybrid series at soundcheck at the Brugge Festival in Belgium.
Says David, "Thank you for the opportunity to tour with the new Flaxwood [2HM]. I loved playing it and I'm certain People enjoyed hearing it! I love the feel of the solid body and especially the weight distribution. It's very comfortable to hold. The neck is brilliant; slim, smooth, fast and stable. Notes sustain longer than even Nigel Tufnel could utilize. The guitar held it's tune even with extreme tremolo action and now I want one as soon as I can get one. It could be my new favorite.
Well done!"
Well done!"
Rascal Flatts onstage with Flaxwood, performing "Fast Cars and Freedom"
on the final night of their Unstoppable Tour 2009
Jeff King of the Reba McEntire band with his Karpalo redburst Liekki. Nov 6, 2009, Event Center, Allen TX
Jim Kimball of the Reba McEntire band with his Lumi white Liekki. Nov 6, 2009, Event Center, Allen TX
Larry Schara on stage with Deb Seitz at the Harlem Ave Lounge in Chicago
Larry Schara on stage with the Deb Seitz band at the Harlem Ave Lounge in Chicago
Harry Orlove onstage with Michelle Shocked. Jan 8, 2010
Doron Zor live at the Rex CD release party, April 8th 2010
Jussi Reijonen and Tareq Rantisi duet. Nov 23, 2009, Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA


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Be a Hero: Make Life Easy for Your Mobile Users
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By Blair Thomas, Jeff Hughes
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Here's your chance to be a hero with the pointy-haired men and women (the movers and shakers) who are always on the go and always having trouble logging in at remote offices because they can't remember their NDS context. All you need to do is create an alias for these mobile folks, and you'll be a hero, a veritable knight in shining armor. Once they have an alias they won't need to remember their context anymore. This means they won't forget, and your genius will have made them look like geniuses. (And, whatever the setting, making the boss look good is never a bad thing for the bonus check.)
As most of you know, the alias object (an object that points to another object you specify in the tree) comes in very handy when you're moving subtrees or renaming containers. But you may not know how the alias object can help you manage your mobile users. There are a few in every company, those folks who travel from office to office, but just can't seem to remember their NDS context. As a result, they always run into trouble and end up calling the help desk to login when they're away from home.
You can eliminate these calls (and the mobile user's frustration) by creating an alias at the top of the tree just below the Organization object to shorten the user's context. If you do this, then user Fred doesn't have to remember a long context anymore. No...if user FRED wants to log in to the network in Cincinnati, he only needs to remember that his context is FRED.NOVELL, because the alias points to his actual context in the tree and fills in all the nitty-gritty details. Simple as that. The alias makes Fred's life easier, and your life is a bit easier too.
Of course, bear in mind that you'll only want to create an alias for a few of your users, the mobile ones and a few VIPs. You definitely (take our word for it) don't want or need to create an alias for every user in your tree.
Novell Cool Solutions (corporate web communities) are produced by WebWise Solutions. www.webwiseone.com


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Or, imagine diabetics with hard-to-heal wounds finding a source of relief from the battle against infections and limb amputation.
Those scenarios are the hope of the developers of a revolutionary borate glass nanofiber material, which appears have sped and helped the final of healing long-term wounds in eight out of 12 venous stasis wound sufferers in a recent clinical trial held at a medical center in Rolla, Mo.
The story reports on the discovery of the fibers and on an empirical study that began late in the fall of 2010 supervised by the internal review board of the Phelps County Regional Medical Center.
"All of the participants had diabetes and several of them had wounds that had been unhealed for more than a year," says Peggy Taylor, a specialist in wound care. "One patient had the same wound for three years. After using the glass fiber product for a few months, we were able to repair the skin in eight of the patients. Remarkably, the other four have made a lot of progress and all of their wounds should be healed soon, too."
All of the patients suffered from problems associated with venous stasis, a condition where blood circulation in extremities is poor. As the blood pools, typically in lower legs, fluids accumulate causing unusual pressure on skin tissues. Sores and wounds can then develop when the fluid "weeps" from skin cracks, cuts or abrasions.
Because of an enzyme in the weeping fluid, the skin surrounding small venous stasis injuries can quickly erode and turn into large and deep wounds. Even small bruises can eventually develop into bone-deep openings.
The goal of the trial was to provide an initial evaluation of the effects of the novel fibrous glass material produced by the Mo-Sci Corporation, already known for creating glass-based materials for medical applications.
"Bioglass" materials aren't particularly new to the medical field, but thus far all bioglass has been formed from a silica-based glass composition, and these primarily have been used in hard-tissue regeneration, such as bone repair.
Glass scientist Doctor Steve Jung, who helped develop the new material, says he and co-developer Professor Delbert Day had wondered whether a different type of bioactive glass material could be used for soft-tissue regeneration. "We felt from our in-vitro studies that bioactive glasses containing boron would react to body fluids much faster than silicate glasses," says Jung, "We also knew that an in-vitro study of lithium borate glasses had showed it to have beneficial effects against bacteria, such as E. coli, salmonella and staphylococcus microbes."
Lastly, Jung and Day recall they were interested in a composition that was rich in calcium. "Previously, investigators have reported that calcium is important for wound healing. It appears to assist the migration of epidermal cells and help the body regulate the healing process of open wounds," says Jung.
Besides composition, Jung and Day thought the structure of the material may be important to consider, too, and suspected that providing a healing "scaffold" might be beneficial. "We thought it might be advantageous to have a material that could mimic the microstructure of fibrin that forms the basis of a blood clot. We reasoned that if the structure could imitate fibrin, it might trap blood platelets and allow the formation of a wound cover that could support the healing process."
Jung and Day finally settled on a particular borate glass composition - called 13-93B3 glass - one that Mo-Sci already knew how to form into cottony glass fibers, 300 nanometers to 5 micrometers in diameter.
After animal tests showed no adverse effects, Mo-Sci obtained a license to the material from Missouri S&T, named the borate glass material "DermaFuse," and approached PCRMC about starting the small-scale human test.
Once the study was underway, the company provided Taylor with individual, foil-sealed packets containing pads made of the glass fibers. She says the material is easy to apply. "It gets kind of squished in the packs, but you can form it, pick it, make it into any kind of shape you need out of it. I used tweezers to pack the material up into all of the recesses before filling the rest of the wound. I didn't pack it hard, but enough to fill all the crevices. Once it was in place, I covered it with a secondary covering or compression wrap."
One thing that surprised Taylor was that the glass fibers seem to disappear over time, a phenomenon that has been observed with other bioglasses. "Does it dissolve? Does it become part of the tissue? We don't quite know, but it is just such a neat thing to watch that process."
Taylor acknowledges that under her care, the wounds would have probably healed without the glass material, but they would have required expensive vacuum-assisted healing systems that must be carried by patient at all times.
Besides low cost and ease of use, Taylor says the glass fibers seem to offer another stunning benefit: low scarring. "All but one of the patients in the trial were elderly and had a lot of skin discoloration, but we healed wounds that show nothing or negligible scarring," she says.
Jung says that the next step is expanded human trials, which will be conducted in partnership with the Center for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He says the center has agreed to begin testing the material this summer. In the meantime, Jung says he and Day are optimistic about a new era in wound treatment.
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Successful 1st Conference for the Development of the Motorways of the Sea
This conference is the starting point of a cycle of presentations that will take place until June 2018 addressed to achieve that the industry makes a step forward to fight for its own interests in a clear and open manner. This first conference, that has been organised by CIMNE with the support of Port de Barcelona, allows mark the beginning of this cycle that could make a difference in the maritime industry and its relationship with the European Union.
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Kosher Sushi
Carmi's Restaurant & Cafe
The Solomon Center
9 Hativat Golani St., Shimshoni, Modiin
Telephone: 08-975-5975
Kashrut: Rav Eliyahu Elharar (Mehadrin, dairy) - Rav of Modiin.
August 2015
Carmi's has graduated.
Once just a pizza shop, Carmi's is now a full-fledged dairy restaurant. And what a restaurant!
The restaurant space is now much larger and - I must say - beautifully designed. Tables are nicely spaced, with a combination of chairs and banquettes. There is a mix-n-match of wood-topped tables and tables covered in tiles. Light wood, cheerful colors and streaming light from the outdoor patio make this a happy and up-beat place to dine.
The establishment continues to be run by Carmi, with the addition of his wife and partner Yafit.
Not just a place to work, the restaurant is their second home. They have invested a huge amount of themselves in this restaurant, that they run with love. This is not something that you find everywhere. See a video about this restaurant
Carmi's gnocchi is called Pasta Purpura. It is served in a red sauce made with cream and tomatoes. The dish also contains beets, shallots, basil and roasted almonds. I think I got that right. Junior was so happy with the gnocchi
It was hard to wrestle it out of his hands. Who wudda thought. Then came the pizza. Not just any pizza, This is the chef's pizza, without tomato sauce. The dough is topped with cream and cheese instead, and is topped with garlic pieces, and many other goodies. Chef's pizza is so delicious, calling it pizza gives the wrong impression.
"You have made me happy!" my grandson exclaimed looking at the many dishes on the table.
But that was nothing compared to his face when the chocolate cake was delivered to our table. While he was digging in, Saba and I enjoyed a delicious piece of baked cheese cake. You won't find these desserts anywhere else. At Carmi's everything is made in house, from the pasta to the desserts.
You've got to visit this restaurant for yourself to appreciate the quality, the creativity, and the flavors of the foods. When you do, next time somebody says "Carmi's. the pizza pasta place," you will know what to answer.
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Carmi's menu: The menu ranges from breakfast to pasta and pizzas and a load of other delicious Italian specialties.There are also child-size and child-priced portions.
Parties at Carmi's
The calling card of the new design is their outdoor patio. Take in the view from its perch on the upper floor of the Solomon Center. Carmi's hosts parties, smachot, and get togethers of all kinds on the patio. Reasonably priced menus are available for bar/bat mitzva parties, sheva brachot, birthdays, etc. The delicious food combined with the happy decor and the friendly service makes this the go-to restaurant for your simcha, A good time is guaranteed for all.
Getting There: Carmi's Cafe Restaurant is located in the Solomon Center in the Shimshoni Section of Modi'in. The Solomon center has shops on three levels (with an elevator). Carmis is on the top floor. Street parking and underground parking in the building.


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On September 1, 2014 Jacaranda Health welcomed the newest addition to our family into the fold: our Kahawa West Maternity Hospital in Nairobi. We couldn't be more excited and we hope you are too!
This means we can continue to serve our mission to make pregnancy and childbirth safer for women and newborns in East Africa. Also, the Kahawa West facility is home to a brand new operating theatre, where we are able to provide women with cesarean sections and other emergency care. Providing care directly to women and newborns in the low-income areas around Nairobi where health conditions and availability of quality health care is poor, is core to our mission. But we know that the way maternal health care is delivered must be transformed, throughout East Africa, in order to save as many lives as possible.
In developing countries, including Kenya, only 64% of women (or an astounding 55 million women) give birth in health facilities. Nearly half of women don't make the recommended four visits to a health care provider, during pregnancy. These are just two reasons why one out of every 300 women who birth in Kenya, die during childbirth. Without access to skilled health care providers, and high-quality facilities, the lives of women and newborns are needlessly put at risk.
This is unacceptable and we know you think so too.
The opening of our second maternity hospital means we can now provide even more women and newborns, who need it most, access to high-quality care during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, family planning services, immunizations, and child wellness care.
Jacaranda Health is building the centers and the systems to make pregnancy and childbirth safer for women and newborns in East Africa. With this newest center, we have the privilege of serving more women and newborns with patient-centered, respectful, high-quality care and are one step closer to truly transforming the way maternal and newborn care is provided in this region of the world.


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The Palin Factor=> Trump Jumps 6 Points – Cruz Drops 6 Points Since Palin Endorsement
While the big story is the National Review article, it appears that (according to the Reuters 5 day rolling poll) over a third of Cruz's followers have abandoned him for Trump in the last 3 days since Palin announced for Trump. That's a pretty big story. Cruz has gone from 16.3% down to 10.5% while Trump has (in the same 3 days) gone from 33.4% to 40.6% .
Here is how the Reuters poll looked on January 19 – the day Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump.
And here is how the Reuters poll looked on Friday January 22.
Trump went up 6 points while Ted Cruz dropped six points.
Between Jan 15ᵗʰ and Jan 21ˢᵗ, Donald Trump rose rapidly among those aged 50-65, compared to other age groups. | Between Jan 16ᵗʰ and Jan 22ⁿᵈ, Jeb Bush gained rapidly among men, compared to women.
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Latest Weather Blog
Police ID suspect in New Orleans shooting that wounded 17
NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans police have identified a suspect in a shooting last weekend at a playground that wounded 17 people.
In a statement Friday, police said they are looking for 32-year-old Joseph "Moe" Allen, who is believed to be one of the suspects involved in the Sunday shooting. He will be charged with 17 counts of attempted first degree murder once he is located.
The police believe several other suspects were involved in the shooting and are asking people to come forward with any information they might have.
Two groups of people opened fire at each other in a crowded park as hundreds of people gathered for a block party and a music video taping.
No one was killed but seventeen people were wounded.


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Wolf Ackva (1911 - 2000) was a German voice actor known for his patriarchal, authoritative voice, put to use dubbing Sam the Eagle on Die Muppet Show and in related productions, through the German dub of Muppets Tonight.
Ackva began his career as a writer and subsequently studied medicine before entering the acting profession. He became active in German film and television from 1937 onward, and played Sherlock Holmes in a 1955 TV version of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
As a voice actor, Ackva was heard in the James Bond franchise, dubbing actors Bernard Lee and Robert Brown as "M" in a total of seven films, and Geoffrey Keen in For Your Eyes Only. He also dubbed Gregory Peck in three films, Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts, Vincent Price in Theater of Blood, James Mason in Duffy, and Ed Asner in The Doomsday Flight. His animation credits include Theoden in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings.


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Archive for October 4, 2016
The Importance of High Traction Work BootsCombat bootsComfortable boot, High traction work boots
Uniforms are an important part of many jobs. They provide a distinct way to identify different employees in a community, such as police officers, firemen and military professionals. These uniforms provide a feeling of community, safety and security for the different divisions of employment. They also allow other professionals in similar fields the ability to identify other employees. This can be important in fields such as the police and military fields. Additionally, uniforms are often designed with comfort and fit. They need to fit appropriately and be comfortable for the fields whose employees are on their feet for many hours of the day.
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All manual wheelchairs will suffer from an amount of wear and tear over a period of time and are likely to require a spare part from time to time.
We provide all sorts of parts and spares for the most popular manual wheelchairs in the UK, ranging from tyres to brake cables to arm rests. Within our accessories department there is a variety of clothing and equipment that can be used with a wheelchair.
Below we have listed some of the more popular spares, but if you cannot find what you are looking for then please email us at [email protected] or call free on 08000 961296. We have access to products not listed on this website and will be able to quickly source and provide your wheelchair spares or parts at a competitive price.


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The Cherokee County School Board has renewed its agreement with Special Olympics to have the organization continue to serve more than 300 students with intellectual disabilities.
Special Olympics agreed to provide extra-curricular athletic and inclusive sports opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities and cognitive delays. It will continue to pay registration fees and for lodging and meals for registered athletes; and provide them with opportunities to earn high school varsity letters, among other tasks.
The Cherokee schools will provide buses for transportation to selected weekend events, coordinate special needs testing with Special Olympics organizers, and provide school facilities such as playfields and gyms as available for selected weekday and evening practices, among other commitments.
The district also would provide authorized leave for two county personnel for the Georgia Special Olympics State Games – the Fall Games, Indoor Winter Games, State Summer Games and Bowling Tournament – and Special Olympics Georgia certification training.


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In spite of reading a lot of gardening tips through gardening classes, books and the internet, mistakes are invariably made. To avoid such mistakes we have brought some samples that may have made and regretted.
- Planting trees and plants in the wrong spot.
It's a pleasure as well as satisfying to work in the garden, but some people don't even know how to plant a tree. They choose the wrong spot with lack of sunlight, which make the trees to struggle during all seasons. Plants set fewer fruits and develop less tasty fruits.
- Over watering of plants.
Over watering is like killing plants with too much love. Frequent watering is necessary until seeding gets established, but once they develop good roots, you don't need to do frequent watering. Water them regularly, but not frequently because roots of some plants hate sitting in water.
- Crowding plants too close together.
This is one of the most known mistakes that a person can do. If you will plant too many varieties, you are probably squeezing seeds in your garden space. So you must harvest the plants away from each other instead of planting them closely. Too much variety in a small space will ruin the garden plants.
- Not sowing seeds at the right depth.
Plants are grown using seeds and the task of seeding is a tough one because it always makes new gardeners worry. The expert rule of seeding says that it should sow equal to three times the seed diameter. You should always use the right tools while sowing seeds.
Buy gardening products from Wonderland Gardens
You can buy beautiful planter to sow seeds in a better way from the official website of wonderland garden. They also deal in garden equipment and decorative material like flower vase, planters, etc. The product quality is very good and durable. You can buy the best products at an affordable price, from wonderland garden.


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"Squeezing into this narrow trattoria on picturesque Cornelia Street is as rewarding as always… Lee McGrath, who currently helms the kitchen isn't preoccupied with being a one-man industry; he's just busy making the meals. McGrath invents new dishes nightly…The slightly grainy ricotta cheesecake is like a meal in the rollicking restaurant: a rich, rewarding experience that ends far too soon."
"…the food served under Po's new chef Lee McGrath, is as good as it was when I first reviewed it in 1993… Po's prices have stayed remarkably reasonable… Appetizers are a strong point, with unusual combinations like delicate marinated anchovies draped over a delicious heap of faro… Salads, too, are exceptional, like roasted beets as rich as chocolate, served with artichoke leaves… Pastas and the main courses…. the standouts include rigatoni with cauliflower…. Perhaps Mr. Batali's departure and now solely in the hands of partner Steven Crane was the best thing that could have happened to Po.
NY Times, Eric Asimov: 'Where Cornelia Street's Restaurant Row Began'
"Still 'going strong' this Village 'nook' is famed for 'first-rate' 'gourmet Italian' cooking that's most accessible via the $52 'bargain' tasting menu; 'not much elbow room' is offset by the overall 'welcoming' mood.
Zagat Survey 2010 food 25 / decor 17 / service 22
"In an era of new, well-financed, grandly scaled restaurants in this city, it can be downright unusual to find a small and personal place that is clearly the work of self-reliant souls. A fine year-old example of one is Steve Crane's Po, a narrow storefront establishment on Greenwich Village's quiet Cornelia Street… A meal at Po commences with a gift from the chef with a version of bruschetta-toasts topped with a lush, garlickly white-bean salad."
"The satisfying menu may include a cured tuna appetizer, beautifully flavored with white beans, raw crunchy baby artichokes, and spicy yet cool chili-mint vinaigrette. As a twist on the typical presentation, the linguini vongole is served with crispy pancetta; and a tasting menu is offered at both lunch and dinner. For a delightful and surprisingly light end to the meal, Vermont maple syrup sauce is poured over a delicate round of flan-like ricotta cheesecake."


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The quote is attributed to Plato - it is an old 'friend' that I had forgotten about but rediscovered again today - always liked it, still do :
The only 'formal' needlework education I have received is my training in Japanese embroidery and I will always be indebted to Mr and Mrs Tamura and Kazumi for 'putting up' with me during the year and half I was cruising through the initial ten phases and their continuing to support me in my endeavors today.
At the Japanese Embroidery Center each class starts with a 'morning talk', followed by a 3 minute quiet 'meditation' period... I truly appreciate this time... I rarely stitch much during class - too busy just taking all the information in and getting distracted by everyone else's 'stuff'. The actual digestion of everything comes in the wee hours of the night and early mornings at home.
So, at one of the morning talks, they shared a story... it was a mixed class - people were working on different difficulty levels of projects... some of the beginning students were perhaps 'intimidated' by the higher phase students, the higher phase students in turn were perhaps 'intimidated' by others who were attempting more advanced 'challenge' pieces etc. etc. I am always curious and inspired by what we can achieve if we focus our minds - so this idea of intimidation is really 'bugging me'. My ideas on blogging about some of my needlework projects is truly because I believe in sharing, it is not about intimidation or boasting etc. - there are many, very talented people 'out there' and some of your emails and comments are giving me a lot to think about.
Anyway, the 'story' that morning was about a time long time ago, when the late Master Iwao Saito
(founder of Kurenai Kai- the professional guild in Japan) was reviewing the apprentices of that year. Most apprentices that year were young and unmarried, and quick. There was one apprentice who was married, a bit older perhaps, and slow. Many thought that he would not 'get to be a good embroiderer'; Master Saito, however, told them all to just let him be and supported each of his apprentices in the best way he could. Time passed, Seasons changed, and years later, this 'slower' apprentice became the most exquisite embroiderer, and in time became the head of the workshop! I have never met Mr. Yamashita personally but have seen pictures of him - in the workshop conducting organizational large projects and sitting at his frame, embroidering. From the pictures of him embroidering, I see a person totally engrossed in his work - his hands, his entire body is poised and focused on the embroidery in front of him... I have never seen his embroidery 'in person' but recognize his hand - his work has a 'light/shine' all its own... it is what really embodies another well known phrase of Mr. Tamura "Hands are the Exit of the Spirit". A few years ago, during Teacher's class, Arata-san shared with us the more recent pieces Mr Yamashita had been 'busying' himself with... his mastery of the techniques are widely accepted I think, he continues to head the workshop but now, after all these years, he wanted to see if Japanese embroidery could be more 'expressive'. He set about trying to show the feeling of freshly fallen snow in his embroidery we were told and then a picture of his embroidery appeared on the screen... he had achieved his goal and he had 'broken' some of the rules of traditional Japanese embroidery techniques.... 'broken' was the word used but in my mind, a true indication of mastery in any field is to know when and how to use the rules and then apply your skills to move beyond them. In embroidery, the medium of needle and thread then becomes the vehicle to deliver the message, achieve the goal.... it is something I aspire to in all aspects of my life. Understanding the basics, appreciating the more delicate aspects of any field, learning more advanced techniques to then someday be able to go 'beyond just techniques' and be able to make your mind and hands deliver a result you thought was possible, is what makes life so exciting for me. Shortcuts or using other stitches because they are 'easier' keeps us in our comfort zone and makes us feel good BUT there is no harm in trying, failing, trying again with more insight, getting better and enjoying this process... it opens up a world and takes me on a journey I could not have even imagined. It is worth all of it... in every field - at least in my opinion.
Hope you all do not mind this type of a post... my hope is that it propels you to just 'try'... and learn to enjoy the process....


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The Boniface Family
Looks like this mommy has two valentines this year! I was so, so happy when my good friends, Jenessa and LJ, asked me to take Valentine's photos for their beautiful family. Lennox, 8 months, was a ham in his special "Be Mine" bib, and he sure does love his mama! We started by finding just the right spot outside their home, and decorated a tree for a festive background and to add to the love!
Lennox had a rose for his mama. What a charmer!


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A few years ago now I came down with a kidney infection that just wouldn't clear up, I had no energy, not even to get washed or dressed, then pain all over, not being able to sleep properly, forgetfulness, dizziness, bowel and bladder problems, the list goes on.
This carried on for quite a few weeks, then months, then numerous trips of going back and forth to the Doctors to see why I hadn't got my energy back and had developed all these symptoms.
If anyone has gone through this you'll know how long you have to wait in your present condition before the doctor will even refer you onto another department, but for those of you in the early stages, you have to have had your symptoms for at least 6 months before the doctor will refer you on to the Chronic Fatigue Clinic, but in that time you will have various tests which include:
- Thyroid function test
- Vitamin D
- Iron
- Celiac
- Liver function
- Potassium
- Kidney
- Full blood count
- Blood glucose
As well as all the blood tests, your doctor will more than likely prescribe you Antidepressants as they assume you are just depressed, a doctor telling you for 6 months that you are depressed makes you begin to believe it.
In my case I was deficient in Vitamin D so I had Vitamin D tablets and Antidepressants by the time I went to the CFS Clinic.
I had my first appointment for the Chronic Fatigue Clinic around 9 months after first going to the Doctor with my symptoms. With which I had to fill in a point scoring form and send off to them.
At that appointment it was with a group of other potential sufferers of CFS, the aim was to determine whether any of us actually had the condition, we learned about breathing, relaxing, sleeping, diet and stress and for 2 weeks we were to put that into practice, before receiving a phone call to go through all your symptoms and daily routine.
It was then another few weeks before receiving a letter with the outcome of the appointment and phone call, to be told they couldn't say 100% that it was fully Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and I would have to go back to the doctors.
This then started the ball rolling to see if I was suffering from Fibromyalgia.
For more information - http://www.bupa.co.uk/health-information/directory/c/chronic-fatigue-syndrome


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Chase Bank is pressing ahead with an expansion of its California branch network even as Bank of America Corp. plans to close some less profitable offices.
The JPMorgan Chase & Co. unit said it would open about 100 branches this year in California, giving it more than 900 branches in the state by the end of the year. Southern California is to get about 65 of the new offices, and 20 will go to Northern California and 15 to Central California, the company said.
Chase, which acquired most of its California branches when it took over Washington Mutual Inc. in 2008, said last year that it planned to add "hundreds more" locations in the Golden State.
In a statement Monday announcing the plan for new branches this year, Pablo Sanchez, head of Chase's Western branch network, said California remained a "high-priority growth market" for the New York bank.


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Simon Mondzain was born in Chelm, Poland, near Lublin. His father was a saddler. Mondzain knew that he wanted to become a painter since he was a child but his family was against it. Following an argument, he left his father's home and enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts in Warsaw. He temporarily worked at a saddler and as a photo retoucher. In 1905, he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw thanks to the support of the Dabkowski family and worked at Kazimierz Stabrowski's studio. In 1908, with the help of a Jewish association, he left for Krakow, where he later enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. Together with Teodore Axentowicz and Josef Pankiewicz, he discovered French impressionist painting.
Following his first exhibition in Krakow in 1909, he was awarded a scholarship and left for Paris. In 1910, he continued his studies in Krakow and struck up a friendship with Kisling and Waclaw Zawadowski (Zawado). In 1912, Mondzain settled in Paris for good and met his friends Kisling, Merkel and Zawadowski. He lived in a room in Rue Le Goff and met critic Adolphe Basler, Max Jacob, André Derain and Othon Friesz. In 1913, he stayed in Doëlan in Brittany and finished to write his memoirs.
Mondzain was in Spain when the First World War broke out. He returned to Paris and volunteered in the Polish section of the French Foreign Legion. Between 1915 and 1918, he drew his life as a soldier. In November 1917, he returned to Paris. In 1920, he visited the United States, where he was invited by the Fine Arts Club of Chicago. In 1923, he travelled in France and painted landscapes. Police chief Zamaron bought four of his paintings at the Salon des Indépendants.
Mondzain acquired French nationality in 1923. That same year, he became a member of the Salon des Tuileries. In 1925, he went to Algeria with painter Jean Launoi.There, he met his wife Simone, who was a doctor. In 1927, his friend Merkel dedicated an article to him, which was entitled « Von Kunst und Künstlers » and was published in the journal Menhora in Vienna. In 1933, the Mondzain family settled in Algiers. From this year onward, the painter spent his time between France and Algeria.
During World War II, he stayed in Algiers with his friends Albert Marquet and André Gide, who though he was a peerless chess player. Between 1939 and 1942, he welcomed many Polish refugees in Algiers. He became friends with Abbé Walzer who was a German antifascist Benedictine. In 1944, following the death of his friend Max Jacob in the Drancy internment camp, he wrote his memoirs. The latter were entitled "Max Jacob and Montparnasse" and were published in the journal l'Arche.
Following the war, Simon Mondzain lived both in Paris and Algiers, until Algeria's independence in 1962. The Mondzain family then settled in Montparnasse where the painter died on 30 December 1979.


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Did you know that the word "hummus" translates to "chickpeas" in Arabic? Modern hummus dip recipes can be traced back to 13th century Egypt, but it was not until the 1990s that hummus had a cultural impact on the United States. Today, hummus is readily available in several hummus brands and recipes because there are two important benefits of consuming this Middle Eastern food. - Various recipes. There are countless types of hummus available. Classic hummus, for example, consists of mashed chickpeas, tahini, and lemon juice, while spicy versions of hummus add chili peppers and red peppers to the classic recipe. Other versions of hummus include roasted garlic, spinach and artichoke, and sun dried tomato, all of


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We've been studying the explorers who searched the Pacific Coast for a Northwest Passage. A few highlights included:
- the NW Passage game
- the NW Passage song
- the trial of Francis Drake
- letters to (and from) Queen Elizabeth
- NW Passage timelines & book with Drake, Heceta, Cook, Gray, and Vancouver
- sailors and scurvy (aye, we need sauerkraut!)
- the sea otter/fur trader game
As I receive parental permission to post photos I will add more**, so check back if you are interested in seeing additional examples! ;)


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I think they might make for good Rebel Robots in a Judge Dredd setting so here is a Judge bringing some Law and Order to them. The Judge was completed in a previous Painting Challenge so no points for him.
Wow, what an amazing cacophony of movement, textures and colours. It took me a moment to be able to focus in on what's actually going on, but these figures are excellent. The vibrant red panels on the robots really identify them as a team and make them more visually interesting. Love the Judge in the final shot!


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Friday, 7 September 2012
Bravo Brazil!
10 comments:
- Harvee Lau said...
The Brazilian cover is lovely! Much luck with the readers there. I bet they will love the book!
- 7 September 2012 at 04:42
- Vanessa said...
I love the Brazilian cover and hope it does well for you there. Good luck with your writing this autumn. We also had a spell without WiFi connection and it was a real pain.
- 7 September 2012 at 06:05
- Karen Wojcik Berner said...
That is a beautiful cover. Best of luck with it.
- 7 September 2012 at 06:32
- Gill Edwards said...
I dont mind if your blog gets neglected if it means who are writing us another great book
- 8 September 2012 at 03:12
- Lisa Erin said...
- 9 September 2012 at 02:36
- MuMuGB said...
Well, Deborah, it looks like you cannot be stopped! What's next?
- 9 September 2012 at 03:56
Salut Muriel! What's next? Off the top of my head...Poland, Hungary, Croatia...!
- 9 September 2012 at 07:48
- Marcheline said...
GORGEOUS cover. And have no worries... if the folks in Brazil have any soul whatsoever (and I believe they do) they will fall in love with The Lantern just like the rest of us!
- 9 September 2012 at 08:24
- M.Suhet said...
Hello Deborah!
I have a site facing the national literature, and as you will soon be launched in Brazil by Editora Rocco, I wonder if you agree to participate in a short interview.
Are some questions for readers Brazilians know more about you and your work.
I await your response.
Please answer me in suhet.elrohir @ gmail.com
Thank you!
- 15 September 2012 at 03:19
- liam said...
Nice post. It shows how rich could a literature be in terms of translation.Through translating shows the rich blend of knowledge and culture in a society.Whether in Portuguese translation or in any foreign language translation helps one to get acquainted with the thoughts, traditions, principles and actions of the people from the region.Especially in the ever faster moving world of globalized business, successful information and technology transfer within multinational businesses can make the difference between win or lose.
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Anyway, today I'm sharing the four shades I used for my nail art look - I just couldn't resist swatching these beauties!
Here are the four shades I used. This was my first experience trying out cremes from this brand, and I was definitely impressed! The formula was creamy and easy to use, and they had nice opacity. Let's take a look at these individually:
I'll start off with Black, a nice, basic black creme. I can never get enough black polishes, and I am so excited to add this one to my collection. It was really easy to apply, and practically opaque in one coat - shown above is two coats with top coat.
Next is Hot Lips, a neon pink creme. This one had a slightly different formula from the others, probably because of its neon nature, but it was still super easy to apply! It was a tiny bit more sheer though. Shown above is three easy coats with top coat - this one did dry to a slightly matte finish.
Bonbon is a gorgeous medium blue creme. This is part of their newest collection, along with the next color, and I am literally obsessed with it. I am a sucker for blue polishes and this one is just so pretty! Perfect for any time of year. Shown above is two easy coats with top coat.
Finally we have Tingle, a beautiful minty green creme. This shade is definitely a classic (reminds me of a Tiffany blue!) and the formula was just perfection. Shown above is two easy coats with top coat.
These shades are all available from piCture pOlish for $11 AUD each. You can also check out their list of international stockists for worldwide shipping.
And here is the nail art look I did using these four polishes:
You can check out their YouTube channel to see my guest post on how I created this color blocking look!
What do you think of these shades? Do you like the color blocking nail art?


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Beauty And The Beast DvdReviewing: Beauty And The Beast Platinum Edition Dvd | Rating:
Beauty and the Beast: Platinum Edition DVD is a special edition DVD that was released within the past couple of years, and has many special features, including newly remasted picture and sound, a new song that wasn't in the original version of the movie and many featurettes about the making of the movie. It tells the story of a young woman named Belle who is waiting to meet the man of her dreams, and stumble upon a castle in the woods with a wild cast of characters, most of whom are furniture or tableware. She also eventually meets the head of the house, a man who has been transformed into a beast by a wicked witch. Belle and the beast end up falling for each other, but the beast feels that there is no way that she could love him due to his outward appearance, but Belle informs him that true beauty is on the inside, and they would live happily ever after no matter what he looked like. I think this is one of my favorite Disney animated movies and it is perfect for anyone of any age that enjoys the standard Disney fairytale movie.


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An Arabastro marble chimney piece, early 20th century. The compound and bolection moulded opening with squared edges raised on shaped base blocks. The popularity of the plain bolection moulded chimney piece has remained fashionable since the late 17th century.
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I've disappointed myself by not having a Willie Nelson song (or any country song for that matter) featured in the weekly "Workin' For The Weekend" game previews. It wasn't on purpose, I swear. My love of "western" music runs deep. It just never felt like the right moment…until now.
"On The Road" again, the featured song from the Honeysuckle Rose soundtrack in which Willie made his lead acting debut, is a national treasure. Just barely making it into the 80's, the song is easily one of the most recognizable Nelson tracks. It fits the movie in which it was spawned perfectly, but it also personifies the life of the Red-headed Stranger in the most precise way.
The road warrior who's spent the majority of his life playing his beat up guitar, braiding his ancient locks, smoking his favorite wild seed, and performing some of the greatest Texas music the world has ever known. From ballads to barn burners, anthems to accessible solos — Willie has an all encompassing bag of musical tricks.
Yet the parts of "On The Road Again" are simple. Playing music, loving friends and family, being a soldier of the road; all things that Mr. Nelson grew to love, and made you love him in return. And the world embraces this mantra whenever it hits the open road for hours of American gazing.
The Oklahoma City Barons begin a March/April schedule that will test even the most sturdiest of road-worn travelers. And it really starts tonight in Cedar Park where the team faces the Texas Stars. Following the game, likely ending post-10pm, they'll board a plane for Charlotte to play a game at 4pm the next day. The life of a minor leaguer is brutal, especially when you are a team in the South Division looking for points, and the schedule gives you absolutely no help. But Willie's world collides with that of the a team from Oklahoma City. "Like a band of gypsies, we go down the highway" and let's insist "that the world keep turning our way" as well as some standing points. Saddle up!
Texas on Saturday. Charlotte on Sunday. Charlotte on Monday.
That's an interesting road trip for the Oklahoma City Barons. Interesting and important. Each team from the South Div, each team ahead of the Barons, each team wanting to lock down a playoff spot, and so we begin.
Your two Barons goaltenders are Niko Hovinen (1a) and Olivier Roy (1b). Both are fully capable of playing solid hockey between the pipes, and both will need to be in top form as both will likely play in a three-in-three situation. Roy, having been in Stockton since February 12th, returns to the Barons lineup as a top Oilers goaltending prospect who needs to be super good to not only prove his continued worth in the AHL, but perhaps in the NHL one day. This feels like a road trip where goaltending is key.
Offensively speaking the Barons now ice a team full of weapons. Jonathan Cheechoo and recent addition, CJ Stretch, are above average AHLer's. Stretch, in particular, has been wasting away in the ECHL of late, but if he were to play in a similar mode to that on Tuesday, he'll be a keeper. Cheechoo hasn't had "huge" games in the last two, but he's still a force. It's a vet like he that teaches most by doing. And he's done that to this point. The hope that he doesn't fade down the stretch.
Randy Jones has been good. Brett Clark has been great. The two have really revived the Barons defensive core over the last two weeks, and that's a nice thing to actually hear myself say. The team has needed that since mid-October. Along with Marincin, Fedun, Teubert, and Plante, the Barons defense has come along nicely, but climbing the ladder one more wrung would be welcomed.
Texas, on a two game losing streak that started in OKC Tuesday, looks to get back to their winning ways very soon. And nothing on this team leads us to believe they'll do anything but. And in familiarity the Barons have to battle mediocrity – in net and on defense.
Nipping at the heels of the Stars are the Charlotte Checkers, who are as quick as they are unpredictable. If there were a team in the South that could make a run towards the end of the season, it'd be the Checkers. They've split the season series with OKC, and Arcobello, Cornet and Cheechoo have a combined fifteen points against Charlotte. The guns will need to be locked and loaded as the Checkers typically unleash a monumental gameplan against the Barons. I expect nothing different this weekend when they face-off on Sunday and Monday.
Likely Oklahoma City Barons Lineup:
Philippe Cornet – Mark Arcobello – Jonathan Cheechoo
Toni Rajala – C.J. Stretch – Josh Green
Eric Hunter – Ryan Martindale – Antti Tyrvainen
Darcy Hordichuk – Tanner House – Curtis Hamilton
Brett Clark – Taylor Fedun
Randy Jones – Andrew Hotham
Martin Marincin – Colten Teubert/Alex Plante
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Child friendly garden water feature - a small garden stream and spring.
A young family and ponds or water features in a garden can be a receipt of disaster waiting to happen. However with a little though its possible to include a water feature in a child friendly garden and so enhance the experience of the garden from a child's point of view. Over the years the GardenAdvice team have developed two child safe types of water features which have the added advantage of attacking addition wildlife and adding another dimension to your garden. Here the GardenAdvice team show you how to build a child friendly stream and spring water feature.
The spring
The simplest of ideas the spring is a hole dug in the ground, lined with a butly liner normally an off cut available from your local fish and pond centre. Into this is placed a garden water feature pump and then the area is back filled with 10 mm clean gravel.
The water is pumped through a number of different interchangeable fountain heads and is recycle back through the gravel, The gravel acts as a filter and allows safe access by children to the foundation head.
A garden spring feature also has the added advantage of creating a micro climate for plants such as ferns and other plants that require a higher than normal air moisture content. Find out how to construct your own garden spring with our expert guide Coming shortly
The stream
Similar to the spring in construction but with the addition of a small stream section. Created by firstly digging a shallow sloping channel in your garden and lining with a butyl liner. Then by adding rocks and loose sand and gravel its possible to create a natural looking stream. The water is pumped to the head of the stream feature from a sump similar to the one constructed for the spring water feature at the base of the stream.
A great garden feature for children, if you have ever as a child played Po-sticks or made paper boats and raced them in a small stream then this will give you some idea just how much fun this feature can provide to children.
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Oh my, this isn't just a delicious recipe, it's a beautiful one. Shirley knew that many coleslaw recipes call for lots of sugar but this one doesn't need it. Shirley served it in barbecued sandwiches. As Shirley said, "This is similar to what my mother used to make when I was a kid. It was good then and even better now. It is a refreshing salad." Maybe the weather is going to break down here in Texas, finally, but we'll still need refreshing food. So why not triple the recipe, as I did for this photo!
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Serves 6 - 8
6 - 8 cups shredded green cabbage (approximately)
1 cup shredded carrots (approximately)
1 large organic red apple, diced
1/4 cup dried cherries or golden raisins or both
4 green onions, thinly sliced
1 cup vegan mayonnaise such as Vegenaise
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice or apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons vegan sugar
1 teaspoon dry tarragon flakes
1/4 teaspoon salt
1. In a large salad bowl, combine cabbage, carrots, apples, cherries and onions.
2. In a smaller bowl, whisk together tofu salad dressing, vinegar, sugar, tarragon and salt. Pour dressing over cabbage mixture and toss. Chill before serving, if possible.


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Robert Pattinson must be wondering if he'll ever step out of Edward Cullen's shadow (wait, do vampires have shadows?).
Thinking he'd seen the last of Cullen and the'Twilight' series, the pale and interesting one had his long locks shorn in celebration. Then came the news he'd have to shoot pick up scenes for the final film in the series, 'Breaking Dawn Part 2.'
That means he will have to sport a long blond fright wig for the scheduled re-shoot of some key scenes of the final installment.
According to Galatta, Pattinson and his real life love Kristen Stewart will both be returning to Vancouver to shoot a few final scenes.
Bill Condon, the film's director has vowed that there will be no new scenes or dialogue to rehearse during the re-shoot, instead they are simply planning to pick up some additional shots to complete the movie.
Talking about the final shoot, the director of the highly anticipated finale enthused: "I am really looking forward to being back on set with some of the friends I've made on my 'Twilight' journey, like the great Guillermo Navarro, our cinematographer, and his crew. And yes, Rob and Kristen will be there too, to pop in those gold contacts one last time."


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Prof.Bhim Singh, Member of NIC, Shri Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman-JKNPP and Shri Balwant Singh Mankotia, President-JKNPP condemned brutal killing of young man, S. Jagjeet Singh in Jammu yesterday while the people were protesting against police. The NPP leaders demanded high power judicial inquiry and a compensation of Rs.1 crore to the family of the deceased young man who has been killed ruthlessly in the day light and public while exercising his right to protest. Right to protest, express views and right to speech is fundamental right of every citizen and its denial is an offence.
The NPP leaders accused PDP-BJP government for creating such a situation in the peace-loving city of temples by such dastardly acts to divert the attention of the citizens in Jammu from the real issues and upper most is the AIIMS. The NPP leaders said that the latest bandh observed in Jammu in one voice and unity demonstrated by the residents of Jammu Pradesh had shaken the coalition government. This outrageous act of gunning down a young man was aimed to create tension and disturbed harmony.
They said that the law of the land does not authorize anybody, even the kings and monarchs to kill any person. There is law of the land to deal with any situation or with any offence committed by any person or persons.
The NPP leaders made an appeal to the people of Jammu from all walks of life to keep their centuries' old tradition of communal harmony which has been a cultural entity of the people of Jammu.


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Visio has some great "mash-up" capabilities, which enable it to easily be integrated into SharePoint 2010. To create a simple Visio Web part diagram, follow these steps:
1. Open Visio 2010. Click File ➪ New and then select the ITIL Diagram.
2. Create a diagram.
3. When you finish building the diagram , click the Backstage tab (the tab on the upper-left part of the Visio document) and then click Share. At the bottom of the Backstage view, select Web Diagram. Note that, after you've finished, when you click Save As, there is an Options button that you can click to see
what pages (if you have multiple pages in your Visio diagram) will be published to Visio Services.
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5. Click the drop-down menu beside the uploaded document and select View Properties.
6. Select Copy Shortcut.
7. Navigate to the location where you want to add the diagram on your SharePoint site, and then click Site Actions ➪ Edit Page.
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A few excerpts from a very juicy Videogamer interview with associate producer Greg Rinaldi, EA Tiburon…
VideoGamer.com: You guys are talking about the 1:1 motion on the swing in Tiger Woods 09 on Wii. Were you aware of Nintendo's MotionPlus before it was announced at E3?
GR: No, we wish we were. It's interesting. I'm a big fan of Nintendo. I have a lot of respect for those guys. I think they've done amazing things for the industry. If it wasn't for Nintendo there would be no games industry. So I think the fact that they were able to take a risk that they took on something like the Wii was huge. They showed they weren't willing to go with the flow. They showed that they were going to go in their own direction, and a lot of people doubted them, but they kinda… I think they prevailed in the end. Microsoft and Sony are holding their own, but Nintendo is showing, hey look, we're still in the game, and we're still the ones that are going to…
VideoGamer.com: Do you think it could revolutionise sports games?
GR: Absolutely. I think it could revolutionise video games in general. I'm surprised that Nintendo is able to make it affordable. A gyroscope is an expensive piece of equipment, so they must have a good partner working with them. We were discussing what it would take to get a really real swing, and they were like, well you'd need a gyroscope. I did some research on my own, and gyroscopes are pricey. EA isn't in the business of creating peripherals, but it's something we toyed with a little bit. I say leave it to the people like Nintendo. They know what they're doing.
VideoGamer.com: I've always wondered why EA doesn't release its own console.
GR: We do games (laughs). Obviously it's way over my pay grade (laughs). I know there are rumours about it and this and that, but we do games and we do games well. That's something that we should really focus on.
There is a lot more discussion on the game itself, as well as EA's take on the Microsoft motion-sensing controller rumors. Check out the full interview here


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Picking out the perfect designer swimwear can be quite a challenge, especially if you don't have a fashionista friend to help you out while you're out and about shopping. We've decided on the three most essential tips of the season that will make you the chicest chick on the beach!
DO wear a trendy monokini. They are so in right now. One pieces are just as sexy as the ever-so-popular bikini! They come in a variety of styles but our favorite is the deep plunge monokini because it twists the standard one-piece into something way more impressive. Whether you want to spice up your luxury swimwear wardrobe or make a fashion statement, this piece looks stunning on all body-types. We absolutely adore block colors like black and teal, especially when they are accented with gold or silver. If you're feeling sassy or bold, do not hesitate to rock those animal print patterns! After all, Miranda Kerr isn't afraid to get wild!
DON'T forget sunscreen! You do not want the crazy tan lines that the monokini is capable of creating. In addition, sunscreen is vital for skin protection while you're out in the hot sun, so it's a good idea to slather it on regardless of what style swimwear you decide on.
DO wear all white by the water. If your swimsuit is accented with gold, you'll look like a beautiful Greek goddess that just arrived from the oceanside of ancient Greece! I mean, just look at how stunning our model and Kim Kardashian look! White is a color usually associated with good, perfection, cleanliness, and honesty. Hey you never know, you may want to snag your future husband at the poolside one day!
DON'T make the mistake of purchasing cheap white swim attire! White bikinis are worth every bit of cash because quality suits are made with material that will NOT be see through. The last thing you want on a relaxing day outside is a horrible fashion mishap. Just make sure you stick with a brand you can trust, like LadyLux.
DO invest in a tasteful tunic! Nothing is better than feeling fashionable before AND after you show off that hot bod in a bikini. Ones on the looser side are easy to slip on and off when you want to dive into the water and they also keep you warm when it gets breezy while you're watching the sunset.
DON'T forget to keep it creative. It may be natural to think that an average-looking tunic is fine because you'll be in your bikini all day. However, cover-ups are still a way to express yourself, so make sure it has something special about it. What's in style now are deep cuts, long ties, and chic patterns. Check out Adriana Lima and our beautiful model above for voguish ideas!
There are your top 3 fashion do's and don'ts of luxury swimwear. Bookmark this article for future reference, write it in your fashion diary, or just shop now so you don't forget!


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Thanks to legislation enacted in April, all employees of nonprofit organizations, including churches, are now mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse in Arkansas.
Thanks to legislation enacted in April, all employees of nonprofit organizations, including churches, are now mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse in Arkansas.
However, it's a fact of which many 501(c)(3) nonprofits may be unaware, according to local child advocates.
"Some organizations have in the past requested employees or volunteers to report to them if something needed to be reported," said Jackie Hamilton of Hamilton House in Fort Smith. "When I do mandated-reporter training, I point out that the law holds them civilly and criminally responsible for reporting — not reporting to a supervisor or to your boss or reporting to a director, but reporting to the hotline."
Act 1056 of 2015 sponsored by Arkansas Rep. John Baine, D-El Dorado, requires an employee of a nonprofit charitable organization to report child maltreatment.
The state already required people in many fields to report child abuse, including day-care workers, dentists, Department of Human Service employees, foster parents, judges, law enforcement, nurses, doctors, prosecutors, school counselors and officials, teachers, juvenile probation officers, clergy members and others.
"It's basically any person who comes into contact with children on a regular basis," said Amy Webb, spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department of Human Services.
The law is designed to protect children being abused by family members or children who may not be comfortable telling family members, but would tell a teacher, for example, who could then pass on the information to investigators, Webb said.
Baine said a national shift to require reporting suspected child abuse motivated him to sponsor the legislation.
Many nonprofits, such as Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, 4-H Club, churches and religious organizations, had already taken their own steps to make reporting child abuse mandatory within their own groups, Baine said.
The point of the legislation was to clear up any conflicts or ambiguity with reporting abuse, Baine said.
Lt. Philip Pevehouse, spokesman for the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office, also serves as pastor at Massard Missionary Baptist Church. Pevehouse said he is aware of mandatory reporting requirements because of his role with law enforcement, but other religious leaders in the community may not know the law.
"I haven't seen anything officially being passed down," he said. "My guess would be that most churches are not aware."
Pevehouse noted that because pastors were already designated mandated reporters under the law, other employees, volunteers or church members might turn to them if there is any suspected abuse.
The Child Abuse Hotline is there for a reason, Pevehouse said.
Pastor Jerry Jennings at Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church in Fort Smith said he was unaware of the change to the law, but that he would address his congregation about it.
"It's a very important issue," he said. "We do need to be apprised of it."
Although volunteers and non-employed members of charities do not fall under the purview of the amendment, including them is something that to which Baine would be open, he said.
Sam Sicard, a founder of Stand Up, Speak Out in Fort Smith, said part of the group's mission is ensuring that adults take responsibility in watching out for children and reporting any suspected abuse.
"If you're going to work with children, from a volunteer's standpoint, you should be accountable to our society and to our community, to each other," he said.
Several states have laws in place stating that any adult with the proper mental capacity is considered a mandatory reporter of child abuse, Baine said.
Hamilton said she would support such a law in the state. Baine said he hadn't made up his mind as to whether he would pursue a measure or something similar to it, but that he doesn't want to see Arkansas rank among the lowest in reporting child abuse.
The Child Abuse Hotline can be reached at (800) 482-5964.


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We have reviewed your Dossier One and have forwarded it to Russia. It will be translated and notarized when it arrives in Russia.
From this point, you will be waiting to receive the Region assignment. Your dossier will be submitted to the region we anticipate you will receive the most expedient referral according to your preferences.
Please note that it is also possible to receive an invitation or referral from one of the Regions that FTIA is working in Russia, without prior region assignment. If you accept your referral (with medical information), you will be traveling to this region. If this region does not provide medical information prior to your travel, you will receive an invitation to travel on your 1st trip to meet a child and receive medical information at the same time.
When the Ministry of Education has issued an invitation or referral for you to travel to Russia for your first trip, we will notify you immediately. Please be prepared to provide a new name for your child during your first trip. It is difficult to provide you a very specific time estimate since it depends on the parameters of the child you have requested. Generally the wait is longer for infant girls and shorter for infant boys.
Please be reviewing the Russia Travel Guide on MyFTIA under Country Specific Critical Information to help you start preparing for your time in Russia.
When you receive an invitation or referral and it is time to book your flight, please refer to the Russia Travel Guide for travel agency names and telephone numbers on MyFTIA. Also, we strongly recommend purchasing a ticket that is flexible for your return flight because travel dates may change, or your stay could be extended a few days. While a more flexible ticket is generally more expensive, it may be well worth it. Whichever travel agency you use, please email or fax FTIA a copy of your travel itinerary to (812) 479-XXXX as soon as your travel is arranged. A travel letter containing your detailed travel information, your itinerary, and invoice will be emailed to you shortly thereafter, but not before, we receive your flight information. Your invoice payment must be received at FTIA before you leave for Russia.
As you know, from our previous discussions, we require that every family adopting from Russia obtain an independent opinion from a medical doctor when trying to determine whether to accept the referral of a child. FTIA does require Adopting Parent(s) to base your decision on whether or not to accept the referral on that opinion. You can find a list of the international adoption medical specialists on our web site. We strongly recommend Adopting Parents to utilize one of several listed doctors because they all have substantial experience reviewing Russian medicals that are very different than US medical reports.
You may want to begin contacting physicians who specialize in international adoption to assist you to review the referral information (medical extract and 1-3 photos). The fee for this service may vary from a request by the physician for a donation to his/her clinic to a set fee ranging from $200 - $300. Often the fee you pay includes services and follow-up counseling after you return from Russia.
If you receive medical information prior to your first trip, you will have the referral information reviewed and make your decision based on that medical opinion before you leave for your first trip. An international adoption medical specialist you select will have to review the referral information and provide you with his/her opinion within 3-5 days. When a referral is refused, FTIA requires Adopting Parent(s) to obtain a written statement by email or fax from the doctor to submit to the Russian adoption officials stating their medical concerns/diagnosis.
If you do not receive medical information prior to your travel, you will be emailing/faxing the medical information and pictures of your child to your international adoption medical specialist from Russia while being on the first trip and he/she will review the information and provide his/her opinion to you typically within a few hours. Make sure before you leave that you have the correct telephone numbers, e-mail address, fax numbers, etc. for the international specialist. Our staff in Russia will be assisting you with sending this information to your doctor. If your doctor recommends against accepting a referral for medical reasons, you will have to ask him/her to prepare a short letter addressed to you that includes the child's name, date of birth and reason for his/her recommendation and have the letter faxed to you in Russia.
Please review the information about the visa process on how to apply for your entry visa to Russia before your trip on MyFTIA. Do not apply for visas now. Upon receiving your first or second trip travel dates we will provide detailed instructions on how to apply for your visas.
As always, in the meantime, please feel free to call or e-mail with any questions.
Inessa Shiryaeva
Russia Coordinator
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Dear Steve & Liz:
We have reviewed your Dossier One and have forwarded it to Russia. It will be translated and notarized when it arrives in Russia.
Posted by lizzytro at 1:53 PM 3 comments
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The dossier has left the building!
About 3:00 yesterday afternoon to be exact. Steve dropped the box at FedEx, and there is no turning back.
So what does the process look like from here? Well, much like the typical pregnancy, we wait. Our agency currently estimates that it will be 2-7 months before we travel to Russia for our first trip. During this time, we will meet with the orphanage director and/or medical personnel and gather as much health history as possible. We will do a large amount of communicating with some staff at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, who work specifically with health related issues from international adoption. Most importantly, we will meet Samuel and Rowan. We will be able to take video and pictures of the boys, so everyone will get to meet them when we come come. This trip will last about one week.
We then return home without the boys. At that time we will gather additional paperwork, some of which will be our formal intent to adopt the boys, and setting a court date. Approximately 3-4 months later, we will return to Russia to appear before a Russian judge to finalize the adoption. Russia has a 10 day waiting period before the adoption is final, but often, that can be waived. We then head to Moscow to obtain the boys birth certificates, passports, and visas, and head home. The second trip will last 14-24 days.
We are hoping to have the boys home by Christmas 2009. Potentially, it could be as early as June or July 2009.
The updates may be a bit more sporadic for a while, but I'll try to post at least once a week. Check back often!
Posted by lizzytro at 8:47 AM 2 comments
Monday, January 19, 2009
notarizations, authentications, and apostilles...oh my!
First, we received the last of our documents, which included the I-171H, the blessing of the US government.
Thursday night we had the last of our documents notarized. Friday morning Steve headed to the Clerk of Courts office to have them authenticated. Friday afternoon, we left for Columbus to make a visit to the Secretary of States office to get everything apostilled. A grand total of 40 documents made the trip, which represented the past 6 months of work, and the criteria for which Samuel and Rowan will be selected. Its hard to imagine that 28.5 (or 30.5 for Steve) years can be boiled down to 40 pieces of paper.
Anyway, we had fun on our road trip. It was probably the most fun 4 hours in a car I've ever had. Don't worry, we took pictures.
Steve, the fearless ship commander.
The Royal Inn. This has nothing to do with our adoption. We stopped to get gas, and noticed the hotel. A friend of ours once spend about 3 horrible hours in this location. If you know him, ask him the story. It's well worth it.
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
We had a flurry of adoption activity this week, the most significant being the completion of our dossier. We will be sending that early this week. Other news and events to come.
Posted by lizzytro at 5:20 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
lesson learned
I learned a new lesson this week. Be aware of elections to local officials, i.e. Clerk of Courts and Secretary of States.
I went to the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts office on January 5th to have some documents authenticated. Little did I know, the newly elected CoC had just been sworn in (literally within the hour), and the county documents did not yet have her name on them.
It should only take a few days to have all the new info complete. At least now I know where the courthouse is.
Posted by lizzytro at 10:25 PM 0 comments
Friday, January 2, 2009
Adoptions terms
I have discovered that when I post, I do a large amount of explaining of terms, and thought it would be a good idea to post definitions to some of the terms most frequently used.
Without further ado...
Home study - the assessment and preparation process a prospective adoptive family undergoes to determine whether they should adopt and what type of child would best fit the family. This is also referred to as preadoptive counseling. The home study is conducted by a social worker, and generally included interviews with the adoptive parent, education and training related to adoption and childcare, and collection of paperwork similar to the dossier.
CIS - United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a bureau in the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It performs many of the functions formerly carried out by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service(INS), which was part of the Department of Justice. The stated priorities of the USCIS are to promote national security, to eliminate case backlogs, and to improve customer services.
Dossier – a collection of paperwork about a person. In adoptions, this will include birth certificates, financial/employment information, completed home study, obligations required by the country of adoption. Each country has different requirement, and each dossier is different. Each document in a dossier must be original, notarized and apostilled.
Apostille - legalization of a document for international use under the terms of the 1961 Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents. Documents which have been notarized by a notary public, and certain other documents, and then certified with a conformant apostille are accepted for legal use in all the nations that have signed the Hague Convention. Each document must receive this certification from the state of origin before it is acceptable for international use.
Hague Convention - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Convention. This is one place to fully read about the Hague Conventions. In short, it's a set of regulations for international practices. International adoptions are regulated under Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. One of the key components of this regulation is to protect the right of children, and prevent abduction, sale, and human trafficking of children internationally. To say that a country is a "Hague Country" means that the country subscribes to the regulations set forth by the Convention in regards to international adoption and child protection. Not all countries subscribe to the Convention.
I-600A – the formal application to USCIS for the intention to adopt foreign born orphans and make them US citizen. This form is used when the child/children being adopted are unknown, in the case of most international adoptions. A similar form is the I-800A. This form is used for international adoptions from a Hague Country.
I-171H – the official document from CIS stating the approval of the I-600A, and by proxy, the approval of the adoption of foreign born orphans to become US citizens. This information is also sent to the US Embassy/Consulate of the adoption country. The original letter must be hand carried and presented to officials in country.
Another good reference is http://www.adoption.com/. There is an encyclopedia of terms for both domestic and international adoption, as well as resources and information for birth mothers and adoptive parents.
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Jibreel: Yeah but [Hufer] that's like [Axis] complaining that his Toyota Camry is stuck in the mud and you responding "Well my M1 Abrams doesn't seem to be having much trouble."
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Who isn't excited about future technologies? IoT in particular, has captured the imagination of both consumers and businesses, alike with its potential ability to improve our lifestyles and anticipate our needs.
But what's even more thrilling is when leaders in IoT are themselves excited about something new on the horizon.
Manthan spoke to several such leaders to learn their views on the latest Internet of Things (IoT) products.
What is your favorite, new Internet of Things (IoT) product?
Technology & Digital Strategist
"For me, the IoT device that shows both the most promise and is a bit of a sleeper hit just now, is the Amazon Echo. You can control networked devices like Nest with it, order an Uber from it, and of course order goods from Amazon. Its use cases are expanding all the time, and it will ignite a race from Apple and Google to be the prime ambient interface in your home."
Head of Innovation, Brandwidth
"Fave IoT product is… actually it's something I can't name because of an NDA but can give an idea. It's the combination of 'Hearable' and live translation. Superb concept to deliver real-time, in-ear, live translation, especially as I'm so bad with languages. Has the potential to transform international travel."
Forbes Top 20 "Social Media Power Influencer"
"Hated my Google Glass. Love my Apple Watch. Hands-free alerts. Health tracking. GPS tapping = heads-up for driving. Social media management. Commerce. Managing calls. Seeing text messages at a glance. Finding my lost iPhone! Would love to see Apple launch a driverless car! Connected things must be efficient, safe and secure."
CEO / CAO, Statoo Consulting
Adjunct Professor of Data Science, University of Geneva
"My favourite new Internet of Things (IoT) product is Analytics of Things (AoT). IoT devices generate a lot of data and statistical principles and rigour are necessary to correctly collect the "right" data and to make sense out of these big data. Therefore, at the heart of AoT lies statistics. A promising IoT technology product to fulfil this is the Dell Edge Gateway."
"The IoT technology I am most excited about right now is anything in the augmented reality space. I am always saying that connectivity facilitates communication and that drives interaction and data insights and I think nothing is better positioned to take advantage of this better than AR. I recently had a conversation with the CEO of LaForge Optical about their upcoming AR Glasses product. I think they are moving in the right direction as far as what will be a winning combination in this space and I am super excited to see the traction they gain post launch."
Author, IoT Disruptions
"My favorite IoT Product is Alexa. Alexa is the voice API that drives the Amazon Echo device. It is the center of our home and chats with the whole family. Its success is because of its open API connecting to Nest and other home products and also allowing developers to add 'skills' such as SMSwithMolly to send texts by talking to Alexa."
CIO, Maxil Technology Solutions
iCrunchdataNews Author
"A lot of people think about IoT in the area of sensors and wirelessly connected things, such as lights that turn on through an app. But actually, IoT is about much more than things; it's also about the insights and capabilities that connectivity provides and how these new capabilities can create better value. When I think of a successful IoT case, I often think about Uber, a ride-sharing, car-hailing app that takes advantage of connectivity information to deliver value to both drivers and passengers.
So how exactly does Uber monetize IoT? Uber doesn't build its own connected cars, doesn't own any cars and doesn't own the drivers. Its business model simply taps into the data enabled by IoT. Using information such as driver location, passenger location and payment method, Uber helps connect the dots between a passenger looking for a ride and a driver willing to provide it. By packaging this material in a consumable way through a mobile app, Uber delivers a new level of customer engagement and gives power to the consumer."
Director, Adversitement
"My favourite IoT product is Philips HUE and its app that continuously recommends me which light scene fits best in each room depending on the day, time, weather, my behaviour and my previous choices. Being at home has become a 'new experience'!"
"Being IoT aficionado, I'm always looking for something to amaze me and still be such a useful case for the masses. Saying that, I fell in love with Hansure by Observe Design.
Those guys came with the solution to help hospitals and doctors who work there. The tool is analysing the movement and informs doctors to disinfect their hands by using special gel from the device which is clipped to the doctor's belt. That feature, where one small device measures, analyses, warns, releases gel and gives doctors an opportunity to be fast when moving from patient to patient, clean and safe and saves lives….is absolutely priceless."
VIT tech journo
"My favourite IoT device of the moment has to be the Amazon Echo. A truly smart home assistant that is bridging the gap between yesterday's dream and the future of super intelligent homes. It helps fight loneliness, answers most questions accurately and is a fantastic entertainment system. Once connecting it to other parts of the home (lighting, sound system, etc.) becomes easier for the average consumer, it will become a very powerful product. It will be interesting to see other companies coming out with similar products. It's picking up!"
IoTWeeklyNews.com .
"Fluid Water Meter gives you the ability to track water usage and alerts when usage falls out of configured bounds. Great for detecting leaks, setting goals and tracking usage. I see great uses in commercial and municipalities to use less water in recreation centers and government buildings."
VP & Principal Analyst, Constellation Research Inc.
"Every new product innovation like the Halo Smart Labs Smoke Alarm from Halo Smart Labs is subjected to one simple, but profound question: "Will this save lives?" Only when the answer is yes does the company move forward to production. Halo's singular focus is to ensure they will deliver on their mission – to make the environment in, and around, every home in the world safer."


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Capitol College is now offering graduate students who attend a Virtual Open House one free credit toward their first enrollment in a Capitol College master's degree program.
Just like an on-campus Open House, a VOH is Capitol College's way of acclimating potential graduate students to the online learning environment, helping them to make the hard decision of choosing a college that will advance their education and careers.
"Virtual Open Houses provide students the opportunity to learn about our programs, speak directly to faculty and deans, and ask questions," Dr. Michael Wood, Capitol College president, said. "Most importantly they are able to experience first hand our unique online platform, Capitol Live."
Prospective students will earn a $549 credit towards their first course in a master's degree program when they apply for admissions and attend a Virtual Open House, awarded only for enrollment in the semester following their VOH attendance. Students must meet the admissions requirements of the academic program to receive this credit. Register for the next VOH, held Dec. 10 at 7 p.m., or contact the office for more information.
Capitol College is the only independent college in Maryland dedicated to engineering, computer science, information technology and business. Founded in 1927, Capitol is an accredited institution offering associate, bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as professional development training and certificates, and partnerships with government and industry. Capitol is designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security. The college is located in Laurel, Md., a suburban setting midway between Washington, DC and Baltimore. Capitol is committed to providing a quality education that is technology-driven, accessible, affordable and practical.