text:
Brilliant Collmenter takes care of Padres
PHOENIX -- Things had not been going well for Josh Collmenter and the D-backs lately.
Collmenter was looking to improve on one of his worst stretches of the season after going 0-2 with an 8.50 ERA in his last four games. The D-backs just wrapped up a 2-8 road trip, with the Nationals walking off against them in three out of four games.View Full Game Coverage
PHOENIX -- Things had not been going well for Josh Collmenter and the D-backs lately.
Collmenter was looking to improve on one of his worst stretches of the season after going 0-2 with an 8.50 ERA in his last four games. The D-backs just wrapped up a 2-8 road trip, with the Nationals walking off against them in three out of four games.View Full Game Coverage
But both Collmenter and the D-backs as a whole turned around their slumps in a big way in their series opener against the Padres at Chase Field on Friday night.
Collmenter pitched 8 1/3 innings and was charged with only one run, and the D-backs picked up a 5-1 win to start their homestand on the right track.
"You come in there and it feels like home," manager Kirk Gibson said. "It's comfortable. They're in their training room, they're at their batting cage, on their field. ... We were beyond the road trip when we got here today."
Collmenter certainly made himself at home. He was dominant from the start.
The 28-year-old right-hander didn't allow a hit until the third inning, when he gave up two singles, but the Padres ran themselves out of any chance to get to him.
Alexi Amarista, who picked up the Padres' first hit, tried to go from first to third on a Yangervis Solarte single to right fielder David Peralta, but Peralta launched a throw to third to get Amarista out by several feet.
"I'm surprised he was running, because Peralta's got a pretty good arm," third baseman Jake Lamb said. "It was right on the money. ... It was a perfect throw."
From that point on, it was Collmenter's game.
Pitching with a four-run lead thanks to an early offensive outburst, Collmenter (9-7) retired 15 straight batters after the third inning, not allowing another baserunner until Amarista singled to start the ninth.
"The story was their guy," Padres manager Bud Black said of Collmenter. "We couldn't solve him. We've seen him a lot over the years. It's a sneaky fastball from a different arm slot. He commands the ball well and has a good change. We couldn't square anything up against him."
Collmenter's fastball was a matter of concern entering the game. In his previous outing, he struggled to get his usual high-80s fastball to its normal velocity, resulting in a four-inning, five-run loss to the Marlins.
But he got extra rest between starts, skipping his normal bullpen session. It didn't hurt, as he comfortably threw 106 pitches -- his second-highest total this season.
"I'm sure it [helped]," Collmenter said. "Gives the arm a little break. We've been going at it for quite a while now. August is usually the time [when] if you're going to get fatigued, you start feeling it. I think it was just good to rest and be 100 percent going into today."
Collmenter entered the ninth with the shutout intact, but Gibson took him out after he gave up a pair of singles.
The Padres finally pushed across a run on a passed ball by Miguel Montero, who hit a two-run homer in the first inning and added a double and a run scored in the eighth.
"I really didn't even want to put [Collmenter] out there in the ninth inning tonight, but he obviously had a shutout going," Gibson said. "I went as far as I was comfortable going with him. He was throwing 81 miles an hour in his last, so as much as I wanted to push him, it's not the right thing to do."
Adam Lichtenstein is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


text:
From left to right: Paul Felix (Disney animator), Tyrus Wong and Ralph Eggleston (Pixar art director)I wish that I could have attended this event. Tyrus Wong, whose style was a major influence on the look of Disney's Bambi, appeared at the Walt Disney Family Museum on June 11. Wong is now 100 years old and had a lengthy career in live action films after leaving the Disney studio.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tyrus Wong at the Walt Disney Family Museum
1 comment:
- Rodney Baker said...
Wow. Tyrus Wong! Talk about a legend. The stories he could tell!
- June 28, 2011 4:31 AM
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

subset: commoncrawl


text: Crop Slips as Planting Seen Up, Weekly Export Sales Slide March 22, 2013 03:53 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email March 22 (Bloomberg) -- Corn declined for the first time in seven days as U.S. farmers prepare to plant the most acres since the 1930s and after U.S. export sales of the grain fell last week. Soybeans and wheat also dropped. U.S. farmers may plant 97.339 million acres of corn, the most since 1936, the average estimate of 32 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg shows. Soybean area will climb to the highest ever and wheat will increase to a four-year high, the survey showed. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is scheduled to release its estimates, based on a national survey of growers, on March 28. "The expectation is certainly for good acreage for row crops," said Michael Pitts, a commodity sales director at National Australia Bank Ltd. "The report on March 28 is going to be the market driver for the next few weeks." Corn for May delivery lost as much as 0.6 percent to $7.2825 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade and was at $7.2975 by 6:43 a.m. local time. Still, futures are poised for a 1.8 percent gain this week. World corn production may climb 9 percent in the 2013-14 crop year, with the U.S. harvest predicted to rise as much as 30 percent, the International Grains Council said yesterday. Global corn stockpiles may jump 19 percent from a 16-year low expected at the end of the 2012-13 crop year, as output rises faster than consumption, the council said. U.S. net corn export sales were 275,516 tons in the seven days ended March 14, less than half the previous week's sales of 653,318 tons, the USDA reported yesterday. Wheat net sales were 573,329 tons from 1.09 million tons a week earlier. "The weekly export numbers turned out generally disappointing for all products," Paris-based farm adviser Agritel wrote in a comment today. Soybeans for May delivery fell 0.1 percent to $14.4775 a bushel, with the oilseed climbing 1.5 percent this week. Wheat for May delivery dropped 0.3 percent to $7.265 a bushel, trimming a second weekly gain. Milling wheat futures for delivery in May traded on NYSE Liffe in Paris gained 0.1 percent to 241.75 euros ($313.24) a ton. --With assistance from Rudy Ruitenberg in Paris. Editor: John Deane To contact the reporter on this story: Phoebe Sedgman in Melbourne at email@example.com To contact the editors responsible for this story: James Poole at email@example.com; Claudia Carpenter at email@example.com Back to news


text:
About .GRAPHICS Domain Names
If you're an artist, graphic designer, printer or multimedia producer, check out .graphics. This new domain also works well for websites that provide stock or public-use graphics.
The .graphics domain extension is managed by the Donuts registry. To learn about the rules and regulations that apply to .graphics, see About Donuts Domain Names.
For information about Donuts registration process, see Registering Donuts domains.
Be one of the first to snag a .graphics domain and claim Internet real estate that's specific to you! For .graphics pricing, click here.


text:
Gas detectors save lives, period. As the leading provider of gas detection as a service and portable gas detectors, we are here to help you find the right fit.
Discuss your needs with us today!
iAssign™ Technology tracks users and sites in real time helping you to identify and address hazards.
Learn More...
When you need your gas monitor for both personal protection and confined space entries.
Learn More...
Bump test anytime, anywhere with the pocket-sized cylinder.
Find out how our Automatic Calibration Gas Replenishment program works.
Rent gas detection equipment for your short-term needs.
Take the guesswork out of gas detection with our new training app.


text:
Saigon Calls Out Rick Ross & Big Sean "F*cks Up The Black Community. Rapping About Drugs"[Audio]
"In response to Brooklyn rapper Saigon now denying
comments he exclusively told SOHH in relation to his
stance on Rick Ross and Big Sean, we are now
providing readers an opportunity to hear the
interview and draw their own conclusions.. Despite
the recorded remarks, Saigon proceeded to deny ever
calling out Rick Ross via twitter
https://twitter.com/TheRealSaigon/status/20609136962 4768513" - SOHH.COM
Please click the "Report" button below if the video on this page is not working properly.
Comments will only be displayed by verified emails. No Spamming or Racism.


text:
Determined to put on a show of "solidarity" for Boston, London Marathon organizers will stage their race on Sunday despite the threat of terrorism.
The British capital has long been a top target for terrorists, and concerns have only intensified ahead of Sunday's race after Monday's harrowing scenes at the Boston Marathon, where bombs killed three people and injured many more.
However, British sports minister Hugh Robertson said the London Marathon, watched by an estimated 500,000 spectators and run through some of the city's most recognizable landmarks, should be staged as planned to show "we won't be cowered by this sort of behavior."
"The best way for us to react is to push ahead with the marathon on Sunday, to get people on the streets and to celebrate it as we always do in London," Robertson told the BBC on Tuesday.
"These are balance of judgments but we are absolutely confident here that we can keep the event safe and secure. I think this is one of those incidents where the best way to show solidarity with Boston is to continue and send a very clear message to those responsible."
Security is being scrutinized after the events in Boston, where two bombs exploded near the finish of the marathon.
Prince Harry — the patron of the London Marathon Charitable Trust — will attend Sunday's race and make the presentations to the winners.
"The London Marathon fully expects at this stage … (to) go ahead as planned on Sunday although we are continuing to review security with the Metropolitan Police in the coming days," Nick Bitel, chief executive of the London Marathon, said Tuesday in an interview on the race website.
"The London Marathon will be in touch with the runners through their email and they will hear from us on a daily basis in that way. We will try to keep updating our runners throughout this period."
Mo Farah, who won the long-distance double at the London Olympics, will be running a half marathon while the three medalists from the men's marathon at the London Games are also among the 37,500 entries.
Sunday's race is one of six in the world marathon series along with Tokyo, Boston, Berlin, Chicago and New York.
Belgrade is among other cities staging marathons this weekend, with organizer Dejan Nikolic expressing confidence that the race will be safe and a "beautiful running festival."
"We will do our best so that this year the security level is even higher," Nikolic said.
In 2005, suicide attacks on the public transport system in the British capital killed 52 people. London and mainland Britain also face a moderate threat from Northern Ireland-related terrorism, according to the government, and a massive security operation was put in place last year to protect the London Olympics.
This year's Boat Race between English universities Oxford and Cambridge went ahead amid tightened security after a protester jumped into the River Thames last year and narrowly avoided being hit by the oars of the two crews. Royal Marines were stationed along the length of the 4 1/4-mile (nearly 7-kilometer) course.
Police already were preparing a major security operation in London for Wednesday's ceremonial funeral for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an event at St. Paul's Cathedral that will be attended by Queen Elizabeth II and dignitaries. The plans call for a procession through the streets of London, with Thatcher's flag-draped coffin to be carried on a horse-drawn carriage.
The funeral's security plans are expected to be reviewed in light of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, which is held each year on Patriot's Day.
"It's particularly ghastly that this should have happened on a day of great national celebration in Boston — on a day when so many families were out on the streets and when so many people were raising millions of dollars for charity. That makes it worse. It's utterly horrifying and completely appalling," Robertson said.
"It's difficult to think of a more ghastly event that this should be perpetrated upon."
Bill seeks to expand Maine's ranked choice voting system
Basket Bingo set for April 5 in Belgrade
Our View: Fewer cars, healthier air should be future of Maine transit
Letters to the Editor
Make mascot choice a positive one
Letters to the Editor
CMP trying to buy local support


text:
Over a thousand riders took part in the Cycling Weekly Surrey Hills Cyclone on Sunday, April 21, riding a route that took in some of Surrey's finest lanes, villages and its toughest climbs, including White Down and Leith Hill.
Olympic and Tour de France legend Chris Boardman was on hand to ride the event, talk to riders and hand out finishing medals.
Click on the 'play' button below to watch the Surrey Hills Cyclone video, introduced by Chris Boardman.
The next event in the Cycling Weekly Sportive Series is the Dartmoor Demon on Saturday May 4. Full event details, route map and online entry are available here>>
Sponsors and links
Official Title Sponsor
Boardman Bikes
Official Insurance Sponsor
Official nutrition partner
Related links
Dartmoor Demon Sportive – event info and online entry


text:
Much as people like to beat the crap out of each other on the road, sometimes road rage is absurdly comical.
Few moments were more humorous than when one Brazilian woman repeatedly tried to run over an offending motorcyclist earlier this year. No one was harmed, but the rider did have to reach into the woman's car to yank the keys out, lest she give running him over another try.
Are there any other instances you've seen of road rage that are tragically comic?
(QOTD is your chance to address the day's most pressing automotive questions and to experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits, and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good Question of the Day, send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)


text:
Tips for Getting Around
Public Transportation in Chicago
Bus and El
Chicago offers the [http://www.transitchicago.com/ Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)], convenient and easy-to-use bus and elevated/subway train lines. Cash fares are $2.25 per person, and discount visitor passes are sold at various sales outlets throughout the city. For more information, visit www.transitchicago. com.
Taxis are numerous and easy to use. (about $35 from O'Hare, and $25 from Midway)
Free Trolleys
Free trolleys travel between Navy Pier and State Street along Grand and Illinois. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, downtown free trolleys run every 20 minutes, carrying passengers to some of the city's most popular museums, shopping destinations, and attractions.
ALA Shuttle Bus Service
Free shuttle buses, sponsored by Gale Cengage Learning, will operate between all participating hotels and the McCormick Place West during the conference. Service will also be provided for attendees with disabilities. Shuttle bus service schedules with daily pickup times, locations and destinations will be published in Cognotes (the daily newspaper of the conference) and will be available onsite. Don't forget to stop by their booth and say thanks for the lift!
Visit the ALA and City of Chicago microsite for more information. [1]


text:
Never Have I Ever... Done a Foam Party!Friday 24th August
23:00 - 04:00
Event Details
To kick-off the bank holiday weekend we're getting messy! What better way to cool off from all this sun than at our foam party!
Expect all the big dance tunes and of course tonnes of foam!
It's bigger, it's better, it's badder than ever. Never Have I Ever... is here!
- 3 rooms of music
- Confetti cannons
- Co2 cannons
- Lasers
Icehouse: All the commercial dance and urban bangers
Disco: Party all the way!
Curve: The finest urban beats
Never Have I Ever... regularly some of the biggest TV stars in the game party with us! Past guests include Scotty T, Bear, Pete Wicks to name but a few!
Drink Offers:
All drinks just £2.00 with 2-4-1 every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 10:00pm - 11:00pm in the Bar Quarter! This also includes free entry to the club!
Admission Information:
£2.00 advance tickets
£5.00 entry on the door
£2.50 entry before 1:00am on guest list via our Snapchat: Oceanasoton, or by commenting on our Facebook post or by sending us an e-mail: email@example.com
Last entry 2:00am.
Dress Code: No sportswear including Nike & Adidas. We operate a fairly relaxed dress code, but If you have any questions regarding our admission policies please call us on: 02380 238418 or alternatively: e-mail: email@example.com
Please Note: We now operate ID scan and therefore everyone is required to produce valid ID to gain admission, regardless of age. Valid ID includes Passports, Drivers Licences & Citizenship cards.


text:
3:30 pm
WordGirl "Wham Up/Seeds of Doubt" Wham Up - The Whammer is on a mission to become WordGirl's new sidekick. When he whams Captain Huggy Face into outer space WordGirl must find a way to rescue Huggy and put the Whammer back in the slammer. Vocabulary Words: Assist, Blunder. D
4:00 pm
Wild Kratts "To Touch A Hummingbird" Martin and Chris realize that the Hummingbird might be the ultimate flier in the Creature world and ask Aviva to create a new power disc with its powers. The only problem - it's not easy to touch Hummingbird!. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "A Clean Sweep" Hacker makes Buzz's dream come true and gives him his very own donut shop in Radopolis. But it's just part of Hacker's latest scheme. Working out of the donut shop, Hacker makes confetti out of magnetite, and uses it to put all the Radsters to sleep, so he can take over the cybersite. D
5:00 pm
Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "A Whole Flock of Cheese" Chet has gone on a cheese craze, replacing everything in the doghouse (including the furniture) with cheese-inspiring Ruff to send Emmie on a cheese-themed challenge. Meanwhile, Ruff is searching for his long-lost parents and decides to employ the help of a carrier pigeon. He sends Jay and Rubye out to learn about carrier pigeons and then compete in a race against one!. D
5:30 pm
Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report. The economy added 195,000 jobs in June. We'll take a look at what the better than expected number means for the economy, the markets and your investments. D
5:56 pm
NewsHour Promo NULL
6:00 pm
PBS NewsHour NULL
7:00 pm
Washington Week NULL
7:30 pm
Dialogue "Grover Norquist On Immigration" Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist talks with IdahoPTV host Marcia Franklin about why immigration reform makes fiscal sense.G
8:00 pm
McClure Center Symposium On Local Government & The Federal Budget This one-hour highlight program from the symposium held June 21 in Boise considers the effect of federal budget cuts on local governments throughout Idaho with two participating panels. The first panel discusses public lands budget cuts and Idaho governments of Valley and Owyhee counties, the city of Soda Springs and the Kellogg School District. The second panel examines the effects on infrastructure and regulations in Clearwater County, Meridian School District, and the cities of Nampa and Coeur d'Alene.G
9:00 pm
Dirk Gently When hired to trace an elderly woman's missing cat, Dirk and downtrodden sidekick MacDuff investigate a warehouse housing a strange contraption. Then there is a missing billionaire, who has been besotted with MacDoff's girlfriend for more than a decade. Soon Dirk is connecting the dates of when his client acquired her cat and when Susan jilted the billionaire to solve a puzzle involving time travel and homicide - and even the cat.G
10:00 pm
Cleveland Orchestra In Performance: Boulez Conducts Mahler This special celebrates Mahler's 150th birthday and 100th anniversary of his death. Mahler's highly emotional state while beginning to compose his last symphony is reflected in the Adagio with romantic intensity in the strings, accented by melancholy brass. The orchestra and soloists also feature Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 12 songs with text based on a collection of German folk poetry.G
11:30 pm
Charlie Rose NULL


text:
ICYMI: See More Pics of Selena Gomez's Street Style From the Adidas NEO Campaign
Selena Gomez reps NEO, the youth-focused collection from Adidas. So does her on-off boyfriend Justin Bieber. Some more shots of Sel in items from the line's photo campaign show off Sel's grasp of street style. It's all shorts, sneakers, knee-high socks and cool leisurewear, with a colorful twist. She makes basics look gooooood.
The singer and actress looks gorgeous with her long, beachy waves and bright eye makeup, which matches the hues that are present in the collection. We think Gomez looks as good in street clothes as she does when all dolled up in high-end designers on the red carpet. Like so.
The initial images were hawt and these, which look to be from the same photo shoot, are equally as scorching. They also overlap with some of the shots here. Check out the photo "scrapbook" of Gomez all sorts of NEO-ed out below!
Watch the Selena Gomez 'Who Says' Video


text:
Hotels near Kassam Stadium
Search hotels near Kassam Stadium in Oxford
Save more with Secret Prices
Get instant savings with Secret Prices
Hotels in Oxford near Kassam Stadium
Are you looking for a cheap Kassam Stadium hotel, a 5 star Kassam Stadium hotel or a family friendly Kassam Stadium hotel? You just landed in the best site to find the best deals and offers on the most amazing hotels for your stay.
When you search for hotels near Kassam Stadium with Hotels.com, you need to first check our online map and see the distance you will be from Kassam Stadium, United Kingdom.
Our maps are based on hotel search and display areas and neighborhoods of each hotel so you can see how close you are from Kassam Stadium and refine your search within Oxford or United Kingdom based on closest public transportation, restaurants and entertainment so you can easily get around the city. All the hotels details page show an option for free or paid onsite parking.
If you wish to see the hotels with the highest featuring discounts and deals near Kassam Stadium, simply filter by price/ average nightly rate. We recommend you filter by star rating and read our genuine guest reviews so you can get the best quality hotel with the best discount.
One of the new features on Hotels.com guest reviews is that also show reviews from Expedia for Kassam Stadium hotels and the TripAdvisor Kassam Stadium hotels reviews so you can make sure that you checking with a reliable source. See the review scores on our Oxford hotel information pages.
Make the most out of your family vacation when you book your hotel with Hotels.com – book your hotel near Kassam Stadium, Oxford after reviewing the facilities and amenities listed for each hotel.
After booking your hotel near Kassam Stadium, expect to receive your reservation confirmation in the mail in less than 10 minutes. The confirmation email contains more information on all nearby attractions, local directions and weather forecast, so you can better plan the days during your trip.
After getting the best hotel rates you can still save more by winning 1 free night! That's right, stayed 10 nights in any hotel near Kassam Stadium, Oxford and after you sign up for the Hotels.com Rewards program, you are eligible hotel you receive 1 night free*
The best hotel deals are here: We have Kassam Stadium hotel deals, Kassam Stadium last minute deals and offers to get you the cheapest Kassam Stadium hotel with our lowest price guarantee.
Oxford travel guides
An Oxford travel guide – majestic medieval colleges, classical concerts, riverside walks and tea-time treats
On an Oxford city break visit the centuries-old colleges of Oxford University and stroll or punt along...
Where to Stay in Oxford – a neighborhood guide
Oxford is a fascinating blend of old world English charm and bohemian energy. The university attracts...
Oxford Shopping Guide – where and what to shop and buy
Given its diminutive size, Oxford really punches above its weight when it comes to shopping. Top of...


text:
« In Which James Tiptree Jr. Is His Own Auxiliary Corps »
Alice in Jungleland
by ALEX CARNEVALE
I may be an actress, I may be a writer, I may be — most probably — some man's grief.
- Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree Jr.
1921. Former taxidermist and self-appointed naturalist Carl Akeley planned a new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. His brainstorm was to slaughter a gorilla from one of the most remote regions of Africa, an animal first seen by Europeans in 1902. Who better to accompany him than a family with a six-year old daughter? That girl was Alice Bradley, and she would become more famous than them all, even the mountain gorilla, as the literary giant James Tiptree Jr.
There you see Alice's domineering mother Mary Hastings Bradley. This was not a garden variety safari. The destination was the Congo, and the journey was difficult, although not for Alice, who was carried most of the way by porters. Later she wrote that "If I dropped something I was quite accustomed to clap my hands and have six large, naked cannibals spring to attention and pick it up for me." Her mother penned a children's book about the trip called Alice in Jungleland and a book for adult audiences called On the Gorilla Trail. Alice's mother Mary Hastings Bradley would tour and lecture about this trip and others for the rest of her life.
one of the four gorillas killed during the trip
The impact it had on her only daughter was more profound. The horror of Africa's extremes affected the young Alice deeply. After slaughtering five gorillas, they kept one of the babies under Alice's cot, causing the smell of formaldehyde to pervade everything. Her mother killed a lion and posed next to it until it came back to life, not fully dead until she shot it in the heart.
The sort of parents who would expose a six-year to such things can barely be imagined, but the resultant fifteen minutes of fame her mother enjoyed constituted a shadow that Alice would fight to step out from under for the rest of her life. In Julie Phillips' magnificent biography of Alice Sheldon, James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice Sheldon, Alice, much later tells her mother that "You taught me, without meaning to, that love is the prelude to appalling pain."
When they returned to Africa in 1924, nine-year old Alice asked her parents for a rifle. This was refused, but the vision of her gun-toting mother in the brush created an indelible image — a persona she could never live up to. In other ways, Mary Hastings Bradley was an inspiration and a talented author in her own right. She did things few women of the period could boast; one of her stories won an O. Henry award. Though she loved young Alice, her daughter evolved into a depressed teen, even attempting suicide by cutting her wrist with razorblades.
Eventually they packed her off to college, where her mother expected Alice to follow in her footsteps and attend Smith. She declined and went to Sarah Lawrence, where the beautiful, precocious painter was immediately a star. It was at this age that Alice began to notice she was as interested in women as men. She struck a debonair figure as a busty, 5'8" sixteen year old, and later she reflected on her ambivalence about how she appeared: "I do not 'fit' my body. Never really have. When I was an 'attractive girl,' a 'beauty', I didn't want to be a pretty girl. I didn't fit the interactions forced on me." Too vain to wear glasses, Sheldon's time at Sarah Lawrence was invariably wild. (The president of the school wrote her parents a letter describing Alice's unusual sleeping and eating habits.) In some ways, her behavior was reactionary: she had discerned, beneath the pretense of her education, that most Sarah Lawrence girls were preparing themselves for their wedding day.
Phillips describes a typical Alice vignette:
One night at two in the morning, Alice was in the art department trying to master photography under artificial light. She had on black velvet overalls and spike-heeled lizard pumps, and she was taking pictures of the department's anatomy skeleton, which she had arranged so that it was reclining on the floor, reading the Sunday comics, and drinking a can of tomato juice through a straw. As she adjusted the lights she was interrupted by a "plump little girl in a pink wool skirt, Braemar sweater and pearls" who looked at the photo session, looked at Alice, and said, "You don't live right."
As a form of rebellion against her controlling parents, Alice eloped with a boy, William Davey, who sat next to her at her debutante ball. Since neither Sarah Lawrence or his school, Princeton, allowed married students, they both transferred to Berkeley and drove to California.
Their six year marriage was a complete disaster, highlighted by Alice going to jail for kicking a policeman in the penis and extensive drug experiments, which she described to Philip K. Dick in later life as "early opiates, wine, and — ugh — thyroid extract." As for her marriage to the hard-drinking Davey, she wrote, "Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature." Although Alice's husband expected her to cook and clean (neither of which she did, Bill's mother eventually paying for a housekeeper), he was further disappointed with her other wifely duties.
Bill and Alice's sex was terrible, aggravated by the fact that Alice was unable to have an orgasm through intercourse. Her continuing interest in women didn't exactly help matters, and they both drank enough that they should have been able to get it right. Instead they took solace in affairs, where Alice could express her desire to penetrate and be penetrated without being a simple object of affection. Though she desired women, she rarely acted on those desires outside of unrequited love, or whenever she was hammered. Instead, she sublimated those feelings, a choice that would later find expression in her male alter ego.
Alice's nude self-portrait hanging in a gallery
After some legal troubles in San Francisco (Bill had thrown a woman Alice was performing cunnilingus on out a plate glass window), the couple moved back to New York, and spent the following summer in New Mexico. She sold a nude self-portrait, and spent the money on a shotgun, killing ducks in the marshes around Santa Fe. Bill also gave her a .38. They moved to Carmel, California, but Bill broke his jaw when a car backfired while he was operating a hand crank. Alice never visited him in the hospital, and by 1940 the marriage was over.
Newly a divorcee, Alice settled in Chicago. American involvement in World War II was on the horizon. After a brief start as the art critic for The Chicago Sun (a job for which she cut her hair), something drove her to sign up for the army. Which she, incredibly, did. At the end of September 1942, she dressed up in a classy suit and presented herself at the recruiting station. She gave her parrot to the Brooklyn Zoo, her science fiction magazines to the library, and reported to Des Moines.
in her uniform
As a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), Alice was known by Davey, her ex-husband's last name. Her dominant and aggressive style was a hit in the military, and she quickly became a sergeant, applying to Officer Candidate School. Though the WAAC was occupied chiefly by tasks like making Army Christmas cards, she was still able to earn the ire of a commanding officer. Sent to Newport News and made a supply officer, she fucked one of her fellow officers and wrote in her journal, "Jesus it was good to get my legs around a young man again!" What a woman.
After the WAAC was shut down and most women returned to civilian life, Alice reenlisted. She eventually reported to air force intelligence school in Pennsylvania, but not before dating a variety of staid military men. Of one particular dud she wrote, "I like him thoroughly — and he appeals to me. But he keeps making me feel like a lady tigress, and that is not promising." Alice studied photointerpretation, and once she graduated, her group was moved to the basement of the Pentagon. Looking at photographs of Japan and occupied China, she listed military targets for the commanders.
In her spare time, she wrote her first novel — the Washington war jaunt The Victories of Light. As would become her custom in both art and life, the dumb male narrated the novel while the female was the one who really knew what was going on.
24 year old Alice at a Georges Braque show
In 1944 the army set up an "exploitation division." Its mission was to recover and evaluate the extent of German science recovered by the Allies after the war. Its leader was Huntington Sheldon. Alice didn't think much of her assignment, as most of her study had been of the Far East, and she was even less optimistic about her commanding officer. She confronted Colonel Sheldon, known to his intimates as Ting, and she challenged him to a game of chess and won. Blindfolded.
They married quickly after meeting, Ting being twelve years her senior. The sex was horrific; in Alice's words "masturbatory." He was better when he was drunk — and he was usually drunk — but he couldn't stay erect. This early sexual problem threatened to end the marriage before it had really begun. Alice concluded that she loved Ting more as a friend than as a passion.
Eventually they bought an egg hatchery in Toms River, New Jersey and planned to live off the income. This plan was slow in developing even near the end. Though she wanted children, complications from her abortion of Bill Davey's child had blocked her fallopian tubes. By 1952 they had sold the hatchery and they both took jobs in the CIA.
Alice was still Alice — in the context of her open marriage she had little qualms about sleeping with other Pentagon analysts. This was complicated by her continued use of mind-altering drugs. At some point, the CIA issued everyone on Alice's project Dexedrine. Speed was back in her life, an old friend from her unhappy days with her first husband. Later Alice told Philip K. Dick that she "fell repeatedly in the clutches of Dex — and did the insane bit of trying to come down with barbs. All, all by myself, and keeping up work in the world."
After entering academia and pursuing her interest in psychological research, Alice felt confident enough to send out her work in the genre of science fiction. Many critics later assumed it by order of the CIA that forced her to create her nom de plume of James Tiptree Jr., but really, she wanted to protect her academic career. Still, there must have been a part of her that was more than amused by the idea of being a man. Another identity fit her aggressive, multitasking personality, and with the suggestion of Ting that Tiptree should be a Jr, she was off and running.
Within a year legendary editors like John W. Campbell and Frederik Pohl were buying her stories. At first it was the deftness and the hurtling speed of her plots that garnered attention, but her CIA background added a technical element that was irresistible to journals like Galaxy and Astonishing Stories. Though she never imagined she'd keep up the pen name for long, she soon opened a bank account under Tiptree's name after convincing the manager that it was both legal and necessary.
Her first artistic triumph was "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain," a story about a scientist in love with female Earth who spreads a strain of influenza that will kill off its most destructive inhabitants. It was nominated for a Nebula, and opened the community of science fiction writers to her. An incestuous and eccentric crew, Tiptree could never see them in person, but that was no matter. Most weren't social butterflies, and she was alive in letters, even writing to authors like Tom Wolfe and Italo Calvino as Tiptree. (They wrote back, Calvino asking to see her work.) In the same year, 1969, she made first contact with Philip K. Dick.
At first the forty-year old Dick related to Tiptree when she wrote him in a nice way, as a fan, and she kept things on that level. But once he read "Dr. Ain", he wrote to ask her to collaborate on a novel with him. To say she was overwhelmed would be an understatement. The correspondence sputtered for a time, but others thrived. Of the many callings Alice had in her life, letter-writing was chief among them.
David Gerrold, a science fiction writer who would later create "The Trouble With Tribbles" episode of Star Trek, even tried the pop-in on his friend Tiptree. Alice opened the door and when he and a friend asked for Tiptree, she stared at him in shock. A few lies made Gerrold none the wiser, and forever afterwards Alice kept her change of address cards flying. In her will she included an apology to Gerrold: "It killed me not to be able to speak."
An acceptance from the flamboyant Harlan Ellison was also a particular source of pride for Alice during this period. Ellison wrote, "You are the single most important new writer in science fiction today. Not me, not Delany, not Blish, not Budrys, not Disch, not Dick...none of us...I am so fucking destructed by what you've allowed me to read. I don't know how to say thank you."
Though Ting never read her writing, and their marriage was sexless, they were close despite these handicaps. The editor David Hartwell commented that "They were always calling each other 'my sweet, my heart, my dear.' If he were in the room she had to touch him." More comfortable with each other than ever, Alice was fifty-five to her husband's sixty-seven. As she began to feel more safe in her life, her work improved.
Tiptree first wrote to Ursula K. Le Guin in 1971 after admiring her classic The Lathe of Heaven. Le Guin lived in Portland and was married to a history professor with three children. It would be marvelous to see Ursula's letters released in her lifetime, because what is public of them shows the exertion of a magnificent mind. Of Philip K. Dick's religious conversion and his lack of willingness to discuss it with her, she wrote to Alice, "Oh hell I don't blame him, I suppose anyone who gets within a letter's length of me scents the Voltaire lying in wait."
Philips interviewed Le Guin for her biography of Alice, and Ursula described the experience of communicating with the writer who she knew only as James Tiptree Jr.:
He was an extremely charming persona, and I think aware of his charm. The flirting was certainly mutual. The charm consisted partly in vivid intelligence, interestedness, epistolary wit and elegance and humor and good humor - really good letter-writers aren't common, after all — and partly, like all charm, was mysterious, irrational, irresistible. It is flattering to be written wonderfully clever, admiring letters to. Tiptree's letters combined lavish praise with personal reticence, also a rare combination. He courted, flirted, joked, charmed, and evaded. Masterfully. The praise did get in the way of open friendship. He refused equality, in that he was always writing as the admirer. This is perhaps why I always felt a certain element of play-acting, of performance in my side of the correspondence. I had to play up to Tiptree, and it was fun to do so; but a plain frank friendship would have been even lovelier. But that, of course, is denied to a persona.
When Tiptree won his first Nebula for "Love is the Plan The Plan Is Death" in 1973 Ursula half-suspected what might be up from "his" reaction to the prize: "This was just too improbable, a man who didn't think he deserved a prize." In truth, it was only the hard-boiled nature of Alice's stories that prevented her from being IDed earlier — if the internet had been around, she would not have been able to hide in plain sight.
As the feminist movement began its charge, Alice fell into correspondence with one of its finer representatives in her world: the brilliant novelist and academic Joanna Russ. Though she had yet to come out as a lesbian when she began her correspondence with Tiptree, Russ couldn't have been prouder of who she was, and her mindbending novel The Female Man remains an immortal classic. Though she and Alice never met in person, Russ felt no compunction about lecturing her older "male" friend on the inequities faced by women writers. Unbeknownst to her, the receiving party was all too aware of these differences.
Russ also went after Le Guin, who, she was convinced, chose too many male protagonists. Le Guin was considerably less sure of the feminist movement — though she wrote from an undeniably feminist perspective, she disdained Russ' embrace of the oppressive patriarchal power structure as a skin that women could also inhabit. As a happy wife and mother, she also resented some of Russ' ideas on those subjects.
Split between her two friends, neither of whom knew she was an incredible synthesis of both ideals, Alice couldn't help but be ambivalent. She shared the ideals of the feminist movement without question, but was unsure of what it meant for her work. Alice's second pen name, Racoona Sheldon, sent out stories under separate cover (sometimes with a recommendation from Tiptree) and explored these ideas more closely.
When Alice's mother died in 1976, Alice's life exploded. Her mother had been in many ways the center of her world; by her death she had published in most major American journals of the period including The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post. Mary Hastings Bradley merited an obituary in local papers, and Alice thought only of her grief.
In letters she let slip that her mother died, and many of her correspondents, including Harlan Ellison, were aware that her mother was a Chicago naturalist. Confronted by Jeff Smith (the editor who would become her literary executor) she was forced to confess. She came out to many of her closest friends, and even wrote a letter to Robert Silverberg apologizing for allowing him to praise her for her excess of maleness in an introduction to one of her stories in his New Dimensions anthology. She appears to have been extremely uneasy with how correspondents would now view her. Here is her letter to Le Guin:
I want you, alone, to know first from me because of our special relation. I write this feeling a great and true friendship is wavering on the balance, about to slide away forever to the dark.
Ursula, Ursula, I am petrified. All the friends, the sf world — will they take it as "deception"? Will I have any friends left? Will the women who mean so much to me see it all as an evil put-on?
Well dear Starbear an old age is dead and time to begin a new. But I think I'm finished.
Tip says goodbye to a very dear friend and all that is hers.
Let me know what you think if you're still speaking to
Le Guin wrote back, reassuring her friend:
Dearest TREE,
oh strange, most strange, most wonderful, beautiful, improbable - Wie geht's, Schwesterlein? sorella mia, sistersoul! ... Do you know what? I don't think I have ever been surprised before. Things have happened but when they happen one thinks Oh, of course, this had to Be, etc, deep in my prophetic soul I Knew, etc — but not this time, by God! And it is absolutely flatfoodedly surprised — it's like a Christmas present! I want to laugh, also slightly to cry, because the whole thing now is on this huge and unexpected scale of real and total reversal — only what does reversal mean? Explain to me, my Gethenian friend. ... I don't know about people's reactions, I suppose there are some who resent being put on, but it would take an extraordinarily small soul to resent so immense, so funny, so effective and fantastic and ETHICAL a put-on.
Not surprisingly, Alice plunged into depression. She had shed one of her selves, and there was bound to be a toll. She was a person far from inured to criticism, and this was her most exposed moment. Some of Tiptree's critics believed her work lost some authority when Tiptree "died", but it only changed into something just as compelling, if less flashy. Her collection of horror stories Tales of the Quintana Roo even won a World Fantasy Award.
Ting's failing heath had also changed Alice's life. She was using so much Numorphan that she had to check into a hospital to break its hold over her. More and more frequently she spoke of suicide. She had planned it for years. When the time came in May of 1987 she killed her husband by shooting him in the head while he was asleep (friends speculated that he was not exactly ready to go), making a few goodbye phone calls and offing herself. The police found them in bed together — after observing how messy Ting's exploding brain was, she wisely wrapped her own in a towel.
It is sometimes asked whether Alice would have achieved the same level of acclaim if she had written as Racoona Sheldon from the beginning. It is at least a possibility that some of material seemed fresher coming from a man, who rarely attacked the same themes at this time. Le Guin and Russ both thought Tiptree an excessively enlightened male; e.g. "you're one of the good ones." Really, there weren't any good ones, and most of the friends who abandoned Alice once she was only Alice were males like Frederik Pohl and Harlan Ellison, though it seems reductionist to ascribe this merely to her sex. They perhaps understandably felt betrayal at a person who pretended to be one of their own.
The taking of a pen name is in many ways a frightening process. It is easier than we believe to become something other than ourselves. Yes, Alice was every bit as incredible a man as she was a woman. It worked because she was only herself, a devastatingly iconoclastic figure whose brilliance in carrying off the deception at all is underappreciated. That she was also one of sf's signature talents is difficult to believe, and that was the problem for both the world, and Alice. We forgive liars, but only when we understand their reasons for their untruth. This was the block that many of her friends stumbled over, perhaps because it wasn't entirely clear to woman herself.
If she was Tiptree, and he was undeniably a part of her, then who was Alice? And if she was Alice, then she was no longer Tiptree, and that particular voice was what first distinguished her and must have been a source of enormous comfort and confidence. She was capable of so many voices in her writing, which hurt her more than it helped — one powerful voice is preferred by many to a single strong one. Her most powerful voice had been compromised. A close look at the stories of Racoona Sheldon reveals them to be near identical to Tiptree's quality, and yet they did not meet with the same measure of success. Her friends continued to urge her to write as Tiptree, even after her public identity was widely known. Perhaps she subconsciously (or even consciously) shaped certain material through Tiptree. When her Boswell comes along we'll know, but for now, what a fascinating experiment she made. There is power in names, and keeping Tiptree around instead of making a clean break with her identity may have ended her — and Ting's — life more quickly than it did.
Real lives reach a tender and appropriate resolution even when they are filled with the kind of tragedy we usually only read about. Fake lives have no such honor: they are doomed from the first, created from air to avoid a reality that is too shameful or prescient to bear. It is easy to say that Alice Sheldon stepped outside of her time. She did things most women of her generation could only dream of. The toll of two other people, plus the sex-starved wife, plus the repressed lesbian, was unimaginable.
Alex Carnevale is the editor of This Recording. He is a writer living in Manhattan. He tumbls here and twitters here. He last wrote in these pages about the AMC series Mad Men and Fairfield Porter and the New York school of poetry. Thanks to Julie Phillips' magical biography of Alice, James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice Sheldon, which you can purchase here.
Consider how odd it would be if all we knew about elephants had been written by elephants. Would we recognise one? What elephant author would describe — or perhaps even perceive — the features which are common to all elephants? We would find ourselves detecting these from indirect clues; for instance, elephant-naturalists would surely tell us that all other animals suffer from noselessness, which obliges them to use their paws in an unnatural way. So when the human male describes his world he maps its distances from his unspoken natural center of reference, himself. He calls a swamp "impenetrable," a dog "loyal" and a woman "short."
The only animal who can observe man from the outside is of course the human female: we women who live in his house, in his shadow, on his planet. And it is important that we do this. This incompletely known animal conditions every aspect of our individual lives and holds the destruction of Earth in his hands. ...
I don't identify with "normality," not in this world. I don't hold, nor do you, illusions about the great dazzling sanity of sf, no, it's more a matter of looking for the direction in which the darkness gives way to something that may be, someday, sunrise.
- Alice Sheldon


text:
|Hey Mom! Learn more about the Gerber Life Insurance Grow-Up Plan!
|Thread Tools
|Display Modes
Good things come in small packages
Eli's Wipe-E's ♥ Open for customs- Wipes, Family cloth, Table towels, Burp cloths♥
Check out my Facebook Fan Page for Eli's Wipe-E's! I'd love your support and feedback
♥♥♥INTERESTED IN ORDERING♥♥♥ I can be reached via pm, email or send me a message via my FB page!
Turnaround is ~2-7 days from when I receive payment for your order. For those unable to pm, I can be reached at sldemers @ yahoo.com
Returns- There are no returns on any custom order and nondescript orders (i.e. I chose the colors, thread, prints, snaps, etc). Please contact me if you feel there is an issue with the craftsmanship of your order. I will not ship to an address not in Paypal, please make sure you change/add a new address before sending payment!
What are table towels? An alternative to disposable towels used in the kitchen, bathroom, garage, kids room, etc.
Prices and towel options listed below.
All orders of 9+ Snapping table towels will receive 1 set of FREE elastic holders!
Lots of sizes, lots of choices
I do standard (8 x 8), family cloth (4 x 6) and Washcloth/Table towels (10.5 x 11) Also, I'm happy to do any custom size by request, scroll down for more info.
All items are custom made to Perfection
My wipes vary less then 1/16th of an inch
Check out my GALLERY of 100% cotton flannels. Please note- all flannels pictured I do have in stock, but some may be in limited availability. Fabrics marked with a star (*) are only available for wipes or family cloth (not available for towels) To help with stock, please chose towel flannel prints in sets of 9. I do my best to fill all of your selections and always send a message if I do run out of an item requested.
Not picky and just want a variety? I will offer 1 wipe (Or 1 family cloth set) FREE for every 15 wipes assorted. Ex. if you want a boy assortment of 32, you will only pay for 30 wipes. This offer only applies to flannel wipes/fc (Discount does not apply to flannel towels sorry).
I made a short-list of my pricing for my wipes to hopefully make things less confusion. Over 30 wipes, I charge 25 cents less the ppd price plus the exact shipping. Please PM me for a quote. All ppd prices mean they INCLUDE shipping
**Please note, for the 1-ply wipes and 4 x 6 wipes there is a 15 cents price cut for doing exact shipping. The reason is they are lighter to ship. Sorry, but there is no further discount for my table towels**
I can ship to Canada and internationally too. Please use the non-ppd pricing and I will get a quote for exact shipping.
All items are made and packaged in my smoke free, kitty friendly home.
Wipes 8 x 8
OBV/flannel $1.45 ppd (1.35 ppd for undyed bamboo)
OBV/sherpa $1.65 ppd (1.50 for 1 fabric undyed, 1.45 for both undyed)
OBV/terry $1.45 ppd (1.35 for undyed bamboo)
OBV/OBV $1.70 ppd (1.60 for undyed fabric)
Sherpa/flannel $1.40 ppd (1.30 ppd for undyed sherpa)
Sherpa/velour $1.55 ppd (1.45 ppd for undyed sherpa)
Sherpa/sherpa $1.60 ppd (1.40 ppd for undyed sherpa)
Terry/velour $1.30 ppd
Terry/flannel $1.20 ppd
Velour/flannel $1.30 ppd
Velour/velour $1.35 ppd
Flannel/flannel $1.10 ppd
Flannel (1 layer) 85 cents ppd
Sherpa (1 layer) 1.05 ppd (95 cents for undyed)
Bamboo (1 layer) $1.15 ppd ($1.05 for undyed)
Table Towels/Washcloths 11 x 10.5
Double layer birdseye ($1.25) + shipping
Flannel/terry $1.55 ($1.25) + shipping
Flannel/velour $1.95 (1.65) + shipping
Flannel/sherpa $2.15 (1.85) each + shipping
Flannel/bamboo $2.25 ($1.95) + shipping
Sherpa/velour $2.45 ($2.15) + shipping
Sherpa/sherpa $2.55 ($2.25) + shipping
Sherpa/OBV $2.80 ($2.50) + shipping
Tiny wipe-E's/Family Cloth 4 x6 ** Sold in sets of 2** (Please choose prints & colors in multiples of 2)
Flannel/terry 2 for $1.50 ppd
Flannel/velour 2 for $1.60 ppd
Flannel/sherpa 2 for $1.60 ppd
Flannel/OBV 2 for $1.80 ppd
Sherpa/Velour 2 for $1.80 ppd
Sherpa/OBV 2 for $1.90 ppd
OBV/OBV 2 for $2.00 ppd
Facial wipe-E's 4 x 4 circular swabs
Flannel (any backing) 65 cents ppd
Sherpa or Velour (velour/terry/sherpa/obv backing) 75 cents ppd
Burp cloths (perfect baby gifts ) 8 x 16
Flannel/terry $1.70 each plus shipping
Flannel/velour $1.90 + shipping
Flannel/OBV $2.30 + shipping ($2.10 for natural bamboo)
Sherpa/velour $2.60 + shipping
Sherpa/obv $2.80 + shipping ($2.40 for natural obv/sherpa)
TERRY colors from left to right (Click picture to enlarge)
White, Butter, Yellow, Tan, Beige
Burgundy, Peach, Melon, Baby Pink
Black, Gray, Olive, Mint
Lt Blue, Royal, Navy
Cotton VELOUR colors from left to right (Click pictures to enlarge)
Black, Charcoal, Heather Gray, Natural
Chocolate, Tan, Olive, Sage
Orange, Golden Yellow, Butter
Purple stripe, Navy, Denim, Royal blue
Dark teal, Dusty blue, Light blue, Turquoise
Kelly, Lime, Purple, Lavender, Baby pink
Wine, Fuschia, Hot pink, Red
NEW custom dyed fabrics. Dyed fabrics are all dyed by me with professional procion dyes, so their bright colors will remain just as vibrant as the day you get them!
Please note, the black dye used is "New Black". It does have a blue cast to it, which can be seen in the color cards listed at Dharma Trading Co.
Washing instructions for dyed fabrics. I use Dharma professional dyes and wash each fabric at least twice with special textile detergent after dying. I suggest one cold rinse, followed by two separate hot washes w/ Dawn before washing with your other laundry/diapers. This is a precaution as water temperatures and hardness can vary between households.
Bamboo Velour (top row) & Cotton Sherpa (bottom)
NEW Colors for OBV & Sherpa
Avocado green
Baby pink, Hot pink, Red, Orange, Lemon yellow, Natural
Imperial purple, Grape, Lavender, Sky blue, Turquoise, Cobalt blue, Midnight blue
Lime, Kelly green, Forest green, Sage, Mink brown, New black
Pick your thread color I have several different thread colors for the serging, available for orders 12 or more. I suggest no more then 1 change per 12 wipes. If no color is chosen, the wipes will be serged in white woolly nylon.
Available thread colors: White, black, brown, forest green, kelly green, royal blue, red, orange, yellow, lavender, burgundy, hot pink, baby pink
NEW "Wave" decorative stitch
Add a beautiful wave of color to spice up your wipes! Pick two thread colors to create a mix of color. Best if used on white/natural fabric to show off the color.
Example of a custom order. Think of all the possibilities
OBV/sherpa family cloth
Interested in wholesale or a co-op? Contact me and we can discuss the details
Last edited by katedanzer; 05-14-2014 at 01:12 PM.
Good things come in small packages
Re: Eli's Wipe-E's ☻Just listed in-stock burp cloths & seconds towels☻
Update 3/18/10
Please PM me if you would like a custom for any products
Last edited by katedanzer; 03-18-2010 at 01:42 PM.
Good things come in small packages
Re: Eli's Wipe-E's ☻Just listed in-stock burp cloths & seconds towels☻
Save for In-stock
Last edited by katedanzer; 02-13-2009 at 10:23 PM.
Good things come in small packages
Re: Eli's Wipe-E's ☻Just listed in-stock burp cloths & seconds towels☻
Added a few in-stock wipes
ETA- And thank you all for the well-wishes. E is doing better, still wheezing and not eating but I can tell he's feeling better as he wants to watch his movies
Registered Users
Re: Eli's Wipe-E's ♥ Best Quality ♥ Selection ♥ Prices ♥ Added a few INSTOCK wipes!♥
I LOVE your wipes! One of my patients gave them as a baby gift and they are the best! I hope your little guy is doing well soon. If you open to new customers, please let me know how I can go about placing an order! Thanks!
Sam and Ollie's Mom
Good things come in small packages
Re: Eli's Wipe-E's ☻Just listed in-stock burp cloths & seconds towels☻
Good things come in small packages
Re: Eli's Wipe-E's ☻Just listed in-stock burp cloths & seconds towels☻
Good things come in small packages
Re: Eli's Wipe-E's ☻Just listed in-stock burp cloths & seconds towels☻
Good things come in small packages
Re: Eli's Wipe-E's ☻Just listed in-stock burp cloths & seconds towels☻
|Thread Tools
|Display Modes
Hybrid Mode


text:
gisinc needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 45 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
GISi is a professional services IT consulting firm. We create custom mapping applications for federal, state & local government, and commercial clients. Our work is similar to Google Earth.
Our target audience is decision-makers at organizations that need mapping applications. We have 3 main target audiences that we work with: federal government, state & local government, and commercial businesses.
We would like a design that we can use as the background on our company PowerPoint slides. This PowerPoint design is used throughout the company for all presentations that involve the use of PowerPoint. We use PowerPoint presentations for client meetings, business partner meetings and internal company meetings. So we want a background design that represents our company well and is also visually appealing. You can get more of an idea of what our company does by checking out our website (http://www.gisinc.com) or our company blog (http://blog.gisinc.com) or our project showcase (http://showcase.gisinc.com). Use the sites for ideas and to learn more about what we do, not to create designs that are exactly like them or very similar to them.
We need a title page design, as well as a master slide design. Keep in mind that the master slide design will be used behind text, so it needs to be a design that wouldn't make it hard to read anything that we put on top of it.
We design computer applications that are technologically advanced, but that have a clean, visually appealing interface. We would like the PowerPoint designs to reflect that.
We would prefer for the winner to deliver the designs in PowerPoint format. For the purpose of the design contest, you can just post the image file.
If you have specific questions, please feel free to send me a message. Thanks!


text:
Dog food reviews
Member List
Dry Dog Foods
Previous Product
Next Product
Royal Canin Maxi 30 Labrador Retriever Dog Food (Archived)
Date of last review
Sun November 20, 2005
Recommended By
Average Price
Average Rating
No recommendations
None indicated
None indicated
Chicken meal, brown rice, corn gluten, oatmeal, barley, brewers rice, chicken fat (naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols), natural chicken flavor, beet pulp (sugar removed), cellulose, fish oil, zeolite, soya oil, potassium chloride, sodium tripolyphosphate, salt, choline chloride, chicory extract, borage oil, taurine, calcium carbonate, inositol, niacin supplement, vitamin E supplement, glucosamine hydrochloride, ascorbic acid (source of vitamin C), chondroitin sulfate, calcium pantothenate, marigold extract, tyrosine, zinc oxide, pyridoxine hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), rosemary extract, thiamine mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), riboflavin supplement (source of vitamin B2), zinc proteinate, iron sulfate, manganous oxide, vitamin A supplement, manganese proteinate, folic acid, copper sulfate, copper proteinate, biotin, calcium iodate, vitamin D3 supplement, sodium selenite, vitamin B12 supplement.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (min) 30%
Crude Fat (min) 13%
Moisture (max) 10%
Crude Fiber (max) 5.7%
Post a Reply
Registered: October 2005
Posts: 3953
Review Date:
Sun November 20, 2005
Would you recommend the product?
| Price you paid?:
Not Indicated
| Rating:
The first ingredient is a named meat product.
Insufficient meat products. Extensive use of low quality grains and other controversial fillers.
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product. The second is a decent quality grain.
Corn gluten is filler, for which the AAFCO definition is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that which remains after all the nutritious bits have been removed. Oatmeal and barley are decent quality grains.
Brewers rice is a by-product of the alcohol industry for which the AAFCO definition is the dried extracted residue of rice resulting from the manufacture of wort (liquid portion of malted grain) or beer and may contain pulverized dried spent hops in an amount not to exceed 3 percent.
Beet pulp is yet another controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food especially so high on the ingredient list. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
Cellulose powder is purified, mechanically disintegrated cellulose prepared by processing alpha cellulose obtained as a pulp from fibrous plant materials: otherwise known as sawdust.
We note the use of soya oil in the food. Soy is a poor quality source of protein in dog food, and a common cause of allergy problems. Some believe that it is the number 1 cause of food allergies in dogs (outstripping even wheat).
Powered by:
Copyright 2006 All Enthusiast, Inc.
Trusted Gourmet
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Copyright © 2005 - 2009 DogFoodAnalysis.com.
All Rights Reserved.
Mesure d'audience ROI statistique webanalytics par


text:
Kim McCloud 10/7/2007 7:33:39 PMThis is outstanding, Alexandra! I'm sure these new parents will adore it! Way to go!! #756254
Chastity Abbott 10/7/2007 7:45:51 PMI too love it!!!! #4895363
Marina Moore 10/10/2007 4:24:28 PMBeautiful family capture! The clarity, colors and comp are great. #4909223
Cynthia L. Deters 11/26/2007 5:25:22 PMLovely comp! Congrats on the finalist! #5129271
Marina Moore 11/26/2007 5:55:51 PMCongratulations Alexandra, sooooooo well deserved. :) #5129741
Kay E. Mahoney 11/26/2007 7:29:40 PMCongratulations on your finalist. #5131282
Amy Sansbury 11/28/2007 11:48:07 AMCongrats on your big win Alexi! Beautiful image. #5143348
Wendy Bristol 11/29/2007 8:39:24 AMBeautiful! Congrats on your win. #5147433
Ross Throndson 11/29/2007 9:19:28 AMWonderful Image of the Little One & the Proud Parents....Congratulations on your Win!! #5147568
Ap 4.0, SS 100, lens 24-105L, This was taken in the clients home right in front of a big window in their bedroom. This was my favorite picture from the session :)
Uploaded on 10/7/2007 7:44:13 AM
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Digital SLR Camera
Copyright for this gallery photo belongs solely to Alexi C. Killmer. Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.
Log in to follow or message this photographer or report this photo.


text:
(c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved.
Contact us for information about using this image.
This Disqualification Act was passed by the House and Senate of Massachusetts on February 16, 1787. It sets forth conditions for granting pardons to the men who participated in Shays' Rebellion on the side of the Regulators as privates or non-commissioned officers. The men were required to turn in their guns and take an oath of allegiance delivered by a Justice of the Peace. The Justice of the Peace was then required to relay the men's names to the clerks of their towns. The men were barred from serving as jurors, members of town or state government and certain professions for three years. They also lost their right to vote in town elections. The men would forfeit their pardons if they did not follow those rules. However, if they could prove their unfailing allegiance to the state on or after May 1, 1788, they would no longer be barred from being a juror, voting or being members of government or certain professions.
top of page
Send an e-Postcard of this object
See Also...
Proclamation regarding Shays' Rebellion
Extract of a Letter regarding fate of the insurgents published in the Hamsphire Gazette
"Acts and Laws, Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts"
Home | Online Collection | Things
To Do | Turns
Exhibit | Classroom | Chronologies | My
About This Site | Site Index | Site Search | Feedback


text:
Technical Support
Here are some helpful guides to keep your Canyon in top shape! Just pick the relevant category to find the solution to your issue.
Adjusting of cockpit Mountainbike
An optimum position on the bike is crucial in achieving the maximum level of rider comfort and pedaling efficiency.
Stem height
Stem height is a crucial criterion when it comes to comfort as well as performance when riding both uphill and downhill.
A lower stem improves the stiffness when riding uphill. On the other hand, this lowered riding position requires that the rider has greater upper-body strength because he/she must invest more power to effectively maintain it. In addition, the low position on the bike reduces efficiency on the downhill because the shift in centre of gravity gives the rider the feeling he is going to be thrown over the handlebars.
A higher stem on the other hand guarantees greater comfort, superb control as well as a high level of ride safety on the downhill. On the other hand the front wheel loses traction more quickly when riding uphill and the bike rears up at the front.
It is necessary to find an acceptable compromise here. As a rule of thumb, to achieve a relatively comfortable riding position for riding uphill there should a distance of about the width of a hand between the top edge of the saddle and the handlebar grips.
TIP: The stem height has a crucial influence on the rider's overall position on the bike. Bikers with relatively long legs and short bodies need a higher stem than "giants" with long bodies and shorter legs.
How can the stem height be adjusted? Thanks to spacers, which are fitted to all Canyon bikes as standard, it is possible to make small adjustments to the height of the stem. If the spacers are fitted under the stem then the stem is positioned higher. Picture 1 If the spacers are fitted above the stem, as shown, then a lower rider position on the bike is achieved, thereby improving performance when riding uphill. Picture 2
Several Canyon models are delivered with so-called "Flip-Flop" stems. By simply turning the stem an adjustment of stem height can be achieved. The combination of spacer tuning and turning the stem allows the rider to adjust the cockpit height of a Canyon bike by several centimeters.
The handlebar position
Most Canyon models are supplied with slightly or extremely curved handlebars. For ergonomic reasons these bars can be curved either towards the rear or upwards. Picture 3
Fine adjustments always depend on the preference of the rider; however the handlebar should be fitted according to the manufacturer's specifications. As a rule of thumb, if you look at the handlebar from behind the bike past the saddle then the bar ends should point upwards. If you look from above down onto the handlebar then the bar ends should be pointing to the rear of the bike. Picture 4
Bikes which are primarily designed for racing and competition use are fitted with flat handlebars and also with bar ends depending on the model. Fit these so that the bar ends are pointing to the rear of the bike. The ergonomically best position for the bar ends is when they are parallel to the stem.
Warning: Always read the manufacturer's instructions carefully before fitting or removing the handlebars!
The Position of the brake levers
Brake lever angles
Position the angle of the brake levers so that you don't jar your wrists when you have to apply the brakes when you're riding uphill. This stops you from having cramps in your wrists and saves valuable energy. Picture 5
Lateral brake lever position
Modern disc brakes are designed to be actuated by two or even just one finger. Optimum leverage and power transfer is achieved when the hand is positioned as far out as possible towards the end of the lever. Many riders make the mistake of positioning the lever much too far out towards the end of the handlebar, thereby reducing brake performance and modulation. Attempt to position your brake levers as far in towards the stem as possible so that your hand is on the extreme outside of the handlebar and your fingers grip the lever on the end as shown. Picture 6
Tip: Even when using brake levers that are designed to be actuated with two fingers, try to get used to braking with just one finger because if you have your other four fingers on the handlebar this can give you that edge in critical situations.
Adjust lever reach
Lever reach on the disc brakes can be individually tailored to meet your needs. On some models that works with a little Allen key bolt, which is located on the pivot of the lever. Picture 7 With some levers this is adjust via an adjusting bolt on the brake lever. Picture 8 Picture 9
Adjust the lever reach in such a way if you need to do an emergency stop there's still space for your hand otherwise your fingers can become trapped.
Brake contact point
It is possible to adjust the brake contact point on many types of brake.
Some Formula brakes also have a Feel Control System (FCS), with which you can adjust the brake pad clearance. Picture 10
You can also adjust the brake contact point (CR) on Avid brakes on the brake lever. Picture 11
You can adjust brake contact point on this knob (Shimano XT brakes) Picture 12


text:
Easter Gift Baskets
We love Easter at FTD, and we imagine you do, too. Whether you celebrate the holiday's traditional religious meanings or simply enjoy it as a day for family and friends, eating sweets and baked hams, and giving Easter baskets to the kids, Easter offers the opportunity to celebrate the joys of life. This is especially true since Easter also marks the beginning of spring and nature's reawakening from the long sleep of winter. From the blooming of spring flowers to the fresh green of the trees to time spent with friends and family, Easter is a time to celebrate! It is because we love this holiday so much at FTD that we do our best to offer a variety of gifts and arrangements to suit every Easter need. Send Easter gift baskets to your closest friends and loved ones by choosing from our variety of Easter baskets for sale. FTD makes Easter basket delivery easy and hassle free. You will be able to find the right gift for every age on your list. FTD also offers stunning Easter flower arrangements. The colors are beautiful this time of year. We strive to keep all spring flowers and all Easter flowers in stock for you. Want something to bring to an Easter get together, something that will bring a smile to loved ones' faces and some cheer to a room? A lily bouquet can be just the thing. Put them in a vase and they'll make a lovely centerpiece for the Easter meal. Or maybe you'd like to bring a little technicolor whimsy to your Easter. Our specially dyed rainbow flowers bring all the beauty of the rainbow to the majesty of flowers for a creation that truly is a feat for the eyes. And kids love Easter basket gifts! However you celebrate Easter, FTD has the Easter baskets and flower arrangements you need to celebrate this joyous time of year. Family, friends, springtime: what better way to celebrate them all than with nature's springtime gift of flowers? Order online from FTD today to get your Easter baskets delivered right to their doors.


text:
black bart wrote:Miss May
Miss May Contender
Name: Dolly Bigones
Occupation: Apprentice Shipwright
Likes: Getting up the main mast
Dislikes: Getting her high heals trapped in the decking just as the Captain cry's "Every man for himself".
In five years' time: Knowing her Booby Hatch from her Futtocks.
Juss look et them headlights ! Wot a luverly front end !


text:
Design-a-Guitar needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 53 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
The newest thing to do is to make your own guitar...
Thats what this company wants. A brand new guitar design.
It is a normal spanish guitar and it needs a design for the front and the sides
The disign needs to be with roses.
Only in Black and white!
The guitar will be painted in white and the design will be painten in black.
RATINGS CODE (I've found this from another contest and thought it would be helpful):
0 star to 1 star - Try taking the design in a different direction, not really what we are looking for.
2 star - Good potential but design needs to follow our feedback a little more
3 star - Needs just a little tweaking
4 star - We really like the design, is being considered for a finalist.
5 star - Excellent work! A Finalist for sure!
- Front design with a rose (35 cm x 25 cm)
- Side design with roses (150 cm x 9,5 cm)
- Back design with a fully opened rose (35 cm x 25 cm)
- Make notice of the soundhol in the guitar!
- I don't want any shadows in the design.
- Only black and white (it's no airbrush) so no GrayscaleGood luck and I hope some the designs will be nice!


text:
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.—Cornerstone Billing Solutions, which last year announced security industry focused products like Billing Plus collections support and the AlarmPayments.com online payment portal, in July announced Version 31 of their ALARM software. According to Cornerstone, the new version is a fine-tuned improvement.
© 2019 United Publications Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.


text:
Model: GWPS91-A
PS91-A General Wire Speedrooter 91 with one 100 ft. x 3/4" Cable, one 100 ft. x 1/2" Cable
The Speedrooter has a reputation for being a machine that really can take a beating. Its frame is braced at key stress points, the drum is supported front and back for longer bearing wear, and General's unique Flexicore wire rope center cables are so tough they carry a one year limited warranty. To make the new Speedrooter 91 even more user friendly, we've redesigned the frame to make it easier for you to load onto a truck. We've also given the Speedrooter 91 an adjustable height handle. It can be three inches longer or more compact, depending upon your preference. The large drum has a see-through inner cage, so you can quickly tell how much cable is left in the drum.
View all General-Wire products


text:
Indiana Campus Urban Design Graduate Programs & Campus Urban Design Graduate Schools
Campus based Urban Landscape Design graduate programs work to broaden students design and planning skills. Curriculums offer advanced study and research opportunities in the design of ecologically and economically productive urban environments. Explore this rapidly growing field through a dynamic mix of design and technical courses. Degrees will prepare you for careers in architecture, public policy and urban affairs, civil and environmental engineering, and earth and environmental science.
Looking for a campus with urban landscape design graduate programs near you? Search by location to find accredited colleges which offer urban landscape design graduate programs that are near you.
Horticulture Landscape Management Graduate Certificate, Master of Science in Design and Urban Ecologies, or a campus based Ph.D. in Urban Design. Learning about urban landscape design alongside your peers and professor is a great way to engross yourself in the learning process and group setting. You can also look into global urban landscape design programs graduate programs that may take you to faraway and thrilling corners of the world, while you're earning your degree. Jumpstart your search for on campus urban landscape design degrees now!
Sponsored Listings
- Muncie, INMuncie, IN
Ball State University
Landscape Architecture
The M.L.A. program is open to qualified students holding any baccalaureate degree.
Sponsored Listings


text:
Incredible Speed USB 3.0
Fast speeds with USB 3.0 is now available for PC and Mac! The CalDigit AV Drive is the first device to offer SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity for the Mac. CalDigit's top class engineers developed specialized PCIe cards and drivers to support the optimum USB 3.0 experience. The USB 3.0 interface is capable of 5Gbps transfer speeds. Not only is it faster than USB 2.0, it offers significant improvements in power management and data flow. USB 3.0 is the ideal choice for audio and visual professionals. Best of all, it is backwards compatible with USB 2.0.
Optimized FireWire 800
USB 3.0 speeds are up to 5Gbps, much faster than most of today's popular interfaces. If you don't have USB 3.0 yet, FireWire 800 will allow you to connect to your current computer. Then when you get the CalDigit SuperSpeed PCI Express Card or a USB 3.0 equipped computer, you will be ready to start using the CalDigit AV Drive at the fastest possible speeds. The CalDigit AV Drive features the latest in FireWire technology from CalDigit. Unlike other FireWire 800 drives on the market, which have typical speeds of 58 MB/s though 74 MB/s, the CalDigit AV Drive can achieve speeds of 85 MB/s. This 30% increase in speed allows for faster file transfers and more real time when video editing.
CalDigit SuperSpeed PCI Express Card
CalDigit offers a SuperSpeed PCI Express Card for systems without a built-in USB 3.0 support. CalDigit also offers a SuperSpeed Expresscard 34 for laptops with Expresscard support.
Attention to Detail
As important as aesthetics are, what is under the hood is equally as important. The AV Drive was designed to bring users the highest quality product at the best value. CalDigit engineers spent a great deal of time fine tuning every last detail. The internal components of the AV Drive feature a cable-less design so there is no need to worry about loose parts and thus decreasing the likelihood of problems. The components of the AV Drive are housed in a strong aluminum chassis designed to handle the abuse of everyday life. The sleek and sexy design is as functional as it is good looking. The front facing button allows the user to power the AV Drive with ease, while also serving as a status indicator
The CalDigit AV Drive was designed to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Special power management technology allows the AV Drive to sleep, wake and shutdown along with the computer. If the computer goes to sleep, the AV Drive will follow. CalDigit uses top quality components in the power adapters and specifically designs them with grounding support to protect and prolong the life of your product.
Heat Management
Effective cooling is usually what separates a good drive from a dead drive. Most manufacturers use heat sinks to cut production costs but they aren't all that effective on their own. CalDigit focuses on the customers and their precious data. To help with heat dissipation, the AV Drive features an ambient temperature-controlled smart fan. This special fan monitors the heat output of the AV Drive and turns on only when needed. This ensures both a cool and quiet experience.
Speed +
The CalDigit AV Drive is fast! Reaching speeds of over 160 MB/s from a single drive. The CalDigit AV Drive runs laps around any other product in its class. Compact and specifically designed for audio and video applications, the AV Drive is portable and made to handle some of the most demanding media formats. For more information, you can refer to our Real Time Chart
We Don't Just Assemble, We Create
CalDigit is more than just a brand. We design, innovate and create. Unlike other storage brands, CalDigit is involved with every part of manufacturing process, from conceptualization to production. We have the passion for what we do and strive to provide our customers with the best product possible. Doing so requires being completely involved in all aspects of production, not just throwing OEM parts together and stamping a logo on it. CalDigit takes pride in being unique, and all products are built exclusively by CalDigit. Simply put, there is nothing quite like a CalDigit drive.
Legendary Support
It's just the beginning after you purchase your CalDigit AV Drive. Like all of CalDigit's great products, the CalDigit AV Drive is made from quality components and made to last. The CalDigit AV Drive also comes with CalDigit's legendary technical support.
Instead of filling out forms or listening to an automated machine, customers get to talk to real people. CalDigit's technical team knows more than just storage, they understand the applications used in today's popular workflows. Unlike other companies who simply issue RMA numbers whenever a problem arises, the CalDigit technical support team will address the issue and hit the root of the problem. They understand the horrors of down time and work quickly and efficiently every step of the way to get the products up and running again.
CalDigit and its knowledgeable technical support team are dedicated to its customers. If there is a problem, CalDigit aims to provide the best solution possible.
CalDigit builds and manufactures most of the major components used in the CalDigit AV Drive and uses only quality hard drives from leading manufacturers.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
CalDigit is committed to providing users with the best possible experience. Because CalDigit has designed and built the CalDigit AV Drive from the ground up, they can stand behind it with a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. CalDigit prides itself in providing the highest quality customer service and knows the importance of building long lasting relationships. If you are not completely satisfied with the CalDigit AV Drive, CalDigit offers a 30 day money back guarantee.
A Helping Hand
CalDigit prides itself not only by providing the best storage solutions for content creation, but actively taking steps to reduce our carbon footprint. Built and designed with an all aluminum enclosure and recyclable material, the AV Drive also comes preloaded with CalDigit Drive Assistant which includes a PDF manual and software. By eliminating the unnecessary production of paper manuals and driver CDs, the CalDigit AV Drive is not only environmentally friendly, but makes installation a breeze. The CalDigit AV Drive is also RoHS compliant, eliminating the use of hazardous substances.


text:
Items where Author / Artist / Editor is "Kanagawa, Osami"
|See full list of headings
Group by: Item Type | No Grouping
Jump to: Article
Number of items: 1.
Lund, Torben and O'Reilly, Lorraine and Hutchings, Patricia and Kanagawa, Osami and Gravely, Robert and Chandler, Phillip and Dyson, Julian and Picard, Jean K. and Edwards, Andrew and Kioussis, Dimitris and Cooke, Anne and Simpson, Elizabeth (1990) Prevention of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in non-obese diabetic mice by transgenes encoding modified I-A -chain or normal I-E-chain. Nature (345). 727 -729. ISSN 0028-0836


text:
Friday Night Open Thread
What's the MGoCommunity up to tonight? I've got a quiet night at home going on with some Fat Tire and Jameson; music on right now, maybe a movie later on.
Anyone up to anything good? Bad? Drinking anything good? Bad? Listen to any good music lately, or see a good movie?
M Women's Volleyball beat MSU tonight, for those that missed it, and will advance to the Elite Eight. MBB gets ready to avenge a loss to Arkansas tomorrow at noon. Hockey is off this weekend.


text:
Chemistry Shows Peter Hollamby | added on Nov 02, 2011 | International Uncover some of the secrets of chemical reactions – especially those of a spectacular kind! Exciting shows that promises to blow the lid of Chemistry's possibly dusty image.
|celebrating chemistry, demonstrations
|students, general public, teachers, secondary school students, high schools, school children, secondary schools


text:
Steven Streefkerk needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 48 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
1-Click Album
1-Click Album is a new iPhone application that allows you to create photo-albums with incredible ease. Your photo albums can be easily shared (Facebook) and printed. The keywords are: Quick - Easy - Great quality photo albums.
The brilliant new interface is why people want this app. Creating albums has never been more easy.
Our audience are iPhone / smartphone owners that use the camera on their smartphone frequently. Age 18 - 45 years, maybe more women then men. They like an iPhone, so they expect applications to have the same superb quality. They enjoy making photo's and sharing these with friends and family.
We need 2 photo album themes:
- modern
- classic
For each theme, we need:
a) square shaped photo album cover, with a transparent part for the cover photo. Resolutions: 512x512, 288x288, 144x144. It is important that the cover photo is relatively large, so it is well recognizable.
b) photo album cover in A5 format (portrait, 1050x1485), which is basically the same as the square shaped cover
c) Photo album page with 1 landscape photo and text (see example)
d) Photo album page with 1 portrait photo and text (see example)
The photo album pages should have transparent sections were we can put the photo's. The page size should be 640x920, 320x460 and high-res.
Each page should show a date ("Monday, 24 jan 2012") and a page number ("page 1 of 23")
The background will be black. The design should include font styles for the text. Our program icon is attached as well.
Please ask questions if you need more info!!
kind regards,


text:
OTTAWA – Top First Nations chiefs from across the country have set aside their differences for now and signed on to a request for yet another meeting with the prime minister — all in an attempt to bring the protest by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence to an end.
The Assembly of First Nations' executive agreed to the request in writing and sent a letter to Stephen Harper on the weekend, calling for a meeting as soon as Thursday — a day by which Shawn Atleo could well be back on the job.
Atleo took a sudden sick leave after his controversial meeting with Harper 10 days ago amidst a leadership crisis within the AFN. He issued a statement Monday saying he would be back in the saddle "later this week."
Unlike the divisive Jan. 11 meeting, this week's proposed meeting with Harper would include a broad range of chiefs as well as Gov.-Gen. David Johnston, as requested by Spence.
"The intent behind it is to try to end Chief Spence's hunger strike," said Morley Googoo, regional chief for Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
And unlike the previous meeting, Spence's spokesman says the Cree leader is onside.
"We all need to work together," said Danny Metatawabin, adding that Spence was feeling "well, chirpy, happy" on Monday morning despite having spent the last six weeks subsisting only on fish broth and medicinal tea.
There's nothing to suggest Harper is inclined to agree to the request, despite the newfound unity among chiefs. Andrew MacDougall, a spokesman for the prime minister, said Harper would respond to the AFN's letter "in due course."
"For us, the next step is (meeting) National Chief Atleo, one-on-one, to hammer out some of the detail on the way forward," MacDougall said.
The Governor General was not included in the previous meeting because it is the government that makes policy decisions in Canada, not the Queen's representative, he added. "And that's how we're still looking at the matter."
Still, MacDougall acknowledged that there is a great deal of pressure to show concrete results that will lead to material improvements for First Nations peoples.
"We have to keep up the momentum and keep showing that there is progress that can be made."
Googoo said the best way for Harper to show goodwill and immediate progress would be to agree to the Jan. 24 meeting, which would be in addition to the meeting with Atleo to work on treaty implementation and comprehensive claims.
Thursday is the AFN's "preferred date" for a broader meeting, he said, because it is the one-year anniversary of a major summit between chiefs, Harper and Johnston that was supposed to reinvigorate the Crown-First Nation relationship. But the AFN realizes there may be a need for some flexibility on the date since it is so soon, Googoo acknowledged.
He said he hopes that a solid commitment to such a meeting would be enough to entice Spence to end her protest.
Harper agreed to a meeting with the AFN, but his exclusion of Johnston and his setting of the meeting agenda prompted Spence and many other chiefs to orchestrate a boycott and question the leadership of Atleo, who went into the meeting despite loud protests in the streets.
In his statement on Monday, Atleo called for unity and rational discussion of internal disagreements. But he also opened the door to structural changes within the national organization, just as conflicts in the past have led to restructuring.
"Many changes were made; many more conversations remain," Atleo writes.
"Let us ensure that those conversations are conducted with respect, respectful of our traditions, respectful of each other and respectful of our different approaches to winning progress for our peoples."
But while angry chiefs have muted their criticism of Atleo for now, they still harbour concerns about his leadership.
"For Ontario, we're just trying to maintain focus on what the objectives are…. There's a concern regarding leadership but there's a process and time for that," said Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy, who boycotted the Jan. 11 meeting.
"The sense of urgency there is that Theresa Spence has indicated that she'll continue on with her hunger strike until such time as a meeting takes place."


text:
We show our love and appreciation for the Earth all year round, but during Earth Awareness Month (every April), we like to make a celebration out of it! This year, we wanted to share ten of our favorite eco-friendly yoga props with our fellow yogis – from mats, to blankets, to clothing, and more! And, with our 25% off Spring Yoga Sale – running from now through Sunday, May 1st – these items won't break the bank!
This mat is as natural as it gets – it's even biodegradable! It's a super textured, supremely grippy yoga mat made from all natural rubber tapped from rubber trees and woven with natural jute fibers. Rated #1 by the New York Times (and by many yogis), this mat is sure to help you feel grounded and close to earth during your practice.
Sustainably harvested from natural cork trees, our Cork Yoga Blocks are essential for every yogi's prop collection! With a great, firm feel and awesome traction, we can't help but find ourselves choosing these before a hot yoga class or a few outdoor poses.
3. Women's Yoga Clothing by Manduka
Made for yoga by yogis! We love this environmentally conscious, yet fabulously comfy and cute new collection of women's clothing by Manduka! With everything from tanks to tops to wraps in a variety of recycled polyester, hemp, and organic cotton, you can't go wrong. A couple of our favorites? The Open Back Top (30% Hemp/70% Organic Cotton) and the Essential Legging (65% Recycled Polyester/22% Polyester/13% Spandex) shown above!
4. Natural Jute & PER Yoga Mat
This mat is great for any yoga who loves an easy-to-clean mat with textured grip and all natural materials! Made from PER (polymer environmental resin) and sturdy, natural jute fibers, this mat is incredibly durable and cleans up after even the hottest yoga classes with just a quick wipe down! (Yoga Mat Cleansing Wipe, anyone?)
Made from a blend of recycled cotton and acrylic fibers, our signature Mexican Yoga Blankets are sturdy enough for prop use in any class, while still comfortable enough to use as a throw on your couch! Available in three beautiful designs (solid, striped, and solid with thunderbird), these colorful blankets are sure to become a beloved favorite.
6. Eco-Friendly Foam Yoga Blocks
These are our go-to blocks when out and about, and at only 0.5 pounds each they couldn't be easier to bring along anywhere you want to practice! These blocks are one of our favorite tried-and-true classics that are friendly to the planet and produce no toxic emissions during production. And, with their textured surface and vibrant color options, they can't be beat!
Everything an earth-conscious yogi could ask for in a classic sticky mat! This is one of our favorite signature mats, both for its grip, its environmental friendliness, and its budget friendly price! Plus, it's available in three thicknesses – 1/8", 1/6", and ¼", so there's sure to be a size to fit any yogi's practice!
Our classic Mysore Practice Rugs are woven with 100% all natural cotton yarn, and provide a wonderfully textured and sturdy surface to help you stay grounded throughout your practice. Perfect for use over any yoga mat, our colorful, earth-friendly rugs will absorb sweat, keeping you steady during even the sweatiest practices! Or, try using it solo during an outdoor practice – the natural woven feel of the rug combined with the closeness of the earth is one of our favorite ways to spend a beautiful morning!
Our beautiful, ecologically harvested Bamboo Yoga Blocks are a wonderful prop for any studio or home! Sturdier than many types of standard wood, these blocks provide supreme durability and are much friendlier to our forests than wood harvested using traditional logging methods.
We love these lightweight – yet super comfy and supportive – yoga mats by Prana! At only 2.4 pounds, they provide a solid ¼" thickness, which makes them ideal for yogis who prefer an extra supportive mat, but don't want to be held back by too much weight! They're also made using entirely non toxic thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), and are recyclable and biodegradable!
For all of your eco-friendly yoga prop needs, come visit us today at BarefootYoga.com!
Posted under Eco-Friendly Yoga Products, Health and Fitness, Mysore Practice Rugs, Yoga Clothing, Yoga Gift Ideas, Yoga Mats, Yoga Supplies
This post was written by Carolina on April 25, 2016


text:
38 acres in Houston County, Alabama
0 Jordan Fitch Road, Gordon , Alabama 36343 - Houston County
$152,000 38 Acres
Property ID 5276749
Beautiful rolling land located on a country road.
Tax Data (Show Tax Data)
Loading Tax Data
Other Land for Sale from
- Properties for Sale in Nearby Counties
- Dale County Land for Sale
- Early County Land for Sale
- Geneva County Land for Sale
- Henry County Land for Sale
- Jackson County Land for Sale
- Seminole County Land for Sale
NOTE: The information contained herein is provided as general information only and has been obtained from sources deemed reliable. It is provided without any guaranty, warranty or representation, expressed or implied, made by Lands of America, or any related entity, as to the accuracy or completeness of the information. The information is presented subject to errors, omissions, change of price or conditions, prior sale or withdrawal without notice. Prospective purchasers should make their own investigations, projections and conclusions concerning the information.


text:
Corporate / Motivational / Uplifting This Corporate business and inspiring track. It is full of positive energy to motivate to action. Creates an atmosphere of happiness, success and winning. Ideal instrumental background music for presenting your business, a new product, a new campaign or your company in general, this optimistic and inspiring tune blends perfectly with any voiceovers, providing a warm feel good background for a great variety of uses.
Leave your Comment
You May Also Like
Deep Night
Hook Machine
Hip Hop Bass
Evolution - Unbounce Template
Coming Up