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JavaScript Performance Best Practices
Pick your battles. It is generally a good approach to first optimize those parts which give you the biggest improvements.
There are many interrelated components that play an instrumental role in the real-life web application performance such as those responsible for layout, rendering, parsing HTML, marshaling, DOM, CSS formatting, JavaScript -- as you see, JavaScript is only one part of the performance equation.
Below are some examples of common reasons for slow JavaScript performance that you as a JavaScript developer can easily fix and make your web application to perform better instantly:
DOM access
Interaction with the DOM is usually slower than normal JavaScript code. Interaction with the DOM is usually inevitable, but try to minimize it. For instance, dynamically creating HTML with strings and setting the innerHTML is usually faster than creating HTML with DOM methods.
Whenever possible, avoid the eval method because significant overhead is involved in script evaluation.
Using with statements creates additional scope objects that slow variable access and create ambiguities.
for-in loops
Traverse arrays use the traditional for (var i=0; i<array.length; i++) instead of for-in loops. Unfortunately, most JavaScript environments have a slow implementation of for-in loops.
Core JavaScript pitfalls
Avoid using eval or the Function constructor
- Using eval or Function constructor are expensive operations as each time they are called script engine must convert source code to executable code.
- Additionally, using eval the context of the string has to be interpreted at runtime.
function addMethod(object, property, code) {
object[property] = new Function(code);
addMethod(myObj, 'methodName', 'this.localVar=foo');
function addMethod(object, property, func) {
object[property] = func;
addMethod(myObj, 'methodName', function () { 'this.localVar=foo'; });
Avoid using with
Although seen as a convenience, with construct introduces an extra scope to search each time variable is referenced and the contents of that scope is not known at compile time.
with (test.object) {
foo = 'Value of foo property of object';
bar = 'Value of bar property of object';
var myObj = test.object;
myObj.foo = 'Value of foo property of object';
myObj.bar = 'Value of bar property of object';
Don't use try-catch-finally inside performance-critical functions
- The try-catch-finally construct creates a new variable in the current scope at runtime each time the catch clause is executed where the caught exception object is assigned to a variable.
- Exception handling should be done at as high level in the script where it does not occur frequently, for example outside a loop.
- Or if possible, avoid try-catch-finally completely
var object = ['foo', 'bar'], i;
for (i = 0; i < object.length; i++) {
try {
// do something that throws an exception
} catch (e) {
// handle exception
var object = ['foo', 'bar'], i;
try {
for (i = 0; i < object.length; i++) {
// do something
} catch (e) {
// handle exception
Avoid using global variables
- If you reference global variables from within function or another scope, scripting engine has to look through the scope to find them.
- Variable in the global scope persist though the life time of the script, whereas in local scope they are destroyed when the local scope is lost.
var i,
str = '';
function globalScope() {
for (i=0; i < 100; i++) {
str += i; // here we reference i and str in global scope which is slow
function localScope() {
var i,
str = '';
for (i=0; i < 100; i++) {
str += i; // i and str in local scope which is faster
Avoid for-in in performance-critical functions
- The for-in loop requires the script engine to build a list of all the enumerable properties and check for duplicates prior the start.
- If your code inside for loop does not modify the array it iterates pre-compute the length of the array into a variable len inside for loop scope.
var sum = 0;
for (var i in arr) {
sum += arr[i];
var sum = 0;
for (var i = 0, len = arr.length; i < len; i++) {
sum += arr[i];
Use strings accumulator-style
- Using + operator a new string is created in memory and the concatenated value is assigned to it. Only after this the result is assigned to a variable.
- To avoid the intermediate variable for concatenation result, you can directly assign the result using += operator.
a += 'x' + 'y';
a += 'x';
a += 'y';
Primitive operations can be faster than function calls
- Consider using alternative primitive operation over function calls in performance critical loops and functions.
var min = Math.min(a, b);
var min = a < b ? a : b;
arr[arr.length] = val;
Pass functions, not strings, to setTimeout() and setInterval()
- If you pass a string into setTimeout() or setInterval() the string will be evaluated the same way as with eval which is slow.
- Wrap your code into an anonymous function instead so that it can be interpreted and optimized during compilation.
setInterval('doSomethingPeriodically()', 1000);
setTimeOut('doSomethingAfterFiveSeconds()', 5000);
setInterval(doSomethingPeriodically, 1000);
setTimeOut(doSomethingAfterFiveSeconds, 5000);
Avoid unnecessary DOM references in objects
- Dont do this :
var car = new Object();
car.color = "red";
car.type = "sedan"
- Better way would be:
var car = {
color : "red";
type : "sedan"
Maximize object resolution speed and minimize scope chain
- Inefficient way:
var url = location.href;
- Efficient one:
var url = window.location.href;
Try to keep script comments to a minimum/ Avoid long variable names
Keep script comments to a minimun or avoid them altogether, especially inside functions, loops and arrays. Comments unnecessarily slow down script execution and increase file size. For example,
- Bad Idea :
function someFunction()
var person_full_name="somename"; /* stores the full name*/
- Better way:
function someFunction()
var name="somename";
Store local references to out-of-scope variables
- When a function is executed an execution context is created and an activation object containing all local variables is pushed to the front of the context's scope chain.
- Further in the chain, the slower the identifier resolution is, which means local variables are fastest.
- By storing local references to frequently used out-of-scope variables reading and writing to variables is significantly faster. This is visible especially with global variables and other deep searches for identifier resolution.
- Also in-scope variables (var myVar) are faster than object property access (this.myVar).
function doSomething(text) {
var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div'),
text = ['foo', /* ... n ... */, 'bar'];
for (var i = 0, l = divs.length; i < l; i++) {
divs[i].innerHTML = text[i];
function doSomethingFaster(text) {
var doc = document,
divs = doc.getElementsByTagName('div'),
text = ['foo', /* ... n ... */, 'bar'];
for (var i = 0, l = divs.length; i < l; i++) {
divs[i].innerHTML = text[i];
If you need to access an element (e.g. the head) inside a big loop using a localized DOM access ( get in the example) is faster.
function doSomethingElseFaster() {
var get = document.getElementsByTagName;
for (var i = 0, i < 100000; i++) {
Caching values to variables
- Caching values to local variables where ever needed prevents interpreter from doing the repetative job.
- Couple of examples below should clarify the caching/storing values to variable in broader sense.
- Example 1) Caching math functions in variables before executing calculations within a loop
Wrong Way:
var d=35;
for (var i=0; i<1000; i++) {
y += Math.sin(d)*10;
Better Approach:
var d = 55;
var math_sind = Math.sin(d)*10;
for (var i=0; i<1000; i++) {
y += math_sind;
- Example 2) Caching/Storing array length when used in loops
Bad Approach:
The length of the array arr is recalculated every time the loop iterates.
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
// do something
Better Approach:
Better way is to to cache the length of the array:
for (var i = 0, len = arr.length; i < len; i++) {
// do something
- In General we should avoid sending the interpreter out to do unnecessary work once it has already done it once, eg: figuring out the scope chain or the function evaulation values of an expression used more than once.storing/caching values to variable only makes sense if those values are used repetatively or more than once, otherwise we are creating overhead again for declaring a variable, assigning values and then just using only once, so keep in mind
Sources: Variable Performance, slides High Performance Kick Ass Web Apps Video at JSCONF 2009
Tips for better loading performance
Load scripts without blocking for faster startup and to show a splash screen
- When

// JavaScript
function loadScript(src, callback) {
var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0],
script = document.createElement('script');
done = false;
script.setAttribute('src', src);
script.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
script.setAttribute('charset', 'utf-8');
script.onload = script.onreadstatechange = function() {
if (!done && (!this.readyState || this.readyState == 'loaded' || this.readyState == 'complete')) {
done = true;
script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = null;
if (callback) {
head.insertBefore(script, head.firstChild);
// load the my-script-file.js and display an alert dialog once the script has been loaded
loadScript('my-script-file.js', function() { alert('my-script-file.js loaded.'); });
Add an Expires or a Cache-Control HTTP header
Using Apache the Expires HTTP header and the max-age directive of the Cache-Control HTTP header in server responses can be configures in .htaccess. The syntax is as follows:
ExpiresDefault "<base> [plus] {<num> <type>}*" ExpiresByType type/encoding "<base> [plus] {<num> <type>}*"
Example: ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
Source: Apache mod_expires
Gzip JavaScript and CSS resources
Below is a simple configuration to gzip not only JavaScript and CSS but also HTML, XML and JSON. To accomplish this, the following must be set in the Apache .htaccess:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/plain text/xml application/x-javascript application/json
Use YUI Compressor or JSMin to compress the code
- The Best: YUI Compressor provides the best overall performance when you consider it as: Total_Speed = Time_to_Download + Time_to_Evaluate. Depends on Rhino and is not applicable for real-time compression.
- Simple: JSMin has implementations in nearly all the languages and is applicable for real-time compression. After gzipping the size comes very close to that of YUI Compressor.
- JSMin or YUI Compressor + gzipping is better performer than Dean Edwards' Packer + gzipping. Although Packer provides the smallest (byte-size) code it will evaluate much slower as the scripts are unpacked on the client-side using one pass of a RegExp? this introduces an overhead especially significant on slow mobile devices.
Minimize the number and size of resources
- Concatenate multiple scripts into one. However, consider that some mobile browsers have limits in how big resources they keep in cache.
- Always aim for the smallest code size prior to minification and re-factor to increase re-usable code, consider all resources: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, images, JSON loaded using XHR.
- Minimize the number of resources per host to enable more efficient parallel loading of resources
- Serve your content from different hosts to overcode HTTP/1.1 limitation of parallel loading of two resources per host.
Load scripts without blocking parallel downloads
- Multiple scripts can be loaded in parallel without blocking using techniques such as via normal script src, XHR eval, XHR injection, script in iframe, script DOM element, script defer and document.write script tag.
- Depending on your specific constraints (resources in the same/different domain, need to preserve script loading order, need to show browser loading indicator) you can do an informed decision by checking the decision tree in the following presentation (slide 26).
Even Faster Websites - Steve Souders at SXSW '09
Couple asynchronous scripts
- If you have inline script which depend on the script you have multiple options: hardcoded callback, window.onload, timer, degrading script tags and script onload.
- See slide 35 onwards for details:
Even Faster Websites- Steve Souders at SXSW '09
Move inline scripts above stylesheets
- Browsers download stylesheets in parallel with other resources that follow unless the stylesheet is followed by an inline script.
- Workaround is to either avoid inline scripts or move them above stylesheets or below other resources (e.g. images, scripts) and use <link>, not @import.
- Live demo
Use iframes sparingly
- Parent's onload doesn't fire until iframe and all its components are downloaded.
- Workaround for Safari and Chrome is to set iframe src in JavaScript.
- Scripts and stylesheets also block iframe from loading.
- In IE and FF stylesheets in the parent block the iframe or its resources
- iframe shares connection pool with parent, typically 2 connections per host.
Document Object Model (DOM) obscurities
Source: Efficient JavaScript - DOM
Slow DOM performance can be traced back into the following three main causes:
|Extensive DOM manipulation
|Extensive use of DOM API is a well-known cause of slowness.
|Script triggers too many reflows or repaints
|As a consequence of DOM manipulation, reflowing the layout and repainting are very expensive.
|Slow approach to locating nodes in the DOM
|Locating a desired node(s) in the DOM is potential bottleneck if the DOM is sizable and/or complex.
Minimize the size of the DOM
- The size of DOM slows down all the operation related to it such as reflowing, traversal and DOM manipulation.
- The most effective way to make programs faster is to make n smaller means that the DOM should be as small as possible at all times.
- Minimize n, you can track the number of elements in a page by:
- var n = document.getElementsByTagName('*').length;
- var n = $('*').length;
Use document fragment templates for re-usability
- Dynamically inserting and updating elements into the DOM is expensive. An efficient way to tackle this is to use HTML templates which can be cloned and re-used for re-usable parts of the DOM such as dialogs and other UI widgets.
- In practice the approach is to modify, clone and append all nodes in JavaScript without touching the live DOM and append the completed document fragment to the DOM at once. One can do this with DOM API or alternatively construct a string representation of the HTML fragment to append based on a string template and push that into the DOM with a one innerHTML assignment. On both cases the rendering engine does not have to reflow and repaint the layout multiple times. Next we introduce some techniques to achieve this behavior.
Minimize the number of reflows and repaints
|Repainting happens when something is made visible or hidden without altering the layout of the document. For example if an outline is added to an element, its background color is changed of its visibility is changed. Repainting is an expensive operation (paint events demo).
|Reflow happens whenever the DOM is manipulated in a way it affects the layout. For example, style is changed to affect the layout, className property is changed or browser window size is changed. Once an element needs to be reflown, its children will also be reflown and any elements appearing after the element in the DOM. Finally, everything is repainted. Reflows are even more expensive operations, than repainting. In many cases reflowing is comparable to layout out the entire page again (reflow demo videos).
- Operation that trigger reflows should be used sparsely.
- Reflowing a table element is more expensive that reflowing equivalent element with block display.
- Elements that are positioned absolutely or fixed do not affect the main document layout, so their reflowing is cheaper as they do not trigger main document reflowing. This is recommended approach for element that need to be animated.
- DOM modifications trigger reflow. This means that operations such as adding new elements, changing the value of text nodes or adding element attributes and their properties cause reflow.
- Good strategies to overcome this limitation are elaborated next.
- Further reading
- Repaint and reflow at Opera Developer Network
- Notes on HTML Reflow - more detailed information on the reflow process (archived)
- Reflows & Repaints: CSS Performance making your JavaScript slow
- Go With The Reflow
- Rendering: repaint, reflow/relayout, restyle
- Tools
- XUL Profiler
- Mac OS X Quartz Debug (in developer tools part of every OS X) Autoflush drawing setting illustrates how the page is reflown in step-by-step detail. (more)
Use createDocumentFragment()
- Make multiple changes in a DOMDocumentFragment and add the fragment into the DOM in a single operation. This triggers only one reflow.
var list = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'],
for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
elem = document.createElement('div');
content = document.createTextNode(list[i]);
var fragment = document.createDocumentFragment(),
list = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'],
for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
elem = document.createElement('div');
content = document.createTextNode(list[i]);
Use cloneNode()
- If you're not working on elements that do not contain form elements or event handlers, you can clone the element to modify and swap it in place after all the changes have been done resulting in a one reflow only.
- A faster alternative to above slow approach is presented below.
var orig = document.getElementById('container'),
clone = orig.cloneNode(true),
list = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'],
clone.setAttribute('width', '50%');
for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
elem = document.createElement('div');
content = document.createTextNode(list[i]);
original.parentNode.replaceChild(clone, original);
Use HTML templates and innerHTML
- One way to implement a templating system is to populate template content based on a light-weight JavaScript object acting as a date model. The data model may be persisted as JSON serialization into e.g. setPreferenceForKey() store in S60 WRT, in a HTTP cookie or XHR'd to the server-side.
var model = { title: 'My Test Page'; },
template = [];
template.push('
' + model.title + '
');
template.push('
Another Test Element
');
document.getElementById(containerId).innerHTML = template.join('');
// alternatively you can use concat() -- see string concatenation test results
Modify an invisible element
- If the display property of an element is set to none it will not be repainted.
- By setting display to none, do the modifications and then set it to block causes only two reflows
var subElem = document.createElement('div'),
elem = document.getElementById('animated');
elem.style.width = '320px';
var subElem = document.createElement('div'),
elem = document.getElementById('animated');
elem.style.display = 'none';
elem.style.width = '320px';
elem.style.display = 'block';
Minimize the use of operations determining the dimensions or location of elements
- Determining dimensions or location of elements via getComputedStyle, offsetWidth, scrollWidth and clientWidth properties will force reflow.
- If you take the measurements repeatedly, consider taking them only once.
- This issue is the main cause of slowness in WebKit according to Dave Hyatt
var elem = document.getElementById('animated');
elem.style.fontSize = (elem.offsetWidth / 10) + 'px';
elem.firstChild.style.marginleft = (elem.offsetWidth / 20) + 'px';
var elem = document.getElementById('animated'),
elemWidth = elem.offsetWidth;
elem.style.fontSize = (elemWidth / 10) + 'px';
elem.firstChild.style.marginleft = (elemWidth / 20) + 'px';
Make multiple predefined style changes at once using className
- As with DOM manipulation, several style changes can be done at the same time.
- Instead if you set the styles one by one, multiple reflows and repaints can be triggered.
var elem = document.getElementById('styled');
elem.style.background = 'blue';
elem.style.color = 'white';

Special hide DIV

// show all elements with a class of "special_hide"
$('#special_hide').attr('disabled', 'true');
// hide all elements with a class of "special_hide"
$('#special_hide').attr('disabled', 'false');
Generic JavaScript
- Y! Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site
- Notes on JS Compression
- Performance Roundup for 2008
- CS193H: High Performance Web Sites at Stanford
- Coupling Async Scripts
- Google I/O: Even Faster Web Sites
- Ajax Experience webcasts
- Douglas Crockford
- Mobile Web Application Best Practices (W3C Working Draft)
- JavaScript Performance Rocks!
- Measuring User Experience Performance
- Serving JavaScript Fast
- JavaScript Performance Tips - generic, and Prototype-specific
- JavaScript String Performance Analysis - string concatenation with +=, join() and concat()
- IMB developerWorks Ajax Performance Analysis
- Opera Developer Network
- Efficient JavaScript - Tips for ECMAScript, DOM and document loading
- Cross Device Development Techniques for Widgets
- JavaScript Best Practices
- DOM DocumentFragments
- John Resig
- A Snapshot of The Yahoo! Photos Beta - Web Development Perspective
- Building Fast Client-side Searches
- Even Faster Websites - Steve Souders at SXSW '09
- Reflows & Repaints: CSS Performance making your JavaScript slow?
- Nicholas Zakas
- JavaScript Variable Performance
- slides
- Speed Up Your JavaScript part 1 part 2, part 3 and part 4
- JavaScript Stack Overflow Error
- Stoyan Stefanov
- Compatibility Tests
- Google Page Speed
- Extreme JavaScript Performance by Thomas Fuchs
- John Resig
- Extending jQuery's Selector Capabilities]
- JavaScript Function Call Profiling - !FireUnit profiling extensions
- JavaScript (jQuery) performance measurement and best practices
- Improve Your jQuery - 25 Tips
- jQuery Performance Tips
- 43,439 reasons to use append() correctly
- jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices
- Planet Performance - News and views from the web performance blogosphere


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Touchality necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 105 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Touchality - http://www.touchality.com/
We mostly write software for Windows Mobile. But we are open to creating software for iPhone and Android.
The company name is Touchality.
The Web site is http://www.touchality.com/ (Nothing there yet.)
Logo will likely be shown on Web site, possibly application splash screens.
Image is very important in the mobile software space. It is still a new market, but users tend to be very demanding and have high standards.
Here are some ideas:
We really like the styles shown on the following site:
I'd say the logo should look modern, and exciting - in other words sexy.
The logo should have some element of high tech. Maybe instead of modern I should say futuristic. I'd also say consider dark colors offset with areas bright colors. Metals are great ideas.
Someone once said mobile software should have "Eye candy so good you want to lick it." I think our logo should live up to that expectation if possible.
Not required, but an idea, use a reference to something symbolic of touch: finger, fingerprint, hands, fingerprint reader, button, dials, etc.
Another idea, again not required but maybe the logo should look real enough that it could be touched? Or maybe it should seem physical, with depth, and weight to it. But not too complicated.
Something that has potential to be animated, could be exiting as well.
Feel free to experiment. Please don't feel fenced in we just wanted to provide some ideas to start with.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
It can be only .psd if logo provided is very large. But ideally .ai and .psd files will be provided.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.

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This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Gina Kleinworth who was selected by Random.org. Thanks for entering!
Like many young people, who leave the nest and head off to college, I gained the "Freshman Fifteen". I can pinpoint my extra pounds to one thing… it certainly wasn't from the not so great dorm food. It wasn't even because I partied hard and consumed my calories in beer. Just about every single extra pound came from the most delicious, fluffy, buttery dinner rolls at the restaurant I was a waitress at.
Geesh – I think I have bad eating habits now…when I was in college my eating habits were pretty awful. The restaurant I worked at had a bakery with these huge dinner rolls that were served fresh from the oven, with loads of melted butter dripping off the tops. The aroma of them wafted through the restaurant and man… it was impossible to resist. On my short breaks, I would always grab a roll (or a couple) to quickly snarf down so I could get back to my tables.
Homemade bread has always been my weakness.
This Buttery Dinner Roll Recipe is from Food.com and is one I've been using for the past 10 years for our family Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts. It is simply the best dinner roll recipe I've ever tried so I haven't felt the need to stray too far looking for anything better.
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The Freshman Fifteen {Recipe: The Best Buttery Dinner Rolls}
- 1 cup water plus
- 1 tablespoon water 70-80 F
- 1 large egg
- 4 1/2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 3 1/4 cups bread flour
- 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 2 tablespoons shortening optional
- Combine all the ingredients, minus the shortening and butter, in the bowl of your stand mixer in the order listed in the ingredients. Knead with the dough hook until the dough is smooth and elastic.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set aside to rise until the dough has doubled in size, about an hour.
- Once dough has risen, remove from bowl onto a lightly floured surface. Shape into 15 uniformed sized balls (you may have to have shortening on your hand as you do this to keep from sticking)
- Lightly butter a 9x13 baking pan. Place rolls onto baking pan, cover and let rise until double in size (approximately 30 minutes).
- Bake in a 350°F oven for 15 minutes or until a light, golden brown.
- After removing from the oven, brush with melted butter. Serve warm.
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In a much anticipated move, St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson will test the free-agent market for the first time in his nine-year NFL career.
Citing league sources, Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday night that Jackson will void the final year of his contract on March 12. NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported last week that the Rams had agreed to let Jackson void the last year on his current deal.
The move, as Thomas points out, saves the Rams the potential public-relations backlash of cutting one of their most popular players. The Rams still might sign Jackson as a free agent after March 12, but his current $7 million contract was too high for a team in transition.
Rams coach Jeff Fisher said last week that he wanted Jackson to finish his career in St. Louis.
The former Oregon State star has rushed for 10,135 yards since his NFL debut in 2004 -- all of them with the Rams.
Jackson, who turns 30 in July, still has a place in the NFL. Last season, he rushed 257 times for 1,042 yards and four touchdowns, his eighth consecutive 1,000-yard rushing season.
The Atlanta Falcons, who might part ways with Michael Turner, are an obvious suitor. Other Super Bowl contenders with running back needs, such as the Green Bay Packers, New York Giants or Denver Broncos, also might be linked to the sturdy veteran.
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Styling tips
Have you ever wonder when you would know some styling tips would that make your styling and creating outfits easier?Well of course tip can make your life easier and any kind of process is it making food or styling. With the tips you know what for sure goes, what will make your outfits look outstanding and more interesting even though you just threw view things from your closet and even if you want longer legs certain clothing pieces can make this happened. Anyways before we start I first want to say how to all my beautiful fashionista and yes this week have been so good so far just been working hard and doing some stuff that I will be showing you soon. I just thought of this today thought it would be also nice to change up and show you some useful tips that will help you out with any look and you can always use. This are just view tips but if you want me I can do another part of this just comment down below also one other thing make sure to check out our newest menu Subscribe click here so go and subscribe to our newsletter and if you might be only interested in fashion for example we created newsletter specific for this top so you will only be getting newsletter related fashion or you can also subscribe for general but go check it out and subscribe we would love to have you part of our family so now let's get started:
Nude pumps: when you are not sure if some shoes would look good just go pick your nude pumps first nude goes with anything and second the nude colour is the skin colour and that's why it will also make your legs longer
Crop top and high waisted jeans: you can't go wrong with crop top and high waisted jeans it is very retro style and very stylish. You will be casual but also looking very stylish and also this way you can hide your tummy and rather high light your long legs or your waist
Ankle boots: this magical boots go with anything you can wear them with jeans, skirts and shorts anything and any kind of style, with this boots your looks will always look stylish.
Brighten your looks with bright coloured accessories: if you have a lot of natural colours or dark colours in your closet or even if you are feeling up to wearing these colours this day you can do this and still keep it interesting. You just need to pick up some bright coloured accessories to give it little light and also make it interesting
Denim on denim always works: when you don't know what to wear with jeans you can't never go wrong with denim jacket. Denim on denim looks great and if you throw some cute top your looks will look amazing
Black on black: this is just classic black on black doesn't matter if that is just black jeans with some top or dress with leather jacket it will just look outstanding and so stylish always great way to make your black outfit interesting is throw some jewerly
Layering necklaces: to make your outfit look interesting even though it is very simple is layer necklaces either the same material like on this picture, femme with edgy or feathers with beads anything work be as crazy as you want even our icon Coco Chanel agreed on this one
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Fitted bottoms with loose top: what looks also amazing is fitted bottom with loose top or other way as well. When it is skirt or shorts it makes your legs very skinny and it looks super cute and always works
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) violated privacy rules protecting the communications of Americans and others on domestic soil 2,776 times in one year, according to an internal audit leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and made public on Thursday night.
The violations, according to the audit in May last year, stemmed largely from operator and system errors like "inadequate or insufficient research" when selecting wiretap targets.
The largest number of episodes — 1,904 — appeared to be "roamers," in which a foreigner whose cellphone was being wiretapped without a warrant came to the US, where individual warrants are required.
A spike in such problems in a single quarter, the report said, could be because of Chinese citizens visiting friends and family for the Lunar New Year holiday.
"Roamer incidents are largely unpreventable, even with good target awareness and traffic review, since target travel activities are often unannounced and not easily predicted," the report says.
The report and several other documents leaked by Snowden were published by the Washington Post. They shed new light on the intrusions into Americans' privacy that NSA surveillance can entail and how the agency handles violations of its rules.
Snowden, who was recently granted temporary asylum in Russia, is believed to have given the documents to the Post months ago.
The Post, which did not publish every document its accompanying article relied upon, cited other problems as well. In one case in 2008 that was not reported to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the US Congress, it said, the system recorded a "large number" of calls dialed from Washington because of a programming error mixing up the district's area code, 202, with the international dialing code of Egypt, 20.
Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union said that while some of the compliance violations were more troubling than others, the sheer number of them was "jaw-dropping."
In a statement, the NSA said its surveillance activities "are continually audited and overseen internally and externally."
"When NSA makes a mistake in carrying out its foreign intelligence mission, the agency reports the issue internally and to federal overseers — and aggressively gets to the bottom of it," the statement said.
Another newly disclosed document included instructions for how NSA analysts should record their rationales for eavesdropping under the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), which allows wiretapping without warrants on domestic networks if the target is a noncitizen abroad. The document said analysts should keep descriptions of why the people they are targeting merit wiretapping to "one short sentence" and avoid details like their names and supporting information.
"While we do want to provide our FAA overseers with the information they need, we DO NOT want to give them any extraneous information," it said.
A brief article in an internal NSA newsletter offered hints about a known, but little-understood episode in which the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found in 2011 that the NSA had violated the Fourth Amendment.
The newsletter said the court issued an 80-page ruling on Oct. 3, 2011, finding that something the NSA was collecting involving "Multiple Communications Transactions" on data flowing through fiber-optic networks on domestic soil was "deficient on statutory and constitutional grounds."


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What job category offers average salaries of more than $5 million a year, along with a 60% likelihood of being bankrupt within five years of retirement? If you answered "professional basketball player," give yourself a gold star. And with the National Basketball Association's 2013 draft having wrapped up this week, it's a good time to dig deeper into the economic forces behind those numbers.
Those salary and bankruptcy figures aren't exactly shocking revelations, of course. Pro athletes' financial woes are a staple of the news cycle, and they usually prompt predictable tut-tutting about the irresponsibility of young hotshots who get too much money too fast. But it's easy for envious laypeople to overestimate the wealth of pro athletes, and to underestimate the challenges of managing it.
For starters, the "average" salary figure is heavily distorted by the top tier of established veterans, usually only about one per team, who make $12 million or more per year. (It's another illustration of that old metaphor: If I'm sitting by myself in a Starbucks and Warren Buffett walks in, the average salary of the people in that Starbucks is suddenly two squillion per person, but I'm not actually any richer.) Sportswriter Steve Aschburner has estimated that the median NBA salary is closer to $2.3 million.
And even that figure reflects "survivorship bias," since collective bargaining ensures that NBA veterans get salary increases if they're able to hang on in the league. In contrast, many of the folks who got their moment in the spotlight during last night's draft won't even sniff that kind of money. Under NBA pay-scale rules, Anthony Bennett, taken as the No. 1 pick this year by the Cleveland Cavaliers, will likely earn between $4 million and $5 million a year for his first three seasons under NBA salary-scale rules. The next 17 draft picks will be guaranteed at least $1 million a year, but the rookie minimum can be as low as $490,000.
Cry me a river, right? But now let's think about career longevity. A high-powered corporate executive can quite conceivably pull down a six- or seven-figure salary every year for two or three decades. But the average NBA career lasts six years, and this figure, too, is distorted by those whose stardom keeps them on the roster well into their mid-30s. Michael Wilczynski, who runs the NBA stat-geek website Weak Side Awareness, crunched some numbers in a 2011 article that show that the median career is closer to four years long, and that about 25% of NBA players are out of the game after just one year.
So if you're really the "average" NBA player, chances are you're looking at earning somewhere between $500,000 and $1.5 million, for four years. After taxes and paying your agent, you might clear $2 million by the time your career ends—but, of course, you're "retiring" at age 25 or 26. If you've held on to your money, you've got a tremendous launching pad for the rest of your life. But if you've bought a "thank you" house for your parents (as Anthony Bennett has suggested he plans to do), or been sucked in to some dubious investments, or made lifestyle choices that overstretch your budget, chances are you've got almost nothing to show for your years as a millionaire — and you're headed for that troubled 60% category.
Personally, I'm always encouraged when I read about younger pro athletes who bunk down with a teammate or two in a crummy rented condo unit so they can salt away some money for the future. It's an acknowledgement that the flush times won't—can't—last forever, and that's the first step toward making the right financial choices.
Speaking of the ends of careers: This week's draft was the last over which David Stern will preside as NBA commissioner. He's due to retire next February at the end of his 30th year at the league's helm. Below, he talks about economic opportunities for team owners and players in an interview The Wall Street Journal's Lee Hawkins.


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Katanga (kätăng´gə, kə–), formerly Shaba (shä´bä), province (1984 pop. 3,874,019), c.200,000 sq mi (518,000 sq km), SE Congo (Kinshasa). Katanga borders Angola on the southwest, Zambia on the southeast, and Lake Tanganyika on the east. The capital and chief city is Lubumbashi. The province encompasses the fertile Katanga Plateau (3,000–6,000 ft/914–1,829 m high), where farming and ranching are carried on. In the eastern part of the province is an enormously rich mining region, which supplies much of the world's cobalt as well as extensive quantities of copper, tin, radium, uranium, and diamonds. The province's considerable industrial plant is largely concerned with the processing of minerals. Katanga is well connected by rail with the rest of Congo and with Angola and Zambia. There is also steamer service on Lake Tanganyika between Kalemie, in Katanga, and Kigoma, Tanzania.
Copper has been mined and exported by the region's inhabitants for centuries. From the 17th to the 19th cent. much of the province was controlled by the Luba and Lunda kingdoms. In the late 19th cent. M'Siri, a Nyamwezi trader from what is now central Tanzania, founded a kingdom in the area that lasted until he was killed by the Belgians in 1891. Under Belgian rule (1884–1960), mineral resources were exploited by Belgian firms and the province was developed much more rapidly than the rest of the country.
In July, 1960, after the Congo became independent, Katanga proclaimed itself a republic and seceded from the central government. Under the leadership of its president, Moise Tshombe, and with Belgian aid, Katanga fought off repeated attempts by the central government to seize control. Disorder was widespread, and the central government invoked the help of the United Nations. In 1960, President Tshombe reluctantly allowed a small UN force to enter Katanga. Later a considerable number of UN troops, committed to a policy of nonintervention, were stationed in Katanga to oversee the withdrawal of foreign troops. The Belgian troops were slowly withdrawn, but white mercenary officers continued to command in the army of Katanga. There was recurrent trouble between the UN force and the Katangese, and attempts at reconciliation with the central government proved fruitless.
The situation grew steadily more volatile until early 1961, when the former premier Patrice Lumumba was murdered in Katanga. Under a new, stronger UN mandate the international force took control (1961) of Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi) and other strongpoints. An agreement (Dec., 1961) for reintegrating Katanga into the country proved abortive. In Jan., 1963, UN troops routed Tshombe's forces and ended the Katanga secession.
In 1966 the central government nationalized Union Minière du Haut Katanga, the Belgian firm that had controlled most of Katanga's mining interests. It was renamed Gécamines. In 1971 Katanga was renamed Shaba; the original name was restored in 1997. In the 1970s further insurrections were put down by the government with help from foreign nations, and in the 1990s there was again talk of secession. During the civil war that began in 1998, Katanga was divided between government and rebel control. Despite the 2002 peace treaty ending the civil war, Katanga has experienced factional fighting that has displaced thousands. Gécamines has had difficulty in maintaining its operations and exporting its copper.


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Welcome to our kitchen where we create traditional Korean comfort food with a modern twist.
bbbop Seoul Kitchen is about sourcing ingredients locally (whenever possible), preparing veggies daily, trimming all meats by hand, and making all of our sauces from scratch.
Whether you're craving BI BIM BOP, one of our chef crafted rice bowls filled with fresh veggies and savory meats, dreaming of HANSHIK, our classic Korean entrees like our "Heavenly Kalbi" or our "Not Your Mama's Fried Chicken", or connecting with your inner Korean self through the art of binge eating delicious ANJU, Korean small plates such as our kimchi fries or handmade dumplings, we think you will agree that bbbop is Seoul food for the soul.
At bbbop we believe in the three "common" graces: the grace of food, people, and the table.
At bbbop we believe in the three "common" graces: the grace of food, people, and the table.
Of all the common graces in the world, food is one of the most basic and delightful. We consume food not only as fuel but for fun. Food can often speak for us when our tongues are tied. Food can cause a smile to break through a clouded brow or bring to mind a lost memory of a loved one from our past. We at bbbop want to grace you with our words, our smiles, our memories... our food.
People: you gotta love them or hate them. They inspire us; they crush us. They are the reason why we sing love songs or go to war. You sacrifice for them or you sacrifice them, but you cannot remain neutral. We at bbbop believe in people and whether you work for us or we work for you, we strive to "love our neighbor as ourselves" in the little and the big, on and in-between the lines of everyday life.
Beasts of the Serengeti have watering holes, honey bees have hives, we humans have tables. We come together to play, plan, pray, work, wag our tongues and break our bread around the table. We at bbbop take our tables seriously. No two tables are alike. Each table expresses something unique, something curious, something meaningful. And every table is an open invitation to enter into the grace of what we have to offer.
We—the folks behind the counter at bbbop—are more than just a bunch of business women/men after the almighty, bottom-line buck. No, we are an odd, eclectic collection of creative lovers: lovers of beauty, culture, art, film, friends, our families, etc... and FOOD. Yes, we hand-craft our menu with the experience and skill of trained culinary chefs, and, yes, we have about 40 years of restaurant and food service industry experience spread out among us, but beyond all that, what really makes bbbop "tick" is our willingness to bring our love of diversity to all that we do. From our takos to our tables, from our "Get in My Belly Pork Belly" to our "build your own bowls"—we are not afraid to "mix it up" and have fun while we do it. With each bite from every bowl, we welcome you to come taste and see the fusion, flavors, and ethos of bbbop. Mix it Up!


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Matthew Blake necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 113 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
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Having worked for many years for some of the big players in executive search (AKA head hunting), I'm now setting up on my own.
Our logo will be viewed by the following:
Clients (people who buy head hunting services) - these could be anything from HR managers of large corporates to line managers at SMEs. They tend to be somewhat conservative and cautious, so the logo can't be too whacky, but it needs to be distinctive.
Candidates - people who we will be placing into jobs. They will be mid-senior white collar professionals. They may speak to many companies such as mine over a period of time, so the logo needs to be memorable
I need a logo which will portray first and foremost and image of professionalism, maturity, distinctiveness. The brand image I am aiming for is similar to professional services companies in other industries - think PWC, Clifford Chance, or maybe JP Morgan.
- it's a small company, but it's absolutely critical that the design doesn't convey this - it must look highly-professional and 'corporate'.
- at the same time, I want it to stand out and be distinctive and fresh. May be a 'Web 2.0' spin on the branding of some of the above companies?
- I want more than just the words 'Foxwell Brown' in the logo, there needs to be some kind of simple pictoral element. This could somehow incorporate the nature of the business, which is bringing people together. Equally, it could be something abstract. Simplicity is the key.
- No foxes or wells in the logo please! And nothing cartoonish / cheesy.
- I'm open to suggestions as to the colour palette, but again it musn't be too garish.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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After the 2010 Haitian earthquake there was quite a bit of attention on the religion of Vodou, though largely that attention was not positive. Immediately after the quake there were triumphalist smears from figures like Pat Robertson, and allegations that it was Vodou that held Haitians back from progress. While there were emerging "Vodou voices" rising up in defense of the religion, most notably Max Beauvoir, but more often than not the centrality of Vodou to many Haitians was often ignored. So it is a breath of fresh air to read Silvana Ordonez's piece on Vodou among Florida's Haitian-American community for the Miami Herald, talking about how the faith brought solace and re-connection after tragedy struck.
"A Voodoo ceremony makes you feel as light as a feather," explained [Mambo Ingrid] Llera. "That's where we go for therapy. We don't go to the doctor, we go to Voodoo." In ritual ceremonies, which typically last from several hours to several days, Voodoo practitioners pray, sing and dance to the rhythm of drums. "A wonderful combination to get connected with the unknown world, which is the spiritual world," she added. "That's where we release it all and find strength." Since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, more Haitians in South Florida have reconnected with Voodoo, according to local practitioners. "They have no choice, but to go back to their roots. It is registered in their DNA, this is who they are, this is where they feel more comfortable, this is where they can forget things," said Llera. Llera has also witnessed a interesting phenomenon: a wave of young Haitian-Americans joining the religion of their ancestors."
There's been a quiet trend of Haitian-Americans re-embracing Vodou for years now, but its been only sporadically covered by journalists. These younger converts seem more willing to speak out about their faith, and a show willingness to fight popular misconceptions.
"Gone, for most, is the shame that used to be associated with the stigmatized religion. Unlike some of their parents who practiced Vodou in secrecy, the newcomers to the religion invite friends to Vodou ceremonies, have altars in their homes and work to shatter the stereotypes."
"Based on the people seen in this film, those who practice voodoo seem to be more likeable, more relaxed, happier in their lives and more open-minded toward others and their beliefs, than the people who rail against it."
Haitian Vodou in its homeland faces immense challenges, from anti-Vodou violence, to aggressive proselytism by Christian groups receiving federal funding from our government. At the same time, Vodou tourism is held up as a potential economic goldmine for a Haiti that wants to rebuild itself. Lost in this push-pull is the lives of Vodouisants worldwide, and how their faith nourishes and sustains them. As the Haitian diaspora grows, and Haitian Vodou becomes a point of pride within those communities, we could see a new paradigm for this faith, how it is received by non-initiates, and how these practitioners interact with their motherland. It is far too easy to lose sight of how Vodou serves its adherents in the lofty geopolitical and cultural discussions about Haiti and its future, forgetting that Vodou is a source of solace and enrichment. Silvana Ordonez's article is a welcome corrective to that trend.


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The London Times gives the suicide bombing that killed seven CIA operatives this lurid billing: "CIA caught in dirty and secretive war against al-Qaeda on Afghan border." The article is interesting, but fails to live up to its billing as it offers no evidence that the Agency was "caught" as a result of this successful terrorist attack:
Forward Operating Base Chapman, and others like it along the border, are the forward edge of American military and intelligence counter-terrorism operations, aimed principally at hunting down senior figures in al-Qaeda and their allies in the Taleban hiding in the lawless tribal belt.
The CIA's main strike weapons are the drones that loiter over the border areas 24 hours a day, watching and listening to telephone networks. While the drones provide surveillance and electronic intelligence and carry out strikes, human intelligence is far harder to acquire among remote communities suspicious of any outsider.
Then there are the night raids against suspected insurgent and al-Qaeda linked leaders. It was an operation by what are euphemistically called "other government agencies" that was alleged to have killed a number of students in Kunar province on Saturday, causing widespread anger in Afghanistan. …
Such units answer directly to the Pentagon rather than to the Nato command structure, and their operations are often so secretive that even other US forces operating nearby are sometimesmay be unaware of them.
Which sounds fine to me. You have to read to the end to find out how successful the Agency's operations have been:
Such has been the effectiveness of strikes on the terrorist command structure that there are persistent reports of al-Qaeda leadership figures relocating to urban areas in Pakistan and shifting the focus of their operations towards Yemen, Somalia and other areas of the Horn of Africa.
This is, of course, the kind of offensive action against terrorists that I talked about here. So far, at least, the Obama administration hasn't found it necessary to read terrorists in Afghanistan their rights and get them a lawyer.
PAUL adds: What's striking to me about this attack is that it was directed at precisely the people who have been causing terrorists and their leaders to be killed. It was not intended to terrorize, and the CIA won't back off. I think it was intended, at least in part, to increase the survival prospects of the terrorists who ordered the attack and their comrades.
And that will probably be its effect for a while. The amount of expertise available to direct attacks against terrorists in the region has just decreased, and probably substantially.


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Chapter 7
How the boy that lead Apuleius to the field, was slaine in the wood.
While I devised with my selfe in what manner I might end my life, the roperipe boy on the next morrow lead me to the same hill againe, and tied me to a bow of a great Oke, and in the meane season he tooke his hatchet and cut wood to load me withall, but behold there crept out of a cave by, a marvailous great Beare, holding out his mighty head, whom when I saw, I was sodainly stroken in feare, and (throwing all the strength of my body into my hinder heeles) lifted up my strained head and brake the halter, wherewith I was tied. Then there was no need to bid me runne away, for I scoured not only on foot, but tumbled over the stones and rocks with my body till I came into the open fields, to the intent I would escape from the terrible Beare, but especially from the boy that was worse than the Beare. Then a certaine stranger that passed by the way (espying me alone as a stray Asse) tooke me up and roade upon my backe, beating me with a staffe (which he bare in his hand) through a wide and unknowne lane, whereat I was nothing displeased, but willingly went forward to avoid the cruell paine of gelding, which the shepherds had ordained for me, but as for the stripes I was nothing moved, since I was accustomed to be beaten so every day. But evill fortune would not suffer me to continue in so good estate long: For the shepheards looking about for a Cow that they had lost (after they had sought in divers places) fortuned to come upon us unwares, who when they espied and knew me, they would have taken me by the halter, but he that rode upon my backe resisted them saying, O Lord masters, what intend you to do? Will you rob me? Then said the shepheards, What? thinkest thou we handle thee otherwise then thou deservest, which hast stollen away our Asse? Why dost thou not rather tell us where thou hast hidden the boy whom thou hast slaine? And therewithall they pulled him downe to the ground, beating him with their fists, and spurning him with their feete. Then he answered unto them saying, titathat he saw no manner of boy, but onely found the Asse loose and straying abroad, which he tooke up to the intent to have some reward for the finding of him and to restore him againe to his Master. And I would to God (quoth he) that this Asse (which verely was never seene) could speake as a man to give witnesse of mine innocency: Then would you be ashamed of the injury which you have done to me. Thus (reasoning for Himselfe) he nothing prevailed, for they tied the halter about my necke, and (maugre his face) pulled me quite away, and lead me backe againe through the woods of the hill to the place where the boy accustomed to resort. And after they could find him in no place, at length they found his body rent and torne in peeces, and his members dispersed in sundry places, which I well knew was done by the cruell Beare: and verely I would have told it if I might have spoken, but (which I could onely do) I greatly rejoiced at his death, although it came too late. Then they gathered together the peeces of his body and buried them. By and by they laid the fault to my new Master, that tooke me up by the way, and (bringing him home fast bound to their houses) purposed on the next morrow to accuse him of murther, and to lead him before the Justices to have judgement of death.


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|Wilmington, N.C., directory, 1940
Now a century's worth of North Carolina directories is online (here) as part of the City Directories Collection from the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center (NCDHC). The collection features 939 directories from the years 1860 through 1963. They cover 108 cities in 64 counties.
The NCDHC is a statewide digital library based at the UNC Library and sponsored by the State Library of North Carolina. Through cooperative projects with libraries, museums, historical societies, and cultural institutions, it has digitized more than two million pages of North Carolina history since its founding in 2010.
The directories are a valuable tool for genealogists, historians, city planners, and anyone curious about the state's past, said Nick Graham, program coordinator for the Center. "City directories don't sound interesting until you realize how much is in them," he said.
|Raleigh, N.C., directory, 1875-76
A convenient cross-directory search feature allows users of the collection to find all instances of a single name, business, or industry in the entire collection. Most of the directories come from the stacks of the North Carolina Collection in UNC's Wilson Special Collections Library.
However, a growing number are from public libraries around the state and from other partners such as the Duke University Library. "Local libraries often have things that UNC does not," said Graham. He invites libraries and historical societies interested in digitizing their city directories to contact him at email@example.com or (919) 962-4836.
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Cole Myhra's career-best rushing day clinched UW-Oshkosh's undefeated regular season with a 27-18 win at UW-Stout on Saturday (Nov. 10) in Menomonie.
The Titans (10-0/7-0 WIAC), ranked fifth in the NCAA Division III, find out their playoff opponent on Sunday (Nov. 11). UW-Oshkosh will host its first postseason game at J.J. Keller Field at Titan Stadium on Nov. 17.
Myhra carried the ball 26 times for 158 yards – his third straight game with at least 140. On a 41-yard scamper during the second half, Myhra became the fifth Titan to break 1,000 yards in a season. UW-Oshkosh trailed, 18-14 at halftime, before using a Nate Wara touchdown run and two Nate Ray field goals to prevail.
UW-Oshkosh continued its first-quarter dominance with a pair of touchdowns. From midfield, Wara hit Caleb Voss for a 50-yard score. Minutes later, Wara completed third-down passes to Voss for 16 and 15 yards. Mitch Hintz ended that drive with a 16-yard touchdown catch to make it 14-0 with 4:52 on the first-quarter clock. UW-Oshkosh has outscored its opponents, 103-3, in the opening period this year.
UW-Stout (3-7/1-6 WIAC) put together three scoring drives during the second frame. Eric Brown took a pass and split the defense for a 61-yard touchdown that pulled the Blue Devils within 14-8. On their next possession, Hank Kujak found Trevor Morning for a 54-yard score that put UW-Stout on top, 15-14.
The final series of the half was set up by Tanner Kuehn's 36-yard punt return. UW-Stout marched into the red zone with carries of 13 and seven yards by Brown. As time expired, Ricky Marteney made a 31-yard field goal for the 18-14 cushion.
The Titans took the second-half kickoff and went 75 yards in 11 plays. Wara capped the drive with a one-yard quarterback sneak to take the 21-18 lead. Ray added a 22-yard field goal at the 7:02 mark of the third quarter to make it 24-18.
UW-Oshkosh increased its margin to nine points with the help of some UW-Stout penalties. A pass interference call gave the Titans 15 yards before Wara fired to Zach Kasuboski for a gain of 18. After a 14-yard run from Myhra, Ray knocked through a 22-yard field goal to lead, 27-18.
Wara eclipsed 10,000 total yards in his career, becoming the fourth WIAC player to reach the milestone. He finished with 213 yards on 17-of-27 passing and 45 yards on 13 rushing attempts. Voss paced the receivers with seven grabs for 119 yards, while Kasuboski compiled 52 yards on six catches.
UW-Stout totaled 403 yards, including 136 rushing on 24 carries by Brown. Hank Kujak hit on 8-of-18 throws for 190 yards, as Brown made two receptions for 86 yards. Morning hauled in four receptions for 79 yards.
The Blue Devils' upset hopes were diminished by 100 yards in penalties. UW-Stout converted 8-of-16 third downs and threw three interceptions.
Corey Dulak-Sigler, Kyle Heller and Ryan Stefaniak each picked off a pass for the Titans. Taylor Goodman and Nick Jolin paced the squad with 10 tackles each, while UW-Stout received 11 stops from Billy Rosenthal.
UW-Oshkosh's other undefeated seasons are records of 7-0 during 1923 and 6-0-1 during 1935.
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I'm Skye, a freelance artist who does covers for sci fi, fantasy, romance and erotica novels. I have also been known to do the occasional comic book cover. I am the Art Director and primary cover artist for Mundania Press
(http://www.mundania.com). In the past I have done covers for Loose Id, Ellora's Cave, Cerridwen Press, Draumr Publishing and Brighid's Fire Books.
I also do commission work but currently my work load is maxed out. Drop me an email at email@example.com if you're interested but I can't guarantee my availability. If you'd like to take a look at my portfolio or see my resume, visit my webpage at http://www.skyewolfimages.com and click on the "Portfolio" link. Covers I have done can also be found here in my gallery.
Currently I am also a Published Artist and content creator working with DAZ3D (http://www.daz3d.com) to create 3D content for Poser, Carrara and DAZ|Studio.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The unsuccessful Jeff Francoeur experiment was finally shut down Tuesday. The veteran outfielder was designated for assignment as part of a flurry of roster moves by the Giants.
Chad Gaudin was placed on the disabled list with carpal tunnel and left-hander Mike Kickham and right-hander Jean Machi were recalled from Triple-A Fresno. Kickham has given up just four runs in his past four starts for Triple-A Fresno, but he won't be the one replacing Gaudin in the rotation. Barry Zito, pulled from his starting spot earlier this month, will face the Boston Red Sox tomorrow.
Francoeur hit just .194 in 22 games with the Giants, who had hoped to catch lightning in a bottle and find a fix in left field. The writing was on the wall Monday night, when Brett Pill made his first appearance of the season in left field.
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If there's one thing Samara Stern has learned since she graduated from acting school four years ago, it's that you have to create your own opportunities.
To that end, along with three schoolmates, AJ Laflamme, Josh Vokey and Cory Doran, she co-founded a theatre company, Homestead Theatre Project.
Their first play, Empty Boxes, written by Laflamme and directed by Doran, is running at the Red Sandcastle Theatre, starting May 30.
"It's about an eight-year relationship that has ended," Stern says. "And the couple at the beginning of the play is packing boxes and figuring out how they're going to navigate new territory – how you decide who the shampoo belongs to and how you divide two lives. You see the relationship from the beginning and see it decline as things fall apart."
In the credits, Stern is listed as "Past Sarah." The play's novel approach is that as the couple pack boxes and discuss the situation, younger versions of themselves also appear on stage.
"I play Sarah at the beginning, when they [she and Kevin] meet for a first date and all those things, but I also come in as the subconscious, the echo, the nagging voice, the part of her heart that wants to hold on."
As one of the theatre company's producers, Stern was also involved in the creation of the play. "I was dealing with the media push, finding a place, everything that gets it from us sitting in a room to it being on stage and getting the audience there," she says.
"I absolutely love it [producing]. One of the most rewarding things I have found is creating your own work. You can't sit by the phone waiting for the part. You have to find work that inspires you and make it happen. I want to tell stories and create."
In addition to giving the quartet an outlet to create their plays, they created Homestead as a venue for young artists to inspire younger audiences.
"A lot of young people say that theatre isn't relevant anymore because it's not so immediate – 'I can get it on my iPhone, I can get it on YouTube, I can watch television shows in my home, anywhere I can go.' It's about finding plays that are exciting and real that will get them to leave their homes and come to the theatre."
She feels that Empty Boxes has the right ingredients to get younger people in the seats because it deals with common issues.
"It's very real. The script is very raw and very real, and a younger audience will be able to connect to it."
Stern has big ambitions for the theatre company. In the fall, they plan on staging Martin McDonagh's disturbing The Pillowman and will follow that up in November with a workshop of a new all-female show My Mother's Daughters by Laflamme, which examines mental illness.
"We want to find pieces that have been done that we can do in a new and exciting way, but we also want to produce a new voice, a new story that hasn't been told yet."
Stern says she's been acting "forever" since starring in a play she did at Camp Robin Hood, and continues to learn her art. She attended a joint University of Toronto/Sheridan College program, graduating with a degree in theatre and drama studies and a diploma in acting.
"Acting is a skill that I believe I have to constantly work on to get better and better, and to keep yourself inspired and ready so that when your big break comes, you're ready to knock it out of the park."
And that big break may not be so far away. In addition to working with Homestead, Stern has also been getting some film work. Just recently she got a role in Manhattan Undying, a new movie by Babak Payami, the writer and director of Secret Ballot, which won awards at several film festivals around the world.
"I met him years ago. I found Secret Ballot really inspiring and unique. I wanted to work with him and kept in touch with him. He brought me to the audition for it, and though I was too young for the part I auditioned for, they found another part for me."
Stern plays a waitress in the film, which she describes as "a very gritty, artsy, vampire film. It's a really interesting script.
"It was really exciting. In this career, it takes a long time to get there. And I've been four years out of school, and 10 hours on the set was totally worth it. I got to work with incredible actors and crew. He's such a phenomenal director, he knows how to get the best out of the actors. I can't wait to see the finished product."
She also recently had a principal role in a sci-fi film, The Common Sense.
And if acting and producing aren't enough, she's also trying her hand at writing.
"I'm going to spend the next few months working on a screenplay," she says. "I've tackled producing theatre, acted in films. It's up to me to make it happen."
Empty Boxes runs at the Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St. E., May 30 to June 9. Visit homesteadtheatre.ca for more information.


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Madames Zoe Bradford and Jordie Saucerman (directors) and Monsieur Michael Joseph (musical director) have assembled a stellar cast that delights and delivers.
'Les Miserables," Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic 19th-century novel, began its storied theatrical journey in France in 1980, eventually making its way to London and Broadway while earning piles of awards along the way.
There are many reasons for its success and longevity, but one stands out as we watched The Company Theatre's inaugural production. In addition to presenting the noble hero Jean Valjean and his archrival, Javert, "Les Mis" has an abundance of compelling characters who move and thrill us from start to finish.
Of course, when a show has been around as long as this one has, its many devotees might be inclined to compare one Jean Valjean, Javert, Fantine, Cosette, etc., to another. We won't do that here. Let's just say that Madames Zoe Bradford and Jordie Saucerman (directors) and Monsieur Michael Joseph (musical director) have assembled a stellar cast that delights and delivers.
Michael Warner stars as Valjean, the one-time bread thief and prison inmate who reinvents himself as Monsieur Madelaine, the factory-owning mayor of a French town with the strength to lift heavy carts off luckless pedestrians and the compassion to save the daughter of Fantine (Jessica Golden), his tragically departed ex-employee. Warner is not barrel-chested like a lot of Valjeans but he packs plenty of heartfelt emotion and singing ability into the role. "Bring Him Home," his plea for the safe return of Marius, was especially moving.
Andrew Giordano returns to the Norwell stage and displays his versatility by superbly tackling the decidedly unfunny Javert. "Stars" and "Soliloquy" were deftly delivered, including the astonishingly handled river plunge (with kudos to lighting designer Nathan Pacheco).
Golden, as Fantine, the ill-fated factory worker turned prostitute, nimbly balances gut-wrenching acting with the vocal challenges of the iconic "I Dreamed a Dream," providing the first of many tear-jerking moments in "Les Mis."
Amid all the sadness, we find the twisted comedy of Madame and Monsieur Thernardier, the corrupt innkeepers. Maryann Zschau and Christopher J. Hagberg are veteran thespians who provide a pleasing diversion to the show's darker subject matter. Actually, they're plenty dark too, but their performance of "Master of the House" is heaps of fun.
And then there is love and loss wrapped up in revolution during the Paris Uprising of 1832. James Fernandes is strident and inspiring as Enjolras, the flag-waving revolutionary leader ("Red and Black" and "Do You Hear the People Sing"). Meanwhile, Marius (Brendan Paine) and Cosette (Erin McMillen) develop a convincing love story amid the ruins. And Eponine (Jennifer Glick) suffers the pain of unrequited love ("On My Own"). Together, the three slay us with the raw emotion of "A Heart Full of Love."
Another pleasant element in "Les Mis" is the fabulous work by the youngest performers. On this night, Sarah Bilodeau was charming as Young Cosette singing the exquisite "Castle on a Cloud." On other nights you might see Catherine Oliviere in the role. Jackson Parker shares the role of Gavroche, the young street urchin, with Austin Bennett and Oliver Trejo. Parker garnered audience approval for every line, song and gesture as soon as he took the stage. Emma Christenson defines adorable as Young Eponine.
Save for a not very heavy-looking runaway cart, Zoe Bradford and James Valentin's set design and Sally Ashton Forrest's staging and choreography were outstanding. Particularly pleasing was the symmetrical staging of early scenes featuring the church (and Bill McColgan's soothing voice), and the lovely lament of the female chorus during "Turning." Sharon Kivnik's costumes were appropriate for every scene of 19th-century France. The students were especially well appointed.
The ensemble was as strong as any single element, especially on rousing numbers like "One Day More" and "Red and Black." Michael Joseph's 16-piece orchestra is also distracting, mainly because it is so good. You might find yourself paying attention to their handiwork. But you must resist. You won't want to miss one moment of "Les Miserables."


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Daily entertainment news with what to watch tonight on TV, new movies out this weekend and the "Men in Black III" movie trailer.
What to watch: 'Flags of Our Fathers' on AMC at 8 p.m. EDT/ 7 p.m. CDT
The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII.
New movies: 'Men in Black III'
At the movies: This weekend traditionally is a big one for movies, and the king of Memorial Day weekend movies – Will Smith – is back this year with "Men in Black III." The PG-13 flick also stars Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin. Also opening this week are "Moonrise Kingdom," a PG-13 movie from director Wes Anderson; and "Chernobyl Diaries," an R-rated horror flick.
Video: 'Men in Black III' movie trailer
Trailer 2 for "Men in Black III."
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Ever wonder how a computer works? How about networking? Want to know more about internet security? Are you frustrated that technology seems intent on, well, frustrating you? Ever wonder why computers are designed the way that they are?
We have the program for you…
On Saturday, March 23rd Graduate School of Library and Information Science Professor (and ALA teacher of the year 2011) Martin Wolske will host a beginning workshop on computer technology. Based on the popular LIS451 class offered at GSLIS, the workshop is designed to give beginners a better understanding of how computers and networks were designed, how they work, and how you can make the technology a more useful tool for you. We will be taking a hands-on approach that includes dismantling and reassembling desktop computers, talking about how data moves between different parts of the computer, building a network, and discussing your experience with computer technology. The workshop is structured in 90 minute blocks, each with a different subject:
- Hardware | 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Take apart and reassemble; upgrading memory; hard drives
- Local Networks | 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
The components of wired and wireless networks; essential troubleshooting tools; sharing files and printers
- Internet Essentials | 12:45 - 2:15 p.m.
Types of broadband; equipment to connect; essential troubleshooting tools;
cloud computing
- Security | 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Main threats and tools
No experience is necessary (we strongly encourage those with no experience at all to attend), and questions are encouraged!
"That taking apart the computer thing really helped…what's inside the guts? I can break it apart! It's not this big scary thing…computers are not these big infallible immortal objects."-From Virginia Eubanks' Digital Dead End: Fighting for social justice in the information age.


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Trend Alert: Tween Girls Decorating Inside of Lockers
When I was in middle school our locker decorations were pretty simple and, I now realize, really boring. I put up pictures of my friends, a mirror and maybe a dry-erase board if I was lucky. These days, though, girls can create a miniature room of their own with great new accessories available today.
According to the New York Times, this growing trend includes more than just a photo of the latest heartthrob (Justin Timberlake when I was growing up). Girls across the country are outfitting their school lockers with miniature furry carpets, lamps and chandeliers (like the ones above), mirrors, decorative flowers and magnetic wallpapers in all kinds of fun colors and patterns.
Two moms even started the company LockerLookz, creating some of these fun products for kids, after other moms admired the creative way they helped their daughters decorate. On the site, you can get wallpapers, fashion bins, mirrors, dry-erase boards, flowers, rugs, lamps and those super-adorable chandelier in patterns like zebra or polka dots in bright colors.
But some think the trend goes too far and takes the focus away from books (what should traditionally be kept in your locker).
Tell us, momsters: What do you think? Is this a fun trend you'd let your daughter try out or do you find it kind of ridiculous? Share with us in the comments below!


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Tester rocks with Pearl Jam
MISSOULA, Mont. — Sen. Jon Tester's flat-top haircut is probably the last thing you'd think gives the 56-year-old wheat farmer a connection to the iconic grunge band Pearl Jam.
But the barber who gave Tester his first buzz cut wasn't just the mayor of the small town in which the first-term senator grew up — he also is the father of the band's bassist, Jeff Ament.
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The Democrat now is cashing in on his 37-year friendship with Ament. The two headlined a raucous rally here Sunday of some 500 cheering Pearl Jam fans and Tester supporters on the University of Montana campus, followed by a fundraiser with the rockers. The day wrapped up with a special treat for the band's legion of fans: Its lone U.S. concert this year not affiliated with a music festival.
"It's an important election for a lot of reasons," Tester said to ebullient supporters gathering near the Grizzly Statue in the heart of campus on a warm fall afternoon.
"Women being able to make their own health-care decisions; standing here on the campus of the University of Montana in Missoula, things like Pell Grants are pretty important, don't you think? And the fact that we need to keep those interests on those loans down is very, very important, absolutely."
Tester ended his riff with an attack on the Patriot Act, saying, "Being Montanans and being the way we are, we think liberty is pretty important too."
For Tester to replicate his narrowly won victory over incumbent GOP Sen. Conrad Burns six years ago, a big turnout among college students here in this town will be crucial. The first-term senator is locked in a neck-and-neck reelection battle with GOP Rep. Denny Rehberg in a race that could determine control of the Senate.
Republicans, seeking their own mileage out of the day's events, tried to portray Tester as far more concerned with a rock concert than with the nation's problems. Indeed, Republican trackers sent to monitor the Tester rally circulated a video Sunday night claiming the senator's supporters acted roughly towards one of their trackers who was questioning the senator about Pearl Jam's appearance.
Still, the idea of the Pearl Jam appearance, officials say, is to generate enthusiasm and register this younger bloc of voters who tend to lean Democratic but don't always show up at the polls. And the band's show certainly brought out fans from all over: The Adams Center, the campus venue that typically holds some 5,800 fans for concerts, sold out in about 15 minutes for Pearl Jam's final scheduled performance of the year Sunday night.
"I can't tell you how important it is to vote," Ament said, referring to Tester's razor-thin 2006 win. "I think that particular campaign really made me realize how empowering it is to vote and what a difference one person can make."


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Allen13 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 64 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a company going through a market repositioning. The health and fitness industry is very competitive. Health and Fitness Balance prides itself on having the best health and fitness advice backed by research. We emphasis having a healthy and well balanced life. We are professional and get straight to the point of achieving your goal. We help everyday people achieve there physical goals from bodybuilding to running a marathon.
The quality of information is of the utmost importance to us. Any advice needs to be back by research! Also due to our knowledge of health and fitness our response time is very quick.
Our company is not yet online however we will be in the near future (a small list of websites below will show you more specifically as to the look and feel the company will have when it is online). We want to reach more people and from every corner of the globe. our goal is to help people achieve there goal
The logo we choose will reflect and convey our Company Qualities and ethical nature.
We have many facets to our business:
- Health and fitness advice and consolation
- Supplement Store
- Nutritional advice
Our business is envolved in all health and fitness segments. Predominantly, however, we are targeting males in the 16-35 year range who want to build muscle. These males predominantly fit into two categories they are either overweight people wanting to loose weight whilst gaining muscle or skinny men looking to bulk up.
However we do have staff who specialize in more aerobic activities such as running a marathon, doing an iron man or rowing.
We also have a Nutritionist who provides dieting advice. Not just dieting advice on how to lose weight, but more so on what is best for you to eat given your personal fitness goals.
We need something up beat new that conveys the qualities and ethics of our company (as described above). it needs to be the future reference point for the health and fitness world.
Just as a note. Our website will have a black background like the first and third site below.
Here are some logos and websites that we like the look and feel of:
- http://www.musclecoach.com.au/
(we really like the logo of this company. it is new fun. and professional)
- http://www.armandmorin.com/
(we like the professional feel of this website. also the writing of the logo is quite appealing. we like the idea of having the three words that describe the company. However we are open to other types of font.)
- http://www.bsnonline.net/splash/?de…h=mfitness
( We like the futuristic style of the supplements packaging, on the bottles)
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