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SimplyOriginal necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 88 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
We are an independant specialist fine food producer that develops, markets and sells our own range of unique deli-style food products. Our original brand logo was something we put together in a rush as a short-term concept to get the business moving, but now we are growing we are expanding in a number of ways that require us to have a more polished, considered brand identity. See description section below for more information.
Simply Original Fine Foods
Our existing web site provides a lot of useful background of the business so please check out http://www.simplyoriginal.com.au
What the web site doesnt say is that the business is expanding into events including cooking demonstrations, intimate dining experiences and we are finishing the build of our new commercial kitchen from where we will be running cooking classes for small groups of keen foodies.
- A brand and identity which can be used on a number of different products - eg labels on jars, and also be used as part of a corporate identity on promotional & marketing material
- Crisp, clean lines
- Contemporary typeface - no cursive script, remember the labels will need to include ingredients, nutritional information panels, etc - typically on the rear of the jars so typeface is important
- A design which reflects the concept of "simple and original" and our company ethos
- Bear in mind that the brand could be part of a display in a specialist food store or deli, so it needs to be easily adaptable so different products stand out and it doesnt blend into a bland display - eg some form of theme that allows a symbol, picture or part of the wording to be changed for each product but within a style that clearly shows the link to a prominent brand
- We like ideas which use the initials "S O" or some construct which reads "So" to represent the company name
- Designs which imply "the finishing touch" or "putting the finishing touch to..." are interesting to us
- The base design should use a limited number of colours so that each product can potentially be "personalised" through its own colour variant in the label somewhere
- The brand and identity needs to work well on all corporate communications - including a new web site, business cards, stationery, marketing banner, etc, etc
- Final designs in vector format
- A logo which is just a tidy-up of the existing white on black artwork
- We do not want busy, flowery artwork - keep it clean & simple but flexible that it could be used on a range of products and literature
- We dont want cooking utensils, cooking equipment or appliances included in any part of the design
- We dont want cursive script
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Student or Learner
What's the difference?
1) We went from one house to some other. (they had certain houses to visit?)
2) We went from one house to another. (the didn't have certain houses to visit?)
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
I am not saying that it's natural. Actually it is from here
Other | Define Other at Dictionary.com
he found some other house
What does it mean? Why not - he found another house?
'He found some other house' is not a good example for a dictionary to give.
'He found another house' is much more natural.
If a dictionary gives a bad example no wonder that I gave it
But is there any sense in this sentense? Is it nonsense?
It makes sense, but it is not natural.
Could you, please, help me see the difference between these two if the first one makes sense?
1) We went from one house to some other.
2) We went from one house to another.
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From the stars for the week of Oct. 5…
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
I'm afraid I had to name you 'Underachiever of the Month' for September, Aries. You didn't quite succeed at wrestling your frustrations into submission, though you had the power to do so. You also failed to cash in on much of the great potential you had for smashing injustice, exposing fakery, and toppling the rotting status quo. That's the bad news. The good news is that some of your missed opportunities will become available again in the coming week. Make up for lost time, please.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
I predict that in 2013, the United Nations will designate a 52,000-square-mile area in Canada's far north to be the world's dumping ground. By then global warming will have melted much of the ice that currently makes it problematical to access that area by sea, allowing a steady stream of ships to deliver loads of garbage from every country on the planet. I'm not saying this is a good thing; I'm just reporting the facts as I foresee them. But I'd also like to propose that you use this idea as a metaphor in dealing with your own psychic waste. What if you had a certain place and a regular time where you could ritually dispose of it? Let's say you'd go to there every Saturday at 10 a.m. After a short meditation, you'd take out a piece of paper, scribble down everything that's making you sick and crazy, then burn it or bury it or rip it to shreds. Try it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
If you've ever dreamed of being a flamenco dancer or lion trainer or midwife when you grow up, now's a perfect time to make a big push in that direction. The astrological omens suggest the universe is more favorably inclined toward your wilder fantasies than it has been in a long time. At the very least, Gemini, revisit thrilling schemes that at some time in the past you dismissed as impossible. They may not be quite so absurd anymore.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
I predict that in the future, palm-size 'emotional control' machines will be available. With a flick of a switch, people suffering from unwanted feelings will use the device to beam an electromagnetic pulse at their brains, erasing the offending emotion and arousing a sense of well-being. Unfortunately, I don't foresee this new technology being ready until 2020. Fortunately, you can teach yourself how to do the same trick using only your own willpower. And it so happens that you're currently in a phase when you can go a long way toward accomplishing that goal.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
My friend Gail told me about her harrowing journey on a purple bus through small towns in Guatemala. '"We needed three drivers,'" she said. '"One to handle the steering wheel, one to constantly wipe off the windshield when it rained, and one to lean out the door and yell at pedestrians to get out of the way.'" This reminds me of the challenge you have ahead of you, Leo. A single guide won't be enough as you wend your way through serpentine but scenic complications. Nor will one cook or one planner or one choreographer. To succeed, you've got to have multiple directors who are skilled at coordinating their efforts. Keep control freaks out of the loop.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
In his '"MuseLetter,'" Richard Heinberg writes that Jesus '"taught renunciation of ephemeral desires, fearless and carefree public behavior, and contempt for riches.'" This happens to be a precise prescription for those of you who hope to put yourself in maximum alignment with cosmic rhythms in the coming week. I suggest you suspend your pursuit of the relatively trivial goals that soak up an inordinate amount of your attention, and instead intensify your devotion to your single most important reason for living. This should help you lose your unnecessary inhibitions. It should also free you from any delusions you might have that greed is normal or that you need more than enough of anything.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Many people who live in countries steeped in the Judeo-Christian tradition look down on voodoo, considering it a mishmash of superstition and sorcery. But in her book Vodou Visions, Sallie Ann Glassman argues that Vodou (the preferred spelling among its practitioners) is an authentic religious tradition worthy of respect. She does acknowledge that some of its beliefs may seem odd to polite society. For instance, Vodou's calm, gentle, sweet spirits are not always forces for good, while some of its hot, turbulent, revolutionary spirits are not necessarily bad. Be open to the possibility that there'll be similar principles at work in your life in the coming week, Libra '— whether or not you have any connection to Vodou.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
I went to first grade in a working-class town in Michigan. One day while walking home from school, I encountered three third-grade bullies. They dragged me into an alley, where two of them held my arms while the other belted me once in the abdomen. '"Why?'" I cried. No one answered. The puncher sneered and got ready to deliver another smack. Just then a woman's voice called out. She was hanging wet laundry on a clothesline in her backyard nearby. '"You stop that nonsense right now!'" she exclaimed, and ran toward us. The boys fled. She took me into her house, fed me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and called my mother. I was a little shaky yet ecstatic, feeling I had proof that angels were always watching over me. This story is an apt metaphor for your experience in the coming week, Scorpio.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
For many people, physical appearance is the most important consideration in their search for a mate. Social status is often a decisive factor as well, as well as religious and political compatibility. In contrast, here's what evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller told The New York Times when asked why he chose the wife he did: '"Because she was very witty and funny and a woman I thought I could learn a lot from. You look for somebody you feel you could talk to for years without getting bored.'" I recommend that you adopt Miller's criteria for selecting your next three new allies, Sagittarius. It's time to refine your approach to creating your network.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
In his poem '"Jerusalem, Easter,'" Stanley Moss writes, '"On this bright Easter morning / smelling of Arab bread, / what if God simply changed his mind / and called out into the city, / 'Thou shalt not kill,' and, like an angry father, 'I will not say it another time!' / They are praying too much in Jerusalem . . .'" With this as your inspiration, Capricorn, I'd like you to meditate on two themes: 1) What crucial message do you keep getting from God or life but continue to ignore? 2) Is there a certain ideal you say you believe in but sometimes neglect to carry out in your day-to-day encounters?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
This would be an excellent time to escape every boring routine that is sapping your life energy. And when I say '"escape,'" I'm hoping you don't settle for a trip to a Wal-Mart in a city 50 miles away. The more dramatic and complete your break with habit, the better. Would you consider exploring the Outback of Australia on the back of a camel? Or how about rafting down Tibet's 'River of Golden Sand,' or reconnoitering Botswana's Okavango Delta, Africa's most beautiful oasis?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
By comparing your biorhythms with those of hundreds of celebrities, Celebmatch.com analyzes which of those glamorous people you'd be most compatible with. I was surprised to find that I would get along extremely well with Harry Potter author JK Rowling, tennis star Venus Williams, and Shirley Manson, lead singer of the band Garbage. I suggest you find out the luminaries who would be your best matches, Pisces. According to the astrological omens, it's prime time to bring a playful stimulus or two to your romantic fantasy life.


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Welcome back to the SUPER KITE DAY Snow Kite Camp January 2-23rd 2016. Anyone any level can join us on this trip.
The all new luxury house will be located right next to the town saint-chaffrey and only 15minuets from the Col du Lautaret, free prizes, kite demo Test point, 250 per week which includes accommodation with breakfast and lunch at the SKD kitecamp house. Join the team and share the super kite days with us in the new year. There is no better place to be.
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Answer to be posted 1st of July.
The Super Temps concept is a lot older than two years. My idea for a super-hero parody, complete with characters who knew that "that's just the way things work in comic books" had originated back in the mid ninties.
Which leads to June's trivia question: Who was the original protagonist for the Super Temps concept?


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The 1950 Pennsylvania Railroad calendar never made it to James W. Flanagan, general manager of the Scranton Times.
He would never need it: he died in December 1949. But on Friday, 63 years after his death, the U.S. Postal Service made a delivery.
A mail carrier, with no explanation of where the package had been the last 63 years, handed it to Chris O'Hora at The Times-Tribune's front desk. The calendar, rolled in a long tube, soon made its way to the office of Bobby Lynett, a publisher of The Times-Tribune and CEO of Times-Shamrock Communications.
Flanagan was the Scranton Times general manager from 1936 to his death in 1949 at the age of 63. He had a 54-year career at the paper, starting as a salesboy in 1895. The calendar includes a holiday greeting from an executive at the railroad company, dated the same month Flanagan died.
On Friday, Lynett gently rolled the large calendar out on his conference table, curious about its origin and more curious about where it had been the last 63 years.
Ray Daiutolo, a spokesman with the postal service, said lost mail is sometimes found when a machine is dismantled or a post office space renovated. Other times, someone may find a stamped but unmailed letter or package at a yard sale and then drop it in the mail, he said. Daiutolo was unable to trace the package's history on Friday.
A new sticker, dated last week from a distribution center in Pittsburgh, accompanied two 4-cent William Howard Taft stamps, which appear to have been canceled decades ago, on the tube.
The calendar, originally mailed from the Philadelphia publicity department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, features the painting "Crossroads of Commerce" by Grif Teller. The Pennsylvania Railroad merged with New York Central Railroad in 1968.
Lynett said he will contact officials at the Steamtown National Historic Site to see if they are interested in displaying the calendar.
If not, it will be displayed someplace inside The Times-Tribune building, he said.
"We'll find a good home for it. That's for sure," he said.


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This beautiful and unique necklace with a Liberty of London print fabric has been created using a variety of techniques, which has gone through an hardening and enamelling process and attached to a ceramic tile base. It is then attached to a silver plated snake chain necklace with lobster fastening. The overall finish of the pendant makes it resemble a piece of ceramic pottery. The necklace is of a medium weight.
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Measurments - square pendant measures approximately 2cm x 2 cm and the snake chain length is 16".
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Would make a beautiful and unique gift for someone special in your life !
My original canvas artworks incorporates pattern and printed fabrics. I had lots of offcuts and through accidently experimenting with hardening the offcuts I enjoyed the way the fabric took on a whole new look and visualised the cut shapes suitable for jewellery making. My background is in textile design and i had no experience of jewellery making , therefore I had to teach myself from scratch and found the whole thing mesmerizing
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For the next two weeks, we're hosting our own Summer Food Fights on FOOD52 -- come play along! Big prizes await.
We're always looking for ways to get better in the kitchen -- to do things more efficiently, to try something crazy, to make something out of nothing. Last week, in honor of the Summer Food Fights we asked you to send in Your Best Kitchen Hack -- and we promised you some glorious, drool-worthy prizes.
Today, we're presenting our bronze medal to the one and only hardlikearmour. Her award-winning entry: How to Hack a Cold Smoker. Check back tomorrow and Friday to see the silver and the gold!
Cold smoker supplies: New 30 watt soldering iron, "tin" can w/o BPA in the lining (I used Native Forest coconut milk), keyhole opener, safe edge can opener, pliers, wood chips, and a grill with a lid. You may also need a screwdriver to change the tip of the soldering iron, and an extension cord to plug the soldering iron in. A new soldering iron and a bag of chips will cost in the ballpark of $15, and I suspect if you're embarking on this endeavor you'll already have the rest of the supplies.
Shiny new soldering iron, with tip that looks like a flathead screwdriver. This tip has a larger contact area than the pointy one that was originally attached. Note the screw that holds the tip in; it can be a little tricky to fit it through the keyhole you'll be making in the can later.
Cut a large keyhole in the can. The business end of the soldering iron needs to fit through the hole.
Use can opener to open the can, and the pliers to pry the lid outward. Imagine the top of the can as a clock face. If the keyhole is at 6 o'clock, the opening should extend clockwise from 8ish to 4ish. You need to be able to easily get the wood chips into the can once the lid is pried open.
Empty and rinse can, then make a small ventilation keyhole in the bottom. The hole should be a bit up from the bottom, say the 5 or 7 o'clock area. A little cross breeze seems to help generate more smoke.
Partially fill the can with wood chips. 1/3 full will produce about 30 to 40 minutes of smoke. You can also add some spices to the wood chips - broken star anise and bits of cinnamon stick are especially nice.
Insert the tip of the soldering iron into the large keyhole. The screw will most likely need to be pointed toward a lower corner to fit. Lay the can sideways on the grill with the keyhole at the bottom. Make sure the tip of the soldering iron is buried in the wood chips.
Get ready to smoke! Here I've got olives, ice cubes, and blue cheese. It's best to keep the grill in the shade to help keep the chamber cool. Melted smoked cheese is not the goal!
Plug the soldering iron in, and wait. It will take about 5 or 6 minutes for the chips to start smoking. If you're not getting smoke within 10 minutes you probably don't have good soldering iron to wood chip contact. Carefully wiggle the soldering iron, making sure to grasp only the plastic base and not the metal parts or the can.
Close the grill lid, and set a timer for 30 to 40 minutes (a good amount of time for adding some smoky flavor.) Buckley is in charge of keeping interlopers away from the grill.
After a short while you will see smoke wafting out from the grill. It can get pretty smoky, so if you live in an apartment you may need to warn your neighbors or cover your grill. If it's not breezy you may want to use a box fan to help direct the smoke in the least objectionable direction.
Here I've just finished smoking some country pork ribs with wood chips and broken star anise pods.
When you've finished, unplug the soldering iron. Let the can and iron cool fully before handling them. The christened soldering iron; no longer bright and shiny!
Enjoy the smoky fruits of your labor!
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Joe Barroso has become a mainstay on the sidelines for the Pioneers as he begins his 19th season at Sacred Heart in 2017-18. The kick-off of the 2017 season marks Barroso's 13th season at the helm of the men's program. Barroso guided the Pioneers to their first NEC tournament appearance since 2011 a season ago. He previously served as the head coach on the women's side for eight seasons, leading them to an NEC title and a berth in the NCAA tournament.
Barroso made an immediate impact on the SHU men's team in 2005, engineering the second biggest single-season turnaround in a conference history, leading the Pioneers to the playoffs for the first time ever in Division I. Barroso followed that up with another postseason appearance in 2007.
Barroso began his career helping lay the foundation of the women's soccer program at Sacred Heart serving as head coach from 1992-94. He amassed a record of 27-28-2 in those three years on sideline, receiving the regional Coach-of-the-Year award in 1994-95.
He is in his second stint at Sacred Heart after a five year hiatus in which he coached at the University of Bridgeport. He returned to help the Pioneers make the transition to Division I and guided the women's team to three straight Northeast Conference Tournaments. It was in 2001 that Barroso led the women's team to its first postseason tournament appearance where they enjoyed a magical run, capturing their first-ever Northeast Conference Crown and spot in the NCAA's. For his efforts Barroso was named Coach of the Year.
At the University of Bridgeport, Barroso was named the New England Collegiate Conference Coach-of-the-Year in 1997. He was 28-31-4 while coaching the women for four years. He also served as the head men's soccer coach for the Purple Knights from 1997-99.
Originally from Portugal, Barroso played at Southern Connecticut State University, where he was a member of that school's Division II National Championship squad in 1990 and is eighth on the Owls all-time scoring list with 99 points (41 goals, 58 assists). His 41 goals are sixth on that all-time list. He was chosen as one of the top-25 players in the country after his senior season at SCSU and picked to play in the Senior Bowl.
Barroso has played professionally both in Europe and the United States. He played for a First Division club in Portugal competing in the prestigious UEFA Cup and for both the Connecticut Wolves and the Boston Storm in the A-League of the USISL. Barroso was also a member of the United States National Team in 1990-'91.


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The New Distribution Landscape Part 2
LAST ISSUE I MADE THE PERHAPS counterintuitive case that distribution options for fledgling non-alcoholic beverage brands actually may be on the rise, even in a broader landscape where wholesale and retail consolidation continue unabated. Entrepreneurs, sometimes from outside the beverage industry, are launching new houses. Beer wholesalers, their core beer brands plateauing, are being driven to reconsider participation in NAs, despite the complications these bring to their business models. And the parallel DSD system, that delivers milk, yogurt and other dairy products to retailers, also is beginning to migrate to shelf-stable (they like to say "ambient") items. But that's not the entire extent of the trend. Here are a few other options that have been developing:
The Red Bull network. With Red Bull's own efforts to diversify its portfolio via line extensions like Red Bull Cola and shots and new brands like Carpe Diem not having panned out, some exclusive Red Bull houses such as Beverage Works in the New York/New Jersey area have set up separate operations to take on a select number of outside brands. At the same time, quite a few exclusive houses that have been terminated by Red Bull – not always for cause – have gotten a new lease on life by building portfolios of other brands, aided by the Red Bull aura of sharp execution. Former Red Bull shops in the Bay Area (Geyser), Ohio (Buckeye) and Florida (Sand Dollar) are among those that seem to be succeeding now as diversified houses.
Soft drink bottlers. Though Coke and Pepsi now own the vast majority of their bottling systems, the remaining independents are getting more aggressive about plugging portfolio gaps with intriguing new brands. My theory on that is that, with the government having given them a free pass on the big bottler deals, Coke and Pepsi realize it wouldn't look good for them to start pounding on the little guys, and the little guys know that. So they're picking up more outside brands and in many cases doing a good job with them, without neglecting their core brands. I won't name names here, because that seems to only get them in hot water, but trust me, they're out there.
All other. Distributors of snacks, candy, deli meats, tobacco, even charcoal – they all reach the same accounts beverage companies need, often without the distraction of other beverage brands in the portfolio. Ingenuity in cultivating them can pay big dividends.
I should also mention a pair of other trends that are helping strengthen the independent system. One involves efforts by Coke to employ indie shops as incubators of its own early-stage brands. For instance, houses like Big Geyser in New York, Crescent in New Jersey and Haralambos in LA have played an adept hand moving Illycaffe into the right retail accounts. A lot of us figure it's only a matter of time before Pepsi takes a similar enlightened view. Both, by the way, also have been subbing some of their core brands to indies to reach the small retailers that have dropped off the radar of their bottling systems. For indie houses who've long regarded Coke and Pepsi as monolithic enemies, this new era of "co-opetition" is a bracing divergence.
Also bearing notice are attempts to weave independent houses into a more cohesive network that can meet the needs of major chains. The once-informal Northeast Independent Distributors Association has been doing this in a more concerted way, and Abarta's GTG unit garners a lot of credit for putting fast-growing Calypso lemonade in the right houses. Coast Brands Group has been rolling out its concept eastward from its West Coast base. And Bud and Miller/Coors houses in some states have banded together to offer full coverage to select brands.
Considering that many of us have long regarded independent DSD as a vanishing species, this is all quite a remarkable turn of events. It's too early to say how sustainable these varied approaches will prove, but the trend should offer hope to beverage entrepreneurs that their brands will be able to find an effective route to retail.
Longtime beverage-watcher Gerry Khermouch is executive editor of Beverage Business Insights, a twice-weekly e-newsletter covering the nonalcoholic beverage sector.


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Fr. James Donelan, former president of Ateneo de Manila, once said at a meeting of Jesuits that when he arrived in the Philippines as a young man, he fell in love with the country's sunsets and children. The children are as handsome and pretty as any in the world, but no other children can match their friendliness and sense of humor. They somehow see the funny things about all of us. It is painful, therefore, to see a picture of these children on the front page of this paper begging, with their hands out, for food behind a sign that reads "Help us here."
It's not just the children of Compostela Valley that are at risk. There are at least one million children in Metro Manila's slums, in congested and unhealthy housing, often malnourished, and studying in overcrowded classrooms without sufficient textbooks that guarantee a life of poverty. The same can be said of poor children in the rural areas, on mountains and in our fishing villages. The abuse of our children is on a catastrophic scale. It is a form of genocide.
This situation need not continue. Children are resilient; they respond vividly to good care and teaching.
We saw this happen with 30 young boys and girls from Metro Manila's urban poor areas who starred in a recent play of Peta titled "Maryosep." Peta had tryouts in September in the poor areas. The children that came were like all poor children: Some were shy; the girls seemed more athletic than girls elsewhere, but were just as pretty. Three months later they appeared on stage, singing and dancing before big crowds. They told their story in song and dance, and they were spellbinding. They had become poised, confident young people. After the final show they mixed with the audience made up of college students, professionals, and the rich and influential friends of the poor. Here, too, they shone. It warmed our hearts to see them so happy and confident.
There are other examples: Sr. Felicitas de Lima runs a home in Iriga for 145 orphans (true orphans, children from families too poor to feed them, the children of Negritos living on Mount Iriga, disturbed children, and sexually abused children). Almost single-handedly, she and a small group of young sisters provide love, food, education and a true home for these children of the poor. The children care for one another; they all learn a marketable skill. They finish high school and go to college. They learn how to raise pigs, and plant fruit trees and vegetables in the most modern ways. They pray together and play together and help one another, and smile and sing. Being there among the children for a few days is a taste of the peace and camaraderie that life should have for all.
Sister Itat's center has a motto: "We make useless things useful." It is inelegant, but the sisters really do just that: They begin with the poorest and least promising of rural children and fashion them into fine young adults.
A tutorial center in Baseco run by the Urban Poor Associates for fifth- and sixth-graders takes only students with grades averaging below 80, but recently saw one of its graduates win first honors in high school.
We will be able to save this generation of our young people if we put our minds to it. It is Christmas time. Surprising things have happened at Christmas. It is a time for out-of-the-box thinking. Wasn't the thinking behind the first Christmas the greatest out-of-the-box thinking ever?
December in the Holy Land is very cold. The stable or stable-cave where Joseph and Mary ended up was cold and had the rancid smell of animals. We stand to the side in the dim light and watch the young mother nurse her baby. God became a poor child. In the light of that vision, let us walk with God along Roxas Boulevard.
When God sees the vast stretches of land reclaimed in Manila Bay, does He say, "What a great place this can be for a gambling casino paradise"? Does He plan for luxury housing surrounding the casinos? Or does He think, "Here is a place where I can settle my poor people"? And not just the impoverished families, but also the outcasts, the physically incapacitated, the blind and deaf, the despondent—the same people Jesus sought out in His lifetime. On the reclaimed land He sees top-flight schools, swimming pools where the children's bodies glisten in the sun and water, athletic fields, and schools for special and gifted children.
When He sees an empty lot, does He think, "There's a great place for a mall or a parking lot"? Or does He imagine a playground and a small park where the old people can sit in the shade of trees with one another, or, as Bishop Julio Labayen, now in retirement, told us recently, "I sit in the mornings looking at the trees; I see God in them"?
When God sees a family asleep at night, huddled near their kariton in the tall grass along the wall of the V. Luna Hospital, does He just think something must be done about the poor families and walk on, or does He go over, put a blanket over the children, and make sure they are not too near the street where they may be hit by a car?
We can learn from Bethlehem the value of our children.
Unfortunately, our children are at risk. Christmas tells us we must do a better job of caring for them. Can we at least end malnutrition among them?
Denis Murphy works with the Urban Poor Associates ([email protected]).
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A radiation leak at the government's troubled nuclear waste dump has been linked to a waste container shipped from Los Alamos National Laboratory, officials said Friday, raising questions about the safety of other barrels being stored on the lab's northern New Mexico campus and at a temporary site in West Texas.
Lab Director Charlie McMillan, in a memo Friday to lab employees, said Los Alamos "is fully cooperating" with state and federal officials and has taken extra precautions to ensure that similar waste drums at the lab and those sent to Waste Control Specialists in Texas "are in a safe and controlled configuration."
"Based on this," he wrote, "we do not believe there is any imminent threat to the safety of our employees, the public, or the environment at this time."
Watchdog Don Hancock of the Southwest Research and Information Center, however, said that, until more is known about the breach, "we can't have assurances."
In a statement, the U.S. Department of Energy said pictures from the latest entry into the half-mile deep Waste Isolation Pilot Project near Carlsbad confirm that a container from Los Alamos has a cracked lid and evidence of heat damage.
Officials last week zeroed in on the containers from Los Alamos, prompting officials to suspend shipments of waste from Los Alamos to the temporary site in West Texas.
Los Alamos is under orders to remove thousands of such barrels of toxic waste from outdoor storage on a mesa. The presence of the waste, and its potential dangers, became well-known three summers ago as a massive wildfire lapped at the edge of lab property.
The lab had been on target to have the last of the containers shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant by June 30 when the repository was shuttered by the leak Feb. 14 that contaminated 22 workers with low levels of radiation.
Last week, Department of Energy officials said leak was likely caused by a chemical reaction in nuclear waste that was mixed with nitrate salt. Among the possibilities that officials have since confirmed are being studied: a switch in the kitty litter-type substance used to absorb moisture before the containers are sealed and shipped to the nuclear-waste dump.
"While many details remain unknown," McMillan said, "additional investigative work is being planned to pinpoint the cause of the breached drum, the radiological release, and whether other containers were involved in the release. Experts from DOE, WIPP, Los Alamos, and Savannah River National Laboratory are working together to establish the range of possibilities that may have caused this event. "
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is the federal government's only permanent repository for low-level nuclear waste from LANL and other federal facilities. The containers include things like gloves, tools and protective clothing worn by lab workers.
Nine days before the release, a truck hauling salt in the mine caught fire. But officials have said the fire was far from the waste-handling area and that the events were likely unrelated. Initial investigations into both accidents have blamed them on a slow erosion of the safety culture at the 15-year-old, multibillion-dollar site.


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Lions call on Worsley and Williams
July 1, 2009
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British & Irish Lions coach Ian McGeechan has made a host of changes to his side to face South Africa in the third and final Test in Johannesburg, many of which have been forced by injury.
Prop Phil Vickery returns to the line-up and will go toe to toe with 'the Beast' Tendai Mtawarira following the dislocated shoulder suffered by Adam Jones, while Andrew Sheridan replaces Gethin Jenkins. Jenkins has flown back to the UK with a fractured cheekbone, as has concussed centre Brian O' Driscoll.
O'Driscoll's injury means a move for Tommy Bowe in to the centre, while Jamie Roberts' wrist injury has played a factor in Riki Flutey getting the call in the No.12 jersey. Mike Phillips and Stephen Jones will again pull the strings at half-back, while out wide Ugo Monye replaces Bowe and Shane Williams gets a start in place of Luke Fitzgerald.
In the back-row, Joe Worsley and Martyn Williams get their first starts in Lions Tests, the trio completed by Jamie Heaslip, and there is no change in the second-row where Simon Shaw again partners Paul O'Connell.
On the bench, James Hook replaces Ronan O'Gara while John Hayes provides front-row cover.
"A British & Irish Lions tour is a unique experience for players in the busy, modern professional rugby calendar," said McGeechan. "The 2009 Lions have thrown themselves into the spirit of the tour, have interacted with the people of South Africa and shown themselves to be great ambassadors for northern hemisphere rugby.
"It is fair to say injuries have had an impact on the tour as you would expect including selection for the third Test as we were unfortunate to lose Brian O'Driscoll, Jamie Roberts, Gethin Jenkins and Adam Jones through injury last Saturday. However, the players coming into the starting XV are all talented international players and are as keen as ever to turn the tables on the Springboks. Last Saturday we were minutes away from winning and that is a huge positive to take into the third Test.
"Andrew Sheridan, Joe Worsley and Martyn Williams will all be part of a Lions starting XV for the first time. Stephen Jones, Mike Phillips, skipper Paul O'Connell and Jamie Heaslip will earn the distinction of being in the starting XV for all three Test matches."
British & Irish Lions: R Kearney (Leinster and Ireland); U Monye (Harlequins and England), T Bowe (Ospreys and Ireland), R Flutey (Wasps and England), S Williams (Ospreys and Wales); S Jones (Scarlets and Wales), M Phillips (Ospreys and Wales); A Sheridan (Sale Sharks and England), M Rees (Scarlets and Wales), P Vickery (Wasps and England), S Shaw (Wasps and England), P O'Connell (Munster and Ireland, capt), J Worsley (Wasps and England), M Williams (Cardiff Blues and Wales), J Heaslip (Leinster and Ireland).
Replacements: R Ford (Edinburgh and Scotland), J Hayes (Munster and Ireland), A-W Jones (Ospreys and Wales), D Wallace (Munster and Ireland), T Croft (Leicester and England), H Ellis (Leicester and England), J Hook (Ospreys and Wales)
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Sunday, 7 March 2010
Marathon PR on a friendly training run
I woke up feeling great after a relaxing Saturday watching The Lorax. Then I got a great deal of inspiration from Olga, who just won the Neuces 50 miler in Texas (after no sleep, nonetheless). I figured in order to keep up with her at the Hells Hills 50 miler April 3rd, I had better get my ass in gear. Plus there is only time for long runs on weekends.
The sun was shining over the whole island of Sjælland. Because of a birthday party in Copenhangen an SR's parents kindly watching the kids, we arranged an interesting training day:
We ran 12.25 miles in 1:46, relaxed and ate for 3 hours at the party, and then did the same 12.25 miles again, this time in 1:53 (God, I love having a Garmin). A total of 24.5 miles in 3:39. Not bad for a training day. Okay, it wasn't a full marathon length, it wasn't a PR and it wasn't the whole distance at the same time (I am a filthy liar). BUT it felt great. I am barely sore. It is exhillarating to be able to run such a distance at such a pace and hardly feel it.
I will just add the time flew with intersting conversations: everything from the tourist industry in Sierra City, CA to the downfall of Edie Sedgwick. It was however good that our run was almost over when we started arguing about the Icelandic national debt.
No music today, but here's a good new song from Iceland:
"By and By" by Lay Low
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- 7 March 2010 at 21:54
- olga said...
Your grassy ass is totally safe:)
- 8 March 2010 at 13:46
- Erika said...
Hi, I came across your blog while researching pregnancy and running, so I've been reading up on all of your pregnancy posts. I just wanted to tell you that you are amazing! I love running, and am currently 18 weeks pregnant now. My doctor told me not to do a half marathon, and that's okay, I am not even close to your level of fitness. But it is still inspiring to read about you and so I will keep running through my pregnancy as much as I can. I referenced you in my latest post, I hope that's okay? www.nateanderikagomm.blogspot.com
- 8 March 2010 at 18:38
- sea legs girl said...
Well, Marie-Aline, if we are ever in the Alps, I would love to watch little Malo and especially see him play with The Lorax. BUT then I might have to get a turn running in the French Alps. Sounds pretty nice.
Ha, Olga, I knew you'd enjoy that saying :).
Erika, you just brought a lot of joy into my life by writing that. I just hope you have a wonderful pregnancy and I'm glad you're not giving up on running all together. Thanks for the link to your blog. You have beautiful, beautiful kids. Good luck with preg #4! And thank you!
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So friday afternoon I wanted to test for existence of a certain mapping that takes one surface to another surface. Everything is algebraic so one might assume if a mapping exist it might actually be polynomial and since everything is of low degree, the mapping might be as well. So I just set up brute force equations and tried an arbitrary degree 2 mapping. After a second or two, maxima returned no solutions to the resulting system. OK, so how about plugging in degree 3. It turns out I don't need to test the linear terms, and there are 3 variables so 16 variables per component so I get an algebraic system in 48 variables. Sounds bad, but lot of the equations become something of the form "x=0". So I looked at a subset of the system. Already the generating of the equations took a few seconds. So I thought, this will take a few minutes. So I started "algsys" on the equations. Well, that was wednesday afternoon. It is Sunday and the thing is still running. Unfortunately it just says "Maxima is calculating" in the wxMaxima window, so one has no clue if it will take another day or so, another year or so, or if the sun will implode first. I sort of have the feeling it is doing something stupid. Once I get more time for math on monday, I'll probably try to simplify the equations by hand first. I could also try for the solution (or lack thereof) numerically. In the meantime I'll let it run. This is on my laptop which is surely not meant as a computation machine. It's only running on one core so it's not heating up too badly. When I was running some computations for days in the summer on all four cores you could almost cook eggs on the keyboard.
On a related front, I decided that my work computer is sitting too idly so I started the degree 19 calculation that we never did with Danny on our paper [1]. In 2008 we thought it would take at least half a year. Presumably the computers have gotten a tad quicker in the meantime (and since I'm running it on 4 cores), so perhaps the result will come in sooner. Still the progress seems slow from the output so far. It is a bit difficult to judge, I'll try to estimate time left more precisely later on, but just as first guess from looking at the output I don't think this will be done before christmas.
There is something magical about pressing ENTER to start the computation you know will take months to complete. It is one of the few places where you really use the fact that you have a fast computer. Most computer power is totally wasted. So for example in somewhat similar time frame Firefox managed to get 70 minutes of CPU time (maxima is up to 5208 now). Now that's with only very occasional short browsing over the last few days. It seems mostly it's the tabs being open that eat up time, run the CPU and heat our house. Come to think of that my office will be quite warm I bet once I get there on monday, I don't think the heating runs on the room termostat, as the swich on that thing is in "off" position and it still heats the room. So with the added heating from 4 cores running at top speed and it being a small room, it should get toasty.
Update (monday morning): Actually my office was not much warmer. The computer case is actually quite cold and I don't feel a huge difference in temperature of the air output. I don't know why I never ran anything on this computer and always used my laptop so far for longer computations. I think I'll abuse it more from now on.
[1] Jiří Lebl and Daniel Lichtblau, Uniqueness of certain polynomials constant on a line, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 433 (2010), no. 4, 824-837, arXiv:0808.0284.


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Aaron had an appetizer contest yesterday at work. He asked me to make my Buffalo Chicken Dip. This dip is always a hit, so I agreed. 🙂 I put the dip together and made some minor changes (used BW3 mild sauce instead of the Red Hot, light cream cheese, and 2% shredded cheddar). He brought chips, celery, sour cream, salsa & sriracha sauce to accompany the dip. 🙂 Well, he just received an email that the dip won for "Best Dip"!! How exciting is that?
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It's a hefeweizen that uses rye malt in place of wheat. Earthy indeed and very heady and creamy. I haven't brewed a German style rye ale yet but I have used American yeast on several occasions and it is in the top 3 recipes I have ever made. I love rye in beer. It's great. And not very spicy. Just very earthy and bready.
Basically a Dunkel with Rye instead of Wheat. http://www.germanbeerinstitute.com/Roggenbier.html
Basically a Dunkel with Rye instead of Wheat.
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Monday, June 2, 2008
Chewing the fat
How do you explain the fact that some people burn a lot of fat and others don't?
Because some of the determinants of the respiratory exchange ratio (RER) are dependent on individual characteristics. Research shows that there is a large interindividual variability in resting RER that persists during exercise of increasing intensity. Research also shows that the major determinants of RER included muscle glycogen content, training volume, proportion of type 1 fibers (only rest RER), free-fatty acids and lactate concentrations in the bloodstream, and % dietary fat intake. This last item is an important one, because it shows that changing your % of dietary fat intake will change your RER results.
I have recently repeated my baseline O2 Metabolic Assessment test and it showed that I had improved my fat utilization. How do you explain that?
Along with the initial O2 Metabolic Assessment test, the myth followers usually give nutritional advice that advises athletes to remove sugar and starch-rich foods from their diet. The consumption of "good fats" is also advised. What this does in practical terms is to reduce the CHO content of ones diet, and increase the fat content. So when you repeat the test, even if your fitness hasn't improved, just because you increased your % dietary fat intake, your RER will show that you are now burning more fat.
How can my level of fitness be a factor on my fat utilization results?
Like it was mentioned on the original post, research points to the fact that two athletes, with similar levels of fitness, that exercise at the same relative intensity (relative to lactate threshold) will oxidize a similar mix of substrates. This means that as you become more fit, for the same absolute intensity, you will burn more fat, even if diet is maintained.
Should the results from O2 Metabolic Assessment tests be used to guide my training?
The answer to that is no. The goal of training is to improve performance, not % of fat burning. And contrary to what the myth believers will tell you, improved fat burning does not translate to gains in performance. Improved fat utilization is the consequence of becoming more fit and not the other way around.
Do you think the use of O2 Metabolic Assessment tests is a scam and the people making money out of this quacks?
I wouldn't go as far as to say that, as I'm sure that many people that use these tests have a strong (unfounded) belief in them. However, it is important to stress that using O2 Metabolic Assessment tests to guide your training is a self-fulfilling prophecy. After you do the first test, the usual advice is to train at your "maximum fat burning zone". Often you also get nutritional advice that in reality increases your % of dietary fat intake. When you repeat the test, you will be likely more fit and have a diet with more fat. So the results of the test will show that you're better at burning fat at absolute intensities. The "obvious" conclusion is that the advice that was given was spot-on and you're better at burning fat. But in fact, you're just more fit or/and are consuming a higher % of dietary body fat. So basically, repeating the test will always have the same result, because the repeat test is affected by increased fitness and changed diet. Even if an athlete never trained in the "maximum fat burning zone", as long as her fitness improved or/and her % of dietary body fat increased, she would still have improved fat burning ability at absolute intensities.
Can I really burn 100% fat at rest?
The answer to that is NO!!! We burn approximately 55% to 65% fat and 45% to 35% CHO at rest.
Some references:
Coyle EF, Jeukendrup AE, Oseto MC, Hodgkinson BJ, Zderic TW. Low-fat diet alters intramuscular substrates and reduces lipolysis and fat oxidation during exercise. American Journal of Physiology, Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2001;280:E391–398.
Coyle EF, Jeukendrup AE, Wagenmakers AJM, Saris WHM. Fatty acid oxidation is directly regulated by carbohydrate metabolism during exercise. American Journal of Physiology. 1997;36:E268–275.
Goedecke JH, Gibson AS, Grobler L, Collins M, Noakes TD, and Lambert EV. Determinants of the variability in respiratory exchange ratio at rest and during exercise in trained athletes. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 279: E1325–E1334, 2000.
Helge JW, Richter EA, Kiens B. Interaction of training and diet on metabolism and endurance during exercise in man. Journal of Physiology. 1996;292:293–306.
Phinney SD, Bistrian BR, Evans WJ, Gervino E, Blackburn GL. The human metabolic response to chronic ketosis without caloric restriction: preservation of submaximal exercise capability with reduced carbohydrate oxidation. Metabolism. 1983;32:769–776.
And for the last question
McArdle WD, Katch FI, Katch VL. Essentials of Exercise Physiology, 2nd Ed. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
10 comments:
- Ryan Denner said...
Hi Paulo-
Between this post and your previous one - there is a lot of information to digest here (pun intended!).
I saw on your last post, there was some discussion regarding one of your athletes' diet. Do you recommend a breakdown of fat% vs. CHO% vs. protein% for your athletes, or do you let them eat what works for them?
thanks in advance-
- June 2, 2008 at 4:32 PM
- Thomas said...
Hi Paulo,
I am also interested to know your opinion about the question asked above. To add to the mix, I read in an interview in ST, that Joel recommends his athletes to loosely follow marksdailyapple.com recommendations for day to day diet, which is definitely not in line with the conventional wisdom of endurance athletes. I also read that Jorda Rapp 's diet is also not that classic high carb diet, and he eats a lot of fat. So do you think, that the studies you quoted, that suggest dietary fat intake might increase fat metabolism, can have an implication on what the proper ratio of carb/fat/protein is more suitable for athletes.
Also about losing weight, I agree 100% that the only way is to eat less. My question is what is the easiest way to eat less ie. not feeling the hunger or get more satisfaction from the same number of calories.
- June 3, 2008 at 6:05 AM
- Ryan Denner said...
Paulo, not to gang up on your or anything...
Thomas, was this the article/interview you were referring to?
- June 3, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- Paulo Sousa said...
I will start out by saying that nutrition is not one of my favorite subjects. I certainly don't push any sort of special diet to my athletes, because I simply don't think that diet is a determinant in performance. I do stress the importance of the timing of food intake on recovery from workouts, and more relevant, the impact that correct body composition has on performance. In order to achieve the latter, a certain degree of discipline needs to be attained, and just sticking to some sort of balanced diet will help with that.
- June 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM
- Lorenzo Coopman said...
Maybe you like this quote "Everyone always asks me, 'What did you eat?' I didn't know anything about nutrition; if there was a hot dog on my plate, I ate it. None of those little things make a bit of difference if you're not doing the real work. George Young 4times Olympian.
- June 3, 2008 at 2:12 PM
- Paulo Sousa said...
I'll jump on the bandwagon for a minute, and quote this guy here (bad spelling and all, english is not his strong point):
"nutritian is over rated . sorry , i said it ." - Brett Sutton
- June 3, 2008 at 7:05 PM
- Thomas said...
This is the interview with Joel I was referring to:
(I had to break the lines of
the URL to show up correctly)
particularly this question :
" ST: Do you have suggestions/thoughts for your athletes in terms of diet?
Joel: I like to keep nutrition simple. We eat for recovery - high quality, clean and organic are the goals. If you train enough you can replace all those burned calories with good clean nutrition, or processed junk, which will over time affect recovery, performance and optimal health. I agree with and recommend most of the nutritional advice found on http://www.marksdailyapple.com/ We need enough carbs to replace what's burned so we can back up quality training the next day, but otherwise limit carb based snacks, especially post dinner. Dairy, soy and wheat based products are limited for many of my athletes as well. "
From pure performance point of view it is hard to argue in favor of any particular diet, as it seems a variety of athletes use different approaches and as long as what they eat is not dramatically unhealthy, they seem to get results from their training. But this is also another example that fitness not always equates to health. FWIW, I am from Germany, and in my local community of cyclists/runners, I see less concern on some issues that are frequently discussed on mostly north american tri forums about weight and health. Things like winter weight gain, race weight, how to lose the last 5 pounds etc. might become a no brainer, or at least less of an issue for an AG athlete with a) portion control b) eating healthy.
- June 6, 2008 at 4:48 AM
- Paulo Sousa said...
I agree with Joel in general, even if I am not a big Mark Sisson fan.
I also bet that in Germany, diet books are not as popular as in the US. It's really a cultural thing.
But like I said, not my favorite subject ;-)
- June 6, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- Clint-Murphy said...
Reading the three posts you have on the fat-burning myth is raising a question in me.
I recently did Vo2 max testing with lactate threshold testing and determined my (a) aerobic threshold, (b) lactate threshold, and (c) Vo2 Max.
The training that I'm now doing is based on these zones - is what you're suggesting that this is wrong for me? Based on my understanding in talking to the coach, I'm not training in the lower zones because I burn more fat as fuel but to train my body to go faster at an intensity at which the body is able to remove lactic acid from the muscles faster than it builds up....Also, at least 1 x per week I would do interval workouts based on the lactate threshold to raise this up as well.
Is this something completely different from what you're saying is a "myth" or is it the myth?
Generally as a result of the testing, on my running and my riding, I have lowered my pace slighly to bring the heart rate down about 5-10 bpm as most of my training was in zone 2 where I was told it is "junk miles" and I want to focus just below the aerobic threshold for long events with, as noted, interval work to increase lactate threshold/speed.
Your thoughts?
- February 28, 2010 at 12:23 AM
- Paulo Sousa said...
I described what is the myth in the previous post. What you are doing is using (hopefully accurate) metabolic testing to determine training zones. That is a valid method to determine training zones, if done correctly.
One extra note; there isn't such a thing as "junk miles." Given the continuum that exists between aerobic intensities, basically every mile ran at an intensity above say 65% of VO2Max is the same.
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Advance tickets are currently on sale in the village shops but in addition, we will be All Dressed Up on the Green on Saturday 24th August (and also on the 31st) from 9.00am until lunchtime providing another opportunity for you to obtain your Show tickets in advance. Adults £3.00 (£5 on Show day), Seniors and Juniors (5-17) £2.00 in advance and on Show day, under 5's free.
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Last year the poor weather resulted in a much lower number of entries than usual in the horticultural classes. We are therefore urging you to make a special effort to get out your gardening gloves and produce a prize exhibit for one of this year's gardening divisions: Fruit & Vegetables, Flowers & Plants, Adult Beginners or Junior Gardening.
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There are still a few seats left for this outing. If you are interested, please contact the Community Library (01494 874732) as soon as possible to book your place.
Forthcoming Event:
Tuesday 10 September: Visit to Royal Holloway College, Egham. The visit will include guided tours of the college and its world-famous art gallery of Victorian paintings plus lunch. Royal Holloway College was founded by the philanthropist Thomas Holloway as a college for women only in 1879 and has been described as the most ebullient Victorian building in the Home Counties. It is now part of the University of London.
A coach will leave the village green at 9.00 am returning at about 4.00 pm. The cost for the visit will be £30.00 which includes coach, two guided tours and a sandwich lunch.
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Between 2nd August and 8th August 2013, two vehicles in School Lane, Chalfont St Giles each had one number plate stolen.
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Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses after an attempted burglary which occurred on Chalfont Road in Seer Green (between numbers 45-55).
Between 3.00pm and 3.30pm on Friday 9th August 2013, offenders attempted to gain entry to a property by forcing entry through the front door. We are particularly keen to hear from anybody who saw any suspicious vehicles or persons prior to this incident.
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- Sun VirtualBox (available at http://www.virtualbox.org)
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- Ubuntu 8.10 (used in this tutorial, previous versions compatible) installed in VirtualBox
Virtualization offers you a great opportunity to set a virtual environment to test different operating systems without the hazard of damaging the main (or host) operating system. However, sometimes the installed system acts different in the virtualized environment. For example, the installed Ubuntu in VirtualBox by default sets the 800x600 screen resolution.
Even if the user activates the full screen mode, the resolution still remains the same. Unfortunately, if you open the Screen Resolution dialog (System > Preferences > Screen Resolution) from the Ubuntu menu, you wont see any suitable high resolution picks.
However, there is a solution for this problem. First of all, before starting the virtual Ubuntu environment, check if there are no images mounted in the virtual CD/DVD drive for the current virtual machine.
Now start the Ubuntu virtual machine. When the Ubuntu OS is completely loaded, make sure the mouse is not being captured by the guest environment (if it is, press the right Ctrl button to release capture). Navigate through the Devices menu to reach the Install Guest Additions option.
After you click on this option, a virtual image will be automatically mounted in the current guest system (Ubuntu in this case) and the user will most likely see a Autorun option.
Click on Cancel, as the mounted image does not contain Autorun files. Now, go to the Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal). When the terminal window opens, type the command:
cd /media/cdrom
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You may be asked for your account password. Type it if asked for and press Enter. The installation process shall now begin. After the installation is complete, you should see something similar to this:
Restart your virtual environment. Still, after this process we will not see any additions to the screen resolutions list. We have to do one more thing edit the xorg.conf file.
NOTE: I am using Ubuntu 8.10 for this tutorial. This system implements an automatic backup feature for the xorg.conf file, so if the file is corrupt, the system will ask the user if he wants to restore the older xorg.conf file. In the previous versions of Ubuntu the auto-backup feature is not present and your system may be irreversibly damaged if the file becomes corrupt. PLEASE, MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP YOUR XORG.CONF FILE BEFORE PERFORMING ANY CHANGES TO IT.
Open the terminal window (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and type:
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After pressing Enter, the gedit window should appear.
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The text highlighted with a red frame is the representing the settings you should add to the xorg.conf file. In the Modes section, you can set the resolutions you want to add. I added a 1600x800 resolution (for a wide screen). If you dont use a wide screen, you can set the standard 1024x768 resolution.
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In the previous four posts, we examined how the practice of allowing public officials to appear in films could be used as an alternative method of bribery. While we've focused on the idea of a foreign official receiving a cameo, the analysis actually applies to anyone who has a substantial enough connection to a foreign official. After all, the FCPA prohibits bribery through third-party intermediaries. So how should Hollywood behave when doling out film roles abroad?


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The Champaign-based sister station of WCFN-TV (Channel 49), which will begin airing a half-hour news broadcast in the Springfield market next month, was singled out in a New York Times story this week for advancing what some experts consider government-sponsored propaganda.
The Bush administration's efforts to promote its agendas through media manipulation came to a head recently with the discovery that several right-wing commentators had received payments for touting federal policies. Most notably, syndicated pundit Armstrong Williams collected $240,000 from the Education Department to hype the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act.
Although Bush has since sworn off such practices, the White House this week defended its production and distribution of government-made video news releases.
A Bush spokesman confirmed on Monday that the administration would ignore recent opinions by the Government Accountability Office that deemed such news segments covert propaganda.
Several hundreds of these news segments were broadcast on local stations across the country, often without the revelation of their source. In the segments, phony reporters and rehearsed interviews with top officials are used to champion Bush policies.
"The Bush administration's use of taxpayer-financed propaganda against U.S. citizens is a serious matter, made all the more troubling by the fact that local television stations were apparently complicit in it," says Jamison Foser, senior adviser at Media Matters for America.
During the last three months, Champaign-based WCIA (Channel 3) aired 26 news segments made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to a front-page report in the Sunday, March 13, edition of the Times.
In the article, WCIA is characterized as an understaffed news station that uses the federal reports to beef up its programming and intentionally misleads viewers by "implying that the segments are the work of WCIA reporters."
Jim Gee, the station's news director, defended the use of government-made reports, saying, "We don't think they're propaganda. They meet our journalistic standards."
Reached by Illinois Times, Gee, who will also serve as news director for WCFN, declined comment on the station's reliance on prepackaged video news releases.
"As far as the article in the Times is concerned, it's better to let sleeping dogs lie," Gee says, adding that the station has received no complaints from viewers.
Russ Hamilton, the stations' vice president and general manager, says that the issue "has been blown out of proportion" but adds that he may curb the airing of such reports in the future.
WCIA and WCFN are owned by Texas-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group, which has a stake in 46 television stations in nearly a dozen states.
WCFN Primetime News at Nine, a live half-hour news broadcast, will debut on April 7 and air at 9 o'clock each weeknight.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, the parent company of Springfield's WICS (Channel 20), employed Armstrong Williams while he was being paid by the Bush administration and aired Armstrong's four-part interview of Vice President Dick Cheney in 2003, identifying the columnist as a "News Central analyst."