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The historian Lord Acton is best known for this quote: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." It's a cynical truth, but one that's repeated in history and echoed in art. Revolutionaries take over countries only to become dictators. In Middle-earth, everyone chases after the One Ring that promises unbelievable abilities at the price of deforming its wearer.
Acton's idea is also the driving theme in "Dishonored," a new action game developed by Arkane Studios. While most games are exercises in power fantasies, this release examines the effect of power and sets the concept in a fantasy universe. Taking on the role of Corvo Attano, the Lord Protector of the Empress, players return from a trip abroad and report to their liege. That's when assassins appear out of nowhere and kill her imperial majesty.
Corvo is framed for the murder and is set to be executed when he escapes, thanks to help from loyalists who see through the subterfuge. The Lord Regent, in charge until the Empress' daughter comes of age, is the culprit behind the plot. Loyalists led by a disgraced admiral ask Corvo to take him down.
It's a decent revenge plot with a nice twist, but "Dishonored" stands out more for its steampunk art direction and brilliant game design. Arkane Studios' imagines the city of Dunwall as dreary and on the verge of ruin. A plague has hit the poor. Districts have been flooded. Meanwhile, the rich live in splendor, enjoying electrical technology powered by whale oil.
It's a world that's fresh, rich and infinitely more interesting than the normal wizards and warriors fare. There are voice recorders that use punch cards to replay messages. Soldiers patrol grounds atop a Tall Boy, which is basically a tank perched precariously on stilts.
But what makes these environments so compelling is how the developer uses them. They're so detailed, filled with posters, messages and items that have puzzles or level-design elements baked into them. For example, players discover a safe but don't know the combination. Fortunately, they'll see a message with a clue mentioning paintings. Players will have to search the house for the images to figure out the code. The game is filled with these tidbits that cement an already vivid world.
Despite being grounded in steampunk, "Dishonored" does have a dose of the supernatural. That comes in the form of the Outsider, a mythical being who gives Corvo special powers. This is the core of the game. The powers let him do things like teleport to places, stop time or possess animals. They can be used to avoid conflict or gain a fight advantage.
But no matter the approach, "Dishonored" is brilliant because it lets players mix up these powers to get to their goal. Corvo's assassination missions are open-ended. Players are given a problem and, like "Deus Ex" before it, they have several solutions, which often include sidequests that let them explore the multilayered Dunwall. For example, getting in the Golden Cat brothel is as easy as possessing a fish and going through the storm drain. Or it can include a complicated favor for a local tough who needs players to search a building.
With all the choices players face, they're guaranteed a different experience in each campaign. If that weren't enough, parts of the storyline change as players decide how they want to tackle their task via stealth or violence or if they want to help a stranger out. There's no right or wrong way, but the choices affect how others see Corvo and whether there'll be more enemies on the next level.
It's all up to players and how they want to tell the protagonist's story. They have the power, and they can decide what kind of person Corvo will be. Is he going to be a protagonist who's corrupted by his newfound power, or will that bond with the Empress' daughter lead him to a better path? Answering that is part of the fun and discovery in "Dishonored."
Contact Gieson Cacho at 510-735-7076 or gcacho@bayareanews group.com. Read his blog at http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei.
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Morris necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
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I am looking for an easy to read, sharp looking, professional logo that will be placed on the header section of my website and used for business cards. I would like it to catch a person's eye as much as possible. I will leave the use of capitals and color scheme up to the designers. I will design my website around the color scheme of the logo.
Important: I would like the slogan "The path less traveled to health and well being" to be included in the logo.
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PNC launches manifesto, campaign
The People's National Convention (PNC) has launched its manifesto and national campaign for the 2012 elections with a call on its rank and file to stand firmly behind the party for victory in December.
The 42-page manifesto with the title: "Service with Honesty", represents the national vision and development agenda of the PNC for the people of Ghana if voted into power.
The main themes of the document are: redirection, rehabilitation, youth empowerment and economic development.
Scores of PNC supporters from the three northern regions attended the launch which was held at Gwollu, the traditional birth place of Dr Hilla Limann, founder of the party.
Speaking at the event, the flag bearer of the PNC for the 2012 elections, Mr Hassan Ayariga said "the root of the PNC shall never die and shall never dry up".
He, therefore, charged the people to stand firm behind the party for victory in the forthcoming elections, adding that the December elections had provided an opportunity for the party to implement its vision and programmes for the country.
For many years, he said, the people had been used and dumped, and that this time around they should not allow that to happen again.
Mr Ayariga said if they continued to do the same thing over and over again they would not see any improvement in their lives, and that they should, therefore, change their ways of doing things this year. "It is time for us to make a change."
Dr Limann has done it and that I can only do it if you give me the mandate," he told the party supporters.
After 55 years of independence, he said, many parts of the country did not have roads, electricity, water and educational facilities "yet we vote for the same people".
Mr Ayariga, who introduced some of the parliamentary candidates in the three regions, appealed to the people to vote for him and the parliamentary candidates to enable them to implement what is contained in the manifesto.
"Vote for the people who would help you to solve your problems", saying that it was time to give the PNC a chance.
The Vice Chairman of the party, David Niibi, said the party belonged to them, and that December 7 presented a fine opportunity for them to bring the party back to power.
A former Member of Parliament for Sissala East, Moses Dani Baah and the Member of Parliament for Sissala West, Bayirga Haruna, encouraged the people to vote for the party.
Before the launch of the campaign and manifesto, Mr Ayariga paid a courtesy call on the chief of Gwollu, G.B. Butia at his palace.
From the palace where he was presented with a white smock, Mr Ayariga went to the grave side of Dr Limaan to pay homage to the founder of the party. Before setting off for Gwollu, the PNC flag bearer with some party executives including the Vice Chairman called on the Paramount chief of the Tumu Traditional Area, Richard Babini, and his elders. At that event, Mr Ayariga presented the first copy of the manifesto to the Kouro Babini. The chief assured the people that the PNC would not die in Sissala land, adding that spirits of Limann and Egala would lead Mr Ayariga to the presidency.


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Yesterday was Earth Day, and Pasado's Safe Haven posted an excellent article about how to help animals and the environment.
To the planet, every day is Earth Day. It's never a bad time to make positive changes. Here's the info from the Pasado's post:
Washington dairy farms produce 20 million pounds of waste each day.
This waste isn't regulated by outside agencies, and it seeps into our groundwater and enters streams directly through runoff. The dairy and meat industries' disposal and storage methods are incredibly destructive to our environment, dangerous to human health, and damaging to domestic and wild animals.
Animals are treated horrifically on these farms.
Because animals are nothing more than a commodity on dairy and beef farms, they often spend their entire lives standing in several inches of their own waste.
Take action and help Pasado's save countless lives!
How To Help
Please contact Governor Inslee and ask him to require the Department of Ecology to issue new State Waste Discharge General Permits for factory farms. Call Governor Inslee at 360.902.4111 or copy and paste the following suggested email into the Governor's contact us form. (To make even more an impact please consider drafting a letter in your own words.)
Dear Governor Inslee, Please direct the Washington Department of Ecology to issue a strong National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System ("NPDES") and State Waste Discharge General Permit for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations ("CAFOs") that do business in the State of Washington. The current CAFO General Permit was issued in 2006 and expired July 21, 2011. No new permit has been issued. It is imperative that the Department of Ecology issue a permit that contains the following requirements: (1) universal coverage for all medium and large CAFOs; (2) mandatory surface and groundwater monitoring; and (3) implementation of best waste management practices.
I sincerely hope that you take this request seriously and act swiftly. Issuing a new CAFO General Permit will not only bring us into compliance with the law, but in addition it will:
Please act now, Governor Inslee, and help to guide our state to becoming a national leader in environmental and animal welfare policy.
The Problem
Washington Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs / Factory Farms) dispose of animal waste in ways that have devastating effects on our ground water, streams and oceans. The Department of Ecology regulates this practice through a permit system REQUIRED by the federal Clean Water Act and the Washington Water Pollution Control Act. However, the current permit system expired in 2011 and it has serious flaws, including covering only 12 of the 1183 CAFOs in Washington.
The Solution
The Department of Ecology needs to issue a new CAFO permit that contains:
We believe the Department of Ecology is open to this; however they are well aware of the immense power of the animal agriculture industries. They need the influence of a directive from Governor Inslee in order to make this happen.
For more information, please see the Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club's summary of the environmental effects of CAFOs.


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what is the meaning of this sentence?" The employee is required to submit a medical certificate if the self declared sick leave exceeds 1 day excluding weekly offs or declared public holidays,"
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Linden necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 175 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
We're looking for a new logo for the Snowglobe Viewer, produced by a community coordinated and led by Linden Lab. Snowglobe is a desktop application for accessing Second Life, the leading 3D virtual world environment and one of the largest hubs of user-generated content in the world. The Snowglobe Viewer is based on the source code from the open source Second Life Viewer, but differs in the following respects:
* Public development - Snowglobe development happens in the public, with a core of developers from different locations and employment affiliations all sharing write access to the source repository
* Faster release cycle - Snowglobe Viewer releases happen more quickly than Second Life Viewer releases
* Experimental features - the Snowglobe Viewer contains many features not yet available in the Second Life Viewer.
See http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Snowglobe for more information about the current project
More information about our current logo can be found here:
A broad set of the audience that uses Second Life. Second Life users represent a broad cross section of the general population. Many are interested because they are creative, and like to build new things. Others are looking to meet other people and attend in-world functions. Still others are interested in shopping and discovering new things. Many people make a living inside Second Life.
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Emotional Requirements:
* It needs to be fresh, light and visually appealing
* It needs to be welcoming, evoking a sense of community and personality
* It needs to make people think of a snowglobe in some way
* It needs to have a professional, finished look
* It needs to be distinct and original
Other thoughts (NOT requirements. These may be mutually exclusive, and an attempt to satisfy everything below along with the above requirements will almost certainly fail):
* It should have a hint of mischievousness. Not all out rebellion, stick-it-to-the-man punk or power-to-the-people Soviet-retro, but more Bugs Bunny playful mischief
* A nod to Citizen Kane
* A nod to the sentimentalism represented by the typical snowglobe
* Incorporation of a Hippo (see http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Hippo for more)
* A tie back to Second Life (e.g. the cube) would be good
* It would be nice if it could somehow convey what makes Snowglobe different than the main Second Life Viewer
* There's no requirement that the new logo be anything like the existing logo
Mechanical Requirements:
* Cannot infringe on anyone else's intellectual property (trademark, copyright or other)
* Needs to work in a variety of contexts (dark background, light background)
* Needs to reduce to recognizable icon form. This will be the icon we use on Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of the viewer
Update: 2009-08-10 11:55am PDT: Please use "Snowglobe", not "Linden Lab" in the caption text.
Update: 2009-08-11 12:14pm PDT: People may have taken the "it needs to say 'Snowglobe'" requirement too literally. What we meant was "it needs to make people think of a snowglobe", not "it needs to have the text 'Snowglobe'". The requirement was changed to reflect this
Update 2009-08-12: We should have mentioned - it will be very important to see a desktop icon version of this, because that is where the logo will probably be seen most. Sorry, it's our first contest! We'll probably run another one as needed to also get the smaller icons, but this is important for the overall design.
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Cris Beam, noted author and public school teacher explores the troubled world of the foster care system in her new book, To The End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care. Beam, a foster parent herself, examines the lives of children raised in the foster care system from birth through adulthood, while looking at the history of the foster care system and the often conflicted emotions surrounding it. She proposes new ways mend the system, and fresh perspectives at what it is we seek in "family." To The End of June has been called "sharp critique of foster-care policies and a searching exploration of the meaning of family."
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Glad to hear it. Using the phrase "85 years of US data doesn't have enough independence" did not indicate a great knowledge of the statistical issues with not having enough independent data points.EDN wrote:Yes Richard, I understand independent periods, just as I appreciate the ability and usefulness in using this historical data in bootstrap simulations that eliminate many of these concerns (that come to similar conclusions). But I'm guessing you prefer we forget about those too (and their results).
If historical data is not a reliable guide to the future, because we don't have enough data or because conditions have changed, bootstrapping does not solve the problem. Bootstrapping generally assumes a stable underlying population distribution, which is far from clear. Perhaps you can explain how bootsrap simulation eliminate many of these concerns.
This thread is a discussion of the 4% rule, which I regard as "a general rule of thumb based on historical data that's not sufficient to be a reliable predictor of the future."EDN wrote:Your last comment is a telling one. I think your (and others) issue is you are looking for all these planning tools and techniques to tell you precisely what the future will look like, removing all uncertainty from the equation. That isn't retirement planning. Instead, RP is using all of the tools at our disposal (robust financial theory, historical analysis, and statistical modeling including MC and bootstrapping, to name just a few) to build the most realistic expectations about a future that will always be uncertain and unpredictable so that we may make the best decisions possible with the highest probability of success and an appreciation of what could/will go wrong. Nothing more.
You objected to that remark, citing 85 years of data and MC simulations. I pointed out their lack of reliability. Your respond in part that the "future that will always be uncertain and unpredictable." Why then are you disagreeing that 4% is a general rule of thumb based on historical data that's not sufficient to be a reliable predictor of the future?
"Robust financial theory, historical analysis, and statistical modeling including MC and bootstrapping" don't advance things much beyond simplistic analysis (although they are not doubt helpful in marketing). They remind me of the old story about the man searching for his keys at night near a lamppost. When questioned as to exactly where the key was lost, he indicated that it was lost elsewhere but that he was searching under the lamppost because the light was better there. We use historical analysis, etc. because the light seems better, but shouldn't fool ourselves that they bring us much closer to finding the keys.


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Extension development using eclipse and ant
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There are quite many development environment scenario exist for Joomla extension development, each having their own pros and cons. Here we will setup Eclipse PDT with SVN and ANT plugins to setup our development environment for the purpose in question.
The development environment using Eclipse PDT with SVN and ANT will help you manage your changes in the code and build files for your Joomla Extension without any hassle or monkey work.
If you dont have Eclipse PDT, download it from Official Eclipse PDT website and install it. There is a very good newbie webinar to learn Eclipse use for PHP related web-development. Once you have installed Eclipse and got the comfort level, then download and install Subversive plugin for your SVN needs. Java Development Tool plugin is required for ANT, if you dont have it already, follow instructions from Installing ANT.
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As we are focused over Joomla Extension development, we'll not need the Joomla itself to be placed under SVN. Typically, we will setup our extension codebase parallel to Joomla website's root directory.
For example, if your joomla web-application is installed in c:\apache2triad\htdocs\joomla then our extension code base will be c:\apache2triad\htdocs\myjoomextcodebase.
SVN Checkout
Checkout your project from SVN repository.
SVN Comit/Update Shortcuts
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Setting up ANT for the project
Place your build.xml file at the root of your extension directory, for example c:\apache2triad\htdocs\myjoomextcodebase\build.xml. Evan Fillman has already a build.xml file for you, copy same file as your build.xml. Place configuration code in a text file and name it anything, like antconf.txt. Dont forget to change value of cfg.localhostRoot to your Joomla installation directory.
Now click the "Show view as the fast view" icon at the bottom-left of your Eclipse PDT. Select Other, in the popup window, expand ANT and then select child ANT, press OK. The empty ANT view will be opened up for you, press "Add Buildfiles" icon, select your build.xml file from the popup and then press OK.
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Blackthorn – Good, not Life Changing
The Blackthorn is good. Nothing that I'm going to be adding to my top cocktails list though by any means. This drink, as Regan wisely points out, is, at its base, a twist on the Manhattan. Therein, you see, lay my main problem. The Manhattan was one of the first cocktails that I experimented with here on Cocktail Hacker and one of my first introductions to the loveliness of bourbon. I truly love a well mixed Manhattan and therefore had the bar set quite high going in. To use a bad sports metaphor, this drink placed but definitely didn't win.
Savoy Recipe: I'll start my discussion with the classic recipe. There are two main twists to note. First, and most obviously, the Savoy recipe is made with dry vermouth. Second, and quite related, the vermouth is a full half the recipe. Of the two recipes this was my least favorite. It wasn't bad by any means, but not something I really enjoyed. The Irish whiskey (Jameson in my case), being a bit lighter than some other whiskies, was a tad overpowered by the vermouth. In an effort to correct this issue I tried dropping the vermouth to 1 oz and upping the whiskey to 2 oz. Not a good call. I ended up dumping that variant out.
Regan's Recipe: Now we can really start making some Manhattan comparisons. The ratios are exactly the same, the bitters are the same, the only changes are the whiskey and the addition of a touch of absinthe. My thoughts on the whiskey are the same as with the Savoy recipe. The absinthe, however, adds a nice twist. First, a warning, go easy. Like bitters, you should think of the absinthe in this recipe as a cocktail spice. What I ended up doing was to add my three dashes of Angostura to the shaker tin first, eyeball the amount, then add the same amount of absinthe. This let me get the amounts as close to even as I could and if I messed up, which I did, I could dump some out and not waste the spirits.
Now for a bit about the drink itself. The ratios are good in this one, so I didn't feel the need to play with that at all. The flavor is a bit like a muted Manhattan with an extra layer of anise absinthe flavor. In fact, I really like the flavor the absinthe brings a lot. Next time I mix up a Manhattan I think I'll give that twist a try. As for the Blackthorn, I think I'll be leaving this one to the recipe books.


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Hi Micheal, Received the folding card barns and they look awesome! Thanks for your hard work. We may look into producing more of these for an event in February 2015. When is your operation on holiday this season? -Darrell Doss
Dear Michael, Output is good. Thanks a lot. Best regards Yves
Dear Michael. Thank you for the delivery of the boxes. We are very pleased with the result. I will arrange payment of the invoice today. I hope we will be able to make more orders soon. Chris
Hi Michael, We did receive the calendars and they turned out great! Thank you so much! Cheers, Jennie
Hi Michael, I have received the samples. They look great, thank you. You can take this email as an acceptance. Please liase with Estime & Carol ONLY regarding the delivery of the calendars. Kind Regards Heidi Davis Graphic Designer
Michael, We received the banks and love them!!! Thank you so much, Please liase with Estime & Carol ONLY regarding the delivery of the calendars. Joan
Dear Michael, After seeing the video, we don't want physical sample again. Can you start mass production for the 1,010 pieces immediately. Nicole, please inform Michael we don't want sample again and he should start mass production. Michael, good work and please take note about the pantone colors. We expect the Suspension calendars to be finished by the 3rd of October, please note. BR// Lateef
Dear Michael, I never doubted your ability to solve this. You are a professional. Looking forward to your delivery. BR// Lateef
Perfect! Thank you so much! This is exactly what I wanted to know! I will send you final artwork (with type outlined) once I have final approval from our team here. It should be the beginning of next week. Thanks very much for your response, Michael! Sherone Black Graphic Design
Hello Michel, I have received the items yesterday, the items are very beautiful and well made. My clients was thinking that the material used to produce the items would be plastic like the boxes. But no problems, we will see how we can quickly use this type of products here and I will get back to you soon. One of my client is very interested in the small card, they want to use it for complementary/ business cards. They want to know if the material can be made thicker and if it can be made of plastic. Thank you. Adeshina Bolaji. Sent from my Infinix


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Scott Machado will get his chance to prove he belongs in the NBA.
The Iona College point guard, bypassed in last week's draft despite leading the nation in assists, has opted to join the Houston Rockets in the upcoming NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, his agent Aylton Tesch, confirmed.
"I think right now it is the best team for Scott to be a part of," Tesch said. "If you look at their roster, right now they have two point guards, and one hopefully is not going to be back."
The 6-foot-2 Queens product, who starred at St. Mary's of Manhasset and New Jersey powerhouse St. Benedict's Prep in high school, was a projected second-round pick. Tesch said a few teams were interested in drafting Machado late in the second round, but wanted him to play overseas for a year or two.
"We wanted to keep him here," Tesch said.
Machado led the country in assists per game with 9.9 and guided Iona to the MAAC regular season title and to the NCAA tournament this past season. He also drew interest from the Bobcats, Raptors, Cavaliers and Hawks.
"It's another stepping stone I have to get over," he previously said of not getting drafted. "It's going to motivate me a lot."


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Zem Joaquin had a furniture dilemma.
In 2005, the interior designer was trying to make her Marin County house a healthy environment for her two toddlers. But virtually all the couches on the market, she learned, contain foam with toxic flame retardants, the unintended result of a 1970s California law.
So with a furniture maker's help, Joaquin designed her own sofa. Yellow and wide enough to seat seven, it is made of sustainably harvested wood, natural latex foam, organic wool -- and no flame- retardants.
"I ended up actually designing my own furniture because there wasn't an alternative out there yet," said Joaquin, 42. "Things have changed dramatically since."
Joaquin is among a growing number of consumers whose desire to keep health hazards out of their homes has given rise to a new niche market: organic furniture.
First there was organic food, then organic clothing. Now, there's furniture with stuffing, upholstery fibers and wood that are certified as free of flame-retardants, formaldehyde and other common chemicals. There's a big enough market now that Joaquin has started Ecofabulous.com, a website that tracks stylish, eco-friendly products.
They aren't cheap. Joaquin spent more than $4,000 on her custom couch. Sofas from Ekla Home, a Los Angeles company, start at $2,500.
The prices are high largely because the materials are expensive, said Emily Kroll, who founded Ekla Home in 2007.
Despite the stiff costs, sales have shot up 30 percent in the last 12 months, she said. Most of her customers are young, environmentally aware families.
"It's been generally kind of slow-building," she said. "This past year, we've had definitely a spike and more momentum based on the articles that have been coming out."
Kroll was referring to the media coverage over a 1975 California law, Technical Bulletin 117, that requires polyurethane foam in furniture and children's items to resist an open flame for 12 seconds. To comply, most manufacturers douse the foam with flame retardants before sending their products to retailers nationwide.
Scientists have linked the flame retardants to health hazards such as infertility, developmental delays, lowered IQs in children and cancer, and studies show they do little to delay the spread of flames.
This month, a state agency proposed undoing the law and changing the testing requirements in a way that could encourage manufacturers to stop using flame retardants by July 1, 2014. But Ekla Home and other eco-friendly furniture makers have a head start on wooing health-conscious customers.
Textiles are a small yet growing fraction of the $32 billion U.S. organic industry. Organic fiber sales rose 17 percent from 2010 to 2011, totaling $708 million , according to the Organic Trade Association, reflecting an uptick in customer demand for chemical-free upholstered furniture, clothing, linens, bedding and mattresses, said Barbara Haumann, the organization's spokeswoman.
Kroll started Ekla Home because, she said, she was "upset that young babies and people of reproductive age were being exposed to the chemicals that were potentially harming generations to come."
The problem for Kroll was that TB-117 was, and still is, the law for upholstered residential furniture sold in California. But she discovered another state law, Technical Bulletin 133, which sets stricter requirements for seated furniture in public places, such as hotels, prisons and health care facilities.
TB-133 is tougher to meet because public buildings are more susceptible to arson and accidental fires, state officials say. As a result, the flammability test is different: Instead of testing polyurethane foam with a small, open flame, TB-133 requires that a couch resist a flame from a square gas burner. A product that passes TB-133 automatically passes TB-117.
So Kroll designs her couches in compliance with TB-133. She wraps the cushions in three layers of material -- wool, organic canvas and the outer fabric -- that significantly slow down the burn rate, she said.
Kroll's fans include Arlene Blum, executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute in Berkeley and a chemist who has pushed to regulate flame-retardants. A few years ago, Kroll gave Blum an orange couch for her home and a blue one for her office.
Flame retardants were all over Blum's old sofa, she said, but they've virtually disappeared from her house dust since the orange couch replaced it.
"I work on it and watch birds," she said. "I know there are no flame retardants in it. It makes me very happy."
A new trend: furniture that's organic
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July 25, 2012
LYON, France
Carrier has reached a significant milestone with the 400th installation of its CO2OLtec® refrigeration system in a new Carrefour Confluence hypermarket in Lyon, France. The environmentally sustainable CO2OLtec concept uses a natural refrigerant and reduces CO2 emissions. To date, Carrier´s 400 CO2OLtec installations have reduced CO2 equivalent emissions by 102,000 tons - the equivalent of removing 29,900 cars off the road.
Carrier´s innovative CO2OLtec refrigeration system was chosen by Carrefour as part of its initiative to limit CO2 emissions and reduce the store's environmental impact.
"The CO2OLtec project is consistent with Carrefour objectives to validate new technologies enabling significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This innovative refrigeration system is a key contributor to the very low global warming impact of the shopping center in which the Carrefour Hypermarket is located," says Mr. Fleury, Carrefour Group asset director, strategic projects. CO2OLtec provides refrigeration solutions, combining the advantages of a natural refrigerant with 10 percent higher energy efficiency compared to conventional refrigeration systems on average in mild to cold climate conditions. To further increase the energy savings, Carrefour also selected a heat recovery unit that allows the store to capture the waste heat and reuse it for sanitary water and space heating.
To meet the requirements of the French legislation as well as its objectives to reduce the store's energy consumption by 20 percent, Carrefour also chose Carrier´s energy-efficient e*cube range of display cabinets equipped with double-glazed glass doors, sliding lids and LED lighting.
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PER SERVING (1/4th of recipe, 1 large piece): 275 calories, 8g total fat (4.5g sat fat), 974mg sodium, 35g carbs, 6g fiber, 15g sugars, 14g protein -- PointsPlus® value 7* -- SmartPoints® value 6* Four massive servings of veggie-rific deliciousness. Cheesy, filling, beautiful -- this recipe has it goin' on! Ingredients: 1 spaghetti squash (about 4.5 lbs.) One 14.5-oz. can creamy tomato soup with 4g fat or less per serving (like Amy's Chunky Tomato Bisque) 1/2 tbsp. chopped garlic 1/2 tbsp. dried minced onion 1 tsp. Italian seasoning 1/2 tsp. black pepper 3 wedges The Laughing Cow Light Creamy Swiss cheese, room temperature One 10-oz. package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry One 7-oz. can sliced mushrooms, drained (about 2/3 cup) 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil 1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place whole squash in the microwave and cook for 3 - 4 minutes, until soft enough to cut. Once cool enough to handle, cut squash in half lengthwise. Scoop out and discard the seeds. To a very large baking pan (or 2 medium baking pans), add 1/2 inch of water. Place squash halves in the pan(s), cut sides down. Bake in the oven until the insides of squash halves are tender, about 40 minutes. Remove pans(s) but leave oven on. Once cool enough to handle, remove squash halves from the pan; place on a dry surface with the cut sides up. Set pan(s) aside. Scrape all of the spaghetti squash strands out with a fork and transfer to an extra-large bowl. Set aside the bowl as well as the hollow squash halves. Empty water from pan(s). Return squash halves to the pan(s), hollow sides up. In a medium bowl, combine soup, garlic, dried minced onion, Italian seasoning, pepper, and cheese wedges, breaking cheese wedges into pieces as you add them. Stir thoroughly, until mostly smooth. Add soup mixture to the extra-large bowl of spaghetti squash strands. Add spinach, mushrooms, and basil, and mix thoroughly. Evenly divide squash mixture between the hollow squash halves. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese over the tops. Return pan(s) to the oven and bake until filling is hot and mozzarella cheese has melted, 15 - 20 minutes. Once cool enough to handle, evenly cut each of the stuffed squash halves in half, leaving you with 4 large pieces. Serve up and enjoy! (Pssst... Don't eat the skin.) MAKES 4 SERVINGS HG FYI: The recipe method of calculating PointsPlus® values counts the carbs, protein, etc., from vegetables -- even those with a value of 0*. If calculated without 0-value veggies, this recipe has a PointsPlus® value of 4* per serving.
PER SERVING (entire recipe, about 4 cups): 354 calories, 4g total fat (<0.5g sat fat), 1,049mg sodium, 49g carbs, 12.5g fiber, 24.5g sugars, 31g protein -- PointsPlus® value 8* -- SmartPoints® value 4* Your eyes will pop out when you see how big this meal is. SO HUGE! Hope you're hungry... Ingredients: 1 bag Tofu Shirataki Spaghetti Shaped Noodle Substitute 2 cups dry broccoli cole slaw 4 oz. raw shrimp, peeled, tails removed, deveined 1 cup bean sprouts 1/2 cup sliced onion 1/4 cup canned sliced water chestnuts 1/4 cup pineapple chunks packed in juice, drained 2 tbsp. low-fat sesame ginger dressing (like Newman's Own Lite Low Fat Sesame Ginger Dressing) 1/2 tbsp. thick teriyaki marinade or sauce 1/2 tsp. red pepper flakes Optional: salt and black pepper Directions: Use a strainer to rinse and drain noodles well. Dry as thoroughly as possible, using paper towels. Cut noodles up a bit with kitchen shears (if you've got 'em), and set aside. Bring a large skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium heat on the stove. Add broccoli cole slaw and 2 tbsp. water. Cover and cook until slaw is slightly tender, 3 - 4 minutes. Add shrimp, bean sprouts, onion, water chestnuts, and pineapple chunks to the skillet. Stirring occasionally, cook until all the veggies are tender and the shrimp are cooked through, 4 - 5 minutes. To the skillet, add noodles, dressing, teriyaki marinade/sauce, and red pepper flakes. Mix well. Cook until noodles are hot, 1 - 2 minutes. If you like, season to taste with salt and black pepper. Enjoy! MAKES 1 SERVING HG FYI: The recipe method of calculating PointsPlus® values counts the carbs, protein, etc., from vegetables -- even those with a value of 0*. If calculated without 0-value veggies, this recipe has a PointsPlus® value of 5* per serving.
These recipes are BIG (the roundup is pretty average in size). Here are some of our recent faves for fans of volume-eating... Jump for Choy! Fish Pack - A whole lot of veggies and fish in this dish. Jump around! Jump around! Jump up, jump up, and get down! Spiced Butternut Squash on a Stick - Two packed skewers for only 78 calories? Don't mind if we have a couple more... Hungry Girlfredo White Lasagna - Who wouldn't want a big slab of this veggie-packed, decadent stuff? No one we know. 2-Cheese Sausage 'n Portabella Skillet - Does a big restaurant-style breakfast without all the excess calories and fat sound good to you? It does to us! This dish will fuel you up. Chick-a-licious Fruity Green Salad - Huge salad alert! Veggies, chicken, fruit... and there's enough for two. Everybody wins!
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It's National Linguine Day, September 15th! Instead of going all linguine-and-clam-sauce (starchy noodles + oily sauce = danger), try our Super-Delicious Shrimp Scampi with Fettuccine!
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The American country singer, 22, was named Best Female Act and Best Live Act and also won Best Look out of five nominated categories.
"Drei? Drei? I can't believe you gave me three awards," she told the boisterous 7,000 strong crowd, trying out her best German.
Picking up the Best Look award for the most stylish act, Swift said: ''I am so excited I can't believe you gave me three awards.''
''I'm kind of insecure in general so this is great for my self-confidence".
She later posted on Twitter: "Such an insane night!!! You guys won me 3 EMAs! Best female, best live act, best look. Can't even begin to thank you enough. I love you!!"
The post was "re-tweeted" almost 10,000 times and "favourited" a further 6400 times.
Korean pop sensation Psy received the biggest reaction of the night when he played his breakout hit Gangnam Style complete with dozens of lookalike dancers.
Skipping through the venue and on to the main stage in a sparkly blue jacket with his horse riding-inspired dance, he became the first South Korean artist to perform at the annual awards, after winning Best Video.
He thanked his fans and his family for living with ''a selfish job with a selfish guy''.
He added backstage: "This is beautiful. This is my very first time to participate, perform, be nominated, as an Asian artist, as a Korean artist, so I don't know what to say."
He added that his next album would have more English songs on it.
Gangnam Style has been viewed more than 670 million times on YouTube and received a record-breaking 4.9 million "likes" on Facebook since being released in July.
Rita Ora kicked off the show in spectacular style when she was lowered to the stage suspended in a cage before launching into a version of R.I.P.
She was followed by US pop band Fun who played their massive hit We Are Young, before Carly Rae Jepson performed Call Me Maybe.
The event in Frankfurt, Germany, was hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum and had a circus theme with trapeze artists and fire dancers joining the acts on stage at the 100-year-old Festhalle venue.
The host, who this year filed for divorce from singer husband Seal, also teamed up with Psy for a tongue-in-cheek performance of the dance. "It was pretty," Psy said of the duet.
Next up was Alicia Keys who performed Girl on Fire, before reality star Kim Kardashian presented the Best Song award to Jepson for Call Me Maybe.
Reformed rockers No Doubt then performed their new single, and the cast of Geordie Shore named Justin Bieber the Best Male Act of the night.
The Canadian singer, who was not at the event, recorded a thank you message for his fans, saying: ''This is the greatest night ever''.
The award for Best Hip Hop act went to Nicki Minaj, while David Guetta won Best Electronic Act.
Other performances included The Killers who took to the stage to play Runaways.
Del Rey won the Best Alternative Act, beating Arctic Monkeys and Florence + The Machine to the award.
Rihanna, who led the nominations with six, failed to pick up a single award.
Boyband One Direction won Best New Act, before Keys picked up the Global Icon Award on behalf of the family of the late Whitney Houston and praised the singer's ''incredible ability to captivate and mesmerise us''.
She told the audience Houston ''was my home girl, my friend'' before introducing a tribute video which included messages from One Direction and Lady Gaga.
Bieber won another award when he was named Best Pop Act, before Linkin Park won Best Rock Act.
The Jonas Brothers handed the Best Worldwide Act to Chinese singer Han Geng.
There was also a video tribute to Beastie Boy Adam Yauch who died this year, before Swift closed the show with her huge hit We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.
Swift embraced the concept for the show's finale, popping out of a magician's box and passing her top hat to a clown riding a miniature bicycle.
"I had a blast during the performance," Swift said. "All the circus acrobats and everything like that. It was so much fun."
Last year's awards in Belfast attracted 23 million viewers on all platforms, while this year's nominations attracted a record 184 million votes online and on mobile devices to decide the winners.
: Best Song - Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe
: Best New Act - One Direction
: Best Female Act - Taylor Swift
: Best Male Act - Justin Bieber
: Best Pop Act - Justin Bieber
: Best Live Act - Taylor Swift
: Best Hip Hop - Nicki Minaj
: Best Rock Act - Linkin Park
: Best Electronic Act - David Guetta
: Best Alternative Act - Lana Del Rey
: Best Video - Gangnam Style (Psy)
: Best Look - Taylor Swift
: Biggest Fans - One Direction
: Best Worldwide Act - Han Geng
: Best World Stage - Justin Bieber
: Best Push - Carly Rae Jepson
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The IR-VASE is the first and only spectroscopic ellipsometer to cover the spectral range from 1.7 to 30 microns (333 to 5900 wavenumbers). The IR-VASE can determine both n and k for materials over the entire width of the spectral range without extrapolating data outside the measured range, as with a Kramers-Kronig analysis. Like other Woollam ellipsometers, the IR-VASE is perfect for thin films or bulk materials including dielectrics, semiconductors, polymers and metals.
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Archive - Feb 4, 2012
Big Ten Blog
Player of the Week
John Shurna, Northwestern
The Big Ten's leading scorer put up 28 points on 9-of-13 shooting to keep the Wildcats away from a fourth straight loss on Thursday night against Nebraska. We all know he can go off like this at any given time, but this was his first game scoring more than 22 points since Dec. 18 against Eastern Illinois and his third this season (the Wildcats are 3-0 in those games). He had scored more than 22 eight times at the same point in last season's schedule. Since the start of last season, Northwestern is 11-2 when Shurna scores above that mark. He also scored 15 points Saturday in a 58-56 heartbreaker against Purdue.
But it was more about how Shurna scored those points that matters. He went 7-of-8 from the free-throw line. Northwestern is 5-0 this season when Shurna makes at least five free throws, a sign of him not totally relying on his 3-point shot (which ranks seventh in the Big Ten at 42.7 percent). He's attempted the fourth-most 3-pointers (131) in the conference, behind Michigan's Tim Hardaway Jr., Purdue's Ryne Smith and Illinois' D.J. Richardson — with good reason. But when he starts getting to the basket like he did Thursday against Nebraska, good things happen. He had several nice drives that helped put the Huskers away, and maneuvered his way down low for an offensive rebound and tip-in late in the game.
Coach Bill Carmody knows Northwestern (13-8, 3-6 Big Ten, 10th place) can't afford to sit Shurna, who has played an average 39.3 minutes per game in Big Ten games, and is on the floor for 96.9 percent of the time, both tops in the conference. Shurna stays out of foul trouble and doesn't turn the ball over — hard to do when you're the go-to guy. In the past five games, he's only turned the ball over four times, while dishing out 12 assists.


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This is the fifth installment of Sunday Dinners, a biweekly column from our own Tom Hirschfeld featuring his gorgeous photography, stunning Indiana farm, and mouthwatering family meals.
Today: Tom pens an achingly beautiful letter to one of his culinary heroes, Jacques Pépin.
- Tom
Dear Mr. Pépin,
I made a recipe of yours last night. It wasn't the first time I have made this recipe; in fact, I have made it several times. But it has been far too long since it has graced our table, and rest assured that this will not happen again. Just in case I haven't been clear, it was beyond delicious, as always.
I remember the night I watched you make it on TV. It must have been about three in the morning -- I was still working in the restaurant business and it had been a long night on the line. Now I was home, my wife fast asleep in bed, and I sat in the living room with a beer in my hand winding down on the couch. I was flipping through a food magazine, and doing the same with the channels on TV.
At the time I hadn't seen but a couple episodes from your many series because our local PBS station didn't carry them or because they were on at times when I wasn't around. But here in the wee hours of the night you were in front of the camera with your heavy French accent, your broad smile, and all, as unmistakeable as the sparkle in your eyes. You caught my attention right away.
I watched as you peeled shrimp, showing me how to pinch the tails between thumb and forefinger, wiggle, and finally gently pull as the tail meat slipped out of its casing without any waste.
Then you sliced a handful of the freshest white mushrooms with such speed and accuracy it could have been a magic trick. You wasted no time doing the same with a couple of green onions.
All the while, you were discussing and telling the audience why you were doing things the way you did them. Like the time I watched you make cauliflower soup using the entire cauliflower, not just the white florets. You told us how the leaves were full of flavor and nutrients, and how in France it would have been a crime to throw them out.
What I watched that night was not the norm -- I had seen enough food television to know that. There was no "Bam!," no yelling at young chefs until they cried, no one telling me I can't cook at home because I am not as skilled as they are. I didn't even hear the words "organic," "local," or "sustainable." No, you didn't need to say those words to teach them.
With you, I found someone doing the hard job of quietly but realistically teaching people how to cook and be successful in their own home kitchens. What I had before my very eyes was a man passionate about food, the table, and living. Someone helping people to use and understand simple, easily obtainable fresh ingredients that would deliver great taste at dinner time. Someone extremely talented in the kitchen, who understands how food works and who has spent years building on the techniques he was taught as a child.
Most importantly, I saw a person who understood that if people are successful in the kitchen they will continue to cook, and maybe even start to like, enjoy, and use these skills for the rest of their lives.
You are and continue to be a wonderful role model. Thank you.
Jacques Pépin's Shrimp Gratin
Serves 4
1 pound raw shrimp, size 26-30, peeled and deveined 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 cup white or cremini mushrooms, wiped of dirt and julienned 2 green onions, chopped scant 3/4 cups bread crumbs 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/4 cup dry white wine kosher salt and fresh ground white pepper
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Once hailed as San Diego's first amusement park with a roller coaster from 1913 to 1916, the reincarnated Wonderland is now an ocean pub where Qwigg's and Nick's At the Pier once were at 5083 Santa Monica Ave., Suite 2C.
Mina Desiderio, who co-owns Wonderland and owns The Local downtown, said her goal in reinventing the restaurant space was to "pay homage to the history and lifestyle of OB."
The restaurant space has been remodeled in a unique hybrid style Desiderio characterized as "urban beach."
"We transformed this space, really opened up all the windows so you can see from the pier all the way down to La Jolla," she said adding, "The view is absolutely breathtaking."
The ocean pub's seating is also atypical.
"It's community-style seating with shared tables and booths and a lot of bar space," Desiderio said, noting full advantage is taken of the pub's remarkable ocean views.
Wonderland is half sports bar, half sit-down restaurant.
"The Pier Pub is our sports bar with more than 40 televisions and a complete sports package," Desiderio said. "On the other side is a full-service restaurant that serves breakfast, lunch, brunch and dinner."
Wonderland serves up pub-style grub with a twist, including seafood, fish tacos, fresh mussels and oysters on the half-shell — and burgers too. Desiderio calls her cuisine "islander coastal."
"The food reflects what you'd eat in coastal Mexico, Hawaii and in San Diego, all three of those areas," she said. "We don't limit ourselves to a particular type of genre of food. We just want to serve good food we know we can make well."
Wonderland's atmosphere is described by Desiderio as laid-back with a local flair.
"It's more casual to fit in with the OB lifestyle," she said. "The people from our place can catch the best surfers."
Desiderio said Wonderland "complements the town because we're featuring the history of Ocean Beach, including the name of our restaurant, as well as having lots of great photographs."
Desiderio said being an entrepreneur is in her DNA. Both her father and mother were in the restaurant and bar trades. She became a bar owner at age 27 downtown with The Local 10 years ago. When Nick's at the Pier became available, she and a business partner jumped at the opportunity to reinvent the restaurant space.
Desiderio said Wonderland is family-oriented until 9 p.m. After that, on many nights, music offered up by DJs livens things up for the adult crowd, turning the establishment into more of a night spot.
Desiderio talked about her bar's signature cocktail, a Greyhound made with fresh-pressed citrus juice.
"We squeeze all of our citrus in big metal juicers," Desiderio said.
The bar also has 25 beer taps, 80 percent of which feature local craft brews.
Desiderio said she's happy to "provide the best view for this town," and hopes Wonderland draws new people to the community, giving them "one more reason now to come to Ocean Beach."
Wonderland is open Mondays through Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to
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Stella Deer Review and Giveaway!
When Lia of Stella Deer reached out to me about a VBR giveaway, I was like 'hells to the yay-yeah'! I mean, c'mon, with such fab homemade goodies like beer soap and mojito lip balm, what preggo lady could resist?! 😉
I got to sample these innocently intoxicating goodies, and lemme just say, I've become a huge, gigantoid Stella Deer fan! Everything in Stella Deer's Etsy store is handmade with 100% natural ingredients; cruelty-free; vegan, SLS-, preservative-, paraben-, and palm oil-free, and they donate a portion of all their profits to charity. ♥
These are the yummy treats I got to sample:
Beer Olive Oil Soap: Um, can we say genius? Little known fact, beer is an excellent moisturizer for the skin (and hair), and it has a sweet and nutty scent that perfectly complements the olive oil. My skin feels divine when I use this soap (just ask my hubsenstein)! 😉
Mojito Lip Balm: Pre-preggo, I was all about the sweet and zesty mojitos (although I usually ordered them virgin-style then, too). This limey, citrus-y lip treat, combined with a bit of tingling peppermint (YUM), makes for the perfect tasty cocktail for your luscious smackers. It goes on super smoothly and provides a mega ton of moisture with its olive oil-infusion.
I ♥ these products so much that I want you to try out Stella Deer for yourself by entering to win a luxurious bar of Spearmint Eucalyptus Olive Oil soap (sorry, I used up all the beer soap, but the soap bar we're giving away is uh-MAZING!):
To enter to win this fresh bar of minty soap, simply go to Stella Deer's Etsy page and tell me which product(s) you'd like to try. All entrants must be residents of the US to enter to win. The winner will be chosen at random and notified on May 7th, 2012! Good luck! xx
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I'd love to try the Olive & Hemp Lip Balm–seems so simple yet satisfying =]
I'd like to try Calendula Herbal Lip Balm
I'd like to try the pink clay soap
The Sea Salt and Pumice Exfoliating Soap looks wonderful.
These products look nice. I would like the Lemon Grass Soap. Looks like it would be gentle on your skin.
Lucy's Lavender Olive Oil Soap with Ivory Clay
I'd like to try the india mint lip balm.
I would love to try the Lavender Cocoa Butter Lip Balm in a Tin. I love to try lip products.
I would love to try the Patchouli soup! Sounds heavenly! I am so happy to have heard of her etsy shop- thank you 🙂
i'm a lip balm kinda gal–the mojito balm sounds fab!
The Australian Pink Clay Soap sounds magical. mmmmm.
I'd love to try the Sweet Jezamine – Rosemary & Lavender Olive Oil Soap. 🙂
Ummm… all of them??? No in all seriousness the spearmint sounds amazing and I'm a total lip balm freak so I'd love to try ANY of their flavors!
Oooo, the Olive & Hemp Oil lip balm looks amazing!
The wild lavender herbal flower pillow for my lingerie drawer, BAM
Mojito lip balm sounds awesome!! My mom loves anything lavender, so I may need to get her a few of the lavender things.
nom nom nom!
I would love to try to mojito lip balm
I would love to try to mojito lip balm!
I would love to try the Coastal lime soap!
ugh. i can't decide. my skin can't usually tolerate any soap, but the australian clay looks interesting. i also would like to try the hemp lip balm as i am addicted to balms. maybe you can choose for me.
I would love to try the Beer Olive Oil soap! And I would love a wooden soap dish.
The Mojito Lip Balm & Lucy's Lavender Olive Oil Soap with Ivory Clay
The both sound amazing!!!
Sunny! The Mojito Lip Balm, Beer Soap, and the Hemp Lip Balm would be wonderful to try!
i would love to try the mojito lip balm! also the spearmint eucalyptus soap. thamks for the awaesome giveaway!
I've recently come to love tea tree oil and would love to try their tea tree olive oil soap. I can already feel my skin softening…
I would love to try the mojito lip balm.
The Seasalt and Pumice exfoliating soap looks amaazzzingggg… but really, everything does! woohoo!
Awesome giveaway!
I would love to try the India mint lip balm!
I wanna try the beer soap for sure!
Great giveaway! I'd love to try the Australian Pink Clay soap 🙂
I would love to try the lemongrass soup! I love that scent.
Beer Olive Oil Soap sounds amazing! The Patchouli Olive Oil Soap also sounds like a must-try.
I would love to try the Australian Pink Clay soap or the Lemon grass, lots of great choices!
I would love to try the olive & hemp oil lip balm. I have a hemp oil hand cream that is marvelous!


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The Olympic torch tour is scheduled to stop atop Mt. Everest early this month. Following protests that have followed the Beijing Olympic flame in Paris; Canberra, Australia; Seoul, South Korea; and elsewhere, tight security is accompanying the planned trip to the peak.
The flame could reach the summit as early as this weekend or early next week. Already, one American climber, who has been carrying a pro-Tibet flag, was kicked off the mountain and heavy security is reportedly enforcing the no-climb rule in effect from May 1 to May 10 in Nepal, which, like China, controls access to part of the mountain. Nepal's forces have reportedly been urged to shoot at protesters.
On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that a human rights group had called on Nepal's government for a revocation of those orders to shoot.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that it had written to Nepal's Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala asking him "to immediately rescind these orders ... and do not employ unnecessary or excessive use of force against protesters in Nepal."
Mt. Everest, also called Mt. Qomolangma, divides China and Nepal. Nepal has been cautious not to anger China over ongoing protests related to China's crackdown in Tibet that broke out in early March.
Last week, Nepal banned protests and armed Nepalese soldiers were stationed at Mt. Everest's base camp. The soldiers were also stationed at Camp 2, a lower stop for mountaineers preparing to summit the world's highest mountain. The online news site Nepalnews.com said local media reported the orders to shoot.
[The Nepali daily newspaper] Annapurna Post daily quotes a Home Ministry official as saying that security personnel have been deployed to ensure that no one will put obstacle to the torch rally.
Security men with logistics and mountaineering equipment have already been moved to the area.
The soldiers have been given orders to shoot if necessary.
The blog Peak Freaks says that teams coming down from Camp 2 reported a sign saying, "Dear Climbers, Do Not Go Past This Point." Another climber said armed security personnel were posted at Camp 2, according to the blog Explorersweb, which regularly reports on Mt. Everest:
"There is a small police post at 6400m on Everest and the one armed soldier does the rounds each day, with conspicuous sniper rifle, however they mostly give a friendly Namasté [greeting]."
Still, because of what's seen as a threat from protesters, the actual torch route and dates remains shrouded in secrecy. Reuters correspondent Nick Mulvenney, who has been blogging about the Everest trip here, reported that the torch had left the base camp on Tuesday of this week, although the report's veracity was later questioned.
On their way up to base camp, the media passed through a checkpoint and then a large border police encampment outside which stood more than 20 uniformed men armed with AK-47 assault rifles.
Security is also behind the secrecy surrounding the departure date of the climbing team, and large areas of base camp were ruled "out of bounds" to the media on Wednesday and cordoned off by police tape.
One man who has been working at base camp for 10 days, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the climbers and flame left on Tuesday. But officials dismissed a similar report on a Chinese website as "fake".
William Brant Holland, the US climber, who is from Virginia, was ejected from the base camp for having a "Free Tibet" banner, The Washington Post reports.
"I was just joking around. 'Check out the flag I'm going to take to the top,' " Holland said. "If I'd realized it was such a high crime, I wouldn't have advertised it."
The BBC reports that the mountain has been closed to foreigners and that its reporters, who have been blogging an Everest Olympic torch diary, were ordered out.
We knew there were restrictions on satellite phones and video cameras but were now told that even pre-recorded radio material on non-political subjects would not be allowed.
Nor would informal chats with the hundreds of mountaineers currently in the camp, the tourism ministry official, Prabodh Dhakal, said. If any mountaineer talked to the BBC, he or she would be expelled, he added.
But it's not just rogue climbers and media that pose a problem for the planned relay to the top of the world's tallest mountain. Extreme weather fluctuations provide only a small window of opportunity to reach the peak, and 1996 climbing accidents and deaths, chronicled in Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air," resulted from the combination of sudden early May storms and a rush to summit during fair weather.
One recent report quoted a Chinese meteorologist who told China's state-controlled Xinhua that high winds would make the summit attempt improbable until May 3. Another Xinhua report today gave no indication of the torch's arrival at the summit and Sun Bin, chief of the Olympic Torch Relay Center Qomolangma Operations Team, said the team of climbers included ethnic Tibetans and several women. Mr. Sun also gave details about the planned route – and how the torch would stay lighted at such heights.
The Olympic torch was designed by a Chinese aerospace company to ensure that it will stay alight at high altitude, and weather monitoring equipment has been set up on the Chinese side of the mountain to help ensure a successful ascent.
Ferocious winds and temperatures of minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 Fahrenheit) at the summit are the major troubles in lighting the torch, but Chinese scientists have finished tests last year to ensure the torch can stay alight in the tough, oxygen-sparse conditions that leave even experienced climbers struggling.
"Wind is the most important factor in climbing and as for Mt. Qomolangma, there are four weather windows in May in which mountaineers can attempt to scale, namely the first week of the month, 10th to 15th, 20th to 25th and at the end of the month, so we stand a great chance of fulfilling the feat for the Beijing Olympics," said an upbeat Sun.


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Orabilia MacDuib was born in January 1080, the daughter of Causantin MacDuib, the Earl of Fife and Ethelreda of Dunbar, the daughter of Gospatrick, the duke of Lothian. When young Orabilia was a mere four years old, her father died of a sudden attack of pneumonia at the end of January, 1084. The little girl, who did not possess the healthiest constitution in the world to begin with (health 4.0), faced the formidable task of learning to be a countess from a very young age. Her mother Ethelreda became regent and almost immediately remarried, choosing Malise de St. Andrews, a prominent soldier in the county.
After the shocking loss of her father, things appeared to settle down for young Orabilia for several years. Improvements were gradually made to the castle of Cupar, the cathedral of St. Andrews, and the town of Dumfernline as often as money allowed, and together mother and daughter laid plans to take control of the Duchy of Lothian by concocting claims to the counties of Lothian, Dunbar, and Teviotdale. To this end, they dispatched their Chancellor, David of Dumfernline, to Dunbar to "locate" the appropriate proofs for her claim.
All appeared to be going well, but as Orabilia's family, which included her younger sister Der-Ilei and two half-brothers from her mother's second marriage, were preparing to celebrate the Yuletide season in 1089, Orabilia received the shocking news that her mother had used her sposition as Regent to embezzle funds from Fife's meager resources. This crime could not be overlooked, yet because she was the Regent her mother could not be imprisoned. To make matters worse, mother Ethelreda was also the Spymaster of Fife, which made her the principal source of news about plots against the young Countess. Helpless until she attained her majority and in fear for her very life, Orabilia was forced to wait – and learn. Never again would she trust her mother as she had previously.
More tribulations followed. Shortly after the discovery of her mother's treachery, Orabilia's venerated guardian, King Malcolm III of Scotland, died at the comparatively young age of 49, and was succeeded by his son Duncan. At this juncture, Orabilia was the beneficiary of good fortune, for Duncan agreed to continue the young Countess's education. Moreover, after a few years Duncan renewed his father's custom of hosting an annual New Year's feast, a celebration which coincided with Orabilia's birthday and helped to boost her prestige throughout the Kingdom.
While spending time at the royal court, Orabilia also became friends with Malcolm, Duncan's young son and the heir to the Scottish throne, a connection that would prove decisive for her later fortunes.
As Orabilia entered puberty and approached her age of majority and liberation from her mother's regency, she discovered that she was not at all attracted to boys and men, preferring instead the company of girls. This inclination could have serious consequences for her ability to marry and produce an heir.
Despite her own feelings, Orabilia was well schooled in her responsibilities, and so she resolved to begin searching for a husband. When she turned 16 in January of 1096 and became Countess of Fife in her own right, her first act was to imprison her deceitful mother. Orabilia also chose for her husband Donnchard, from the Irish house of Ua Ruairc, a virile man who also brought to the marriage a wealth of personal qualities that would benefit the county of Fife. The marriage between Orabilia and Donnchard was a matrilineal marriage, which meant that their children, should there be any, would be permitted to succeed their mother to the title. Immediately after exchanging their vows, Donchard was appointed to the important post of Chancellor of Fife.
Yet the dynasty was still insecure, for Orabilia's younger sister Der-Ilei, the only heir at that point in time, had contracted a dangerous case of measles, and her life hung in the balance. Given Orabilia's uncertain ability to produce an heir, the situation was hazardous indeed. Luckily Der-Ilei recovered after a couple of months, offering some hope for stability. Moreover, as things turned out over the next several years, Orabilia was not quite as disinclined toward men as those around her had feared. In February of 1097, she gave birth to a healthy little girl, also named Orabilia. A son, Donald, succeeded as heir in 1100, and a second daughter, Ethelreda, was born in 1102. With the line of succession thus secured, Orabilia cemented the alliance between her family and the ruling house of Dunkeld by arranging a marriage between her sister Der-Ilei and her old companion Malcolm, who had succeeded his father on the Scottish throne in 1094.
Orabilia now turned her attention to the project of enlarging her demesne. As it had been since a she was a young girl, her ambition was to secure control of the Duchy of Lothian. Thanks in part to the diplomatic skills of her husband Donnchard, the plan to fabricate claims for all three counties had succeeded by the time the year 1109 was drawing to a close. Forging the necessary documents had proven expensive, however, and a war of conquest for the counties Orabilia coveted would require the aid of a mercenary army, which she could not yet afford. So, as she had seemingly done for her entire life, Orabilia was forced once again to wait patiently for her opportunity.
This time, for once, Orabilia's chance was not long in coming, and it arrived in the guise of an old and trusted friend. Shortly after she had gathered the necessary documents for laying claim to the counties she coveted, the duchy of Lothian became the center of a bitter and complicated dispute between the Dukes of Hereford and Lothian, a struggle in which the Earl of Clydesdale also took a hand. After dragging on for more than two years, the tables were dramatically turned by the entry of Orabilia's old friend and brother-in-law, Malcolm IV, the King of Scotland. Malcolm's armies drove warring parties out of Lothian, whereupon he deposed the previous Duke and awarded the title to Orabilia.
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Rod King is the driving force behind Warrington Cycle Campaign, one of the country's most vibrant campaign groups, and the organisers of the Autumn 2005 CTC/CCN national conference.
Although too modest to take all the credit himself, he provides the inspiration for a large team of willing volunteers, always having "the bigger picture" in mind. He is inspired by the need to provide a cycling environment that will attract non cyclists, not just existing riders. And Rod is nothing less than practical; when he wanted to find out how Warrington's twin town in Germany organises its transport, he got on his bike and cycled there.


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Recycling plant fire being tackled
About 100 firefighters are tackling a huge blaze at a building used for storing chemicals on the edge of a city centre.
People living in the centre of Leeds reported hearing a number of loud explosions as smoke and flames dominated the city's skyline for a number of hours.
Residents in the Albion Way area have been asked to keep their windows and doors closed as 15 fire crews from across West Yorkshire continue to fight the flames this morning.
A fire service spokesman said the blaze was now surrounded but it may take the rest of the day to extinguish the fire, especially as a collapsed building was making firefighting efforts technically difficult.
The fire at Tradpak Recycling spread to two other buildings but crews managed to save four other businesses on the industrial estate, officers said.
There are also reports the nearby Canal Mills arts and music venue was evacuated during the night.
Area manager Ian Dunkley, from West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue, told Sky News: "I t's been a really big job.
"We've had approximately 100 firefighters on scene - 15 firefighting appliances , two aerial platforms, a high volume pumps and various support appliances."
Mr Dunkley said: " When the initial crews arrived at just after two o'clock this morning, the fire was well developed and there was a series of large explosions where LPG cylinders were involved in the fire.
"Unfortunately two premises have succumbed to the fire but we've managed to save four surrounding companies and their premises, which is a really good effort by the firefighters in the initial stages.
"Our first couple of hours on scene was purely about saving surrounding premises."
Mr Dunkley said a fire investigation team was on site but it was too early to say what caused the blaze.
West Yorkshire Police spokesman said the force was called at about 2.34am.
The Armley Gyratory road - one of the main routes into Leeds city centre - was closed as a precaution due to the smoke.
The spokesman said: "Fifteen fire engines were deployed to the incident and cordons were established around nearby streets.
"Due to concerns about large amounts of smoke the Armley Gyratory Road was closed but has now re-opened. Roads remain closed around the site on the industrial estate itself.
"The matter is being treated as a large building fire by firefighters but, as with any fire producing large amounts of smoke, nearby residents are being urged to keep doors and windows closed while the smoke clears."
Soon after the fire broke out, local people took to social media to describe the scene.
Pat Hickey tweeted: " Got evacuated from canal mills. Leeds is on fire."
Anja Swan posted: " big explosions and what sounds like armagedon."
Firefighters said another firm involved in the incident was the packaging company Hazel Products.
A message on Hazel Products' website this morning said: " We greatly regret having to inform our customers that Hazel Products has suffered from a fire that started in the early hours of the morning on Monday 21 April 2014.
"Hazel Products is continuing to trade from a temporary location.
"Our dedicated team is working hard to prevent this event from adversely impacting our customers' operations and we will keep you updated."
West Yorkshire Police confirmed smoke from the fire was "not toxic" and said "swift work" by firefighters and police officers meant there was no need to evacuate any nearby homes or Armley Prison, which is about 300m from the scene.
Superintendent Mabs Hussain said: "We are continuing to assist our partners in the fire service in responding to what has been a major incident for Leeds.
"I want to reassure residents that everything has been done to get the fire under control and minimise the effect on residents.
"We can also confirm that the smoke from the fire is not toxic. However, as a precaution, we have continued to advise people near the site to keep doors and windows shut while the smoke has cleared, as we would do with any large fire."
He said: "The substantial operation at this site will continue for some time and police officers will begin to work with fire investigators to examine the cause of the blaze when the situation has been made safe.
"I wish to thank residents in the Armley area for their patience and understanding as emergency services have gone about their work, and also praise the efforts of colleagues in both services who have worked extremely hard to bring a dangerous situation under control."


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Princes William and Harry Celebrate a Wedding With Pippa Middleton, Chelsy Davy, and Cressida Bonas
It was a royal affair in Northumberland, England, on Saturday as the Duke of Northumberland's youngest daughter, Lady Melissa Percy, married Thomas van Straubenzee at St. Michael's Church at Alnwick Castle. Princes William and Harry wore their finest for the affair, after getting the celebrations started during a night out with the groom-to-be in London earlier this month. Kate Middleton did not attend since she's currently on maternity leave, awaiting the arrival of her first child, but her sister, Pippa, was among the guests, which also included Sir Richard Branson's daughter Holly and Princess Eugenie. Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy was part of the wedding party, and she and Prince William shared a laugh together during the festivities. Harry's current flame, Cressida Bonas, was also in attendance, though she wasn't photographed with him at the event.