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the persona of a corporation which is designed to accord with and facilitate the attainment of business objectives(Wikipedia)
The past decade has seen a considerable increase in brand development focussing on Corporate Identity.
Is a brand positioned correctly to reflect the corporate persona its culture, and cause the right reaction within the hearts and minds of the target market?
Is a brand unique, prominent and will it be recalled across communications channels?
These types of questions are given much attention from marketing and communications experts and often result in tangible enhancements to corporate signage, and messaging across digital, BTL and ATL channels, but they are rarely considered in depth during an office refurbishment or fit out.
Aligning interior design to accurately convey corporate identity plays a critical role in this process. Regardless of a companies size, its corporate space conveys persona and can substantially influence both employees and consumers in their decision making.
Small to medium sized companies that put effort and thought into their brand requirement when designing their office space have considerable advantage over their competitors. The impact of well placed branding, continuity on a branded color scheme, and well place reminders about a companies mission not only affirm to employees that they are in the right place, but they reinforce the company mission and purpose dramatically.
Does your corporate space meet the needs of your employees?
Will a consumer who enters your space for the first time, know without doubt what brands you represent?
Does your space convey credibility, trust, sincerity and other elements of your corporate culture correctly?
Interior Design is not just about refurbishing your space to be more functional, productive and cost efficient. A good interior design will vary and must accommodate the special needs and requirements of your corporate identity and business. And every business is different:
Are you a technology firm? Do you need to convey a cutting edge or post modern atmosphere? – here we understand such a brief to be about simplicity and ensuring that every element of the design has a role and function but that all components in their collective are not overwhelming.
Are you a law firm that needs to convey authority, power and control? – perhaps this brief could be translated by looking at more traditional furniture systems and fittings. A touch of leather, polished wood cadenzas and bookshelves hosting reference material.
Do you specialize in financial services where conveying stability and success are a pre-requisite to doing business? – perhaps this brief is about landmark features or installations, big branding and cadenza's hosting photo's of some of the more recognizable clients.
A good commercial interior designer can work with you to engineer an environment, to bring ideas to the table that accurately convey your brand identity while ensuring a functional, productive and cost efficient atmosphere.


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The Venture Capital Math Problem (continued)
My post yesterday is still generating comments. We've got about 180 comments so far and will certainly pass 200. It's an important topic so I'm thrilled that so many people feel compelled to engage in the discussion.
I've also received a number of private emails on the topic and several of them have included data which I did not have access to when I wrote the post. So I am going to do some follow up posts as I drill down in the data.
First up is the number of exits per year. The debate in my post was between 200 exits per year and 1000 exits per year. As you might expect, the answer is in between.
A friend sent me Thomson VentureXpert data going back to 1990. Here's the raw numbers:
Total Reported Exits Since 1990: 7,373
Total M&A Exits Since 1990: 4,392
Total IPO Exits Since 1990: 2,981
Whenever I look at venture capital data, I like to back out 1999 and 2000 because those years were not normal by any measure.
Total Reported Exits (less '99/'00): 6,204
Total M&A Exits (less '99/'00): 3,812
Total IPO Exits (less '99/'00): 2,392
If you take the data, after backing out 1999 and 2000, and calculate the annual numbers, they are:
Annual Average Reported Exits: 365
Annual Average M&A Exits: 224
Annual Average IPO Exits: 141
We know that these do not include all the exits as many funds who do poorly do not report and surely Thomson misses some of the exits from the funds that do report. But we also know that the 1000 exits per year number is way too optimistic. It's probably in the 400 to 500 range.
The next step is to figure out two important data points; the value of the biggest exit each year and the shape of the distribution curve of exits (is it power law, gaussian, poisson, etc). Now that I have the data and have access to the right kind of mathematicians (the readers of this blog), we can get somewhere.


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It's the bane of any surgeon's existence. And the reason why OR personnel take such great pains to account for everything in the room. It is a catastrophe, and always a preventable one, when some piece of equipment goes missing and ends up left inside a patient.
A number of methods have been developed to try to eliminate this problem. They include careful counts, having someone record anytime anything is placed inside, x-rays, and most recently, RFID tags.
After counting, x-ray is the most common way to try to find missing objects. One would think that these foreign bodies would be easy to see. Metallic instruments are rather easy to spot. But many trauma professionals, even those who work in the OR, have never seen what a positive image of a sponge actually looks like. So here they are. You should never miss one on an xray now.
Surgeons typically use two types of sponges in the OR: Ray-Tec sponges and standard lap pads. Ray-Tecs look like a 4×8 piece of gauze with a mysterious blue string woven throughout it. The string is the only part that shows up on x-ray, and it is very thin and somewhat hard to see. Here are some Ray-Tec sponges outside the body:
And here's one that was left inside. Note the little squiggle in the left lower quadrant and how easy it is to over look.
On the other hand, a laparotomy pad is a 4×4 folded cloth pad that unfolds into a larger pad. It has a blue tag sewn in the corner, extending along one edge of the pad. Here's what they look like:
And here's one inside a patient. Note the irregular object in the right upper quadrant.
Bottom line: It's important for anyone who works in the OR on any body part to be familiar with the appearance of these tags on x-rays. Since it's generally impossible to get accurate counts before or after a trauma procedure, always image the involved body cavity looking for these telltale signs before closing the patient.
Note: These images taken from the internet. Patients not treated at Regions Hospital.


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Big changes are afoot in the Bartholomew household.
29 May 2009 will be my last day at my current employer. Global Knowledge has been good to me these past four years. I'll miss working with the people in my group. It is a very Linux and Open Source friendly group and I've learned a lot while I've been here.
So, where will I be going? Funny you should ask… 🙂
For those of you familiar with databases, Michael (Monty) Widenius is the founder and original developer of the MySQL database. The database is named after his daughter, My. In 2008 he sold the database and the MySQL company he co-founded to Sun Microsystems. After being at Sun for a few months he decided to leave. The MySQL database is Open Source software, so he was able to create a branch of MySQL called MariaDB (Maria is Monty's other daughter).
Starting on 1 June 2009 I will start working as a technical writer and sys-admin for Monty Program Ab, the company Monty set up to develop and support MariaDB.
I'm very excited for this new opportunity and while it will bring lots of changes one thing that won't be changing is our address. We're staying right where we are.


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My new
book, Too Hot? Too Cold? Keeping BodyTemperature Just Right (February 2013), grew out of many years researching animals
and learning how each one has adapted in its own way to the weather and
temperature of its habitat. Some animals migrate or hibernate; others grow
thick coats of fur in winter and shed it in summer; some, such as those that
live in the desert, restrict their activities to night, when the air is cooler. I began to realize that there were many
parallels between animals and the way people adjust to variations in temperature
in the places where they live. We may not grow thick fur to keep warm, but we
do put on heavy coats and jackets when it is cold outside.
Caroline Arnold, age 10, with her brothers |
I grew up
in Minnesota
where winters are cold and summers are hot. When I was ten, my mother took a
photo in front of our house of me and my brothers all bundled up in our
snowsuits and mittens on a snowy February day. She wrote on the back of the photo that the temperature that day was
minus fourteen degrees Fahrenheit! I
have fond memories of sledding and ice skating on cold winter days in Minneapolis. In summer,
when temperatures soared into the nineties, my brothers and I stayed cool by swimming
in the lake not far from our house.
now live in Los Angeles, California, where the seasonal variations
are not so extreme. Even so, there are
clear differences between winter and summer. On warm summer days, I often see
lizards sunning themselves in my driveway. On cool winter days, the lizards
hide among the rocks. In spring and
fall, I enjoy watching birds as they migrate through southern California on their way to and from their
summer homes farther north.
As I
worked on the book, I tried to think of activities that would help readers
understand the concepts I was describing. It is one thing to read about an idea, and another to experience
it. Here are three simple activities you
can do that are related to information presented in Too Hot? Too Cold?
Heat From the Sun
colors are good for absorbing the sun's heat. That's why vultures will hold out their dark wings on cold mornings to
catch the sun's rays. Light colors reflect the sun and help keep an animal
cool. The addax, an antelope that lives on the Arabian
Peninsula, has a light-colored summer coat to help protect it from
the desert sun.
Activity: Hot Rocks
In this
activity you can test how well dark and light colors absorb the sun's heat.
will need:
Two rocks (about the size of your
fist), white
paint, black
paint, a paintbrush
one rock white and the other rock black. Put both rocks in the sun and wait for one hour. Then feel the rocks. Which rock feels
white rock reflects the sun's rays and stays cool. The black rock soaks up
the sun's rays and becomes warm. To stay cool on a hot day, would you wear a dark shirt or
a light one?
to Keep Warm or Cool
animals leave their homes, or migrate, when the weather gets too cold or too
hot. Many birds migrate. Some of them fly thousands of miles between
their winter and summer homes. Strong
wings make them good flyers.
Activity: Wingspan Measuring Tape
Have you
ever wondered what kind of bird would you be, if you could fly? A bird flies with its arms, which are covered
with feathers. Stretch out your arms as if you were flying. Here's how you can
make a measuring tape to find out your wingspan...
You will
need: heavy paper (such as cardstock),
scissors, tape, a pencil, and a bird guidebook.
Cut the
paper in 1.5 inch strips. A paper cutter works well if you have one. Or, use
your scissors. You will have eleven strips, each eleven inches long.
the ends of the strips with tape. (Strapping tape is best, but any tape will
do.) You will have now a strip 121 inches long. Look in the bird guidebook to
find the wingspans of various birds. Then, start at one end and use a yardstick
or measuring tape to mark the tape with the width of each bird's wingspan. Here
are some of wingspans on my tape: emperor penguin, 32 inches; peregrine falcon,
3.5 feet; red-tailed hawk, 4.5 feet; flamingo, 5 feet; turkey vulture, 6 feet;
golden eagle, 7 feet; bald eagle, 8 feet; California condor, 9.5 feet. You can
add the wingspans of any birds you like.
Ask two people to hold the ends of
your tape. Then you can measure your wingspan. When you are not using the tape,
it folds up like an accordion.
Warm Through Thick and Thin
objects gain and lose heat more slowly than small objects. Animals with large bodies warm up and cool
down more slowly than smaller animals. They have less surface area in relation to their size than smaller
animals do. For example, a crocodile's
huge body helps it retain body heat longer than a smaller reptile could. This lets it remain active even after the sun
has gone down.
Activity: Cooling Thermometers
experiment is a simple demonstration comparing the length of time it takes for
objects of two different sizes to cool down in your refrigerator.
You will
need: 2 household thermometers, 4
washcloths, rubber bands, paper and pencil, a clock.
Look at
the thermometers and write down the room temperature. Wrap one thermometer in
one washcloth and fasten it with rubber bands. Wrap the other thermometer in three washcloths and fasten with rubber
bands. Put both thermometers in a
refrigerator for five minutes. Then take
them out, unwrap them, and look at the temperature on each thermometer. Which one cooled off the most?
activities can be done at home or at school. I enjoy doing the wingspan
activity during my presentation when I do author visits at schools. Third graders are almost always red tailed hawks. Two students together, fingertip to
fingertip, have the wingspan of one bald eagle!
For more projects
and activities go to my website www.carolinearnold.com
or my blog www.carolinearnoldart.blogspot.com.
Posted by Caroline Arnold, author of Too Hot? Too Cold?, due out February 2013.


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Elizabeth Harper Elizabeth Harper | November 8, 2020 | Style & Beauty, Style & Beauty Feature,
As the festive season nears, add a dash of whimsy, a dose of sparkle and a sprinkling of panache to holiday ensembles—courtesy of the latest and greatest in fine jewelry from heritage makers and independent designers.
Bvlgari Barocko High Jewelry ring in white gold with 22.74-carat cushion rubellite and pavé-set diamonds and Barocko High Jewelry ring in platinum with 10.15-carat rectangular emerald, 1.27-carat emerald-cut diamond and pavé-set diamonds, bulgari.com
Under a cloak of mystery and an air of exclusivity, fine jewelry inhabits a sphere admired by many and obtainable by few. In a marriage of time-honored traditions, vivid gemstones and intellectual silhouettes, the latest collections answer the decidedly more casual, practical face of 2020 with whimsy, delight and an infectious joie de vivre. As we remain steadfastly socially distanced, why not dress in diamond-bespeckled timepieces, ruby-dotted chokers and bonbon- inspired earrings? It's a Cinderella moment—fairy godmother waiting in the wings.
As if nicked from the Queen's jewels, Bvlgari's latest high jewelry is a lesson in royal glamour. Under the guise of Rome's Baroque period, the Barocko collection is formed of fanciful shapes, enriching elegance and precious gems sourced by Lucia Silvestri, Bvlgari's creative director for jewelry. The ornate pieces, she says, "celebrate the Baroque movement in the Bvlgari way, which is very contemporary." Architectural inspiration from ages past is reinterpreted through a modern, feminine lens for envy-inducing one- of-a-kind jewels. "Baroque," Silvestri notes, "is in our Roman DNA."
Paris-based fine jewelry brand Colette, too, reinvents an antiquity. Drawing on the fierce legacy of Aztec warriors, its Penacho collection is a celebration of the ancient headdresses, rendered in a sleek, universally appealing (read: neutral) palette. "The collection was created as an homage to my Mexican heritage, giving permanence to Aztecan warriors," says founder Colette Steckel. "The headdresses were inherently edgy, with vibrant feathers that emulated the warriors' power and fearlessness"—a notion captured in the geometric, fan shape of the mother-of-pearl-, onyx-, pearl- and diamond-laden pieces. "I don't believe a design has to be colorful to be bold," she declares. "The black- and-white color palette highlights the graphic silhouette and almost makes the jewelry feel like armor."
Colette 18K yellow gold Penacho ring with white diamonds, onyx and mother-of-pearl, colettejewelry.com
Jewelry, clothing, accessories as an armor of expression—it's a comforting sentiment to the fashion beguiled. Add an artist collaboration and the quotidian becomes sartorial catnip. And when it's a notoriously exclusive brand? Hold on to your purse strings. In a collection of historical significance, Fabergé allies with London-based creative James Ganh for its first-ever featured designer capsule. "Like our founder Peter Carl Fabergé all those years ago, we continue to believe in the art of collaboration and friendship with like-minded individuals and partners," says Josina von dem Bussche-Kessell, global sales director. "Beauty often appears at the intersection of idea and interpretation, and that creative exchange of influences, references and perspective is so exciting."
Fabergé x James Ganh ring, faberge.com
Pulling from his personal archive and the atelier's rich catalog, Ganh presents a series of buildable creations rife with pearls, diamonds, precious stones and an undeniable whimsy befitting Fabergé's code. "[Peter Carl's] passionate and innovative artisan spirit inspired my designs and encourages me to push the boundaries of jewelry both aesthetically and functionally," says Ganh. Referencing the founder's penchant for florals and animals, Fabergé x James Ganh recalls the ethereal beauty of nature, its rainbow of colors and its organic silhouettes. "I had fun playing with the element of surprise," he adds. "You can find subtle mechanical elements built into a number of designs that allow them to transform beautifully." In this new world order—and an emerging trend in fine jewelry—he explains, "pendant heads become statement rings and earrings morph into bracelets," for a topsy-turvy Alice in Wonderland-like spin on the classics.
In a similarly enchanting study of nature, Piaget's Wings of Light soars with the majesty of birds of paradise at its core. "We explore the 'Piaget jungle' through the eyes of a bird, offering us the possibility to discover unique sceneries," says Christophe Bourrié, global high jewelry and exceptional creations director. "It inspires a feeling of freedom, which is important given the current context." The escapist nature of the collection is witnessed in the Majestic Plumage set, with tropical-hued gems and feather marquetry by renowned artist Nelly Saunier. While some pieces are literal in their interpretation, others take a more nuanced approach to Piaget's jungle. As Majestic Plumage captivates with bird song, the Jungle Breeze family, for example, is a delicate whisper—a sweeping of diamonds in concert with malachites and chrysoprase befitting the verdant landscape.
Piaget Wings of Light high jewelry Jungle Breeze earrings, piaget.com
High jewelry takes a practical yet equally mesmerizing turn with revelation of new "secret" timepieces. These hidden treasures are encased in dazzling jewels but possess impressive technical movements— with faces discreetly housed beneath bedazzled coverings. Graff's Peony secret watch is encased entirely in a bouquet of diamonds, whereas Van Cleef & Arpels' iconic Ludo is reborn after nearly a century.
Graff Peony diamond secret watch, graff.com
Van Cleef & Arpels Ludo timepiece, vancleefarpels.com
Adhering the house's couture codes, "We felt the Ludo bracelet, which was born in the '30s, had that dimension that could today be again looked at as a relevant and contemporary design that associates the idea of suppleness and movement with boldness and geometry of shape," says President and CEO Nicolas Bos of the modernized re-edition. Legacy of design and craftsmanship has long played a role in fine jewelry, and for Nigerian-born, London-based jeweler Thelma West, it is her essence. Giving new life to vintage and antique pieces, her designs offer a singular point of view, while upholding the utmost respect for the stones' history. "Vintage pieces I acquire come with a story," says West, "and honoring the journey of each gem is important to my art." Like her unique pieces, West's all-women studio is a haven of creativity. "My aim was to create a safe space not just for myself, but for other women regardless of race, age or sexual orientation," she explains. "I draw on my experience to help them find their voice in the predominantly male diamond world."
Joon Han rubellite, pink tourmaline and diamond earrings, joonhanjewelry.com
Femmes of industry across the globe, like Steckel, West, Melissa Kaye and Joon Han, are making an impression on the state of fine jewelry, offering a sophisticated edge to couturelike pieces. For New York-based Kaye, her signature luminescent enamel designs get the diamond treatment for a vibrant, of-the-moment yet elevated allure. Now, Kaye introduces the Ada collection: "It has great proportions, substantial weight and a really luxurious feel," she muses. "The neon collection quickly became a huge part of the brand, giving our signature silhouette an air of fashion-forward 'fun luxury.'" With a familiar playful, artistic approach, Han's confections are as at-home in a patisserie as at a black-tie affair. Her one-of-a-kind pieces are an ode to expression: "Art is a powerful creative process authentic to each artist, and it has the power to reach out and deeply touch us," she says. "In the same way, jewelry design is an imaginative process, and people intuitively respond to beautiful jewelry emotionally."
Melissa Kaye 18K yellow gold Ada ring with neon orange enamel and diamonds, melissakayejewelry.com
Thelma West 18K white, rose and yellow gold Eden drop earrings with Colombian emeralds, Botswanan pink diamonds and white trillion-cut diamonds, thelmawest.com
As if plucked from a fairy tale, the season of galas, soirees and events galore returns. While celebrations may look different as 2020 comes to a close, welcome the new rule of dressing: Exquisite fine jewelry and spectacular wares are appropriate for any occasion—whether virtual fete or intimate holiday dinner. Meet your new closet staples.
Photography by: Colette photo by STK Photo; Joon Han photo by Panos Narkizian; Melissa Kaye photo by Tomoya Hara; Thelma West photo by Simon Martner; All other photos courtesy of brands


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revised by Arthur Hugh Clough
AS BOTH are great examples of the vicissitudes of fortune, let us first consider in what way they attained their power and glory. Demetrius heired a kingdom already won for him by Antigonus, the most powerful of the Successors, who, before Demetrius grew to be a man, traversed with his armies and subdued the greater part of Asia. Antony's father was well enough in other respects, but was no warrior, and could bequeath no great legacy of reputation to his son, who had the boldness, nevertheless, to take upon him the government, to which birth gave him no claim, which had been held by Cæsar, and became the inheritor of his great labors. And such power did he attain, with only himself to thank for it, that, in a division of the whole empire into two portions, he took and received the nobler one; and, absent himself, by his mere subalterns and lieutenants often defeated the Parthians, and drove the barbarous nations of the Caucasus back to the Caspian Sea. Those very things that procured him ill-repute bear witness to his greatness. Antigonus considered Antipater's daughter Phila, in spite of the disparity of her years, an advantageous match for Demetrius. Antony was thought disgraced by his marriage with Cleopatra, a queen superior in power and glory to all, except Arsaces, who were kings in her time. Antony was so great as to be thought by others worthy of higher things than his own desires.
As regards the right and justice of their aims at empire, Demetrius need not be blamed for seeking to rule a people that had always had a king to rule them. Antony, who enslaved the Roman people, just liberated from the rule of Cæsar, followed a cruel and tyrannical object. His greatest and most illustrious work, his successful war with Brutus and Cassius, was done to crush the liberties of his country and of his fellow-citizens. Demetrius, till he was driven to extremity, went on, without intermission, maintaining liberty in Greece, and expelling the foreign garrisons from the cities; not like Antony, whose boast was to have slain in Macedonia those who had set up liberty in Rome. As for the profusion and magnificence of his gifts, one point for which Antony is lauded, Demetrius so far outdid them, that what he gave to his enemies was far more than Antony ever gave to his friends. Antony was renowned for giving Brutus honorable burial; Demetrius did so to all the enemy's dead, and sent the prisoners back to Ptolemy with money and presents.
Both were insolent in prosperity, and abandoned themselves to luxuries and enjoyments. Yet it cannot be said that Demetrius, in his revelings and dissipations, ever let slip the time for action; pleasures with him attended only the superabundance of his ease, and his Lamia, like that of the fable, belonged only to his playful, half-waking, half-sleeping hours. When war demanded his attention, his spear was not wreathed with ivy, nor his helmet redolent of unguents; he did not come out to battle from the women's chamber, but, hushing the bacchanal shouts and putting an end to the orgies, he became at once, as Euripides calls it, "the minister of the unpriestly Mars;" and, in short, he never once incurred disaster through indolence or self-indulgence. Whereas Antony, like Hercules in the picture where Omphale is seen removing his club and stripping him of his lion's skin, was over and over again disarmed by Cleopatra, and beguiled away, while great actions and enterprises of the first necessity fell, as it were, from his hands, to go with her to the seashore of Canopus and Taphosiris, and play about. And in the end, like another Paris, he left the battle to fly to her arms; or rather, to say the truth, Paris fled when he was already beaten; Antony fled first, and, to follow Cleopatra, abandoned his victory.
There was no law to prevent Demetrius from marrying several wives; from the time of Philip and Alexander, it had become usual with Macedonian kings, and he did no more than was done by Lysimachus and Ptolemy. And those he married he treated honorably. But Antony, first of all, in marrying two wives at once, did a thing which no Roman had ever allowed himself; and then he drove away his lawful Roman wife to please the foreign and unlawful woman. And so Demetrius incurred no harm at all; Antony procured his ruin by his marriage. On the other hand, no licentious act of Antony's can be charged with that impiety which marks those of Demetrius. Historical writers tell us that the very dogs are excluded from the whole Acropolis, because of their gross, uncleanly habits. The very Parthenon itself saw Demetrius consorting with harlots and debauching free women of Athens. The vice of cruelty, also, remote as it seems from the indulgence of voluptuous desires, must be attributed to him, who, in the pursuit of his pleasures, allowed, or to say more truly, compelled the death of the most beautiful and most chaste of the Athenians, who found no way but this to escape his violence. In one word, Antony himself suffered by his excesses, and other people by those of Demetrius.
In his conduct to his parents, Demetrius was irreproachable. Antony gave up his mother's brother, in order that he might have leave to kill Cicero, this itself being so cruel and shocking an act, that Antony would hardly be forgiven if Cicero's death had been the price of this uncle's safety. In respect of breaches of oaths and treaties, the seizure of Artabazes, and the assassination of Alexander, Antony may urge the plea which no one denies to be true, that Artabazes first abandoned and betrayed him in Media; Demetrius is alleged by many to have invented false pretexts for his act, and not to have retaliated for injuries, but to have accused one whom he injured himself.
The achievements of Demetrius are all his own work. Antony's noblest and greatest victories were won in his absence by his lieutenants. For their final disasters they have both only to thank themselves; not, however, in an equal degree. Demetrius was deserted, the Macedonians revolted from him: Antony deserted others, and ran away while men were fighting for him at the risk of their lives. The fault to be found with the one is that he had thus entirely alienated the affections of his soldiers; the other's condemnation is that he abandoned so much love and faith as he still possessed. We cannot admire the death of either, but that of Demetrius excites our greater contempt. He let himself become a prisoner, and was thankful to gain a three years' accession of life in captivity. He was tamed like a wild beast by his belly, and by wine; Antony took himself out of the world in a cowardly, pitiful, and ignoble manner, but, still in time to prevent the enemy having his person in their power.
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- Today, I would like to reveal / uncover a photo of the SUPREME TOP Secret of Feng Shui, Dragon Vein & Dragon Spot.
- The photo above was taken during one of my effort to uncover DRAGON SPOT龙穴.
- One of the verdict and solid proof for Dragon Spot龙穴 is firstly, it looks like GOLD MINE金矿. Just Sparkling GOLD.….. It absolutely looks like GOLD
- Nevertheless, the soil is extremely SOFT like cotton, once you impose a little bit of pressure onto the Dragon Soil, it breaks down into tiny golden particles….
- If you want to describe how the REAL Dragon Spot looks like, I would say " It looks like Sparkling Gold Mine, yet it is not actual Gold but, Dragon Soil…….
- This might be unbelievable and unthinkable (difficult to belief) to NON-Chinese Speaking Feng Shui Practitioners. Even among Chinese Speaking Feng Shui Practitioners (to whom are said to be closer to the authentic and reality of feng shui wisdom), as it is estimated that less than 5% of Chinese Speaking Feng Shui Masters have really seen this by their own eyes throughout their life time feng shui career.
- Dragon Vein 龙脉 & Dragon Spots 龙穴 are well recorded in many feng shui classics. Yet, NOT many feng shui masters could understand why the ancient classics try to tell the modern people. It is only very few percentages of feng shui masters have really and fully understood and commanded this top section of feng shui secrets, due to certain divine calling 天命.
- Dragon Vein 龙脉 on the earth is similar to the Qi meridian 脉络 in human body. Bodily meridian is invisible. Nevertheless, the Dragon Meridian on earth is invisible and visible based on location.
- The Width of medium size Dragon Vein in the segment of RUNNING行龙脉 position is varies from 15 meters to 30 meters; and getting narrower when it descends towards Dragon Spot. The Width of Big Dragon Vein is beyond your imagination. Yet The smallest width is not less than 5 meters. (The reading is just an estimation as the dragon is always different from one to another)
- When you reach the Ultimate Dragonic Qi Accumulative-Acupoint最后终极气聚点, Feng Shui Classics always call it as Dragon Spot 龙穴.
- It is very hard to find a Dragon Spot as it is Naturally, Systemically, Organically, Energetically, and Divinely Hidden.
- Dragon Vein 龙脉 is the Qi Pipe(hundreds to thousands kilometers) to transport Qi into Dragon Spot. Dragon Vein is similar to Petroleum Pipe in modern concept, yet Dragon Vein is natural creature but Petroleum Pipe is MAN MADE.
- Dragon Spot is similar to Mega Petroleum Oilfield after receiving and accumulating Qi energy which is transported by Dragon Vein (Petroleum Pipe).
- Hence, when you have successfully spotted the Dragon Spot, you must NOT immediate unearth it due to several safety precautions.
- How to justify a REAL Dragon Spot? The answer is : When you unearth and uncover the Dragon Spot, you MUST SEE the Sparkling Dragon Soil as just like Sparkling Gold Mine as I show in the picture.
- When you put your DNA into this Dragon Spot, your LUCK changes Instantly & Tremendously Beyond Your Imagination. Why? Because Now, you have CONNECTED Dragonic Qi with your DNA.
- This is partially what I mention as UNKNOWN & UNTOLD.
- Kindly be noted that Dragon Vein and Dragon Spot are natural. There is no way for human being to create Dragon Vein and Dragon Spot out of the thin air.
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On the fact of desecration of an Orthodox church in Kosovo by extremists
The Russian Orthodox Church has received with pain the news of a new extremists's attack against the Orthodox Church of Serbia in the Province of Kosovo.
This time the blashemists attacked the Church of St. Michael in Štimlje. The church building was looted and desecrated. Unidentified vandals damaged fragments of the murals and knocked off paint from the countenances of the saints. Garbage, sewage and dead birds were put within the church building.
The Church of St. Michael was built in Štimlje and decorated by the famous Serbian artist Uroš Predić (1857-1953). In August 1999, the anti-Christian minded extremists set fire to the church, and the iconostasis was destroyed. During 2004, and in the course of the anti-Serbian pogroms in March in particular, it was not once that the foes of the Church set the church building on fire, desecrated it and disfigured the countenances of the saints depicted on church walls.
In 2009, the restoration work began with UNESCO assistance. However, the recent incident compels us to state with regret that the attitude of certain residents of the Province of Kosovo remains as intolerant as it used to be in the past.
Testifying to this attitude is an assault against the Orthodox monk Mitrofan (Bulajić) by some residents of Kosovska Mitrovica on 13 June 2012. He was admitted to a surgery with injuries to his head and arm.
Police of the self-proclaimed republic were not able to prevent either the beating up of the monk, or the act of vandalism in Štimlje. Repeated attacks of the extremists against churches, priests, monks and laymen of the Serbian Orthodox Churches in Kosovo and Metohija cause grave concern in the Russian Orthodox Church as they show the lack of effective measures aimed at their protection by the forces of international presence in the province.
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MIT researchers believe engineers may be able design new bio-inspired materials by compiling and analyzing data on the microstructures of a number of different plants.
From an engineer's perspective, plants such as palm trees, bamboo, maples and even potatoes are examples of precise engineering on a microscopic scale. Like wooden beams reinforcing a house, cell walls make up the structural supports of all plants. Depending on how the cell walls are arranged, and what they are made of, a plant can be as flimsy as a reed, or as sturdy as an oak.
An MIT researcher has compiled data on the microstructures of a number of different plants, from apples and potatoes to willow and spruce trees, and has found that plants exhibit an enormous range of mechanical properties, depending on the arrangement of a cell wall's four main building blocks: cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and pectin.
Lorna Gibson, the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, says understanding plants' microscopic organization may help engineers design new, bio-inspired materials.
"If you look at engineering materials, we have lots of different types, thousands of materials that have more or less the same range of properties as plants," Gibson says. "But here the plants are, doing it arranging just four basic constituents. So maybe there's something you can learn about the design of engineered materials."
A paper detailing Gibson's findings has been published this month in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
To Gibson, a cell wall's components bear a close resemblance to certain manmade materials. For example, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin can be as stiff and strong as manufactured polymers. A plant's cellular arrangement can also have engineering parallels: cells in woods, for instance, are aligned, similar to engineering honeycombs, while polyhedral cell configurations, such as those found in apples, resemble some industrial foams.
To explore plants' natural mechanics, Gibson focused on three main plant materials: woods, such as cedar and oak; parenchyma cells, which are found in fruits and root vegetables; and arborescent palm stems, such as coconut trees. She compiled data from her own and other groups' experiments and analyzed two main mechanical properties in each plant: stiffness and strength.
Among all plants, Gibson observed wide variety in both properties. Fruits and vegetables such as apples and potatoes were the least stiff, while the densest palms were 100,000 times stiffer. Likewise, apples and potatoes fell on the lower end of the strength scale, while palms were 1,000 times stronger.
"There are plants with properties over that whole range," Gibson says. "So it's not like potatoes are down here, and wood is over there, and there's nothing in between. There are plants with properties spanning that whole huge range. And it's interesting how the plants do that."
It turns out the large range in stiffness and strength stems from an intricate combination of plant microstructures: the composition of the cell wall, the number of layers in the cell wall, the arrangement of cellulose fibers in those layers, and how much space the cell wall takes up.
In trees such as maples and oaks, cells grow and multiply in the cambium layer, just below the bark, increasing the diameter of the trees. The cell walls in wood are composed of a primary layer with cellulose fibers randomly spread throughout it. Three secondary layers lie underneath, each with varying compositions of lignin and cellulose that wind helically through each layer.
Taken together, the cell walls occupy a large portion of a cell, providing structural support. The cells in woods are organized in a honeycomb pattern — a geometric arrangement that gives wood its stiffness and strength.
Parenchyma cells, found in fruits and root vegetables, are much less stiff and strong than wood. The cell walls of apples, potatoes and carrots are much thinner than in wood cells, and made up of only one layer. Cellulose fibers run randomly throughout this layer, reinforcing a matrix of hemicellulose and pectin. Parenchyma cells have no lignin; combined with their thin walls and the random arrangement of their cellulose fibers, Gibson says, this may explain their cell walls' low stiffness. The cells in each plant are densely packed together, similar to industrial foams used in mattresses and packaging.
Unlike woody trees that grow in diameter over time, the stems of arborescent palms such as coconut trees maintain similar diameters throughout their lifetimes. Instead, as the stem grows taller, palms support this extra weight by increasing the thickness of their cell walls. A cell wall's thickness depends on where it is along a given palm stem: Cell walls are thicker at the base and periphery of stems, where bending stresses are greatest.
Gibson sees plant mechanics as a valuable resource for engineers designing new materials. For instance, she says, researchers have developed a wide array of materials, from soft elastomers to stiff, strong alloys. Carbon nanotubes have been used to reinforce composite materials, and engineers have made honeycomb-patterned materials with cells as small as a few millimeters wide. But researchers have been unable to fabricate cellular composite materials with the level of control that plants have perfected.
"Plants are multifunctional," Gibson says. "They have to satisfy a number of requirements: mechanical ones, but also growth, surface area for sunlight and transport of fluids. The microstructures plants have developed satisfy all these requirements. With the development of nanotechnology, I think there is potential to develop multifunctional engineering materials inspired by plant microstructures."
Karl Niklas, a professor of plant biology at Cornell University, says Gibson's engineering parallels are fitting. Plants, in a way, he says, are "largely structural things … chemical factories that are architecturally arranged."
"Plants on Earth have evolved over three-and-a-half billion years, and that is a giant evolutionary experiment of trial and error, because the things that don't work are extinct, and the things that do work are more abundant," Niklas says. "We can learn things from nature and apply it to construct better panel boards, styrofoams and photovoltaics that will help society."
Reference: "The hierarchical structure and mechanics of plant materials" by Lorna J. Gibson, 8 August 2012, Royal Society Interface.
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0341


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by Caroline B. Glick
Compare and contrast the following three events:
At the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meeting on Wednesday, George Schulte, the
In its report to its board of governors, the IAEA stated that in analyzing soil samples from the bombed installation, its inspectors discovered traces of uranium. The nuclear watchdog agency also noted that the Syrians have blocked UN nuclear inspectors from the site and from three other suspected nuclear sites.
Reacting to the IAEA report, Schulte said that it, "contributes to the growing evidence of clandestine nuclear activities in
On Tuesday, at a press conference in
If in the past, both American and Israeli policymakers interested in engaging
Indeed, as far as Kerry is concerned,
Kerry proposed that in exchange for Syrian acceptance the
On the surface, the disparate statements by Schulte, Clinton and Kerry present us with a puzzle. In
At the same IAEA Board of Governors meeting this week, the agency reported that
Commenting on the IAEA's report on
For his part,
In an interview last month with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius,
All of the above show that there is no contradiction between what the Obama administration understands about
To this end, the administration is now asserting that
Then too, as both Kerry and Clinton made clear, the administration plans to ignore
But the core of the administration's campaign to ignore
This week Iran staged yet another "Destroy Israel" conference in Teheran, replete with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's trademark Holocaust denial, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's ritual castigation of the Jewish state as a "cancerous tumor," and the US as a treacherous enemy, and Ali Larijani's threat to attack Israel's suspected nuclear sites. The conference enjoyed a newfound sense of international legitimacy taking place as it did just after burka-clad Annette Benning's goodwill
The genocidal pageantry in Teheran, elicited no significant response from Clinton and Kerry. They had bigger fish to fry. While the administration and its supporters seem to believe that the US has no right to make demands on Iran and Syria which, they assert, are both just advancing their national interests, for them Israel is a completely different story. As Clinton and Kerry demonstrated this week, the administration and its supporters will not stop making demands on
Kerry justified
In his words, "On the Israeli side, nothing will do more to make clear our seriousness about turning the page than demonstrating - with actions rather than words - that we are serious about Israel freezing settlement activity in the West Bank."
He also called for the
Since as far as
Kerry argues that by forcing
And that's precisely the point. The Obama administration has no intention of preventing
Through its policies towards
Caroline B. Glick is the senior Middle East Fellow at the Center for Security Policy in
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Tough climate for Dems in Arkansas
-60% of voters oppose Barack Obama's plans for health care, with just 29% in support. Independents are arrayed against it 73-20. Even among Democrats just 54% say they're for it and among white Democrats it's less than a majority.
-Only 45% of voters in the state say they believe Obama was born in this country, while 31% say they think he was not and 24% are unsure. Arkansas is the first of four states where we've polled the birther issue (Virginia, North Carolina, and Colorado were the others) and found less than half of respondents confident that the President is a natural born citizen. The numbers are particularly dramatic among Republicans with 49% saying Obama was not born here to just 23% who grant that he was.
-55% of Arkansas voters say they prefer Rush Limbaugh's vision for the country to Barack Obama's. That includes 92% of Republicans, 64% of independents, and even 18% of Democrats. This is in spite of the fact that respondents on balance actually dislike Limbaugh, with 44% holding an unfavorable opinion of him to 35% positive.
Overall Obama's approval rating is a negative 40/56 spread, headed in the wrong direction since it was a positive 47/45 back when PPP surveyed the state in March. Obama has the approval of 72% of Democrats, 30% of independents, and 9% of Republicans.
Some folks are surprised that Blanche Lincoln is increasingly being thought of as vulnerable and that Arkansas' three Democratic House members made the NRSC's target list, but when you look at the baseline political conditions in the state you can see why the GOP thinks they might have some opportunities here.
We'll have numbers looking at Lincoln's situation tomorrow.
Full results here
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- Eureka Springs, AR said...
Just reading this post (not digging into the poll itself). What kind of answers did you expect when you asked the dumbest questions imaginable?
This poll appears (by your framing) to be about how effective wingnut and fundie media is in AR (which is all there is in AR)... not really about what people think. - August 25, 2009 at 11:48 AM
- Pennelope said...
Would you explain to this reader exactly what Obama's 'plan' is? As far as I know the President hasn't proposed anything concrete, yet you suppose to poll on the non-existent 'plan'. You are as useless as the ignoramii in Arkansas.
- August 25, 2009 at 12:43 PM
- Marvin said...
Reading poll results like this make me so sad. We just have an enormous amount of absolutely IGNORANT & PROUD OF IT people in this country that we will have to drag kicking and screaming into the 20th century(yes, we're a full century behind at this point.)
- August 25, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Mike said...
Are you going to ask about Rush Limbaugh's Virginia this weekend in Virginia? (looks like they'll win the poll)
- August 25, 2009 at 4:02 PM
When a poll fails to reflect your political philosophy, blame it on the "wingnut and fundie media."
That's odd; less than a third of the respondents labeled themselves as Republicans, and less than half described themselves as Conservative, despite the wingnut/fundie media's effectiveness in AR. - August 25, 2009 at 9:16 PM
- Unknown said...
What possible difference does it make whether Barack Obama was born in this country. If his mother is an American citizen, then Barack Obama is a natural-born American citizen. Case closed.
- August 26, 2009 at 5:13 PM
- Dr Doc dlcs said...
Sunday Dec 20 2009
left wing nuts are tearing this country apart. No respect. in the past 9 months the sheep are beginning to scatter further apart. Not good news. The country needs leadership NOW. Not one of us are perfect, but look who has sold out in just the past few days. Money is perhaps the route of all evil. Barack Hussein Obama realy scares me. I have parkinsons disease but I doubt there will be a cure in my life time. Politicians will say one thing but do another. Mike Huckabee is a good CHRISTIAN family. Honest and hard working. There will be very troubled times ahead and we need his leader ship. It is now so politicaly correct it's hard to tell a good joke without some left wing sissy be'n offended. Take me back to the 50's. God Bless all and please vote REPUBLICAN!
Dr Doc dlcs
http://www.foxnewsmagazine.com - December 20, 2009 at 7:37 PM
If I were religious I would thank god that I don't live in Arkansas. This state consistently ranks the lowest in educational levels--and this poll pretty much confirms that statistic. I'm sure that most of the people polled are of the "keep the government's hands off my medicare" types. You have to be pretty stupid to be against healthcare reform that would clearly help you if you are the average citizen in Arkansas.
- June 30, 2010 at 9:52 PM


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Lisbon is the capital of Portugal, one of the biggest container ports on continental Europe's Atlantic coast and among the world's oldest cities. It is the only European capital on the river and on the sea, with some great beaches. Lisbon is a colorful and vibrant destination. Renowned for its warm and sunny disposition, the city is blessed with a wealth of historic monuments, world-class museums, and a host of other fabulous things to do.
St. Georges Castle
Jeronimos monastery
Modern Aquarium
The National Museum of Ancient Art
Belém Tower
Berardo Museum
National Tile Museum
Parque das nacoes
Santa Justa Lift
Romanesque cathedral – Sé
Monument to the Discoveries
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Beneath Disney, Zynga and Rovio toil dozens of smaller mobile game developers, developing revenue growth strategies without the benefit of massive media coverage. Remedy's "Death Rally" recently hit 10 million downloads 14 months after its debut, and the company's executive vice president, Aki Järvilehto, agreed to share his views with us.
- One day as a top five app can be sweet indeed. Remedy grosses as much as $50,000 a day during periods when "Death Rally" cracks the iPhone/iPad top five charts for all applications. The mobile app market is now so big that a game can become a $1 million grosser without ever hitting top ten. Just clinging onto top 200 position for more than a year can be profitable for an app with development costs below $200,000 and a clever in-app purchase strategy.
- Speeding up game progression is the biggest money-maker. Interestingly, gaining access to new levels faster has clearly been the most popular in-app purchase for "Death Rally". The $2 option for speeding up the game by 50% is the biggest in-game revenue generator. Surprisingly, the rather expensive $3.99 option for speeding up progression by 300% is also more popular than new vehicles or weapons.
- The $40 "God Mode" feature generates nearly as much revenue as the $2 speed-up feature. The consumer who buys the $40 "God Mode" feature is in effect thanking the development team for a constant, year-long stream of new levels, vehicles and features. The consumer must feel fairly impressed by a string of improvements to cough up $40 out of sheer gratitude. That sort of passion requires forging a relationship between the player and the developers. Developing a player-designed level system and fostering a sense of community help.
- "Freeappaday" is one of the hottest game marketing tools – if you have a seductive in-game purchase options. As the mobile game market shifts towards the freemium model, the strategy of giving games priced at $1 or $2 away for free for a 5-day period is increasingly popular. This approach does require compelling in-game purchases. Every time Remedy runs a free app week, the promotion is broadcast to the 8 million subscribers of the "Freeappaday" service. Aki Järvilehto, Remedy's EVP, points out that this kind of campaign can only be run about twice a year or it loses its impact. Remedy has racked up more than 2 million new users for "Death Rally" via Freeappaday campaigns — 20% of the entire download base of the game.
- Remedy refuses to pay for downloads. For some vendors, buying downloads via various ad exchanges can be a good option; Remedy decided early on against it. The danger of paying for downloads is that the resulting users may be less loyal to the game than consumers who became interested in the product organically — even if that happened during a free app campaign. As most mid-list games, "Death Rally" has a wide range of monthly revenue generation: $50,000 to $350,000 during regular months, outside major marketing campaigns.
- An app developer must be a constant gardener. Remedy crafted a road map of upgrades and improvements ahead of the game launch. 30,000 new apps are now submitted to Apple for evaluation every week. Competition is so tough that a new game has to be polished and possess a certain amount of depth from the day it debuts. But the vendor must also have a clear idea of how to add new features and functionality every couple of months. Game developers are no longer selling a software product — they are selling a service that must evolve over the years, eventually blossoming into something much richer than the initial product.
- Freemium not always the best option? Remedy has seen a fairly constant 60/40 revenue split between game download revenue and in-game feature sales. The company is not tempted to turn "Death Rally" into a free game because losing the sticker price revenue entirely is not necessarily fully offset by in-game purchases. Pricing a game is still part alchemy, part science.


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Delegates in hand, Trump says he's got GOP nomination
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- With a triumphant pile of delegates in hand, Republican Donald Trump on Thursday claimed support from "almost everybody" in his party and turned his attention to his likely Democratic presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton, who is still locked in a divisive primary contest.
The New York billionaire reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination hours earlier, according to the Associated Press count, just before a North Dakota campaign stop. It completed his unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign.
"Here I am watching Hillary fight, and she can't close the deal," he told reporters. "We've had tremendous support from almost everybody."
Trump's good news was tempered by his own continuing campaign problems. Those include the abrupt departure of his political director and continuing resistance by many Republican leaders to declare their support for his upstart candidacy.
Trump was put over the top in the AP delegate count by a small number of the party's unbound delegates who told the AP they would support him at the national convention in July. Among them was Oklahoma GOP chairwoman Pam Pollard.
"I think he has touched a part of our electorate that doesn't like where our country is," Pollard said. "I have no problem supporting Mr. Trump."
It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination. Trump has reached 1,239. Of those, 95 are unbound delegates who have endorsed him.
With 303 delegates at stake in five state primaries on June 7, Trump will easily pad his total, avoiding a contested convention in Cleveland.
Trump, a political neophyte who for years delivered caustic commentary on the state of the nation from the sidelines but had never run for office, fought off 16 other Republican contenders in an often ugly primary race.
Many on the right have been slow to warm to Trump, wary of his conservative bona fides. Others worry about his crass personality and the lewd comments he's made about women.
But millions of grass-roots activists, many of them outsiders to the political process, have embraced him as a plain-speaking populist.
Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and an unbound delegate who confirmed his support of Trump to the AP, said he likes the billionaire's background as a businessman.
"Leadership is leadership," House said. "If he can surround himself with the political talent, I think he will be fine."
Trump's pivotal moment comes amid a new sign of internal problems.
Hours before clinching the nomination, he announced the abrupt departure of political director Rick Wiley, who was in the midst of leading the campaign's push to hire staff in key battleground states. In a statement, Trump's campaign said Wiley had been hired only until the candidate's organization "was running full steam."
His hiring about six weeks ago was seen as a sign that party veterans were embracing Trump's campaign.
Some delegates who confirmed their decisions to back Trump were tepid at best.
Cameron Linton of Pittsburgh said he will back Trump on the first ballot since he won the presidential primary vote in Linton's congressional district.
"If there's a second ballot I won't vote for Donald Trump," Linton said. "He's ridiculous. There's no other way to say it."
Trump's path to the Republican presidential nomination began with an escalator ride.
Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, for an announcement many observers had said would never come: The celebrity real estate developer had flirted with running for office in the past.
His speech then set the tone for his ability to dominate the headlines with provocative statements, insults and hyperbole. He called Mexicans "rapists," promised to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and proposed banning most Muslims from the U.S. for an indeterminate time.
He criticized women for their looks. And he unleashed an uncanny marketing ability in which he deduced his critics' weak points and distilled them to nicknames that stuck. "Little Marco" Rubio, "Weak" Jeb Bush and "Lyin' Ted" Cruz, among others, all were forced into reacting to Trump. They fell one-by-one -- leaving Trump the sole survivor of a riotous Republican primary.
His rallies became magnets for free publicity. Onstage, he dispensed populism that drew thousands of supporters, many wearing his trademark "Make America Great Again" hats and chanting, "Build the wall!"
The events drew protests too-- with demonstrators sometimes forcibly ejected.
When voting started, Trump was not so fast out of the gate.
He lost the Iowa caucuses in February, falling behind Cruz and barely edging Rubio for second. He recovered in New Hampshire. From there he and Cruz fiercely engaged, with Trump winning some and losing some but one way or another dominating the rest of the primary season -- in votes or at least in attention -- and ultimately in delegates.
He incurred relatively low campaign costs -- just $57 million through the end of April. He covered most of it with at least $43 million of his own money loaned to the campaign.
Trump entered a new phase of his campaign Tuesday night by holding his first major campaign fundraiser: a $25,000-per-ticket dinner in Los Angeles.
Trump, 69, the son of a New York City real estate magnate, had risen to fame in the 1980s and 1990s, overseeing major real estate deals, watching his financial fortunes rise, then fall, hosting "The Apprentice" TV show and authoring more than a dozen books.
Associated Press writers James Nord in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, James MacPherson in Bismarck, North Dakota, Steve Peoples in Washington and Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.


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Finansinspektionen (SFSA, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) has decided to issue a warning and a penalty fine of SEK 50m (EUR 5.4m) to the Swedish part of Nordea, Nordea Bank AB (publ), for deficiencies in managing the anti-money laundering requirements.
The SFSA has since February 2013 conducted a review of Nordea's compliance in Sweden with the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements and finds that the bank has had major deficiencies in the area.
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Written by Akira Wong, first published on his personal blog.
1. I lost friends and family.
2. Lack of sleep.
3. When A1 becomes just the average.
4. Mediocre talents.
5. You forgot what you have learnt.
6. All and all, nobody really cares.
But wait! I need straight A1 to get scholarship!
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Nasib baik saya bukan straight A1's.. =)
Afterall, everything has pros and cons.
This is life..
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whowas <nickname> [<count>] [<server>]
This command is similar to WHOIS except it asks the server for information about a user who has left irc recently. It shows most of the same information as WHOIS.
The number of entries returned by the server is controlled by the value of SET NUM_OF_WHOWAS. You can override this value by providing a second argument which shall be the number of entries you want returned.
You can query a remote server for a WHOWAS reply with /quote whowas <nick> <count> <server>
The exact determination of what is "recently" enough to be returned by WHOWAS is a server option and may be anywhere from several seconds to several weeks.
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Sports Psychology Column – Apr 2, 2002 – By Dr. John F. Murray – South Florida was recently invaded by some of the top tennis players in the world in three consecutive tournaments. I had the privilege to work with players and cover the International Tennis Championships of Delray Beach for the Tennis Server. I also made it to the new $50,000 Challenger of North Miami Beach (won by Vince Spadea) and the NASDAQ 100 on Key Biscayne (won by Serena Williams and Andre Agassi) in which I interviewed four top players for a story in USTA Magazine. In this edition of Mental Equipment, I focus on the highlights of the Delray Beach event.
While I tend to view tennis from a somewhat nontraditional mental lens, more players are explaining that the mental game cannot be ignored. I interviewed many top 100 players again this year. I began by asking each player how important (in percentages) they felt their mental game is to success on the ATP or WTA Tour. The lowest response was 70% while the highest was 99%! While many players are working with a sport psychologist or practicing mental skills regularly, a surprising number still take a more casual and irregular approach to mental training even though they acknowledge the extreme importance.
Called the Citrix Tennis Championships the past couple years, and now seeking a new title sponsor, this tournament never ceases to thrill. Stephan Koubek captivated the crowd two years ago with his passionate three-set victory over Alex Calatrava, while Jan Michael Gambill fought off Xavier Malisse in the finals last year after surviving multiple match points. Would one of these two fighters prevail" or would there be a new champion in this beautiful town on the ocean?
Mark Baron and Fred Stolle co-directed another fine week of tennis for this growing International Series event. Another round of applause is due tireless media director Lisa Franson. Thanks go out to Cliff Kurtzman and the Tennis Server for media credentials, and I again appreciate all the players who spent time talking tennis. I also enjoyed discussing injuries with ATP trainer Bill Norris, and enjoyed meeting Director of Sales Ivan Baron, and Iggy Jovanovic from the ATP.
Marius Barnard is a solid doubles player who has been on the tour since 1988. We talked for 30 minutes about his career and the trials and tribulations of travel and competition. He is an impressive person who is beginning to ponder what life will be like after tennis. I enjoyed his views on the mental game and motivation, and how he sometimes performs better when he stops trying so hard. He expressed a possible interest in becoming a sport psychologist" and we need more of them. If you're reading Marius, call me anytime. I will trade you sport psychology tips for an improved backhand topspin!
I really enjoyed talking with Michael Llorda, Stefan Koubek, Kristian Pless, Paul Goldstein, Scott Humphries, Andrei Stoliarov, Michael Russell, Mardy Fish, Jeff Morrison, Nicolas Massu, Leander Paes, Davide Sanguinetti, Jarkko Nieminen and Tom Vanhoudt. I enjoyed picking many of their brains for their keys to mental strength.
I focused this year on the topics of match preparation and closing out the opponent (the killer instinct).
Top seeds this year were (1) Roddick (2) Gambill (3) Koubek (4) Massu (5) Sanguinetti (6) Burgsmuller (7) Nieminen and (7) Hipfl.
Qualifying Rounds
The qualifying rounds are often more fun and competitive than main draw matches. The top four qualifiers, earning entry into the main draw, were American Chris Woodruff, Feliciano Lopez of Spain, Alexandre Simoni of Brazil and Martin Verkerk of the Netherlands.
A rising star among the youngest crop of players is Eric Nunez who lost in the first round of the qualifying tournament to Simoni. Nunez won the first set 6-1 and almost won the second, losing 7-6. In the third set he was ahead 4-3, seeming to dominate in many ways, before he had to retire due to muscle cramps. Watch out for this pesky American from Florida. He is coached by his father, Colon, who coached Andre Gomez to a French Open championship over Andre Agassi in 1990. In my humble opinon, this kid Eric has the raw tools to be great.
Feliciano Lopez is another rising Spaniard. After qualifying with wins over Scott Draper, George Bastl, and Filippo Volandri, Lopez went to the main draw and dispatched of Chris Woodruff and Michael Russell before falling at last to Anthony Dupuis 7-6, 7-6. What a great showing! Watch out for him too.
Main Draw
Local favorite Andy Roddicks star continues to rise. Seeded number one due to a tremendous 2001, Andy did not disappoint, rolling over Davydenko, Lee, Llorda, and Dupuis to reach the finals. His emotional maturity is improving and his serve and big forehand are getting better too. As he approached the finals he appeared extremely tired. He admitted that he was fighting a nasty cold (or something) and later would cancel his upcoming tournament appearance – stirring up a minor ATP controversy for not flying to the event to be examined by the tour physician. When I spoke with him briefly after his win over Dupuis, I can attest that he looked ready for a 13-week vacation totally exhausted hacking cough so I kept my distance. What more to say? Tennis and the travel can be brutal on the body?
Number two seed and defending champion Jan Michael Gambill looked very ready to win again. He thrilled the crowd in his first match against serve and volleying Wayne Arthurs. Amazingly, he fought off match point to prevail (as he did last year against Arthurs after being down 3 match points!) 6-7, 6-3, 7-6. It was guts and glory as usual. When I mentioned to his father and coach that many think Jan Michael likes to play from behind, Mr. Gambill replied" "anyone who thinks that does not know his game." After his second annual Houdini Act, Gambill went on to win over rising American Mardy Fish and Andre Sa from Brazil.
What happened to Stefan Koubek? Two years ago he won the event and my story on him prompted my Smart Tennis Sport Psychology Tour 2000! He's had a great year so far (see Australian Open), but he ran into the hard hitting American buzz-saw named Michael Russell. Koubek played well but Russell was incredible – pounding low forehands and backhands and matching Koubek shot to shot with powerful blasts from the baseline. In my opinon, Koubek has matured mentally since his breakdown in the finals two years ago, but no luck this time around.
The fifth seed was a friendly and soft-spoken veteran named Davide Sanguinetti from Italy. He made it to the finals of this event about 6 years ago. He began by winning a tough first round match over Christophe Rochus 0-6, 6-4, 6-1 then easily beat Kristian Pless 6-3, 6-2 before defeating Paradorn Srichaphan from Thailand in three sets. This led to the semi-final match against Gambill.
Semi-Final 1
Andy Roddick over Anthony Dupuis 7-6 (4) 6-4
Dupuis, ranked 82 in the world, was only able to break Roddick's big serve once in the match, in the sixth game of the first set. The second set stayed on serve until the final game when Dupuis double faulted. Overall it was an impressive performance by both the Frenchman and the Boca Raton prodigy. Roddick has so much raw power. With improved strategy and refinement, this guy is unstoppable.
Semi-Final 2
Davide Sanguinetti over Jan Michael Gambill 7-6 (8) 6-3
This was a close match and a funny one too. Sanguinetti's Lotto shoes fell apart (the rubber broke off the bottom) at 5-4, 15-0 in the first set and he was forced to borrow the the shoes worn by Iggy Jovanovic from the ATP Tour. I've never seen anythink like this in a professional tournament. Showing the calm and relaxed style of his boyhood hero Milslov Mechir, along with some pretty nasty low groundstrokes delievered with an old- fashioned eastern grip, Gambill had to work extra hard to avoid mistakes with that two-handed on both sides style. Davide took full advantage. As Gambill later said "I thought his game would break down with the pressure but it didn't." Flat and low shots are hard to combat when that is not the norm on the tour. Jimmy Connors retired a long time ago. In a showcase of talent, the relaxed Italian master with the slow and low shots overcame the pressure-loving American blaster.
Davide Sanguinetti over Andy Roddick 6-4 4-6 6-4
You gotta love this match for the welfare of the game. Never count out a clever marksman and assume the young gun will win easily. Give Andy credit for the fight despite his illness. This was a fun match to watch. Roddick later would say "it's hard to rip the ball against him because he keeps it so low." He went on "I tried to get in a groove and bully him around, but this took a lot of energy and I could not keep bluffing it." Sanguinetti wore out the young Roddick with his soft shots, control, and persistant passing shots and angles saying "I knew he was frustrated and I took the pace off the ball to see what would happen." He attributed his great success not to talent, but to a grueling 6-week workout routine that improved his confidence. By winning, Sanguinetti was the first player on the tour with two championships in 2002.
If you want a suntan and some great tennis in March, come down and to the International Tennis Championships. Delray Beach is a great little resort town by the sea with cozy restaurants and a European downtown feel. The tennis is up-close and excellent. Keep pushing your mental skills to a higher level and I'll see you again soon!
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Note that figures are only indicative. Several sources were used and averages recalculated by merging the data available. Being approximations, numbers were rounded up to 0.5%. Frequencies inferior to 0.25% are indicated as 0%. A non-exhaustive list of the sources used for this page can be found here.
Turkey is the only country that includes a sizeable percentage of Asian and African haplogroups not listed in this table (A, ExE1b1b, C, H, L, O, R2) representing 8.5% of the total. Haplogroup L alone makes up 4% of the Turkish population.
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