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This lovely scroll combines many of the themes we have seen before: flowers, rocks and a butterfly. The flower here is a lotus, a flower much loved by the Chinese.
From Primaltrek:
Because the Buddha is often depicted as seated on a lotus, the lotus is considered a sacred Buddhist symbol (one of Eight Auspicious Symbols) representing purity and detachment from worldly cares.
The lotus signifies the seventh month of the lunar calendar.
The Chinese word for lotus is lianhua (莲花) or hehua (荷花). Lian is also the pronunciation of the word for continuous (连) and he is also the pronunciation for the word harmony (和) so the lotus has the hidden meaning of "continuous harmony".
A lotus stem and lotus pod shown together symbolize marital harmony and sexual union.
Lotus seeds (lianzi 莲 籽) have the hidden meaning of "continuous birth of children" because the lian sounds like "continuous" (连) and the zi has the same pronunciation as the word for son or child (zi 子).
Examples of lotus charms can be seen at Open Work Charms, Pendant Charms, Lock Charms, Marriage Charms, and Boy Charms.
And I thought you'd enjoy this scene of children flying a kite shaped like a butterfly, found on Quan Dong's auction website:
Certainly butterflies play an important role in Chinese life, in art and in play.
As we mentioned in the last post, butterflies are symbols of long life, joy and warmth (Primaltrek)
These delightful creatures often appear on mahjong tiles, but sometimes you have to look really carefully:
In the tile above, the butterflies form the frame around the Crak. Who says Craks have to be boring? I also love the way the number 1 is worked into the side of the "frame" instead of the top where it would interfere with the butterflies.
These tiles are examples of the split flower pots we often see, each half of the pot being a bit different from one another, with various plants in each. Because the Chinese often liked to have living creatures in their art, a butterfly can be seen on the bottom left set, the right tile. The butterfly is so well hidden it almost fades into the floral arrangement, doesn't it?
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If you have some MKV videos from HD camcorders or other resources and want to enjoy them on Home DVD player like what has mentioned above, you've come to the right place. Here we are going to introduce an easy way to you to convert and burn MKV to DVD with original quality remained.
Before we show you how to convert and burn MKV to DVD, you need to get a proper DVD burner ready first. If you have no idea which one to use, you might as well try the iOrgsoft MKV to DVD Maker for Mac Lion. It combines video converter with DVD burner. You will achieve both video conversion and burning using just one software.
This DVD Maker for Mac allows you to burn MKV videos to PAL or NTSC DVD discs like DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL etc. Meawhile, you can choose the aspect ratio between 4:3 and 16:9. If you have no available discs at the moment, you can backup the files as ISO files for further burning.
Now maybe you can't want to see how to use the software to burn MKV to DVD. Let's do it together, step by step.
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To begin with, go to download the free trial version first before you decide to buy the software. download, install and run it. A simple and user-friendly interface is shown as below.
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To import MKV files that you need to convert and burn to DVD, please go to find the "+" which means add files on the toolbar. You can load more than one file at one time.
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The software provides three kinds of style of template as DVD menu. You will find LifeSeries, CartoonSeries, and NatureSeries. Under each style of template, there are various choices. Select the desired one to make your DVD menu.
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After you are done with the DVD menu, you can click the button "Burn" to get ready for burning. After you click the "Burn", you will get to the "Setting" interface. There, you can input the Disc Label, choose file format, select DVD Aspect Ratio, etc. If you don't want to burn files to DVD, you can choose "Save iso to" to back up your files as ISO files.
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Adventure, Exclamation Point!
On the distant island of Gogapoe, a land inhabited by monsters and cake, a young boy named Niko is preparing to celebrate his birthday. Tragedy strikes when the nefarious Boogin King and his shadowy monsters, known as Boogins, steal Niko's birthday cake in an effort to fulfill their insatiable cakelust.
Distraught, Niko goes on a quest to avenge his fallen treat — and all treats that have met a similar fate. But, Niko quickly realizes that not all monsters are sugar-hungry jerks, some of them even want to help our hero! Cool!
Niko will adventure all across Gogapoe to meet new friends, fight grumpy Boogins, devour *ahem* rescue all those delicious frosting cubes, and ultimately karate-chop the Boogin King in his cake receptacle!
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Do you miss Bridget Jones? What about The Devil Wears Prada? Inspirational, yes? Did you consider the Sex and the City movie one of the greatest of all time - but believe they concentrated rather too much on plot and didn't spend anywhere near enough time obsessing about shoes or pretty dresses and designer labels. Is that you? Then Gucci be praised, because from the looks of the trailer for Confessions of a Shopaholic, unto you a film has been given. A film about shopping. A film about Being A Girl.
00.10: "When I was seven, most of my friends stopped believing in magic. That's when I started," says a voice dripping with barely-suppressed glee, as a young girl wanders around some kind of clothing boutique. "They were beautiful, they were happy," she says of the women in lurid fashions around her, "they didn't even need money; they had magic cards!"
And there we have it. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the worst economic crisis in modern history, and here to cheer us through it is super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, the man behind such seminal classics as Top Gun, The Rock and Black Hawk Down. Here, he's getting in touch with his inner Bridget Jones.
"Based on the acclaimed bestselling novels," it says, meaning the Shopaholic series by chick-lit favourite Sophie Kinsella, about a ditzy but attractive young woman who really likes shopping and gets in dreadful trouble spending too much money, but then gets married and has a baby and lives happily ever after with a rich husband and lots of shoes. And that's it. Apologies if I've harmed future sales of Ms Kinsella's books at all.
Yes, Bridget Jones is back, and this time she's thin! And called something even more twee than Bridget Jones. Say hello to Becky Bloomwood, played by the lovely and talented comedy actor Isla Fisher.
At 30 seconds in she describes the outfit she is wearing, and the audience can probably be decided by the people who mentally switch off after she squeaks "Gucci" in a cutesy way, and those that find themselves hooked and counting down the days to the release. Judging by last summer's Sex and the City release, you imagine Bruckheimer's banking on the latter.
The next minute is filled with disaster, as Becky Bloomwood gets her credit card refused by an uppity shop assistant; despair as she opens a pile of bills and finds herself in a hilarious amount of debt (because I think many people could tell you just how funny that feeling is right now, right?); then intrigue as she embellishes her CV with skills such as "fluent Finnish" to get a job as some kind of journalist at a personal finance magazine. And hilarity as she shows herself to be a complete klutz. Those who were hooked at "Gucci" smile expectantly. The others look on in wide-eyed horror, as if at a car crash - a car they have watched crash over and over again. It's like a demolition derby in pink-shimmer lipgloss.
Which is a shame, because Isla Fisher seems like a lovely woman and it's great to see her finally in the lead. Plus, there are plenty more years for her career to run, particularly as by the time this film comes out she'll be 33 and will still be able to play more than 10 years younger. So she should be in the lead, yes. It would just be smashing to see her in something that doesn't make me cry for the future of my sex and want to hand in my "woman" badge, place my ovaries on the desk and walk sadly out the door.
"You speak Prada," says Isla to Hugh Dancy, who's clearly a catch because he's:
a) British (and therefore rich, as we all know - possibly aristocratic, who knows!)
b) her boss (think we've moved on from Mad Men? Think again)
c) good looking, charming blah blah blah and
d) seems to understand why fashion is important, thus justifying her need for shopping.
Ahhhhhh, it's clearly love at first spend, the target audience sigh, happily. "Squeeeeeeee!" says Jerry Bruckheimer's inner girly girl, making a high-pitched happy noise and clapping its hands like a seal on illegal amphetamine-based diet pills.
So basically, as far as we can see, this is a film that can be summed up as "Girl goes shopping! Girl likes expensive things! Hee hee - credit card debt! Hee! Girl lies to get little job she doesn't really understand or take seriously to pay for shopping. Girl makes lots of mistakes! Silly girl! Girl meets lovely handsome boy! He's really rich! Girl goes shopping!"
And that's it.
And if you'll just take a moment now to look to the other side of the field, you can see a long line of feminist icons, heads bowed in defeat, making their way back into the tunnel. "Emmeline Pankhurst, Germaine Greer, Andrea Dworkin, Naomi Klein, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sarah Palin ... no, wait, not really you, Palin, sit back down .... Mo Mowlam, Margaret Atwood; your girls took one hell of a beating!" (Apologies to Norwegian football commentator Bjorge Lillelien.)


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It's Monday, and you know what that means; another Engadget HD Podcast. We hope you will join us live when the Engadget HD podcast starts recording at 8:30PM. If you'll be joining us, be sure to go ahead and get ready by reviewing the list of topics after the break, then you'll be ready to participate in the live chat.
Microsoft's next Xbox: The rumor roundup
Microsoft's New Generation Xbox event is live tomorrow, get your liveblog right here!
Sony's not showing its new PlayStation 4 just yet, but here's a taste
Netflix removes streaming expiration dates from API after 'Streampocalypse' hysteria
Redbox Instant streaming now available on LG Smart TVs
Vudu Player update allows movie downloads on iPhone, iPad
Google TV officially updated to latest versions of Android and Chrome, faster updates promised going forward
TCL announces MoVo UD 4K television with Google TV coming later this year
Google-built media player hits the FCC, reveals only a Hitchhiker's Guide reference
TiVo brings 'What to Watch Now' feature to its iPad app
Aereo confirms Atlanta launch on June 17th, will be third city to receive streaming service
ESPN and Twitter widen their deal for in-tweet video highlights
The CW will stream TV shows on Apple TV for free, the day after they air
Madden 25 Anniversary Edition includes NFL Sunday Ticket, exclusive to Amazon
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Daily Cute: It's Hard Work to Be This Relaxed
Editor's note: This post is a Care2 favorite, back by popular demand! It was originally posted on July 2, 2014. Enjoy!
How much effort is it worth to figure out how to get in a super comfy napping place? This cat thinks that it's definitely worth a few months of trying to get into that wonderful hammock. Once Timo makes it in, it's just as wonderful as this little cat imagined.


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Learn how to needle felt with this Mice kit. You'll use the barbed felting needles to stab the wool into life, creating a beautiful woollen sculpture to treasure forever.
Each kit has all the British wool you'll need to make two mice, 2 felting needles in case you break one and our step by step instructions with a size guide and 27 colour photos that will guide through the whole process from start to finish. The tips along the way will not only help you create what's on the box but also teach you how to needle felt so you can continue to discover the joys of this wonderful craft without instruction.
Please note that due to the very sharp needles we only recommend these kits for children over 10 years old.
• British Blue Faced Leicester Wool (Black and Brown)
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• Full colour instructions with 27 step by step photos and a handy size guide
• 7" Block of Foam
• Beautiful branded box ideal for keeping your kit in whilst you work on it
SIZE OF COMPLETED KIT: Approximately 10cm tall each
SKILL LEVEL: Beginner
TIME TO COMPLETE: We estimate most beginners will take 5-7 hours in total to complete one of our standard kits.
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Monday January 10, 2011
2010 was difficult for Lindsay Lohan but it seems the new year is full of new possibilities for the star.
Having spent the last three months in rehab, the 24-year-old looked on good form as she enjoyed front row seats at an LA Lakers basketball game.
The Mean Girls actress attended with her friend, jeweler Pascal Mouawad (pictured) and seemed to be in good spirits.
Lindsay seems intent on a new start and has recently moved into a new LA beach house next door to ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson.
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Tag Archives: Argentina
Linc Sport World Cup: Semi Final preview
Here we are, 4 teams left and 2 massive matches to decide who will compete in the final at The Maracana on Sunday.
Linc Sport World Cup: Quarter Finals Preview
With the quarter-finals starting today, the remaining teams have been preparing furiously to make sure they still progress through the tournament.
Linc Sport World Cup: Round of 16 preview
With many shock exits in the group stages like Spain and Italy and underdogs such as Costa Rica and Greece progressing anything could happen in the next stage of the World Cup. Especially in the first game, when the hosts Brazil take on Chile. The Brazilians did win their group but there performances have been […]
Linc Sport World Cup: Day 14
World Cup talk continues to be dominated by Luis Suarez after the Uruguay striker appeared to bite Giorgio Chiellini in their match between Italy on Tuesday.
England continue their good autumn form
Written by James Price England made it two wins from two in their autumn campaign on Saturday, sealing a 31-12 victory over Argentina.
England looking push on during Autumn Internationals
Written by James Price The autumn internationals are the ultimate test for Northern Hemisphere sides wanting to gauge just where they stand in comparison to their counterparts south of the equator.
Merson: "If Batty was as scatty we'd have won World Cup"
Ex-Arsenal star Paul Merson entertained guests at Lincoln City's sportsman's dinner on Wednesday night.


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Enables all shippers and forwarders to reach all carriers
INTTRA has announced the launch of Universal Carrier Access (UCA), which will bring increased efficiencies for shippers, forwarders and all carriers around the world.
With 22 of the world's largest ocean carriers connected to its network, INTTRA represents over 61 percent of the ocean freight capacity among the world's top carriers, and is the largest multi-carrier e-commerce platform for the ocean industry. INTTRA initiates more than 125,000 container orders each week and handles over $10 billion worth of freight each year, serving thousands of customers in more than 80 countries.
UCA enables any INTTRA registered shipper or forwarder to transmit Shipping Instruction data to any carrier or NVO in the world, at no charge to either party. The launch of UCA follows a successful six-month pilot program, which incorporated over 50 carriers and their customers and was designed to leverage the INTTRA platform to reach all carriers using a single, standard process.
'Many shippers and forwarders are still sending transactions to carriers in a conventional way, via fax and manually keyed file attachments. UCA enables shippers and forwarders to send a Shipping Instruction using INTTRA's industry standard PDF format - a process that is significantly less likely to contain or result in errors compared with traditional methods,' said Yuji Furusawa, INTTRA's Director of Product Management.
'By providing a single process to transact with all carriers, INTTRA can provide additional operational efficiencies for shippers and forwarders in a way that has never before been offered to the industry,' said Michael Nielsen, INTTRA's SVP of Global Commercial Sales.
'In addition, UCA offers a great opportunity for carriers to experience the advantages of receiving documents electronically. We believe that once carriers have tried this service, they too will appreciate the benefits and opportunities created by the efficiencies of e-commerce. This is an exciting next step towards fulfilling INTTRA's mission of creating a common industry-wide portal that can benefit the whole shipping industry,' he added.
INTTRA launches Universal Carrier Access (UCA)
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The Office of Undergraduate Research will host a guest faculty talk by Ashfaq Adnan, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Texas-Arlington, at 3:30 p.m., March 9, in Landes Auditorium in the Galloway Business Building. Admission is free.
"I wanted to encourage our students to get involved in research, especially in undergraduate research," Kumer Das, director of Undergraduate Research and LU associate professor of statistics, said. "One way to do that is, each month we host (a speaker) to come talk about what they are doing, to open up the horizons for our students."
Adnan will speak about mild traumatic brain injury and neuron damage.
Das said that though Adnan's background is in mechanical and aerospace engineering, there is a multi-disciplinary approach.
"Even NASA is working nowadays on neuro-science," Das said. They're sending people to space to check the importance of other factors that might influence somebody's health and neuro-science and brain traumatic injury."
Adnan, in an email interview, said the talk is aimed at increasing awareness of TBI and its impact on brain tissue.
"Not from a doctor's point of view, but from an engineer's point of view, and I hope that it will encourage students to learn more about the brain and brain injuries," he said.
Das said the talk itself will be interesting because it deals not only in pure research, but also in applied research,
"Our students should meet with people from other places, to see that what is going on in that particular campus, lab or program, so that they could think of their future," he said. "It's also a good thing for the faculty. I invite faculty from different disciplines to join the talk and they will get a chance to collaborate. This could help improve someone's teaching style, it could help choose the best method or practice, and they can also be helpful for writing grants."
Das said Adnan's research is challenging and interesting, the lecture will be an opportunity to see how people are working with things like health-related problems.
Traumatic brain injury can occur for multiple reasons including falling, concussions or blast exposure, Adnan said.
"The impact of TBI is significant," he said." Each year, approximately two million Americans sustain some level of TBI. Nearly one-third of injury-related deaths that occur in the U.S. are TBI related. Those who survive may experience long-lasting impairments that may lead to emotional, physical and economic distress at the personal and societal level. Since TBI affects so many individuals and families, many students and faculty often find talk on TBI as a topic of both academic and personal interest."
Das said students and faculty are invited to ask questions after the talk.
"This type of opportunity, we should take as much as we can to just talk, because we can email and use social networking, but there is a special advantage when using person-to-person communication and they should take it," he said.
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People shopping in a store who, the minute they get their hands on the shopping cart, can no longer remain erect. They lay on the cart for support while dragging their feet behind them.
The minute that woman grabbed that shopping cart, she started to lean and drag. It looks like she lost her spine the minute she grabbed that cart!
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DETROIT (AP) -- Chrysler is setting up a $38.2 million charitable foundation to honor its CEO, who refuses to take a salary from the company.
The automaker's Board of Directors will spend the money during the next five years to honor Sergio Marchionne, who also is CEO of Italian automaker Fiat SpA, Chrysler said Wednesday in a statement.
Money from the foundation initially will be spent to educate children of Chrysler employees, but it also will support other charitable causes, the company said.
Marchionne, who is widely credited with saving Chrysler after its 2009 bankruptcy, has never taken a salary from the company. But last year his compensation package from Fiat and its industrial company was $22.2 million, most of it in stock options.
Chrysler has gone from nearly running out of cash in 2008 to posting $1.29 billion in net profits through September of this year. Sales in the key U.S. market are up 22 percent through November. Marchionne has integrated a lot of the companies' operations, and both companies are sharing engines and other technology.
Chrysler said in the statement that it will contribute an amount equal to the value of five million Chrysler shares to the foundation over the next five years. The company valued each share at $7.63 in its 2011 annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The first contribution to the foundation will be made in December of 2013, and it will begin making awards in 2014, the company said. More specific information ill come next year.
"Creating this foundation is a fitting tribute to all that has been accomplished at Chrysler," Ronald Thompson, the company's lead director, said in the statement.


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In all the Ready. Set. Write! hubub, I haven't forgotten my Ten Before Thirty list! In fact, RSW is partially helping me complete one of my goals. But I've completed one more thing and made progress on others, so I figured a new update is in order.
1. Learn to quilt. I pieced my quilt top, so now I need to actually quilt it and then bind it. Fabric cutting and piecing were so much fun, even if the end product isn't perfect. I wish I bought more of the orange so it would be evenly distributed. But I still like the way it's turning out so far.
2. Drive a manual. This is going to happen! My original plan was to rent a manual for a weekend and work on it that way, but my husband bought a new car and it's a manual! Now we just need to get a babysitter so he can take me out and give me some driving lessons… 🙂
3. Finish the draft of my current WIP. See Ready. Set. Write! I am on track to finish my draft by the week of my 30th birthday. Hooray!
4. Read my most embarrassing gap books. I read Jane Eyre. Just finished Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut–a quick read with awe-inspiring writing, though not entirely up my alley as far as the actual story. Now I need to get my hands on some Dickens and this one will be done.
5. Make pasta from scratch. I originally amended this one to say I wanted to try something new in the kitchen, so it doesn't necessarily HAVE to be pasta. I've decided I would prefer to bake a loaf of bread. I have baked many a pastry, cookie, cake and pie, but I've yet to bake a loaf of bread. Challenge = on.
6. Submit to more literary magazines. 7. Write letters to five people that I appreciate.
8. Go on a hike with Jack and my husband. DONE! A couple weekends ago, I strapped Jack into my carrier and the three of us took a 2.5 mile hike around Beaver Lake in Pocahontas State Park. I chose a relatively easy hike because I had no clue how well Jack would do (or how well I would do with nearly 23 extra-wiggly pounds strapped to my front). It was sweaty and buggy and I had to stop and feed Jack halfway through, but it was still a ton of fun. Jack did great! He kept leaning backward in the carrier to look up at the trees, and every time the branches opened up and let in a big chunk of sky, he got so excited and giggled like a maniac.
I do think we will have to wait until the fall to do more hikes, though–baby carriers are HOT and even with low 80's temps that weekend, I was so worried Jack would get overheated or dehydrated.
9. Zipline. This is on the horizon. I'm thinking I will cash in on my birthday to get some free babysitting so I can do this with the hubs.
10. Get a massage.
Stay tuned for more updates! 🙂


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MI5 has warned that foreign spy agencies are targeting IT workers within big organisations as a means of gaining privileged access to sensitive data.
The security service's warning about spy-infiltration tactics is a bid to encourage corporations to bolster their defences against such attacks, the FT (via the Daily Mail) reports.
While grooming internal sources with access to highly sensitive information used to take years in the time of the Cold War spymasters, it now takes much less time – basically however long it takes the new recruit to get privileged access to company info… that's if they don't have it already.
I would just like to say that I will never be bribed by the offer of hot sex, fine wines, good meals and holidays in the Carribean (even if they were on a large yacht). And I challenge any interested spy agencies to try to prove otherwise.
Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present. Corn producers in Iowa, oyster growers in Washington State, and maple syrup producers in Vermont are all observing climate-related changes that are outside of recent experience. So, too, are coastal planners in Florida, water managers in the arid Southwest, city dwellers from Phoenix to New York, and Native Peoples on tribal lands from Louisiana to Alaska. This National Climate Assessment concludes that the evidence of human-induced climate change continues to strengthen and that impacts are increasing across the country.
Are we going to do anything about this?
The Vatican released comprehensive statistics for the first time Tuesday on how it has disciplined priests accused of raping and molesting children, saying 848 priests have been defrocked and another 2,572 given lesser sanctions over the past decade.
The Vatican's U.N. ambassador in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, revealed the figures during a second day of grilling by a U.N. committee monitoring implementation of the U.N. treaty against torture.
Tomasi insisted the convention applied only inside the tiny Vatican City state. But he nevertheless released statistics about how the Holy See has adjudicated sex abuse cases globally, and significantly, he didn't dispute the committee's contention that sexual violence against children can be considered torture.
Tomasi said that since 2004, more than 3,400 credible cases of abuse had been referred to the Vatican, including 401 cases in 2013 alone. He said that over the last decade, 848 priests had been defrocked, or returned to the lay state by the pope. Another 2,572 were sentenced to a lifetime of penance and prayer or some other lesser sanction, which is often used when the accused priest is elderly or infirm.
And no mention of jail, prison, or arrests. Just, a few thousand have been told to stop it, and almost a thousand loss their job.
After seven years of waiting, Corpus Christi pollution victims finally learned what restitution they'll be receiving from Citgo Petroleum Corp.: nothing. Last week, a federal district judge determined that residents of a neighborhood exposed to toxic chemicals from Citgo's Corpus refinery weren't due any compensation, including medical expenses or relocation costs.
In 2007, a jury convicted Citgo of violating the Clean Air Act, a first for a major oil company. The company had illegally stored oil in two uncovered tanks, exposing nearby residents to toxic chemicals including the carcinogen benzene. It took seven years for U.S. District Judge John D. Rainey to sentence the company, finally ruling in February that Citgo owed $2 million—a paltry sum next to the $1 billion prosecutors argued the company had earned from its illegal operation. Still, victims held out hope for some restitution.
Harbingers' participation in market research studies might explain why so many failed products make it to stores in the first place. "You see this happening over and over again where managers or product developers think that their product is great because they can find customers who love it," says Anderson. He continues: "Customers were able to raise their hand early in the process and say, this is a fantastic beer or this is a fantastic shampoo; whatever the product was, customers came back and said they loved it. But then we asked, well what kind of customers said they love it?"


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Mormonad Booklet in Spanish 4 x 6
I copied these images from the Liahona, the images came from a PDF file so they are not prefect. I then placed them on a 4 x 6 black background so they would size right when you have them printed.
I was only able to find 51, but they is more then enough to fill a $1.00 photo book you can get at Wal–Mart or the dollar store.
Download all 116 in this Zip file here:
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OR ONE AT A TIME…………Here is EVERY CARD, I have uploaded this as a high quailty image, so you can pick and choose from these, if yo only want a few, or only want one for a lesson you can click on the image, then "save to target / link"
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I for one, abhor Asian dramas, mainly because so many lack the originality and insightful depth which one would find more prevalent in well, non-Asian drama. Though I hope you won't take me to be a racist to my own race- perhaps what Mother picked were just... bad.
Nevertheless, I'll be grateful if you can list some of your favourites (preferably on my blog since I'm still a newbie and probably would not know how to return to this post) so I can purchase some for her!
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Ducati lost a big piece of it's soul today. Franco Farne, legendary rider, mechanic and engineer has passed at 81. The obituaries will say he was brilliant and important, he was there at Ducati from the beginning for all of it, from the Cucciolo to the modern superbike, the stuff of Ducati legend – Paul Smart's Imola win, Mike Hailwood's come back to win the Isle of Man TT, that he was among the first to see the potential in Carl Fogarty, that his partnerships with Taglioni, Bordi, and NCR in particular, resulted in brilliant, stunningly fast, machines. But the thing about Franco Farne that I loved best was that he never stopped looking for more in a motor or a design. Those around him were always certain that if it was there, Farne would find it and if he didn't, well, then it simply was not possible. He. Was. The. Best.
I'll end this with a small tale of the respect he earned from all that knew him. I remember arriving one time in Bologna, to the small NCR workshop with 3 days to assemble a Ducati competition bike for the Motogiro d'Italia, a project that had more chance of going wrong than right, time was short with nothing to waste and yet there we all were, stunned in wonder, looking at a set of Farne's tools, laid out for us to use. It seemed to set the bar for perfection, the magic was in the wrenches. We made the deadline and the bike was perfect. In the end when the tale was told, the magical wrenches were the headline. Think about that. Just touching his wrenches was an honor.
RIP Farne. Give Giorgione a hug for me, would you?
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Even though he's already on season-ending injured reserve, Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill has been suspended by the NFL for his domestic assault charges last spring.
Hill has been suspended without pay for the team's next game and fined one additional game check for violating the NFL Personal Conduct Policy.
Hill was placed on injured reserve last week with an Achilles' tendon injury that will require surgery.
Under NFL rules, players on injured reserve who are suspended under the drug, steroid or personal conduct policies serve those suspensions while they are on injured reserve.
Thus Hill will lose his next two week's pay, but will not face further suspension once his injured reserve stint ends.
With a $2.125 million base salary, each week he's suspended costs Hill about $130,000.
Hill was already suspended for the first game this season for violating the NFL's drug policy in regards to a marijuana charge in Georgia in 2009.
Hill reached a pretrial agreement in his domestic assault case in mid-August by agreeing to a settlement that requires him to attend a domestic violence prevention program and have no criminal violations in the next 18 months.
The agreement was not an admission of guilt, but does require Hill to fulfill those conditions in order to have the case dismissed.
The NFL personal conduct policy does not require a guilty finding, however, and the league chose to enforce its suspension this week.
Hill played only a few special teams snaps in the Seahawks' second game this year before suffering his Achilles' injury.


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Subscribe to Comments Reloaded Plugin Reviewed: Follow Comments on Any As Seen by Janine Post!
As Seen by Janine's Photo Blog now has an option to subscribe to comments on posts which interest you! I just added the Subscribe to Comments Reloaded plugin and I will give a brief review of this plugin shortly.
What led me to add the plugin is that my most recent post, Breaking Out of the HDR Rut with Lightroom 5: Photomatix Pro vs. HDR Effects Pro vs. Lightroom 5, has gotten quite a few comments; in fact, more than I've ever gotten! As of this moment, I already have 16 responses on yesterday's post:
Okay, in fairness, 8 of the 16 are actual comments from readers; the other 8 are my replies to their comments. Part of "comment love etiquette" is taking the time to reply when folks are kind enough to spend their time bothering to comment. Still 8 comments is more than I've ever had!
This increase in comment activity on my blog is exciting for me because comments on posts really boost the blog's rankings in search engines. While I know 8 comments is nothing compared to the number of comments some of the most popular photography bloggers get, it is a huge step forward for me. While I have had many very popular posts which have gotten very high numbers of views, it is rare for people to leave comments.
No surprise that I got comments this time, because I included a "call to action" by specifically asking readers to comment and express their opinions. I also promoted the post on multiple social media platforms, including Facebook, Google+, and Twitter, which I always do, but this time I specifically asked for comments and shares.
I even was brave enough to write to David duChemin, a world class photographer I consider one of my greatest mentors, asking him to read and comment on my blog because I really wanted his feedback on the photos I was evaulating. David did comment with some very sage words of wisdom which truly inspired me!
Quite a few other people have commented as well. The call to action has brought comments in, boosting my SEO.
FAR more importantly, getting such great comments is giving me the interactive feedback I was hoping for to help me grow as an artist.
What I didn't have in place though was a way for those who comment to subscribe to followup comments by others on this popular post. I've seen this on other photographers' blogs, such as David duChemin's, and I often do subscribe to be notified of comments on posts of particular interest to me.
Today's exciting list of comments on my post from yesterday led me to wish that the readers who did comment could see the great responses left by others. So off I went to the Install Plugins feature of my WordPress admin panel.
I chose the Subscribe to Comments Reloaded plugin by Camu, Reedyseth, Raam Dev, based on the original Subscribe to Comments plugin by Mark Jaquith. I chose the "reloaded" version based on the average rating, the number of people who've downloaded the plugin, and the statement that it fixes some of the glitches in Jaquith's original plugin. I'm sure there may be other great subscribe to comments plugins, but this is how I made my selection.
Now, at the bottom of every post on As Seen by Janine's Photo Blog, readers will see the "subscribe to comments checkbox" as shown here (below the normal comments boxes):
The checkbox includes a choice of subscription options, including subscribe to all comments, subscribe to replies to the reader's comment, or subscribe without commenting.
The Subscribe to Comments Reloaded plugin can be customized with many options by using the settings within your WordPress Admin Panel:
I chose to use the "advanced subscription" option which gives readers the multiple choices of just what they wish to subscribe to. I also chose to set the advance default to "all followup comments." Readers can easily change this default if they only wish to see replies to their own comment.
An important feature which led me to choose the Subscribe to Comments Reloaded plugin is that it includes options for readers to unsubscribe to the post's comments later, if they wish.
While there are some posts on other sites which I've followed for years, often I've subscribed to a post and followed it for awhile, but later unsubscribed when the information was no longer necessary or relevant for me.
Here is the interface for the Notifications Options, which is where you customize the notification email sent to people so they can confirm their subscription to the comments:
I'm excited that now my readers will have the option to follow comments on my blog, thanks to the Subscribe to Comments Reloaded plugin. My readers will also be able to unsubscribe to that post's comments whenever they no longer wish to follow the post.
Plugin developers are nothing short of saints, because they create these little gems which improve our blogs and give them away for free! Within the plugin settings, you'll find this option to support the developers:
I am a firm believer in making donations to plugin developers because without them my blog would, in plain English, really suck! Plugins are what make it possible to customize a blog to make it more user friendly and also to provide me, as the author, with a ton of useful information. So I did donate to the developers at: email@example.com and I am also reviewing the plugin to spread the word about this great little gem, the Subscribe to Comments Reloaded plugin.
Please share this post to spread the word to any bloggers you know who don't have a subscribe to comments feature on their blogs!
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February 7, 2013
Microsoft, Your Google Ads Are Ridiculous
Sarah Perez, TechCrunch
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Hey Microsoft, 2004 called. It wants its privacy outrage debate back. Microsoft is on the rampage lately, aggressively attacking Google on search, shopping, and email, the latter which is now featured on Microsoft's infamous "Scroogled" site where – get this! – Microsoft goes after Gmail because Google reads your email to target you with ads! Seriously.
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California Representative Pushes for GITMO
Guess which one? Yep.. Dianne Feinstein.. The very skank who wouldn't debate Elizabeth Emken before the election. I don't blame her actually, no need to waste time here. Whoever has a D after their name wins in the state. Sheep are habitual idiots.
Feinstein commissioned report on housing Gitmo detainees in US
The Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence committee has commissioned a federal report to identify prison facilities in the U.S. that are suitable for housing Guantanamo detainees, a document exclusively reviewed by Fox News shows.
In the internal document, the Government Accountability Office refers to "Source of Work: Ms. Dianne Feinstein, Chair, Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. Senate" and lists the "Gist of Work" as an investigation into whether domestic facilities could house the approximately 170 detainees remaining at the controversial facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Basically this should be a no brainer for Democrats. Release all of them in California. They will have kids when their not trying to blow shit up. Those kids will grow to hate America and vote Democrat… The cycle continues and the elites can keep their castles…
Tired of fighting, close it let them all out, let them walk free in CA or NY. Give them retribution, welfare, free education etc… Hell, give them a car and cable TV.. Time to hasten the destruction of our nation. No more prolonging it, just let die. Then the few left might be close enough to realize why it died and start anew.


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We'll add a competitive element to the project and—just as we have seen on TV—let the children vote for the winner. The tasks we set will involve the students researching, collaborating, and reflecting. They will be working hard, but we'll have a much easier time now, as all of their responses will be on Moodle for us to view and mark at our convenience—no more carrying heavy books around.
Giving our class a chance to vote
Moodle has an activity, known as Choice, which allows you to present students with a number of options that they can choose from. We're actually going to use it twice in our project, for two different purposes. Let's us try and set it up.
Time for action-giving students a chance to choose a winner
The students have posted their suggestions, comments, and views on Moodle. A choice is to be made of the best suggestion. Who better, than the students themselves to choose and vote for the best?
- With editing turned on, click on Add an Activity and then select Choice.
- In the Name field, enter an appropriate descriptive text—in our case, this is Vote for the best design here.
- In the Choice Text field, ask the question based on which you want the students to cast a vote.
- Leave the Limit field as it is if you don't mind any number of students casting a vote for any option available. Change it to enable, if you only want a certain number of people to vote for a particular choice. We shall leave the Limit block as it is, but we shall inform the students that they can't vote for themselves.
- In the Choice block, type in the options (a minimum of two) you want the students to be able to cast their vote for. Clicking on Add more fields will provide you with more choice boxes. We will need one field for each member of the class, for this activity.
- Use the Restrict answering to this time period option to decide when to open and close your Choice—or have it always available.
- Miscellaneous settings: For our activity, we need to set Display Mode to Vertical set and Publish Results to Do Not Publish. The following table explains what the settings mean, so you can use them on other occasions.
What it is
Why use it
Display Mode
Lets you have your buttons go across or down the screen
Use Vertically if you have many options to avoid stretching your screen
Publish Results
Decide if and when you want students to see what others have put
Choose Do not publish if you want them to tell you their progress privately; if you're doing a class survey, choose, for example, Always show results
Privacy of Results
Lets you choose whether to show names or not
Are the results more important than who voted for what? Some students might be wary of responding if they think their names will be shown
Allow choice to be updated
Lets them change their mind-but they can still vote only once.
Useful, if you are using this to assess progress over a period of time.
Show column for unanswered
Sets up a column showing those who haven't yet responded
A clear visual way of knowing who hasn't done the task
- For now, you can ignore the Common Module Settings option, and just click on Save and return to course.
What just happened?
We've set up an area, on our course page, where the students can choose their favorite designs from a number of options, by clicking on the desired option button. On the screen, you will be able to see an icon (usually, a question mark) and some text next to it. If you click on the text next to the icon, the following information will appear:
The students will click on the option button placed next to their choice—in our case, the name of the classmate whose design they prefer.
Finding out the students' choice
- Access the Choice option and click on the words View *** responses on the upper right of the screen. The *** will be the number of students who have voted already.
- You will get a chart displaying the choices of the students. In my Moodle course, as shown in the following screenshot, nobody has voted yet—so they need a gentle nudge!
Remember that we have set up this activity so that our students cannot see the results, in order to avoid peer pressure or bullying. However, we can see the results. Thus, if Mickey votes for himself (even after having been told not to) we will spot it and can reprimand him.
Have a go hero-getting the class to give us feedback
After we've gone through all of the effort to set up our project on Moodle, it would be nice to know how well it was received. Why not go off now and set up another Choice option, where the question asks how much did you enjoy planning and designing the campsite? You could give them three simple responses (displayed horizontally) as:
- A lot
- It was OK
- Not very much.
Or you could be more specific, focusing on the individual activities and asking how much they feel they have benefited from, say, the wiki or the forum. Make sure it is set up, so that the students don't see the results—that way they're more likely to be truthful.
Why use Choice?
Here are a few other thoughts on Choice, based on my own experiences:
- It is a fast and simple method of gathering data for a class research project. I used this with a class of 13 year olds who had just returned from the summer break. I asked them to choose where they had been on vacation, giving them choices of our own country, several nearby countries in Europe, the United States of America, and a few more. I set up the choice, so that they could all see the answers when the time was up. I also set it up in such a way that the results were anonymous, to avoid any kind of uneasiness felt by those students who had stayed at home. The class then compared and contrasted the class results with Tourist Office statistics on the most popular tourist destinations.
- It offers a private way for students to evaluate and inform the teacher about their progress. Students might be too shy to tell you in person if they are struggling; they might be wary of being honest in the open voting methods that some teachers use (such as red, amber, or green traffic lights). However, if the students are aware of the fact that their classmates will not see their response, they are more likely to be honest with you.
- It acts as a way to involve the class in deciding the path that their learning will take. I first introduced my class of 11 year olds to rivers in Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia. Then, I offered the class, the chance to vote for the river that they wanted study in greater depth as part of their project. The majority opted for the Amazon—so the Amazon it was!
Announcing the winner
Well, you could give out the results in the classroom, of course! Alternatively, can encourage them to use Moodle by using the Compose a Webpage resource that we met in the previous article on Adding Worksheets and Resources with Moodle, and adding the information there.
Writing creatively in Moodle
Once a winner has been found, the next task for everyone is to create a cleverly-worded advertisement for this campsite, for which, you could use one of the names suggested in the glossary. This too can be done on Moodle. Why use Moodle and not their exercise books? The first reason is that it will save paper, the second reason is that the students enjoy working on the computer, and the third and final reason is that we can work at our leisure in school, at home, or in any room where there is an Internet connection. We're not tied to carrying around a pile of heavy books. We don't even need to manually hand-write the grades into our grade book. Moodle will put the grades that we give our students, into its grade book automatically and alphabetically. Moodle can also send our pupils an email telling them that we've graded their task, so that they can check their grades. This might be a different way of working from the one that you are used to, but do give it a try. It will take the pressure off your back and shoulders, if nothing else.
Time for action-setting up an online creative writing exercise
For our advert, we'll use an Online text assignment.
- With editing turned on, select online text option, within Assignments.
- In the Assignment name field, enter something descriptive—our students will click here to get to the task.
- In the Description field, enter the instructions. Our screen will then appear as shown in the following screenshot:
If you need more space to type in, click on the icon on the far right of the bottom line of the HTML editor. This will enlarge the text box for you. Click it again when you're done, to return to the editing area.
- In the Grade field, enter the total marks out of which you will score the students (for now, we're sticking to a maximum of 100, but you can change this).
- Set a start and end date between which the students can send the work assigned to them, if you want.
- Leave the Prevent Late Submissions option as it is, unless you need to set a deadline by which the students must submit the assigned work.
- Set the Allow Resubmitting option to YES, if you want to let students redraft their work.
- Set the Email Alerts to teachers option to NO (unless you want 30 emails in your inbox!).
- Change the Comment inline option to YES, so that we can post a comment on the students work.
- Click on Save and return to course.
What just happened?
We've just explained to our class what we want them to do, and have also provided them with space in Moodle to do it. We used an Online Text assignment.
If we go up to the top of our course, where the editing button is, you'll be able to see a very useful feature called Switch role to…. If we choose the Student option, it will allow us to see the tasks as the pupils will see them:
In this case, there's a rather unfriendly command at the bottom of our assignment. Do you think that your students will know that they need to click here to get to their text box?
Why not ask your Moodle administrator to look at the Language editing settings and change these words to something more child-friendly—such as Click here to type your answer?
Marking students' work on Moodle
Now that the students have done their bit, it's time that we did ours. The difference is that, instead of staying late after school or taking a pile of exercise books home and then searching around for a red pen (or green, as in my school) we can just type our comment on top of their entry. If we go back to the assignment and click on it, we'll see a message on the upper right of the screen, as shown in the following screenshot:
The number displayed on the screen is the number of children who've completed the task. If we click on this link, we'll be transported into Moodle's online grade book, as shown in the following screenshot:
Eventually, after clicking on the link, we will be able to see whose work it is (Mickey Mouse, in our case). Moodle has also recorded the time at which the student posted it, and will also record the time that we (the teacher) grade the post. We need to click on Grade on the right and get our online pen ready. By doing this, we'll be able to see a window similar to the one shown in the following screenshot:
The student's effort is shown at the bottom of the screen—but it's also present in our HTML editor box. So, we can correct the student's words but will still keep the original for him to compare against. Moodle also tells us how many words the student has written (in our case, 24 words). I have made it clear that I wanted the suggestion to be 100 words, so that's lost him some marks already.
We can type a general comment, ahead of Mickey's work, using a different color to separate our work from his. We can then use the features of the HTML editor to highlight, cross out, or even underline errors, depending on our personal marking style.
We can then select a suitable grade in the box at the top and, if we want, ensure that he gets an email telling him that his work has been awarded a grade. Before we save, let's just look at the corrected version. It will look similar to what is shown in the following screenshot:
If we have lots to mark, we can click on Save and show next, which will take us to the next post in our register, posted by a student. Let's just click Save changes for now.
What just happened?
We have just finished grading the students on their very first exercise in Moodle! The grade book was waiting there for us. We saw that mickey mouse had sent in his work. Thus, we clicked on Grade and were able to correct it, comment on it, and give it a grade. By saving our corrections, we've now added them to the grade book and can see how this looks in the following screenshot:
However, for one thing, I need to chase up Tom Cat as he hasn't posted his suggestion yet! Mickey's grade is located along with the first part of my comments. He'll get an email telling him to go and check his score. If I change my mind after I've marked others, I can always click on Update, and alter the student's grade.
More than one teacher or class can work on the same assignment in Moodle and have them displayed separately. However, to implement this, you'll have to ask your Moodle administrator to set up groups for you. This isn't something we're looking at right now, but as you get more into Moodle, you'll find it a useful feature.
Other ways to set and mark work in Moodle
If you just want your students to perform a piece of writing, such as an advert, a letter, or a description, then the Online text assignment would be the best choice. But there might be times when the students need to actually upload files, such as presentations or leaflets that they have created. Moodle has four types of assignments you can use (although one of them is a bit of a cheat, really). The following table explains the benefits of each one, so that you can select the one that is most suited to your purposes:
Type of assignment
What it's for
Why use it
Online text
Allows students to type straight into Moodle and teachers to correct online
For shorter passages of plain text it's the quickest and simplest way to set and mark work
Upload a single file
Gives students a box to upload a file such as a Word-processed document or PowerPoint
For tasks that aren't suited to the online text type, say when you need to upload a certain file type such as spreadsheet or slideshow
Advanced uploading of files
Students can send more than one item; teachers can return the work corrected for students to revise
If you like commenting on the students' work, but the online text isn't for you, use this one to mark and return a Word-processed document; use it also if you are doing a project involving several pieces of work
Offline text
Students produce work offline, such as a class role play, and it is marked in Moodle
This is just a space in Moodle's grade book for you to record marks of tasks done outside Moodle
Have a go hero-mark their campsite design
It's now your turn! The students have uploaded the campsite designs to a database so that everyone can see them. Unfortunately, the designs are not linked to the grade book. However, you could still mark each individual student by using the Offline text facility. Why not set it up and see how the grade book appears, ready for you to mark the designs?
Collaborative story-telling
The project is nearly over, but as an entertaining plenary, let's get the students to put their minds and imaginations together to devise a spooky tale about a night on the campsite! We'll help to start them off, and then they can all join in by adding, editing (and even deleting) others' contributions. We shall use a Moodle wiki for this, as a wiki is a great tool for collaboration. However, like the glossary, and even the database, a wiki has many more features than we require at present. So we'll just stick to what we need.
Time for action-getting our class to work together on an online story
Let's make things more interesting! Let's ask the students to post an imaginative story.
- With editing turned on, select the Wiki option within the Add an activity option.
- In the Name field, provide a suitable title for your wiki, and in the Description field, enter a short explanation of what you want the students to add.
- For the Type option, choose Groups.
- Don't worry about the settings that you don't understand. For now, just click on Save and Display.
- On the screen that is displayed next, enter the beginning of the story (or anything you want them to continue with).
You can add extra pages to a wiki by adding square brackets around the name of the page. The next time that you save it, it will link to the new page. We're just going to have our story on one page, for the sake of simplicity.
What just happened?
The students now have, thanks to our efforts, a communal space on Moodle where they can continue the story. They can click on the wiki, enter the desired text into it, and save it, as they would do, if it were a Forum or an Online text assignment.
The benefit of our group wiki is that our entire class can come to the same page and add, edit, and delete what has been entered. However, if we object to any student's act, we can click on History and see who did it, when they did it, and precisely what they did.
Although, we chose Groups for our wiki, there are also Student and Teacher wikis available. The following table provides a very brief outline of the three types of wikis and their uses.
Type of wiki
What it is
Why use it
One wiki that everyone can edit
Collaborating on a story or group activity
Only the teacher can edit this
For presenting information that you can easily add to or edit yourself
Each student has his/her own wiki
As an online exercise book for notes/revision; private communication between student and teacher
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|The stupid question is the question not asked
Re: Re: Non-destructive array processingby Juerd (Abbot)
|on Jan 21, 2003 at 19:37 UTC ( #228804=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
I prefer Perl 6.
So do I, so do I...
Wouldn't for @array -> @chunk[0, 1], &foo work? With @chunk predeclared, of course. (Not that I ever need the chunk as an array. I use it only to store whatever splice returns. I love the Perl 6 syntax.)
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Africa, the second-most populated continent in the world, has produced individuals who have excelled in diverse fields, ranging from politics to sports. Over a period of time, Africans have spread all over the world but they still trace their roots to their birthplace. Here are some famous people born in Africa.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was the first President of South Africa to be elected by a democratic representation. He held office from May 10, 1994 to June 14, 1999. Born on July 18, 1918 as Rolihlahla, he was named 'Nelson' by his school teacher, Miss Mdingane. He was the first member of his family to attend school. After completing his basic education, Nelson joined the University College of Fort Hare to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Arts. He was very active in student politics. He participated in a protest, as a result of which, he was suspended from the institute. He went to Johannesburg, where he completed his studies through correspondence. After graduation, Nelson started studying LLB. In 1942, after finishing his LLB studies, he joined the African National Congress. He played an active role in the Anti-apartheid movement. In 1960, he proposed a military arm for ANC, which led to formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. His anti-apartheid stand landed him in prison on July 12, 1964. After being in prison for 27 years, he was finally released on February 11, 1990. In 1991, Nelson Mandela was elected as the first President of African National Congress. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his valuable contribution to the African nation.
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif is an Egyptian actor, who has worked in numerous Egyptian, French and English films. He was born to Claire and Joseph Chalhoub on April 10, 1932 as Michel Demitri Chalhoub, in Alexandria, Egypt. Sharif graduated from Victoria College in Alexandria, and went on to earn a degree in Mathematics from Cairo University. He started his acting career in 1953, with an Egyptian film named Sira Fi al-Wadi. In 1955, he took the name Omar al-Sharif after converting to Islam and married the Egyptian actress Faten Hamama. After a few more Egyptian films, he made his debut in Hollywood with the 1962 film, Lawrence of Arabia. His portrayal of the character, Sheriff Ali, won him a Golden Globe Award for the Best Supporting Actor. His other notable films were Dr Zhivago and Funny Girl. Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, in 2003, was his first French film. In November 2005, Omar Sharif was awarded a medal by the UNESCO for his significant contribution to films and cultural diversity.
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is an African-American actress and a former model. She was born on August 7, 1975 in Benoni, South Africa. Charlize spent the initial 15 years of her life in Benoni, before moving to Milan, Italy for a one-year modeling contract that she had won at a local competition. After her contract ended, she stayed back and joined ballet dancing classes. But a knee injury shattered all her hopes of becoming a dancer. After a small role in a 1993 film, 'Children of the Corn III', Charlize got many opportunities to showcase her talent. She rose to fame with movies like 'Mighty Joe Young', 'The Devils Advocate' and 'Two Days in the Valley'. She became the first African to win an Academy Award, when she won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of the character Aileen Wuornos in 2003 flick 'Monster'.
Kevin Pietersen
Kevin Pietersen is an English cricketer, whose roots can be traced to the African continent. He was born on June 27, 1980 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal in South Africa. Born to an English mother and Afrikaner father, Kevin was one of the four siblings in the family. In 1997, he made his first class debut for Natal's 'B' team at the age of 17. Soon after, he moved to England, disappointed with the racial quota system in South African cricket. His mother's English nationality did help him in this migration but he still had to wait and play county cricket in England for four years, before making his debut at the one day internationals in 2004. His test debut was soon to follow. Pietersen made the most of this opportunity and, very soon, became the third English cricketer to reach the number one position in ICC rankings.
These were just a few of the long list of individuals, who have carved for themselves, a niche in society, against all odds. This was possible only due to their sheer determination, courage and creativity.


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Hello everyone. The other day we had a very special visitor here at Phajoding. The reincarnation of the Gyelwa Shakya Rinchen came to visit all of us here and I spent a long time talking with him about his studies, plans for the future and what we should be teaching the monks here. Some of you may remember that Gyelwa Shakya Rinchen was the one who built all the temples here at Phajoding in the 18th century. He was also famous for being the 9th Je Khenpo (Chief Abbott of the central monk body of Bhutan) and was the heart disciple of Milarepa as well.
The Gyelwa Shakya Rinchen reincarnation (or tulku) is now nearly 16 years old and is studying at Nalanda Buddhist Institute in Punakha under the care and instruction of Venerable Dorji Lopen – Bhutan's second highest religious figure after the Je Khenpo. As well as Phajoding, the Gyelwa Shakya also founded the Nalanda Buddhist Institute.
He's quite a tall and very compassionate young man who is very interested in photography and computers. Actually, he knows a lot about computers and showed me a really nice slide show of his photos with music that he made of a recent hiking trip into the mountains.
He will finish his Masters of Buddhist studies in the next 3-4 years then he told me that he wants to come to Phajoding to complete his 3 year meditation retreat. While he was here he selected the site where he wants to build a small house for himself. Once it is built (hopefully by the end of the year) he told me that he wants to come here often, whenever he has a break from his studies. All the monks are really excited about this news.
Once he completes his 3-year meditation retreat at Phajoding he said that he is going to permanently live here to teach the monks.
During our conversations while we were having tea together he mentioned 2 important points:
Firstly, he stressed that it was very important to teach the monks debating because it will help to stimulate their critical thinking and be the cause for a deeper understanding of Buddha's teachings.
Secondly, he also stressed to me the importance of teaching the boys the English language. He said that without English the monks wouldn't gain the full respect of the Bhutanese people (mainly those who are educated) as they can't communicate the complexity and wisdom of what they have been taught properly. He is worried that some people think that monks are illiterate because they can't speak English despite having a deep knowledge of Buddha's teachings. He was emphasizing to me the importance of sharing Buddha's precious knowledge with everyone. I told him that I am personally already teaching the monks English and he was very happy about this.
He really likes the web site that we have set up to help the monks and congratulated us on our initiative and concern for Phajoding and the young boys.
This is such good news for Phajoding and we are all very happy to have welcomed him here
While he was here he also met with the high lama that lives at Phajoding who is commonly known amongst the Bhutanese as Yanglop (Lopen Chuki Lotay). He was previously one of the 5 high lamas of the Central Monk Body. I hope you like the photos that I took.
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|I took my friends to Meiji Shrine,
which is my neighbourhood shrine.
Maybe I'll do my 10,000 steps with a Fit Bit here
this weekend, before flying out of Japan....
One of the guys said, when he saw the schedule we girls had mapped out without input from the guys, with dinners almost every night: "Aren't we all going to get a little tired of each other?"
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And we girls had a giggle over this, as well as over the fact that I chose all the restaurants and the menus as well. When everyone arrived at each restaurant, they found out that the food had already been ordered.
My dear old friend from school teased, "She's always been this bossy."
What's on my playlist in Tokyo
Except tonight. Tonight I did a medical check-up and then went shopping in Ginza for one of these one-of-a-kind black dresses I love so much, as it's sale season in Tokyo.
As I was out for most of the day, I left the restaurant decision to the others and they found a cute little place in Roppongi that served pretty good teppanyaki.
We all had a really good time, sitting at a counter presided over singlehandedly by the owner-chef, and ordering everything that looked good on the menu.
However, this whole week, the one thing that stood out was the fact that I've been out of the health loop, perhaps too busy living a #Travelife.
This whole week, I think I've been the only one without a Fit Bit, that pedometer and overall health tracker that all fitness buffs now consider de rigeur. There are many different brands and cool designs, but apparently the Fit Bit is making the most noise.
Everyone else has been wearing this and tracking their steps and competing with each other, and I've been the only left out of it as I haven't bothered to get on this trend. Yet.
Then tonight, they showed me how they were tracking their steps and just how good they were all doing with this. On average, everyone made well above the required 10,000 steps a day, which I found pretty impressive.
On Sunday, most of them were even within the 15,000 to 20,000 steps range just from walking up and down Omotesando trying to cross things off their shopping lists, like Issey Miyake's Baobao bag.
|Last night we hosted dinner for our visiting friends
at my favourite French restaurant in Tokyo,
with the Philippine Ambassador to Japan
and Madame as the guests of honour
One of the guys said: "You should get one. Then you can 'friend' me and I can see how you're doing and I can send you insulting messages for only doing 5,000 steps a day."
So I replied: "Ahh. If I actually get on this thing, I'd never let you beat me."
Yes, as my good friends know, I don't like being #2 at anything at all.
Someone else said: "It really motivates you to keep walking."
|Dinner on Saturday,
living a #Travelife...
So when I got home tonight, after I'd replied to most of my waiting emails as I'd been out the entire day, the first thing I did was google Fit Bit to get the low-down on it.
Then I found out that several stores really near me are actually selling the latest version of Fit Bit. Buying this latest version would certainly be a nice little case of one-upmanship, as everyone has older versions and apparently the new versions of the Fit Bit have cool new features.
So I guess you know what I'll be doing this weekend, living a never-ending, and never-endingly eventful #Travelife....


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Hyaluronic acid is an essential part of connective, epithelial and neural tissues, and contributes to cell proliferation and migration. It is used as a stimulating agent for collagen synthesis and is a common ingredient in skin-care products, a multi-billion dollar industry, as it is believed to be a key factor in fighting the aging process. Hyaluronic Acid: Production, Properties, Application in Biology and Medicine consists of six chapters discussing the various issues of hyaluronic acid research. In Chapter 1, a historical analysis recounts the discovery and milestones of the research leading to the practical applications of hyaluronan. Chapter 2 is dedicated to biological role of the hyaluronic acid in nature, in particular in the human body. The chapter starts from the phylogenesis of hyaluronic acid, then describes hyaluronan functions in human ontogenesis and especially the role which hyaluronan plays in extracellular matrix of the different tissues. Chapter 3 describes the methods to manufacture and purify hyaluronic acid, including the analytical means for assessing quality of the finished product. Chapter 4 discusses the structure and rheological properties of hyaluronic acid considering effects on conformation and biological properties related to molecular weight. In Chapter 5, the physical and chemical methods for modifying the structure of hyaluronan are discussed including cross-linking using bi-functional reagents, solid-phase modification and effects of the combined action of high pressures and shift deformation. The final chapter focuses on the products derived from hyaluronic acid, including therapeutics composed of modified hyaluronan conjugated to vitamins, amino acids and oligo-peptides. The biological roles and medical applications of this polysaccharide have been extensively studied and this book provides a wealth of scientific data demonstrating the critical role of hyaluronic acid and its promise as a multifaceted bio-macromolecule. Approaching hyaluronic acid from multiple angles, this book links relationships between its biological functions, structure and physical--chemical properties. It will be an invaluable resource to researchers, both industrial and academic, involved in all aspects of hyaluronan-based technologies.


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Kayaking offers fun, exercise and peace
Dec. 20, 2010 at 6:20 a.m.
As the weather cools and winter sets in, most South Texans are beginning to take advantage of the outdoors again.
This year, add kayaking to your list of activities.
Kayaking offers fun, exercise and a greater appreciation for the outdoors.
"The peace of being on the water is the best thing about it," said Rodney Neubauer, president of the Coastal Bend Paddlers Club. "The stress of the day is gone once you get out there."
If you don't own a kayak or don't know how to kayak, these helpful tips might get you going in the right direction.
Getting started
The first step is trying out different kayaks to find the right one for you.
"I bought my first one off the Internet," Neubauer said. "I had to find another one because it just wasn't right."
Many places that specialize in selling kayaks are trained to help customers buy one that fits their height and weight, while assessing their needs as a paddler.
Oftentimes, Neubauer said, they will let you try out a few to see what you're comfortable with.
Here are a few types to consider:
Sit-on-top kayak - used mostly for recreational paddling and fishing, this one is great for beginners. It's easier to get in and out of it, doesn't capsize easily and has self-bailing drain holes.
Touring kayak - made to travel long distances for either a day trip or multi-day trip. Also called sea kayaks, they're ideal for rougher waters and waves.
Inflatable kayak - With more buoyancy than a regular kayak, these are also easier to carry, store and transport.
To learn more about the different kinds of kayaks available and the way their designed, go to the website for REI, an outdoors gear brand, www.rei.com.
Aside from choosing your boat, several other items should be considered such as a float line, float bags and GPS. Other outdoors retail stores can suggest more accessories or necessities.
Safety first
Safety begins with learning the proper way to lift and carry a kayak. Dragging a kayak will scratch and damage the hull.
If you don't have a Kayak Cart to move your vessel about, Smart-Start-Kayaking.com recommends you:
Set the kayak on its side with the cockpit against your body.
Bend your knees into a crouching position and grab inside the cockpit rim.
Move your shoulder under your hand that's holding the rim and straighten, while lifting with your legs, to a standing position.
Other safety precautions should include taking a basic kayak course (Coastal Bend Paddlers offers these), wearing a life jacket throughout the entire trip, carrying a first aid kit and anticipating various emergency situations.
"(The Coastal Bend Paddlers) always stress safety," said Neubauer, who is also an employee of the Texas Department of Transportation. "We encourage the Buddy system, too - to always have someone with you or at least let someone know where you're going and how long you plan to be out."
Paddling techniques
Kayaking is a form of exercise, and like with any other work out, if done improperly, you could injure yourself.
Smart-Start-Kayaking had these tips to get you paddling:
Lean back. Not only will resting your back against the seat bring more comfort, it will also keep the boat stable.
Control your grip. Take the paddle in both hands, over-handed with thumbs down, and line up your knuckles with the upward blade edge.
Pull and push. With each stroke, pull with your downward stroke, while the upward arm pushes the paddle shaft away from you, using your torso muscles more than your arm muscles.
Paddling is a harmony you learn to perfect over time.
Turning the kayak. Paddling on the side opposite of the direction you want to go will help you turn your boat.
Deciding where to go
The Golden Crescent region is not lacking in places to tote your kayak and take an adventure.
Neubauer, a four-year veteran of the sport, said he, his wife and the Paddlers like to go out on the Guadalupe River, places in Scenic and Thomaston, and his favorite is in the bay at Port Aransas.
"I love the surf and playing in the waves," he said.
For a complete list of Texas' paddling trails, visit www.tpwd.state.tx.us, click on the Land & Water tab, and then click on the Paddling Trails link.