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|Garden of Eden
|Prior to The Fall and the entry of sin, Adam and Eve enjoyed full communion with God. No Temple was needed.
|Gen. Gen. 2:25 cf. Gen. Gen. 3:8
|Tabernacle in the Wilderness
|A portable and temporary structure housing the Ark of the Covenant and the location of Gods presence among the Jews in their wilderness wanderings.
|Ex. Ex. 24:15-18; Ex. 25:8-22
|Solomons Temple
|Erected in Jerusalem according to Gods instructions. Planned by King David who gathered the materials, but built by his son Solomon. Destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
|1K. 1K. 5:1-1K. 8:1; 2K. 2K. 24:13; 2Chr. 2Chr. 36:7
|Second Temple
|Rebuilt under the direction of Zerubbabel upon the return of the Jews from Babylon. Desecrated by Antiochus IV (Epiphanes), later cleansed and rededicated by Judas Maccabaeus in 165 B.C (first Hanukkah). Rebuilt by Herod the Great (from 20 B.C. - A.D. 64). Destroyed by Roman General Titus in A.D. 70.
|2Chr. 2Chr. 36:22-23; Ezra Ezra 1:1-4; Ezra 3:1-13; Ezra 5:1-17; Ezra 6:1-18; Dan. Dan. 9:26; Mtt. Mat. 23:37-38; Mat. 24:2; Mark Mark 13:2; Luke Luke 21:6, Luke 21:20-24
|Tribulation Temple
|A future Jewish Temple which will be built where sacrifices will be offered until the midpoint of the Tribulation. The Beast will sit in this Temple and proclaim himself to be God.
|Isa. Isa. 66:1-6?; Dan. Dan. 9:27; Dan. 12:11; Mtt. Mat. 24:15; 2Th. 2Th. 2:4; Rev. Rev. 11:1-2+; Rev. Rev. 13:6+?
|Second Coming
|Millennial Temple
|The Temple will be built by Messiah Jesus and serve as the center for His worship and rule during the thousand year reign on earth. All nations will keep the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem.
|Eze. Eze. 40:5-Eze. 43:27; Zec. Zec. 6:12-15; Zec. 14:16-21; Isa. Isa. 24:23; Isa. 56:6-7; Rev. Rev. 20:2-4+
|Second Coming + 1,000 years
|New Jerusalem
|Sin no longer exists. Man is restored to full fellowship with God. God is the Temple (Rev. Rev. 21:22+).
|Rev. Rev. 21:1+, Rev. 22:1+
1 Randall Price, The Coming Last Days Temple (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1999), 61.
2 Ibid., 593-612.
3 [Floyd Nolen Jones, Chronology of the Old Testament (Woodlands, TX: KingsWord Press, 1999), 26], [James Ussher, The Annals of the World (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 1658, c2003), 17]. See Jones for a list of 30 bible chronologers who date creation between 5426 and 3836 B.C.
4 Martin Gilbert, The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization (New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990), 33.

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Dancers union, S.F. Ballet reach new contract deal
Published 2:18 pm, Friday, October 4, 2013
Photo: Catherine Bigelow, Special To The Chronicle
With a New York City engagement at Lincoln Center on the horizon, the San Francisco Ballet and the dancers union, the American Guild of Musical Artists, have reached agreement on a new contract. Negotiations had been ongoing when the old contract expired June 30.
"This is a fair agreement both for the dancers and for S.F. Ballet and we are eagerly anticipating our upcoming tour to New York from Oct. 16 to 27," said S.F. Ballet Executive Director Glenn McCoy.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan maintained that his silence over the disappearance of schoolgirls in his country was to protect the rescue mission and promised that Nigeria "will not stop until the girls are returned home and the thugs who took them are brought to justice."
In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Jonathan said he was "deeply concerned" that by not giving updates on the ongoing search for the missing girls -- who were abducted by the terrorist organization Boko Haram in mid-April -- his administration was seen as weak or inactive.
"My silence has been necessary to avoid compromising the details of our investigation," Jonathan said. "But let me state this unequivocally: My government and our security and intelligence services have spared no resources, have not stopped and will not stop until the girls are returned home and the thugs who took them are brought to justice."
Jonathan went on to say that, as a parent, he can imagine how heart-wrenching it must be to lose a child.
"My heart aches for the missing children and their families. I am a parent myself, and I know how awfully this must hurt," Jonathan said. "Nothing is more important to me than finding and rescuing our girls."
Jonathan said he would ask the U.N. in September for help with sharing information and possibly military assistance to fight back against Boko Haram.
Jonathan's op-ed comes as terrorist regimes are growing not just in Nigeria but across the Middle East. In Iraq, for example, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is terrorizing the nation's people with violence, having been gathering weapons and finances since President Obama announced the troop withdrawal three years ago.
"Something positive can come out of the situation in Nigeria: most important, the return of the Chibok girls, but also new international cooperation to deny havens to terrorists and destroy their organizations wherever they are — whether in the forests of Nigeria, on the streets of New York or sanctuaries in Iraq or Pakistan," Jonathan said. "Those who value humanity, civilization and the innocence of children can do no less."


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Aliens love to have sex with farmers if there is any truth to the stories of Meng Zhaoguo and Antonio Villas Boas.
Meng Zhaoguo, a Chinese farmer, claimed that he had sex with an alien when he was working in Heilinjiang�s Wuchang city in 1994. Seeing a metallic object shimmering on a mountainside, he went to investigate as he thought it was likely a downed helicopter.� As he approached the object, he blacked out.
Upon regaining consciousness, he was confused and unable to communicate with other people. And he also developed an extreme phobia of anything made of iron.
Later that night, a female humanoid came and asked to have sex with him. She was three metres tall, had 12 fingers and braided leg hair.
So the farmer and the robust extra-terrestrial seductress had intimate moments – while levitating – for about 40 minutes, he claimed.
"I didn't believe in aliens before I actually met them," he tells China Daily. "Seeing is believing. We cannot explain UFOs and aliens because our technology isn't advanced enough. But that doesn't mean such things don't exist."
Meng describes the extraterrestrials he says he met – he had a second encounter with others after he met the female – as speaking Chinese.
"The aliens showed me a piece of crystal, through which I saw forests, icebergs and fossil fuels on the Earth," he says. "They told me about the current situation facing Earth's resources and warned me about the importance of environmental protection."
But that's not all they told him, he says.
"They said that 60 years from then, there will be an alien born with the genes of an earthling farmer, and I can meet him or her," he says, referring to the offspring he says he sired with the extra-terrestrial female.
Meng's account is met with both skepticism and belief – not only by the general public, but also the country's growing community of ufologists, who study reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
While many within China's ufology community are skeptical of abduction reports such as Meng's, International Chinese UFO Association sighting investigation department head Zhang Jingping believes people should remain open-minded.
Yes, I should be open-minded as our mind, like a parachute, only works when it is open. I am open-minded….I am open-minded. But I can't help thinking of the Na'vi tribe in Avatar. They are about 3 metres tall so in terms of height, they fit Meng's description of his alien seductress. Hey, Meng, have you been watching too much Avatar and get yourself infatuated with Neytiri?
"We have invented aircraft, and we have landed on the moon. Why is it impossible that aliens are visiting us?" says the 42-year-old. Zhang has led research on Meng's case, including arranging for police to administer a lie detector test on Meng.
Amazingly, Meng passed the lie detector test.
Meng�s case bears similarity to the adventure of 23-year-old Antonio Villas Boas that occurred on 16 October 1957 in Brazil. Antonio�s sexual encounter with an alien is probably the most famous case of interstellar intercourse.
Antonio was ploughing a field on the family farm when the engine of his tractor cut out; at the same time, an object with purple lights descended from the sky.
Four aliens then climbed out of this ufo craft and grabbed him, they then forced him to get into the craft. The appearance of the aliens was they were around 5 feet tall, with big heads, much larger then a normal human head. When on board this strange alien craft Antonio was forced to strip. His body was then bathed in a strange liquid that had no smell and no color. The aliens were wearing strange grey suits, gloves with five fingers, and helmets. The aliens communicated in a strange language that Antonio could not understand. They cut his skin and took samples of his blood.
After a while they left him alone, naked in a circular room. Fumes were pumped into this room, and it smelled horrible, and this made Antonio throw up. He soon felt better when a naked alien female walked in. She looked human in appearance, about 4.7 feet tall, fair skin and high cheekbones. Her eyes were blue, but oriental in shape. Her face wide, with a thin chin, blond hair, which Antonio said had to be bleached blond because the hair under her arm pits and pubic hair was bright red. Despite her quite strange appearance, Antonio became sexually excited.
Antonio said, she had the best body he had ever seen on a woman, high, perked breasts, narrow waist, broad hips, small feet and hands, and very petite. When the alien woman made it very clear what she wanted, Antonio got very excited, holding her and responding to her 'come on'. She behaved like a normal woman in a sexual sense.
Apparently, Antonio had sexual intercourse with the alien female twice. The sex was pleasing, but Antonio said he would have preferred a real human woman because the alien female could not talk. She could not kiss either, and other then kiss, she playfully nibbled his chin, which he thought was probably the equivalent of kissing.
The pair had sex twice, but the female alien still took another sperm sample from Antonio and stored it in a test tube. Before she departed the alien female rubbed her stomach and pointed up to the sky. Antonio thought that this meant she was going to have his baby, somewhere out there, not on this earth.
Antonio was convinced that was what it was all about, a human stud to provide good genes in order to improve their stock. He enjoyed the sex, but he did go on to say that the female alien almost spoiled the whole sexual moment at one stage because she was grunting and making noises like an animal.
Antonio was given a guided tour of the spacecraft, which he said was encased in a dome, and had a strange green light. After the tour the aliens took him to the exit and made it clear that he could go home. His alien abduction sexual encounter had lasted for over 4 hours.
The only proof that this strange experience ever took place was that after the encounter, Antonio felt sick, had bad headaches, burning eyes, sleep loss, and came out in strange wounds on his arms and legs that left scars.
Antonio visited Dr. Olavo Fontes from Brazil�s National School Of Medicine who ran extensive tests on Antonio Villas Boas and surprisingly found that Boas had at some point in the recent past been exposed to a large dose of radiation.
Antonio went on to become a successful lawyer and still stood by his story over 30 years later.Equally lurid stories of sexual liaisons with UFO occupants came from the world-famous contactees of the 1950s. Howard Menger, for one, had regular meetings with Marla, a beautiful blonde from space who claimed to be 500 years old. She projected "warmth, love and physical attraction," which he found irresistible. Menger divorced his wife to marry Marla (aka Connie Weber).
From July 1952, Truman Bethurum had many meetings with Aura Rhanes, the captain of a flying saucer, whom he found to be "tops in shapeliness and beauty". Bethurum's wife wasn't so impressed with this "queen of women" and cited Rhanes in her divorce petition.
From the late Forties to the early Sixties, female contactees in contrast to today's female abductees are few and far between. This is more than made up for by the astonishing story of Elizabeth Klarer, who in 1956 fell in love with Akon, a scientist who took her to his home planet, Meton. There, he seduced her, saying: "Only a few are chosen for breeding purposes from beyond this solar system to infuse new blood into our ancient race."
This smooth talk worked. "I surrendered in ecstacy to the magic of his lovemaking," she wrote later.
Klarer said their "magnetic union" produced a perfect and highly intelligent son named Ayling.
She was sent back to South Africa alone and died in 1994; her starman and son live on somewhere beyond Alpha Centauri. Rather ordinary tales of 'contact' are thus transformed into heroic fantasies of youthful virility.
Scientific ufologists, more interested in 'hard' evidence (like radar traces, photographs and forensic samples) condemn this 'wet' material as too subjective, relegating claims of sexual assault and abduction to the fields of psychology and folklore (which they likewise distrust).
When ufologist John Keel visited college communities in Northeast America during the mid-1960s, several young women told him they had been raped by aliens, and young men confessed that aliens had extracted their semen.
By the 1970s, the idea of hybrid 'space babies' was more widely known but taken seriously only by UFO cultists who, said Keel, feared, that "the flying saucer fiends are engaged in a massive biological experiment creating a hybrid race which will eventually take over the Earth."
A decade later, these notions were part of mainstream ufology. Serious researchers some of them academics, like John E. Mack and David Jacobs openly declared their belief that the 'Greys' were taking sperm and ova from human abductees. It was common to hear female abductees tell of being impregnated, of the fetus taken from their wombs, and of later being shown their hybrid babies in a nursery on a flying saucer.
In the 1970s, a 19-year-old Californian girl attributed the birth of a blue-skinned, web-footed baby to being gang raped by six blue-skinned web-footed humanoids who attacked her after she watched their spaceship land on a beach.
Reading about all these stories of sex with aliens, I just cannot help myself from chuckling. And I will just end this post with this joke about sex with aliens. And if your wife or girlfriend has been pulling your ears when you are making love to her, you will now understand why, hahaha!
One night a flying saucer landed in the back yard of Tim and Ingrid of Pasadena, Texas. Two attractive aliens, one male and one female, emerged from the saucer and introduced themselves as Martians. They told their hosts they had come to planet Earth to conduct an experiment.
Tim asked, "What do you want from us?"
The experiment was research on having sex with Earthlings, the aliens replied. "Would you two like to assist us with or experiment?"
Tim and Ingrid thought it over and said okay. Tim took the female alien into one bedroom and Ingrid took the male alien into the other bedroom. After the male was undressed, Ingrid looked him over and started laughing. The alien asked what was so funny. Ingrid replied, "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have laughed…It's just that you're not large enough to satisfy any woman on Earth!"
The alien replied, "No problem. Watch this." He grabbed his ears and his penis grew 10 inches.
With a smile, Ingrid exclaimed, "Now that's more like it!"
A few hours later, after the aliens had gone, Tim asked Ingrid, "Did you enjoy sex with the alien?"
"It was fantastic.", replied Ingrid. Ingrid asked, "How about you. Did you enjoy sex with the alien?"
Tim replied, "It was okay except she kept pulling my ears."


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August 28, 2012
IBM Expands Mainframe Business With New Models And Costumers
John Neumann for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
They may seem like an anachronism in this day of mobile computing and internet-connected everything but IBM is still in the business of mainframe computers. They are operated by powerful self-designed microprocessors and can be bought new for about $1 million.The company will unveil a new version of its iconic mainframe computer today, adding new security and data analytics features as it struggles to stem declines in the sluggish market for high-end business computers which are increasingly being replaced with racks of servers, reports MyBroadband.
The declining relevance of the mainframe has been predicted many times over the years. But it has not gone away completely because it has been overhauled time and again, writes Steve Lohr for New York Times. In the early 1990s, the personal computer revolution took off and IBM, wedded to its mainframe-style room-sized computers, was in deep trouble.
To make the mainframe more competitive, its insides were retooled, using low-cost microprocessors as the computing engine. The updated computers have cost IBM more than $1 billion and focus on boosting its computing performance, capacity and features.
"It´s going to be harder and harder for IBM to find new customers and new opportunities for the mainframe," said Charles King, an analyst with technology research firm Pund-IT.
King and other analysts said existing customers are likely to appreciate the new features but caution that it will be tough for IBM to win new clients as most businesses are already enamored of cheaper technology that is widely considered "good enough" for all but the most mission-critical tasks.
"The mainframe is the most flexible technology platform in computing," rebuts Rodney C. Adkins, IBM´s senior vice president for systems and technology, who argues that the mainframe is a vital asset to the company because of all the business that flows from it, although they only account for about 4 percent of IBM´s revenue these days.
When all the mainframe-related software, services and storage are included, mainframe technology delivers about 25 percent of IBM´s revenue and more than 40 percent of its profits, estimates A. M. Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein.
Gartner analyst Jeffrey Hewitt explained that current mainframe customers, including government agencies, financial services companies and other businesses that require tremendous computing power, extreme speed and very high reliability for certain tasks are going to stick with the technology, reports Darryl K. Taft for eWeek.
Yet he said that demand will grow at a brisk pace for less-expensive servers running on x86 chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Software makers have developed technology in recent years that enables companies to combine those servers into clusters capable of managing some tasks once handled only by mainframes.
"Gartner forecasts that sales of x86 servers will surge 10 percent this year to $39 billion. In the five years to 2016, annual sales of those machines will climb a total of 33 percent to $47 billion, or more than 10 times the mainframe market according to the firm's forecasts," according to Jim Finkle of Reuters.
"Mainframes are extremely reliable," said Ruslan Stepanenko, chief information officer of Comepay. "It keeps working even when the transaction load is very high."
Last year, the Senegal Ministry of Finance bought two IBM mainframes to help monitor all the imports, exports and customs duties at the African country´s 30 border checkpoints.
Performance, security and reliability were the main reasons for selecting the mainframe, said Momar Fall, a manager and mainframe technical specialist in CFAO Technologies, an IBM partner in Senegal.
Another advantage in a developing nation, he said, is that the mainframes are constantly communicating over the internet with a remote IBM support center, "So seven days a week, 24 hours a day, IBM is looking after them," Mr. Fall said.


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There are many kind fo different adaptability present on the Instagram. The rumor is that Instagram is best chosen for its friends. The Instagram is best chosen for everyone. Everyone can enjoy the Instagram at its fullest. There are not a single one user present on the Instagram that can increase the adaptability of the other users. Almost every user has its own detached sense of the users and each user matter there is no one better or above the other users. Most of the times each user has its own reach many wouldn't agree. While other agree many would limit them and want to grow. But there are many different kinds of users who can agree that Instagram can sometimes require good number of followership to move on.
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The users can increase their followership in no time. The main point is how to create more followers. The followers have different factions. The followers don't choose to follow any person they would correctly see the different between two users. They would immediately know what is the difference between two users. Many would agree that followers don't stop a person. The followers always increase they don't even decrease. Either the publicity positivity or in negativity the followership would always be going on the horizon. Many would expect to increase with the boom even more.
Every application user has its own growth phase the best phase is that phase. Buy Instagram likes has been present for a long time now. Those people who buy Instagram follower get famous in no time. That is the reason people who buy follower jump to the highest number in no time. There is no need of the followership to stop at any point. As other agree this was the correct and right amount of the exposure it needed. Followers help bring light to the users. Many wouldn't even know what is the light but as soon as follower increase the number of admiring people also increase with it.


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The release of Krug Clos du Mesnil 2002 is coming soon. Find out more about this rare and legendary wine…
In his Champagne Guide Richard Juhlin says: "Krug is more than a Champagne. It is a word that stands for artistry, tradition, craftsmanship and moments of pure pleasure." And he goes on to say: "For me, Krug Clos du Mesnil is the best wine in the world."
After fourteen years patiently waiting, the 2002 release of this exquisite wine is imminent. Due the inherent rarity of this wine, if you are interested in it, we recommend discussing this with your Account Manager as soon as possible. If you do not have an account manager, please register here. Read on to find out more…
The Story of the Walled Plot
In 1971 Rémi and Henri Krug bought fifteen plots in Mesnil-sur-Oger covering an area of just six hectares. They did so over the telephone without even seeing the land, such is the quality of the Chardonnay produced in this village. When they visited their new purchase they found it included a tiny walled vineyard of less than two hectares in the heart of the village, complete with an inscription carved in the wall pertaining to its creation in 1698. From this enclosed plot Krug's Clos du Mesnil was born.
As the metal hoops in Krug's photo above may allude, their wines are fermented in well-aged small oak barrels to enhance the rich aromatics. Clos du Mesnil is no exception, and in Olivier Krug's words, this wine is: "the continuation of Joseph Krug's nonconformist spirit. It illustrates the House's obsessive attention to detail as the in-depth knowledge of each plot as an individual wine allows for the undisputed quality envisioned by the founder."
Having said that, it is worth noting that Krug are Champagne's master blenders. The fact, therefore, that they do not blend the pure Chardonnay grapes from the walled vineyard of Clos du Mesnil demonstrates just how high the quality is. Whether owing to the protection offered by the walls, the central location within what is one of the most renowned villages in Champagne, the south-eastern orientation of the vines or a combination of all three, there is no denying that the grapes from Clos du Mesnil are very special. And due to the minuscule proportions of the vineyard the Champagne produced there is a rare gem…
Krug Clos du Mesnil 2002
The release of the first Krug vintage of the millennium is a monumental moment. Although the 2003 has already been released to huge critical acclaim, the 2002 vintage, including Krug Clos du Mesnil 2002, has been held back for longer due to its immense ageing potential.
Krug Clos du Mesnil 2002 has spent an astonishing thirteen years in the cellars and only 13,278 individually numbered bottles have been produced. To put that into perspective, when Mesnil-sur-Oger's other big player Salon declares a vintage, it creates around 60,000 bottles – itself a miniscule quantity compared to the production of titans Dom Perignon or Louis Roederer Cristal.
2002 Vintage
Any Krug hailing from this outstanding vintage is sure to pique the interest of Champagne aficionados. Jancis Robinson describes the 2002 vintage as: "A magnificent vintage for Champagne with near-perfect growing conditions, capped by fine dry weather at harvest. Ageworthy wines with plush fruit held in check by keen acidity." In his vintage chart for Champagne, Robert Parker has only rated the 1996 vintage higher and Wine Advocate say: "2002 was an outstanding vintage, most likely the best of the decade."
Eric Lebel, House of Krug's cellar master, describes the vintage as follows: "The year 2002 was a very special one. It was clement and generous, uniformly warm, with few climatic variations." Champagne releases from this vintage have been fiercely contested, one as special and as rare as Krug Clos du Mesnil 2002 is likely to disappear in a blink.
Tasting Note
House of Krug recommend serving this Champagne in a white Burgundy glass to reveal its full potential and describe it as follows:
"Krug Clos du Mesnil 2002 is an astonishing Champagne with aromas of fresh white and citrus fruits, fresh mint, eucalyptus, acacia, white pepper, spices, slightly grilled nuts and brioche. On the palate, it is precise, pure and fresh with tension, vivacity and great balance. Notes of peach, orange, citrus and liquorice can also be found in this singular Champagne with a very long finish."
Consistency with Critics
Although, at time of writing, critics are yet to release scores or tasting notes for the Krug Clos du Mesnil 2002, both of the last two vintages of Krug Clos du Mesnil – the 2003 and the 2000 – have received 18.5 points from Jancis Robinson. And she is not alone in her praise for this Champagne. Antonio Galloni has previously said about Clos du Mesnil that "It never fails to leave me speechless" and you only have to look back at the scores from the previous ten releases to see how consistently highly rated this wine is with the critics…
Antonio Galloni
Wine Spectator
Richard Juhlin
FINE+RARE fully expect Krug Clos du Mesnil 2002 to continue this incredible run of scores. As previously advised, if you would like to add this wine to your cellar, we recommend discussing this with your Account Manager as soon as possible. If you do not have an account manager, please register here.
Browse our full range of Krug here, purely Krug Clos du Mesnil or all 2002 Champagne.


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RADNOR, Pa., Feb 25, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Qlik, QLIK a leader in user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2014 Business Intelligence and Analytics Platform Magic Quadrant report*. This designation marks the fourth consecutive year that Qlik secured its position in the Leaders Quadrant based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Gartner Magic Quadrants provide a snapshot of how vendors perform in a market segment with the goal of helping end users make better informed decisions about companies they may be looking to partner with, or whose services or products they may want to purchase. The full report is available for download from http://www.qlik.com/mq2014.
According to the report, "By 2015, enterprise buyers of BI platforms will predominantly purchase platforms that support both strong and broad business-user-accessible data discovery capabilities and IT-driven enterprise features for data reuse, governance, security and scalability." The report also states that "By 2015, the shifting tide of BI platform requirements, moving from reporting-centric to analysis-centric will mean the majority of BI vendors will make governed data discovery capabilities an expansion of, and the prime competitive capability for, their BI platform offerings."
"It's exciting to be a part of the pace of change in this industry. When we started in the Magic Quadrant, established ERP stack players dominated and as the pioneer in data discovery it's great to see that the paradigm has definitively shifted," said Lars Björk, Qlik chief executive officer. "We are encouraged that the identified trend of governed data discovery is aligned with our roadmap from our acquisition of Expressor to our plans QlikView.Next "
Qlik's history of growth and innovation in the category of user-driven BI continues as customers want to move from passively receiving reports to actively participating in analysis. In September 2013, Qlik announced the Company's strategic roadmap to once again disrupt the BI industry with its next-generation platform to fill the gap between visualization or dashboard solutions and complex BI platforms tied to report-centric ways of doing business. QlikView.Next will give users the immediate insights they need and IT professionals the enterprise manageability and governance they require. Fundamental to making next-generation BI accessible and useful for a broad range of users is QlikView's Natural Analytics™ approach, which taps into the natural human ability to process complex information. It supports the way human curiosity naturally searches, filters, questions, and finds associations in data to find meaning in information – more easily revealing insights and enabling decisions in the process.
Over these years of continued innovation and changing the face of BI, Qlik maintains its commitment to become the de facto global standard for how people gain insight from their data. With QlikView's patented core technology, associative experience, and collaboration and mobile capabilities, users can ask and answer streams of questions on their own or in teams and groups, wherever they are working. Users can continue to explore information freely rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions and gain rapid time to value in deployments that can be productive in just days or weeks.
About Qlik
Qlik QLIK simplifies how people explore their data to help them make better decisions. With its QlikView Business Discovery platform people quickly bring data sources together to create dynamic visual applications that can be navigated and searched intuitively. QlikView uses Natural Analytics™ to reflect the way human curiosity searches and processes information, while delivering the enterprise manageability, governance and service offerings organizations require. Qlik and its global partner network support approximately 31,000 customers in over 100 countries.
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* Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms" by Rita L. Sallam, Joao Tapadinhas, Josh Parenteau, Daniel Yuen, Bill Hostmann, February 20, 2014.
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Happy Halloween eve lovelies!
I hope you are all enjoying your Friday evening and that you have mega awesome plans for the Halloween weekend!
I made these cupcakes for a birthday order today and I just had to bang out this recipe post for you because they were just too darn cute not to – especially because Halloween is tomorrow and these would make the perfect Halloween dessert addition to any upcoming Halloween events you might have happening this weekend.
Cole and I will be starting off the weekend at the Farmers Market tomorrow, serving up some Halloween themed goodies and then on Sunday we have a whole lot of nothing planned. That's right – nothing! haha. It's supposed to be a pretty rainy Vancouver weekend, so we both agreed that we would love nothing more than to snuggle up at home with Katniss and watch creepy movies on Netflix in honour of Halloween. Not going to lie, I am pretty stoked about this 😀
So what are these spookly little cupcake beauties anyway? Well let's just say they were inspired by a couple of my favourite Halloween treats…. Snickers, and Reeses peanut butter cups – mhhmmmm. I could eat those little bundles of chocolatey, caramely, peanut buttery joy allllll day long.


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Dina Lohan's Dreadful Dreams Come True Now That 'Living Lohan' Reality Show Gets Picked Up
We are deeply saddened to report that momager, pimp and our very own white Oprah, Ms. Dina Lohan, has signed with E! to film her long-lusted after reality show. According to the network's official press release, we shall be forced to view Dina's attempts to jumpstart the other ones' (Ali and Cody) careers in showbiz, and they'll tell you why the torturous Living Lohan is necessary:
"This is a family that knows how to roll with the punches and come out on top. Dina is an incredibly hard-working, passionate mom that I think our viewers will find both relatable and highly entertaining."
Frankly, we can't argue with the E! mouthpiece. However, we have our fingers crossed that Dina's show ends up nothing like the mind-fuck Michael Lohan reality show pitch that we have clipped for you.
If watching Mikey sending former Baywatch babes into the arms of perverts, traipsing around cities in a Tyra-like attempt to see what it feels like to be homeless, and beginning the video pitch while standing in front of a glamour shots cloud background is in any way a glimpse into Living Lohan, we may consider canceling our cable. And then scream into the nearest pillow.


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I have a little script that I use to get the name of a file's parent directory and use it as a header.
This works fine on almost every directory, except one:Code:
Index of: <?php $convert_toSpace = true; $parentdir=basename(dirname(__FILE__)); global $convert_toSpace; echo $parentdir; ?>

Is there a limit? I have other folders with three underscores, and it works just fine. Does anyone see what I am doing wrong with this one?


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She brought me over to the wash-stand here in this very room, the nursery as it was. 'Don't cry, little peasant,' she said. "You'll soon be as right as rain." [Pause]. Little peasant. It's true my father was a peasant, but here am I in my white waistcoat and brown boots, barging in like a bull in a china shop. The only thing is, I am rich.
The speaker here is Lopakhin, in Act One. He is waiting in the nursery, with Dunyasha, for Ranevsky to arrive from the train station. The "she" in the passage is Ranevsky, and the passage does a great deal to characterize both her and Lopakhin, and the relationship between them. This relationship is the central relationship in The Cherry Orchard. The quote is taken from a longer passage in which Lopakhin worries about falling asleep in the nursery, when he should have been going out to meet Ranevsky at the train station. This worrying, plus his reference to himself as a "bull in a china shop," show Lopakhin to be self-conscious about his humble origins and lack of social graces. But he knows he has social status, and as if to demonstrate his bluntness, he reminds himself of where this status comes from—his money. When he talks about Ranevsky, he remarks, as everyone will do, on her kindness. But there is a note of tension here; he pauses when he remembers how she referred to him as "a peasant," as if he hears the note of condescension in her voice. Lopakhin has risen in social status since that encounter, and Ranevsky has fallen. It is important to note that it is Lopakhin the wealthy businessman, who has difficulty remembering the word "peasant." It shows that Lopakhin is conflicted between his status as a businessman and his status as a former peasant—between his present and his past. It also foreshadows Ranevsky's own inner conflict between her present and her own past.
Oh, my childhood, my innocent childhood! This is the nursery where I slept and I used to look out at the orchard from here! Look, Mother's walking in the orchard. In a white dress.
The speaker is Ranevsky, speaking in Act One. She has just returned to her estate after five years in self-imposed exile in France, and she and her family and friends are all congregated together in the "nursery," the room of her house where she and her brother Leonid grew up. She looks out the window at her beloved cherry orchard that is now in bloom, and momentarily thinks she sees her dead mother walking through it. Upon closer examination, she realizes that it is just a branch, whose white blooms looked like a woman's dress.
The passage shows two related things about Ranevsky, the protagonist of the story. First, the fact that she seems to undergo a hallucination shows her to be disconnected from reality. This is a defining character trait of Ranevsky, and much more than Lopakhin or Trofimov, it is her main antagonist in the story, the one thing barring her from achieving happiness. Furthermore, the content and location of the hallucination reveal the nature of Ranevsky's disconnect. She is seeking refuge in the past, her "innocent childhood." For her, the cherry orchard is a symbol of that past, the sight she would see through her bedroom window every morning, and the fact that she fantasizes seeing her dead mother walking through it merely confirms that impression.
Then last year, when the villa had to be sold to pay my debts, I left for Paris where he robbed me, deserted me and took up with another woman. I tried to poison myself. It was also stupid and humiliating. Then I suddenly longed to be back in Russia, back in my own country with my little girl. [Dries her eyes.] Lord, lord, be merciful, forgive me my sins. Don't punish me any more.
The speaker is Ranevsky, and she is speaking to Trofimov, Gayev, and Lopakhin in Act Two. They are in the countryside together, discussing the imminent auction, at which Ranevsky's estate will be sold to pay her debts. She explains to them the entire sordid story of how she left for France after the drowning death of her son Grisha and was followed into exile by her lover, with whom she had been having an affair before the death of her husband. She admits here to being driven to attempt suicide at one point.
Ranevsky's description of her ordeal associates her with various characters in literature who can be labeled as sinful women." Flaubert's Emma Bovary and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina are perhaps the most famous of these. But Bovary and Karenina both die for their sins, whereas Ranevsky, however sad she may be, survives. She is thus a complicated character, and even her own brother at one point calls her a "loose" woman and implies that she has gotten what she deserves for a life of sin. This is a point where differences between Chekhov's time and ours may significantly affect the way we see his characters. A modern response to Ranevsky might be one of unmitigated pity, whereas Chekhov may have expected his audience to feel a mixture of pity and revulsion.
The awfulness of Ranevksy's recent experience also helps to explain her desire to reconnect with her past—according to her, after these events she just felt a desire to return to her "home country" once more—and casts her more irresponsible spending behavior in a more positive light. Ranevsky presents herself in this passage as a naturally loving and generous person, who is often taken advantage of by others.
All Russia is our orchard. The earth is so wide, so beautiful, so full of wonderful places. [Pause]. Just think, Anya. Your grandfather, your great-grandfather and all your ancestors owned serfs, they owned human souls. Don't you see that from every cherry-tree in the orchard, from every leaf and every trunk, men and women are gazing at you? if we're to start living in the present isn't it abundantly clear that we've first got to redeem our past and make a clean break with it? And we can only redeem it by suffering and getting down to real work for a change.
Trofimov speaks these lines, in Act Three, to Anya. This is after Trofimov's speech on the virtues of work and his attack on the Russian intellectual. The purifying quality of suffering is a theme prevalent throughout much of Russian literature, but Trofimov yokes it to a faith in human progress and reason and a Social Darwinist attitude towards society to produce his utopian vision of the future. Trofimov thus reflects Chekhov's interest in Darwin's theory of evolution and Social Darwinist thought.
Trofimov, like Ranevsky, sees the cherry orchard as being a symbol of the past. But for Trofimov, the past was a time full of oppression and injustice, due to the institution of serfdom. In his hands, the images of cherry trees become threatening and ominous. The orchard is haunted by the ghosts of the past, and they are the ghosts of former slaves, not the pleasant ghost of Ranevsky's mother whom Ranevsky sees walking amidst the orchard's white blooms. For Ranevsky, the past is a place of refuge from a bitter and unkind present, whereas for Trofimov, the past is something that must be escaped from and left behind in order for progress to be made toward a better future.
[Stamps his feet.] Don't laugh at me. If my father and grandfather could only rise from their graves and see what happened, see how their Yermolay- Yermolay who was always being beaten, who could hardly write his name and ran round barefoot in the winter-how this same Yermolay bought this estate, the most beautiful estate in the world.
These lines are spoken by Lopakhin, immediately after he buys the orchard. They show Lopakhin as a man who seems to have resolved his internal conflict between his past and his present. Additionally, they show Lopakhin as a man who wishes that his ancestors could see what their descendent has accomplished and a man who gives his acquisition of the orchard, which he calls in hyperbole "the most beautiful place in the world," a mythical and historical importance. It also shows the fundamental contradiction in Lopakhin. He is a man who at once recognizes the beauty of the orchard, and yet has no compunctions about destroying it for profit. He is a man who has professed his affection and care for Ranevsky many times and told her he loved her "like a sister," or even more, yet here he is practically gloating over his acquisition of her orchard over her, driving her to tears. Lopakhin is at once a kind, empathetic, character, and the symbol of a ruthless, money-driven society that will destroy beauty for profit.
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I love baseball. I love the movies. So the combination of the two is like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup: the best of both world.
So I was really looking forward to the first episode of MSG's The Lineup: Best Sports Movies, an eight-part series which debuted with a discussion of baseball features.
I was sorely disappointed.
The panel, moderated by former MLB player and Mets broadcaster Fran Healy, included Robert Wuhl, who appeared in Bull Durham and Cobb (as sportswriter and Cobb columnist Al Stump); producer/director Spike Lee; actor Chazz Palminteri; and movie critic and uberfan Jeffrey Lyons. They nattered on about such films as The Natural (with Wuhl pointing out that Robert Redford/Roy Hobbs hit a walk-off home run in the top of the inning(?)); Bull Durham (conflict of interest there, Wuhl?); Field of Dreams; Major League; and A League of Their Own, the last two for just a couple minutes (and sorry, for me Geena Davis was the lead character, not Tom Hanks). Lyons and Wuhl dominated the chatter. Wuhl was the apologist for the prejudices, complaining that James Earl Jones' character in FOD, should not have talked about baseball being "all that's good in America," considering the racial discrimination (Wuhl also pointed to a scene in ALOTO, in which an African-American woman threw a perfect peg from outfield foul territory all the way home, hammering home the idea that blacks were talented yet excluded. Where was Spike Lee in all this?)
Each film was introduced by a woman in an evening gown as if she was narrating at an Academy Award presentation. The cutting was so quick — to the point of distraction — that one would think the director/editor had ADD. There was also an odd "applause track" that seemed to come in at inappropriate moments.
Athletes and other celebrities were also inserted with quick comments. On this episode, we heard comments from the likes of Derek Jeter, Ray Knight, Mookie Wilson, David Cone, Keith Olberman, Charley Steiner, Billy (!) Baldwin, and Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby Bacala on The Sopranos. Did you ever see the MTV series I love the 80s (or some similar offshoot)? That's what this reminded me off: a bunch of C- and D-listers (with all due respect) opining on stuff I don't care to hear their opinions on (sorry for the poor syntax there).
Maybe if the show considered a single film it might have been a bit more coherent. As it was, they tried to stuff too much into 30 minutes.
There were no clips from any of the movies, I guess because of licensing reasons. So while you get seasick from all the camera motion, the show pops in a few stills from each picture, perhaps tossing in the further pointless distraction of having an unidentified actor miming baseball movements.
Wuhl and Lyons competed to see who could point out the most flaws in each film. My favorite — and I've heard this before — is depicting Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams as a right-handed batter, despite the fact that he was actually a lefty. Unsaid here is that Ray Liotta, the actor who played the role, didn't event attempt a regional accent for the South Carolinian Jackson. When confronted with the handedness issue, the film's producer shunted off the criticism, saying that Jackson was also brought back from the dead in the film, that this was just a story. And? What does one thing have to do with the other? Yes, it's fiction, but the fiction his based on a real-life person.Would you make Babe Ruth an asexual tea-totaler or Lou Gehrig a serial killer?
At the end of The Lineup, the panelists voted: two for The Natural, two for Bull Durham, one for Field of Dreams. So how did The Natural get to be the winner, as announced by evening gown-wearing narrator lady?
Perhaps this was just "opening night jitters." Perhaps the show will improve. But as much as I love baseball films in particular and sports movies in general, I will not be watching The Lineup any more.


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Ian Somerhalder split with Nina Dobrev last week and then was accused of cheating on the actress.
But he took Twitter this weekend not to address that personal situation, but to call out Justin Bieber for a bit of monkey business.
With Bieber being asked to pay for his pet Mally - who was seized by German customs after Justin entered that country for a concert and is now in an animal shelter, her fate unknown - the beloved actor and animal enthusiast called out Bieber yesterday.
"@justinbieber i hope the welfare of this animal is a priority for you.Its on you to set a good example man," Somerhalder wrote.
So far, no response from Bieber and no word on what will happen to his monkey.
The Ian Somerhalder Foundation, meanwhile, was started in response to Hurricane Katrina and dedicates its resources to saving animals and the environment.
What do you think of Ian Tweeting to Justin in such a manner? And what did you think of The Vampire Diaries Season 4 finale? Crayz, huh?!?


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In the States Google's Android is creeping up to knock Apple's iOS off its perch at the top as the most used channel for mobile web consumption, according to a study by Quantcast.
The survey follows usage through from May 2009 to August this year – Apple is top dog with just over half of the market share, 56 percent, while Android has creeped up to 25 percent. This is sure to get Android fanboys shouting from the rooftops about the superiority of the browser as is the case with every set's brand war. Android had under 10 percent of the share when the stats began but really started to pick up around November 2009.
Before fanboys get too excited, it's worth taking a step back and looking at the big picture. Yes – Android may well be the most used OS in no time at all with the emergence of iPad contenders and the smartphone trend which is just going to carry on and on. But the reason for this is Google's stance on an open platform.
Making the OS available to pretty much anyone who's got a hankering for it means that by sheer volume alone it's inevitable Android is going to flood the market. It's a good thing – Android is a great OS and most would agree, particularly developers who like having the freedom to actually, er, develop.
But these figures mean that Google's strategy to make it open for anyone are paying off. It's not the death of the iPhone or iOS, it's the result of Google opening the floodgates and cramming everyone it can in to a very large room.


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It looks like it was a bad gamble (sorry!) to open the gambling drama "Runner Runner" in the U.K. and other overseas markets a week before its American debut tomorrow.
The foreign critics weren't kind, which may explain why a film starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake wasn't screened for their American counterparts until last night. As all 15 folks who read this blog regularly know, Wednesday night screenings are usually an attempt to limit opening day print reviews, presumably because of a lack of confidence in their product.
It certainly works regarding Friday's mySA Weekend, which goes to press realllyyyy early Thursday morning. Tomorrow's edition, which I'm holding in my hand right now … wait, wait, that's not entirely accurate. There's a copy on the desk to my left, but I'm not actually holding it; that was just a figure of speech …
OK starting over. Now I'm actually holding it as I type this, which makes typing really difficult.
Where was I? Oh, yeah, lack of confidence. Turns out it was justified. "Runner Runner" has a paltry 22 Tomatometer score this morning, and it's almost certain to go lower. The first two reviews I found this morning on our wires were pans, and they haven't been tabulated yet by RottenTomatoes.com.
Our critic, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, just had his review posted on mySA.com. He was not impressed, giving it 1 1/2 stars and calling it "a losing bet."
The Tomatometer consensus: "It has an impressive cast and an intriguing premise, but 'Runner Runner' wastes them on a bland, haphazardly assembled thriller with very little payoff."
And at least four of the seven reviews judged positive have major qualifiers — "lack of originality," "script reveals its hand too soon," "formulaic," "premise is hard to swallow." My guess is the score will dip into the teens by tomorrow.
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As protests against "The Innocence of Muslims" video span the globe — and U.S. officials pressure YouTube's owner Google to restrict free expression — Remy imagines a world where politicians cave to angry mobs and dictate what we can see on YouTube.
Written and performed by Remy. Edited by Meredith Bragg.
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You have to wonder if any of the "protesters" even saw a snippet of the thing. Whipped into a frenzy seems to be a way of life for some folks!
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First of all you can postpone the damage done to you to 8 seconds in the future, perhaps to let a healer get out of CC or reset his dispel CD, or even get in LoS of you where you otherwise would've died.
Second of all you can reduce the damage component of Dark Bargain either through other CDs such as the 50% reduced damage CD, or you can absorb 38k of the postponed damage with the Shadow absorb. (I forget it's name off the top of my head) You can use dark bargain to effectively absorb 75k of any school of damage. That being said that's not a whole lot of damage once we hit 90, but I believe the absorption skill increases in value too, so it's going to be higher.
You can also double-dip with the 50% reduced damage CD (if you feel like blowing both at once) to get the 50% reduced on the initial damage, as well as 50% reduced on the 50% blowback damage, letting you buff it to effectively a 75% reduced damage CD.
All the talents in that tier have some negative effects on the warlock. Soul Link reduced your pet's total health by half, pact causes you or your pet to sacrifice 50% of their HP as a shield on you, and dark bargain lets you prevent all damage for 8 seconds and postpone 50% of that incoming damage to after, where you can further mitigate the damage yourself or with the help of your healer.


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2. At the first Tiffany Ball with Edwin in Chapter Nine, Clara says, "We straddled a double world." How does that play out in Clara's experience? What did she learn from Edwin?
3. Of all of the adjectives Clara and Alice heap on Tiffany in Chapter Twenty-seven, which ones do you believe are justified and which are exaggerations? In spite of their accusations, Clara says in the same scene that she adores him. How can that be? Did she truly love him? What kind of love was it?
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8. How is the Brooklyn Bridge an icon or symbol of the time? Consider its style, the construction process, the men and woman who worked on it. You may have to do a little research. Why was Edwin so moved by it? What other material things were symbols of the time? In what way were Tiffany lamps icons of the time?
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Hi, Friends! Happy Thursday to ya! How's that whole Daylight Savings Time thing going? I sort of feel like I've been "off" since the time change deal last weekend. Things are in full swing around our house and it's been busy~ good busy, but busy nonetheless. My middle son has lacrosse practice every day and games every week, sometimes 2 with all the crazy weather we had a few weeks ago and trying to play some makeup games. And probably the biggest thing that's happened to us is that my husband starts a new job in a few weeks after being with the same company for almost 15+ years! I have a few exciting things going on in the blogging arena that I'll share soon, and have also been working with a client on a project. And my college son will be home Friday for Spring Break! 🙂 Whew. Catching my breath but also realizing all of these things are good things and we are grateful for all of these blessings!
After all of the rain/ice/snow and days we missed from school, I have been so ready for Spring. I know most of the country feels the same way, seeing the posts on Instagram and other social media sites. After my kids had been out of school on and off for 2 weeks, the first nice day we had, I high-tailed it to the Pottery Barn and Williams-Sonoma outlets for some Spring inspiration! I found these pretty rabbit napkins at Pottery Barn, and started planning my Easter table around them.
I had gotten a tone on tone cream/beige linen tablecloth for my Dad's birthday dinner last month and used that as the base for the table setting. Then I used 10″ grapevine wreaths as the "placemat" to give each setting the look of a birds nest, keeping with an overall Spring theme. I have mixed pieces of Bordallo Pinheiro ( the green cabbage plates made in Portugal you find at many home decor stores) and Ceramica Due Torri Italian lettuce plates that I used with my Mikasa English Countryside dinnerware for this Easter table setting. Also at each place setting, I used the Gorham Lady Anne Gold Crystal iced tea glassses and Golden Kenwood by Oneida flatware we got years ago with our wedding china.
I used this pair of sweet bunnies that I bought when we lived in Charlotte, North Carolina 15 years ago as the centerpiece, added some moss to some little blue and white bowls I bought while thrifting a few months ago, and picked up a few bundles of pink tulips at the grocery store. I'm not sure why, but I always choose pink, purple, or white flowers, and have almost never used yellow or red. Go figure. Color has many interesting effects on our moods and from our experiences, I've learned from my color studies and from working with clients.
I added some candy almond eggs in pastel colors to a birds nest and scattered them across the tabletop (and ate many in the process! lol) The silver candlesticks and small footed silver bowl are some other antique or thrift store finds I found several years ago.
I only have 4 of the salad size lettuce/cabbage plates, so I used 2 at the both ends of the table and 4 of the Italian lettuce plates to give it a mismatched but complimentary look.
My neighbor and friend, Cindy, and I went shopping Friday and she bought this vintage hare grain sack pillow, but it didn't work where she had intended, so I gladly helped a sister out and took it off her hands! I love it next to the tan and white checked Ballard Designs curtains.
Easter Place Settings with Mikasa English Countryside Soup Bowls
I tried different pieces at each place setting to see which look I liked best. Here's another idea, depending on your Easter lunch menu.
Easter Place Settings with Cabbage Bordallo Pinheiro Bowls & Cream Ballard Designs Bowls
Like the cabbage salad plates, I only have 4 of the cabbage bowls, so I mixed complimentary pieces for this setting. ( green on cream and cream on green~ it's a good way to use the pieces you want even if you don't have enough for a full table setting )
It's really a very neutral Easter table setting that can be changed easily for Spring into Summer. Add some different napkins, replace the rabbits with a bird cage centerpiece or shells for Summer, use hydrangeas in place of the tulips, etc. I find that layering the table keeps it interesting and beautiful, and using neutral linens gives you alot of options with whatever dishes you choose.
Join me Friday for "My Favorite Space In My Home" post as part of the #loveyourhome series. I'm joining with some other bloggers on Porch!
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"lazy fuckers get back to work," shouts a passing cyclist at St Pancras Hospital picket line. #30nov #N30by Kevin Rawlinson via twitter 11/30/2011 8:30:04 AM
Airports so far largely unaffected by the walkout. On Sky News, arrivals at Edinburgh Airport said passport control felt quicker than usual.11/30/2011 8:43:58 AM
Gatwick's chief operating officer, Scott Stanley, said: "While passengers have so far not experienced delays at the border zones, we do expect delays to occur at some point today as the rate of arriving flights increases. That said, we do have robust plans in place to help keep those delays at the border zones to a minimum. To help avoid overcrowding, we have reconfigured both our airside terminals to provide significantly more space and seating for arriving passengers."11/30/2011 8:44:53 AM
He added that "hundreds of Gatwick staff and volunteers" were providing assistance to passengers.11/30/2011 8:45:15 AM
246 schools are closed in Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Cheshire East.11/30/2011 8:46:42 AM
Over 300 schools closed in Kent and Medway11/30/2011 8:46:56 AM
108 schools are closed in Essex11/30/2011 8:47:14 AM
In Surrey, 209 out of 291schools are closed11/30/2011 8:48:02 AM
More than 1,500 schools are closed in London, with a further 500 schools partially closed.11/30/2011 8:49:04 AM
On an average day, 28,000 patients have planned treatments or operations in England and there are 60,000 diagnostic tests. Today, the NHS is more or less operating as if it was a weekend or Bank Holiday. Emergency and trauma care will be the priority.11/30/2011 8:51:47 AM
TUC's Brendan Barber calls on the govt to 'get round the table'. For the record, govt called on him to do the same yesterday #nov30 #N30by Kevin Rawlinson via twitter 11/30/2011 8:57:36 AM
Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, attacked ministers for claiming their pensions deal is a generous offer. She said: "We want the strike to demonstrate that their cover has been blown on this. Our members know it's not a generous offer.11/30/2011 8:59:49 AM
I'm told there'll be disability benefits claimants joining PCS picket at Euston Tower at around 9:30am #nov30 #N30 p.twimg.comby Kevin Rawlinson via twitter 11/30/2011 9:12:37 AM
Unison leader Dave Prentis said unions had the public on their side, adding: "They know that public service workers are not asking for more - they just want the pension deal they were promised."11/30/2011 9:12:57 AM
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, one of those taking action today, accused ministers of misleading the public.11/30/2011 9:20:10 AM
She said: "The Government constantly says get back round the table - that's all the NASUWT has wanted to do, but ministers haven't called a meeting since November 2." She added: "To keep claiming publicly that they want to negotiate, when ministers haven't called a meeting, I think that's misleading."11/30/2011 9:21:02 AM
RMT general secretary Bob Crow has said: "We are sending the clearest message to the Government that we will defend our pensions to the hilt and the outrageous demand that our members should work longer, pay more and get less has been thrown back in the faces of this Government of millionaire public schoolboys."11/30/2011 9:24:24 AM
Hampshire County Council said it has 322 schools either closed or partially closed out of a total of 502, while Southampton has six open, three partially closed and 72 closed out of 81.11/30/2011 9:25:10 AM
Portsmouth City Council has 35 schools shut, 17 partially closed and 14 open.11/30/2011 9:25:17 AM
30 firefighters have dealt with a severe fire this morning in a house on Wimborne Road in Tottenham. Thankfully no one was injured.by London Fire Brigade via twitter 11/30/2011 9:28:44 AM
In Salford, Greater Manchester, around 30 council binmen manned a picket line outside their depot, Turnpike House. Standing around a burning brazier to keep warm, they held placards including one asking: "Do we look Gold Plated?"11/30/2011 9:32:16 AM
BBC reporting Unison and Unite angry about a text circulating from council offering extra payment for standby home care workers. City Council says payments are for those working already, and aren't designed to tempt people across picket line.11/30/2011 9:35:01 AM
People who say theyve got no pension, bad pay etc. How does hating people on #strike benefit you? Social justice & mobility for all #n30by Abida_Rashid via twitter 11/30/2011 9:37:55 AM
The Port of Dover in Kent said all services with P&O Ferries to Calais and DFDS Seaways sailings to Dunkirk were "running well and to time" this morning with space available. There were no queues on roads leading into the port.11/30/2011 9:40:23 AM
I love the smell of negation first thing in the morning #n30by spareye via twitter 11/30/2011 9:40:53 AM
4 - the number of picket lines I've passed in half mile walk across Manc/Salford. 100% more than any strike in last 5 years #strike #n30by skikeaney via twitter 11/30/2011 9:41:16 AM
First time in my life I have crossed a picket line. I support my colleagues just haven't joined a union. #STRIKEby mbalco via twitter 11/30/2011 9:41:32 AM
Striking workers and soldiers in Salford, 1911 #N30 #strike t.co11/30/2011 9:42:18 AM
PA: Two small picket lines consisting of a handful of strikers stood at separate entrances to Salford Royal Hospital. Both groups said they were not allowed to speak to the Press without first checking with union officials.11/30/2011 9:43:19 AM
PA: Passengers coming through Heathrow airport said border controls were "better than usual".11/30/2011 9:44:09 AM
Wry smile as read strike update on poss delays at Heathrow. Contingency plans etc. T4: "No queues, actually working better than normal"by reporterboy via twitter 11/30/2011 9:44:37 AM
The scene at Terminal 3 at Heathrow Airport, as plane arrivals and take-offs at Britain's two biggest airports were largely unaffected by today's strike, with just a few cancellations of inbound transatlantic flights to Heathrow Airport this morning (PA)11/30/2011 9:45:51 AM
A spokesman for Southampton Airport, one of the BAA-run airports, said: "We are expected to experience minimal disruption. Any disruption is expected to be limited to inbound international flights only, of which there are 12 today.11/30/2011 9:48:22 AM
Flew through Heathrow!! (no pun intended) Phew!by PhillyTheHoss via twitter 11/30/2011 9:49:08 AM
ATL general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: "No-one is pleased that schools are closed because we know what disruption that causes, but it's very important that the Government understands the depth of anger and hurt."11/30/2011 9:49:51 AM
Court proceedings are expected to be disrupted by the public sector workers' strike today, union leaders said.11/30/2011 9:50:24 AM
However, they have pledged not to disrupt the trial of two men accused of the racist killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, which is taking place at the Old Bailey in London.11/30/2011 9:50:37 AM
#NHS workers in #BowRoad t.co11/30/2011 9:50:47 AM
Picket at Irvine Central Hospital #N30 t.co11/30/2011 9:51:51 AM
PA: Norina O'Hare, who represents the justice and prosecutions sector of the Public and Commercial Services Union, said picket lines were in place at courts across the country - including at the Old Bailey and the Royal Courts of Justice, which is also in central London and houses the High Court and Courts of Appeal. "Union members who work in courts are taking action. We have picket lines at courts across the country, including the Bailey and the Royal Courts of Justice," said Ms O'Hare.11/30/2011 9:52:16 AM
Public sector workers on a picket outside Turnpike House in Salford (PA)11/30/2011 9:53:19 AM


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Officer Jeremy Romero was pursuing a stolen vehicle Tuesday morning when he hand the suspect crashed.
Corrales police say Romero underwent surgery Tuesday to repair damage to his spine. He is expected to recover.
Meanwhile the search for the suspect continues.
The car the suspect was in was stolen out of Albuquerque sometime in December detectives say they have several person's of interest and are working on executing warrants to find out more.