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Thanks to everyone who has posted a photo, offered critique, asked questions, given advice or shared techniques. Thanks to everyone who stopped in to have a look.
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This week's theme: "Harmony"
Beyond its obvious association with music, harmony connotes agreement or accord. It can refer to a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts or congruity.
What does harmony mean to you?
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The mother of four children forced from their Savannah Gardens apartment by water and mold intrusion has sued her landlord and property officials for damages.
Asia Jones left her new apartment, number 611, in September, barely six months after moving in, to escape standing water in her son's bedroom and rampant mold growth that sent all five family members to the emergency room at Memorial University Medical Center.
Neither Mercy Housing Georgia X, her landlord and property owner, nor Mercy Housing Management Group Inc., which manages the property for Mercy Housing Inc., took any reasonable measures to stop the water intrusion into the apartment or to remove the mold, Jones' attorneys, Alan S. Lowe and Ellen Schoolar, contend in a suit filed last week in Chatham County Superior Court.
The suit also alleges that neither Mercy Housing X, Mercy Housing Southeast nor Mercy Housing Inc. offered to move Jones and her children to a hotel or make any other suitable accommodations while their unit was uninhabitable. Their offer to move her to Unit 113 at the property was rejected because Jones knew it was mold-infested and had recently been vacated by another tenant because of extensive mold problems, the suit contends.
Jones and her children were forced to move in with family members following the problems, the suit alleged.
According to the suit, the design and construction of Jones' apartment were defective because no provisions were put in place to prevent rainwater from seeping under the wall and into the unit; no provisions were put in place to prevent rainwater from seeping into the apartment from the breezeway and into the apartment, and that without permanent corrective measures water continued to infiltrate the apartment.
After Jones obtained results of a mold inspection and realized her apartment was not going to be made inhabitable, she removed her belongings from the apartment over Labor Day weekend.
She then hand-delivered her keys and a copy of her notice of constructive eviction to agents for the landlord on Sept. 4 along with a demand for return of her $500 security deposit, the suit alleged.
The landlord and property manager "have failed to return any portion of Ms. Jones' security deposit to her," the suit alleged.
Jones, who is suing for herself and her children, ages 10 months to 10 years, is seeking damages including $1,500, or three times the $500 security deposit, which they allege was "wrongfully withheld," and $3,004 in hospital and medical expenses for her and her children's medical treatment.
She also wants punitive damages against Mercy Housing SE and Mercy Housing Inc. to punish and deter them from repeating their alleged wrongful acts.
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Japanese skier Taihei Kato suffered a broken arm on a run in the Nordic combined large hill event earlier today when he lost his balance after landing, hitting the ground hard. NBC's packaging of the highlight makes it sound less painful than it was.
Kato will be out for the cross-country portion of the event. NBC put a video of the crash on its site, and the video's titled "Japanese jumper lands safely, loses ski." Even if the network didn't know about Kato's broken arm, he was clearly in considerable pain and went to a hospital. What part of that landing looked safe?
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As you can see there is a prompt at the very bottom of this code, The prompt is followed by a read. The code skips the read and ends instead, why is this?
public class Song { static Scanner keyboard = new Scanner (System.in); public static void main(String[] args) { Double songDuration; String songTitle, songRemove; String [] songs = new String[10]; double [] songDurations = new double[10]; for (int count=1; count<=9; count++) { System.out.println("Please enter song title number " + count); songTitle=keyboard.nextLine(); songs[count] = songTitle; } for (int count=1; count<=9; count++) { System.out.println("Song Number " + count + " = " + songs[count]); } for (int count=1; count<=9; count++) { System.out.println("Please enter duration of song " + songs[count]); songDuration=keyboard.nextDouble(); songDuration=songDurations[count]; } System.out.println("What song title would you like to remove from the array?"); songRemove=keyboard.nextLine();


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Bokodes - a new dimension for Mobile Devices?
linear barcodes (or 1D), from our supermarket shopping in the 1980's (although the technology was patented in the 1950's). They comprise a series of vertical black lines and white spaces of variable width, representing numbers, which are read (or decoded) by a barcode reader to extract the information they bear.
Most people are familiar with 1D barcodes found on many products at the store or the magnetic stripe on your credit card. These contain a small amount of information which is limited by their length. The 2D barcode stores data along two dimensions so it's capable of containing much more information, easily enough to create a url and a keyword for a query against a database or provide a rich set of parameters to a web service. You may have a 2D barcode on the back of your license if you live in one of the 40 states that have standardized on them. Although it differs by state, it's safe to say that most if not all the information on the front of your license is in the barcode, with room to spare.
There are a host of 2D barcode providers, even one called beetagg that looks like a beehive. Here is a demonstration from shotcode, and yes it looks like a shotgun blast. A company named Augme will even print a 2D barcode on a T-Shirt that will take people to your web site when photographed by a camera phone.


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Reliable child care can be difficult to afford. Full-time center care for an infant ranges from $4,000 to $18,000 annually; for a 4-year-old, it's $3,900 to $11,000, according to the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.
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Saving for college may seem impossible while paying for child care along with other fixed expenses, such as housing, utilities, and food. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel. When your child begins elementary school and no longer requires full-time child care, you'll see a significant increase in your discretionary income each month.
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A review of antiepileptic drugs for neuropathic pain and Fibromyalgia
Sunday 22 December 2013
A Review of Antiepileptic Drugs for Neuropathic Pain and Fibromyalgia
Editor's comment: Antiepileptic drugs – also called anticonvulsants or antiseizure medications – are frequently used to treat neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia. Lyrica (pregabalin) – the first drug to be approved for fibromyalgia – is an antiepileptic. This study reviews available research assessing the effectiveness of antiepileptic drugs for neuropathic pain and FM. They concluded that the evidence from clinical trials only supported the use of two antiepileptics – gabapentin and pregabalin – for neuropathic pain and FM. What's interesting is that although the drugs only worked for a minority of patients, when it worked, it worked really well – providing at least a 50% reduction in pain intensity.
Antiepileptic drugs for neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia - an overview of Cochrane reviews.
By Philip J. Wiffen, et al.
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Neuropathic pain is pain coming from damaged nerves. It is different from pain messages carried along healthy nerves from damaged tissue (e.g., a fall, cut, or arthritic knee). Neuropathic pain is treated by different medicines than pain from damaged tissue. Medicines such as paracetamol or ibuprofen are probably not effective in neuropathic pain, while medicines that are sometimes used to treat depression or epilepsy can be very effective in some people with neuropathic pain. Our understanding of fibromyalgia (a condition of persistent, widespread pain and tenderness, sleep problems, and fatigue) is lacking, but fibromyalgia can respond to the same medicines as neuropathic pain.
Antiepileptic drugs (previously called anticonvulsants) are used for treating epilepsy, but have also been used for treating neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia. Many of the drugs have been the subject of individual Cochrane reviews. In August 2013 we collected all these Cochrane reviews on antiepileptic drugs together to provide an overview. Individual antiepileptic drugs work in different ways, and there is no expectation that they are equally effective.
We found that only for gabapentin and pregabalin was there some evidence that they worked in long-term nerve pain with diabetes (painful diabetic neuropathy) and pain after shingles (postherpetic neuralgia). Pregabalin also had evidence of efficacy in central neuropathic pain (typically pain after stroke) and in fibromyalgia. The drugs work very well in some people with these painful conditions, with pain reduced by half. However, only between 1 in 10 and 1 in 4 people will get this level of benefit, depending on the pain condition and the drug. Most people will get no pain relief.
The antiepileptic drugs produced side effects in most people taking them, and for about 1 in 4 these could not be tolerated so they stopped taking the drug. Serious side effects were no more common with antiepileptic drugs than with a harmless placebo.
The evidence we found did not meet current best standards, and as a result it may overestimate benefit. The biggest concern is a lack of any evidence for most drugs in most types of neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia. For lacosamide and lamotrigine there is evidence of a lack of effect; for other antiepileptic drugs (including carbamazepine, clonazepam, phenytoin, valproate) there is no evidence of effect or insufficient evidence of effect.
BACKGROUND: Antiepileptic drugs have been used for treating different types of neuropathic pain, and sometimes fibromyalgia. Our understanding of quality standards in chronic pain trials has improved to include new sources of potential bias. Individual Cochrane reviews using these new standards have assessed individual antiepileptic drugs. An early review from this group, originally published in 1998, was titled 'Anticonvulsants for acute and chronic pain'. This overview now covers the neuropathic pain aspect of that original review, which was withdrawn in 2009.
OBJECTIVES: To provide an overview of the relative analgesic efficacy of antiepileptic drugs that have been compared with placebo in neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia, and to report on adverse events associated with their use.
METHODS: We included reviews published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews up to August 2013 (Issue 7). We extracted information from each review on measures of efficacy and harm, and methodological details concerning the number of participants, the duration of studies, and the imputation methods used, in order to judge potential biases in available data. We analysed efficacy data for each painful condition in three tiers, according to outcome and freedom from known sources of bias. The first tier met current best standards - at least 50% pain intensity reduction over baseline (or its equivalent), without the use of last observation carried forward (LOCF) for dropouts, an intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis, in parallel group studies with at least 200 participants lasting eight weeks or more. The second tier used data from at least 200 participants where one or more of the above conditions were not met. The third tier of evidence related to data from fewer than 200 participants, or with several important methodological problems that limited interpretation.
MAIN RESULTS: No studies reported top tier results. For gabapentin and pregabalin only we found reasonably good second tier evidence for efficacy in painful diabetic neuropathy and postherpetic neuralgia. In addition, for pregabalin, we found evidence of efficacy in central neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia. Point estimates of numbers needed to treat for an additional beneficial effect (NNTs) were in the range of 4 to 10 for the important outcome of pain intensity reduction over baseline of 50% or more. For other antiepileptic drugs there was no evidence (clonazepam, phenytoin), so little evidence that no sensible judgement could be made about efficacy (valproic acid), low quality evidence likely to be subject to a number of biases overestimating efficacy (carbamazepine), or reasonable quality evidence indicating little or no effect (lamotrigine, oxcarbazepine, topiramate). Lacosamide recorded such a trivial statistical superiority over placebo that it was unreliable to conclude that it had any efficacy where there was possible substantial bias. Any benefits of treatment came with a high risk of adverse events and withdrawal because of adverse events, but serious adverse events were not significantly raised, except with oxcarbazepine.
AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: Clinical trial evidence supported the use of only gabapentin and pregabalin in some neuropathic pain conditions (painful diabetic neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia, and central neuropathic pain) and fibromyalgia. Only a minority of people achieved acceptably good pain relief with either drug, but it is known that quality of life and function improved markedly with the outcome of at least 50% pain intensity reduction. For other antiepileptic drugs there was no evidence, insufficient evidence, or evidence of a lack of effect; this included carbamazepine. Evidence from clinical practice and experience is that some patients can achieve good results with antiepileptics other than gabapentin or pregabalin. There is no firm evidence to answer the important pragmatic questions about which patients should have which drug, and in which order the drugs should be used. There is a clinical effectiveness research agenda to provide evidence about strategies rather than interventions, to produce the overall best results in a population, in the shortest time, and at the lowest cost to healthcare providers.
Source: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, November 11, 2013. By Philip J Wiffen, Sheena Derry, R Andrew Moore, Dominic Aldington, Peter Cole, Andrew S C Rice, Michael PT Lunn, Katri Hamunen, Maija Haanpaa, Eija A Kalso. Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Pain Research Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK, OX3 7LE.
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This is a big week for Toby Keith, as he just released his 16th studio album, Hope On The Rocks. During an interview with Tanner in the Morning at Charlotte's The New 103.7, he talked about the album–and gave fans some insight into what the inspiration was behind his current single, "I Like Girls That Drink Beer."
"There was a girl at my country club," he explains, "and she's married to a childhood friend of mine." When it comes to time order refreshments, he says, the women "all order umbrella drinks." Except for this one woman. "She always goes, 'Gimme two or three Modelos.'"
"I always make fun of her," he continues, "and she goes, 'Why do you make fun of me for drinking beer?' And I said, 'No I like girls that drink beer.' And I thought, 'I'm gonna write that.'"
Toby also talked about the video for the song, which features fans dancing, drinking, hollering, and having fun at one of his live shows.
"We shot that in the middle of the tour, and just told them, 'We're going to run this twice and film it, so if you want to get on camera, do your thing.'"
And what about the high number of young, attractive fans who are featured in the video?
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No African defender is among the top twenty in the world.
No African defender is among the best 20 in the world as none made the list of 20 defenders shortlisted for the FIFA FIFPro World XI 2012, by the worldwide players' union, FIFPro, and FIFA on Thursday.
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Three days after the unveiling of the five-goalkeeper shortlist, the 20 defenders are now known and will be followed by the 15 midfielders and 15 forwards due to be announced and published on FIFA.com on November 26 and 29respectively.
The shortlisted defenders are: (home country, club)
Jordi Alba (Spain, Barcelona); Gareth Bale (Wales, Tottenham Hotspur); Giorgio Chiellini (Italy, Juventus); Ashley Cole (England, Chelsea); Dani Alves (Brazil, Barcelona); David Luiz (Brazil, Chelsea); Patrice Evra (France, Manchester United); Rio Ferdinand (England, Manchester United); Mats Hummels (Germany, Borussia Dortmund); Branislav Ivanovic (Serbia, Chelsea); Vincent Kompany (Belgium, Manchester City); Philipp Lahm (Germany, Bayern Munich), Marcelo (Brazil, Real Madrid); Javier Mascherano (Argentina, Barcelona); Pepe (Portugal, Real Madrid); Gerard Piqué (Spain, Barcelona); Carles Puyol (Spain, Barcelona); Sergio Ramos (Spain, Real Madrid); John Terry (England, Chelsea); Thiago Silva (Brazil, Paris St-Germain).
The 50,000 professional footballers belonging to the players' unions across the world that form FIFPro received voting forms to nominate their peers in a secret ballot for inclusion in their World XI – choosing the best goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders and three forwards of 2012.
The final FIFA FIFPro World XI will be announced at the FIFA Ballon d'Or gala at the Zurich Kongresshaus on January 7, 2013. During the televised gala, the winner of the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the best player of 2012 and the winner of the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year 2012 award will also be revealed.
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Two cybersecurity bills that would hand President Obama the power to shut down parts of the Internet in the event of a national emergency have now been merged into a single unified piece of legislation that Democrats will try to pass before the end of the year, with the Department of Homeland Security being given a larger role in policing the world wide web.
|Janet Napolitano's DHS will be handed broader authority to determine how to handle potential cybersecurity threats. Photo: Center for American Progress.
Under the new draft bill, which is a combination of the two versions originally crafted by Senators Joe Lieberman and Jay Rockefeller, Janet Napolitano's DHS will be handed broader authority to determine how to handle potential cybersecurity threats.
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Cybersecurity legislation is being promoted as a vital tool to defend the nation's critical infrastructure against cyber- terrorism. However, as we have highlighted, the threat from cyber-terrorists to the U.S. power grid or water supply is minimal. The perpetrators of an attack on such infrastructure would have to have direct physical access to the systems that operate these plants to cause any damage. Any perceived threat from the public Internet to these systems is therefore completely contrived and strips bare what many fear is the real agenda behind cybersecurity – to enable the government to regulate free speech on the Internet.
As we reported back in March, the Obama administration's release of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a government plan to "secure" (or control) the nation's public and private sector computer networks, coincided with Democrats attempting to claim that the independent news website The Drudge Report was serving malware, an incident Senator Jim Inhofe described as a deliberate ploy "to discourage people from using Drudge".
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened to late night talk show.
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Graphite Digest — May 18, 2012
Pinestar declines Option to acquire Australia Graphite Properties
Pinestar Gold Inc TSXV:PNS announced May 18 it will not exercise its option to acquire 11 graphite properties in four Australian states. The option with Zimtu Capital Corp TSXV:ZC and Strategic Resource Management Pty Ltd was announced March 1.
Rainbow stakes BC Graphite Prospects
Rainbow Resources Inc TSXV:RBW announced May 17 acquisition of graphite prospects in southwest BC. The company has staked two claim blocks covering over 40 square kilometres west and southwest of its flagship Big Strike Gold-Silver Project in the Slocan Mining District. The 2,100-hectare Claim Block #1 lies immediately north of Anglo Swiss Resources' TSXV:ASW Blu Starr Graphite Property and 14 kilometres from Eagle Graphite's mine, one of North America's two flake-graphite producers. The 2,100-hectare Claim Block #2 is contiguous to Blu Starr's southern boundary.
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Arrowhead finds Quebec Graphite Mineralization
Arrowhead Gold Corp TSXV:AWH announced May 17 a graphite find on its Gateau Property in the Chibougamau Mining District of north-central Quebec. A review of drilling completed in 2008 found one hole with 48 metres of coarse-grained graphite mineralization. The graphite horizon is within a basalt unit just below a contact with a quartzite unit, the company stated. A 2011 airborne survey outlined a 7.5-kilometre-long east-west electromagnetic conductor that coincides with and appears to be caused by the graphite horizon. The survey found up to five other conductive horizons that may also be related to graphite mineralization. The 2008 drilling was intended to test a uranium target so carbon content wasn't measured at the time. The core is still on the property.
Arrowhead plans to have a crew re-examine the graphite horizon and prospect the EM conductors for graphite. The 3,975-hectare Gateau Property is approximately 240 kilometres northeast of the town of Chibougamau.
Uranium North reports Nunavut Graphite Samples up to 4.13% C
Uranium North Resource Corp TSXV:UNR announced May 16 graphite sample results from its Amer Lake Property in Nunavut. Six randomly chosen samples from two drill holes showed assays of 4.13%, 3.2%, 3.84%, 0.6%, 3.22% and 3.77% carbon. The two holes, 3.1 kilometres apart, and a third hole 15 kilometres east, intersected graphitic beds that have been identified in three outcrops spanning an area 22 by 10 kilometres. The samples will undergo mineral liberation analysis to determine the nature and particle size of the graphite. Uranium North has staked additional claims over areas with outcropping graphitic rocks.
The project has an inferred uranium resource estimate of 19.3 million pounds grading 0.04% triuranium octoxide (U3O8) using the industry-standard cutoff of 0.01%. The project is 70 kilometres from an all-season road linking Agnico-Eagle's TSX:AEM Meadowbank Gold Mine with the town of Baker Lake.
Lomiko expands Quebec Graphite Property
Lomiko Metals Inc TSXV:LMR announced May 14 a letter of agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Quatre Milles West Property in south Quebec. Under the agreement, Lomiko pays Zimtu Capital Corp TSXV:ZC and two other vendors a total of $3,000 and 1.8 million shares. The vendors retain a 2% NSR, half of which Lomiko may buy for $1 million.
The 2,180-hectare property covers the western extension of the geology that hosts the graphite-bearing structures shown in historic drilling at the company's Quatre Milles Property. The combined property expands Quatre Milles from approximately 1,600 hectares to 3,780 hectares. Lomiko's exploration program for the Quatre Milles Property includes mapping, prospecting and drilling to test and confirm historic high-grade graphite found by Graphicor Resources in a 26-hole, 1,625-metre drill program.
Read an interview with Lomiko CEO Paul Gill.
Read a feature story about Lomiko Metals.
Zenyatta updates Ontario Graphite Drilling
Zenyatta Ventures Ltd TSXV:ZEN announced May 14 a drilling update for its Albany Graphite Deposit in north Ontario. A stepout hole 450 metres east of the original discovery hole intersected 94 metres of near-surface graphitic breccia. A second hole collared from the same location but drilled in the opposite direction intersected 14.8 metres of graphitic veining and breccia followed by 108.2 metres of graphitic overprinting. Assays for the first hole are pending. The second hole will be redrilled due to mechanical problems with the rig. The company is currently drilling the first of two additional holes.
The graphite discovery is 30 kilometres from the Trans-Canada Highway, a powerline and a natural gas pipeline, 70 kilometres from rail and about five kilometres from an all-weather road. The deposit is near surface, underneath glacial till overburden.
Read a feature story about Zenyatta Ventures.
Northern Graphite announces Agreements for Ontario Spherical Graphite Tests
Northern Graphite Corp TSXV:NGC announced May 14 two agreements for further tests to manufacture spherical graphite from its Bissett Creek Deposit in east Ontario. The company has engaged Hazen Research and the National Research Council Canada to continue testing and optimizing Northern's process for manufacturing spherical graphite, which is used to make the anodes in lithium-ion batteries. The company has already developed a proprietary manufacturing process. Hazen Research will confirm lab results using bench-scale models of commercial purification equipment for the full-scale process. This program will likely be followed by pilot plant testing, engineering and design work to define the capital and operating costs of a commercial facility.
The NRC will test Northern's spherical graphite in lithium-graphite batteries to optimize and customize its performance to meet the specifications of potential offtake customers and strategic partners. Bissett Creek is a high-purity, large-flake, scalable deposit close to infrastructure. Northern plans to complete a bankable feasibility study in 2Q 2012, followed by permitting. Subject to feasibility results and financing, mine construction could then begin.
Read a feature story about Northern Graphite.
Logan acquires Quebec Graphite Property
Logan Copper Inc TSXV:LC announced May 14 acquisition of the Carheil Graphite Property in northwest Quebec. The 2,185-hectare property was staked on the Gestim website of Ressources naturelles et Faune Québec. During the 1970s Noranda Exploration undertook geophysics and drilling on 145 hectares of the property.
The project is approximately 280 kilometres northwest of Val-d'Or. Other Quebec projects of the same name include Standard Graphite's TSXV:SGH Carheil Project in the Labrador Trough of northeast Quebec and NQ Exploration's TSXV:NQE silver-polymetallic project in the northern Abitibi region.
Disclaimer: Lomiko Metals Inc, Standard Graphite Corp and Zimtu Capital Corp are clients of OnPage Media and the principals of OnPage Media may hold shares in those companies.
By Greg Klein
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Beebe began her journey in both corporate advertising and new product work for companies including Avon and Revlon. She likes her business, which primarily come through word of mouth, because it enables her to combine her creative energies with her talents for marketing and business.
"My company has accounts with most of the showrooms in the D&D building," she said, referring to the Decoration & Design Building on Third Avenue, near 58th Street, in New York City, which serves as the design industry's international hub.
"Cynthia's the only one that I know of in the Connecticut area that does that kind of highly specialized hand-sewn work," Petersen said. "That's really a dying art."
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35 more wild horses killed as Interior and Ford team save 52
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – Thirty-five more wild horses rounded up in the West were slaughtered Monday, but the Interior Department acted quickly to save the lives of 52 other mustangs by enlisting last-minute financial help from Mustang sports car maker Ford Motor Co.
The horses killed came from a broker who obtained them from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. The tribe traded 87 of the 105 aging horses it bought from the government for younger ones. Interior officials said they would review the arrangement to see if it violated a federal contract with the agency. Tribal officials were unavailable for comment.
"It's incredibly disappointing," Kathleen Clarke, director of Interior's Bureau of Land Management, told The Associated Press. "It is not our intent to have these animals killed. That's why we acted very aggressively."
The latest killings bring to 41 the number of wild horses slaughtered since Congress removed protections for mustangs in December. Last week, six were slaughtered that had been sold to a private owner. Both incidents occurred at the Cavel International Inc. commercial packing plant in DeKalb, Ill.
BLM officials, tipped off by Agriculture Department inspectors, persuaded the plant managers to stop. That saved the lives of 16 mustangs about to be killed.
The plant agreed to give the horses food and water until BLM officials can pick them up. BLM officials also intervened to save 36 mustangs in Nebraska that were on their way to the Cavel plant. Those horses are to be picked up separately Tuesday and kept in the Midwest.
BLM, which captures the animals during government roundups aimed at reducing the wild population, has sold and delivered nearly 1,000 horses since the new law passed. BLM says 37,000 wild horses and burros forage its lands, 9,000 more than Western ranges can sustain. Most of the wild horses are found in Nevada.
Clarke said Monday she ordered an immediate halt to the delivery of some 950 more that have been sold. "We will not be making any more deliveries until we can check on the situation," she said. "We just want to reassess our program."
Clarke said she'd already been talking with Ford about such a partnership even before she called the company for help Monday. "We do not have any clear authority to buy private animals," Clarke said. So she got Ford to pledge $19,000 to ship and care for the mustangs.
The Sioux tribe had to sign an agreement with BLM that it would "provide humane care" to each of the animals, documents show. Clarke said Interior's top lawyer was investigating that arrangement and an earlier sale of six wild horses to an Oklahoma man.


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2001 - Present day : Diversity of Beauty worldwide
There is no single type of beauty; it is a multiple-faceted quality framed by different ethnic origins, aspirations, and expectations that reflect the world's intrinsic diversity. With a portfolio of powerful, international brands, L'Oréal enters the 21st century by embracing diversity in its global growth agenda. Headed since 2006 by Chairman Lindsay Owen-Jones, and Chief Executive Officer Jean-Paul Agon, the Group continues to make new acquisitions to cover the world's varied cosmetic needs, and to undertake new socially responsible initiatives in the interests of sustainable development for all.
The story of "reconstructed skin" has been a great scientific saga, since its beginnings in 1975, when American researchers successfully cultivated keratinocytes, the main cells of the epidermis, in vitro. This discovery, which will be exploited for the treatment of major burns, aroused the interest of L'Oréal Research, which saw in it an alternative method for testing the efficacy and safety of cosmetic products. 1979: The first epidermis model reconstructed. 1986: The first dermis and epidermis model, enabling the effects of UV and aging skin to be tested. 1994: The development of a pigmented epidermis, enabling the study of the processes involved in tanning. 1997: rgw development of an immunoresponsive epidermis, able to react to irritants or allergenic products. That same year the Group also acquired Episkin kit technology - standardized and reproducible reconstructed skin kits, made available to the scientific and private worlds. 2001: L'Oréal opened a new skin bioengineering center in Lyon (France), enabling the use of this amazing technology on an industrial scale.
L'Oréal has joined the "World Business Council for Sustainable Development," an independent international association of over 150 companies from all major industries. Its mission is to encourage the exchange of expertise in environmental, economic and social matters.
L'Oréal has acquired Biomedical, an American brand of professional corrective cosmetic products, used and sold by dermatologists. Predominantly based on non-invasive acts (peeling, post-cosmetic procedure care), combining safety and efficiency, Biomedical has joined the Group brand with the highest dermatological valence, La Roche-Posay.
A significant advance in understanding the cutaneous consequences of the menopause through the objective measurement of skin density loss. Boosted by the launch of Novadiol, this new expertise has led to an unprecedented breakthrough in pharmacy: the first Phyto-Flavone-based treatment to regenerate skin material, with positive results that have won over thousands of women. The treatment both plumps the skin and remodels the oval of the face
On the acquisition in 1998 of SoftSheen, the American company producing hair products for ethnic hair, L'Oréal also acquired one of its subsidiaries, Mizani (Swahili for "balance"), its professional product brand. In 2001, Mizani was overhauled, repositioned as a premium brand and relaunched by the USA Professional Products Division. The objective: to prepare for growth and internationalization.
Inauguration of the exhibition "Decoding the Hair" at the Cité des Sciences. For the first time, the Paris-based Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie and L'Oréal together explored the world of hair: its nature, properties, language and symbolism... Developed by L'Oréal Research and designed with the museum teams, this educational exhibit answered the questions we have all asked about our hair on occasion. From Brazil to Russia, the exhibition then traveled to over a dozen countries. In 8 years, it was presented in 14 science museums on three continents and visited by over 2 million people.
The principle? Via a dedicated website, business school students from around the world were invited to step into the shoes of a virtual cosmetics company director. They were asked to make strategic decisions in marketing, research, production, finance, etc. in comparison with the performance of other students. The goal for L'Oréal? Making contact with the young talents of the future and developing the Group's reputation and image as an employer. The result? A "business game" which has now become a standard-setter, included on the educational programs at the world's largest universities, involving over 50,000 participants from 120 countries, and now also a key Group recruitment tool. P >
In association with Nestlé, L'Oréal has entered the market for nutritional supplements for cosmetic purposes with the creation of Innéov. The result of synergy between L'Oréal Research (knowledge of skin, evaluation methodologies) and Nestlé Research (bio-assimilation, nutritional ingredient stability), the brand is counting on scientific breakthroughs in order to develop this booming market.
L'Oréal demonstrates its corporate social responsibility by joining the United Nations Global CompactAlong with 2,000 other businesses, L'Oréal subscribes to the ten principles of the Global Compact, a sustainable development initiative launched by the UN in 2000.
The Luxury Products Division has signed a license agreement with Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf. Their rich, avant-garde and extravagant esthetic universe proved attractive to the Group, which is looking to bring in new talent and expand its designer fragrance division.
High-gloss texture on the lips, luscious and transparent colors, playful image, toothsome fruit flavors: delicious and addictive, Juicy Tubes lip gloss has proved a phenomenal success worldwide
1998 saw the European launch of Garnier's Natéa, which nourishes hair while coloring it. However, a problem soon emerged: the term "Natéa", which conjures up the idea of nutrition for speakers of Romance languages, was not well understood in the U.S. - a crucial market for the internationalization of Garnier. The brand was thus renamed Nutrisse, a more immediately accessible name, then re-launched internationally. This time the bet paid off: the concepts of color and care are universally accessible and Garnier Nutrisse has thus now become the world No. 1 in terms of hair coloring sales


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Major Crimes police captain Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell) is getting a major pain in the keister this season when her estranged husband, Jackson (Tom Berenger), moves in with her starting July 8 for three episodes of the TNT drama. "He is extremely charming and funny," says Berenger, who collected an Emmy last year for Hatfields & McCoys.
So why did the couple split? It seems that smilin' Jack has an addictive personality. "He was a big defense lawyer at one point, making big bucks, but he had a drinking problem," Berenger says. "He quit drinking, but then he started gambling in Vegas. He's always out of money and the kids don't want to talk to him. And now he's gotten himself back in L.A. on the court-appointed attorney list."
That's how he turns up on Raydor's doorstep, and he's intent on winning her back. "Jack's a hopeless romantic who still wears his wedding ring, but she doesn't," Berenger says. "He ends up sleeping on the couch."


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Chico >> Dozens of Chico State University students rose early on Monday to celebrate and honor Cesar Chavez Day just as the holiday's namesake would have intended — by serving the community.
About 200 students were sent all over Chico to spend the morning and some of the afternoon volunteering during the fourth annual "Cats in the Community" event.
Volunteers had the opportunity to sign up for one of the eight locations, which included Bidwell Park, the Boys & Girls Club and Trinity Church. Volunteers were also sent to the area south of Chico State University to clean up the neighborhood.
This year, student volunteers had a visit from someone for who Cesar Chavez Day has a personal connection — Cesar Chavez's son-in-law David Villarino-Gonzalez.
Students gathered in the Bell Memorial Union plaza before heading off to their assigned job and listened to Villarino-Gonzalez speak about the work of Cesar Chavez and why the students' efforts mattered.
"Some of you celebrate Chavez Day, I understand, by putting on sombreros and zarapes and a couple of margaritas; well you know, that's good, but the real point about celebrating Chavez Day is the work that you're modeling here today," he told the students. "Going out and serving the community."
Villarino-Gonzalez told the Enterprise-Record that the revelry typically associated with the holiday was brought to his attention.
The idea of celebration needs to be changed, he said. Celebrations should be held after there's an accomplishment. If students go out and serve the community, then they should celebrate.
"Have a good comida (food), have some good times, put some good music together and really celebrate what they've accomplished," Villarino-Gonzalez said. "But to just sit around and go and get happy — I think it has to be connected with an idea of accomplishing something."
The intent for having this holiday is to be a day of service, he said. The Chico State student volunteers need to be commended.
Members of the community also felt the students deserved recognition.
A bicyclist riding through Annie's Glenn said thank you to students cleaning up Bidwell Park.
About 40 students donning gloves and armed with buckets, trash bags and grabbers walked in the cold throughout lower park looking for discarded items.
Freshman Andrew Mock, a mechanical engineering major, made his away across the creek by balancing on a log to pick up trash, including glass and plastic bottles, that were strewn along the creek.
"The best thing I like about Chico is that we have this great Bidwell Park, with thousands of acres of just great land and scenery," he said. "I want to keep it clean, that's how it should be."
Students who made their way to east Chico got dirty for a different reason — they planted vegetables and built trellises for the Kentfield Community Garden.
With the radio playing in the background, about a dozen students dug into the dirt to plant artichokes and take out weeds.
Kentfield Community Gardens is run by Phillip McGie Hall and it sits on a quarter-acre lot on Kentfield Road.
The purpose it to grow vegetables that are sold through an honor system and all the profits go to the Torres Shelter, Hall said.
The work the students did on Monday is about three to four weeks worth for Hall, who works alone.
"It's amazing how much help I'm getting," he said.
Cats in the Community was revamped to ensure all the students are busy working, said sophomore JW Dobbe, Chico State's Associated Students commissioner of community affairs. The event would attract about 500 volunteers, but there wasn't enough work for everyone. Now, organizations let the university know how many to send.
Contact reporter Almendra Carpizo at 896-7760.


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Director Stanley Kubrick had one of the best batting averages in movie history. He only made 13 full-length films, but they're all good, at least nine are very good, and I'd say four — "Dr. Strangelove," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Shining" — are genuine masterpieces.
Director Stanley Kubrick had one of the best batting averages in movie history. He only made 13 full-length films, but they're all good, at least nine are very good, and I'd say four — "Dr. Strangelove," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Shining" — are genuine masterpieces.
And now, three of those films (along with two more from the "very good" category) have been collected in a new boxed set.
Make room Some DVDs out today:
"Basket Case 2"
"Day Watch"
"El Cantante"
"License To Wed"
"Looney Tunes Golden Vol. 5"
"Spider-Man 3"
"Talk To Me"
"Twin Peaks: Gold Box"
And CDs:
Britney Spears, "Blackout"
Mario, "Go"
Baby Bash, "Cyclone"
Backstreet Boys, "Unbreakable"
Josh Turner, "Everything Is Fine"
Saves The Day, "Under The Boards"
Will Downing, "After Tonight"
Sources: davisdvd.com, tophitsonline.com
Besides remastered, widescreen prints of the five films, the set includes a bonus disc with each movie's making-of features, documentaries and other material. Plus, most of the movies include commentary tracks from actors, experts and Kubrick collaborators. There's even a sixth disc: "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures," a 2001 documentary that shows just how much Kubrick's fellow filmmakers respected him. Not every director has Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg singing his praises.
Obviously, there's a lot in this box. Here's a rundown of the movies:
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968): Kubrick's legendary science-fiction epic still divides audiences. Is it a dull, pretentious head-scratcher or a groundbreaking, visionary voyage into humanity's past and future? I'm clearly in the second camp, but even if you're bored by the movie as a whole, you have to admit the special effects and use of music (especially the "dom-dom-DOMMM!" of "Thus Spake Zarathustra") are brilliant. My advice? Don't worry about following the plot (there really isn't one). Just find the biggest TV you can and let "2001" blow your mind.
"A Clockwork Orange" (1971): Another movie that divides audiences, mostly thanks to gleeful violence committed by the film's "hero," Alex de Large (Malcolm McDowell). Like "2001," it's a visual stunner with brilliantly used music.
"The Shining" (1980): Author Stephen King hates it, but I'd rank this as one of scariest films ever made. Jack Nicholson goes terrifyingly over the top, but it's the Overlook Hotel (an elaborate set) that's the real monster. Disturbing visuals and a bold use of the Steadicam ratchet up the intensity.
"Full Metal Jacket" (1987): The first half focuses on a drill sergeant (actual former drill sergeant R. Lee Ermey) putting his Marine recruits though hell during basic training. It's so startling and realistic that it leaves the viewer exhausted. Unfortunately, it's also a very tough act to follow, and the film's second half, which follows one of those Marines into Vietnam, suffers by comparison.
"Eyes Wide Shut" (1999): Kubrick's last film was released after his death, and the studio tinkered with it to ensure an R rating. This is the first time the unrated version has been available in the U.S. (There's not much of a difference.) The movie follows a doctor (Tom Cruise) as he wanders New York City, trying to deal with the fantasies his wife (Nicole Kidman, then Cruise's real wife) has confessed to having. It got lukewarm reviews, but watching it again reveals a hypnotic pacing and gorgeous images. It's a fitting end to Kubrick's career.
Will Pfeifer writes about new DVDs on Tuesdays and older ones on Sundays. Contact him at 815-987-1244 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Friday, November 5, 2010
6 comments:
- Dio said...
I love that house enough to live there even with this creepy guy and his knife out front!
But seriously, your photos are especially spooky because of the daylight - the potential for creatures to be out in the middle of the day makes them more frightening.
- November 5, 2010 at 8:28 AM
- NecroBones said...
I find the whole concept of little monsters masquerading as trick-or-treaters to be pretty creepy by itself. The fact that this little fellow has a knife behind his back makes it even better. :)
- November 5, 2010 at 9:17 AM
- Sara said...
I think he's my favorite.
- November 5, 2010 at 10:24 AM
- Rot said...
I think this guy is my favorite too. The story is really ugly with him. It came out even better than I had imagined. Even though Bretchen is carrying heads, this guy is about to do something really nasty.
We found that building in a really high end business park...it was empty and for rent...so we imported the jacko wearing the witch hat. : )
- November 5, 2010 at 10:35 AM
- Chris 'Frog Queen' Davis said...
This is my favorite also.
Just inspired.
- November 5, 2010 at 1:40 PM
- JHMDF said...
When will we see his face? : )
- November 5, 2010 at 4:18 PM