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Every time we walk by fresh's chic Soho outpost a bit south of our offices, we can't help stepping inside. Beyond the adorable window displays, the subtle scent of bright lemons and irresistible champagne draws us in without fail. Inspired by France's Champagne vineyards, the bubbly mix comes courtesy of fresh's own Citron de Vigne fragrance. Thankfully, the experts at fresh wised up and bottled the scent for their happy customers to take home (otherwise, we were considering moving in).
This is my go to scent during the summer. I receive many compliments when I wear this.
As the name implies, Citron de Vigne has a very citrus scent. If this isn't your cup of tea, I wouldn't recommend this product. The scent is fresh with a hint of musk so I think it would be appropriate for both men and women.
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For a while now Ive been wanting to make a Tetris scarf but have been too lazy to chart up a pattern and also have been stumped on how to make it look good from the front and back since Intarnsia knitting looks a mess from behind. Low and behold, someone on Craftster solved the problem with a simple solution….making it double sided.
I love that it just looks like a mosaic pattern at first glance but then you recognize the shapes and instantly know what the scarf is. Truly chic and geek ;)
The woman made the pattern and had her mom knit it up and unfortunately she doesnt seem to have posted the pattern, but another poster linked to a Tetris chart for making a baby blanket that you could easily adapt into a scarf. You can download that here.
Here you can see how wide the scarf is before its doubled over. A great way to make the scarf visually appealing from all sides!
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I've tried many different brands and by far these are one of the best out there. They're tough and withstand a lot of road debris. I've punctured once since riding on these and I'm on my third pair. They WILL be extremely tough to mount if you do not folllow the instructions. PRE-STRETCH on wheels for 24hrs to 48hrs before applying glue for final install or else you will end up like Corey S. that gave these an unjust review. Can't go wrong with these. They are very well made, look fantastic and grip like crazy.
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Read here. Nice – good for Al. I sincerely wish him well going forward, classy guy. Apparently the Vikings, Lions and the Texans all expressed interest.
Also, just want to clarify that while I supported giving him a chance to make a difference yet this year by keeping him on the Packers' roster and Ido have concerns that this move may have ticked off guys still on the roster – I don't think the the team is now destined for failure. We'll be OK.
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QualiTi The Delta Opal & CZ Crystal Cluster – 5 Stone Cluster
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Cardiff Bay has become one of the world's biggest regeneration projects, the downbeat dereliction of the old docks having been almost completely transformed into a designer heaven. In years gone by, when the docks were some of the busiest in the world, the area was better known by its evocative name of Tiger Bay, immortalized by local lass Shirley Bassey.
The Bay area now comprises three distinct parts, situated either side of Roald Dahls Plass, the main square named after the Cardiff-born children's author (1916–90): on the eastern side the civic precincts around the glorious Wales Millennium Centre, to the west the shiny millennium waterfront, including the Mermaid Quay retail and leisure complex, and, set back from the water's edge, the suburb of Butetown.
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The mesmerizing Wales Millennium Centre is a vibrant performance space built in 2004 for theatre and music. Likened by critics to a copper-plated armadillo or a great snail, the WMC soars gracefully over the Bay rooftops, its exterior swathed in Welsh building materials, topped with a stainless-steel shell tinted with a bronze oxide to resist salty air.
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|Cure Empress
キュアエンプレス Kyua Enpuresu
|DokiDoki! Pretty Cure
|Unknown (presumably dead)
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|DDPC30 (short)
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|White (main)
Light blue (sub)
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|Iizuka Mayumi
Cure Empress (キュアエンプレス Kyua Enpuresu?) is one of the legendary Pretty Cures from Doki Doki! Pretty Cure. She was the original user of the Magical Lovely Pad, and Cure Heart bears a striking resemblance to her, as pointed out by Empress' fairy partner, Melan. Her team partners were Cure Magician and Cure Priestress.
HistoryOnce, long 10,000 years ago, Cure Empress had became a Pretty Cure along with two other girls that had used the Three Sacred Treasures in order to battle with a great evil, known as the Jikochū. Using the power of the Magical Lovely Pad, she and Melan fought against the forces of Jikochu. The Legendary Pretty Cures were later able to lock away the Jikochu inside a seal deep inside the base of the Trump Kingdom's chamber itself. It was also the place where the Eternal Golden Crown was used as a seal in order to keep the Jikochu, locked away. The seal was then hidden away by Melan, along with the Golden Dragon Glaive and, which was later handed down to Trump Kingdom's royal family; along with all Three Treasures in their possession.
- Cure Empress is the first Cure to have a traditional Japanese influence in her design
- Cure Empress shares her voice actress with Chinen Miyuki -- ironically, Miyuki was a candidate for Cure Passion, before Higashi Setsuna turned out to be her.
- Cure Empress is the second white Cure to have multiple sub colors.
- She is the first white Cure to have green hair.
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To read the original blog entry by Maurice Heiblum on blackboard.com, click here
Hi all,
It's been 3 months since I last blogged and a little over 6 months since the merger – I can't believe it. Time has flown by! In that time we have been busy merging two competitors into Blackboard and executing on the priorities I outlined after the merger:
* Customer experience – Ensuring that our customers continue to have the exceptional client experience that Elluminate and Wimba have always provided.
* United team – Bringing Elluminate, Wimba and Blackboard teams together into a single, cohesive unit so we can carry that high standard of client care forward.
* Product Roadmap – Creating a vision for how our collective solutions come together to help you better engage students to improve outcomes and save time while trimming cost.
Let me share a few recent developments:
Customer Experience.
It is very important to me that our customers continue to have a positive experience with our products and our company. As we evolve the integration of our business, we do so while helping to ensure that our customer experience is not negatively impacted; rather we hope that the integration enhances customers' experiences. Organizationally, we have integrated our support, hosting and services organizations to streamline the delivery of service to our customers. We continue every day to examine every process that touches our customers, while looking for ways to improve.
The results so far are encouraging. Our customer satisfaction ratings are high, customers are renewing our products at a fast rate, and we have greatly grown the business for both product lines in the months since the merger
In addition to ensuring a positive customer experience, it is important for us to partner with our customers as we develop solutions to meet their needs. To that end, we have created a combined Product Advisory Council (PAC). Both Wimba and Elluminate had very strong and open partnerships with customers to get continual feedback about products and services. We launched our combined PAC in December and have been having meetings with about 80 of our closest customers every two weeks.
In addition, we announced our user conference, "Connections Summit 2011". Our goal for this event is to build upon the success of the Wimba user conference from years past to provide you with a forum for networking and idea sharing. I am personally excited to hear how our customers are using Blackboard Collaborate to achieve their institutional goals and I am looking forward to attending many sessions. The deadline to submit proposals is March 11th so submit today via Connections. For inspiration, check out some archived presentations from 2010 here.
New Team
When I last blogged, I was still not completely comfortable saying "Maurice from Blackboard Collaborate." Now, it feels natural. Our team has really come together as one organization. The first indication of our unification occurred when members of the team, regardless of whether they came from Blackboard, Elluminate or Wimba, joined together to make fun of my pastel colored shirts! J
I am so proud of our team. They found common ground and have been executing to perfection since the merger. Combining the three entities – Blackboard, Elluminate and Wimba resulted in a team with the most extensive knowledge about educational needs and how we can meet those needs through collaborative technologies.
Product Roadmap
At Educause, we announced Project Gemini (http://www.blackboard.com/sites/collaborate/index.html), which will bring together the best of Elluminate and Wimba. Our development teams have been hard at work and so has the Product Advisory Council. The feedback we have received has been extremely positive and we are on schedule for a mid-year delivery. I'd like to thank our customers for their time and input; together we are transforming education with new ways to collaborate and learn.
Looking ahead, I am excited to share the details around Project Gemini and all the other facets of our business. Other Blackboard Collaborate team members, as well as some customers, will join me on this blog to give you a flavor of how we've gone about building Project Gemini.
So, lots more to come in the months ahead. Stay tuned and as always reach out to me if you have any feedback at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Statements regarding our product development initiatives, including new products and future product upgrades, updates or enhancements represent our current intentions, but may be modified, delayed or abandoned without prior notice and there is no assurance that such offering, upgrades, updates or functionality will become available unless and until they have been made generally available to our customers
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9th Annual ADV SLAP Rally - Squeal Like a Pig Here are the quick and dirty details for your short attention spans: When: May 17-19, 2013 Where: Byrd's Adventure Center (click HERE for a map) Cost: as low as $45 or $65 (with a t-shirt) Who/how do I pay?: Click HERE to register What do I get for my $$? Food.:dg Beer.:slurp Camp. Beer. Riding. Are the cool kids attending? YES. See HERE for the "IN list" Are there big-time corporate sponsors? Heck yes! Scroll down to see the list and start fantasizing about all the cool swag.
 SLAP early registration deadline is May 1st. What does this mean?... T-shirt ordering closes. SLAP Swag for early registrants only. Registration CLOSES on Friday May 10th. What does this mean?... The paypal link will be disabled and only "cash for scraps" will be accepted. We need to give final numbers to the catering company. Showing up at the event with cash does not guarantee that we will have enough food. We'll do our best to make sure everyone gets fed though.[/SIZE]
 Revival! Technically, it was never dead, but new life is being breathed into the 9th installment of this annual ADV Rally. SLAP 2013 will be infused with a delicate elixir of choice grains and hops. Yes, we will have BEER. We will have catered meals. We will have epic dirt and epic, twisty pavement. We will have organized events and maybe an ADV de-noobing ceremony. We will have BEER too. The Northwest Arkansas inmates have been gracious hosts for the past several years, so we Okies decided to help them out and handle the workload this year. Fortunately for you, we didn't decide to move it to Oklahoma. After four years on top of White Rock Mountain, AR, we're moving the rally a few miles downhill to the Byrd's Adventure Center on the banks of the Mulberry River in Ozark, AR. This location was chosen for several reasons: 1. Direct access via pavement (the roads to White Rock were getting rough) 2. More riding options (epic pavement, forest roads, singletrack, and everything in-between) 3. More activities for spouses and families
 MORE Details Dates: May 17-19, 2013 If you'd like to arrive earlier or stay longer, just make your arrangements with the campground. Location: Byrd's Adventure Center, Ozark, AR Map-  View Larger Map Lodging: Your registration fee includes tent/vehicle camping on site. Group showers , toilets, and water will be available for all to use, but the camping will be somewhat primitive, much like a tent city. There will be plenty of room for vehicle and trailer parking. If you decide to camp offsite, the "camping" portion of your registration will be considered a donation to the event. We want to encourage all attendees to stay at Byrd's so we can recapture the SLAP unity that has been fading a bit over the last few years. RV Spots: If you're interested in RV accommodations (i.e. a campsite with RV hook-ups), then here is what you need to know... There will be a limited number of RV/electrical sites available at a first come-first served basis. Please specify this request when you register. We will maintain a list of who has asked for RV sites (in order of "dibs") and will do our best to accommodate. We have a certain number allotted (12), but may be able to add more as needed. Only paid registrants can hold an RV spot. Here's the RV LIST. RV Disclaimer- please only reserve an RV site if you are a definite attendee to SLAP2013. If you just need to park a van or trailer and don't actually require electrical or water hook-ups, then don't reserve an RV site. We'll have plenty of room for car campers. (I'll be sleeping in my van at the campground.) Also... please don't be a selfish prick and reserve an RV site for just one person. Let's leave them for the families or groups, please. If you have a big ass RV and want to share your amenities, that would be cool. Thanks for understanding. Meals: Included with your registration will be three meals professionally prepared by a local catering company... Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast, and Saturday Dinner. Non-alcoholic beverages will also be provided at meals. Rides and Routes: There is a separate thread dedicated to route gathering, ride organization, and whatnot. It is the product of much attention by our fellow inmates in NW Arkansas. Click HERE for the stuff. T-Shirts, swag, and other stuff: The t-shirt logo will look something like THIS. There is a high possibility that participants will get stickers, other SLAP-related chotchkies, and freebies including door prizes and raffles. It all depends on how well we do at begging for free shit from vendors and sponsors. See the not-all-inclusive sponsor list below. Wanna be a sponsor? Contact inmate Tomski74. Liability: To participate in this event, you'll probably be asked to sign a waiver releasing liability (to ADV, Byrd's, and the event organizers) in the event that you somehow screw the pooch. We're all friends here. Be safe and don't do anything stupid. We'll try to do the same.
 Sponsors SLAP 2013 is made possible in part by numerous sponsors (corporate and individual). We will recognize those sponsors here and at the event. These companies or individuals below have donated gear, door prizes, cash, or other items and services to make SLAP 2013 as fun and memorable as possible. From the SLAP planning committee, we thank you. If you are interested in sponsoring SLAP 2013 (no matter the content or size of your contribution), please contact inmate Tomski74 via PM. Adventure lighting and other cool gadgets. www.ADVMonster.com Motorcycle gear, parts, and service. www.CycleGear.com fattees-printing.com SPEEDSPORT LEATHERS Motorcycle garment and gear service and repair. SpeedSport Leathers Website Motorcycle maps and guides. www.butlermaps.com Restaurant point of sale and security systems. www.SixByte.com The Snake Foundation (anonymous donor). Electronic cigarettes and supplies. www.DesignatedVaping.com Custom screenprinting and embroidery. www.GreenHouseClothing.net


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Well, my name is Lily, I`m 15, and I live in Australia, although my heart belongs to Scotland. I love everything about Scotland. The landscape, the history, the language, the culture. And man, I could listen to a Scottish guy speak all day!
I`m a Pagan [witch] and my Goddess is the Celtic Goddess of Fate and War, Morrighan. And if your now thinking that I fly around on broomsticks with my black cat, cursing people, just because my religion is paganism, than you really need to get out more. It`s nothing like that. Nothing at all. If you really wanna know about Pagans than look it up. Google is great! Take that into consideration. Baha.
I was never really obsessed with Harry Potter until my friends forced me to read it, and whaddaya know, now I am obsessed. Okay, I`m not a complete fanatic. Like I`m not nearly DYING with anticipation because HBP has come out, and I don`t revolve my life around Harry Potter. But I am a really big fan. I love Harry Potter slightly more than I love Stargate. Which is saying something!
Oh yeah. I love James with a burning passion!
I love him, I love him, I love him! Yup yup yup. He is mine so y`all can back just piss off and go back to your pathetic little corners of sorrow. Hehehe.
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Drinking water on board
With up to 70,000 passengers daily and more than 20 million passengers annually, Düsseldorf International Airport is the third largest in Germany. Almost 20,000 people are employed to keep the airport running smoothly and safely. When it comes to safety on board aircraft, nothing is left to chance – including the drinking water on board, which is disinfected using the Grundfos Oxiperm Pro system. To find out more about the Düsseldorf Airport solution click on the next tab, and to find out more about water disinfection, click on tab 3.
Oxiperm Pro and chlorine dioxide
The Oxiperm chlorine dioxide disinfection system has a number of advantageous compared to other systems. These include:
- Chlorine dioxide is able to disinfect even in low concentrations
- It is effective against the biofilms in which bacteria can grow
- There are no discernable by-products, such as the smell of chlorine
- It has a long residual time in water
- Integrated control system
- Exact dosing using digital dosing pump.
Reduced operating costs
A further plus with the system is the elimination of the risk of corrosion in the pipes and the subsequent cost of replacing them. The Oxiperm system produces chlorine dioxide using diluted solutions of sodium chlorite (NaClO2, 7,5%) and hydrochloric acid (HCl, 9% in a volumetric 1:1 relation. Other systems use a 1:3 relation to produce chlorine dioxide, which risks the diluted hydrochloric not reacting to chlorine dioxide and therefore corroding the pipe material.
Water refuelling
On board the aircraft, drinking water is used for making coffee, heating food and in wash hand basins. At Düsseldorf International Airport, aircrafts have their 400-800 litre tanks filled with disinfected water delivered by special fresh water-refuelling vehicles.
The drinking water is passed through a water filter and a system separator to an electromagnetic measuring water meter. The meter measures the flow and passes a 4-20mA signal on to the Grundfos Oxiperm Pro system.
While the vehicle is being filled with drinking water, the Oxiperm Pro system doses the correct amount of chlorine dioxide into the drinking water. The system has a stepper-motor driven dosing pump installed that ensures the precise quantity of chlorine dioxide is delivered, using the signal from the water meter to do this. The concentration is checked by a chlorine dioxide measuring cell that sends the value to a two-channel recorder. The German drinking water regulations specify that the concentration be recorded, but this is no problem with the integrated Oxiperm Pro solution. It is even possible to define a limit value in the control system to eliminate any possibility of over-dosing.
The package
The Oxiperm system supplied by Grundfos ensures that the airport lives up to all the standards and regulations. The system supplied consists of the following components:
- 2 Oxiperm Pro 5 g ClO2 / h
- Digital dosing pump DDI209
- 2 chlorine dioxide measuring cells Aquacell
- Chlorine dioxide gas warning device DIS-G
- Two-channel writing capability
- Grundfos' start-up assistance and after-sales service.
Regulations and standards
The Public Health Department takes a monthly water sample from the refuelling vehicles to ensure all drinking water standards are met. Drinking water for aircraft is covered by a special set of standards known as DIN 2001/part 2, as well as European aviation industry regulations and, in the case of Düsseldorf International Airport, German regulations. Finally, there is an IATA (International Air Transport Association) guideline for the actual fuelling of drinking water on aircraft, which states that aircraft may only be fuelled with drinking water 30 minutes before take-off.
Safe drinking water
Even well managed water resources can become infected with microorganisms, where bacteria can multiply in tanks, pipes and water handling equipment under the right conditions. Water treatment is therefore an important element in keeping drinking water safe.
Typical treatment methods
The availability of safe drinking water is vital, whether on aircraft or anywhere else. To ensure this, a number of methods of water treatment are available. Read on to find out the pros and cons of the solutions that are typically used. The conclusion is clear – the chorine dioxide solution of the Oxiperm Pro system is the best solution for water treatment and disinfection. Methods for treating water typically include:
- Chlorine dioxide: Chlorine dioxide does not react with water but dissolves physically. It kills microorganisms in the water by causing irreversible oxidative destruction of the transport proteins in the living cells. It works against bacteria and also viruses, bacteria, fungi and algae. Also, as opposed to the other methods, it is effective in removing biofilm even with low doses.
- Thermal treatment: Often used to combat the Legionella bacteria that can be found in water systems. The water in the system is heated to above 70oC to kill the bacteria.
- UV radiation: Water is disinfected by being radiated with ultra-violet rays with a wavelength of 254 nm. A UV-bulb is used for radiation of the water. The UV rays damage the genetic information and reproductive systems of the bacteria.
- Filtration: Ultra- or microfiltration uses membrane systems to filter out bacteria, viruses, suspended particles and other unwanted elements.
- Ozone: Ozone is a sanitizer produced by passing oxygen through a high intensity electrical field to form ozone gas. Once generated it breaks down rapidly and must be used immediately. It is also non-selective and reacts not only with organic compounds but all materials that can be oxidized, including pipe sealings and materials.
- Chlorination: Three processes are used, including chlorine gas disinfection, electrolytic chlorine generation and dosing of liquid sodium or calcium hypochlorite. All three methods produce hypochlorous acid (HCIO), which acts as the active disinfectant in the water. The methods are not, however, as effective as the use of Chlorine dioxide.
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Considering making a videopoem of my last poem: *Can I Be Fired Or Laid Off Without Notice?*
While it's an explicit reference to our mortality, and I hope that's pretty obvious, I actually wrote the poem in a pamphlet put out by CLEO (Canadian Legal Education Ontario) entitled, 'Have you been fired or laid off?' on workers' rights.
I didn't have any paper, and so grabbed something at hand and wrote inbetween the paragraphs.
As you can see in my photo, with my bluetooth keyboard for my iPhone, and Songa, my adorable kitten. When I got the pamphlet to take a photo for you, she just *had* to get in on the action. :)
Anyway, I would perform the poem with a green screen of things like bread lines, perhaps headlines referring to the worsening 'recessions' since 2008, and especially the crises in Europe.
All of which, to my simple mentality, is due to the interest payments on debts.
I refuse to own any credit cards due to that interest payment issue. Nor do I have any loans, etc. While I live on the edge financially, I live without debt.
If the ridiculous interest payments could be deleted, and any payments from indebted countries, like Greece, Spain, etc., and innumerable third world countries, made on the actual loans themselves, the crisis would be over.
Why do we live like this when we are eating our own flesh, so to speak. Yes, yes, Shakespeare and _The Merchant of Venice_, but it's the greed of Capitalism itself that has installed itself in the hearts of the financially powerful.
I could froth all day. +Lena Levin and I had a long discussion (on G+) about credit cards recently, and I'm sure that fed into my poem.
Which you can find here:http://brendaclews.blogspot.ca/2012/06/can-you-be-fired-or-laid-off-without.html?m=1
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So new that as of this writing, they are not yet listed on the EvolveFish site, but I assure you, they exist and they are beautiful! And the service is uncannily good–my order, for instance, was shipped and received before I even ordered it (indeed, before I knew it could be ordered!
Here they are, swimming with my original Lassiter cuttlefish. They can even pretend to change color like a real cuttlefish–all you have to do is give them a different color to reflect. Cheating, I know, but what ya gonna do?
As soon as they are on the website, I'll link to it–for now, I suspect that if you order by phone or email, they will know exactly what you are talking about; the EvolveFish people have been utterly delightful and tremendously helpful in all my interactions with them.
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I learned something new while we were in Spain last week. My mother-in-law pulled out this document, about the size of a passport, and showed it to me. My husband took photos of every page inside so I could post it on the blog.
|My in-laws were married in 1960 and issued
this family book by the Spanish government
In Spain every head of family (male) is issued a "Libro de Familia" (Family Book) upon marriage. This is the official marriage certificate, but the additional pages list children's births, deaths, additional marriages, previous marriages, etc. Unwed mothers are issued them when a child is born. The idea for these books was developed under the dictatorship of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, but the books are still issued in Spain today. I don't know how it works now that civil unions (gay marriages) are allowed, but I read online that these books are being changed over electronic registrations soon.
|Not my in-laws, but found at the website
My mother in law was married in 1960, and she said that couples used to present the book upon checking into hotels in Spain. You couldn't rent a hotel room without it! These books are presented to school officials to register children for classes, and for registering for social security benefits.
|These pages would be filled out for each child.
There is room for ten children, plus several blank pages
(I guess they were expecting everyone to have lots of kids!)
If every family since the 1930s had to have a family book, this is a great jumping off place for genealogy. Start with the marriage certificate on the front page, and you have a couple listed with their parents and their birth places. Turn the pages and you'll find the children listed. My husband is registered in this book even though he was born in New York City while his father was working at the United Nations. This is important to know, especially since so many people left Spain during the Franco regime, and spread all over the world, yet wanted to maintain ties with family in Spain. Many of these people returned to Spain in the 1980s or later, and would have maintained their records in their family book.
|These pages would be filled out in the case of a spouse's death
and then the subsequent remarriage is registered on the right side page.
There are additional pages for other civil registrations and for registering orphans, widows and other family members who might need social security benefits. There are also pages for listing places of employment and official residence changes. I'm curious to know if other countries have a similar system. Do you know the answer to this? Has anyone used books like this in their genealogy research? What a treasure to know about this for research in Spain!
|This is the cover of a modern Spanish Family Book
For the truly curious:
A New York Times story from 2009 about Spain under Franco's government, with a photo of a "Libro de Familia" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/world/europe/01franco.html
Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo


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| 11°C Dublin
ANDY MURRAY felt his inability to capitalise on the chances which came his way were instrumental in his Australian Open final defeat to Novak Djokovic.
The Scot's biggest opportunity to hammer home his advantage came when he earned three break points at the start of the second set, having edged the first on a tie-break.
But Djokovic upped the ante to escape immediate danger. He then took the set in another breaker before running through the third and fourth to complete a 6-7 (2/7) 7-6 (7/3) 6-3 6-2 victory - and his third successive title triumph in Melbourne.
"At this level it can come down to a few points here and there," said Murray.
"My biggest chance probably came at the start of the second set but I didn't quite take it. When Novak had his chance at the end of the third he got his."
Murray also had chances in the fourth set.
"I was getting quite a few 0-15s, 15-30s, 0-30s but I couldn't quite capitalise on my chances on his serve," he said. "That was the disappointing part.
"And when you go two sets to one down, you know you really need to get off to a good start at the beginning of the fourth because when the top guys get a lead and momentum it's very hard to stop them."
A final which was absorbing without being a classic was dominated by serve for the first two sets.
Djokovic had the openings in the first without converting and Murray made him pay by winning the tie-break.
It was role reversal in the second as Murray wasted that triple chance for an early break and Djokovic held on for a tie-break he won, thanks largely to a Murray double-fault at 2-2.
He put his first serve into the net and was shaping up to deliver the second when he noticed a feather dropping on to the court out of the corner of his eye.
Having removed it, he promptly put the second serve long.
"I could have served," he explained. "But it just caught my eye before. I thought it was a good idea to move it. Maybe it wasn't."
It was all Djokovic needed to level the match and the momentum appeared to swing further in his favour when Murray had to call for the trainer.
There was no immediate deterioration in his movement, although there was the definite sense the match was now Djokovic's for the taking.
And the top seed needed no second invitation as he set up three break points for a 5-3 lead.
Two poor forehands saw the first two come and go but Murray could not escape a third as Djokovic claimed the first break of the match before serving it out.
From there there was no way back as Djokovic broke twice more in the fourth to extend his winning run in Melbourne to 21 matches and take revenge for his defeat to Murray in the US Open final in September.
Asked what was different between here and Flushing Meadows, Djokovic said: "All our matches in the last three years have been decided by a few points so it's really hard to say if I did anything different.
"I tried to be more aggressive, I went for my shots, especially in the third and fourth, and came to the net quite often."
In winning, he became the first man in the Open era to win three titles on the trot Down Under.
"Winning three in a row is incredible," he added.
"I'm full of joy. It's going to give me a lot of confidence for the rest of the season, that's for sure."


text: We saw something like this happen earlier in the season with a young Royals fan in Kansas City. This time the setting was Tampa Bay, where once again the impressionable little guy was only mimicking what he was watching out on the field. Note that at the very end of the video the father had the ball back in his possession, and that this time he chose to hang onto it. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned from all this.


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Abbys a horrible woman .anyone who watches is condoning her behaviour towards the girls.
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At FCC Forum In Chicago, Cable Executive Says Deal Threatens Consumers With Rate Hikes and Lessens Competition
PITTSBURGH, July 13, 2010 – Colleen Abdoulah, President and CEO, WOW! Internet, Cable & Phone, called on regulators to impose conditions on the Comcast-NBC Universal merger that would convincingly restrain the new media giant from using its market power to injure cable operators that purchase programming from Comcast-NBCU and operators that compete for pay-TV subscribers with Comcast's cable systems.
"We have the experience and history to say that the FCC must impose robust, complete and long-lasting conditions on this deal, or else it will result in material harm to consumers and competition," said Abdoulah, who is an ACA board member.
Abdoulah's comments came at the first FCC public forum on the Comcast-NBCU deal, the most significant media transaction in more than a decade that is also under Department of Justice review. The FCC event, held at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago, was hosted by senior agency officials, including John Flynn, Senior Counsel to Chairman Genachowski for Transactions; Sherrese Smith, Genachowski's Legal Advisor for Media, Consumer and Enforcement Issues; and Media Bureau Chief William Lake.
Abdoulah's company provides residential services to over 460,000 customers in five Midwest markets, including 22 communities in the Chicago metro area. About 66 percent of all WOW! video customers today are passed by Comcast wires in Illinois and Michigan.
In prepared testimony, Northwestern University Economics Professor William Rogerson asserted that the merger was anti-competitive in that it would injure multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) that buy just programming from Comcast-NBCU as well as other MVPDs, including many ACA members, that both acquire Comcast-NBCU programming and compete head-to-head for cable subscribers with Comcast. ACA outside counsel Thomas W. Cohen, of the law firm Kelley Drye & Warren, delivered the testimony on behalf of Rogerson, who was unable to attended the FCC forum.
Rogerson, an ACA consultant on the Comcast-NBCU merger, described the deal as presenting both "vertical" and "horizontal" competitive harms across many regions of the country.
"The horizontal harm is that combined ownership of NBCU and Comcast programming will increase the joint venture's market power over programming and allow it to charge higher programming fees. These fee increases will be substantially passed through to subscribers in the form of higher subscription prices," Rogerson said.
Announced last December, the Comcast-NBCU merger represents an unprecedented combination of the country's largest cable company and a Big Four broadcast television network. Together, the two companies will control such key assets as 10 NBC-owned TV stations located in many of the biggest markets; 20 cable networks, including No. 1 ranked USA Network; and 9 regional sports networks (RSNs), which air the games of local professional sports teams to an audience of devoted fans.
In previous merger reviews, the FCC has classified Big Four TV stations and RSNs as "must have" services to which an MVPD must have access in order to attract and retain customers in a commercially viable way.
Comcast-NBCU would control the NBC-owned TV station and the Comcast RSN in Chicago and five other major metropolitan areas containing approximately 12% of all TV households, which would be placed at the greatest risk of suffering competitive harm.
"Rather than engage in separate negotiations, we would be dealing with one consolidated programming entity which controls multiple blocks of 'must have' content," Abdoulah argued. "This would give Comcast-NBCU even greater and, in fact, unprecedented leverage to extract higher fees from operators and consumers than either entity would have absent the deal."
Comcast-NBCU's effort to distribute marquee video programming on an exclusive basis online was raised as another harm stemming from the transaction to broadband access providers like WOW.
"We are concerned that Comcast will not grant us the rights to allow our customers to view combined Comcast-NBCU programming online," Abdoulah said, adding that talks with Comcast were inconclusive. "We are still not certain that these online rights will be made available to WOW, and, if we do obtain these rights, whether they will be granted on a non-discriminatory basis."
FCC program access rules and arbitration proceedings are not sufficient remedies to offset Comcast-NBCU's market power, Abdoulah explained. For example, program access rules do not apply in the online environment and do not prevent Comcast-NBCU from charging competitors a higher price for programming than it charges itself. Arbitrations are costly and lengthy and do not represent a realistic avenue of relief for small MVPDs with limited budgets.
"Comcast has offered to abide by the extremely flawed program access rules that exist today. This concession is weak at best and demonstrates that Comcast recognizes that there are legitimate harms arising from this deal; but in actuality, Comcast does not seem to want to effectively address them," Abdoulah said.
Although ACA has not provided a detailed list of merger conditions at this stage in the government's transaction review, the trade group has suggested that properly crafted structural and behavioral conditions would help alleviate the harms arising from the Comcast-NBCU combination.
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|outdoor 50 meter pool with a 25 meter diving well in Finland
This is a guest post by Matthew White (@serious_square) a swimmer and water polo player based in the UK.
During my time with the Great Britain Junior Water Polo Team one of the many places I had the privilege of playing was Barcelona. When I was there in 2001 there was a rumour that there were more 50 meter swimming pools in Barcelona than the whole of the UK, a statistic that we all knew could easily be true but were never able to verify.
What may have been the actual fact was that there are more 'Olympic size pools' in Barcelona than in the whole of UK. This is because in 2001 there appears to have only been one, Ponds Forge International Sports Centre. This was the only pool to meet the 50 meters by 25 meter (10 lanes) standard. In 2011, there are now 3 more official Olympic sized pools in the UK: London Aquatics Centre (the venue for the 2012 summer Olympics), Sunderland Aquatic Centre and the John Charles Centre for Sport, in Leeds.
Since 2001 there have been a number of swimming pools built that are 50 meters in length, notably Manchester Aquatics Centre, Cardiff International Sports Centre and the K2 near Gatwick airport to name just a few, we seem to be getting the idea that for our swimmer athletes to compete at the very top level they need to be training and racing in full length swimming pools. Just as it would be ridiculous for a 100 meter runner to sprint 50 meters, turn and run back, the dynamics of training in a 25 meter pool are completely different to that of a 50 meter pool.
In Australia, a country with a population a third the size of the UK they have built 47 Olympic Sized swimming pools and they consistently produce swimming and water polo teams that compete regularly with the very best in the world. Does their success boil down to having more quality swimming facilities? I would argue that it is an important factor, however, probably not the only factor.
Swimming is amongst one of Britain's most participated sports, so the pool of potential athletes probably matches or exceeds that of Australia, therefore, nurturing top athletes with the very best swimming facilities is very important. Looking at UK swim teams performance in the pool since the Sydney Olympics in 2000 the theory of an increased number of 50 meter pools aiding top level performance could gain a more weighted argument.
The table shows an increase in medals between 2000 and 2008, plus in 2008 British swimmers made more finals than any other Olympics before. Looking at this purely quantitatively, more pools = more medals – but it is not as simple as that. What will happen in the 2012 Olympic Games in London is still to be decided and your guess is good as mine. Will the team GB break records and bring home more medals than before?
One might argue other factors contribute to a country like Australia's success, firstly, the climate is far warmer and from my own experience potentially Olympic standard athletes get fed up with getting up on a cold dark mornings and training for two-hours before school – therefore just quit or 'burnt out' as it is called. I don't know what the 'burn out' rate for Australian athletes is, but personally I find it far easier to getting up to a bright warm morning as opposed to a cold dark one. So one could argue, to be an Olympic swimmer in UK is much more psychologically challenging than in warmer and sunnier countries like Australia.
|Olympic size pool with 10 lanes in Cyprus
There are always going to be more factors than 'the quality of swimming facilities' and accessibility. But looking at the number of recent pools built in the UK, someone must be realising their importance, both for elite athletes and for the general public. For me, the increase in 50 meter pools has directly influenced UK swim team's national performance and I would be interested to hear from readers about their own country.
The future seems quite bright for swimming in Britain, and no doubt the 2012 Olympics effect will go further in increasing funding and participation for the next swimming generation. At an age still young enough to compete, but getting nearer to coaching 'age' I personally am quite excited about the potential new facilities and interest in aquatic sports has received and where they can take us in the future.
More about Matthew: He writes swimming and pool related articles for Aspect Pools who sell everything to do with aquatics from swimming pool chemicals to garden swimming pools.
From Swimator Blog: If you have the option to train in 50 meter pool, you should definitely jump on the opportunity. Practicing in 50 meter pool has many benefits Here are just a few. It is much harder to swim as one cannot rest on the wall every 25 meters, so you will get stronger over time and coming back to the 25 meter pool for training will feel like a walk in the park. You also have more time to practice the miscellaneous swimming drills since you do not have to loose focus with too many wall turns. Also, usually, there is more space in the 50 meter pools, so you have less swimming traffic in the lane. If your main swimming goal is to improve in open water swimming or triathlons, 50 meter pools should take up majority of your indoor training. However, that said, it is not a good practice to only train in 50 meter pool as it is quite easy to loose speed and loose the grip on your turns. So make sure you strike a good balance between your training locations. Happy swimming!


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Old purists of Glastonbury festival may argue that an app goes against everything Glastonbury—replete with hippies and other unwashed revellers—used to stand for. But give me an app with a map and customisable line-up any day.
Orange has snagged the rights to release the one and only official Glastonbury 2011 app, which is available for free on the iPhone and Android platforms from today, and Nokia shortly. Instead of fumbling with printed-out Excel spreadsheets of the line-up (or is that just me?), you'll be holding your breath that there's enough juice in your phone's battery to load up the map so you can get to the Pyramid stage on time.
You can also share your personal schedule for the three-day English festival with your Facebook friends, so they can either mock/give you the green eye from afar. [Glastonbury app]


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Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic
ASP Women's World Tour Event
Northern Beaches, Sydney Australia
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Conlogue defeats Malia Manuel to win Women's World Tour event
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 21 April, 2012 : - - Dee Why, Sydney -- Courtney Conlogue (USA), 19, has won the prestigious 2012 Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic, over Malia Manuel (HAW), 18, at Dee Why beach today. In clean, but challenging two-to-three foot (1.5 meter) waves, the world's best female surfers battled head-to-head for the biggest prize purse on the ASP Women's World Championship Tour, with Conlogue taking home USD$30,000.
Stop No. 4 of 7 on the 2012 ASP Women's World Championship Tour, the Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic, run by seven-time ASP Women's World Champion Layne Beachley, has caused some interesting twists and turns in the race for the coveted ASP Women's World Title. Yesterday saw the early exit of reigning ASP Women's World Champion Carissa Moore (HAW), 19. Then today the current ASP Women's World No. 1 and 2 – Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 24, and Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), 21, both bowed out in the Quarterfinals.
Conlogue who has won multiple ASP 6-Star events, today claimed her maiden win on the elite ASP Women's World Championship Tour, a feat that sees her jump to 4th on the ratings. Conlogue and Manuel battled through the stacked field of competitors to reach the Final. The dying swell made conditions difficult, but Conlogue found the best waves that allowed her to execute multiple powerful turns.
"I'm speechless right now!" Conlogue said. "It's been two years on the ASP Women's World Championship Tour where I kept losing in the Quarterfinals. Then today after winning my Quarterfinal I just tried to go and win the thing. Malia (Manuel) was surfing great in the Final, even though the waves were tricky. I'm really stoked to have won this event! I love Steph (Gilmore) and Sally (Fitzgibbons) and to have them chair me up the beach was absolutely amazing!"
Courtney Conlogue © ASP
Manuel's run to the Final wasn't easy, defeating Gilmore and Tyler Wright (AUS), 18, in the morning's Quarterfinal and Semifinal. Manuel's smooth style and tail drifting turns saw her earn big scores and new fans all event. Her red-hot run was only ended by Conlogue's superior wave selection. Manuel is now equal 6th on the ASP World Championship Tour, and she is now the highest ranked 2012 rookie.
"I'm really relieved to get a good result here at Dee Why," Manuel said. "I'm happy to move up the ratings. It's a great confidence boost going into the next three events. I'm really stoked to make a final in my rookie year. I hope the battle for ASP Rookie Of The Year goes down to the last contest. It's really close between me and Lakey (Peterson). I'm not going to count her out."
Rebecca Woods (AUS), 28, and Wright were the highest placed Australian surfers, both finishing equal 3rd place. Wright has placed 3rd three times this year, but this is Woods' best result of the 2012 season and is sure to help her requalification campaign.
"It's a bittersweet feeling at the moment," Woods said. "I've had a few last places this year, so in some regards I was just happy to put it together for a few heats. I've made about nine Semifinals in my life and still never made it into that elusive Final. It's good to be pushed by the younger girls. I woke up this morning and thought Courtney (Conlogue) was going to win today, then she was on my side of the draw and I cursed myself for putting that in my head. Then she beat me and won the contest, so I was right."
Malia Manuel © ASP / Robertson
Gilmore, four-time ASP Women's World Champion, suffered a shock early exit at the Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic today. Gilmore has had three final appearances in the first three events of the year, and today added a respectable equal 5th place finish to her tally. In testing conditions Gilmore was bested by an in-form Manuel, who also defeated her in their non-elimination Round 3 match-up yesterday.
"It's disappointing," Gilmore said. "But it's not a terrible result for me. I feel really strong. When there's great waves on offer I feel like I'm surfing great. It's just a matter of getting those waves and I didn't get them today. I'm looking forward to heading over to Brazil and finding the form I had in the first few events."
Fitzgibbons went down in the Quarterfinals to eventual event winner Conlogue. Fitzgibbons held an early lead with two mid-range scores, but Conlogue snared the best wave of the heat and tore it apart with some impressive turns, netting a 9.00 (out of a possible 10) and won the heat.
"This is the worst part about what we do," Fitzgibbons said. "Today I just wasn't good enough. When you're feeling strong, you really want to progress through to that Final. I got some early scores and it was really challenging out there. That one wave popped up for Courtney (Conlogue) and she grabbed a 9.00, which is the highest score of the day. I'm really happy for her. She's a good friend and she trains and surfs really hard and that paid off today."
Rebecca Woods © ASP / Robertson
1: Courtney Conlogue (USA) 13.17
2: Malia Manuel (HAW) 11.56
SF 1: Malia Manuel (HAW) 12.67 def. Tyler Wright (AUS) 10.50
SF 2: Courtney Conlogue (USA) 14.33 def. Rebecca Woods (AUS) 10.10
QF 1: Tyler Wright (AUS) 14.43 def. Laura Enever (AUS) 12.50
QF 2: Malia Manuel (HAW) 13.00 def. Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 11.47
QF 3: Rebecca Woods (AUS) 11.73 def. Coco Ho (HAW) 8.73
QF 4: Courtney Conlogue (USA) 14.97 def. Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 13.34
CURRENT ASP WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOUR TOP 6 (after the Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic):
1: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS)
2: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS)
3: Tyler Wright (AUS)
4: Courtney Conlogue (USA)
5: Carissa Moore (HAW)
6: Laura Enever (AUS)
6: Malia Manuel (HAW)
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