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Our mission is to be the premier house cleaning company in the Atlanta area by providing unparalleled quality coupled with dedicated customer service. We want to build a long term relationship with all of our clients by combining upscale service with an affordable price. The philosophy is simple...to exceed the expectations of our clients by understanding their needs to continually improve our products and services. Our number one goal is to create truly satisfied customers. We accomplish this.. through personal attention to our clients, and maintaining a commitment to quality, reliability, and value of service.
Aquastar Cleaning Service brings years of experience and a meticulous attention to detail to every project. Our core values include integrity, trust, teamwork, and respect, as we strive for excellence in everything that we do. As a member of AquaStar, you can help shape our future and reinforce our core values.
Aquastar Cleaning Service offers daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly services, as well as moving in or out specials or just one time. We individualize cleaning services to fit you and your home. More than 15 years of experience has taught us that every home is as unique as the people living there. Price on home cleaning is based on many factors, one size of your home and the frequency for cleaning are some of those factors. Also people live with different numbers of pets as well as different levels of clutter and different customs.
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We do, in fact we will not even consider the staffing of a new house cleaner unless they have verifiable references and a stable previous work history. House cleaners must be bondable which means no felony convictions. We also do random drug testing.
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Aquastar Cleaning Services uses gentle, biodegradable cleaning solutions in your home & office! Let us know if anyone in your household (human or otherwise) has any chemical allergies, and we will tailor our services to accommodate them.
From my first conversation with Marcos I was please. We spoke and he quickly make time to come to my home an give me an estimate for a move in cleaning. We scheduled a time that same day. I like... that this company sends out reminder emails that are so helpful. His team arrived promptly and completed the most wonderfully thorough cleaning. The house smelled clean from the garage. We could not have been more pleased. This was a big job. We look forward to continuing our service going forward. I have already recommended them to friends.VIEW MORE »VIEW LESS »
They have been working out really well since September 2014. The price is reasonable (a bargain for how hard they work!) and they send two cleaners to do the job. It seems to me that they go above... and beyond and even fold the toilet paper and towels neatly. They are very thorough and will also clean the basement when I ask them to. I highly recommend Aquastar!VIEW MORE »VIEW LESS »
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Posted on: 9/17/2013
Referred to me by friends, family, and associates, Aquastar Cleaning responded immediately to my request for an estimate. They provided a written contract that clarified every cleaning task they would perform and then provided a highly reasonable estimate. On the day of cleaning, they arrived on time, cleaned every item they promised to clean, and then proceeded to add many finishing touches. By the time they completed the cleaning, they had transformed every room in the house to pristine condition. Aquastar far exceeded all of my expectations at a highly reasonable price, and I am happy to continue using them exclusively in the future.
Thank you for the positive review of our services. We value every single one of our customers and we couldn't run a business without customers like you.
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Posted on: 3/17/2011
I have worked with many cleaning companies and none of then give me the quality and customer service like Aquastar Cleaning. They come to my house every week; the quality always it is the same, they send the same crew every visit and the owners Marcos and Maria are very professional and polite. The customer service it's excellent, even when you have to say something about the quality or have any questions. They always thank you for your comments, with the same professionalism and courtesy as usual. Thanks Aquastar for your great service at my house.
I've been using this service for 10 months now, and have worked with multiple cleaning companies in the past and this company is heads above all the others and reasonably priced as well. The professionalism and customer service element is exceptional and the reason why I will continue to use Aquastar in the future. Marcos routinely follows up to ensure that your cleaning met expectations and happily welcomes feedback that is immediately communicated to his staff. His staff is professional, courteous, and pleasant. I would definitely recommend this cleaning service to anyone.
We put our house up for sale and hired Aquastar to deep clean it. They first come over for an estimate. The cleaning crew arrived right on time at 9 and stayed until 4. Everything was cleaned exceptionally well. I will be getting this service done at least once a year from now on. I keep the house clean, but not like this! Definitely worth the $230 I paid (they charge about $1 per sq ft).
Cleaning crew did a great job. I will be calling on them again in the future. Highly recommended!
We just had our initial deep cleaning and are very happy with the work done in our home. They did more than we ever expected. Marcos is very easy to work with and we look forward to continuing with their service. Many thanks to Aquastar!
After the crew left, the house was cleaner than it has ever been. Very satisfied with their attention to detail and the two people cleaning my house were polite and friendly.
Called and scheduled an appointment for cleaning (having 20+ guests over and wanted the house to sparkle). 'Marcos' confirmed appointment on THREE occasions only to cancel two days before! ADDENDUM: Aquastar called and informed me that they had a cancellation and could clean my house after all (with a $50 reduction in cost). While I was pleased that they were able to honor their original committment and offer a discounted price, I will not use them again in the future.
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These are the best cleaners that we ever had. We like having the same crew each time and their work is outstanding. They care about doing a good job and even do little things that we don't even think of.
Reviews: 3
Posted on: 1/5/2011
What a fantastic job the crew did for us just before the holidays! We would certainly recommend them and look forward to using Aquastar monthly!
Clean my home as well now as in beginning. I appreciate that they make sure the crews don't have too many houses so that they don't do a rushed job. They are also reasonably priced and customer service focued.
Marcos was extremely courteous and answered all of my questions during the intial visit. The cleaning crew cleaned my home top to bottom - cleaned the base boards, ceiling fans and even swept the back deck. I'm considering having them come every month!
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Posted on: 11/22/2010
This company is just terrific! They are reasonably priced, very prompt and thorough. Marcos even made a surprise visit to inspect while the team was here! I have been using them for about 2 years and any additional requests have been quickly addressed. I highly recommend this company!
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Reviews: 5
Posted on: 11/18/2010
I couldn't be happier. Everything promiosed was delivered and more! Do yourself a favor and look no further than Aquastar Cleaning.
I have never been totally happy with a cleaning service... Merry Maids, Maid Brigade..etc... Today Aquastar cleaned my house for 6 hours and it is the best it has looked since the day we moved in in 2007.. I cannot thank them enough for the work they did. BASEBOARDS, CHAIR RAIL AND WAINSCOTING IS PERFECT!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU
We hired Aquastar for a "move-out" cleaning - they were very professional, reasonably priced, arrived on time, and did a very thorough job of cleaning the house from top to bottom. I would highly recommend them to anyone.


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Francisco's Cha ChaA wild slapstick with its resounding whack and an acoustic piano and flute filter through this goofy, silly track ideally suited for a funny scene.https://www.smartsound.com/artist/images/ASFB04_200.jpgSingle7100187-ST$ 39.957100187-EX$ 69.957100187-W$ 149.95Keywords: Happy, Positive, Cheerful, Comical, Crazy, Exuberant, Fresh, Funny, Goofy, Heartwarming, Motivating, Suspenseful, Wacky, Whimsical, Quirky, Sneaky, Fun, Hopeful, Fantasy Genre: Orchestral Production Types: Kids, Animation, Commercials, Video Games, Comedy, Action-Drama Instrument: Orchestra, Studio Orchestra, Bassoon, Brass, Clarinet, Percussion, Piano, Saxophone, Trumpet, Instrumental
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Good news for thriller fans! Two new novels will have readers on the edge of their seats with gripping suspense, shattering secrets and women in peril who will do anything to stay alive.
NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly shares a story about fear, family secrets and one woman's hunt for answers in The Bullet. Caroline Cashion, a professor at Georgetown University, is stunned when an MRI reveals that she has a bullet lodged in her skull. Her parents finally admit that she was adopted at the age of 3 following her biological parents' murders. Caroline was present at the crime, and in fact was struck by the same bullet that killed her mother. Doctors could not remove the bullet without risking Caroline's death. Thirty-four years later, Caroline returns to her hometown to learn about her parents and their horrific deaths. But Caroline is in danger. The killer was never caught and the bullet in her head is the only evidence that can identify him. This fast-paced thriller, complete with a touch of romance, is perfect for fans of Lisa Gardner or Tess Gerritsen.
Susan Crawford's The Pocket Wife introduces readers to Dana Catrell who suffers from bipolar disorder. Married to Peter, she is shocked when their neighbor Celia is brutally murdered. Upon learning that she was the last person to see Celia alive at a booze-fueled lunch marred by an argument over incriminating pictures of Peter, Dana threatens to descend into mania. Her husband is behaving oddly, and Detective Jack Moss is a frequent and persistent visitor. This is the story of a wounded woman teetering on the edge of sanity, determined to recover her memory and find the truth. But when Dana uncovers some of Celia's secrets, she starts receiving threatening notes which Peter believes are self-authored. Alternating chapters follow Jack and his investigation and Dana, whose reliability is questionable and whose voice evolves with her changing mental state. The engaging characters add to this electrifying combination of solid mystery and fast-paced psychological thriller.
Navigating the trials of fifth grade is tough enough: tough teachers, difficulties with friends, avoiding bullies and trying to stay "cool" in front of all your peers. In Jennifer Richard Jacobson's new novel Paper Things, 11-year-old Arianna Hazard has all these complications coupled with the fact that she and her 18-year-old brother Gage are currently homeless.
Ari prefers to think that their situation is temporary; Gage had promised when they left their guardian's house that he had an apartment lined up just for them, but that was over two months ago. Ari has to spend her nights wondering whose couch they will crash on next or where she can hang up her school uniform. Ari had promised her dying mother that she would get into Carter Middle School, a school for gifted children. Unable to find quiet places to study, she's behind on her schoolwork and hasn't even touched her application. Instead, she's trying to ignore the comments from her classmates that her hair is greasy and that she smells bad.
Can Arianna find any stability in a world where she needs to protect her cherished folder of cutouts from catalogues amidst a shelter of preteen girls? Will she gain the trust of the teachers at her school enough to earn a leadership position to get into Carter, even when she's failing her classes? Will she and Gage get what they want most — a home of their own?
Parents and teachers looking for a good resource for children in difficult circumstances will find this novel to be a great teachable moment about empathy, kindness and perseverance. Two other great novels that shed light on homeless children are Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan and Almost Home by Joan Bauer; both would make great companion pieces to read along Paper Things.
It's one thing to be able to describe a debilitating chronic illness; it's another to do so in language so contemplative that the words seem to hover over the page for their raw honesty. Anna Lyndsey (pseudonym) has written her illness-inspired memoir Girl in the Dark about living with a rare light sensitivity so severe it plunges her into a self-imposed darkness. "How do you write about having to live entirely in the dark?" she asks. Lyndsey does it by sectioning her narrative thoughtfully, giving readers a brief cast into her physical and emotional daily, personal life that is as candid as it is hopeful and full of love.
To say Lyndsey's illness has isolated her would be an understatement. The former British civil servant was fine until one day about 10 years ago she realized she could no longer tolerate light. It starts with the computer screen, which makes her face burn like "someone is holding a flamethrower to my head." Eventually, her whole body is affected until she is left with no choice but to make her footprint smaller, something easier said than done. She refers to her bedroom as her lair. "I slipped between the walls of my dark room with nothing but relief," she says. Life is a constant adjustment. Doctors can't help, nor can her supportive mother and brother. Her rock is her companion-turned-husband Pete who never wavers, bringing her talking books and melding into the new normal.
Lyndsey's story is not so much about the unusualness of her illness as it is about living as humanely as possible with it. Eschewing strict chronological order, Lyndsey instead delivers up short, poetic essays on various subjects. For readers drawn to the fragility of the human condition, Lyndsey's remarkable storytelling becomes a fertile ground for resiliency when the impossible becomes possible.
Earlier this year, we lost one of the greats. Terry Pratchett was a satirist worthy of being commented on in the same breath as Mark Twain. The only British author to outsell him was J.K. Rowling. Pratchett wasn't always huge though, and that's how you arrive full circle at The Dragons at Crumbling Castle by Terry Pratchett. It is a collection of the short stories that Sir Terry first published when he was just a starting journalist for the Bucks Free Press.
Most of Pratchett's infamy comes from the Discworld, a world carried on the back of four elephants which naturally stand on the back of a massive turtle. The Discworld gave birth to Rincewind, the least magical wizard ever, an orangutan librarian, a kind but often confused Death, witches, watchmen and dozens upon dozens of novels — and wordplay so brilliant that no one can catch every nuance on the first reading. (Fortunately there's enough in every book to make multiple readings an entirely enjoyable venture.) The Discworld exists as a satire of the world we live in, covering everything from holidays, feminism, religion and a million other sacred cows poked with both anger and understanding. Pratchett came to be known for fantasy that hit close to home. The Dragons of Crumbling Castle is far closer to home.
Meet corrupt small town politicians cooking the local egg dancing competition. There is a pet tortoise that only wants freedom. The book has wacky races and the enduring question of what Santa Claus would do if he wasn't Santa Claus. (Apparently, nothing well.) Two of the stories here went on to lead to Sir Terry's first novel The Carpet People, about tiny, tiny people who live amongst the strands of the carpet fiber and are forced to move when the Fray gets too close. It turns out that even when he was young, Pratchett understood that the world was more than slightly mad. These are light enough stories that I'd recommend them for parents reading to their children, and the entire book has been enthusiastically illustrated by Mark Beech.
We're not done with Pratchett yet. He has at least two more finished books coming out this year.
In Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule, Jennifer Chiaverini proves once again that she is an amazing writer of historical fiction. She manages to capture the feeling of a particular era and also give her characters authentic voices. This time her subjects are Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, and Jule Dent, lady's maid and slave of Mrs. Grant.
Chiaverini's story spans the years before, during and after the Civil War and is told from both Julia Grant's and Jule's points of view. We witness young Julia and Jule growing up together on the Dent plantation in Missouri where they seem to be best friends. However, their relationship quickly changes as the girls become young women and Julia begins to treat Jule more like a servant and less like a friend. Throughout the many years they spend together, Julia never seems aware of how much Jule would like to be her own woman, to make her own decisions and to be free. As Chiaverini portrays her, Julia believes that slaves are happy with their lot in life. When Jule expresses her desire to be a free woman, Julia is incredulous, saying to her, "You had a roof over your head and plenty to eat," as if these are valid reasons for Jule to remain enslaved. Even after marrying Ulysses Grant, whose Ohio family are abolitionists, Julia still cannot believe that freeing slaves is a good idea.
Whether or not Julia Grant took quite so long to comprehend the evils of slavery, Chiaverini uses her as a representation of what many slaveholders of the day may have felt. After the Civil War ended and all slaves were freed, these newly emancipated people faced a very uncertain future as demonstrated by Jule. She struggles to make her own way in the world, and although it is not an easy path, she reflects that at least she now is free to choose which path to take.
Another great thing that Chiaverini does in her book is include the titles of the sources she used to research her subjects so the reader can find out more about Julia, Jule and the other historical characters that are referenced. As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War draws to a close, this book is a great way to understand how the events during that time period effected both famous and everyday people's lives.
Jessica Knoll's new adult fiction novel Luckiest Girl Alive is set in the same area where she grew up. Her protagonist also has the same profession Knoll used to hold. It's probably because of this that her book is so rich with description and such vivid imagery.
TifAni grew up with a mother who always wanted what was best for her, but not necessarily what would make her happy. When in college she met her best friend Nell, who showed her how to manipulate people to get what was in her best interest. It was a combination of these two figures that helped TifAni create the "perfect" life for herself.
It was during high school that TifAni experienced a severe trauma. In order to distance herself from her past, TifAni changed her name to Ani when she went to college. Ani has always tried to fill her gaping emotional gap with possessions and prestige. After college, Ani went on to have a prominent job at a well-known women's magazine, a fiancé with old money and starves herself into a coveted size zero. Despite how perfect her life may seem to someone on the outside, nothing can smother the pain left by her teenage trauma.
This character driven account of one woman's desire to get all she's ever wanted is disturbingly candid. As you follow the bread crumbs through the story, you slowly gather more details of what TifAni went through as a troubled teen – and just when you think you've figured her out, she throws you a curve.
The Golden Age of Hollywood introduced us to luminary icons of the 20th century whose influence radiates to this day; perhaps none more than Audrey Hepburn. Edward Epstein's new biography Audrey and Bill focuses on Hepburn's brief affair with the "Golden Boy" of Hollywood, William "Bill" Holden.
Unlike today when we are inundated with facts about celebrities every time we turn on our TV's, computers or phones, the publicists of the 1950s worked overtime to insure the personal lives of the studio's stars did not invade the public consciousness. And while Audrey and Bill's whirlwind romance that blossomed when they met on the set of the Billy Wilder classic Sabrina was well-known in Hollywood circles, it was kept largely out of the public eye.
Epstein sheds light on the fact that their affair, though brief, shaped many of both Audrey and Bill's relationships and marriages moving forward in their lives. Both actors, however, never really turned out to be very happy in love despite their tremendous professional successes.
There's plenty more gossip about some of the biggest names of the 20th century in this book that will not disappoint the curious: Humphrey Bogart hated both of his costars! Nancy Reagan tattled to Bill's wife about his numerous affairs! Bill dated Grace Kelly! Audrey sang to JFK on his last birthday to take away from the intense scrutiny from the Marilyn Monroe version the year before!
At times, the book reads like two separate biographies, following each actor through their career missteps and triumphs, through other relationships, children and illnesses. Holden's death in 1980 due to liver disease and Hepburn's death in 1993 due to cancer are also chronicled.
Perfect beach reading for those who are fans of either star, or just interested in the Hollywood glamour of a bygone era, will find this story of Audrey and Bill a compelling look into the romantic lives of two of Hollywood's greatest stars.
Victorian London was a nasty place to be if you had the misfortune to be born on the wrong side of the economic divide. It gets worse, however, if you're stuck in a part of town where there's a bogle – nebulous, unpredictable monsters who eat children left alone. Get stuck while sweeping a chimney? There might be a bogle there ready to eat you. Go down to fetch something from the cellar? Better hope that if you're alone, you're really alone. There is only one way to hunt bogles, and that's to bait a trap with a child who must sing with their back to the bogle until the bogle is exposed enough to be killed by a poisoned weapon. As bogles descend upon London, Catherine Jinks has woven a light but effective bit of period horror in A Plague of Bogles.
Jem Barbary has his sights set on the prestigious job, at least by the level of unlucky London, job of bogler's boy. He wants to be the bait for Alfred Bunce, London's only remaining bogler, semi-retired. After the events of How to Catch a Bogle, Jem has decided to give up crime. He used to be a pickpocket in a Fagin ring, but he hasn't given up playing whatever angle he can think of. Unfortunately, that seems to involve a whole lot of lying and leading publicity back to people who'd rather keep their heads down. He's also out for revenge against his former mistress, Sarah Pickles.
Like a good ghost story, A Plague of Bogles is both scary and fun. London is full of colorful characters trying to survive on a few cents a day. Street patter is used so fluidly that there's a large glossary at the end of the book just to make the dialogue clear. Jem Barbary and all the supporting cast are great characters, wildly flawed but determined. The standout passages, though, go to the bogle hunting. Every single time is a slow boil, impending, but certain, doom creeping up until just the last moment when everything snaps like a mousetrap.
Ten years after an assassin's bullet takes her husband's life, Diane Fairmount champions the cause of his fledgling political party, The Common Way, in Brian Freeman's suspense novel Season of Fear. Attractive, popular and topping the polls, it looks like Diane is destined to become Florida's new Governor. When an insidious voice echoes from the past, Diane turns to her best friend Tarla Bolton, whose son is former FBI agent turned private investigator Cab Bolton. Cab explores beneath the hype and unearths dirty tricks, long-buried secrets and political machinations. There are right-wing extremists, covert political operations and the murder of a young political operative. Has Cab revealed a right-wing terrorist, or is it a shrewd plot to lead him off target? Teaming with political researcher Peach Piper, Cab must race against time to stop the killer. For there is another havoc on the horizon – a hurricane is bearing down on Tampa, Florida, and it just might permanently bury the evidence.
Brian Freeman has created a cross between Jack Reacher and Richard Castle; handsome, wealthy and dynamic. It's impossible not to root for Peach, a deeply troubled young woman determined to avenge her friend's death. Part complex political thriller, part intense police procedural, Freeman weaves a web of intrigue that will leave you gasping for air. Move over Virgil Flowers, and make room for Cab Bolton.
Brian Freeman is the internationally best-selling author of psychological suspense novels, including The Cold Nowhere, Spilled Blood and the The Burying Place. Brian's debut thriller Immoral won the Macavity Award and was a nominee for the Edgar, Dagger, Anthony, and Barry awards for best first novel. Cab Bolton first appears in The Bone House.
There is a certain kind of mad science that takes great joy in things exploding, imploding, melting, burning and otherwise flying around violently. If that sounds exciting, Randall Munroe's What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is for you. The answers are fast, easily understood and amusingly illustrated.
A former NASA engineer, Munroe has made his name as the creator of xkcd, one of the most successful webcomics. Three times a week he releases a strip, or something like a strip, (there have been some really wild experiments on the artform that will never be printable in any meaningful way). He covers science, mathematics, engineering, computer programming, romance, language, pop culture and velociraptors. As a public figure who is recognized as being good at science, he gets a lot of questions on scientific ideas, and has compiled quite a few of those questions into a book.
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Munroe then proceeds to answer most of these questions with three to five pages of information, full of gleefully horrifying explosions, scientific laws, formulas and an explanation of how he got the answer based on experiments people have done before. Also included are the surprisingly complex stick figure drawings he uses to illustrate his webcomic. The result is quick, smart and guaranteed to make you the life of the party.
And for a palette cleanser, also included are several of the questions that didn't make it into the book, such as:
Would it be possible to stop a volcanic eruption by placing a bomb (thermobaric or nuclear) underneath the surface?
What if everyone in Great Britain went to one of the coasts and started paddling? Could they move the island at all?
Apparently, there are questions so ridiculous that they don't need answers.
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The Martian
The most surprising thing about "The Martian" is how relaxed and funny it is.
The most surprising thing about "The Martian" is how relaxed and funny it is.
Cassel's latest movie that smartly keeps his innate menace on a slow, low simmer, isn't nearly as convincing or compelling as its star.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
A NYFF report on new films from Chantal Akerman and Michel Gondry.
A NYFF report on three films: "The Witness," "Don't Blink" and "Maggie's Plan".
Our monthly series digs into the career of Wes Craven and comes out with his 3D 2010 film, "My Soul to Take".
A FFC review of "The Look of Silence."
A FFC review of "The Look of Silence."
A review of "A Girl at My Door".
A review of the starts of season two of HBO's The Leftovers and Showtime's The Affair.
An interview with Davis Guggenheim, director of "He Named Me Malala."
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist's work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
A career view on Bill Murray; Personally connecting to Her; An editor from The New Yorker waxes poetic on aging, intimacy and death; Long takes on television; and a Hollywood desert land.
Actors with "A-list" name recognition continue to migrate to television. "True Detective" uses Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson to make great television.


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Kim Jung Gi Mixes Fantasy and Reality in Enthralling Sketches | Hi-Fructose Magazine
Sketch, Drawings Drawings, Comic, Cartoonist Kim, Gi Drawings, Drawings Tutorials, Jung Give, Kim Jung, Hi Fructose Magazines
hifructosemag: South Korean illustrator and cartoonist Kim Jung Gi draws energetic and fantastical scenes inspired by a mix of comics, movies, and his everyday encounters. His drawings became a Youtube sensation when he posted this timelapse video of his process, where he sketches incredibly without hesitation or visual references. Using primarily brush pen and ink, he works purely from his imagination, often distorting his images as if looking through a fish-eye lens. See more on Hi-Fructose.
Altered book.
Book Art, Art Journals, Book Drawings, Art Ideas, Altered Books, Book Journals, Smash Book Quotes, Art Book, Images Ideas
art book journal
Altered book drawing
altered book art ideas - Sök på Google
Barcelona, chocolate Alfons Mucha
Chocolates Poster, Alfons Mucha, Tattoo Inspiration, Barcelona Chocolates, Muted Color, Art Nouveau 1890 1910, Chocolates Alfons, A Mucha, Art Noveau
Chocolade: momentje om even helemaal tot jezelf te komen *Chocolate: our Relaxing Me-time ~Barcelona-Chocolate A. Mucha~
Barcelona Chocolate poster by Alphonse Mucha
Love the muted colors
Barcelona, chocolate Alfons Mucha - my tattoo inspiration.
colibrì - Sara Ligari
Art Illustrations, Ink Portraits, Sara League, Black And White, Negative Space, Basic Details, Ligari Art, Red Lips, Saraligari
Sara Ligari, ink portrait
Colibri - Sara Ligari #art #illustration
Red lips
Previous pinner said, "Sara Ligari I like the use of pen for basic details and how she left a lot of negative space untouched. And I like that its neither colored fully nor totally black and white"
Freedom Graffiti - Loves by Domus
The Kiss, The Artists, Street Art, Gustav Klimt, Syria, Tammam Azzam, Tammamazzam, Thekiss, Streetart
#Syria #TheKiss This photo has been doing the rounds for a few days. The Saatchi Gallery shared it on its Facebook page on Friday and it has since gone viral. It shows Gustav Klimt's The Kiss superimposed on a devastated, bullet-ridden building somewhere in Syria. The man behind Freedom Graffiti, Syrian-born artist Tammam Hazzam, said his intention was to draw a parallel between "the greatest achievements of humanity with the destruction it is also capable of inflicting." #StreetArt #Klimt
Syrian artist Tammam Azzam has created this beautiful and haunting mural on the side of a half-destroyed building in Syria. The artist reproduced Gustav Klimt's 'The Kiss', incorporating sections of the wall that had been damaged in the war, and juxtaposing the strength and romance of the painting's pose with the fragility already present in the building.
Tammam Azzam, Gustav Klimt, "The Kiss" Street Art in War Torn Syria
Artista: Tammam Azzam - Siria El AMOR vence a la Guerra #Siria #TammamAzzam #Klimt #GustavKlimt #TheKiss #ElBeso #Beso #LovenotWar #Amor #Love #Artista #Avantrip #Mundo #Pasaje #Vuelo #Arte #StreetArt #ArteCallejera #Travel #Turismo #Vacaciones
Design Inspiration, Art Illustrations, De Vince, Music Legends, Pens Scribbl, Scribbl Drawings, Vince Low, Michael Jackson, Celebrity Portraits
Music Legend by Vince Low , via Behance
OS "RABISCOS" DE Vince Low
Amazing Celebrity Portraits Out of Spontaneous Pen Scribbles @Jae Jackson :)
Vince Low - Michael Jackson Scribble Drawing
Drawings, Movies Legends, Illustration, Google Search, Vince Low, Awesome Portraits, Movielegends0Jpg 615329, Dyslex Artists, Clint Eastwood
Vince Low .......This Dyslexic Artist Creates Some Awesome Portraits.
Movie Legend - Clint Eastwood illustrated by Vince Low
vince low artist - Google Search
awesome pencil drawings - Google Search
Why So Serious, The Jokers, Art, Movies Legends, Illustration, Vince Low, Batman, Jokers Drawings, Heath Ledger
the joker drawing "why so serious?"
The Joker - Heath Ledger by Vince Low #Batman
Movie Legend - Heath Ledger as the Joker, illustrated by Vince Low.
Movie Legend by Vince Low http://www.inspirefirst.com/2013/09/23/movie-legend-vince/ … Please RT #art #illustration
Gender Swap, Gender Bender, Prince Mononoke, Genderswap, Fans Art, Sakimichan, Princesses Mononoke, Studios Ghibli, Sakimi Chan
Studio Ghibli - Princess Mononoke - Gender Bender
Prince Mononoke and Lady Ashitaka: While rule 63 art is no more uncommon than all the femme/male twists we see in cosplay, it is rare to see genderswap art that can firmly straddle being faithful and accurate to the character while also being totally inventive. Artist Sakimi Chan does just that with this spectacular series of genderswap fan art.
Ashitaka and Princesse Mononoke gender swap - Prince mononoke by sakimichan
Gender Swap, Gender Bender, Disney Princesses, Genderswap, Male Pocahontas, Fans Art, Disney Character, Disney Pocahontas, Cartoon Character
Male Pocahontas, Female Meko, Female Flit: While rule 63 art is no more uncommon than all the femme/male twists we see in cosplay, it is rare to see genderswap art that can firmly straddle being faithful and accurate to the character while also being totally inventive. Artist Sakimi Chan does just that with this spectacular series of genderswap fan art.
Male Pocahontas. Anything Disney related including facts about Walt Disney. Fan art, illustrations, favorite Disney characters, theme park rides from other Disney parks around the world.
Gender swap Disney Pocahontas
Pocahontas-Popular Cartoon Characters
disney princesses gender bender | Gender Swapped Disney Characters
Saatchi Drinks, Marija Tiurin, Maze Illustrations, Illustrations Maria, Ink Maze, Saatchi Illustrations, Art, Maria Tiurina, Drinks Illustrations
Detailed Saatchi & Saatchi Illustrations
Saatchi & Saatchi drink illustrations
Ink Maze Illustrations by Marija Tiurina I have collaborated with Saatchi & Saatchi ME for their latest advertising campaign, promoting a drink that helps you fall asleep :-) I have created three highly-detailed maze-like ink on paper illustrations themed around different environments: plane, camping and home interior. The idea was to show how distracting sounds would almost get lost in a maze or obstacles if you have some of that magical drink, helping to secure a sweet peaceful environment for those who wanna nap.
Ink Maze illustrations by Maria Tiurina
The Art of Marija Tiurina
Design Inspiration, Marija Tiurin, Ink Illustrations, Ink Maze, Saatchi, Maria Tiurina, Artists Inspiration Art, Drawings Sketchbooks, Illustrations Advertising
Beautiful ink illustrations created by Maria Tiurina. http://designify.me/inspiration/ink-maze-illustrations-by-maria-tiurina/ #ink #illustration #advertising #Saatchi
Intricate and Detailed Ink Maze Drawings by Marija Tiurina, the 3 drawing's themes, centre around: airplane, camping and home interior. More information and more images from this Artist => http://bit.ly/1BBg8Z7
Ink Maze illustrations for Saatchi & Saatchi
London based illustrator - Nina Cosford - charming drawings!!!!
Charms Drawings, London Art, Cosford Poster, House Exterior Design, Poster Cities, Cosford Work, London Drawings, London Based, Cities House Illustrations
London art by Nina Cosford
nina cosford Poster cities
Nina Cosford's work.
#houses #exterior #design #nina cosford
London based illustrator - Nina Cosford - charming drawings!!!! www.lab333.com www.facebook.com/pages/LAB-STYLE/585086788169863 www.lab333style.com lablikes.tumblr.com www.pinterest.com/labstyle
Have loved this saying for years. Lovely idea to incorporate it into a beautiful journal page.
Journals Covers, Sketchbooks Covers, Art Journals Pages, Quote, Art Sketchbooks Ideas, Media Art, Journals Ideas, Artjourn, Inspiration Drawings
Love this art journal page from @Karen Jacot Jacot Jacot grunberg "Be the change you wish to see in the world." #wallartroad #artjournal
Love this art journal page from @Karen Jacot Jacot grunberg "Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Her page would make a great journal cover!
"Love this art journal page from @Karen Jacot grunberg 'Be the change you wish to see in the world.'" Nice use of a quote
Love this art journal page from @Karen Jacot grunberg Be the change you wish to see in the world. Mixed Media Art
love these journal ideas and topics! So beautiful and though provoking.
Chris Weston, Vampires, Dark Heart, Nosferatu Movies, Poster, Movies Poster, Film Poster, Art Sci Fi Horror Movies, I Noticed A Poster
Nosferatu movie poster by Chris Weston (
Film poster
Bald vampires, creepier than all others.
Design Inspiration, Digital Design, Unisino Institucion, Digital Manipulation, Digital Art, Graphics Design, Creative Poster Ideas, Face Art, Unisinos Institucional
Face art to put with kids old Picasso self portraits
Superbe digital art pour Unisinos by Miagui Studio
We are also known for impressive and attractive graphic design. We Guarantee that you will love our design.
Unisinos Institucional Behance. 2015. Unisinos Institucional on Behance. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.behance.net/gallery/19617831/Unisinos-Institucional. [Accessed 8 August 2015].
#poster #graphicdesign #design #inspiration #creative
Digital Manipulation
Digital design and imaging inspiration
Luis Ruiz
Sketchbooks Moleskine, Luis Ruiz, Negative Spaces Sketchbooks, Architectural Drawings, Urban Sketchers, Architecture Drawings, Artists Journals, Locations Sketch, Drawings Wonder
Luis Ruiz is an artist from Málaga, Spain who draws wonderful location sketches, particularly of architectural subjects.
architectural drawings - Luis Ruiz
Luis Ruiz Urban Sketcher
IMPRESIONANTE! Artista de Singapur crea pinturas de animales en 3D hiperrealistas
Artists Paintbrush, Paintings Resins, Watercolor Paintings, Fukahori Goldfish Paintings, Goldfish 3 D, Artists Riusuk, Talent Artists, 3D Art, Japan Artists
Lye's work, including this fish, left, is inspired by Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori Painted resin layers
Image of Keng Lye's 3D Art Blurs the Lines Between What's Real and What's Not
Tsunemori Akane by Zoehi
Zoehi Deviantart Com, Tsunemori Akan
Tsunemori Akane by Zoehi.deviantart.com on @deviantART
Sunday by gabbyd70.devianta... on @DeviantArt
Sketch Of Shorts Hair Girls, Fav Artists, Sketch Art, Character Inspiration Female, Artsy Fartsi, Drawings Shorts Hair, Female Character Design, Gabbyd70 Deviantart Com, Drafting Sketch
Sunday by gabbyd70 One of my very fav artists.
Female Draft Sketch
Airplane Drawings, Sketch Book, Drawings Pilots Pens, Ian Mcque Sketchbooks, Pencil Pens, Sketchbooks Ideas, Sketchbooks Airplane, Sketch Sketchbooks, Illustrations Airplane
Sketchbook airplanes.
Copy Paper Challenge Pieces by Danny O'Connor ... | The Only Magic Left is Art
Drawings , Beautiful Sketches, Art Sketch, Drawing Sketch, Graphite Drawings, Art Drawings, Pencil Drawings, Pretty Drawings, Beautiful Art
Beautiful art
Pencil drawing: Danny O'Connor.
Pretty drawing
Beautiful sketch by Danny O'Connor
Layered graphite drawing
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With many devices collecting personal information including name, address, date of birth, credit card details and even health information, vulnerabilities are multiplied in the cloud and on mobile apps that work alongside the home device. Many devices are also transmitting information unencrypted, so users are "one network misconfiguration away from exposing this data to the world via wireless networks" according to HP.
Fool.com notes that in 2013 a tech journalist was legally able to hack into eight homes of people using Insteon home-automation products through an online flaw in the company's software. In some cases, she found out the physical address of the homeowners, names of their kids, and other personal information. HP's data shows that companies still have a long way to go in making make security in a connected home device a to priority. 70% of the most popular connected devices on the market contain major vulnerabilities according to HP.
But in spite of these vulnerabilities security is not "an on-off binary property" according to Harvard professor Bruce Schneierer. Schneier teaches that security is "relative and situational":
I feel secure in my home, even though it's vulnerable. I feel secure on airplanes, even though they occasionally crash ... in general, Internet security is pretty good. The Internet is surprisingly safe. We're able to work and play on the Internet without many problems. Of course there's a lot of cybercrime, but it's minor.Towergate predicts that the connected home market will be worth £40bn in 2018 and that UK insurers are likely to pick up on the trend creating tailored packages for consumers with connected homes. This may work particularly well for buy-to-let landlord insurance and Towergate lists a number of products such as motion sensors, security cameras, smart bulbs, smart locks and even smart appliances that are currently IoT enabled and may lead landlords to a cheaper insurance premium.


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ANN: Refugees and Migrants: A virtual special issue of German History
This virtual special issue of German History draws together a selection of recent contributions to the journal on the subject of Refugees and Migrants. These are presented alongside a new introduction from the journal's co-editors that comments on the place of history and historians in national and international responses to the current European refugee crisis.
All of the articles in the issue are freely available to download.


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Thomas Joseph Sherman
Position: QB
Height: 6-0 Weight: 190 lbs.
Throws: Right
Born: December 5, 1945 in Bellevue, PA
High School: Union Joint
College: Penn St. (school history) (Sherman college stats)
Draft: Undrafted
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 1 (12778th overall since 1950)
Other SR Links: College Football at Sports-Reference.com
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The research for this page was done by Scott Kacsmar.
Read his extensive three-part article (Part I - Part II -
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Behold the beauty of this dazzling, dark blue dress by British designer Dahlia, and you'll be rendered speechless. With its elegantly textured brocade composition, hidden rear zip closure, perfectly pleated skirt, and posh, pearl bow-bedecked, cognac brown belt, this fabulous frock just may take your breath away. Add temptingly textured tights, magnificent Mary Janes, and pretty pearl accessories to this gorgeous garment for a look so lovely, admirers will be awestruck.
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Dec 30, 2003 - Barring a major security breach, U.S. consumers will increasingly turn to bank Web sites. Comments
Dec 18, 2003 - Is your small business ready to comply with the new anti-spam law? Here's one affordable solution that can help SMBs with micro marketing budgets remain legal. Comments
Nov 26, 2003 - The fine line between what is considered legitimate e-mail marketing and spam is often vague enough to deter even the most honest businesses from engaging in a little self promotion. Comments
Oct 29, 2003 - Citing a need to tidy up, Microsoft's online presence will split intotwo divisions. Does this mean the end of Microsoft's ISP ambitions? Comments
Oct 17, 2003 - The contract extension douses speculation that MSN would be reluctant to re-sign with the Yahoo! subsidiary. Comments
Aug 21, 2003 - The audio/video content search player is adding Flash results to its repertoire while it says the rest of the school is still learning how to master sifting thorough text. Comments
Aug 20, 2003 - Co-founder Sergey Brin extols the benefits of AdWords and AdSense as he skirts questions about possible Microsoft acquisition plans or filing an IPO. Comments
Aug 15, 2003 - Readers respond to columnist Beth Cox's commentary on why it was time to throw in the towel on her own personal crusade against spam. Comments
Aug 13, 2003 - The No. 2 chipmaker looks to replace the generic x86-64 moniker with its own 'AMD64' stamp of approval. Comments
Jul 30, 2003 - When she had to choose between blocking the constant deluge of junk mail or possibly missing another important correspondence or news tip, columnist Beth Cox decided it was time to throw in the towel on her own personal crusade against spam. Comments
Jun 17, 2003 - The advertising and marketing giant is projecting second quarter results could come in at the higher end of earlier guidance. Comments
Apr 3, 2003 - Following in the footsteps of EarthLink, the embattled ISP signs a promotional agreement that includes both in-store advertising for its broadband service and online shopping elements. Comments
Apr 1, 2003 - Although some friction is reported between the companies, the money is increasingly less significant to eBay; meanwhile prosecutors are after PayPal's gambling transaction revenues. AOL, Infinity in Content-Swap Promo Comments
Mar 25, 2003 - An Arab TV channel uses Web to reach viewers who don't receive its cable signal. Comments
Mar 24, 2003 - Forecasts indicate that 2003 will be a year of spending moderately in the retail sector, but on the hardware front, uncertainty and frustration reign supreme. Comments
Mar 24, 2003 - The loan origination site inks a pact with AutoTrader.com that makes it the sole integrated loan provider on the car sales site. Comments
Mar 17, 2003 - By signing broadband deals with Qwest and Verizon, MSN is laying the groundwork for exiting the Internet access business, according to a new report. Comments
Mar 12, 2003 - The shopping search company and the consumer review and product ratings firm will integrate content and technology, while maintaining their branding. Comments
Feb 26, 2003 - The official government measuring body says that fourth-quarter 2002 online sales were very good indeed. Comments
Feb 26, 2003 - Research study finds that the leaders in e-commerce, PC sales and other industries are the ones best able to avoid price deflation and meet customer expectations. Comments
Feb 18, 2003 - Research says Amazon.com is leading a performance surge, while travel, online brokerage and auction sites also are doing well. Comments
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Growing berries
Berries require some special grow conditions, but the rewards are worth the effort.
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Three best bites in Santa Cruz
Looking for a sandwich, a cupcake or other nosh? We've got you covered with Surf Side Sandwich, Buttercup Bakery and the chic Soif Wine Bar
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Ale aboard! It's Santa Cruz's beer-sipping Brew Cruz
This clever Santa Cruz tour takes you aboard Betty Jane, a renovated vintage bus, to cruise to three local breweries and brewpubs.
(Joan Morris/Bay Area News Group)
Winter care of fruit trees
Most fruit trees will benefit from some winter care and pruning over the next few months.
(Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Living like 'The Golden Girls': Shared housing for seniors a practical option
Home-sharing that includes splitting expenses, divvying up chores and keeping each other company has become an increasingly popular option for older single people who want to maintain independence, yet don't want to live alone.
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SEIKO BRIGHTZ Seiko brightz mens watch
Mechanical power reserve Pink Purple SDGC001
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|Sapphire glass (Super clear coating)
|Lumi Brite
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|Daily rate + 25 seconds to 15 seconds
|10 ATM water resistant
|Magnetic resistance
|Case: approx. 39 x 44 x 12.4 mm ( vertical × horizontal × except thickness / Crown )
|Main features
| Screw back
See-through case-back
Stones number 29 stone
Day-date needle with needle
Power reserve indicator function
Second hand stop function
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Japan English manual
Manufacturers warranty
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Charming apartment in heart of Montmartre - Wifi
From $124 / night
Description from the owner
Description from the owner
Bedrooms: 1/
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Type: Apt. / Condo
A charming apartment in the heart of Montmartre.
Ideally located in the heart of Montmartre, between the Rue Lepic and Rue des Abbesses, this apartment fully renovated and tastefully furnished, will accommodate your stay in Paris.
Clear, calm and bright, it has more of a complete equipment (dishes, towels).
Convenient for 2 persons, the apartment can accommodate up to 4 people (sofa bed in the lounge).
It is available for very short stays or longer periods.
Located in Rue Constance (pedestrian Sunday), between Rue Lepic (street of Amelie Poulain Cafe) and Rue des Abbesses
Building Hausmanien style, well maintained 2 room apartment of 30m2 on ...Read more
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About the owner
- Response rate: 70%
- Response time: Within 4 days
- Calendar updated: 5 days ago
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"If you want to immerse yourself in the French culture, stay in Montmartre rather than in the heart of Paris..
It is an old village in N. Paris with small, winding,narrow, hilly streets, cobblestoned. (bring good walking shoes.)
It is replete with small shops, restaurants, bakeries, open markets with fresh fruit, vegetable, flowers and seafood , old churches, an old cemetery - even the home of the famous Moulin Rouge!
Ready access to buses and to two metro stations !
Try out your french; people appreciate t he effort and most do speak some degree of English..
Our entire week's experience was magical!"
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MSI StarOSD, the best gaming utilityMSI StarOSD is a very helpful utility for the avid PC gamers. Users can easily access the StarOSD to adjust the contrast, brightness, overclocking and temperature according to each user's individual preference. Note:Star OSD function that be used on different games has some difference cause the game different design.
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Cold Steel Rubber Training Leatherneck Fixed Blade Knife 7" Clip Point Santoprene Black
Product #: 767621 Cold Steel #: 92R39LSF UPC #: 705442009412
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Now you can practice with some of the most popular Cold Steel knife designs, in relative safety, with our new rubber training knives. We have rubber training versions of our Peace Keeper™ I, the R1 Military Classic, Recon Tanto, Leatherneck-SF, and the Black Bear Classic. Each has been carefully fashioned to look as realistic as possible so they can be effectively used in solo practice, training drills, disarm drills, and demonstrations and any other activity where you want a reasonably close approximation of realism but not the extreme danger and risk associated with an actual knife. The Santoprene rubber blades are soft enough to prevent the likelihood of most bodily injury. They do however, have a level of firmness that might cause injury to the face or the eyes, so it is recommended that appropriate eye protection or a fencing mask is utilized at all times when using a Cold Steel rubber training knife.
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Robert GrossmanProfessor, Department of Radiology;Professor, Department of Neurology;Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology;Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
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Education— Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Residency Training
— Beth Israel Hospital Boston, MA, Internship
— Massachusetts General Hospital, Clinical Fellowships
— University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Medical Education
Research SummaryDr. Grossman is presently the Principal Investigator of 2 NIH funded research grants and in 1999, he was awarded the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award by the NIH for his work on multiple sclerosis. He was a charter member and Chairman of the Diagnostic Radiology Study Section at the NIH and in 2003 he was appointed to the Council of the National Institute of Bioengineering and Biomedical Imaging at the NIH. In 2004, Dr. Grossman received an award for Outstanding Contributions in Research from the Neuroradiology Education and Research Foundation.
Non-Gaussian diffusion MRI of gray matter is associated with cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis
Bester, M; Jensen, J H; Babb, J S; Tabesh, A; Miles, L; Herbert, J; Grossman, R I; Inglese, M
2015-06-08; 1477-0970,Multiple sclerosis - id: 1616022, year: 2015 Journal Article
N-acetyl-aspartate levels correlate with intra-axonal compartment parameters from diffusion MRI
Grossman, Elan J; Kirov, Ivan I; Gonen, Oded; Novikov, Dmitry S; Davitz, Matthew S; Lui, Yvonne W; Grossman, Robert I; Inglese, Matilde; Fieremans, Els
2015-06-07; 1095-9572,Neuroimage - id: 1615472, year: 2015 JOURNAL ARTICLE
Imaging the effects of oxygen saturation changes in voluntary apnea and hyperventilation on susceptibility-weighted imaging
Chang, K; Barnes, S; Haacke, E M; Grossman, R I; Ge, Y
2014-06-23; 0195-6108,AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology - id: 1042032, year: 2014 Journal Article
Cellular and microstructural changes due to iron deposition in multiple sclerosis lesions
Ge, Y; Sheng, H; Chawla, S; Kister, I; Herbert, J; Grossman, RI
2015-06-11; 1477-0970,Multiple sclerosis - id: 1620022, year: 2014
Myoinositol and glutamate complex neurometabolite abnormality after mild traumatic brain injury
Kierans, Andrea S; Kirov, Ivan I; Gonen, Oded; Haemer, Gillian; Nisenbaum, Eric; Babb, James S; Grossman, Robert I; Lui, Yvonne W
2014-01-14; 0028-3878,Neurology - id: 723402, year: 2014 JOURNAL ARTICLE


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Triplex Xabre Pro Review
A new budget graphics chipset is upon us - the SiS Xabre 400. SiS have been quite successful in the motherboard chipset industry in the past, with their SiS645DX and more recently, SiS648 chipsets performing on par with the likes of competing VIA and Intel chipsets - if not better. However, in the graphics chipset industry, SiS have not been as successful due to the fact that their products have nearly always been directed at users requiring strong 2D performance and a rich feature-set, rather than high-end gamers.
Looking to change this, SiS have recently introduced their latest graphics chipset, the Xabre 400. Being the first to feature both AGP 8x and DirectX 8.1 support, the Xabre 400 certainly looks like an awesome chipset on paper. It also features hardware pixel shading, however, lacks a hardware vertex shader, thus forcing vertex shading to be emulated by the CPU. This obviously means that the processor takes greater load, which could create a bottleneck for users running less powerful processors.
Although the card features AGP 8x, it is unlikely that this will have any affect on real-world performance. This is due to the fact that the extra bandwidth is potentially underutilised because once texture data is transferred to the card's local memory, the bus sits relatively idle. As current games are yet to utilise a video card's available memory, it's unlikely that the AGP bus will be heavily accessed, rendering fast AGP transfer rates useless. This is also the reason why we have not seen a significant performance difference between AGP 2x and AGP 4x.
I will not go too deep into the technical specifications of the chipset as these have already been discussed in great details in our original review of the chipset. In this article I will mainly be focusing on the card itself and how it compares to nVidia's competing chipsets.
The first graphics card to hit the market featuring the SiS Xabre 400 chipset is the Triplex Xabre Pro. How does it compare against the competition and most importantly, is it worth your hard earned dollars? Let's find out.
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The famed Alex de Tocqueville reported, "The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other." Although the quote comes from nearly 200 years ago, it records the energy from which America rose to greatness. Tocqueville felt that our morality and faith was the platform upon which our freedoms and our accomplishments were built. I'm sure he would not have envisioned a time in which those core values would be challenged by a kind of cultural cancer called "religious intolerance."
Over the last few years, we have called the ideological struggle for power "culture wars." Unfortunately, the nation is rapidly approaching a defining moment in our history. The war for the courts is only one front in this battle. One need only watch recent movies, HBO specials, and new non-fiction best sellers to determine that there are many groups taking shots at biblical Christianity.
Ricky Gervais, award-winning English actor, teamed up with superstar Jennifer Garner to star in the movie Invention of Lying. This 2010 movie presented biblical Christianity as the biggest lie that Mark, the movie's leading character, ever told. Complete with his version of the 10 Commandments written on the back of Pizza Hut boxes, Mark articulated a fatalistic view of God that made Him the author of all the sickness, pain, and personal destruction in the world. This PG-13 work is aimed at convincing a younger generation that Christianity is not the way. The work is not comedy - it's cultural indoctrination.
Similarly, Bill Maher's 2008 documentary "Religulous" marked an all-time low in the documentary world. In a vendetta-like spirit, Maher attacked Christians of all denominations and other faiths. In 2009 an interesting twist was added to the work's promotion. The movie "W," starring Josh Brolin, was added to this packet. The movie carried an attack on George W. Bush's faith, intelligence, and his conservative, political point of view.
Finally, there have been at least two major books that I am aware of that have reached the top of the New York Times bestseller's list in the last few years which are simply celebrations of atheism: Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion and Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
Against the backdrop of the religious mis-education of the nation, evangelical Christians must embrace (once and for all) that they must let their voices be heard in politics, the arts, and every arena of our culture. Although Catholics are well represented on the Supreme Court, there will likely be important cases that will need the insight of unbiased evangelicals to create an atmosphere for true justice. Failure of the faith community to engage in the world of politics and processes like the selection of judges could hurt the Christian community decades from now.
Protestants must take action today! We should return to the foundations that have made the US great. Further, we must not just act on behalf of our needs, alone. We must lead the country back to the safety of its guiding principles. At the same time, despite our personal views, we must act on behalf of the entire American family – religious and secular alike. Further, we must continue to encourage religious diversity and even atheists to remain true to their beliefs as it relates to the political process. The repression of minority points of view is un-American and petty.
Therefore, let your senators know that you want them to stand up for the rights of the American faith community. Specifically, your senators must be urged to stand against the appointment of Elena Kagan. A failure to act at this critical juncture will be tantamount to surrendering to the enemies of faith and personal freedom.
Bishop Harry Jackson is chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition and senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, MD, and co-authored, Personal Faith, Public Policy [FrontLine; March 2008] with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council.
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Tile comes in a variety of materials, including ceramic, glass and natural stone. The most common tiles used for countertops are ceramic, porcelain and granite. Most homeowners are moving away from tile countertops of smaller tile because cleaning grout is a hassle. However, countertops made from larger tiles are coming into vogue. "Using larger tiles means fewer grout lines," says Sheila Tilander, of Showplace Design and Remodeling in Redmond, Wash. They also allow you to get to get a custom look at a lower price — especially with pricier stones like granite.
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Incoming House Speaker John Boehner and his Republican colleagues are intensely aware of public fury over how Congress operates. But following a lame-duck Congress that continued with business as usual, will this new Congress finally get it right?
As the 112th Congress officially convenes this week, the questions most of us have on our minds are: Will it finally...
--Reduce government spending?
--Reduce the national deficit?
--Reduce the national debt?
--Reduce earmarks and pork?
--Reduce briberies by lobbyists and special interests?
--Reduce Americans' taxes?
--Reduce illegal immigration?
--Reduce our foreign entanglements?
--Reduce government overreach into our lives?
--Reduce government lying, cheating and corruption?
--Reduce constitutional disobedience?
...And so stabilize the nation and economy?
Nov. 2 was undoubtedly a reprimand and a repudiation of the direction Washington is going and how it is conducting government business. But it was also a big renunciation of who our politicians have become.
Getting government right isn't merely a matter of knowing how; we've had plenty of that type of politician who have screwed up our country even worse. In fact, there has been one prevailing element that has been missing in recent recipes to reawaken and rebound our republic. It's the last "E" in the three E's to a successful government: expertise, experience and a good set of ethics.
For example, President Barack Obama made the audacious claim in the beginning of his presidency that his administration would "clean up both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue" with "the most sweeping ethics reform in history." He repeatedly pledged that "an Obama administration is going to have the toughest ethics laws of any administration in history."
But what we've seen from his administration is more of the same old government corruption -- back-door deals, sidestepping constitutional protocol, manipulating the American public, buying votes, compounding broken promises, perpetuating Chicago-style politics, etc.
Good morals precede good laws, which is why government isn't much help. Unless the people and their legislators are grounded in morality, the best of laws will be broken and the worst of laws will be made, legalizing immorality.
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