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After we introduced our HABER 700 MSD on the market we noticed that it had very good maneuverability both at high and low speeds. That is why we started carrying out tests using more powerful drives. Fall 2005 and January 2006 we finished the tests successfully.
The yacht has the CE certificate in category C for navigation on inshore waters.
The HABER 700 MPL's hull is stringer than that of the HABER 700 MSD's, and it is driven by engines with power of 100 to 175 HP. It reaches speeds from 20 to 25 knots respectively. The yacht's navigation on wave is very good, it is easy to maneuver and steer.
Strengthening hull and deck made of glass reinforced plastic
Hull and deck - sandwich
Hull - dark green or navy blue color and cream color deck
Integral stern swim platform with teak deck
Slidable hatchway at the entrance to the cabin
Stainless steel towing eye
8 plexi windows
Aluminum / plexi hatchway
2 portholes (circular opening windows)
Vent grates and stainless steel mushroom vent
Anchor storage locker
Ventilated compartments with inside-locking system
Vertically sliding three - part companionway (plexi)
Stainless steel flagpole
Shelves in the cockpit – 2 pcs.
6 cleats with stainless steel protection plates
Stainless steel steering device with hydraulic system– steering pedestal in the cockpit , emergency steering - tiller
Three - level helmsman seat
Bow counter with teak step
Folding stern ladder with teak steps and step on the transom
Rub rail - Teak
Interior furnishing: oak wood
Galley: 2 cupboards, 2 drawers, stainless sink with outlet, one-burner ORIGO 2000 spirit cooker in galley plate
Head: wash-basin and cupboard below, chemical toilet Porta Potti 365 - movable
Folding table - part of the bunk
Complete upholstery - mattresses. Broadened mattresses next to companionway
Flexible drinking water tank - 50 l
Complete pressure water installation, electric pump
Bilge pumps: manual and electric
Carpet in the cabin
NANNI from 100 -115 hp, 8 degree gear
Complete equipment, starting battery
Solid propeller
Stainless steel fuel tank with fuel level gauge - 100 l
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Small stainless tank as a safeguard against fuel overflow
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"Mast Brothers Chocolate: A Family Cookbook"
Hopefully the first cookbook of many to come written by Rick and Michael Mast, the brother pioneers of the bean-to-bar craft chocolate movement and the owners of the Brooklyn based operation, Mast Brothers Chocolate. Their 288 page hardback book features a foreword by Thomas Keller and has a beautiful embossed jacket of florentinian paper that goes back to the exquisite papers used on their own chocolates. They share stories and recipes for classic American chocolate desserts including cookies and cakes, brownies, bars, milkshakes, and even homemade whoopie pie. There are mouthwatering savory dishes as well, like pan-seared scallops with cocoa nibs and cocoa coq au vin. With striking color photographs throughout, this cookbook celebrates the vision and allure of Mast Brothers Chocolate, the leaders of the American craft chocolate movement and the choice of the world's great chefs.
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Ok so the subject line aint nothing new... But this Advisory is.
Whole Advisory can be found at Secunia: http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8955/Release Date: 2003-06-06
Critical: Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Software: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
A vulnerability has been identified in Internet Explorer, which exposes sensitive information to "msn.com" and "alexa.com".
While this is a known "feature" when the "Show Related Links" option is activated in Internet Explorer, there is a bug, so that Internet Explorer will keep transmitting the information to "msn.com" and "alexa.com" after "Show Related Links" has been de-activated. This occurs whenever "Ctrl+R" is used to reload a page.
To make matters worse, it has been confirmed that this behaviour also affects SSL enabled pages. One thing is that Microsoft has chosen to make a "feature", which reveals this information to "msn.com" and "alexa.com", but the fact that information, which was supposed to be protected by SSL and sent only to one site, is sent in plain text to a third party ("msn.com" and "alexa.com") is of great concern.
The data transmitted to "msn.com" and "alexa.com" is the complete URL. In some cases this could contain sensitive information such as username, password, session id, search string, "secret paths", and more.
The vulnerability has been confirmed for Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000 and Windows XP with all Service Packs and hotfixes.
It is Microsoft that controls who else than "msn.com" should receive this information. Microsoft could at any time choose to send this information to another party than "alexa.com".
See, what I put in bold here really disturbs me quz my Banks online services has a number of juicy stuff sitting in the URL
Further more, Is this the same Alexa app that is picked up by Ad-aware? If so what have that to do with MS?


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Here's a very short form of poetry—one that couldn't be an entire Challenge entry, but one that will strrrrrrretch your poetic muscles. I suspect that this one will be a problem for our best poets (the ones who are sticklers on rhyme and meter).
A clerihew is a humorous 4-line poem with a real person as its subject. Here are its main characteristics:
1. Rhyme scheme is (aabb)
2. Line length and meter are deliberately uneven, for humorous effect
3. The first line consists entirely of a person's name. (In some variants, the first line ends with a person's name, but may contain other words)
4. Line 2 may be a "forced" rhyme, in order to rhyme with the person's name.
5. Lines 2, 3, and 4 are humorous commentary on that person's life. Clerihews aren't generally mean-spirited, but may poke gentle fun at the subject.
6. While lines 1 and 2 may be roughly equal in length, lines 3 and 4 may be quite long or quite short, with no regular meter.
Here's a clerihew written by its originator, a fellow named Edmund Clarihew Bentley:
George the third
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder.
And another, same author:
When Alexander Pope
Accidentally trod on the soap,
And came down on the back of his head—
Never mind what he said.
Why should poets be familiar with clerihew?
1. They're a great way to get out of a rut. If you're usually serious—clerihews are not. If you're a strict "meter-ist"—clerihews are not.
2. They give you practice in putting that little stinger at the end, which is a good skill for writers of both poetry and prose.
3. They're great for getting you to recognize "forced" rhyme—so that you can avoid it in more serious poetry. Essentially, clerihews are deliberately bad poetry. If you can recognize the badness, you're more likely to recognize it in your own poetry—and to take care of it!
4. They force you to practice an economy of words. Some of us tend to go on and on and on and on and on and on…
5. Like the Writing Challenge, a clerihew has a very specific prompt. Write about a real person, living or dead.
6. Good poets should be familiar will as many types of poetry as possible—from the sublime to the ridiculous. It will make you a more well-rounded poet.
An aside: if you're getting impatient with these teeny little poem forms, hang in there—they'll get longer and more complicated over the winter months. I'm just creating building blocks, so to speak.
On to some clerihews, then! Here's a silly example, about my adorable granddaughter, pictured here:
Piper Addison Earley
Has hair that isn't curly
In fact, I believe what her hair is called
Is bald.
And here's one I whipped up about a historical figure:
Edgar Allan Poe
Wrote sordid tales of woe.
Freshman students find him a great bore
And wish his raven would stop squawking "Nevermore."
And finally, one about a current celebrity:
Bette Midler
Isn't much of a fiddler
But on "Wind Beneath My Wings"
The lady sings!
That last one was pretty horrible, I freely admit. I included it to illustrate that "forced rhyme" bit. There's not much that rhymes with "Midler", so "fiddler" it was, despite the fact that the poem isn't about fiddling, not in the least.
Homework: Write one or two clarihews.
I'd encourage you to keep the "poking gentle fun" aspect of a clerihew in mind, particularly if you're writing about a living person. Clerihews aren't really the place for satire or for pointed political commentary.
As always, I welcome discussion on this form. Do you see reasons for mastering clerihew that I haven't listed here? Did you find them easy or difficult to write? What was hardest for you? Do you enjoy this form of poetry? Why or why not?


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All our UK centres are Accredited by Accreditation UK, which means we can support an application for a Short Term Study Visa (see Section B1, below) at any of our UK centres.
Do you need a visa?
Many people coming to the UK need a visa. This is not a very interesting topic, but it's an important one so please read these notes carefully. It's important to understand the rules.
We have tried to make these notes as clear as possible, but some parts of the visa system are quite complicated and sometimes change at short notice. Please check these notes immediately before you make an application. If you can't understand anything, please contact us.
This note is concerned only with adults, as we do not have any courses for children. An 'adult' is anyone aged 18 or over.
If you are a citizen of a country in the European Union or the European Economic Area, or of Switzerland, you do not need a visa to enter the UK. If you are from one of these countries this note does not apply to you and you can stop reading now.
If you come from anywhere else you will need a visa. Some visas are ones that you have to apply for in advance; sometimes you may be able to get one when you arrive. Whichever it is, they are all technically visas.
Two factors influence your visa:
- Your passport. The rules vary according to your nationality.
- What you want to do. There are different visas for different purposes.
When you book a course you will need to tell us which type of visa you want. These notes will help you to understand the system and decide what to do.
Overview: The process of applying for a visa
- Decide if you are a Visa National or a Non-visa National (see Section A)
- Decide which type of visa you want (see Section B)
- Make your application for your course, telling us which type of visa you want (see Section C)
- Use the documents we send you to apply for your visa (see Section C)
A: Geography: different visa status for different nationalities
- EU/EEA/Switzerland
If you are a citizen of one of these countries you can come and go as you please. You can ignore all these notes about visas. This is true even if you also hold a non-European passport. For example if you are Brazilian but also have an Italian passport, you can use your Italian passport to enter the UK without visa formalities.
- Visa nationals (VN)
If you are a VN, you need a visa to enter the UK for any reason, and must get it before you leave home (this is called 'pre-entry clearance'). If you are from Kuwait, Oman, Qatar or United Arab Emirates, please see B 5.
- Non-visa nationals (NVN)
If you are a NVN you need a visa, but can get a 6 month Short Term Study Visa on arrival. See B1, below, for more about this. If you want a longer visa, you must get it before you leave home.
B: The different types of visa
- Short Term Study Visa (STSV)
This is the normal visa used to study English. It lasts 6 months. It's available for people at any level of English.
If you are Non-Visa National you can get this free on arrival in the UK. You must book a course before you come to the UK and bring your course acceptance papers, including a STSV support letter, to show at immigration when you arrive.
If you are a Visa National you must apply at home. You must provide Biometric Data and pay the appropriate fee (£97). Biometric Data means fingerprints and photograph (known as 'biometric information') taken at a visa application centre. You will probably have to prove that you have a good reason for learning English and persuade the Entry Clearance Officer that you will return home after the course. In some cases, depending on your nationality, you may find this difficult
If you get a STSV before you leave home it will be a piece of paper stuck into your passport. If you are a NVN and get a STSV on arrival it will just be an entry stamp. This is still a visa.
You cannot extend this visa. You have to leave the UK within 30 days of the end of your course or at the end of the 6 month period of leave granted, whichever is the earliest. If you are a non-visa national and you leave the country and re-enter, you may get a new one (this is not supposed to happen, but it often does).
If you are using an agent in your own country they will help you with the visa application. If you are applying personally, you can do that here.
- Short Term Study Visa (11 months) (STSV11)
This is a special visa available if your course will last for more than 6 months. A Short Term Student Visa (11 months) lasts 11 months and is available for people at any level of English.
It is only possible to get an STSV11 if the original course you book lasts for more than 6 months. You cannot get a STSV, then decide to stay longer and convert a STSV to a STSV11 in the UK.
An STSV11 is only valid for studying English. You can change school and course, but you cannot stop studying English and start studying something else.
You cannot extend an STSV11. You have to leave the UK within 30 days of the end of your course or at the end of the 11 month period of leave granted, whichever is the earliest.
Whatever your nationality, you must get your STSV11 at home before you come to the UK. You must have a visa support letter from us and show that you have enough money to pay for your course and to live on. You must provide Biometric Data and pay the appropriate fee (£186). You will probably have to prove that you have a good reason for learning English and persuade the Entry Clearance Officer that you will return home after the course. In some cases, depending on your nationality, you may find this difficult.
If you get a STSV11 you will just get a vignette, valid for 30 days, in your passport and must get Biometric Residence Permit (See section E for further details) when you arrive in the UK.
If you are using an agent in your own country they will help you with the visa application. If you are applying personally, you can do that here.
You are not allowed to work if you have a Short Term Student Visa (11 months).
Students from certain countries studying for 6 months or longer must undertake pre-entry tuberculosis (TB) screening before they are granted a visa for the UK. For a list of countries affected, please click here.
Anyone entering the UK with a Short Term Study Visa lasting more than 6 months must pay a Health Surcharge fee, which allows them to use the National Health Service. This costs £150. Please note that this must be paid even if you also have private health insurance.
- Tier 4 (General) student visa
You can study with us if you have a Tier 4 visa with another sponsor for pre-sessional study (up to a month if your visa is valid for more than 6 months and up to one week if your visa is valid for 6 months or less) or at any other time of your stay as long as you can evidence that it won't interfere with your main course of study.
- Other types of visas
Standard Visitor Visa
This visa has replaced the Visitor Visa (VV) and Business Visitor Visa (BVV)
The Standard Visitor Visa allows you to enter the UK for leisure, business, to take part in a sporting or creative event or to receive private medical treatment.
It is possible to study with a Standard Visitor Visa provided that your course lasts no longer than 6 weeks (30 days) and studying is not the main reason for your visit. If you want to study for longer than 6 weeks you will need a STSV, However the STSV will cancel your Standard Visitor Visa as you can't have two valid visas at the same time.
Diplomatic Visa
If you have a Diplomatic Visa you can study without any problems.
Tier 5 (Youth Mobility) Visa
If you are lucky enough to have one of these, you can do anything you like.
- Electronic Visa Waiver
If you are from Kuwait, Oman, Qatar or United Arab Emirates, you can apply for an electronic visa waiver (EVW). The EVW can be used for a single entry only, but you can stay for up to 6 months and study with us.
This is much quicker and cheaper than applying for a visa. You can apply online between 3 months and 48 hours before you travel and you only have to pay a fee of £15.
You need to make sure that you fill in all the required details (your passport details, an address in the UK where you will stay, details of your journey, including departure and arrival dates and times) correctly or you won't be allowed to travel. If any of details change e. g. you arrive at a different airport or you arrive 8 hours later than planned, you have to apply for a new EVW.
Please make sure that you print your EVW and take the print out with you when you travel, as electronic copies aren't accepted.
C: What you must do if you want a STSV/STSV11 visa with your course booking
- What you must do if you want a STSV/STSV11
- Tell us what sort of visa you want. If you need a visa to enter the UK you will need support from us, so you must tell us what sort of visa you intend to apply for. Unless we know this we do not know what sort of support to send you.
- Send us a copy of your passport. We need information from it to produce the support that we will send you.
- Pay a deposit or full fees, in the normal way. We cannot issue any visa support documentation until you have done this.
- Send us the information needed for a Short Term Student Visa STSV support letter. If you want a STSV we will need to send you a STSV support letter so we need certain information. To see what we need for your support letter click here.
D: Procedures when you start your course with us
- What you need before starting a course with us
Please make sure that you bring your passport or ID with you to school on the first day. If you do not need a visa, we must check this. If you do need a visa, we need to check that you have one, and take a copy of it.
E: Biometric Residence Permit
- Biometric Residence Permit
A Biometric Residence Permit is a credit-card sized plastic card which looks very similar to a driving licence.
If you have a Tier 4, a STSV11 or a YMV, and will stay for more than 6 months, you will no longer get a paper visa in your passport. You will get a vignette (rubber stamp) which will allow you to enter the country, and you will need to collect a Biometric Residence Permit after you arrive.
The vignette will be valid for 30 days from the arrival date that you gave when you applied for your visa. You must arrive in the UK during this period. If you will arrive later you will need to apply for a new vignette.
When you are granted your visa, you will be told the address of a Post Office where you can collect your BRP.
After you have collected your BRP you must show it to us as we need to make a copy for our records.
You do not need to carry your BRP all the time and it might be safest not to do so. But you need to take it with you if you leave the country as you will need to show it when you re-enter the UK.
Registering with the police
If you have a stamp in your passport which tells you to register your arrival in the UK you will need to visit The Overseas Visitors Records Office at Brandon House. In this case, please see here.
Brandon House is open from 09.00 - 16.00 Monday to Friday. The telephone number is 020 7230 1208.
The nearest tube station is Borough, which is on the Northern Line. When you come out of the station turn left, cross the road and Brandon House is in front of you.
From Holland Park you should take the Central line to Bank station and then change onto the Northern line to Borough. The underground journey takes about half an hour.
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If you are studying on the Intensive General English course or English for University you should visit Brandon House after class on your first Friday. If you have classes all day you will need to miss some class time. Please tell your trainer why you won't be able to come to class and they will explain what work you will miss.
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Swedish Rag Rugs
These bright and cheerful Swedish Rag Rugs seem like the perfect way to brighten up a hallway or kitchen. The vintage rugs come from southern Sweden and each one is a one-of-a-kind little piece of functional art that exudes warmth and beauty. Most are made from cotton or cotton blend fibers.
The vintage rugs are available from Avolli for about $60-$100 each.
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David Teniers the Younger (Flemish , Antwerp 1610 - 1690 Brussels)
Saints Anthony and Paul in a Landscape, ca. 1636-38
Signed at bottom, left of center: D. Teniers F.
Oil on panel (oak), transferred to masonite
20 7/8 x 33 1/2 in. (53 x 85.2 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund and Friends of Art Fund, 1973
Towards the end of a life dedicated to solitude and ascetic spirituality, Paul of Thebes (d. ca. 347) was visited by another Christian hermit, Anthony Abbot (ca. 251-356). The craggy, mountainous setting of Tenier's painting functions as a visual symbol of the isolated and physically barren existence of the hermit saints.
Teniers's airy landscape depicts the meeting of the two hermit saints, Anthony Abbot and Paul of Thebes. Paul of Thebes, traditionally regarded as the first Christian hermit, lived much of his life in a cave at the edge of the Theban Desert, sustained by fruit from a date palm and the bread brought to him daily by a raven. Towards the end of his life he was visited by Anthony, who, after overcoming extreme physical and spiritual temptations, had similarly dedicated himself to a life of solitude and ascetic spirituality. In recognition of the encounter, the raven was said to have delivered a double ration of bread. Anthony lived with Paul until the latter's death a few years later.
The Oberlin painting particularly demonstrates Teniers's skillful integration of landscape and narrative elements. The rocky, mountainous landscape itself functions as an attribute of the subject matter; Teniers frequently linked certain subjects with settings that had a specific and easily grasped symbolic value--in this instance, rocky landscapes and grottoes with representations of hermit saints. The direct formal precursors of Teniers's mountain landscapes are works by Paul Bril, and especially Joos de Momper.1 In the juxtaposition of the rocky outcropping at the right with distant rolling hills, the present composition has a clear affinity with works by de Momper. As in works by these earlier artists, Teniers's landscapes of the mid 1630s evoke spatial recession through the use of overlapping landscape elements and a standard brown-green-blue palette. Later landscapes, such as the present painting, which has been dated to about 1636-38, feature a softened aerial perspective and more fluid coloristic transitions in the panoramic landscapes.2
Teniers represents the two aged hermits reading before a grotto that shows discrete signs of Paul's habitation: the makeshift cross, the kettle hanging over the distant fire. Paul is clad in a dun-colored garment of leaves; Anthony wears a black cloak with a "T" on the left shoulder (first letter of the Greek word Theos, or God), his attribute in art and the habit of the order of Hospitalers of St. Anthony, founded in 1100.3 Above, the raven arrives with a loaf of bread. In the wooden shed at the center of the composition is a pig, representative of the temptations of sensuality and gluttony; the pig often accompanied Anthony as an indication of his triumph over sin. The barrow of vegetables and the books scattered in the foreground (the former, at least, presumably brought by Paul) attest to Teniers's considerable talent as a painter of still lifes.
Teniers painted several other versions of this theme during the course of his career, including works in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, and the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva.4 The Oberlin painting, datable to about 1636-38, seems to be the artist's earliest treatment of the subject, and the only one to feature the pig as an attribute of St. Anthony. A copy of the Oberlin painting was in the sale New York (Sotheby Parke Bernet), 19 January 1984, lot 50.5
M. E. Wieseman
David Teniers the Younger was baptized in Antwerp on 15 December 1610. He learned the art of painting from his father, an art dealer and painter of small-scale history paintings. The younger Teniers became a master in the Antwerp guild in 1632/33, and was elected dean in 1645/6. In 1637 he married Anna Brueghel, daughter of the Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Teniers received his first commission from Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, governor of the Netherlands, in 1647; four years later he was appointed court painter and director of the Archduke's painting collection. Teniers worked for the Archduke and his successor until 1659.
Together with his mentor Adriaen Brouwer (1605/6-1638), Teniers was the most important seventeenth-century Flemish painter of low-life genre scenes. He also painted historical, mythological, and allegorical subjects, as well as high-life scenes and portraits. Teniers was a versatile and extremely prolific painter, and his work was highly sought after by princes and collectors across Europe.
General References
Klinge, Margret. David Teniers the Younger: Paintings, Drawings. Exh. cat., Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1991.
Private collection, France
Collection Hermann Göring
Munich, Collecting Point (1946), no. 5887
With Heim Gairac Gallery, Paris
With David M. Koetser Gallery, Zurich, from whom purchased in 1973
Stechow, Wolfgang. "An Early Landscape by David Teniers." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 31, no. 1 (1973-74), pp. 22-33.
Comer, Christopher. "David Teniers' 'Temptation of St. Anthony' Paintings." Master's thesis, Oberlin College, 1974, pp. 25, 35, 42-43, 51-53, fig. 48.
Trebbin, Heinrich. David Teniers und Sankt Antonius. Frankfurt, 1994, p. 142, n. 68.
Technical Data
The original oak panel was thinned to about 10 mm and cradled at an unknown date. By 1972, cleavage between the ground and panel had developed, possibly due to improper cradling. The paint layers and thick (.25 mm) white ground (probably applied with a brush) were detached from the original panel and transferred to masonite. The paint surface is generally in good condition, with some inpainting along a horizontal split just below the center of the panel, along the bottom edge, and small scattered losses throughout.
1. For comparisons with AMAM invs. 53.257 (Bril) and 48.321 (de Momper), see Wolfgang Stechow, "An Early Landscape by David Teniers," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 31, no. 1 (1973-74), esp. pp. 25ff.
2. See Margret Klinge, David Teniers the Younger: Paintings, Drawings (exh. cat., Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1991), p. 20.
3. See Heinrich Trebbin, David Teniers und Sankt Antonius (Frankfurt, 1994), pp. 17-18; and Guy C. Bauman, in Liechtenstein, The Princely Collections (exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985-86), p. 276.
4. Canvas, 63 x 94 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado, inv. 1823 (reproduced in Wolfgang Stechow, "An Early Landscape by David Teniers," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 31, no. 1 [1973-74], p. 32); panel, 38 x 57 cm, Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, inv. 1942-25; and canvas, 63.5 x 97.5 cm, signed, London, private collection (reproduced in Margret Klinge, David Teniers the Younger: Paintings, Drawings [exh. cat., Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1991], no. 75). A painting of the subject with figures by Teniers and landscape by Lucas van Uden is in the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (inv. 1138). The visit of St. Anthony to St. Paul was also included as an ancillary narrative event in Teniers's represention of the Temptation of St. Anthony in Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie, inv. 1079); on the latter theme, especially popular in Teniers's oeuvre, see Christopher Comer, "David Teniers' 'Temptation of St. Anthony' Paintings" (master's thesis, Oberlin College, 1974); and Heinrich Trebbin, David Teniers und Sankt Antonius (Frankfurt, 1994).
5. Panel, 58.7 x 78 cm.


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Mary Ann takes her Tuscany tour students under her wing to teach them the fine are of Tuscan cooking, starting with the all-time favorite, Fresh Pappardelle with Rabbit, Mushrooms, and Wine. No Tuscan meal would be complete without its unique, Bird-Style Beans. And to whet the appetite, Salted Pizza Bites. D
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The hijinks were fairly low-wattage on the first night of the NBA's All-Star Weekend— the Rising Stars game saw Kenneth Faried score 40 points on 18 of 22 shooting and Kyrie Irving do this to Brandon Knight, while United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan scored 11 points in the celebrity game (six less than last year)—but one of the notable stories going into the evening paid off: Usain Bolt, best sprinter ever, participated in the celebrity game and played like a sprinter.
If it's not surprising that a 6-5 guy who's also one of the best athletes on the planet can dunk, it's even less surprising that he takes a four step running start to get there. He probably takes a running start to open his refrigerator. Still, if NBA GMs are looking for a guy who will break rules fast, Bolt is worth a look.


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A week after their biggest rushing effort in two decades, the Bears got back to who they are:
A dysfunctional mess on offense.
Jay Cutler isn't throwing interceptions at an alarming rate, but otherwise a case can be constructed the Bears offense was better under Ron Turner than it is now. A 23-20 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday at Soldier Field isn't reason for the 4-2 Bears to panic, but they quickly need to examine what is going on.
Three critical miscues in the second half did them in against a patchwork Seahawks team that still is getting to know one another under new coach Pete Carroll. Danieal Manning's 89-yard kickoff return for a touchdown was nullified by Rod Wilson's holding penalty. Robbie Gould missed a 54-yard field goal in the fourth quarter. In range for a 48-yard try in the third quarter, Cutler was sacked for an 11-yard loss by Lawyer Milloy on third down, forcing a punt.
Worse, the team that rushed for 218 yards at Carolina called 47 pass plays and handed off only 12 times. Offensive coordinator Mike Martz is off limits to the media on game days, so coach Lovie Smith and the players were left to explain. They said they were playing catch-up, but the Seahawks (3-2) didn't take a two-score lead until 13:45 remained, and the best way to break in a young offensive line is by running the ball.
"Never really got the running game established," Smith said. "Didn't get a whole lot done."
Said running back Chester Taylor: "I am a little surprised, but I know we got down. When you run the ball, it's pounding, pounding and then it's just going to break, so you gotta stick with it."
It certainly wasn't what general manager Jerry Angelo was seeking. He said on the WBBM-AM 780 pregame show: "Hopefully we can take what (Cutler) does in our passing game and what we saw last week in the running game and create a little balance."
Martz's refusal to run the ball wasn't the only factor in this surprising loss.
• The worst team in the NFL on third down, the Bears went 0-for-12. The offense has failed to convert its last 22 third downs with Cutler, dating to the Packers game in Week 3. It's the primary reason the Bears are 26th in time of possession, no way to treat a defense that surrendered 353 yards to the Seahawks.
• The worst pass protection in the league got worse. With a steady diet of safety and cornerback blitzes, the Seahawks notched six sacks, 3½ by defensive backs. Cutler has been sacked 23 times and the Bears have surrendered 27, putting them on pace for a franchise-record 72.
The revamped line with Chris Williams at left guard struggled, but Cutler needs to avoid some pressure by defensive backs, such as the sack by Jordan Babineaux for a safety in the third quarter. Too often, Martz is relying on only five linemen to block.
"It's on me. It's on the offensive line. It's on the receivers," Cutler said. "We've got to go in (Monday), look at the film, make some corrections somewhere along the line and figure it out. I've got to get the ball out quicker. We've got to identify who's coming and who's not, and receivers have got to see it."
• The offense ranks 30th in the red zone, and those problems continued. Matt Forte scored on a 6-yard run to cap an opening drive greatly aided by a 58-yard pass interference penalty Devin Hester drew against Roy Lewis.
But first-and-10 at the 11 turned into a 34-yard field goal in the second quarter, and just before halftime first-and-10 at the 12 turned into a 24-yard field goal. Tight end Greg Olsen, who led the team with eight touchdown catches last season, is catchless in the last two games, a first in his career.
Cutler, who finished 17 of 39 for 290 yards, said he felt no ill effects from his concussion two weeks ago.
The loss spoiled an 89-yard punt return for a touchdown by Devin Hester that tied him with Brian Mitchell for the most kick-return scores in NFL history and gave the Bears a last gasp with an onside kick.
The Bears could have won with their defensive effort, but they made a star of former first-round bust Mike Williams, who caught 10 passes for 123 yards as the secondary was exposed for the first time.
"Everything concerns me on a day like today," Smith said.


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Battling the Recession: Bottom-Line Client Development Tips
Battling the Recession: Bottom-Line Client Development Tips
John Wanamaker, the 19th century merchant widely viewed as the father of the department store and modern advertising, uttered this lament: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half!" Unfortunately, this sentiment is often dead-on when it comes to law firm marketing and business development, too.
In the previous issue, we began a series of columns on how to survive the ongoing recession, with a focus on tips for shoring up your bottom line across the core areas of law practice. For this installment, let's concentrate on client development ideas, from allocating marketing dollars to putting incentives in your compensation system and more—all filtered through the finance lens, of course.
Shape Up Your Marketing Budget
In hard times, a sound budget can make the difference between life and death for a law practice. At the same time, when it becomes tougher to make ends meet, many lawyers jump to the conclusion that marketing expenses are a quick and easy place to cut—but beware this impulse. After all, those expenditures are your lifeline to new business, so why would you want to cut your lifeline?
Marketing activities should take place constantly and automatically, like breathing. The idea is to generate a steady stream of potential new cases, from both existing and new clients, so that you have the option of picking the best work rather than being stuck having to take whatever trickles in the door.
However, if your spending is ad hoc and you don't know exactly how much you will spend in a given year—or where you should spend it—now is the time to "right-size" your budget for marketing efforts. That means instead of grabbing the shears and pointing them willy-nilly at your marketing expenses, you'll want to determine which of your activities truly result in value for the dollars spent.
Often firms don't really understand where their business comes from, making it much harder to bring in new business or understand the return on investment (ROI) of their marketing expenditures. But actually, it's not all that complicated.
First, if you haven't already done so, you need to establish intake procedures to ensure that all clients (even existing ones) are asked how they found out about your firm and why they selected it for their particular matter. Then, at the end of each quarter going forward, review the information and the picture will come into focus.
Here's some general industry data to guide your budgeting, too. How Clients Buy: 2009 Benchmark Report on Professional Services Marketing and Selling from the Client Perspective , from RainToday.com, indicates that referrals from colleagues and from other service providers—at 79 and 75 percent, respectively—are the top two ways that clients are likely to identify and learn more about professional services providers. Internet searches fall into the third tier of methods, at 55 percent, and print and radio ads are even less likely to be sources of service providers for most higher-end clients. Thus, the chances are probably quite good that the vast majority of your clients don't come through traditional "advertising" efforts.
By knowing where your clients really come from, you'll be able to eliminate the expenditures that aren't bringing you business and redirect those dollars to sources that will provide a better ROI. And since studies show that it costs a lot less to keep existing clients than to draw in new ones, and that totally satisfied clients are much more loyal than even mostly satisfied ones, you may want to direct some of your marketing budget toward client satisfaction, too. This can range from communications tools such as a client intranet to simply spending a little nonbillable time building a better relationship with an existing client.
Insist on Personal Business Development Plans
You won't get where you're going if you don't decide on a destination and chart a course. A personal business development plan is a lawyer's road map to success, and every lawyer in your firm should craft one. Remember, success is ultimately about setting goals and measuring progress toward them—and what doesn't get measured doesn't get done.
Here are the types of things each plan should address: How many and what kind of clients do you wish to have in one year? In three years, and in five years? Where will you find them? How will you ethically reach them? How much time and money will you invest in personal branding? Will you write for targeted publications? Join industry associations? Seek speaking engagements? Create a blog or use other Web techniques, like building an online profile through networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Martindale- Hubbell Connected or Legal OnRamp?
When you budget time and money for such activities, you'll reinforce specific goals and strategies for reaching those goals. You can then measure the results of your efforts, by tracking the number and type of clients in your chosen areas of practice and how they change over time. Then, by asking how each client came to you, you'll learn more about what's working—and what isn't—creating an information loop that provides meaningful feedback on your efforts.
Rethink Your Compensation System
Does your compensation system reward the kind of business development efforts that ensure a firm's short- and long-term viability? The 2007 Juris Law Firm Economic Survey reported that the three most important factors in partner compensation were working attorney fees received (30 percent); origination credit (29 percent); and billable hours (13 percent).
The bottom three factors (from least-important up) were recruiting, mentoring and training associates (1 percent); role in firm governance (1 percent); and teamwork and firm citizenship (3 percent).
Interestingly, the survey found that cross-selling services wasn't even taken into account in terms of partner compensation. But since existing clients are a firm's best sources of new business, why wouldn't a firm reward its lawyers for cross-selling, especially in a rough economy? This is an excellent time to think about adding incentives to your system to encourage all lawyers to bring new business to other lawyers in the firm.
Open your mind up to other, more out-of-the-box options, too. Here's an example. DLA Piper recently eliminated nonequity partners. This was a smart move because it allowed the firm to raise additional capital from the buy-in of the partners who went from nonequity to equity status. The firm could then use the money raised for either debt reduction or other needed spending to make the firm more profitable. Second, it reduced salary outlay by shifting these individuals to draws based on income. (Salaries, you'll remember, have to be paid, regardless of income.) Third, the move leads all partners to be more highly focused on business development, since their compensation and the value of their investment in the firm depend on it. Finally, by increasing the firm's equity, it improved the firm's debt-to-equity ratio, putting the firm in a better position to borrow funds if needed. Profits per partner will likely be adversely affected, at least until the new partners are up to speed, but that is hardly the only measure of success.
Look for New Opportunities
Downtimes can actually be good times to launch into new areas, so why not scout out emerging markets to make up for the loss of other types of business? Consider this: Since established businesses often abandon promising growth opportunities too quickly when their cash gets tight, it leaves start-up businesses the opportunity to step in and fill the void. Oracle and Microsoft were both born in difficult economic times. Similarly, there are likely many promising start-ups out there looking for the services of a good law firm right now. (See The Economist 's Nov. 20, 2008, issue "All You Need Is Cash.")
And there are always established industry sectors that do well in bad times, so look at how you can attract new clients from those sectors as well—especially for those lawyers whose practice areas are more affected by the drop in the economy.
Also, can you or your clients benefit from the stimulus packages that are being considered or rolled out? Certainly, the government will be spending a large amount in coming months to minimize the effects of the current recession. Look for ways that you can grab a slice of the pie yourself or, alternatively, assist clients who could benefit from these programs and increase the work that you are doing as a direct result.
Choose a Top Strategy
Respondents to the Juris Law Firm Economic Survey indicated that the most effective strategies in enhancing firm profitability were increasing fees (41 percent); marketing and business development (23 percent); and improved efficiency (21 percent). Since it's extremely difficult to increase fees in an economy like the current one, marketing and business development almost automatically moves into the number one spot.
Knowing that, you then know that you need to address the following: Have you allocated time, money and personnel to your client development strategies? Are you actively setting goals, coaching junior members of the firm, providing the right incentives and measuring your results? Most importantly, unlike Mr. Wanamaker, can you tell which half of your marketing expenses are producing results and which half are wasted?
About the Authors
David J. Bilinsky is a practice management consultant who focuses on enhancing law firm strategy, finance and technology initiatives. He blogs at ThoughtfulLaw.com.
Laura A. Calloway is Director of the Alabama State Bar's Practice Management Assistance Program and Chair of ABA TECHSHOW® 2009.


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Junie Browning 'Somewhat Embarrassed' By TUF Behavior
(Hey Kunta.)
When I heard Junie Allen Browning was doing a TUF blog for UFC.com, I had to check it out to see how apologetic/ashamed he was going to be after watching last night's episode, in which he drank eight bottles of vodka, nearly broke his neck falling off a balcony, destroyed some house decor, then cried himself to sleep next to the pool. But judging from this excerpt, I don't think he's quite wrapped his head around how unacceptable his belligerent retardedness actually was:
If I had seen the previous season, I don't think I would have acted that crazy, but the show was being recorded as season seven was being played so I didn't know anything about Jesse Taylor and all that stuff. And to be honest, I thought Jesse Taylor made the show a little more interesting.
To be honest, I think they underplayed it, I was hoping they'd show a little more. They made me look a little more sane than I really am. Seriously though, it was somewhat embarrassing because I never really see myself acting like that big of an idiot, and now I can see where everyone's coming from when they watch me and go 'this guy's a lunatic.' Now I see it.
Sure, Jesse Taylor made last season interesting, but everybody watching pitied him. Dude was pathetic. And we'll pity Junie Browning after he fucks up bad enough to be thrown out of the house. (Next episode, hopefully?) Also, if Junie's truly embarrassed by what he saw in episode 3, he probably wouldn't want them to "show a little more." To borrow a phrase from addiction-recovery, I don't think Junie's reached his bottom yet. Who knows, maybe he straightens out after Dana gives him the tongue-lashing next week, and he can afford to have a dismissive attitude about his former drinking problem. I was just hoping for more humility. The guy's a constant distraction, and his antics put other fighters in danger. Doesn't he know what a dumb asshole he is?Read More DIGG THIS


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Adobe Flash Player 10 Fix for WinXP and Vista, IE7, IE8, Firefox, ect.(New Fast Fix)Careful_Observation May 11, 2009 12:51 PM
(This is a possible solution for most users) I have found that inside the folder C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash (WinXP Home/Pro) (Computer > C: Drive > Windows > System32 > Macromed > Flash for Vista) there should be a file named FlashUtil10b.exe (IF NOT YOU SHOULD UPDATE AS SPECIFIED!) (or FlashUtil10a.exe or for older versions something similar depending on your version), which is the update utility for flash player. Click on this and if it updates, you will have to restart your computer. This should fix any missing files, and update you to the latest version.
On a side note to all those who read this, I downloaded and installed 5 different times, the same version, from different websites, all for the "new" flash version, and they didn't work (this also included trying to update Shockwave player itself). Apparently, going directly to the website and downloading a new version of Adobe Flash Player, and installing, doesn't uninstall the older version, (though it says it does nor does the uninstaller work directly from the website) nor fixes the problem. I assume they are aware of this problem, because they included this bug fix in revision 10b. This fix should work for those of you whom cannot view/see flash images as well. There also appears to be a bug/reference problem with the installation of IE8 giving the error "Missing Shockwave Decompression XTRA", when trying to play a Shockwave/Flash file, which seems also to affect Firefox and other browsers. It doesn't recognize that the folder or files that it needs in it, exist. I never had his problem before, until IE8 was installed. I checked which version I had in the system32 folder and found this updater built in to Adobe. Version 10a does NOT automatically update, but version 10b includes this fix. I currently had version 10a when I received this error, and began digging for a solution. Doing the update as described above fixed the problem, and updated it to version 10b.
The new flash version 10b has some new features, such as volume control, auto-updating, and several rendering options for those who may have a faster or slower computer/video card.
I found this works great for XP users but unsure of the Vista users. The process is the same for Vista and the update should still work the same, as long as you run it as Administrator, I assume. I have this also posted on wwwdslreports.com at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22115254-IE-IE8-and-Adobe-Flash-Question and here http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22361930-Adobe-Flash-Player-10-Fix-for-WinXP-IE 8-Firefox-ect. It appears to work for everyone so far. I have not heard of any problems from users with this problem running the RC (Release Canidate) for Windows 7 yet.
I hope this works to your benefit.
Please leave a reply to help Adobe and other users know if this fix worked for you or not. If not, please explain what you did, and the effects your seeing, including operating system, site of the flash file trying to view, browser type (ex. IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera, ect.), and I will try to help you as best I can.
(I would strongly recommend those not using IE8, or Firefox 3.5, get the updated versions)
If your looking for uninstallers go to this site: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html
If your looking for a true full install, you can download this developer version for Windows and Mac: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flash_player_update2_flash10.zi p (44MB) (If you download this, I would recommend you still follow my instructions for the Flash Utility before restarting your computer.)


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The Bombers unload on the Reds in the first half
For 23 minutes Thursday night, the Bloomfield Bombers owned the Newark High School soccer field. They outshot the Reds, outhustled the Reds, got to the ball first, stopped any offensive runs and spent most of those 23 minutes camped on every footpath leading to Newark goalkeeper Dan Staples.
Staples made five saves in the first half, most of them in that 23-minute period, but on two of those stops — both off point-blank shots from Ty Clauss — Staples could only redirect the ballistics, not control them.
And on those two shots, Neale Vanstralen, in the 11th minute, and sophomore Jimmy Hart, in the 23rd minute, corralled the rebound and connected with short blasts that went whistling by Staples.
Bloomfield took home a 2-0 win, raising the Bombers to an 8-6-0 record (7-4-0 Finger Lakes).
And for the rest of the night, the two teams played dead even. Bloomfield had a 10-6 margin in shots in the first half and 3-2 in the second, as the teams settled down to struggle back and forth in the middle of the field.
So what happened to the Reds in those first 23 minutes?
"That's how our whole season has gone," said Newark coach Scott DeRue. "We play 50 to 60 minutes in a game. That 10-20-minute stretch in every game has been killing us."
Bloomfield coach Chris Stock was a little surprised at the tone of the game, especially at the outset. "I expected it to be a little more competitive," Stock said.
Admittedly, there was a big difference in the teams. Bloomfield had Clauss; Newark didn't.
On the offensive side of the field, Clauss was taking shots from in close, and they were Howitzers, not .22s. On the defensive side, he completely smothered every run upfield that Newark striker Mike Fedczuk tried to make. All those turnarounds drained the Reds in those first 23 minutes.
But once the second goal was in the net, Newark suddenly flushed with drive and ambition, and carried the game to the Bombers — but couldn't get organized enough near the goal to put constant pressure on Bloomfield keeper Jacob Foot.
The second half was quite different, with neither team able to mount anything concentrated on the other's goal. Newark's Paul Dingman took the first shot of the second half in the 44th minute, but the game was played almost entirely in the middle of the field.
What was the difference in the first and second halves of the game?
"I moved my best player (Clauss) to sweeper back instead of upfront," said Stock.
"This was a very strong win for us moving toward Sectionals," Stock added. "We're still a work in progress, but we're starting to gel at the right time. We don't rely on one player; this was pretty much a team effort. We just came out hard."
Staples ended up making six saves for Newark, with Foote stopping five shots.
Ryan Mundy had a strong game for Newark in the middle of the field, and Deven Lewis got comfortable and effective at sweeper back for Newark, especially in the second half. The Reds are 3-9-2 (1-7-2 FL).


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David Petraeus breaks his silence to HLN's Kyra Philips. Read her full description of their conversations right here.
Her last name made it easy to attract attention.
It's unique and immediately identifiable, even among those who had never met her in person.
It afforded her a degree of power -- and with it, intrigue.
Not "Petraeus" -- that would come a year later.
In 1973, Hollister "Holly" Knowlton was the college-aged, eligible daughter of Lt. Gen. William A. Knowlton, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, when she was set up on a blind date with an ambitious cadet named David Petraeus.
The couple attended an Army football game and a friend later told USA Today that seeing Petraeus with his high-profile companion elicited a rowdy response and a few thumbs up from his pals in the student section.
The two were engaged a few months after graduation and married May 12, 1974. The New York Times ran their wedding announcement:
"Lieut. Gen. William A Knowlton, superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and Mrs. Knowlton have announced the engagement of their daughter Miss Hollister Knowlton to First Classman David Howell Petraeus, who will graduate from West Point June 5. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sixtus Petraeus of Cornwall, NY.
Miss Knowlton, who will graduate June 2 from Dickinson College, and her fiance have planned their wedding for early July. An alumna of the Madeira School in Greenway, VA, she was presented at the International Debutante Ball here."
Over the next 38 years, as their family grew and careers unfolded in ways unimaginable on that blind date, the Petraeus' moved 23 times. Holly was well-prepared for the peripatetic life of a military spouse, being the daughter of a four-star general and part of a familywhose members had served in the Civil, Indian, Spanish-American, and both world wars.
She became an active volunteer, performing a number of military and family support roles on the bases where her family would settle and then re-settle. David and Holly Petraeus now have two grown children and, as dad was climbing the ranks, they bounced from Georgia to Italy, Kansas to New Jersey, Belgium to Germany, North Carolina to Washington, D.C.
It was along this trail that Holly Petraeus found her own professional passion -- helping young, financially vulnerable military families avoid the shady businesses who often prey on them. "Outside most large military installations, there's a strip," she explained to NPR. "And it has the 'buy here, pay here' car lots, the pawn shops, the check cashers, in some cases the payday lenders."
"They were lined up like bears at a trout stream," she's said.
Holly Petraeus seized the role of financial advocate for these service members, buoyed by the regrets she had about her own financial decisions when the Petraeus' were fresh out of school.
She often tells troops how the couple blew their cash on a sports car which too often broke down, an apartment which they regrettably rented sight-unseen and a foosball table, which she told USA Today was the first piece of furniture they bought.
Her tireless campaigns to establish better protections for what she's called "a targeted population" that's victim to such practices as illegal foreclosures resulted in Petraeus being asked to lead the Better Business Bureau's Military Line in 2003.
"She's Mom, apple pie, and also a pit bull," a former BBB colleague told NPR in 2011. During her tenure -- and while her husband was leading the 101st Airborne Division through combat in southern Iraq -- Petraeus even testified on Capitol Hill about how "unrelenting" overseas deployments were impacting military families.
She was named in 2011 to a position in the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as head of the Office of Servicemember Affairs, a post she still holds. The appointment was made by Elizabeth Warren, who was elected last week to the Senate.
It was around that time that an affair between Gen. David Petraeus and his biographer, Paula Broadwell, was beginning.
A few months later, in February of this year, Broadwell called Holly Petraeus "wonderful" during a televised discussion about her book.
She also described the couple as having a "wonderful marriage":
Among Holly Petraeus' many admirers, it seems, was her own husband's mistress, who praised her as "a wonderful source of information for this research," alluding to interactions the two apparently had while Broadwell was working on the general's biography.
Holly Petraeus has not yet made any public comments about her husband's affair, and neither have the couple's children. However a family friend and former spokesman for the spy chief told ABC News that "she's not exactly pleased right now."
Retired Army Col. Steve Boylan said, "In a conversation with David Petraeus this weekend, he said that, 'Furious would be an understatement'" regarding Holly Petraeus' reaction to the affair.
"And I think anyone that's been put in that situation would probably agree. He deeply hurt the family."
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Biofuel to comprise 6% of US aviation, marine fuel market by 2024
Aviation and marine biofuels represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the global biofuels market. In the last five years, more than 40 commercial airlines around the world have flown an estimated 600,000 miles powered at least in part by biofuels. According to a recent report from Navigant Research, much of the development in this sector centers on the world's largest aviation market: the United States. By 2024, the report concludes, biofuels will make up 6.1 percent of the aviation and marine fuel market in the U.S.
"The United States is expected to emerge as the clear leader in the construction of integrated biorefineries capable of producing bio-based jet fuel and marine distillates over the next 10 years," said Mackinnon Lawrence, research director with Navigant Research. "New biorefinery construction in the U.S. is expected to generate $7.8 billion in cumulative revenue over the next 10 years, representing 66 percent of the revenue generated globally."
The European Union is also an active participant in the emerging aviation and marine biofuels market, according to the report. The biggest wildcard in forecasting EU growth projections is the implementation of the EU emissions trading system. If the EU moves forward with a carbon tax on airlines operating in EU territory, then investment in building aviation and marine biofuels production capacity is expected to increase dramatically across the region.
The report, "Aviation and Marine Biofuels", provides forecasts and market sizing for nameplate production capacity and production volumes for advanced aviation and marine biofuels. Forecasts are segmented by geography, conversion platform, and fuel type. The total addressable market size for commercial aviation, marine shipping, and U.S. military applications is analyzed, and the report also provides a qualitative analysis of key stakeholder initiatives, market drivers, challenges, and technology developments, as well as profiles of key stakeholders across the value chain. An Executive Summary of the report is available for free download on the Navigant Research website.


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The office is basically like the gridiron. A certain amount of trash talking is expected and even acceptable. In our industry that usually means guys with oversized egos compensating for undersized lifts and tires, if you know what I mean.
The longest running office spat started when a tech guy called out of one of our engineers and asked when he was going to trade in his 2WD Grand Cherokee for a "real Jeep". The engineer asked replied in kind asked the tech guy the same question. When was he going to trade in his YJ for a "real" Jeep?
To be fair the YJ is the perennial red headed step child of the Jeep family. (How quickly can you say square headlights?) Half CJ7, half TJ it seems the YJ got the worst of both worlds. The ribbing knows no bounds. Example:
Question: Why don't you see more YJ's on the trail? Answer: Cash for Clunkers.
Question: What is the best upgrade you can make to YJ? Answer: A TJ
For the better good we decided it was time for this hate fest to end. Love heals all wounds. So, we tried to convince them to fight it out. They need wounds before they can be healed, right? We have been religiously offering helpful solutions: Duels, Bicycle Jousting, Arm Wrestling, but the absolute best solution we came up with was a tug of war.
So, we ask you: WHO WILL WIN? The grocery getting 2004 2WD Grand Cherokee that is one step above the soccer mom minivan, or the 1993 anemic 2.5L YJ Wrangler? The Grand Cherokee is bone stock (minus the addition of a car seat). The YJ (Yuppie Jeep) is out fitted with a 4″ ORV Lift, 1″ shackle lift and the perquisite 3″ body lift with 35×12.5×12 super swampers.
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Ursuline College is once again partnering with local non-profit organization Color Your Corner to makeover a child's room. The Alumnae Association, three Ursuline students, a Board of Trustee member and a faculty member are all helping this project become a reality.
This past fall, we met Jaida Shantery and her family who are the recipients of the new room. Jaida is 4 years old and shares her room with her 8 year old sister Zoey, they love being together and love anything with bright colors, polka dots or zebra print. Jaida has Spina Bifida and with her new room, she will be able to be more independent as she grows.
Channel 19 Room Makeover Story
Sun Press Story
Jaida's Bedroom Makeover Team:
Teri Herrmann Corletzi '90, Board of Trustee
Constance Korosec, Ph.D., Chair of Fashion
Tiffany Mushrush Mentzer '03, Director of Alumnae Relations
Anne-Marie Gurko '09, Alumnae Specialist
Samantha Hamilton, Fashion Design student
Stephanie Pratt, Art student
Maggie Stark, Art student
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Maggie Stark, Art Student
I think the Color Your Corner project is a great chance to help a family in need of some desperate renovations while incorporating classroom ideas and skills that I have learned from my Art Classes. Jaida and her sister seem absolutely thrilled with our design concepts and utterly grateful to have us redecorate their room! I am very excited about all of our ideas so far! I absolutely love including recycled and re-found objects to create new and repurposed material! I cannot wait to help design a one-of-a-kind canvas painting with the girl's names on it! I am particularly eager to see the finished product! I'm hoping to really utilize my design elements & principles to really make this room flow together!
Stephanie Pratt, Art Student
I participated in Color Your Corner with Ursuline last year and absolutely loved it! These projects have given me a chance to use my skills in a way that I never would have imagined while being able to help out children who truly deserve and appreciate it. I am able to combine my love for design and my love for helping others through this opportunity and have been touched by the experience. After meeting Jaida and her family I got even more excited about the project! They are all so fun and wonderful people. I love that Jaida is so full of life and such a fun-loving girl. Jaida and Zoey are so excited for this project so I feel that it is a great motivational tool for the rest of us. The girls love bright colors and patterns, which is definitely something I was excited about. I love the idea of accent walls and bright contrasting items for the girls! It has been awesome watching our ideas evolve and to see all the pieces that we have been able to choose from. I am personally a fan of fun accents and details so the idea of headband holders, fun bulletin boards and 3D flower decals are super exciting!I can't wait to work on Jaida and Zoey's room and to see how it all comes together! I feel really great about this project and can't wait to see how the girls react when they see the finished product!


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Car News
Young Mom with Old Car Tests Toyota's Newer Technology
Ask the attendees of a Star Trek convention or the readers of Engadget.com what they think about today's in-car technology and most will say they whole-heartedly embrace it. We call these people "early adopters" because they usually seek out the newest and latest tech. But the average car buyer might not be so interested in latest gadgets, preferring instead to stick with the things that simply work.
"Too much technology is just distracting" says Carol Nomikos, a stay at home mother of two and the owner of a 1999 Toyota Camry. "Besides, I don't want to pay extra for features I'm never going to use." Certainly she's got a point since the highest-tech part of her 12 year old Camry XLE is probably the CD player and side airbags. But how would Carol respond if she had a chance to actually use some of Toyota's new high tech features in her everyday life? Well, we're going to find out.
We gave Carol a 2011 Toyota Highlander Hybrid to drive for several days just to see if a few key tech features might change her mind. We're betting certain features will make her busy life easier but she's not convinced – "My guess is most features will be too complex for me to figure out and I'll end up just not using them."
Push Button Start
A long journey begins with a single step and our stay at home mom instantly entered the technology super highway as soon as she turned the Highlander on. Thanks to the effortlessness of keyless entry and push button start, she's rethinking her low-tech mindset. "If I don't have to dig in my purse for a key every time I get in the car then that's going to save me a lot of time. As a busy mom I can honestly say the keyless entry feature will save me time and frustration in my everyday life."
Rear Parking Camera
Another feature Carol found to be a big help is the rear-view parking camera. Her tester was a Highlander Hybrid Limited and a rear view parking camera is included in the $43,000 price. But this feature isn't limited to expensive models only; the $32,000 Highlander SE includes the feature as well. Plus, Toyota doesn't require buyers to opt for the pricey navigation package just to get a safety feature like a rear parking camera. On both the Highlander Hybrid Limited and the Highlander SE the parking camera is included in the standard price of the vehicle. "The camera takes away the guess work when backing up," Carol said.
Hybrid Synergy Drive
Carol clearly isn't into gadgets and technology for fun, "I don't have time for that kind of stuff" she said. "For me, technology has to make my life easier or safer without asking a lot in return." In this way, Carol may not be a typical hybrid customer. Many hybrid buyers are willing to sacrifice some kind of convenience for the feeling of saving the planet or using less gas, but our mother of two has an entirely different take. "Using less gasoline is great and all, but I can't use a car that requires more of my time just to get that result. Thankfully, the Highlander Hybrid's 28 miles per gallon has a very practical side – I don't have to stop at the gas station as often. Frankly, until they start selling designer shoes and handbags at the gas station, I want to be there as little as possible."
Finally, Carol has high praise for the hybrid Highlander for another less philosophical, more practical reason. "I like how quiet the Highlander is. I guess it's running on electric motors part of the time – really, I don't care why, I just like the fact that once I drop the kids off at school I hear nothing but silence. That's probably the quietest 20 minutes I'm gonna get all day."
Carol's experience with the Highlander Hybrid points out an important lesson for Toyota and all automakers really – technology should be invisible. Most people don't want to spend extra time reading an instruction manual or even pairing a Smartphone just to use the latest technology. On the other hand, many average car buyers, like our stay at home mom, will gladly embrace and perhaps even pay extra for the type of technology Toyota has put into the Highlander Hybrid. So did the Highlander change Carol's mind about in-car tech features? When asked she responded, "Yes, in a way, because this Toyota uses technology that simply works without me having to work for it."


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The official unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy Note II is literally just around the corner, but it seems the final details have managed to leak out at the last minute. PocketNow has posted new details about the Galaxy Note II. Most the design elements found on the Samsung Galaxy S III are included (not too different from the fake leaked images we saw two weeks ago) with TouchWiz running on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean).
Internal specifications are said to include a 1.6GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, a massive 3100mAh battery and a 5.5-inch, 1280×720 Super AMOLED display. Users will have the option of choosing between 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of internal storage, but there's always the option for expanded storage with a built-in microSD card slot. The device will feature an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a 1.9 megapixel camera in front. Naturally, Samsung will be including its S Pen stylus and dedicated writing applications.
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World Mental Health Day was established in 1992 to raise public awareness about mental health issues. The day promotes more open discussion of mental disorders, and encourages efforts in prevention and treatment services.
We know that physical and mental health are intertwined, so a primary goal of World Mental Health Day is to encourage healthcare professionals to address the need to deal with mental health problems of people with chronic physical illnesses and, likewise, the physical care of mental health consumers.
The World Health Organization recommends incorporating mental health into primary care as a cost effective and convenient way of providing services and reducing stigma and discrimination. It is the only annual global awareness campaign to focus attention on specific aspects of mental health and mental disorders.


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If there is one thing that mars the joy of giving a gift, it's actually thinking one up. I don't know about you, but personally, I always prefer asking the person for a few things he or she wants, and then picking the best out of that. That way, not only is the recipient happy with the gift they got – since it was something they wanted anyway – but I also get the satisfaction of knowing it's something they will actually use, and not just have it lying around somewhere in the closet for eternity.
Wishmindr is a nifty little service that lets you always have an answer for the question, "So, what do you want this Christmas/birthday/anniversary?" It's tightly integrated with online shopping sites Amazon, eBay and ShopStyle, making it much easier to pinpoint exactly what you want and share it with your family and friends. (more…)


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It is vital that you have Lynx installed on your computer if you want to get the most out of this article. If you still do not have a copy, you can download it from here:
I recommend reading the first part because you'll need the information it contains to properly understand the second article. This section will give detailed examples of how you are going to use Lynx to analyze search engine crawlability issues. It is like a physician using X-rays to look for problems inside a person's body. You can do the same when you use Lynx to browse your website.
Make sure web pages link and navigation are crawlable
Due to rapid advances in web development, modern developers often use techniques that introduce problems in crawling. When your website is not crawlable, search engines will not properly index text content. Since your keywords are text content, if they are not found or prominent in your indexed pages, you will not rank very well, especially for long tail terms. And if you do not rank very well, it affects the traffic and profitability of your website.
It is important to know that what the Lynx text browser sees is very different from what you can see with normal web browsers. One of the most popular modern technologies for displaying content is Flash. To find out whether your Flash-based website is crawlable, you need to check three important things in Lynx:
- Navigation links
- Textual content
- Text found in images
Let's start by demonstrating an actual Flash-based website, because they often face more crawling issues than HTML-based websites. One of my favorite Flash-based websites is http://www.2advanced.com/ .
Below is the screenshot of the home page, displayed entirely using Adobe Flash:
When you visit the website using a normal browser (Firefox, for example), you can see visible navigation links with labels that include Contact, Language, Home, Launch project, More details, Privacy and More News.
You can even see the detailed list of website navigation when you mouse over the phrase "Expand navigational array," and you can see Flash-based navigational links that include "company," "portfolio," "services," "case studies," "recognition," and many others to the right.
Flash-wise, this is a well-developed website. However, when the Lynx browser looks at the site, using the same kind of eyes as the search engine crawlers, it sees a very different picture:
So what happened?:
Navigation links. Those navigation links discussed above are not visible to the Lynx browser. This means that if Googlebot or other search engine crawlers land on the home page, they will not be able to crawl internal links pointing to other pages of the website. Thus, the crawlability of website from the home page is poor.
Textual content. The indexable content is not the same as that seen by normal web browsers. Even navigating on the visible "click here" link in Lynx will take you to nowhere.
Text found in images. Of course those images do not have alt tags, and therefore cannot be seen by Lynx.
If you have a website like this, and you are serious about ranking your home page in Google for both your main term and long tail keywords, it will be difficult because the search engine spiders will not be able to find content to index.
{mospagebreak title=What you should do if you have uncrawlable links and content}
Since optimizing Flash and other non-indexable based websites is beyond the scope of this article, I will explain the simple rule: every piece of text you need to convey to your readers as seen on normal browsers should also be well-indexed by Google.
An example of a well-optimized Flash-based website is http://www.marcecko.com/. The entire site is Flash-based.
However, using the Lynx browser to view the website (screenshot above, comparing the normal browser and Lynx view) reveals that there are no search engine crawling issues, since there are indexable hyperlinks for bots to follow. How about the text content/images?
For example, by using the normal browser and clicking the "Graffiti" Flash-based image link on the home page, you can see the content embedded in Flash as shown in the screenshot below:
Yet even when you use Lynx to visit the Graffiti page, you can clearly see the indexable content (screenshot above). This means that search engine crawlers like Googlebot can properly fetch this content.
This leads to two recommendations. First, if you have a website that uses advanced web technology like Flash, JavaScript and AJAX, do not just assume it will be crawled and indexed well by search engine crawlers. It is an important part of your website design to provide a text version for search engine crawlers so they can properly fetch text content as intended.
Second, if you want to present user-friendly navigation to search engines, you must have crawlable links. You can use Lynx to test if you can indeed visit those pages by just visiting the links as they are displayed in Lynx.
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One of the easiest ways to hide text is by using CSS. In this test page: http://www.php-developer.org/hiddentextexample.php , using normal browsers, you can see the text content shown by the screenshot below — however, you can see additional text content using Lynx (the hidden text is inside the dotted white box):
Hidden text is not recommended by search engines. Very bad things will happen if it is used in relation to spam. The best course of action is to avoid text hiding techniques. For example, do not use {visibility:hidden} in CSS.
If you have a big website, checking each page for hidden text seems impossible using Lynx. In this case, and this is also recommended by Google, you only need to check the most important pages in your website, particularly those that you need to rank well in search engines (e.g home page, most important pages, etc).
{mospagebreak title=Analyzing JavaScript-based hyperlinks}
These are similar to Flash-based website navigational links, only they use JavaScript technology to display hyperlinks. This also applies to image-based links and buttons, so for example, the "YES" button on this Blogger page cannot be followed when using Lynx:
Viewing the page in Lynx browser:
It shows that the button itself does not contain hyperlink information at all but plain text when viewed in Lynx ("Yes" is white). This concerns me; if there are older back links pointed to that page, they will not point to the new site because Blogger does not allow 301 redirection or offer ways to move to new blogs or domains in Google Webmaster Tools (if the content is not hosted in Blogger anymore). Blogger should make this link clearly indexable or pass the link juice to the newly-hosted domain.
The bottom line is, if you are serious about crawlability and passing link juice within or outside your domain, you should double check the integrity of those links using Lynx to make sure they are visible and indexable by any search engine bot.


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All items > Knives > Folding Knives > Ontario (Folding) > RAT Model 1
- Overall Length:8.625"
- Blade Length:3.625"
- Cutting Edge:3.25"
- Blade Thickness:0.11"
- Blade Material:AUS-8
- Hardness:58-60 RC
- Blade Style:Drop Point
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Black
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:5.00"
- Handle Thickness:0.51"
- Handle Material:GFN
- Color:Brown
- Frame/Liner:Stainless Steel
- Weight:4.95 oz.
- User:Right Hand, Left Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Down, Tip-Up
- Knife Type:Manual
- Opener:Thumb Stud
- Lock Type:Liner Lock
- Brand:Ontario Knife Company
- Model:Model 1
- Model Number:8846CB
- Country of Origin:Taiwan
- Best Use:Camp/Hike
- Product Type:Knife
To see all of the Ontario RAT Model 1 Knives in stock click HERE!
The RAT Model 1 is a superb design from Randall's Adventure & Training that is manufactured by Ontario Knife Co. This knife is designed for comfort and performance with an index finger groove on the handle to keep your hand where it should be and jimping on the spine of the blade for controlled cutting. The handle features textured Coyote Brown nylon 6 scales with an open-built steel linerlock frame. The AUS-8 stainless steel drop point blade has a black finish and a plain cutting edge. The RAT Model 1 is fully ambidextrous with dual thumb studs and a 4-way reversible pocket clip. The Ontario RAT Model 1 is a strong, high-quality knife at an unbelievable price!


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Barretto Park
.12 acre
This park, like the street on which it lies, honors Francis J. Barretto, a 19th century merchant who lived in the area. Many streets in Hunts Point bear the names of the wealthy families who owned large tracts of land there during the 18th and 19th centuries. Coster Street, two blocks away, is named for Barretto's wife, Julia Coster.
The original inhabitants of the area were the Weckguasgeek Native Americans, corn and tobacco farmers who called their land Quinnahung, or "planting neck." European settlers displaced the Weckguasgeek in the 17th century. They named the peninsula Hunts Point for Thomas Hunt who settled there in 1670. The newcomers built elaborate estates and farmed the land as well.
Originally part of West Farms in what was then lower Westchester County, Hunts Point became part of New York City in 1874. It underwent significant growth after the IRT subway line to Manhattan was completed in 1908. Urban development put an end to the farms and the mansions, and the area went into a period of decline in the 1950s. Today, community groups are making Hunts Point a desirable place to live once again. The neighborhood is famous for the Hunts Point Terminal Market, the largest produce market in the United States.
Barretto Park was assigned to Parks by the City in 1979, and named by Commissioner Stern in 1997. It recalls the rustic atmosphere that once characterized Hunts Point. A red picket fence rambles from end to end of the grassy parcel and a wooden shed painted in bright colors stands in the center. A wrought iron trellis and a small gazebo contribute to the country flavor. The gazebo stands in a corner under a weeping willow tree (Salix alba), while in the opposite corner scrub pines (Pinus virginiana) and London planetrees (Platanus x acerifolia) provide shade for a small play area.
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WINDSOR — About 24 Poquonock residents met with postal officials Wednesday to learn the results of a recent survey and discuss the future of their village post office.
The U.S. Postal Service had sought comments from its Poquonock customers about what proposed service changes they would prefer as the post office implements cost-cutting measures aimed at reducing large annual deficits.
The survey results, comprising 146 customer responses, showed that 92 percent preferred the option of having the post office hours reduced.
Other options, which each received support of 1 percent of respondents, were: conducting discontinuance studies, roadside mailbox delivery, postal...


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Many of CNN's top talents were being moved around like chess pieces yesterday. After new CNN honcho Jeff Zucker hired Chris Cuomo from ABC, he dismissed pundits James Carville, Mary Matalin and Bill Bennett. CNN managing editor Mark Whitaker resigned, and Anderson Cooper learned his show will no longer be repeated in prime time. Cuomo is expected to be joined by Erin Burnett on a new morning show. Page Six reported Dec. 10 that Zucker wanted to move Burnett from her prime-time slot "to revive the cabler's moribund morning ratings." She is, however, contracted to prime time, and a source says, "They'll have to throw a bucket of money at her to go to the morning." And Soledad O'Brien has been promised a role in prime time. Zucker has been taking an active role in all departments of CNN, not just human resources. "He is all over everyone at the network," said one source. "He is e-mailing everyone, around the clock, the anchors, the control rooms, he has inserted himself into everything. It is great for the network."
CNN boss shuffles top talents
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Zotac GTX280 AMP! Edition Review
BioShock is one of the creepier games out in the wild, chronicling the building of a perfect Utopian society undersea gone horribly wrong - its inhabitants driven mad with the introduction of tonics and genetic modifications. Now, Rapture is just a shadow of its former glory, with little girls looting the dead of what little they have left, while being shadowed by guardians known as "Big Daddies" It is a demanding game that will make your hardware scream for mercy. This First Person Shooter allows for an infinite number of weapons and modifications to provide a unique experience each time it is played. The environment, as well as the storyline, will wrap you up for hours on end.
Video Settings:
- All settings to maximum
- V-Sync: Off
In the lower resolutions the Zotac GTX 280 had no equal but the HD4870X2 would not be denied the top spot in the 1920x1200 resolution. While the performance of the GTX280 fell off as the resolution rises it is still the fastest single GPU card by over 20 FPS.


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Before & After: A DIY Painted Headboard
This past weekend, I helped a friend with a little DIY project - a simple and low cost solution to the ever popular "I don't have a headboard" problem.
My good friend Jeffrey has long been in the market for a headboard, but despite the occasional suggestion I'd forward along or the vintage find I'd tweet to him, he could never seem to commit. "Enough is enough," I thought. So, I called Jeffrey up and told him I was coming over to solve this problem once and for all.
Jeffrey: I'm so excited, I've never had a headboard before.
Me: And you never will, because we are simply going to paint one on your wall!
I sent Jeffrey a couple of quick sketches as inspiration, and he loved the wrought iron look. He even wanted to keep the the black and white hand-drawn effect, which I thought was a great idea and even made the project that much more simple.
Using a yardstick, a level, some painters tape and a dish for the rounded corners, we measured and outlined the wrought iron bars with a pencil, traced over them with paint markers, then filled them in with black acrylic paint. The whole project was so easy and completed in about an hour over a couple of beers, some tasty grooves and a few laughs.
What do you think of Jeffrey's transformation?
Images: Mat Sanders


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