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A picture tells a thousand words - and UNHCR has more than 250,000 of them dating back decades. The agency's photo library in Geneva is guardian of the world's largest collection of refugee-related photos covering nearly all of the major displacements of the last 60 years. These images provide a comprehensive portrait of the lives of refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people and the stateless in all corners of the globe, as well as the work of the thousands of UN staff who have helped them. Many of our best photos are showcased on this website and on the social networking site, Flickr. We offer the use of our photos free to the media.
Lebanese Stream Home After Ceasefire
Tens of thousands of displaced Lebanese have been streaming back to their homes from locations inside Lebanon and Syria since a ceasefire started on Monday. UNHCR teams monitoring the roads leading to the worst affected areas of Lebanon expect the huge numbers of returnees to continue in the coming days.
UNHCR teams have been monitoring the borders around the clock at the four border points from Syria and assisting returnees. They are distributing return packs of water, high-energy biscuits, wet towels and rehydration salts. They are also identifying vulnerable cases who require additional help. Convoys for refugees who are without transportation or who cannot afford transport home are being organized by the refugee agency.
Inside Lebanon, UNHCR teams have set up distribution points alongside roads to distribute assistance such as plastic sheeting, mattresses, water and other supplies to returnees. The full extent of the aid that will be needed will not be clear until a thorough assessment is carried out in the worst-affected areas.
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Displaced Lebanese in Syria: Emergency Relief Supplies Arrive
A humanitarian convoy, loaded with emergency relief supplies from UNHCR's regional stockpile in Amman, Jordan, arrived in Damascus this week. Part of the shipment of mattresses, blankets, kitchen sets, soap and cooking stoves will be distributed to Lebanese refugees and asylum seekers in Syria while the rest will be trucked to Lebanon to help some 100,000 internally displaced living in community shelters and with host families.
In Syria this week, UNHCR distributed 6,544 mattresses, with the bulk going to Homs in the north, where we estimate 20,000 Lebanese are sheltering. UNHCR Syria has started distributing locally procured relief items including 3,300 pillows, bed linen, some 67,000 pieces of underwear and 6,400 diapers to host families and Lebanese in need.
Since the conflict began a month ago, some 160,000 Lebanese have fled across the border into Syria, with 1,500 now arriving daily. Most Lebanese are staying with Syrian host families or in schools, summer camps, community centres, mosques and hotels. While local generosity has been overwhelming, it is in danger of being overstretched.
Posted on 14 August 2006
Lebanon Crisis: UNHCR Gears Up
The UN refugee agency is gearing up for a multi-million-dollar operation in the Middle East aimed at assisting tens of thousands of people displaced by the current crisis in Lebanon.
Conditions for fleeing Lebanese seeking refuge in the mountain areas north of Beirut are precarious, with relief supplies needed urgently to cope with the growing number of displaced. More than 80,0000 people have fled to the Aley valley north of Beirut. Some 38,000 of them are living in schools.
In close collaboration with local authorities, UNHCR teams have been working in the mountain regions since early last week, assessing the situation and buying supplies, particularly mattresses, to help ease the strain on those living in public buildings.
Emergency in Timor-Leste pt.5: The Emergency Operation Reaches Out
In mid-June UNHCR extended its emergency relief operation in Timor-Leste to include tens of thousands of people who fled violence in the capital Dili for districts in the countryside. An estimated 79,000 displaced people are in outlying districts with some 72,000 displaced in Dili.
The UN refugee agency has delivered shelter materials and emergency supplies to easterners and westerners in Hera village, 25 kilometres to the east of Dili. Most of the inhabitants of Hera are westerners and have fled their homes and taken to the hills. A smaller group of easterners have moved to the safety of a fenced naval compound, where they have been joined by easterners who fled Dili. UNHCR has also delivered shelter materials to Metinaro, 40 minutes outside of Dili, as well as to Auturo Island.
Despite sporadic violence, UNHCR continues to help the displaced who say they are still too scared to return to their homes and will wait in temporary shelters until the crisis ends.
Refugees from Myanmar: Ethnic Karens Seek Shelter
Over 2,000 refugees from Myanmar have crossed the border into Thailand in recent months. Most claim to be fleeing renewed conflict and human rights abuses in Kayin state, Myanmar. The mainly ethnic Karen refugees say their houses and villages have been burned and civilians killed. Many were weak upon arrival, suffering from illnesses such as malaria, after a long, dangerous journey to the camps through heavily mined areas. The refugees have been arriving at government-run camps, mainly in the Mae Hong Son area in northern Thailand.
UNHCR is working with the Thai government and non-governmental organisations to ensure the new arrivals are admitted to the camps and provided with adequate shelter and protection. Shelter has been a major issue as the capacity in many refugee camps has been overwhelmed. In a breakthrough in mid-May, Thai authorities agreed to build proper houses for the new arrivals.
There are currently 140,000 refugees from Myanmar living in nine border camps in Thailand, many of them have been there for up to 20 years.


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Technical Abstract: The resistance phenotypes of two potato cultivars to two isolates of Alternaria solani, causal agent of early blight, were studied under greenhouse conditions. The two isolates contain varying degrees of aggressiveness on both susceptible and resistant phenotypes of potatoes. A bioassay was used to study the role of liquid culture exudates produced in vitro in pathogenicity and elicitation of disease symptomology in seedlings as well as detached leaves. Responses of host genotypes to the exudates of the two A. solani isolates were significantly different. Interestingly, the phytotoxicity effect of the culture filtrate from the more aggressive isolate A was higher than from isolate N suggesting an increased concentration or strength of the toxins produced. Furthermore, the resistant cultivar 'Diamond' elicited fewer symptoms to each isolate when compared to the susceptible cultivar 'Granula'.


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Katatonia, Sweden's dark rock masters, have completed work on their latest video for the track 'Lethean', lifted from last year's acclaimed 'Dead End Kings' opus. The video was shot by Lasse Hoile, notable for his previous work with the Katatonia as well as Opeth & Porcupine Tree.
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Washington — Strong bipartisan support for a healthy U.S.-Africa relationship and the continued economic development of the continent can be found in both houses of the U.S. Congress, two senators told the 11th U.S.–Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum, known as the AGOA Forum, in remarks June 13.
The two lawmakers, Senator Christopher A. Coons, Democrat of Delaware, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relation Committee's Subcommittee on African Affairs, and the subcommittee's ranking Republican, Senator Johnny Isakson from Alabama, came to the State Department with that message for the African ministers, civil society advocates, women entrepreneurs and business people attending the two-day forum.
Coons described U.S. congressional support for sub-Saharan Africa as being "broad, deep, bipartisan." Sustained relations with the countries of sub-Saharan Africa are, he said, one of the "few great, bright spots of bipartisanship" in the legislative branch of U.S. government today.
In the divided U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, he wryly told his audience, "a bill declaring the time might not succeed," especially in an election year, as 2012 is. Yet lawmakers have given persistent support for programs promoting African development, passed by both Republican and Democratic administrations, Coons noted.
"Many of the great initiatives of the previous administrations — the [Democratic] Clinton administration, the [Republican] Bush administration — have been continued, extended and sustained through the present administration," Coons said.
Isakson, who followed Coons to the podium, echoed Coons' comment on the strong bipartisanship U.S. relations with Africa enjoy, and added: "Africa is the continent for the 21st century for America and for the world."
Like Coons, Isakson has traveled extensively in Africa.
The AGOA Forum, where both senators spoke, is named for the African Growth and Opportunity Act, known as AGOA. That law, which passed in its original form in 2000, promotes trade and investment between the United States and sub-Saharan Africa and grants trade preferences to eligible nations that adhere to principles of free markets, democracy and the rule of law.
A critical provision of AGOA is due for renewal in 2012, the so-called "third-country fabric" (TCF) provision. Both senators said they are working hard to make sure the provision comes up for an extension vote soon. The provision gives garments made in an AGOA country all the tariff preferences of the act, even if the materials from which the garment is assembled come from a different country.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has said the TCF provision is "crucial to the continued survival of Africa's textile and apparel industry, which has generated hundreds of thousands of jobs in sub-Saharan Africa," according to a USTR fact sheet.
"We will not sleep until this is done," Isakson said of his and Coons' efforts to push the renewal of the TCF provision to a vote.
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Trinity Western takes leadership degree program to ChinaBy Frank Stirk | Wednesday, January 25, 2012LANGLEY, BCA Canadian Christian liberal arts university has expanded its reach into China, teaching values-based leadership skills to that country's leaders. Last fall, Trinity Western University (TWU) launched its Mandarin-language Master of Arts in Leadership program in China, in a mainly online format. It aims to teach universal Christian values to China's business and government leaders. Christian values "produce social harmony and productivity during times of increasing global competitiveness," says Stan Remple, the program's developer and director. "Christian values, are…fundamentally people relationship values. And so what we do is introduce those values into the decision-making process towards business success. That's a way in which the Chinese have not been approaching business valuesand which we in the West are losing, even though that is what originally made us strong." The 24-month, part-time program began in May 2011 with 14 students. The language of instruction was English. In October, a second cohort began the program, but this time in Mandarin. That is now the program's sole language of instruction. "We are seeking to serve Chinese business leaders by doing this," says Remple, who has been to China more than 20 times in the past 10 years. He believes a rapidly expanding global economy could perform even better should its "formal-values vacuum" be filled. "Value-based leadership produces the most competitive businesses today," says Remple. "There's not a large percentage of Chinese who are fluent enough in English to study well in English," he adds. "And in the business community, with things progressing so fast, they just can't send needed managers overseas." The program seeks to instill in China's business leaders the essentials of servant-leadershiplove, service, collaboration, humility and excellenceso that they can, in turn, help their managers realize more of their leadership potential. Remple says the instructors make it very clear that all these values are both biblical and universal. Biblical values and principles are taught, but instructors also cite other current leadership sources. "I've been able to reference my relationship with Jesus," says Remple. "As long as I speak from a personal point of view, it presents no difficulties. But as soon as I speak as though 'you need to also be that,' that's a different thing. This is reasonable because we are committed to respecting everyone's beliefs, convictions, and established authority." But for Remple, much more important than teaching these values to students is making sure that they see them being consistently lived out in the lives of their instructors. "Our faculty," he says, "are the programhow we live as Christians and are we walking-the-talk-type peoplerecognizing that how an instructor will actually interrelate with students is going to be what students remember most." The instructors, who teach in person and online, are mostly Chinese expatriates who are very fluent in both English and Mandarin. Remple admits he "wondered where we would ever find people like that. God's been very good to us. All of our current instructor requirements now have been met." The Mandarin-language MA leadership program is one of several initiatives that TWU, Canada's largest Christian university, has made in China recently. During a visit to China in November with a B.C. government trade mission, TWU president Jonathan Raymond signed new agreements with two universities and extended the existing agreements with two others. Respond to Article | E-mail Article | Print Article |
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Bruce Mitchell, Kristi Broussard will join the Landrys at the Gwinnett Center event.
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Bruce Mitchell and Tyler are coming to Duluth for GON's Outdoor Blast.
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They couldn't let the King of the Swamp have all the fun during the Outdoor Blast, so Bruce Mitchell and Kristi Broussard have announced they'll also be making appearances during the Aug. 3-5 hunting and fishing show at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth. Already scheduled was Troy Landry, along with his son Jacob.
The Swamp People appearance schedules* are as follows.
Friday, Aug. 3: Bruce Mitchell and his gator-hunting dog Tyler; 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 4: Troy and Jacob Landry; 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 5: Kristi Broussard; 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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characters and their characterizations in my fan fiction are same as YRKKH... My story
starts from the current story of YRKKH... but I'm fast forwarding it for one
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shock... with naitik's support n in marriage preparations she almost out of that
shock... My FF starts with the day of rashmi marriage. Rashmi's marriage happens n
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Trevor Does the lens you are having problems with use the mechanical focus coupler or the electronic one? If mechanical, the problem may be internal to the D200 body. Cheers, James Sent from David's iPad On Feb 18, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Trevor Cunningham <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hey gang, > > My D200 autofocus is doing weird things. I've noticed, recently, that it sounds like gears skipping in the lens. That particular lens I had repaired for actual damage issues, so I thought it was just a poor repair job. But then another lens started acting up. So, I tried both lenses on my D300s and they work fine there. So, the culrpit is the D200 body. Is there a setting that adjusts how the autofocus communicates with the lens motor? Do I need to clean the contacts (with what)? I fear that I'm just damaging the lenses using autofocus on this camera. >


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Hairdressers and hospitals! by Teitur
Not to imply anything untoward about the good inhabitants of the neighborhood (such as myself) I am still quite sure that this neighborhood has the highest number of hairdressers and hospitals per capita in Finland :D
It also has quite a high ratio of parks and seaside vs. concrete, but this is countered a bit by a couple of quite large streets which run through it. This means though that it is excellently connected to the rest of the city by bus and tram apart from being in walking distance of the city center. Apartments are quite expensive however as can be expected.
The neighborhood is mostly residential but most corners and larger streets have cafés, restaurants and local pubs, small stores and smaller services (such as hairdressers) scattered around them. It has a couple of cultural centers, a library, two quite large marinas and a full range of sports facilities -including two arenas, many fields, an Ice hockey stadium, facilities for watersports, indoors halls, gyms and two swimming pools! It is also home to the Finnish National Opera.
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Day Three!: One of my friends.Spendin' the day with this fine lady. She biked over to my place (that's her helmet in her hand. I don't know how to draw helmets!) and then we walked down to the ravine and drank lemonade and browsed a bookshop and are now lazing around my living room. Alison's been my friend since we were quite literally babies. We were even born in the same hospital! Sidenote: When we were little, we liked watching Sherlock Holmes a lot. Alison once proclaimed herself "the Queen of Deducin' ", rather than "deduction". It's a silly nickname that's stuck.
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Opposing legislation that would make it harder for kids to afford college, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) Thursday called, instead, for bipartisan action on legislation to prevent the anticipated doubling of interest rates on Federal student loans slated to take effect this summer.
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They are graduates of Emerge Kentucky, a program started by a group of Democratic women who are trying to increase the number of women involved in Kentucky politics.
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Disabling the auto-correction voice feature
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Q: How do you turn off the voice part of the auto-correction feature? Every time I type in anything on my iPhone such as texts and appointments in my calendar the stupid voice starts trying to tell me what it thinks I am trying to say! This is irritating enough when I am by myself, but when I am in a meeting or around other people, it is just ridiculous. I have checked every setting I can find, trying to turn this off and nothing affects it. Please help, this is driving me crazy!
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A: The setting you're looking for is called Speak Auto-text and can be found in the "Vision" section under General, Accessibility in the iPhone Settings app.
As with the other settings found here, this feature is designed to assist visually impaired users and should actually be disabled by default. It seems likely that it has either been enabled inadvertently or somebody is playing a prank on you.
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Toshiba might finally have something here. The Satellite U925t is its new 12.5-inch Windows 8 hybrid laptop/tablet, and it looks deceptively good.
The U925t has the same design as the weird but endearing U845W ultrabook, though it's not a super-wide 21:9 ratio. It's a standard 1366x768 resolution, which is disappointing with 1080p screens flying around on these Windows 8 machines, but decent enough.
To get the U925t from tablet to laptop mode, you slide the screen back, then up. The sliding mechanism can stop after an inch or so and be used as a camera—extraneous, but nice to have—and then extends all the way and is folded up into laptop mode. It's different than holding a traditional laptop, but after sitting with it for a few minutes, it's definitely usable. It's not going to topple over in your lap like you might fear.
The U925t has a Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor, a 128GB SSD, two USB 3.0 ports, an SD card slot, HDMI out, and NFC on its front panel. It also has pretty much the same trackpad as the U845W, though it's a little smaller. That's a good thing! The U845W's trackpad was really good, and this one responds well too. The size is a concern, but you'll take usable over spacious every time. The keyboard too, which is a big concern on these sliding convertibles, is pretty good. Not amazing, and the throw is a little shallow, but it's pretty good. It's 3.2 pounds, and 0.78 inches thick, and will be out October 26th.


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#1 Album for 2009: The-Dream - Love vs. Money (Def Jam)
i came to love vs. money only a month or so after discovering terius nash and his amazing first album, love/hate. that record came out in december '08, just late enough to make a big splash on 2009 year-end polls. by the time i really absorbed any of it love vs. money was on the shelves. i bought it the day it came out in early march. in a sense this was the best way to "get into" the-dream—with two albums worth of his maximal, highly self-referential take on r&b to deal with at once, i started to hear him trade themes, lines, and even individual sounds between the two. the effect was dizzying; the music seemed unbelievably intricate. because, while i'm not normally a big fan of meta, the-dream just has so much fun with it, and he makes you believe it's all a part of some kaleidoscopic larger narrative. and sometimes maybe it is: lvm opens with 5 love songs, culminating in "put it down," and "sweat it out," both packed with the type of detailed lyrics that only nash can write, both spliced with tender feeling and goofy humor simultaneously. following these are a staggering four-song breakup set—"love vs. money" parts 1 and 2, "fancy" (a six and a half minute story-song that's just kind of out on its own planet), and "right side of my brain," which you can listen to above and which matches nash's gift for melody and wordplay (he sells "touch/untouch" and "love/unlove") with his producers' best musical qualities: huge synths, oddball vocal samples, monumental drums, and an unerring ability to ride the line between "too much" and "just enough." after this it's actually hard to recover for the end of the record, even though the last two songs are ace and the very last line namechecks (what else?) listening to the-dream's first cd on a hookup.
it adds up to an exhausting and inspiring record of the year. no one else had a fuller vision, and i don't think anyone else gave us more of themselves. but it's the little things i always come back to. at the beginning of "love vs. money" (part 1) the music darkens and nash says something like "i'm gonna tell a different kind of story." and all these songs are stories: they're human-scale (believe it or not), they're relatable, they make you laugh, they make you feel pain. supposedly the third the-dream album is out this year. how could anyone truly be ready?


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An affordable dreadnought with a solid spruce top, sapele laminate back and sides, and Taylor ES-T electronics.
Like the 200 Series, the 2012 110ce-L Sapele/Spruce Dreadnought Left-Handed Acoustic-Electric Guitar r incorporates laminate back and sides, which offer extra resilience to fluctuating climate conditions, and a slightly narrower 1 11/16-inch neck. It's one of the best full-size guitars you'll find for the money, especially with the availability of Taylor's ES-T® pickup. It makes a viable performance tool, a great entry-level guitar, or a second utility guitar for alternate tunings.
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While the rich tones of solid wood remain unmatched, laminates can yield great sound in a beautiful, durable and affordable instrument. Such is the case with sapele laminate, in which we use interior and exterior veneers of sapele with a filler layer between them. One of the benefits of laminates for guitars is extra resilience in the face of fluctuating humidity conditions. This comes in handy for guitars like the GS Mini and Baby Taylor models, which are travel-friendly guitars that may be more directly exposed to different environments. All Taylor laminate models do feature a solid wood top to optimize the tonal response.
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The most traditional of guitar shapes, Bob Taylor has evolved the Taylor Dreadnought over time to honor its enduring sonic heritage yet also refine the look and sound into a more modern package. The Taylor Dreadnought still boasts that powerful dreadnought tone that old school pickers expect, with deep lows and crisp highs, but with a voice that, like every Taylor, is more evenly balanced across the entire tonal spectrum. Perhaps more than any other shape, the Dreadnought remains linked with roots music like bluegrass and folk, in part because of its traditional role in defining those sounds. Pickers and strummers with an aggressive attack will love our Dreadnought's blend of power and articulation, which allows for clear lead lines and crisp, driving rhythms.
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Devloped by the same Taylor team that invented the Expression System pickup, the Taylor ES-T™ Under-Saddle Transducer takes piezo technology to another level. Optimized for the 100 and 200 Series, the system features onboard Bass, Treble, and Volume controls plus custom-voiced EQ and dynamic response.


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When I started this whole kitchen makeover, I knew this wasn't going to be one of those major renovations, where we spend a lot of money, hire people to help us do the stuff we don't know how to do, get new counters (I wish), new floors (I double wish). It was one of those things that start off in my head, don't let me rest until I do something about it, but don't have a huge budget kinda deals. You know, my specialty;). The kitchen wasn't broke, so in my dear husband's eyes, we didn't need to fix it. (translation: I got the green light to make changes, as long as they didn't involve us not being able to pay the mortgage, or school tuition, or grocery bill).
So not having a huge budget, and not having a huge amount of tools (or knowledge of said tools even if I had them), I came up with the idea of creating a beadboard backsplash...out of wallpaper. Yup. For $20 and a few hours this weekend, I have a 'backsplash' and no tools needed! ANYONE and I repeat, ANYONE can do this project, and it looks JUST like the real deal, people! I am a
Just for the fun of it, let's take a walk down memory lane, to oh, about 3 days ago around this joint...
Ok, I lie. These pics were actually taken a long time ago, but I forgot to take pics of the space underneath the cabinets before I started going to town with the wallpaper. But this is still pretty much what it looked like 3 days ago.
Then I primed the space, all ready to get the wallpaper up. And I had an idea. In the not too distant future, I reeeealllly want a new countertop. Maybe butcher block. Maybe marble. Maybe something. I have no attachment whatsoever to our current one, so I asked my neighbor if she had a pry bar, and she did. And within seconds, this happened...The counter went from this:
To this:
To this:
And I had this:
So after a lot of spackling, a lot of sanding, and some (more) priming, I was ready to go with this:
I just thought the beadboard would look so much nicer going all the way down to the countertop, instead of stopping half-way because of that piece that went up the wall. Now, I don't always think things through, so fortunately for me, I have people in my life who do. A friend stopped over that day and said to make sure I do something to keep water from going down the back of the counter, since I no longer have that protective piece. I had planned on getting some piece of molding, like a 1/4 round to fit in the seam there, and some silicone sealant (that dries clear) that we already have here to seal that puppy up. Problem solved;)
Alright, are you ready for these confusing, complicated steps for applying beadboard wallpaper? Fasten your seat belts, you're in for it...
1. Cut your wallpaper to desired size.
2. Dunk it in water for 30 seconds (I filled my bathtub a couple inches and stuck it in there).
3. Fold both sides in, so the paste is touching (this is called 'activating' on the package instructions;)
4. Unfold, and stick it on the wall. I simply used my hand to work out all the bubbles, excess glue (there's a LOT - be prepared to wipe, wipe, and wipe some more). Keep smoothing it out until it looks great.
5. Use a razor edge to remove excess wallpaper.
6. Just repeat these steps, and be sure not to overlap pieces. That's it.
7. After 24 hours, paint whatever color you want! I used a gloss white. Here it is!
{**To read ALL the details on the Kitchen Makeover, check out the Reveal Post here**}
Notice the trim where the wall meets the counter:
Get this. Paul went out to pick up the molding this weekend, and came home with PVC molding - weatherproofed and used for outside!! I thought it was pretty smart of him - it's mildew/water resistant - I've even tested it - juice spilled on the counter this morning and it was like it didn't even get wet! So I figure that, with the strip of sealant, and we should be good to go. I mitered the edges, and used liquid nails to apply it. Worked fine, AND it's already white - no painting! Can I get a woot woot! Thanks, honey. You kinda rock.
I can't say enough about this wallpaper. So easy to apply, and looks so great. What an impact for such a small cost - the roll cost $19.97 at Lowe's, and I've still got a ton left over.
Oh, and another bonus - the instructions said this paper all comes off in one sheet when ready to remove! So for crazy people like me, who change their mind every 5 seconds, and will probably want to do another makeover in the next 6-12 months, it's a great alternative to a more permanent backsplash.
So if you're looking for a quick, easy, inexpensive way to spruce up any area of your home, give beadboard wallpaper a try. Whoever thought of this wacky idea is a genius, I tell you. GENIUS!


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Spectra Energy Corp Announces Quarterly Dividend of $0.305 Per Share
HOUSTON , Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Spectra Energy Corp (NY SE: SE) has declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of $0.305 per share. The dividend is payable on March 11, 2013 to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 15, 2013.
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Spectra Energy Corp (NY SE: SE), a FORTUNE 500 company, is one of North America's premier natural gas infrastructure companies serving three key links in the natural gas value chain: gathering and processing, transmission and storage, and distribution. For more than a century, Spectra Energy and its predecessor companies have developed critically important pipelines and related infrastructure connecting natural gas supply sources to premium markets. Based in Houston, Texas, the company's operations in the United States and Canada include more than 19,000 miles of transmission pipeline, approximately 305 billion cubic feet of storage, as well as natural gas gathering and processing, natural gas liquids and local distribution operations. The company also has a 50 percent ownership in DCP Midstream, one of the largest natural gas gatherers and processors in the United States. Spectra Energy is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indexes and the Carbon Disclosure Project's Global 500 and S&P 500 Carbon Disclosure Leadership Indexes. For more information, visit www.spectraenergy.com.
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Before the invention of the conference championship game, this game was always the final hurrah for the college football season. No matter how bad both teams were, it was an important sports story. Starting next year, this game will move back one week to take it's rightful spot as the final game of the season.
This game has been played many in different locations (including the 1983 game at the Rose Bowl) -- but most often (80 times to be exact) it takes place in Philadelphia, which is basically equidistant from both academies. Navy has won the last six games (the longest streak in the series history) and holds a 52-49-7 advantage in the series.
In the past both Army and Navy were often national powers and the game occasionally had national championship implications. However, as college football has developed into a training ground for the NFL, both teams have continued to focus on their primary mission: training the future leaders of our armed services. The difficult entrance requirements, tough academic workload, height and weight limits, and the post graduation military commitment limit the competitiveness of both programs. Only twice in the last 45 years (1963 & 1996) have both teams entered with winning records.
If you have ever been to West Point or Annapolis, you will soon understand how heated this rivalry can be. "Beat Army" or "Beat Navy" is the most common phrase on each campus throughout the year. Both teams basically spend the entire year preparing to play the other side. I have many friends from my Marine Corps days that played football at Navy, and this game can define the entire season. Winning this game can turn a dismal season into a celebrated success. I vividly remember in 2000 when Navy entered the game at 0-10 and danced away after they won the game against Army.
The game is very emotional for the seniors of both schools, since it is certainly the last competitive football game they will ever play. Few, if any service academy football players will ever get a chance to play professional football. They play simply for the love of the game. During wartime the game is even more emotional. Most recently in the 2004 game, former Navy football player and fallen Marine 2nd Lieutenant J. P. Blecksmith, was remembered when his former teammates placed his pads and jersey on a chair on the sidelines. Finally, at the end of the game the alma maters of both teams are played and sung. The winning team stands alongside the losing team, with both teams standing at attention facing the student sections. This is done in a show of mutual respect and solidarity. To me, it is one of the best moments of the entire football season and stands in direct contrast to the trash-talking antics that I see during college football games during the entire season.
Both teams run the ball A LOT. Navy leads the nation in rushing yards per game and Army is ninth. The two teams are 118th and 119th (out of 119) in DI passing offense. This year Navy is 7-4 and headed to their 6th straight bowl game. Army is 3-8 and needs to beat Navy to salvage their season. I fully expect this Navy football team, led by the nine class of 2009 seniors that have chosen to be Marine officers to deliver their history making seventh victory in a row over the Black Knights from West Point. These guys have never not lost to another service academy (Army or Air Force). They are simply a better football team and should dominate.
In the end, there are no losers in this game.
Go Navy, Beat Army !!!


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BEIRUT (AP) — The international envoy to Syria warned Sunday that as many as 100,000 could die in the next year if a way cannot be found quickly to end the country's civil war.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy for the Syrian crisis, told reporters in Cairo that if the crisis continues, Syria will not be divided into states "like what happened in Yugoslavia" but will face "Somalization, which means warlords, and the Syrian people will be persecuted by those who control their fate."
Syrian rebels are fighting a 21-month-old revolt against President Bashar Assad's regime. Activists say more than 40,000 people have been killed in the crisis, which began with pro-democracy protests but has morphed into a civil war.
Since starting his job in September, Mr. Brahimi has sought to advance an international plan, reached in Geneva six months ago, that calls for an open-ended cease-fire between rebels and government troops and the formation of a transitional government to run the country until elections can be held.
Over the past week Mr. Brahimi has gone to Damascus, where he met with Mr. Assad, and then flown to Moscow, one of Syria's closest international allies, where he discussed ways of ending the country's crisis.
"The situation in Syria is bad — very, very bad," Mr. Brahimi said after meeting Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby. "It is getting worse, and therefore, if nearly 50,000 were killed in nearly two years if, God forbids, this crisis continues for another year, it will not only kill 25,000, it will kill 100,000. The situation is deteriorating."
The monthly death toll in Syria rose over the past months, as both sides have used heavier weapons and as the Syrian army has started using its warplanes to attack rebel-held areas around the country.
Mr. Brahimi said that peace and security in the world will be threatened directly from Syria if there is no solution within the next few months.
"I warn of what will come. The choice is between a political solution or of full collapse of the Syrian state," he said.
Asked if there is any willingness by Mr. Assad and the opposition to go into a political process, Mr. Brahimi said: "No, there isn't. This is the problem." He added that the two sides don't talk to each other and there is need for help from outside.
Mr. Brahimi hinted that that the Geneva plan might be adopted by the U.N. Security Council, saying, "We have a suggestion, and I think that this suggestion will be adopted by the international community."
The Geneva plan was reached in international conferences this summer and has the backing of Russia and China, which have shielded Damascus, as well as the West.
But neither side within Syria appears interested. The rebels reject any efforts that do not call for the ouster of Mr. Assad, and Mr. Assad's government is unlikely to give up power voluntarily. It is unclear if Security Council backing would significantly up the pressure on either side to support it.
In Syria, activists reported violence from area ranging from the northern provinces of Idlib, Aleppo and Raqqa to the capital, Damascus, and its suburbs, to the central regions of Hama and Homs, to Daraa in the south.
Activists said Syrian rebels captured an oil-pumping station in the north after days of fighting. The Local Coordination Committees and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels captured the station in Raqqa on Sunday.
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Published by Microsoft and Developed by Artoon, the Xbox 360 exclusive Vampire Rain pits you, the leader of a small squad of commandos, against a legion of urban vampire changelings. Get ready for terror! More like get ready for a terror-ible game.
The premise of Vampire Rain is a sort of stealth/horror hybrid. Owing less to the ultra popular and ever-evolving Resident Evil series than to Splinter Cell and its many sequels, for a survival horror/stealth hybrid, Vampire Rain has a long way to go to achieve the sort of wild success that either of those franchises has secured. Vampire Rain lacks the morbid sense of humor and the sandbox environment of a game like Dead Rising or the blind-corner thrill and constant action of Gears of War - two superior third-person action games available on the 360.
The problem with Vampire Rain - and most games in the so-called survival horror genre in general - is the perception that you can just throw monsters in a game, make it marginally scary, give the main character guns and people should want to play it. If anything, these are only the very basic elements to creating a next-gen survival horror game with any sort of lasting impact. Each progressive title should incorporate and exploit subtle or blatant differences, such as - I don't know - story, design and basic game play elements. When one throws a title like Vampire Rain in the 360, one isn't looking for something similar to a pre-existing, more successful and original title. One is looking for a new experience, worthy of the hefty price laid down in order to purchase said game ($59.99 suggested retail price.)
As John Lloyd, you and your Anti-Nightwalker Mission team are dropped into a rain-soaked urban cityscape absolutely riddled with Nightwalkers. It is your task to run around with your team, completing certain tasks, avoiding and/or eliminating the Nightwalkers as you go. You find yourself climbing ladders, shimmying along ledges, hiding behind cars, etc., all to avoid the wrath of the deadly Nightwalkers. And they are deadly. The problem is, the Nightwalkers are extremely strong, and if they attack you, then you're dead. No chance of survival. You are dead. The transformation from citizen to Nightwalker is as instantaneous and anti-climactic as your death. I don't understand the appeal of a game where the object is to avoid combat entirely, lest your participation of said game be cut prematurely short due to your characters untimely demise. After all, this is an "action" game. Additionally, for all their strength, the Nightwalker A.I. isn't all that stunning, either. The human-form Nightwalkers grunt a warning that they have detected you, but will often times stand there staring at you instead of charging and engaging you. Most of the time, if you are in shadows and are standing still, they continue on whatever pattern they have been programmed with and you can carry on. Other times, you will round a blind corner and be instantly attacked. If it weren't so maddening, it might be kind of fun. But, sadly, it isn't.


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Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill and Republican Congressman Todd Akin will debate each other at Clayton High School Thursday night.
Noticeably absent, however, is the Libertarian candidate that could influence the outcome of the Senate race: Jonathan Dine.
According to a recent poll, Dine is garnering about 9 percent of the vote, which is rather uncommon for a third party candidate in the United States.
Some of America's newest voters in November will be people who were not born in this country but are newly naturalized citizens. Host Don Marsh talks with guests from the International Institute of St. Louis about the path to citizenship and with former students about the process.
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Host Don Marsh talks with the Libertarian candidate for Missouri Attorney General Dave Browning.
Dave Browning said incumbent Chris Koster has done a decent job "but is an unrepentant liberal." He said Republican challenger Ed Martin doesn't know what he's doing. "I think the voters of Missouri need to have a chance to vote for someone who is conservative but not insane," said Browning.


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Nearby residents helped a woman living under the bridge to escape the fire, and reported seeing flames as high as 15 feet.
It took fire crews and other workers several hours to fully extinguish the stubborn fire.
Originally part of a railway crossing running north from York to Ohio Streets, the bridge is closed until repairs can be made.
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The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a bicycle rider– who was killed while competing in a mountain bike race near Moab, Utah — was dismissed by the 10th circuit court who claimed the rider took on the risk in competing.
A fatal bicycle accident happens every six hours in the United States. Bicycle accident lawyers know that bicycle crashes often lead to injuries and wrongful deaths. In 2004 alone, 725 wrongful deaths happened in bicycle accidents, and 41,000 bike riders suffered personal injury — sometimes as catastrophic as brain injuries and spinal cord injuries.
Albuquerque, New Mexico native Samuel Hall, 33 died from traumatic brain injuries he suffered in a bicycle accident during the 2004 Tour of Canyonlands. Hall was attempting to pass another rider, Robert J. Milne – who suffered catastrophic injuries – when their handlebars locked, veering towards an SUV towing a trailer and resulting in a fatal bicycle accident.
The wrongful death lawsuit claimed that USA Cycling of Colorado Springs and Cycle Cyndicate of Arvada, Colorado, the race organizers, were aware of the dangers of the bike course – where bicyclists share the road with motorists for the first six miles of the race — but failed to conduct any safety measures to ensure the bicyclists well-being.
The wrongful death lawsuit was dismissed previously in 2007. The judge ruled that the racers were forewarned they would be sharing the road, and that race organizers had used the appropriate warning signs to let bike riders know about the dangers of the race.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Salt Lake City, Utah – who upheld the dismissal of the wrongful death lawsuit — made their decision based on the precautions taken by the organizers, including posting signs warning people in the area of the upcoming race; placing attendants near the starting line to warn drivers about the riders; and telling riders that they would be sharing the course with automobiles.
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You know how some blogs have these pages that have absolutely no connection to the actual theme of the website? You go to a blog that's all about parenting humor, for example, and the author has tacked on a page about, oh I don't know, writing or something? I hate that.
I said I hate it; I didn't say I won't do it.
So every once in a while I'll toss some stuff that has nothing to do with becoming my parents onto this page. Mostly it will be about writing. I've learned that actually writing only marginally improves your chances of getting published over just telling people you're a writer.
The rules and expectations from those in the publishing industry are clear and unambiguous. All editors, publishers and agents look for the exact same things. Add the fact that writers are some of the most emotionally secure and confident people on the planet and it becomes clear why there is very little advice on the Internet for aspiring writers: nobody needs it. I get that. But I'm sure there's someone out there who could use some information, some tips and advice.
Well I don't have any. But I do have a blog, and that qualifies me to call myself an expert and cook up some advice anyway.
Here's a query letter that's guaranteed to land me a huge deal. If you want to cut and paste your own details and use it, go ahead. You're welcome:
My winning query letter
Here is Barmy's Bountiful Bag of Advice for Writers, originally published here:
- Writer's block is caused by a virus so antibiotics won't work on it.
- Remember: if people don't understand your writing, they're just not the target audience.
- "Literally" is just another word for "Hey, here comes an exaggeration."
- "Write what you know" only matters if you know a lot more than other writers.
- Remember: when in doubt, put an apostrophe before the "s".
- Always write the ending first. Otherwise you won't know what to write about.
- If it worked for Tolstoy it will work for you.
- Add about 20% more words to your story. That way, when the editor's done, it'll be about right.
- When finished with your manuscript, search and replace all commas with semicolons; they make you look way smarter.
- Fonts. It's all about the fonts. Fonts can pretty much make up for any crappy writing.
- Don't start writing until you have t-shirts and action figures designed. Need to be ready when your book is optioned.
- All the good genres are taken. Invent your own.
- If you don't use a thesaurus every other paragraph, you'll look like a catechumen.
- Write a bunch of sex scenes one weekend. Then, any time you get stuck in your writing, just insert one of those.
- Always include a picture of your family with your query. Agents can't resist that.
- Everyone writes from left to write. If you really want to stand out, go right to left.
- Your mother really will be your harshest critic. If she likes it, you know the agent will.
- Just do what I do.
- Step 1: get a pro bio pic; 2: get business cards; 3: tell everyone U write; 4: quit your job 5: stalk agents; 6: write
- Realism is important. Remember, the average person uses the bathroom about once an hour.
- The real work begins once you're published. No I mean it: you'll be working at McDonalds.
- Bold all your writing if you can't be bold with your writing.
- Hand write your MS and deliver the only copy in person, in its entirety, to the agent of your choice.
- Sure you can get rich writing in genres other than YA…
- The first draft is always the best. Don't mess with it.
- Non-fiction is just fiction with real names.
- If your manuscript is rejected, change the title and resend it.
- Plot is a left-over technique from when people didn't have TV. You don't need it anymore.
- Remember: the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black.
- Oh come on, how hard could writing be?
- Just write a blog. Agents and editors will find you.
- "Remember, your readers can't be sure who's talking unless you clearly state it between each line of dialogue," I said.
- Most people couldn't pull it off but you'd be great at the passive-aggressive voice.
- Always do it the way Disney does: Kill the protagonist's mother early.
- If you buy a million copies of your own book, you'll be more likely to be a best-seller.
- Sure, your life would absolutely make a riveting memoir.
- Use emoticons in your writing. All the modern novels are going to have them.
- This is my genre. Go find your own.
- Don't waste time reading. You should be writing, not sitting around reading other people's stuff.
- Don't write; become one with your keyboard and just let it flow.
- All the good writers sit around on Twitter on Saturday evenings because they have no lives. Wait, that one's true.
- Remember: authentic dialogue requires the insertion of "um" and "uh huh" with some regularity.
- Agents are way more likely to take you on if you send chocolate with your query. (You're welcome, agents)
- Make sure to tell your readers everything they need to know. If you show them, they might miss it.
- Why be interesting when you can just use a different font?
- Always grammarize your work well.
- Pick a writing schedule and stick to it. For example: every third Tuesday from 5:00 to 5:45.
- Quit your day job the minute an agent asks for partials.
- Write when drunk. Most of your readers will be and that way they'll understand you better.
- Naw, don't worry about marketing; the publisher will deal with all that.
- I have a blog so that makes me an expert.
- If you're not writing at least 100 pages/day, you're slacking.
- Plagiarism is only if you use more than 3 paragraphs of someone's work. You worry too much.
- Yes, just because you think it's funny, everyone else will too.
- Authors get paid by the average number of words per sentence so use as many as you can.
- Cliches became cliches for a reason; why mess with a good thing?
- Start with a good cover. Agents and editors always judge books by their covers.
- Yes, many successful writers got their start writing epitaphs.
- One word sentences? Yes.
- Plot is just a crutch for people whose writing style alone isn't good enough to hold a reader.


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Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) [DVD]
Director : Vittorio De Sica
Screenplay : Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Gerardo Guerrieri (story by Cesare Zavattini; based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini)
MPAA Rating : NR
Year of Release : 1948
Stars : Lamberto Maggiorani (Antonio Ricci), Enzo Staiola (Bruno), Lianella Carell (Maria), Gino Saltamerenda (Baiocco), Vittorio Antonucci (The Thief), Giulio Chiari (The Beggar), Elena Altieri (The charitable Lady), Carlo Jachino (Beggar), Michele Sakara (Secretary of the Charity Organization)
The key to Vittorio De Sica's neorealist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette), and to a large extent neorealism in general, finds its summation in a single line of dialogue. The film's protagonist, Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani), is at the police station because his bicycle, which he must have in order to work, has been stolen. The police investigator tells him that little can be done and he should assume the burden of finding the stolen bicycle himself. As Antonio protests, begging for assistance, another police officer who has noticed the exchange approaches the desk and asks, "Anything serious, Captain?," to which the investigator replies, "Just a bicycle."
Just a bicycle. The words are said with such casual flippancy, yet they embody the philosophical heart of neorealism as a film movement and Bicycle Thieves as a deeply moving portrait of human struggle. It may be just a bicycle, but for Antonio it means his ability to work, which means he can provide for his family at a time when a significant portion of the country was unemployed following the devastation of World War II. The bicycle, in essence, is life for Antonio and his family, and the fact that the police officer and so many other characters in the film, most of whom are associated with official institutions (the church, charities, the welfare office), don't recognize this is a fundamental component of the neorealist outlook.
For Cesare Zavattini, the Italian screenwriter who was neorealism's philosophical founding father, the cinema should strive for an unvarnished realism, one that finds true drama and human value in the everyday--what might be otherwise be dismissed as "humdrum" or "tedious." This was not so much an aesthetic impulse as it was a moral one. For Zavattini, it was the cinema's moral responsibility to attend to reality and what was happening in the here and now.
Bicycle Thieves is a key neorealist film in this sense because it strikes so deep at the heart of what Zavattini envisioned for the cinema. The story is little more than Antonio and his young son Bruno's (Enzo Staiola) search for the stolen bicycle, which takes them through various parts of Rome, exposing the day-to-day realities of the down-and-out in postwar Italy (these range from a church service for the homeless, to a restaurant in which a middle-class child with foppish hair turns his nose up at Bruno's unsophisticated manners, to a house of prostitution). The film's texture is largely unadorned with cinematic flourishes, yet it is uniquely vibrant. You can feel the dirt on the street, the chill in the air, and the roughness of Antonio's increasingly rumpled suit. Even more tangible are the emotions, which are displayed with such naked intensity and poignancy that the film slips through the web of its fictionalized narrative and becomes akin to real life.
The irony, of course, is that neorealism as a film style is just that--a style--which means that it relies on forms of representation just as much as any Hollywood film; it just hides them better. The film's emotional rawness is the result of director Vittorio De Sica's genius in working with nonprofessional actors. The three main characters--Antonio, Bruno, and Antonio's wife Maria (Lianella Carell)--were all played by nonprofessionals with no previous film experience. For example, when he was cast as Antonio, Lamberto Maggiorani was a factory worker.
Special mention must be made of Enzo Staiola, a child who was literally cast off the street. Yet, despite (or perhaps because of) his lack of acting experience, his portrayal of Bruno is one of the most moving and least canned child performances in the history of the cinema. Constantly looking to his father for guidance, he transcends any simple notions that equate childhood and purity; his performance feels natural and lived in, and when De Sica gives us a close-up of his face as he watches his father make a terrible mistake in the film's final reel, he turns it into one of the most heartbreaking sequences ever committed to film.
While Bicycle Thieves has been rightly praised for its realism, repeated viewings make you realize just how carefully constructed it is. While the black-and-white cinematography lacks the high-shine polish of Hollywood productions, it is still graceful and evocative, with De Sica utilizing subtle tracking shots and specific framing to evoke feeling and make thematic connections. Most noticeable is the film's use of an orchestral score, that most artificial of film conventions, to help guide the viewer's emotions.
While these stylistic and artificial flourishes help account for why Zavattini did not consider Bicycle Thieves to be truly neorealistic (like virtually every other well-known neorealist film, he felt that it was ultimately metaphorical in nature because it relied on an invented story), they in no way take away from the film. In fact, they are testament to its power, as De Sica is able to deploy cinematic means both conventional and unconventional to craft a film whose overall effect is one of transparency. There is little sense that you're watching something fabricated, and the emotions that Bicycle Thieves engenders feel natural and right, never forced or contrived. It has passages of beauty and heartbreak that suggest a genuine humanism that is all too often lacking from movies whose primary goals are to thrill, excite, or otherwise distract from life itself.
Bicycle Thieves Criterion Collection Two-Disc DVD Set | |
Aspect Ratio | 1.33:1 |
Anamorphic | No |
Audio | |
Subtitles | English |
Supplements | |
Distributor | The Criterion Collection |
Release Date | February 13, 2007 |
Finally ... finally ... finally. Among the many classic masterworks of world cinema that have been languishing in inferior DVD transfers, Bicycle Thieves has been crying out the loudest for attention. Although it's been available on disc for years from Image, the transfer was painful to watch--soft, washed out, and taken from a print filled with dirt, scratches, and tears. Thankfully, Criterion has rescued the film from such mistreatment, giving it a fine new high-definition transfer from a 35mm duplicate negative so that you can finally see it at home and not feel like you're watching a worn 16mm print. A significant amount of digital restoration has returned the image to a nearly pristine state; only a few vertical hairlines (barely noticeable, at that) mar the image at all. The picture is slightly grayer than some might expect, but the low-contrast approach is the intended look of the film. Detail is excellent through. The Dolby Digital monaural soundtrack, transferred at 24-bit from a 35mm optical soundtrack, is also very good, with no ambient hiss or pops to speak of. There is also an optional English dubbed monaural soundtrack. | |
While there is no audio commentary on the film, there are several excellent documentaries housed on the second disc of this two-disc set. Life as It Is: The Neorealist Movement in Italy is a 40-minute interview with Italian film scholar Mark Shiel (author of Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City). Shiel goes through the entire history of neorealism, discussing its influences, historical roots, and most important filmmakers. Shiel's general overview of neorealism is nicely complemented by two other documentaries. Working with De Sica is a 22-minute documentary that includes new interviews with Bicycle Thieves screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, film scholar Callisto Cosulich, and, best of all, actor Enzo Staiola, who talks about his experiences as a child actor working with De Sica. Finally, Cesare Zavattini is a 55-minute documentary about the life of the theoretical founding father of neorealism. The documentary was made by famed Italian filmmaker Carlo Lizzani, who has also made documentaries about neorealist directors Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini, and includes interviews with directors Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio and Roberto Benigni, among others. The booklet included with the two-disc set contains new essays by critic Geoffrey Cheshireand filmmaker Charles Burnett; remembrances by Vittorio De Sica, Lianella Carell, Luisa Alessandri, Sergio Leone, Mauel De Sica, and Maria Mercader; and classic writings by Cesare Zavattini and critic André Bazin |
Copyright ©2007 James Kendrick
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David Robinson's Supreme Court
Freeware game by Acme Interactive
Look for David Robinson's expert advice and tips at the half!
Editor-in-chief says: David Robinson's Supreme Court is a basketball game released under the name of David Robinson, a well-known NBA top player featured in NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team. The game was available for Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and featured four different teams from the United States, all of them fictional. The game was also released in Japan. This game was soon to be followed by a more popular installment, called NBA Live, that borrows many of the elements found in this great classic release. However, David Robinson's Supreme Court was released with major bugs and decreased the popularity of the installment.- Editor-in-chief says: Barbie Super Model is a video game that allows the player to control Barbie. The game can be played in single-mode or multiplayer-mode, with up to two players. The game is composed of very simple acrade-style elements, and is based on levels. The players must navigate horizontally from left to right and avoi all possible obstacles and hazards. The game was released for various platforms, such as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. The gameplay was simple, with each level having a different theme.
Freeware game by SEGA Entertainment, Inc.
Arrange the falling jewels to form a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal group of three of the same color.
Editor-in-chief says: Columns is a video game similar to Tetris taking place inside a tall, rectanglar playing area. There are three different symbols which appear one at a time. The symbols fall from top to bottom and the player can move them to the left or to the right, and also cycle through their forms. The symbols disappear when three of the same kind are in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal straight line. If this makes three or more other symbols get in the same position, they disappear as well. The game is not different at all to Tetris and becomes addictive after a short period of time.Chuck Rock
Freeware game by Core Design Ltd
Unga-bunga! It's a jungle out there, and our good friend Chuck Rock has more than his share of daily troubles.
Editor-in-chief says: Chuck Rock is a very popular side-scrolling platformer spread all over the world on various platforms, including the Amiga, the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The story happens in a fantasy world where saber-tooth tigers, neandethals, dinosaurs and wooly mamooths co-exist. The player will be able to notice the very fun and popular setting from The Flinstones in Chuck Rock. The graphic elements are very good, colors are bright and the gameplay has been acknowledged as being worthy trying.Chakan - The Forever Man
Best!Freeware game by Extended Play Productions
Chakan is a action platform game in which you control a dead guy (Chakan has lost his soul) through many levels of hack and slash platforming.
Freeware game by Accolade, Inc.
Takes control of Bubsy and finish each level and defeat the bosses!
Bubba N Stix
Freeware game by Core Design Ltd
Take control of Bubba as he wields Stix as a weapon and tries to find a way back home.
Freeware game by Interplay Entertainment Corp.
If you're sick and tired of all the blood-and-guts violence of most action games these days, then stick your nose into Boogerman.
Bonkers ia arcade game based on the syndicated Disney televison series about a police mascot who has his own unique talents for solving crimes.


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i dont know how i have always managed to set a pattern in my life for all the bad things and not the good things..bad relationships..bad food habits..god! the funny part is..iv come through pretty ok..i sometimes envy people..like this friend of mine who is just not as attached to people as i am.. she had no problems leaving her boyfriend..temporary at that..n goin away to the US..n she is just one of those people who doesn't let things affect her too much..but i'd rather not be her..coz she hasnt ever loved passionately..or felt loss…well i can tell u im feelin my loss right now..but i just hope for his sake my man finds happiness in whatevr shape or form he's looking for..i love him..but he's not mine..it hurts..but nobody said life was fair!
i am desperately trying to be more mature about things..i keep oscillating.. about 9 months back i was in the best shape of m life! n i let it go after a while..got depressed about HIM and just became an emotional eater..i shouldnt do that..i should learn to live without emotonal props anymore…
im tryin..hitting the books..wokring out..watchin my weight,..im being good..i just hope it lasts..im gonna be beginning a new phase of my life after a while..gonna get my law degree..n move on to journalism..n before i become a "professional" i wanna look feel n be the best i can..so when life gioves me opportunities i am up to the challenge…
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Four middle-school students whose vicious verbal attacks went viral will spend a year thinking about their actions, said Greece, N.Y., school officials on Friday. The boys and their families will not be fighting the disciplinary measure. An online fundraising appeal for 68-year-old bus monitor Karen Klein topped $650,000, and Disney and Southwest Airlines have said they'd team up to treat Klein to a trip to Disney World. In a letter after the incident, one of the boys, a seventh-grade student identified only as Josh, wrote, "When I saw the video, I was disgusted and could not believe I did that."


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A professional Employer Organization (PEO) provides administration services as they relate to an employer's responsibilities regarding its employees. PEOs handle all aspects of human resources including payroll, taxes, workers' compensation insurance, and employee benefits management.
An Administrative Services Organization (ASO) can best be described as a truly outsourced payroll and HR department for your business that utilizes your company's tax ID numbers unlike with PEO services, which utilizes Optimum's tax ID numbers in most cases
Outsourcing to a PEO provides a variety of benefits, from cost savings to access to specialized expertise on taxes, payroll, workers' compensation and more. Outsourcing can enable you to focus on your business and free up your time and resources. We do what we do best. You do what you do best. It's partnership at its finest.
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Optimum does not make the hiring decisions for your company. You obviously understand the needs of your business better than Optimum. So, you will decide who you are interested in hiring, promoting or terminating...sometimes with our assistance. For example, if you think you are on solid ground to terminate someone, but would like to discuss the circumstances with a knowledgeable human resources professional, that's where we come in. We can help you decide the best course of action.


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If you need to take the next step towards finding a job or getting qualified for work, think about an e2e programme or an Adult Numeracy and Literacy Certificate.
What is e2e?
e2e stands for Entry to Employment. It's a programme designed to help you develop the skills needed to get onto an Apprenticeship, or take part in training, further education or employment
What will I study?
Learning covers three areas: basic and key skills, vocational development and personal and social development. In practice, this could mean learning about how to get into health and social care or construction, taking part in a work placement, writing CVs or working as part of a team. There's the opportunity to brush up on your maths, English and computing skills, as well. An advisor will offer one-to-one support tailored to what you need to learn.
What are the entry requirements?
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How long does an e2e take?
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A lot of the work is practical rather than written, and geared to helping get you on the career ladder, so it's a different style of learning to that you may have encountered at school.
Is funding available?
Learner Support Funds are available in schools and colleges in England for students who are struggling financially. Ask your advisor to show you how to apply.
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What is an Adult Numeracy and Literacy Certificate?
It's a free test that gives you a national certificate providing a certain level of proficiency in English and/or maths. You can take it at Level 1 and 2. Sometimes employers need convincing - or just some extra reassurance - of your abilities. If you feel that you could benefit by being able to prove your English and maths skills, an Adult Numeracy and Literacy Certificate could be your answer.
How long is the test?
- Up to one hour for 40 multiple-choice questions in literacy
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What do they test?
- The literacy test assesses your reading and understanding skills, plus spelling, punctuation and grammar
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