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Crest/Coat of Arms
With this adobe photoshop tutorial you can create a great looking family crest. It can also be used to
design a nice looking coat of arms for your company and logo. I used adobe photoshop 7. you can probably use
older versions as well.
1- Usually, coat of arms have some kind of animal on it that represents a particular clan or family, but it doesnt have to. However, i used This image of the tiger for my main animal
2- I just want to use the image of the tiger not the entire picture, so we need
to cut out just the tiger. In order to do that, we will use the tool called the Magnetic Lasso. With this tool
you woudl then outline the exterior of the tiger, for this one it is easy cuz the lines match up pretty nicely if you
do it with enough patience. look at the picture for what i mean by the tool and outline.
3- Now with the tiger outline, create a new layer.
4- ok, right now, the selected tiger you outline is on the original image of the tiger, we will transfer that onto
the new layer you just create. you must first make sure the new layer is on top of the original tiger picture.
make sure the tiger outline is still select, you jsut use the paint bucket tool and paint the outline onto that new layer.
Look at the screenshot for details
5- ok leave the tiger where it is for now. We will now work on the shield. I used this shield, you can use your own.
6- open up the shield, and we'll put some designs on it. I did it my way, you can do it your way. I started by selecting the Line Tool at a width of about 120px, to give it a nice thick look. Heres a picture
7- Next drag the white tiger you had earlier into this shield layer, and resize it so it fits. After i did it, it looks funny so i changed the tiger to RED instead of WHITE, and also realigned the White Stripe Lines created in the previous step.
8- Now with most coat of arms, there is always a sword thrown into the mix. Make your own sword of just find one off the net, and color it in. That is what i did with this sword so it'll be quicker to work with. just play around with it, i wont show the step for that, its pretty basic. just cut out your sword, go to blending options, and color fill it any color you like, i did mines red.
9- We almost done now. To finish it off, i am going to add a very simple banner below the crest. Start by selecting the shape tool and choose a rectange and jusut make a long shape like how i got in the picture
10- Next, complete the banner by adding in the "flaps" to each side, which is just two squares like this
11- now, there are several ways to do this, but i just did it the long way but it is easy. repeat the same thing you did in the last two previous steps, and color in those new shapes white. afterwards, just resize it so its jsut inside the black shapes to give it a nice border effect. (btw, you can also just do a stroke effect to each of the black shapes in step 9 & 10 and skip this step)
12- you are done, drag that back into the shield layer, if you did it on a
seperate layer like me. Put in your Family name or company name and you
are finish. A very easy Family Crest & Coat of Arms. Experiment and you can
come out with some better designs! GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN! This is how mines
turned out
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Enquiries about Lords business may be put to the Lords Information Office 020 - 7219 3107
Monday 17 December (2.30pm)
Oral Questions - Whether the European Union will pay £122 million to compensate Spanish fishermen who can no longer fish off the coast of Morocco (B. Wilcox); How much tax revenues have declined as a result of the economic slowdown; and how this shortfall will be met (L. Northbrook); House of Lords reform on independence of membership (E. Liverpool); Why the document Education and Skills Delivering Results-Strategy to 2006, which pledged continuation and expansion of individual learning accounts, was published at the same time as the announcement to suspend the individual learning accounts scheme (B. Blatch).
Legislation - Consolidated Fund Bill - (second reading and remaining stages).
Debate - The situation in Afghanistan (B. Symons of Vernham Dean).
Unstarrred Question - What action is being taken to help achieve peace in the Middle East (E. Sandwich).
Oral Questions - House of Lords reform elected/unelected membership (L. Geddes); Whether there are any plans to revive manufacturing industry in the United Kingdom (L. Roberts of Conwy); Whether it is intended to open up open country and registered common land (L. Greaves); What consultations are taking place on the proposal to increase the number of faith schools (L. Dormand of Easington).
Legislation - State Pension Credit Bill [HL] - (second reading).
Unstarred Question - The future of athletics in the United Kingdom (L. Glentoran).
Oral Questions - Protecting children from physical abuse by adults (B. Walmsley); What measures are there to ensure that animal brains or any other tissue used for research are correctly labelled and stored (B. Byford); Whether sufficient use is being made of artificial blood substitutes and alternative treatments for anaemia in cancer patients to help combat any shortage in blood supplies (B. Masham Of Ilton).
Debates - Government policy on child poverty (L. Harrison); The problem of litter (L. Hardy of Wath).
Delegated Legislation - Draft Carriage by Air Acts (Implementation of the Montreal Convention 1999) Order 2001; Draft Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 2001; Draft Driving Licences (Disqualification until Test Passed) (Proscribed Offence) Order 2001; Draft Transport Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2001; Draft Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Highway Functions) (England) Order 2001; Draft Street Works (Charges for Occupation of the Highway) (England) Regulations 2001 - Motions for approval.
Oral Questions - Whether waste is the most difficult environmental issue facing the country after climate change (B. Miller of Chilthorne Domer); What steps have been taken to accelerate progress towards meeting the United Nations target of 0.7 per cent of Gross National Product in the official overseas development programme; and when it is expected to reach that target (Lord Judd); What advice is currently being given to consumers in respect of disposal of freezers and fridges in light of the requirements of EC. (E. Northesk).
Legislation - Football (Disorder) Bill - (second reading); Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) - (second reading).
Christmas recess
Monday 7 January
Legislation - Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill - (second reading).
Legislation - Export Control Bill - (second reading).
Debate - The Report of the European Union Committee on the European Court of Auditors: the case for reform (12th Report, Session 2000-2001, HL Paper 63) (L. Grenfell).
Debate - White paper on The House of Lords: Completing the Reform (CM 5291)(L. Chancellor) - (first day).
Debate - The House of Lords: Completing the Reform (CM 5291) (L. Chancellor) - (second day).


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Our 7 favourite Bond girl names
A Bond girl, by any other name, would probably not smell as sweet.
While 007 has tangled with dozens of beautiful women over the decades, we tend to remember their names almost as well as their faces, because some of them are so … unique. Here are our seven favourite Bond girl handles.
Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman, Goldfinger)
Honor Blackman was the oldest actress (at age 39) to play a Bond girl. So clearly her name refers to her large collection of housecats.
Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress, Dr. No)
Did Bond creator Ian Fleming spend a lot of time at strip clubs? The name Honey Ryder, the first Bond girl, was practically dripping with sexual imagery.
Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama, You Only Live Twice)
Sometimes Bond girls had names that were double entendres, other times they had names that were simply silly or mildly culturally offensive.
Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles, Moonraker)
An astronaut with a doctorate and one of the most titter-worthy monikers in Bond girl history, we assume Ms. Goodhead's name refers to her mind and morals.
Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards, The World Is Not Enough)
We're not sure which was sillier: the name Christmas Jones, or that Denise Richards was cast as a nuclear physicist.
Octopussy (Maud Adams, Octopussy)
The only Bond movie with a title that was also the name of a female character, 1983's Octopussy also marked the last time a Bond girl's name contained lady-part slang. Sigh.
Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen, GoldenEye)
She's a villain and not a Bond girl, but Xenia Onatopp remains one of the best Bond names, and Janssen's character, who killed during sex, one of the most memorable characters.


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The Greek script is used by several communities of people throughout the world, and in different contexts: Greek language, mathematics, phonetics, African languages. Unicode allows encoding of data in all of these contexts, but when it comes to typesetting and typography, these can vary a lot, depending on the context.
In this paper we attempt to give an exhaustive description of issues involved in the typography of Greek script, in all contexts. Besides information on font design and styles, diacritics, punctuation and alternate characters, we also give examples of the most important Greek typefaces and their use. In particular, we show that it is poor typography to use the same typeface for mathematics and Greek text, although these uses of Greek script are identified on the Unicode level.
This information can be useful for Unicode implementors, developers of applications for printing data encoded in Unicode, as well as Unicode users wishing to have a deeper insight in the use of Greek script. We also describe an implementation of the typographical principles listed in this paper, through the Omega typesetting system.
We conclude by giving a list of Greek characters missing from the Unicode encoding which we would like to propose for insertion, and showing examples of their uses.
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Momentum is a fickle thing.
Just look at the Miami Heat. Following their loss to the Bulls last Thursday, the outlook in Miami looked grim. After rolling into the All-Star break with a sterling 27-7 record, the mighty Miami crew looked anything but mighty. The Heat lost to the Bulls in overtime, bringing their post-All-Star break record down to a mediocre 13-10.
The Heat appeared to be doomed. In a microwave society that obsessively rushes to judgment after every ebb and flow of daily life, the Heat looked irrecoverably flawed, and the conviction was strong.
Champions don't stumble into the playoffs! They have to get rolling before the postseason or else their cooked! Their great start was a fluke!
That kind of rhetoric sounds well and good, but history tells us a different story: momentum is mostly a load of nonsense.
Much of the analysis we hear leading up to the playoffs tends to have postseason implications. Conventional wisdom suggests that a team must get "playoff-ready" in the final weeks of the season and play its best ball heading into the playoffs. Therefore, the Heat's recent slide revealed more about their title qualifications than anything months ago.


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Social science is the scientific study of society and social relationships. Research examines relationships among individuals, as well as relationships between individuals and their societies. Our social scientists delve into problems like what makes French fries so addictive, how infrastructure can influence climate change, and how motherhood is covered by the media.
Meet the Research Associate Dean for the Social Sciences
Elizabeth Cole
Associate Dean for Social Sciences, Professor, Women's Studies, Psychology, and Afroamerican & African Studies
Faculty Profile
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Professor Cole's research, at the intersection of psychology and women's studies, works to understand the social construction of categories like gender, race and social class. Feminist theorists have long argued that these categories are not natural or essential, but instead derive meaning from specific social and cultural practices and beliefs that vary in different times and places. She is interested in questions such as: How do the categories mutually construct each other and work together to shape outcomes such as well being or political attitudes? How do people experience these social categories as parts of their identities? How do members of different groups perceive these categories of difference, and how are these perceptions related to prejudice?
Units in the Social Sciences
Anthropology research focuses on human biological and cultural variation in time and space, with four traditionally recognized subfields.
Communication Studies
Communication Studies is dedicated to producing cutting-edge scholarship about the media's impact on individuals and society.
In the Department of Economics, research covers a broad range of fields, including development economics, industrial organization, labor economics, and natural resource and energy economics.
History at Michigan is global, multidimensional, and interdisciplinary, and research is conducted on a range of topics spanning the millenia and covering nearly every geographic region in the world.
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The International Institute (II) stimulates research and teaching on critical areas of the world and on international issues that cut across world regions and disciplines.
Museum of Anthropology
Research collections at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology include materials from many parts of the New and Old Worlds, and a portion is displayed in the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History.
Organizational Studies
Organizational Studies scholarship offers an interdisciplinary lens to understand the complex world we inhabit, including the structures of legal systems, markets, educational systems, or workplaces.
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Research in Political Science is comprised of multiple substantive focus areas and methodological approaches, including: American politics, comparative politics, methods, political theory, law and politics, and world politics.
There are nine research areas within Psychology: Biopsychology, Clinical Science, Cognitive and Cognitive Neuroscience, Combined Program in Education and Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Gender and Feminist Psychology, Social Psychology, Personality and Social Contexts, and Social Work and Psychology.
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The Residential College (RC) is often described as a living-learning community; this is because RC students live and learn in the same physical space.
Research in the Department of Sociology is organized in eight different areas: Culture and Knowledge; Economic Sociology and Organizations; Gender and Sexuality; Health and Healthcare; Power, History, and Social Change; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social Demography
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Through scholarship, curriculum, and activism, the Women's Studies department seeks to: build interdisciplinary collaborations among faculty and students that bridge gender, racial, economic, religious, and national divides; create new forms of knowledge; and tie the University to our communities by promoting social justice.


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Entrepreneurs are the answer, not bureaucrats
The Wall Street Journal ran a great interview Saturday with the president of the Kauffman Foundation, the organization that funds more research on entrepreneurship than any other organization in the world.
Carl Schramm took over as the head of the foundation in 2002, nine years after the death of Ewing Marion Kauffman — who funded the foundation with the proceeds of selling his drug companies to Merrell Dow.
While I recommend reading the complete interview, here are some key excerpts:
Mr. Schramm, who started his own health-care company and merchant bank, believes that the foundation has a duty to foster an environment hospitable to entrepreneurship. And so, for instance, Mr. Schramm brags that Kauffman has "dragged economists into considering the importance of firm formation to the overall growth of the economy." The foundation has commissioned some 6,000 papers on this and related topics in the past several years.Columnist Naomi Schaefer Riley concludes her column:
… Conducted last month, the [Foundation sponsored] survey also showed that instead of the government's stimulus package, two-thirds of respondents would prefer "reducing legal barriers and red tape for new business development" as a way to jump-start the economy. Finally, 89% of respondents said that "capitalism is still the best economic system for our country."
Despite this popular attitude, Mr. Schramm worries that there is a tendency on the part of some citizens to want the government to prevent market chaos. Prior to the financial meltdown this fall, "I think we were in full tide of entrepreneurial capitalism and now there's an introspection, where the vocabulary is all about regulation and the importance of the government to restart the economy," he says. While Mr. Schramm believes that the government has a role to play, he argues that "historically through the last seven recessions it's been entrepreneurs who essentially restarted the economy."
Despite the fact that the foundation's endowment has fallen by $722 million since the end of 2007, Mr. Schramm sees this as Kauffman's "moment." While "no one hopes for a recession," it's during economic crises that entrepreneurs "challenge companies that have gotten big and lazy." The downturn, he says, will even challenge Kauffman to "think about how we can do our work better, like every business." In fact, Mr. Schramm adds, "The only people immune from thinking hard in moments like this are in government."


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USPS Narrows Loss as CEO Seeks Legislative Help
Postal Service Won't Return to Long-Term Financial Stability Without Overhaul of Postal Legislation
The U.S. Postal Service posted a sharply narrower first-quarter loss as it continued to cut costs and posted revenue growth in its shipping and packaging segment.
Its loss narrowed to $354 million, from the year-earlier's loss of $1.3 billion.
But Chief Executive Patrick Donahoe said the agency won't return to long-term financial stability...


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Lisa Marie Basile is a writer+poet based in NYC.
She is the author of Light Magic for Dark Times
& the creator of Luna Luna Magazine.
"I came to Lisa Marie Basile's Apocryphal eager to travel off the beaten paths—of genre, of narrative, of self-disclosure and self-discovery. I was never once disappointed."
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"In the end, though — and as I grow older — I hold to one thing: compassion. I carry that compassion with me each day — it is as vital to me as blood and air, and it colors my entire life."
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"I am plagued with dreams of else-ness.
It shapes dank in the dark; it wounds."
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1999 Sea Ray 280 Cuddy Cabin
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The Sea Ray 280 Cuddy Cabin features a standard 310 horsepower MPI Bravo I MCM stern drive, a loaded cockpit and a spacious cabin for dining or resting. Features like color-coded wiring, high water bilge alarm system and a low-maintenance self-bailing fiberglass cockpit liner make the 280 Cuddy Cabin a wise family boating investment that will last for years to come. The roomy cockpit on the 280 Cuddy Cabin has a fiberglass seat - engine hatch system plus a full-width upholstered bench seat with bolsters for a comfortable, secure ride. As with every Sea Ray sport cruiser, the 280 Cuddy Cabin has strategically placed storage areas throughout the cockpit as well as important amenities for entertaining guests - like an entertainment center with cooler, glass rack, wet bar and trash receptacle, a carry-on cooler with dedicated storage, and indirect cockpit lighting for lengthy evening excursions. And for appropriate cruising music, Sea Ray supplies a Clarion AM- FM digital cassette stereo with six speakers and amplifier to set the mood. At the helm of the 280 Cuddy Cabin, Sea Ray's quality really comes through in the full-feature molded dash with burl instrument panel featuring custom backlit instrumentation, standard depth finder, compass and a urethane visor which minimizes windshield glare. The dash also sports an Italian mahogany solid wood tilt steering wheel. The thickly padded helm seat has a fiberglass storage base for durability and a large storage drawer, while deluxe back-to-back passenger seats fold down to become a lounger. The outside edges of wide, deep swim platform extend far enough for secure access to the dock. A stainless steel ladder is concealed within a special compartment for a neater appearance, and a pressurized transom shower is included for quick clean-ups. The walk-through transom door provides easy access to and from the water, making fishing, skiing or any other family water sport a lot easier to enjoy. A wide beam ensures a smooth, dry ride and also affords spacious interior accommodations. The large cabin contains a fully upholstered V-berth and a convertible dinette which can be removed to accommodate filler cushions for a comfortable sleep area. The enclosed head features all fiberglass construction with molded sink and vanity as well as a VacuFlush head with holding tank. Additional standard equipment on the 280 Cuddy Cabin includes power steering, a starboard windshield wiper, Sunbrella bimini top, an electric-lift engine hatch and much more. Plus plenty of options are available from power plant and canvas package upgrades to three different color schemes.
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Some days, I wish I could look into the future. It would be so comforting to gaze into a crystal ball and see myself with a nice apartment, reasonable salary and a french bulldog named Pickles to keep me company. As a senior in college, the picture in the glass is a little foggier now. I haven't quite solidified my post-graduation plans. I'm still not exactly sure where I want to end up or what I want to do.
The way I see it, I have two options. I could give in to my anxiety and nerves and just ignore graduation. Finish my school work and spend the rest of my time in bed, watching Netflix and pretending I have four more years at Drake. It sounds pretty good. No more stress over finding a job or a place to live. However, I could also view this time as one where the world is opening up to me. Never before have I had so many options for how I want to live my life. I could embrace the uncertainty and start shaping my future into what I want it to be.
On the days I find option one tempting, I think about the time I have left at Drake University. Do I want to spend my last two months buried under a pile of blankets, hiding from uncertainty? If I do, I know I will miss so much: nights with the best friends I have ever made, connections with some of the most amazing people I have ever met (my classmates), quiet walks across campus that remind me why I love Drake so much.
Even though I'm nervous, I'm getting ready to face the last part of my college education with joy. I'll keep applying for jobs. I'll try to notice all the good things around me. I'm making a promise to myself to enjoy this time.


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Christina Hendricks became a redhead at the age of 10 after becoming obsessed with the story of Anne Of Green Gables.
The Mad Men star, famed for her flame-red locks, has revealed she is a natural blonde, but started dying her hair as a child with the help of her mother.
Hendricks admits she modeled her look on the red-headed heroine of Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 book.
She says, "I'm naturally a dark blonde. I couldn't tell you what shade because I haven't seen it in ages. I started playing with red hair when I was 10 years old. I recognize how odd it is now, but my mom let me do it.
"I was obsessed with Anne Of Green Gables. There was something about her that spoke to me - and I wanted to have her beautiful red hair. My mom said, 'Well, let's throw a rinse on it.'
"My hair was very blonde at the time, but it went carrot red. And I was over the moon. I went to school the next day and felt like myself."
The actress went on to try out a number of different shades before she eventually went back to red, adding, "In high school, I started experimenting with permanent color. My mom nearly cried one day when I came down the stairs in jet-black hair.
"I got purple, pink and black out of my system during those years. I was a goth kid. I dyed my hair about 42 different colors, shaved it at the back and wore black make-up."


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Sessions run 10–11.30am at Cromhall Village Hall, for the bargain price of £1 per person over 12 months.
We aim to play, craft, have a snack and sing each time.
It's a great place for the little ones to play and the parents to have a cup of tea and a gossip!
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My Sweet Vegan – Book Review
I was almost as excited when I was asked to review Hannah Kaminsky's new cook book, My Sweet Vegan as I was tearing open the package sent with the book inside.
Inviting, fresh and bright, there are full page colour photos for every of the 77 recipes! Flipping through the pages there were so many delicious looking recipes I was ready to try.
Cooking vegan for my relatives, I almost always have a pantry prepared for just about everything. So, with one hand marking the pages of the many treats I wanted to try and the other preparing to grease my cake pans, I sat flipping eagerly, reading over each of the recipe ingredients. Sadly, I found that many desserts depended on specialty items like vegan eggnog, soy creamer, instant potato flakes or specific name brands like Ricemellow Crème. Without any substitution suggestions, my only option was to call around to the health food stores in the city or shop online. Either way, I'd be waiting to buy the ingredients, and if out of the city I might be out of luck for a while and that was way more than my urge to bake could handle.
Although disappointed, I did find the Bananas Foster Cake. Now, I don't know too many people who wouldn't love a banana cake and with five bananas in the mix, this one sounded fantastic.
The cake recipe was perfectly simple to mix up and the batter was light and fluffy. Although my baking time ended up a little longer that what was recommended, the cake looked delicious, even before it was doused in rum. I'm sure the golden and moist cake would have been more than perfect stopping right there!
…But Hannah couldn't end her delicious dessert now, there was frosting and caramelized bananas to go.
Even though I'm not a fan of margarine, I opted to stick to the printed recipe. I had a tough time getting the frosting completely smooth and most of my testers (and surprisingly, my kids included) found the icing a bit sweet but admitted the caramel was a great combination with the bananas.
There is passion and talent all through this book. Hannah, who only just celebrated her 19th birthday, has has written a book filled terrific special occasion recipes and everyday treats. With all the photos and aThis is a book both you and your guests will love.
Now there are the rest of the earmarked pages for me to try. The tempting Pink Lemonade Tartletes, Pumpkin Toffee Trifle and the Silken Chocolate Mousse Cake are topping my list, I just have to wait for my order from the vegan surplus to come in.
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these pics are truly beautiful. i want this book really bad!
Thanks, I always hem and haw on being vegan, primarily because it is exceedingly hard with my family. This looks like a book that might work for all of us. Thanks.
I'm obsessed with 'My Sweet Vegan' – I'm ALWAYS featuring the sweets that I make from that book, on my blog :0) You did a fabulous job on the Bananas Foster Cake from that book – yum!
Your blog and photos are fantastic! Hannah is indeed a very talented YOUNG woman. Great review.
I was extremely excited when I got this book as a gift from my sweet husband. After trying multiple recipes I found issues with most of them. Some needed a lot more cooking time, some never cooked period. I feel as though some of the recipes haven't been tested. I won't lie, I'm kinda disappointed. But I won't give up and I will try all the recipes at least once and perhaps make my own changes. Thanks for supporting veganism.
Thank you for your comment. I always want to hear an honest assessment of a cookbook-especially when there are issues with the end product. This is so helpful for others (and hopefully the author too).


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Since Tim Gillette, who speaks all across the USA, is going to be sharing how using 'Videos' can have a powerful impact in growing your business or blog's brand, we felt our interview for Meet the Speaker should be done by 'Video'. Which for him, fine. He's a genius at them. He loves to share his knowledge, coaching, and uplifting messages using them.
Tim Gillette, rockerlifecoach.com
But for me, WHAT!? $%#%Q$# Like a real VIDEO interview? (I had never really done one)
Nonetheless, ok, I love the cartoon where 'GROWTH' is shown talking to 'COMFORT', and Growth tells comfort, 'Hey, I'm sorry, but this is just not going to work out.'
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
The definition of "Magic"
What was the world reaction to the Wednesday event? Not as good as it should be, by far, folks. Look around. Read the comments! The most stupid and incompetent among us (especially those with difficulty to even pronounce Apple's four letter product name correctly) came out with remarks "No way I'll buy that ever! No camera and no phone!" or "product name sadly reminiscent of female tough days of the month", or "an iPhone on steroids", or that in Irish "iPad" sounds like "iPod" (just like "fuckin'" sounds like "fockin'") and more incredible horseshit like this. Makes you wonder... why is it that morons always tend to be the most vocal in times like these? Do they get paid to act like dickheads?! Or, are they just born with the 'stupid' gene in their nucleic macromolecules?
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that Apple is the ultimate business, marketing, innovating, hardware and software company that has ever come to being. You could run an entire MBA programme based on lessons from them, by just observing the way they run things in that establishment! A little while ago I thought Google was another one along these lines... Until they launched their own smartphone. I then knew we'd be getting more and more of the same, from this point onwards. Another Microsoft on the making! Sad truth...
In the beginning of his keynote Jobs described his strategy in few single words. Every word weighted a ton of the deepest meaning, mind you... Come to think of it, the essence of what he said is much like the story we keep teaching students at MBAs. The story of the old bull and the young bull. Ever heard that one? No? Here you go:
There were, once upon a time, an old bull (father) and a young bull (son) minding their own business on top of the hill. It was midsummer and hot. Suddenly, their attention gets drawn downhill, where they spot a herd of juicy young cows enjoying the sun and the green grass while their cowbells fill the air with the music of a familiar Swiss-cowbell sound. The young bull, eyes wide open, all his bull hormones in overdrive, screams - Wow dad, let's rush downhill and shag them all! The wise ol' bull yawns for a few secs, farts loud and, full of himself, he's like: Take it easy, son! We'll just walk down slowly and take them one by one.
That's the way Steve does it. Reinvent markets, throw well designed products at them next, and take them all one by one. Enjoying the act quietly, just like the old bull. Come to think of it, that's the way by which Gates has initially grown Microsoft too. Only, Jobs has always created new knowledge and user experience by re-inventing common objects, whereas Gates copied everybody else. However, these days, the real problem for Microsoft is that Ballmer is too stupid to even do the copycat properly... he just watches his heavyweight giant bull company rushing downhill looking for cows, when the latter have gone home long, very long ago!
The Apple stats that Jobs showed us are nothing short of stunning: 12 Billion downloads of 'thingies' from their online stores (music, videos, apps). 75 million iPhones and iPods Touch sold todate (this is the market that doesn't need any additional training to operate the iPad). 250 million iPods sold todate. 15.6 billion dollars Apple revenues in a quarter (approx 50B annually). Largest mobile devices vendor worldwide by revenue (laptops, phones, music players). Behind Apple you'll find struggling Sony, Samsung and even Nokia, while the kids at Cupertino continue enjoying hefty profit margins and generate cash to lick your fingers...Who can do better?
Makes you sad thinking about what that other arrogant moron, Michael Dell, had to say about Apple, back then, around the turn of the century, when asked what his opinion was on future Apple prospects: The best thing to do with Apple, said he, is liquidate the company and give whatever's left back to the shareholders. Well said Mickey (Mouse)! It's exactly what Jobs is thinking about you right now but is civil enough not to mention it... in public!
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Friday, January 29, 2010
I'm travelling back home tomorrow noon. It's been snowing there I'm told. Hope snow melts by the time I head to my village from Zaventem. We've been freaked out with snow this year so far. Climate warming my ass. Heard this, Al?
Project meetings went well and we even had some time to walk around in town near the end of the day. Not much to see, mind you, other than old ruin houses on the brink of collapse. If an earthquake were to hit here, God forbid, welcome Haiti all over again. This place looks like a Georges Meis paradise. (Meis is a Greek photographer who shoots tourist posters with saturated colors and he's in love with ruins and buildings dissolving to earth.) He'd better come to Setùbal. Plenty of that around. Sanford & Son style. As I was wondering around in the narrow streets first day of arrival, with my point-'n-shoot, a fat dude got mad at me seeing me shooting the ruins and began harassing me in Setubal Portugese, which of course I get perfectly like I do... Mandarine Chinese! Not? I answered back in Greek to revenge the f@cker and he kept shouting at me in his fado misery until I vanished around the corner. What went wrong with that moron? Portugese folks are normally pretty sane people for as far as I know them. This freak was from another planet, seemed to me.
Click here to take a look at my shots of that day! Look how Setubal looks on an average afternoon of the week. If you like what you see, come here to spend some holidays. The place lives from the thousands of tourists like you and me. But take summer instead. Right now I'd stay away if I were you. Other than the blue skies, it's pretty miserable cold. Even for folks like me landing here from the North.
Hotel room, a reasonably descent space with the best spring mattress I had in ages, cost me 38 euros a night (well, that's a preferential rate offered to all of us from our project venue), but internet connection by Swisscom cost 13 euros per 24 hrs. Obscene Swiss busterds! Sucking Portugese blood away. Finally, great (fresh) fish restaurants in town costing you next to nothing. A huge grilled dorade we had this noon, of phenomenal size mind you, plus local antipasti to our heart's desire for two, with wine and water, all that for 48 euros. As good as 'free'.
I met José at noon today, an old colleague from the late nineties, early 2K. Was good to see him again. Looked even younger than ten years ago. Every time I've been here last few trips José was always there to spend a few hours with me and even pay me lunch and drinks! Good kid! The best! Besides, he's a big shot nowadays in the US software company he works for. I'm like, "which countries do you run these days, J?". He goes "All of them!". Eyes (mine) wide open! "The whole freakin' Europe?! OMG. Well done kid!". He smiles. "...but, I'm reporting to someone over the other side of the pond. I rather had a layer in between, you know..." I do, exactly what he means! Yankees raised to WW managers by their multinationals back in the States often think they know it all and come 'n tell us, miserable Europeans, that all that shit is the same everywhere. No difference between New Jersey and Luxembourg. Dream on dude! Like tiramisu bein' kinda same with creme brulé!
Back to my room and writing this blog. Apple is down 8 points! Ever since the iPad came out the market has been slaughtering them like pigs! No use worrying too much about that, however. They'll come back in a few days, sure thing. Great buying opportunity, if you asked me. Market correction on the make. I'll go continue reading Brown's 'lost symbol' instead, that I bought at the Brussels airport on my way here, to fall asleep amid his latest masonic intrigues! This dude really goes to great lengths to discover the source of few common things... like ties (cravats) etymologically (phonetically) originating from Croat warriors. And tattoos. Tell us somethin' we didn't know Danny boy!
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Monday, January 18, 2010
I feel grumpy this morning...
A friend sent me a link to this article on the FT talking about Sir John (Eliot Gardiner), famous British conductor (a farmer's son), married to an Italian and living in SW England, in Dorset somewhere. Happy man! Rich, and independent and much loved by his intellectuals fans, touring with orchestras around the world and delighting classic music lovers. He's 66 and still going. I was invited to one of his concerts by a vendor a few years back, at the Bozar in Brussels. A friend of mine, who was with me at that event, came up to his Sir'ness and asked him to sign his autograph on my pal's programme leaflet. I had no idea who Gardiner was then, other than seeing him conduct the concert, and as I am not a Bach expert by any means, I didn't care much either. It was an evening like any other. Big deal!
Reason I'm bringing this up is the fact that Sir John is an example of a successful individual who will die happy, as he keeps doing at 66 what he enjoys most and gets paid good money too, I reckon. While, millions like me, 10 years younger than Sir John, feel miserable, depressed and useless. Everybody gets what he/she deserves used to say my first boss ever back in 1980. We deserve the wives and mistresses, offsprings, friends, jobs, bosses, and our subordinates. Our customers and suppliers. Even our neighbors. And above all, our health condition (except for congenital malaises) and mental state. I shouldn't complain therefore... as I'm the only one to blame for today's crankiness, after all being said and done. Nevertheless... my obvious discernment doesn't make me feel any better.
I published a blog a few days ago where I talked about people I know. This created so much controversy among those concerned that I had to take it down by the end of the day. People can be so hypersensitive sometimes... Never mind. In a few billion years from now every form of life and logic on the planet will be long gone, and turnt into fire and dust. Why care then? Makes you wonder... what has been the purpose of all this in the first place, anyway? Like the lyrics go:
I mean - what have you got to lose?
You know, you come from nothing
you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing.
Glen Miller soft music fills in the background. The older I get the deeper I dig into the past for musical and intellectual entertainment. A friend bought me the Seneca's essays recently, to study and learn. I'm such a lazy reader though. Especially when the subjects are abstract and deal with the human mind. About spiritual, philosophical and human relationship related concepts. Give me things I can grasp instead. Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Computers. At least these deal with tangible objects. As an example, I started 'studying' biochemistry recently. Can you just believe this??? Given my past general background in chemistry was nothing short of absolute nada, this recent pastime became a fascinating experience, almost an obsession. I never imagined nature would be so complex, and ingenius. Darwin's discovery of the 'evolution' law is so cool! One of the best, if not the best concepts discovered by God and man ever. Well, God 'invented' it, whereas man (Darwin) discovered it.
Also, the scholars and scientists, who during the last hundred fifty years worked on these subjects, are mind boggling. Having 'studied' some bachelor level biology in the process, I decided to experiment on myself with some of the things I've been reading. Being a 'borderline' diabetic (type 2) I enjoyed to observe the impact on my blood-sugar of an adapted daily diet that I worked out all by myself. To the point each time I eat something nowadays, I mentally 'follow' the sneaky glucose molecules travel from my intestines into my blood and liver, and I almost witness in my mind the chemical cell reactions that (must) occur as part of my metabolism. Especially those liver cells are fascinating. I even tried once to mentally visualize those obnoxious DNA replication processes (with mRNA and all) that led to a bunch of messed-up proteins hanging out in the cytoplasm that eventually turned some of those cells inside my colon tissue into a malignant cancer (took them ten years to show-up, dirty devils...), leading to my biggest scare in life, and subsequent operation that I finally survived two years ago. Who knows? I might have spared loads of misery to many if I ended up six feet under then...
You see, before all this started, I only knew that there was this long molecule called DNA, about which experts claimed it 'carried genetic code' defining who we are and what we'll become. Having studied engineering more than 35 yeas ago, I was trained to 'think' in models and abstractions of reality. How the hell would a sequence of chemical compounds, entangled together in one hell of a macromolecule, can define whether your nose will become longer than any average Joe Blow's or that you get skinhead bold at 25? Too complex, far too complex to grasp by plain vanilla engineers.
Anyways, I might share some more of that... eventually. You might learn something in the process too. In the meantime it's getting close to 9:30am EST as we speak, and the market is about to kick-in. Time to go make or lose some day-trading dough. Can you blame me?
Oh, shoot! Martin Luther King bank-holiday today and the markets are closed. What can you do?
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
Loyal to a year-end holidays tradition I recently paid a visit at Sani Imports, a wholesale Greek food supplier in Brussels. Among many lip-smacking goodies I also bought a small box of melomakarona. Has been long, very long really, since I tasted those. That was in the sixties, back in Greece, when my mommy dearest enjoyed preparing fattening sweets in spades for her adolescent kanakari! Never imagined that my deary spouse would have loved them so bad, to the point that she decided to prepare them on her own. So, in a net search for a traditional recipe 'made in Greece' I fell upon this video clip shown on Greek TV. Watch it to the end and don't mind your lack of understanding Greek at all. Pictures are worth a thousand words... And video clips are worth millions... I gotta say though, quite an original way to present recipes, and between you and I, exceptionally fit to all those oversexed Greek machos.
I've seen more food recipe programs in my life than I would have ever wished for. In this country alone we have at least half a dozen running on various channels. Not to mention that dreadful fat cow Nigela Lawson on BBC with her suicidal X-mas recipes this time of the year. I hate the woman. She's been always using preposterous amounts of sugar-and-fat rich ingredients in her recipes, and then she's the first to gobble her own vomit... her ass eventually growing to a frightening shape that skilled cameramen are careful to stay away from during her broadcasting, upon penalty of getting sacked. Anyways... However, I never came across such an inspiring formula like that of the Greeks, ever before. Food and sex?! Why not? Our ancestors did that in spades. Called them symposia and orgies. Spaghetti Romans copied them later into the infamous Rome sex parties. And refined them further to the level of excellence. Until that moron Emperor Constantine the Great came by... and killed all the fun! What can ye' say? Combining pleasures... Most creative ideas are really born in Greece, aren't they?
I've seen more food recipe programs in my life than I would have ever wished for. In this country alone we have at least half a dozen running on various channels. Not to mention that dreadful fat cow Nigela Lawson on BBC with her suicidal X-mas recipes this time of the year. I hate the woman. She's been always using preposterous amounts of sugar-and-fat rich ingredients in her recipes, and then she's the first to gobble her own vomit... her ass eventually growing to a frightening shape that skilled cameramen are careful to stay away from during her broadcasting, upon penalty of getting sacked. Anyways... However, I never came across such an inspiring formula like that of the Greeks, ever before. Food and sex?! Why not? Our ancestors did that in spades. Called them symposia and orgies. Spaghetti Romans copied them later into the infamous Rome sex parties. And refined them further to the level of excellence. Until that moron Emperor Constantine the Great came by... and killed all the fun! What can ye' say? Combining pleasures... Most creative ideas are really born in Greece, aren't they?
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Blue Cheese Cocktail Crackers
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These savory little bites are great to serve with drinks. They're also a tasty snack for game day. Prep and Cook Time: about 35 minutes.
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Preheat oven to 350°. With a mixer on medium speed, cream together cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy. Add cayenne, blue cheese, flour, rice cereal, and bacon (if using) and beat on medium-low speed until well blended. The dough will be stiff.
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Roll 1-tablespoon portions into balls and place slightly apart on baking sheets. Flatten each ball with a fork.
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I also wanted a stronger tasting cracker. I would up the cayenne (1/2 tsp +) and blue cheese (2 cups). Dough would probably stand up to a cookie press. Could also possibly roll out the dough and use cookie cutters.


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"Powerful, but fragile": Greenheart Alumni Service Project on the Tibetan Plateau
By Maggie Dziubek, High School Programs Administrative Assistant
In a remote area on the Tibetan plateau called Hoh Xil, conservationists work in harsh conditions to protect the area's unique biodiversity from poachers and miners. Earlier this year, Mini Yuan, an F1 High School Program alumna from China used a Greenheart Grant to make a big difference in the lives of the people working to save this beautiful but remote land.
A Greenheart Grant is a financial award given to exemplary members of the Greenheart Club. It provides participants with the opportunity to create, improve, or maintain a community-focused project abroad or at home.
Mini Yuan cultivated a passion for the environment in her three years as an exchange student at Bethlehem Academy in Faribault, Minnesota. As an active member of the Greenheart Club, Mini logged plenty of volunteer hours doing things like watering trees at a nature center and cleaning up a local highway with fellow students.
Now, as a student at Johns Hopkins University, Mini is double majoring in Molecular Cellular Biology and Medicine, as well as Science and Humanity. In her (rare) free time she volunteers at a community garden close to campus. Mini likes to say she is "nutty about the environment".
Like many Greenheart alumni, Mini is a global thinker. Two years ago she went on her first research trip to Hoh Xil, a region of the Tibetan plateau that's home to over 230 species, 20 of which are legally protected by the Chinese government. Mini's trip connected her with a group of conservationists who work with the local community to prevent poaching and illegal mining on the region's wildlife reserve.
While she was visiting Hoh Xil, Mini got a taste of what life was like for the people who lived there. Although the landscape is magical, extreme temperatures make vehicles unreliable and years of irresponsible mining has made the water supply heavily mercury-poisoned.
Realizing that the welfare of the people patrolling the reserve had been routinely overlooked, Mini decided to do something to help make their lives better. She applied for a Greenheart Grant, and used most of her $1,000 award to purchase supplies for proper water filtration. With grant money to spare, she also contributed headlamps for the patrols and new gas tanks for their vehicles. Mini says she's glad to be able to help the people who have dedicated themselves to preserve the "powerful, but fragile," land of Hoh Xil.
Do you have an idea for a community-based project at home or abroad? The next deadline to apply for a Greenheart Grant is May 1st.


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Geothermal Energy In India, Present Status And Future Prospects
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Journal Article: Geothermal Energy In India, Present Status And Future Prospects
AbstractSystematic exploration of geothermal resources began after compilation of an inventory of surface manifestations by the Hot Spring Committee in 1968. Barring one or two locations, the geothermal resources are of low and intermediate temperatures. Based on the recommendation of the Hot Spring Committee, detailed studies were conducted initially in the Puga Valley, Parbati Valley and West Coast. UNDP assistance was provided for exploration in the Parbati Valley and West Coast. Exploration has since been extended to a few more areas. The results obtained so far have indicated the possibility of power generation at Puga by conventional methods, and by binary cycle technology in the Parbati Valley. In the meantime, efforts have been made to use low temperature resources in space-heating, cold storage, bathing and tourism.
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Description: In this photo taken at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in 1989 smoke and tuft flow visualization, the vortex formed over the front part of the fuselage on NASA's F-18 HARV is made visible. The angle of attack here is 20 degrees. In the region over the wing, the vortex is seen to grow suddenly in diameter -- this process is called vortex bursting. The vortex interacts with the boundary layer on the wing, and vortex bursting can greatly alter the flow pattern. Some of the flow pattern over the wing and fuselage is made visible using tufts, which are small pieces of string or similar material. Since they have very small stiffness or inertia, they give an indication of the instantaneous flow direction in the region of the flow near the surface.
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OFCCP Rescinds Medical Providers DirectiveJune 2012 – Articles Staying Well Within the Law
On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that it has rescinded Policy Directive 293, which provided guidance for determining whether a health care provider or insurer falls within the OFCCP's jurisdiction as a federal contractor or subcontractor. In particular, Directive No. 293 provided that healthcare entities that merely received reimbursement payments from TRICARE or otherwise participated in a TRICARE network were federal contractors or subcontractors and thus subject to its jurisdiction. The OFCCP maintained that such health care entities were required to comply with federal affirmative action rules and regulations such as preparing an Affirmative Action Plan and submitting to compliance evaluations and audits.
According to the DOL's Office of the Solicitor, the recent enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the pending case of OFCCP v. Florida Hospital of Orlando, ALJ Case No 2009-OFC-0002 (October 18, 2010) warranted the rescission of Directive 293. In sum, Section 715 of the NDAA states that a TRICARE managed care support contract that includes the requirement to establish, manage or maintain a network of providers may not be considered a contract for the performance of health care service or supplies for the purpose of determining whether such network providers are subcontractors under the Federal Acquisition Regulation or any other law. Based on the enactment of Section 715 of the NDAA, Florida Hospital of Orlando moved to dismiss an OFCCP complaint that sought to assert jurisdiction over the hospital based on its participation in TRICARE.
As a result of these developments, the OFCCP has announced that it will be sending out letters in the coming weeks to health care providers or insurers who have pending compliance evaluations to notify them if the agency is still asserting a basis for jurisdiction other than TRICARE. If a health care provider or insurer receives this notification, it will have 30 days, from the date of receipt of the letter, to submit the Affirmative Action Plan requested in the OFCCP's original scheduling letter.
Ultimately, this development should be good news for many health care providers and insurers as the OFCCP will no longer be seeking to assert jurisdiction over them merely based on their participation in or receipt of reimbursements from TRICARE. Hence, many healthcare entities and insurers will no longer be deemed federal contractors or subcontractors and thus will not be required to prepare Affirmative Action Plans, submit to compliance evaluations and audits or otherwise comply with federal affirmative action rules and regulations.


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California is reducing its dependence on in-state hydroelectric generation because of increasing drought conditions and reduced snowpack accumulation. The state reduced its overall electricity consumption from 2013 to 2014 by 1 percent, and it decreased the amount of electricity imported from the Northwest and Southwest by 2.6 percent. 2014 was the warmest winter on record in the state, and Southern California experienced slowed economic growth.
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Chicken Rice
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For the Marinade:
- 175 g long grain rice
- 50 g frozen peas
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 140 g onion, finely chopped
- 80 g red pepper, diced
- 1 tsp garlic puree
- 150 g chicken breast, diced
- 50 g tinned sweetcorn
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- 2 tsp Hoisin sauce
- 1 tsp ketchup
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp honey
- 100 ml chicken stock
- 2 eggs,lightly beaten
- a little salt
- 1 1/2 tsp sunflower oil
- Cook the rice in boiling water according to the packet instructions. Add the peas 4 minutes before the end of the cooking time. Drain well.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan. Add the onion and fry for 3 minutes. Add the pepper and garlic and fry for 5 minutes until soft. Add the chicken and fry until just cooked. Add the rice, peas and sweetcorn. Mix all of the sauce ingredients together. Pour over the rice and fry for one minute.
- Season the eggs with a little salt. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Make a thin omelette by pouring into the pan and then swirl abound the base and cook for 2 to 3 minutes until just set. Turn out onto a board, cut into thin strips.
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``I, myself, am of an old family,`` Count Dracula was confiding on my Walkman the other night, ``and I do not seek gaiety or mirth. Nor . . . much . . . sunshine. I am no longer young, and my heart through weary years of mourning over the dead is not attuned to . . . brightness. . . . I love the shade. And the shadow.``
Not for shoveling snow, I decided, this absorbing production of Bram Stoker`s classic boiled down to two audio cassettes by the Mind`s Eye, one of the many producers of talking books. ``Dracula`` deserves a captive audience that can really listen; so I scheduled it for a commuting run on the car stereo.


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In the morning, the President will arrive in Stockholm, Sweden. Upon arrival, the President will participate in an official arrival ceremony at Stockholm-Arlanda International Airport. The official arrival ceremony will be open press.
While in Sweden, the President will hold a bilateral meeting and joint press conference with Prime Minister Reinfeldt at the Rosenbad Building. There will be a pool spray at the top of the bilateral meeting and the press conference is open to pre-credentialed media.
In the afternoon the President will participate in an event honoring Raoul Wallenberg at the Great Synagogue in Stockholm. Afterwards, the President will tour an expo featuring clean energy innovations at the Royal Institute of Technology. There will be travel pool coverage of the President's visit to the Great Synagogue as well as the President's tour of the clean energy expo.
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Presented as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival, 21:100:100 features 100 works by 100 sound artists produced in the 21st century. This exhibition is the first significant survey in Melbourne to explore and chronicle the extraordinary developments that have occurred in contemporary sound art.
Working in collaboration with Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and internationally-acclaimed Australian artists, Oren Ambarchi and Marco Fusinato, the event publication drew on notions of time and sequence, stereophonic sound and the eclectic, yet often collaborative practice of sound art. The publication design embodies the historical confluence of genres, styles, forms and emanations of the exhibition, taking influence and acknowledgment of the fact that time is limited and that time is the primary matter of sound.
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RHONY's Ramona Singer reveals terrifying details of her traumatic childhood
Ramona Singer's life hasn't always been glamour and glitz. In fact, the stories of her childhood she tells in her upcoming memoir are downright shocking and will make you ache for her.
The The Real Housewives of New York star says she grew up in a "war zone," thanks to her violent alcoholic father, and her nightmare didn't stop until she gave him a taste of his own medicine.
In one particularly dramatic excerpt from her book Life on the Ramona Coaster, the reality TV star describes the moment she finally found the courage to save herself.
"He gets in my face. I can smell the rancid alcohol on his breath and see the rancor in his eyes," she wrote. "Then he gets in my mother's face, alternating scathing insults between us."
"Something he says, I can't recall what, hits a nerve. I snap."
More: RHONY's Ramona Singer discusses low, near-suicidal moment of her life
Singer writes that she grabbed the "biggest knife with the longest and thickest blade" and fought back.
"Without hesitation, I lunge toward him, point the sharp blade directly at his face and scream, 'Stop it. Stop it right now… Or I swear I will take this knife and shove it into your neck,'" she wrote. "He backs away, startled."
He did back off, and the incident was never discussed again, but it had a devastating effect on the then-15-year-old.
"I lost forever whatever was left of my childhood," she wrote. "I lost my innocence."
She and her father didn't reconcile until shortly before his death in 2008.
Life on the Ramona Coaster hits bookshelves on Tuesday, July 28, 2015.
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Joseph: A Concise Jamaican Breakdown
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How exactly did Joseph weather the storm of false incarceration? Sold out by his own flesh and blood no less. How could they? And how does this affect the dreams he had? He chose to trust God through it all and see where it led him.
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Getting to Know the Basics of a Fake Doctor's Note Templates
Need an excuse for absence from work, a note from a doctor stating a simple medical condition is the most common excuse we resort to. But it is not possible to approach a 'real' doctor for a 'fake' medical condition. So, what do we do? Search the internet – fake templates of doctors notes are available online. Some are free and some come with some minimal charge.
There are several options available when you look online. There is a form that you have to fill. These will typically contain your name, age, work, why you need a fake doctor' note, what sort of excuse are you looking to give and so on.
There are also blank templates available, which you can edit and match to your information. There are templates that offer readymade medical reasons or excuses for absence from work. These templates are specific and when you choose such a template ensure that the note does not raise a suspicion and make someone from work double-check the details.
Also, when you are using such a template it is important to give the physician's name/ clinic name and address. It is important that you use only a fictitious name and living within a reasonable distance of your neighbourhood.
Also, make it a point to remember the details you have given in the note and be cautiously confident. Make the excuse and the note as a whole believable and not something flimsy or over-the-top that raises doubts and calls for a double check.
Please note, that if you fake a real doctor's name or hospital name, it is illegal and you will invite action from the legal authorities for forgery. So, exercise caution and do not get into trouble for a seemingly simple need to get away from work for some time. Try not to use these notes often and refrain from bragging about these to anyone.


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Not since the Microsoft of the mid-`90s have we had so much angst over the ambitions of an evil empire bent on taking control of the entire universe. Oh, stop it. Google is a brilliant company and one of the forces redefining the advertising model. And it's taking a big chunk of ad change off the table -more than $6 billion this year.
But despite fear-tinged media reports (including those in our pages) and the concerns of industry executives, the search engine is not about to put every magazine, cable network, ad agency and lemonade stand out of business. Industry leaders need to quit acting as if it will and focus on how they can innovate and adapt to a changing marketplace. Stop complaining, start competing.
Ad Age, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal all ran fresh stories last week on Google's Madison Ave. ambitions. The Times' piece made the company sound particularly frightening, and on Halloween the paper carried a scary full-page ad from Google recruiting sales managers with promises of an entrepreneurial environment.
My guess is the company was flooded with resumes, but that's a reflection not only of Google's smarts but on how complacent Big Media has gotten. The appeal stemmed at least in part from how relatively unappealing other media companies have made themselves seem by comparison.
Yes, Google is likely to try its hand at TV advertising, but it would be wrong to assume the company will revolutionize and dominate any segment it enters. It's also a stretch to believe the computer science model that serves it so well in delivering relevant online text ads will replace all the value of human relationships and creativity. Marketing accountability is a science, but God help us if art and emotion are drained in the quest for it.
The Times noted that Google is "looking toward a world of digital cable boxes and Internet-delivered television that will allow it to show commercials tailored for each viewer." Well, get in line; Google is far from the first to recognize the opportunity to deliver targeted TV creative in a digital environment. This is not to say Google won't succeed in extending its model to other media; merely that it should encounter vigorous competition in trying to.
To determine whether my theory-that Googlephobia has jumped the shark-holds water, I put in a call to Jim Cramer. The hyperactive host of CNBC's cult hit "Mad Money" is as astute a media observer as he is a stock picker, and would delightedly call bullshit on me if I deserved it.
As a stock, Cramer remains bullish on Google: "Oh my God, it goes much higher," he told me. "It has a $100 billion market cap and a lot of cash."
Cramer's view on Big Media's irrational fear of Google is that-as with all fears-it's born of ignorance. "The cowering has to do with the fact that they don't even know what the Web offers. They're clueless."
Although he writes magazine and newspaper columns, and does radio and TV, Cramer believes traditional-media execs don't have a deep enough understanding of their online and digital-media rivals to compete. In particular, he puts daily newspapers on the endangered list-"they're dead," he shouted into his cellphone as he made his way to the studio one morning. "Kids are never going to get papers. It's idiotic, like getting milk delivered to your door." Subtle, he isn't.
Traditional media's only hope, he says, is to learn more about the enemy and figure out how to counterattack. "It would be really helpful if they went on Yahoo and figured out that it's more than a chat board. At least they'd be able to program against it."


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GSS: Geospatial Science
GSS 105 - F: Introduction to Maps and Mapping
An introduction to the study and design of map formats, symbology, coordinate systems, and how maps record the historical patterns of human behavior. The course will also examine maps as a tool to analyze human activity and societal development, and include important aspects of map data collection, processing, the Global Positioning System (GPS), quantitative mapping, and GIS-based mapmaking techniques.
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GSS 209: GIS and Cartography
Cartography is the knowledge associated with the art, science, and technology of maps. Digital computer cartography still follows the same fundamental principles and still requires a broad understanding of graphicacy as a language (as well as numeracy and literacy). This course will provide an introduction to cartographic principles, concepts, software and hardware necessary to produce good maps, especially in the context (and limitations) of geographic information systems (GIS).
Prerequisite: SBC 113
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GSS 313: GIS Design and Application I
This course provides the basic concepts underlying modern geographic information science and technology. Emphasis is placed on the principles of GIS for characterizing environmental systems and computer-based techniques for processing and analyzing spatial data. The course includes three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory exercises each week.
Prerequisite: MAT 125 or MAT 131
4 credits
GSS 323: GIS Database and Design
Concepts of geodatabase design and management in geographic information systems (GIS), SQL statements, geographic data types and functions, data entry, techniques of geographic information structure applications. This is a Windows based computer class with the majority of students work involving GIS computer software.
Prerequisite: GSS 313
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GSS 325: GIS Design & Applications II
The course builds upon the topics covered in GIS Design and Application I. It emphasizes the applications of GIS in solving real-world problems. Students are expected to gain an understanding of GIS theory, methodology and most importantly application. Students are also expected to demonstrate abilities of spatial thinking, spatial analysis, and be able to solve practical spatial problems utilizing a GIS. Because GIS is both a tool for analysis and the visual communication of these data, students will be required to develop a GIS presentation, much as would be expected in a professional setting. This independent project will constitute a substantial portion of the final grade. This is a Windows based computer class with the majority of students work involving GIS computer software.
Prerequisite: GSS 313 or equivalent
3 credits
GSS 326: GIS Project Management
The course addresses issues unique to a GIS operation such as implementation issues, decision making procedures, strategies for success, legal issues, involvement of management, marking within an organization, strategic planning, and industry outlook.
Prerequisite: GSS 313
3 credits
GSS 487: Geospatial Science Research
Qualified advanced undergraduates may carry out individual research projects under the direct supervision of a faculty member. Repeatable to a maximum of 3 credits.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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GSS 488: Geospatial Science Internship
The GSS Internship is designed to provide students experience in the real workplace. Interns are expected to function as a GIS/Remote Sensing professional and work within the existing host facility structure or on a free standing project. Interns will complete assigned tasks by hosting facility such as GIS data entry, data retrieval, remote sensing analysis, GPS field work, documentation, or general GIS facility duties. These activities will be monitored by both a representative of the host facility and the instructor. May be repeated to a limit of 12 credits.
Prerequisites: GSS 313 and GSS 325, or instructor consent
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Tight finishes in Stallion Stakes
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Gutty performances and close finishes were the order of the day in Sunday's New York Stallion Stakes at Aqueduct as the combined margin of victory in the four races was 1 3/4 lengths.
The New York Stallion Stakes are restricted to progeny of New York-based stallions, thus are not open to all New York-breds.
In the $100,000 Fifth Avenue for 2-year-olds, Baxter, under Kent Desormeaux ran down stablemate Landofopportunity to win by a neck at the wire. Both horses are trained by John Hertler. It was 1 3/4 lengths back to pacesetting Son of Sabato in third.
Baxter, the 7-5 favorite, got shuffled back to last, split horses to gain contention coming to the quarter pole, then kept coming with a determined run to get up in the final strides. Baxter, a son of American Chance owned by Margaret Carrothers and Patricia Parker, covered the six furlongs in 1:10.87 and returned $4.90.
In the $100,000 Great White Way for 2-year-old fillies, Laurentide Ice rallied from last under Cornelio Velasquez and outfinished 9-5 favorite Twistaway to win by a half-length. It was 1 1/2 lengths back to All Fired Up in third.
Laurentide Ice, who had finished second in the Joseph A. Gimma and third in the Maid of the Mist - both restricted to New York-breds - was last and saving ground down the backside. Velasquez moved her off the rail approaching the quarter pole and took her to the center of the track for the stretch drive. She got past Twistaway, who had taken over from Crosstown Traffic and All Fired Up inside the eighth pole.
Laurentide Ice, a daughter of Intidab trained by Mark Hennig and owned by Camelia Casby, covered the six furlongs in 1:11.93 and returned $6.90 as the second choice.
In the $75,000 Perfect Arc for fillies and mares on turf, Artistic Express squeezed through a narrow opening on the rail under Velasquez to nip a game Baby Gray by a neck. It was a half-length back to Higher Incentive in third.
Baby Gray, under Eddie Martin Jr., had taken a two-length lead after running six furlongs in 1:12.53. When it looked like she would be swallowed up in the stretch, Baby Gray fought gamely to the wire but just couldn't hold off Artistic Express.
Artistic Express, a daughter of Western Expression owned by Chester and Mary Broman and trained by Ramon Hernandez, covered 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.80 over good turf and returned $7.40 as the second choice.
The favored entry of Fairytale Story and Classic Expression finished fifth and eighth, respectively.
In the $75,000 Cormorant for colts and geldings on turf, Red Zipper took over from the pacesetting Retribution midway around the far turn then held off the late-running Pa Pa Da to win by three-quarters of a length. Retribution, the 2-1 favorite, finished fourth.
Red Zipper, a son of City Zip owned by Jeffrey Tucker and owned by John Morrison, covered the 1 1/16 miles under Eibar Coa in 1:43.94 and returned $22.60 to win.


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The adjustments this time were
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- add 1.5cm at centre seams on peplum, so the flounce is untounched
- drop the neckline and fix gaposis
- redraw the base of the cap sleeve.
And the neckline is now a v-neck.
Here's the redrawn sleeve pattern. I took more off the sleeve length at the base on the sleeve, using a french curve. The peplum is still 2" shorter than the pattern.
There's a row of purple piping on the edge of the cap sleeve. The sleeves are lined. Bias binding is used to finish the neck edge, hem, zipper seams and sleeve edges. I'll be wearing this as you would a basic white top.
I have visions of using this pattern for a casual jacket but for now, I have to get back to my planned project commitments in between cleaning the house. I know - both situations are sad:)
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The Great British Sewing Bee episode 4.
Congratulations to the finalists. You lucky sewers in the UK can put your hand up to be part of series 2.