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Luxury bedrooms with inspiring ideas to help transform your own bedroom into a royal chamber, with a little creativity and a fair bit of money!
Bedrooms fit for royalty in Marie Antoinette style
Decorating ideas and decor for Marie Antoinette themed bedrooms here
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Inspired by French Rococo antiques found in the grand salons of Paris.
Sculpted roses and griffins spring forth from this replica 17th century antique destined to become a striking centerpiece of your home.
Designed to anchor safely to a wall, the stately, almost yard-tall console is topped with a beautiful, quality faux marble top.
The generously sized, companion salon mirror sparkles to reflect its own ornate, beribboned sculpt.
Beautifully paired in a stylish entryway, both grand scale pieces are cast in quality designer resin and finished in faux antique gold as an investment in European style. Furniture for a Marie Antoinette themed bedroom.
Large Baroque Design Wall Stencil
This large baroque wall panel stencil consists of 4 layers with the following dimensions: 25" W x 78" H.
This large baroque design is a perfect panel to use with a classic decor.
The floral spray #3264 can be used in the middle.
The plastic stencil is cut by laser on 5 mil plastic.
Small Baroque Design Wall Stencil
This gorgeous bed crown will make any bedroom worthy of a palace!
Bed crowns such as these were used in period mansions to add drama to a room.
BED CROWN Tester Wrought Iron Cast
Personalize this crown as another shopper did ....
I repainted it to make it brighter. I used gold spray paint, acrylic gold paint, and an acrylic spray topcoat.
Gold Iron Tissue Box Holder Ornate
Twisted rope trim and detailed iron tassles give a luxe period look.
Gold Iron Waste Basket
With its romantic Victorian design, our swag and tassel wastebasket is a practical accent piece.
Twisted rope trim and detailed iron tassles give a luxe period look.
Wrought Iron Hand Towel Rack
Hand finished in antiqued gold with brass and bronze highlights.
Howard Elliott Arlington Gold Baroque Mirror
A luxury bedding collection in colors of blue and gold, the Isabella Collection Camelia Bedding from designer Kathy Fielder lends a classic, refined and elegant look to any Victorian inspired bedroom décor. Gilded with gold color and displaying an eclectic mix of patterns, the Isabella Collection Camelia bedding ensemble is a hallmark of sophistication. Available in Queen and King sizes, the Isabella Collection Camelia duvet is richly embossed with a gold colored motif on a blue ground and finished with gold colored tassels. Enhance the Camelia bedding ensemble with the available bedskirt featuring a striped pattern in blue and gold in a ruffled design with varying drops of 16, 18, 20 and 22-inches in Queen and King sizes. The available standard and king shams feature a welt design with the medallion print in the middle against a lattice design finished with a tassel trim. The European sham features a striped pattern in gold and blue colors accented with a ruffled flange. Complement the Camelia bedding collection with the available decorative pillows; a boudoir pillow embossed with a medallion print in gold color on a blue ground embroidered with gold colored gimps with tasseled edges, a square pillow-mitered featuring a multicolored frame in blue and gold against a blue ground in a mitered design, a pieced lattice pillow featuring an embroidered lattice design in gold color on a blue ground accentuated by a stitched gimp lattice in gold color accented with a ruffled flange, a neckroll pillow embellished with an embroidered leaf pattern in gold on a blue ground with ruffled edges, and a square pillow-tassel row adorned with rows of gold colored tassels. The available curtain panel features a gold colored pattern on a sheer ground available in two lengths
Gorgeous and elegant bed with a unique design feature in processing quilted headboard and frame in white and gold leaf.
Elegant and prestigious sofa finished with particular minimal gold leaf
Gorgeous and elegant bed with a unique design feature in processing quilted headboard and frame in white and gold leaf.
French queen Marie Antoinette, whose marriage at fifteen made her queen of France before she was twenty, died under the blade of the guillotine in 1793. She has been romanticized as the martyred queen, admired eighteenth-century French royal style, and vilified as the Austrian whose frivolous extravagance and foreign sympathies fired the French Revolution.
These opulent bedrooms are steeped in luxury .... wrapped in gold embossed designs, mixed with shimmering fabrics, regal damasks, and subtly layered into a serene composition that begs to be touched and enjoyed.
Bring in sophisticated old-world European glamour
Palace of Versailles" Petite Accent Pedestal Table
Adopt a stylish French accent with this right-sized spot for a favorite sculpture or showy potted plant.
Replicated from the highly sought after Louis XVI Quridon tables of the late 18th century, this ornamental work with elegant Baroque arch is cast in quality designer resin with a faux marble top and gold gilding. Imagine a pair flanking an entry or grand staircase!
Mademoiselle Cezanne's French Slipper Chair
elegantly upholstered for boudoir or bath in tone-on-tone cream.
Always right where you need it, this 18th-century French antique replica is crafted from intricately hand-carved wood finished in faux gold leaf.
Louis XIV Glass - Topped Cocktail Table at design toscano
A trio of gilded gold and faux ebony cherubs rings a cabbage-rose center finial in this breathtaking replica work of French furniture art sure to be the centerpiece of your home! Our quality designer resin Toscano exclusive with detailed accents draws upon Louis XIV originals and is exquisitely displayed beneath a 30"dia., 1/3" thick, beveled glass top measuring a yard wide.
elegantly upholstered for boudoir or bath in tone-on-tone cream.
Always right where you need it, this 18th-century French antique replica is crafted from intricately hand-carved wood finished in faux gold leaf.
Louis XIV Glass - Topped Cocktail Table at design toscano
A trio of gilded gold and faux ebony cherubs rings a cabbage-rose center finial in this breathtaking replica work of French furniture art sure to be the centerpiece of your home! Our quality designer resin Toscano exclusive with detailed accents draws upon Louis XIV originals and is exquisitely displayed beneath a 30"dia., 1/3" thick, beveled glass top measuring a yard wide.
Old World glamor is mixed with classic French and European design. With elegant curves and button tufting, reflects the luxurious design and craftsmanship of the Louis XV period.
Dramatic elements to enchant the eye
Luxurious yet relaxed, blends Hollywood high style, with classic 18th-century French style, mix of textures using fabrics and furniture to bring the room to life.
Bed crown decorative accents, add a regal touch to the royal chamber.
variety of bed crowns
variety of bed crowns
Characteristics of french provincial design-eighteenth-century furniture, sumptuous textiles, sensuous velvets, toile, silk taffeta curtains, deep bullion trim, distinctive porcelains, and oil paintings displayed in carved gold frames.
Create spaces with a French feel
also available in white
Rolled arm design
Decorative wood frame carving
Button tufted back sea
Why settle for bland .... when you can have GRAND!!
Romantic style of richly ornamented and detailed furniture pieces for the castle home
Stylemaster Tribeca Faux Silk Grommet Panels
Stylemaster Tribeca Faux Silk Grommet Waterfall Valance with Beaded Trim
Marie Antoinette style on a cheaper scale .... splurge a little on one expensive furniture item, in this case the very ala chic silver chair .... and then work with your budget to complete the room.
J Queen New York Colette Bedding
Dusty blues, grey, ivory, lots of extravagant piping, trim, rich accents and detail abound here. This very feminine, regal looking collection reflects the buttery lushness of lavish French style popular in the early 1900's. This J Queen New York Colette bed set has left out none of the details and included all of the fabulous. Old world, French inspired detailing, and exquisite craftsmanship set this elegant J Queen New York Colette bedding collection apart. Featuring intricate medallions, grosgrain trim, pleated pillows, waterfall valances - all of the accents and design elements on this gorgeous ensemble reflect an unsurpassed degree of styling. So much work has gone into the tufted round pillow in muted powder blue, that you'd swear someone had stolen it from the bed of Marie Antoinette (after she...lost her head, so to speak). Comforter sets reverse to ivory, with the face an incredibly beautiful, intricate medallion and filigree pattern and powder blue piping all around. Included are beautifully tailored, matching shams with perfect flanged edges, and a bedskirt that rivals anything worn to a Napoleonic ball. This J Queen New York Colette bedding is truly impressive, and would be quite appropriate in a large country estate, where grand style is de rigeur. Not only will you want the entire bedding collection,as there is not one thing here not to be absolutely mad for - but the draperies are stunning, and set off the ensemble in perfect grandeur.
This design looks like it was ripped straight out of a designer's magazine. Perfect combination of the right color and pattern to exude tranquility, comfort and style all at the same time.
Decorate in the French country theme - Marie Antoinette style
This wonderful curved back sofa is hand crafted of sturdy oak in a slightly distressed white wash finish. Upholstered in natural linen, this French inspired sofa lends vintage elegance to any living room.
A Day with Marie Antoinette
Beautiful book for anyone interest in Marie Antoinette, Rococo furniture design, palatial luxury of the queen's Versailles, or even the fashion of the time. Beautifully illustrated, and filled with detailed photos of portraits, artwork and locations from the Queen's life in France. A vivid glimpse into the sumptuous life of France's most famous queen.
Never has a queen been so passionately admired and adulated, then hunted, vilified, and defamed.
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
This is a look inside Versailles in the 18th century, a look at the daily life of its inhabitants, the extreme care taken with court etiquette, the intrigues and backbiting as well as the stunningly rich life of the King (Louis XVI) and his wife Marie Antoinette.
This beautiful book captures the unique and ever-lasting magic of Versailles.
Loaded with not just glorious glossy full page pictures, but a lot of interesting facts and history too!
For Versailles junkie
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Flexure & Compression Testing: Cereal, Potatoes, Beets
With over 1500 registered students, Harper Adams University College is the largest institution of higher learning for the agricultural sciences in the UK. In addition to education, it has a strong research focus, with scientific interests including animal nutrition, crop physiology, microbiology, and biochemistry. The university's Mechanical Testing Laboratory utilizes Instron testing equipment to perform flexure and compression testing in a number of key areas of research. Cereal buckling, the first area under investigation, is a problem for UK agriculture and can take several forms. Stem lodging occurs when the stems of cereals buckle somewhere along their length prior to harvesting, causing the plants to lie flat. Root lodging occurs when the roots give way, with the same result. Brackling is local buckling halfway along the length; and necking is where it buckles just below the ear. The weakest link differs between varieties of wheat, but they all result in yield cost. Research professors aim to quantify the flexural strength of different cereal varieties and explain why failure occurs.
Meanwhile, another important area of research is understanding how bruising of potatoes and sugar beets occurs. Bruising is a problem which can occur during harvesting, in transit, or in storage, and costs the industry millions of pounds every year in lost revenue. Compression tests are used to simulate the bruising that occurs and to identify areas in the process where improvements could be made.
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Amsterdam Vallon: When you kill a king, you don't stab him in the dark. You kill him where the entire court can watch him die.
Amsterdam Vallon: It's a funny feeling being taken under the wing of a dragon. It's warmer than you'd think.
Bill: Here's the thing. I don't give a tuppenny fuck about your moral conundrum, you meat-headed shit-sack. That's more or less the thing. And I want you to go out there... You, nobody else. None of your little minions. I want you to go out there. And I want you to punish the person who's responsible for murdering this poor little rabbit. Is that understood?
Bill: How old are you, Amsterdam?
Amsterdam Vallon: I'm not sure, sir. I never did quite figure it.
Bill: I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear.
Amsterdam Vallon: If you get all of us together, we ain't got a gang, we've got an army.
Amsterdam Vallon: In the end, they put candles on the bodies so's their friends, if they had any, could know them in the dark. The city did this free of charge. Shang, Jimmy Spoils, Hell-cat, McGloin, and more. Friend or foe, didn't make no difference now. It was four days and nights before the worst of the mob was finally put down. We never knew how many New Yorkers died that week before the city was finally delivered. My father told me we was all born of blood and tribulation, and so then too was our great city. But for those of us what lived and died in them furious days, it was like everything we knew was mightily swept away. And no matter what they did to build this city up again... for the rest of time... it would be like no one ever knew we was even here.
Bill: You see this knife? I'm gonna teach you to speak English with this fucking knife!
Boss Tweed: You killed an elected official?
Bill: Who elected him?
Boss Tweed: You don't know what you've done to yourself.
Bill: [taps his glass eye with a knife] I know your works. You are neither cold nor hot. So because you are lukewarm, I will spew you out of my mouth. You can build your filthy world without me. I took the father. Now I'll take the son. You tell young Vallon I'm gonna paint Paradise Square with his blood. Two coats. I'll festoon my bedchamber with his guts. As for you, Mr. Tammany-fucking-Hall, you come down to the Points again, and you'll be dispatched by my own hand. Get back to your celebration and let me eat in peace.
Bill: At my challenge, by the ancient laws of combat, we are met at this chosen ground, to settle for good and all who holds sway over the five points: us natives, born rightwise to this fine land, or the foreign hordes defiling it.
Crowd: Yeah.
Priest Vallon: By the ancient laws of combat, I accept the challenge of the so called "natives." They plague our people at every turn, but from this day out, they shall plague us no more. For let it be known, that the hand that tries to strike us from this land shall be swiftly cut down.
Crowd: YEAH.
Bill: He was the only man I ever killed worth remembering.
Bill: WOOPSY DAISY!
Bill: You. Whatever your name is... what is your name?
Amsterdam Vallon: Amsterdam, sir.
Bill: Amsterdam... I'm New York... don't you never come in here empty handed again, you gotta pay for the pleasure of my company.
Bill: Thank God. I die a true American.
Bill: You mother-whoring Irish nigger.
[Amsterdam goes to wipe blood off razor]
Priest Vallon: No son, never. The blood stays on the blade. One day you'll understand.
Boss Tweed: Remember the first rule of politics. The ballots don't make the results, the counters make the results. The counters. Keep counting.
Walter 'Monk' McGinn: [Pins Amsterdam to the wall] That's it, that's it! Tear my head off and destruct the world! Just like the rest of the stupid Irish in this country! That's why I never ran with your dad!
Amsterdam Vallon: Get off me you crazy bastard!
Walter 'Monk' McGinn: [Leans in and whispers a line of Gaelic. Then, in English] It means, 'If you're not strong you'd better be smart.' Now I don't know if you're being too clever or too dumb, but whichever it is just remember this much. For all his faults, your father was a man who loved his people.
[Releases Amsterdam and walks away]
Amsterdam Vallon: Lord, place the steel of the Holy Spirit in my spine and the love of the Virgin Mary in my heart.
Bill: Mulberry Street... and Worth... Cross and Orange... and Little Water. Each of the Five Points is a finger. When I close my hand it becomes a fist. And, if I wish, I can turn it against you.
Bill: Burn him, see if his ashes turn green.
[last lines]
Amsterdam Vallon: ...And no matter what they did to build this city up again, for the rest of time, it will be like no-one even knew we was ever here.
Amsterdam Vallon: The past is a torch that lights our way. Where our fathers have shown us the path, we shall follow. Our faith is the weapon most feared by our enemies. For thereby shall we lift our people up against those who would destroy us.
Bill: The Priest and me, we lived by the same principles. It was only faith divided us. He gave me this, you know? That was the finest beating I ever took. My face was pulp. My guts was pierced, my ribs was all mashed up. And when he came to finish me, I couldn't look him in the eye. He spared me, because he wanted me to live in shame. This was a great man. A great man. So I out out the eye that looked away, I sent it to him wrapped in blue paper. I would've cut them both out if I could have fought him blind. And I rose back up again with a full heart... and buried him in his own blood. He was the only man I ever killed worth remembering.
Bill: A *real* native is someone who is willing to die fighting for his country. There's nothing more to it.
Bill: Is this it priest, the Pope's new army, a few crusty bitches and a hand full of rag tags?
Priest Vallon: Now, now, Bill, you swore this was a battle between warriors, not a bunch of miss nancies, so warriors is what I brought.
[various Irish Gangs proceed to appear]
Boss Tweed: You may or may not know, Bill, that everyday I go down to the waterfront with hot soup for the Irish as they come ashore. Its part of building a political base.
Bill: I've noticed you there, you may have noticed me.
Boss Tweed: Indeed I have. Throwing torrents of abuse to every single person who steps off those boats.
Bill: [gleefully] If only I had the guns, Mr. Tweed, I'd shoot each and every one of them before they set foot on American soil.
Boss Tweed: That's the building of our country right there, Mr. Cutting. Americans aborning.
Bill: I don't see no Americans. I see trespassers, Irish harps. Do a job for a nickel what a nigger does for a dime and a white man used to get a quarter for. What have they done? Name one thing they've contributed.
Boss Tweed: Votes.
Bill: Votes, you say? They vote how the archbishop tells them, and who tells the archbishop? Their king in the pointy hat what sits on his throne in Rome.
Bill: I killed the last honorable man, 15 years ago. Since then it's... You seen his portrait downstairs?
Amsterdam Vallon: Mm-hmm.
Bill: 'S your mouth all glued-up with cunny juice? I asked you a question!
Amsterdam Vallon: [angrily] I said I *seen* it, sir.
Bill: [smiling] Oh, you got a murderous streak in you!
Amsterdam Vallon: The earth turns, but we don't feel it more. And one night you look up. One spark and the whole sky is on fire.
Amsterdam Vallon: I give you my word, this all will be finished tomorrow.
Jenny: No, it won't.
Amsterdam Vallon: Suppose you back an Irish candidate, of my choosin', and I'll deliver all the Irish vote?
Boss Tweed: That will only happen in the reign of Queen Dick.
Bill: Everything you see belongs to me, to one degree or another. The beggars and newsboys and quick thieves here in Paradise, the sailor dives and gin mills and blind tigers on the waterfront, the anglers and amusers, the she-hes and the Chinks. Everybody owes, everybody pays. Because that's how you stand up against the rising of the tide.
Priest Vallon: Now, son, who's that?
Young Amsterdam Vallon: Saint Michael.
Priest Vallon: Who's that?
Young Amsterdam Vallon: Saint Michael!
Priest Vallon: And what did he do?
Young Amsterdam Vallon: He cast Satan out of Paradise.
Priest Vallon: Good boy!
Boss Tweed: The appearance of law must be upheld, especially while it's being broken.
Bill: My father gave his life, making this country what it is. Murdered by the British with all of his men on the twenty fifth of July, anno domini, 1814. Do you think I'm going to help you befoul his legacy, by giving this country over to them, what's had no hand in the fighting for it? Why, because they come off a boat crawling with lice and begging you for soup.
Amsterdam Vallon: Is there anyone in the five points you *haven't* fucked?
Jenny: Yes! *You!*
Walter 'Monk' McGinn: I've got forty-four notches on my club. Do you know what they're for? They're to remind me what I owe God when I die. My father was killed in battle, too. In Ireland, in the streets, fighting those who would take as their privilege what could only be got and held by the decimation of a race. That war is a thousand years old and more. We never expected it to follow us here. It didn't. It was waiting for us when we landed. Your father tried to carve out a corner of this land for his tribe. That was him, that was his dead rabbits. I often wondered... if he had lived a bit longer, would he have wanted a bit more?
[speaking of Bill the Butcher]
Jenny: When I was twelve years old, my mother was dead, and I was livin' in a doorway. He took me in. Took care of me, in his way. After they cut out the baby... well, he doesn't fancy girls that's scarred up. But you might as well know in your own mind that he never laid a hand on me until I asked him to.
Bill: We hold in our hearts the memory of our fallen brothers whose blood stains the very streets we walk today. Also on this night we pay tribute to the leader of our enemies, an honorable man, who crossed over bravely, fighting for what he believed in. To defeat my enemy, I extinguish his life, and consume him as I consume these flames. In honor of Priest Vallon.
Jenny: [after running into Johnny] Look where you are going, Johnny!
[notices Amsterdam]
Jenny: You look stunned and poorly, sir.
[both of the men are silent and nervous]
Jenny: [sarcastic] Quite a pair of conversationists, aren't you.
Amsterdam Vallon: Maybe not. We're deep thinkers.
Jenny: [chuckles] Well then. Gentlemen, I leave you in the grace and favour of the Lord.
[walks off]
Bill: I took the father, now I'll take the son.
Amsterdam Vallon: Jenny was a Bluget, a girl pickpocket and a turtledove. A turtledove picks out a fine house, disguises herself as a housemaid and robs you blind. It takes a lot of sand to be a turtledove.
Amsterdam Vallon: New York loved William Tweed... and hated him but for those of us trying to be thieves, we couldn't help but admire him.
Irish Singer: [singing] Well, meself and a hundred more, to America sailed o'er, with our fortunes to be made, so we were thinkin' / When we got to Yankee land, they shoved a gun into our hands / Saying "Paddy, you must go and fight for Lincoln."/ There is nothing here but war, where the murderin' cannons roar, and I wish I was back home in dear old Dublin.
[swearing in Irish immigrants as citizens at the harbor]
Army Recruiter: That document makes you a citizen, and this one makes you a private in the Union army. Now get out there and serve your country.
[as Monk McGinn runs for Sheriff]
Boss Tweed: That man was right born for this.
Amsterdam Vallon: He's killed 44 men, and laid low a couple hundred more.
Boss Tweed: Is that right? We should have run him for mayor.
[as a man is about to be hung]
Bill: That's a fine locket. I'll give you a dollar for it.
Arthur: It was me mother's...
Bill: Dollar and a half?
Arthur: Done.
Boss Tweed: Bill, I can't get a days work done for all the good citizens coming in here to harass me about crime in the Points. Some even go so far as to accuse Tammany of connivance in this so-called rampant criminality. What am I to do? I can't have this. Something has to be done.
Bill: What do you have in mind?
Boss Tweed: I don't know. I think maybe we should hang someone.
Bill: Who?
Boss Tweed: No one important, necessarily. Average men will do. Back alley amusers with no affiliations.
Bill: How many?
Boss Tweed: Three or four.
Bill: Which?
Boss Tweed: Four.
Amsterdam Vallon: Challenge.
Bill: Challenge accepted.
Priest Vallon: Don't never look away.
[after someone speaks to him in Irish Gaelic]
Boss Tweed: They don't speak English in New York any more?
Bill: That, my friends, is the minority vote.
Bill: Ears and noses will be the trophies of the day. But no hand shall touch him.
Bill: This is a night for Americans!
Bill: Is this the Pope's new army?
Happy Jack: I'm paid to uphold the law.
Bill: What in Heaven's name are you talking about?
Bill: Civilization is crumbling
[as the Irish are drafted as they come ashore]
Irish Immigrant: Where we goin'?
Another Immigrant: I heard Tennessee.
Irish Immigrant: Where's that?
Irish Soldier: Do they feed us now?
Killoran: Monk's already won by three thousand more votes than there are voters.
Boss Tweed: Only three? Make it twenty, thirty. We don't need a victory. We need a Roman triumph.
Bill: Well draw it mildly son. Happy Jack don't fill his lungs without I tell him he may do so.
McGloin: Father! Jesus, did you know there's a nigger in ya church?
[the priest hits him in the head with his staff]
Bill: He ain't earned a death! He ain't a death at my hands! No, he'll walk amongst you marked with shame, a freak worthy of Barnum's Museum of Wonders. God's only man, spared by the Butcher.
Priest Vallon: Well well, Monk. Are you with us or not?
Walter 'Monk' McGinn: For the last time Vallon, I'm with you if the money's right.
Priest Vallon: I'll give you ten per notch.
Walter 'Monk' McGinn: Ten?
Priest Vallon: You have my word.
Walter 'Monk' McGinn: [Picks up his shillelagh] Ten per notch?
Priest Vallon: Per *new* notch.
Walter 'Monk' McGinn: [Looks at the notches already there, and loops his weapon around his wrist] Then I'm your man.
[Turns around and kicks the door open]
Amsterdam Vallon: Amsterdam: I've been called a lot of things, mister... but I've never been called...?
McGloin: McGloin: Fiddeling bends.
Amsterdam Vallon: Amsterdam: Fiddeling bends. Right. If I knew what in the hell that meant... I might be inclined to take offense.
Amsterdam Vallon: [the failed assassin is dying] I think he's making his peace with God.
Bill: Oranges, delicious. What a peach! You should put her on the stage.
Dignitary: He knows my name!
Happy Jack: He prides himself on knowing.
Boss Tweed: We're burying a lot of votes tonight.
Boss Tweed: You know why he wears short sleeves? So they can see he's got nothing stashed. I hope that never becomes the fashion.
Happy Jack: I come for my due and proper.
McGloin: What's a nigger doing in the church?
Bill: Hey, have you met Amsterdam? He almost fish-hooked McGloin.
Bill The Butcher: This is a day for America.
Walter 'Monk' McGinn: Well that was bloody Shakespearian. Do you know who Shakespeare is? He wrote the King James Bible.
Priest Vallon: Prepare to meet the true lord.
Bill: Don't mind him. He used to be an Irishman.
Bill: It's Election Day.
[as an anti-draft riot takes place]
Boss Tweed: Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.
Miss Schermerhorn: Is that man drunk?
Happy Jack: Och, dead as Good Friday, miss.
Young Johnny Sirocco: Oy! Boyo!
Young Amsterdam Vallon: Johnny.
Young Johnny Sirocco: What you doin', boyo?
Young Amsterdam Vallon: There's a battle. The natives against the dead rabbits.
Young Johnny Sirocco: Which side are you on?
Young Amsterdam Vallon: What do you think?
[points behind him]
Young Amsterdam Vallon: Dead rabbits.
Bill: [after stabbing Priest] Look to me! Who is this under my knife!
Boss Tweed: You're a good one for the fighting, Bill. But you can't fight forever.
Bill: I can go down doing it.
Boss Tweed: And you will!
Bill: What did you say?
Boss Tweed: I said, you're turning your back on the future.
Bill: Not our future.
Bill: Careful, Tweedy. The Mort's Frenchified.
Bill: Now that you've had a taste of my mutton, how do you like it?
Happy Jack: Thank ye boys. You keep out of trouble now!
Bill: Pistols?
Amsterdam Vallon: No pistols.
Bill: Good boy.
Amsterdam Vallon: Our name is called "The Dead Rabbits" to remind all of our suffering, and as a call to those who suffer still to join our ranks. However far they may have strayed from our common home across the sea. For with great numbers must come great strength in the salvation of our people.
Bill: Whose man are you?
Assassin: For the blood of the Irish!
Walter 'Monk' McGinn: This man is trying to draw me into an argument!
Walter 'Monk' McGinn: Is that meself looking as sober as the day I was born?
Bill: On the seventh day the Lord rested, but before that he did, he squatted over the side of England and what came out of him... was Ireland. No offense son.
Amsterdam Vallon: Nah, none taken, sir. I grew up here. All I ever knew of Ireland was from the talk of the others at the orphan asylum.
Bill: And which part of that excrementitious isle where your forebears spawned?
Amsterdam Vallon: I've been told Kerry, I lost proof of it in my language at the asylum.
Bill: [to Amsterdam, while watching an African American man dancing an Irish jig on top of a table in a brothel] Look at that. What in Christ's name is that? Rhythms of the Dark Continent thrown into the kettle with an Irish shindig. Stir it around a few times, pull it out, it's a fine American mess. A jig doing a jig.
Shang: [Runs at the soldiers] Bastards!


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American Airlines pilots on Friday voted to ratify a new union contract, ending a years-long labor dispute and stabilizing American's parent, AMR Corp, as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy.
The contract, approved by nearly three-quarters of the pilots who voted, gives the Allied Pilots' Association a 13.5 percent equity stake in AMR and offers what the union sees as a path to "industry-standard" pay, union spokesman Dennis Tajer told Reuters.
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AMR filed for bankruptcy in November 2011, primarily due to high labor costs. It said it needed to cut those costs by $1 billion a year. It achieved concessions from its ground workers and flight attendants but remained at odds with pilots in bitter labor talks that date to 2006.
AMR creditors had deemed labor peace a major priority, saying labor uncertainty could make it difficult for creditors and potential investors to assess the company's post-bankruptcy viability.
Friday's vote could be seen as addressing that concern and providing AMR a clearer path toward exiting Chapter 11.
Denise Lynn, a senior vice president at AMR, in a statement called the deal with pilots "an important step forward in our restructuring."
"Today's ratification gives us the certainty we need for American to successfully restructure," Lynn said.
How the company will look when it exits bankruptcy is still unclear. AMR is considering standalone and merger options, and smaller competitor US Airways Group has made an aggressive takeover push.
The pilots' union says it has lost faith in AMR management, led by Chief Executive Tom Horton, and strongly supports a US Airways takeover.
"This ratified agreement should not in any way be viewed as support for the American standalone plan or for this current management team," Tajer said. "This contract represents a bridge to a merger with US Airways."
The case is In re AMR Corp et al, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-15463.
(Reporting By Nick Brown; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and John Wallace)


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By Andrew McCracken
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Many words can be used to describe University of Oklahoma thrower Tia Brooks: student, athlete, winner, champion and Olympian are all fitting.
In the summer of 2012, Brooks found herself in some unfamiliar surroundings. She was not spending her summer break training in Norman, Okla., nor was she at home in Grand Rapids, Mich. She was in London, England, preparing to compete in the 2012 Olympic Games in the shot put.
However, as one might expect, the road to the Olympics is not an easy one, and Tia Brooks' path was no different. In addition to all of the time and hard work spent training to be able to compete against the best in the world, the NCAA champion also had to overcome an injury that threatened her career as a thrower.
When Brooks was a true freshman at Oklahoma, she suffered an injury that had the potential to be devastating.
"I was doing some one-legged squats and then my legs went numb and I had to be spine-boarded out," explained Brooks. "I did not know what was wrong. I went and got an MRI and that is when I found out that I had bulging discs and degenerative discs in my spine."
While the path back to full strength would be a long and difficult one, Brooks rose to the challenge.
Brian Blutreich, Oklahoma's assistant track and field coach who is also Brooks' personal throwing coach, acknowledges that it took a lot of time and sacrifice in order for Brooks to recover.
"We took away all the other events," Blutreich said. "We took away the discus, we took away the hammer and we took away the weight throw, anything that deals with rotation. That left us with just shot put. She gradually got stronger and stronger and her core strength and technique got better."
Brooks describes that degenerative discs can be a thrower's worst nightmare. It can end an athlete's throwing career and even cause more problems down the road if not treated properly. She explains that while a full recovery from her injury may never be possible, she has learned to not let it hold her back.
"I have learned how to deal with it," described Brooks. "The pain is definitely tolerable now. I know what to do with it now if it flairs up so it is not as earth shattering as it was the first time."
How Brooks has fought and handled the injury is a reflection of the type of competitor she is. It was her hard work that gave her career new life and took her to London last summer where she stood toe to toe with the world's elite.
"It was amazing," explained Brooks of her Olympics experience. "Just to be able to say that I competed with the best in the world, I can't even find the words to describe that feeling.
"The whole experience was amazing. It was overwhelming to say the least. But it was definitely an amazing experience."
Brooks fell short of qualifying for the shot put finals in the Olympics, but the 22-year-old said she is hungry for more and has hopes of competing in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016.
"That is the plan, but it is not in my hands," said Brooks. "A lot can happen in four years, so hopefully my body stays healthy and I can give it another go and try to get a medal."
Even with an Olympics appearance under her belt, the fifth-year senior confesses that her fondest memories and most proud moments have taken place in a crimson Oklahoma uniform.
"I think the greatest accomplishment that I have had is being a part of the accomplishments that OU Track and Field has had," Brooks explained. "Just the part I have had in helping to build a program and to take OU's throw program to No. 1 in the nation. People now know that when you are from OU, that means something.
"To be able to say that I watched that happen --I would like to think that my hard work was a part of making that happen. I would say that is probably the best thing to happen to me in the past four years."
With Brooks' collegiate career drawing to a close, Blutreich acknowledges that athletes like Tia Brooks do not come along every day."You're not going to be able to replace Tia," Blutreich said. "We have recruited very well, but we are kind of starting over. We will be good, but you just can't replace her."


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Homo's Hidden Hours
Most insightful interview ever: John Travolta in the latest issue of Parade talking family life, Church life, and drag life. Is amazing! And intriguing too…
Consider this – John says that in order to thwart the pappies and establish a normalcy around their family life without sacrificing privacy he, Kelly, and the kids sleep during the day and stay up half the night.
"My kids probably stay up too late. My wife goes to bed around 3, and I follow around 7. We're like the Addams family or the Munsters, living sort of an odd nocturnal life. But it works."
Whatever…it's his lifestyle. My question is: what's going on during those 4 hours? After hours gay society? Male masseur and a c*ckstand? Smutty sense is tingling.
Or not.
John reveals during the interview (that took place at 2am by the way) that he has been attending "auditing" sessions five nights a week lately, flying his plane from his home to the Scientology Centre in Clearwater to get closer to Xenu. And after last year's escapades in Toronto while shooting Hairspray, it sounds like he needed it. A tighter leash, intensified reprogramming… suddenly John is talking sense again:
"It's a one-on-one program that's designed to help you handle your life. I'm proud of my religion."
Well… sort of.
When asked about having to dress in drag for the movie, John replied: "Guys from the crew were hitting on me. I have to make a living. I have to work, but it has to be fun."
Ummmm…have you seen the man in drag??? Take a look. Look at it. Look at it!!
Who was hitting on him??? Who???
Now that's a fantasy that just slipped out…poor thing.
And finally… a final frightening admission:
"My daughter is breathtakingly beautiful and very talented. I'd like to introduce her to the world. I will give her as much guidance as I can. Not bad to think I'm like Henry Fonda and she's Jane Fonda. Let it be the heritage, the family business."
Chills, chills, chills…


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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady proved he is just as talented off the field as on at a fund-raiser dinner for Best Buddies at the Houston home of Becca Cason Thrash. The champion quarterback teamed up with Best Buddies founder Anthony Shriver for an evening raising $850,000 for the organization.
Thrash is known for well-planned parties, leaving no detail to chance. For the Best Buddies bash, her indoor pool was covered with a turf football field and each table's centerpiece was a topiary football completing the theme. Brady was the ultimate good sport, posing for pictures in a three-piece suit sans tie per the evening's dress code. After a boisterous live auction, Brady upped the ante, playing catch with dinner guests for $5,000 a pass.
During a 50-yard-line question-and-answer session, Thrash and Shriver good-naturedly threw questions at Brady, ranging from football to fashion. When asked to give straight men style tips, Brady eschewed specifics and went with a philosophical approach.
"You just have to be yourself. If you like [it], go for it," Brady said.
When Thrash inquired about Brady's marriage to model Gisele Bündchen, he was equally diplomatic. "My family is like every other family. It requires communication and she gets two votes and I get one," Brady said.
Thrash has been involved with Best Buddies for 16 years, helping raise $4 million on behalf of the organization that helps people with intellectual disabilities find employment and social opportunities.
Shriver hopes to launch a Best Buddies employment program in Texas in late 2015 and Houston will be the first city for the expansion. He stressed the importance of volunteering, saying it's the greatest gift one can give.
"Raise funds, hire someone with special needs, volunteer, educate people not to use the word 'retarded' in everyday speech," Shriver said. "Best Buddies thrive and shine in so many ways."


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State health officials have confirmed the first cases of influenza in Michigan during the 2013-2014 flu season and are encouraging people to get flu shots.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) ? State health officials have confirmed the first cases of influenza in Michigan during the 2013-2014 flu season and are encouraging people to get flu shots.
According to the Michigan Department of Community Health, the four cases of the contagious respiratory illness are the first identified by a state lab this flu season.
"Each year, we expect the first influenza cases to appear in the fall and this year has proven to be no different," James K. Haveman, director of the MDCH, said in a statement Wednesday. "We continue to encourage all Michigan citizens to get vaccinated as it is the single best way to prevent the flu."
The department said the illnesses occurred in children and adults from two southeast Michigan counties. Three of the cases have been confirmed as influenza A (H1N1) 2009 viruses and one has been confirmed as being an influenza A (H3N2) virus.
Two of the cases were in Oakland County, north of Detroit, officials said. Flu shots that cost $20 are available at the Oakland County Health Division offices in Pontiac and Southfield from noon to 8 p.m. Mondays and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.
"The sooner you get the flu shot the better," said Kathy Forzley, Health Division manager and health officer. "It takes a couple weeks after the vaccination for the body to shield itself against the flu."
According to Michigan health officials, it's too early to tell what influenza viruses will circulate or how severe the influenza season may be.
Michigan's flu activity will be reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as "sporadic." That's the second lowest of five categories the federal government tracks. Nationally, a mix of sporadic influenza viruses has been detected during the past month.


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William Chester Halstead photographs, circa 1890s | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Extent: 0.2 Cubic feet
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Scope and Contents: The William Chester Halstead Photographs (circa 1890s; 0.2 cubic feet) document Purdue buildings, students, faculty, and staff during the 1890s. The photographs show a variety of buildings, such as the Science Hall, Art Hall, Experiment Station, Purdue Farm Barn, Locomotive Lab, Foundry, Engine Room and Dormitory. They also feature Purdue student groups, such as the cyclists, drum corps, and artillery. Photographs of note include the burned-out structure of Heavilon Hall and President Smart in his office. In addition, the collection also documents structures and people in the Lafayette area. Types of materials include: cyanotypes and a photo case.
Detailed Description
Folder 1: Numbered Cyanotypes, circa 1890s
Folder 2: Unnumbered Cyanotypes, circa 1890s
Folder 1: Numbered Cyanotypes, circa 1890s
Folder 2: Unnumbered Cyanotypes, circa 1890s


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For nearly 90 days I've become an insomniac. I blame our new memory foam mattress.
For nearly 90 days I've become an insomniac. I blame our new memory foam mattress.
Hubby has always had a bad back and with age, it's getting worse. When he began doctoring for symptoms related to fibromyalgia, we went in search for some added relief.
After signing over our life and our first born son to purchase a new memory foam mattress we were excited at the prospect of a good night's sleep for the first time since either of us could remember when.
It was a short-lived dream.
The first night with our new mattress we noticed the problems. Basically, we found that sinking into a memory foam mattress caused us both to feel too hot to sleep (and I don't mean that it a good way!)
As the night progresses the mattress grows hotter and hotter directly under you, eventually waking us up, a few times a night, dripping with sweat.
Recently we purchased a costly set of 100 percent cotton sheets as prescribed by several customers who reportedly have had the same issues with a memory foam bed. The sheets help a little, but we are still waking up several times a night suffering with what can only be described as heat exhaustion.
We've resorted to sleeping without blankets, which leaves us cold on top and hot and sweaty underneath. Not conducive to a good night's sleep.
A Google search suggested a wool mattress pad (for only half the cost of the mattress.) It said wool has a way of accommodating fluctuating body temperature and the absorbent, hollow fibers wick moisture, keeping the air next to your skin dry and eliminating that damp, clammy feeling. It also said wool's cushioned support conforms to the contours of your body to ease pressure points and aid in circulation.
That's exactly what the mattress advertised too.
Further investigation online revealed that the lack of airflow in a memory foam bed is due to the foam's tight, closed cell structure resulting in a tendency to retain heat.
All those complaints about "sleeping hot" have spawned the next wave in memory foam mattress marketing: gel-infused memory foam. The new gel foam claims to sleep cooler than regular memory foam.
Except that's not true either.
Our mattress is branded as "Cool Action Gel Memory Foam," described as having millions of "MicroSupport" gel beads designed to make the foam's surface feel cooler. But all the gel-buzz makes it easy to lose sight of the real problem: memory foam—gel infused or not—sleeps hot because it lacks breathability.
Which has led Hubby and me to a new problem.
I drag myself out of bed cranky and in a bad mood even before I start the day. Most mornings, since getting the mattress, Hubby and I have began our day with an argument because both of us are tired. Some of the arguments have become so intense I've been known to throw Hubby out of the house to begin his day only half dressed.
One day I came back into the bedroom after starting the shower to grab my robe I had forgotten during an early morning exchange that sent him running for the door earlier than usual. I startled both of us when I opened the door causing him to nearly fall on the floor with one leg in his pants.
"Don't hurt me!" He yelled with his hands up. "I just came back to get my pants."
I've laid out the details and I'm happy the bed comes with a money-back guarantee. I don't like being a quitter, but this mattress isn't working. As for minimizing the motion, what use is a jiggle-proof mattress when I'm sleeping under the same covers that can be yanked this way and that and completely off my back?
The moral of the story–there is more to nighttime comfort than a mattress–and I think other memory foam sufferers will agree.


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== Long Term Planning discussion ==
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|Planning Council EclipseCon face-to-face meeting
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|Wednesday, March 20, 2011, at 3:00 PMC Pacific time. Napa Room
PMC (and Strategic) Reps
Strategic Reps
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Indigo Status
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Other business
- Name that release; Indigo+1. We'll examine votes, and be sure there is a clear winner, and that the winner is not objectionable in some way we didn't think of before. Remember, once we come up with the name, it will have to be "vetted" by Ian/Mike to make sure there would be no trademark infringement, etc. (They might be able to do this "in days", before EclipseCon is over ... but not sure.) (Pascal?)
- Status, plans, and urgency of moving from CVS to GIT. Why it is required, again? (Denis), Wayne?)
- V6 of the Eclipse Road Map ... mostly here for reference. Any feedback should have already been given, I believe, if I understand the dates ... board review is next day.
Long Term Planning discussion
- EclipseCon face-to-face is good time to discuss high level, long term issues. The following items are along the lines of "brainstorming" agenda items ... please add any of yours.
- Are requirements/tracking worthwhile? Working? Anything better?
- Is yearly release (with two service releases) right interval? Quarterly? Every other year? LTS releases?
- Next year, should 3.8 be primary platform, still ... or 4.2 be primary, but still "support" 3.8 as secondary?
ToDo Items
- How is the RoadMap coming along? (Wayne)
- Progress, but slow. Wayne still working with individual projects that have not provided one (and maybe didn't even know they needed one ... so, sounds like some PMC/mentoring guidance needed?).
- Wayne would like to "extend" the meaning and use of some fields in project meta-data so there projects could summarize their release, etc., instead of sending email or making part of docuware. More could be automated then. Overall summaries provided, etc. Wayne will (likely) send note to cross-project soon with this request.
- New project release tools. Some ready. Some near ready? (Wayne)
- Sounds like Wayne's made some excellent tools to ease and improve the quality of the process. He'll be posting more notes soon (approximately Friday).
- Please encourage your projects to add links to "central" Indigo wiki for New and Noteworthy and Migration Guides.
- TODO: Platform needs to have their own central page, like WTP does ... or, update this wiki every milestone. It currently points to M4 N&N.
- TODO (from previous meeting): dw to add/create add a FAQ item around "what to handle 3.7 vs. 4.1". Will draw from previous working notes.
Next Meeting
- EclipseCon Meetings: Sunday, March 20, At Hyatt, Napa Room.
- 3-4 (Pacific Time) PC face-to-face meeting
- 4-5 (Pacific Time) Joint Councils Meeting (See Donald's note to list).
- April 6, 2011 (regular "first Wednesday" meeting.


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Community Preceptors
Patient Centered Care Community Preceptors
As part of the Patient Centered Care courses, UNC Medical students will spend up to three separate week-long clinical rotations observing and learning from a North Carolina community-based primary care physician, called a preceptor. Students are assigned to community preceptors from one end of the state to the other -- Murphy to Morehead City.
The community preceptors play an important role in the clinical training and mentoring of our medical students. Under the supervision of their community preceptors, students practice their newly developing skills in interviewing, physical examination and presenting. For many students these clinical rotations will mark the first time they have had "hands on" experiences with real patients.
As a token of appreciation for their service, community preceptors receive a small payment through the AHEC system. Preceptors are given adjunct faculty appointments to the UNC School of Medicine and access to the AHEC digital library (ADL). The ADL includes journals and textbooks, databases such as MEDLINE and electronic clinical resource tools including Up-to-Date.
If you know of a North Carolina primary care physician that you'd like to recommend to participate as a UNC Medical school preceptor, please contact Community Preceptor Liaison, Gina Horne at email@example.com or 919-966-0589.


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Reaching way back in a kitchen cabinet, I grab a jar of what's billed as orange marmalade. It's really not marmalade, just sugar glop without any orange in it at all, masquerading as the real thing. It was a "bonus" in a crate of Florida citrus we got a while back. We ate the grapefruit and oranges ages ago, but at this point it's clear no one in our family is ever going to touch that alleged marmalade.
I toss it.
I've been reading recently about how much food is wasted by the average American family. In August, the Natural Resources Defense Council reported that the average American family of four tosses about $2,275 worth of food each year.
I certainly never want to waste food, and I try to buy only what I think we'll use, but I'm probably not alone in that I never seem to get it exactly right.
With two teenagers and a lunch-packing husband in the house, I buy a lot of groceries. I go through everyday basics like milk, eggs, oatmeal and pasta fairly quickly, so there's little waste there. I generally resist bulk shopping, sparing myself ugly face-downs with pounds of rotting tomatoes or juice flavors my kids swore they loved.
Even with my best planning, however, I just can't seem to strike that elusive balance between having a well-stocked pantry and shelves overflowing with excess.
I'm not talking about products I could donate to the food bank. This stuff is expired, or spoiled, or will just never be used.
Moving deeper into my kitchen cabinets, I uncover a jar of thyme that expired in 2011, a bottle of almond extract with a use-by date of 2010, and a plastic tub of Orville Redenbacher, also dated 2010.
I dump the extract down the sink, which smells nice and almond-y for a while. I sprinkle the final sad and dry thyme flakes in the trash, leaving the trash just smelling trashy, as the thyme has long since lost its punch.
I did, however, go ahead and pop that popcorn. No one died.
It's not just the cabinets that harbor all sorts of weird, out-of-date items. A few weeks ago, I bought cottage cheese, which my older son usually blasts right through. This time, no matter how often I prominently repositioned it front and center in the fridge, he didn't bite.
Good-bye cottage cheese.
Good-bye, also, to the last bits of roast beef that I bought for school lunches. Nine dollars a pound, but those final slices were just a little too funky.
My freezer is loaded with bread, which is generally fine, but also means that items can and do get lost behind all those plastic bags. At one point, there was a single slice of dried-out cake from our 1994 wedding buried in the back. I finally tossed it a couple of years ago. (Nevertheless, our marriage has survived nicely without it, thanks for asking.)
For about two years, I kept the wrapped remains of my older son's bar mitzvah cake. I did better with my second kid; I only had his cake for a year, though there's still a bit of the decorative fondant triple-wrapped in plastic and shoved under some frozen pizzas.
Sometimes, when you hang on to something so long, it magically turns from old junk to, if not quite treasure, at least something more interesting than junk. I have an unopened box of confectioner's sugar that languished for many years on a top shelf in my mother-in-law's kitchen. There's no expiration date or bar code, and a "75-cents" sticker clings tenaciously to the top. I'm guessing it's from the 1970s. These days, a box of confectioner's sugar costs about $1.80.
This summer, I was strolling through the antiques mall in Shrewsbury, Pa., when I saw a booth filled with old spice tins, most selling for a buck or so each.
Bingo! When I got home, I pulled out a metal tin of McCormick turmeric, which I know I've had at least 25 years. I washed and dried it and tucked it next to that confectioner's sugar, just in case they're both worth something someday.
On second thought, maybe I should have saved that marmalade.
Amy Landsman Linker is a freelance writer in Lutherville. Her email is email@example.com.


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People have different beliefs about painkillers, especially strong ones such as morphine.
Some people may feel scared or worried about having these painkillers. This may stop them taking the painkillers as advised by their doctor, which makes the pain harder to control. It can help to know some of the facts about painkilling drugs when you start taking them.


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The California Energy Commission, by a 4-0 vote, adopted a plan to slash the state's heavy dependence on petroleum and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"California should pursue a diversified portfolio of transportation fuels," said Energy Commission Vice Chairman James D. Boyd. "We can achieve our state's goals of reducing petroleum dependence and of stimulating production of biofuels within California, using its waste streams while increasing our use of low carbon, alternative fuels."
California's 24 million registered vehicles, the most of any state, are 96 percent reliant on petroleum fuels responsible for 41 percent of the state's greenhouse gas emissions. The state, the second largest consumer of gasoline in the world, used 16 billion gallons last year.
The State Alternative Fuels Plan approved by the Energy Commission was mandated by AB 1007 (Pavley) aimed at cleaning the state's air, diversifying fuel sources and protecting the state from oil spikes that affect prices, the economy and jobs. The plan supports Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's goal of reducing statewide greenhouse gases to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
To achieve this objective, the Alternative Fuels Plan, produced through an open and public process, in partnership with the California Air Resources Board — recommends that the governor set targets on a gasoline gallon equivalent basis for use of 10 different alternative motor fuels in the on-road and off-road sectors by 9 percent by 2012, 11 percent by 2017, and 26 percent by 2022. These targets do not apply to air, rail, or marine fuel uses.
These goals will require a dramatic expansion in the use of such fuels as electricity, compressed natural gas, hydrogen, renewable diesel, bio-diesel and ethanol in motor vehicles.
Also built into the Alternative Fuels Plan is a multi-part strategy to develop hybrid and electric vehicle technologies; build the infrastructure to deliver the alternative fuels; increase the blending of more biofuels into gasoline and diesel; improve the fuel efficiency of vehicles; and reduce miles traveled by California motorists with more effective land use planning.
The Alternative Fuels Plan said public and private investments would be needed to offset the near term cost difference between gasoline or diesel and alternative fuel use. Investments are also needed to share the cost of building fueling stations, and fund the development and demonstration of clean and advanced transportation technologies. The recent passage of AB 118 (Nunez) provides the Energy Commission and the Air Resources Board with ongoing funding until 2016, for alternative fuels and vehicle technology commercialization to meet multiple policy goals and stimulate the transition to clean fuel diversity.
The Alternative Fuels Plan was created in response to the governor's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), which seeks to reduce the carbon intensity of the state's fuel supply by 10 percent by 2020. This would be equivalent to taking 3 million cars off the road.
In line with the LCFS, the Energy Commission earlier adopted and submitted to the Air Resources Board, a full fuel cycle analysis of targeted alternative fuels. The analysis identified fuels that caused no significant effect on public health and environmental quality.
The goal of the Alternative Fuels Plan is to expand investment in alternative fuels through the enormous market power of California's economy, thus holding back the state government from picking which alternative fuels win, leaving that decision to consumers and entrepreneurs.


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Part 1: Silent Dual Dissipation coolers
We decided to install a few games and take our new test bed for a spin. The new rig is based on EVGA's Z77 motherboard with Intel Core i7 3770K and Windows 8 and we decided to share our first impressions. Windows 8 gaming is no different than Windows 7 gaming, but Windows 8 could irk some users due to its focus on tablet-like touch features. However, that's beside the point and let's get back to some gritty benchmarks and XFX Radeons.
We'll kick off with all current-generation XFX cards we had a chance to test. Although the benches will focus solely on XFX cards, the results can also be applied to other Radeons, providing us with an insight into 1080p performance multiple several price points. AMD and Nvidia recently rolled out new drivers which greatly improve performance in some titles, and of course we will use the latest drivers. We'll also cover some reference boards from other AIBs, as well as Nvidia cards over the next few days.
The weakest graphics card included in the test is the XFX Dual Dissipation Radeon HD 7750. It runs at reference clocks, as the GPUZ screenshot confirms. The main selling point of this particular card is its high quality heatsink, which is completely silent. Although the DD HD 7750 ranks dead last on our charts, it must be noted that the cards were tested in 1080p, with maxed out details, with antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. However, at lower settings many games become playable with the DD HD 7750, even at 1080p.
The second card we've got lined up today is the XFX Radeon HD 7770 Black Super OC, clocked at 1120MHz, making for a nice 120MHz overclock over the reference 1GHz clock. This card also features the Dual Dissipation cooler.
Using its non-reference cooler and Ghost technology, XFX managed to get a good balance between noise and cooling performance, which is sort of the point of non-reference designs.
Next up, the XFX Black Edition Dual Dissipation Radeon HD 7850 975M ships overclocked to 975MHz, up from a reference clock of 860MHz. The memory ended up with a slightly lower overclock, from 1200MHz to 1250MHz (5000MHz GDDR5 effectively). All in all, this seems like a decent overclock that should result in a nice performance bump.
Another good thing about HD 7850 and HD 7870 cards is that AMD strapped the cards with 2GB of memory on a 256-bit memory bus, which will be of much use to gamers running 1920x1080.
The XFX Black Edition Dual Dissipation Radeon HD 7950 runs at 900MHz, a nice 100MHz overclock over the reference design. Gaming at 1080p with this card is really truly enjoyable and thanks to the cooler, it was practically inaudible during our benchmark runs.
Now for some actual results. We tried out a number of games, including Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution and a few others. 3Dmark is there as well. In the second part of our review we'll cover some Nvidia cards and see how they measure up to XFX Radeons, so stay tuned.


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From East Texas Medical Center:
TYLER, TX - ETMC Breast Care Center is holding a free, one-day retreat for breast cancer survivors on Friday, Oct. 4, featuring Shakha Stephens, a certified laughter yoga teacher and staff chaplain at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
The ETMC Pink Ribbon Getaway will be held at the ETMC Pavilion, 801 Clinic Drive, in Tyler, with registration beginning at 7:30 a.m. and the conference concluding at 2 p.m. The conference is supported by Junior League of Tyler, Susan G. Komen and the ETMC Foundation.
The event will feature topics such as a physician panel discussion, healthy eating tips presented by Brookshires, lymphedema management, share your story session, a gourmet lunch and door prizes. Coldwater Creek will present a fashion show.
The keynote luncheon speaker uses a new worldwide movement called laughter yoga that emphasizes health and wellness through laughter, yogic breathing and childlike playfulness. "It's a form of exercise that strengthens the immune system, unwinds the negative effects of stress and make you feel good," said Stephens. "There are no contortions or fancy movements. These exercises are appropriate and beneficial for all, regardless of their cognitive, sensory or motor abilities/limitations."
Attendance for the retreat is limited. Please contact Sandy Campbell for a registration form or with questions at 903-535-6302 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


text: Do Saal Ki Aurat is a tale of trust, betrayal and devotion. The story highlights the life of Hajra, a woman who is dedicated to her role as a wife and a mother of two sons. Hajra husband, Umar is a materialistic person and his only aim is to get rich. To get Canadian nationality Umar marries a Canadian woman, abandoning Hajra and his sons. Disheartened and broken, Hajra begins her new life as a single mother, by finding employment while raising her sons with devotion. But the tale of her sorrows and hardships doesn't end here for Hajra has more crosses to bear. What will be her fate?


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West Virginia Department of Natural Resources officials have made no bones about what they want: hunters killing more does killed in the Mountain State.
Officials want to reduce the number of deer in the state and are encouraging hunters to get the job done. They've liberalized doe seasons and the ability for non-residents to get permits, along with instituting a "second buck" regulation that might work.
After killing their first buck of the season, hunters will be required to kill a doe before being able to kill a second buck. West Virginia has a tagging check-in system.
Gary Foster, the DNR's game management supervisor, said agency officials want hunters to kill more deer in order to reduce whitetail populations in many areas of the state. Officials met Feb. 25 during the state's Natural Resources Commission meeting.
"The overall habitat quality in the state isn't as good as it was a generation ago," Foster explained. "Today the state is 79 percent forested. People might think that's good for deer, but it isn't. Deer thrive best in diverse habitats. Ideal deer habitat is about 60 percent forested, with 30 percent in open lands or farmlands. In the past 30 to 40 years, about 3 million acres' worth of farmland has been allowed to revert to forest."
Veteran outdoor writer John McCoy of The Charleston Gazette has the full report here: Click this link to read


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GG how could you?? Don't get me started on another How Flash 0wnz rant :PPersonally, I've grown tired of flash. There was a time that I was into it heavily, and it's great for certain elements, but so many people use it to bog down loading times that when it does load, you're thinking "I just waited for this?"
personaly my sites I always try to make them functional and laid out - a simple to navigate style with a constant nav menu so user can be in any part of site and go to where they want in 2 clicks (3 tops) with very few graphics cept Flash which i tend to overuse tho am getting away from that now!
Tho project that is cooking my head atm will throw that al out window oO
Am toying with idea of truely random site - i don't mean that content is just unlinked stuff thrown together but that everytime visitor visits site will be different from last.
Ok this is how would work ::::
Visitor loads up main page - flash picks number at random this is then used to decide what page layout to use....layout created and each area assigned number for refrence. Flash then picks content from the corresponding array to that area and displays it. So not only is page layout different everytime but so is content displayed. With very few different layouts and differnt content elements it would form alot of different possible combinations.
Once main page is displayed user will then be able to choose what section to explore like
- Pictures
- Interaction
- About
- Video
now these areas are purposefully very broad so say user choose interaction this could mean many different things - games, Guestbook, Interactive Cartoons etc
Once user has choosen area Flash then goes through the whole process of choosing layout content again only this time is restricted to those storred in the specific areas array - so if they choose Pictures (could be of me, friends, art work etc) and flash picked Friends at random then all content loaded would be from [Pictures/Friends]-Array
Once that area has loaded they will be presented with option of delving deeper - like say was friends could click through to more information about a certain person pictured or video files etc - all of which would be loaded in same way - so even if user choose same area next time round would be displayed in completly dif way and may see info that they didn't last time round.
This would continue on until user has come to end of current sub-catagories like say was Pictures again they had clicked through Pictures>Friends>[choose one person to view more]Bio>video and that was end of catergories for that section would then loop back into Pictres>friends the topmost level which of course would look different from last time they saw it - and so on
In order to form some kind of stability tho Main area links will be present throughout - tho displayed differently as display type will be loaded in at random with everything else - so if at any time user wnats to visit a dif section they can go straight from where they are to it.
Now to include this all in one flash file would be impossible almost as no-one would sit around and wait to download what would amount to be like 50 dif sites but to place each page on seperate html document would defeat purpose as then by typing url of specific page could go straight to it and would be same (yes i hear u cry but not if done with php - well i aint that great at it for a start plus prefer flash ) So to overcome this only the bare bones will be stored in main flash file - this will be the code for loading in content and selecting each element at random as well as the dif layout designs. Now many will think that this will still create huge files as all dif pages will be saved in each one - but as layouts will be made of empty movieclips as all content will only be loaded in as needed flash file should be very small!!
So when user chooses area or whatever flash will assign it say a number at random so say template4 had an area marked as Area3 then flash would look in Area3's array which would contain entries from 0 to whatever max number is - so say it flash picked at random the number 6 for Area3 of template4 then it would look at the corresponding array entry which could be something like
and would then load that into Area3 durring runtime - now as array entry is also an .swf (flash file) it could have preloader, movie controls built in - in essence could be a whole seperate site which could be governed by same principal as main container file - so in essence could increase the number of different random combinations by a huge amount!!!
Is a massive undertaking but is something I have never seen done before - a site that is different everytime you visit - that even if you view same section time and time again may see new bits everytime - plus as all content is loaded in on the fly then wouldn be very easy to replace exterior files with new ones completly changing the site (except default layout templetes but these could easily be altered by repostioning container movieclips while keeping coding the same) It also opens up way for having completly random pages where flash choose not only what content to load but also draws template itself - postions container movieclips and generates them itself - eg user enters site flash decides to display N number of differnet sections with each sections width height & postion being randomly choosen as well - with only restriction that Ech container is more than X pixels but less than Y pixels from those around it.
But I still want to show some of my own design in it so dont think will be doing that - but would be quite funky to have a site that si completly designed and built by flash every time you view it.
Obviously atm is all in my head but have thought of how can be done - coding element etc and to be truthful shouldn't be too difficult once get main areas done........so may start work on it soon
what does everyone think of idea???


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This month's regulatory actions:
Federal Court orders Thomas B. Breen, to pay $1.75 million to settle fraud charges
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it obtained a federal court order against a principal of National Equity Holdings, Inc. , Thomas B. Breen, of Orange County, Cal., requiring Breen to jointly pay restitution to defrauded customers in accordance with a restitution order set in a related criminal action of $1,059,096, and imposes a civil monetary penalty of $700,000 against Breen, as well as permanent trading and registration bans.
The order stems from a CFTC Complaint filed on Nov. 8, 2011, against defendants National Equity, Robert J. Cannone, Francis Franco, and Breen, charging them with fraudulent solicitation, misappropriation, and registration violations.
The order finds, and Breen acknowledges, that from at least June 2009 to May 2010, Breen, by and through National Equity, fraudulently solicited and accepted over $1.4 million to trade commodity futures contracts through a pool. In their solicitations, Breen, by and through National Equity, (1) falsely claimed to have a successful and experienced trader (Franco) for the pool, (2) misrepresented the likelihood of profits and the risks associated with trading commodity futures, (3) failed to disclose that they were not properly registered with the CFTC to operate a pool, and (4) failed to disclose their intended uses of pool participant funds.
The order further finds that Breen and National Equity traded only a portion of the pool participant funds in proprietary accounts, and sustained overall and significant losses. Breen and National Equity concealed their fraud and trading losses from the pool participants by issuing false account statements reflecting profits. Approximately-one year later, they claimed that participants' fund were all lost in trading, but promised to return their funds.
The CFTC's litigation continues against defendant Francis Franco to determine the appropriate amount of a civil monetary penalty to be imposed and whether a personal trading ban should be imposed. However, on April 11, 2013, the court entered a consent order of permanent injunction against defendants National Equity and Cannone, requiring them to pay over $3.6 million of restitution and monetary penalties, among other sanctions, to settle the CFTC action.
In related actions, Cannone and Franco, pled guilty to criminal violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) as amended. Cannone was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison, and ordered to pay the $1.05 million in restitution, jointly and severally with the other defendants. Franco was sentenced to 25 months, while Breen was sentenced to 40 months.
Federal Court orders Lyndon Parrilla to pay over $17 million in forex fraud scheme
A federal court awarded restitution for defrauded customers, disgorgement, and a civil monetary penalty totaling more than $17 million against defendant Lyndon Parrilla, of California, in connection with an off-exchange foreign currency fraud scheme in which Parrilla and his company, Green Tree Capital, defrauded over 50 customers in the United States of over $4 million.
Judge Joseph L. Tauro of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered the final judgment and permanent injunction Order on Oct. 24, 2013, requiring Parrilla to pay restitution of $4,197,342 to defrauded customers, disgorgement of $3,353,925, and a $10 million civil monetary penalty. The order also imposes permanent trading and registration bans against Parrilla and prohibits him from further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations, as charged.
The order stems from a CFTC Complaint filed on April 12, 2011, that charged Parrilla and Green Tree with fraud, misappropriation, and other CEA violations. The court previously entered judgment against Green Tree on June 30, 2011.
The final judgment order is based on the court's findings set forth in an earlier order, entered on Sept. 30, 2013, that finds that Parrilla and Green Tree fraudulently solicited over $4 million from at least 50 customers in the United States, from approximately October 2009 until April 2011, for the purported purpose of trading off-exchange forex contracts on a leveraged or margined basis in managed accounts.
In soliciting the funds, the order finds that Parrilla, on behalf of Green Tree, misrepresented that Green Tree had a record of delivering consistently profitable returns when, in fact, it incurred trading losses since its inception, and almost 80% of customer funds was never traded or invested in any manner. In fact, according to the order, Parrilla misappropriated over $3.3 million of customer funds to pay personal and entertainment expenses, including Las Vegas casino expenses, purchase automobiles and clothing, and ATM or cash withdrawals. To disguise these misrepresentations, trading losses, and misappropriations, Parrilla sent false Green Tree account statements to customers by email. Further, the Order finds that Parrilla misrepresented his experience and expertise, and failed to disclose that the National Futures Association (NFA) permanently barred him from NFA membership.
As a result of a parallel criminal action brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office in November 2012, Parrilla was sentenced to, among other things, a term of 97 months imprisonment and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $4,675,156.
CFTC obtains restraining order against AlphaMetrix, alleging misappropriation of pool funds and sending false or misleading statements
The CFTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Nov. 4, 2013, against AlphaMetrix, LLC, a Chicago-based commodity pool operator (CPO) and commodity trading advisor (CTA). The CFTC alleges that AlphaMetrix misappropriated funds belonging to commodity pools it operated and sent false or misleading account statements to at least some of the pool participants. On Nov.5, 2013, Federal District Judge Joan H. Lefkow issued a consent restraining order that freezes AlphaMetrix's assets, protects books and records, and appoints a corporate monitor to oversee the distribution of pool funds to participants.
According to the CFTC, AlphaMetrix operates approximately 90 pools that had approximately $700 million in assets under management as of Aug. 31, 2013. The Complaint alleges that AlphaMetrix had agreements with some participants in which AlphaMetrix agreed to rebate certain fees by reinvesting the funds in the pools for the participants. However, as alleged, between at least Jan. 1 and Oct. 31, 2013, AlphaMetrix failed to reinvest at least $2.8 million of the rebates owed to participants and instead transferred the funds to its parent company, AlphaMetrix Group, LLC, which had no legitimate claim to those funds and is named as a relief defendant in the complaint. the complaint states that AlphaMetrix nevertheless sent the participants account statements, which included the funds that were supposed to have been invested in calculating the net asset value of their interests, and, as a result, misstated to participants the true value of their investments.
In its continuing litigation, the CFTC seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions against AlphaMetrix, enjoining AlphaMetrix from committing further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, as charged, and ordering it to pay restitution, disgorgement, and a civil monetary penalty, among other appropriate relief. The CFTC also seeks an order requiring AlphaMetrix Group, LLC, to disgorge funds it received as a result of AlphaMetrix's unlawful conduct.
New York
CFTC charges Donald R. Wilson and DRW Investments with price manipulation
The CFTC filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Donald R. Wilson and his company, DRW Investments, LLC . The CFTC's complaint charges Wilson and DRW with unlawfully manipulating and attempting to manipulate the price of a futures contract, namely the IDEX USD Three-Month Interest Rate Swap Futures Contract (Three-Month Contract) from at least January 2011 through August 2011. The complaint alleges that as a result of the manipulative scheme, the defendants profited by at least $20 million, while their trading counterparties suffered losses of an equal amount.
According to the complaint, in 2010 the Three-Month Contract was listed by the International Derivatives Clearinghouse (IDCH) and traded on the NASDAQ OMX Futures Exchange, and was publicized as an alternative to over-the-counter, i.e., off-exchange, products. Wilson and DRW believed that they could trade the contract for a profit based on their analysis of the contract. At the end of 2010, Wilson caused DRW to acquire a large long (fixed rate) position in the Three-Month Contract with a net notional value in excess of $350 million. The daily value of DRW's position was dependent upon the daily settlement price of the Three-Month Contract calculated according to IDCH's methodology. As Wilson and DRW knew, the methodology relied on electronic bids placed on the exchange during a 15-minute period, the "settlement window," prior to the close of each trading day. In the absence of such bids, the exchange used prices from over-the-counter markets to determine its settlement prices. Wilson and DRW anticipated that the value of their position would rise over time.
The market prices did not reach the level that Wilson and DRW had hoped for and expected, according to the CFTC. Rather than accept that reality, Wilson and DRW allegedly executed a manipulative strategy to move the Three-Month Contract market price in their favor by "banging the close," which entailed placing numerous bids on many trading days almost entirely within the settlement window, none of which resulted in actual transactions as DRW regularly cancelled the bids. Under the exchange's methodology, DRW's bids became the settlement prices, and in this way DRW unlawfully increased the value of its position, according to the CFTC.
Gretchen L. Lowe, the CFTC's Acting Director of Enforcement, stated: "Traders cannot engage in manipulative acts to affect the price of futures contracts to achieve their desired profits, regardless of the so-called motive. Today's action demonstrates that the Commission will vigorously prosecute such cases to protect the integrity of the markets."