text:
Find information on common issues.
Ask questions and find answers from other users.
Suggest a new site feature or improvement.
Check on status of your tickets.
More tags
David Espejo
Illinois ECE 440 Solid State Electronic Devices, Lecture 36: MOSFET Scaling Limits
02 Mar 2010 | | Contributor(s):: Eric Pop
Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013 for Distributed Performance
12 Mar 2013 | | Contributor(s):: James Tullos
This is a PowerPoint presentation presented by James Tullos of Intel at Purdue University on March 8, 2013.
MOSFet Learning Materials
By completing the MOSFET Lab in ABACUS - Assembly of Basic Applications for Coordinated Understanding of Semiconductors, users will be able to understand a) the operation of MOSFET devices, b)...
Nanotribology, Nanomechanics and Materials Characterization Studies
08 Jun 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Bharat Bhushan
Fundamental nanotribological studies provide insight to molecular origins of interfacial phenomena including adhesion, friction, wear and lubrication. Friction and wear of lightly loaded micro/nano components are highly dependent on the surface interactions (few atomic layers). Nanotribological...
Feb 19 2009
Research Challenges for the Semiconductor Industry


text:
Gerard Butler Hits Whitney Studio Party
Gerard Butler suits up for the 2009 Whitney Studio Party at The Whitney Museum of American Art on Monday (October 19) in New York City.
Earlier in the day, the 39-year-old Scottish actor dropped by It's On With Alexa Chung. He admitted he got starstruck by Robert DeNiro and Dame Shirley Bassey, who sang the theme song to the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964).
15+ pictures inside of Gerard Butler @ the 2009 Whitney Studio Party…

subset: commoncrawl


text:
SPARKS - Streets are back open in the Coney Island area after Wednesday's hazmat incident.
Officials say a barrel of nitric acid began to smoke for unknown reasons when it was moved into a plastic barrel.
Advanced Composite Technologies uses the chemical in production, and hired H20 Environmental to dispose of the chemical waste.
Fully-suited hazmat teams had to siphon the chemical out of the barrel and dilute it with water.
Nitric acid can be a dangerous chemical.
"It's an industrial grade nitric acid. If it got onto your skin, it would cause severe burns. It can cause a lot of reactions with a lot of different chemicals," said Tom Garrison, Sparks Fire Department.
Teams were able to mitigate the situation without incident.
The chemical is still in several barrels at Advanced Composite Technologies. H20 Environmental wil return to the scene Thursday morning to finish the removal.


text:
| WMU News
KALAMAZOO—The public is invited to help put the "home" in homecoming when Western Michigan University holds its annual Parade of Nations Saturday, Oct. 12.
Flag bearers are needed to carry a nation's flag in the parade, which takes place just before kickoff of the Homecoming football game at 2 p.m. in Waldo Stadium.
The event is a colorful display of multicultural diversity on campus that has become a homecoming tradition. It features some of the University's nearly 1,700 international students from 104 nations carrying flags of their home countries across the playing field.
Flag bearers and others will gather at Kanley Track for an 11 a.m. pre-game tailgate party, where attendees will be able to enjoy complimentary food and assemble flags for the parade. All students, WMU employees and families from the Kalamazoo community are welcome to register to attend the tailgate and participate in the parade.
Those planning to participate may indicate a specific country they would like to represent in the parade, however, flags are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
To register, visit WMU's International Programming Office in 3521 or 3516 Ellsworth Hall or contact the office at email@example.com or (269) 387-3966.
For more information about Homecoming events, visit wmich.edu/homecoming.


text:
Ozzie Guillen regrets only rushing Jose Contreras, Bartolo Colon
By Mark Gonzales
CLEVELAND – Manager Ozzie Guillen had only one regret about the moves he made during a non-championship season.
"I don't think Jose (Contreras) and (Bartolo) Colon were ready enough to help us," Guillen said of his fourth and fifth starters whom he thought came back too quickly from off-season surgeries. "We brought them up to the big leagues so fast because we were desperate about who was the best guy we were going to take to be a starter."
The option was left-hander Clayton Richard, who moved to the bullpen at the start of the season while Jeff Marquez pitched himself out of contention.
Contreras returned four months sooner than expected following left Achilles surgery but was largely ineffective, went to the minors for one month but was eventually traded to Colorado.
Colon recovered from fall surgery in which bone chips were removed but made only 12 starts because of knee and ankle injuries and was released earlier this month.
"Besides that, we just didn't play the way we should," Guillen said.


text:
Sorry, an error was encountered while loading comparison.
Sorry, an error was encountered while loading the book.
Sorry, you don't have permission to view that book.
No matches.
Sorry, an error was encountered while loading part of the book.
An error occurred while marking the devotional as read.
An error occurred while accessing favorites
Sign in with your Logos.com account
or Create A Free Account
You have not started any reading plans.
Sign in or register for a free account to set your preferred Bible and rate books.
Add this verse to your website by copying the code below.
79 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Read More
Free Course
Learn to Study the Bible
This account already exists.
Did you forget your password?
There was an error while trying to create your account. Please try again soon.
Sign in with your Logos.com account


text:
That statement is demonstrably false. Your Phase system is not good for rapid action sports photography or photojournalism in rapidly evolving low light situations. It's frame rate is two slow and the auto focus system not up to the task. The D3s would be better for these situations.
I have seen that test, even downloaded an image from the Hasselblad HD50 and the Nikon 3DX and printed in A2 and had some friends (seasoned imaging professionals) have a look. Both preferred the Nikon image, although one found the Hassy image be sharper. DOF is very short on those images and that can cheat the eye. Also, tonality matters a lot. It's a bit hard to do this comparison with live models as the pictures will not be identical. Finding out the relative merits of systems takes a lot more than a single picture. I'd say that well designed tests say more than a single portrait shot.
Each time I got out the Mamiya it was "please God, let it focus today". Edmund
Guy,Calm down! I was not attributing those statements to you, but was only agreeing with the main premise of your post. My other comments were in response to statements by others on this thread. Perhaps in your circles. But have you ever looked at the equipment used by photojournalists working for bankrupt newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune? These papers are not upgrading equipment that is suitable for the relatively modest demands of newsprint.
I like Guy - he's positive, I'm negative, he makes a living with esoterical tech objects, I shoot the standard cameras for fun The strange thing about MF is that the backs are really good and robust and the files can take everything inlcuding dramatic underexposure. But the cameras are slow rattling behemoths which make one long for a Super Ikonta or Rolleiflex.Edmund
That's a big part of my attraction to the S2. I have shot with the Hassys and the Phases and I (personally) don't especially enjoy the experience. I rate their IQ very highly, but the camera bodies are 'less than stellar' shall we say. I actively enjoy working with the S2, I was out this evening in light rain by a coastal billabong and I really enjoyed the way the MLU is so smooth and the shutter release is just so discrete.I find that if I enjoy the shooting experience I get better images. Go figure...
Here we are again! in the middle of the Pearl Harbour saga.Nothing has changed since the last war.Basically, the dslr squadron, commanded by the D3x papies are bombing again the MFD fleet.Captain Bernard, great Commander of the D3x, y and z is pointing the superiority of the japanese AA filtered gears to keep the troup moral high enough,while Guy is suddenly receiving all the bombs. The other MFD players have left Guy battled alone because they are playing golf somewhere on the harbour.As Commander Guy has a thick skin, he handles pretty well the DxO rockets so far.Ray, Commander of the special task, in charge of infiltrating the enemy lines by night and strike with a 50 lines post, his waiting the right moment to enter into action while Erik, Commander of the scientific section is making calculations to compare the real forces involved.Soon, Fred, the Robin wood of the lost causes, will arrive with an anti-DxO gaz weapon to help Commander Guy while General Michael is watching the war while packing witha finger on the closed-thread button. Commander Rob, from the reserve task force, is asking to be informed about the use of kodachrome weapon to strike any digital device. He will soon be helped bythe LF users when they will have finished their golf course and social cuban cigars.By the time, Commander Mancuso is starting to be injured by some live-view and frames-per-second weapons and will have to left the battle field soon while the Bargainers are comming with their Sony 900-850 and 5DMK2 artillery to strike-back the D3x superiority.Commander Languiller is going to launch another Nikon DR missiles in order to shut-down the bargainers attack.Captain Chris is broadcasting the battle from his yatch anchoered a little further in the harbour while the rescue nurses commanded by Tokengirl are sending drawingson the battle-field to try to stop the bombing with zero effect.Mark's legion is still receiving from time to time isolated sarcastics icons from the last war.Suddenly, Michael is pressing the red button. Topic closed before a clear winner had emerged. Shhhhht!! What are we going to do now?Just, start another one in 3 weeks!But sure this time Commander Mancuso will be on the golf course with the others, cool and relaxed while he will hear the sound of the dslr AA filtered bombings on the very far west.And we ask ourselves why man has never learned from history and we still have wars?
FredYou may not be far wrong about the Kodachrome Weapons.This little French trip I'm thinking about - I was wondering if I should use it as an opportunity for finishing off most of the film that I still have in the freezer. After all, the Nikon F is almost a virgin - a semi-virgin would be close (a fine definition is available from Paula Prentiss in What's New Pussycat) - and I certainly wouldn't have to hide in a toilet to change lenses. I'd even get to play with the Minolta Flash Meter again and when I got rid of that horrid 2.8/24-70 Gzoomer I was back with Nikkor lenses that fit all great Nikons.Of course, there's no hope for the actual Kodachrome in the ice anymore, but I do have lots of Ektachrome 100 still sitting there, even some 50 ASA (!) Velvia in 120 but I have no 120 camera now, and buying another Hasselblad at this stage would bring in the horror of a 120 scanner... no, forget that! It might cost a bit to process - probably stop off in Barcelona for that, and instead of looking for a hotel for the night I could just go riding around and around and around near the ferry just like Chuck Berry...We shall see. The family is coming to visit at the end of the week - I may be too pooped to pop after that.Rob C
Rob,I think it would be too bad to loose all these films that are waiting in the fridge.I do not know in the Island, but the prices in Madrid are affordable.Pro digitalization start from 4 euros to 16 euros for the best scans (one frame), files of 62mb in 35mm, wich you would only do on the very best you'd like to print but you can also have a normal scan of the all 36 frames for 12euros.1 slides roll developped E-6 36 frames costs about 12-10 euros.I spend more than that in bloody tobacco! That makes me think I should quit smoking and shoot back film.
Here we are again! in the middle of the Pearl Harbour saga.
The D3x truly is a special camera - I just put another 4,000 frames on mine (approaching 30,000 images in a year and a half - mostly landscapes and macros) on a two-week shoot in a couple of National Parks in western North America. Nikon doesn't get nearly enough praise for just HOW good it really is (and note that Canon's response has been to sit there with their jaws dropping open - I suspect there may have been a 1Ds mk IV prototype that was never released because it didn't beat the D3x - they are probably finishing up a new version now, accounting for the long delay). Sadly, the D3x may forever remain a unique camera in Nikon's lineup, and may even be discontinued without replacement, because it uses a modified version of a Sony sensor that may be pulled off the market, as mentioned by Thom Hogan. Sony is apparently not having much luck with the Alpha 850 and 900, and it may not be worth making the sensor just for the limited-production D3x (Nikon sells all they can make, but production is kept quite low). Nobody seems to know what Nikon does to the Sony sensor (or some other component), but whatever it is, it works - a D3x is not just an Alpha in a fancy body - it really DOES have significantly better image quality, especially in terms of low-ISO dynamic range. The low-pass filter also seems to be unique, and there has been some speculation that it is very expensive and partially responsible for the cost of the camera.


text:
has been updated in your cart
Due to the site upgrade, your MY ACCOUNT logins will need to be updated. Please access Forgot Your Password to make this change. If you do not have an account, click here.
By Signing up for our emails, you'll be the first to receive the best
discounts InVite Health has to offer.
Ships in 1 to 10 business days
Buy 1 Bottle
at retail $46.95
savings $9.39
Your Price $37.56
Buy 2 Bottles
at retail $46.95 each
savings $46.95
(Save 33%)
Your Price $93.90
Antarctic sourced Krill is a shrimplike crustacean that supplies EPA and DHA; commonly referred to as fish oils or Omega-3 Fatty Acids. The fish oils in Krill are attached to phosphatides which shield them from the digestive juices that can cause damage, improving the absorption of intact fish oils while reducing the incidence of fish burps, leading to a more pleasant experience. Krill also supplies the powerful antioxidant Astaxanthin (the nutrient that gives salmon its pink color) and Choline for muscle function, for memory, and promoting liver health. Krill oil supports brain health, memory, learning, and mood. Krill oil supports heart health and circulation, and blood fats already within a normal range. It also supports muscle and joint health in athletic and aging people. Krill oil supports healthy vision and immune health and may offer protection for women's breast health.
For great discounts, a superb assortment of top-grade nutraceuticals and nutritional supplements, and access to our professional nutritionists, look no further – great health starts right here at InVite® Health. To ask a question or to purchase your Krill Oil Supplement, call us today at (800) 632-0541 or click here to find an InVite Health retail location near you!
If for some reason you cannot view this video.
Please Download it instead.
Jerry Hickey is a pharmacist and radio personality. He fills the esteemed role of Scientific Director and President of InVite Health. He has spent his professional career analyzing nutritional information and medical studies with the aim of creating the most natural and highest quality nutraceuticals for the customer's maximum personal health benefits. Here, Jerry speaks about the benefits of Krill Oil.
Krill oil is like fish oil, but there are additional ingredients in it. Once again, there's always an interaction between supplements. If you know how to use them, you can achieve positive interactions.
For instance, Krill oil has a B-vitamin in it called Choline. Choline is somewhat rare, making it difficult to get a good source of Choline. Krill oil is a little shrimp-like organism – it is so packed with energy and nutrition that blue whales can exist on it! Now, when I say energy, I mean it as in the "antioxidant" energy. There are components of Choline that shield the whales and other creatures from cold water and freezing cold temperatures, etc.
Krill has very active fish oils, but the B-vitamin Choline is one of the most important. The Krill interacts with the ALCAR with ALA. The ALCAR attaches to the Choline and creates Acetylcholine in your brain. This is an important point – as we age, we lose Acetylcholine. Acetylcholine affects the memory. The level of this will drop with age in an organ called the Hippocampus, a tiny little seahorse-type structure in your brain that is needed for memory.
If you learn something new or if you meet somebody today, this information is stored through the hippocampus at night. Next week, when you bump into him or her, the hippocampus has to retrieve that information. The Choline and the Krill interact with the ALCAR with ALA to create Acetylcholine. This is something that decreases in the body with age, and the memory suffers. When you have this supplement, one of the great things it does is help other supplements create and restore memory.
I prefer a supplement that contains Choline, so I choose Krill oil over fish oil. Another reason I chose Krill over fish oils is because it's loaded with Astaxanthin, a very powerful antioxidant that shields the eyes. Not many antioxidants are accepted by the eyes, but Astaxanthin is one of the antioxidants that has the ability to get into the eyes and protect your vision with age. It also gets into your skin, and it's been shown to reduce wrinkling and damage to the skin in both men and women, as well as discoloration such as liver spots and blemishes.
The other thing I love about Krill is that I don't get fish burps! It's very hard to create a fish oil that doesn't give you fish burps. The Krill oil, for some reason doesn't repeat on people - maybe because it's so fresh, maybe because there are so many antioxidants in it. Maybe it's because the fish oils were attached to phosphatides. University of Berkley performed a study that pointed out that because the fish oils are attached to phosphatides, they stay more active. They have more of an impact and you don't need as high a dose. So, you don't get the fish burps and there's no mercury issue. It's very easy to swallow – it's like a tiny little torpedo.
Sometimes, in fish, there's a significant amount of mercury. Now, all of our fish oil capsules at InVite are checked for Methylmercury. There's no mercury in there. There's nothing. There's no Arsenic, there's no Cadmium, there's no PCBs or anything else – they're very pure.
In the Krill, especially since we get it from the Antarctic, which is arguably the cleanest, purest water in the world - these are very clean organisms. The oils that come out of them, they don't have the PCBs, the Polychlorinated Biphenyls that come out of the energy industry and wiring and computers, etc. They don't have PCB contamination. They don't have Methylmercury. There's no mercury issue like there would be with tuna, or swordfish, or something like that. There's no cholesterol. That's the other thing – Krill has no cholesterol, yet it has that extremely powerful antioxidant Astaxanthin which is superb in the digestive tract, perfect for the eyes and great for the skin. It has the Choline that interacts with the ALCAR with ALA to make Acetylcholine for memory, and it has the Phosphatides. This is wonderful.
In one capsule, you get Phosphatides and fish oils. These make the coating on your brain cells. They have been shown to help preserve brain function with age, and the level of both of these decreases in the aging brain. The level of Phosphatides, like Phosphatidylcholine, and Phosphatidylinositol drops in the brain with age. The level of the fish oils drops in the brain with age.
It offsets all these things that occur because when these things drop and the brain doesn't work well and doesn't transmit messages properly and doesn't feel right. These things are needed for focus and concentration and feeling happy and also for feeling calm. That's what the Krill oil is. I switched totally from fish oils to Krill oil about two or three months ago. I take three every morning with my breakfast. Once again, no fish burps, no mercury, no cholesterol, extremely easy to swallow and you get those superb fish oils for the brain, for the eyes, for the skin and for the immunity. You get the Astaxanthin, you get the Choline for your memory, and you get the Phosphatides for the brain cells and that happy and relaxed feeling.
Research in the past couple of years has shown that fat around the valves and inside the heart is extremely dangerous. This is because fat is not just fat. It's not just insulation; it's biologically active. It's metabolically active in a very evil way. When you have the kind of fat that invades your organs, it's the same kind that causes a fatty liver, it's the same kind that goes into the heart and it's the same kind that's on your belly. It's called VAT fat, visceral adipose tissue, and it creates its own nasty chemicals. And what that does is cause inflammation and damage to arteries. So when you have fat on your belly and fat in your liver, that's creating inflammatory chemicals that cause damage to the arteries and blood vessels and leads to heart disease.
So, imagine if you have that same fat clogging up your heart, invading your heart muscle and replacing the healthy muscle cells inside your heart. It's a terrible thing because it increases inflammation inside the heart muscle itself and it causes clogging of the arteries inside the heart. Now blood and oxygen can no longer reach the heart muscle and you start to develop conditions like ischemic heart disease, where you get chest pain and atrial fibrillation (which are very dangerous abnormal beating patterns that can lead to a stroke) or it can contribute to a whole bunch of really terrible things such as heart failure, heart attack or abdominal aortic aneurysms.
So when you have a fatty heart, it's nasty. A very interesting study with animals that had fatty hearts and were put on Krill oil was published in the Journal of Nutrition. These animals are bred to have fatty hearts and then they test different things on these animals. They'll see if a certain drug helps them or they'll see if there's a certain surgery that protects them. So they took animals, chubby rats in this case, bred to have fatty hearts. And these animals typically die young because they have a heart attack. They gave them either fish oils or they gave them krill oil. Within a somewhat short amount of time, Krill oil reduced the fat in heart of these animals by 42%, almost cutting it in half.
Fish oils, in the same amount of time and with a similar dosage, reduced the fat level in the heart by 2%. They also found that the krill reduced the amount of fat in their liver by 60% while fish oil reduced the amount of fat in the liver by 38%. This is a very important study. Even though it's an animal study, these are pretty advanced rats; they're very smart mammals. I don't know if most people know that, but rats are very intelligent. They kind of have funny tails and I'm not sure I'd personally want one as a pet, but they are really smart. And so the rats had a 42% reduction of fat in their heart with krill oil versus only 2% reduction with fish oils.
80% of people with a big belly had fat going into their liver. The fat is replacing the healthy cells in their liver and it's also starting to invade their heart. And a certain amount of these people are going to develop fatty liver to the point where the liver gets totally clogged, which is a terminal disease called cirrhosis. It necessitates a liver transplant, and there really are not a lot of livers around, or you can die. Or you can get liver cancer or carcinoma of the liver, simply by having fatty liver. So clearly, there's a benefit here, not just for getting fat out of the heart with krill oil, but getting it out of the liver as well.
I think this probably would translate to people, the 60% reduction in liver fat by using krill oil versus a 38% reduction with fish oils. To sum it up – fish oils are good, but I like Krill oil better.
Suggested Usage: As a dietary supplement for adults take two (2) capsules once or twice a day with food, or as directed by a healthcare professional.
Other Ingredients: Krill Oil, Gelatin, Glycerin, Polyglycitol, Purified Water, Annatto Extract, Turmeric Powder.
What is Krill oil?
Krill oil supplies major ingredients that protect the eyes, brain, skin and heart, including:
Krill oil is similar to fish oil, but with additional ingredients for added health benefits. It is easy to swallow and contains no mercury.
Dear Jerry,
I just wanted to send you a note to let you know that I tried your Krill oil for my arthritis pain and stiffness and within 4 days, the pain and stiffness has gradually dissipated and has completely disappeared. Thanks for your wonderful products and your sound health advice.
Antarctic sourced Krill is a shrimplike crustacean that supplies EPA and DHA; commonly referred to as fish oils or Omega-3 Fatty Acids.
© 2018 InVite Health. All Rights Reserved.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to treat, diagnose, cure, or prevent any disease.
All customer information is kept confidential. We do not give, rent or sell our customer information. Customer information is kept for company records only.


text:
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister-designate called Monday on the country's numerous Shiite militias and tribes to come under government control and stop acting independently, as violence killed at least 58 people in areas where the Muslim sect dominates.
The comments by Haider al-Abadi came at his first press conference since accepting the nomination to be Iraq's next prime minister, underlining how he is attempting to address the worries of the country's Sunnis, who say that Shiite militias are targeting them in religiously-mixed areas. He added that discussions between political rivals to form a new government were "constructive and positive."
"We will never allow any armed group to operate outside of the framework of the state," al-Abadi told reporters at the presidential palace in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. "They all should be within the state framework and under the control of the security forces."
Several Shiite militias have answered a call by influential Iraq-based Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and outgoing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, to support the Iraqi military, after large divisions fled rapidly advancing militants from the Islamic State group in the key northern cities of Mosul and Tikrit earlier this summer. A number of Sunni tribes also oppose the militant group.
Al-Abadi also expressed optimism that he will meet the Sept. 10 deadline to form a new government.
"Several meetings and dialogues were held with the political blocs to form a unified vision for our governmental program, he said. "The negotiations were generally positive and constructive. I hope we will agree to form a unified vision for the governmental program in the next two days."
Also Monday, separate attacks in several cities, including Baghdad, killed at least 58 people and wounded dozens in Shiite-majority areas.
Early Monday, a suicide bomber blew up an explosives-laden vest among Shiite worshippers leaving a mosque after noon prayers in the capital's eastern New Baghdad area, killing at least 15 and wounding 32 others, a police officer said. Later, police officials said two car bombs also tore through a busy commercial area near a crowded restaurant in the Utaifiya district of Baghdad, killing at least 15 people and wounding another 21.
In Karbala, an explosion killed 12 civilians and wounded 31 others. In Hillah, two car bombs went off in separate areas, killing 11 people and wounding 26 others.
In Baghdad's southern Dora district, a roadside bomb missed a police patrol but hit a civilian car, killing three and wounding 11 others, he added. Two other civilians were killed and 10 wounded in another bomb explosion in an outdoor market in the northern Shaab neighborhood, another police officer said.
Medical officials confirmed the causality figures, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.
Iraq has faced a growing Sunni insurgency as the Islamic State group and allied Sunni militants have taken over areas in the country's west and north. The crisis has worsened since June when the group declared an Islamic state, or caliphate, in territory under its control.
The United Nations on Monday condemned what it called "grave, horrific human rights violations" committed daily by the Islamic State and associated armed groups in a "widespread ethnic and religious cleansing in areas under their control."
Associated Press reporters Murtada Faraj and Vivian Salama in Baghdad contributed to this report.


text:
Contact ipl2 Closed
*The Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and Contact Us/ipl2 form will be closing permanently at 12 pm (noon) EDT on June 24, 2015. We will be unable to receive replies or new questions/comments after that time.*
We're sorry that we are no longer able to answer your questions. However, we have some suggestions for continuing your research.
A Local (or Non-Local) Library
If you have access to one, local public libraries are often your best resource for asking questions and obtaining materials. You may even be able to use partner libraries or borrow materials from other libraries using services like Interlibrary Loan. Ask for details at your local library.
You can also explore libraries at schools, colleges, museums, or other institutions. Some libraries only allow access to members of their user community, but others allow the general public to use some or all of their resources. If you can't visit a library in person, you may be able to contact them online or by phone to get help.
Not sure how to contact your local library, or want to find out what other institutions may have libraries in your area? Try one of these international library directories.
lib-web-cats: A directory of libraries through the world
State Libraries: All US states have libraries that offer access to materials and services for residents of the state, including some email or chat reference services, article databases, and more. The site PublicLibraries.com contains a directory of state libraries.
PublicLibraries.com: State Libraries
Online Library Services: Often libraries offer some kind of virtual reference service, such as email or live chat. Some libraries take questions from anyone, while others have more restrictions—explore the policies on each library site to find out if you qualify. The LISWiki has an international directory of libraries offering chat services specifically.
LISWiki: Chat reference libraries
The United States Library of Congress also offers online services that might be applicable to your needs.
Library of Congress: Ask a Librarian
The ipl2 has always been a big supporter of local libraries. We encourage you to make use of any services available to you!
ipl2 Site
Remember to explore the rest of our site! It will remain up for some time, though it will not be maintained. Here are some highlights.
We thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve you for over 20 years, and we wish you luck as you continue your research!


text:
Apple uncloaks deep details of its 11 iPad apps
Holy tablet is not giant iPhone
Pages and Numbers
Pages is also template-based, with 16 Apple-designed templates available for such page-layout projects as newsletters, reports, flyers, and the like. While it won't remind anyone of QuarkXPress or InDesign, the Mac version of Pages is a simple-but-effective way to quickly whip up printable docs, and from the Guided Tour it appears that the iPad version is about as capable.
One nifty Pages navigation trick: a sliding "loupe" that gives quick previews of your doc's contents
As with Keynote, Pages uses pop-up windows to give you control over such layout elements as fonts, line spacing, word-wrap style and tightness, photos and photo borders and so on. And like its Mac version, you can open Microsoft Word files in Pages and save Pages files in Microsoft Word format.
Numbers, when it first appeared on the Mac as part of the original iWork '08, was touted by Steve Jobs as a spreadsheet for folks who didn't need all the power of, say, Microsoft Excel - and it certainly lacked a ton of Excel's abilities. Since that August 2007 introduction, however, Numbers' capabilities have grown, and from its video in the iPad Guided Tour, its newer features appear to have been brought over into the version for Apple's new tablet.
When entering dates into Numbers, a date-specific soft keyboard appears
In addition to Numbers' most-useful advantage over Excel - the ability to have multiple row-and-column sets on the same page, each with different column widths - the iPad Numbers adds onscreen keyboards that change entry buttons to match the contents expected by a selected cell.
Numbers includes preset forms that can be used to enter data into spreadsheets
Like the multi-touch Keynote and Pages, Numbers comes supplied with 16 templates consisting of pre-built set-ups for such common spreadsheets as budgets, loan comparisons, mortgage calculations and travel planning. In keeping with Apple's "Everything must look pretty" prime directive, graphs in numbers are, well, pretty, and offer a reasonable degree of customizability.
Over 250 functions are built-in, including such categories as engineering, financial, statistical, and garden-variety numerical. You can import spreadsheets from Numbers on the Mac, or from Excel spreadsheets created on a Mac or Windows PC.


text:
Meet thousands of Thousandsticks singles through one of the best Thousandsticks online dating sites. Matchmaker.com has great instant messenger and live video Thousandsticks chat service for our members. Thousandsticks dating has never been easier with our show interest feature that will allow you to break the ice with attractive local singles.
Matchmaker.com has some great services for Thousandsticks singles looking for a longer term relationship. Besides our great Thousandsticks chat product with live video matchmaker users can send email messages to people in the area. The Thousandsticks dating scene can be hard to find the right person at times; however, we are here to help and our Thousandsticks online dating service is free to register.
ThousandsticksJoin Now Free!
Thousandsticks Girls | Thousandsticks Men | Thousandsticks Gay | Thousandsticks Lesbians
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
More Thousandsticks Links:
Thousandsticks Personals | Thousandsticks Speed Dating | Thousandsticks Chat | Thousandsticks Singles | Thousandsticks Love
Senior Dating | Catholic Dating | Christian Dating | Muslim Dating
Black Singles | Asian Singles | Latin Dating
Try our Thousandsticks dating service today. Matchmaker.com is one of the oldest Thousandsticks online dating services on the Internet and has brought thousands of couples together from the area. Test drive our Thousandsticks Chat room with one of the best online communities for the Thousandsticks single person. Also, keep in mind that we have a huge member base of Thousandsticks singles and that we also cater to members of the many backgrounds.
Still not convinced that matchmaker is the free Thousandsticks dating service for you? Once you've filled out the quick registration process you will be to see full size photos and profiles of thousands of Thousandsticks singles. Did you know that free Thousandsticks dating is a few clicks away? Find love and romance in Thousandsticks at matchmaker today!


text:
Extra Long Staple (ELS) cotton production worldwide is like a Cessna 150 on a radar screen full of 747 jumbo jets — It's hardly noticeable.
A little more than 2.2 million bales of ELS will be produced in the world this year compared to roughly 117 million bales total.
However, Pima cotton, the prized premium American ELS cotton produced almost exclusively in California, is vital to the survival of the San Joaquin Valley cotton industry.
Unfortunately SJV Pima is on a train wreck course with success that only can be avoided if the price of Pima increases by at least 40 cents per pound between now and next spring.
The world textile industry wants to make high value, high quality products from the world's finest cotton, but the textile mills do not know how they are going to pay the price growers want for that cotton.
Tranquility, Calif., cotton producer John Pucheu told a textile mill executive recently that as a producer he must get at least $1.50 per pound in 2009 to profitably grow the cotton the mill executive desperately wants to spin.
This is the same story Supima, the market promotion arm of U.S. Pima cotton, and other growers are telling world ELS buyers.
"The mill executive told me he could not afford to pay that price. I told him we cannot afford to grow Pima for less than that," Pucheu said.
The current spot market for Pima is about $1.10. Most merchants and growers at Supima's recent 54th annual meeting at Harris Ranch in Coalinga, Calif., agreed that it will take a $1.50 per pound contract price to put Pima into the crop mix next season.
Some indicated it may take as much as $2 per pound to keep Pima cotton in the row crop mix long term in California's San Joaquin Valley, where more than 90 percent of U.S. Pima is produced.
A look at the Pima acreage the last two cotton seasons in the San Joaquin makes it obvious that growers are extremely serious about what it will take to plant Pima.
Last year there were 288,000 acres of Pima planted in Far West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California (which had the lion's share of the acreage at 257,000 acres).
This year it is 193,000 acres total for the five states, according to the latest USDA estimate. However, the government estimate is far too high, according to Supima Executive Vice President Marc Lewkowitz, who cited the recently released California pink bollworm program acreage survey of just under 153,000 acres in the San Joaquin, 40,000 acres less than the USDA estimate.
The bottom line is the U.S. will produce only about 400,000 bales of Pima this season compared to 815,000 last season.
The declining ELS acreage is not just in the U.S. The 2.2 million bales worldwide projected this year compares to 3.4 million last year. Projected worldwide production this year will be the lowest in more than 20 years.
Jeff Elder, chairman of Supima and vice president of marketing for J. G. Boswell, the Valley's largest ELS producer, says mills "are in denial" of what they must pay to get growers to produce Pima cotton next season.
Jesse Curlee, Supima president, has been citing the rising costs of farming ELS cotton to each and every Supima customer.
Grower prices are going to have to increase substantially to get San Joaquin Valley cotton producers to plant Pima in 2009. At current prices, acreage will surely go down.
Pima is the heartbeat of the SJV cotton industry. There are only a little more than 100,000 acres of upland left in the Valley. For the third year in a row, there is more Pima in the Valley than upland.
The reason for the drop in Pima and upland acreage is that alternative row crops have been far more attractive economically — specifically alfalfa, corn, processing tomatoes, safflower, and cereal grains. Permanent crops like almonds and pistachios also have taken a big slice of the cotton acreage.
In reality, however, the bottom line is water. California's ongoing judicial, bureaucratic and natural drought has cut water supplies throughout the state, and indications are it will only get worse in 2009, even with a normal water year.
Growers with permanent crops will allocate what water is available first to tree and vine crops. What is left over, if there is any, will go to the crop that will return the most money per acre of water used to irrigate it.
Safflower becomes even more attractive because it can use less water than a summer crop like cotton, and prices have been good for the oilseed crop.
Even though it is a big water user, alfalfa acreage is expected to increase next season. Prices of alfalfa hay are at historically high levels and indications are they will go even higher in 2009 due to a growing dairy industry and the fallout from a lack of rainfall for pasture.
Processing tomatoes are another crop critical to California, which produces about 95 percent of the processing tomatoes in the U.S. This year growers received a base price of $70 per ton, $20 per ton higher than the previous several years.
Processors are bracing for an inevitable price increase they will be forced to pay to get the tomatoes they need to satisfy markets. Reports circulating at the Pima meeting indicated growers will be looking to get $100 per ton for processing tomatoes in 2009, double what they received just two years ago. Again, it is all about water and input costs.
The dilemma in the sharp decline in the Pima acreage picture is for the past 20 years Supima has spent millions in promotions creating consumer and textile industry demand for American Pima. The successful Supima program has made SJV ELS cotton the most sought after long staple cotton in the world.
The U.S. is now the world's largest ELS producer and by far the No. 1 exporter of ELS cotton worldwide.
The voluntarily grower-funded Supima has done a superb job creating demand, and putting Supima-labeled merchandise on retailers' shelves and racks, ranging from Saks Fifth Avenue and Brooks Brothers, to COSTCO and Wal-Mart.
By the end of the year, 350 textile mills in 27 countries will be licensed to sell products labeled as Supima. Each pays $5,000 annually for the right to use the Supima label. The license issued from the association says anything that has Supima on the label must be made of 100 percent U.S. Pima cotton. There are literally hundreds of thousands of products ranging from shirts to sheets with that label now affixed. Supima is part of marketing plans for many name brand labels.
Supima has backed up the licensing package with trade show exhibits, fashion shows and even a retail store in New York City. All have been immensely successful, driving up the demand for Pima cotton products.
Whether it remains in demand will be determined by how much Pima is produced in the San Joaquin Valley.
"Something has to give," said Cotton Council International (CCI) Executive Director Allen Terhaar. CCI is the international marketing arm of U.S. cotton.
"There is not gong to be much Pima cotton to offer" this marketing year to a textile industry eager to get product, he told growers and others at the meeting.
"We have got to get more U.S. Pima production back into the market. There remains a lot of opportunity in the world for U.S. Pima," he said.
That opportunity comes with a price tag.


text:
So maybe we should explain ourselves.
As you've probably seen from our odes to Pee-Wee Herman and our awestruck glares at Chris Brown these past couple of days, the Hulu Blog is unveiling an everyday feature called The Green Room. It's what Hulu editor Rebecca Harper, assistant editor Ben Collins, and the expansive Hulu universe think is must-watch material on Hulu and all over the Internet every day.
And, don't worry, we've already had Chris Brown come in to ceremonially ruin our carpet. It looks terrible.
We'll bring you our videofied take on the news. We'll have interviews with some TV people you love. We'll try to provide interviews with some TV people you hate, too.
Other days, mostly Mondays, we'll just reveal our genuine, collective crush on Christiane Amanpour's reporting. This love is unending and knows no bounds. We're trying to rein this in a little, we promise.
And there's no better launch day than today, the same day Hulu released the A&E series "Why I Ran." It's about evading the police in your 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass, and it's the only show on TV where we get to see criminals say the phrase "warm and fuzzy."
There is no better show on television. We hope The Green Room can be to TV blogs what "Why I Ran" is to tire-less cars tumbling down the highway.
Email us. Tell us what to cover. Hop on our very green couches and make a horrible mess. Chris Brown would want you to.


text:
The Dynamics of Carbon Export to the Deep Arctic Ocean and its Sensitivity to Climate Change
Arctic Research Initiative
2007 Funded Project
The Arctic Ocean is of critical importance for our understanding of the impact and fate of anthropogenically-induced increases in atmospheric CO2 on the oceans and on global climate. It has been predicted that anthropogenically-driven climate change will occur far more rapidly and be amplified in the Arctic, both on the surrounding continents and in the ocean. Two of the most blatant manifestations of this change are a reduction in sea-ice cover and destabilization of permafrost soils. The latter process and attendant shifts in the hydrologic cycle will release vast quantities of reduced carbon stored in these soils and associated nutrients to the marginal seas. Together with longer open-water seasons over larger expanses of the Arctic Ocean, carbon export to the interior basin is likely to increase markedly. However, our knowledge of the operation of the carbon cycle in the Arctic Ocean, the efficacy of the biological pump, and its response to changes in supply of carbon is severely hampered by the paucity of information on fluxes and fate of biogenic and associated materials exported from the upper ocean to the interior basins.In anticipation of dramatic changes to the arctic carbon cycle, we propose a project designed to provide crucial insights into the sources, mode of delivery and fate of carbon in the deep arctic basin. We propose to undertake time-series collection of settling particles in the CanadianBasin and to utilize geochemical tracers and synchronous physical oceanographic measurements to delineate mechanisms that govern carbon export to the deep basin. In this way, we will be in a better position to predict how the Arctic carbon cycle may be modified in the face of the climate changes which have been set in motion.


text:
Difference between revisions of "Hungary Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)"
Mandyhope1 (talk | contribs)
m (Added punctuation to citation)
Mandyhope1 (talk | contribs)
(Added link to coverage table)
|Line 28:
|Line 28:
Civil records are the primary source for research after 1894. They are generally correct as the event was registered by those who were eyewitnesses of the event.
Civil records are the primary source for research after 1894. They are generally correct as the event was registered by those who were eyewitnesses of the event.
=== Citation for This Collection ===
=== Citation for This Collection ===
Revision as of 20:28, 9 April 2013
|This article describes a collection of historical records available at FamilySearch.org.
Access the records: Hungary, Civil Registration, 1895-1980 .
- 1 Title in the Language of the Records
- 2 Record Description
- 3 Record Content
- 4 How to Use the Records
- 5 Known Issues With This Collection
- 6 Related Websites
- 7 Related Wiki Articles
- 8 Contribution to This Article
- 9 Citing FamilySearch Historical Collections
Title in the Language of the Records
Magyar Polgári Anyakönyvek, 1895-1980
Record Description
This collection includes the years 1895-1980
The records are bound volumes of preprinted forms with event information recorded by hand. From 1895 through 1906, the forms are one page per event; beginning with 1907 each event occupies one row in a printed table, so there are multiple events recorded per page.
The registration has two formats:
- The pre-1907 format can be located by clicking on the Hungary Civil Registration link below.
- The post-1907 format is located on this page.
Both formats have valuable English translation guides to the records. An extract of these records has also been created and is being moved into the wiki article: Hungary Civil Registration, Birth and Marriage Extracts (Family Search Historical Records)
Civil Registration began in Hungary on October 1, 1895. The original records are maintained by each individual civil registration office (anyakönyvi hivatal); copies are made and submitted to the Municipal Archives in Budapest (Budapest Főváros Levéltára). The copies in the Municipal Archives were microfilmed and subsequently digitized into the images in this collection.
For a list of records by date or locality currently published in this collection, select the Browse link from the collection landing page.
Civil registration was instituted so that the government might have a record of vital events useful in compiling statistics about the people in Hungary.
Civil records are the primary source for research after 1894. They are generally correct as the event was registered by those who were eyewitnesses of the event.
See Hungary Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records) Coverage Table for a list of the localities, the record types, and date ranges included in this collection.
Citation for This Collection
The following citation refers to the original source of the information published in FamilySearch.org Historical Record collections. Sources include the author, custodian, publisher, and archive for the original records.
- "Hungary, Civil Registration, 1895-1980." Index and Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : accessed 2013. Citing Anyakönyvi Hivatal. Csongrád Megyei Levéltárban, Szeged.
Suggested citation format for a record in this collection.
Record Content
These birth records may contain the following information:
- Registration date and number
- Date and place of birth
- Name of child
- Child's gender and religion
- Parents' names and mother's age
- Parents' religion
- Signature of informant
- Additional remarks
These marriage records generally contain the following information:
- Date and place of marriage
- Groom's name
- Groom's date and place of birth
- Groom's religion and occupation
- Groom's parents' names
- Bride's name
- Bride's date and place of birth
- Bride's religion and occupation
- Bride's parents' names
- Witnesses' names and their residence
- Additional remarks
These death records generally contain the following information:
- Registration date and number
- Date and time of death
- Place of death
- Name and age of deceased
- Deceased's residence and occupation
- Deceased's religion
- Spouse's name
- Parents' names
- Cause of death
- Signatures of informant and registrar
- Additional remarks
How to Use the Records
To search the collection you will need to follow this series of links:
⇒Select the "Browse" link in the initial search page
⇒Select the "County" category
⇒Select the "Town or Registration District" category
⇒Select the "Record Type and Date Range" category which takes you to the images
Look at the images one by one comparing the information with what you already know about your ancestors to determine which one is your ancestor. You may need to compare the information about more than one person to make this determination.
- Use civil birth records to verify date and place of birth as well as to provide names of parents and their respective places of birth and approximate year of birth. Only birth records 90 years old or older are made available by the Hungarian government.
- Use civil marriage records to verify date and place of marriage and name of spouse as well as provide parents names for both the bride and groom. Only marriage records 60 years old or older are made available by the Hungarian government.
- Use civil death records to verify date and place of death as well as provide approximate year of birth, place of birth, names of parents and spouse. Only death records 30 years old or older are made available by the Hungarian government.
Research guides are available by clicking on the Hungary link below. It will also include "How to begin research", "Research Tools (incl. Common Hungarian Words)", and a history of Hungary.
Known Issues With This Collection
|Problems with this collection?
See a list of known issues, workarounds, tips, restrictions, future fixes, news and other helpful information.
For a full list of all known issues associated with this collection see the attached Issues Wiki article. If you encounter additional problems, please email them to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include the full path to the link and a description of the problem in your e-mail. Your assistance will help ensure that future reworks will be considered.
Related Websites
Related Wiki Articles
Contribution to This Article
| We welcome user additions to FamilySearch Historical Records wiki articles. We are looking for additional information that will help readers understand the topic and better use the available records. We also need translations for collection titles and images in articles about records written in languages other than English. For specific needs, please visit WikiProject FamilySearch Records.
Please follow these guidelines as you make changes. Thank you for any contributions you may provide.
Citing FamilySearch Historical Collections
When you copy information from a record, you should list where you found the information. This will help you or others to find the record again. It is also good to keep track of records where you did not find information, including the names of the people you looked for in the records.
A suggested format for keeping track of records that you have searched is found in the wiki article Help:How to Cite FamilySearch Collections.
Citation Example for a Record Found in This Collection
"Hungary Civil Registration, 1895-1920," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org: accessed 25 May 2012), Nógrád > Balassa-Gyarmat > Births (Születtek) 1909-1914 > Image 49 of 325, Árpád Selmeczy, born 30 December 1909; citing Registry Office (Anyakönyvi Hivatal), Hungary Civil Registration, Csongrád Megyei Levéltárban, Szeged, Hungary.


text:
QZUnique Women s Portable Soft Genuine Leather Shoulder Bag Small Tote HandbagBlack Black -
[COWHIDE GENUINE LEATHER] Material: Cow Split Leather. Split Cowskin Leather Purse with coating and oiliing finish. Split leather comes from cow skin after a precise splitting process and is often coated to be various stylish looking. It is moderate genuine leather, soft and anti-scratch, which is way better than other leathers. It may have slight natural odor at first, but the smell will disappear after a couple days' airing out
[FASHION STYLE] Modern fashion style, top zipper closure, come with a detachable shoulder strap. Shiny as a new one even years later. The bottom has \"feet\"
[GREAT CAPACITY] Roomy for storing IPAD AIR, A4 magazine, wallet, cell phone, etc. Inside with a removable pouch and a side zipper pocket
[MULTI WAYS TO CARRY] 3 ways to carry it: you can attach the long shoulder strap to carry it as a shoulder bag or a cross-body bag. Also it is a purse to be carried in your hand. Can be taken to work place / dating / casual use. It is also a great birthday gift for family and friends
[Dimensions] 12.60\"L x 9.84\"H x 5.91\"W, fit up to IPAD AIR. The weight is almost 0.9 kg, coming with the leather strap; All orders fulfilled by Amazon will be two-day Shipping (Ship from USA), fulfilled by [Global Best Discount] with [standard shipping] are free shipping, and it usually only takes 5 to 10 business days to arrive, much sooner than the estimated delivery time
Clutches & Evening Bags


text:
Inquest hearing into Williams' in custody death to begin in February
The special prosecutor handling the investigation into Derek Williams' death in Milwaukee police custody will present his case on Feb. 11.
John Franke appeared in court Wednesday for a procedural hearing in front of Judge Kevin Martens.
The proceeding in February will examine whether Milwaukee police acted properly on the night Williams died in the back of a Milwaukee police squad car in July 2011.
Family members at the hearing Wednesday said they were watching developments in the case closely.
They said they did not yet know whether any relatives would be called to testify.
Their attorney said he expected some relatives to be interviewed as part of the inquest process because they were on the scene the night Williams died.
"We're going at some people who really don't deserve to work for the city of Milwaukee. As far as negligence in the care of our loved ones, it means that justice is going to be served. Eventually, it's going to be served," Williams' great aunt, Maeleen Jordan said.
Video from the squad car's cameras showed Williams struggling to breathe and asking for help for several minutes before he collapsed and eventually died.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office originally ruled the cause of death was a result of natural causes, but the cause was changed in September 2012 to homicide.
Medical Examiner Dr. Brian Peterson said the video from the squad car did not factor into the change.
"I made the changes to the report, and to the death certificate, before I saw the video, simply based on the police report," Peterson told WISN 12 News in September. "After I saw the video, that changed nothing."
Franke, a retired judge, was appointed special prosecutor for the inquest after an earlier investigation by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office cleared the officers present when Williams died.
In the first court hearing for the inquest held Oct. 16, Franke acknowledged that "The medical examiner's reports in this case leave unanswered significant questions."
The cause of Williams' death is listed as sickle cell crisis, a condition the autopsy states was triggered when Williams fled the scene of an armed robbery on foot while wearing a mask.
He was placed in a squad car after his arrest and complained he was having difficulty breathing. Minutes later, Williams collapsed and died in the back seat.
Franke said he anticipates calling medical experts for two specific questions about how Williams died.
"One being a sickle cell crisis and the role that it played here, a second possibly being the cause of the fractured hyoid bone," Franke told WISN 12 News in October.
Milwaukee police declined to comment Wednesday but have said in the past they are cooperating with the investigations into the Williams case.


text:
Meet thousands of Talmage singles through one of the best Talmage online dating sites. Matchmaker.com has great instant messenger and live video Talmage chat service for our members. Talmage dating has never been easier with our show interest feature that will allow you to break the ice with attractive local singles.
Matchmaker.com has some great services for Talmage singles looking for a longer term relationship. Besides our great Talmage chat product with live video matchmaker users can send email messages to people in the area. The Talmage dating scene can be hard to find the right person at times; however, we are here to help and our Talmage online dating service is free to register.
TalmageJoin Now Free!
Talmage Girls | Talmage Men | Talmage Gay | Talmage Lesbians
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
More Talmage Links:
Talmage Personals | Talmage Speed Dating | Talmage Chat | Talmage Singles | Talmage Love
Senior Dating | Catholic Dating | Christian Dating | Muslim Dating
Black Singles | Asian Singles | Latin Dating
Try our Talmage dating service today. Matchmaker.com is one of the oldest Talmage online dating services on the Internet and has brought thousands of couples together from the area. Test drive our Talmage Chat room with one of the best online communities for the Talmage single person. Also, keep in mind that we have a huge member base of Talmage singles and that we also cater to members of the many backgrounds.
Still not convinced that matchmaker is the free Talmage dating service for you? Once you've filled out the quick registration process you will be to see full size photos and profiles of thousands of Talmage singles. Did you know that free Talmage dating is a few clicks away? Find love and romance in Talmage at matchmaker today!


text:
Apple came under fire this week when the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations claimed the company uses "a complex web of offshore entities" -- including foreign subsidiaries in Ireland -- to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes.
While a subcommittee report said Apple's practices are legal, senators took Apple to task for exploiting tax loopholes. Apple CEO Tim Cook, who is more used to receiving applause as he introduces new whiz-bang products, was grilled Tuesday by senators about Apple's tax practices.


text:
Moral Education
Quinn and Dixie go to Mardi Gras.
This article is part of an ongoing series by Michael Lewis about the birth of his third child. Click here to read the other entries in the series. Michael Lewis first began his "Dad Again" column after the birth of his second daughter, Dixie, in 2002. Click hereto read about that delivery.
The last time I'd visited the Fairgrounds in New Orleans was the spring of 1977, when I was 16 years old. A classmate of mine had a gambling debt of $8,000 that he couldn't pay off—$8,000 being the equivalent today of roughly 27 grand, real money for a high-school junior back then. In what seemed at the time like a sensible strategy, he hocked the coin collection given to him at birth by his grandparents and came up with $2,000 cash. This he handed to me, along with instructions to go to the Fairgrounds and lay it all on Albo Berry to show in the sixth. His nerves couldn't take it, he said, and besides, he had math class. Albo Berry was racing on a school day, during seventh and eighth period, when all I had was film history—which could be skipped safely. And so I grabbed another friend and drove to the Fairgrounds to lay two grand on Albo Berry to show.
Probably there was some law forbidding minors from betting on horses, but it wasn't taken any more seriously than the other laws in New Orleans that separated children from the grown-up world. So long as you didn't make the enablers feel as if you were going to attract the wrong sort of attention, they let you do pretty much what you wanted. Two grand was attention-getting, however, and we decided the only safe way to get it down on Albo Berry was in small, childish chunks. The moment Albo Berry's race was announced we each took $1,000 and dashed around madly, placing $5 bets. We wound up with 400 tickets, but we got it all down, then took a seat in the grandstand to watch the race.
They were already off; a bunch of horses had broken from the pack, Albo Berry not among them. Indeed, for the longest time Albo Berry went unmentioned. It was as if he existed only in a dream. But then, as if he knew what was at stake, he made his move. Coming hard on the outside, he passed all but two other horses. By a nose, Albo Berry showed. We spent half an hour running around collecting what came to just shy of $8,000 in small bills. Armloads of cash made us conspicuous, and so we made quickly for the car. Only then did a grown-up—the guard in the parking lot—take notice. We were a step too fast for him. He peered into the car window as we whizzed past, and my friend heaved all the money up into the air, so that, for that moment, the inside of the car looked like a ticker-tape parade. We made it back to school just in time for baseball practice.
Now, for the first time in 30 years, I'm back at the Fairgrounds, with a 7-year-old daughter holding one hand and a 4-year-old holding the other. I hadn't planned to teach my children how to bet on the ponies on this trip. But my brother lives down the block from the racetrack, and the three of us went to visit him for lunch, and one thing led to another. Before you could say "trifecta," we had them on our shoulders and were walking over to the races. Just one race, I told them, and then we'd leave. For old time's sake. They might learn something.
"You promise we can we bet real money?" asks Quinn.
"Yeah, Daddy," says Dixie, "Can we bet real money?"
"You can each make one small bet," I say, judiciously.
"You'll have to make it for us," says Quinn, knowingly, " 'cause we're too little."
Through the turnstiles we plunge and make for the viewing area to decide which horse to back. But before we do, we bump into Al Stall, a year behind me in school, who has, it turns out, spent most of his time since then training race horses. I haven't seen him since high school, but it feels like yesterday, and he ushers the kids into the space reserved for horses. He wants them to see Winsky, a sleek, tan, 4-year-old mare *, his horse in the race. As they inspect the animal, the jockey appears, followed by Winsky's owners, and so they inspect them, too. They listen as Al talks a little bit about his horse, the favorite. Al doesn't sound worried. Al doesn't look worried. Al, truth to tell, looks as if his horse has already won.
"I want to bet on Winsky," says Quinn, firmly.
"Me too!" says Dixie.
"If we win, you girls have to join us in the winner's circle!" says the owner.
We rush out to lay some dough on Winsky. "Daddy, what's the circle?" asks Dixie, but I'm too distracted to answer. They've replaced old tellers with new betting machines. It's now more complicated for a 46-year-old man to place two $5 bets on a horse to win than it was 30 years ago for a 16-year-old to lay two grand on a horse to show. I waste 10 bucks printing out two erroneous tickets before finally getting my hands on tickets for Winsky to win. Grabbing them from me, the girls race outside to watch their horse up close, from the rail. The weather is clear, the track fast. As the bell rings and the horses bolt from the gate, I wonder: This is what fathers are for? To take children to the places they aren't supposed to go, so that they can do the things children aren't supposed to do? If Mama's the law, I'm the blind eye.
For roughly 51 weeks a year, I'm a bit player in my children's moral education. This week is the exception, when we visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras. For seven days I'm more or less in charge and use them to cultivate the aspects of their characters that they'll need to make it in the modern world: guile, greed, charm, and a deep appreciation that what you know is less important than who you know. Mardi Gras might just as well have been created to teach small children how to compete in the more ferocious sectors of our nation's economy. Beads, in the brief moment they fly through the air, become so valuable that grown men will trample one another to get them and young women will disrobe. Three hours later they're worthless again, but that's not the point. The point is how to get as many of them as possible.
Last year, when she was 6, Quinn draped the beads she caught around her neck. This year she takes what she catches and squirrels it away furtively in a camouflaged Army duffel bag beside her. "If they see you have lots of loot they won't throw you anything," she explains, hurriedly, and then resumes her quest for more beads. Dixie is only 4, but even she seems to be coming along nicely. As I haul home a 50-pound sack full of beads, she says, "Daddy, you want me to tell you why they gave me so many things? 'Cause I was making a sad face." Every small child in America should be flown to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Those who excel should be offered jobs by Goldman Sachs selling bonds. Those who fail should be taken to the racetrack, to see if they are perhaps better suited to trading.
The race starts, a mile and 40 yards. There is no drama to it. Winsky, on the inside, takes the lead and never surrenders it. She wins so easily that, if I were one of the other horses, I might just canter back to my stable and shoot myself. My daughters leap around: They won! "How much did we win, Daddy?" they ask but then are distracted by their new best friends, Winsky's owners, trainer, and jockey, who guide them into the winner's circle. They pose for a group photo, Quinn and Dixie front and center, as a man with a television camera races back and forth filming them from every possible angle, beaming their smiles into every off-track betting parlor in the land. Quinn sees the camera and waves.
Twenty-two minutes after they strolled into the Fairgrounds, they're back in their car seats, waving $5 bills and looking for something to argue about. The experience has struck neither of them as noteworthy. The problem with lucking out with your children is that your children don't appreciate their luck—and the lucky feeling is more than half of the pleasure. You go to all this trouble to get them an education, and they promptly forget the lessons. On the drive home I explain to them that it isn't common for two little girls to walk into a racetrack in the middle of the day for a single horse race and wind up in the winner's circle, holding winning tickets, with the horse's jockey on one arm and the horse's owner on the other. Not to mention getting serious screen time on every OTB network. It takes some effort, but by the time we arrive home, each little girl has been convinced she has something worth saying about her field trip—only it isn't the same thing. Dixie, running to the back of the house to find her mother, squeals, "Mama, I made $5 at the round field!" Quinn races up the stairs, finds her grandmother, and shouts, "Nana, we were on national TV!"
Correction, March 15, 2007: This article originally misidentified the horse Winsky as a stallion. In fact, she is a mare. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


text:
Gaza Truce in Tatters, Obama Blames Hamas
Israeli Soldier Goes Missing, Possibly Taken Captive
Israeli forces spread across southern Gaza in search of a missing infantry officer who was presumed captured by militants Friday, as President Barack Obama blamed Hamas for the quick breakdown of a U.S.-brokered cease-fire.
The officer's fate added a volatile element to Israel's conflict with Hamas, with the potential to draw the military deeper into a densely populated Palestinian enclave largely devastated by 25 days of combat. If confirmed, his capture could give Hamas, the Islamist group that governs Gaza, powerful new...


text:
BERLIN (AP) — Doctors say they're satisfied with the condition of a cave researcher hauled out of Germany's deepest cavern after sustaining head injuries, though he will need a few months to recover fully.
Johann Westhauser was flown to the Murnau Trauma Center following his rescue from the Riesending cave Thursday, nearly two weeks after being hit by a falling rock.
Doctors said Friday the 52-year-old sustained skull and eye socket fractures, and some internal bleeding. In a video shown at a news conference Friday, Westhauser appeared to have some difficulty speaking but the hospital said he won't need neurological surgery.
Medical director Volker Buehren said Westhauser likely will stay two to four weeks at the clinic, then will need further therapy — with the healing process lasting three to six months.


text:
OSU Notebook
Despite the Beavers 35-20 loss to the Sun Devils in Tempe last week, redshirt freshman quarterback Sean Mannion set the Oregon St. record for pass attempts with 66 and completions with 40.
That performance broke the previous record of 64 attempts and 39 completions set by Erik Wilhelm against Michigan on Sept. 20, 1986.
Recent Results
All exciting stuff less the fact that Mannion also tossed four interceptions.
But hey, don't blame the kid too much. I mean he was pressed into service so much because the Beavers rushed for only 74 yards with a running game that stalled due to a combination of limited blocking and not enough attempts.
With a performance like that, it didn't help the Beavers offense that already ranks near the bottom of the Pac-12 in several areas and are 10th in running offense (106.0 ypg), 10th in total offense (385.7 ypg), last in pass efficiency (108.5 rating) and last in scoring offense (16.8 ppg).
Bu t the agony doesn't end there, as the defense also ranks near the bottom of the conference in several areas: 11th in pass efficiency defense (161.4 rating), 10th in scoring defense (31.5 ppg) and last in punting (33.9 average).
Upcoming Game
The Wildcats just finished a brutal stretch of games that if they could have displayed a little better defense, may have come out of it a little better than 1-4.
The Beavers are having a tough go of it this year, and are still looking for their first win after falling to Arizona State last weekend in Tempe. You have to applaud Oregon State for its efforts, as they did get out to 13-0 start against ASU, but then things just fell apart.
Saturday's home game against Arizona is a day removed from the one-year anniversary of James Rodgers' knee injury at Arizona. That's where the season and the program took a turn.
The Beavers won the game against the then-No. 9 Wildcats, but are 2-9 since then.
NWSB Player Recognitions
Markus Wheaton's 11-catch performance against AUS moved him to second in the Pac-12 Conference and tied for 11th nationally with an average of 8.0 receptions a game. He's fourth in the Pac-12 in receiving yards with 97.5 a game.
Jordan Poyer is tied for first in the Pac-12 in interceptions after getting two in Tempe on Saturday. He's also third in the Pac-12 and eighth nationally in punt return average (17.5).
Kevin Unga tackled seven Sun Devils to keep him tied for first with Utah's Chaz Walker in the conference with an average of 9.5 tackles per game.
Finally, freshman Scott Cricthon leads the Pac-12 and is tied for ninth in the nation with 1.8 tackles for loss per game.
Infirmary Report
According to head coach Mike Riley, starting running back Malcolm Agnew who has been sidelined with a hamstring injury, will need to make it through a full week of practice before he'll be ready to play. Until then he is listed as doubtful for the upcoming game against Arizona.
Starting offensive guard Josh Andrews (knee) returned to practice for the first time since he was injured Sept. 10 at Wisconsin.
Reserve receiver Micah Hatfield (hand) is being worked back in as a backup and on special teams.
The Beavers added Weber State of the Football Championship Subdivision's Big Sky Conference, and Nevada to the future nonconference schedule.
Weber State will travel to Corvallis for the 2015 season opener, while a two-game series with the Wolf Pack is slated to begin Sept. 16, 2017, at Reser Stadium with a road game in Reno set for Sept. 15, 2018.


text:
By Bob Reinert, USAG-Natick Public AffairsDecember 12, 2012
NATICK, Mass. (Dec. 12, 2012) -- An official from the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center was named to the Governor's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, or STEM, Advisory Council in Massachusetts.
Donna Bulger, acting director, Business and Operations, NSRDEC, was sworn in by Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray in a recent ceremony at Natick Town Hall. Later, Murray talked of the longstanding relationship between Natick Soldier Systems Center and STEM.
"Governor Patrick and I value collaborating with our partners in both the public and private sectors," said Murray, chair of the STEM Advisory Council. "We appreciate Donna's leadership and participation on the STEM Council, and I look forward to working with her as we increase STEM awareness and promote opportunities for students to pursue careers in STEM-related fields."
Governor Deval Patrick welcomed Bulger to the advisory council in his appointment letter to her.
"Lieutenant Governor Murray and I appreciate your willingness to serve the Commonwealth in this capacity," Patrick wrote. "Your experience and sound judgment will contribute substantially to the Board."
Bulger said that she was honored to be named to the council.
"I am excited to be working with my counterparts from industry and academia as we work together to inspire the next generation of problem-solvers to address the challenges and opportunities faced by our country," Bulger said. "I am constantly humbled by our great educators and the work they do to prepare our students, and (I) look forward to continuing to do what we can to help them."
Bulger had become involved with the Department of Defense STEM Outreach Program in 2008 as the Army Outreach Coordinator for Massachusetts, whose fourth- and eighth-graders rank among the best in the world in science and math.
"Because of the NSRDEC, we were identified as the ninth state to become active in the National Defense Education Outreach Program STEM initiatives," Bulger said. "NSRDEC had always been active in educational outreach, and with the appointment came resources to support more robust activities."
Bulger pointed to teacher training events hosted during the past four years at NSRDEC. She added that the sessions provided teachers "with not only training but additional resources for their classrooms."
It didn't take Bulger long to realize the high level of commitment to STEM in Massachusetts.
"In meetings and events, I met fellow STEM outreach advocates from academia and industry," Bulger said. "Together, we all had the same goal -- inspire more students to pursue STEM careers.
"Industry and academia are important partners and collaborators in our scientific and technical accomplishments, and the STEM outreach efforts have provided the opportunity to share that collaboration and provide Massachusetts students a better understanding of the full array of career opportunities, including those in the Department of Defense."
As Bulger pointed out, information also flows the other way.
"I am in a unique perspective to share what is going on within the state with my counterparts in science and technology labs across the country," Bulger said.


text:
About Keanu Reeves(Click Here To Hide)
Keanu Reeves is a Canadian actor who is best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the Matrix series. In addition, Keanu received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star for his work on the big screen. A lesser known fact is that Keanu has a passion for performing in theater.
No fan sites added yet


text:
Thanks for helping us sort this video!
Thanks for helping us associate the correct Pornstars to this video!
Help Us: Do these Pornstars appear in this video?
Pornstar Name:
Money really works! Doesn't seem like was worth it.
Holy perfect tits Batman!
he's an asshole
Outstanding youngster who happens to have great tits. A little embarrassed at causing squirting but hey it happens.
Her Name is Arkida Reeves...
I spunked all over the place by the time bonnie got on top
what's her name??? she's so hot... i man her real name...
LOL no anal at all ahaha. Nice category,.
GORGEOUS tits..
her name is Zoya Konyieva
A pleasure to see a nice body. Large breasts is added images. I 'm sure she would have been a good fuck but we will never know.
awesome tits!!!
this guy is very persuasive lol
great video
Plzz give ful length vedio
Nice boob sucker girl. Can suck me off all time.
Who is she? What's her name?
Damn...The girl is great, He shoulda give her at least 30 000 crowns for all th game. She's worth it
Who is this girl? Her tits are natural and huge yet she's somewhat petite and extremely cute. Seems to very young too. What's her name?
Luscious big natural tits on this young chick - love the saggy heaviness of these.
Perfect tits. Nice delocius areolas.
Diese Videos sind soooo geil Echt hammer
she eat it fast !!
Che bella bambina!
I love LIBUSE,such a sweet young thang..
Some errors occurred, please try again later
Sign up for a free account and make YouPorn yours!
Subscribe to your favorite pornstars, channels, and collections


text:
part of a small rebellion | by maryann johanson
Fri Jun 24 2016, 12:08am | 0 comments
Please support truly independent film criticism as generously as you can.
More details...
all regions (where available):
based on the Aggregate theme by Elegant Themes | powered by WordPress
Older than Google. Older than Rotten Tomatoes. Help me celebrate.


text:
In about a week-and-a-half I'll post yesterday's very fun interview with"Celeste and Jesse Forever"star/co-writer Rashida Jones.
For now, here's a snippet from the conversation that has nothing to do with the movie (opening Aug. 10) or anything else—just an enjoyable discussion about music with someone who, in my opinion, has quite good taste.
Photographer Lenny Gilmore (to me): Did you listen to that new Passion Pit album?
Me: Yeah, it's good.
Rashida Jones: Passion fruit, what?
The new Passion Pit album.
Oh, is it good?
It is good.
I love them. Is this the first album since the last one? [Laughs] The one that has, (sings/hums part of Passion Pit's "The Reeling")?
It's been a while.
It's been a while. For some reason I got confused with them and MGMT for just one moment in my life. Because the MGMT that came out after their good album was not good. It was a [bleepin'] hail storm.
What are you listening to now?
I just downloaded the new Fiona Apple album. Robert Glasper. Are you down with Robert Glasper? He's amazing! Why did it take me so long to find him?
I'm usually sold on any jazz/hip-hop combination.
Me too. It literally cannot go wrong for me.
What do you think is the best Tribe Called Quest album?
Oh, that's so hard. You know what, I have to say, I mean, "Low End Theory" is the obvious answer. (whispering) "Midnight Marauders" is pretty amazing. I mean, it's the way things are supposed to progress forward.
I think it's more consistent.
And then I gotta say what I liked even better than that: Q-Tip "Renaissance." That album is incredible. Talk about jazz/hip-hop fusion. Right now it's all Frank Ocean, all the time for me. I can't get enough; it's out of control. The Passion Pit's good? I'm psyched that that's good. I don't know if that album's out yet but I love that Major Lazer song "Get Free." Amber from Dirty Projectors and Diplo-- that song gets me so good. Maybe we'll play it later. We were just saying we haven't played enough music on this trip. We've had like two songs. What did you play the other day? Big Pun, "Still Not A Player (remix)." And I played Frank Ocean. And Miguel. Do you like Miguel? Good R&B.;


text:
SYDNEY (Reuters) - John Isner limped out of the Sydney International on Wednesday with his Australian Open participation in doubt but the thing that frustrated him most about his last 16 defeat was the umpire checking how long he was taking to serve.
The ATP are strictly enforcing a new rule giving players 25 seconds to get their serve away this year in a bid to speed up the game and big-serving Isner was a victim of the policy in his 6-4 6-4 loss to fellow American Ryan Harrison.
"I knew about the rule, but I went on the court and wasn't really thinking. I had it called right way my second service game, I think," he told reporters.
"For someone who sweats a lot like me, that's why I wear a hat, because I can't play without a hat. It's always dripping. I felt like I could never go to the towel. The umpire was looking at me the whole match.
"When I got called on the warning I was getting ready to serve. I was at the line. I don't particularly like that rule, that's for sure, because it messed with my rhythm, my flow, and I'm sure it's doing that to a lot of other players, too."
Isner, however, does not think it will be a problem at Melbourne Park next week.
Although grand slams have a shorter time limit of 20 seconds, the rule is not enforced and the likes of Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal are notorious for their long build up to serving.
The new ATP rule calls for a warning followed by the loss of a point for the offending player.
It was endorsed by the player's council last December but Isner, who is suffering from a bone bruise to his right leg, thinks they should boost the time up to 30 seconds.
"Every time I'd look up he's doing this," Isner added of the umpire, gesturing as if starting a stopwatch.
"It throws you off. I'm not intentionally trying to stall out there, but I've always moved a little slower. You know, at certain points in the match you need to take five extra seconds.
"I have to go to the towel to wipe off sweat that's dripping off my hat. I really felt like I wasn't able to do that, so I don't like this rule.
"If they did keep it as something new I would have to adjust, for sure. I don't like it. I feel like majority of players â maybe not the majority. I think most players would be on my side, I think. I could be wrong."
(Editing by John O'Brien)


text:
- Pantyhose / Tights[1]
- Wigs[10]
- Hairbands[10]
- Winter Hats[10]
- Key Chains[10]
- Mobile Phone Bags & Cases[7]
- Handbags[10]
- Body Jewelry[10]
- Bracelets & Bangles[10]
- Earrings[10]
- Jewelry Findings & Components[10]
- Jewelry Sets[10]
- Crystal[10]
- Necklaces[10]
- Other Jewelry[10]
- Pendants & Charms[6]
- Rings[10]
- Contact Person : Ms. Chan Lisa
- Company Name : Yiwu O'la Jewelry & Accessories Firm
- Tel : 86-579-85646848
- Fax : 86-579-85646848
- Address : Zhejiang,Yiwu City,Room 401, Building 16, Lingyun 6 Qu,Yiwu City
- Country/Region : China
Related Product Searches:fashion design anklets,High Quality,designer anklet, silver anklets,SA5010
fashion design anklets
Angel anklet payal
anklets payal
|any diamond or colorful stones you like.
|Opp bag or you like
|50 pcs each style
|Delivery Time
3-7 working days against payment if your order fall into our stocks
7-15 working days for productions against payment
|Payment Terms
|Paypal & TT & Western Union
|Express Selections
Welcome to Yiwu O'la Jewelry & accessories.
Sample can send in 3 days. Delivery time will be 5-10 days for MOQ. Also in time based on the big quantities.
Factory direct Sales.
The good price based on the high quality swaroviski crystal glass bead
At the beginning, we accept small orders at the reasonable price, then you will have a good chance to know much more about our quality and service. All in all, we sincerely wish that goo quality and service will help you to get more client and more orders.
We shall always be very happy to hear from you and will carefully consider any proposal, likely to lead to business between us.
fashion design anklets


text:
What is the surface area of the tetrahedron with one vertex at O
the vertex of a unit cube and the other vertices at the centres of
the faces of the cube not containing O?
We have a set of four very innocent-looking cubes - each face coloured red, blue, green or white - and they have to be arranged in a row so that all of the four colours appear on each of the four long sides of the resulting cuboid.
The net of a cube is to be cut from a sheet of card 100 cm square.
What is the maximum volume cube that can be made from a single
piece of card?
In the cube illustrated the point $P$ is the midpoint of $AB$
and the point $Q$ is one quarter of the way along the edge
The plane through $PDQ$ cuts the cube into two. Find the ratio
of the volumes of the two pieces.


text:
Kristen Stewart: Why She Gained 15 Pounds
New photos of Kristen on the set of her new movie 'Still Alice' in New York City show the 23-year-old actress looking noticeably heavier. A celebrity nutrition expert agrees that the fashionista has put on some weight, but tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY that it makes her look curvier and healthier!
Dedicated actress Kristen Stewart has packed on a few extra pounds for her new movie role, and Hollywood dietician Lisa DeFazio says that's "not a bad thing." In fact, the newly redheaded actress "looks healthy, happy and has some curves," Lisa tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. We can't help but wonder what Robert Pattinson thinks of Kristen's sexy new physique!
Kristen Stewart Gained Weight? — Why K-Stew Is 15 Pounds Heavier
It's common for actors to gain and lose weight for certain movie roles, and Kristen is no exception.
"In the before photos, Kristen [who is 5'5″] appears to weigh approximately 115 pounds, now she appears to weigh 125 to 130 pounds. You can see her stomach in her jeans now gives her a slight 'muffin top' around her waist and her thighs are a bit heavier," celebrity nutritionist and Los Angeles registered dietician Lisa DeFazio tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "She definitely has gained weight, however, it is not a bad thing! She was getting to be too thin anyway, and now it appears she is eating, looks healthy, happy and has some curves."
So how did Kristen gain the weight so quickly?
[hl_ndn videoid="25522143″]
[hl_ndn videoid="25522355″]
"When trying to gain weight, there is a right and wrong way to do it," Lisa explains. "Increasing calories is important, but the quality of the calories is just as important. An actor should not just eat cookies, chips and fast food! The fat, salt and cholesterol will accumulate in the body. The healthy way to gain weight is by eating lean protein like fish, chicken and beans, drinking high calorie weight gain protein shakes, including carbohydrates like rice and pasta, and fruits and vegetables."
"Overall, I like the fact that Kristen is not afraid to show her curves, and young women obsessed with being skinny may relax a little and follow her lead," Lisa adds.
We totally love it too!
Kristen Stewart: Could She Be Pregnant With Robert Pattinson's Baby?
Kristen's weight gain led fans to wonder if the actress was pregnant, possibly with Rob's baby, but a friend of her's told HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY that's not the case.
"Kristen is absolutely not pregnant. She has put on a few extra pounds for a movie role and that's it. She's already so thin so a few more pounds makes a noticeable difference, she's still thin," the friend told us.
"Don't get me wrong, Kristen would love to be a mom one day and have little rugrats running around, but not for a while. Her priority right now is her work," the insider added.
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers, does Kristen look healthier and sexier with a little more meat on her bones? Let us know!
— Reporting by Sandra Clark


text:
XSoft's WebOffice is a one stop powerhouse application for all of your online software needs. This is another outstanding concept from the brilliant XSoft Company, makers of the highly efficient online invoicing software XSoft Billing application. XSoft WebOffice lets you work with the latest technology to promote effective solutions and opportunities for your day to day office operation's needs. You can sign up with the company online for free Web Office application software and eventually upgrade to a paid edition if you wish to, with a 30 day unconditional money back guarantee.
Having XSoft Solutions WebOffice for your business has a lot of immense advantages. This online application can be accessed anywhere through your computer with a web browser and internet access, no need to have it installed to your individual laptops or desktops. But don't you worry about your sensitive business information as XSoft WebOffice is very safe and secure. All information provided to the online software is automatically encrypted to prevent data interception from outsiders or hackers. This is made possible through a 128 bit encryption key with SSLs or Secured Socket Layers. Your data is also regularly backed up across secure locations.
XSoft Solutions WebOffice is very reliable as it is disaster proof, ensuring data recovery from the most advanced data centers. And in case you are worried about data installation, XSoft WebOffice has a very user friendly interface that is quick and easy to learn. This means faster work progress for you, your coworkers, clients and vendors across your business. Faster due to an easy configure system option via web based administration modules. As an administrator, you have full access to organize and configure your system to your business needs. This includes permissions to different modules and control over creating staff members among many other things.
XSoft Solutions WebOffice also allows you to personalize your user interface by adding your own business logo on it. By now you should already be just a little more curious with the features of XSoft WebOffice. Well, one of them is an SMS or Short Message Service feature which allows you to send email messages from Web Office to cell phones. Another is a Forum Manager which lets you exchange suggestions, information and ideas with your entire office.
But that's not all, XSoft WebOffice also gives you access to all your contacts, emails, phone and client information through a contact list. XSoft WebOffice also provides you with an online calendar that keeps you organized and on time for your busy schedule. XSoft WebOffice's powerful web based task manager allows you to manage your personal and professional projects in a breeze. You won't have to worry about uploading and altering your important documents, folders and files again with XSoft WebOffice's online document manager. All these and more is what you get with XSoft's trusty WebOffice online software application.


text:
The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce highlighted the accomplishments of the past year that include new and expanding technology companies, ongoing collaborations to improve the local economy and some new ideas to usher in "a new era for the Gainesville region" at the Toast to Business Thursday night.
The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce highlighted the accomplishments of the past year that include new and expanding technology companies, ongoing collaborations to improve the local economy and some new ideas to usher in "a new era for the Gainesville region" at the Toast to Business Thursday night.
The Chamber's annual meeting was held at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center.
Outgoing Chairman Mike Gallagher, president and CEO of SantaFe HealthCare, said the efforts of the Council for Economic Outreach and community-wide support for the chamber's Innovation Gainesville initiative brought Mindtree and Silver Airways to Gainesville, and helped with the expansion and retention of companies such as Prioria Robotics, SumTotal Systems, Totuit, RegisterPatient.com and others.
He presented a Chairman's Award to Plum Creek timber company for its Envision Alachua process to involve the community in planning for economic development and conservation on its 65,000 acres in the county.
"The Envision Alachua project not only identifies great possibilities to develop a community through innovation and collaboration, but to help our county attract and grow industries in the fields of technology, health care, agriculture, alternative energy and many others," Gallagher said.
Gallagher also presented a Chairman's Award to Santa Fe College for "innovative, quick-to-market corporate training programs," for incubating companies through its Center for Innovation and Economic Development, and for being part of the team that recruits and retains businesses.
RTI Biologics received the Innovation Award in recognition for the $14 million building now under construction in Progress Corporate Park in Alachua that will include research and development labs and clean rooms for production of a new line of stem cell implants. RTI plans to add 15 new jobs when the building opens and expects to grow further in the future.
In presenting the award, Rose Fagler of Plum Creek called RTI "a poster child of a homegrown, innovative company expanding in Alachua County. ... This expansion is just one example of how our community's obsession with innovation is raising the standard of living, creating jobs in our community and changing the lives of people around the world."
New Chamber Chairman Mitch Glaeser, vice president of The Emory Group family of companies, highlighted various efforts to help economic development such as the numerous business incubators in the county. He said the county and municipal governments have joined forces with the chamber to "embrace the innovation economy" and that cooperation has never been better between Santa Fe College and the University of Florida "for our youth to release their entrepreneurial spirit."
He told a story about his brother, Christopher, who left Gainesville after graduating from UF with a degree in computer science in the 1970s and moved to Silicon Valley to start a tech company.
He said the story is relevant "because Gainesville is ushering in a new era. Because the days of our shining stars moving away after being educated by one of the best educational institutions in the world is changing."
"The time has come to grow more organically inspired companies and keep our highly productive, highly engaged citizens here at home and in our region," Glaeser went on. "When this is done, job opportunities open up for all our citizens."
Looking ahead, Glaeser said he wanted to plant the seed for a convention center and public arena. He unveiled an idea for a contest to redesign I-75 overpasses at the north and south end of the city to welcome people to Gainesville and for a low-frequency radio station to promote local cultural attractions and businesses.
Glaeser announced that the chamber will be coming out with a new policy on education chaired by Rick Staab of InterMed to address issues of kids who are not prepared for kindergarten, do not graduate from high school and qualify for free and reduced lunch.
"At some point, this community must hug all our children with the same zest and passion as we hug our trees."
Adrian Taylor, pastor of Springhill Missionary Baptist Church, received the Volunteer of the Year Award for chairing the chamber's Transportation Task Force that comes up with recommendations for a county transportation tax.
Kristen Hadeed, founder of Student Maid, was named Diplomat of the Year for representing the chamber at events and recruiting new member businesses.
Gallagher recognized Sonia Douglas, who resigned effective Thursday as vice president and chief operations officer after 20 years at the chamber to pursue other opportunities.