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A really delicious and impressive dessert, made so much easier by using canned ingredients. www.cannedfood.co.uk
- Yield
- 12 silces
- For the cake:
- ½ (385g) can sliced apples, drained
- ½ (410g) can pear quarters, drained
- 180g caster sugar
- 180g butter
- 150g self raising flour
- 50g ground almonds
- 3 eggs
- 1-2 tbsp milk
- For the crumble:
- 60g caster sugar
- 90g butter
- 120g self raising flour
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- To serve:
- 1 425g can custard
- 1. Preheat the oven 180C/ 350F/Gas5. 2. Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl with wooden spoon, add the egg yoke, 1/2 the liquor and biscuits and mix well. 3. Mix the rice pudding with the vanilla extract and divide between 4 ramekins. 4. Place a peach half, cut side up, on the top of the rice and spoon the amaretto mixture into the hole where the stone was. Drizzle over the remaining amaretto. 5. Place in the middle of the oven and bake for 8-10 minutes, until the top is lightly golden and bubbling. How to serve: Sit the ramekin on a small plate with a couple of amaretto biscuits on the side.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories420
- Carbohydrates48 g(16%)
- Fat23 g(36%)
- Protein7 g(13%)
- Saturated Fat13 g(65%)
- Sodium42 mg(2%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber2 g(8%)
- Monounsaturated Fat7 g
- Cholesterol118 mg(39%)


text: Internet hoaxes are capable of tricking not only your grandma, but also the Los Angeles Police Department. An 8-year-old yarn about terrorists — dressed as UPS workers thanks to uniforms bought on eBay — who could deliver explosives disguised as packages spurred the force to send out an alert to residents. An unidentified state law enforcement agency passed the info to the police department. [More]

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School Bus Danger Zones:
School buses are over 2000 times safer than the family car. Children are hurt outside the school bus more often than inside. The child who bends over to retrieve something they dropped, or who walks too close to the bus while crossing the road, needs to be aware that every yellow school bus is surrounded by a danger zone.
Please help train the students who ride your bus.
The following information is from the National Association for Pupil Transportation
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Praise God. This week i feel extremely blessed. Last Thursday, i accompanying my boyfriend in his ministry on a spiritual warfare seminar. At first i completely feel like lost in nowhere, because its not my church, its totally different church. Different way on worship, praise, maybe because they use a lot of old covenant way & its different, totally different with my own church. But forget about the difference, i feel blessed. A lot. The pastor tells us to be the world warrior. Because we know that, the world is getting worse and we have to keep our faith, be the light in the dark. Be the blessing in our surrounding.
On saturday, i come to a school of life seminar too. Beside accompanying my boyfriend ( FYI, my boyfriend lives on another city, so its really a precious time for me to be with him, especially in a church ministry ), i really want to go there because i want to increase my spiritual way, recharging & returning back my intimacy spirit with Him. at first, i didn't feel anything. I completely enjoy the seminar but there are few things that made me uncomfortable in that place. i didn't feel free to express how i miss Him. but after the seminar, i totally recharge & reborn. at my church connect group, at the first time, i shared to them & i cried. I told them that we have to renew & rebuild our intimacy with Him, every single day, every single time. He loves us so much, He wants us to be His soulmate. Share everything & put all of our worries on Him. I want to get close, and closer to the spirit of God.
Nothing more beautiful than to be in God's presence...God is the source of the greatest joy I've ever had in life.. :')
Thirsty, I come after You
Jesus my joy, my reward, Your love's restoring my soul
Now I'm Yours and You are mine
and from my heart a song will rise
Reff :
I love You, I love You, I love You (3x)
and my heart will follow wholly after You
Jesus there's none beside you
Righteous, ruler of the earth
Nations will come and bow down
Name after all names I sing You praises
and all I can say to you is...
Dwelling places - Hillsong
Anyone who reads this post, believe me, u are never alone. Although the world left u, God never let go of his grip on your life .. because He loves u so much, He loves u unconditionally..
-I do love Jesus, because even though i deserve NOTHING, He gave me EVERYTHING-


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Note: This article is submitted by David for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 – Articles Competition.Thanks a lot, David! Hello All, Please drop a comment if you like it.
- Using Silverlight to Create a Video Player
- Prerequisites
- Creating the UI
- Adding Control
Source Code : VideoPlayer.zip (560KB)
Using Silverlight to Create a Video Player
Silverlight sure has come a long way since the days of "WPF/E." With its most recent release, Silverlight 2 Beta 2, it has truly proven itself to be one of the best toolsets for Rich Internet Applications, and has effectively achieved its original goal of being an Internet version of WPF. The power and possibilities behind Silverlight are endless. However, with the continuous stream of alpha and beta releases, there are many breaking changes that appear. Newcomers to Silverlight and developers upgrading to the newest versions may have trouble learning all the ropes of the new 2 Beta 2 version. In this article I will present a simple yet expandable scenario that will help new and existing Silverlight developers enhance their development experience.
In order to use the features talked about in this article, there are just a few things you'll need to download (or ensure you already have). Firstly, you need to have a version of Visual Studio 2008 (I will be using the Professional edition and will assume that is the version you have, too – other versions may work, however). Next, you will need the Silverlight Tools Beta 2 (which includes Visual Studio Silverlight support and the Silverlight SDK), which is available at MS Download. Finally, you will need Silverlight 2 Beta 2, downloadable at the official Silverlight website. Once all this is taken care of, proceed to the next section!
Creating the UI
Let's start out by designing the interface of our video player. To do this, first create a project in Visual Studio called "VideoPlayer" with the Silverlight Application template.
Creating a Silverlight Application in Visual Studio 2008
As the project is being created, you will see a prompt asking about a web application to host the Silverlight application. If you don't have an existing web application to host your Silverlight application in, go ahead and leave the default settings and hit OK, like this:
Web Application Host prompt while creating a Silverlight Application
Once the project is created, the first file you will see is a split designer/code view of Page.xaml. Looking in the code view, note that the root XAML element is <UserControl>, whereas in some earlier Silverlight releases the root element was almost always <Canvas>. You can drag and drop controls into the code view to create our user interface – designer drag-and-drop isn't supported yet – or you can just copy and paste the following code. We need a MediaElement for hosting our video, and three Buttons (for Play, Pause, and Stop).
<UserControl x:Class="VideoPlayer.Page" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Width="640" Height="550"> <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White"> <Canvas> <MediaElement x:Name="mPlayer" Width="640" Height="480" Source="http://www.example.com/video.wmv"/> <Button x:Name="bPlay" Background="Green" Width="100" Height="45" Canvas.Left="8" Canvas.Top="497" Content="Play"/> <Button x:Name="bPause" Background="Yellow" Width="100" Height="45" Canvas.Left="112" Canvas.Top="497" Content="Pause"/> <Button x:Name="bStop" Background="Red" Width="100" Height="45" Canvas.Left="216" Canvas.Top="497" Content="Stop"/> </Canvas> </Grid> </UserControl>
You will notice a few things here. Firstly, there is the declaration of the root <UserControl> element. I still chose to throw in a <Canvas> element following this, for easily positioning the Buttons. You can see the size of the UserControl is quickly set within two attributes, along with the XAML namespaces references. The first child element after the <Canvas> is the MediaElement. The Source property should be replaced with whatever video you wish to display. Following the MediaElement, there are the three Buttonss which, respectively, are green (Play), yellow (Pause) and red (Stop). This is the general setup for the user interface. If you'd like to make changes or additions, go ahead! There is plenty of room for flexibility here – what about adding a video selection list, or a download feature?
Adding Control
We will continue with the core video player functionality. The video player will have no control with three mere Buttons alone! For this feat, we will need to wire the MouseLeftButtonDown events of these elements to functions in the page's supporting code file (the defaults is Page.xaml.vb in VB.NET or Page.xaml.cs in C#). In the XAML file, we set the x:Name attributes of all the elements. This will give us access to the elements through code. Open the code file, which should look similar to the following:
'VB.NET Partial Public Class Page Inherits UserControl Public Sub New() InitializeComponent() End Sub End Class
//C# public partial class Page : UserControl { public Page() { InitializeComponent(); } }
Between the End Sub of the Page_Loaded event handler and the End Class line (or between the last two brackets), add the following event handlers. Each function handles the appropriate MouseLeftButtonDown event for a Button element, and then calls the corresponding method in the MediaElement.
'VB.NET Public Sub Play_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles bPlay.MouseLeftButtonDown mPlayer.Play() End Sub Public Sub Pause_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles bPause.MouseLeftButtonDown mPlayer.Pause() End Sub Public Sub Stop_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles bStop.MouseLeftButtonDown mPlayer.Stop() End Sub
//C# public void Play_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { mPlayer.Play(); } public void Pause_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { mPlayer.Pause(); } public void Stop_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { mPlayer.Stop(); }
Note that in C#, you will have to go back to the XAML file and set the MouseLeftButtonDown attributes of each Button to the appropriate function name, as C# doesn't have a Handles keyword. After typing all this, you should be able to compile the application and test it out! The video player should now work properly. The task of creating a fully functional video player is easily accomplished with Silverlight. Even in the time from the first few Alpha releases of it, we have seen Silverlight burst into popularity and power. Although the video player presented here seems to be a basic example, it does in fact cover all of the basic Silverlight techniques: creating a Silverlight application, using VS 2008 for designing in Silverlight, and the .NET Silverlight event handling system. Silverlight is a really useful new technology from Microsoft – one that is revolutionizing the way people use and develop the web as you read this. Now it's up to you: what will you be inspired to create with this astounding new technology? Get out there, start coding, and have fun!


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STUDIO CITY — Whether June Montenegro is targeting a bull's-eye or the next generation of archery enthusiasts, his aim is true.
Montenegro, a 54-year-old Studio City resident, won the pro freestyle limited division of the International Field Archery Assn.'s World Field Championship 2000 last month in South Africa.
"I practiced a long time for that," Montenegro said. "It was a grueling competition, very grueling."
Montenegro came out on top in the event, which included more than 300 archers from 14 countries, byscoring 2,390 points in the five-day competition. Participants shot at 28 targets each day.
Most tournaments run only two days.
The world title was preceded by a victory in the National Field Archery Assn. California State Championships at Lake Isabella in May.


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Bread Snails
So we're entering rainy season here and it is something that Wellington does really, really well! It also means that the paths on the way to school are busy with snails. Luckily Max has grown out of the need to move each one to safety ….
I was making bread and decided to roll up some snails. The boys love home-made bread and when I have a bit of extra time I prefer it too as it contains nothing but whole-wheat flour, yeast and water. It is an intimidating prospect if you haven't made before but is actually really simple. Bread snails are a great one for kids to make themselves as they're such a simple shape.
– Bread dough made into snail shapes
– Lettuce
– Cheese – for sun
– I used celery and carrots for detail
1. Make the bread dough. Roll dough into a long cylinder and then roll up to make the shell and body.
2. Once cooked place on the plate.
3. Then I added lettuce for grass.
4. And a big cheese sun.
5. Then I cut celery stems and carrot flowers.
6. A great lunch or snack.
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Bylsma not concerned with stars' scoring shortage
COLUMBUS — His stars have yet to score, but Dan Bylsma isn't overly concerned.
At least, not yet.
Neither Sidney Crosby nor Evgeni Malkin found the back of the net for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first two games of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Bylsma, the Penguins' coach, wouldn't mind if that trend changed in Game 3 on Monday night at Nationwide Arena. The best-of-seven series is tied 1-1 and the building will be rocking for the Jackets' third home playoff game in franchise history.
"I don't think we need them to score to win a game but … they know they need to be better in that regard," Bylsma said. "We need to get it from them if we are going to be successful and win a round."
James Neal also doesn't have a goal. Crosby, Malkin and Neal combined for 86 goals during the regular season.
Going back to last spring, Crosby has gone seven playoff games without a goal. Malkin and Neal both are on six-game playoff skids.
Crosby has three assists in the series and Malkin two, but defencemen Matt Niskanen and Paul Martin, with four points each, are tied for the team scoring lead.
There will be a different look in the Penguins' lineup, as forward Brian Gibbons, who had two goals in Game 2 before leaving with an upper-body injury, will not play.
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Jayson Megna and Taylor Pyatt took line rushes during the morning skate, while Chris Conner was recalled from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton following a conditioning stint.
Because of the number of penalties on both sides, Jackets coach Todd Richards didn't use centre Brandon Dubinsky against Crosby as much in Game 2, but that could change as Richards has the last change at home.
"We will see how the game is going," Richards said. "If I feel I will have to go with that matchup, I will go with it."
The Jackets will have Nick Foligno, who has recovered from a foot injury, in the lineup and he will be on a line with R.J. Umberger and Artem Anisimov. Sitting out will be Corey Tropp.
Columbus defenceman Fedor Tyutin, who suffered an undisclosed injury in Game 2, will not play. Dalton Prout will take Tyutin's spot and will be paired with Nikita Nikitin.
"When you miss time, you are always going to have a little bit of catchup," said Foligno, who has not played since April 3. "But I feel great out there. I don't feel like I am sucking wind too bad.
"I am just excited to be back and join the battle, looking forward to just being with the guys and really pushing for a Stanley Cup."


text: Home » News » APB Acquired by GamersFirst , Relaunching as F2P in 2011 APB Acquired by GamersFirst , Relaunching as F2P in 2011 Stuart Davidson November 17, 2010 News The rumors that APB was purchased is now confirmed by GamersFirst, which is planning to relaunch the game as free-to-play title during the first half of 2011. Here is the full press release: Irvine, Calif., November 16, 2010 – GamersFirst (www.gamersfirst.com) today's most popular Free2Play MMO publisher, announces that Reloaded Productions, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gamersfirst, has acquired all the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for the massively multiplayer online third-person shooter game "APB: All Points Bulletin," previously developed and owned by Dundee-based Realtime Worlds Ltd. In September 2010, the joint administrators, Ken Pattullo and Paul Dounis, from business and restructuring specialist Begbies Traynor, said efforts to rescue Realtime Worlds had been unsuccessful but renewed efforts were made to conclude a sale of the IPR. "We are obviously very happy to have concluded the sale but at the same time very much regret the loss of jobs as a result of the closure of Realtime Worlds," said Paul Dounis of Begbies Traynor. "As a consequence of the IPR asset sale all outstanding wages and holiday pay claims will be met in full. GamersFirst is a pioneer in the free-to-play space, thus APB will be re-launched as a free-to-play model game rather than the previous retail model. People who previously bought the game can now look forward to playing it again once it's back online." "The acquisition of APB is an important complement to our main Free2Play third-party publishing business," says Joshua Hong, CEO of GamersFirst. "We believe in putting our gamers first by encouraging the community to tell us what they like or dislike and then incorporate that feedback into our evolutionary development process. The core principle is to completely eliminate all economic barriers for gamers to experience our games." GamersFirst will publish APB: Reloaded as a AAA Free2Play title, developed by US based Reloaded Productions Inc. using Unreal Engine 3. "APB was a game that had several exceptional features and some brilliant ideas, even though it was plagued by some initial balance and monetization issues," says Bjorn Book-Larsson, CTO and COO of GamersFirst, and responsible for GamersFirst's studio and game development efforts. "We want to take all the unique features of this title, such as its unparalleled character, weapon and car customization systems, and convert the game to a true free-to-play game. We are deep into the planning and early execution stages for this next chapter of APB and we will share more details in the near future. In order to put Gamers First' we will also actively engage the community in many aspects of all the planned changes." APB: All Points Bulletin is a massively multiplayer online third-person shooter game based in the modern-day fictional city of San Paro featuring two factions, Enforcers and Criminals. Players can join either faction, and then form their own customized team and group to join the constant battle across the urban landscape. GamersFirst and Reloaded Productions plan to launch the next chapter of APB in the first half of 2011. About GamersFirstGamersFirst is the leading Free2Play MMO game publisher in the Western hemisphere. GamersFirst.com serves more than 30 million players in over 160 countries with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. GamersFirst.com features the hit MMOG's Knight Online, Sword2, War Rock and 9Dragons and the future hits Hukumdar Online:Battle of Kings, MKZ, Victory and Taikodom: Living Universe. Read more about the company and its games at http://www.GamersFirst.com. Share On


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1-7pax high end condominium brand new 850sqft 2bedrm apt is located on high floor with unblocked sea and city view. Condonium has swimming pool, children playground, spacious gym, table tennis table, sauna etc. 5mins drive or 10-15mins walk to Johor CIQ and City Square Shopping Center. Lots of eateries. Near Jb train, bus station (from Spore) and ferry terminal. 28mins drive to Legoland and 19mins to Aeon Tebrau.Fibre WIFI enabled!
25min15city squareAngry Bird Parkktmlegoland28minAeon tebrau19WIFI.
-5mins drive or 10-15mins walk to CIQ, JB train station, Bus Station, City Square Shopping Center and Angry Bird Park.
-10mins drive to JB Ferry Terminal
- 5mins custom and highways to different parts of JB.
- Well connected to all parts of JB
- 1 causeway away to Singapore Woodlands with buses eg Causeway link, 170 and express busses.
- Numerous cafes nearby and Supermarket, eateries and shops at City Sq Shopping
- Spacious Gym/Swimming Pool/Children Playround/table tennis room/Billard Table/Reading Room
- 2 bedroom unit facing unblocked Sea View with Singapore as blackground. Breezy
- Fully furnished with designer furniture and decoration! Modern design
- Comes with Queen size, 2 single bed, 1 single sofa bed and 2 extra single 4ft mattress. 2 more single air mattress available.
- Includes TV,washing machine, microwave oven, hair dryer, fridge, a induction cooker and air conditioner, electric kettle, iron and ironing board.
-High speed unlimited fibre wifi provided.
- Includes 2 small pots and pans and light cooking ingredients. Please let me know if u intend to cook.
- Basic quality bed sheets, blankets and towels. You may want to use your own for best comfort.
-Flexible about check in time as long as we don't have another booking on that day.
- Security tight with 24hr security guards and requirement of access card to access each floor. Unit comes with door grills and wooden door.
*For daily rental, additional $10 from 5th to 7pax applies
*For stay more than 2 months, monthly rental can be reduced further.
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Because of too much distraction into other directions, this project has been asleep for almost a year. I hope tp pick up the project again soon. Some booklets have come in which I still have to scan. Some new booklets will go out starting next month. The project has no deadline, but the collection will form a part of the TAM-Archive and will exhibited when the occasion occurs.
So, thank you all for being so patient. Life has many surprises, and sometimes that means setting priorities differently.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Re-Start of Project
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Labels: Alphabeth Booklets, New, News, Re-Start
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Popular Posts
It has been quiet at this blog for some time. Some more booklets came in that I still have to scan and publish. A new feature on this blog shows a new direction. The Popular Post feature shows the pages of the booklets that are looked on the most. They will form the seperate words beside this blog now and maybe form new words and existing words. A small experiment only possible as a combination of mail and Internet.
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Labels: Alphabeth Booklets, Experiment, Popular Posts, Ruud Janssen
Friday, November 13, 2009
New booklets arrived
Some new booklets have arrived but the time to scan them and publish them online isn't there yet. Expect some new documents soon. Every month a few more booklets are sent out and the collection will evolve as well as the goals of the project.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
R - Roland Halbritter - Germany
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Labels: Alphabeth Booklets, Germany, R, Roland Halbritter
Saturday, June 13, 2009
O - Wolfgang Skodd (Germany), Diane Bertrand (Canada), R.F. Côté (Canada), Wilma Duguay (Canada), Angela Behrendt (Germany)
This booklet got s special dust cover made by Wolfgang Skodd (Germany) and also travelled quite a lot....
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Labels: Angela Behrendt, Canada, Diane Bertrand, Germany, O, R.F. Côté, Wilma Duguay, Wolfgang Skodd
Friday, June 12, 2009
A - Annamaria Danes - Italy
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Labels: A, Alphabeth Booklets, Annemaria Danese, Italy
A - Emilio Carrasco - Mexico, Henk van Ooijen - Netherlands, Ramon Gruces - Spain, Luigina Solamito - Italy, Manuel Sainz Serrano - Spain
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Labels: A, Alphabeth Booklets, Emilio Carrasco, Henk van Ooijen, Luigino Solamito, Manuel Sainz Serrano, Mexico, Netherlands, Ramon Gruces, Spain
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
U - Guido Utermark (Netherlands)
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Labels: Guido Utermark, Netherlands, U
Sunday, January 4, 2009
J - Collaboration of Ruud-Bruno-Torma-Henk-Markus
The J-booklet arrived without an envelope. Because of the special rates that are made during Christmas and Newyears time in the Netherlands, the booklet could travel to me for only 34 Eurocents. Here is the complete scan of the booklet as it returned. Not all addresses are included in the booklet.
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Labels: Bruno Chialone, Henk van Ooijen, Hungary, Italy, J, Markus Steffen, Netherlands, Torma Cauli
Sunday, December 28, 2008
G - Annamaria Danese - Italy and Guido Utermark and Mededeler - Netherlands
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Labels: Alphabeth Booklets, Annemaria Danese, Guido Utermark, Italy, Jan-Willem, Mededeler, Netherlands
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BOCA RATON — In a meeting billed as unprecedented, leaders from Broward and Palm Beach counties will gather today in Boca Raton to determine whether they can share the wealth of garbage each is accumulating.
``As far as I know, the county commissions in both counties have never discussed mutual solid waste problems,`` said Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority Executive Director Tim Hunt.
The meeting was called by Broward County Commissioner Ed Kennedy.
Joining him will be Palm Beach County Commissioner Ken Spillias, who serves on the Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority. Hunt, as well as Broward County solid waste staff, also will attend the 2 p.m. meeting at Boca Raton City Hall.
The meeting comes at a time when the SWA is moving ahead with $200,000 in environmental and traffic studies for a proposed trash landfill and garbage- to-energy burning plant west of Boca Raton near the Broward County line.
Broward, meanwhile, is eyeing of one of two sites in the Pompano Beach area for the second of two garbage burning plants it plans to build with the $521 million in bonds it has sold for the projects.
Pompano officials and residents west of Boca Raton each have objected to the sites proposed in their areas.
Kennedy said discussions ultimately could lead to an interlocal agreement or a special authority to handle garbage and trash for Broward, Palm Beach and Martin counties. Dade officials have said they are not ready to enter into such an agreement, Kennedy added.
``If you have a bigger area, your options are better,`` said Kennedy. The big picture on how to dispose of waste matter should be taken into consideration, he said.
``When people drive from Coral Springs to Boca Raton, they really don`t have to show their passport when they cross the county line,`` Kennedy said.


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Having kids puts a huge strain on marriage in more ways than one. This isn't some huge top secret information, just ask any married couple with children. Its hard on many aspects of marriage. It pushes couples to stand together even if in doubt, to stay strong, to put themselves aside for the sake of another human being. Sometimes this takes a toll on the couples sex life. I can attest to this. From experience after our first child was born our sex life took a HUGE nose dive. By the end of the day I was just all "touched" out. I had changed, loved on, hugged, kissed, and soothed K from the moment we woke until the moment he fell asleep in my arms that night. I was covered in baby vomit, food, and who knows what else. By the end of the night I didn't want to be touched anymore.
The thought of having to touch someone else or make someone else happy was utterly exhausting to me. It wasn't that I didn't WANT to make my husband happy I just didn't feel like I had it in me to give myself over to another person that day. To surrender myself over to him when all I really wanted was a nice long bath, 5 minutes to read a book in peace and hopefully get a full nights rest. I wanted my husband to be happy but I couldn't find it in myself to give up that 5 minutes of me time to make him happy. Not to mention how I felt when I looked in the mirror. I was NOT the person he married, physically or mentally. I now had stretch marks, an extra 20 lbs, and I just did not feel "sexy" in my own skin. If I didn't find myself sexy I didn't believe he would either.
This man made sacrifices for me daily. He worked 16+ hours a day and came home to a tired wife and grumpy child. He did bath time and bed time without complaint and even went above and beyond for me. He was putting in all this effort and all he asked for in return was to be touched and cuddled and I couldn't find it in myself to give it to him.
It wasn't until a very horrible argument that I started seeing what the lack of intimacy was doing to my marriage. After all this is the man that gave me such amazing children. How could I be so selfish to put my own wants and needs in front of his? My husband has never asked for much from me. He simply needs a little love and attention sometimes. It is his love language actually. And for me to ignore that made me feel like the worst person in the world.
I vowed that night to try to change things. I wanted to make this man happy. After all he did for our family it really was the least I could do. So I started making it a routine. I know this sounds like a ridiculous idea but it truly did save my marriage. I would prepare that day by doing the normal female things. I would shower, shave, pick out something sexy to wear under my clothes and I would send him a naughty text to let him know I was thinking of him. Once home and the daily to do list was done I would then take him to bed. In the beginning I really wasn't in the mood. I would argue with myself daily and say "JUST DO IT! Just do it for him! Do it for the man you love!" and that little ritual worked. It took about two months of doing this at least twice a week to regain my sex drive. But I started to look forward to these days, to making my husband happy, because the harder I tried to make him happy the harder he tried to do the same but in his own ways.
Do I still feel all touched out some days? Heck yea! Fast forward 3 years and a set of twins later and I totally feel this way a lot. But I do not let it stop me from making him happy. Sex is what made the children but it doesn't have to stop just because the 'job' is done. Intimacy and sex are key elements in a marriage, don't let life get in the way of that. Even if you have to plan it as I did, your marriage will prosper from it.
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I've mentioned the 'small pieces [of web 2.0 tools] loosely joined' idea as an alternative to a monolithic LMS before. I don't have the direct blog posting but I found it via Jay Cross (his Informal Learning Blogis a goldmine for web 2.0 conversations). Emerging technologies from the 'read-write' '2.0' web we are likely to be working with these days in the education field offer mind-boggling advantages, but there's a price to be paid methinks. Most applications are sort of free (Facebook, blogger, Second Life, frapps, wikispaces, etc etc). However, this last week or so I've been extremely conscious of the 'juggling' mode (I suspect I'm not alone in operating in) at work, in my learning and personally. The work-life-study balance is a juggling act for many. Any of these can be chunked down into further juggling acts.
Let's take the 'small pieces' aspect of the Emerging Environments for Learning course through USQ. We are exploring some pieces such as tikiwiki, mahara and moodle (core tools, our separate interest areas for our facilitated pages and projects open up myriad further tools). There's no single sign on for these components, although I think it's time to investigate the OpenID option as it may allow me to bring these together in some way. I've used 'janicebreenwhite' for my knowledgeGarden activities, not realising it becomes an oddity when logging in to it as one component in the course.
Thank goodness I kept the same password! I've had to create and maintain a special file listing all the tools I've created accounts with: the usernames, passwords (enough hints for me to know which they are) and any specific email account they are associated with. All the small pieces, (bloglines, del.icio.us, wikispaces, Flickr, Scribd, slideshare, blogger, wordpress, facebook, bebo, this course, ezine subscriptions, email accounts, online repositories… and that's without our online banking and workplace setups), are in danger of becoming a 'dog's breakfast' (translation of this colloquial term… imagine the scene) and management is definitely a significant factor in juggling participation in contemporary digital environments.
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Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI:Early Church Fathers Index Previous Next
The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter IV. Of Abbot Chæremon and his excuse about the teaching which we asked for.
Chapter IV.
Of Abbot Chæremon and his excuse about the teaching which we asked for.
And so the blessed Archebius thought it best to take us first to Chæremon, 1690 because he was nearer to his monastery, and because he was more advanced than the other two in age: for he had passed the hundredth year of his life, vigorous only in spirit, but with his back bowed with age and constant prayer, so that, as if he were once more in his childhood he crawled with his hands hanging down and resting on the ground. Gazing then at one and the same time on this mans wonderful face and on his walk (for though all his limbs had already failed and were dead yet he had lost none of the severity of his previous strictness) when we humbly asked for the word and doctrine, and declared that longing for spiritual instruction was the only reason for our coming, he sighed deeply and said: What doctrine can I teach you, I in whom the feebleness of age has relaxed my former strictness, as it has also destroyed my confidence in speaking? For how could I presume to teach what I do not do, or instruct another in what I know I now practise but feebly and coldly? Wherefore I do not allow any of the younger men to live with me now that I am of such an advanced age, lest the others strictness should be relaxed owing to my example. For the authority of a teacher will never be strong unless he fixes it in the heart of his hearer by the actual performance of his duty.
Chæremon is perhaps the same person of whom a short account is given in the Lausiac History of Palladius, c. xcii.
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Remember when Tyler Posey played Jennifer Lopez's adorable son in Maid in Manhattan? Prepare to have your hearts broken: although the two Latino actors played the most precious on-screen family, they hadn't seen each other in real life since they filmed the rom-com in 2002!
Luckily for fans of the flick, Posey, now 22-years-old, and Lopez, 45, reunited this past weekend at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards.
Posey, who co-hosted the awards show with Modern Family's Sarah Hyland, joked around with Lopez as the two presented an award together. The Mexican-American actor even proposed a lucrative offer to his former co-star: "I thought maybe if you needed a backup dancer, I'd fit. What do you think?" He then proceeded to show off his crazy dance moves, shaking his butt around the actress — watch the video clip below:
"If I say yes, will you stop?" Lopez joked.
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With 341 films, the Vancouver International Film Festival can easily overwhelm, so CBC Radio's The Early Edition waded through the program and came up with its top 3 VIFF picks.
This Vancouver film by Ben Ratner is just one of many examples of homegrown talent at this year's festival. It's inspired by Ratner's friendship with local actress Babz Chula, who passed away from cancer in 2010. She was larger than life — and this film captures her spirit of generosity with a lot of heart. It's about three young women struggling to pursue their artistic dreams, and find a common muse.
Japanese animation is typically dominated by Hayao Miyazaki — the man behind iconic films like "Totoro" or "Spirited Away". But in "Wolf Children" — Mamoru Hosoda carves her own territory in the genre by telling a whimsical story about a young woman who falls in love with...a wolf. The painted landscapes are a joy to marvel at.
Checking out the festival wouldn't be complete without seeing a documentary. This one won a lot of acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival this year. It's an insightful look into the lives of the women who defied the Putin government with their public "punk prayer" -- and shows the audience exactly who they are and aren't.
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Time to develop a liberal choice agenda
by Stephen Tall on December 4, 2005
British political life currently inhabits a strangely unreal world. Events are moving fast, so fast they appear to be static. This Wednesday, the new leader of the Conservatives – let's call him David Cameron – will take on the old leader of New Labour, Tony Blair, at Prime Minister's Questions.
For all that the media will big-up the occasion, this will be merely the opening skirmish of a 'phoney war'. Mr Blair is increasingly a lame duck leader and we are all awaiting the arrival of the rival, Gordon Brown, at some undefined future point in this Parliament. In the interim, it seems, the public and politicians are content to put their feet up, and put politics to one side, until such time as the parties have got their own houses in order. All of which rather begs the question for the Liberal Democrats: what do we do while we're waiting?
On the face of it, the party should be satisfied with its position. With 62 MPs, the Lib Dems are the largest third party force since 1929. The opinion polls have us at a steady state 20 per cent in spite of the media's Tory lurve-fest since Mr Cameron's 'rise without trace'. And yet there is a creeping sense of nervousness: suddenly, all the old certainties are gone.
First, our infamous 'decapitation' election targeting strategy imploded. This was a bit of a shock to the system. We have become so used to smash 'n' grab by-election victories, and to the public's residual disdain for the Tory party, that we assumed we could knock out such luminaries as Oliver Letwin, David Davis (remember him?) and Theresa May with one more heave. We were wrong.
Then came autumn's Blackpool party conference, when the media – rather tediously – focused on Charles Kennedy's chairmanship/leadership. For what it's worth, let me state my views on this side-issue in five easy-to-digest points:
* Mr Kennedy is an under-estimated leader whose collegial, laid-back, informal style fits our party snugly.
* He has called some of the big decisions, notably Iraq, pretty much right.
* His carefully cultured anti-politician normality has worked well for the party in an age of geek-wonkery, and has helped give us a firm foot-hold in the Celtic regions.
* However, he is still frustratingly waffly in interviews, and has yet to project a resonant narrative for the party.
* He is safe from a leadership challenge as there is no obvious successor. (Simon Hughes is much more sharply intelligent than he is sometimes credited, but is too excitably gaffe-prone; Mark Oaten is too polarising; Ming Campbell is too clearly a caretaker-leader; and Nick Clegg is too promising to be thrust into pole position prematurely.)
The bigger conference debate – which the media largely ignored because it concerned policy, and so made their heads hurt – centred on our political direction. This continues to be portrayed within and without the party (much to my visceral dislike) as a straight 'left versus right' battle for the soul of the Liberal Democrats. This is, of course, a crashingly one-dimensional reductio ad absurdum.
Occasionally, it is elevated to a more historical level, and pitched as a battle between nineteenth-century 'economic liberals' (who believe in a minimal state and free markets) and twentieth-century 'New Liberals' (who believe in big government and state intervention). This still seems to me to be an unhelpfully antiquated approach, and one which ignores the realities and complexities of our globalised market economy.
But, praise be, the Lib Dems are now thinking seriously about economic issues, recognising that, in the real world, robust financial planning must be at the heart of our decision-making. It is not necessarily that voters expect today's party to be tomorrow's government. However, they do expect the Lib Dems, which may well hold the balance of power by 2009, to have an affordable, prioritised programme. The current hiatus in the political maelstrom gives us the opportunity to work out what our direction should be, and how that will map across to our next election manifesto.
Any pair of binary ideological labels is, of course, open to the charge of over-simplification. But I hope my party sees itself as being firmly on the side of the consumer, the individual; even when this sets the Lib Dems in opposition to the interests of the producer, whether state or private. Such definitions are designedly vague, so let me be a little more explicit:
* The best, most effective way of delivering public services is via markets where the consumer has free and fair choice between competing providers.
* Market failure is inevitable: both/either because consumers lack purchasing power to be able to buy into a particular market; and/or because producers operate restrictive trading practices which skew the market.
* Such market failure is best corrected by ensuring every consumer has access to those markets which are essential for them to realise their potential; and by ensuring all producers can compete on a level playing field.
What does such economic theorising mean in reality? Well, for a start it means the Lib Dems should junk their knocking of the 'choice agenda' for public services simply because it's being sponsored by Mr Blair. It is too glib simply to say we believe "there should be 'choice for all'", as Mr Kennedy did in a keynote speech this summer. Certainly the Prime Minister's attempts to direct reform from the centre are to be decried. But his Brighton conference speech spelled out, simply and clearly, what should (bar the references to Labour) be the liberal choice agenda for public services:
"The truth is, command public services today are no more acceptable than a command economy. The 21st century's expectations in public services are a world away from those of 1945. People demand quality, choice, high standards. Why? Because in every other walk of life they demand them. And they are paying their taxes, so they feel they are entitled to them.… There's a great myth here, which is that we don't have a market in services now; we do. It's called private schools and private healthcare. But it's only open to the well-off. There is another myth: choice is a New Labour invention. Wrong. Choice is what wealthy people have exercised for centuries. The Tories have always been comfortable with that. But for Labour, choice is too important to be the monopoly of the wealthy."
To date the Lib Dems have too often appeared to be in denial about the existence of markets in education and health-care. Our approach to public services has been simply to say: more taxes, more devolution. Undoubtedly, proper funding and local power are both essential if we are to have better schools and hospitals. But we would be naïve to assume that they are a panacea. There will never be enough money, and local decision-makers will sometimes make mistakes. We must, therefore, address seriously how we can develop a market in our public services which allocates scarce resources fairly and efficiently, which holds local decision-makers accountable, and in which the consumer has the power to exercise effective choice.
The arrival of Mr Cameron may make our job harder. If, as he self-proclaims, he intends to lead a moderate, modern Conservative Party – one which prioritises the environment, localism, and choice in public services – the so-called centre ground of British politics is going to become more crowded. But that does not mean we should politely vacate our liberal pitch in order to give Mr Cameron some room. We should instead plant our liberal flag firmly in the ground, and proudly state: we were here first.
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Choice? People do not choose to get ill.Tony Blair's new Labour waffle on health is only a step along the road to the eventual privatisation (or should I use the proper word which shows what it really is-Americanisation) of the health service.The Tories are quick to use the NHS when they have to undergo an operation or treatment that is very expensive.
Private medicine can lead to wasteful unnecessary treatment.


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Return of the Zombie King- Endless runner zombie king,Help him to recover his humanity and bony figure into the King who was once .
Return of the Zombie King
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Game Return of the Zombie King developed by Chris Zukowski you can watch so many zombies everywhere you look, from tv to the zombie series to comic books. I know that zombies have been a sub-genre in the horror category for a long time, but it just seems to have become quite more popular after "The Walking Dead" hit the airwaves. We just don't seem to get enough of those cute, awkward brain-eaters. For me, I definitely got into the zombie thing much more after I started to play "The Walking Dead,". And I doubt I'll get into every single zombie apocalypse themed show, game, or movie. But hey, I know how the gist of them go by now anyway.
The way the game is built is also a perfectly fit for mobile. I mean touch interface is incredibly impressive, but it doesn't really need to be anything more. And we love 8-bit pixelated game here at Mobilestartupz so finding out about the auto-runner platformer Zombie King by developer Chris Zukowski has made me really happy. Some of his titles are Wizard Golf RPG, Drill Planet. Here Zombie king acts really weird without eating people, start off as a deceased royal who exiled from your kingdom and having being drowned, Coming back from the dead, though, means he isn't going to be in tip-top shape, runner with a zombie theme, The entire system of jumping thing so complex that it allows for some great, open levels, and although the idea of wakeing back from the dead like zombie is silly, actually works in its favor in combination with that openness.
The game focuses on a restoring your humanity rather than going on a zombie rampage by collecting coins throughout the level. And continuous his upgrade on each run making effort s to regain his former vigorous. By collecting coins along the level and gathering these coins you can use them in later levels to level up your energy a little at a time and buy more energy for the next run so you can get a bit further. Also enjoy buying abilities like double jump, spike-walking-boots, boots, armour which can again use these to get further benefit for next run. there're plenty of extra abilities that could help you on your journey. The game seems lots of fun and but it's also incredibly charming in a way that makes it near impossible to put down. And There's a lot of potential here to build on this premise and keep rolling with it.
In terms of visuals, Zombie King is beautiful and pays a nice homage to the retro pixelated games that I grew up with. Even though Zombie King is done up entirely in hand-crafted pixel art, there's still a lot of detail to be found in the core of game, and the colors range from nice and vivid brights to darker, Animations are superb and smooth. Zombie King is delightful and quirky serves as a nice tribute to classics. While this takes away some of the complexity of the game, and there are moments where it feels like an item could be of use elsewhere, but no. All the solutions can be had within each character's own set of levels. This means that if you get stuck with a character, you know there's always something you can do.
Overall game is a complete package , I really like the game here. The puzzles are fetch quest type stuff, but their uses are just oblique enough that they will make you feel stupid for not figuring it out sooner. And great concept each run to gradually upgrade your bony figure into the King who was once. Lots of challenges to accept over 100 levels across 4 different environments. There are plenty of enemies to tackle with upgrades. But what it does brilliantly is condense simple game into one ridiculous title, oozing with charm and with plenty of challenge to keep you pushing yourself.


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May 29 falls under the Gemini sign of the Zodiac. This is because the sun passes through the constellation of Gemini between May 21and June 21.
Gemini is the sign of the twins, Castor and Pollux. People who are born under the sign of Gemini are thought to be energetic, witty, imaginative and clever. They're also thought to be impulsive, a bit shallow, restless and prone to procrastination.
Geminis are also supposed to be independent-minded and dislike being told what to do. They are generous, occasionally fickle, friendly and not particularly business-minded, as they move on to a new project if the one they're engaged with bores them.


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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Reuters) - Eight elderly patients died after being left inside a stifling South Florida nursing home
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Reuters) - Eight elderly patients died after being left inside a stifling South Florida nursing home that lost power during Hurricane Irma, officials said on Wednesday, prompting a criminal investigation that has compounded a mounting loss of life from the storm.
The overall death toll from Irma climbed to 81 on Wednesday, with several hard-hit Caribbean islands accounting for more than half the fatalities, and officials continued to assess damage inflicted by the second major hurricane to strike the U.S. mainland this year.
Irma killed at least 31 people in Florida, plus seven more in Georgia and South Carolina combined, authorities said.
One of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, Irma bore down on the Caribbean with devastating force as it raked the northern shore of Cuba last week before barreling into the Florida Keys island chain on Sunday, packing sustained winds of up to 130 miles per hour (215 km per hour). It then plowed north up the Gulf Coast of the state before dissipating.
In addition to severe flooding across Florida and extensive property damage in the Keys, one of the chief hardships facing Floridians has been widespread power outages that initially plunged more than half the state into darkness.
Some 4.3 million homes and businesses were still without power on Wednesday in Florida and neighboring states, down from a peak outage tally of 7.4 million customers on Monday.
Outages had fatal consequences at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hill, a nursing home in Hollywood, Florida, north of Miami. Three elderly residents were found dead on Wednesday inside the sweltering facility, which had been operating with little or no air conditioning, officials said.
Four more patients died at or en route to a nearby hospital and a fifth was later identified as having died the night before, bringing the tally of those who perished to eight, the city said.
Governor Rick Scott called the tragedy "unfathomable" and vowed to "aggressively demand answers." Police said they have sealed off the building and opened a criminal probe after the remaining nursing home patients were transferred to neighboring hospitals.
City officials described the interior of the building as "excessively hot."
The eight who died ranged in age from 71 to 99, according to the Broward County medical examiner's office. The cause of their deaths has yet to be determined.
But most of the surviving patients were treated for "respiratory distress, dehydration and heat-related issues," Memorial Regional Hospital's emergency medical director, Dr. Randy Katz, told reporters.
Fire and rescue teams were first called to the facility at about 3 a.m. for a patient reported in cardiac arrest, and firefighters returned an hour later for a resident with breathing difficulties, the city said.
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SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Military Sealift Command (MSC) fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187) commenced the load of 900,000 gallons of a 50/50 blend of advanced biofuels and traditional petroleum-based fuel at Defense Fuel Support Point, Manchester, Wash. June 13.
Kaiser will deliver the biofuel to the platforms participating in the Great Green Fleet demonstration, which will take place in July during the 2012 Rim of the Pacific exercise.
This demonstration allows the Navy to test, evaluate, and demonstrate the cross-platform utility and functionality of advanced biofuels in an operational setting, and will achieve one of the five energy goals established by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus: to demonstrate a Great Green Fleet in local operations by 2012.
"The Navy has been at the forefront of energy innovation throughout its history," said Mabus. "From sail to coal-fired steam to oil and nuclear powered submarines and carriers, we have sought and achieved technological advancement in how we power the fleet because it has made us better warfighters. The Great Green Fleet demonstration is a significant milestone in the Navy's progress to greater energy security."
Kaiser will take on 700,000 gallons of hydro-treated renewable diesel fuel, or HRD76, and 200,000 gallons of hydro-treated renewable aviation fuel, or HRJ5. Both fuels are a 50/50 blend of traditional petroleum-based fuel and biofuel comprised of a mix of waste cooking oil and algae oil.
While underway, Kaiser will transfer the HRJ5 fuel to U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), and the HRD76 fuel to the Navy's guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59) and destroyers USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) and USS Chaffee (DDG 90).
Military Sealift Command operates approximately 110 noncombatant, civilian-crewed ships that replenish U.S. Navy ships, conduct specialized missions, strategically preposition combat cargo at sea around the world and move military cargo and supplies used by deployed U.S. forces and coalition partners.
"Our mission is service to the fleet," said Navy Capt. Sylvester Moore, commander, Military Sealift Command Pacific. "Delivering advanced biofuel to the fleet is a great opportunity to demonstrate our capabilities, and to be a part of the continued efforts of the Navy to develop new technologies that will advance mission capabilities."
For more information on RIMPAC visit: http://www.cpf.navy.mil/rimpac/2012/ and for more information on DoN energy initiatives visit: http://greenfleet.dodlive.mil/.
For more information, visit www.navy.mil, www.facebook.com/usnavy, or www.twitter.com/usnavy.
For more news from Military Sealift Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/MSC/.


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Gap Creek camping area
To get here, continue along Bangalow Rd for 1 km past Bangalow Road camping area. Bring your own firewood; gas/fuel stove preferred. Gap Creek is situated near 2 rainforest walks, one of which wends its way beneath red cedar and Illawarra flame trees to Gap Creek Falls, where you can gaze out at luxuriant rainforest gullies. Other highlights in the park include Monkey Face Lookout and Boarding House Dam. Bring drinking water.
Who to contact: NPWS Lake Munmorah (02) 4972 9000
This campsite is located in Watagans National Park
Perched on Newcastle's doorstep, 30 km to the south-west, this rainforested wonderland protects the headwaters of small creeks feeding the Hunter River and Lake Macquarie. There are unpaved roads from Cooranbong via Martinsville Rd, Freemans Waterhole via Mt Faulk Rd or Cessnock via Watagan Rd. If the roads are wet, you'll need a 4WD.
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Big changes coming to the webpage OCTOBER 2018!
Welcome to the Ignace Lab webpage!
We are interested in everything and anything related to how organisms interact with the environment to alter ecosystem patterns and processes. Plant physiology / Ecophysiology is the foundation of our work. However, we branch out to concepts and techniques in biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, community ecology, microscopy, and biochemistry. The bulk of our projects include, but are not limited to, systems at the MacLeish Field Station (Whately, Massachusetts), Harvard Forest (Petersham, Massachusetts) and the Chihuahuan Desert (southeastern Arizona).
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- Mechanisms and impacts of non-native species invasions
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In a post last year, we were righteously indignant about the failure of the National Academy Museum to exhibit its large fine permanent collection of American art. But in 2009 the National Academy has been mending its ways. Twice already this year the National Academy has filled its modest galleries with nothing but art from its own collection. We happened to catch both shows.
This facade of the National Academy Museum looks just like another narrow Fifth Avenue townhouse (it's half a block up from the Guggenheim). You have to go through the gift shop to get to the ticketseller (clearly a volunteer), who doesn't have much to do because the National Academy Museum unfortunately doesn't get much traffic.
Last winter the National Academy was offering an exhibition of landscape paintings called "American Waters." This exhibition was not, frankly, very focused, since 200 years of art were represented and the subject of "waters" takes in a lot. But we were still delighted to see so much first-rate American art (about 50 paintings out of a collection of over 5,000 works of art) come out of storage. The one that pleased us most was a painting by Daniel Garber, one of our favorite American impressionists (see this post), titled By Addington (just above), a gentle scene of farm life along a Pennsylvania river.
We saw a number of Hudson River school paintings, including what is surely one of John Frederick Kensett's finest, The Bish-Bash, which portrays a dramatic waterfall in western Massachusetts. We've added the Bish-Bash Falls to our list of places we want to see when we visit New England.
Currently the National Academy has another exhibit of pieces from its collection whose common feature is the portrayal of the human face and figure; it runs till November 2009. Once again, the theme of the show seems to be fairly loose, but no matter, because they've uncarted plenty of gems: some very recent pieces as well as 200-year-old paintings like Junius Brutus Stearns's old-fashioned utopian scene,The Millennium, based on the passage from Isaiah: "The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them." Isaiah 11:6 (NIV). We are always drawn to 19th-century American genre paintings; here we saw for the first time Thomas Waterman Wood's cheerful portrait of a Parisian urchin, The Rag Picker.
The overall quality of these pieces is astonishingly high, given the relative obscurity of the National Academy Museum. Even after seeing only a modest sampling of its permanent collection, we feel sure that its holdings are superior to the American art collections in all but perhaps a half dozen museums in the United States.
One of the unique features of a visit to the National Academy is that museum volunteers are likely to come up to you and strike up a conversation about a work you're looking at. It's happened to us several times now; during our recent visit we had a very pleasant exchange with a highly knowledgeable elderly lady about a self-portrait by Andrew Wyeth and the Wyeth family generally. And, indeed, two of the best works on display were the Wyeth self-portrait and a very rare self-portrait by Thomas Eakins.
It is our sense that the National Academy Museum is especially rich in portraits because, when artists have been nominated (over the last 150 years) to membership in the National Academy, they are expected to contribute an example of their work to the museum, and not infrequently they give paintings of themselves. Omitted from this exhibit is a portrait by John Singer Sargent of the French impressionist Claude Monet; we know it's somewhere in the National Academy's vaults.
The twentieth-century is well-represented in this exhibit. We were pleased to see a 1930s-era painting by one of our favorite American artists, the regionalist Reginald Marsh, that was new to us, entitled Barrel of Fun. It shows people in a large tube in an amusement park in which people fall all over each other as the "barrel" slowly turns. We haven't seen such a thing lately; the likelihood of a fellow's being kicked in the teeth by accident, or a lady's being groped on purpose, would seem to be fairly high, and no doubt the liability insurance carriers have balked. We were also struck by a self-portrait of a painter at his craft of figure painting, Alphaeus Philemon Cole's, The Blank Canvas, which reminded us of a painting on a similar theme by John Koch right here in Rochester at the Memorial Art Gallery. We noted the Koch painting in an earlier post.


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This song is part of a score I wrote for a student film. This was the credit music. It was a fun little movie that was filmed in my house. No links for it yet.
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Before there was fast food there were lunch boxes. These colorful and often comical containers were a great way to enjoy a healthy, homemade meal even when you weren't at home. The noontime meal was forever changed in 1950 with the arrival of Aladdin Industries' sturdy steel box that sported a scalloped color decal of television's favorite heroic cowboy Hopalong Cassidy. Although the first lunch kits were created in the 1920s, the advent of a container with popular television/book/magazine characters of the day captured the attention of children, and lunch-packing parents everywhere. It didn't take long for more than 600,000 Hoppy boxes to find their way into the hands of children, and for more companies to follow Aladdin's lead.
According to historical details, including those found in Warman's® Lunch Box Field Guide, the lunch box era of the 1950s and 1960s capitalized on the popularity of America's fascination with cartoon and film heroes and villains. Whether they were riding the range, saving the town, exploring space, or keeping us laughing, the characters with a line of lunch kits were the epitome of cool. The reign of metal boxes went on until the 1980s when parent groups concerned about lead in the lunchboxes and the potential for lunch boxes to cause injury called for a change, referring to metal boxes as "deadly weapons." This prompted the creation of plastic lunch kits, which in turn served as the catalyst for the insulated lunch boxes of today.
Despite the general departure from metal, these classic containers can still be found at rummage sales, auctions, and online at sites including Lunch Box Pad – a gathering spot for anyone with a love of lunch boxes. In addition to their popularity among collectors and the school-age crowd, the nostalgia factor of lunch boxes is undoubtedly cool. Just last month the San Francisco Chronicles' Pop Culture Critic Peter Hartlaub wrote about his own longing to be part of the lunchbox crowd in a tribute to lunch boxes; on the popular parent and baby blog spot, The Poop. The section below from Hartlaub's entry touches on the lengths a child will go to be part of the lunch box crowd:
"I only had hand-me-down lunch boxes, the best of which was a battered yellow plastic Snoopy pail, with the paint so chipped that Woodstock was nothing but a head and some tail feathers. The clasp was broken, so I had to hold the whole thing together as I walked to school, which I gladly did: As I wrote about before, it was imperative that Snoopy survive, because his understudy was my sister's girly old Holly Hobbie lunch box. Try walking across the school yard with one of those and avoid getting your butt kicked five times. Even the 80-year-old yard duty lady wanted to give me a wedgie.
As I got older, I started bringing brown bag lunches more and more, which cut down on the potential ridicule. But it didn't lessen my lunch box envy, a yearning that lingers to this day."
For anyone who can relate to the desperate need to own a lunch box or lunch kit, or appreciates the fun and fantastic designs of lunch boxes with their characters of yesteryear Warman's® Lunch Box Field Guide boasts great photos of lunchtime treasures, along with current value, and historical tidbits. Order your copy of this great new guide by November 7 and shipping is FREE! To order, visit www.krausebooks.com and include Coupon Code ATRBART1031, or call 800-258-0929.


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Have you been watching Bravo's Work of Art every Wednesday and felt alone…so, so alone? Never fear, Twitter is here.
Every week the Internet's self-expression machine lights up with as much commentary and snark as folks can squeeze into 140 characters. All you have to do is search for the hashtag #workofart and you can watch it all go down live. Or if you want to be clever, you can search for #WorkoFart and get the same results.
DVR owners might want to stay away, as there's a constant steam of spoilers for those who plan on watching the show later. That's how I found out Judith was voted off the island before I actually watched the third episode, which was a bummer, but I also found out some of the show's personalities have Twitter accounts themselves, which was a boon.
So what are these reality TV stars tweeting about? I just loaded up some impressions on Glasstire's Twitter feed – maybe we'll get a few replies! – but you can also examine the evidence below.
@JerrySaltz pretty much never updates his Twitter. Damn good chance he'll never read this. #workofart
@PlumpRumpJumper, aka Erik Johnson, wants us to know he's a Twitter novice. Cuz that's his thing. That, and big butts apparently. #workofart
@NaoBustamante suggested better let-go lines than "Your work of art didn't work for us." Thankfully she didn't use our #WorkoFart joke.
@JohnParot comes across as a nice guy. #NothingElseToSay #workofart
@SimondePury is complete emptiness. He's never tweeted either. #workofart
@PeregrineHonig is "interested in hermaphrodites and lilies." We prefer salamanders and cotton candy, but what can you do… #workofart
@MarkVelasquez has the most followers of any of the contestants. That's gotta be worth something, right? #workofart
@KeithPlocek is also on Twitter. His tweets are way better than anyone's on this show. It's a scientific fact.


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Like most services a web designer can offer their clients, there are many different ways to approach charging your clients for email marketing. At Campaign Monitor, we're in a unique position in that we speak with designers charging their clients for email marketing all day every day. Over the years I've seen a huge range of billing approaches taken, some which make sense and others that seem plain crazy.
We occasionally get asked by customers how they should charge their clients for their services. The truth is, there's no one approach that works for everyone (you knew I was going to say that, right?). Having said that, out of the different models I've seen over the years, there are a few that make the most sense. The purpose of this post is to present you with some of these options and let you work out which approach suits you and your client's budget best.
The popular areas to charge for
Over the course of pitching to your clients, designing them a template, getting it delivered and then measuring the results, there are a number of points where you have the opportunity to charge for your services. Of course, most designers won't charge for all of these areas (though some do), these are just examples of what can be deemed billable work.
1. Template Design (flat fee or hourly rate)
This one's pretty straightforward, just like designing a single page site or a landing page, you charge your client for putting the concept (or concepts) together, then coding the approved design and finally testing that design in the most popular email environments.
2. Delivery (usually dependant on the number of recipients)
This is where the range of billing approaches starts to surface. Here are a few of the more popular billing approaches for covering delivery fees:
- Charge your client a flat monthly fee that covers any campaigns delivered that month
- Charge them based on a pricing bracket for the number of subscribers being sent to. For example, 2,000 to 5,000 recipients is $150.
- Charge them a set per/recipient fee. For example, 4 cents/recipient with a flat delivery fee on top, such as $10.
3. Reviewing the results (flat fee or hourly rate)
Once the campaign has been delivered, the designer reviews the reports and makes recommendations to the client to improve or maintain results for subsequent issues. For example, you might have tried a different design approach for the newsletter's "featured product" which yielded a 17% better click-through rate. This is explained to the client and further recommendations might be made.
4. Subsequent changes to the creative (flat fee or hourly rate)
Obviously each campaign you send for the client will include new content. These changes can be made much more cost effectively than the original template design. If the client approves any recommendations you made after reviewing the results of a sent campaign, these may also be included in any updates you make. Because of this, 3 and 4 or often billed as a single item.
5. Other services we've seen designers charge for
While the 4 areas above are the most commonly billable areas of email marketing, I've seen designers also charge for the following separately:
- Testing the design in popular email environments.
- Cleaning and importing the client's subscriber list into their account.
- Adding list subscribe forms to the client's web site.
- Processing bounces and unsubscribe requests for the client (even though we do this automatically).
- Giving the client access to web-based reports on the results or sending them a print-based version of the reports (usually a set monthly fee).
- List and image hosting fees (even though we offer this for free).
The email marketing billing cycle
Just like most web sites, an email marketing program is an organic thing that changes over time. Each issue needs to include new content or a new offer, there might be a design tweak you need to make or a new email client to test in. As well as improving your clients relationship with their customers or driving sales, an email marketing program can also provide a great cashflow injection each month. Here's a quick example of how you might charge a client for your email marketing services on an ongoing basis.
Campaign Monitor's pricing structure was a very deliberate decision on our part. We wanted a system that meant you only had to pay when you got paid, and you weren't left short if you had a quiet month. Because of this, the "Charge them a set per/recipient fee" approach from the delivery options above usually makes the most sense for our customers.
Try and keep it simple
From my own experience charging clients for email marketing and also the feedback we get from our customers, it seems that simple is almost always better than complex. Splitting the costs into template design, delivery costs and making subsequent charges is about as granular as most of our customers get and that model seems to work best for most.
Hitting your clients with fees for every little detail in the process can certainly be a profitable way to offer email marketing, but you're also running the risk of confusing some customers. Worse still, you may end up alienating some customers by giving the impression you're trying to milk them for everything they've got (even if you're not).
Finally, email marketing is often sold to clients as part of a wider package that might include a web site or some paid search advertising. Billing for the range of these services can get complicated pretty quickly, so the simpler you keep your email marketing component the better.
I'd love to hear how you guys go about charging for your email marketing services. Do you use the approaches I mentioned here or take a different approach to billing your clients?


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Websites and bloggers have a responsibility to double check their news sources, even if they are getting information from a news site. Things hit the social media sites minutes after something happens and I think that more people should be aware and double check these things before they go and post them.
In today's internet heavy society, people tend to believe everything they read without truly asking if it is credible. All websites and bloggers should be responsible for their content and take the time to double check that the information they are sharing is in fact true to the best of their ability.
Of course, some bloggers do not care, as it gins up traffic for their website. Any responsible person would want to make sure their information they are putting out is accurate, even if it comes from the news itself. The news is not always right, and the biggest problem with the news is they like to rush stories. We all know why they do that. It would behoove bloggers to get as much information as possible before they post these type of stories.
I believe people should check their news sources even if they think they are getting information from a news site. People are too quick to post and propagate false information on the Internet so they can be the first person to report it. Don't assume things are the way an article states they are unless you've checked a few sources. There are many biased articles out there on all topics.