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THE WORLD'S TOP 10The most-supported recommendation by topic
Food & Nutrition Security Promote food systems that are sustainable and contribute to improvement of health
Sustainable Development for Fighting Poverty Promote global education to eradicate poverty and to achieve sustainable development
Sustainable Cities & Innovation Promote the use of waste as a renewable energy source in urban environments
The Economics of Sustainable Development, including Sustainable Patterns of Production and Consumption Phase out harmful subsidies and develop green tax schemes
Unemployment, Decent Work, & Migrations Put education in the core of the Sustainable Development Goals agenda
Participants voted for as many recommendations in as many topics as they support. The order in which the topics and the recommendations were presented was randomized to prevent bias resulting from the survey interface. Figures shown by voting segment (e.g. by Human Development Index) are significant to a 2.5% maximum margin of error at a 95% confidence level. The preliminary results presented here are not intended as a complete representation of the world's opinion, but rather as a set of insights into the nature and distribution of public support for various proposed actions concerning sustainable development. They should be considered in light of certain biases inherent to the survey methodology. To receive a complete report once it is published, please contact us.


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- - Help yourself manage easier
- - Let your staff convert better
- - Offer your customers a seamless shopping on all channels
[This extension has been discontinued] Magento Gift Wrap extension allows your customers to wrap any type of products and select gift cards online before delivery.
- Wrap all items in one box or each item separately
- Select wrapping paper either on product pages or shopping cart page
- Add gift card and gift message
- Calculate extra fee for gift wrap
Gift Wrap in Magento 2 is also available
Community Edition 1.7 - 1.8 - 1.9.x
Enterprise Edition 1.9.x - 1.10 - 1.11 - 1.12 - 1.13 - 1.14.x Perfectly Compatible with Security Patch SUPEE-8788 & 9652
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How it works
Features Detailed
For customers' convenience, they can freely choose to wrap one or multiple products in a gift box. The maximum number of items in each gift box is set previously by admin.
Features Full List
- View which product is wrappable right on product pages and cart page
- Select gift box, gift card with personal message on product pages and cart page
- Show images of gift paper/ gift box style and gift card to preview before wrapping
- Wrap one or multiple products in one gift box
- Edit Qty. wrapped or wrap other products in cart in one gift box
- Order 1 or multiple gift boxes in an order
- Delete/ Edit the gift wrap options on the shopping cart page
- View gift wrap fee automatically added to the order total
- Auto-update gift wrap information instantly after editing wrapped item Qty. in cart or other wrap options
- Review wrapping information added to order, invoice and shipment
- Easily set pictures and prices for gift boxes and gift cards
- Set maximum text length for gift message
- View gift wrap information in order, invoice and shipment in backend
- Enable/disable the gift wrap feature in 1 click
- Flexibly enable/ disable step 2 and 3 when customers use gift wrap
- Set the maximum number of items in a gift box
- Can include or exclude gift wrap fee from tax
- Can calculate gift wrap fee based on the number of items in a box
- Customize icon and color style for Gift Wrap block/ popup to fit your theme
- Show Gift Wrap options as drop-down or radio style on product pages
- License Certificate valid for 1 live Magento installation and unlimited test Magento installations (No license key required)
- 100% Open source
- Easy to install and configure
- User-friendly interface
Release Notes
Version 4.0 for EE (updated on Oct 31, 2014)
- Be compatible with Magento Enterprise v1.9 -1.14
- Perfectly compatible with latest security patch SUPEE-6788 (v. 4.0)
Version 4.0 for CE (updated on Oct 17, 2014)
- Allow customers to select gift wrap right on product page (Exclusive)
- Update responsive design & be compatible with CE 1.9 (Hot)
- Simplify configurations in backend
- Be compatible with Magento Community v1.4 -1.9
Version 3.2.0 (updated on Jun 27, 2013)
- Fix error occurring when adding gift wrap in backend
- Fix error occurring when adding gift wrap before login
- New style for adding/ editing gift wrap
- Allow re-ordering gift wrap
Version 3.1.2 (updated on Nov 9, 2012)
- Free shipping configuration when buying product with gift wrap
- Fix error not showing gift wrap when printing invoice to pdf
- Conflict email with Gift card
- Integrate with Multi Shipping Address
Version 3.1.1 (updated on July 12, 2012)
- Fix error: can not checkout using Paypal.
Version 3.1.0 (updated on Jun 7, 2012)
- Add new option that allows wrapping all items/each item in a gift box.
- Enable to edit the quantity of products in gift box.
- Allow calculating giftwrap fee per box or per item.
- Fix bugs in showing gift boxes in email, invoice, shipment, creditmemo and printed PDF.
- Compatible with Magento Enterprise v1.12
Version 3.0.0 (updated on Feb 9, 2012)
- New user interface.
- Add gift card feature.
- Add multiple gift box feature.
- Enhance giftwrap management feature in back-end.
- Compatible with Magento Enterprise Edition.
Version 2.0.3 (updated on August 10, 2011)
- Add Gift Wrap tax using System tax.
- Add new configuration field in backend to set using/not using urls.
Version 2.0.2 (updated on May 19, 2011)
- Fix error not going to checkout page after typing personal message and clicking on "Proceed to Checkout" button.
- Fix error not showing Gift Wrap amount in PDF invoice.
- Fix error when using urls.
- Fix error not showing Gift Wrap amount in the PayPal page when using PayPal.
With Magestore magento gift wrap extension, customers are possible choose exactly which product will be wrapped. I have hardly met any troubles in installation and configuration of the module.Marco DEVELOPER Drankgigant.nl/
The wide range of very wonderful and intelligent extensions especially designed for Magento platform is the reason we selected Magestore.Klaus BotheCEO Isarfoto.de/
This Gift Wrap extension is very useful and the extension support team is awesome, the help me to successfully install this extension.RiyacDEVELOPER ZebraBlinds.com
A great "feel good" addition for a toy shop with Gift Wrap extension
A great "feel good" addition for a toy shop with Gift Wrap extension
When I asked Andrew what is the most interesting thing he applied to the store, he told that it was "A range of high-end stylished wrapping papers"
Drive more Sales by adding Gift wrapping service
Drive more Sales by adding Gift wrapping service
According to a report of the online Marketing trendy, Giftwrapping is seen as the most widespread service that could be seen everywhere on web-shops now. As a web-store owner, have you added this powerful tool to your site? Let's start with Marco – the Magento Developer. He had searched Gift wrap module from some other providers and looked at... read more
21 extensions installed for Isarfoto Bothe Online
21 extensions installed for Isarfoto Bothe Online
Q: Why did you select Magestore over other Magento solution providers? A: The wide range of very wonderful and intelligent extensions especially designed for Magento platform is the reason we selected Magestore. We want to have the best possible solution from your company as a Partner.
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Excellent Extension..!!
Giancarlo Morales
This extension is very easy to install and works excellent. Code follows Magento standard and zero bugs / conflicts.
Great Plugin
Great plugin on our Magento 1.9.2 installation. Exceptional technical support.
Gift wrap gives a plus
Since installing the extension Gift wrap our customers increasingly choose to package their gifts and this is very important for us because it distinguishes us from the rest of the other stores.
You won't regret it
I've used two other gift wrap extensions and been disappointed. The extension is exactly as described, The support is unsurpassed.
Magestore Gift wrap module functions as described.
I would like recommend this module to anyone who needs to implement the gift wrap features in the magento sites. The support team is very responsive and they quickly fix the issue in no time. Thanks
Great work
John Green
With this extension, it's easy to upload gift wrap paper and box images, add extra value and service, which customers feel more satisfied with my e-store. Great work!
Outstanding Support
Had a few little problems getting the extension working and the developers were fast to respond and resolve my issues. But better than that, they went way above and beyond my expectations when I requested tweaks and fine-tuning - the support has been the best I've ever encountered! Fantastic! Can't recommend highly enough :-)
Outstanding Support
Had a few little problems getting the extension working and the developers were fast to respond and resolve my issues. But better than that, they went way above and beyond my expectations when I requested tweaks and fine-tuning - the support has been the best I've ever encountered! Fantastic! Can't recommend highly enough :-)
Useful Extension
Very pleased with this extension. Easily allows customer to choose items for gift wrap. We had issues with installation but only because we forgot to install several folders (our mistake!). The Magestore support helped fix the issue quickly. Very happy I purchased this extension!
Gift Wrap + excellent support from Magestore
HI. I choose this Gift Wrap as our wrapping service. This is most advanced extension on market. Thanks to support from Vick (Magestore) he customized the extension to my template. This was very helpful and I like personally thank him again. Extension works as expected. There are many great ideas to use it - for christmas, for presents, for birthdays. The only features I will ask to add - needed by many merchantes in Europe and other countries with more than 1 tax rules (with tax VAT). Is to add option to choose which TAX rule is added to the Gift Wrapping service. For example when You sell drugs (they have 8% VAT, but if YOu like to wrap the goods for birthdays - You need to add wrapping service which is with 23% VAT). So the tax rules should be choosen in the backend to meet tax govern rules. This is the one feature I would love to see in Gift Wrap. The rest are added and meet outstandingly our expectations. Magestore support developers (Vick) thanks a lot for help !
5 stars support
Edson Junior
I couldn´t be happier with the Magestore. After 1 year I bought the module I changed the checkout and I got some troubles, so I sent a e-mail to magestore and they helped me and solved my issue within 24 hours. Tks a lot guys, I will buy from you very ofther after that. Regards, Edson
Really good product and support.
I purchased this product. After installing I thought I did something wrong. I ask to the support team. They made it working withing 24-30 hours. Really great support. I recommend this product.
Really happy with Gift wrap extension. These guys did a phenomenal job. Thanks Magestore!
Good Extension
This is a very userful extension for products gift wrapping and can attach gift card with addition of best wishes comments. I faced few issues with this extension but all problems had been quick resolved by its support team.
Great software and super support!
Installing was painless, but had a little problem due to the theme. Support department handled it great and it was solved within the day. Thank you again!
Customer loves it
I experience at my ecommerce store to get a personal touch once they place some order and this is perhaps the ideal most solution. I will certainly buy it.
Very useful extension especially for the holiday season
This is a must have extension especially for the Christmas season!
Reply to Alex
Hi Alex, Thank you for your interest in our Gift Wrap module. Regarding your question, it's true that our extension doesn't integrate with Klarna Invoice by default. However, our developers can customize the module to fit customers' need. Please submit a ticket here https://support.magestore.com/ and they will review your request. If it's unable to add this function shortly, we definitely consider to update in the next version of Gift Wrap. Best regards, Magestore
Does not support Klarna Invoice / part payment!
Hey there, can´t use this addon for my shop because gift option is not transmitted to Klarna. Would be very cool, if the developer could fix this plugin so it supports the klarna services! //Alexej
Great extension; even better support!
Like the title says; extension does what it supposed to do. We needed guidance in translating some texts, and Magestore was excellent. The deliverd when we needed it the most. Because of this trust, we've asked them to do some bespoke changes on the Giftwrap module. Which they are doing and is also great. Great relief for us, knowing you can trust this partner.
Useful extension and responsive support!
This Gift Wrap extension is very useful and the extension support team is awesome, the help me to successfully install this extension
Gift wrap
I test extension for my B2B project. My opinion is ggood and simple interface, easy instalation, good documentatiaon. Excelent for B2B portal
Great extension with very nice interface
Great extension with very nice interface. Almost every part is considered in this gift wrap extension.Wanted some help regarding invoice pdf generated from admin, Magestore support guys responded and solved it quickly.
Nice extension for customers & store owners
This extension is quite useful both for the customer and the store owners as if customer is sending to someone special then with extra wrapping or special message it shows a additional care to the reciever by the sender and on the other end the store owners can take advantage by charging some additional cost to provide this service.
Extension works well and quick support
The extension works well and quick support when needed!
Great extension en really fast service!
Great extension en really fast service! I've had some minor issues installing which were fixed within a moments notice! This was the first module I've bought from Magestore but if I'm in need of something else I know where to look first.
Great plugin and great support
Great plugin and great support from Magestore. We had problems with the plugin on our customised Magento store and they fixed them very quickly. Thank you.
Extension is perfect
Great extension, had a couple of issues but as always Magestore sorted them out quickly and efficiently and are great to work with. Extension is perfect for those wanting to up sell gift wrap and cards
Really good job
Installed the extension on one of our clients webshop. After some struggling I contacted MageStores support team and they did a really good (and quick) job by solving the problem in no time. I would recommend this extension to others.
Great people to work with!
I am using 1.5 and this extension has worked very well for me. I had some initial problems with the setup (my fault) but their customer service was fantastic, and they quickly helped me get up and running. Great people to work with!
Great extension & support
This is a great extension and I have to say the support I have received from Magestore with regards to a custom theme has been second to none - thank you very much - great support!
Why this is not part of magento core is beyond me. This one looks particularly good compared to others.
Really good module and excellent support
Really good module and excellent support, kept us updated throughout when we had a conflict. would recommend extension and Magestore! Thanks
Very good extension
Very good extension and one of the best support teams. I also can recommend other extensions from them.
Very happy with this extension
Very happy with this extension, but even more so with the support. We ran into a conflict with another extension, but Justin responded quickly and spent far more time finding and fixing the problem for us than our purchase was worth - amazing service.
Good extension and excellent support!
HarryM HarryM
One or two minor issues arose on installation of this into CE 126.96.36.199 but Justin at Magestore was onto it like a ferret and it was fixed in no time, even though it was during their holiday period. Good extension and excellent support: well done Magestore!
Good extension
I got this package on my template and Justin from Magestore was really helpful and patient, I had some troubles we me changing things and he sorted it all out for me, thoroughly reccomend dealing with the company, great support, good extension.
Good and fast support
Thanks Magestore for the good and fast support. I am very happy with this extension
Good support
Thanks Magestore and primarily Justin for his support. I had problems with the wrapped-button but he helped me in 1 day, really thank you.
Fabulous extension - amazing support
Jacob Cook
The module was easy to install and worked like a dream. I had to customise it for my client to meet her requirements and this required quite a lot of additional support from Magestore. I must say, they were absolutely brilliant. Every issue that cropped up they solved and worked out a solution without a problem for free. They know what they are doing. Can't rate the support highly enough - it was amazing. Again, can't rate them highly enough!
High quality support
toogas lda
We recently had a PayPal/Shopping Chart Giftwrap related issue. Great support, very fast and with high quality standards. Thanks Magestore!
Great extension!
Great extension! Installed without any errors. I was up and running in less than 10 min! I found a small bug later, their support was top notch and fixed the problem quickly. Thank you! Would highly recommend Magestore for their support!
Fantastic extension
This is a fantastic extension. The customer support was brilliant. The extension met the needs of our client completely. She loved it. I highly recommend dealing with Magestore and installing this extension!
Dislike old version, but will be try 3.0
Your old version is conflicted with "sweet tooth" extension. So I will test the new one, will report soon....
This module is great, an absolute must-have!
This module is great, an absolute must-have! I have never ever experienced a more dedicated customer support, excellent! Thanks to Magestore I am now able to offer gift wrap options, and get all details printed on the packing slip.
Easy to Install - a great feature to add before xmas
I'm brand new to Magento and this was one of the first extensions I bought. It was very easy to set up and we're delighted to be able to offer this service to our customers.
Unique extension
Magestore meets my need with this unique extension. There are many customers requesting wrappep products for their special relatives and so on. Easy to install and configure, I have not had any troubles or errors in my store system. Well done!
Creative idea
I own an online store selling souvenirs, so when coming across this extension, I was very excited and decided to give it a try. My store gains competitive edge thanks to your extension. Nice!!!
Excellent module. Perfect for what I need and the developer is very helpful too. Best gift wrap module available!
best giftwrap module
I tried Giftwrap module from many providers but now I'm using this extension and sure that it's the right solution for my store. Thanks Magestore!

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Love Bug was an attempt to establish Reuben Wilson as an organist with either the vision of Larry Young or the fiery style of John Patton, and while it comes up short on both accounts, it nevertheless remains quite enjoyable. Working with an impressive backing band of guitarist Grant Green, trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist George Coleman, and drummer Idris Muhammad, Wilson leads his band through a number of soul-jazz workouts, none of which ever really catch fire. Instead of working tight, funky grooves, the quintet tends to spiral off into vaguely experimental territory, which loses sight of the spirit of the song. Still, Green has a number of shining moments, as does Morgan and Coleman -- in fact, they tend to overshadow Wilson, who nevertheless turns in a fine performance. Nevertheless, there are flashes on Love Bug, particularly on "Hot Rod" and the bonus track "Hold on, I'm Comin'," that demonstrate the organist coming into his own. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine


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|Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
Release 2.6.3
Part Number B10284-02
The products listed below leverage Oracle Workflow for business process definition and integration. A full description of each feature is documented in its respective product's User's Guide or Configuration Guide, if one is available.
Oracle Warehouse Builder includes a Workflow Deployment Wizard that lets you deploy extract, transform, and load mappings to Oracle Workflow as functions within an item type. You can then use Oracle Workflow Builder to define the sequence of these functions as a workflow process. In designing the process, you can specify job dependencies between the mappings to ensure that jobs run in the proper order. You can then run the process from Oracle Workflow or schedule the process to run using Oracle Enterprise Manager.
By defining jobs as a workflow process, you can automate the entire schedule for a set of jobs. When you run the process, Oracle Workflow manages the jobs so that they run in the sequence defined in the process. If an exception occurs, Oracle Workflow terminates the process. This approach minimizes the manual intervention required to manage warehouse load and refresh jobs.
For more information, see: Managing Dependencies Using Oracle Workflow, Oracle Warehouse Builder User's Guide.
The Oracle Workflow Business Event System enables Oracle Application Server InterConnect and Oracle Workflow to work together to provide a complete business process driven integration solution. With Oracle Application Server InterConnect and Oracle Workflow, you can define business collaborations across two or more applications to implement the business processes for an organization.
Simple business process definitions can be implicitly captured in the messaging defined through Oracle Application Server InterConnect core functionality. For more complex business processes, Oracle Application Server InterConnect leverages the robust design time and runtime Oracle Workflow business process definition and execution support to make the processes explicit and manageable. For example, Oracle Workflow allows you to model error management for exceptions, human interaction such as approvals, message junctions including both message fan-in and fan-out, stateful routing, and composite services involving communication across several applications.
The Oracle Application Server InterConnect iStudio design tool automatically generates Oracle Workflow business event and subscription definitions corresponding to common view events and procedures. You can launch the Oracle Workflow home page from iStudio to review these definitions.
The iStudio tool also deploys process bundles as Oracle Workflow item type definitions. These item types include starter workflow processes with Oracle Workflow event activities that correspond to Publish, Subscribe, Invoke, and Implement activities defined in iStudio. You can then launch Oracle Workflow Builder from iStudio to complete the workflow process definition by specifying the sequence of the event activities and optionally adding other activities such as notifications or functions.
For example, iStudio might generate a workflow process with two event activities, one that receives a CreatePO event and another that sends an AcceptPO event. You can then use Oracle Workflow Builder to define the business process that controls the execution of these activities. For instance, add a notification activity to send an e-mail requesting approval after the CreatePO event is received and before the AcceptPO is event is sent.
At runtime, Oracle Application Server InterConnect and Oracle Workflow communicate with each other through the Oracle Workflow Business Event System, leveraging the Oracle Advanced Queuing messaging infrastructure, to execute business processes defined across multiple applications.
For more information, see: Oracle Application Server InterConnect and Oracle Workflow, Oracle Application Server InterConnect User's Guide.
Oracle Workflow and Oracle Application Server Wireless are integrated to let you send wireless notifications. Oracle Application Server Wireless integrates with Oracle Workflow by providing a subscriber to the WF_NOTIFICATION_OUT queue. This subscriber dequeues notification messages from the queue as JMS Text messages and can then send them to wireless devices. If a user sends a response from a wireless device, Oracle Application Server Wireless calls the appropriate notification response function to record the response and complete the notification. For more information, please refer to the Oracle Application Server Wireless Administrator's Guide and the Oracle Application Server Wireless Developer's Guide.


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MIDDLEBURY –– Planned Parenthood is a national reproductive health care provider, which is divided into regional affiliates. The Middlebury Health Center is one of 10 sites that comprise Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE).
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Lately, I discovered a new place to share the things you love, called Pinterest. It is a bunch of bulletin boards you "pin" pictures of stuff on and you share what you love. Some people share pictures of thoughts and words to live by. This I could spend all day looking at. I think I will also use it for recipes and other inspiring things. Things to look for in the future. Something to have in my future home. Somewhere to travel to once I have the time and money. It can be anything. You pin it and you share it and you follow people who have the same interests. It's a nice little world I discovered. Here is a summertime picture I like and is just one of the things I would/did pin:


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There's a lot of red in the red-band Only God Forgives trailer. Red neon titles, red lanterns, blood-red blood. And your boyfriend Ryan Gosling looks freaking hot when bathed in red light. He also looks hot when he's silently crushing someone's leg with a kick and then dragging that person down a hallway by that person's teeth. "Wanna fight?" he asks. Yes. Yes, I do. If by fight you mean press my tongue to the spot where your neck meets your shoulder.
This movie has a plot, something about a boxing club in Bangkok and drug smuggling and whatnot, but let's be honest: All you care about is how ridiculously hot your boyfriend is. So. Hot.


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Rams Drop Non-Conference Matchup with Montclair State
Montclair State - 4, Farmingdale State - 0
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's soccer team fell at home to Montclair State in a non-conference game this afternoon, in Farmingdale, N.Y. The Rams attempted 16 shots, but were unable to score. Farmingdale now holds a 9-4-3 overall record, while the Red Hawks improved to 8-3-2.
Montclair State did not waste any time scoring the games opening goal at the 11:20 mark. Senior forward Liza Offreda (East Rutherford, N.J./Midland Park) netted the pass from Christina Nunes (Morris Hills, N.J./Parsippany Hills), putting the Red Hawks up 1-0. Freshman forward Stephanie Barbulescu (Franklin, N.J./Pope John XXIII) scored off a goalie rebound for Montclair State's second goal three minutes before halftime.
Only 48 seconds into the second half, junior midfielder Jackie McGrath (Vernon, N.J./Vernon) scored off Offreda's corner kick, putting the Red Hawks up 3-0. Freshman midfielder Zoe Mandaro (Hawthorne, N.J.Hawthorne Christian) would add Montclair State's final goal in the 78th minute.
Freshman goalkeeper Stacey Rao (Ronkonkoma, N.Y./Connetquot) takes the loss with five saves for Farmingdale State, while senior Leah Tepperman (North Andover, Mass./North Andover) had nine saves in the win.
The Rams host St. Joseph's College in a Skyline Conference game on Thursday, October 22nd at 3:00pm.


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Last year, Anni Daulter delighted little ones and parents alike with her feast for the eyes and tummy – Organically Raised – Conscious Cooking for Babies and Toddlers. This year, Daulter takes on a classic summer favorite – ice pops! Homemade ice pops save you money and save on resources too (think about all that store bought pop packaging). Plus you can make your homemade ice pops with fresh and healthy ingredients, especially with Daulter's new book, Ice Pop Joy to help. Daulter offers a slew of ice pop creations made with seasonal fruits, nutritious vegetables, protein packed whole foods and natural-minded sweeteners. Read on to see the pros and cons of Ice Pop Joy. Make sure to stick around until the end, because I've included a yummy bonus sample recipe from the book at the end!
Lots of goodness packed into Ice Pop Joy
- Daulter packs a lot of great information into Ice Pop Joy, including tips for getting your kids to eat healthy, finding ice pop molds, freezing tips, sweeteners to use for ice pops and of course, dozens of yummy ice pop recipes.
- The book is full of beautiful ice pop images by Alexandra DeFurio that will have you attempting to lick the pages.
- Seven different ice pop chapters are included – pure fruit, veggie, yogurt, tofu, herbal, chocolate and specialty ice pops. Each chapter includes in-depth information about the types of pops. For example in the yogurt pop chapter, Daulter covers the various types of yogurt on the market, along with how and where to buy.
- At my house we've tried a few of the ice pop recipes – Pure Sunshine Organic Ice Pops for example, and found them to be very yummy. Beyond the ice pops we've made and tried, there are many more that we're eager to taste-test, such as the chocolate raspberry pops, lavender flower pops, watermelon pops, bing cherry tofu pops and more. This book is packed with plenty of classic ice pop recipes, plus new intriguing ice pop flavors as well.
What could be improved in Ice Pop Joy
- Wooden sticks are recommended in the book – for ice pop handles, but I think reusable ice pop molds with reusable sticks are almost always the best way to go, if you want your pops to be eco-friendly.
- Some of these ice pop recipes run a bit on the expensive side, ingredient wise, but nothing insane. Plus, you really need to consider that your family is worth quality ingredients.
- I wish this book was printed on recycled paper. Although, for what it's worth, Daulter has told me that it wasn't her call when it came to the paper type used for this book.
- I disliked the references offered at the end of the book. They seemed very last minute to me and could have been way better.
The pros of Ice Pop Joy seriously outweighed the cons. I'd highly suggest this book for any family that wants to learn how to make healthy, yummy and icy cold treats all year long. Keep reading for a sample Ice Pop Joy recipe.
Delicious sample Ice Pop Joy recipe – Breakfast Ice Pops
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You can read Patrick Balester talking about how he learned to love e-publishing here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/06/guest-post-by-patrick-balester.html
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So here's today's guest blogger, Shantnu Tiwari...
Greetings folks!
When I was given a chance to guest blog here, I wondered what to write about. Unlike many people who visit Joe's blog, I am a rank amateur, so giving advice to anyone would have been cheeky.
One of my favourite Indie blogs is the Passive Voice, and I remember sometime ago, there was a comment by William Ockham, saying something to the effect that most legacy publishers, when they were trying to trash Indie publishing, used the same few discredited tropes. I can't find that post now, but after having read hundreds of these articles, a clear pattern begins to emerge.
So I will try to compile the list of hackneyed over used excuses legacy publishing uses. Next time you read someone trashing Indie publishing, you can go, "Ahah. S/he used cliché number 1, 3 and 4, but the article would have been better with cliché number 2 as well."
So without much further ado, here are:
10 Clichés Legacy Publishing Needs To Stop Using
1. Tsunami of Crap
One of the most used clichés. "Oh noes! All this self pubbing means we will drown in a poo of poor self published works! What shall we ever do?"
Also known as Tsunami of Swill, a more alliterative version (thanks to the PG crowd for this!)
2. Amazon is the Great Evil
Have you ever noticed something? Ever since Amazon became a huge corporation, the amount of sin in the world has grown? So has global warming, and the number of terrorist incidents. Think this is a co-incidence? What are you, stupid? Soon a Great Holy War will be fought, with Amazon on one side, and virtuous and pious people (read: Those who work for legacy pub) on the other. Which side will you choose?
For bonus points: Konrath is the son of Satan. He will be frying you in oil when the Satan daddy takes over.
3. Writers need to be taken care of
And the best way to do so is by taking them hostage. Lock them up with a contract. Take their family hostage. After all, it's for their own good, and for the good of SOCIETY.
Corollary: A corollary of this rule is in agent blogs. There the thinking is:
"Oh, look how hard the publishers work to take care of you! Such nice people. So why won't you shut up and sign on the dotted line already? Remember, when the publishers have you between their knees and are whipping you, IT IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD."
4. Readers need to be taken care of
Related to the above. Readers also need to be taken care of. We need to tell them what is good for them. They must not read any of this genre nonsense. They must only read what is approved by the Committee of Preserving Culture and Morals.
This is to protect society, of course. Most people are stupid baboons, who if left to themselves, would read stuff they enjoy, rather than the masterpieces the MFAs and English Professors fart out. We need to protect the readers from their own stupidity, so our culture can survive. It is for the children. The children, I tell you!
5. Legacy Pub has done so much for the industry!
You are required, by law, not to give any examples here. Just wave your hands in the air and repeat the statement three or four times.
6. Digital publishing is a fad
Ebooks aren't even books. You can't even smell them. Well, can ya? Unless you can smell it, it's not a book. My two day old underwear is more of a book than your fancy Kindle will ever be.
7. Ebooks are slowing down
Related to above. Ebooks have slowed by 0.000002% this year. At this rate, they will soon vanish from the world. We will be back to the good ole times soon! In your face, Self publishers!
8. The only way to do "quality" is to spend years and large amounts of money, that only big pub can provide
Unless you are willing to spend three years writing a book, three years busting your head with agents, and then another two years before the book is published. Books are like wine-- they are better the longer you spend on them.
And you have to spend a gazillion dollars to make your book successful, that only the big publishers can provide. Even God agrees with this:
"Thou shalt spend a gazillion dollars and many years preparing thou book. Or thy book shall be a steaming pile of shit."
– The Legacy Pub Bible.
If only these ugly, smelly self publishers knew how hard publishing was.... If only....
9. There are no freelancers
None at all. No freelance editors, cover designers, layout designers, none at all. All freelancers went extinct with the Dodo. You want quality, you come to us. Capiche? If you even think of hiring your own editor, we break your legs, 'k?
Indie publishers will destroy the world. DESTROY THE WORLD! Civilisation is on its knees, and it is the fault of all those hippy self publishers! We have no time left. We must do anything to stop them. Anything. The survival of humanity is at stake...
If we don't, the world will end. Zombies will take over, the sun will set permanently, nobody will get a BJ. EVER.
If you want to save the world, and still get BJs, you must fight with us! You must join us, or perish, Luke!
Sorry, got a bit carried away there. Anyway, if I missed anything, feel free to add anything to the comments.
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While I've blogged about many of these topics before (and so has Barry Eisler), it's nice to see a humorous take on the current state of the industry.
Remember: when people start making fun of things that those in power say, those in power don't keep their power much longer. And the publishing industry right now has become so predictably irrational it is now a parody of itself.
So here are my...
10 Ways Legacy Publishing Can Save Itself
1. Get bigger
In times of economic upheaval, disruptive technology, and loss of market share, the smart people start upsizing. You need to spend money to make money, so I recommend hiring more middlemen and gatekeepers, and doubling office space (in Manhattan of course. If you aren't paying at least $40k a month in rent, you might as well move to Jersey...)
2. Lower royalties
It takes dozens, if not hundreds, of people to bring a book to market. So why is the author getting a whopping 17.5% of that?!? The royalties should be divided equally among everyone who has input, from the editor to the editor's intern to the FedEx guy to the FedEx guy's intern (it's NY--everyone has an intern.) If 50 people are involved in making a book happen, the author should only get 2% royalties. After all, without a publisher, the writer has no other options.
3. Raise prices
History has shown that people will pay $25 for a hardcover novel. Since ebooks are an exciting new technology, readers should be willing to pay double for that. If only there was some way for all the publishers to somehow simultaneously agree on setting prices and then forcing Amazon to accept them...
4. Protect paper sales
Even though ebooks are an exciting new technology, they're just a fad. Like pet rocks. Or fast food. Or breathing. Soon paper books will have a resurgence, and the way to hurry that resurgence along is to print more books. It's simple supply and demand. The more you supply, the more people will demand. So print, baby, print!
5. Resist innovation
Research and development costs money--money that could be better spent on printing more paper books. It's a well-known fact that most innovations fail, so it's a much safer and wiser choice to stick with the same business model from 100 years ago.
6. Advertise more
Everyone knows the only reason people buy books is because they see print ads in the New York Times. But those ads could be cost prohibitive; they are expensive and The Big 5 puts out thousands of books per year. So the simple solution is: buy the New York Times, then cram every page with book ads in between the well-reasoned unbiased press coverage. And because newspapers are a growth industry, it's win-win.
7. Merge
When Random House and Penguin merged to become Random Penguins, the Big 6 became the Big 5. They had the foresight to understand that in a world where indie authors are claiming up to 25% of ebook sales, the way to survive is to combine debt and reassure one another that "everything is OK." Because nothing can quell doubt about the future like joining forces with someone who has the same doubts about the future, and, like you, no viable plans to survive.
8. Keep nurturing
Always remember that authors don't care about being compensated monetarily for their efforts. Writers don't write to earn a living. They do it because they are prima donna artists who need to be validated. Signing a deal with Random Penguins is a lot more important to them than selling a lot of books, because getting the stamp of approval by industry gatekeepers is all writers care about. Some nurturing tips include:
- Occasionally returning emails
- Letting the writer see the cover art
- Insisting on editing changes
- Allowing no more than ten typos in the final book
- Discussing marketing options (such as how the writer needs Twitter and Facebook)
- Discussing advertising* (*a discussion in no way implies a promise)
- Sending review copies to PW and Kirkus, because we all know that every ebook reader subscribes to those industry magazines
- Paying authors twice a year* (*unless they haven't earned out their $2000 advance yet)
- Inviting authors to BEA where they can see how much money publishers are spending to resuscitate a dying industry. And it's lots, brother.
9. Make contracts longer
Everyone knows the longer the contract, the better the deal. And since agents aren't lawyers, publishers can slip in some beneficial clauses that will likely never be spotted or questioned. Publishers are doing authors a favor, and should be properly compensated for their efforts, which means having contracts heavily favored toward their interests. Some clauses could include:
- Owning book rights forever
- Owning all subsidiary rights
- Owning the writer's first born child
- Owning the writer's organs after death
- Owning the writer
- Owning the entire world
10. Destroy Amazon
Amazon sells more books than any other bookseller, and for that reason it must be stopped. After all, publishers are the ones who sell most of their books on Amazon. So it stands to reason that any entity responsible for most of the Big 5's profit should be stopped by the Department of Justice. There is a well known DOJ law that allows the government to intervene when a company like Amazon becomes successful by being better than its competition. Publishers need to get the US government to recognize that Amazon is hurting legacy companies who embrace the time-held traditions of: archaic business practices, zero innovation, tremendous overhead and waste, and the malevolence to nurture tens of thousands of authors to severe depression.
I believe, if the Big 5 just follow my simple rules, they'll be around for eternity times ten.


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Novelist, journalist, sometime bad boy and frequent literary provocateur Will Self is hard to miss in England. He's 6-feet-5, for starters; what's more, he's terrifically prolific, publishing literary works of fiction and nonfiction almost every year. His latest is "Umbrella," a 397-page novel story told in a single stream-of-consciousness paragraph.
"Life is not in the simple past. Life is all happening now," Self told NPR this weekend. "Stream of consciousness and continuous present are, to my way of thinking, very powerful techniques."
The novel wears its modernist influences on its sleeve; the title is taken from the James Joyce phrase "A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella."
Although some consider the book challenging, it was the first of Self's works to be shortlisted for England's prestigious Man Booker Prize. Some are calling it a masterpiece.
In 1993, Granta Magazine listed Self among the 20 best young British novelists, based largely on the strength of his 1991 debut, "The Quantity Theory of Insanity." Since then, he's written wickedly funny, stylish and sometimes impenetrable novels, and occasionally gotten intro trouble. As a journalist in 1997, he was covering Prime Minister John Major and got caught snorting heroin on Major's campaign jet. He lost the job but gained notoriety.
Self has both fans and detractors. He is viewed, Canada's National Post quotes him as saying, as "a kind of Marmite person — 'You either love him or you hate him.' "
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Redskins rookie running back Alfred Morris drives the NFL's top-ranked rushing attack. He has rushed for 1,106 yards, tied with Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie running back Doug Martin for the most rushing yards among NFL rookies. The sixth-round discovery from Florida Atlantic is built low to the ground at 5-foot-9, 218 pounds and has great balance and tackle-breaking skills. The Ravens will need to wrap up Morris and get him on the ground. They've proven susceptible in recent weeks to having trouble with physical runners like Pittsburgh Steelers power back Jonathan Dwyer. Morris is averaging 92.2 rushing yards per contest and is the Redskins' first 1,000-yard rusher since Clinton Portis four years ago. Playing without starting inside linebacker Dannell Ellerbe, who has been ruled out with right foot and ankle injuries, only makes the job tougher for the Ravens 23rd-ranked rushing defense.
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The History of Easter Island
This page has been updated and expanded and is now called the Easter Island primer. Use this link to go there.
For a one page overview, including photos, of everything to do with Easter Island, please see my Easter Island Fact Sheet
Easter Island is a small triangular multi - volcanoed mound, roughly 14 miles long by seven miles wide. It lies 2,400 miles west of the coast of Chile and 2,500 miles east of Tahiti. Its closest human neighbors are 1,400 miles to the west on Pitcairn Island. The 2000 permanent inhabitants have the honor of being the remotest population on the face of the Earth.
Popular wisdom is that settlers first came from Polynesia and later from South America, though this is still fiercely debated. Regardless, one thing remains clear: they were an intelligent and artistic people who left a treasure trove of art and architecture that still fascinates man today.
Moai average 12 to 25 feet in height. The largest known to have been transported to an ahu is 32 feet tall and weighs 50 tons. Over 240 ahu, built to honor the sprits of deceased relatives, snake along the coast. The moai associated with them all have their backs to the sea. Uniquely, the inland Ahu Akivi, on the long slope of the volcano Tereuaka, has seven moai facing the sea and is the only such occurrence on the island. An explanation for this disparity remains elusive.
Typically, the moai were carved out of volcanic ash, using hand picks of a teardrop design. The statues were cleverly carved from the rocks. First, the surface of the volcanic ash was made a little softer by moistening it with water. Then, using the hand picks, a line was pecked down until it was an inch deep. This was re-done about three-quarters of an inch over. This then produces two grooves with a keel in the middle. This keel could be then easily knocked out. By repeating this process, it is possible to carve out a figure in a much quicker time than you would expect. A wooden sled was then used to drag the statue to its proposed site and then erected by using a simple method of levers and rock piles. What seems an incredible - almost impossible - task is completed using very basic technology and skill.
The island is not only a testament to its peoples' sculpting skill, petroglyphs are also found throughout the island. The most impressive of these relief's are at the ancient ruins of the Orongo where a jumbled mass of rocks are covered with relief sculptures elaborating the rituals of the cult of the Birdman.
Civil war and ecological destruction ravaged most of the population. By the end of the 17th century, only a few of a once-vibrant and artistic people remained. Unanswered questions that cannot be ignored continue to haunt us: Who were these people, isolated as they were, who developed an as yet un-deciphered written language, quarried stone, transported it for miles and erected statues upon burial tombs?
The population of Easter Island reached its peak at perhaps 20,000, far exceeding the capabilities of the small island's ecosystem. Resources became scarce, and the once lush palm forests were destroyed, cleared for agriculture and possibly for moving the massive stone moai. Thereafter, a thriving and advanced social order began to decline into bloody civil war, perhaps even cannibalism. Before the Dutch Admiral, Jacob Roggeveen, discovered and named Easter Island in 1722, islanders had torn down most of the moai. Those that remained standing were evidently flattened by a tidal wave (insert approx date here). All of the statues now erect are the result of archaeological efforts.
Later contacts with western "civilisation" proved disastrous for the island inhabitants. Due to slavery and disease, the population decreased to approximately 111 by the turn of the century. Following the annexation by Chile in 1888, however, this number has risen to more than 2,000, with other Rapa Nui living in Chile, Tahiti and North America. Despite a growing Chilean presence, the island's Polynesian identity is still quite strong.
First contact
With his three ships, Eagles, Thienhoven and the African Galley(?), the Dutch Admiral Jacob Roggeveen went in search of the Southern Continent. Until prevented by ice, he managed to make the southerly latitude of 60 degrees.
With this, he turned his ships towards the Juan Fernandez Islands thinking that there might be an opportunity to found a settlement. On April 6th, 1722, his westerly course brought him to a lonely island. As it was Easter, he baptized the island Easter Island.
Another account suggests that Roggeveen was in search of Davis or Davids Island. Reported in latitude 27o by and Englishman buccaneer named Davis, in 1687. He claimed that it was five hundred miles from the coast of Chile, low and sandy and some 12 leagues to the west of it was seen a long tract of pretty high land. This description in no way applies to Easter Island, as sometimes suggested, but is possibly a description of Crescent Island. The latitude of Easter Island is 27o 8S, Crescent Island is 23o 20S. Roggeveen concluded this was not the island he was looking for2.
Due to strong surf and no readily suitable anchorage, he lay off the north coast for a week and was only able to make landfall once. The landing party gave descriptions of an island with no large trees, a rich soil, sugar-cane, bananas and figs. Current scientific thought suggests that these descriptions may have been somewhat inaccurate. Roggeveen made contact with the indigenous population. Roggeveen wrote that when these (page 201) and admired the large stone statues that dotted the landscape.
After departing Easter Island, Roggeveen was to discover some islands of the Tuamotu group. He visited Takapoto, Makatea and Samoa where his fleet were to rest for sometime before continuing on to Batavia in September 1722.
H.M.S Topaz
In 1868, the Mar of War H.M.S. Topaz visited Easter Island and remove a moai to be subsequently presented to Queen Victoria, It took 200 people to drag Hoa Haka Nana Ia (Lost Friend), made between 11th and 17th centuries, to the Topaze. Hoa Haka Nana Ia now resides in the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court at the British Museum in London.
In April of 1856, the British ship Denmark was abandoned in a sinking condition after a long battle against severe storms off the Falkland Islands. Her crew of 17 were picked up by H.M.S. Topaze and carried into Stanley.
Race Rock Lighthouse in British Colombia, Canada, was built by the crew of HMS Topaz and outside laborers under a contract awarded to John Morris.
Three days prior to the official operating date for the lighthouse (December 25, 1860) the Nanette, a British vessel carrying sawmill machinery and Hudson's Bay Company merchandise, ran into thick fog by early evening and was swept up by the swift tide along the shoals. Early the next morning the Nanette was thrown against the rock by a seven-knot tide and the vessel began to sink. The salvage operation became difficult when news of the cargo's value (estimated $200,000) spread, attracting many looters, and requiring officers and sailors to police the area. Further salvage of the vessel came to a stop in 1861 when the Nanette was swept to the depth of 15 fathoms in foul weather.
There was also something about her crew piping the opening of a Masonic Lodge in Canada.
Wasn't it Topaz that left the plaque on Robinson Crusoe island?
Rapa Nui is a barren island, but this was not always the case. Studies of pollen cores prove that the first Polynesian settlers found an island paradise of lush, subtropical forest6. Within 400 years of colonization, deforestation was well underway5.
700 years after colonization, the forests were gone, every species of land bird was extinct and shellfish were overexploited. Without trees, the inhabitants could no longer make sea faring canoes with which to hunt porpoises, the main staple of their die.Without sea faring ability, Rapa Nui became a closed system. The inhabitants could not abandon the island and turned to intensive poultry production Rats also became a dietary staple.
Without wood to burn for cooking and heating fires, sugarcane scraps, grass and sedges were used instead, which in turn impoverished the soil. The population crash happened about 200 years later. In 1722, Jacob Roggeveen found barren grassland, a landscape devoid of trees and shrubs. Botanists have since identified only 47 species of plants, two shrubs and two tree types. Rapa Nui is 64 square miles with a carrying capacity of 2000 persons, about one-tenth of what is considered to be its peak population6.
One of the tree types, the toromiro, used to grow in great numbers on Rapa Nui. It is a small leguminous tree with yellow flowers. Its beautiful and resistant wood was used for making, among other things, the famous moai 'kava kava'.
At the time Thor Heyerdahl visited Rapa Nui in 1956, there was apparently but one, very sick, toromiro left. Found by Thor at the base of the Rano Koa crater, he removed a single living branch bearing seed-filled pods and had it delivered to Professor Selling, who in turn took them to the Botanical Garden of Gotebourg.
By 1980, there were two toromiro plants alive in Gotebourg and it was decided to attempt to reintroduce the plant to Rapa Nui. This and a second attempt in 1988 resulted in failure, due to a root nematode that killed all the seedlings.
As of 1995 there are still no well-established toromiros on Rapa Nui and all the samples originate from just one tree. However, all is not lost, in 1994 four European botanic gardens, including the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, set up a special Toromiro Management Group to co-operate in the reintroduction project and the enlarging of the dangerously low gene pool of Rapa Nui toromiro.
History overview
From first European contact.
Piths & Particulars
Caves and petroglyphs
Moai Quarry
Fire trench
Anthropological museum Hanga Roa
British Museum London
Admiral Jacob Roggeveen, 1659 1729
Discovered Easter Island during a failed search for the Southern Continent.
Katherine Routledge, xx xx
Stewardess of the Mana expedition to Easter Island. Feb 1913 June 1916
Thor Heyerdahl, xx - xx
Explorer and proponent of the theory that Easter Island was settled from South America.
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- nuance (noun)
- \NOO-ahnss\
- What does it mean?
- : a slight shade or degree of difference (as in color, tone, or meaning)
- How do you use it?
- As Elizabeth read her poem aloud, the inflections and nuances in her voice made the verses come alive.
- Are you a word wiz?
"Nuance" came into English from French, but the root of the French word is "nubes," the Latin word for a natural phenomenon. To what natural phenomenon do you think "nubes" refers?Your mind isn't cloudy if you picked answer C. "Nubes" is the Latin word for "cloud." The French adopted "nubes" as "nue," keeping the original meaning of "cloud." Clouds often have different shades of color in them or cause other things to appear in different shades, so from "nue" the French developed the verb "nuer," meaning "to make shades of color." The corresponding French noun, "nuance," also developed, meaning "shade of color." English borrowed "nuance" from the French in the late 1700s, attaching to it the figurative meaning "a shade of difference."


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Rolls Royce has become quite an important brand to me in these last few weeks. In part because of a rather dishy German PR but mostly, and more appropriately, because of the history of the company and its relationship with art and glamour alongside meticulous engineering and design.
I'm all for a love story that can be captured for eternity by a great artist or writer so when I heard that Rolls Royce had commissioned Rankin to create 100 images to celebrate the Sprit of Ecstasy centenary my head and my heart simultaneously exploded.
Being a woman who loves luxury and allure it seemed only natural that I would fall in love with Rolls Royce. I have dreams of me and a handsome man (the aforementioned handsome German would do) sitting in the rear of a Silver Cloud convertible, him in a Tom Ford suit with a pair of Persols and me head to toe in Coco Chanel with head scarf and huge sunglasses. We stop for a picnic lunch in the cornish town of Polperro and he feeds me oysters as I drink champagne whilst perched on a Burberry cashmere blanket. Then, with the Spirit of Ecstasy squeezing into view he holds me in his arms and we watch the sunset over the boats in the harbour… You get the picture. Rolls Royce feature in most of my inappropriately expensive but completely enchanting fantasies.
To me, the Spirit of Ecstasy is the driving force behind my romantic relationship with the brand. She is an inspiration. She captures all that makes a women. Beauty, grace, mystery and silent strength. Emotional strength. She is a woman with a secret. A women in love. The story of her love is so bitter sweet and yet there she sits. Content and free.
Ecstasy was inspired by The Whisper. A piece commissioned by the second Lord Montague that is said to immortalize his love affair with his secretary. This love however was never to be officially fulfilled because of her impoverished social status. She watched him marry a woman of notoriety bowing down to the pressures of social acceptance. Their secret love affair continued right up until her death. Rolls Royce's Spirit Of Ecstasy was to convey the spirit of the Rolls-Royce, namely, speed with silence, absence of vibration, the mysterious harnessing of great energy and a beautiful living organism of superb grace and Lord Montague's lover seemed the perfect symbol of this. Her name was Eleanor Thornton.
Eleanor is an inspiration to me. A woman that loved a man with such passion and grace that she respected why their love couldn't be celebrated. She watched her love marry another and accepted why he had to do this. She did this without fight or spite. She kept her secret. Whilst her love for Lord Montague couldn't physically be displayed, purely the knowledge that he loved her was enough to keep her happy. I look at the Spirit of Ecstasy now and I see a woman who looks alone but is not lonely. She adorns one of the most sought-after cars on the planet. The wind billows through her clothes and her eyes are focused on the horizon on the future. Her face is content. It is the face of a woman so in love whose heart has found its home and she needs nothing else but the knowledge this love is returned to be free.
Rankin was given a pretty tall order then when commissioned to celebrate 100 years of such an incredible icon. As one of the world's most influential photographers though, it seems to me that this was a clever move by Rolls Royce. He has bought all of the detail, the mystery and grace that has kept Eleanor so relevant over the last 100 years to life and produced a collection that enchants and draws you in. Most women, like Ecstasy, hold a secret and these photographs certainly portray that.
You can see the video behind the making of Rankins Spirit Of Ecstasy here The music on this film is called Time Will Remember Us by Gabriel Shadid. Rolls Royce have selected some of their favorites here


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This track is currently unavailable until revision / modernization but this is an old review of it from 2001 (original here). For released TTMM noise experimentalism check out the free album A Flow of Code.
October 8, 2001
Music appropriate for wartime, The Tleilaxu Music Machine defies easy categorization. An amalgam of styles coalesce to form a dark electronic maelstrom akin to a blunt-edged Brighter Death Now. Equal parts Squarepusher and Burzum, The Tleilaxu Music Machine seems to mock these influences by laying primitive "misplaced" cymbal sounds over a complex beat pattern or processing their heavily distorted guitars to the point that the melodies seem to be emitting instead from a number of lawnmowers.
"Demons of Attack" is an instrumental that develops in a similar way to many of the songs of Throbbing Gristle, early-Ramleh, or other industrial or power-electronics groups. A guitar rhythm is initially heard in one speaker, until a fierce burst of noise breaks across both sides of the mix followed by a collection of processed drums repeating the rhythm. Gradually, additional layers begin to envelope the piece with mutated tempos and harsher sounds, fermenting the sickening march. By now it is clear we are dealing with a different and more complex sound palette than Throbbing Gristle ever conceptualized. The menacing sounds begin to boil over amid what could be a distant hail storm of chains and scrap metal. The violence peaks with an annihilating guitar/synth sound that penetrates and consumes nearly every other tonal or rhythmic element, only to fade out washed over by flange effects.
The Tleilaxu Music Machine provide an aural assault which is nauseating, soulless, and full of paranoia. One pictures rows of mangled corpses gleefully rising again from the battlefield to spread disease and carnage. This band tries to make a giant bowl of entrails appear appetizing. Mmmmm. Give them a listen before they are drafted in an attempt to harness the debasing psychological effects of prolonged exposure to these sounds to use against our bunkered-down enemies.
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SEATTLE - May 9, 2013 - Harmit Singh Malik, Ph.D., an evolutionary geneticist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who studies genetic conflict – the competition between genes and proteins with opposing functions that drives evolutionary change – has been selected to become a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is among 27 of the nation's top biomedical scientists to receive the honor this year out of a pool of more than 1,100 applicants.
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"HHMI has a very simple mission," said HHMI President Robert Tjian. "We find the best original-thinking scientists and give them the resources to follow their instincts in discovering basic biological processes that may one day lead to better medical outcomes." HHMI investigators have the freedom to explore and, if necessary, to change direction in their research. They also have support to follow their ideas through to fruition, even if that process takes many years.
Malik's initial five-year appointment as an HHMI investigator, which will begin in September, comes with a salary, benefits and a research budget. The Institute also will cover additional expenses, including research space and the purchase of critical equipment. The appointment may be renewed for additional five-year terms, each contingent upon a successful scientific review.
Malik, a member of the Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Division, has been an HHMI Early Career Scientist since 2009. His research harnesses the tools of biochemistry and genomics to chronicle the endless "genetic arms race" not just between organisms and pathogens but also within an individual species' genome.
"Harmit thinks creatively and fearlessly about his research. It is not that Harmit thinks outside of the box. It's that he does not even recognize the existence of boxes," said Mark Groudine, M.D., Ph.D., senior vice president and deputy director of Fred Hutch and a member of the Center's Basic Sciences Division.
Studying model organisms such as fruit flies and yeast, Malik sees conflicts raging within the nuclei of cells as genes jockey for evolutionary dominance. Such clashes can have a long-term impact on organisms, as they can alter the function of essential genes.
Delving deeper into genes that help fend off viral conflicts, Malik and colleagues have shown that adaptations in those genes offer a record of indirect "paleovirology," in which scientists try to identify ancient viruses by virtue of the imprints they leave on the evolution of host genes.
The structure of our genome reflects a "negotiated truce," Malik said, and the best way to understand that truce is to reconstruct the events that produced it. This approach has profound implications for medicine and science because it uncovers new antiviral strategies, mechanisms of immunity and clues about autoimmune diseases such as lupus.
Malik's lab also investigates evolutionary competition between components that are involved in the essential process that ensures chromosomes divide and segregate equally during cell division. He has pioneered the idea that chromosomal competition for evolutionary dominance can drive the unexpectedly rapid evolution of these essential components. These findings have direct implications for how chromosomal imbalances can occur in cancer and for how two recently diverged species can become reproductively isolated from each other.
Malik's many awards include the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for his work on the coevolution of humans and diseases, a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Kimmel Scholar Award, a Searle Scholar Award and a Burroughs Wellcome New Investigator Award in Infectious Diseases. He is also the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation's highest honor for scientists at the beginning of their independent research careers.
Malik earned his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai before obtaining a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1999. He then came to Fred Hutch as a postdoctoral fellow in the Basic Sciences laboratory of Steven Henikoff, Ph.D., who is also an HHMI investigator. Malik joined the Fred Hutch faculty in 2003.
The roster of HHMI-funded researchers from Fred Hutch includes two Early Career Scientists, including Malik; two current investigators, including Nobel laureate Linda B. Buck, Ph.D.; and seven investigator alumni.
At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, home to three Nobel laureates, interdisciplinary teams of world-renowned scientists seek new and innovative ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer, HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening diseases. Fred Hutch's pioneering work in bone marrow transplantation led to the development of immunotherapy, which harnesses the power of the immune system to treat cancer. An independent, nonprofit research institute based in Seattle, Fred Hutch houses the nation's first National Cancer Institute-funded cancer prevention research program, as well as the clinical coordinating center of the Women's Health Initiative and the international headquarters of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network.


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not a wishlist thread...
I get the feeling it could be happening any moment now xD
And will be until teams leave the start line...as always!!
Does anyone know FOR SURE when TAR24 will start?SOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!
Quote from: Bookworm on Today at 03:56:10 PM Does anyone know FOR SURE when TAR24 will start? SOOOOOOOOO EXCITED! The producers?
Miss Cleo is a fraud; Peach is the real deal. Miss Cleo lurks here and then releases info on twitter. He has stolen photos from RFF in the past and branded them as his own. He also tweeted that the race would start Weds or Thurs and was wrong. Complete fraud who wants everyone to think he knows what he's talking about. Notice that he tweeted about the race starting 3 minutes after Peach announced it here.
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PitchersRyan Fraser: 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
Greg Peavey: 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K
Adam Kolarek: 1 IP, 2 H ,1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
Chase Huchingson: 2 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K
The Surprise pitch fx had Fraser at 91-93, touching 94 with a curve at 79-80.
Peavey also was listed at 92-93 in his inning of work, while showing a slider at 83 mph, and a changeup at 87.
Kolarek was sitting 90-92 with a slider at 80-81.
Huchingson was 88-93 with a slider at 83-85 and something listed as a changeup at 77. I say "listed" because usually great separation off a fastball is 10 mph, and that would be 11-15 mph off his heater.
Either the gun is a little hot, or Peavey is throwing harder out of the bullpen than he did as a starter. In fact, based on all of these velo readings, I'd suggest that the gun is a smidge hot.
Position PlayersRF Cesar Puello: 2-for-5, 1 RBI, 2 K. Two games, four strikeouts and zero walks for Puello. Lets see if he draws a walk before November.
CF Darrell Ceciliani: 0-for-3, 2 BB, R, K
3B Dustin Lawley: 2-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI, 1 K. Lawley is taking 2B/SS Danny Muno's place on the Surprise roster. The 23-year old hit .261/.333/.434 in 121 games for Savannah this year, mostly playing leftfield. When Aderlin Rodriguez was promoted to St. Lucie, Lawley played more often at third, where he also played in college. He has some pop that Historic Grayson Stadium helped mask in 2012. Still, he was old for the SAL, and will need to hit more.


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The Maloof family is finalizing an agreement to sell the Sacramento Kings to a group that hopes to move the franchise to Seattle for the 2013-14 season, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Kings co-owners George, Gavin and Phil Maloof are expected to keep …
The deal will sell the Kings for approximately $500 million to a group led by hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen and Microsoft chairman Steve Ballmer. The group is seeking to relocate the franchise to Seattle's KeyArena for the 2013-14 season.
The Seattle group's plans, with support of the NBA, is to play two seasons in KeyArena before moving into a new Seattle arena, sources said.
No agreement has been signed, but one source with knowledge of the talks described the deal as "first and goal at the 1." Sources said it will take "some time" to get a formal agreement in place. The Maloofs' history of changing course late in negotiations still has some uneasy about getting the sale completed. The Maloofs previously neared a deal with Sacramento leaders to help finance a new arena in the city before backing out.
The Maloofs are expected to keep an extremely small percentage of the team, but will have no real input or say in the franchise, sources said.
Once the sale is completed, the Seattle-based group will have until March to file for relocation. NBA commissioner David Stern has been a big proponent of the Hansen-Ballmer group, and league officials will work diligently to help the franchise move to Seattle if the sale is finalized, sources said. The Seattle-based group is determined to not have the franchise spend a final lame-duck season in Sacramento.
The prospective Seattle ownership plans are to change the Kings' name and logos back to the original proprietors of the city's NBA history: the Sonics. "Same name and logos," a source working with the group told Y! Sports.
When owner Clay Bennett moved the Sonics franchise to Oklahoma City in 2008, he left behind the name, logos and history.
The Kings' status in Sacramento has been tenuous since the arena deal fell apart near the end of last season.


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Ince appointed Blackpool boss
Blackpool have confirmed the appointment of Paul Ince as their new manager.
The 45-year-old former England, Manchester United, Inter Milan and Liverpool midfielder has agreed a one-year rolling contract at Bloomfield Road.
Following a near two-year absence from management, Ince will take charge of his son and England Under-21 winger Tom, who is Blackpool's top scorer with 17 goals in 33 games this season.
"It's great to be here," Ince told Blackpool's official website after taking his first training session at Squires Gate on Monday morning. "Considering I've watched the team play for the last 14 months, it's strange sitting here as the manager, having obviously watched Blackpool as a fan as well as watching my son play.
"I'm over the moon though and delighted, it's great to be back on the training ground and great to be involved with, and in charge of, a great bunch of lads. I've worked with a lot of players and the spirit and togetherness of the lads is absolutely fantastic. I'm glad I've been given the opportunity by (Blackpool chairman) Karl Oyston."
Ince took on his first managerial assignment with Macclesfield in October 2006 and went on to keep the struggling Silkmen in the Football League on the final day of the 2006-07 season.
He moved on to MK Dons, where triumphs in the Football League Trophy and League Two play-off final paved the way for a move to Blackburn in the summer of 2008. Ince's foray into top-flight management proved deeply disappointing, though, and he was relieved of his duties after registering only three wins from 17 Premier League matches.
A second, less successful, spell at MK Dons followed in the 2009-10 season before Ince took the reins at Notts County in October 2010, but his six-month tenure at Meadow Lane ended with a club-record nine game losing streak and his departure by mutual consent.
Ince is Blackpool's third manager this season, following on from Ian Holloway and Michael Appleton. Holloway, who memorably led Pool to the Premier League in 2010 and suffered Wembley heartache at the hands of West Ham in last season's npower Championship play-off final, left to join Crystal Palace in November.
Highly-touted coach Appleton came in as his successor from Portsmouth but was lured across Lancashire by Blackburn last month, ending a nine-week spell in charge. Blackpool lie 14th in the Championship table, 10 points shy of the play-off places and six above the relegation zone ahead of their trip to Leeds on Wednesday night.


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Can we expect changes in the Windows Phone 8 Lock screen?
Back at the Summit a few weeks ago, Microsoft was very clear that they were not showing all of Windows Phone 8, in fact we were only getting a peek. The reason for that is multifaceted but their official position is they don't want to show consumer features to consumers when we're still months from release. Then there's the whole idea of trying to prevent an Osborne effect i.e. hurting current sales by enticing customers to wait for new phones this fall.
One tiny area of interest was an observation today from a reader (erichon99) in the new Start screen video by Microsoft. At about the 2:15 mark (snapshot below) you can see some icons on the Lock screen: 1 Missed Call/Voicemail, 4 text messages and presumably 13 new Hotmail/Live mail messages.
What caught our reader's attention was the new Hotmail/Live mail icon which ironically is the old Windows flag logo (yet the new logo is clearly used for the capacitive button). To be honest, we think this is just a mockup oversight and we have no idea if Hotmail/Live mail would use the old logo though we're leaning towards 'no' on that one--in other words, nothing to see here. However...
In Microsoft's video there's an apparent oversight in logo-matching
...this brings back to the beginning—what are those new features in Windows Phone 8? We don't want to ruin Microsoft's surprise but we can tell you that looking at the Lock screen for notification changes is a good start.
One area many have complained about in Windows Phone 7 is the lack of a "notification-center". More accurately if a notification comes in for a 3rd party app and you miss it, well, you missed it. Sure you can use the app's Live Tile but that assumes (a) You've pinned it to your Start screen and (b) You've scrolled down to check it at some point. But can the OS be even more "glance and go"? The answer is 'yes'.
We're not sure if Microsoft will have an actual notification-center on board (ala Android's "drawer") but we do know they solved this problem another way in Windows Phone 8—by giving developer access to the Lock screen with the added ability to have custom notifications. There are actually four options for developers to choose from with one of them being extremely creative as it will give you a fresh look to your Lock screen numerous times a day. We won't say much more on the matter for fear of raising Microsoft's ire but hopefully this tease will get you excited for what's coming in Windows Phone 8.
Microsoft is once again not copying the competition, they're doing it their way and in a few weeks, you can judge for yourself.