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As you know, Christmas is just around the corner so over the next few days I will be ramping up the Christmas festive vibes with a number of Christmas related posts. We do love a styled shoot on the blog, so I thought today I would share with you this gorgeous rustic farmhouse wedding inspiration courtesy of Cat Arwel Photography.. Cat is a UK photographer but wanted to see if she could plan a shoot in another country and by the power of social media she made it possible. The shoot took place in February of this year at Riverside Farm Pittsfield, Vermont, a far cry from Cat's home in the UK. I love how the shoot turned out, so many lovely wintery rustic touches.
A rustic winter shoot in one of Vermont?s most magical farmhouses. Using a real Vermont couple and local suppliers for an authentic feel!
Cat from Cat Arwel Photography tells us more about the day
I was actually on holiday in the area and when I saw how amazing it looked, I just knew I had to shoot there! I went about searching on IG for local suppliers and it all started from there!
It?s always been a dream to shoot in a proper rustic farmhouse/barn with snowy mountains as a backdrop. This was the perfect opportunity.
I wanted to collaborate with like minded people in Vermont! I?m used to working with all kinds of
wonderfully creative people in the UK but never had done so in the US. I was intrigued to see whether it was possible to plan it over social media having never met any of the team before the ...
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text: Manchester-based producer Andy Stott has been refining his dub-oriented, atmospheric techno over the course of three singular albums - Merciless in 2006, Unknown Exception, in 2008 and Luxury Problems in 2012 - all released on Modern Love. After first cutting his teeth churning out harder edged grooves in the nineties, Stott earned near-unanimous plaudits for the slow-moving, bleary-eyed, infectious house snippets at play on the masterful Luxury Problems, one of the year's best, according to Resident Advisor and Pitchfork. The album also features the haunted vocal stylings of his former piano teacher Alison Skidmore, rendered beautifully by pairing her echoey vocal fragments to hypnotic grooves. Stott also records under the Andrea moniker for Modern Love sublabel, Daphne. He also regularly collaborates with Miles Whittaker (of Pendle Coven and Demdike Stare), with whom he taps into a shared love for low-end frequencies, as Millie & Andrea.

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Government sources said the Cabinet has already resolved to apply for HIPC status. They said the government realises that it cannot clear Zimbabwe's debts while it is struggling to get the economy back on track.
"The preparatory work for joining other countries with HIPC status is already under way. A few issues are being addressed at the moment, but we can safely say we will join that group very soon," a source said.
The HIPC initiative was launched in 1996 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to ensure that poor countries are not burdened by debts they cannot manage.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti could not be reached for comment this week but his colleague, Minister of Industry and Commerce Welshman Ncube, confirmed that the Cabinet has given the government the green light to apply for HIPC status.
"We agreed that the only way out of the debt overhang crisis was to adopt HIPC status," Ncube said.
"What now remains is the report of the consultant hired by government to give guidance on the next step. The ministry of finance keeps promising to give Cabinet that report, but we're not sure when that's going to happen. The sooner, the better."
According to a statement by Biti prior to his November 2012 budget presentation, Zimbabwe owes the IMF, the World Bank and the African Development Bank $10.7‑billion.
Most of the limited revenue generated by the government from taxes has been swept away by a huge civil servants' salary bill, which accounts for more than 60% of the total budget, according to Biti.
Recently, the IMF said its directors had noted that "co-operation on payments remains poor, and [they had] strongly encouraged Zimbabwe to make regular and timely payments to the fund and to increase them as payment capacity improves".
Biti said the economy was not yet strong enough to deal with international debt. He added: "The country's external debt overhang [which stands at 118% of gross domestic product] remains the albatross around the economy's quest for access to the required levels of external financial inflows, both from multilateral and commercial institutions."
Joy Mabenge, an expert in debt strategy and the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd), said that the IMF and the World Bank should introduce a moratorium on interest on the debt.
"These institutions would have us believe that they care about Zimbabwe's welfare. We believe it is high time that they put a moratorium on Zimbabwe's debt interest accruals," Mabenge said.
Zimcodd is pushing the government to conduct a debt audit to help establish how borrowed money is used. It believes this will bring relief to the current coalition government that is burdened by the repayment of debts incurred by the previous Zanu-PF-led government.
"We have had people in government office claiming they are borrowing money from the IMF for the benefit of the people of Zimbabwe. It is high time the government and other players conducted an audit of all the monies that were borrowed by Zimbabwe to see which debts were legitimately accrued by government," said Mabenge.
"We should not repay money that was abused by the previous regime, as this benefited a few members of (President Robert) Mugabe's regime rather than the people of Zimbabwe," Mabenge added.


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A very short post tonight because it's late and I'm tired.
Yesterday, I drew a mandala on a previously painted page in one of my art journals. This journal is almost full so I'm just trying to fill it up before the end of the year. There's probably less than 10 pages to go.
And today, well tonight actually, I went back to an old craft of mine: a mini wreath ornament made from a wooden curtain ring. I picked seasonal colors seeing how it is officially fall now, which is my favorite season.
That's it for today. I'll be back on Sunday for the new schedule. Have a good weekend!


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I bought a used T400 with a fresh Win7 professional x64 install already on it. The seller forgot to install the lenovo drivers, so I downloaded the appropriate ones from lenovo website.
Every time I try to install one (such as the Intel display driver), it goes through the installer, but when running any of the unpacked "setup.exe" files, I get:
Shellexecuteex error code 5 - Access Denied.
I'm logged in as administrator and still see this problem. Any ideas?
There are several possible solutions:
1) You could try to rightclick Setup.exe and chose run as administrator to see if that works better. This will run the installation with higher privileges even if the account you use is an administrator. This is because of UAC (User Access Control) a new feature for Windows Vista/7.
2) If that doesn't work then open a command prompt and type "set" then press enter. You should find "TEMP" and/or "TMP". These should point to a exising directory and normally "C:\Users\<logon name>\AppData\Local\Temp". Make sure the directory actually exist and not pointing to the wrong directory like your windows folder or the root of C:\ or something like that.
3) Perhaps one of the easiest approaches would be to take advantage of Lenovo's automatic update utilitiy - TVSU. Think Vantage System Update. When you run this software it will give you a list of drivers and software from Lenovo for your computer only. You can choose which one of them to download and install. It's a lot easier and faster compared to downloading and installing everything manually. It's also easy to use when checking for new drivers.
You can find system update here:
(version 4.0 is for Windows 7 only and 3.14 for XP/Vista)
You may have to righclick and choose run as administrator to install system update as well.
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FocusWriter Rich in Features, Poor in Some Important Ones
Nov 28, 2012 5:00 AM PT
FocusWriter uses an intriguing concept that makes you wonder why other word-processing tools do not offer the same hide-away tool panels to eliminate distractions. It offers a set of writing tools with the ease and speed of unencumbered text editors.
Focuswriter is a full-screen writing program. It has no option to resize or minimize. Its user interface lacks the traditional windows-control icons to minimize, maximize or close the window. This may require some personal workflow adjustments if you multitask or use numerous virtual workspaces on the Linux desktop.
One slight workaround is available. Unchecking the full-screen mode in the Tools/Preferences menu shows the panel or your dekstop's specific notification item. This makes it a bit more convenient to switch screens and access icons for specialized tasks that your desktop flavor uses.
It takes a few mouse clicks on the hide-away menu bar to access a special minimize option. This hides the entire application to the docking bar.
What you get is a very successful distraction-free writing environment. You can customize the writing screen by changing the font, colors and background image to create a personalized ambiance. Moving the mouse to the top or bottom edges of the screen accesses the more traditional icon rows and menus of tools.
This approach is a unique concept. FocusWriter provides the best of two worlds. You get a familiar look and feel. All the interface frills stay out of sight until you need to navigate through them. When you do not need to see them, all you see is the writing on the screen.
Deceiving Real Estate
The idea of having a full-screen view to create words on a page is an empty promise, unfortunately. FocusWriter delivers something much less.
The panels that hide when not needed work as advertised, but the interface is mostly wasted with its wide blank borders that frame a much smaller display space for the words you create.
This is not much of a problem on smaller monitors and small-screen laptops. But on my 21-inch diagonal monitor, staring at huge wide borders is a big disappointment. It is counterproductive to have a box in which to write that is centered on an otherwise wasted screen.
A fix would be simple. Just add a setting to adjust the size of the writing area. The documentation claims that setting exists. Maybe it does in the OSX and Windows versions of this application. If it is available in version 1.3.3 of the Linux package, it is so well hidden that it might as well not be there at all.
Useful Features
FocusWriter has a nice set of features that measure up well against the typical settings and options available in other word processors such as Abiword. It even matches many of the tools provided in my favorite text editors. However, the features it lacks relegate FocusWriter to a lightweight tool that falls short of power writers' needs.
For example, you can tailor the word count options to include characters and the number of paragraphs. You can also set the average word count to fill a paragraph and can divide the character count by six to get a closer length estimate.
These options may not be of much use to business writing tasks. But it is a nice touch that few word processors offer. Other niceties include an optional auto-save, optional daily goals and the ability to change the background and foreground colors.
You also can have the program open with your current work in progress. This option lets you jump immediately to the spot you where last typing. And yes, FocusWriter has auto-save and spell-check functions as well. It uses Hunspell as the spelling engine.
Fluff Functionality Flows
FocusWriter includes some added features that almost seem out of place on a desktop application. I do not even like these traits on my mobile devices' virtual keyboards. I am talking about funky features such as the optional typewriter sound effects, timers, alarms and daily goals.
I fail to see why developer Graeme Gott thought writers would need a keyboard sound effect. The physical keyboard on PCs actually needs a switch to silence the sound of my fingertips pounding on the keys.
The timers, alarms and daily goals are totally useless to me. I am fairly certain that fellow writers who make their livings as full-time wordsmiths have little need for word-limit goals and reminder alarms within a writing app. Daily goals can be set for word count or writing time.
Useful Utilities
Despite the fluff stuff, FocusWriter comes with an impressive collection of features that real word-processing applications need. For instance, it saves into these necessary file formats: TXT, RTF and ODT.
While support for Microsoft Word documents is missing, RTF and ODT bridge that gap. First you will have to save a .DOC or .DOCX file as RTF or ODT. FocusWriter does not handle that conversion, so you will need another word-processing application to resave an unsupported file format.
FocusWriter's multi-document support makes the app useful as an everyday writing tool. It uses a tabbed interface that displays on the pop-up bottom panel. Each open file is held in a tabbed screen. You move from one to another by clicking on the named tab.
FocusWriter also supports 15 languages in addition to English, most of which are European.
More Than Typical
Other distraction-limiting writing tools such as the Pyroom Text Editor give you little more than basic text editing or simple notepad-like functionality wrapped into a stark no-frills interface. FocusWriter is more functional than that.
For instance, it provides fully customizable themes. These are easy-to-create modifications to the color and font schemes. However, creating themes is less than intuitive. The background and foreground settings do not refer to the frame and the page, but rather to the page and the text on it. The Session Management feature is handy for working with groups of related documents.
I like the ability to customize the menu bar. This lets me include only the items I use often.
Perhaps the biggest difference in using FocusWriter compared with a lightweight text editor or Pyroom is the extensive text formatting that is possible. For example, the Format menu gives ample choices for text alignment and font styles.
FocusWriter is less capable, however, in its ability to select font and point sizes. Basically, you can't. That one limitation alone disqualifies FocusWriter as full-time replacement for a standard word processing application.
Bottom Line
FocusWriter is simple to use and fairly flexible writing tool. It is neither a full-fledged text editor or word processor. But it will function fairly well as either type of application to get your words on a page -- or screen.
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A CIO's journey to bring back IT innovation
IT innovation was lost behind an Iron Curtain at H.B. Fuller until "turnaround" CIO Steven John was brought in to shake up the company's Eastern Bloc mentality.
One day Steven John might be able to join a company that is not in dire need of an IT infrastructure overhaul. That day didn't come when he joined $4 billion crop-nutrient and fertilizer supplier Agriliance LLC in 2002 and had to rip out and replace a failed global enterprise resource planning implementation. And it did not come when the C-suite at global adhesives maker H.B. Fuller Co. came knocking on his door in 2007.
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It is John's reputation as a "turnaround guy" that caused H.B. Fuller to come calling, and it is the reason we chose to profile him as one of our SearchCIO.com Innovators, a series we are launching this year to showcase business transformation shepherded by IT innovation.
IT innovation was not a term bandied about at H.B. Fuller before John entered the picture: The company's IT department in essence did not exist, having been replaced by a $150 million contract with a large outsourcing firm. "We were writing a very big check every month and had little management [over the contract], or transparency or metrics into the value we were getting out of that relationship. … Aside from a revenue stream for [the outsourcing firm], it wasn't beneficial to either party," said John, CIO of the $1.4 billion St. Paul, Minn., company that develops adhesives, sealants and paints for customers in dozens of markets, and has 3,300 employees worldwide.
H.B. Fuller's IT systems, developed in the '80s and installed in the '90s, hadn't been updated since Y2K. The company does business in 100 countries, but it had never been able to implement a global platform successfully, never mind the global collaboration system John had in mind -- one of many projects that soon would be under way.
As it stood, however, the condition of IT and the relationship between IT and the business were akin to the Eastern Bloc, John said. IT was woefully behind the times, and a wall had gone up between the IT department and the business because of the outsourcing contract. Its business leaders were ready to pull down the Iron Curtain to update IT, but given the times, that had to be done at the lowest cost possible.
John set out to achieve these goals by leapfrogging H.B. Fuller's systems and business processes into the 21st century using cloud computing. Before he could make a move to a new outsourcing model, however, he had to take care of the $150 million outsourcing elephant in the room.
Step 1: Take back control of IT
From email to project management, everything except for a thin layer of H.B. Fuller IT employees (10 in all) was managed by a third party. Outsourcing to that extent had caused the company to lose the people with critical knowledge of the business: Business analysts were no longer in-house; those positions were staffed with contractors out of Manila.
"By doing that, we had lost the people close to our core revenue-generating business processes. … Having that outsourced, they didn't understand what needed to be done," John said.
John did not jump into renegotiating such a massive outsourcing contract lightly. He spent six months evaluating the contract with business leaders before deciding it "wasn't tenable." The next 12-month period was what he describes as a brawl to renegotiate the contract, this time with an outside (undisclosed) expert firm leading the charge. "That was kind of a back-alley, brass knuckles [renegotiation] because, you know, the big outsourcing firms know how to do this. We got a firm that does this for a living too, this time. That was one of the mistakes that Fuller made before: They felt that they could do it themselves."
All the core functions that drive IT innovation were brought back in-house: project management, business analysts, key application development areas that John felt were too high-risk to leave in the hands of an outside firm. Code development, help desk, security and some infrastructure stayed with the outsourcing firm.
Insourcing to outsourcing, the right way
With a team of 60 IT business experts now on hand (most were H.B. Fuller employees who had worked with the outsourcing firm and had been brought back in-house), John started to lean toward an outsourcing model that would meet the company's business goals: to create a global communications system, to update IT systems quickly and to focus the IT staff on mission-critical business processes.
The prenuptial cloud agreement
When it came time to negotiate contracts with several cloud providers, Steven John, CIO of H.B. Fuller Co., was not taking any chances: He hired NET(net) Inc., one of a handful of IT service providers that specialize in cloud contract negotiations. Here are the key considerations he came away with:
- Treat the contract as if it were a prenuptial agreement: Understand how the relationship will end before it begins.
- In what format can you get the data back? You might own the data, but the cloud provider owns the application and infrastructure.
- How long will it take to get the data back on-premises or onto another cloud provider's platform? Is there even another provider out there offering the same type of application, support and services?
- No matter how stable the cloud provider is, prepare for the worst. Have a software escrow built into the contract. --C.T.
The term mission-critical is used a lot, but this is the way John explained his strategy for choosing which business processes and systems his staff would focus on, versus those he would entrust to an outside party: "If we're doing something that someone else can do, then something only we can do isn't getting done." Human resources was not mission-critical, while the manufacturing system was, for example.
With this mantra in mind, and with the business goal of high-quality, low-cost IT, John took H.B. Fuller's Oracle Corp. HR system out of commission and replaced it within 18 months with a cloud solution by Workday Inc.'s on-demand HR software. Excel spreadsheets for customer relationship management were replaced by Salesforce.com Inc.'s hosted CRM product in less than a year. Novell Inc.'s GroupWise collaboration software was replaced by Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), which was integrated with SharePoint collaboration software within a year.
The cloud migrations started in mid-2008. Within two years H.B. Fuller went from having an Eastern Bloc-era IT infrastructure to having a global mobility strategy by replacing GroupWise (emails couldn't be received on cell phones or smartphones with the version the company was using) with BPOS. A global collaboration platform via SharePoint and BPOS was now available to company lab workers developing new adhesive products and working together and with team members from their global customers.
"We wanted to differentiate our product development, with the possibility of adding projects on which the sun never sets," John said. "The cloud infrastructure allowed us to create a virtual environment or virtual lab of scientists in North America working with engineers in China."
With Workday's HR software, IT no longer had to focus on daily support of HR or those systems, and the business now could look at talent management globally. Previously, "the best people were not always aligned with strategic plans," John said.
As for IT innovation, John could focus his team on developing tools that solve such business problems as a new pricing tool now in use in H.B. Fuller's Asia-Pacific region. The tool ensures that the prices of raw materials are in line with the prices of the company's products, so margins can be maintained.
And when it came to improving relations between IT and the business, a request for an easier click-through method by the CFO on his Workday screen sums it up: "With the cloud [in which providers often release software updates in quarterly cycles] you can say to the business, 'You'll have that change in few months,'" John said. "If we were still on the old system, I would have had to say [to the CFO], 'Wait four years and maybe [the vendor] will add that new button to the screen.'"
The cost of IT innovation
John would not disclose the cost of the cloud implementations or the extent of his IT budget, but suffice it to say that money was tight and resources were lean. "Pushing to the cloud was the only way that I was going to get mission-critical, differentiating work done," he said.
Project roadmap
Steven John joins H.B. Fuller. Goal: Update IT infrastructure.
- Reviews outsourcing contract.
- Brings functions back in-house.
- Starts outsourcing human resources, CRM and email to cloud providers.
- Removal of outdated systems, move to cloud solutions is complete.
- H.B. Fuller achieves a global collaboration platform through integration of SharePoint and Microsoft BPOS.
- H.B. Fuller's board now asks for -- and isn't pushed toward -- IT innovation opportunities in the cloud. -- C.T.
The move to the cloud paid for itself in many ways because the company no longer had to maintain outdated systems. Workday was paid for by retiring Oracle; Salesforce.com was an "incremental cost because it wasn't replacing a system, so the value was measured in improved efficiencies and increased sales"; and the cost of the Microsoft hosted collaboration solution was significantly lower than the cost of the Novell solution, he said.
"The great thing about the cloud is that there is little to no capital expenditure and many of the extras [servers, security, and disaster recovery] that are incremental to new systems are included in the monthly fees or subscription costs," John said.
John doesn't have to fight for budget dollars for DR or security, because those are built into the contract. Without huge up-front capital expenditures, projects are easier to get approved, he said.
There are tradeoffs, and you will encounter some resistance to the cloud model, John said. If you require heavy customization or transaction processing, the cloud is not for you. IT staff might feel threatened by the cloud, just as they would by any outsourcing contract. IT departments will have to adjust to a world in which software updates come out every three months, not every three years; a world in which a year-long testing cycle is replaced by a two-week validation process. "You're trusting your business partners to do the testing for you," he said. "That's a different mind-set, and IT sometimes struggles with that."
But the business does not. With a global collaboration platform in place, outdated systems retired and a costly outsourcing contract behind them, "the cloud is something that the board is asking for, it's not something I'm driving them toward."
The SearchCIO.com CIO Innovators profile series highlights how CIOs use technology to meet both IT and business leadership objectives. To suggest a leader for a future CIO Innovator profile, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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"Africa is not a country" goes the saying and this can be seen in the wide variety of foods that Africans prepare and eat. As well as being the second largest landmass on the planet - with climatic conditions ranging from deserts to tropical jungles to savannahs - Africa is also home to hundreds of ethnic groups and tribes. This rich diversity has resulted in regional food cultures that change markedly as you move through the continent, sometimes staying true to the foods eaten there for centuries, and sometimes heavily influenced by the ingredients and cuisines brought by traders and colonists.
The areas of Africa that were not on maritime trade routes or close to other countries have tended to remain the most faithful to their traditional foods and recipes. Central Africa is one area that remained relatively inaccessible to outsiders, retaining a strong local food culture. Raising livestock is difficult in the equatorial jungles of the region and vegetables such as plantain and cassava make up a large part of the diet, together with spinach or greens, tomatoes, onions, peppers and peanut butter. Chicken is commonly served in stews and wild meat might be served on special occasions, including antelope, crocodile and warthog. Fufu, a starchy porridge-like paste made from yam or cassava roots, is served at most meals.
Starchy food is definitely a recurring African theme and each region has its own favourite. The most common include jollof rice (sometimes made with local rice), fufu, couscous, garri (made from dried grated cassava), banku and kenkey (both made with maize meal). These are often served with richly flavoured stews of goat, mutton or beef flavoured with spices like sumbala or local melagueta pepper, and accompanied by native greens. Popular dishes, such as egusi soup, unusually combine meat and seafood in one dish.
But where Africa came into contact with other cultures, it was quick to adapt and adopt their cuisines. North African cuisine, owing to its proximity to Europe, has been hugely influenced by traders, invaders and immigrants. The Carthaginians introduced wheat and its by-product, semolina, which the Berbers adapted into couscous. Spices introduced by the Arabs, like saffron, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger and cloves are common in Moroccan tagines (slow-cooked meat stews, often with added dried or preserved fruits). Arab traders also left their mark in east African where steamed rice is flavoured with spices such as cinnamon and cloves. Further inland, cattle are a symbol of wealth so the milk and blood, rather than the meat, are consumed and the local starchy dish is ugali, made from maize meal. In the Horn of Africa, stews are ladled onto injera (a slightly spongy flatbread made from teff flour and a sourdough starter) and pieces of injera are torn off to use instead of utensils.
In southern Africa, the hunter-gatherer San people's tradition of cooking wild hunted meat over an open fire gave rise to braaivleis (barbecuing meat over an open fire), and potjiekos (stews cooked in 3-legged cast iron pots over open fires). Local tribes including the Zulu and Xhosa raised crops, including maize which is the main ingredient in the regional staple phutu (a stiff maize meal porridge, called sadza in Zimbabwe).
Cape Malay cuisine (created by Indonesian slaves imported by Dutch colonists) is popular around Cape Town characterised by sweetly spiced dishes such as bobotie (a baked curried mince dish with sultanas). Descendants of Indian slaves brought by the British to work on sugar plantations have created a vibrant curry cuisine, including the popular local speciality bunny chow (curry served in a hollowed out bread); while in Mozambique, Portuguese colonists established a culture of seafood and piri piri spice.
But what remains constant through the continent is the pride and willingness with which people invite strangers into their homes and offer them the best portion of whatever is being cooked.
African food: key facts
- West Africa produces 70% of the world's cocoa – as well as being home to the miracle fruit (richadella dulcifica) that makes sour things taste sweet if consumed before the sour dish.
- Both mopane worms and locusts are traditionally eaten in various parts of Africa.
- Because the traditional African diet is so high in unrefined sugars, the continent traditionally has very low rates of diabetes (but this is changing as a Western diet becomes more popular).
- In Nigeria, meat and eggs are not usually given to children, because parents believe it will make the children steal.
- South Africa is the only country in Africa producing significant quantities of quality wine, and wine has been made there since 1659.
Jeanne Horak-Druiff is a South-African writer who lives in London. She is author of the award-winning Cook Sister! blog. African food will be offer on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 September at the Royal Opera House's Deloitte Ignite Africa Weekend. In the Amphitheatre Bar, the menu will offer a taste of traditional African dishes. View the menu.


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orphan drug, drug developed under the U.S. Orphan Drug Act (1983) to treat a disease that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States. The orphan drug law offers tax breaks and a seven-year monopoly on drug sales to induce companies to undertake the development and manufacturing of such drugs, which otherwise might not be profitable because of the small potential market. (Of the 5,000 diseases covered under the act, 47% affect fewer than 25,000 people.) The law has led to the introduction of valuable new drugs for the treatment of rare diseases, but some drug companies have been accused of abusing the law's provisions by making inordinately high profits on orphan drugs under monopoly. Since the 1983 act went into effect, many orphan drugs have been approved, including those for the treatment of such conditions as AIDS , cystic fibrosis , blepharospasm (uncontrolled rapid blinking), and snake bite.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Behind an official wall of silence, Israel is signaling it wants the U.S. to strike Syria sooner rather than later, fearing that continued inaction could hurt American credibility in the region.
Yet at the same time, Israel appears to have little desire to see Syrian President Bashar Assad toppled, on the theory that a familiar foe is preferable to some of those who might replace him, especially the Islamist extremists who are increasingly powerful in the rebellion.
These contradictory forces have put Israel in a delicate position as the U.S. contemplates military action. In public, Israeli leaders have said little about President Barack Obama's handling of the Syria crisis. But following his decision over the weekend to postpone military action by seeking the backing of Congress, the signs of confusion and consternation appear clear.
"I have full faith in President Obama's moral and operational stance. I recommend patience," President Shimon Peres said in a radio interview Monday, seeking to calm a nervous public. "I am confident that the United States will respond in the right way to Syria."
Israeli leaders have been careful about voicing their thoughts about what the U.S. should do, wary of creating any perception that they are meddling in either American politics or the civil war in neighboring Syria.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked a junior Cabinet minister who publicly criticized Obama. In a radio interview, Housing Minister Uri Ariel compared the American foot-dragging to Western inaction during the Holocaust. He also said American inaction sent a message to terrorists and hostile governments that there was no price to pay for using nonconventional weapons.
Netanyahu ordered his Cabinet to keep their opinions to themselves, stressing the need to behave "responsibly" at such a sensitive time.
But in a meeting last week with the visiting French foreign minister, Netanyahu himself called for a tough response to Syria, saying the world's reaction to the use of chemical weapons would have deeper implications for the international handling of Iran's nuclear program.
Israel, along with many Western countries, believes Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, and Netanyahu has repeatedly raised concerns that international pressure to curb the Iranian nuclear program has been insufficient.
"Assad's regime has become a full Iranian client and Syria has become Iran's testing ground," Netanyahu said. "Now the whole world is watching. Iran is watching and it wants to see what would be the reaction on the use of chemical weapons."
For this reason, many Israelis reacted with disappointment after Obama announced over the weekend that he would seek a congressional vote before a use of force against Assad. Israeli newspapers and commentators criticized the American leader for appearing weak and indecisive.
"You can't count on someone who isn't sure of himself," said Hanna Tzikli, a resident of northern Israel.
Israelis have expressed their desire for American action with a mixture of moral and strategic concerns. Watching civilians die from poisonous gas is painful in a country built on the ashes of the Holocaust, in which the Nazis sent countless Jewish victims to their deaths in gas chambers.
It has also sharpened concerns that Assad might one day use these weapons on Israel. Special gas-mask distribution centers have been flooded with nervous people in recent days seeking to get their protection kits.
"If he used chemical weapons against his own people, he'd have no problem using them against others," said Oded Eran, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies, a Tel Aviv think tank.
Still, the operating assumption appears to be that a U.S. strike would not necessarily precipitate a Syrian reprisal against Israel. With Assad believed to be gaining the upper hand in the war, Israeli decision makers suspect he would be careful not to weaken his military by opening up a new front against a strong rival.
Israeli lawmaker Nachman Shai said American credibility was on the line since Obama long ago said that Syria's use of chemical weapons was a "red line" that could not be crossed. Similarly, Obama has promised Israel that he will never allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
"We are watching America carefully. We rely on America on all fields of life, especially now when it comes to Iran," said Shai, a former chief military spokesman who now sits on parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. "We need to know that on D-Day we have America next to us."
Shai, a member of the opposition Labor Party, nonetheless praised Netanyahu's handling of the crisis so far. While Israel has a clear interest in how America responds in Syria, he said it is essential Israel avoid any perception of interfering in American decision-making.
Israel has not taken sides in the Syrian conflict, and Shai said it has no interest in doing so now. He said any American attack should deliver a "strong message" to Assad but should not seek to change the course of the fighting or oust the Syrian leader.
If Israel could be guaranteed that Assad would be replaced by a stable government that controlled the entire territory and the myriad of groups operating within it, it may be inclined to wish for his ouster, Eran said. But even though Syria and Israel are bitter enemies, the Assad family has kept the Israel front quiet for nearly all of the past 40 years — and many Israelis view Assad, a known quantity, as preferable to the Islamist factions, some of which are affiliated with al-Qaida, trying to oust him.
"It's hard to identify who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. Probably they are all bad guys," Shai said. "The interest of Israel is that no one will attack Israel and we will not be involved in any way."


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The two United Nations agencies responsible for agriculture and labour issues, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), are fully committed to:
- combating hunger and poverty by promoting rural and agricultural development strategies that are socially, environmentally and economically sustainable, gender sensitive and equitable
- achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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Xina535 wrote:
I have not been well mentally lately. I have been at the hospital psycho dept recenlty twice to discuss my mental situation. They want to get my meds changed, started Cymbalta and Seroquil (spelling?) and I go back on 2-June for another appt. They have indicated that I may need to stay there for awhile. The doctors are calling my other doctors to get more of my history...I am going to e-mail them all of my neuro evaluations, since in two from one doctor, he diagnosed me with depression and psychosomatic, and the other neuro said I was normal/mentally stable.
misterjuanperalta wrote:All I'm very familiar with what you are diagnosed. I am seeking treatment for some of those issues and others. I am very careful about the medications though. Zoloft is what I'm on, reluctantly due to side-effects and twitching.
Yuliasir wrote:So it is quite normal that you felt your inflammed nerves, it just reflect the situation you are in.
'Hot water pouring' is the same sensory issue we all have - goosebump, cold water, bugs crawling, hot patches, hair feeling on the tongue - all the same, well within your mood disorder diagnosis too by the way.
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Citizens Have Privacy Fears as Cities Increase Surveillance
A program in Oakland, Calif., is among most contentious examples of cities using big data, and federal dollars, for routine law enforcement.
Federal grants of $7 million awarded to this city were meant largely to help thwart terror attacks at its bustling port. But instead, the money is going to a police initiative that will collect and analyze reams of surveillance data from around town — from gunshot-detection sensors in the barrios of East Oakland to license plate readers mounted on police cars patrolling the city's upscale hills.
The new system, scheduled to begin next summer, is the latest example of how cities are compiling and processing large amounts of information, known as big data, for routine law enforcement. And the system underscores how technology has enabled the tracking of people in many aspects of life.
The police can monitor a fire hose of social media posts to look for evidence of criminal activities; transportation agencies can track commuters' toll payments when drivers use an electronic pass; and the National Security Agency, as news reports this summer revealed, scooped up telephone records of millions of cellphone customers in the United States.
Like the Oakland effort, other pushes to use new surveillance tools in law enforcement are supported with federal dollars. The New York Police Department, aided by federal financing, has a big data system that links 3,000 surveillance cameras with license plate readers, radiation sensors, criminal databases and terror suspect lists. Police in Massachusetts have used federal money to buy automated license plate scanners. And police in Texas have bought a drone with homeland security money, something that Alameda County, which Oakland is part of, also tried but shelved after public protest.
Proponents of the Oakland initiative, formally known as the Domain Awareness Center, say it will help the police reduce the city's notoriously high crime rates. But critics say the program, which will create a central repository of surveillance information, will also gather data about the everyday movements and habits of law-abiding residents, raising legal and ethical questions about tracking people so closely.


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73rd Avenue Theatre's 11-play 2012 season in Westminster
The little 73rd Avenue Theatre Company has announced a big 2012 season. So big, in fact, that with 11 annual titles, it is the equal to the Denver Center Theatre Company by number of titles offered – if not in budget.
Here's the 2012 lineup:
Jan. 27-Feb. 19, 2012: "The Importance of Being Earnest"
March 2-25, 2012: "Hamlet"
April 13-May 13, 2012: "Arsenic and Old Lace"
June 1-24, 2012: "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"
July 13-Aug. 19, 2012: "12 Angry Jurors"
July 31-Aug. 21, 2012: "The Exonerated" (Tuesdays only)
Sept. 7-30, 2012: "Penelope"
Sept. 25-Oct. 16, 2012: "Waiting for Godot" (Tuesdays only)
Oct. 12-27, 2012: "The Rocky Horror Show" (late nights)
Nov. 2-18, 2012: "Flowers for Algernon"
Nov. 30-Dec. 16, 2012: "Noises Off"
Before they even get to 2012, 73rd has five more [plays to finish out in 2011. Coming up:
Now through Oct. 9, 2011: "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
Oct. 4-25, 2011: "The Vagina Monologues" (Tuesdays only)
Oct. 14-30, 2011: "The Rocky Horror Show" (late nights)
Nov. 4-20, 2011: "Billy the Poet"
Dec. 2-18, 2011: "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella"
The 73rd Avenue Theatre is located at 7287 Lowell Blvd. in Westminster. Call 720-276-6936 or go to 73rd avenue's home page for more information.


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Despite the messed up appearance of the final product the flavour was sublime. Yum! Most especially since it is not particularly sweet. If you need further sugar boost, copious amount of maple or golden syrup over it will do the job.
This is adapted from excellent The New Best Recipe cookbook which is currently providing me with a lot of culinary ideas.
German Apple Pancake
3/4 cup whole milk (or half single cream and half whole milk)
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs - lightly beaten
1/2 tsp fine salt
1 Tbsp granulated sugar
1/2 cup plain flour
1 Tbsp unsalted butter
3 medium Golden Delicious or Granny Smith apples
1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2 Tbsp icing sugar (confectioner's)
- Pre-heat oven to 260°C/fan 240°C/500°F.
- Peel and core the apples and cut into 1/4-inch slices.
- Mix the milk, eggs, vanilla, salt and granulated sugar until well combined. Set aside.
- In a 10-inch non-stick oven-proof pan, melt the butter.
- Add the apples and sprinkle the brown sugar over.
- Cook over medium-high heat while stirring occasionally until the apples turn golden (about 10 minutes).
- Remove the pan from the heat. Pour the batter around the edge of the pan then over the apples.
- Place the pan in the oven and reduce the temperature to 220°C/fan 200°C/425°F.
- Bake until puffed and browned - about 16 minutes.
- Loosen the edge of the pancake with a heatproof spatula. Invert the pancake on a serving plate and dust top with icing sugar. Serve immediately with warm maple syrup.


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April 19, 2005
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The Santa Clara University women's tennis closed the regular season with its 14th victory of the season, a 7-0 win over UC Santa Cruz this evening at the Degheri Tennis Center. Santa Clara is now 14-6 overall, while the Banana Slugs, ranked fifth in the Division III West Region, fall to 8-8.
"I'm pretty pleased with how we played, although we could have been more disciplined mentally," head coach Damon Coupe said. "It's great to have another victory under our belt going into conference."
The Broncos now head to the West Coast Conference Championship, hosted at the University of San Diego this Friday through Sunday.
1. Kaloi/Leathers (SCU) def. Frick/Villalobos (UCSC) 8-2
2. Cochrane/Barnes (SCU) def. Sweeney/Zabala (UCSC) 8-2
3. Daniel/J. Strunk (SCU) def. Kelly Kerr/Chayla Furlong (UCSC) 8-0
1. Janalle Kaloi (SCU) def. Kathryn Frick (UCSC) 7-6 (2), 6-0
2. Kelly Leathers (SCU) def. Erika Villalobos (UCSC) 6-2, 7-6 (3)
3. Catherine Cochrane (SCU) def. Courtney Armstrong (UCSC) 6-4, 6-3
4. Erika Barnes (SCU) def. Megan Sweeney (UCSC) 6-2, 7-5
5. Kimberly Daniel (SCU) def. Angelizen Zabala (UCSC) 6-3, 6-2
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Plant Protection Conference 2016
Prof. Dr. Rumen Tomov participated in a round-table entitled 'New pests and possibilities for control' held on 16th January 2016 in Hisarya, Bulgaria. It was organised within the Plant Protection Conference 2016 and celebration of the 120th Anniversary of the Plant Protection Activities in Bulgaria and 20th Anniversary of the Bulgarian Association for Plant Protection (15-16 January 2016).
Prof. Tomov talked about 'Contribution of projects ESENIAS-TOOLS and IBBIS to the prevention of introduction of alien plant pests in Bulgaria'.
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Todd Tomlinson needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 63 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Williamsburg Regional Library
We are in the final stages of completing the Library's new website. We have implemented Drupal and are migrating content from the existing website (http://www.wrl.org) to the new site (http://dev01-sl.opusnet.com/wrl/).
The primary tasks associated with this contest is to create the visual designs for the homepage of the site (http://dev01-sl.opusnet.com/wrl/), an adult books and reading page (http://dev01-sl.opusnet.com/wrl/boo…nd-reading), as well as a page for the youth books and reading page of the site (http://dev01-sl.opusnet.com/wrl/you…nd-reading).
The layout for those pages is complete - the page structure for all pages will consist of the top menu bar, a page specific banner area, a secondary navigational bar below the banner, followed by the general content area and the footer. Each page is divided in to "regions" and "blocks" - which have already been defined and implemented on the development site.
The Library serves a broad and diverse population. The target audience includes:
Children (toddler through pre-teen)
Young Adults / College age
Young Families
Senior Citizens
Job Seekers
Community Organizations
Business owners
The general population of the Williamsburg Regional Library (Williamsburg Virginia Area)
1) The colors used should map to the colors of the new logo
2) The library is comprised of two buildings: the James City County Library and the Williamsburg Library. Neither building is the main library or considered a branch. Pictures & logos of both buildings can be found at: http://dev01-sl.opusnet.com/wrl/con…and-photos. We suggest studying the pictures to get a feeling for the overall look of the library. The website must fit with the interior design of the Library building.
3) While the library is located in Williamsburg, Virginia, it is imperative that the design does not reflect anything colonial, revolutionary or historic. Use of red, white and blue is also unacceptable. The design should reflect a contemporary, public library.
4) The logo should be prominently displayed.
5) Each departmental landing page/banner should clearly identify which area of the website the user is currently on. You may look at what we did from a conceptual standpoint at http://dev01-sl.opusnet.com/wrl/. Other creative approaches to displaying that information is encouraged.
6) The youth page must maintain the overall structure -- but it must be children friendly (something that would grab and hold the attention of a pre-teen child).
7) All designs must be delivered as a layered Photoshop (psd) file arranged in logical groupings.


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Alessia De Magistris needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 70 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
FITCHICKS need a fun, funky and dynamic logo!
Desired Color Scheme:
Open to suggestions
Accepted File Formats:
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Artistic Gymnastics is a highly popular kind of sport. Gymnasts compete with each other showing short routines. They last maximum 90 seconds.
This kind of sport is for both men and women. It is concentrated on strength, balance and agility. Most performances don't require music. The only type of performances that is executed to music is the floor event.
Artistic gymnastics is focused mostly on precise execution of all elements. Nevertheless, the appearance is also very significant. It is a necessary part of all performances because only an appropriate costume can emphasize the beauty of the whole routine.
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Tropical backpack (for my winter in London)
Thanks Dad
The forced smile. A fraudulent thank-you. The bitter taste of gift-wrapped disappointment. At least once in our lifetime we've all had a crap gift and the team at Milo&Co. are no exception. We've compiled our 'greatest hits' of past Christmas turkeys, so sit back, enjoy and raise a glass to the dads, grandmas and Auntie Diane's in our lives.
This festive season we say a massive 'thank you' to all our clients, colleagues and partners for their support over the past year and wish them all the best for 2018. This Christmas we will be donating the money we'd normally spend on Christmas gifts (crap or otherwise) to Fitted for Work. Our donation will help over 30 women who are experiencing disadvantages, to get work and keep it. fittedforwork.org


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Bad things happen when I leave my phone in the car.
First, I find out that I missed out on a sweet Craigslist deal for a set of nightstands ($75! All wood!) because I didn't text the seller back fast enough. Then, I missed immediately seeing cute pictures of my niece (She's cuter every day! I might miss a particularly cute moment!). But a handful of mentions on Twitter is what really cut me deep:
AP Crafters Kitchen and Bar is closed?
*Darth Vader voice* NOOOOOOOOOOO!
Eater Louisville had the scoop, and AP Crafters' website just confirms this sad news.
I saw the signs, but maybe I just couldn't admit that one of my favorite restaurants was heading for that dusty trail to Restaurant Heaven. The last time I ate there (oh, my gosh, how was I supposed to know it would be my last time?), there was only one other couple in the place, and it was a game night, so the restaurant should've been packed. I even saw moving trucks in the parking lot yesterday, but I thought, "Oh, look, they're getting new furniture."
I can't believe AP Crafters is gone. No more pretzel breadsticks. No more gummy bears on the way out. NO MORE BEER CHEESE BURGER.
*Shakes fist toward the heavens*
If anyone has any answers for this loss or remembrances, please take it to the comments. I need to drink this wine and hold Roscoe tight. And remember, keep your phone on you at all times, or your favorite restaurant gets it.


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A minor obtains a fake ID, most often a driver's license, to hide the fact they are Really 17 Years Old in order to buy an age-restricted item, usually alcohol, or to enlist in the military.
Usually the identification is made by a forger, but sometimes it is stolen from an older sibling or an Identical Stranger, or was issued by the government under false pretenses.
Can result in a Cover Identity Anomaly. Can also be a Paper-Thin Disguise, depending on bad the ID looks and the plausibility of the identity. May rely on a Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story.
- Super Bad: Fogell gets a dubious fake ID, a Hawaiian driver's license that just says "McLovin", to buy booze for a party. Somehow, this fools the clerk at the liquor store, and seemingly fools the two cops responding to the robbery that occurred as Fogell was buying alcohol, who even invite him to ride along with them, but they eventually reveal they knew it was fake all along and just wanted to have some fun and show him not all cops are assholes.
- A humorous example occurs in The Breakfast Club, when Andrew discovers Brian's fake I.D. whilst rifling through his wallet. Brian actually messed it up and it says he's 68 years old.
Andrew: What do you need a fake I.D. for?
Brian: So I can vote.
- In Vegas Vacation, underage Rusty obtains a fake ID to gamble. While it might fool the pit bosses if he was only interested in playing nickel slots, he soon starts winning cars and sends them to a motel on the city outskirts, which would have been checked by the casino.
- Parodied in 21 Jump Street. Schmidt and Jenko, undercover cops in their mid-twenties, decide to throw a Wild Teen Party in order to get close with the high school drug dealers. At one point, they wonder how they are going to get alcohol for the party, since neither one has a fake ID. Right after saying this, they burst into laughter, go to the liquor store and buy shopping carts full of it.
- The song Fake ID from the 2011 remake of Footloose has the singer trying to buy one of these.
- Better Luck Tomorrow: The gang all have fake IDs, which they use to buy liquor and go to casinos despite being 16-17. When the ID cards are called out as fake, they bribe the person checking it, which in one case involves giving a police officer in Vegas several hundred dollars.
- M*A*S*H, "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet". Hawkeye discovers a young private, Walter (Ron Howard), is actually named Wendell and stole his brother's ID to enlist in the Army. Hawkeye decides at first to let this slide, but after an old friend turns up as a patient and dies, Hawkeye reports Wendell to the MPs.
- Grounded for Life: Brad learns a Jerk Jock, Scott, (who used to bully Brad) has a fake ID and asks him to buy beer for him, but Scott rips him off. Sean and Eddie coerce him into buying the beer for real, but just as Scott tries to buy the beer, a cop walks in, checks his ID and arrests him.
- Inverted on Bar Rescue. To prove his point that 18+ events are not worth the problems they cause with underage drinking, Jon has a 23-year old woman borrow her underage friend's ID and have security mark an X on her hand so the bartenders know she's underage, which washes of almost immediately.
- Happy Days episode "The Skin Game", Richie and Potsie use fake IDs to get into a strip joint (where it turns out they don't strip down, shall we say, "substantially", this being the '50s, much to Richie's chagrin). He is later caught by his father, who also happened to be visiting there that night.
- Diff'rent Strokes episode "The Older Woman", where Willis uses a fake ID — along with a fake mustache — to get into a nightclub. While he narrowly misses just-happened-to-be-there Mr. Drummond, Willis is found out when the older woman he picked up at the nightclub comes to visit him at home.
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Beer Bad," Xander has a fake ID so he can work as a bartender.
- Friday Night Lights, Tim Riggins has one that identifies him as a member of the military. It's heavily implied that the liquor store owner is well aware it's a fake, but he lets Riggins buy beer anyway because he's a Panther.
- The first episode of Cheers has an obviously underage kid (who looks about 12) attempting to buy a beer using a military ID that says he's 38.
- Hey Dad..!: In one episode, Debbie borrows Nudge's driver's licence so she can get into a nightclub. Interestingly, this plot worked when the episode was originally aired as at the time New South Wales licences did not have a photo and could have only the driver's initials: in this case 'G. Noritas', allowing Debbie to claim to be 'Geraldine'. Not long afterwards, the law changed in New South Wales requiring the licence to have the driver's full name and photo.
- In Friends episode "The One With The Thanksgiving Flashbacks", it was revealed that Chandler and Ross apparently had fake IDs when they were college freshmen. Ross was 'Clifford Alverez' and Chandler was 'Roland Chan'.
- In Community episode "Mixology Certification", Annie (who is only 19) is talked into using the ID of Britta's friend to get into the bar with the others. She is pretty nervous but the coup works out.
- The song "David Ashley Parker from Powder Springs" by Travis Denning is about a minor who acquires a fake ID, which he uses to buy beer for friends and get into bars. According to Denning, the song is a true story, and David Ashley Parker is a real person.
- American Greetings has a birthday card whose outer cover states "You're 21 today!"; inside, it goes on "...that makes you what, 27 on that fake ID you've been using?"
- When Helen from Penny and Aggie crosses to Something*Positive and applies for a job at Nerdrotica, she has a fake ID that says she's 19. Unfortunately, it also says she's male, and lived at 6969 Hermaphrodite Way, Duckburg. And the moral is "if you're gonna have a bully make your fake I.D., always check it first. I mean, uh, fake I.D.s are bad, kids."
- Undergrads: In "Drunks" Nitz decides to try drinking for the first time and has his friend Gimpy make him a fake ID after his friend Jessie reveals her own. His other friend, Rocko, has a homemade ID (pictured) that is just his photo stapled to a piece of cardboard with "I am 21 so drinking is yes" written on it, which somehow gets him several bars (most likely the bouncers didn't care). Gimpy meanwhile starts a business of making fake IDs for underage drinkers.
- The Simpsons:
- In "Bart on the Road", during a hastily organized Take Your Kid to Work Day which sees Bart spend the day with his aunt(s) at the DMV, Bart makes a fake driver's license stating he is 25, rents a car and convinces Milhouse, Nelson and Martin to come with him to a World's Fair in Knoxville, TN (which was actually held in 1982).
- In "Duffless", Homer sings a version of "It Was a Very Good Year" by Frank Sinatra, changing the lyrics to "When I was 17, I drank some very good beer, I drank some very good beer I purchased with a fake ID, my name was Brian McGee..."
- In "Much Apu About Nothing", Kearney tries to buy cigars and beer with a fake ID and assumed name. Apu recognizes Kearney immediately (his claims of his "adultivity" didn't help), but is impressed by the ID's quality. Apu asks where he got it, to obtain forged citizenship papers to avoid deportation, in exchange for letting Kearney keep the food he was trying to shoplift at the same time. Oddly, this was shortly after Kearney started being portrayed as well-over drinking age despite being in elementary school.
- Doug: In "Doug's Minor Problem", Nic-Nacs, a new product that helps you relax, but is not available to minors, comes to town. Roger uses a fake ID to buy 200 to sell to the rest of the school. Roger's ID◊ is just as bad as Rocko's, saying it was issued by the "NOTAFAKE CORP" and listing his age 34, instead of a date of birth.
- Gravity Falls: In "Head Hunters", Dipper and Mabel get into a Bad-Guy Bar with two of these. Behold, Sir Dippingsauce (Age 45) and Lady Mabelton (Age 21). Good thing the bouncer was too disinterested to really care about the google eyes and macaroni.
- Audie Murphy's sister altered his birth certificate so he could enlist in the US Army. He went on to become the single most decorated soldier in US history. His gravestone lists his false date of birth.


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