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A simple guide to Fascinator Hats and Hatinators and how to wear them
In the fascinating world of millinery there are many different fascinator styles and types to choose from so at Fascinators Direct we have put together a simple guide to help you buy the right fascinator for every occasion and explain how to wear a fascinator. If you want to read more on the history of fascinator hats and hatinators and their origins you can read about it here.
A fascinator is the most common type of women's hair accessory for weddings, race meetings and occasions. The hair fascinator is an adaptation of a formal ladies hat or cocktail hat which has evolved over the years but the millinery process used to make them is very similar to hat making.
So how do you wear a fascinator? Well, the main point of difference between hats and fascinators is that a fascinator is worn on the head using a hair clip, fascinator comb, headband or alice band attachment to fix the fascinator in place.
You can buy fascinators in a plethora of colours and beautiful designs, ranging from small fascinators to large fascinators and hatinators. A fascinator is frequently crafted from sinamay, crinoline or veiling fabric and adorned with pretty embellishments and trimmings including flowers, feathers and diamanté.
A hatinator tends to be larger than a hair fascinator and although they look more like a ladies wedding hat, they actually use an alice band, comb or fascinator clip to attach the headpiece to your hair so you wear them just like a fascinator.
Just like fascinators they can be purchased in lots of colours and styles and are also made from millinery fabrics and hat trimmings. The variety of colours available on the market means you can choose a hatinator to compliment your occasion outfit.
Hatinators have become a popular women's hair accessory for attendees of Ladies Day at Ascot, Aintree and other major horse racing events but are also a popular headpiece for wedding guests and the Mother of the bride or groom.
Whether it's a wedding, cocktail party, race meeting or Royal Ascot, if a formal hat is your style accessory of choice then these glamorous occasions give you the perfect opportunity to wear a sensational headpiece which shows off your personality and style.
From wide brimmed hats, floppy hats and cloche hats to boaters, race hats and derby hats, milliners have been making ladies formal hats for hundreds of years and in these modern times the choice of styles and colour options is endless.
In our online shop you can buy wedding hats and occasion hats for Ascot in a big variety of colours and styles from the UK's biggest and most long established millinery brands and millinery boutiques.
Pillbox Hats & Pillbox Fascinators
A pillbox hat has a distinctive shape with upright sides and a flat crown and essentially no brim. Crafted by milliners, pillbox hats are smaller than formal ladies hats and are traditionally made from wool or velvet fabric which is decorated with embellishments such as feathers and flowers.
Our women's pillbox hats are a popular hair accessory for weddings and occasions due to their smaller size and elegant simplicity and were a favourite choice for Princess Diana. We also sell pillbox style fascinators which are similar in shape to a pillbox hat but are worn on the head using a headband or hair clip attachment to fix the pillbox fascinator in place.
Hair Flowers & Flower Hair Clips
Our hair flowers and flower hair clips are pretty floral accessories for bridesmaids and flower girls but also make a great alternative to fascinators and hats.
These small fascinator hair adornments come in an array of flower designs such as daisies, roses and orchids and simply clip into your hair. Adding a flower hair clip to your hairstyle will bestow your look with sparkle and charm.
Flower Crowns
Flower crowns or hair crowns are a beautiful hair accessory for festivals, weddings and occasions and can be worn as a stunning alternative to a fascinator or hatinator.
Our floral hair crowns are adorned with gorgeous oversized flowers or large roses which are attached to an elastic headband or hair band. For the ultimate fashionista these pretty flower hair bands are worn on the forehead giving you a boho chic style.
Hair Garlands
A floral hair garland is a flower headband which sits on the top of the head and is usually made from a wire frame which is wrapped in foliage and decorated with leaves and flowers.
With a style befitting to a greek goddess these pretty floral headdresses are a popular choice for weddings and the availability of a big choice of colours and styles makes them perfect hair accessories for bridesmaids and flower girls. A flower hair garland is also a popular women's hair accessory for festival goers.
Bridal Fascinators & Hats
A bridal fascinator or bridal hat can make a unique alternative over a traditional wedding tiara and can be purchased in our online store in a variety of designs. Our milliners have created a range of bridal fascinators and bridal hats with white or ivory fabrics such as lace or satin which are trimmed with netting and veiling material.
To add glamour and sparkle, a bridal fascinator hat is often embellished with sparkling crystal rhinestones, diamante and embroidered detail making them the perfect wedding hair accessory for a bride to be.
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After running a brilliant and historic primary battle to defeat Hillary Clinton, the Obama campaign is now in disarray. Why?
Perhaps it's because Barack Obama has never run a competitive race against a Republican. After all, Obama won his U.S. Senate seat in Illinois by running against Alan Keyes, a fire-and-brimstone, right-wing black carpetbagger from Maryland (or perhaps Mars) who had no real ties to Illinois.
Now, facing John McCain's blistering ads, Obama seems unable to fight fire with fire. The Democratic rank and file are furious (while simultaneously denouncing McCain's negativity).
Obama, they may be realizing, doesn't know how to close the deal.
Nonetheless, the Obama campaign has vowed, once again, to take the gloves off and go after McCain hard, linking him to President Bush and highlighting the fact that the Arizona senator is out of touch.
One flaw with this supposed course correction is that it isn't one. McCain-Bush-Economy has been Obama's message for months now. Indeed, ABC News' Jake Tapper wrote on his blog that this is actually the fourth time Team Obama has pledged to engage in a bracing round of fisticuffs.
To prove his newfound determination to go bare knuckle against McCain, Obama unveiled a new TV ad, to air in key states.
It begins with the date "1982," a picture of a disco ball and footage of McCain in clunky glasses from his first year in Washington. "Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn't," explains the announcer. "He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail, still doesn't understand the economy and favors $200 billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class." All the while it shows ancient computers and a cordless phone that looks like a World War II-era walkie-talkie.
The tax-cuts and economy barbs are familiar boilerplate. What's new is the charge of computer illiteracy and the blatant attempt to attack McCain as too old for the job -- and that speaks volumes.
First, the ad is dishonest. McCain has been one of the Senate's leading authorities on telecom and the Internet.
In 2000, Forbes magazine called him the "Senate's savviest technologist." That same year, Slate's Jacob Weisberg gushed that McCain was the most "cybersavvy" of all the presidential candidates that year, a crop that included none other than Al Gore. Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Weisberg explained, "forced him to learn about the Internet early on, and young Web entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos fascinate him."
Weisberg, an Obama booster, now disingenuously mocks McCain as "flummoxed by that newfangled doodad, the personal computer."
One reason McCain is not versed in the mechanical details of sending e-mail and typing on a keyboard is that the North Vietnamese broke his fingers and shattered both of his arms. As Forbes, Slate and the Boston Globe reported in 2000, McCain's injuries make using a keyboard painfully laborious. He mostly relies on his wife and staff to show him e-mails and websites, though he says he's getting up to speed.
"It's extraordinary," Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said, "that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn't know how to send an e-mail." For the record, President Clinton sent exactly two e-mails while in office, according to the archives in his presidential library.
Besides, by this logic, Obama is even less qualified to be commander in chief because, unlike McCain, Obama has never fired a gun, flown a plane or led men during wartime.
And if the Obama campaign did not intend to mock a disabled veteran, what does it say about his supposedly "cybersavvy" campaign that they don't know how to conduct a five-minute Google search to find out these things?
But the most revealing aspect of the ad is who it speaks to. According to Gallup, Obama has a 20- to 30-point advantage over McCain among 18- to 29-year-olds. Indeed, his base (not counting African American voters) is upscale college kids and new-economy young voters. These are the voters most likely to think being able to send an e-mail is, like, totally crucial.
The only other constituency -- other than the press -- that will be jazzed by such an attack are the Web-symbiotes of the left-wing netroots, another demographic Obama has locked up.
Older Americans, working-class Americans, veterans and other voters Obama desperately needs probably won't care and might even take offense at Obama's condescension.
There are two explanations for the ad. One is that Obama released it to reassure his base that he's serious about attacking McCain, not to win over swing voters. That, or the campaign actually thinks it's an effective ad.
Either way, the lesson is the same: Obama doesn't know how to get outside his echo chamber. He talks about being bipartisan to hard-core liberals who like the words, but he hates actual deviation from the liberal line. He talks about new ideas, but he merely repackages old ones.
He is a candidate who has never had to sell himself to voters who weren't already sold. And it shows.

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Photos: A party with Sam Jackson
Photos: A party with Sam Jackson
Chef Sam Jackson was trying out ideas on his mates, many of them fellow expatriates.
The food at KO Pies in East Boston's Boston Harbor Shipyard & Marina is not exactly Australian cuisine, but it reflects Jackson's style of cooking.
That style consists of beautiful ingredients, simply yet inventively prepared.
Friends sampled highlights from the new KO Pies menu and previewed the second restaurant a couple of weeks before its launch.
The feel was casual — "I've got really good food," said Jackson, "and I'm not going to get too caught up in the formalities."
The patio table was set simply and dotted with a mix of wines plus beers from his favorite local brewery.
Jonah crab, scallion, tomato, and avocado salad.
Grilled zucchini salad.
Barbecued lamb top.
Char-grilled salmon with mango, chili, and kaffir lime salsa.
Rum-and-spice-soaked pineapple with coconut ice cream.


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CLEVELAND, June 5 (UPI) -- A study found entitled men were prone to exhibiting hostile sexism, and viewed women as manipulative and demanding, while entitled women exhibited benevolent sexism, indicating they think women deserve special care and treatment.
Lead author Joshua Grubbs, a Case Western Reserve University doctoral student, and professors of psychology Julie Exline of Case Western Reserve and Jean Twenge of San Diego State University, said they focused on two forms of sexism -- hostile and benevolent -- and how feelings of entitlement might predict those roles differently for men and women.
The researchers surveyed 333 college students from a Midwestern college and 437 adults participating in Amazon's Mechanical Turk workforce database.
The participants responded to questions in an online survey the researchers developed.
The study, published in the journal Sex Roles, found both groups had consistent findings -- entitled men tended to think of women as manipulative, deceptive and untrustworthy, while entitled women tended to think of women as frail and needing extra care.
"When you consider that entitlement has been shown to be rising across recent generations, linking it to sexist attitudes is particularly alarming, recent events certainly highlight how dangerous entitlement and hostile sexism can be in men," Grubbs said in a statement.
"Furthermore, given that benevolent sexism can also produce gender inequality, these findings for women are also concerning."
The study built on Twenge's earlier study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science that found U.S. narcissistic attitudes increased in recent years -- individuals in their 20s were three times more narcissistic than those age 60 and older.


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There's been much ado in my house in the past few weeks about a certain just-turned-6-year-old's hair. Kiddo wants to grow it out like Rapunzel. I'd like to run a brush through it daily without hitting on split ends. We could keep on fighting, but at the end of the day, I'm taking the Courteney Cox approach to hair for the elementary set.
The Friends star was spotted out and about with her own birthday girl, daughter Coco, at a hair salon, where the 7-year-old had blue and purple highlights streaked into her brown 'do. The Daily Mail took its expected thwacks at the actress for treating her 7-year-old like a teenager, but I'd like to give Cox two giant thumbs up from the parenting world for a refreshing dose of reality. Repeat after me folks. It ... is ... just ... hair. It's NOT worth fighting about.
Aside from the dangerous (I was once asked if I dyed my infant's hair blond -- that would be a negative, you ninnies), there's little about the locks that can really get me going. So you want to grow it out? Great. Want to cut it off? Go for it. Otherwise? I'm with Cox ... let your freak flag fly little one.
We have ground rules in our house, sure. It has to be kept clean, reasonably neat, and for cripes' sake, will you STOP chewing on it? But bad cuts grow out. Scary colors can be snipped out. Even a hunk of gum can be fixed. The beauty of hair is that it's one of the body's few renewable resources.
A tattoo is going to mark their body forever and really should be limited to adulthood, when you can weigh out how it will feel to present the boss with a forehead that reads "F--k the establishment." Piercings can scar, and when it comes to beauty treatments, I'll direct you back to "aside from the dangerous" because the regulation of the "kiddie cosmetics" industry absolutely terrifies me.
So what does that leave? Hair. They can wear it up. They can wear it down. They can shave it down to the skin or stop cutting it for two years. And provided they stick to the basic: keep it clean and neat (and OUT OF THE MOUTH because I have found pictures of those kids with hairballs in their stomachs on the Internet, and it's not pretty), life goes on. By next week, the dye is lightening. The mohawk is growing out.
Whatever it is, they don't change our kids on the inside. Those split ends sure don't mean my kid is falling to pieces, so I'm betting Coco Arquette isn't suddenly acting like a teenager with that dyed hair.
Do you care what happens with your kids' hair, provided it's neat and clean? Are purple highlights really such a big deal?
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Big Art in the Bedroom
Your bed doesn't have to be the biggest design element in the bedroom (just check out the second image above!). Large art packs a correspondingly big punch and immediately works as a focal point and visual anchor.
Consider using it over the bed in place of or in complement to a headboard. Especially if you live in an earthquake-prone area, know that big art also works well as a balance when hung to the side or on an opposite wall.
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4. The World of Interiors
5. Elle Decor
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7. Decorate by Holly Becker via Houzz
8. via Lama Blog
9. Apartment Therapy
10. Little Green Notebook
• Big, Bold, Memorable Art in Kids' Rooms
• A Great Look: White Walls & Big Art in the Bedroom
• Using Large-Scale Artwork to Anchor a Room
• Supersize It: Large-Scaled Art
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Fido & Me — Stormy Weather
"I have thunder phobia," Fido said. "Don't like-don't like-don't like thunder."
"If it makes you feel any better, at least we don't live out in the Plains or the East. They get hammered back there by thunder and lightning."
"That doesn't make me feel better."
"I'm not sure exactly what to do about it, Mr. Beeg. If you were a puppy, maybe we could get you around this, but you're kind of an old dog now, and new tricks don't come that easily for you."
"A biscuit might help."
"Gosh, Fido, what with the frequency of the thunder we've had lately, you'd bloat out like the Hindenburg if I gave you a biscuit every time there was thunder."
"We could try, though."
"Well what, then? I'm at the end of my leash."
"Poor boy. We could try some other stuff that dog people suggest. Like, I don't know—things like offering you a distracting noise of some sort. Howzabout we listen to some loud music?"
"What have you got in mind?"
"Lemme see. I just so happen to have a copy of Beethoven's Sixth right here. Would that do it for you?"
"The Pastorale?!? I'd rather die."
"I thought you liked Beethoven."
"Yeah, but the Fourth Movement? The Allegro? That seriously freaks me out."
"We could try some white noise. Sometimes that hides the sound of thunder."
"If I wanted white noise, I'd listen to Fox News."
"Fair enough, Fido, but I have to say we're running out of options here. What would you think of wearing an aluminum cape?
"You're kidding me."
"Not really, you big red lug. Sometimes a dog can become sensitized to the electromagnetic radiation caused by lightning strikes. If you'd care to take cover in your crate, I could cover it with some aluminum foil, and I know some dogs wear a 'Storm Defender' cape."
"You're kidding me. I'd be like one of those lunatics who wear aluminum foil helmets to defend themselves against government-sponsored, electromagnetic thought rays from the NSA. No way."
"Fido, there doesn't seem to be much more I can think of, to tell you the truth."
"I think a biscuit would help immeasurably."
"Tell me if I'm off-base here, Fido, but I get the feeling that you're playing me like a fish on a line. To tell you the truth, I have seen very little phobic behavior from you when we get thunder and lightning. I know some dogs who dive under the bed or crawl into a closet or who go crazy other ways. But you seem to do fine."
"I'm mellow like that, but it doesn't mean thunder doesn't bother me."
"Once again, and if this makes you feel better, thunder bothers some people, too. Don't ask me why. Me, personally, I kind of like it. Reminds me of Beethoven."
"Speak for yourself," Fido said. "But I have to ask: What do humans do when they are bothered by lighting and thunder?"
"Hmm. I know some people who head straight for the freezer, grab a big ol' tub of ice cream and dig in."
"Exactly," Fido said.


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figured I'd finally join and shared.
After much cooking/drinking/stealing from others and adding what seemed like good ideas (ex-step parents family recipe), I came up with this awhile ago.
all measurements are normally done by "about that much", so I might be off... the olive oil seems low by my standards, but it's a safe guess. Ohh... and it seems to can good (hasn't killed me yet)!
28 oz crushed tomatos
16 oz diced tomatos
1 1/2 cups crushed garlic
2 bulbs (not cloves) garlic
1 lbs of italian pork sausage (ground up, not link)
1 package dried morel mushrooms (dozen or so)
1 1/2 cup olive oil
2 hotish peppers (i go 1 anahiem and 1 jalapeno)
1 red/green/purple pepper
1 oninion (red's good)
1 cup italian seasoning from the bulk section
2 tablespoon black/white fancy mixed fresh ground (you grind) pepper
1 small can of diced olives
1 cup fresh (like the pepper, you shredded it) asiago cheese
1 large (or two 12 oz) bottle of any one of the Lindemans Lambic fruit/berry beers (not the normal lambic) the berries are a better combination for this
1 large (or two small) bottle of any Chimay beer (blue is better)
1 cup of wine
1 package of good sharp white cheddar (http://www.kerrygold.com/usa/product_cheddar.html is awesome)
1/2 cube of good quality cream butter
some good salami and crackers or cocktail rye bread (whatever it's called, the small fancy stuff)
your favorite pasta
put morel mushrooms in wine, (this will take 20 minutes or so, adjust as needed)
cut up peppers (remove seeds) and onion into itty bitty pieces
throw itty bitty pepper, ground up pepper, onion, 1 cups olive oil, olives, all but 1 tablespoon of italian season, crushed tomatos, diced tomatos into huge saucepan (uncovered), high simmer... just low enough not to burn anything, but we want to boil off most of the water
brown the sausage, smaller chunks are better. then throw in the saucepan.
put a tablespoon of italian seasoning in a big pot of water
cut up the 2 bulbs of garlic into small pieces
put butter and 1/2 cup olive oil in a frying pan on some temp the lowside of mediumish, add garlic pieces and all the crushed garlic...
run over and grab those morel mushrooms out of the wine (keep the wine mix), and slice (not dice) into smallish chunks, toss those in with the garlic butter oil mix and mix the mix around every now and then.
cut up that cheddar and salami and put it and crackers or cocktail rye bread all pretty like on a plate, go open the lambic beer and pour into some glasses.
pull the mushrooms (only the mushrooms) out of the frying pan and put them on the small plate.
put the garlicy buttery mix in with the sauce
put the mushroom wine stuff in with the water that has the tablespoon of italian seasoning
sit down on the couch, grab the significant other, eat some mushrooms cheese and crackers, drink some that berry beer, pop in season 2 of the next generation and watch about 6-7 episodes constantly running up and stirring or telling the significant other "no, not yet!"
let it go for 4+ hours, making sure you don't burn it, do not try to crockpot this! absolute minimum 2 hours... really just watch it, you want to remove as much of the water as you can and still keep it of the overall consistency of raw hamburger (why we add lots of olive oil, add more if needed), and we want to absolutely break down all the stuff that was put in, cook that red pepper to mush..
say mmm... that cheese, salami, cracker, mushroom mix went awesome with that beer.
go turn the tea of italian seasoning on low, run back to the couch for 10-15 minutes
run up and say "Okay, Now!", get that tea of italiany/mushroomy goodness on boil, add some olive oil, toss in the pasta (you got that fancy fresh stuff right?).
strain pasta, throw on plates
put pasta sauce on pasta, top with the asiago cheese, crack open the chimay (be careful those corks will smack you in the nose if you're not careful!), sit down and say "see, it was worth the wait" and have yourself a "i told you so moment"
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I should add, using this as the sauce for the lasagna on the main page, while adding a layer of cheese to the bottom and sides of the pan (and on top, encompassing everything in baked cheese, wallace would be proud) turns out pretty good.
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Mushrooms in wine? That sounds interesting
I might try your recipe. Thanks for dropping by
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You may have heard of something called "vaginal rejuvenation" lately. It probably conjures images of a spa, waterfalls, rest, plush terry cloth robes, maybe a hot masseur, a general refreshed feeling for you and your (now cucumber-scented?) vagina. Except in real life, it's not nearly as awesome as it sounds.
In a quest for what experts are calling a "designer vagina," tons of women and girls–some as young as 11 freakin' years old–are going under the knife to get vaginal rejuvenation, a procedure originally reserved for people who needed it after childbirth or to treat incontinence (AKA not being able to control your bladder). Here's why this is incredibly screwed up. There are a few different procedures, ranging from hymenoplasty (making you "tighter"–ugh) and labioplasty (altering your labia). And none of them are a good idea.
First off, vaginal rejuvenation is completely unnecessary. Your vagina doesn't have to look a certain way, and there is no "right" way for a vagina to look. Everyone's vagina is different. Just like the rest of the human body, there are variations in color, shape, and sizes of every part of a vagina, and guess what? They're all normal. They're all fine. Your vagina is fine.
Second, vaginal rejuvenation is dangerous. Some doctors market it as a way to enhance your sexual sensations and pleasure, but guess what? Getting vaginal rejuvenation surgery can actually make you lose the same sensations you're trying to enhance and increase, not to mention put you at risk for infection and surgical complications. And like any surgical procedure, this stuff doesn't tickle.
Third, a "designer vagina" won't improve your sex life at all. Because think of it this way: If you're too insecure to have sex without getting a cosmetic surgery, will you really be able to relax and enjoy it when it finally happens? Probably not, considering it may not feel as good as it should–and if you're insecure about the way your vagina looks as is, imagine the way you might react if it had scarring from surgery. No bueno, ladies!
Fourth, a "designer vagina" is freakin' expensive. Depending on what type of vaginal rejuvenation you get done, it can cost you between $2,500 and $12,000–and if it's purely a cosmetic surgery, chances are your insurance company won't pay for it (this is one thing we agree with them on). For that money, you'd be better off buying a designer handbag. Or shoes. Or a dress. Or ice cream sandwiches. Or video games. Or One Direction tickets getting you close enough to the stage to catch Zayn Malik's sweat (not that we've though about that extensively or anything). Ahem.
The fact is, pornography and the prevalence of nude photos on the internet are setting a really weird standard for us. As if we didn't have enough to worry about (are we too thin, too chubby, too short, too tall, too lanky, too curvy, too pale, too tan?), now we have to worry about people creating insecurities for us about our own freakin' vaginas? Give us a break!
If someone is lucky enough to sleep with you, chances are they don't give a crap what your vagina looks like. They're just stoked that it's there. The only "perfect" vagina isn't a designer vagina–it's a healthy one. If your gyno says your vagina is working properly, believe her–and leave it be. Because if anyone makes you feel insecure about what your vagina looks like, chances are they don't deserve to be graced with its presence in the first place.
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Soweto Gospel Choir
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Hailing from South Africa, the Soweto Gospel Choir adds a taste of African culture to the Howard Center Presents…2009–10 concert season at the Howard Performing Arts Center on the campus of Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Mich. This cultural celebration of music will take place Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 7 p.m.
This 52-member choir formed to celebrate the unique and inspirational power of African Gospel music. Their talent in musical performance goes beyond gospel as they mix traditional hymns, Jamaican reggae, American pop music and spiritually-themed secular songs. The choir performs in six of South Africa's 11 official languages.
The choir, under the direction of David Mulovhedzi (recently deceased) and Beverly Bryer, has many noted performances worldwide including for former South African President Nelson Mandela. Twenty-six of the choir members regularly tour together.
The Soweto Gospel Choir picked up their second Grammy award in 2008 for best traditional world music album. In February 2009, the choir became the first South African artists to perform at the Academy Awards, when they sang "Down To Earth," Gabriel/Newman's Oscar-nominated song, with John Legend.
In 2003 the choir founded Nkosi's Haven Vukani, a foundation to aid South Africa's sick and impoverished, which means that families and children benefit from Soweto Gospel Choir's worldwide tours.
Tickets for the Soweto Gospel Choir are $35 and can be purchased from the Howard Performing Arts Center Box Office or by calling 888-467-6442 or 269-471-3560. For more information, visit www.howard.andrews.edu.


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A local program that aims to illuminate the lives of local at-risk youth has been named one of 111 "Bright Ideas" by Harvard University and will be showcased as a model of an innovative public policy program.
A local program that aims to illuminate the lives of local at-risk youth has been named one of 111 "Bright Ideas" by Harvard University and will be showcased as a model of an innovative public policy program.
The Phoenix Rising program was envisioned as a way to provide training and education for young adults in depressed communities with little to no opportunities.
Former Ocala police Chief Samuel Williams started the project in February 2011. The 16-week program provides low-income young adults ages 18 to 21 the opportunity to work toward a GED or high school diploma and learn job and life skills that will prepare them for employment or college. The program also serves the community by providing affordable housing.
Phoenix Rising is a partnership of the city of Ocala/Ocala Police Department, Workforce Connection, Henkels & McCoy Youth Services Division and Marion County Habitat for Humanity. Local businesses, churches and groups also have been involved. Three homes have been built through the program.
The designation as a Bright Ideas program was bestowed by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Kate Hoagland, a spokeswoman for the Ash Center, said Phoenix Rising was one of 111 innovative initiatives recognized from among 600 applicants.
The programs honored are from all levels of government including school districts, county, city, state and federal agencies, as well as public-private partnerships, according to a statement from Sgt. Chas Maier, public information officer for OPD.
The programs all demonstrate creative solutions to issues such as urban and rural degradation, environmental problems and academic achievement. They were evaluated and selected by a team of policy experts from academic and public sectors, Maier noted.
Aside from its goal of attracting at-risk youth and teaching them a skill that would benefit them, Hoagland said another reason the program was recognized is because Phoenix Rising offers a new approach: being proactive as opposed to reactive.
Applications for Bright Ideas recognition are accepted year-round. To be considered, the program must be in operation or in the process of launching and have sufficient operational resources, and must be administered by one or more governmental entities. Not-for-profit, private sector or union initiatives are eligible if they operate in partnership with a governmental organization.
"I'm extremely elated that the program supported by the City Council, government officials and others was able to get an award such as this, and it just goes to show when we work together we can accomplish a lot for the community," Williams said.
Laurie E. Whitaker, who is involved with grants/sustainability for OPD, said the agency's entry was submitted in March. She said the Bright Ideas recognition can assist them in receiving more grants and she hopes it can be an example for others.
"It's a great, innovative program that can be a model for other cities and counties throughout the U.S.," she said.
Since Phoenix Rising was initiated, there have been 51 participants, 37 of whom completed the program. Thirty participants found employment and four are attending college. Three homes have been built for Habitat for Humanity family partners.
Jonathan Kuefner, 22, completed the program and now works for the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate as a truck driver and sales associate. He said he applied for the Phoenix Rising program as he couldn't get a job because of his "criminal history." He did not elaborate.
Kuefner said Phoenix Rising gave him experience in construction and leadership; during his three months of training, he was given an award for leadership. He said the experience motivated him to succeed.
When asked if he had any advice for other young adults with similar backgrounds, he said, "Keep your head up. Don't be discouraged. Stay motivated, even during the hard times."
The fourth group of Phoenix Rising students are slated to begin the program in January under current OPD Chief Greg Graham.
"It's important to continue and build on this program. The program has momentum, and we're going to reach out to other partners," said Williams, who remained involved when he retired from the department.
Visit http://www.ocalapd.com/pages/PhoenixRising to learn more.
Visit http://www.innovations.harvard.edu for information about Bright Ideas.


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This daemon uses the framework to track and log all the calls made to and from the moko. Because it uses the framework, it's limited to FSO supporting distributions only. The daemon uses sqlite and currently (Read: Has to change) keeps the database in "/home/root/.phonelog.db". It has a dbus interface which enables pulling out incoming/outgoing and missed calls including the time the call was placed at.
This daemon uses the "org.smartphone.opimd" dbus bus name. It's by no means the expected opimd, it's just a daemon that uses this name because it makes sense!
This package also includes a working gtk+ gui for use with the daemon. The gui also keeps a file in "/home/root/.phonelog.dat".
If you want the gui to work with finger scrolling, download: python-mokoui2
- Install the pyphonelog (gui) package.
If you use SHR that's it (actually, untill ophonekitd starts shipping with the logger that's not it...), if not (i.e, debian/fso):
- Install pyphonelogd (daemon) as well.
I strongly suggest adding the following configs to your gtkrc:
style "treeview" { GtkTreeView::expander-size = 40 } widget_class "*TreeView*" style "treeview"
Important Notices
- SHR USERS MUST READ THIS: The gui and the daemon are now in different packages, and the packages no longer comply with the older package name. To install this version please first 'opkg remove fso-phonelog' if you had a version older than 0.9.0 before.
The gui now supports the SHR phone logger so users that run SHR should not install the pyphonelogd. Though, keep in mind that even SHR users should install the daemon untill ophonekitd will ship with phonelogging enabled.
- For some reason in the newest shr the daemon hasn't started automaticlly at boot time. After a bit of debugging I noticed that's because the frameworkd isn't started yet while the daemon is trying to connect it (although it's set to start a long time after). I added a sleep for 4 seconds in 0.4.2 (and on?) though this must be resolved otherwise.
Change Log
- Added the general list tab.
- Cleaned the UI a bit, the Show Numbers button is working.
- Grouping now works for non contacts as well.
- Added grouping support in the lists.
- Fixed the lists not sorted bug, and another minor bug.
- The gui now supports the ophonekitd phonelogger, which is SHR only, though, if the ophonekitd isn't installed (i.e debian/fso) you can install the pyphonelogd as well as pyphonelog to have a working phone logger.
- The daemon and the gui are now in different packages and the packages are now named pyphonelog and pyphonelogd respectively.
- Fixed a major bug causing missed calls not to be logged and outgoing calls to be logged as missed in certain situations.
- There's now a call button which works and a show number button which isn't yet useful, and doesn't work.
- Fixed the double outgoing calls bug in the daemon.
- The gui now supports the retrieval of the caller's name from the sim phonebook, thanks a lot to Thomas for the patch.
- Cleaned the code a bit. Cleaned everything that got ugly in version 0.6.0 ;]
- Thanks to a patch by Thomas, the new missed calls are now bold and the old ones are regular.
- As suggested by Thomas, the new missed calls and the old missed calls are now marked in different colors.
- As suggested by Thomas, the missed calls page is now opened first by default.
- The issue described in 0.4.1's changelog has been hacked to work. (added a sleep for 4 seconds)
- It seems 0.4.0 started too fast after the framework daemon causing the daemon to fail connecting to the framework. In this version, startup is supposed to be delayed a bit.
- Daemon now starts upon installation
- Added a clear list button
- DB does not get erased after upgared anymore.
- The GUI app starts faster than before.
- Fixed the broken premissions that were found in the previous package.
- add a limit to x records
- clear lists only updates the list after a restart of the app. make it an instant change


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I wrote a review of the first release candidate back in June 2007, which was fairly positive overall. "First and foremost, eCS is a good system," the review states, "It is stable, relatively easy to use, and fast. It offers interesting GUI elements, and a lot of configurability. Installing applications is painless (Windows-like installers, mostly), and the excellent compatibility with Windows 3.x and MS-DOS gives major brownie points to eCS."
There were problems, too, of course. "The installer definitely needs some form of hardware recognition, and the various system settings dialogs and applets should receive an overall treatment, making them more consistent among one another, while also doing a better job at hiding advanced features (using the interesting multiple pages per tab option)."
However, that was the first release candidate, and four more followed over the past three years, so a lot has probably improved since then.
The cool thing is that Serenity Systems has listened to the most common heard complaint regarding eComStation: its high price. They've now created a Home and Student version which is considerably cheaper than the normal version. Home and Student goes for 149 USD, whereas the regular version goes for 259 USD.
The expensive version has telephone support and twelve months of software subscription services, whereas the Home and Student version has online support and just six months of software subscription services. The Home and Student version can be installed on five computers; the expensive version can be installed on an unlimited amount of machines.


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i used the critical paranoiac method (from salvador dali) to make this drawing.. so here you see a part of my dream. hope u like it.
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very creative!
This looks amazing!Great idea!!!
i love your title and fabulous style of drawing you can see someone has a troubled mind and the other is looking at him 5h fav
awesome anatomy. lovely...blood?
amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing worke,i love the style.50/5.
nice draw...
This is a super cool drawing O: Amazing style ^u^ I love the cross hatching C: 5/5~!!
I have never heard of that method before. O.o This drawing is a part of your dream? How interesting! I love how it looks like you have used pencil. :) I like the sketchyness of it and the color scheme. :D Very fascinating-looking drawing! 5/5 hearts.
Wow -- I had never even HEARD of the critical paranoiac method before this drawing!!! What an awesome idea! I am not sure I understand it or could do it but it would be fun to try !! GREAT drawing and description!!! 5h!!! + Collection!!


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I have a problem with tenants complaining endlessly about not being able to park both of their cars (married couple) in the driveway. Their rental agreement says that they have one parking spot, inside the garage on the left side. The parking situation is tight, with only four cars able to fit at a time, but there are a total of five cars owned by the three parties that rent from me. This means that one person HAS to park on the street to let everyone come and go without being blocked at any time. I let my longest-renting tenant (Betty) have two spots, while the subject (demanding) tenants have the one.
Betty started out living with her sister, who moved out 3 years ago, and has had one roommate or another since then. The subject tenants moved in 2 years ago. They are saying that since Betty's roommate hasn't been there as long as they have, that they should have two parking spots, and Betty should only have one.
I have refused to let them have two parking spots because the rental agreement has not changed for Betty, and I don't want to arrange something like that without changing the agreements in writing, and besides I think it would devalue Betty's lease. After some arguing, the subject tenants are not giving up, and are demanding that I at least let them park in the driveway on street cleaning days, which is two days a week. However, when I tried to suggest this to Betty, she did not take that very well, and she said they have already been parking both cars in the driveway, making it very hard for her to get out of the garage.
I'm at my wit's end with this situation--any help out there with advice??
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text: On Jan 11, 2013, at 6:03 AM, Bill Broadley wrote: > > Over the last few months I've been hearing quite a few negative > comments > about AMD. Seems like most of them are extrapolating from desktop > performance. > > Keep in mind that it's quite a stretch going from a desktop (single > socket, 2 memory channels) to a server (dual socket, 4x the cores, 8 > memory channels). > Bill - a 2 socket system doesn't deliver 512GB ram. Your compare at 2 socket domain doesn't make sense for someone who needs 512GB ram, the performance of 4 socket systems is total different from 2. [snip] > > I figured I'd add a few comments: > * Latency for a quad socket AMD is around 64ns to a random piece > of memory (not 600ns as recently mentioned). I wrote a testprogram for this in 2003. You have no idea what TLB trashing accesses are obviously at the hundreds of gigabyte area. There is 0 cheap systems on the planet where you can get a bunch of random bytes in 64 ns from a random spot out of 500GB of RAM, a memory line you previously hadn't opened yet and which with sureness isn't in the cache yet. You will be looking at 400+ ns latencies bestcase. You won't get it faster at any platform which is affordable (of course 512GB of SRAM would be faster, yet let's not go into theoretic discussions here - as you can't afford 512GB of SRAM). > * AMD quad sockets with 512GB ram start around $9k ($USA) You can easily build one with new components from ebay for $2k. Then add the 512GB ram price to that. New from a shop the AMD stuff is dirt cheap as well, as a single core ain't fast of course of the new bulldozer line, offers fully assembled and everything ready working is around $6k mark - excluding 512GB ram of course. Yet it has better latency to a 512 GB block of RAM than intels 4 socket systems. And that will be many many hundreds of nanoseconds of course. > * With OpenMP, pthreads, MPI or other parallel friendly code a quad > socket amd can look up random cache line approximately every 2.25ns. > (64 threads banging on 16 memory channels at once). You still didn't get the picture of TLB trashing software huh? It reads each time from a random memory location. Only at the end of the calculation the search space converges a tad, but still it's random. A measurement i have from a tad older 8 socket intel box here is 700 ns for similar TLB trashing behaviour. > * I've seen no problems with the AMD memory system, in general > the 2k pin/4 memory bus amd sockets seem to performance similarly > to Intel. For random accesses at a single or 2 sockets there is huge differences (all cores busy). Intel single socket around 90 ns for my benchmark and bulldozer single socket around 150-170 ns ( 8 cores busy). You really have no idea what 'random' reads are. > > And example of AMD's bandwidth scaling on a quad socket with 64 cores: > http://cse.ucdavis.edu/bill/pstream/bm3-all.png > > I don't have a similar Intel, but I do have a dual socket e5: > http://cse.ucdavis.edu/bill/pstream/e5-2609.png > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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As per tradition, the "average Italian" always does everything at the last minute:
from travel, to Christmas presents.
The technology is women, which in 74% of cases, they think to make purchases of Christmas gifts online, through e-commerce sites.
Is the data emerging from some research commissioned by eBay ahead of the Christmas holidays.
– 44% of adults who seeks inspiration for gifts online, using the internet before deciding
– 46% of people who start to think about the real Christmas to put under the tree only to December
– 14% do not plan to address before the last week before Christmas
– 3% wait for the very last days of Christmas available.
Also confirmed for Christmas 2014, the trend "last minute":
the peak day for purchases on e-commerce site eBay, is scheduled for December 15.
Who will take care of Christmas presents?
– Women (74%) with an average of 10 gifts, and an average cost of Euro (€) 185,00
– Men (29%) with an average of 7 gifts, and an average cost of Euro (€) 204.00
Where you will spend more for Christmas gifts?
1) Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta: with an average cost of Euro (€) 222,00
2) Lombardia: with an average expenditure of Euro (€) 213,00
To be expected for the Christmas gift?
– The partner / companion / a / girlfriend / boyfriend
– to children
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Table talk at Hood River Valley Adult Center these days focuses on Medicare and other health concerns of seniors. Dee Roberts, left, Marge Andrews, and Doti Miles enjoy dessert and each others' company on Monday.
By RAELYNN RICARTE
News staff writer
July 13, 2005
Adult Center hosts a seminar to help seniors untangle the Medicare system
The Hood River Valley Adult Center wants to help senior citizens navigate their way through a new "Medicare maze."
Next week the center hosts a seminar to explain how the new federal prescription drug coverage program works. Bruce Westphal, marketing manager of Clear Choice Health Plans, will provide basic information and field questions at 1 p.m. on July 21 in the facility located at 2010 Sterling Pl.
There is no charge to attend the forum that will explain Medicare options and both the costs and savings involved with each alternative.
Heidi Musgrave, center director, said Westphal has offered to clarify issues that are creating confusion for some seniors. The federal program goes into effect on Jan. 1 and the Medicare-sponsored plans are entirely different than the drug discount cards now offered through private companies.
According to Musgrave, seniors must sign up for one of the available coverage plans when they are first eligible in order to avoid being penalized with higher premiums for life.
"The kicker here is that people may not need the new card because they don't take any drugs at the age of 65. But their premium could then increase from $37 to $75 each month if they wait until they do need it 10 years later. I think the government is counting on all eligible people buying into the coverage to help fund the program," she said.
There is an exception to the 1 percent increase in enrollment costs for each year after eligibility, said Musgrave. She said no penalty is imposed if a senior can clearly show that he/she had equal or better coverage through another source, such as an employer.
Musgrave said the new prescription drug coverage financially benefits those taking several expensive medications. And that, said Musgrave, can be a valuable service for a senior living on a fixed income.
She said in Hood River County, the average monthly Social Security check falls between $600-$800.
From those limited funds, Musgrave said seniors pay monthly Medicare premiums of $77.90, up 17 percent since 2004.
In addition, she said many elderly residents pay an additional average of about $85 per month for supplemental insurance to fill in the gaps not covered by government health care.
To aid seniors in research that can make their limited dollars stretch further, Musgrave has also netted about $4,000 in grant funds for new computers, printers and DLS lines.
In September, Gorge seniors will be able to go online in two locations to check out their Medicare options. The money obtained from Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance (SHIBA), of which Musgrave is the regional coordinator, has been allocated for a terminal at the Community Action Council offices in The Dalles and another at the center in Hood River.
Anyone interested in accessing the local computer can make an appointment for a time slot by calling Musgrave at 386-2060.
Volunteer assistance to access these programs, or provide answers to any health benefit questions, is also available by appointment.
"We're aware that it could be a frustrating experience to learn about this program. That's why several of us attended a training program in Salem to learn the rudimentary elements so that we can walk people through the process," said Musgrave.
Seniors in fee-for-service Medicare need to enroll in a federal prescription drug coverage plan between Nov. 15 and May 15, 2006.
After that date, all enrollees but those on Medicaid can drop a plan or change coverage only once a year between Nov. 15-Dec. 15, except in certain situations. In most cases, if a senior is already enrolled in a Medicare Advantage Plan, such as through a preferred provider, he/she will receive their Medicare prescription drug coverage through that option.
This fall all eligible seniors will be sent a Medicare & You 2006 handbook, which will list the plans available in their area.
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Earlier in the week, the news came out that ChoicePoint (formerly a unit of credit bureau Equifax) had simply handed out personal info for many California residents to a sham new business whose only purpose was to use that data for identity theft. At least 750 people were scammed. At the time of the announcement, they made it sound like it was only (only!) 35,000 residents of California -- where privacy laws require that those who may have given up personal info must alert those impacted. However, it seems that some other states began to get curious about this, and even though it took some prompting from various AGs, ChoicePoint is now admitting that 145,000 people were impacted. Once again, this demonstrates how identity theft issues are very often completely out of the control of the individuals themselves -- but due to poor security at the companies who handle all of our data.


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NBA Draft - What did you thnk?
No news for the Nuggs, but an exciting night to say the least. Gotta love the 5min/2min draft times, wish the NFL would do that. Obviously Portland/Seattle had great drafts, don't know why the Bobcats made that trade (#8 Brandon Wright for Jason Richardson) and the Celtics looked like the clowns they usually do (although Geln Davis could work out well for them). Some interesting value picks in the late 1st & 2nd for very good teams, gotta love San Antonio getting Tiago Splitter w/ the 28th and then grabbing Marcus Williams early in the 2nd. The Mavs grabbing Nick Fazekas early in the 2nd I thought was a great pick. The Knicks/Blazers trade looks to help out both squads. What did you all think?
1 Portland Trail Blazers Greg Oden, Center, Ohio State
2 Seattle SuperSonics Kevin Durant, Forward, Texas 3
3 Atlanta Hawks Al Horford, Forward/Center, Florida
4 Memphis Grizzlies Mike Conley Jr., Guard, Ohio State
5 Boston Celtics Jeff Green, Forward, Georgetown (to Seattle)
6 Milwaukee Bucks Yi Jianlian, Forward, China
7 Minnesota Timberwolves Corey Brewer, Forward, Florida
8 Charlotte Bobcats Brandan Wright, Forward, North Carolina (to Golden State)
9 Chicago (from New York) Joakim Noah, Forward/Center, Florida
10 Sacramento Kings Spencer Hawes, Center, Washington
11 Atlanta Hawks (from Indiana) Acie Law IV, Guard, Texas A&M
12 Philadelphia 76ers Thaddeus Young, Forward, Georgia Tech
13 New Orleans Hornets Julian Wright, Forward, Kansas
14 Los Angeles Clippers Al Thornton, Forward, Florida State
15 Detroit Pistons (from Orlando) Rodney Stuckey, Guard, Eastern Washington
16 Washington Wizards Nick Young, Guard/Forward, Southern California
17 New Jersey Nets Sean Williams, Forward/Center, Boston College
18 Golden State Warriors Marco Belinelli, Guard, Italy
19 Los Angeles Lakers Javaris Crittenton, Guard, Georgia Tech
20 Miami Heat Jason Smith, Forward/Center, Colorado State (to Philadelphia)
21 Philadelphia 76ers (from Denver) Daequan Cook, Guard, Ohio State (to Miami)
22 Charlotte Bobcats (from Toronto) Jared Dudley, Forward, Boston College
23 New York Knicks (from Chicago) Wilson Chandler, Forward, DePaul
24 Phoenix Suns (from Cleveland) Rudy Fernandez, Guard, Spain (to Portland)
25 Utah Jazz Morris Almond, Guard, Rice
26 Houston Rockets Aaron Brooks, Guard, Oregon
27 Detroit Pistons Arron Afflalo, Guard, UCLA
28 San Antonio Spurs Tiago Splitter, Forward, Brazil
29 Phoenix Suns Alando Tucker, Forward, Wisconsin
30 Philadelphia 76ers (from Dallas) Petteri Koponen, Guard, Finland (to Portland)
31 Seattle SuperSonics (from Memphis) Carl Landry, Forward, Purdue
32 Boston Celtics Gabe Pruitt, Guard, Southern California
33 San Antonio Spurs (from Milwaukee) Marcus Williams, Forward, Arizona
34 Dallas Mavericks (from Atlanta) Nick Fazekas, Forward, Nevada
35 Seattle Supersonics Glen Davis, Forward, Louisiana State (to Boston)
36 Golden State Warriors (from Minnesota) Jermareo Davidson, Forward, Alabama (to Charlotte)
37 Portland Trail Blazers Josh McRoberts, Forward, Duke
38 Philadelphia 76ers (from New York) Kyrylo Fesenko, Center, Ukraine (to Utah)
39 Miami Heat (from Sacramento) Stanko Barac, Center, Bosnia (to Indiana)
40 Los Angeles Lakers (from Charlotte) Sun Yue, Guard, China
41 Minnesota Timberwolves (from Philadelphia) Chris Richard, Forward, Florida
42 Portland Trail Blazers (from Indiana) Derrick Byars, Guard/Forward, Vanderbilt (to Philadelphia)
43 New Orleans Hornets Adam Haluska, Guard, Iowa
44 Orlando Magic Reyshawn Terry, Forward, North Carolina (to Dallas)
45 Los Angeles Clippers Jared Jordan, Guard, Marist
46 Golden State Warriors (from New Jersey) Stephane Lasme, Forward, Massachusetts
47 Washington Wizards Dominic McGuire, Forward, Fresno State
48 Los Angeles Lakers Marc Gasol, Center, Spain
49 Chicago Bulls (from Golden State) Aaron Gray, Center, Pittsburgh
50 Dallas Mavericks (from Miami) Renaldas Seibutis, Guard, Lithuania
51 Chicago Bulls (from Denver) JamesOn Curry, Guard, Oklahoma State
52 Portland Trail Blazers (from Toronto) Taurean Green, Guard, Florida
53 Portland Trail Blazers (from Chicago) Demetris Nichols, Forward, Syracuse (to New York)
54 Houston Rockets (from Cleveland) Brad Newley, Guard, Australia
55 Utah Jazz Herbert Hill, Forward/Center, Providence (to Philadelphia)
56 Milwaukee Bucks (from Houston) Ramon Sessions, Guard, Nevada
57 Detroit Pistons Sammy Mejia, Guard, DePaul
58 San Antonio Spurs Giorgos Printezis, Forward, Greece (to Toronto)
59 Phoenix Suns D.J. Strawberry, Guard, Maryland
60 Dallas Mavericks Milovan Rakovic, Forward, Serbia (to Orlando)
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Guest List: Sharman Joshi, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, R Madhavan, Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan, Imran Khan, Genelia D'souza, Dia Mirza, Sonu Nigam, Madhurima, Randhir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Kunal Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Maria Goretti, Kiran Rao, Avantika Malik, Rajkumar Hirani, Junaid Khan, Bhushan Kumar, Divya Khosla Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Adnan Sami, Safa Galadhari, Karan Johar, Nigar Z. Khan, Gauhar Khan
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Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
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Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur among others were snapped by paparazzi.Bebo looked super cool in a casual look. She wore a white t-shirt with yoga pants...
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Poverty, repression, decades of injustice and mass unemployment have all been cited as causes of the political convulsions in the Middle East and north Africa these last weeks. But a less recognized reason for the turmoil in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and now Iran has been rising food prices, directly linked to a growing regional water crisis.
The diverse states that make up the Arab world, stretching from the Atlantic coast to Iraq, have some of the world's greatest oil reserves, but this disguises the fact that they mostly occupy hyper-arid places. Rivers are few, water demand is increasing as populations grow, underground reserves are shrinking and nearly all depend on imported staple foods that are now trading at record prices.
For a region that expects populations to double to more than 600 million within 40 years, and climate change to raise temperatures, these structural problems are political dynamite and already destabilizing countries.
In recent reports they separately warn that the riots and demonstrations after the three major food-price rises of the last five years in North Africa and the Middle East might be just a taste of greater troubles to come unless countries start to share their natural resources, and reduce their profligate energy and water use.
"In the future the main geopolitical resource in the Middle East will be water rather than oil. The situation is alarming,"
"Unless there is a technological breakthrough or a miraculous discovery, the Middle East will not escape a serious [water] shortage,"
Autocratic, oil-rich rulers have been able to control their people by controlling nature and have kept the lid on political turmoil at home by heavily subsidizing "virtual" or "embedded" water in the form of staple grains imported from the US and elsewhere.
But, now the price of food hits record levels and the demand for water and energy soars.
Water is a fundamental part of the social contract in Middle Eastern countries. Along with subsidized food and fuel, governments provide cheap or even free water to ensure the consent of the governed. But when subsidized commodities have been cut, instability has often followed.
Water's own role in prompting unrest has so far been relatively limited, but that is unlikely to hold. Future water scarcity will be much more permanent than past shortages, and the techniques governments have used in responding to past disturbances may not be enough.
The problem will only get worse. Arab countries depend on other countries for their food security – they're as sensitive to floods in Australia and big freezes in Canada as on the yield in Algeria or Egypt itself.
In the Arab countries' food imports cost $30bn. Then, rising prices caused waves of rioting and left the unemployed and impoverished millions in Arab countries even more exposed. The paradox of Arab economies is that they depend on oil prices, while increased energy prices make their food more expensive.
The region's most food- and water-insecure country is Yemen, the poorest in the Arab world, which gets less than 200 cubic meters of water per person a year – well below the international water poverty line of 1,000m3 – and must import 80-90% o f its food.
"Water shortages have increased political tensions between groups. We have a very big problem,"
Two internal conflicts are already raging in Yemen and the capital has been rocked by riots this month. "There is an obvious link between high food prices and unrest [in the region]. Drought, population and water scarcity are aggravating factors. The pressure on natural resources is increasing, and the pressure on the land is great.
Other Arab countries are not faring much better. Jordan, which expects water demand to double in the next 20 years, faces massive shortages because of population growth and a longstanding water dispute with Israel. Its per capita water supply will fall from the current 200m3 per person to 91m3 within 30 years, says the World Bank. Palestine and Israel fiercely dispute fragile water resources.
Algeria and Tunisia, along with the seven emirates in the UAE, Morocco, Iraq and Iran are all in "water deficit" – using far more than they receive in rain or snowfall. Only Turkey has a major surplus, but it is unwilling to share. Abu Dhabi, the world's most profligate water user, says it will run out of its ancient fossil water reserves in 25 years; Libya has spent $20bn pumping water from deep wells in the desert but has no idea how long the resource will last; Saudi Arabian water demand has increased by 500% in 25 years and is expected to double again in 20 years – as power demand surges as much as 10% a year.
Meanwhile, says the UN, farm land is becoming unusable as irrigation schemes and intensive farming lead to water logging and desalination.
Some oil-rich Arab countries are belatedly beginning to address the problem. Having drained underground aquifers to grow inappropriate crops for many years, they have turned en masse to desalination. More than 1,500 massive plants now line the Gulf and the Mediterranean and provide much of North Africa and the Middle East's drinking water – and two-thirds of the world's desalinated water.
The plants take salty or brackish water, and either warm it, vaporize it and separate off the salts and impurities, or pass it through filters. It's an expensive, energy intensive and greenhouse gas-emitting way to get fresh water, but costs.
Solar-powered plants are being built for small communities but no way has been found to avoid the concentrated salt stream that the plants produce. The impurities extracted from the water mostly end up back in the sea or in aquifers and kill marine life.
Only now are countries starting to see the downsides of desalination. Salt levels in the Arabian Gulf are eight times higher in some places than they should be, as power-hungry water plants return salt to an already saline sea. The higher salinity of the seawater intake reduces the plant's efficiency and, in some areas, marine life is suffering badly, affecting coral and fishing catches.
Desalination has allowed dictators and elites to continue to waste water on a massive scale. Nearly 20% of all Saudi oil money in the 1970s and 80s was used to provide clean water to grow wheat and other crops in regions that would not naturally be able to do so. Parks, golf courses, roadside verges and household gardens are all still watered with expensively produced clean drinking water. The energy – and therefore water – needed to keep barely insulated buildings super-cold in Gulf States is astonishing.
Water awareness is definitely, member of an eco club at the large Indian school in Abu Dhabi. "People were amazed when we showed them how much they use in a day. We stacked up 550 one-liter bottles and they refused to believe it. Now schools are competing with each other to reduce water wastage."
More than 2,000 mosques in Abu Dhabi have been fitted with water-saving devices, which are saving millions of gallons of water a year when people wash before prayer. Other UAE states are expected to follow, but not drinking water!
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Poverty, repression, decades of injustice and mass unemployment have all been cited as causes of the political convulsions in the Middle East and north Africa these last weeks. But a less recognized reason for the turmoil in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and now Iran has been rising food prices, directly linked to a growing regional water crisis.
Agriculture, the largest industry in the world, is also the biggest threat to the environment. Inefficient food production and harmful agriculture subsidies are causing deforestation, water shortages and pollution.
Agriculture wastes 60% or 1,500 trillion liters, of the 2,500 trillion liters of water it uses each year – this is 70% of the world's accessible water.
Many big food producing countries like the US, China, India, Pakistan, Australia and Spain have reached, or are close to reaching, their renewable water resource limits.
The lack of sustainable agriculture harms the environment by sucking rivers, lakes and underground water sources dry, increasing soil salinity and thereby destroying its quality, and by washing pollutants and pesticides into rivers that in turn destroy downstream ecosystems such as corals and breeding grounds for fish in coastal areas.
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The waste and pollution of water is made worse by misdirected subsidies, low public and political awareness of the crisis, and weak environmental legislation.
A WWF report identifies cotton, rice, sugar cane and wheat as the 'thirstiest' crops in 9 large river basins rich in biodiversity. Together, these 4 crops account for 58% of the world's irrigated farmland.
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The Angolan Government has been developing several water projects countrywide with a view to securing potable water to every citizen.
The vice minister said so, following calls for supply of improved water, particularly to schools, as part of the effort to control cholera and other endemic disease.
"The goal is to make water available to every citizen as near as possible to their homes," stressed the deputy minister, adding that for the time being it is not possible to get drinking water in desired quantities all over the country.
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If you want more like sentai, you can have closed for or it's equivalent.
If you want more mundane, which as Demi said seems to be your choice, don't. Like Stratospear's for example.
Alternatively, have the closed form not a mass-shifting, only shape and density morphing (like Bayformers). Mine have the refurbished ShiroKishi morph into briefcase ala Ironman, but it's still bulky and weighed like full of bricks with PIC active.
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Well, for sure I don't want to use the term "Stasis Lock". Google that and you'll find out why...
Although I do like the term "Stasis", because it does fits how the Silverback will shutdown but the armor will remain out and can protect the user.
Maybe Stasis Armor?
And as for having a "Closed Form", I'm still undecided about it... and another problem with that is what should I call it if it does have a "Closed Form"?
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I remember reading the later chapters of StratoSpear's fics that the Minerva does have a Closed Form and it was a Pendant. He even discussed it with you guys on here. But the only way to know for sure is to ask StratoSpear himself...
As for the name for the Silverback's shut down state, and if it'll have a closed form or not is still in the works...
If anyone else have any thoughts, feel free to let me in.
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Sheesh I need some help on these...
If the Silverbacks do have a Closed Form, here's what I have in mind for them.
Eric: Tricep protector (Left arm)
Eddie: Fingerless Gauntlet (Right hand)
Brian: Body Protector (Like a BMX rider's, but covers both the front and back and has no shoulder pieces)
Clay: Pauldron (Right shoulder, but only covers the top part)
Armor pieces basically. And there's a reason why I have Brian's be a Body Protector.
But should I have a Closed form for the Silverbacks or not?...
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Also, Irish had learned such thing as hesitation and sacrifice for self satisfaction, and it doesn't feel out of character at all.
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About Demino's comment.
Yea.... I am quite curious too....
What make him think that Jak is the go to guy for that weak and soft kind of Deconstruction for IS-verse?
I mean, Jak strike me more of a Gear of War kind of writer... you know, the kind who go for dark, gritty, rated M for manly (there is nothing wrong with that, it just my personal preference that I dislike/hate applying Gear of War, super manly solution to IS)....
Unless I am going for similar approach.... (which I won't because I wanted to go for other stuff not cover by other Writers).
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Orange juice futures are surging as dry weather hurts Florida's crop production.
Frozen orange juice concentrate for January delivery rose 3.2 percent to finish Wednesday at $1.341 per pound.
South Florida has been dry, which analysts say has hurt the orange crops. Traders also are concerned about the potential of a winter frost that could damage oranges on the trees.
The U.S. Agriculture Department predicts Florida's orange production will total 146 million boxes after next year's harvest. That's down 5 percent from its October forecast and slightly lower than last season's harvest.
Other commodities are mostly higher after the Federal Reserve took additional steps to boost U.S. economic growth.
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