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Done sooo many rough sketches and scrapped drawings for my friend Sierra. It's been like a year so I figured I should do one and upload it for once.Hope you like ...
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
H.A.M (bonus) track #14 on Watch The Throne. Probably my least favorite song on the album. So like the previous post I decided to kinda tie it into a memory. i edited my best friend Kat's race to the song cuz the beat is pretty epic. Also, I kinda liked the mask of confidence (*cough*cockiness*cough*) he has before a race even though he may be shitting himself on the inside ,the stress of it all is what makes you excel half the time. Here's to you breaking the sound barrier homie. Enjoy.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The Illest
Onto the bonus tracks- I was gonna do something totally different but whenever I listen to this song track #13 "Illest Motherf*cker Alive" (excuse my french) I remember this day with the homies late this summer. Insanely talented group of people who also happen to be really easy to hang out with,also they can be brutally honest which is a quality people don't often appreciate especially as artists...Left to right, Adam temple , myself, Freddy Carrasco, Oliver Merlo also check out Michele Assarasakorns' blog (she was there in spirit that day lol)! Brace yourselves for their awesomenesness. Tried to get that Pascal Campion warm fuzziness in this one ;). Enjoy.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Why I Love You
Why I Love You track# 12 . WOOP WOOP! I finished with the first 12, now onto the bonus tracks ,which unfortunately will be uploaded and worked on at a much slower pace ( I got other stuff I have to start working on :) ). About the piece though I love this song ...I had another idea about a prince taking his dads crown ,but I decided to make that the header image for when I post all the songs IN ONE GIANT POST >:). I also put up some process stuufff. Hope you like it , criticisms are appreciated.Enjoy.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Made In America
Track #11 "Made In America' This one was fun- I actually have 3 more concepts for this one ,which I might upload if not,then maybe just the thumbnails .I actually love that song so I thought a lot about it. Please don't forget just trying to improve so if you have any helpful advice from composition to color it'd be cool if you pointed it out-I work on these so much I don't often step back enough to see stuff .Also, shoutout to Yue Wu always inspiring !Hope you like it. Enjoy.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Murder To Excellence
Track #10 "Murder To Excellence" .One of my favorites -I was having a hard time thinking of a good concept for it but my buddy Freddy (who's art you should check out if you haven't already) helped me narrow it down and this is what came of it(I had totally forgotten that Jay-z shot his brother for stealing his jewellery at 12 O_O)...Anyway hope you like it . Enjoy
Friday, September 16, 2011
Who Gon Stop me
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Welcome to the Jungle
Track # 8 Welcome to the Jungle. Haha as I was sketching these out in thumbnails I noticed that the concepts got harder and harder to depict.If I thought I had a hard time with colors the first time ! Hope you can dig it ... Also a Dutch website has a small feature centered around these Illustrations- I guess that's motivation enough to finish haha Thanks to my new friends at versheid.com (which means Freshness translated) and to my friend Afra for getting me the chance to be on it !Enjoy.
Monday, September 12, 2011
That's my B*tch
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
New Day
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Business with ATT We are finally have the opportunity to switch to ATT for our cell service, which is something we have been wanting to do for several years. I know we all have horror stories about our carriers, but is there any good reasons for not switching? BTW, we currently have VZW.
i'm pretty satisfied with Verizon.... good coverage and can't remember the last time a call dropped, which is to me important.
ditto.... and i think ATT was ranked last in network coverage and dropped calls i thought or something similar to that
VZW uses CDMA, while ATT uses GSM. As such, cellular telephones that are compatible with VZW are not compatible with ATT. A purchase of new hardware will be required if you decide to migrate over to ATT. If you were to switch to Sprint, you could simply get your telephone reprogrammed to work on the new provider. Similarly with ATT, if you take out the SIM, and replace it with another GSM carrier SIM, it operate with no issues, (if the unit is not SIM locked), on the new provider. However, it is impossible to take a GSM cellular telephone and have it operate on a CDMA network. The only drawback I can find is that you will have equipment replacement costs. Be sure to do a comparison of the service map for your area before you decide on a provider. You have 30 days after signing a new contract to cancel without being subject to an ETF, (so you can try the service to determine if you are satisfied with the provider).
I just remembered that my wife just got a new phone w/VZW so we will be with them a while. I have to get me a new Q. Mine has died and I am back to my V9m. I still may have to get a GoPhone because most of the people I work with have ATT. We had talked about me getting the Unlimited plan so we would not have to worry about minutes. Things are still in motion. I am due for Iraq in a year so switching would just be one more headache to deal with. Thanks for your input.
From a business standpoint, and I work for a company who has a HUGE ATT account as well as a semi huge VZ account. On ATT, you can have Voice/Data at the same time on their 3G devices, so if anyone has an aircard, you can eliminate that and just tether their phone. On Verizon, you must have a phone with data, then an aircard, so pretty much going with Verizon means more $$ you have to spend.

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AC Milan player set for Brazil return
Santos and Flamengo have both started negotiations with AC Milan to sign Robson de Souza 'Robinho', who seems willing to turn his back on European football and return to Brazil, according to newspaper 'Lance'.
The newspaper cites sources inside both Brazilian clubs and assures that "the player's return to Brazil is only a matter of time" and that a deal could even be finalised before the end of 2012.
According to a spokesperson at Flamengo, "Nothing has been finalised yet, but talks are at an advanced stage". The Rio de Janeiro club has a new board of directors and it plans to strengthen the team for 2013 after almost being relegated to the second division this year.
Robinho burst onto the scene almost a decade ago with Santos. Now the club is dreaming of bringing back the AC Milan player to play alongside Neymar, the current jewel in the club's crown
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Watching your teen walk through life with their nose in a cellphone rather than a book can make any parent cringe. As technology becomes more and more advanced, the options for our kids to stay fully immersed in the digital world are endless. If you are parenting a teen and trying to stay connected with them as they distance themselves from you a little more each day, technology just might be the way to do it. Of course we have to remind our teens that you can have a face-to-face conversation these days but maybe meeting them in the middle isn't such a bad idea.
Here are a few positives to think about the next time you pick up that cellphone:
Tell us: How early should you introduce technology and how often should you let your kids use it? When you travel with kids should you take technology with you?
For most parents, having a teenager means learning to let go, especially when it comes time to send them off to college. Almost every mom or dad has received the dreaded eye-roll when asking where their teen is headed and when they will be home. Linda Wolff of Carpool Goddess has used technology to her advantage. "Cellphones and texting make me feel like my kids are never that far, which is good now that they're both in college across the country. It also gave me peace of mind to have my kids text me whenever they arrived at or changed their destination when they were new drivers."
We've all tried to meet our teens on their level. We may have somewhat failed at speaking in teen lingo or plopped down in the middle of a group of their friends only to have them look at us like we came from another planet. Sometimes connecting with them in a way that they feel is socially acceptable is the perfect way to stay on top of their lives. Stefanie Mullen of Ooph has found some creative ways to stay connected. "As my son is preparing to leave for college next year I am unbelievably grateful for quick texts and Google Hangouts. It is what I cling to as I face down the reality of releasing him out into the giant world all alone."
Tech savvy schools: Most schools are learning how to keep up with the technology craze as well. Here are the most creative uses of technology in schools.
Since teens seem to find it easier to share the drama of their daily lives on the internet rather than at the dinner table, parents might as well embrace it. "Facebook gives me the opportunity to peek into his life without resorting to searching his room or snapping the lock off his diary. Not that I would do that — heh, heh, heh. But it is a way for me to hear about little things he probably wouldn't mention at dinner and occasionally toss in a joke about him being grounded. He never mentions it, but I love the smirk I get the next time I see him face to face." shares Robyn Welling of Hollow Tree Ventures.
No matter how you embrace technology, whether you are dragging your heels or trying to stay up to date on the latest gadget, making the effort to connect with your teen in this part of their life is well worth it. Rebecca Gallagher of Frugalista Blog sums up the benefits of the changing world of technology so well, "I have a 12 year old, I love that she has a phone and Facebook. I know what's going on in her life more than, I think, what my parents knew, or didn't know, about me!"
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Enjoy a guest recipe post today from Kristie! ~ M
I been making this very easy Christmas Brunch Casserole for the last few years for my family, and it has been a huge hit!
I love this recipe because the last place I want to find myself on Christmas morning is stuck in the kitchen cooking while the rest of the family is in the family room enjoying the morning together. This is a breakfast that can cook itself in the oven while you're opening gifts.
I spend time the night before preparing everything so it is easy to just throw together quickly in the morning while the coffee is brewing.
Christmas Brunch Casserole
What You Need:
- 1 pound bacon
- 2 onions, chopped
- 2 cups fresh sliced mushrooms
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 4 cups frozen hash brown potatoes, thawed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 pinch dried parsley
- 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
Place bacon in a large skillet. Cook over medium-high heat until evenly brown. Drain and set aside. Add the mushrooms and onion to the skillet; cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent and the mushrooms are tender, about 5 minutes.
Grease a 9x13-inch casserole dish with the tablespoon of butter. Place potatoes in bottom of prepared dish. Sprinkle with salt, garlic salt, and pepper. Top with crumbled bacon, then add the onions and mushrooms.
In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs with the milk and parsley. Pour the beaten eggs over the casserole and top with grated cheese. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour or until set.
I prepare the casserole the night before except for the eggs. Then in the morning, while we are waiting for our coffee to finish brewing (we always make the kids wait until mom & dad have coffee in hand before opening any presents) I quickly scramble and add the eggs.
Another thing I should add is that this is one of those recipes that you can adapt to your family's tastes. I'm planning to switch the bacon in the recipe for ham this year.
Then I pop it into the oven and we proceed to open presents.
The breakfast casserole is just finishing up about the same time we are finishing up with the presents. I love it because I look like a super mom and it's so easy too! Plus it keeps for a couple days, so we can have leftovers.
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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishconciergecon‧ci‧erge /ˈkɒnsieəʒ $ ˌkɑːnsiˈerʒ/ noun [countable] 1 BODLTsomeone in a hotel whose job is to help guests by telling them about places to visit, restaurants to eat in etc2 BODHsomeone who looks after a block of apartments and who checks who is going in and coming out, especially in France
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concierge• Clustered around the courtyard were the four boutiques, hospitality desk and concierge.• Features include metal detectors and armed guards, but no concierge.• Some concierges have deals with individual taxi or mini-cab drivers who are able to jump the rank outside.• There was just the concierge left in his apartment by the gate.• No need to interrupt the background music just to page the concierge.• We sell a lot of our tours through the concierges and we see nothing wrong with that.• He checked the telephone number with the concierge before placing a call.• The concierge looked ready to cry.From Longman Business Dictionaryconciergecon‧ci‧erge /ˈkɒnsieəʒˌkɑːnsiˈerʒ/ noun [countable] someone whose job is to help people and provide them with information about places to visit, restaurants to eat in etc. Concierges usually work in hotels. There are also companies that offer concierge servicesOur aim is to provide first-class concierge services, so that vacationers can experience a feeling of total comfort and relaxation.
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Well, there's the film. All shiny, finished. I have so many people to thank. First of all, the constant professional and EXTREMELY talented voice of Allen Stewart Coates.
I have now had the honor of using his voice in two films (The Celestial Ox from 3rd year), and I can honestly say that neither film would amount to much without a stern, booming yet also gentle and charming narrator behind them. Its gonna be hard to come up with stories WITHOUT imagining his voice reading them, but I'm gonna try!
Next is my other amazing get, Dan Rodrigues. This guy not only composed an authentic-sounding score, but also came up with the fantastic Mandrake scream sound you hear throughout the film (it was sampled from his little cousin screaming her head off in the mic.)
He mixed all the sound elements together so the film sounded proffessional, and less student-film-y. Once I got these two guy's contributions to the film, which happened probably within the first month of production, it raised the bar quite high. This made me want to make the best visuals I could to match the audio bliss the audience was gonna be given!
Which brings me to my crew of assistant artists! Amir Avni, with his steady hand and incredible linework was a BIG help getting my rough animation cleaned up. Then there's the SLAVES whom I gave files to color and wouldn't let them leave until they were finished and PERFECT! They deserve a big round of applause for putting up with me. Jen Bamford, Nicole Breedyk, and Andrew Glisinsky: I'm sorry about the shackles and leg irons. You guys all did a yoeman's job! THANK YOU!!
Here's what all the animation from my film looks like. Its even more dramatic when I put a few books under it and shoot it from a low angle!
Goodbye Sheridan! I learned a lot from you. Made some great friends, had some good laughs. I think I gotta go find a job now.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
2 seconds down, BILLIONS more to go
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
WILL HE FINISH IT? Part 1
So I'm updating the blog! And only 7 months since the last update! Expect to see the next post sometime in June 2009 at this rate.
I'm working on my 4th year film. Its about the legend of the mandrake root. That's the one that screams when you pull it from the ground, and the scream kills ya. But you really want one cuz its like, magic and stuff. According to legend, there was one special way to acquire one without getting killed. You have a DOG get killed instead! Look!
The guy in this photo is going "EXIT! Stage RIGHT, even!" Hahaha. But seriously he is. He's making the poor dog do all the work pulling out the root cuz he tricked it with some food. Neat huh? PATHOS! Someone should make a cartoon about this!
Here are some heads
Monday, April 21, 2008
Third Year Group Films Trailer!
I thought our films looked pretty good before, but splice 'em all together and back them with the dulcet tones of Carly Simon and you got yourself a winner, boy. To everyone in our year, congratulations! Take a bow. Its over!
Films included and their production blogs (in order of appearance)
1. "The Last Strand" http://cs-entertainment.blogspot.com/
2. "Evil Stevil Jumps Again" http://evilstevil.blogspot.com/
3. "Galactic Adventure Quest in Space" http://s-h-a-g.blogspot.com/
4. "Sushi Time" http://squishyfishproductions.blogspo...
5. "Monster Bash" http://a1productions.blogspot.com/
6. "The Celestial Ox" (MY GROUP!) http://mocappenguins.blogspot.com/
7. "Cousin Tony"
8. "The Delirious Journey of Ethan McKearney"
Friday, December 21, 2007
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Kill your friends! And play with your tail
FLASH!!!! AHHHH-ahhhhhhhhh!!!! King of the IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!
please forgive me my Flash Gordon/Queen moment.
Here are some clickable things. This past summer I had a great time interning at Six Point Harness in Hollywood, CA with my pals Bryan and Rory. These were made our first few days, to mostly get our feet wet in Flash. We were told to make little animated videos of us killing each other. I was really rusty with the program! So the first one really is all drawing, then they start to get lazier and lazier once I learned what Flash can do.
The last one is a rough test for a scene from my 3rd year group film "The Celestial Ox"
Monday, April 02, 2007
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Back-handed Hoof Slap
A rough line test of the muzzle-sync assignment. Its changed a bit from the storyboard: he no longer grabs the chicken. This makes my life easier since I dont gotta draw 2 characters moving around at the same time, and lets Crunchy the Pig use both his hands to emote.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Lozzi Lessons
After reading Hanna Barbara background painter Art Lozzi's color theory and technique tips on John K's blog I had to try some out for myself. I'll be the first to admit this is about 1000 times more busy than any HB background, I went overboard with the textures when I found out how to make my own brushes in photoshop. But it was a cool experiment, and I cant wait to do more like this.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Here's the latest stack of drawings! "The Princess Bride" is quite possibly the perfect movie. I would have also loved to have animated the line that came next: "You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass."
Friday, December 22, 2006
Merry Christmas!
Here's some jolly holiday animations for ye! First up is my walk/run assignment:
Wasn't that festive?! And now, more yuletide glee with the expression change assignment:
Wheeee! Happy holidays to you and yours! And speaking of milking machines:
Feliz Navidad, y'all!
Wasn't that festive?! And now, more yuletide glee with the expression change assignment:
Wheeee! Happy holidays to you and yours! And speaking of milking machines:
Feliz Navidad, y'all!
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Like, a Reel
YAY! Storytime! Turn your brain off for a sec and watch. This is the leica reel of my storyboard. Its rough drawings and voices for now, and next semester I may be animating some of the dialogue scenes.
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Inland churches are receiving thousands of free tickets for a major film about Jesus' life that is being released in multiplexes this week alongside Hollywood blockbusters.
âSon of Godâ is the first wide-release film about Jesus since 2004âs âThe Passion of the Christ,â which has earned $612 million worldwide.
Christian films typically have limited showings in a few dozen cinemas. âSon of Godâ is opening on 3,000 screens nationwide, including at least 15 in the Inland Empire.
Riversideâs Harvest Christian Fellowship and Crossroads Christian Church in Corona are among about 100 churches around the country that received free tickets from the Colorado-based Christian charity Compassion International. Three thousand went to Harvest alone.
Churches and religious organizations also are renting out entire theaters for previews on Wednesday and Thursday before the movie is released Friday.
Orange Countyâs Saddleback Church rented a 232-seat theater at Edwards Corona Crossings Stadium 18 for members of the churchâs Corona campus, along with venues elsewhere.
âFor the purpose of evangelism, for inviting someone to know Jesus, this is awesome,â said Pastor David Williamson of Saddleback in Corona. âI think people will leave there with a great understanding of who Jesus is.â
The church sold the tickets at 2-for-1 and encouraged congregants to ask a non-Christian friend, family member or neighbor to accompany them, Williamson said. The filmâs high-end production and its screenings in multiplexes alongside secular Hollywood movies make it more accessible to non-Christians than other religious films, he said.
The movie also is meaningful to believers, he said.
âItâs one thing to go through the Bible, but this film puts the pictures in your mind and gives you a visual image of whatâs already in your heart,â he said.
Williamson saw the movie earlier this month at Saddlebackâs main Lake Forest location with an audience of pastors that he estimated at about 1,000, part of a nationwide effort to promote the film among churches.
âSon of Godâ producers Mark Burnett, producer of TV shows such as âSurvivorâ and âThe Apprentice,â and his wife Roma Downey, who starred in the TV series âTouched by an Angel,â spoke at the showing.
âSon of Godâ is based on the hit 10-hour History Channel miniseries âThe Bibleâ and includes parts of the miniseries that were about Jesus along with segments specially filmed for the release, said Paul Lauer, a publicist for the film.
The DVD of âThe Bibleâ is the biggest-selling TV miniseries ever, according to The Hollywood Reporter.


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Welcame on the top of Rome with this lovely terraced home..at the corner of Fontana di Trevi, so near but in the same time so far from the noise of a very crowded area ( Trevi Fontain), just there there is this lovely apartment of 70 mq of surface, composed by two parts, the first with well furnished kitchen, lounge area with sofà, short hallway with wardrobe, one bathroom with tube, basin, water, bide' , Master bedroom with fireplace, chest of drowers, ceiling with exposed with withe wood beams...large terrace overlooking the Quirinal, where to drink and eat with a table for 5 persons, decks, electric roof removable..and the other part composed by a little room with bunk beds with a closet and a mini private bathroom only with shower, basin and water.
A tipycally italian style ..the "italianità is also perceived from the terracotta roofs tiles..
THE CHECK IN TIME IS FROM 2PM TO 8PM.After that time there is an extra fee:
From 8 pm to 10 pm is 25 euro
From 10 pm to 12 pm is 35 euro
After 12 pm is 40 euro.
After 1 a.m 50,00 euro
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Ester, 24/25/31 december, New Year check in at any time will cost € 50,00
the keys will be delivered after an appointment fixed a day before your arrival and two hours after your time landing, Marco will be waiting in front of the house..
CITY TAX (3.50 euro per person per night for a miximum of 10 days, are excluded from the price) and will be paid upon your arrival. Children under 1
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Prima appartement voor een kort verblijf in Rome. Zeer, zeer centraal. Het is mogelijk lopen tothe gehele monumentale Rome. Zeer goed voor een gezin met een of twee kinderen, of 4 personen. De apparatuur is goed. Het zou belangrijk zijn om uit te leggen voordat klanten een aantal kleine details zoals haardrogers beschikbaar (ja) of als de badkamers zijn shampoo of gel sterkte (hoeft niet). Kleine maar noodzakelijke informatie. Geef meer informatie voor aankomst in Rome, iets simpels voor een sterk aanbevolen site.
Perfect apartment for a short stay in Rome. Very, very central. It is possible walking tothe entire monumental Rome. Very good for a family with one or two children, or 4 people. The equipment is good. It would be important to explain before customers some small details like hairdryers available (yes) or if the bathrooms have shampoo or gel strength (don't have). Small but necessary information. Give more details before arrival in Rome, something simple for a highly recommended site.
We had a lovely stay in rome. The appartment was pretty much the same as on the fotos. And the location was great only 50 meters away from the Fontana di Trevi and 5 minutes away from the metro. The only thing we struggled with, was that the hot water only worked for a few minutes before turning cold. But this wasn't a big problem because it was over 30 degrees in rome and after a while we learned to take very short showers, so everyone could shower hot. We were very happy with the appartment, we were 5 people and all of us would recommend the appartment.
Apartment just in the middle of everything. A big terrace on the roof that we used every dag. Do note that the stairs up to the roof are narrow. Everything to our full satisfaction except for 1st floor where higth is for kids only. We were 6 adults and the 4 of us, sleeping upstairs had to move around backs bending forward not to crash our head against the ceiling. That we did not know.
Excellent location
A perfect situated flat in two levels.It is really in the center and in a very quiet area.
There are however some buts.
At the second level, there are only app. between 140 - 170 cm which means it is only usable for children
There are only two doors in the flat (those are to the two bathrooms). That means that all the " rooms " are connected as if it was one big room.
For two adult persons the flat is more than perfect.
Very Nice appartement in the center of Rome (Campo di fiori). However, ceiling on the second floor is quite low, especially for tall Dutch people :)
Very nice area to stay! Close to the busses and Campo di Fiori. We really had a great time in Rome. The apartment is located in a nice alley (somewhat noisy in the morning) and looks very authentic. With 6 persons we however thought it was too small. Especially since the bed downstairs is too small for two persons, and the second level is really low (strongly not recommended for large people).
It was clean but dusty, we sneezed a lot.
The roof terrace can be reached via some stairs outside the apartment (not child friendly).
The cab driver Paolo, friend of Virginia, is the ideal men for bringing and picking you up from the Airport!
Ciao bella Roma!
You can trust..every think was perfect..
What a great apartment with a perfect location. We spent 4 excellent days during the month of January with a temperature of 15 degrees during some sunny days. Everything went smoothly; the host provided us with an easy solution to transport (which by the way was on time each way), upon arrival another nice friend of the host showed us the flat and all its features. Yes, off course it may not be easy if you are at my height (almost 180 cm) and need to use the upper level of the flat (the sealing is about 160 cm), but we managed, and yes, of course you may also have comments about the lack of perfect china the kitchen – but you can expect a perfection location to everything and an easy access to a large variety of restaurants. And the flat is filled with charm
The flat is very near to everything.
Ínside the first floor is only for people with a high lower than 160. Under this you have a big toilet, room for sleeping, kitchen and a livingroom.
At the roof you have a fantastic place to relax and take a drink.
The flat itn´t for people with diabled people.
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- Jonathan said...
Dallas wins that matchup and pretty well every other one except maybe in net.
I think you mean Detroit ;) - 5/08/2008 10:19 AM
- Black Dog said...
Damn, thanks.
As you can tell by the time of the post I'm needing sleep. That's my excuse. - 5/08/2008 10:54 AM
- Bruce said...
re: Dallas-Detroit, I'll take the Zebras in three.
- doritogrande said...
Has Knuble played a game since the first round? I think he's injured. God, that team with Knuble and Gagne in the lineup would have been scary good.
I picked Philly to win this one, but that was before they lost Timonen. That's a huge loss for the Flyers, and I don't think they've got the horses on the back end to stomach his loss. - 5/10/2008 12:46 PM
- Black Dog said...
Knuble game back in game 4 against the Habs, dg.
With Timonen the Flyers had a shot, without him they're done. Everyone gets bumped up and that's 25 minutes quarterbacking the PP and playing the toughest minutes gone. Hatcher and Smith have to pick up the slack and then Randy Jones, Kukkonen and so on have to play more and the Pens have two terrific lines to try and stop.
He is irreplaceable. - 5/10/2008 2:25 PM
- Bruce said...
With Timonen the Flyers had a shot, without him they're done. ... He is irreplaceable.
BDHS: Good call. The double blow of losing Timonen and then Coburn drained whatever suspense right out of the series. They had done a great job on OV and Kovalev. Even before the series there was talk of splitting those two up so that one could focus on each of Crosby and Malkin, so they were in trouble already.
But with both those guys on the sideline the Penguins' talent is skating circles around the likes of Derian Hatcher, who is -4 in the series and has watched 2 more Pittsburgh tallies from the penalty box. Looks good on Hatcher and the Flyers, but it really hasn't been a fair fight and that's unfortunate. - 5/14/2008 4:07 PM


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Rogers, I.;
Development, characterisation and application of an inducible model of Alzheimer's Disease in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder and the most prevalent form of senile dementia, affecting more than 26 million people worldwide. The amyloid-β42 peptide (Aβ42) has been suggested to play a central role in the pathogenesis of AD. Although the primary etiologic mechanism of AD is unknown, it has a clear association with age. However, is it ageing, the slow erosion of biological function, that is the cause of AD; or is ageing merely a measure of how long it takes to accumulate toxic levels of Aβ? To distinguish between age-dependent and age-independent effects on the rate and extent of AD pathogenesis, an inducible model of Aβ toxicity was developed in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. This is a model system where expression of Aβ peptides can be induced for the first time, or turned off, at different ages. Induced expression of the human Arctic mutant Aβ42 peptide in Drosophila neural tissue resulted in flies with age-dependent locomotor and electrophysiology deficits and shortened lifespan. Conditional expression of Arctic Aβ42 at different ages was then used to show that ageing renders flies more vulnerable to Aβ42 toxicity. The results of this thesis also served to highlight the technical drawbacks of the GeneSwitch system and the complexities of measuring the effect of ageing interventions such as reduced insulin signalling and the drug rapamycin on Aβ toxicity in Drosophila.
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Title: | Development, characterisation and application of an inducible model of Alzheimer's Disease in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster |
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Language: | English |
UCL classification: | UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Biosciences (Division of) > Genetics, Evolution and Environment |
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So first Spielberg and Hanks gave us Saving Private Ryan, about a few soldiers. That's fine, nothing wrong with that... then they teamed up with HBO to give us the Army-themed series Band of Brothers. And then the triumvirate produced The Pacific, about the Marine Corps. At this point, one could perhaps be forgiven for thinking that it was the Navy's turn to get the S-H-HBO WW2 spotlight, what with the Navy being arguably the most important branch of service during that particular time. But some sailor must have sat on Steven's glasses or made one too many "Run, Forrest!" jokes to Hanks at some point, because the semaphore signals have revealed that the next HBO WW2 miniseries will again honor non-floating (or sub-floating) warriors by focusing on aerial warfare over Europe, even though this material has been all but exhausted by the George Lucas-commissioned masterpiece Red Tails. (And what's more, the Air Force didn't even become a separate branch until after the war!) Let's see... President Carter served in the Navy. Maybe the S-H-HBO boys would accept an apology from him for whatever it was wronged them? And give us a submarine or battleship-themed miniseries at last?
I assume the "masterpiece" portion of the Red Tails comment was jest...I hope. I'm excited for this. I've always wanted to see a big budget WWII ariel combat miniseries, especially in line with BoB and The Pacific. However, I agree with you that I do hope at some point that they make a Pacific based Naval Miniseries. Just being able to see the Battles of Midway and Leyte Gulf with modern VFX work would be quite the experience. It would actually fit perfectly inline with what they have done so far, from the American perspective. They showed an example of ground combat in Europe in BoB, and an example of ground combat and island hopping in the west in The Pacific. Now they're going back to show the other major portion of the European campaign, the ariel war. I'd actually be kind of shocked if they didn't make a miniseries to show the last major portion of the war, the Pacific Naval Campaign. I actually just finished reading The Admirals, which is a biography of the 4 Five-Star Admirals during the war, Leahy, Halsey, Nimitz and King. A miniseries based upon that book, and their lives would be extremely interesting.
I'm an Air Force brat and my brother and uncle both served in the Marine Corps. Navy sucks. *hides from Emh's wrath *
Meh, just go re-watch McHales Navy, it's all there... I would love to see an HBO mini-series about the Navy as well, and hopefully they'll get around to it as well, but personally the ariel warfare aspect of the war interest me more so I'm glad they're doing that.
Yeah, I'm far more interested in the aerial theater as well, so I'm really looking forward to this. It would be cool if they eventually did a fourth miniseries focusing on the war at sea, though. That'd pretty much complete the set.
I would hope so too/ You COULD argue that even amongst big-budget miniseries, doing a one about the big naval battles would be the most expensive, as the use of CGI and practical effects to recreate them would be prohibitive. Every ship would have to be modeled extensively, plus plenty of big explosions, etc. I can imagine lots of greenscreen even during the non-combat parts of the episodes, or stormy days, etc. That said, there are ways to cut corners too. Like in BoB, have the series follow one ship (perhaps a cruiser or even a destroyer - carriers would be tough to re-create and none exist anymore in a WWII configuration to use for practical filming) and her crew through the war in one or both oceans. There are plenty of biographical books that follow one ship in this manner (the carrier Enterprise was covered in documentary fashion in "Battle 360") and which could potentially be used. Then again, it comes down to background too. Spielberg's dad was in the Army in WWII (USAAF it seems, a Communications Cheif for a B-25 bomber squadron) so this one would be close to Steven's heart. While Tom Hanks' dad doesn't seem to have served, Tom is known for extensively researching his parts - Jim Lovell was a Navy man but joined in the postwar, so he may not be a proper source for a WWII series. I for one would love something about naval aviators in WWII - follow a single squadron from activation through to the end of the war, going through pilots, commanders, land assignments and aircraft along the way. Perhaps with this current one done, they'll have learned enough to give something like that justice. Mark
Well, figure out how to defeat Germany or Japan without them and get back to us! The Pacific was not an "aerial theater"?! Seriously, one for the AAF seems fair, as long as the navy gets a series somewhere in there. Of course the SW Pac, Med and CBI theaters will want their own series, too... Justin
I'm still waiting for someone to make a WWI drama focusing on the aces, something which would be exciting. Kind of tired of everything being WWII now. It's as if Hollywood has all but forgotten that war.
Nah, Aces yes, WWI no. Anyone see "Flyboys"? Could be a while before anyone tries that again. There was a biopic (oddly, a German film shot in English) about Richthofen's story a couple years back; similarly maudlin IMO. One theatre of air operations that hasn't really been covered is Korea: F-86 Sabres blasting away at Soviet MiGs with the same .50 cal guns used in the last war, but twice as fast and ten times as noisy. As exciting as the WWII dogfights, and IMO more visually exciting than watching F-4s launching missile after missle, or the Gulf War with Eagles firing at targets without even seeing them. Incidentally, if you haven't seen "Dogfights" on the History channel, do so! It's a great docuseries about various exploits of fighter pilots through the last century (mostly American, but a few from other countries). This year we also have "Air Aces", which does the same thing but with more live action re-enactments featuring actual replicas in the air. Cool stuff. Mark
If Hanks and Spielberg really want to impress, he'd do something of that ilk from the Luftwaffe perspective. Depicting some Germans as "good" wouldn't really be new ground for him, and it would make for an interesting spin. Aside from the Battle of Brittan, the B-17 corps, and the Tuskegee guys (all three of which have been done), there really weren't that many great allied areal tales in the European theater. At least, there wasn't nothing to compare to the German masters like Schnaufer, Hartmann, Marseille, etc. Most of those guys were just men doing their job and some of them had interesting stories, Hartmann in particular. For starters, he is probably the single greatest fighter pilot of all time--even over Richthofen, Immelman, and the like. Other than having the most kills, his biggest claim to fame was he never lost a wingman. For anyone who's ever played the Ace Combat games, Yellow 13 was based on him. However, many thought he was unfairly persecuted by the Russians after the war and made a martyr of. And eventually several American and British pilots came to his defense simply out of respect.
Skimmed over and missed this before: It would be but it will never happen. Halsey was in action, but the other three... spending the war in planning meetings and staff conferences isn't going to translate well to the screen. It was a really good book, though. I thought it might be too superficial, spread four ways like it was, but it actually holds up pretty well as a compliment to their principal bios. Justin
Maybe not in terms of idividual air battles, such as the BAttle of Britain, but the air war of Europe is a different story. It was a hard fight for the Allied Air Forces to gain air supremecy over Europe. As for Ariel tales in the European theatre during WWII: The Dambusters Raid The Bombing of the Tirpitz Operation Jericho (the Raid on the Amiens POW camp) True the above are RAF ones, but that's just off the top of my head, I'm sure I could find more if I looked.
WWI was a depressing, meaningless muddle. WWII was of course even more depressing, but it shaped the world we live in today, and the meaning is obvious to all. So drama based on it seems more consequential. I don't mind if WWI is forgotten like, say, the Napoleonic Wars. I could use more Civil War stuff though.
Aerial combat over Europe is interesting because it's a bit different (usually, you think naval aerial combat over the Pacific). Although I think it'll start more interesting than it ends (Battle of Britain). Then it'll end fairly depressing since it'll just be about bombing various German cities out of existence.
"Honor"? It's not about honoring anyone. These people are just telling a story they find interesting, hoping that it will entertain the audience. There is no secret checklist of people deserving HBO high-fives.


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All these morning mist shots are wonderfull. Here the sparse rythm of the trees give a perfect calm to the picture. A great forest for taking a mist shot! The branches in the first tree also give a nice contrast.


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Feel the burn! But not in a good way...
Very hot burning wax; not good for beginners but if you like a lot of pain then this is for you. For everyone else I would recommend using a massage candle, as it is a much lower temperature wax or even a store bought candle that is either soy wax or a low melt temperature wax as you will have a better experience.Published:
Unscented, leaves no residue easy to clean up
Very hot burning, could burn skin
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OMG....this is a horrible product!!! I'm so glad you tested it first. I can't even imagine how this would feel on the more sensitive skin of the inner thighs, for example. Wow. After reading this review, I would hope that EF would stop selling these. I would think that most people who are really into pain and hardcore kink wouldn't be buying these, anyways. This isn't the market for it.
I am a fan of wax play so I was looking at these, I am so glad I read this review. I am going to stay very far away from these.
Woah, you skin BLISTERED from the wax? That's not cool. I hope you're OK now. Thanks for reviewing these.
Wow i'm so sorry that happened. I have been looking into trying wax play and i now know what not to get. Hope you feel better.
Thanks for the review!!! I don't think I would like it either.
Thanks fo rthe review!
Wow, this is really useful. Thanks! Glad to know these aren't such a good product for that purpose.
So glad you tested it before I even thought about it. I like my unburned skin. lol. Great review!
Thanks for the review
I'm sorry these did not work for you. They seem cheap as well. I really liked the idea. I think someone who likes a lot of pain may enjoy these.. but for me I think I will past. Hope your skin is better now.
Yikes, sorry this hurt you. Thanks for sharing with us.
fantastic review who wants something that hot
Nice review.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Wednesday Workspace
I loved the ultra feminine and chic office of Real Simple market editor, Kelley Carter, featured in this month's Lonny. The pink neon desk adds such an element of fun + I adore the fabric covered inspiration board. The light pouring in the window would make this space such a joy to work in!
See the rest of Kelley's gorgeous home here.
Happy hump day friends!
Rachel xo
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Looking at your lovely posts I've realised that I don't have a workspace at home as I tent to work/blog from the sofa...but this beautiful image made me long for a stylish corner...Rachel, I'm also MIA a lot lately because of the workload, so I completely understand you. I wish you a nice and relaxing w-e! Caterina
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When the fist went up, so did some eyebrows. Danny Green had been waiting and waiting for a chance to play a major role, and now he was taking himself out of the game when an opportunity presented itself? Sure, taking a break was the best thing for the team. But not everyone in that situation -- hungry for playing time with minutes still on his plate -- would have stepped away from the table. As it turns out, Green knew what he was doing. (Durham Herald-Sun)
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Clayton Kershaw was examined Tuesday by a hip specialist, who said the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner can continue to pitch without risking further damage to his right hip, but the Dodgers will not allow Kershaw to take the mound if the pain persists.
While the team traveled to Washington on Tuesday for a series opener with the Nationals that was postponed by rain, Kershaw was examined by Dr. Bryan Kelly at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Kelly agreed with the initial diagnosis made by team physician Neal ElAttrache that Kershaw has an impingement of the right hip, meaning the joint is pinched during rotation of the hip while pitching.
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Day One
Sibling rivalry worked in Surrey's favour as Sam and Tom Curran shared seven wickets to dismiss title rivals Lancashire for 287 on the opening day of their Specsavers County Championship match at The Kia Oval.
The young seam-bowling brothers were Surrey's star performers with the ball as Lancashire mustered two batting bonus points on a seemingly ideal day for crease occupation.
In response, Surrey's openers Rory Burns and Dominic Sibley survived the last 15 overs in reaching 50 without loss with Burns posting his 1,000th first-class run for the summer in the process.
Burns edged to slip in the day's final over, but survived when Rob Jones downed a sharp, low chance to ensure the brown caps hammered home their first day superiority and will go into the second day trailing by 237.
Batting first after winning the toss, Lancashire lost Luke Procter fell lbw in the eighth over of the day when he played across one on the back foot to be wrapped in front by Sam Curran.
Then, after Surrey's attack had extracted some exaggerated bounce, the in-form Haseeb Hameed fell hook line and sinker for the host's leg theory trap. The right-hander gloved an attempted pull shot against Stuart Meaker to the keeper Ben Foakes, who held a diving catch almost in a leg gully position.
A seam-bowling masterclass by the Curran brothers then sparked the loss of a further five Lancashire wickets in the mid-session. Giving nothing away in terms of width or length, the siblings mopped up three wickets inside an hour of the resumption.
Left-armer Sam started the rout bowling from the Vauxhall End with a prefect in-swinger. Alviro Petersen made a late decision to withdraw the bat, but could only deflect the ball onto off stump via the toe end of his bat.
Brother Tom got in on the act by having Liam Livingstone caught behind, then Sam responded with another beauty, a leg-cutter that grazed the outside edge of Steven Croft's bat give Foakes his third catch of the day.
Clark and Jones dug in for the next 25 overs to add 85 but, on the cusp of tea Clark, fishing outside off stump against Meaker, was sensationally caught, low, one-handed and diving to his right by 38-year-old Kumar Sangakkara at first slip.
Sam Curran returned to bag his fourth scalp of the day in a third spell when Jones (25), in reaching to drive a wide one, dragged the ball on via a thick outside edge.
After tea, Arron Lilley came out swinging like the proverbial village blacksmith but Tom Curran responded by nabbing his second scalp when Kyle Jarvis checked his push-drive to loop a comfortable catch to Mark Footitt at mid-off.
After smashing four sixes and a brace of boundaries Lilley's fun ended when, with his score on 38, he swished at one to be caught behind and receive a vociferous send-off from Meaker.
Lancashire's last-wicket pair of Simon Kerrigan and Nathan Buck also hit out lustily to add 48 and see their side to a second batting bonus point, before Kerrigan, groping on the drive, nicked behind off the wayward Footitt to give Foakes his fifth catch of the innings.
Sam Curran bagged four for 61, his brother two for 51 and Meaker three for 83 as Lancashire succumbed inside 79 overs.
Day Two
Half-centuries from Rory Burns, Dominic Sibley, Kumar Sangakkara and Steven Davies edged Surrey into a slender yet potentially crucial first innings lead of 67 at the mid-point of their Specsavers County Championship match with Lancashire at the Kia Oval.
On a perfect day for batting, Surrey might have expected a three-figure contribution from at least one member of their top order, as it was Burns's 88 proved their top score thus far in a disappointing total of 354 for six at stumps.
Resuming on their overnight score of 50 without loss and in reply to Lancashire's disappointing first day total of 287, Surrey openers Burns and Sibley were first to reach half-centuries in extending their first-wicket partnership to 160.
Burns moved to his 80-ball 50 with a thick edge over the slip cordon to third man for a ninth boundary off the bowling of Jordan Clark. It was Burns's seventh championship half-century of the summer.
Lancashire turned to spin for the 15th over of the day in the shape of Arron Lilley, but his sixth delivery was cut for three to backward point by Burns to raise the century opening stand.
The red rose county turned to spin at both ends with the introduction of slow left-arm from Simon Kerrigan at the Pavilion End, yet Burns and Sibley still looked totally untroubled.
Sibley's crisp cover drive for four against Lilley then raised his third championship half-century of the summer from 130 balls and with seven boundaries.
Lancashire's bowlers emerged from lunch to bowl tighter lines and were rewarded for the endeavour by removing the Surrey openers in the space of nine deliveries, both to the bowling of Kyle Jarvis.
Sibley (56) was first to go when he chopped on to the base of his off stump off an open bat face when trying a run down to third man. Then, three runs on, Burns chased a near wide to be caught by a tumbling Steven Croft when 12 short of his century.
Left-handers Arun Harinath and Kumar Sangakkara added 45 inside 10 overs before Harinath, in prodding down the wrong line to a Lilley arm-ball, went lbw for 21.
Steven Davies joined forces with Sangakkara, who revelled in the hottest conditions of the summer so far. With the sun on his back the Sri Lankan maestro soon took a view on the slow left-arm bowling of Kerrigan, hoisting the Lancashire spinner for four over cover and a six into the pavilion seats off successive balls on his way to a 47-ball 50 with five fours and a brace of sixes.
Davies also went for his shots, helping to add an attractive 66 through to the interval as Surrey cut Lancashire's overall lead to 13 runs.
Jarvis and Nathan Buck shared the second new ball from the pavilion End immediately after the resumption and it was Buck who bagged the prized scalp of Sangakkara four overs into the final session.
Having just launched into a lofted drive that sizzled to the ropes at extra cover, Sangakkara leant back looking for another off-side boundary only to pick out Haseeb Hameed in the gully and depart for 67 from 73 balls.
Davies and Ben Foakes steered the hosts into the lead and to a third batting bonus point while Davies posted the third 50 of the day, his fifth of the season, from 96 balls and with six fours.
Foakes perished in the final hour, lbw when pushing at one from Luke Procter, then Davies, on 59, continued the theme for the day by tossing away his own wicket with a lame leg-side clip off a Lilley long-hop that picked out Kerrigan at mid-wicket.
Day Three
Surrey's left-arm pace bowler Mark Footitt bagged season's best figures to move his adopted county to the brink of a deserved Specsavers Championship win over Lancashire.
On a flat pitch at the Kia Oval, the former Derbyshire seamer bent his back to take five for 49 – including a three purple patch of three for three in 28 balls during the final session – as Surrey's attack continued to cause headaches aplenty for the red rose middle order.
By the close Lancashire had toppled to 203 for eight, a paltry overall lead of 10 and having lost six wickets in the day's final session. The visitors will need a batting miracle or a fourth-day deluge in order to deny Surrey their fourth win of their Division One campaign.
Batting again by 1.45pm and after conceding a first-innings deficit of 193, Lancashire had made a bright enough start under occasionally cloudy skies in SE11.
Luke Procter and Haseeb Hameed posted 49 before Hameed, on 17, fended at one going across him from Footitt to edge behind to keeper Ben Foakes.
Liam Livingstone then received a snorting lifter from Stuart Meaker that struck the right-hander's gloves and flew to slip, where Steven Davies took a sharp, low chance.
Procter, who negated Meaker's quick bouncers by crouching low in the crease, moved to a well-deserved 85-ball 50 with nine fours just before rain arrived to force a slightly early tea interval.
Procter, with his score on 65, should have gone soon after the resumption but Davies, this time at third slip, downed a tough chance diving toward the vacant berth at second slip.
The third-wicket pair marched on with Alviro Petersen posting a 57-ball 50 with seven fours and a six but, with Surrey's lead cut to 26 runs, Petersen aimed an over-ambitious expansive drive against Footitt to pick out Dominic Sibley at extra cover.
Without addition to the score and in Footitt's next over, Steven Croft followed a leg-cutter to edge to Kumar Sangakkara diving forward at slip to make it 167 for four.
Procter blotted his copybook by walking across his stumps to miss a leg-side flick and depart lbw to Footitt, then Batty was rewarded for his tight stint at The Vauxhall End, with two wickets in five balls. Rob Jones misjudged the line to fall lbw, then Jordan Clark was hoodwinked by a quicker ball that pegged back off stump.
Footitt claimed his fifth when Adam Lilley nicked an expansive drive to slip, but Lancashire survived the last four overs without further alarm to take the match into its final day.
The third day had started with heartbreak for Surrey's star 18-year-old all-rounder Sam Curran who missed out on his maiden first-class century by four runs, as the hosts elected to bat on until after lunch in adding a further 126 to their eventual total.
Curran's brother Tom departed in the early exchanges when his miscued sweep against Lancashire off-spinner was caught on the run at square leg by Jones.
Sam remained to post a 75-ball 50 and move smoothly to 96 by clipping a Lilley long-hop into the green seats of the lower Westminster Terrace. But, in attempting another trademark leg-side clip two deliveries later, Curran found a leading edge to loop a return catch to the bowler. Not surprisingly, the teenager moped off having hit 13 fours and three sixes in his eye-catching 127-ball knock.
Batty followed soon after, prodding forward he missed a Simon Kerrigan arm ball to give Lancashire's other frontline spinner his sole wicket of a 30-over stint.
After an early lunch for bad light and drizzle, Surrey were finally dismissed when Lilley turned one sharply past the lunge of Footitt to peg back middle and leg and finish with figures of five for 130.
Day Four
Ten months into his Surrey career and having suffered early-season niggles and lapses in confidence, left-arm seamer Mark Footitt finally announced his arrival at the Kia Oval with a career-best haul of seven for 62 to wrap up Surrey's 10-wicket win over Lancashire.
Footitt mopped up Lancashire's two remaining wickets within 40 minutes of the fourth and final day to set up his side's fourth win of the Specsavers County Championship campaign.
Home openers Rory Burns (28*) and Dominic Sibley (11*) duly knocked off the 38 runs required within 9.1 overs to secure the comfortable and deserved victory with more than two sessions of the game to spare.
By hitting the winning boundary with a reverse sweep Burns also marked his 26th birthday by scoring his 1,000th championship run of the season.
Earlier, Surrey's attack required only 15 deliveries of the final day to dislodge Lancashire's ninth man in the shape of Nathan Buck. Prodding off the back foot at another testing delivery from Footitt, the right-hander followed and nicked to second slip where birthday boy Burns took a comfortable catch.
Lancashire's last pairing of Simon Kerrigan and Kyle Jarvis extended their side's narrow overall lead to 37 before Footitt, the former Derbyshire stalwart, had Kyle Jarvis caught on the drive at mid-off to wrap up the Lancashire innings for 230.
While Footitt secured his career-best from the Pavilion End, Batty reeled off 27 overs at the Vauxhall End to finish with excellent figures of two for 67, having virtually locked down the run-scoring from one end.Lancashire travelled home with 4pts while Surrey boosted their late title challenge with a haul of 23 having secured their third win in four championship starts.
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Today's guest post is from Courtney Jane, a Veritas Prep Admissions Consultant who focuses on the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. When she's not consulting, she works as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch, helping clients protect and grow their assets. Before going to Dartmouth to study business, Courtney graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Political Science, and Communications.
The Tuck School at Dartmouth is a magical place. It is the quintessential college campus, and to me the most beautiful of all the Ivy's – not a bad place to spend two years. I think the picture attached to this post sums it up as to why I chose to attend Tuck after also being accepted to Columbia, Wharton, and Cornell, among many others.
I grew up in Southern California on the beach, and I knew that I wanted to attend business school at an Ivy League school. I visited all of the programs and decided that of the top 10 business schools Tuck had everything I wanted: a great ranking (3 at the time; and for the past 20 years since I graduated, it has always been in the top 10); a gorgeous atmosphere head and above any other campus I visited; and then there was the warmth of the community. When I visited I was treated to a weekend of being a Tuckie, complete with lectures, parties, the bonfire, and a hockey game. Everyone was warm, friendly and inclusive, including the students, faculty and staff. It was the best trip of the business school tour.
While at Tuck, when students take a break from studying they get to enjoy the bucolic setting on a daily basis, with the gorgeous fall foliage, winter wonderland (with excellent local skiing), and Spring weekends canoeing on the river.
Tuck does such a great job during your two years there that after graduating you feel like you have an extended family of 200; Tuckies stay friends for life, and they go out of their way to help each other's careers. This extends to other Tuck alumni as well. I do business with a number of Tuckies from classes many years before and after mine. My 20 year reunion was last week, and I could not make it, but I spoke to 50 of my classmates in the weeks leading up to the reunion! With each, there is just a bond that endures all of these years later. Oh yeah, and I met my husband (now ex) while a Tuckie, and now 20 years later I have a child applying to college at, where else but… Dartmouth!
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There's a lot of wheeling and dealing that goes on in the school cafeteria. Ham and cheese sandwiches are being traded for pretzels, and chocolate puddings are swapped for Doritos. When it comes to lunch hour, food is currency. The kid with all the power is the one whose mom packed a Twix bar in their lunch bag. And if all you have is a sandwich made with 9-grain homemade bread, then you're at the bottom of the totem pole.
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Following the approval of a ballot initiative application on Friday, it seems that Alaska may be the next state to legalize marijuana for adults.
Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell
On June 14, Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell certified a ballot initiative application that would put the question of whether to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol up to state voters. In order to appear on next year's ballot, the initiative must receive 30,169 signatures from qualified voters.
The proposal would create state-regulated marijuana stores, cultivation facilities, and the option for Alaska's legislature to create a Marijuana Control Board tasked with overseeing the industry. It would also allow adults to grow up to six marijuana plants.
Petition sponsor Tim Hinterberger stated that advocates hope to finish collecting signatures by January in order to get the petition on the primary ballot.
If the proposal passes, it would help to clear up Alaskans' confusion over some of the nation's most contradictory marijuana laws. In 1975, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that possession of less than four ounces in the home was protected from criminal sanctions by the state constitution's right to privacy. However, in 2006, the legislature passed a bill criminalizing the possession of even small amounts of marijuana. Meanwhile, the state is one of 18 that allows patients to access medical marijuana.
Mason Tvert, a spokesman for MPP, is quoted in the Huffington Post as saying that this proposal is not a "blanket protection for marijuana possession… In order to have a system where individuals can go to the store, buy an ounce of marijuana, drive home, and enjoy it at home, it is necessary to make up to an ounce of marijuana entirely legal."
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If you ever happen to find yourself in Rome for any more than a few days, and don't make the effort to see Villa D'Este then you may well end up kicking yourself. Why? Because Villa D'Este is a world class renaissance garden, and a UNESCO world heritage site to boot!
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The villa itself is surrounded on three sides by a sixteenth-century courtyard, and sited on the former Benedictine cloister.
Unfortunately, walking through the villa itself - although large - is particularly sparse, and could definitely learn a few lessons from that darling of British institutions - the National Trust.
Be that as it may, this disappointment was of no consequence as the gardens are so fantastical that even a top end renaissance villa would struggle to compete.
The Villa d'Este was commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este, son of Alfonso I d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia, and grandson of Pope Alexander VI.
From an early age it appeared that Ippolito was going to lead a charmed life. He became a bishop at the age of just two, arch-bishop at ten and made cardinal by the age of thirty.
Coming from such a powerful family it seemed that his destiny to become pope was assured. However, he was defeated to this position by Julius III who effectively exiled d'Este by appointing him Governor of Tivoli, with the gift of the existing villa.
This proved to be a ruthless tactic as Italian law stated that a governor could not leave his province. The situation was clear, from his hill top villa, Cardinal d'Este could see Rome, but could not physically go there.
For the remaining twenty years of his life, Cardinal d'Este, lived out his frustrated ambitions and dreams in Tivoli. He expressed his wealth and power in the only way that was left to him. If he wasn't able to get to Rome then he would bring the splendor of Rome to Tivoli.
The gardens at Villa d'Este
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He took full advantage of the dramatic slope the grounds offered, but required substantial innovation in order to bring in a sufficient water supply, which was employed in cascades, water tanks, troughs and pools, water jets and fountains, giochi d'acqua.
The result is one of the series of great 17th century villas with water-play structures in the hills surrounding the Roman Campagna, such as the Villa Lante, the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Villas Aldobrandini and Torlonia in Frascati. Their garden planning and their water features were imitated in the next two centuries from Portugal to Poland.
Drawing inspiration - and many statues and much of the marble - from the nearby Villa Adriana, Cardinal d'Este revived Roman techniques of hydraulic engineering to supply water to a sequence of spectacular fountains. Its architectural elements and water features had an enormous influence on European landscape design.
Pirro Ligorio, who worked out in the villa's frescos, and Tommaso Chiruchi of Bologna, - one of the most skilled hydraulic engineers of the sixteenth century were also commissioned to lay out the gardens for the villa.
They were assisted in the technical designs for the fountains by a Frenchman, Claude Venard, who was a manufacturer of hydraulic organs.
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The water is supplied by the Aniene river which is partly diverted through the town, a distance of a kilometer, and by the Rivellese spring, which supplies a cistern under the villa's courtyard.
The garden is now part of the Grandi Giardini Italiani.
The Villa's uppermost terrace ends in a balustraded balcony at the left end, with a sweeping view over the plain below. A symmetrical double flights of stairs flank the central axis and lead to the next garden terrace. The Grotto of Diana, richly decorated with frescoes and pebble mosaic to one side and the central Fontana del Bicchiere ("Fountain of the Great Cup") loosely attributed to Bernini, where water issues from a seemingly natural rock into a scrolling shell-like cup.
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You can walk behind the water through the rusticated arcade of the concave nymphaeum, which is peopled by marble nymphas by Giambattista della Porta.
Above the nymphaeum, the sculpture of Pegasus recalls to the visitor the fountain of Hippocrene on Parnassus, haunt of the Muses.
Le Cento Fontane, is better known to us as The Hundred Fountains. This terrace is united to the next by the central Fountain of the Dragons, dominating the central perspective of the gardens, erected for a visit in 1572 of Pope Gregory XIII whose coat-of-arms features a dragon. Central stairs lead down a wooded slope to three rectangular fish ponds set on the cross-axis at the lowest point of the gardens, terminated at the right by the water organ and Fountain of Neptune.
Life after Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este
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In the eighteenth century the villa and its gardens passed to the House of Habsburg after Ercole III d'Este bequeathed it to his daughter Maria Beatrice. Sadly, both the villa and its gardens were neglected.
The hydraulics fell into disuse, and many of the sculptures commissioned by Ippolito d'Este were scattered to other sites.
Villa d'Este was purchased for the Italian State after World War I, restored, and refurbished with paintings from the storerooms of the Galleria Nazionale, Rome.
Visited by me in early 2012 - loved it.
For related articles click onto:
ELCHE GARDENS - The Huerto del Cura
How to get to Villa Adriana from Rome
ROME: Villa Adriana - Tivoli
ROME: The Water Organ at Villa D'Este


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Spin submission process
- What is the target audience for this spin? Beginners, advanced users, experts? This could also affect the used packages (imho emelfm's target is not beginners) SebastianVahl
- Perhaps users who cannot afford to upgrade their hardware? For example, in the rural or inner cities areas in America, or in the poorer countries elsewhere in the world?
ConsoleKit support in slim/xdm
- ATM both login managers don't support ConsoleKit. This would prevent fast user switching and mounting removable devices (eg. via gnome-mount) and maybe other stuff via hal. SebastianVahl
- this should have already been fixed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/452156
- IMO fast user switching is something we can ignore in the light spin. It is most likely that nobody will ever use it if his computer already suffers from limited resources with one user logged in. ChristophWickert
- With gdm we could have fast user switching, I just enabled in lxsession. Nevertheless I tend to stick with SLiM. --Cwickert 04:58, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
You wrote several times to not have apps which require GConf. Don't you want apps that _use_ Gconf or don't you want GConf on the live images at all? The latter would be hard to realize because anaconda requires system-config-keyboard which requires firstboot. And firstboot requires metacity (and so GConf and some other Gnome stuff). Eg.: GConf, Metacity and some other Gnome packages are also on the KDE live images. It's not that easy (or maybe impossible in Fedora at this time) to break this dependency chain up. SebastianVahl
I know excluding GConf isn't possible ATM, but I'm happy if it's not needed for runtime of the desktop. ChristophWickert
- Make Anaconda work with less RAM?
- I have hard to believe that this stripping down is useful when installer doesn't work with less 512MB of RAM. :-( MatejCepl
- Huh? I remember I did a graphical install of F7 on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. ChristophWickert
- Anaconda doing a live install will require less RAM (as it's not doing package installs). Your biggest RAM requirement will be that changes to the live image are kept in RAM and so lower RAM systems suffer on the live images. Requiring that they use persistence (which is landing in Fedora 9) will help, but make things less easy (katzj)
- How about a making the spin available for us PPC64/PS3 folks? Did graphical install/update/upgrade of F10/F11P on PS3 over weekend, also with only 256 MB of RAM (wink! wink!). Don't mind (much) the snail's pace of the install, but would like to get to LDXE/F11 heaven without spending the entire weekend in Anaconda blue screen hell! Willing to help if you don't have the hardware available. mmyoung2
- gstreamer
- gconf
Package Selection Proposal
In addition to the packages already provided by LXDE here is a proposal for packages for the livecd.
Terminal Emulator | LXTerminal | X | roxterm, xterm | X |
Web Browser | Midori | X | Kazehakase, UZLB, Skipstone | X/-/- |
Email Client | sylpheed | X | claws-mail | X |
Instant Messaging | ayttm? | X | ||
IRC | lostirc | X | xchat | X |
Bittorrent | transmission | X | bittorrent-gui, torium | X |
Office | abiword, gnumeric | X | Siag Office | orphaned |
Calendar | Osmo | X | dayplanner | X |
Document Viewer | E-PDF | X | gv | X |
Audio Player | lxmusic | X | audacious, quodlibet, eina | X |
Movie Player | gxine | X | whaawmp | X |
CD Ripper | asunder | X | grip | X |
Disc Burning | gnomebaker ? | X | SimpleBurn | - |
Image manipulation | mtpaint | X | ||
Login Manager | SLiM | X | lxdm | X |
Calculator | galculator | X | xcalc | X |
Clipboard Manager | parcellite | X | ||
Wireless | NetworkManager-gnome | wicd, Wifi Radar |
Proposed applications
- For IM and IRC, I propose Pidgin, considering that it works as both the IM Client and IRC solution. - JuanRodriguezMoreno
- but this would pull in gconf _and_ gstreamer again ... - ChristophWickert
- pidgin sucks, because it requires a lot of stuff (evolution-data-server, pango), shouldn't we say that our users shouldn't use anything else than Jabber (and IRC via irssi or xchat) and then we can use tkabber (never used, so I am not exactly sure how lightweight it really is). MatejCepl
Suggestions from SebastianVahl
- Multimedia Engine: xine or gstreamer (IMHO the latter would be better)
- I suggest Xine, IMO gstreamer would blow things up to much. ChristophWickert
- Movie Player: whaawmp (somehow broken atm; not in Fedora) or gxine (in Fedora) SebastianVahl
- whaawmp is definitively worth a look if we decide to use gsteamer, otherwise I agree with gxine ChristophWickert
- whaawmp has one disadvantage in my eyes: it prints a confusing error message when a needed codec for a file isn't installed. SebastianVahl
- Instant Messanging: licq? (never used it; in Fedora)
- licq would be good because it also ships a gtk interface, but for me it was crashing very often when I tested it :( ChristophWickert
- The basic licq package in Fedora has a Qt frontend and so Qt as a dependency. And licq-icqnd (the gtk frontend) requires it.
* Additional tools for openbox: obconf, obmenu, with xdg pipe menu )<s/>
- good Idea, I added obconf to the lxde-desktop comps group. The pipe menu is already in the fedora openbox package, so I modified the config in lxde-common to take advantage of it.
- Inclusion of system-config tools
- Remove locales or docs to minimize the space requirements?


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Thursday, June 14, 2012
A Little of This, A Little of That
I wish I could claim that I've been laser-focused on finishing one project this month, but I've spent most of my time dabbling here and there on projects in various states of progress.
I finished all the handwork on my Central Park hexagons project. All the flowers are pieced. I'm planning to applique them onto a solid of some color that's yet to be determined.
In the meantime, we still had small weekend trips to visit family and friends, DVR to keep up with, etc., so I still needed a hand project to keep me occupied. I dug out the scraps from my Oasis quilt and my recently completed H2H quilt and started making hexagons.
These are the pieces left over from the end of the strip unit after cutting the units at a 45-degree angle. I've been able to eke out one, sometimes two, hexagons from these leftover strips.
Here are the hexagons I've completed thus far.
I also finally got crackin' on my swap blocks for TMQG. They're due at the July meeting, so I'm breathing a little easier, now that I'm 1/3 done.
First I made Patricia's block.
Then Valerie's. Also, notice the ghetto, weeded-over monkey bars behind the clothesline. We keep it klassy in our yard.
Then Meg's, using leftovers from Patricia's block.
And then Cathie's.
I'm working up the courage to try paper piecing on a few of my next blocks. Wish me luck!
Also, before I forget, the winner of the May jelly roll party is Sharon, who made an awesome variation on a jelly roll race quilt this month. Sharon - I've sent you an email to confirm your address - be on the lookout!
Is anyone else dabbling this summer? Or have you been getting it done?
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help me find an upgrade to my 1997 Moomba Outback
I have enjoyed this little ski boat for the past 7 years with my family. I grew up slalom skiing and really enjoy this wake. As I get older, I do slalom ski less and less. With the shallowness of this boat, we often take on water when storms come upon us and we are trying to get off the lake. My family doesn't really ski much, at least not at my level. They double ski and kneeboard and tube. But we do not do anything with a large wake, since the outback produces such a small wake. We love the open bow of our boat. We do not have a tower. We do have a large bimini for shade.
As the boat ages, and I tend to ski less, I wonder about getting a little larger boat; with more storage, maybe a tower to try some wakeboarding, and i'd like to try some wake surfing and other wake stuff. I would still like to be able to slalom ski when the mood and water cooperate. But i wouldn't mind a different boat that allowed us to tube, kneeboard, and get into wake things.
However, looking at Moomba's from the age of mine til now, confuses me. I'm simply not sure which one I should look for to buy and would love for you to point me at some ideas you have that may make me happy.
Keep in mind we spent about 12k for this boat years ago, and have made it work for us for many years.
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I got a 2007 Outback V that I'm selling. Loaded out. It's got a decent ski wake but I've added about 3k in ballast. Surfs real well and Wakeboards real well also. Pm if your interested.
Sounds like you're looking for an LSV. My 07 has a pretty flat wake (not DD flat but good nonetheless) for a V-drive when un-ballasted and a respectable surf wave with a couple of cheap ballast upgrades. I don't wakeboard alot, but others enjoy the LSV's wake for that. Tons of storage, and a fantastic boat.
help me find an upgrade to my 1997 Moomba Outback
What he said ⬆. My 08 lsv is a great all-around boat. Definitely not the best ski wake, but decent for open water/ casual skiing, good wakeboard, good/ great surf wave, awesome family size. The upside for me is that they hold their value well so far too, which means you may have to come up with a bit more money than you are thinking (assumption on my part) to get into one.
There are other options but the lsv 06 and up is a great choice.'08 Mobius LSV, Mods- 1100 lb Rear Sacs, IBS Sac, Center 400 Sac, Dedicated thru-hull intakes and pumps per sac, SeaDek One Piece Mica over Black Roo, EZ Net Cargo Nets, Swivel Drivers Seat, Hot Water Shower, Hinged Wind Block, Bow Cushion Adapter Plate for Drink Holders Access, etc, etc.
Look at the 2009 and up Outback V. Still has a good ski wake. Not much bigger hull but way more useful space. You can wakeboard, surf, etc. Go for a ride in one. You'll come away impressed.
My Mom said I'm not allowed to get wet!
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Grading the Hurricanes vs. Bethune-Cookman
A look back at Saturday's 45-14 victory as UM prepares to embark on its most difficult stretch of the season:
A look back at Saturday's 45-14 victory as UM prepares to embark on its most difficult stretch of the season:
UM linebacker Ramon Buchanan has agreed to a pre-trial diversion program that will clear him of felony charges resulting from an incident in a Coconut Grove club last month.
Seantrel Henderson won't start on Saturday against Clemson, but the massive freshman right offensive tackle will see his workload increase against the Tigers, according to coach Randy Shannon.
With injuries making a mess of the Hurricanes' depth at defensive tackle, Allen Bailey could be moving inside from his end position at least on a part-time basis.
A few notes from Friday morning's practice:
Saturday's game between the Hurricanes and North Carolina will mark the third consecutive year that Tar Heels coach Butch Davis will face UM, where he served as head coach from 1995-2000.
The game wasn't the only thing the Hurricanes lost last Saturday against Clemson.
With Jordan Futch out for the season with a knee injury, who will be the Hurricanes' first linebacker off the bench on Saturday against UCF?


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Pearson's chi-squared independence test may be used to compute collocations in a text corpus; that is, sequences of words that occur together more than they might by chance. This typically finds names, idioms, set-phrases and the like in text. There's a whole chapter on collocations in Manning and Schütze's Stat NLP book, and there's a Lingpipe Interesting Phrases Tutorial.
In the case of bigrams, we have two words A and B, and want to know if they occur as a bigram (A,B) more often than chance. The simple binary chi-squared independence test is based on a confusion matrix which computes bigram counts for (+A,+B), (+A,-B), c(-A,-B), and (-A,-B), where (+A,+B) is the count of the bigram (A,B), (+A,-B) is the count of all bigrams (A,D) where D != B, and (-A,-B) is the count of all bigrams (C,D) where C != A and D != B. The formula for the test statistic itself is defined in the javadoc for method Statistics.chiSquaredIndependence(double,double,double,double
The LingPipe class lm.TokenizedLM
provides a convenient wrapper with which to count sequences of token n-grams. The tokenized LM class has a train(CharSequence)
method which allows texts to be given. This method stores the n-gram counts after tokenizing. So let's see what happens if we give it two sentences as inputs:
- John ran
- John ran home
This produces the following counts:
n-gram | Count |
John | 2 |
ran | 2 |
home | 1 |
(John,ran) | 2 |
(ran,home) | 1 |
(John,ran,home) | 1 |
This causes a subtle problem for chi-squared statistics: the count for a final word may be higher than its count as the first element of a bigram. The same problem happens for initial words and their counts as the second element of a bigram. So what are our exact bigram counts for (ran,home)? They're (+ran,+home)=1, (+ran,-home)=0, (-ran,+home)=0, and (-ran,-home)=2. (Leave aside for now the fact that this isn't high enough counts for the significance test to be accurate; it's just an example of a point.)
The trie data structure used to represent counts (lm.TrieIntSeqCounter
) can easily compute the number of words following a given word with a local lookup of a word's daughters in the trie. It can't easily compute the number of words preceding a given word; that would require iterating over all characters. So would computing all bigrams.
So the chi-squared implementation takes a shortcut. It approximates count(+ran,-home)=0 by count(+ran)-count(+ran,+home) = 2-1. We're in effect overcounting the negative cases. Thus our chi-squared statistic is wrong.
But what if we implicitly assume there are boundary tokens, so we model the following sequences:
- BOS John ran EOS
- BOS John ran home EOS
giving us the following additional unigram and bigram counts:
n-gram | Count |
(BOS,John) | 2 |
(ran,EOS) | 1 |
(home,EOS) | 1 |
Our approximate counts now become exact:
- count(+ran,+home)=1
- count(+ran,-home) = count(+ran)-count(+ran,+home) = 1
- count(-ran,+home) = count(home)-count(+ran,+home) = 0
- count(-ran,-home) = totalCount-count(+ran,+home)-count(-ran,+home)-count(+ran,-home) = 9-0-1-1 = 7
Et voilà. An ex post facto rationalization. What LingPipe is counting in chi-squared collocation tests includes the implicit boundaries.


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Welcome to the Sustainable Land Management Program (SLMP) Ethiopia - Knowledge Base Website
Dear visitors, It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Sustainable Land Management Program (SLMP) knowledge base website. SLMP is one of the flagship programs under MoA working on the judicious utilization and protection of crucial natural resources like soil, water and vegetation and effective reversal of their degradation. The Government of Ethiopia and its closest development allies have long recognized the land degradation, poor agricultural productivity and poverty nexus that the country is confronted with and have agreed on a strategic direction towards addressing it comprehensively. In order to mitigate these problems, the Ethiopian Sustainable Land Management Investment Framework (ESIF) has been issued by the then Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in the year 2010, with the aim of providing a comprehensive framework under which all stakeholders and actors in Sustainable Land Management (SLM) effectively collaborate. The framework is aimed towards removal of barriers that have hindered the up-scaling of proven SLM Innovations, appropriate and applicable agriculture related technologies, best practices and systems. The ESIF underlines the urgency of reversing the high level of land degradation through the promotion and up-scaling of proven SLM Technologies and approaches through multi-sector partnership in which investments and development efforts of the large number of stakeholders including Bilateral, Multilateral development partners and the Government of Ethiopia are effectively harmonized and coordinated. |
Dear visitors, this knowledge base web-site developed with the support of GIZ-SLM provides access to a wide spectrum of information in SLM approaches, appropriate technologies and proven best practices. The web-site also offers downloads options for reference materials you may find important, GIS maps of SLM intervention areas as well as e-books. Moreover, on this website you can also visit SLM Related Publications, technical documents, guidelines, strategy documents and more.
Your Comments and suggestions are welcome. Habtamu Hailu Telephone: Fax: +251 116 461163 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |