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Downtown continues to evolve, with stores like Charm Boutique and Salt of the Earth moving westward, but a number of longtime staples—Levine Hat Co., Boxers, Beverly's Hill, and The Fur & Leather Gallery—remain, and there are some stylish new kids on the block. Among the most visually striking is CLR-MNSTR Collective, a boutique/art space along Wash. Ave. Owner Tricia Thurman stocks the shelves with trendy men's and women's fashions, and the walls are lined with pastels and paintings. (Also, don't miss the location's monthly art and fashion shows.)
In downtown's Mercantile Exchange building, check out The Collective for a sampling of St. Louis stores: Ivy Hill, Byrd Style Lounge, and The White Rabbit. It's a forward-thinking business model with forward-thinking fashion. DNA, which opened in June, offers shoe consignment—a novel idea for sneakerheads—as well as hats, hoodies, and T-shirts. In midtown, Epiphany Boutique sells flashy dresses and heels. Inside Union Station, check out Vauje, Mary Collins' new store that sells locally made Vauje Vixen jewelry. And there are ample other jewelry options downtown, including Vinciguerra Jewelry, Kessler Mroz Jewelry, and more.
As the one-time home of Kate Chopin, William S. Burroughs, and T.S. Eliot, the Central West End embodies bohemian chic. So it's only fitting that 10denza—a boutique specializing in fashion and art—is situated in the heart of the CWE along Maryland Plaza, in the shadow of The Chase Park Plaza. The boutique's owner, Chris Lanter, scans the globe for the trendiest of goods: George Gina & Lucy handbags, MSTR watches, Bookman bike lights.
Among the other fashion gems along Maryland and Euclid Avenue are Ivy Hill, Hillary Dutcher's boutique, selling Big Buddha totes and Wai Ming dresses; Mary Jane's, Lori Harris' girly-girl boutique with Seychelles heels and skinny jeans; Moris Fashions, where Brian Smith and Michael Pagel specialize in menswear, notably made-to-measure custom suits and shirts; and Adriano Goldschmied, a store that's stocked with designer denim. Along McPherson Avenue, across from Philip Slein Gallery's new location, you'll find The Silver Lady, Lori Shifter and Jeff Weintrop's longtime jewelry store, as well as Libby's, a boutique that dubs itself "The Picasso of Women's Clothing."
Farther east, check out A Taste of Luxurie, located slightly off the beaten path, near The Gaslight Theater, and offering a layaway program. And it's worth making a detour for the CWE's oft-overlooked consignment stores, Dazzle Me Twice and Borough Vintage: The former is Marty London's residence-turned-retail spot that specializes in discounted designer labels, while the latter is Dawna Sturdivant's all-things-vintage locale, with Apparel Doctor Alterations & Tailoring also inside for any necessary repairs and Christiane's Handcrafted Jewelry located upstairs.
You spent all of that energy shimmying into skinny jeans—now it's time to indulge. Order the chocolate fondue at Bissinger's. Or if chocolate's not your thing, savor the Vanilla Cakewich cupcake at The Cup.
The South Side's become the unofficial booster of our fair city. Need proof? Get down to Cherokee Street, where brothers Jeff and Randy Vines sell shirts with ingenious neighborhood-centric art for everywhere from Fox Park to the Central West End, as well as insider phrases like "High School? Don't Ask, Don't Tell" at STyLehouse. Then there's longtime staple Retro 101/Cherry Bomb Vintage, where you can occasionally find Anne Klein and Gucci purses for a fraction of retail, and Ruth's Vintage Clothing, a corner store packed to the brim with used hats, shirts, and more.
Elsewhere in South City, along Morgan Ford Road, there's The Vintage Haberdashery, a consignment and costume shop celebrating its 30th year in business. Finally, drive farther south, to Sappington, and you'll arrive at a nationally recognized resale haven, Women's Closet Exchange, where owner Sue McCarthy ensures the boutique's always packed with gleeful finds like Manolo Blahnik heels and Fendi handbags. While you're in the neighborhood, be sure to stop into Clique next door and Purple Cow, a boutique filled with "recycled clothing for kids" that's run by McCarthy's daughter Laura Maurice. And Robinson Diamonds & Fine Jewelry is a trustworthy longtime family business.
Young entrepreneurs are playing the part of retail pioneer in the region's northern reaches. Florissant native Andrea D'Angelo runs Andrea's Boutique, near her father's auto shop. Beyond selling affordable vintage pieces and accessories, D'Angelo deals in paintings (her own). And Ebony Chanel Wilson lived up to her name by bringing a fashionable addition to Old North's Crown Square: Therapy Boutique, which deals in colorful rompers, dresses, and other women's apparel. And farther west, in Earth City, you'll find Bronx-Diba-Luichiny Fashion Footwear, a shoe oasis that's worth a stop the next time you're visiting Rams Park.
After closing their mall locations in recent years, siblings Kyrle Boldt and Joni Ridgway reopened Splash near Clayton High School. (Where better to sell threads for the younger set?) The once-surfer-inspired store still carries swimwear, but it's branched out to everyday attire as well. Byrd Style Lounge has also evolved: Last July, owner Julie Stotlar switched the boutique's inventory from new duds to upscale secondhand. (Also noteworthy: Social Club, Byrd's monthly couture-and-cocktails get-together.) Other consignment stores are just a stone's throw away: Dos Resale Boutique (focusing on clothing for teenagers and young women), The Village Consignment Shop (selling furs, eveningwear, designer clothing, and more), and ScholarShop (benefiting students via The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis).
At St. Louis Suit Co., you can find two-for-$30 dress shirts—convenient if you spill while grabbing lunch at the Chipotle beneath the store. Or consider menswear store Savile Row, which opened its new Clayton location in late September. And women looking for business attire might consult Karen Morrow at Doncaster Studio in Clayton.
For those who prefer to dress down, there's Blue Moon Activewear, stocked with hard-to-find workout clothes (ALO, lucy, prAna) and accessories (ToeSox, Manduka yoga mats). Margaret's offers swimwear for the warmer months, as well as lingerie for special occasions year-round.
Dotdotdash, a kids' boutique with its own in-house brands, is conveniently situated beside Oh Lolli Lolli Itsy Bitsy Candy Shoppe in the DeMun neighborhood. (Save the sugar high for after the shopping.) Beyond selling kids' T-shirts and onesies, Alyson Garland's store offers comfortable clothing for Mom.
At The Boulevard–St. Louis in nearby Richmond Heights, you'll now find more than P.F. Chang's, Maggiano's, and Soft Surroundings, Robin Sheldon's store devoted to comfort (clothing, bedding, Lori Coulter swimwear). In April, Laurie Solet moved from Clayton to a larger space here, where you can peruse her private line, priced under $200. And in May, London-based Accessorize/Monsoon Children opened its first Missouri store here (with a Monsoon Kids location also recently opening at the Chesterfield Mall), selling totes, wellies, and jewelry.
For special occasions, there's no shortage of jewelry options from long-standing local establishments: The Diamond Shop and Elleard Heffern Fine Jewelers, both open for roughly a century; Saettele Jewelers (open since 1946); Simons Jewelers (open since 1976); Adler's Jewelers and Moritz-Reusch Jewelry in nearby Brentwood and Richmond Heights; and Adam Foster Fine Art Jewelry, where the store's namesake creates custom pieces, from a customer's inspiration to designs in CAD to the final product.
"Throwaway fashion is fine to go on a date, but you can tell it's cheap and it'll fall apart when you wash it. I always think of cost-per-wear. You buy a $100 top, and you can pass it down to your daughter." —Julie Stotlar, Byrd Style Lounge
Plenty of window-shopping—and even some new faces—can be found along Manchester Road. Last June, Kari Kraichely moved Charm Boutique from downtown to historic Route 66. Beyond buying locally made baubles (e.g., earrings, bracelets, necklaces, watches), as well as items from local labels Penny Rae Vintage and Bluebird Denim, you can create your own accessories by taking a "revamp class" for $35. Nearby is Tigerlily Gifts & Monograms, a mother-and-daughters–operated store filled with baby clothing, bright gifts, and more. Brenda Wolf's nearby French-inspired boutique, Gisele's, deals in petaled purses, dresses, and gifts. Just a block away sits another French-inspired shop, Femme—that's "woman" in French, appropriate considering the dresses, handbags, scarves, jewelry, and other ladylike options. And Paramount Jewelers remains the neighborhood's retail patriarch after 65-plus years.
There's something about Ladue and Frontenac (possibly the median income) that makes jewelers gravitate there. At least a half dozen call it home: Huffords Jewelry (family-owned by a clan with a thing for alliteration: Duff, Dan, and the late Denny Hufford), Curt Parker Jewelers (specializing in platinum jewelry), Albarré Jewelry (Barry Sherman's longtime store), Melanie's (focusing on colorful, affordable accessories), Lordo's Diamonds (the family-owned staple), Alixandra Collections (former tennis star Alix Chesno's chain), Codi Jewelry (where Courtney Hopson sells her jewelry line, worn by the likes of Brooke Burke and Kelly Ripa), Designs by Elise (selling Elise Landy's handmade pieces), and Ylang-Ylang Fine Designer Jewelry (pronounced "elong-elong").
Nearly as shiny and elegant is the interior at Molly Brown's boutique, Esther, named for a queen in the Old Testament and carrying labels like Patterson J. Kincaid and Beyond Vintage. Cha Boutique caters to mothers and daughters, with a range of price points—and even offers airbrush tanning. Nearby is Vie, where owner Melodie Tauben sells contemporary labels like Issa. At the Ladue location of Marta's Boutique, owner Marta Gaska offers the clothing and accessories that have made her Ellisville store a staple.
Down Clayton Road is Giddyup Jane, a Western-themed store appropriately located in West County; MACS Designs, selling both seasonal styles and monogram services; Egg by Susan Lazar, a new upscale baby boutique; and Pink Magnolia, the Lilly Pulitzer store whose designs are so synonymous with Palm Beach.
Another preppy-inspired national brand, J.McClaughlin, branches beyond women's styles, also offering something for the guys. The same is true at Mister Guy, Terry and Carla Felumb's store that sells menswear from Johnnie-O and Hickey Freeman, as well as women's lines like Fabrizio Gianni and Tyler Boe.
Of course, men have a rare wealth of options in the vicinity, including Sam Cavato (recognized nationally by Esquire), Stallone's Formal Wear (a longtime local formalwear store, which has expanded to locations across the area), Woody's (specializing in tailored men's clothing), and Kim Kuehner Sportswear (a spot that blends biz and casual).
Finally, there are the area's other longtime staples: The Fur & Leather Centre, which recently announced it would be moving to the Byron Cade building in Clayton, and The Woman's Exchange, which continues to sell classic jewelry, purses, and scarves, as well as a mix of tops, jackets, whimsical aprons, and the timeless cherry dress for little girls.
It's only natural that the Delmar Loop—the future site of that much-publicized trolley—is home to eco-friendly resale store Avalon Exchange, which buys fashionable in-season brands.
Almost 25 years after opening, Carol Crudden's ever-evolving store, Ziezo, continues to surprise with its edgy, unpredictable selection; the shoes and accessories are ideal for those on a budget. Organized mostly by color, Pitaya is notable for its selection of affordable dresses. On the east side of the Loop, Boutique Calla Lily specializes in dresses for special occasions, such as prom or that much-anticipated cocktail party.
Sole & Blues sells both designer shoes and denim, as you'd expect, with an impressive array of labels: G-Star, BB Dakota, Ben Sherman… As the name implies, R.Sole's selection is strictly sneakers (e.g., Supra, Vans, Nike).
Devil City, a shop from Iron Age Studio's Brad Fink and his wife, Deborah, stocks Pendleton shirts alongside pinup-inspired swimsuits—with most of the products made in the U.S. of A. But if a Lucky 13 onesie just isn't Junior's style, consider City Sprouts, Molly Curlee's übercute boutique with ladybug-like backpacks, classic kids' books, and "I Might Barf" onesies.
Since launching last January, Craft Alliance's Fashion Lab has explored the intersection of art and fashion, with a range of events: trunk shows, lectures, and fashion shows, with the likes of designer Michael Drummond.
Neighborhoods once synonymous with white picket fences have seen an influx of specialty shops—recession be damned. In Kirkwood, longtime staple Blush Boutique has provided a model of success, with owner Sarah King continually seeking new trends and blogging on Sunnies + Stilettos (sunniesandstilettos.com). Paperdolls Boutique also stays on top of the latest fashions, posting new arrivals on its Facebook page. Then, two years ago, Carrie Wurm and Pam Debandt opened up Ginger & Mary Ann Boutique in the space once occupied by Blush, offering options for average-size women. The newest kids on the block include East + West, one-time financial planner Brian Simpson's men's store; Fun in the Sun Sports & Leisure, Nancy Kaiser McGee's coastal-inspired activewear store that's the only place around selling Loggerhead Apparel; and Sparkle Boutique, Diana Slay's store specializing in women's accessories and gifts.
Elsewhere in Kirkwood, shoppers can stop by the fashionable maternity store 9 Months in Style, children's resale store giggafriggs consignment & resale, kids' boutique Lass & Laddie, and a whole host of jewelry stores: Mavrik Fine Jewelry, James Durbin Jewelry Design, Summa Jewelers, Your Diamond Source, and Brando Boutique.
Never to be outdone by Kirkwood, Webster Groves has also attracted new specialty shops during the past year. In September, Webster native Stacie Swederska opened Paisley Boutique, a pet-friendly store selling women's labels like Lilla P and Feel the Piece. Earlier this year, Julie Mangels opened Toulon, a women's clothing store carrying Radzoli and Nikibiki blouses, as well as fitness apparel. And last fall, sisters Theresa Campbell and Tracey Eppers opened Pickle Juice—a children's resale boutique—joining the likes of eco-friendly children's store Verde Kids. In nearby Glendale, Letitia McPherson-Young opened Honey's Child Boutique, a store for full-figured women—not for children, as the name might imply. Then there are other longtime Webster favorites: Daisy Clover Boutique (carrying women's clothing, sizes 2 to 12), ScholarShop resale, monogram boutique The Initial Design, and Summit Jewelers.
Just a short drive farther down Manchester Road, you can find Kangaroo Kids, a children's and maternity resale store; Laurie's Shoes, the longtime regional shoe chain; Rung, which donates its profits to the Women's Foundation of Greater St. Louis, helping to assist at-risk women and children; Upscale Resale Boutique, a consignment shop where you can find Coach, Louis Vuitton, and more; and Ditto, a resale store that the Christian Schools Association of St. Louis opened in September.
Yes, there are more reasons to visit the Metro East than Fast Eddie's and Cleveland-Heath. In Belleville, Ill., you can peruse totes and T-shirts at Circa Boutique, Hardwick suits and women's jackets at longtime fixture Don Rodgers, and all things leather (boots, wallets, gloves) at Sole Survivor. At Karma Clothing & Accessories, in Glen Carbon, Kristy Davis and daughter Victoria Klinefelter stock the shelves with barely worn juniors clothing. What to Wear in Edwardsville sells a selection of Michael Kors, Mavi, and more. And in Troy, you'll find Odelia Signature Alpaca Wear, with mittens and classic cabled sweaters made from Suri alpaca yarns.
In the land of big-box stores, you can find local boutiques—if you know where to look. Start at Town & Country Crossing, which houses Klutch (with dresses from Charlie Jade and Otis & Maclain), CODI Jewelry (designer Courtney Hopson's second location), Cotton Babies (cloth-diaper advocate Jennifer Labit's baby store), and Laurie Solet's second location. Across the street is personalized gift shop Dazzle Boutique, and just east on Clayton Road, you'll find kids' clothing at Chocolate Soup.
Nearby Creve Coeur offers a host of jewelers: Genovese Jewelers (Joe Genovese's spacious store), Vincent's Jewelers (where Robert "Tony" Beins landed after his grandfather's jewelry store closed), and Vinciguerra Jewelry (with another location in downtown St. Louis). For special occasions, there's Distinctions in Fashion. And the National Council of Jewish Women's Resale Shop sells consignment.
In Chesterfield, consider Pulse (blogging what's new at pulsestl.tumblr.com), Ju Ju B's (offering salon and spa services), Meka Boutique (carrying Old Gringo boots and Wildfox Couture shirts), and Jeans, jackets & jewels (with purple skinny jeans and Tulle jackets). To find underpinning for those clothes, visit Ann's Bra Shop or Jule Lingerie & Loungewear.
In Ballwin and Manchester, you'll find Novak Jewelers and Diamond & Jewelry Brokers, though the biggest news is at Manchester Highlands, home to a new Nordstrom Rack, and Ballwin Grove, where Paperdolls Boutique just opened a second spot. In nearby Ellisville, Marta's Boutique posts its latest inventory on Facebook. And in Wildwood, Heels Boutique carries stilettos and accessories, while Jeniffer Rubenstein stocks Miss Me tops and KUT from the Kloth denim at Pure by Jen.
Stroll down St. Charles' Main Street to peruse Ooh La La, Thro's & Michelle's, and other quaint shops (see p. 90). In O'Fallon, Carries Boutique stocks curio sweaters and dresses, Ms. Brie's Boutique offers edgier selections, and DIYStyle Boutique sells locally made wares. Designer Resale Boutique, in St. Peters, offers all things consignment. In Lake Saint Louis, visit children's boutique Puddle Ducks, or for a special occasion, Clarkson Jewelers (with another location in Ellisville). And after all that running around, find new shoes at Big River Running Company or Fleet Feet Sports.
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It's been about a year and a half since former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager and her husband, Henry, reportedly left their South Baltimore rowhouse for new digs in Manhattan. But Henry Hager still owns the Baltimore place — and the couple still enjoys a property tax break that's supposed to be available only to owner-occupants.
The Hagers' tax credit this year is small: a $296.40 discount on a tax bill approaching $9,000. Still, why would they get any break as absentee owners?
On Friday, a Baltimore Sun reporter knocked on the door of the Hagers' home. A man answered and said he'd been renting from the couple since August.
It turns out that the state took away the Hagers' tax credit for a time around December 2010, according to Owen C. Charles, deputy director of the state Department of Assessments and Taxation.
That month, The Sun reported that the couple had moved out of their end-unit home in the 1300 block of S. Charles St. after 21/2 years and put it on the market. Days later, The Washington Post reported that the Hagers had decamped for New York so Jenna could be close to her twin sister, Barbara, and the "Today" show, where she's a correspondent. Tax-credit activist Matt Gonter quickly alerted state assessors to the development.
A month later, though, Henry Hager notified the state assessments agency in writing that the house was still the couple's residence, Charles said. In an interview, Hager said that until July of last year he was living in the house during the week working at Constellation Energy and traveling to New York on weekends to be with his wife.
So the credit, all $211 of it, was reinstated for the 2010-2011 tax year. When the new tax year began last July the Hagers got their current discount of $296, a break Hager acknowledges he shouldn't get because the house is now a rental.
"That is an honest mistake on my part," said Hager, adding that he called the state assessments agency Monday trying to set things right. "I wasn't familiar enough, quite frankly, with the tax credit and its existence. I'll repay whatever I owe."
The house, which the couple bought for $440,000, is now valued by the state at $392,000, though its assessment will fall to $326,000 as of July.
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Philadelphia, PA – Jimmy Rollins hit a two-run home run as the Philadelphia Phillies took an 8-3 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the opener of a four-game set.
Carlos Ruiz went 3-for-5 with three runs scored while Hunter Pence added two hits, an RBI and a run scored for the Phillies, who were coming off a pair of losses to Tampa Bay in a Sunday doubleheader.
Joe Blanton (7-6) gave up three runs -- two earned -- on seven hits with a walk and eight strikeouts over seven innings to win his third straight decision.
"The guys helped me out early and it allows you to make some mistakes," said Blanton. "You can go right at guys more and if you give up a run it's not too bad because you know you have a lead."
Jose Tabata hit a solo home run and scored twice while Andrew McCutchen and Clint Barmes each drove in a run for the Pirates, who have dropped their past two.
Jeff Karstens (0-2) was touched for seven runs -- six earned -- on 11 hits over just five innings. He made his first appearance on the mound since April 17 as he was suffering from right shoulder inflammation and a hip ailment.
Thanks to three errors from the Pirates in the first inning, the Phillies put four runs on the board. Rollins led off the inning with a double down the first base line and moved to third on Juan Pierre's sac bunt. Pence followed with a single to score Rollins. Ruiz then punched a single to right that saw Tabata' throw to third go high. Pedro Alvarez was able to get the ball, but he then threw it away himself as his toss to second went into the outfield, allowing Pence to race home.
Shane Victorino then singled to center to plate Ruiz and came home himself as a single to right from Placido Polanco saw Tabata try to get Victorino at third, but the ball went wild again and it was a 4-0 game.
"We didn't defend the ball in that first inning," said Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle. "That complicated things a lot and it put us in an early hole."
The Pirates got one back in the third on Tabata's one-out, solo homer to right, but the Phillies answered in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single from Polanco that scored Ruiz.
Pittsburgh scored another in the fourth when Neil Walker led off with a double and scored later in the inning on an RBI single from Barmes, but Rollins made it a 7-2 game in the bottom of the inning when, with Mike Fontenot on base, he crushed a pitch off the Budweiser sign in right field for his eighth homer of the year.
McCutchen singled home Tabata in the fifth, but that was it for the Pirates offense as they managed just two singles and a walk for the rest of the game and Ty Wigginton's bases loaded walk in the seventh gave the Phils a five-run lead.
Game Notes
Pittsburgh catcher Rod Barajas left the game in the second inning with a bone bruise to his left knee...Karstens was activated from the disabled list before the game and the team optioned pitcher Bryan Morris to Triple-A Indianapolis....The Phillies placed catcher Brian Schneider on the 15-day disabled list with a right ankle sprain and called up catcher Erik Kratz from Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Monday...Philadelphia has won six of the last eight against Pittsburgh...Blanton improved to 2-1 in six games against the Pirates...It was Karstens' first decision in seven games against Philadelphia.


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Over the past decade, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and other modern, giant telescopes have opened a new era in observational cosmology. By staring for long times at so-called "dark fields"—regions of the sky without much background emission from the solar system or the galaxy—astronomers have been able to detect very faint galaxies in the early universe, and to study their evolution from early stages to the present. More recently, deep multi-wavelength imaging surveys have been undertaken, and have revealed a complex interplay between galaxy mergers, star formation, and black holes over cosmic time, leading to new insights into the physical processes that drive galaxy formation and evolution.
From the entire span of cosmic time, two epochs are particularly of great interest: "cosmic high noon," from which period light has been traveling for about ten billion years, and "cosmic dawn" with much older galaxies whose light has been en route to us for about thirteen billion years. During the former period, cosmic star formation activity reached its peak; the latter period is when neutral atoms in the cosmos became ionized.
CfA astronomers Giovanni Fazio, Steve Willner, and Matt Ashby are the PI and key team leaders, respectively, of the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). Along with a large team of colleagues, they have just published a multi-wavelength catalog—from the ultraviolet to the infrared—of 34,930 galaxies spanning the cosmic high noon and cosmic dawn taken with IRAC, HST, and other telescopes in the direction of five popular "dark fields."
The large sample of remote systems is called CANDELS (The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey). It is able to detect star forming galaxies smaller than our Milky Way at these huge distances with a 50% completeness level, and more passive, fainter galaxies with somewhat less sensitivity. The new catalog makes it possible to study for the first time with statistical precision how galaxies evolved in the universe into predominantly two kinds: bluish, active spiral galaxies, and red, passive elliptical galaxies.
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Israeli airstrike kills 3 senior Hamas leaders
Israeli air strikes hit Gaza after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's military campaign may be extended. Gavino Garay reports. Video provided by Reuters Newslook
Hamas confirmed Thursday that three of its military commanders were killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza, but said the chief of the militant group's military wing, Mohammed Deif, escaped an assassination attempt that killed his wife and son.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement praising Shin Bet, the country's internal security organization, for their "hard work and professionalism" in carrying out the operation after midnight on Wednesday, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reports.
Israel struck some 110 targets in Gaza in response to Hamas firing more than 175 rockets and mortar shells toward Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday. Palestinian officials reported that more than 22 people have been killed since midnight on Thursday alone.
The month-long Gaza war has so far killed more than 2,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians. Israel has lost 67 people, all but three of them soldiers.
Meanwhile, a senior Hamas purportedly boasted during a conference in Istanbul on Wednesday that the group's military wing was behind the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank in June that provoked the violence leading to the latest Gaza war, Ha'aretz reports from Turkey..
A video captured during the conference shows Salach Al-Aruri, who is based in Turkey and is considered a prominent figure within the militant group, saying that the Iz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades were responsible for the abduction of the three teenagers.
"It has been said that it is an Israeli conspiracy, and I say it isn't," Aruri says on the tape.
"The al-Qassam's mujahedeen were the ones to carry out [the abduction] in show of support for the prisoners' hunger strike," he adds, referring to Palestinian inmates held in Israel, the newspaper says.
The remarks were made during an event organized by the World Association of Muslim Scholars, according to Ha'aretz . Aruri served 16 years in an Israeli prison before being expelled.
In the latest clashes, the three Hamas leaders, including the two most senior commanders in the southern Gaza strip, were killed in the strike near Rafah. Palestinian health official Ashraf Al-Kidra said "dozens" were missing at the site in the southern part of the coastal territory.
In a text message to the media, Hamas said the three military leaders — Mohammed Abu Shamaleh, Mohammed Barhoum and Raed al-Attar — were killed, along with three other people.
A Shin Bet confirmed the deaths of Shamaleh and al-Attar in an email but did not mention Barhoum, according to the Associated Press.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said on Thursday that the Hamas military commanders "were responsible for serious attacks on Israeli citizens and soldiers, including the abduction of Gilad Shalit."
Shalit was a 19-year-old Israeli soldier in 2006 when he was captured by Hamas and held for five years. He was released in 2011 in an exchange for Hamas and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Shamaleh and al-Attar, are believed by Israel to have been involved in several abductions of Israeli soldiers, according to Israel's Arutz 7 TV.
In addition to Shalit's abduction, Attar is suspected of coordinating an Aug. 1 operation that killed two Israeli soldiers and abducted a third, who later died.
In the latest attacks, Israel tried and failed to kill Deif in an airstrike in Gaza City that killed his wife and infant son. Hamas said Deif, who has survived multiple assassination attempts, was not in the home at the time. Deif reportedly lives in hiding and is believed to be paralyzed from previous attempts on his life.
The strike came after the breakdown of Egyptian-mediated talks in Cairo aimed at producing a long-term truce and a future roadmap for Gaza after more than a month of fighting between Israel and Hamas-led Islamic militants.
In a nationally televised address Wednesday, Netanyahu showed little willingness to return to the negotiating table after six weeks of war with Hamas.
"We are determined to continue the campaign with all means and as is needed," he said, his defense minister by his side. "We will not stop until we guarantee full security and quiet for the residents of the south and all citizens of Israel."
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry expressed "deep regret" over the breaking of the cease-fire. It said in a statement Wednesday that it "continues bilateral contacts" with both sides aimed at restoring calm and securing a lasting truce that "serves the interest of the Palestinian people, especially in relation to the opening of the crossings and reconstruction."
An Egyptian compromise proposal calls for easing the Gaza blockade but not lifting it altogether or opening the territory's air and seaports, as Hamas has demanded.
While the plan does not require Hamas to give up its weapons, it would give Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose forces were ousted by Hamas, a foothold back in Gaza running border crossings and overseeing internationally backed reconstruction.
The Gaza blockade has greatly limited the movement of Palestinians in and out of the territory of 1.8 million people, restricted the flow of goods into Gaza and blocked virtually all exports.
Israel says the blockade is needed to prevent Hamas and other militant groups from getting weapons. Critics say the measures amount to collective punishment.
Contributing: Oren Dorell in McLean, Va.; Associated Press


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Preliminary results for combined therapy show improvement in MS symptoms
Combining the estrogen hormone estriol with Copaxone, a drug indicated for the treatment of patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), may improve symptoms in patients with the disorder, according to preliminary results from a clinical study of 158 patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). The findings were presented today by Rhonda Voskuhl, M.D., from the University of California, Los Angeles, at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. The study was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health; and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
"While these results are encouraging, the results of this Phase II study should be considered preliminary as a larger study would be needed to know whether benefits outweigh the risks for persons affected by MS. At present, we cannot recommend estrogen as part of standard therapy for MS. We encourage patients to talk with their doctors before making any changes to their treatment plans," said Walter Koroshetz, M.D., deputy director of NINDS.
MS is an autoimmune disorder in which immune cells break down myelin, a protective covering that wraps around nerve cells. Loss of myelin results in pain, movement and balance problems as well as changes in cognitive ability. RRMS is the most common form of the disorder. Patients with RRMS experience relapses, or flare-ups, of neurological symptoms, followed by recovery periods during which the symptoms improve.
Numerous laboratory studies have suggested that estrogen may have neuroprotective effects and may help decrease inflammation, which occurs in MS. In addition, it has been reported that MS patients experience improvement in symptoms during the phase of pregnancy when levels of estrogen increase. However, studies looking at the effects of estrogen therapy on women's health have shown mixed results. Estriol, the form of estrogen examined in this study, is only produced in the body during pregnancy.
In this two-year study, patients received Copaxone along with 8 milligrams per day of estriol or placebo pills. The primary goal of the trial was to determine if estriol helped decrease the number of relapses experienced by RRMS patients who were also taking Copaxone.
Researchers found that at 12 months, estrogen combination therapy was associated with a greater reduction in relapse rates compared to Copaxone and placebo. However, at 24 months, the difference between the treatment groups was not as great as it was at 12 months.
"The findings presented by Dr. Voskuhl suggest that there may be benefits to supplementing Copaxone therapy with estrogen. A longer study, with more patients, would be necessary to definitively validate these provocative, although early, findings," said Dr. Koroshetz.


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Is France Becoming Racist?
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"It's an attack at the very heart of the French Republic". This is how the country's Justice Minister, Christiane Taubira, describes a recent spate of racist acts directed at herself. The politician was recently compared to a monkey on a far-right candidate's Facebook page, and taunted with a banana by a 12-year-old at a street protest. Annette Young and her guests discuss the rise of racism in contemporary France.
- Louis-Georges TIN, President of the French Black Coalition;
- Madjid MESSAOUDENNE, Councillor, Saint Denis, Paris;
- Nonna MAYER, Research Director at CNRS, the French Public Research Centre;
- Philippe MOREAU CHEVROLET, Commentator at Le Nouvel Observateur.
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Connect With Angry Customers Before They Yelp
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After 15 years of building companies such as Hotbar.com and SmartShopper.com, Oren Dobronsky checked out of technology and into ... hummus. Namely, Oren's Hummus Shop, his Israeli restaurant in downtown Palo Alto, Calif. As a small-business owner, he found himself driven nuts by negative comments on Yelp and other review sites, especially those posted on days when everything at the restaurant seemed to be going well.
Dobronsky figured there had to be a way for customers to reach out for help before they Yelped. So he teamed up with his MBA friend Adi Bittan to create OwnerListens, an iOS and Android app that establishes a direct line of communication between business owners and their customers. The app, launched in beta in summer 2012 following 10 months of testing at Oren's Hummus Shop, gives customers the chance to send feedback to business owners anonymously via text message or online.
"If you listen to someone and respond in a timely manner, and you eventually also make a change to address their issue, you really can make these customers your biggest advocates," Dobronsky says.
Most of the 2,000 small businesses using the free service are restaurants, but some hair salons and small hotels have also adopted it. Even companies that aren't signed on for the service can receive critiques through the app; in those cases, an OwnerListens staffer scours the web for the company owner's e-mail (tracking it down 80 percent of the time) and passes along the feedback--and more often than not, OwnerListens will land that business as a new client.
By adopting this organic growth strategy--and funded by a $1.1 million seed round secured last May--Dobronsky and Bittan are free to continue developing the app, investigating a freemium business model. They're also adding requested features such as the ability for business owners to send coupon codes and gift cards to loyal customers. After all, when your whole business is based on customer feedback, it pays to listen.


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LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- The serenity of a sleepy, morning sky broke as a dark form rose from the ground and blotted out the sun. An F-22 Raptor maneuvered through the dawn, banking and rolling, rising and falling at impossible angles. Through the cockpit window, a faceless visor disguised the pilot's exertion.
He angled the jet into a vertical climb as the engines roared to defy gravity. His plane leveled out, and he slowly spun to the earth.
Such complex maneuvers become routine for one pilot at Langley Air Force Base, Va.
Capt. Patrick Williams, the new Air Force F-22 Raptor demonstration pilot, practiced these maneuvers to give crowds worldwide a taste of both the Raptor's, and the Air Force's, capabilities.
"People typically see the Air Force on the news, and that's it," said Williams. "The air show is the best way we can say 'Hey America, look at this awesome airplane you've given us. This is why we are so successful at what we do.'"
Before taking the controls of the world's premier, fifth-generation jet fighter, Williams honed his skills in the back-country skies of Idaho at the age of five.
"I still remember my very first log-book entry," said Williams. "My dad let me sit on his lap during a flight, so he wrote down the entry. It said 'we saw horses and cows in the Salmon River valley.'"
After speaking with his father about the future of flying as a career, Williams embraced his desire to fly fighters by joining the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Co., as a prospective pilot.
During his tenure at the academy, Williams participated in the glider program, became a cadet instructor and graduated with a degree in Astronautical Engineering. Upon completion of his academy training, he travelled to Mississippi to begin basic fighter training, after which he began training to fly the F-15C Eagle.
Williams was assigned to the 12th Fighter Squadron in Alaska, and then transferred to the Raptor once the 90th Fighter Squadron stood up. After showing his skills in the cockpit at both Alaska and Hawaii, the Air Force selected him to become the next Raptor demo pilot.
With the new Raptor demo season quickly approaching, Williams said he was excited to show the world the power of the jet. The demo team plans to tour across the country and hopes to make some international stops as well.
As a demo pilot, Williams said he is honored to be the face of both the Raptor and the Air Force.
"I have to pinch myself every time I get out of the jet," said Williams. "You land, look back and think 'I can't believe I get to fly that airplane.'"
Williams shares his passion for flying with the awestruck audience each time he hops into the cockpit to perform. His life in the sky inspires those watching to reach up and grab their own goals, even if they are small boys from Idaho.


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Alright boys, here's your perfect day.
Head to The Ainsworth, rated the best sports bar in New York City by Zagat two years in a row.
Bypass the tables, the food, the screens (don't worry, it'll all be there when you get back). Head towards the bathroom hallway.
Go through the door that says "private", down the staircase, and through another door to Windsor Custom — it's your man cave, your hang out, and most importantly, it's your dressing room.
Windsor is the secret custom clothing shop under the Ainsworth, owned by bar owners Matt Shendell and Brian Mazza, 27. Their mission is to help men shop the way men should — drink in hand, with someone keeping what you like (colors, styles etc.), and your perfect fit, at the very forefront of their mind. After your appointment, (and you must make one) you can head back upstairs to the bar and enjoy the game with your crew.
"Every guy has style," Mazza told Business Insider. "We're just trying to bring it out in them."
A noble cause to be sure. Mazza came up with the idea to open Windsor a year ago. Together he and his colleague, Ralph Lauren vet Ryan Grayson, 26, have dressed everyone from Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Willie Colon to actor Albert Brooks (for the Golden Globes, he was nominated for his supporting actor role in Drive).
"I went to Marble Lane (at the Dream Hotel) and 6 guys were wearing my shirts," said Mazza humbly. "It was the coolest feeling in the world."
Cool for him. Even better for you.


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Petite Tresor necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 92 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Petite Tresor
E-tailers selling a range of luxury adult toys, beauty products and eventually lingerie.
We are a newly formed company owned and developed by women for women. Our aim is to create a site that is sophisticated and elegant, We are using a French theme, and we are aiming to inspire passion, and are selling romance & intimacy rather than pornography & tacky sex toys. This site needs to be elegant & stylish.
We already have a logo, created on 99 designs (attached), and we LOVE IT! If the page portrayed the same feeling as the logo we would be ecstatic. The logo should be on the page, but not overly prominent. note: we've now discovered the whole logo doesn't necessarily suit the web page but different components do (such as the company name, tag line and bow). We've since added these comments to the 'general comments' area.
What we represent: Sophistication
Romance & Intimacy
Please note we are not selling hard core x-rated products.
We absolutely LOVE the Bijoux Indescrets site - the look and feel, the menu system, pretty much everything about it (and in particular the product display page), and we will also be stocking their products. Site address is http://www.bijouxindiscrets.com
A few other designs we like include:
-www.jomalone.co.uk - we quite like this site - lovely look and feel, clean and non-cluttered (and great products!), like the main menu across the top with the drop down 2nd level menu.
- http://www.agentprovocateur.com - sophisticated look and feel
- http://www.bootyparlor.com – we are carrying similar products and this site does not have a hard core feel to it (but we don't really like the busy cluttered presentation)
- http://www.blacklabelsextoys.com/ - product presentation is quite nice
Women, aged 18-45. Our research has shown that the majority of our customers will be in relationships and within the 18-35 age bracket. We aim to create a site that is elegant,sophisticated and exclusive. We want it to be a place where women feel pampered & comfortable while shopping, whether she be a carreer woman, wife, mother or hip young 20 something.
The goal of this project is to design the Petite Tresor homepage, and a sample product display page. We only need a layered PSD, no coding is required.
The home page should have a very attractive, clean, professional look, with a "web 2.0" feel to it. We want people to feel like they are entering an exclusive French-style modern boutique. Feel free to use stock images but please no x-rated images (however bodyscape artwork is acceptable).
We prefer a dark background, and pale pink is one of our colors but we also like charcoal.
We plan to use an expandable menu from the home page to the subsequent pages (but are flexible). For reference, the main menu will contain: "Home", "Products", "Pillow Talk" (blog), "What's New" (blog), "Press", and "FAQs". Other standard links from the home page include: "privacy policy", "site map", "disclaimer", "about us" and "contact us". Additional links are: "VIP sign in", "Twitter", "Facebook", and "My Basket". We're not sure where all this should go (but when in doubt, remember we love bijoux!).
We have asked for a 2nd page but this should just be an extension of the look and feel of the first page and should cater for the layout of products. Sample products include: candles, bath and body treats, etc. Again, please refer to Bijoux Indescrets and use stock pictures as appropriate.


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notebuyer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 393 diseños de 104 diseñadores freelance.
Logo needed for a simple, show-stopping tool to assist real estate investors to manage their leads and their deals.
It's simply called RED - short for (R)eal (E)state (D)eal. And it's the logo for a company to be called RED (or Red) Profits.
RED Profits
For some reason, there are a few Red color campaigns on 99designs right now - must be the water ;-)
Our concept is simple: build a contact and deal management tool that is available from any computer and cellphone, anywhere, anytime, and that IS your back-office, so that You - an investor - can focus on finding deals, rather than managing your contacts, your files and paperwork, and your tasks and calendar.
THEN - make this solution - a "service" as we call it, so incredibly cheap that the decision to subscribe or not, is a non-decision.
RED is to become indispensible to you and your business.
RED is to allow you to focus on profits as opposed to process.
RED is where you start your day with your real estate news feeds, it's where you transact your communication, your emails, where you log your calls, where you manage your calendar, and where you book your profits at the end of the day.
RED is, very simply, your space. It's a combination of office, home and community:
Office because it IS where you manage your interaction with anyone who touches your business, from email, to calendar, to tasks, to documents.
Home because for you, the real estate investor, your pursuit of profit in real estate can be all-consuming, and RED gives you clarity and focus in that pursuit, by simplifying what you need to do, when, and allowing you to manage with a clean and simple set of tools.
Community because RED will be a tool with which you can use to communicate with your peers, your clients, and your partners. Where you can share your files, your leads, and your funding opportunities.
What is RED built on?
RED utilizes the latest, most advanced system available in on-demand, secure, deal and contact management computing.
Format: vector format (photoshop files, please).
- Simple lines, clean design
- The color red
- Possibly a mention of "Real Estate Deal Profits" in addition to the letters RED or Red (we're not convinced they need to be capitalized by the way)
- A logo that is wider than it is tall - it will be located at the upper left of a site that is based on the salesforce.com layout - http://www.salesforce.com/
- Possible use of the slogan "Profits. Not Paperwork."
- Cartoons
- Heavy images that take the eye away from the word and the brand - the brand is the word - or the words
- No homes, houses or any real-estate related images
- Images are, in fact, optional, and not a priority - this could simply be words and font and design
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Georgia Southwestern State University Tennis
Oxford College vs Georgia Southwestern (Apr 03, 2011)
Apr 03, 2011 at Americus, Ga. (Susan K. Smith Tennis Complex)
|Singles competition
|1. Chris Eastwood (GSW) def. Andrew Yun (OC) 6-0, 6-0
|2. Tommy Cangelosi (GSW) def. Dan Vo (OC) 6-0, 6-0
|3. Ignacio Donnet (GSW) def. James Lee (OC) 6-1, 6-0
|4. Savan Patel (GSW) def. Winston Hanks (OC), by default
|5. Adrian Knight (GSW) def. Justin Speller (OC) 6-0, 6-0
|6. V. Pinones-Haltenhof (GSW) def. No player (OC), by default
|Doubles competition
|1. V. Pinones-Haltenhof/Matt Vansant (GSW) def. Andrew Yun/Dan Vo (OC) 8-0
|2. Chris Eastwood/Stephen Moore (GSW) def. James Lee/Winston Hanks (OC) 7-0, retired
|3. Tommy Cangelosi/Adrian Knight (GSW) def. No player/No player (OC), by default
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|Match results do not count in NCAA standings/rankings.
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Relatives of a San Diego teenager who officials say was abducted by a family friend and driven to the Idaho wilderness told NBC 7 it's fitting the suspect was killed by law enforcement.
Hannah Anderson, 16, and the man accused of abducting her and killing her mother and brother just days earlier, James Lee DiMaggio, 40, were located Saturday afternoon north of Cascade, Idaho.
An FBI agent shot and killed DiMaggio at a campsite San Diego County sheriff's deputies said.
Read: Missing San Diego Teen Found Safe Suspect Killed
The teenager, while appearing to be in good condition with no serious injuries, was airlifted out of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness area and flown to a nearby hospital where she could be treated by medical staff and crisis counselors.
Hannah's condition was unknown and family members weren't sure what the teenager witnessed or experienced.
"She's the only one that can tell us and we'll go from there when she's ready," said maternal grandmother Sara Britt.
Earlier in the day Britt and other relatives went to the Lakeside, Calif., apartment where Christina Anderson, 44, lived with Hannah and her 8-year-old son Ethan.
They planned to pack up everything; they don't want Hannah to ever go back to that apartment again.
Britt held a little stuffed SpongeBob Square Pants. The toy was Ethan's. She said she's going to sleep with it from now on.
While packing up the apartment, Britt got a call from Hannah's father, Brett Anderson. He was crying and told her to come over to his home.
Once there, she was informed that FBI agents moved in on the pair around 4:20 p.m. PT. Hannah was found alive and DiMaggio had been shot and killed.
After six days of a widespread Amber Alert more than 200 state and federal law enforcement officials were tipped to the Idaho backcountry after a fortunate sighting from a horseback rider Wednesday.
The man told officials nothing was alarming about his conversation with the adult male and teenaged girl but it seemed odd. After seeing the Amber Alert information, the horseback rider called in the information to authorities.
Relatives said they were gathering reward money to thank him for that fateful tip.
"Can't pay him enough for the life of my granddaughter," she said.
On Friday, officials discovered DiMaggio's blue Nissan Versa covered by brush. They then brought in dozens of law enforcement officers to scour the rugged terrain by air, horse and all-terrain vehicles.
Then Saturday, U.S. Marshals flying a plane over the area of Morehead Lake spotted a tent.
An FBI SWAT and task force team moved in. DiMaggio was shot and killed and Hanna Anderson was flown to safety. Officials did not reveal if Hannah Anderson said anything to officials once she was found.
Timeline: Search for Hannah Anderson
Homicide detectives believe DiMaggio planned the violence that played out this week beginning with the arson Sunday evening.
Christina and Ethan Anderson were found on DiMaggio's property in Boulevard where a log-style cabin and detached garage burned to the ground. The boy's body was so badly burned it took the county medical examiner's office several days to positively identify him through DNA extraction from his bone marrow.
"We had to put the murder of Ethan and Tina on hold in the back of our minds because we had to totally focus on Hannah," Britt said. "So now we can take the time to grieve my daughter and grandson.''
Hanna's grandmother said she never saw anything in DiMaggio that would've hinted in the death of her daughter and grandson and the abduction of Hannah.
"People like that, it's in them anyway and they work that to their advantage. They'll show you the good person they are to work their way into your family and into your children's lives," she said.
Family members say the fact that DiMaggio was killed is fitting. Britt was relieved her granddaughter won't have to deal with anything in court.
The teenager's relatives wanted to thank everyone for their prayers, support and love.
"Everyone had a place in helping us get her home," Britt said.


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Langsdorff and the Graf Spee in the events leading to the Battle of the
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Spee's raider cruise & scuttling in Montevideo; explains the
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Art Stories: Personal Experiences with SCMA's Collection
October 11, 2013–February 9, 2014
Highlights of the exhibition.
(On the Art Stories Highlights page, click the i to view the Art Story associated with the image)
The works of art in ART STORIES have been chosen as part of a project to welcome Smith College President Kathleen McCartney and introduce her to the Museum's collection and what it means to our community. Smith alumnae, students, teachers, friends, and neighbors chose the featured artworks because each has a special meaning or memory for them.
The selected prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculpture are on display in the Nixon Gallery on the second floor with additional artworks highlighted throughout the Museum. On the labels beside each of the featured artworks you will find stories of discovery and delight and the realization, as Rebecca Whitin Mitchell, Smith class of 2000, wrote, "that a work of art becomes like an old friend when you look at it closely and thoughtfully."
We hope these stories will connect and add to your personal experiences of art and, collectively, celebrate our shared Art Story.
Stories were submitted between April and June 2013 in response to an open invitation from the Smith College Museum of Art. This exhibition is supported by The Louise Walker Blaney 1939 Fund for Exhibitions, and Museum Members. Image: Edwin Romanzo Elmer, American, (1850–1923). Mourning Picture, 1890. Painting. Oil on canvas. SC 1953:129. Purchased.


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Episode 49 — Dynamic Detectives
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The Westing Game
Author: Ellen Raskin
Publisher: Puffin Modern Classics, 2004
This 1979 winner of the Newbery Award is a classic must-read for any mystery lover. Six families are invited to live in the Sunset Towers, a new apartment complex. All six families are also invited to take part in a competition in order to inherit millions. The goal? To uncover who took the life of Samuel W. Westing. As the families become entangled in solving the crime and overcome with greed, one character raises to the occasion: a young girl named Turtle. With determination and smarts, she unravels the mystery one puzzling layer at a time.
Smiffy Blue: Ace Crime Detective
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Scholastic, 1996
"Smiffy Blue smiled. It was a slightly shy smile. And a slightly sly smile. It was the kind of smile that Smiffy Blue smiled when he had found a clue." This refrain echoes through each Smiffy Blue mystery, and kids will realize quickly that the deductions Smiffy Blue makes when he finds a clue are faulty and always end up in a wild goose chase. Unbelievably and hilariously, Smiffy Blue always gets his man, despite his unconventional methods. His logic is faulty yet his enthusiasm and confidence prevail, and the reader is never sure if it is by accident or sheer genius that Smiffy Blue solves each crime. This book has four Smiffy Blue mysteries and is perfect for children beginning to read chapter books.
Mystery at the Club Sandwich
Author: Doug Cushman
Publisher: Clarion Books, 2004
Nick Trunk, a detective who will work for peanuts (because he's an elephant) is trying to solve the case of the missing marbles. Lola Gale, the famous singer, has lost her sparkly marbles and isn't the same without them. Nick Trunk discovers two clues: an ostrich feather and a smear of peanut butter. With these two clues Nick Trunk is on the trail, and the thief is not far ahead. Could it be the fumbling magician that performs the Disappearing Peanut Butter Jar trick, the talented chef who spreads his peanut butter sauce with an ostrich feather, or Lola's assistant Maggie Trouble, who wears an ostrich feather boa and loves to eat peanut butter? With deductive reasoning that would make Columbo proud, Nick Trunk methodically solves the mystery, and Lola gets her marbles back!
What Really Happened to Humpty?
Author: Joe Dumpty as told to Jeanie Franz Ransom
Illustrator: Stephen Axelsen
Publisher: Charlesbridge, 2009
You might not know that Humpty Dumpty has a brother named Joe. Even more interesting is that Humpty's brother Joe is a detective, and Joe is just not buying the story (or the nursery rhyme) that Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall by accident. After all, Humpty Dumpty is a pro. He's been sitting on the wall as part of the Neighborhood Watch for years. Joe's boss, Police Chief Goose, gives Joe a tight timeline to prove his theory, and Joe is determined to prove a crime has been committed. Nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters abound, and the answer lies in the mysterious huffy puffy wind and Little Miss Muffet's secret. Kids will delight at this in-depth look at Humpty Dumpty's fall.
Girl's Best Friend
Author: Leslie Margolis
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2010
Meet Maggie Brooklyn Sinclair, twin sister of Finn, 7th grader, and dog walker extraordinaire. Okay, so her parents dont know about the dog walking, and if they did they might not be so happy about her taking on a job that might interfere with her school work. Its not like she went searching for this job; it just sort of happened. And then, it just sort of happened that she got involved in a dognapping case. It started with Kermit, the missing dog of her used-to-be friend Ivy. Even though she and Ivy arent friends anymore, Maggie still has a soft spot for her dog, Kermit. Ivy needs help finding him before her parents get home. As Maggie gets more involved in the case, the clues start adding up, and it may be leading her right to her secret crush, Milo. Could he really be the one who is stealing dogs in her neighborhood?
Vanishing Acts
Author: Leslie Margolis
Publisher: Bloomsburt, 2012
Maggie Brooklyn, dog walker and 7th grader by day/detective by night, is on the case again, and this one has her stumped. It starts out with several incidents of dogs being egged at the park. No one knows who is tossing the eggs or why, but Maggie is on the trail. At the same time, tween movie star Seth Ryan is shooting a movie in Brooklyn. Maggie, her friends, and her twin brother, Finn, sign up to be extras, but Maggie, after making the director very mad, decides that maybe thats not her gig. Along the way she garners the attention of Seth, who watched her stand up for herself. And then, after meeting Seth in the Pizza Den, he goes missing and Maggie was the last to see him. Now she is really determined to solve this case and find out who has kidnapped Seth Ryanand hopefully uncover the mystery of the eggy dogs.
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- Coming up with my blog name, one that was perfectly suited to me.
- Being welcomed to the blogging world by Jen Robinson.
- Buying two of Leila's excellent t-shirts.
- Watching Miss Erin and Little Willow crush the competition in my Great Antagonists of Children's Literature and Great Passages of Children's Literature contests.
- Laughing and laughing and laughing over MotherReader's posts.
- Remembering to treat myself well thanks to Robin.
- Remembering to be grateful thanks to Jules and Eisha.
- Being able to count on Michele for very smart commentary.
- Learning how to write fibs from Greg.
- Working as a judge for the Cybils YA category.
- Being contacted by a reporter about my postcard series.
- Getting to know Kelly, Liz, Heather, Susan, Lady S, Elaine, and so many others out there blogging.
- Finding treasures like the picture at the top of this post and the picture at the bottom.
- Every single comment and email that you've sent my way. It's meant so much to know when I've captured your interest, introduced you to a poet you'd never heard of, made you think or laugh, or inspired you to contribute to one of my lists. It's also meant a lot just to know you've been reading. Yes, you.
And the posts....
Posting about sailing, children's books, my evening with Stephen King, my ghost, and my lousy lousy pear trees.
Posting quotations and learning a little about the people who said them.
Posting poetry and discovering the joy of listening to the poets read their own words.
Posting word games, puzzles, dictionary links and other wordie stuff and indulging my love for language.
Posting my own writing and being willing to take a risk by sharing it.
Posting a bunch of old postcards, and getting connected to the past through a little research and a lot of imagination.
Okay, that about covers most of the high points. I'd have to say my very highest points lately have been when I post an old postcard. The "Lives in Letters" series has turned out to be really interesting for me, and a great way to stretch my brain and figure out how things tie together.
Which leads me to the Lives in Letters Contest, at last....
In honor of my one-year blogversary, I am holding a contest that will run through the month of July.
The prizes:
I'll award 4 prizes, each a $25 gift card. Probably Starbucks gift cards, though I might shake it up a bit and go with Target gift cards too. Plus each winner will get one mystery prize of small monetary but huge sentimental value.
The deadline:
Deadline extended to September 30!
The rules to enter:
To enter, simply send some postcard, letter, note, photograph, or some other piece of history that tells a story. Use the Lives in Letters postcard series for inspiration, and search your attic, your scrapbooks, or your local flea market for something from the past that you find interesting, touching, intriguing, sweet, funny or sad.
Email a photo of your item along with its story to nrkii at aol dot com.
I will probably post all the entries up on the blog, so please let me know if you want me to make your entry anonymous. Otherwise, I will be sure to give you credit!
Entries will be judged for overall coolness of the item and for how interesting the story is surrounding it. In other words, I'm afraid I'll have to be entirely subjective in judging the entries. I may call in outside judging help to make it more fair.
I'll also have a separate drawing for a book prize that will be open to any blogger who links to this contest in their blog. Just pop a note in the comments to let me know.
Not yet inspired?
If you want more inspiration for things you could contribute as contest entries, check out The Book Inscriptions Project (thanks Little Willow!) which is very similar to the postcards idea, but centers around the notes people have written inside of gift books. Or check out Found, which is a place to see and read about all sorts of found objects -- love letters, grocery lists, doodles.... I will accept any of these types of entries as well.
I am basically looking for history in the smallest places. Check your sock drawer.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 24 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We are the leading social ticketing company in Spain. (similar to eventbrite.com)
We sell tickets online, for concerts sports and other leisure events
We need a cool t-shirt design for our sales team.
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The impact of the flooding in Thailand on the disk drive supply chain was certainly real, but it looks like disk makers are spinning tales about shortages to justify price hikes.
- Jon Toigo, Toigo Partners International
The impact of the flooding in Thailand on the disk drive supply chain was certainly real, but it looks like disk makers are spinning tales about shortages to justify price hikes.
As you read this, disk drive supplies should have largely recovered from the horrendous floods that ended earlier this year in Thailand, after 175 days of continuous monsoon.
Drive prices may also have come back down to earth. Maybe.
Thailand is apparently THE source for disk drives. Seagate manufactures there, as does Western Digital. As early as October 2011, both were predicting supply shortages throughout 2012 as a by-product of the floods. For the record, that was three months after the onset of the rain.
It took much less time after their announcements for drive prices to spike. Integrators were complaining to me that the cost of disk drives had shot up 10 times by late October.
Curiously, the drive shortage mantra they began back in October continues to be echoed by storage system and server vendors, and by "industry analysts" at Gartner and IDC right up to the deadline for this column -- despite the fact that both Seagate and Western Digital have given the "all clear" signal.
Let me back up a minute for those who haven't paid attention to the news of the last few months. Truth be told, you may have missed the back story on what happened in Thailand. In the tech sector reporting I've been reading, there was hardly a mention of a massive monsoon, triggered by the landfall of Tropical Storm Nock-ten, that displaced 13.6 million people in Thailand. There was no mention that the storm and floods had killed 815 people, that seven major industrial estates were swamped in 10 feet of water, or that the storm and flooding constituted the fourth most costly disaster in recorded history (surpassed only by Japan's earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster last year, the 1995 Kobe earthquake and Hurricane Katrina).
The headline in our tech industry press is that we're all about to be majorly inconvenienced -- end users by huge price increases on those SATA disks we buy from Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's and so on; while storage array vendors and PC makers will have to deal with drive supply shortages.
Yet, quizzically, as I sit at my desk in my Florida office, staring at one array with a red light glowing on one bank of drive bays and at another where the drive light is completely dark (different representations of dead drives by different array vendors), I have been reviewing statements in the financial reports of the big two drive makers.
By November 28, 2011 (a month after its dismal preview of the coming year), Seagate reported that it would ship 43 million drives, which is only approximately 7 million below its high-end estimate. On January 4, 2012, the company reported it had shipped more disk drives in December than it had expected and would be reporting revenue in excess of its earlier guidance.
For its part, Western Digital reported on October 17 that the floods would have "a significant impact on drive shipments and its ability to meet customer demand." Magically, the hitch was resolved "significantly ahead of expectations," according to company spokespersons during the earnings call on January 23. The firm shipped approximately 29 million drives, which seems like a lot.
Both companies also reported earnings well in excess of October estimates. Western Digital earned $1.51 per share (well beyond the projected $0.65 per share) while Seagate earned $1.32 per share (topping its $1.08 per share estimate).
Meanwhile, industry analysts at Gartner and IDC haven't deviated from their doom and gloom forecasts, blaming drive shortages for everything from the decline of the PC market to slowdowns in IT hardware spending, which they continue to insist will dominate 2012. Better information is coming from Wall Street analysts. During Western Digital's earnings call, one gutsy guy made the observation that the financial success of both Seagate and Western Digital this quarter was likely a function of price gouging during an alleged supply shortage. When he asked Western Digital bosses whether they thought such high margins were sustainable, they declined to comment.
For all the hate directed at Wall Street these days, I kind of like this guy. Unfortunately, his question continues to go unanswered. Is the drive shortage manufactured to jack up prices? There's little doubt there were some supply-chain interruptions due to the natural disaster in Thailand, but the impact is still influencing the game today? Really?
Perhaps everyone in the storage array food chain is using the popular theme of "Thai floods creating supply shortages" just to gouge consumers? It's been done before . . . too many times to count. Remember the reports that came out after the last jump in gas prices, or after Hurricanes Andrew or Katrina, proving that everybody in the supply chain jumped on the bandwagon to raise their prices even though supplies were more than adequate? Could this be another manifestation of the same disease?
I worry that it might be. I worry every time I read an article that proclaims a big increase in flash solid-state drive (SSD) uptake as they become "price competitive" with disk drives. Or that certain array vendors are leveraging drive supply shortfalls to push obscenely overpriced deduplication or thin provisioning rigs.
Meanwhile, two of my disk drives are dead. No way am I paying a 400% markup for the same drives just because somebody is trying to make an extra buck on the backs of 800-plus dead Thais. There, I said it.
BIO: Jon William Toigo is a 30-year IT veteran, CEO and managing principal of Toigo Partners International, and chairman of the Data Management Institute.
Related Resources
- A guide to hybrid flash storage arrays –ComputerWeekly.com
- Containers and storage 101: The fundamentals of container storage –ComputerWeekly.com
- Demystifying storage performance metrics –ComputerWeekly.com
- All-Flash: The Essential Guide –ComputerWeekly.com


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DuxburyFinancial necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 650 diseños de 145 diseñadores freelance.
Duxbury Financial http://www.duxburyfinancial.com
We are a boutique real estate investment bank and investment advisor focused on military housing, student housing, and other public private ventures
Real estate developers, institutional investors, government agencies, universities, rating agencies, other investment banks (both collaborators and competitors), potential recruits (job seekers)
A high resolution, quality logo that can be used on a website, business cards, letterhead, marketing collateral, presentations, etc. The name of the firm Duxbury Financial, LLC should also appear. The logo should communicate the following attributes: innovation, sophistication, stability/established, longevity, clarity, technical expertise, trusted partner/advisor. Our current/previous logo was a compass, and we generally like the concept of using a compass. Our office is also located on the Atlantic coast, so we like nautical themes in general. We have typically used a dark (forest or hunter) green color for our typeface, and we have a preference to continue using a dark green color as part of our logo.
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european policy makers have identified a large shortfall in computing and IT skills among young people that threatens to dent Europe's ability to compete and could exacerbate youth unemployment in the coming decade.
While young Europeans may be good at using mobile smartphones and playing video games, they lack basic digital skills that could make them more easily employable in a rapidly digitizing economy, research from the European Commission shows.
The Commission estimates the shortfall of school leavers and graduates with required IT and digital skills could hit 700,000 by 2015, a deficit that will particularly affect leading digital economies such as Britain, France and Germany.
The findings add to concerns about growing unemployment across Europe, where 24 million people are out of work. Youth unemployment is a particular concern, with more than 50 percent of young people unemployed in Spain and Greece.
Young people need to appreciate the professional aspects of the new digital world, said Antonio Tajani, the European commissioner for industry and entrepreneurship, as he launched a series of events labelled e-skills week to draw attention to the problem and generate ways of tackling it.
This is more important than ever in the current economic context. And it is crucial to increase creativity which will favour entrepreneurship and new start-ups.
Europe continues to battle the impact of the eurozone debt crisis, with Italian labour reform talks and continued poor economic performance in Spain dampening hopes for a recovery.
At the same time, there are signs of economic recovery in the United States, Europe's largest economic rival and the world's most digitally advanced economy, while china continues to grow at an annualised rate of around 8 percent.
According to the Commission, jobs for highly-qualified people are expected to rise by 16 million by 2020, while those held by low-skilled workers will decline by around 12 million.
That gives the EU only a fixed amount of time to try to bolster IT and digital skills among young people if they are to become productive members of the global workforce.
Supply (of skilled workers) has become a bottleneck for growth in the tech sector, creating a leaky pipeline that threatens to hamper European innovation and global competitiveness, said Tajani.
(Writing by Daniel Rolle, editing by Luke Baker)


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The Extra Ordinary Metal collection combines Alessi's historic production experience with elements of Italian culture, to explore new possible definitions of metal surface. Brass was chosen to interpret, from an industrial point of view, a refined and ancient goldsmith's technique that is the Etruscan Granulation. Obtained through a cold drawing of the brass, it creates a rich interaction with light, a kind of luminous skin capable of exalting both complex shapes and pure, neutral lines. The 'grain' arrangement follows a geometric sequence generated by the succession of Fibonacci, an Italian mathematician who for first translated the golden logic of classical proportions into numbers. This principle, that regulates the balance of Nature, expresses timeless compositional harmony and becomes the extra-ordinary author of this project.
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Just so you guys know, if you do find them at a store and buy say 1 or 2, give your reports to friends or others here from your area quick. The Clone has a transition date of 11/20, so it won't have a shelf space until then BUT when some sell, the computer will generate a pull for more. It doesn't know there's no shelf space for it but if that trigger point is hit and there is more in the system, out they go. It happened with the Clone 5pak and Lava figs when I bought them early at my training store. I bought 2 Clone 5paks and the next day there were only 3 left in the stock room of the original 18. Despite there being no shelf spot for it, the pull was generated and the clerk (who probably doesn't know crap about SW anyway) just put them on the spot where the other Battlepaks go since they look similar and since the Clone is in the same packaging as the Lava figs, well you know the rest.
While reading the character bio on the card back I noticed that this figure is actually a Utapau Shadow Trooper COMMANDER.
2) He has no neck! Don't get me wrong I love this figures paint job, but when the #6 version came out in April I switched heads with my EPII clones to make a Super Articulated EPIII clone but later switched it back. I didn't like it...no neck...JUST like the Target version.
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The Nokia Lumia 1020 is finally here. It's the first Windows Phone device with 41 million pixels on a sensor. It takes the best from Nokia's past and present camera tech to make the future. Here are some sample images from Nokia showing the prowess of Nokia, Zeiss, and all those pixels.
The images we're putting in this post aren't even the full resolution samples. We'd break the web if we tried that. So you'll need to enjoy these highlights on our site. Then hit up the source link below to go see the full samples, be sure to zoom in and be blown away by how much detail you retain.
Seriously, go check the larger versions of these images below. They're crazy detailed. Don't forget to catch up on the Nokia Zoom event and learn more about the Lumia 1020.
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