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One of my favorite parts about fall is pumpkin. I have mentioned that before many times. Since I have been in the baking mood, I made pumpkin cookies the other day. This recipe comes from my Grandmother on my Dad's side of the family. Sadly she passed away several years ago. Another reason I like this recipe so much is that it reminds me of her and all the times that she made them for us when we were kids.
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After baking:
Frosted and ready to eat:
The recipe has been modified to be gluten-free. The icing can be made with or without the cinnamon. I personally like it with and that is how I made it for these cookies.
Pumpkin Cookies
1 cup sugar
½ cup shortening
2 eggs (beaten)
1 cup pumpkin (not pie mix)
1 ½ cups flour (I used rice, potato starch & tapioca mix that had guar gum in it; make sure to add 1.5 tsp. xanthan gum if your mix doesn't have it)
1 tsp cinnamon
4 tsp baking powder (not a typo, these puppies get fluffy!)
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
First mix sugar & shortening. Then add everything else. Spoon onto greased baking sheet. Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes. Cool slightly and then transfer to baking rack. Tip: Place wax paper or parchment paper under your cooling rack so when you frost/ice the cookies you don't make a disaster zone like I usually do. My husband, Aaron, always reminds me that I forgot the wax paper after the fact. Thanks, honey!
2 – 2 ½ dozen cookies (may need to double the recipe if you want more, this is a true count)
Icing – (let cookies cool before icing)
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tbsp milk (may need more)
1 tsp vanilla
Try ½ tsp cinnamon in the icing…YUM!
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Hosting a Super Bowl party on Sunday? Relax, there's no need to go all gourmet in order to throw a super party. Save time and money with these quick and easy ideas.
That's cheesy. It's tough to go wrong with cream cheese. For a creamy snack minus the stirring, place a brick of light cream cheese on a plate, top with a bottle of berry sauce and serve with crackers. Or top with fresh salsa and serve with tortilla chips.
Bowl 'em over. Hollow out sourdough rolls (or any rolls with a hard crust) to use as edible bowls and have guests serve themselves from crockpots filled with chili and clam chowder. You can also use these bowls to hold toppings, like oyster crackers, scallions, cheese and light sour cream (or plain yogurt). Use the leftover bread for dipping.
Hot diggity dog. Make hot dogs the main event at your Super Bowl party. For a unique flavor, boil them in beer and set up a condiment bar with favorite toppings. Cut calories and fat with turkey dogs or chicken sausages.
Eat your veggies. Fill celery ribs, hollowed cherry tomatoes, mushrooms or large pasta shells with tuna or chicken salad.
One potato, two. Make potatoes a finger food without the deep fryer. Steam a bag of baby red potatoes. Once cool, cut in half and scoop out centers, leaving 1/4 inch of potato in the skin. Fill the potato "boats" with nonfat sour cream, salsa, chicken or ground beef, broccoli and bacon bits.
S'mores, please. Make the kids happy—combine 3 cups air-popped popcorn, 1 cup Golden Grahams, 1 cup mini marshmallows, 1/2 cup M&Ms and 1/2 cup raisins for an easy, inexpensive snack mix.
One more quick tip—make ice ahead of time to avoid a last-minute trip. Also, ask guests to bring their favorite drinks while you supply iced tea and water. It'll save you both time and money.


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Bill Shadrach necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 112 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
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WestBridge Investments' Managing Directors execute investment transactions on both sides of the Pacific through an active presence in each of the firm's offices. Whether our client is raising venture or growth capital, planning an ownership transition or executing a cross-border expansion, WestBridge Investments' combination of business transactional expertise, global resources and industry contacts, and results-oriented approach to investment will help our client companies to achieve their business goals.
WestBridge Investments sees our firm as an active contributor to the financial and business growth and transition plans for companies on both sides of the Pacific.
U.S., Canadian and Asian companies seeking private financing, mergers & acquisitions support, and global commercialization resources. Key contacts within a client organization will be CEO, President, CFO, COO and/or Managing Directors of professional services and other finance firms.
The new WI logo should be strong and clean, preferably with stronger, distinct colors… and not a cartoon, soft, frilly or flowery design.
We see the brand name being used in conjunction with an icon to support the WI East-West connection. One icon idea is that of a "bridge" linking East and West capital sources/investors with investment opportunities not the Cisco logo!. If an icon is used in your design, the icon should represent a conservative, trusted and competent investment partner, WI.
Please explore both positive and negative space. We would also like to see optional perspectives from designs which are mostly two dimensional to designs which are much more three dimensional in nature. Lastly, we would like to explore multiple aspect ratios from roughly 2:1 (two widths to one height) to a 1:1 (one width to one height).
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Baby Gifts For Your Bundle Of Joy
Bundles of Joy is a UK based, one-stop, online baby gifts store, offering luxury christening gifts and personalised baby gifts at value for money prices. These include Jellycat, Kaloo, beautiful wooden toys, original christening gifts, 1st birthday gifts, newborn presents, children's furniture, personalised Christmas gifts and much, much more.
Our online baby gift store caters for all of your baby present needs such as unusual and unique Christening gifts and personalised baby gifts. We have delightful and unique gifts for newborn babies and new mums to make their "My 1st Years" extra special, Christmas gifts for babies, as well as personalised children's christening & baptism, presents for babies, twins and young children.
As well as offering a wide range of personalised baby gifts and newborn presents, we also offer children's birthday presents and can boast one of the largest ranges of personalised gifts for babies and young children of any UK online baby presents store.
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We are always adding new and exciting ideas for your new baby, christening, children and 1st birthday gifts in 2019, so please have fun browsing through all of our online products. On all our gifts, we offer FREE gift wrapping and fast delivery service, throughout the UK and worldwide.
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Gravitte twins find success on and off the field
RIDGEFIELD -- They shine on the playing fields and in the classroom, from center stage and behind the curtain. Their list of accomplishments is seemingly longer than the roster of names that will be read off at their graduation from Ridgefield High School in two months.
The story pitch for an Ellie and Sam Gravitte movie of the week -- working title: 2 Good To Be True -- would probably be rejected high atop the offices of Lifetime. This is strictly HBO RealSports.
Sam picked up lacrosse relatively late in the game, and will continue his meteoric rise next year at Princeton. Ellie literally picked up the javelin on a whim, and less than three years later is one of the top scholastic throwers in the country, headed to Brown.
The siblings are the youngest of Debbie and Beau Gravitte's three children -- the parents have a story of note as well -- and by all accounts, with a few minor exceptions, the only difference of note appears to be chromosomal.
By the way, did we mention yet that Ellie and Sam are twins?
"It's one of those indescribable parental things that I think, until you have kids, you don't understand how you can feel touched and full of pride," said Debbie, a 1989 Tony Award winner for Best Featured Actress In A Musical for "Jerome Robbin's Broadway."
Debbie paused for a moment. "I'm in awe of both of them."
She is not alone.
"The two of them are pretty amazing," said Roy Colsey, the boys lacrosse coach at Ridgefield. "They both have pretty talented parents. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
Ellie is the elder by two minutes. During a recent interview the two were insistent there are many distinctions between them, but were unable to pinpoint one. (The best Debbie could come up with is that Sam is more diligent attacking his homework while Ellie is more contemplative). Sam said that the two, best friends, have never been apart for more than a week.
They are both an interviewer's greatest dream -- presenting leading questions to ask the other -- and biggest nightmare -- completing the other's thoughts, often in mid-sentence.
"I guess living together every day of your life we totally know each other's buttons," Sam said. "Just how to push them. We're both very good at passive-aggressive. We both do that very well."
Ellie admitted that there has always been a joyful combative streak, in this instance the ultimate game of can you top this.
"We've been doing a lot of the same things since we were little," Ellie said. "There's always competition, which is good. I did always have to get over him being faster than me when I was like 8. That was upsetting."
Perhaps having a brother or sister on the same high-level plane has kept them perched there.
"I think in many respects that competition has driven us to be the people that we are today," Sam said.
ACT 1: Ellie
Soccer was Ellie's primary sport, and she was an anchor for the Tigers. Greater acclaim came at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals last June in Greensboro, N.C., where Ellie finished sixth in the javelin with a throw of 132 feet, 4 inches to earn All-American status.
Her road to prominence is part serendipity, part pure athleticism.
"I was a sprinter my freshman year and I was doing track to stay in shape for soccer," Ellie said. "I finished a workout early one day with a friend of mine with about two weeks left in the season, and we went over and said lets go throw the javelin because our throwing coach is a really fun guy. I tossed it and coach saw me and said if you stick with me you could really be something."
At the FCIAC championships two weeks later, Ellie rushed from the finish of the 4x100 relays to the other end of the track to compete in the javelin. She finished second. Two weeks after that she was the state champion.
"I think she threw it 60-something feet in her first meet and she was over 100 by the end of the year," recalled Joe Kowalczyk, the Tigers' throwing coach. "That kind of progress for a freshman is unheard of. She's a naturally gifted athlete, but what serves her the best is her work ethic. Having technique is an important component, but you have to make a commitment to the weight room and work out, and she's never afraid to step up and work hard. To see someone improve this quickly is unbelievably rare. She's an anomaly in that area."
Ellie on Thursday finished fourth at the Penn Relays with a throw of 135 feet, 6 inches (144-1 is her personal best). She was recruited by some of the top track schools in the country but opted to attend Brown.
Ellie has a 4.26 cumulative grade-point average, and her work in the arts has been award-winning. Last year, at the Connecticut Drama Association's festival, Ellie was recognized both for Most Outstanding Production and Outstanding Directorial Debut. She has both performed with and directed Sam.
"Telling your brother what to do is really nice, but taking orders from your twin isn't," Ellie said with a laugh.
It is a field Ellie would like to pursue, which isn't surprising. Debbie, in a diverse performing career, has appeared in eight Broadway shows, on television and in nightclubs, and currently tours the world singing with symphony orchestras.
Beau is the chairman of the drama department at The Wooster School in Danbury and has appeared both on Broadway and a number of television shows, including "The Good Wife" and "Gossip Girl."
"Oh yeah, we have a pretty dramatic family," Debbie said. "That's the nature of all of us. It was always overt with Sam and a little less so with Ellie. That's because Ellie is more the writer and director."
Typically, Ellie downplayed what she has achieved so far in track, deflecting credit to Kowalczyk and Rich DeStefano, a noted javelin technique specialist with whom she trains at Yale every other week.
"He knew that I was strong," she said. "I had no form. I don't want to sound pretentious, but there's not a lot of competition in the FCIAC, so it wasn't anything remarkable."
ACT 2: Sam
It should come as no surprise that Sam's ascension in lacrosse has paralleled his sister's in track.
While the growth of youth lacrosse has skyrocketed across the country over the last decade, Sam's introduction did not come until the eighth grade.
"It changed my life in high school," Sam said. "I knew I wanted to go to a great school. I had a thing about Yale, Princeton and Harvard from the minute I entered high school. I've fallen in love with the game the more I've learned about it."
Colsey was a four-time All-American and two-time national champion at Syracuse, where he was named the 1995 Midfielder of the Year. He was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame last year and went on to a professional career.
When Sam arrived at the high school as a lacrosse novice, he informed Colsey he had a simple goal: to play the sport at Princeton. A year later he was on the school's radar.
Gravitte, a 2012 Hearst Newspapers Super 33 All-Star as a running back and cornerback for the school's football team, started off on attack for Ridgefield before Colsey moved him back to midfield. The swap was made from short to long pole.
"I didn't have the most developed skills," Gravitte recalled. "I had good footwork and could always stay with a guy, so I picked up the defensive aspect much quicker."
Colsey said Gravitte used his athleticism to catch and surpass players who were more experienced.
"He started off with two strikes against him," Colsey said. "No. 1, he picked up lacrosse late, and No. 2, he was playing the wrong position. His stick skills at the time were lacking. He was a pretty rough package. Looking where he came from, it has been amazing. His ability to cover people is amazing. And Sam has such a confidence about him that makes him amazing. When he told me he wanted to go to Princeton, it was nothing unusual because the kid has been successful at everything he's done."
Sam has a 4.41 grade point average out of a possible 4.5, is the student class president and, during the school's recent production of "Les Miserables," was cast in the lead role as Jean Valjean.
"I love the stage, there's nothing like it," Sam said. "That's what I eventually want to do. I know personally that if I am going to go after something, I am going to go full out."
Sam summed up all aspects of his life in one telling sentence about his future: "I talked about being a doctor as a fallback, but why plan on fallbacks?"
ACT 3: The Road Ahead
It would seem the last two people in need of an incentive program are the Gravittes, but Ellie said she receives a tank of gas from her parents for a personal best in the javelin and Sam did for three touchdowns in a game. It is an ironic metaphor because the two of them are never running on empty.
Down the road it would seem there could be more Tonys in the Gravitte family future, but for now the focus is on the twins' college careers.
"I as a coach have to pinch myself sometimes having a great kid like Ellie," Kowalczyk said. "She is the prototypical total package in everything. I would never even want to put a limit on what she could do athletically. I don't think anything is out of reach."
Colsey's sentiments about Sam are similar: "He hasn't even grown into the player he can be."
It is a gift to have limitless options and the inherent means to attain them. Debbie and Beau Gravitte are going to get to watch the scenes play out twice in real time.
"I'll be really excited to see what happens with them," Debbie said. "The gods just smiled on them. I know I'm their parent, but when I take a step back I know they are really gifted in many ways. I know they will succeed in something. What it is, time will tell."
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Posted by Olivia on Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
This vegetable-packed pasta recipe is ideal for outdoor summer dining. Bring the kitchen outside and put your grill to good use for an artisanal Italian entrée.
Here, classic primavera pasta is made with grilled seasonal vegetables—mushrooms, tomato, and bell peppers. The sweet, smoky grilled flavor of the vegetables combines with the freshness of fresh basil and just a hint of balsamic vinegar.
When prepping your vegetables, chop them in about ½-inch size pieces, so that they are large enough to not fall through the holes in your grill pan or bowl. To finish off this incredible entrée for a meat-lover, simply slice a grilled sausage and serve atop the pasta.


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Time for another vocabulary lesson! I haven't been noticing too much misuse of the word roll lately, but I have been noticing a lot of confusion between definite and defiant.
Definite – Something that is certain or clearly defined
- "Yes, I definitely want to go kill the Lich King tonight."
- "As a hunter, I have a definite advantage over everyone else."
- "There are definitely no a's in the word definite."
Defiant – Hard to control and resistant to authority
- "The defiant druid refused to shift into tree form and dance."
- "Yesterday I defiantly misdirected to the annoying rogue at every opportunity."
When making a statement that you are certain about, unless it is in some way rebellious, you should definitely stop using the word defiantly.


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Menu Inspiration
I love the idea of menus at weddings, whether it's a sit down affair or a buffet, you can still let people know what they are about to eat. It's really the polite thing to do. And you know you can have assigned seating AND menus and still have a buffet, right? Don't let a lack of waiters dictate fun and pretty table settings!
At my wedding, I used the Brides template that I got at Michael's (with my 20% off coupon, natch) because it was cohesive and easy for me to print and maintain a semblance of sanity. The cool part was that the waiters at Mere Bulles actually announced the dinner menu and options. I had no idea they were going to do this and it really personalized the dinner and got people interacting right off the bat. Here are my menus:
Photography by Nashville Photographer Jonathon Campbell Photography
Here are some other cool menu ideas, DIY and otherwise!
Found on Sunday Suppers. I wonder if you can actually print on paper bags? Hm. DIY possibility.
Double sided frames from Ikea $.99 via Ruffled. (Scroll to the bottom of the Ruffled link for the FREE downloadable template for this menu!)
Fancy-pants style butterfly menu found via Pinterest.
Calligraphy on tea-stained doily. I ♥ this! From Green Wedding Shoes.
Personalize menus and double them up as place cards! Via Adeline & Grace Photography. P.S. This is the same font I used on all my wedding paper goodies and it's called Brock Script.
Hyper-personalized menus from Sparkle & Hay.
On little stands - cute too! Via Calligraphy Lady.
Tucked and tied via Alchemy Hour Designs.
Modern and groovy from Viera Photographics.
Don't be afraid to accessorize with herbs, flowers, twine, buttons – anything that goes along with either your theme or color scheme or heart's desire. Photo via Christian Oth.
Just remember, not too close to the candles….
What are your wedding day menu plans? What did you do for your wedding?
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Explainer: Leaders who dislike the U.S.
From meandering rants to impassioned speeches, world leaders have used the annual U.N. General Debate to launch attacks against the United States.
Take Fidel Castro, for example. In 1960, the former Cuban president unleashed a record-setting four-hour, 29-minute speech in which he denounced the U.S.
On Thursday, representatives of 192 countries will gather at the U.N. General Assembly in New York for this year's General Debate. Once again, some may use the forum to take on America.
Leaders to watch: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Cuba's Raul Castro and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.
Click on next, or scroll down, to find out who likened former President Ronald Reagan to Rambo, who quipped to the U.N. that it "doesn't smell like sulfur anymore" and who delivered a tirade so exhausting even his personal interpreter passed out.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Beef with the U.S.: There are many, but sanctions against Tehran over nuclear technology is a top issue.
Background: In the past, Ahmadinejad has used the general debate as a forum to defend Iran's nuclear program and assail its arch foes Israel and the United States, typically prompting walkouts by the U.S. and some European countries.
Since the 1979 revolution that overthrew Iran's monarchy, Tehran and Washington have had no official relationship, a rift widened amid concerns about Iran's nuclear program and its human rights record.
A Holocaust denier, Ahmadinejad accuses "Zionists" of preventing U.S. President Barack Obama from improving relations with Iran.
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and that it would not buckle to U.S. pressure to halt plans for further nuclear development.
He has scoffed at U.N. sanctions imposed on his country over its nuclear stance. The sanctions have limited Iran's ability to attract foreign investment, pinched its ability to import gasoline, created a drag on its shipping business and hurt Iranian banking relationships worldwide.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
Beef with U.S.: SaysU.S. government is "first enemy" of Venezuela.
Background: Chavez has a long history of attacking U.S. policy.
At the General Assembly in 2006, he called former President George W. Bush "the devil" no fewer than eight times.
"The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house. And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today," he said.
The populist leader of a self-declared "socialist revolution," Chavez supports Cuba economically and politically.
Recently, Chavez softened his stance toward Obama. Recalling his "devil" speech, Chavez told the U.N., "It doesn't smell of sulfur. It's gone. It smells of something else. It smells of hope and you have hope in your heart."
He has denounced capitalism as being a chief cause of climate change and accused Obama of making lofty promises and failing to live up to them.
Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe
Beef with the U.S.: Sanctions imposed on the African nation.
Background: He has lashed out repeatedly against Western powers, telling them to go "to hell" over sanctions imposed on his ZANU-PF party.
The United States and European Union imposed sanctions on state firms and travel restrictions on Mugabe and dozens of his associates nearly 10 years ago, after a violent re-election campaign and often violent commercial farm seizures.
"We say to hell, to hell, hell with them," Mugabe said in August. "Sanctions must go, and they must go. They are hurting our people regardless of political affiliation."
The 86-year-old leader said he hoped Obama and new British Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg would move to mend ties between Harare and the West.
"They have imposed unjustified and illegal sanctions on us. The sanctions are comparable to the military aggression in Iraq," he said.
Meanwhile, Obama said he has been "heartbroken" by Zimbabwe's decline.
Mugabe was forced into a power-sharing pact with his rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, more than a year ago after a crisis over a 2008 national vote that observers say was marred by violence and fraud.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
Beef with the U.S.: He says the U.S. is a worldwide dictatorship.
Background: Since emerging as the leader in the Sandinista National Liberation Front during the Reagan years, Ortega has railed against what he views as U.S. hegemony. He has defended Iran's and North Korea's right to pursue nuclear technology.
In 1987, the Nicaraguan president addressed the world body as the Marxist leader of Nicaragua's Sandinista-run government.
He slammed U.S. policy in Central America and told then-President Ronald Reagan that "Rambo only exists in the movies." Reagan referred to Ortega as "the little dictator."
In 2007, Ortega said little had changed since his first visit to the U.N.
"The presidents of the U.S. change. And they may come to office with the greatest of intentions and they may feel that they are doing good for humanity, but they fail to understand that they are no more than instruments of one more empire in a long list of empires that have been imposed on our planet," Ortega said, waving his arms.
The world is under "the most impressive, huge dictatorship that has existed — the empire of North America," he said.
He defended North Korean and Iran in their push for nuclear technology. Said Ortega: "And even if they want nuclear power for purposes that are not peaceful, with what right does (the U.S.) question it?"
Bolivian President Evo Morales
Beef with the U.S.: Accuses U.S. of protecting and promoting drug trade.
Background: Bolivia's first indigenous president, a fierce critic of Washington and global capitalism, wants to reverse centuries-old inequities in his country, which has long been dominated by light-skinned descendants of Europeans. The indigenous minority didn't have the vote until 1952.
Morales is a close ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. In promoting a socialist agenda, he nationalized control of Bolivia's natural gas reserves in 2006, alienating many investors and further polarizing South America's poorest nation.
Two years ago, Bolivia kicked out the U.S. ambassador, accusing him of conspiring against the government. All U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agents and other personnel also were expelled.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
Beef with the U.S.: Accuses U.S. of controlling the U.N. Security Council.
Background: Gadhafi made his first appearance at the U.N. last year. He slammed the Security Council and chastised the world body for failing to intervene or prevent some 65 wars since the U.N. was founded in 1945.
Gadhafi called for reform of the U.N. Security Council, which has 15 members, including the United States, and leads the world body's mandate to maintain international peace.
"It should not be called the Security Council, it should be called the 'terror council,'" he said. "Hence, the Security Council has been reduced to one country which controls it, therefore forming a danger to world peace."
Tensions were high following Scotland's release of Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which 270 people died.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice left before Gadhafi even took the podium. Israel's U.N. delegation walked out during the speech.
Iran's president also left before the speech ended.
Ninety minutes into Gadhafi's 96-minute speech, an exhausted English-language interpreter passed out and was relieved by another translator.
Cuban President Raul Castro
Beef with U.S.: Sees U.S. as enemy since 1959 Cuban revolution.
Background: When Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president in 2008, it ended nearly 50 years of rule by his brother Fidel but left the island's communist system unshaken.
The United States and Cuba have not had formal diplomatic ties since 1961, though Washington is represented by a U.S. interest section in Havana.
Since 2009, Obama has eased travel and remittance restrictions imposed by his predecessor, George W. Bush, and resumed migration talks and direct postal service with the island.
Reuters, The Associated Press, The New York Times and msnbc.com research contributed to this report.


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The Art Car is a living, moving, entity that will house not only us but the hopes, dreams, memories, ideas, and expression of everyone involved. A truly crowd- sourced, self-sustainable vehicle for a new democratic age.
The GistWe aim to create the space for people to share themselves creatively on part of our HUGE, SHOW STOPPING Art Car! It will roll across the plains of Burning Man, display the pinwheels of contributors fluttering in the breeze, and embody the sustaining nature of creativity by doubling as a living space during the 2012 Burning Man Festival in Black Rock, Nevada. We need your help to give this project the breath of life!
Our MissionPeople from around the globe are encouraged to submit a piece of themselves on their pinwheels through pictures, prose, or their own art, which will form the façade of the Art Car. We will construct the Project Pinwheel Art Car from 100% repurposed materials. We will share our experience and growth with the global community through RISD film showings of our documentary, publications and a blog we keep during the process.
We hope to inspire hearts and foster creativity to provoke thought and effect change, bringing the experience and creativity of Burning Man back to our school and our homes.
Project Pinwheel celebrates self-expression and encourages unity and democratic action by incorporating everyone's spinning pinwheel artwork.
To bring home the experiences shared and knowledge gained through our time designing and participating in the project in a documentary and talks given in our own respective communities.
This project is very dear to our hearts, both as students of the Rhode Island School of Design, participants of the Burning Man tradition and legacy, and responsible members of a global community.
• AS STUDENTS: We endeavor to make a statement with public art in a global community, to advance the principles of art and aesthetics, and to learn about the application of art and design to the betterment of society in line with the principles of RISD.
• AS PARTICIPANTS: We strive to live and explore the universal themes of environmental conservation, communal inclusion, self-expression, and civic responsibility at and beyond the festival. We extend the opportunity of Burning Man as a forum of thought and expression to everyone by integrating their thoughts and artwork into an aesthetic and thematic whole, contributing to the diverse culture of Burning Man.
• AS YOUTH: We see ourselves as part of a world-wide new generation of artists, inventors, designers and architects responsible for shaping and enriching our world. Through our project we seek to support and uphold the right of everyone to express themselves and the power of individual voice and shared experience to change our world.
"The future is not simply something given to us, but something we make."
We hope you can join us on our mission to share and receive the artistic genius in everyone.
Thank You,
The Project Pinwheel Art Car Team
Who We AreWe are four students from across the country, together at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, each passionate about separate disciplines of art and design.
Genevieve is a three-dimensional artist devoted to sculpting buildings. To our project she contributes her sensitivity to form, and go-get-'em attitude towards working with wood, fabric, and found objects as well as her leadership and entrepreneurial nature.
Josh is the inventor type, always thinking up new inventions and kinetic elements for our vehicle. His mechanically inclined mind helps to create a stable foundation in feasibility and functionality, as well as provide elements that provide visual impact as well as push interaction in new dimensions!
Denali loves to paint, play with materials, choreograph and film, and spend time in museums. She has a tremendous eye for vibrant colors as well as the figure's interaction with space. Her talents focus the transformative elements of the piece, which she will convey through her documentary film.
Caitlyn is a well rounded artist who experiments with sculpture, interactive installation, and glassblowing. She strives to create work that leaves a lasting spiritual, emotional, and rational impact to increase the public's awareness of environmental and humanitarian issues, as well as to convey complex ideas about society, nature and the self. She makes sure to keep us true to the principles of Burning Man both in building the Art Car and in everyday practice.
What is Burning Man?Burning Man is an annual weeklong self-sustainable city in Black Rock, Nevada, that experiments with aspects of utopian society: inclusion (everyone can participate), environmental standards (leave-no trace for 50,000 people), and creative expression (sculpture, architecture, and body adornment). It creates a setting for people to show their true face; how they really want to look, how they really want to be seen, and do what they really want to do.
Our Art CarOur Sculptural Vehicle will debut at the 2012 Burning Man festival in Black Rock, Nevada. To fully participate in Burning Man, we are combining our design values with the Ten Principles of Burning Man, which includes a series of environmental practices that foster community inclusion and creativity.
Our Art Car has four elements:
• Form (provides structure for the pinwheels, shapes interior and exterior, collapses and expands to hide the car, provides transportation)
• Surface (reflection and transparency, texture, conglomeration of found objects, such as dressers, doors, fences, pans—whatever we find!)
• Life (environmentally responsible, natural ventilation, light and shade, expandable elements to increase living space, an example of comfortable sustainable living.)
• Kinetic Elements (drivable sculpture, rotation of pinwheels, wind chimes and other animated elements if there's extra funding)
As part of our creative expression, we want to follow the self-sustainable and green philosophy of Burning Man by using 100% repurposed materials. We will drive the Art Car around Black Rock City for people to interact with the pinwheels within a meaningful space that fosters imagination, wonderment, and self and global reflection.
Project Pinwheel
Using the pinwheel, a symbol of youth, whimsy, and transformation, we aspire to change the way people interact with art and think about community. As children's playthings, pinwheels captured the imagination of kids, representing creativity and innocence. Now as young adults, we call on them to release it now when we need it most, to bring the imagination and optimism of our youth to help shape our future.
The pinwheel is an open-ended template. It is a blank slate waiting to be filled with photos, prose, secrets, or any other artwork. We encourage the viewer to put anything they want on their 8.5" by 8.5" sheet of paper, as long as it can go through the mail. By inviting the audience not only to have a say but a hand in the matter we give the power of the message back to the people. The audience becomes the creator, blurring the line between artist and observer, Each participant becomes a part of our team, spanning across the globe as the network of friends, relatives, co-workers, and interested individuals expands.. The Car is a collage of all our self-expression, our memories, our hopes and our dreams; it is the combined essence of who we are. It is the best of us, all interacting and moving together as a functional and harmonious whole. It is the real meaning of community.
Only with creativity and community, the two elements embodied by Project Pinwheel, we can hope to change the world. It all starts with you, the guest artist!
So pledge whatever amount you'd like, download the template PDF, and start expressing!
DocumentaryThe documentary will capture the story of building the Project Pinwheel Art Car built out of found objects and pinwheels. The film will follow the project from the initial brainstorming stages to our last days at the festival, covering footage of construction, and periodic interviews with team members, those we touch, and fellow Burners sharing their reactions to the sculpture.
The film will be shown at RISD and our own respective communities in the fall and distributed to specified pledgers in DVD categories.
What is our timeline?Currently we are in the funding stages of the project, which will continue until May. Junk collection will begin in late May and the project will be built during the four weeks before Burning Man 2012, which will take place in August. The vehicle will debut August 27, on the first day of Burning Man and will remain on display until September 3, the last day of Burning Man.
Pinwheels will be collected until July 1.
Pledgers will receive their rewards by the end of October.
What are the rewards?No matter the level, everyone will receive the Pinwheel PDF Template to make your pinwheel from. Directions included.
Postcards: Perfect to send to those that need a bit of creative inspiration, each is professionally printed with a photograph of our Art Car in action! Three different cards.
Project Pinwheel Art Car Book: Perfect for your coffee table, this beautifully designed, full color book will incorporate vibrant images of the Project Pinwheel Art Car and submitted pinwheels, maybe even yours!
Documentary: A video of the Art Car's journey from conception to debut as well as our unique experiences throughout the festival!
Watercolor observation painting: A handmade, professional small scale watercolor painting done at Burning Man by one of our artists featuring the flare, excitement and eccentricity of the event. A DVD of the documentary is also included.
See the right side bar, to find out what pledge quantity receives what.
What your pledge funds (besides cool stuff for you):For the bare minimum, we need to raise $3800 to make the project feasible material and personnel wise.
Tools, binders, and hardware: $600 (for holding our project together and keeping it moving; each pinwheel requires an armature and connection that enables spinning)
Recycled materials: $1000 (For the junk that's not free; Junk yard fees, purchasing cool pieces from locals, metal under framing)
Gas: $200 (to and from Burning Man)
Tickets: $375 x 4 team members (Burning Man tickets enable us to get in to debut the sculpture)
Kickstarter and Amazon fees: $330 (10% combined)
Documentary & Distribution: $200
The more money we raise, the cooler our Project Pinwheel Art Car will be!
Thank You:Thanks for reading and for your willingness to spin your pinwheel for the whole world!
If you'd like to learn more, see more pics and watch more videos, visit our official site:
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Meet the team
Managing Director
Duncan has been around Land Rovers for the last 35 years, having learnt to drive one on his Fathers farm, then driving them all around the Globe whilst serving in the British Army in the early 80's. After being involved in the Camel Trophy, it was natural that he would migrate into the Land Rover business having been injured and pensioned out of the Metropolitan Police in 1993.
Being an avid Land Rover fan, he likes nothing more than to get out into the stores and get his hands on the shipments of rare parts coming in. Duncan's knowledge of Land Rovers and their parts is vast and often bordering on a little creepy!
Sandy also has a passion for Land Rovers which she discovered when she served with the British Army; it is whilst serving she met Duncan. Sandy married Duncan in 1986, then she committed herself to being involved with Land Rovers for better or worse in sickness and in health. We would say wealth, but she's still waiting for that part. Sandy helps Duncan plan the future for the business, but her main role is to keep Duncan in check and stop him buying too many dusty parts from Land Rover dealerships having a clear-out!
General Manager
Kerrie is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the business, making sure that everything runs smoothly and the magic keeps happening. We've also made her "person in charge of filtering out Duncan's more 'interesting' ideas", but this doesn't fit on her business card so we stuck with General Manager.
Assistant Manager
Diane (Di) is Kerrie's second-in-command, and is specifically in charge of the counter and van sales. Di has a wealth of experience, having worked with Duncan many (many) years ago in a previous business. Since then, she has discovered new reserves of tolerance and patience, so was able to return to working with Duncan at Britcar. If you're a local trade customer, you'll probably get a visit from Di at some point (in a nice way).
Warehouse Manager
Adam has the responsibility of looking after the team that picks and packs the orders and ensuring that the warehouse is kept tidy and in good shape. Adam actually left Britcar for a while to explore new horizons and expand his career. He soon realised his terrible mistake and came straight back again. After an appropriate time as the 'new guy' again, Adam was made responsible for the warehouse operations.
Systems & eCommerce Manager
Craig joined Britcar full-time in mid-2014 after 5 years of providing part-time IT support. He is an unashamed computer geek (and a petrolhead), so is delighted to have a job that combines his two favourite things! Craig can often be found helping various people with printer and computer problems, always following the tech support mantra "turn it off and on again". People are always amazed that this actually works.
Megan & Vikki
Export Co-ordinator
If your order doesn't fit into one of our normal courier services, then Megan or Vikki will be the one performing the behind-the-scenes magic that gets you the best shipping quote, and arranges dispatch. Calling on a wide range of logistics options, Megan and Vikki can arrange for the smallest ECU to be fast-tracked to Australia, or a 3-pallet order delivered safely to Uzbekistan.
Trade Accounts / Channel Sales
Having started with Britcar as one of the packing team, Sean has moved up to managing our bigger trade accounts. He is also responsible for getting excess or special stock listed on eBay and Amazon at bargain prices (so keep an eye out for fantastic offers). Sean also helps to cover the phones for sales and support when we're busy.
Jim (Ben)
Counter Sales
Jim started with us in the July of 2010 in the packing department, and now looks after the trade counter and van delivery service with Di. Jim has an (un)healthy obsession with all things Land Rover; if left un-checked he could talk to customers for a short age about their vehicles. Jim owns a 1965 series 2a which he had as his first car which he used as his daily commute before upgrading it to a Defender 110 station wagon which he hopes to explore Africa in one day (if it doesn't explode first). Jim is actually Ben, but we decided to call him Jim/Jimmy when he joined because we already had a Ben. This has persisted for so long, he almost has a split personality.
John, Scott, George and Keiron
Packing and Dispatch Team
These guys are responsible for most of the orders getting picked from stock and packed up. Their goal is to get your orders to you as quickly and efficiently as possible and in good condition. These boys are so good, when it's busy the packing department disappears in a whirlwind of packing tape, knives, cardboard, and packing stuff.
Paralegal & Marketing Assistant
Amber has worked at the company sporadically from a young age. Having completed her master's at the University of Oxford in June 2017, Amber joined the team full-time to research the legal aspects of the business and advise Duncan on how to best proceed. On the side, however, she is responsible for a whole variety of other tasks - from marketing on facebook, to attracting and maintaining our international clientele. Most importantly though, she is willing to spend hours on the phone to a whole host of companies to ease Duncan's frustration at being put 'on hold'.
Anna and Heather
Accounts Manager/ Accounts Assistant
Anna deals with purchasing invoices while Heather primarily deals with customer invoices.


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Skip to comments.School database loses backers as parents balk over privacy -(Gates Foundation funded Common Core )
Posted on 06/02/2013 9:32:36 AM PDT by opentalk
100 million database set up to store extensive records on millions of public school students has stumbled badly since its launch this spring, with officials in several states backing away from the project amid protests from irate parents.
The database, funded mostly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is intended to track students from kindergarten through high school by storing myriad data points: test scores, learning disabilities, discipline records - even teacher assessments of a child's character. The idea is that consolidated records make it easier for teachers to use software that mines data to identify academic weaknesses. Games, videos or lesson plans would then be precisely targeted to engage specific children or promote specific skills.
The system is set up to identify millions of children by name, race, economic status and other metrics and is constructed in a way that makes it easy for school districts to share some or all of that information with private companies developing education software.
The nonprofit organization that runs the database, inBloom Inc, introduced the project in March with a presentation at an education technology conference, complete with a list of nine states that it said were committed partners.
Parents and civil liberties groups concerned about potential privacy breaches quickly began to sound the alarm and rallied opposition in social media.
New York plans to upload data on nearly all its 2.6 million students statewide. Illinois is testing inBloom in two districts and plans to expand to 35 districts serving half a million students, officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
No parent in their right mind would want their child to be tracked by some government outfit, especially if their child was less preforming than other students.
It's almost impossible to "anonymize" data of this sort - given pattern recognition, etc. an individual's data could be ferreted out pretty directly.
Sounds like profiling to me.
It is so hard to watch what is happenning with our school system these days. Heck look it gave us the current regime.
Good point
the Gates have been throwing their money around and people, including the Ursuline School in Dallas, have taken it, pretending the Gates are wonderful They are not. They just have a lot of money from talent in the computer industry.
It's not the same, of course. But Americans are funny. We tell the government and the takers that money is separate from virtue, yet we are so pleased when someone like these weirdos give money and tell us how to spend it.
A woman in Africa wrote to Pop Benedict XVI, rejecting the Gates' birth control deal with Satan money and she made a huge impact.
Be ware of these two do gooders. Melinda Gates is a Catholic school girl educated at duke and liberalized and immune to Catholic teaching. That's the thinking that has invaded the institution of the family in the NE and with this woman's greedily taken money, we could head for more trouble.
From, http://www.patheos.com/blogs/buildingcathedrals/2012/08/an-african-womans-plea-to-melinda-gates/
While philanthropists like Melinda Gates might be well-intentioned, they are missing the mark. What the women of Africa really need, says Ekeocha, is proper medical care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period; in other words, women are not dying because they are having too many babies but because they are not getting even the most basic postpartum care. Furthermore, Ekeocha believes that the introduction of contraceptives will do great harm to African society.
"Other metrics", such as parents political affiliations, associations and contributions, medical information, gun ownership, etc.
What could go wrong?
More importantly, what would Michael Collins do?
Common Core=Commie Core.
You know what else can identify academic weaknesses? Tests. The kind that they gave weekly in every course when I was in school.
A couple months back, my sister was bragging about her g/daughter being in this program. Her g/d makes great grades and is starting high school next term. I didn't tell sis but I attributed some of her success in school to the fact that she has been in Catholic school for the first 8 grades and will be starting public high school next term a nd I expect nothing good will come of that.
I don't think the liberals will want this either once they discover that there will be terrabits of hard data about the performance of their favorite subcultures.
The dichotomy between inBlooms website, featuring photos of smiling elementary-age children seated beside young teachers, tablets in hand, and its seven-page Privacy and Security Policy, full of legalese, could not be more stark.
Public relations executives seeking to paint a picture of educational nirvana clearly crafted the website, while corporate attorneys looking to avoid lawsuits wrote the verbose, mind-numbingly dry privacy policy.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York are backing the $100 million effort. Nine states representing 11 million students are taking part in a pilot program to develop inBloom, including New York, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts and North Carolina.
Nerdware. I'm sure the developers of atomic energy thought it would always be a boon to mankind, also.
Pray for her, because there are wolves out there just waiting for a chance to deprive her of her faith.
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you know how on every programming job you end up using a site kind of like github. where every one can work on a project same time.
i know how to use github, and red dot. Should i put it on my resume? if yes, than what are those website called?
"Code Management"?
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With its robust blend of sweet, creamy, spicy and smoky flavours, this soup is perfect for a chilly fall afternoon. The beautiful orange colour, the subtle smoky-spicy flavour of the chipotle, and the satisfying creamy texture make this recipe a perfectly seasonal lunch or appetizer. Consider topping the soup with seared shrimp or shredded pork for a quick weeknight dinner.
Start to finish: 45 minutes
Servings: 6
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large yellow onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 pound carrots, peeled and diced
2 potatoes, peeled and diced
1 canned chipotle pepper (in adobo sauce), minced
1 tablespoon adobo sauce (from canned chipotle peppers)
2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1 cup heavy cream
Salt and ground black pepper
Sliced scallions, to serve
In a large, deep pot over medium, heat the oil. Add the onion and garlic and cook until lightly browned, about 10 to 12 minutes. Add the carrots, potatoes and chipotle. Cook for 5 minutes, then add the adobo sauce and broth. Bring to a simmer and cook until the carrots and potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes.
Working in batches, transfer the soup to a blender and puree until smooth. Return the soup to the pot and return to a simmer. Stir in the cream and season with salt and pepper. Serve topped with sliced scallions.
Nutrition information per serving: 300 calories; 150 calories from fat (50 per cent of total calories); 17 g fat (8 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 45 mg cholesterol; 33 g carbohydrate; 5 g fiber; 7 g sugar; 5 g protein; 115 mg sodium.


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My War, Part 1: The Ugly Side/
by Mike Keegan
Editor's note: The Roxie not only is an integral part of the San Francisco film community, but has been closely involved with countless SFFS exhibitions, screenings, and festivals over the years. We asked Roxie programmer Mike Keegan to write about the importance of theatrical exhibition as they approach their Kickstarter fundraising deadline.
Cinema is dead, no one goes to the movies, film is dead, who actually goes to the movies, they don't make 'em like they used to, there's nothing new under the sun—my gosh, don't you just WRETCH at the thought of these phrases, either in a hundred and forty characters or time-wasting think pieces or overheard on BART or anywhere else under the sun. Here's the secret—and I'm preaching to the choir here—American independent cinema is going through an amazing renaissance at the moment. Really! It's just ACCESS to these movies that's the problem, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
It's easier than ever to make a movie. You, dear reader, could conceivably write, direct, shoot, edit and upload a feature film with whatever device you're currently reading this on. Look here—iMovie for your iPhone is just $4.99 in the App Store. So let's try a little experiment—go make a movie. I'll wait here. Go do it–it'll be fun! Good luck!
How far did you get? It's not that easy, huh? I mean, it's technically easy to assemble those elements, but it's not practically easy to see through to the very end. So let's quit it with the condescending "back in my day" quips about hardship quotas that need to be met by each bumper crop of new filmmakers.
If you somehow beat the odds and finish a feature, the next step is getting your movie seen. Oh boy. That's a hurdle. Let's skip ahead eighteen months and you took a modest deal that lands your micro budget masterpiece in the menu of a Video On Demand service. Now your aunt can tell all of her friends about it! That is, if she can find the folder for it. Oh, and your competition is THE AVENGERS. And also every movie ever, all available at once. Your Indie Wire coverage was pretty great, but your aunt's friends don't read Indie Wire (or, at least, not regularly). Is this movie serious? They don't really feel like watching a serious movie tonight. Maybe tomorrow. Also, now three or four years of your life are gone. I BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN BY MEETING A SURLY DARE YOU FOUND BY SIMPLY CLICKING ON A LINK FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY BLOG!
I'm not saying Video On Demand has to be the death knell of movies. Realistically, it's the only option a lot of great movies have to be seen by even the smattering of people who will spend the three to seven dollars to watch it. But they need to know the movie exists in the first place.
Listen, the history of theatrical exhibition is a boondoggle of greed, codification, short-sighted expansion and hubris on macro and micro-scales. It truly is. And with forced digital upgrades on the horizon, even more cinemas are crumbling under the financial weight of an industry who could give less of a shit. Sounds GRIM, huh?
No, not entirely.
Come back tomorrow for Part 2: The Glorious Beautiful Blue Sky Future.
Mike Keegan is a programmer at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco. He was born in upstate New York the year STAR 80 came out and the first movie he saw theatrically was THE ARISTOCATS.


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Part I: Introduction and Basics.
Chapter 1: Understanding Business Intelligence.
Chapter 2: Fitting BI with Other Technology Disciplines.
Chapter 3: Meeting the BI Challenge.
Part II: Business Intelligence User Models.
Chapter 4: Basic Reporting and Querying.
Chapter 5: OLAP: Online Analytical Processing.
Chapter 6: Dashboards and Briefing Books.
Chapter 7: Advanced / Emerging BI Technologies.
Part III: The BI Lifecycle.
Chapter 8: The BI Big Picture.
Chapter 9: Human Factors in BI Implementations.
Chapter 10: Taking a Closer Look at BI Strategy.
Chapter 11: Building a Solid BI Architecture and Roadmap.
Part IV: Implementing BI.
Chapter 12: Building the BI Project Plan.
Chapter 13: Collecting User Requirements.
Chapter 14: BI Design and Development.
Chapter 15: The Day After: Maintenance and Enhancement.
Part V: BI and Technology.
Chapter 16: BI Target Databases: Data Warehouses, Marts, and Stores.
Chapter 17: BI Products and Vendors.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 18: Ten Keys to BI Success.
Chapter 19: Ten BI Risks (and How to Overcome Them).
Chapter 20: Ten Keys to Gathering Good BI Requirements.
Chapter 21: Ten Secrets to a Successful BI Deployment.
Chapter 22: Ten Secrets to a Healthy BI Environment.
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Dire Straits
"Those Dire Straits guys kick ass, and that Mark Knopfler guy can sing almost as good as me!"
"I want my Dire Straits!"
"How could you fire your own f*&#ing family?!"
"There is absolutely no truth to what is said about me and Dire Straits forming a new band"
"Money for nothing, and your chicks for free."
Dire Straits (not to be confused with Eminem) was a British grunge-pop/polka/rapping hip hop-blue grass group, founded by Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals, and sex headband), his uncle twice-removed, David Knopfler (ukelele and harpsichord), John Illsley (tuba), Pick Withers (bongos), Dr Parkinson (triangle) and Sting (a sad ploy to increase sales). Although they began making music at the height of punk and *gasp!* disco they ended up being more awesome than either the Bee Gees or the Ramones. Their influences include Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Hank Williams, Michael McDonald and Jesus. In short they are one of the greatest but most underrated bands of their time. The band's best known songs are "Hitler & Mussolini", "Public Enquiries", "Money For Nothing (Aid for Africa)" "Mothers in Arms" and their greatest hip hop hit "Sultans of Bling".
Early Days[edit]
Dire Straits recorded their first album, "Heck, we can't be stuffed coming up with an original name for this album, let's just name it after us", also known as "Titles are Superfluous" in 1978. It originally sold poorly, mostly because nobody wanted talented musicians playing on their records, understandably preffering grunge pop and disco. However, then the band and a bunch of record people took the album to Warner Brothers, and the record sold 100,000,000,000.01 copies, despite only 100,000 ever being produced. Scientologists believe the records were able to clone themselves and then sell themselves in the black market, making Titles Are Superfluous the first ever sentinent, self-cloning album. The most famous (i.e. - least shit) song on the album was the single, "Sultans of Bling", a song complaining about how Mr T gets his money for nothing. Nobody actually cared about the lyrics because they didn't rhyme, but the single is known now for being the precursor to the tapping technique popularized by Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, and Tinky Winky. ("Sultans of Bling" was written in 1945, long before Eddie or rock n' roll had ever existed. However, due to the inconvenience of Mark Knopfler not being born at the time, he was unable to record it until 1978.)
The band followed up this tremendous success with their second album "Communistique", which sucked, if only for the reason that it didn't include the single "Sultans of Bling" again. The songs on the album include "What do think you're doing? Put the drugs down!", "Shady Writer" (a cheap rip-off version of Sultans which no-one liked), and "Portobello Smell".
Middle Days[edit]
Dire Straits had been known for their stripped-down sound at this time, but with the coming of the 1980's were forced to overproduce their next album, Faking Movies. Although this improved the instrumentation to no end, David Knopfler became convinced that his brother Mark was blaspheming against all that Dire Straits stood for, and attempted to burn Mark Knopfler at the stake. Mark survived, on account of him being immortal, and so David resorted to plan B and stormed out of the recording studios (planting a time bomb in the recording studios on the way out). With David finally gone, and at least half the recording studio almost still intact, Dire Straits then abducted several extra band members from various places and began recording. Making Moveis was an album of intense emotion, featuring singles such as "Funnel of Gloves", "Scrapeaway", and the immensely successful "Hitler and Mussolini", the tragic story of two young and (not so) innocent lovers. Shakespear then shamelessely copied the storyline of this song for one of his plays. After Faking Movies, Dire Straits then released "For the Love of Gold", which was experimental, dark, ambitious, and largely responsible for a huge rise in depression that year. Although the album included only 5 tracks, every track is at least 4 hours long, and the total album running time is estimated to be somewhere between 50 and 60 million years (90% of this is the introduction to Smelly-Giraffe Road). The album was so long that the band had to borrow a time machine to go back in time and record it. The tracks are: "Smelly-Giraffe Road" (The band's longest song, making up 99% of the album's running time), "Public Enquiries (a song where Mark Knopfler complains about how Private Detectives get their money for nothing), "How Jesus Died from Industrial Disease" (notable for being the only song on which founding band member Dr Parkinson appears on), "For the Love of Gold", and "It rains bitch, get used to it.".
Holy crap, we're rich![edit]
After about 50 lineup changes and live albums released to buy the band some more time, the Straits released their most successful album, topping the success of their first two...successes. Mothers In Arms featured the single named after the album as well as "Money From Nothing", a song where Mark Knopfler brands all blue collar workers "Faggots", complaining about how they get their money for nothing whilst rockstars have to work very hard to earn their money. The song became immensely popular (Mainly because of the "cutting edge" animations in the video clip) and spent several decades on top of every chart ever known to man. This song also included the famous line "I want my royalty fee!" sung by Sting, who sued the band for royalties shortly after, surprise surprise. Other songs included the insufferably happy "Walk of Strife", "Not Far Away Enough", "Your Latest Brick", "Start Worrying Now, Bitch", "Drive into the River" and the title track (Complaining about how soldiers get their money for nothing).
The album was also one of the first to be on Sony and Phillip's new marketing scam, the CD. It sold a gajillion copies, and to this date there are no records of how many copies it sold because every time someone considers counting them, they decide not to for some reason...
The "Money From Nothing" video included some footage from the "Baby, Baby" video by Hungarian pop band First Floor. The band wanted to sue Dire Straits over copyrights, but they settled.
Decline and Fall of the Dire Empire[edit]
After Mothers in Arms, the Straits sucked. By the 1990's, people were more inclined to listen to the likes of Nirvana than the Straits, and Mark Knopfler's dubious solo career did not help to increase sales. Their final album, On Every Other Street, was greeted with mixed reviews. Literally. Every review was put into a blender and Rolling Stone drank whatever came out. The band broke up in 1995, and Mark Knopfler went on to pursue other bands, hunting them down until he caught up with them. Although every other frickin' band has reunited now, there are no plans of a Dire Straits reunion, and probably never will be unless Mark Knopfler regrows his hair and gets a new sweat band.
The Damn Straits[edit]
After taking a second mortgage to buy his soul back from Satan himself,first one being paid by the money gotten from his last Dire Straits album, Knopfler at the age of 81 forms a heavy metal/psychadelic disco-pop-grunge band called the Damn Straits. Continually getting Déjà vu he, with the UnHoly Spirit of Eric Clapton on the rhythm guitar and with the help of Dante on the lyrics and drums, creates evergreen classic hit songs like "Satans of Swing" and "Warlocks in Farms". The Satanic bible does not omen more as it ends with Knopfler doing his famous live power chord jam in the middle of "Satans of Swing" or SoS. He records a song with Sting called, "Old man metal," which didn't come great off the album because Sting was playing in the key of Q# to give it a Satanic Sound, and sends a message in an atomic bomb to the heavens.
The Damn Straits went on to release their most successful album in 2014 called, "Satans's Wish" where Mark sings about his brother David and how Satan was always calling him to leave the band. During the tour, however, Mark's second life ended tragically when he got in his 24th motorcycle accident in his life, crashing into his own brother David, who was actually on his way to Mark's concert with intents to assassinate him, and Satan never granted him another life, even though Mark bought a sparking new sex band. Thankfully though, Mark was ressurected by a passing necromancer who happened to be a fan and continues to grunt and groan into microphones to this day.
Albums loosely associated with Dire Straits[edit]
Jailbreak (1976)
Titles Are Superfluous (1978)
Communistique (1979)
Faking Moveis (1980)
Music from Big Pink (1968)
For the Love of Gold (1982)
Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
Twisting in Agony by the The Pool (1983)
Mothers In Arms (1985)
Reign in Blood (1985)
On Every Other Street (1991)
Electric Warrior (1971)
OK Computer (1997)
Dark Side of The Moon (1973)
Revolver (1966)
White Album (1968)
Black Album (1991)
Blue Album (1994)
The Stone Roses (1989)
Green Album (2003)
Turquoise Album (2007 B.C.)
By The Power of GraySkull (2008)
Did You Know?[edit]
- Sad news for Christians: Jesus really died from Industrial Disease.
- Mark Knopfler is one of the few rock guitarists to play without a pick, fingers, or a guitar for that matter.
- A disco version of "Sultans of Bling" was released around the same time as the original version. It did poorly and should never be spoken of again.
- Dire Straights is the name of a dating site run by the anti-gay community and people that just can't get any.
- If you say you like Dire Straits, no one will ever insult your music taste. Ever.
- All members of the band have not been in the band at some point. Usually, this occurred during lunch breaks.
- Mark Knopfler was a choir boy at age 7. He then left the choir after a day because he realized that he hadn't "accidentally" joined the Castrati.
- The Dire Straits song "Smelly-Giraffe Road" is the longest song ever recorded, with the introduction on its own spanning at least 40 million years and 15 seconds.
- The line "When we made love, you used to cry" can be clearly heard in "Hitler & Mussolini", but we have not got an answer. Why did Knopfler's lover cry during their sex acts? But do we really want to know?
- In 2010, Dire Straits were singled out by the entire music community as the only band ever to be both very brilliant and very boring in equal measures.
- Mark Knopfler has a species of dinosaur named after him.


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Patent Settlement Ends Fight Over Helpful Speech App -- But Leaves Questions About Patent Bullies
from the glad-it's-over,-but... deptWe've been covering the ridiculous patent case involving an iPhone and Android app called Speak for Yourself, which was a tool used by many people who had various issues with being able to speak. We became aware of it, because of a mother whose young daughter Maya relied on the tool to actually communicate, and who feared that the tool would disappear due to the lawsuit. While the lawsuit was ongoing, despite a lack of an injunction, the patent holder was still able to get the tool removed from both the Apple App Store and Google's app store.
Thankfully, the makers of Speak for Yourself have now announced that the case has been settled and the patent holder and licensee who were suing them, Semantic Compaction Systems and Prentke Romich Company, will drop all claims and takedown notices concerning SFY. Unfortunately, the terms of the agreement are confidential -- which is common in these kinds of things, but far from necessary. It's likely that SFY paid something here, though there have been questions about the validity of the patent in question (5,920,303) for a keyboard with keys that dynamically change. While this news means that the Nieder family no longer needs to worry, it's unfortunate that this whole thing had to happen in the first place. It was a pointless and wasteful distraction from all of these companies focusing on actually innovating and competing in the marketplace, like they should. As for the Nieders, there doesn't appear to be an update on their blog yet, but perhaps it's because little Maya has a brand new baby brother. Hopefully she enjoys speaking to him with the SFY app, and her parents can rest easy knowing they don't have to worry about their daughter's ability to communicate any longer.
Filed Under: patents, speech
Companies: prentke romich, semantic compaction systems, speak for yourself


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If I could only work on Bike Hugger full time, I'd photo blog all of the industrial areas we ride through. While Seattle is known for it's software, tech, and biotech, it's actually an industrial port city.
Built during the Klondike Gold Rush, the town thrives on boats, planes, trains, and beer like PBR.
These murals are painted on a building in the Georgetown Neighborhood, across the street from the old Brewery.
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Although Adobe Announced Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack Preview Download Available some weeks ago, as most of us know HTML 5 has created a big buzz on internet and is sure to give Adobe a hard time. HTML 5 is aimed to create a comprehensive and all-in-one markup language for front-end development, able to provide a qualitative information on the different elements of the page.Below are over 30 useful tutorials to get you started with HTML 5.
Blowing up HTML5 video and mapping it into 3D space
I've been doing a bit of experimenting with the Canvas and Video tags in HTML5 lately, and found some cool features hiding in plain sight. One of those is the Canvas.drawImage() api call. Here is the description on the draft site.
Code a Backwards Compatible, One Page Portfolio with HTML5 and CSS3
HTML5 is the future of web development but believe it or not you can start using it today. HTML5 is much more considerate to semantics and accessibility as we don't have to throw meaningless div's everywhere. It introduces meaningful tags for common elements such as navigations and footers which makes much more sense and are more natural.
Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch
With this article you'll learn how to:
- Use Graceful Degradation techniques and technologies to keep things in place for legacy browsers.
- Use Progressive Enhancement techniques and technologies to be up to date with the latest trends.
- Use HTML5 alongside a rising technology: Microformats.
- Have a clear vision of some of the most exciting new features HTML5 and CSS3 will bring.
Coding a CSS3 & HTML5 One-Page Website Template
This tutorial introduces how to make a HTML5 web template, using some of the new features brought by CSS3 and jQuery, with the scrollTo plug-in. As HTML5 is still a work in progress, you can optionally download a XHTML version of the template.
Comprehensive video tutorial on HTML5
This is a video put up by a Google Employee called Brad Neuberg as an educational Introduction to HTML5.
Create modern Web sites using HTML5 and CSS3
This tutorial serves as a hands-on introduction to HTML5 and CSS3. It provides information about the functionality and syntax for many of the new elements and APIs that HTML5 has to offer, as well as the new selectors, effects, and features that CSS3 brings to the table.
Finally, it will show you how to develop a sample Web page that harnesses many of these new features. By the time you have finished this tutorial, you will be ready to build Web sites or applications of your own that are powered by HTML5 and CSS3.
Much of HTML 5's feature set involves JavaScript APIs that make it easier to develop interactive web pages but there are a slew of new elements that allow you extra semantics in your conventional Web 1.0 pages. In order to investigate these, let's look at marking up a blog.
Designing for the Future with HTML5+CSS3 : Tutorials and Best Practices
In today's post, we would like to showcase some of the best blogs and websites in the industry built with HTML5+CSS3. At the end of the post we would like you to check out detailed write-ups and tutorials that aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. Let's get started marking up the blog page.
Design & Code a Cool iPhone App Website in HTML5
HTML5 is definitely the flavor of the month, with everyone in the design community getting excited about its release. In this tutorial we'll get a taste of what's to come by building a cool iPhone app website using a HTML5 structure, and visual styling with some CSS3 effects.
Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms
Here we're going to take a look at how to style a beautiful HTML5 form using some advanced CSS and latest CSS3 techniques. I promise you will want to style your own forms after you've read this article.
How To Create A Nice Blog Design Touching The Future
HTML 5 borns to improve interoperability and to reduce development costs for websites and web applications. It is not a W3C recommendation yet, and for this reason you have to read information contained in the article like a simple overview on how we might work with new technologies in the (next) future.
During the introduction I've described a scenario in which we don't need Photoshop to make a good work and create a nice web design. It's possible, but the initial steps are very important in this case. You need to focus and formalize the requests of the client and create a good plan to work directly with the code.
How to Make All Browsers Render HTML5 Mark-up Correctly – Even IE6
HTML 5 provides some great new features for web designers who want to code readable, semantically-meaningful layouts. However, support for HTML 5 is still evolving, and Internet Explorer is the last to add support. In this tutorial, we'll create a common layout using some of HTML 5's new semantic elements, then use JavaScript and CSS to make our design backwards-compatible with Internet Explorer. Yes, even IE 6.
How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App
This is a tutorial specifically for iPhones but most of these techniques apply to all phones that have HTML5-capable browsers.
I don't want to say that you should give up on the objective: you can get it eventually. But in the meantime, there is something else that you can do.
You can create a native app that lives with all the other apps, and for the most part, it's going to be a pitch-perfect imitation.
You can do this with the skill set you probably already have: HTML(5), CSS, and JavaScript.
I'll show you how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. More specifically, I'll walk you through the process of building a Tetris game.
HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You'll Soon Be Using
In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. If you already know HTML and CSS, it should be easy to follow along.
HTML5 for Beginners. Use it now, its easy!
Ok, so there are a lot of articles out there on HTML5, especially since Google Wave arrived (because it's the first major app to run on the language), but all the information that you need to know in order to start using it now is either too complicated, or spread out over various websites / articles / tutorials. Hopefully in this article we'll be able to amalgamate and condense a lot of this information so that anyone with basic HTML knowledge can start using it.
This presentation tells about history and basic features of HTML5.
HTML5 Tutorial – Getting Started
How to Build Web Pages With HTML 5
This tutorial introduces the different about HTML 5, a doctype anyone can remember and semantic structure of HTML 5.
Simple Website Layout Tutorial Using HTML 5 and CSS 3
The Most prominent additions in HTML 5 are tags like <header>, <footer>, <aside>, <nav>, <audio> etc. HTML 5 will also include APIs for drawing graphics on screen, storing data offline, dragging and dropping, and a lot more . Site layout would be easily understandable and in code, tags are easy to understand as well Like the few tags i listed above clearly explains that :
- <header> = Header (Head area of the site)
- <nav> = Navigation (Menu/Navigation Area)
- <footer> = Footer Area
- <aside> = An area on a side (Side Bar)
We will make a very very Simple web page with HTML 5 and styling with CSS 3. This is how the final result will look like :
The HTML5 specification has added quite a few interesting and useful tags for structuring your markup. For a majority of everyday uses, these tags will replace many of our typical
div entries from our code. So let's dig in.
A quick guide to some boilerplates supported right now.
Without going into the discussion of why HTML 5 is available today and not 2022, this article is going to give you a series of HTML 5 boilerplates that you can use in your projects right now.
It's a complete guide to using the canvas element in HTML 5.
The HTML 5 specification includes lots of new features, one of which is the
canvaselement. HTML 5
canvasgives you an easy and powerful way to draw graphics using JavaScript. For each
You can find some HTML 5 tutorials and examples here.
Implementing HTML5 Drag and Drop: New Premium Tutorial
It's a premium tutorial.
One of the new features in HTML5 is native drag and drop. Surprisingly, Internet Explorer has had support for this since version 5.5; in fact, the HTML5 implementation is based on IE's support. In this week's Premium tutorial and screencast, we'll look at how to implement native drag and drop to build a simple shopping cart interface.
It's an older article from A List Apart offering some information on the features and advantages of HTML 5.
The HTML 5 Canvas For Flash Developers : Drawing
After a week where confusion about the future of the Flash platform has been piled on to developers by moves outside their control, we present the second in our series of HTML 5 Canvas for Flash Developers. We call these tutorials, but really they are more like explorations. We are learning this thing at the same time you are learning it. hopefully these will be beneficial in the long run.
A good overview of the possibilities when combining HTML 5 and CSS3.
As far as we've come using HTML 4 and CSS 2.1, however, we can do better. We can refine the structure of our documents and increase their semantic precision. We can sharpen the presentation of our stylesheets and advance their stylistic flexibility. As we continue to push the boundaries of existing languages, HTML 5 and CSS 3 are quickly gaining popularity, revealing their collective power with some exciting new design possibilities.
View Source Tutorial: Sticky Notes With HTML5 and CSS3
View Source is a new series where we crack open cool web sites and applications and detail how they were made, step by step.Today we will take a look at the Webkit Sticky Notes demo that was created when Webkit first landed it's HTML 5 SQL storage support, In this demo you can create new sticky notes that persist themselves into the local SQL storage and can be accessed while offline. When a sticky note is closed it 'swooshes' offscreen with a nice animated effect.
webOS HTML5 Database Storage Tutorial
With the release of Chapter 1 of Palm webOS by O'Reilly, Palm has confirmed that local storage will indeed be handled by HTML5′s new local storage functionality.
If you haven't been able to find any tutorials on HTML5′s storage capability, you're not alone. After looking around, we realized that the HTML5 spec is still at such an early revision that there are few resources out there that describe how it should be used. But with a little digging, we found this excellent little HTML5 database application over at webkit.org. We eagerly grabbed the source code, deconstructed it, and we're proud to bring you the first webOS / HTML5 database storage tutorial!
Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today!
It's a guide to some of the currently-supported HTML 5 features and some who are currently using it. Very useful for beginners.


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In a freak testing accident about two weeks ago, Marussia F1 test driver Maria De Villota collided with a truck in a Formula One car. She suffered head injuries and the loss of her right eye.
It was a strange accident, and there is still a ton of debate as to how it happened.
Was there an electronics fault that caused the car to accelerate? Did the anti-stall technology step in and move the car forward? Maybe her foot slipped onto the gas by accident? No matter what, the front end of the car and her helmeted head struck a trailer at around 30 MPH.
De Villota has undergone a couple of surgeries on her face after the accident and PlanetF1 reports she is making "small but significant steps" in her recovery.
According to a report from Speed, Marussia is saying that the accident was not caused by a fault from the car.
However, the Marussia team and Team Principal John Booth are also not saying that De Villota was at fault for the crash.
Obviously, there is a fine line for Marussia to draw in this situation. They want to prove that the equipment they provide to race drivers is safe while also not placing blame on a driver that was injured and permanently disabled during a crash.
Still, by saying that the car was not at fault in the crash, they are now indirectly blaming people — either De Villota or mechanics on the team — for the incident that occurred. This is a definite PR nightmare and a no-win situation for the team.


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"...serious readers, armchair historians and geography or maritime buffs will find it a most rewarding journey."– Kirkus Reviews
A comprehensive, expertly rendered narrative history of Antarctica's most-visited region.
Owing to numerous nearby islands that aided nautical exploration, the Antarctic Peninsula, jutting 1,000 miles north of the main continental mass, is where humans first explored the last-discovered continent and where most tourists visit today. Similarly, Boothe uses the Peninsula region to hook readers. The subtitle notwithstanding, this book doesn't so much confine itself to the Peninsula as make it the face of Antarctica, the starring character in a geographic drama spanning 500 years—an alluring but indomitable mistress beguiling and frustrating suitor after suitor. The main title is dead-on. Ice is an ever-present antagonist thwarting all who dare challenge the harsh environment, and Boothe tells their stories with such authority, readers forget she was not part of their expeditions. From the legendary—Magellan, Cook, Shackleton, Amundsen, Byrd—to lesser-known sealers, whalers, meteorologists and geologists, she captures their motives, struggles, heartbreaks and triumphs. Men suffer frostbite and scurvy. Pack ice traps, crushes and sinks their ships. They must shoot and eat their sledge dogs. Those who survive, return, gradually claiming new territory and earning the place-names on today's maps. Boothe has accomplished a difficult task—producing a historical account scholarly enough for textbook use while engaging enough for a general audience. The feat is all the more remarkable considering this is her first book. Her fascination with Antarctica dates to childhood, and her travels include circumnavigating the continent on an icebreaker. First-hand knowledge is evident, along with impressive scholarship. Literature cited runs to 311 entries, and the endnotes contain (for some readers, "bury" is perhaps more accurate) a wealth of information. Three appendices, a glossary, timeline and "firsts" provide still more information. In-text maps, figures and photographs abound. Large- and small-scale maps of Antarctica thoughtfully placed on the inside covers and end pages facilitate frequent referencing.
For those accustomed to browsing glossy photographic surveys of icebergs, penguins and sea lions, this 373-page tome may loom as a foreboding trek, but serious readers, armchair historians and geography or maritime buffs will find it a most rewarding journey.