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It's tough to stand out in the crowd of outlandish get-ups at the World's Largest Disco.
But Kevin Everett was managing to do just that, wearing a white suit equipped with blinking lights and the word "Love" on the back.
"I made it," Everett said. The Amherst resident got the idea from watching a '70s movie "where a guy was all lit up and had fish in his shoes." He ordered those kinds of platform shoes to wear to the party, but they didn't arrive in time.
The Disco packed Buffalo Niagara Convention Center with 7,000 revelers who were running a Saturday night fever, unabashedly celebrating the music and fashion of the era. As the main party was gearing up on the center's upper level, the VIP party in the downstairs ballrooms was rolling. Partygoers strolled by dressed as Wonder Woman, a motorcycle cop from "CHiPs" and Hugh Hefner.
Pat Kennedy of Tonawanda was convincing as the construction worker from the Village People. His helmet was labeled Macho Man "because I'm the epitome of machoness," a claim reinforced by his open shirt and gold chain.
Fashion has changed – thankfully, most would say – since disco's days, but some things about the World's Largest Disco have not. The event again sold out swiftly, just six hours after tickets – $70 for general admission and $135 for VIP – went on sale in August.
And the party generated more funds for Camp Good Days and Special Times. This year's event was expected to raise $400,000, pushing the amount raised for the camp past the $3.5 million mark, said promoter David Pietrowski.
About 500 volunteers helped out at the event, including Tom and Ellen Galey of Hamburg, whose daughter has benefited from going to Camp Good Days.
"We're doing it to pay back," Tom Galey said.
The Disco has been held annually since 1994, after a 15-year gap following the first edition in 1979. It has become a staple of downtown entertainment on the Saturday night after Thanksgiving.
This year's featured celebrity guests were the stars of "The Dukes of Hazzard" TV series, John Schneider and Tom Wopat. A replica of their famous car, the General Lee, was displayed at the VIP party.
Pietrowski said he appreciates the impact the party has beyond the Convention Center. "What I love is, there's more limousines rented tonight than on New Year's Eve in Buffalo. The Hyatt has 390 rooms; we have 370 of them. ... These are all people in Buffalo spending money in downtown Buffalo. Every parking lot is filled. It's been a really unique experience for me that this thing kind of spun off, besides the vintage clothing stores and things."
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EL CERRITO — The traveling cinema event known as Lunafest returns with a new selection of films by and about women from 7:30 to 10 p.m. March 2 to the Performing Arts Center at El Cerrito High School, 540 Ashbury Ave.
This year's showcase will present nine short films in a gala benefit hosted by El Cerrito resident and longtime television actress Karen Grassle, who will also interview two of the filmmakers.
According to organizers, "The films range from animation to fictional drama, and cover topics such as women's health, motherhood, body image, aging, cultural diversity and breaking barriers."
Grassle, familiar to television viewers as a cast member of the long-running television series "Little House on the Prairie," will interview filmmaker Sharon Arteaga about her entry "When I Grow Up" and Jisoo Kim, who made the film "The Bathhouse."
The sixth annual El Cerrito edition of the festival is dedicated to the memory of Wanna Wright, who died in May 2012.
In addition to being a committee member of LUNAFEST East Bay, Wright was a Breast Cancer Fund board member, a co-founder of the African American Breast Cancer Task Group and a dedicated advocate of breast cancer prevention.
Proceeds benefit the Information Technology Academy at El Cerrito High School, the Breast Cancer Fund (www.breastcancerfund.org) and World Neighbors (www.wn.org), an international organization devoted to eliminate hunger, poverty and disease in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The sixth annual El Cerrito Lunafest is 7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday at El Cerrito High School theater, 540 Ashbury Ave. Details and clips from this year's films are online at www.lunafest.org/elcerrito. Tickets are available at http://eclunafest2013.eventbrite.com/.
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There are few organizations who've been more closely tracking the evolution of green building over the last decade than the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA/COTE). Each year, they round up the best projects they've seen and evaluate them according to a rigorous set of measures and metrics. Ten emerge victorious as the year's top projects. A couple of this year's winners will be familiar to Inhabitat readers, as we've noted their superior greenness in the past including The EpiCenter, shown above, and others…
The EpiCenter in Boston, home of Artists for Humanity, was recognized for its huge PV array, rain catchment system and vigilant use of recycled building materials; and for achieving all this with a non-profit budget on an inner-city site.
Kieran Timberlake Associates won an award for their Sidwell Friends Middle School project in Washington, DC. This one has a green roof and artificial wetland which reduce storm runoff, and lessen the facility's need for water from the municipal supply. They've also paid attention to students' transportation needs, siting the school near public transit, adding bike storage and placing parking underground to keep open spaces free for foot traffic and landscaping.
And of course the perennial center of sustainable building attention, Ray Kappe and LivingHomes' green prefab royalty, the Z6 House. I never actually knew it was officially called "Z6" — we always refer to it simply as "LivingHome" — but it turns out Z6 represents the home's "six zero" goal: zero waste, zero energy, zero water, zero carbon, zero emissions, and zero ignorance. The home is LEED platinum certified, which is something to be proud of, and built to be replicated, which means platinum prefabs will soon start to multiply.
Of those that haven't been covered here before, one that stood out was the Heifer International headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas. The plans for this facility were carefully infused with the aim of embodying Heifer's values as an international non-profit which addresses hunger and poverty. "The project team's goal was to design a sustainable headquarters that would exemplify Heifer's mission and sustainable attributes for educational purposes and allow all employees to work as equals…Part of a four phase master plan for a brownfield site, the building was conceived as a series of concentric rings expanding outward from a central commons. The architecture weaves wetlands with people at work, expanding environmental stewardship into the public realm while serving as a beacon of hope."
It's nice to see that many of this year's AIA/COTE award recipients addressed sustainability not just in terms of the degree to which a building has environmental integrity, but also how well it attends to its physical context, the social dynamics within and around it, and its role as a service-provider to those who use it. These projects all reflect the fact that as the green building evolves, so must our definition of "green."


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Pfew. My hours of fitting, tracing, cutting and sewing have paid off.
The fit of the pattern is great except for the armholes (too small) and the neckline (the two V's make the shoulders drop to the sides. I would recommend making the back V a high neckline instead) I did an FBA and some small adjustments recommended by another Burdastyler (thanks!). I like how this dress fits!
The instructions for the vent are just weird. I would recommend using the great tutorial from the lovely lady Colleen G Lea (fashionsewingblog). It definitely helped me.
As you can see I bound all the seams Hong Kong style. I was surprised how easy this method is but unfortunately this method costs lots and lots of precious sewing time. Eventually I started hating my sewing machine so I will have a little 'sewing break'.. Maybe 2 days hehe.
Some things I learned during the process that may help you in the future:
> If there are techniques in the sewing instructions that you haven't practiced before it's a good time to make a toile/muslin! This has prevented a lot errors for me.
> Don't forget to stay stitch armholes too. My armhole facings didn't fit in the armholes anymore.
> Don't use cheap (polyester) bias binding because it can be rough on your skin. You better cut strips from a lightweight fabric yourself for Hong Kong binding. Also check how the fabric feels against your skin (mine is quite itchy).
If you have questions about the pattern or techniques feel free to send me a message.
Material Notes
Very itchy fabric, but oh well…
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Feb 4, 2014, 12.21 PMby yenny lee
Love it :D
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Feb 4, 2014, 03.32 PMby Carien Dolittle
Thank you Yenny ^^
Feb 4, 2014, 03.42 PMby yenny lee
Your welcome :D oya did you receive my message? I never use msg thru burda so dont know if my msg deliver or not :)
Feb 4, 2014, 03.52 PMby Carien Dolittle
Yes I got it.. Thank you for the advise :) I'm especially interested in handsewing, you seem to do a wonderful job on it! ;)
Feb 4, 2014, 04.02 PMby yenny lee
Thank you :) you made the dresses great aswell ;)
I love to make something since i was young and just these couple of year i decided to make it seriously..:D oww.. if you interested in handsewing, also try to learn types of sewing its nice for your future embellish..i lack of technical words but hope you understand what i meant :)
Feb 4, 2014, 09.41 PMby Carien Dolittle
I guess I understand what you're saying :) You mean types of stitches right? I have to buy some couture sewing books and maybe one day I'll make gorgeous dresses like you do :D
Feb 5, 2014, 01.05 AMby yenny lee
Aaa yeah that kind of stictches hahaha yup2 you can! :D i can see you also have talent carien..lets grow together ya..me too still learning cos sewing has many things to dig :D cant wait for your next project carien :D
Oct 6, 2013, 01.02 AMby Asiverson
I am a tad late in adding my congratulations, but the dress is beautiful on you. What a terrific job, and the Hong Kong seams, Wow. Great work, I think you can sit back for a day or so and enjoy!
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Oct 7, 2013, 02.12 PMby Carien Dolittle
Thank you very much :) I think I have butterflies for my dress!
Oct 5, 2013, 05.34 AMby baum
great dress!
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Oct 7, 2013, 02.12 PMby Carien Dolittle
Thank you :)
Oct 3, 2013, 06.37 PMby papermothballvintage
Beautiful work! Hong Kong seams are so tedious and time consuming. Very well done and perfectly even!
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Oct 3, 2013, 08.03 PMby Carien Dolittle
Hihi I'm flattered to hear this from an experienced sewstress :)
Oct 2, 2013, 11.18 PMby jaimesews
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Oct 3, 2013, 08.02 PMby Carien Dolittle
Thank you :)
Sep 30, 2013, 02.32 AMby SofiaBlake
I commend you on a job well done. I always find little mistakes in my work, even when other people can't. It looks great on you, though.
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Sep 30, 2013, 04.35 PMby Carien Dolittle
Thank you! Yes even this dress has mistakes; I was in a hurry to get the dress finished for my grandma's birthday party. The armhole bindings are a bit off.. :(
Sep 29, 2013, 10.14 AMby Ellen Hatteland
Wow! I admire your patience to make all this effort on the wrong side…! You did a great job and the dress looks fantatic on you :-)
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Sep 29, 2013, 06.18 PMby Carien Dolittle
Patience is just the word that fits this dress.. Thank you :D
Sep 29, 2013, 08.47 AMby cris orange
very nice dress and it fits you perfect. I also like the Hong Kong finish, good work! I always make a muslin first, when sewing a new pattern. This way I avoid ripping the fashion fabric, which is more time-consuming than the muslin.
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Sep 29, 2013, 06.18 PMby Carien Dolittle
Yes muslins definitely pay off! Thank you
Sep 29, 2013, 04.23 AMby kisses
Nice fabric and the green add a little pop
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Sep 29, 2013, 06.19 PMby Carien Dolittle
Sep 29, 2013, 01.32 AMby Mary Athey
It looks lovely on you. The green side panals add a great touch to this dress. Love it x
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Sep 29, 2013, 06.19 PMby Carien Dolittle
Thank you
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A remote-controlled John Deere 5103 tractor adapted by Mississippi State University agricultural engineers demonstrates how much control modification can be made to a vehicle with little effort. The tractor is set up with an off-the-shelf radio remote for control over 10 functions. For safety purposes, the vehicle is set up with two remote control radio units. On some operations, both have to be activated.
A solenoid hydraulic valve allows a person to drive with the steering wheel while on the tractor, or by radio signals from a remote location. The tractor, which has a front end loader, has a television camera in front linked with a monitor so the operator can see what is immediately in front of the tractor. The loader can be operated remotely, and the bucket can be tilted and curled.
"We can raise and lower the hitch point on the back," said Mississippi State University agricultural engineer Herb Willcutt. "We went to air control systems for the clutch and brakes. We can start the tractor, operate the tractor, and are now able to shift gears remotely in a manual collar shift transmission."
The main purpose of the vehicle is for a rollover tractor demonstration as part of Willcutt's safety education efforts. "We want to demonstrate before a live audience how easy it is to turn a tractor over, either a sideways roll or a backwards flip, or roll pallets or hay bales on top of the operator."
But the technology on the tractor could benefit farmers with disabilities, too. "The tractor could be operated with switches or buttons instead of levers and pedals or with a joystick, depending on any limitations in an operator's movement. Coupled with automatic guidance this could be a very operator friendly tractor for a person with a disability."
Willcutt stressed that the first objective when equipping a tractor for a disabled person's operation "is to never modify the basic controls of the tractor and keep controls operating in a logical manner. If a person without a disability got on it, they would still be able to operate it."


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Robotic sports: What is going on?
This is FIRST Robotics 20th year and it continues to grow in popularity as a sport. FIRST is the biggest of the 108 robotic competitions designed to inspire young people to choose careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. As pointed out in the State Of The Union address recently, we as a nation are being out flanked by other nations in educating the next generation. This is this a Sputnik moment.
On March 4 & 5, 2011 Central High School will host "Logo Motion," the 2011 FIRST Robotics District Competition in which 40 high school teams will participate. Admission is free so consider attending one near you to find out what great fun it is. Here is team line up:
(Note: Teams that have been around longer have lower numbers.)
FIRST Robotics Team 66
Ypsilanti, MI
USA General Motors Powertrain Corp / Zingermans / ITT Technical Institute / Washtenaw Community College & Willow Run High School http://web.me.com/heister02/Team_66/Team_66.html
FIRST Robotics Team 74
Holland, MI
USA Haworth Inc./PTC/MAGNA Exteriors and Interiors Sealing and Glass Systems/TIARA Yachts & Holland High School http://www.hollandchaos.com
FIRST Robotics Team 85
Zeeland, MI
USA Herman Miller Foundation/Trans-matic/ITW Drawform/Request Foods/Mead Johnson Nutritionals/Gentex/ODL, INC./Midway Machine Techlologies/Town & Country Group/Plascore/Consumers Energy & Zeeland West High School & Zeeland East High School http://www.bob85.com
FIRST Robotics Team 123
Hamtramck, MI
USA General Motors Detroit Hamtramck Assembly / Southfield Machining Inc. / RAUK Enterprises / Stitch in Time / Coffey Machining Services / Ford Foundation / ITT Tech & Hamtramck High School http://www.teamfordfirst.org/team123/index.html
FIRST Robotics Team 141
Holland, MI
USA JR Automation Technologies, Inc./Engineered Automation Systems, Inc./Magna Sealing and Glass Systems/Johnson Controls/Bradford Company/Holland Town Center/Request Foods/Buhler Prince & West Ottawa High School http://team141.net
FIRST Robotics Team 201
Rochester Hills, MI
USA General Motors Research and Development/AVL/American Compounding Specialties & Rochester High School http://feds201.com
FIRST Robotics Team 247
Berkley, MI
USA Team Ford First/Terminal Supply/Production Tool Supply/Durst Lumber & Berkley High School http://247dabears.com
FIRST Robotics Team 815
Allen Park, MI
USA Ford Motor Company/Dan's Robotic Team/ITT Technical Institute/e-Merging Market Technologies LLC/3M & Allen Park High School & St Frances Cabrini High School http://apps.schoolspan.com/1VGNDL
FIRST Robotics Team 830
Ann Arbor, MI
USA Washtenaw Community College/University of Michigan/Toyota Technical Center/BAE Systems & Ann Arbor Huron High School http://www.ratpackrobotics.org/
FIRST Robotics Team 835
Beverly Hills, MI
USA DENSO & Detroit Country Day School
FIRST Robotics Team 857
Houghton, MI
USA BAE SYSTEMS/General Motors/Michigan Technological University/The Chrysler Foundation & Houghton High School http://www.team857.com/
FIRST Robotics Team 904
Grand Rapids, MI
USA Gill Industries/GM – Grand Rapids Metal Center & Creston High School http://www.Creston904.com
FIRST Robotics Team 910
Madison Heights, MI
USA General Motors/AVL & Bishop Foley Catholic High School http://www.team910.com/
FIRST Robotics Team 1076
Ann Arbor, MI
USA SRT & Ann Arbor Pioneer High School Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 1596
Sault Sainte Marie, MI
USA Lake Superior State University & Sault Ste. Marie Instigators & Sault Area High School and Career Center http://www.instigators1596.com/
FIRST Robotics Team 1711
Traverse City, MI
USA Electro-Optics Technology / Integrated Controls, Inc. / Team Elmer's / Great Lakes Eye Consultants Peter D. Fedor, M.D. / Salamander Technologies / Grand Traverse Radiologists, PC / ITW Workholding / GTRCF Assisting Children's Education Fund / American Proficiency Institute / BORIDE Engineered Abrasives / TriLink Technical Services / Avanti Engineering & SCI-MA-TECH Traverse City Central High School Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 1896
Traverse City, MI
USA Grand Traverse Manufacturers' Golf Outing/Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District & Manufacturing Technology Academy of Northwest Michigan High School Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 1918
Fremont, MI
USA The Fremont Area Community Foundation/The Gerber Foundation/Kaydon Bearings/The people of Newaygo County & Newaygo County Regional Educational Service Agency http://first.ncresa.org/
FIRST Robotics Team 2000
Dorr, MI
USA Williams Tooling & Manufacturing/PTC & 4-H Allegan Co MSU Extension Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 2145
Lake Fenton, MI
USA Automated Systems, Inc./GM Foundation/MPT Drives, Inc./B & B Tool/Orbit Digital Media/Creative Foam/WebShow Planet/Vic Canever Chevrolet & Lake Fenton Community Schools http://tinyurl.com/hazmats
FIRST Robotics Team 2245
Frankfort, MI
USA FHS Engineers & Frankfort High School http://frankfort.k12.mi.us
FIRST Robotics Team 2246
Johannesburg, MI
USA Johannesburg High School
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FIRST Robotics Team 2474
Niles, MI
USA Lake Michigan College/AEP-American Electric Power/Delta Machining Inc./Niles Precision/Bauer Soft Water & Lake Michigan College Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 2586
Calumet, MI
USA BAE SYSTEMS/PTC/Michigan Tech & Calumet High School Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 2611
Jackson, MI
USA South Central Michigan Works/Classic Turning/Advance Turning & Mfg.
Inc./Technique Inc./DASI Solutions/ALRO Steel & Jackson County Intermediate School District http://www.jacktownvectors.org/
FIRST Robotics Team 2619
Midland, MI
USA The Dow Chemical Company / Dow Corning / Modern Metalcraft / Ackerman Brothers & Midland Public Schools http://www.the-charge.com
FIRST Robotics Team 2767
Kalamazoo/Battle Creek, MI
USA Stryker/PTC & Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency http://strykeforce.org/
FIRST Robotics Team 2771
Grandville , MI
USA BAE SYSTEMS/Code Red Robotics/PTC/General Motors Foundation/RoMan Manufacturing/Huizenga Group & Grand River Preparatory High School http://www.coderedrobotics.com
FIRST Robotics Team 2959
Coloma, MI
USA Edgewater Automation & Coloma High School & Watervliet HIgh School Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 3357
Grand Rapids, MI
USA SRT/Cascade Engineering/Magna Mirrors/Parametric Technology Corporation/Robert Grooters Development Corporation/Atomic Object & Forest Hills Public Schools http://comets.firstobjective.org/
FIRST Robotics Team 3458
Holland, MI
USA SRT/Aalderink Electric/Lakeshore Arts Alliance & Holland area Home School FIRST Robotics Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 3537
Indian River, MI
USA SRT & Inland Lakes Secondary School Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 3602
Escanaba, MI
USA Engineered Machined Products Inc/JCPenney/U.P. Machine & Engineering & Escanaba High School Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 3617
Marquette, MI
USA Northern Michigan University/JCPenney & Marquette Senior High School Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 3618
Petoskey, MI
USA JCPenney & Petoskey High School
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FIRST Robotics Team 3639
Mesick, MI
USA JCPenney & Mesick Consolidated Schools Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 3688
Suttons Bay, MI
USA Suttons Bay Public Schools
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FIRST Robotics Team 3767
Traverse City, MI
USA JC Penny / JCPenney & Traverse City West Senior High School http://wshrobotics.weebly.com/
FIRST Robotics Team 3771
Dollar Bay , MI
USA Michigan Technological University/JCPenney & DBTC Area Schools Website unknown
FIRST Robotics Team 3772
Kingsford, MI
USA JCPenney & Dickinson Iron Tech Education Center Website unknown
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Three FHSU teams placed in the top-10 in their respective competitive categories at the Collegiate DECA national competition. One team placed 2nd in Entrepreneurship.
Six students in Fort Hays State University's DECA, out of nine who attended, received honors at the recent International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Fla. Distributive Education Clubs of America is an organization for students in marketing, finance, hospitality and management.
Jessica Tormey and Tyler Thompson, Derby juniors, took second place in the nation in entrepreneurship. Jenna Braun, Victoria senior, and Bryan Saindon, Ellis senior, took top 10 honors in business ethics. Jacob Kessler, Lakin senior, and Zach Meyer, Hoxie senior, earned top 10 honors in business law.
The team also was honored with the Presidential Passport Award for leadership. Tormey also was awarded an individual Gold Passport award. These awards are based on DECA's core values, competence, innovation, integrity and teamwork.
"It was an excellent experience for the Fort Hays State University students to show off their skills," Thompson said. "I think that placing six out of the nine students who went says a lot about a small school in western Kansas like us, especially since it is only our third year as a chapter."


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We're here at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain where the BlackBerry® stand is packed with our latest smartphones, the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ and a Porsche 911! We're busy putting the final touches to our stand before the event opens tomorrow.
This week we're showcasing our BlackBerry® smartphone and BlackBerry® PlayBook™ platforms, our developer platform for visitors looking to create apps for BlackBerry App World™ and an exciting demo for visitors to test out NFC. Also joining us are our carrier partners Telefonica, Turkcell and Orange who are demoing their latest BlackBerry applications and services. Can't make it to MWC? Don't worry! We're giving you a sneak preview of what to expect from BlackBerry at MWC this year as well as some exclusive photos.
BlackBerry Experience and Developer Zone BlackBerry experts are on hand to guide you through our latest BlackBerry device software. At our interactive demo stands, you'll get hands on with the new BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 and OS 7.1 smartphones. If you are new to developing apps for mobile, you can speak to our RIM gurus who will take you through turning your idea for an app into a reality.
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The Porsche 911 loaded with BlackBerry & QNX technology takes pride of place on the stand. Whilst you can't take the car for a spin around Barcelona (we've asked for the keys), you can check out how the BlackBerry platform integrates seamlessly with the Porsche's automotive technology. Ask to see the NewBay Cloud Services in action too.
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We giving all our visitors to the BlackBerry stand a chance to engage with BlackBerry like never before…via NFC. If you know anyone coming to MWC, keep a look out on their Facebook and Twitter profiles for some exclusive BlackBerry content.
This is just a glimpse of what we have on the stand. If you are at the conference, come by and say hello to us. If you can't join us, we'll keep everyone updated on MWC via our social channels. Keep an eye out on Twitter (@UK_BlackBerry) as well as our blogs for updates we have planned for this week. You can also follow us live here: http://www.BlackBerry.com/mwc12


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT's cross country program announced its 2012 schedule, a seven-meet lineup, all of which take place on the road. The season officially begins when the teams travel to the Keene State Invitational on September 1. Two weeks later, they compete at the UMass-Dartmouth Invitational, where both the squads finished atop the standings last year.
After racing in the Purple Valley Classic (Sept. 22) and the NEICAAA Championship (Oct.7), the Engineers will compete in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Championship on October 27. MIT has captured the men's and women's titles the past five years.
On November 10, the Cardinal and Gray will head to Westfield, Mass. to square off against other teams in the NCAA Regionals and, if successful, will then head to the NCAA Championships on November 17. In 2011, the women's team finished fifth and Dan Harper '12 represented the men's side.
2012 MIT Cross Country Schedule
|Aug. 31
|Keene State Invitational
|Keene, N.H.
|11:00 a.m.
|Sept. 15
|UMass-Darmouth Invitational
|North Dartmouth, Mass.
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|Sept. 22
|Purple Valley Classic
|Williamstown, Mass.
|12:45 p.m.
|Oct. 7
|NEICAA Championship
|Stanley Park
|12:00 p.m.
|Oct. 27
|NEWMAC Championship
|Northampton, Mass.
|11:00 a.m.
|Nov. 10
|NCAA Regionals
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February 24, 2012
Bismarck, North Dakota
Present: Justice Carol Ronning Kapsner, Chair
Justice Daniel Crothers
Judge Richard Geiger
Judge Steven McCullough
Absent: Judge Gary LeeJudge Patrick Weir
Staff: Sally Holewa
The Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference met on February 24, 2012. Chair Kapsner called the meeting to order at 2:00 p.m.
Judge McCullough moved to approve the minutes of the November 21, 2011 meeting. The motion was seconded by Judge Geiger. The motion carried and the minutes were approved.
Lee Ann Barnhardt, Director of Education, explained that the State Bar Association has decided to reduce the length of its annual meeting which has an impact on when we can hold the education portion of the Judicial Conference. She explained that usually we have held the Judicial Conference for 90 minutes on Thursday afternoons following the Law School Luncheon and prior to the General Assembly session. She said that this year she has already committed to the Department of Human Services that we will have a session on courts communicating with foster parents and caregivers. She has also been asked to include a session on the changes to the Code of Judicial Conduct. She does not believe that a 90 minute session is sufficient to cover both these topics plus the business meeting of the Judicial Conference. She is also concerned that keeping this schedule will conflict with educational sessions the State Bar is planning that judges may want to attend..
In response to a suggestion that we consider using Wednesday morning or afternoon, Ms. Barnhardt explained that Legal Services has already scheduled a CLE for that morning, and that several committees are scheduled to meet in the morning and afternoon of that day.
After further discussion, Justice Crothers suggested that we keep to the schedule we've previously had for the June Judicial Conference and hold it on Thursday afternoon. He suggested that we could limit the business meeting and the overview of the changes to the Code of Judicial Conduct to 15 minutes each and give the Dept. of Human Services the remaining 50 minutes. It being the consensus that this is the best possible schedule we can achieve, Ms. Barnhardt was directed to schedule the June Judicial Conference as follows:
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Location: Alerus Center, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Time: 1 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Agenda: Business Meeting
Overview of Changes to the Code of Judicial Conduct
Court Communication with Foster Parents and Caregivers
Discussion then turned to the scheduling of future Judicial Conferences in conjunction with the State Bar Association. Justice Kapsner suggested that our best option might be to plan on holding future June Judicial Conferences on Wednesday mornings. Judge McCullough expressed some reservations about Wednesdays but suggested that there was not likely to be another day that would work better. Judge Geiger said he was surprised to learn that the State Bar Association was shortening the annual meeting and eliminating the casual interactions between members. He is concerned about the impact the shortened timeframe has on our time for the Judicial Conference. Justice Crothers said his primary concern with Wednesdays is the floating timeframe being given to the sports events. He said it will create conflicts with what we are scheduling because we won't know when they are being planned. He suggested that we should consider holding future conferences on Tuesday afternoons and Wednesday mornings.
After further discussion, Justice Kapsner asked the committee members to talk to other judges to see if moving future June Judicial Conference to Wednesdays is palatable to them.
There being no further business to come before the committee, the chair adjourned the meeting at 2:31 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Sally Holewa
Executive Secretary to the Judicial Conference


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VIDEO: World Trade Organisation challenge begins as the commercial seal hunt ends
Warning: video contains graphic images of sealing activity.
The first set of hearings on the WTO challenge concerning the EU regulations on the sale of seal products between the European Union, Canada, and Norway are over.
The questions have been asked, the accusations made, and the positions defended – in some cases better than others.
Now, each delegation must answer to a long list of questions presented to them by the panel. Back in Canada, it's heads down as we work to provide factual information on seal hunting for the European Commission to help defend their case.
The timelines are incredibly tight and there is much to be done.
Whether or not the panel's decision is favourable to Canada and Norway, or to the EU, it seems unlikely that European markets for seal products will emerge any time soon.
By all indications, the Canadian commercial seal hunt is struggling to survive, with the industry saying it will likely request another government bailout yet again. In fact, Canadian sealers abandoned the commercial grey seal hunt entirely this year, due to a lack of markets.
In just 5 weeks the parties to the WTO challenge will meet again. Between now and then, the slaughter of seal pups off the east coast of Canada will begin. Or will it?
Canadian sealers abandoned the grey seal hunt this year due to the lack of demand for seal products. And while the commercial harp seal hunt is likely to proceed, it remains to be seen how many fishermen participate.
Even with a $2 million bailout from the government of Newfoundland and Labrador last year, only 430 of the estimated 11,000 licenced Newfoundland sealers bothered to take part in the slaughter.
While it remains to be seen what the next few weeks will bring for the seals, the International Fund for Animal Welfare will continue our campaign to end this senseless seal slaughter once and for all, and to support the European Commission in their defence of the EU ban against the challenge by Canada and Norway.


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by JIM HARRIS
As the old saying goes, "Politics makes strange bedfellows." All that may be changing, however, as people are increasingly demanding more personalized, single-minded political parties. Modern voters apparently want to associate only with others who think, feel, act and look just like themselves. Is this a further flowering of American-style democracy or a return to tribalism?
Who knows? Not me. But not being one to miss a good business opportunity, I have started a new company, "Birds of a Feather," whose sole purpose is to create, organize, fund and populate new political parties representing every possible human, plant and animal interest under the sun.
You will notice that all of the parties we offer have names that rhyme with "tea." This is a shrewd marketing maneuver designed to capitalize on the name recognition value of the wildly popular Tea Party. So look no more, my friends. The search for your perfect political bedfellows is over. Birds of a Feather will find you a sect you can respect, a clique to fit your shtick and a franchise you can idolize.
For starters, we have the Tee Party (golf nuts), the Tee Hee party (everything's a joke to them), and the TNT party (they blow stuff up). The Wee Party is convinced that big people are using up all of our air. The He Party thinks that men are superior to women. The She Party believes that men are more devoted to booty than to duty.
Members of the "Don't Look at Me" party wear full-body burlap sacks with only small slits to see through. Their sartorial opposites, the "I Can't See" Party people wear nothing but small black strips covering their eyes.
If you've been injured by DDT or falling debris, if you suffer from runner's knee, ADHD, chronic ennui or low vitamin C, operators are standing by right now to assist you. If you consider yourself oppressed, then either the "Set My People Free" Party or the more vociferous "Screw Your People; Set MY People Free" Party might be what you're looking for.
Perhaps you're a devotee of Kenny G, Sarah Lee, Mickey D, Chef Boyardee, or Nicolas Sarkozy (oui oui), and you're wondering if there is a party for you. Wonder no more. If your favorite song is "Nearer My God to Thee," there's definitely a place for you in the choir.
If you're looking for a party that does absolutely nothing, then either the "Absentee," "C'est la Vie, or "Let it be" Party will be your cup of tea. If you take LSD, wear a goatee, smell like potpourri, have ESP, are into joie de vie and reverie, we can turn you on, ba-by.
If you own an SUV, a 3-D TV or are a member of the Bourgeoisie, relax! We've got your back. If you are a refugee, referee, retiree, Ph.D, maitre d', Grammy nominee or wannabe; if you wear a size triple-E or 38-D; if you were born in Memphis, Tennessee; Washington, D.C., or a year that ends with "3," no prob, Bob.
In fact, you don't even have to be human. If you're a flea, bee, tree, manatee, chickadee or chimpanzee, we've got a party that will match your DNA exactly.
Even the original Tea party has now splintered into the Black, White and Green Tea Parties. It seems like the only kind of "Tea" not represented in American politics today is "uni-ty." Until that time comes along, we'll just have to agree to disagree.


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Roseau (Dominica): Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting said he has no intention of calling time on his Test career and was looking forward to taking on bitter rivals South Africa later this year.
The 37-year-old, who has already quit one-dayers, has struggled for runs on the current Caribbean tour with scores four, 14, seven and 41 prompting some to predict that the third Test against the West Indies could be his last.
But Ponting, fired up by an impressive home series against India where he scored 544 runs in four Tests against India, at an average of 108.80, is adamant he still has a role to play.
"My love for the game and passion and desire to play and be successful hasn`t changed," said Ponting on the eve of the final Test which starts at Windsor Park on Monday.
"Even when things were really tough a few months ago, all I wanted to do was try to give myself the best chance to be able to play well again.
"I felt I got there through the summer and I feel like I`m batting really well at the moment. I`ve still got a few things I want to achieve and a few games of cricket I want to be a part of and win for Australia. "As long as I feel I can play a role winning games of cricket for Australia I`ll continue to do it. I`m enjoying it as much as ever and probably working harder than ever on my game."
Captain Michael Clarke also gave his backing to the 164-Test veteran who has piled up 13,266 runs in his career. "He`s hitting the ball well, probably hasn`t got that big score that he`d like but none of us have. Conditions haven`t been great for making big hundreds," Clarke told a leading cricket website.
"If you wanted to make runs here you had to bat for a hell of a long time, and need a bit of luck as well along the way. Ricky`s one of the guys that has put the team above himself and sacrificed his wicket or tried to take the game forward because we`ve needed to, to try and help us win the game. (AFP)


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Range Description
This species is known from both Atlantic and Pacific versants of the cordilleras of Costa Rica and western Panama, up to 2,000m asl. It is also present on outlying ridges and hills down to 16m asl at a few lowland sites. The species is absent from the lowlands of the Pacific north-west (Savage 2002). Records from Colombia are in error. Recent declines have reduced the Costa Rican range to only one known locality, Fila Chonta, 10km north-west of the city of Quepos.
Habitat and Ecology
It is a terrestrial species of humid lowland and montane forest; specimens recorded at lowland rainforest localities were all found along high-gradient, rocky streams, in hilly areas (Savage 2002). It is associated with small fast-flowing streams and is often found along the banks and sitting out on rocks in streams; at night they sleep in crevices or low vegetation. They forrmely occurred in large concentrations during the dry season, from December to May (Savage 2002). Eggs are laid in water and are probably attached to rocks.
Over 100 populations of this species were known from Costa Rica where it was often quite common. Drastic declines began in Monteverde in 1988 and the species was thought to have been extirpated in Costa Rica by 1996. However, after nearly eight years during which the species was thought to be extinct, a remnant population was discovered near Quepos, on the Pacific coastal range, in 2003, and was surveyed again in 2005 when more individuals were found. In Panama, some populations have declined, but others persist. For example, Lips (1999) reported a mass mortality in Fortuna, Provincia de Chiriquí, which affected this species in December 1996-January 1997. This site was visited again in February 1998, but the species was not found (Ibáñez 1999). It has been recorded in Panama as recently as November 2002, but it is believed to still be in serious decline.
Population Trend
Major Threats
The major threat is likely to be chytridiomycosis, which has led to catastrophic population declines in many other montane species of Atelopus. Museum specimens of this species have been found to have chytrid fungi. One specimen collected in 2003 from the only known site at which the species survives in Costa Rica tested positive for chytrid infection, and the disease was also confirmed in individuals in 1986, 1990, 1992 and 1997. Other threats to the species include habitat loss due to the destruction of natural forests, and predation by introduced trout. The only known site in Costa Rica is under serious threat of a landslide that could potentially destroy the entire stream section where they are presently found. It was collected by the thousands in the 1970s and shipped to Germany as part of the international pet trade.
Conservation Actions
The species is present in three protected areas in Panama, and was previously found in a number of Costa Rican protected areas. Ex-situ conservation measures are now needed to ensure the future survival of this species, and a captive-breeding program has been initiated.
Red List Status
Critically Endangered (CR)
Listed as Critically Endangered because of a drastic population decline, estimated to be more than 80% over the last three generations, inferred from the apparent disappearance of most of the population, probably due to chytridiomycosis.
Taxonomic Notes
Molecular data and morphological, ecological, and demographic analyses suggest that the Panamanian golden frogs and their kin (the Atelopus varius-zeteki clade) are comprised of five distinct forms (Zippel et al., 2006). Additional analyses identify phenotypic and genetic differentiation consistent with proposed Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESUs), and support the status of Atelopus varius and Atelopus zeteki as separate species (Richards and Knowles, 2007).
Pounds, J., Puschendorf, R., Bolaños, F., Chaves, G., Crump, M., Solís, F., Ibáñez, R., Savage, J., Jaramillo, C., Fuenmayor, Q. & Lips, K. 2010. Atelopus varius. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T54560A11167883. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-2.RLTS.T54560A11167883.en .Downloaded on 20 January 2019


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NCAA Tournament roundup: Day 2
It's another full day of basketball as the round of 64 wraps up
NCAA Tournament roundup: Day 2
It's another full day of basketball as the round of 64 wraps up
NCAA Tournament roundup: Day 2
It's another full day of basketball as the round of 64 wraps up
Maybe we'll see some Madness today.
Following a day in which 14 higher-seeded teams won, the NCAA Tournament rolls on with another full day of basketball.
Sixteen more games will wrap the round of 64. Follow along for updates as No. 1s Kansas and North Carolina take the court, as well as blue-blood programs Duke, Kentucky and UCLA.
- No. 7 Michigan 92, No. 10 Oklahoma State 91: In a high-scoring matchup, the Wolverines hung on for the win, led by Derrick Walton Jr.'s 26 points and 11 assists. D.J. Wilson scored 19 points, while Zak Irvin and Muhhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman each had 16 for a balanced Michigan offense that sank 16 3-pointers. Oklahoma State Jawun Evans had a team-high 23 points.
- No. 3 Baylor 91, No. 14 News Mexico State 73: After trailing by two at halftime, Baylor overpowered the Aggies in the second half. The Bears avoided a third-straight first-round upset with the help of Al Freeman, who had a game-high 21 points coming off the bench. Ian Baker and Braxton Huggins had 19 points each for New Mexico State.
- No. 8 Arkansas 77, No. 9 Seton Hall 71: Moses Kingsley and Jaylen Barford scored 23 and 20 points, respectively, pacing Arkansas in a tight game. Seton Hall held a one-point lead with 1:45 to play but was held scoreless the rest of the way as the Razorbacks pulled ahead and sank key free throws.
- No. 3 Oregon 93, No. 14 Iona 77: With star big man Chris Boucher cheering in a bulky knee brace from the sidelines, Tyler Dorsey scored 24 points to lead four players in double figures, and No. 3 seed Oregon beat 14th-seeded Iona 93-77 Friday in the first-round of the NCAA Tournament's Midwest Region.
- No. 2 Louisville 78, No. 15 Jacksonville State 65: Mangok Mathiang scored 18 points and Deng Adel added 16 Friday to help second-seeded Louisville pull away from Jacksonville State 78-63 in the first round of the Midwest Regional.
- No. 6 Southern Methodist 65, Southern California 66: Elijah Stewart hit a late 3-pointer for No. 11 seed Southern California as the Trojans upset sixth seeded SMU 66-65 Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
- No. 1 North Carolina 103, No. 16 Texas Southern 64: Justin Jackson broke out of a shooting slump with 21 points to help top-seeded North Carolina roll past Texas Southern 103-64 on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament's South Region.
- No. 6 Creighton 72, No. 11 Rhode Island 84: Dan Hurley stole an occasional glance at the raucous Rhode Island section and realized just how much this NCAA Tournament means to a starved program, and to an entire state that loves its basketball even if far more under the radar than so many of the others featuring powerhouse programs.
- No. 1 Kansas 100, No. 16 UC Davis 62: The standout Kansas freshman proved true to his word in an opening-round 100-62 victory over UC Davis on Friday night, scoring 17 points on 8-of-12 shooting in his return from a one-game suspension for an accumulation of embarrassing incidents.
- No. 7 Dayton 58, No. 10 Wichita State 64: Wichita State's high-flying offense didn't get off the ground until the closing minutes, when the Shockers played like the more tournament-experienced team and pulled away to a 64-58 victory over Dayton on Friday night.
- No. 2 Duke 87, No. 15 Troy 65: Grayson Allen had 21 points off five 3-pointers, Jayson Tatum had 18 points and 12 rebounds, and second-seeded Duke continued its perfect postseason with an 87-65 victory over Troy in the NCAA Tournament on Friday night to start the East Region.
- No. 6 Cincinnati 75, No. 11 Kansas State 61: Troy Caupain scored 23 points, Kyle Washington added 16 and defensive-minded Cincinnati shot it way past Kansas State 75-61 Friday night in the South Region of the NCAA Tournament.
- No. 8 Miami 58, No. 9 Michigan State 78: Nick Ward scored 19 points to help Michigan State atone for last season's early NCAA Tournament disappointment with an opening-round 78-58 victory over Miami on Friday night.
- No. 2 Kentucky, 79 vs. No. 15 Northern Kentucky, 70: Bam Adebayo had 15 points and 18 rebounds on Friday night as Kentucky showed the new kids on their block how it's done at NCAA Tournament time, gritting out a 79-70 victory over stubborn Northern Kentucky.
- No. 7 South Carolina, 93 vs. No. 10 Marquette, 73: Sindarius Thornwell had 29 points and 11 rebounds to help seventh-seeded South Carolina win its first NCAA Tournament game in 44 years, a 93-73 victory over Marquette to close first-round play in the East Region on Friday night.
- No. 3 UCLA, 97 vs. No. 14 Kent State, 80: TJ Leaf scored 23 points, Thomas Welsh added 16 and UCLA pulled away late for a 97-80 victory over scrappy Kent State on Friday night in the NCAA Tournament South Region.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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text: Belly was a rock band formed in 1991 by former Throwing Muses members Tanya Donelly (who was also in The Breeders with Kim Deal) and Fred Abong. The band was based in Boston, Massachusetts, though all the original members grew up in Newport, Rhode Island. The band consisted of Donelly on lead vocals and guitar, Abong on bass guitar, Tom Gorman on guitar, and Chris Gorman on drums. Tom and Chris, who were brothers, were childhood friends of Donelly's; they had previously played in the hardcore punk band Verbal Assault.


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Check the paint job on Lance's bike – that's Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant and Obama posters fame. Damn. We posted earlier on Lance working with Fairy on a mural, but didn't know a bike was commissioned.
Photo: James Huang/Cyclingnews.com
- Was just talking about Obey Giant with Simple Scott during Mobile Social @ An Event Apart – Scott designed the Obama campaign.
- Mellow Johnnys has many of Lance's art bikes, including the Baba Ganoush
- More details on the bike.
- More on Obey.
Another great example of how bikes are part of pop culture and crossing over into modern art. Now to see art merged with transportation and cargo bikes.


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Case study on river management: Kafue FlatsFishing village on flats, Kafue Flats Zambia.
Case study on river management: Kafue Flats
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Kafue Flats are the vast, open floodplain of the Kafue River, covering some 6,500km² within the wider basin of the Zambezi River.
Socio-economic importance
The area is important for fishing, cattle grazing, sugarcane farming, and production of hydroelectric power.
Zambia's water and hydroelectric power potential are of great importance to the national economy and to the regional economy of southern Africa.
The Kafue Gorge hydroelectric power plant, situated at the eastern end of the Kafue Flats, is the country's largest power station, providing more than 50% of Zambia's electricity needs.
A surplus of 431 MW is exported to neighbouring countries, such as Zimbabwe and South Africa.
To keep pace with demand, the Kafue Gorge power plant has needed more water than was available from the Kafue Gorge Dam.
Consequently, a second storage reservoir (the Itezhi-tezhi Dam) was constructed at the western end of Kafue Flats. This allows for the release of sufficient water to maintain maximum power generation throughout the year.
On the south-eastern side of Kafue Flats, near the town of Mazabuka, there are several sugarcane farms, each of which cultivates huge areas of land.
These farms produce the majority of Zambia's sugar for local use and export. Each farm relies heavily on water from the Kafue River for irrigation, while nutrient-rich effluent is discharged back into the river, contributing to the proliferation of many aquatic plants, including the problematic water hyacinth Eichornia crassipes.
Traditionally, the people of Kafue Flats have made a living by fishing and grazing livestock. Until recently, the area was sparsely populated but this is changing as many people arrive in search of work, for example on sugarcane estates. This has promoted illegal hunting and overfishing. As a result, certain parts of the Flats are suffering from increasing human pressure.


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Travel Guide of Microcentro, Buenos Aires for: Casa Calma HotelMicrocentro, Buenos Aires, Province of Buenos Aires
Microcentro Summary
- Most of Buenos Aires' major attractions are within walking distance
- Wonderful shopping, dining and entertainment
- Beautiful eclectic architecture
- Many subway lines in the area
- High density of hotels, with options for every budget
- Historic sites such as the Colon Theater and Café Tortoni
- Pedestrian areas, such as Calle Florida, which is one of the main shopping hubs
- Bustling during the week, but quieter on the weekend
- Crowds everywhere and lots of traffic on the main thoroughfares
- Some parts can feel a bit seedy at night
What It's Like
Microcentro is the heart of Buenos Aires -- both geographically and figuratively. Most visitors find themselves walking around this area time and again during their stay, be it because most major attractions are in the neighborhood or because of the wide array of restaurants and shops it offers.
The area is the main financial and cultural hub of the city, and corporate offices and businesses make it one of the most bustling neighborhoods in the capital. Boutiques, local and chain restaurants, dozens of hotels for every budget, attractions, and entertainment venues attract hordes day and night. There are few apartment buildings here, and Microcentro empties out a bit at night and on the weekends, but there's always something going on in the neighborhood, where bars open till late and jet-lagged tourists wander to sites like the Obelisk, the Plaza de Mayo or the Colon Theater at any time of the day or night.
Chaos, traffic and crowded sidewalks are what define this hopping area, but it's also the best place to feel the city and get a sense of what the country really is like. Scenes of opulence and poverty blend like in few other places, with homeless sitting in front of upscale boutiques, and businessmen in suits standing in line at a take-out eatery along with construction workers.
Where To Stay
Microcentro is a fairly compact neighborhood (compared to the size of Buenos Aires) with a simple grid system, which makes it easy to walk around. A section of Line C of the subway system runs under Avenida 9 de Julio, and three other lines intersect at some point with this major thoroughfare, so staying in this area offers easy access both by car and by subway to other parts of the city.
Calle Florida (Florida Street) is one of the main shopping hubs in Buenos Aires, and it boasts both upscale boutiques and shopping malls --such as Galerias Pacifico -- and local shops selling Argentine leather items. It is also one of the few pedestrian areas in the city, and though it still draws crowds, it is generally quieter.
The area between Avenida 9 de Julio and the Casa Rosada (the Presidential palace) is an attraction-packed part of the neighborhood, also conveniently located close to the hopping waterfront district of Puerto Madero.


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Geekdom's Council of Elders: Part One
The men behind Lost, Fringe, Star Trek and Transformers sit down with Alex Pappademas for an exclusive three-part interview. (For Part 2, click here)
[The following conversation took place on September 24th, 2009. The second season of Fringe had premiered one week earlier; the first episode of FlashForward, a big-budget paranormal drama tipped as ABC's successor to Lost, was set to air that night.]
GQ: JJ, is there anything in particular that you learned from the Lost experience that you brought to Fringe?
Roberto Orci [writer/ecutive producer, Alias; co-creator/ecutive producer, Fringe; ecutive producer/co-writer, Star Trek]: We needed Damon and Carlton.
JJ Abrams [co-creator/ecutive producer/director, Lost, Fringe and Alias; director/co-writer/ecutive producer, Star Trek]: And they weren't available. No—my involvement with Lost really ended within the first season. And so a lot of what I learned from Lost was what people watching the show learned, which is what great characters and story looked like. I think the work that Damon and Carlton do on that show is obviously a high-water mark for TV, and the ambition. In terms of this show, it's a very different show. Every show's a different show. It's easy, in retrospect, to make comparisons, but when you're in the thick of it, when you're working on something, even if it's the same people, it's suddenly a whole new nightmare challenge. And you scramble the best you can to do your best work, and it's especially difficult when you're doing a mythology show that's also aspiring to be a standalone show. Lost was very lucky early on to get really good ratings. So the network was okay with mythology, and the show's never apologized for it. Fringe, up front, said, "Hey, it's a standalone show, and every week you're going to get your own little separate mystery." But the fans who come back to watch the show-- and tonight, fingers crossed, that happens again-- are the people who typically like the mythology. So there's a weird dynamic that goes on that I still haven't learned, from Alias to Lost to Fringe, how to necessarily solve.
GQ: How to please those two audiences simultaneously, you mean.
Abrams: Yeah. This group dealt with that with Star Trek. How do we do something that's wholly original, while also doing something that's wholly reverent of what's come before? And how do you do a show that's a week to week closed story and still tell a larger overarching story? It's hard to please both sides of that all the time. It can be done in some instances, and other times, y'know, we fail miserably. But that's definitely one of the challenges that we face, doing the show.
GQ: Was that always your intention, that Fringe would be more of a one-and-done show that didn't depend as much on people following the mythology over a season-long arc, the way Lost does?
Alex Kurtzman [writer/ecutive producer, Alias; co-creator and ecutive producer, Fringe; co-writer/ecutive producer, Star Trek]: Yeah.
Orci: We always thought it would be both. That we'd have a little clue in each episode, but then every few episodes, you can have a highly mythological serialized episode. But in general, we always try to have that right balance.
Kurtzman: Which is a challenge, because I think our collective instincts veer toward serialization.
Orci: From watching Lost, I learned characters. That characters are key. The smallest character moment can be a gigantic revelation, as a viewer.
Damon Lindelof [co-creator/ecutive producer, Lost]: From the outside looking in, though, as a fan, and someone who had nothing at all to do with the development of Fringe, I felt the pilot clearly signified both shows. And the show that was more interesting to me as a viewer was the mythology, because of Nina Sharp and the mysterious and elusive William Bell. There's a moment in the pilot where Walter looks into Peter's eye, and I'm like, "What was that all about?" The problem with mystery of the week shows is, at the end of the episodes it's just like that [brushes his hands off] and that's not compelling television to me.
Orci: I agree.
Bryan Burk [co-producer, Alias; ecutive producer, Lost/Fringe/Star Trek]: [On Fringe] I found us, referencing Alias more often than Lost, in the sense that that was a serialized show, and then in the middle of the series we started dabbling with making them self-contained.
Abrams: Well, ABC insisted on it.
Burk: Yeah. And it was hard to go there. Particularly when it's such a serialized show. So from the beginning, the idea was, is it possible, how can we do it—how do we service two different audiences, those who just pop in for the individual episodes and doing what we all love, which is the mythology.
Kurtzman [to Carlton Cuse]: You and Damon have both worked on shows that were standalone, procedural shows. Do you feel that that can be as satisfying, storytellingwise?
Carlton Cuse [creator, Nash Bridges; ecutive producer, Lost]: I think they're apples and oranges. A lot of people like the satisfaction that comes with seeing that case resolved every week. There's a certain artificiality to it, but there's also kind of a wish-fulfillment quality—a dead body falls at the beginning, and by the end of the episode you know who did it. The puzzle's solved. I think those shows—I did Nash Bridges for six years, and that show had a little bit of ongoing sort of character mythology, but it was just a case every week. And there's a certain satisfaction in doing that. And obviously the audience can just drop in whenever they want to that kind of a show.
Lindelof: There's a difference between serialization and mythology, though. Like Grey's Anatomy is heavily serialized, in terms of the character relationships—who's sleeping with who, who's angry at who, who's just been fired. And you have to watch every episode to understand the depth of it.
Abrams: But there's never a crazy backstory with the patients…
Lindelof [writer, Nash Bridges; ecutive story editor, Crossing Jordan]: Yeah. That's different from a mythology, where you're not entirely sure what's going on unless you have an insular knowledge. Nash was like that—when I came on in season 6, we inherited arcs, but then there were season-long arcs, of character relationships, that were built upon preexisting things. Y'know, there were two characters who'd had a relationship and were now broken up. The character stuff-- you have to have that. Except on Law Order, where it's like Tom Jerry—last week never happened.
Kurtzman: I think that speaks to why we're drawn to serialization. Because mystery as a form of storytelling is always the thing that intrigues us as viewers the most, and mystery is contingent on not getting an answer quickly. It's contingent on a long protracted exploration. So maybe the difference between genre storytelling or procedural storytelling is what we're talking about. Although I think Fringe is an attempt to be both.
Orci: I hate serialization. And I'll tell you why next week. [laughter all around]
Burk: I also think with the shift in how television is now, it's possible to watch serialized shows on DVD, which you couldn't do twenty years ago, let alone 30 years ago. There are loyal viewers who watch it every week, but you can also wait and watch it all as a box set and still be in the loop as to what's going on in television. When we started Lost, doing serialized television was unacceptable. None of the shows were working, that were serialized. I remember vividly saying [to the network] that they'd be standalone episodes. The episodes will be serialized, but they'll also be standalone.
Lindelof: We lied.
Burk: It wasn't possible.
Cuse: Yeah, the advent of technological change has basically allowed serialized shows to kind of resurge on television. You couldn't sell a show that was heavily serialized, because they say if someone falls out of an episode or two they won't watch it anymore. But now with Hulu and the availability of the episodes on the networks' own websites and on DVD, it's actually become successful. And those DVDs became a huge profit center for those kinds of shows.
**GQ: So do you feel like it's easier, five years after the premiere of Lost, to sell a heavily-serialized show? Technology's made it a lot easier for people to join the show already in progress, but shows still have to survive long enough on regular TV to fill a box set. **
Orci: Networks don't want serialized.
Lindelof: Yeah, serialized is still a dirty word.
Abrams: Literally-- I was at a network pitch recently, and someone mentioned how the show we were discussing would be a standalone show, and there was applause in the room. Literally. They don't want shows that people have to invest that kind of time in, and make that kind of commitment to.
Burk: They sell better overseas, if they're not that way. You can air 'em in any order.
Kurtzman: What was the statistic we read?
Orci: 43% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Kurtzman: That a regular viewer sees 3 out of every 22 episodes of a show. It used to be something like 1 out of 4. You can't do serialized storytelling, when that's your number.
Orci: You can have character serialization, I think we're saying, but not plot serialization.
Lindelof: But all the top 10 shows are serialized shows. Including reality-- there's no show more heavily serialized than American Idol. You can drop into any episode of Idol and not know anything about it and still understand it, but to really appreciate it, you have to have built a relationship with those people over the course of the season.
Burk: The top ten shows are serialized?
Lindelof: Yeah. Desperate Housewives, Gray's Anatomy—House is probably the most standalone in the Top 10. But do you watch House? House has become heavily serialized on a character level. I can't follow House other than the medical mystery. I watched the premiere and I was like, "What is he doing in a mental institution?"
Cuse: But that, I think, is in a different category, in my mind. You can serialize the character dramas, but if you have a standalone case [every week], the show is still viewed as being accessible.
Abrams: But shows like Desperate Housewives, or Grey's Anatomy—they're like soap operas. You can miss X number of episodes, but you can tune in and still get who's screwing who.
Lindelof: That's the difference between serialization and mythology. Although Desperate Housewives—at least last year, when I started watching it again—has basically re-embraced a mythological spine. In its first season, it was heavily mythologized.
Abrams: The pilot was hugely mythological…
Lindelof: There was an entire season-long murder-mystery arc. And they started doing that again, and I think people are into that.
**GQ: Once it was clear there was going to be some kind of mythology in Fringe, was there pressure from the network to bring in the payoffs more quickly than you might have in the past? **
Kurtzman: Yeah. For sure, there was.
Orci: Yes and no. I think they were confused about it.
Abrams: They don't want mythology, but when you have a [recurring, mysterious] character like The Observer, they want to make a big deal about The Observer. They want it, and then they don't want it, at the same time.
Kurtzman: I think the core story has to be the mystery of the week. It has to be set up in the teaser and resolved by the last act. But there are things like the Observer that don't. And as we've been talking about, with all these shows, there's also the deeper backstory of these characters, and that goes on forever and ever, and that's the serialized element of the show.
GQ: Fringe has found its footing now, but as a viewer, it seemed like it took you guys a little while to figure out what kind of show it was going to be. Where do you think the turning point was, where the vision for the show came into focus?
Kurtzman: I wonder if we all have different answers to that question.
Abrams: I think it was [the seventh episode], "In Which We Meet Mr. Jones." That episode, to me, was one where you felt, "Oh, I see-- there's a bad guy. They're playing out a story." There was a character who seemed to be someone who could give us some answers, and he's got this connection to [Anna Torv's FBI-agent character], and then all of a sudden he's teleporting out of [jail.] Even the name of the episode—I think it was [Fringe ecutive producer Jeff] Pinkner who came up with the name—it just felt like the show arrived, in a way that it needed to.
Kurtzman: You know what's funny about that, though? That was the episode where it felt like we were going back to the Alias template, in a way. That was the kind of thing we would have done on Alias.
Lindelof: Well, you had no Sloane, on Fringe, until then. There was conflict to play, in the Fringe Division, but you always had to manufacture it from outside. So like some FBI guy would come in and say "What are you guys up to?" or whatever. But from Broyles to Walter to Peter to Olivia and Astrid—they all kind of get along with each other. By having Sloane in Alias as a regular from the word "Go," you had built-in antagonism.
Kurtzman: That's true.
Lindelof: Not to make this about Lost, but when we introduced Ben Linus in the middle of Season 2—I can't imagine the show without that.
Cuse: We were struggling, because we didn't have any force of antagonism. It wasn't the tenth iteration of a cop show, or a law show, or a medical show—and that was a real struggle, at the beginning of the show, to figure out every week, "What is the force of antagonism?"
Abrams: That's why I think your instinct, so early on, to bring the Others in sooner…
Lindelof: That was always the issue—when are we going to bring them in?
Cuse: And then once we'd brought in Benjamin Linus and established him as the leader of the Others, it kinda helped kick things into a higher gear. Because we were kind of out of the natural-disaster-of-the-week zone at that point. It's funny, because the networks always make you write out synopses of possible stories, and try to get you to pitch things out, and it's a completely ridiculous and ludicrous ercise. The only way to basically find a show is to make it. And hopefully, somewhere during the first season of the show, you start to figure out what the show is. But it's a process of trial and error. You do certain things and they work, you do certain things and they don't work. You have to treat the show organically, and the show will sort of tell you what's working and not working, and eventually you'll figure out, "Okay, this is what we need to make an episode." So now we have a paradigm for Lost episodes. We kind of know what the elements are that it takes to put together the cocktail that is a Lost episode.
Lindelof: It's like saying to a pregnant woman, "So you're having a girl—would you like to sign her up for soccer, or ballet?" And you go, "I don't know, all things being equal, ballet sounds great, I like ballet"—but you haven't had the baby yet. Until you get to know your kid, you can't really make any plans whatsoever. It's a farce. But you do it every time. My favorite story is that those guys who do 24 had to basically do this same ercise. Because 24 is a premise that everybody thought would never work in a million years, myself included. Like, how do you do a real-time show? And the pilot promises—someone is threatening to assassinate this presidential candidate, David Palmer, and Jack Bauer, Keifer Sutherland, has to stop the assassination, and the plan that they pitched the network was, in episode 24, he stops the assassination. And then they got into the writing of it, and they realized, "Because it's a real-time show, we have to move up our entire timetable." So he stops Palmer from being assassinated in episode 5 or 6. And then they had to wing it! They were only a quarter of the way through. That's why the Others thing is so interesting. Because the first day that Bryan and JJ and myself, and a couple other guys—Jeff Pinkner and [Lost co-ecutive producer] Jesse Alexander were there too—were talking about Lost, JJ pitched the Hatch. He said, "They find a hatch." We talked about the Others. We talked about Rousseau. We talked about all that, in the very first meeting. It's like you're a football coach, and you have these plays, but you don't know when to run the play. You're basically like, "Okay, when is the right time? When should they find the hatch? When do we need to bring the Others in? And how do we bring them in?" So the compromise was, Ethan starts farting around with Claire, and you realize he wasn't on the plane. Where did he come from? But that's all you get in Season 1. It isn't until the end of Season 2, or midway through Season 2, that you start to see the faces of these indigenous people.
Burk: I remember Damon doing that outline of what some of the episodes would be. And I remember the word "submarine" was on there. And I was like, "A submarine's gonna show up?" And it did—it just didn't happen in the first season or 2. But there were just these crazy ideas that would pop in.
Lindelof: And it's hubris to save it, too. Sometimes. Because you're like, "Let's hold that back." Like right now, David Goyer's talking about FlashForward, and he's saying, "Everybody sees six months into the future, so in our season finale, in May, they're gonna catch up with this vision that they saw." And I was like, "You might not want to be promising that, before you get into the show!" Because you might change your mind. Don't tell people what you're going to do-- because wouldn't it be interesting if, in episode eight, suddenly you decided to compress the time scheme and then figure out where you're going to go from there?
GQ: You're saying their finale might be too late to play that card, or too soon?
Lindelof: Well, who's to say they're going to get to May? I mean, y'know—that's the hubris, right there. It's like that show The Nine. It was all these hostages in a bank crisis. And they promised that at the end of the season, they would reveal the mystery of the crisis. It got cancelled after thirteen episodes! Good, they took their time—but it doesn't matter. We had a rare opportunity-- we were in the sweet spot. We were writing the seventh episode of Lost when the show premiered. And that was when we were engaged in our most intensive creative battle with the network. It was about how weird the show could be. Because Claire went and saw a psychic, and the psychic said, y'know, "Get on this plane," and the implication was that the psychic knew the plane was going to crash. And that was also the episode where we introduced Ethan. So they started freaking out. And then the show premiered, and we were able to kind of cram it down their throats.
Burk: I was on the dub stage doing—what was Sayeed's first episode, episode six?
Lindelof: Eight. "Solitary." Seven and eight, we were doing them at the same time.
Burk: I was on the mixing stage, finishing that. And as scripted, at the end of the episode, Sayeed is walking through the jungle, and he starts hearing whispers. And it's now seven o'clock, I'm an hour over, I gotta finish the mix. And I get a call from the network. "Under no circumstances do we want to hear the whispers."
Lindelof: And you've got Naveen Andrews onscreen going like this [looks around, terrified]
Burk: …for no reason! And I said "Guys, there's going to be wind, there's going to be other things, but here's the thing—if you don't hear the whispers, there's going to be an actor just looking around and acting crazy for no reason." But that was it. They were very nervous about how far we were going to push anything that seemed like science fiction.
GQ: It's funny, because stuff like the whispers in the jungle seems so bush-league now compared to what's happened since.
Burk: Sure.
Cuse: You have to take your territory inch by inch.
Burk: And in defense of the network, there had been a plethora of science fiction shows before that, that all failed, for a variety of reasons. So they were obviously nervous about what we were going to turn this into.
Abrams: And we were going to kill Jack, in the pilot. And they said "Don't kill Jack." So they have given us some good notes.
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Doctor Who TARDIS Jewelry Box
Timey-Wimey Blingy-Wingy
- Jewelry box that looks like the TARDIS
- A great gift on its own or perfect to use as tiny gift packaging
- 6 drawers, 6 hooks, and a tiny mirror
When you travel through time and space, it's nice to have someplace to keep your stuff. For instance, a jewelry box that's bigger on the inside could be quite nice. This one? Not bigger on the inside. At least not the one we tested out here. It also only traveled through time forward, and only at one second intervals.
But it is a great place to store your jewelry. You wouldn't want your jewelry galavanting off through time and space without you, right? Now most of these don't exist as jewelry any more, but if they did, this jewelry box could hold the Firestone, the Great Seal of Diplos, River's earring with the Callisto Pulse inside, your bracelet that protects you from the Dalek Asylum's nanocloud, any bio-damper pieces you might own, and your free-with-purchase Adipose Industries pendant (what a deal!).
Product Specifications
- Jewelry box that looks like the TARDIS
- Officially-licensed Doctor Who product
- A great gift on its own or perfect to use as tiny gift packaging
- Lunchbox-style latch
- 4 cardboard hooks + 2 metal hooks
- Reflective cardboard mirror
- Capacity: 5 small drawers (2.2" wide x 1.9" tall x 2.4" deep), 1 large drawer (4.8" wide x 1.9" high x 2.3" deep)
- Materials: Coated cardboard
- Dimensions: 10 1/2" tall (including light) x 5" wide x 5" deep
- Weight: 1 lb. 3 oz.


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Investors may be following the shorter-term MACD oscillator on shares of Napco Sec Tech Inc (NSSC). The signal is currently pointing to a Sell. The MACD is generally used to measure bullish or bearish price movements. The MACD signal direction is presently reading Strongest. Moving over to another short-term indicator review, we note that the current 7-day average directional indicator is Sell. This signal may be used to determine the market trend. The 7-day directional strength is Minimum. This trend strength indicator measures the signal based on historical performance where minimum would represent the weakest, and maximum would indicate the strongest. The 7-day average directional direction is currently Strongest. This signal indicates whether the Buy or Sell signal is getting stronger or weakening, or whether the Hold is heading towards a Buy or Sell.
Shares of Napco Sec Tech Inc (NSSC) currently have a standard deviation of -1.31. Standard deviation is defined as a measure of the dispersion from the mean in regards to a data set. When dealing with financial instruments, the standard deviation is applied to the annual rate of return to help measure the volatility of a particular investment. Watching the standard deviation may assist investors with trying to figure out if a stock is primed for a major move. The stock's current pivot is 9.08. The pivot point is commonly used as a trend indicator. The pivot is the average of the close, low, and high of the prior trading period.
Investors are often focused on stock price support and resistance levels. The support is simply a level where a stock may see a bounce after it has fallen. If the stock price manages to break through the first support level, the attention may shift to the second level of support. The resistance is the opposite of support. As a stock rises, it may see a retreat once it reaches a certain level of resistance. After a recent check, the stock's first resistance level is 9.22. On the other side, investors may be taking note of the first support level which is 8.87.
The current 9 day MACD for Napco Sec Tech Inc (NSSC) has been spotted at -0.26. This value represents the difference between a short-term and a long-term moving average. A reading over zero may provide a bullish signal, and a value under zero may represent a bearish signal. Digging a little deeper, we can see that the difference between the most recent close and the close one month ago is currently -0.75. This represents a percent change of -7.69% over that period of time. Taking a look back to the start of the calendar year, we can see that the price change has been noted at 0.5. Investors may be trying to gauge which way company shares will trend in the second half of the calendar year. As companies start reporting quarterly earnings, everyone will be focused on how the actual numbers stack up against analyst estimates. An earnings beat may prod company shares higher, while a miss may stall momentum.


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Students are in good academic standing when they have a 2.0 grade point average or higher and have completed at least 60% of units they have attempted. There are two kinds of probation and disqualification, one based upon GPA (Academic Performance) and the other based upon the number of units completed (Progress Performance).
Certain programs may have more stringent standards for academic progress. Consult the program director for more information.
Students enrolled in the core curriculum of medically related programs will be governed by the probation and disqualification policies as outlined in the program policy manuals that reflect the tenets of safe medical practice and respond to program accreditation guidelines.
A student whose grade point average falls below a 2.0. A student on academic probation will return to good standing when his/her cumulative grade point average reaches or exceeds 2.0.
A student on academic probation status will be disqualified when his/her non-cumulative GPA falls below 2.0 in a subsequent semester. An enrollment hold will be placed on the student's record. Students who are disqualified after registering for the subsequent semester will be administratively dropped from all classes.
A student shall be placed on lack of progress probation when the percentage of all (cumulative) units for which entries of "W," "I," and "NP" are recorded reaches or exceeds 40%.
A student who has been placed on lack of progress probation shall be disqualified and an enrollment hold placed on the student's record when the percentage of units for which entries of "W," "I," and "NP" are recorded in a subsequent semester (not-cumulative), reaches or exceeds 40%. Students who are disqualified after registering for the subsequent semester will be administratively dropped from all classes.
Provisional, Joint Diploma and Special Admit High School students who do not maintain good academic standing will be automatically disqualified. PROBATIONARY STATUS WILL NOT APPLY!
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Vanessa Hudgens & Austin Butler: Kiss Kiss!
Vanessa Hudgens and her boyfriend Austin Butler share a sweet kiss before heading into church on Sunday (December 18) in Hollywood.
Afterwards, the cute couple went to a flea market to do some shopping. Vanessa turned 23 years old on Wednesday (December 14)! Happy belated birthday, Vanessa!
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Vanessa Hudgens
Earlier in December, Vanessa shared on her blog a special present she bought herself for possible snowy days.
"I am a 5 year old. Yes, I bought a penguin sled. Lol I rode down icey mountains on a penguin. Epic," Vanessa wrote.


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Friday, December 28, 2012
Shelter Loves 12.28
I took a much needed day off from blogging and working yesterday! It's amazing what one free weekday will do for the soul! I'm back today with my "shelter loves" series. I'm all about clean color, spaces and design right now! I love the holidays and have had a great 2012 but I love the cathartic feeling of a fresh start and new year!
1. I'm not jetting away this winter, I need to save, save, save but I still love all the inspiring, colorful resort lines. These sandals would work with almost any look. I'll have to keep them in mind for summer!
2. Yes please to fresh white, lace details and tassel sandals. I love everything about this photo.
3. Loving Ankasa's ikat print for Beacon Hill.
4. + 6 A brass vintage lotus leaf lamp is certainly on my new home wish list. Look at these stunners.
5. A recent client pick for a teenage girl's bedroom. These extra cozy blankets come in an array of colors.
7. A little bling for New Year's Eve and 2013. I predict you'll continue to see the dynamic mix of lady like details with an edge in 2013!
8. I wear scarfs all year round. This new Tory Burch one with the pom pom detail is adorbs...
9. How pretty are gold tasseled balloons? They're perfect for almost any festive occasion. Buy them here, or make them yourself!!
Posted by My name: Julie My design firm: SHELTER at 12/28/2012
Labels: Fashion, Lamps, Shelter Loves
2 comments:
- Ivy Lane said...
Fun, fresh pics! Can't wait for 2013!
Happy New Year!
- December 28, 2012 at 11:44 AM
- Kyle Rattigan said...
Love all these picks today! Happy New Year!
- December 28, 2012 at 2:36 PM
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You can also find a detailed index of KDE related mailing lists.
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The KDE community offers Userbase as an online source of information regarding its applications.
You can find links to the application pages by searching on Userbase itself,
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Help is generally available regarding KDE applications in #kde on Freenode or in other application specific channels mentioned on their application page. You can also get a comprehensive list of IRC channels in Userbase
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Update – Bomb Threat At Broussard Middle Lifted
UPDATE: Authorities have declared an all clear at Broussard Middle School. Broussard Police say students have been allowed back to class
10:19 a.m. -- Captain Kip Judice of the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's office has confirmed Broussard Middle School has been evacuated this morning following a bomb threat.
According to a representative of the Lafayette Parish School system, the students have been evacuated to a safe location and the threat is being investigated.
Emergency personel including a bomb sniffing k-9 unit are on the scene.
Updates to come as the story develops.
Here is the press release from Lafayette Parish Public Schools:
Broussard Middle Students Evacuated After Alleged Bomb Threat
Lafayette, LA- Earlier this morning Broussard Middle School administrators were informed that a student had written on a bathroom stall's wall that there was a "pressure-cooker bomb" on the school's campus.
Students were immediately taken off of the school's grounds and brought to a safe and secure location. The Lafayette Police Department has dispatched a SWAT team and is currently checking the entire Broussard Middle perimeter for any potential threats.
Again, no students were harmed and all parents have been notified as to the exact location the students were moved to.
More information will be released as it is made available from the Lafayette Parish Police Department.


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Basics: Apple Watch (English)
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12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Apple Mapleview Centre
Go to My Reservations to cancel your reservation
Join us for a tour of Apple Watch. Bring in your Apple Watch and iPhone and follow along as we show you how to navigate using the Digital Crown, Siri, and gestures. We'll help you set notifications for information that's most important. We'll teach you how to set and customize watch faces and even how to find, add and organize apps, so your watch is just the way you like.
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Who We Are:
A team dedicated to accommodating the transportation and equipment needs of City departments in a timely and courteous manner. Fleet Services operates a centralized garage located at 901 W. Bond Street, in the Municipal Services Center.
"Our mission is to provide proactive maintenance and repair of vehicles and equipment for safe operation in the most efficient and cost effective manner possible for customer departments and ultimately the citizens of Lincoln."


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Two Wabash Grads Featured in Esquire's Best/Brightest• November 26, 2007 Share:
Two Wabash College graduates are featured in the current issue of Esquire Magazine as among the "best and brightest."
Geoffrey Coates '89 is featured under a category of "Six Ideas That will Change the World." Click here then scroll down the page to "The Next Plastic."
Gyanu Lamichhane '99 is featured on the second page of a story entitled "The Exterminators," which is about trying to find new cures for tuberculosis. Lamichhane is a researcher doing pioneering work.
Coates and Lamichhane majored in Chemistry at Wabash.
Photos: On homepage, Coates. At right, Lammichhane.


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Just a little something you guys may be interested in. Krita is running a crowdfunding campaign to help fund quite a few updates to their software.
As of this post, they've just about hit their goal, but with quite a few stretch goals, it might be something worth keeping an eye on. It's quite nice to see open source software get support like this.


text: Hedging Centers Drop in Corn Demand January 30, 2013 10:25 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jeanne Bernick Top Producer Editor Email Slow demand sets market up for volatile 2013 It was another quiet month in regard to hedge activity for the advisers in the Archer Financial Services, Inc., Ag Hedge Program. Most of the price action centered on fund liquidation based on developments in Washington. Hopes for an uptick in exports due to declining global supplies failed to materialize. Finally, favorable South American growing conditions prompted soybean sale cancellations from the Chinese. The hedge activity that did occur seemed to center in corn futures as well as some small soybean cash sale recommendations. By the end of 2012, the average sales levels in corn stood at 61% for 2012 crop and at 36% hedged for 2013 crop corn. Meanwhile, soybean hedges at year-end stood at 63% and 19% for 2012 and 2013 crops, respectively. "While not a popular position, we believe corn is in the midst of the largest bear market in history," says Richard Brock of Brock Associates. "Too many people are concerned about weather and overlooking change in demand." Corn usage for livestock has dropped 400 million bushels in the last two years, Brock notes. Corn usage for ethanol will drop 500 million bushels, and corn exports are projected down this year. Demand changes much more slowly than supply. "With that said, why would anyone want to store $7.50 corn unless they are feeding it?" Brock asks. Weather is important…in May, Brock says. For right now, as the old story goes, no one has ever lost a corn crop due to a February drought. Back to news