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At the Horton Square, Hope flashes to her last meeting with Aiden and is glad she won't have to talk to "that jerk" Aiden. She spins around and spills coffee all over Aiden's coat. She apologizes profusely and helps him clean up, then starts to get the giggles.
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It's Valentine's Day in Salem and there is gift-giving, love-making, and more.
At Club TBD, Rafe and Jordan kiss. He says he'll keep Arthur supplied with cat nip. She's sorry she didn't mention she had a cat. Rafe wishes her a happy Valentine's Day and gives her a blue pen as a gift. Now she can stop buying the cheap ones that leak on her uniform. Touched, she kisses him and they take off together.
Will visits EJ at the DiMera mansion. He heard Abigail was there earlier and asks if EJ thinks she seemed okay with him. EJ supposes it has to do with family but Will says this is about a guy. She told him. EJ flashes to having sex with Abby and Will tells him she's a genius about picking the wrong guy. They discuss how things are complicated with EJ and Sami because of what Kristen did to Eric. Will hopes they work things out.
At Gabi's, Sami tries lying to Nick about the three of them being far away from the woods the night he claims they tried to murder him. Nick plays on Gabi's insecurities. "Does she talk to you like that?" Kate orders him out. Percy flashes to saving Nick's life and Nick asking him not to call the cops. "I'll make it worth your while," Nick said. Percy hands over photos of Sami, Kate, and Gabi hurtling Nick into the river and says Nick didn't want them to wind up in prison. Kate thinks Percy and Nick knew each other previously but Percy claims that's not true. They ask what he's going to do with the photos. Nick jokes about putting them into a scrapbook. He says he saved all of Kate's texts - he was one of the friends on the call list. He wants a chance to start over. He tells Gabi he thinks of his scar as a reminder of him attacking her. The men leave and Gabi wonders if he really has changed. Sami loves her but tells her to grow up. Gabi can't be reasoned with so they ask her not to "buy into Nick's bull." Will arrives and kicks Gabi and Ari out because he wants a little alone time with Sonny. Will digs up some candles and wine and tells Sonny's picture this will be a Valentine's Day they'll never forget.
At Daniel's, Eric asks if Nicole was able to clear his name. Daniel calls and she lets him know Dr. Chyka got away. When he asks if she was able to get the proof Chyka helped Kristen, she tells him she'll call him back. She explains to Eric what happened at the cabin but leaves out finding evidence.
Back at the square, Aiden's stone-faced. He asks Hope to forget they ever met and stomps off. She takes a call from Daniel who has a story for her... Later, Rafe and Jordan cannodle and Jordan walks him home.
Back at Daniel's, Eric asks if Nicole's telling him everything. She hems and haws and talks about giving him a happy ending.
Daniel and Hope meet at Salem PD. She wishes he would have called her before he went after Chyka. She reminds him if he had found evidence against Chyka, most of it would be inadmissible in court. He knows and offers to give her one of Stefano's goons who may lead them to Chyka. Hope sends a few cops to get Ricardo who is tied up in the trunk of his car at the train station. They head to Daniel's to talk to Nicole.
Kate walks past the Brady's pub and calls Ortiz. He hasn't found any dirt on Jordan yet which irks her.
Jordan takes Rafe back to her place where they make love. After, they reflect on meeting each other.
Sami returns home and tells EJ Percy took photos of them dragging Nick's body through the woods and dumping his body. EJ tells her to wait and let him make his move. He tells her it's Valentine's Day and they reminisce about his proposal. He gives her a necklace which matches her earrings. "Happy Valentine's Day, Samantha." She's flabbergasted. He puts it on her and kisses her cheek. She kisses him on the mouth but has to take a business call.
Hope and Daniel turn up at his apartment. Hope tells them they're both officially retired as PIs. What they did was wrong. Nicole lies and says she never found anything incriminating. Hope's glad. Now she can get a warrant and search legally.
Nick finds Gabi at the square. He hopes what happened in the apartment didn't upset her. They reminisce about Valentine's Day last year.
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Perhaps this list is overly critical of well-intentioned people. Maybe you just wanted to share that fireworks moment with a person you care about who couldn't be there. Maybe you're scared that if you don't take a picture, your less than stellar grey matter won't remember this place in time. Maybe you just got that phone yesterday and want to test the camera out. Regardless of what your rationalization is, just put your phone away and enjoy the moment while you're still alive to soak it in. And if you must take a picture, please don't post it on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or literally anywhere else. Imagine coming in to work on Monday and someone tries to tell you about some fireworks they saw. Imagine how little you would give a shit about that boring story. Now understand that people care even less about your cell phone picture of fireworks. Happy 4th of July!


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - For the second straight Friday, Yale knocked off the first-place team in the Ivy League. Alex Zampier scored 15 points, one of four starters in double figures, as the Bulldogs rallied to beat defending Ivy champion Cornell 72-60 before an enthusiastic crowd of 1,905 at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.
Last week, Yale led almost the whole way in handing Princeton its first league loss, 60-48. This one was a little more difficult. The Big Red (17-8, 7-2 Ivy) led 41-34 with 18 minutes remaining, but the Bulldogs scored 11 straight points, the final three coming on a Porter Braswell three-pointer that gave them a 45-41 lead.
The score was tied at 49-49 with nine minutes left, but Yale seized control with an 11-5 run over the next three minutes, capped by a Braswell layup. Cornell got back within four, 60-56, but the Bulldogs scored the next five points, including an emphatic Paul Nelson dunk that made it 65-56 with 3:11 remaining. The lead grew to 14, 72-58, when Zampier hit two free throws with 1:02 left.
Yale's starting front court of Ross Morin, Travis Pinick and Garrett Fiddler combined to score 29 points and grab 20 rebounds. The Bulldogs outrebounded Cornell 35-33 in the game.
"I told the team before the game that if we outrebounded them, we'd win," said James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball, "but it was much more than that. Everybody contributed tonight."
Pinick finished with 14 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals. Morin added 12 points and eight rebounds, Chris Andrews had 10 points, including three three-pointers, and four assists, while Fiddler had three points and six rebounds.
The Bulldogs (10-13, 5-4 Ivy) also got a major contribution from their bench, which outscored Cornell's 18-5. Nelson had eight points and five rebounds in 16 minutes, Braswell scored five points and dished out three assists, while Jordan Gibson added three points and Michael Sands scored two.
Friday was a far cry from the first meeting between the teams in January when Cornell led 34-13 at halftime and cruised to a 64-36 victory.
"The biggest thing was our offensive execution," Pinick said. "We didn't do a good job of running our offense in the first game."
Ryan Wittman paced the Big Red with 21 points. He was 8 of 15 from the field, including 5 of 8 from beyond the three-point arc.
"As a team I thought we did a good job defensively," said Pinick, who spent much of the night guarding Wittman. "He's a good player who is going to get his shots. We did a lot of switching and hedging out on screens."
Cornell entered the night leading the league in field goal percentage, but shot only 38.3 percent from the field, including 34.5 percent in the second half.
Louis Dale, last year's Ivy Player of the Year, finished with only seven points on 3 of 12 shooting from the field.
Yale scored the first six points of the game and led 22-15 when Pinick made two free throws with 6:30 left in the first half. The Big Red answered with a 15-4 run and led 34-32 at the intermission.
The Bulldogs will try to complete a weekend sweep when they host Columbia on Saturday. The Lions defeated Brown 70-57 on Friday. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. and the game will be televised live on the YES Network (DirecTV Channel 631).
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They're cooking on all burners at Osteria Mazzantini. Quite literally. Only days ago they were able to turn on the stoves at the soon-to-open restaurant from John Sheely, chef/owner of Mockingbird Bistro.
"I'm ready to explode. I've been tasting all day," said Sheely, whose new Italian restaurant is set to open next week at 2200 Post Oak in the new BBVA Compass Bank building.
This week Sheely and his executive chef, Paul K. Lewis, have been testing and perfecting recipes that had "existed in paper and in our heads."
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And that's precisely what he's looking for with the sleek Osteria Mazzantini, named for the maternal side of Sheely's family who generations ago left Italy and settled in Galveston. The menu will be an homage to the flavors and culinary traditions of Italy.
So when will Houston get to taste? Next Monday through Wednesday – Aug. 26-27 – Sheely plans to open just the bar area to the public with a limited menu to get the kitchen cranking. The restaurant will then have private dinners Aug. 29-31 and open the full restaurant to the public for dinner on Monday, Sept. 2. Yes, Labor Day. (The restaurant will serve only dinner until Sheely decides his staff is ready for lunch service; but eventually the restaurant will be open for lunch and dinner.)
Osteria Mazzantini was still a physical work in progress during a recent visit. But the space promises elegant design. There is a bar at the entrance with a glass wine vault separating the bar from the dining room that features a ceiling of colorful glass lamps. The space is intimate: only 90 seats. Lewis said he dislikes the word "upscale" to describe the restaurant. "It's not fine dining, it's not casual," he said. Sheely adds: "It's Mockingbird without the tablecloths."
The menu will feature fresh house-made pasta dishes (including buccatini carbonara and frutti di mare over chitarra pasta), house-made salumi (sausages, pepperoni, coppa, lardo, guanciale), steak Fiorentina, pork chops, branzino in parchment, tuna, salmon, and pizza.
Bread service will feature a "tortone" – a potato/honey bread with rosemary from Slow Dough – that will come with olive oil and lardo butter. There are 1,200 wine selections; a high-end coffee service for end of meals using Katz Coffee; an "old school" cheese cart with Italian cheeses served with mostarda and toasted fruit and nut bread; and even sparkling limoncello on tap.
Lewis said it's both daunting and humbling to tell the story of the Mazzantinis through food. "It's a great story with the family a great story with the food," he said. "It's great ingredients cooked with soul and with love. It's about ingredients and love. To me that's what Italian food is."
Sheely said to expect elegant service – "what we're known for" at Mockingbird – and a menu of Italian classics done with great finesse.
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Nine Wisconsin state legislators have vowed to support a bill to arrest any federal officials caught implementing Obamacare in the state.Wisconsin, a crucial swing state in this year's election that ultimately went to President Barack Obama, has been plagued by political controversy ever since its recall election.
But state legislators seem to be kicking it up a notch with their most recent pledge.
"Just because Obama was re-elected does not mean he's above the constitution," Rep. Chris Kapenga, who has vowed to support the controversial legislation in the upcoming session, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel earlier this week.
He's joined by eight other Republican state lawmakers supporting the measure.
"I'm certainly not for Obamacare, and if there's any way we could stop that in the state of Wisconsin, I'd be up for that," Tom Larson, another legislator supporting the measure, told the Sentinel.
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I'm not that far behind on emails, and I don't see anything about PE PDFs in the inbox. Go ahead and send me another message, feel free to CC firstname.lastname@example.com
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I suspect that most people pick up the [Talisman of Resurgence] because it is purchasable with Emblems of Triumph. The funny thing is, you can pick up the [Sundial of the Exiled] with Emblems of Heroism and it is a better DPS trinket. Let me compare the two.
Proc vs Proc:
ToR: Use: Increases spell power by 599 for 20 sec. (2 minute Cooldown)For the Talisman of Resurgence the math is fairly simple. If you assume that you pop the trinket on cooldown then then the proc is equivalent to 99.8 Spell power (599*(20/120) = 99.8). For the Sundial of the Exiled the math is a little more complicated. Since it is an on equip bonus we have to make some assumptions. With a 10% proc chance on average it will take about 10 casts to proc the buff. Also, most raiding moonkin should have a Wrath cast time of 1 second and a Starfall cast time of around 2 seconds, lets assume cast time for all spells of about 1.5 seconds. This means the sundial should proc about once a minute. Therefore, on average the sundial proc is worth 98.3 spell power (590*(10/60) = 98.3). If you want to assume that it procs once ever 70 seconds then the value drops to 84.3 spell power.
SotE: Equip: Your harmful spells have a chance to increase your spell power by 590 for 10 sec. (10% proc chance and 45 sec cooldown)
As you can see, in the proc department the Talisman of Resurgence has a slight advantage, and also has the benefit of being an on use and therefore less likely to be wasted. However, the advantage is slight. I wouldn't estimate it over 15 spell power.
Stat's vs Stats:
Most moonkin, have a pretty good idea of what 84 Crit rating is worth, but many get confused by the Int. We know it provides some crit and some spell power. It also has mana regen benefits but am going to ignore those because most people don't have mana issues.
The first thing to remember about Int is that it is modified by Blessing of Kings, Furor, and Improved Mark of the Wild. So, the 128 Int on the trinket is actually 158 Int in a raid situation (128 * 1.1*1.1*1.02 = 158). In terms of Crit Rating, 158 Int is worth 43.5 Crit Rating (158/166.66 = 43.5). In terms of Spell Power it is worth 19 spell power (158*0.12 = 19).
So, if you compare 43.5 Crit Rating and 19 Spell power to 84 Crit Rating it is clear that the 84 Crit Rating provided by the Sundial is clearly better then 128 Int. Since the two procs provided by the trinkets are fairly equal, then the Sundial of the Exile is clearly better because of the superior stats. Even if you value sundial with a lower uptime the two trinkets come out roughly equal.
Skinning Cats:
Some of you may be thinking, "What's the big deal? The difference between the two trinkets very small." As one forum poster put it, there is more then one way to skin a cat. I agree. The difference is small and there is more then one way to skin a cat, but just because there is more then one way doesn't mean all of those ways are equal. For example, would you rather skin the cat with a skinning knife or a machete?
The fact of the matter is there are always a bad options, good options, and the best option.
In the end I suspect that a lot of people use the Talisman because it has a high ilevel and increases gear score more then the other options. I can understand how that is tempting when dumb dumbs based pug spots purely on a number that they don't understand. That said, I would rather be excluded from a group because I geared correctly then make gearing mistakes to impress a random pug leader.
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Brit lawmaker Galloway storms out of Oxford debate
Quits after finding out his student opponent was Israeli
(Raw Story) The outspoken MP George Galloway has sparked anger by storming out of a debate at Oxford University after he discovered his opponent was Israeli.
The Respect MP for Bradford West had been due to debate the motion "Israel should withdraw immediately from the West Bank" at Oxford college Christ Church on Wednesday evening with student Eylon Aslan-Levy.
Here's a classic Galloway anti-Israel meltdown … the day in 2007 the lefty icon called Parliament cops on WND!
Footage posted on YouTube shows Galloway picking up his coat and leaving after Aslan-Levy referred to Israelis as "we" and then confirmed he was an Israeli citizen. Reports said Galloway had spoken for about ten minutes before his abrupt exit.
"I've been misled, sorry. I don't recognize Israel and I don't debate with Israelis," Galloway says in the video.


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hmmm...i just don't see a sense of connection between the pieces of this outfit. the jacket seemed too long, the pants need a bit of touching up.
love from sydney,
Everything is great except the ascot. Who in real life would wear an ascot? It looks too much like Thurston Howell,III
a nice twist to the blue/grey combination. i really like the jacket with the shoes. well done sir!
I do love the combination of a colourful tweed jacket and grey flannels (although I prefer less of a break at the hems). What makes this outfit for me are the tan oxfords and the cravat, which is a far more stylish option than an open neck. Why do people decry the wearing of cravats?
Most men would have tossed that jacket from their closets years ago (perhaps it's new in which case they wouldn't have bought it). Plaid?! But, he makes it look good. Eye-catching, but not loud. aw
That's a great look. The grey pant with an earth tone blazer and brown shoes is a (new?) classic. I like everything but the popped collar!
Perfect! What a good-humoured ensemble. It's cute how his squarish headshape matches with the squares on his plaid jacket.
I love this jacket ...the colors ...the shape...most importantly for me ...it is bold plaid in erath tone colors which maks it easiier for someone like me (6ft 3in) to wear . I don't want to look like the size of a floor to celing window panel as I am walking the street.
Nicely done.
Oh Damn! Nice look. I'm especially drawn to the shoes & pants (yeah, maybe a bit too long, but that's a very minor quibble.)
The jacket is great too. You gotta have pride to wear it that loud.
Though the plaid's nice, in total, this ain't my cup of tea: the pants are ill-fitting and too long, and what gives with the slight jacket-collar turnup in back?
Also, I find the shoes too beige-y....
Love this look! Beautiful 2-button jacket, excellent trousers w/cuffs, nice shoes. But most of all...I love the cravat!!! Men don't wear cravats often enough, IMO.
beautiful shoes-ATWR
Although the jacket , the trousers , the shoes , the shirt and the scarf are of high quality and very well combined , the final effect is not elegant at all. The elegance needs something else, not present here.
I love the jkt looks like old Armani Sartoria I wore a few years ago
I love the chestnut shoes with the gray trousers. I love the bigger cuff and the nice break. I don't think I'd like the jacket if I'd seen it not paired with the rest of the outfit.
what perfection in matching the stripes all over. you don't see that often. splendid, just splendid.
I would love to see pictures of the outfits worn by the fussy nitpickers whose negative critiques fill the comments section of this blog. I imagine sweatpants and sneakers...
i think that is just about the cutest thing i've ever seen.
love the scarf detail! it might have looked too casual without it.
I don't think his jacket is too long at all. The rule of thumb that I've heard, and the one that I always follow, is that the jacket should be long enough for you to hold the bottom with your hands, any longer would be too long.
What a spiffy looking gent! An odd combo, but it definitely works: he stands out.
Agreed with Anonymous at 3:17. Let's see some personal pics of these perfectionists.
To Anon 5:57:
I am familiar with that rule of thumb, but with a bit of a variation. I was taught that you should be able to hold your arm straight down, fold your fingers up until they touch your palm, and your jacket should lay right in your hand. That said, the jacket may be a little long. Otherwise, the overall fit of the jacket is decent.
I do dig the color combo and the popped collar, though.
The comments on the Sartorialist are, as always, fascinating. I wish people would put down where they are from because when I read these posts I think - "must be US, maybe West Coast, must be NYC, might be London, etc" and it's interesting to see trends in taste depending on the person's location.
As for the look, it's a classic man's look with a few small touches that set it off. 1. The rings on the finger. 2. The shoes with the slightly darker tips. 3. The jacket pattern - bold, especially because of the size of the stripe between the squares.
The colour combination is nothing new. There was a Zegna look like this two years ago for their winter collection. I think it's a great and not-oft seen comination.
I'm still on the fence with Ascots. Yes, they seem a little pretentious, but on the other hand, they add a beautiful slice of colour around the neck.
It's a classic look with a classic fit. The trousers are quite full, the big cuff goes well with it and the waist is high. These three things go hand in hand and it would difficult to separate them. Can you imagine full, short trousers? Those are capris! Low-waisted full trousers? Too gangsta. I think the trousers go extremely well with the relaxed look of the jacket. It pinches only very slightly at the waist and has big patch pockets.
I find nothing wrong with the length at all. Referring to an earlier poster's comment about the rule for jacket length: "... jacket should end where first knuckle of thumb is..." I find the overriding rule to that is: "The length of the jacket should be equal to the length of trousers shown". People's arm length vary a great deal and it makes the earlier poster's rule a difficult proposition for people with long arms.
I don't know what the negative comments are all about but this guy looks fantastic. I would go so far as to say he's one of the best male looks I've seen on this blog, for a while. He looks original, personalized, but still very stylish. The matrch between the plaid jacket and the shoes and the cravat is absolutely necessary.
You did a great job SSir, take a bow.
I think all the individual pieces of clothing are great. I just don't see how he brings them together. The ascot, which is beautiful, doesn't really seem to match the outfit. But kudos to him on at least having nice pieces of clothing; the shoes, slacks, jacket, and ascot are all great. It's just the combination.. Also, did you notice that his collar is turned up? Is that in error, or have I missed a new style?
I love the plaid jacket,i was wearing one last summer,but now it looks a bit famerrish, for the men, am not too sure i'd find it sexy...hmmm
when a pattern is as ... bold .... as that, you want to break it up so it doesn't dominate quite so much - don't button the jacket, for sure, and maybe add a pocket square.
he's a lefty and his arms/shoulders are different lengths/sizes. you can see how only one sleeve is perhaps a touch too long. i have the same problem with all my jackets. i have come to like the asymmetry of it.
He would do well in a sartorial face-off with the Bald Fat Man!
I like the shoes. I should like the orange plaid, but have to admit I am not crazy about it here.
Damn that crumpled collar. There must be a better way.
This is a great look! The jacket looks slouchy but not messy, Great cut! Pants are great, not too baggy nor slim-fitting...it's perfect. If you don't see the connection, you must be blind.
the colors are great , the fit is perfect ( especially the shoulders and sleeves )and you truly found a great pic here
Bravo Sart
that jacket is fantastic
love the patterns and colors
great shot
he's so precious! i love the way the colors work together, i like the shoes, and i love the ascot.
I read all the comments, seem to be lot of different opinions.
I think the pants just look very sloppy and the jacket-collar turnup does'nt look good. Apart from that, not bad
Thats a good look, love the cravat. Takes a lot of sartorial cojones to work that. I likes.
I just love this!!!! very English indeed,i think ascot looks great on him.
Love the fit of the jacket. It's the first one I've seen on here in a long time that doesn't look too tight, even though it's fitted at the waist. What's the deal with the current trend (per the way so many appear in Sart's blog photos) for men's jackets to gap below the button and show a slice of whatever's underneath: a bit of tie, a belt, and part of a shirt? It's so distracting! Does anyone else think this makes the jackets look too small?
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My training was in a dual Internal Medicine/Psychiatry residency program. My clinical interests are in the care of patients with both medical and mental health problems. I am interested in building health care systems that integrate primary care and mental health services. Two populations I work with are refugees and people with serious mental illness. My belief is that students and residents in any discipline should be well trained in both medical and behavioral aspects of illness enabling them to have a holistic approach to patient care.
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Ertharin Cousin began her tenure as the twelfth Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in April 2012. She brings more than twenty-five years of national and international non-profit, government, and corporate leadership experience focusing on hunger, food, and resilience strategies. Cousin guides the WFP in meeting urgent food needs while championing longer-term solutions to food insecurity and hunger.
Earlier this month, I boarded a plane to see for myself the impact of recurrent drought on communities of Niger. The suffering there was immense and immediate. I could tell you the stories of the mothers who are struggling to put food on the table. The stories of the families who can't afford to buy food in the markets and the farmers who can't grow crops. Every mother I met was focused on doing everything possible to save the lives of their children. These are important stories that demand the world's attention, and we must do everything we can to help them.
However, the story I want to share with you is about the resilience of the women I met. In the village of Tolkobeye, I watched as men and women moved rocks along the banks of a dry river bed to build a much-needed dam. WFP provided these families with the food and cash to perform this work and the end result is a source of water for the community, even during the dry season. Such a structure means that the health and nutrition of their children won't hinge on a season or two of rainfall. That is, if the rain comes.
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The world's nearly one billion people who woke up hungry this morning have not seen the proposed agenda for the upcoming G8 summit. They are counting on people like you and me to drive food and nutrition security to the top of the global agenda.
This year, G8 leaders have a critical opportunity to build on the promise of the 2009 L'Aquila Summit. By uniting public and private sector partners behind national plans, they can begin to change the face of hunger and malnutrition in the world through appropriate policies, programs, and national investments. They can scale up proven programs, share scientific breakthroughs, and improve the nutritional status of women and children.
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The defender was sent off during Tuesday night's 3-1 defeat by Bournemouth and starts a three-match ban.
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Skipper Stephen Dawson (ankle) and striker Jamie Cureton (groin) missed out in midweek and remain doubtful while striker Jonathan Tehoue is still on the sidelines with an arm injury.
Tottenham loanee Ben Alnwick stays in goal after shoulder injuries accounted for first-choice Jamie Jones and his replacement David Button.
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Oldham boss Paul Dickov is boosted by the return of winger Filipe Morais and defender Zander Diamond for their trip to the capital.
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KDE 3.3 is the third and quickest feature release in the KDE 3.x series. The list of planned features can be found in a separate document. All dates given here are subject to revision, but we will try our best to stick to them if possible.
Stephan Kulow is acting as release coordinator for the 3.3 releases.
Alpha 1 will be source only, we do not want to take away packager resources from the KDE 3.2.3 happen around that date.
The HEAD branch is frozen for feature commits that are not listed in the planned-feature document. Only bugfixes and the listed feature-commits are to be committed. Still, binary compatibility is not required, i18n string changes are allowed.
The HEAD branch is tagged as Beta 1 and is frozen for nonurgent commits till 27th. Features should mainly be done by now.
Beta 1 is prepared and released after some initial testing. The incoming bugs will be reviewed for their severity.
After this date only bug fixes are allowed and the same message freeze applies as for released versions (i.e. only previously untranslated strings or clear errors in strings can be fixed - no new strings) The HEAD branch is frozen for nonurgent commits till 18th.
Beta 2 is tagged and tarballs are made for testing. Tarballs are released to the packagers.
This is the very last for commiting anything that isn't reviewed on the development lists. If in doubt, ask the release coordinator.
This release will happen very quickly, so the RC1 will already be labeled 3.3.0. So if there's nothing wrong with it, we will change the file names and are done (I can have dreams too, no?). With this release a KDE_3_3_BRANCH is created and the final touches are applied in there.
August 21st starts the "aKademy" and I want to have this done before it, so there is little time left for the packagers and the PR team to get prepared for their trip to Ludwigsburg.
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This blog is going to take a slight side-step from the theme of the previous articles in the porting series. All previous articles were of a format "this is how it was done on BlackBerry OS 7 and here is how you can do it using BlackBerry 10", which works great for core APIs and native services but not when those services don't exist in the BlackBerry 10 SDK. Allow me to explain: in BlackBerry OS 7 there is an official Analytics Service which is documented and distributed from the BlackBerry site for both Java and WebWorks/HTML5 developers. The SDK and the portal are essentially white-labeled versions of the Webtrends Analytics service, which you may have noticed from the URL used to login to the dashboard:
This provides a great option for devs that need analytics for only BlackBerry applications (the dashboard was sandboxed to display only BlackBerry provided data) however with the mobile ecosystem bursting at the seams we want to ensure that when moving forward to BlackBerry 10 developers have as much flexibility as possible. "Flexibility" meaning choice of analytics providers as well as the ability to use one dashboard to display data from across multiple platforms; knowing that many BlackBerry 10 developers may also be developing for other platforms in tandem and may have strong preference to a specific provider makes flexibility all the more important. This shift in end goals of an Analytics service for developers also shifts the approach when presenting a solution to the community. The approach that was decided on fits in with the general model of BlackBerry 10 openness: rather than create an Analytics service specific to BlackBerry 10 we will focus on partnering with existing Analytics services to help them add support for BlackBerry 10 to their offerings.
The partnering approach offers tons of key benefits: Developers can continue using the analytics provider they choose. Any updates made to the SDK at the service level will be immediately available to all users. Analytics from multiple platforms can be visible under a single dashboard. Familiar API calls. There are many more benefits as well, and all while still keeping the application integration as smooth and easy as possible. At BlackBerry Jam I actually added Flurry Analytics to a Cascades application in well under 2 minutes.
As you can read from the above synopsis, moving from BlackBerry 7 to BlackBerry 10 there has been an entire shift in how Analytics will be provided. At present there are already options for Cascades, Native and WebWorks/HTML5 developers:
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Fully open sourced client and server offerings as well as a hosted solution. Support for Cascades and WebWorks/HTML5.
Localytics is the most recent service to join the list; now officially supporting for WebWorks/HTML5 and Cascades applications on BlackBerry 10. This service provides near real-time Analytics data.
And we are making it as easy as possible for Analytics providers to bring over their services for BlackBerry 10 by creating a porting guide for both Native and HTML5 solutions. The guide is set to cover all the common information typical analytics frameworks would need to know such as determine the Time Zone, unique identifiers and lifecycle of the BlackBerry 10 devices. This porting guide should be published in the near future will be available from the Analytics Services page:
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Monday, November 30, 2009
* Homemade Christmas: Family Advent Calendar
So many lovely ideas floating around the web right now for advent calendars.
My dear bloggy friend, Teach Mama
has a wonderful post about her family's advent calendar this year!
In the past we've used chocolate open a door-each-day-style calendars.
Last year we opened the Playmobil winter forest animals advent set
(now part of our ever-expanding Fairy village!)
One year, the Frog Princess made an adorable Santa Advent,
we glued a cotton ball to his beard each day to count down to Christmas.
This year, we're trying envelopes.
I have a huge box of small key envelopes
leftover from an altered books workshop I attended last spring.
this one at Nice Package,
and these gorgeous Origami paper envelopes at Kiddley,
they also have a wonderful list of activities we borrowed part of our list from!
We strung it across the doorway
between our family room and kitchen table.
I brainstormed a list with the kids and hubby,
printed it out and slipped our ideas into the envelopes.
Each day, we'll do a new activity to celebrate the season!
Here's our list: Harris Family Advent 2009
1. Candlelit bath!
2. Make Paper Snowflakes and Decorate the Windows
3. Make a CD of Christmas Music for the playroom.
4. Rootbeer Floats!
5. Bake something yummy with Mama
6. Make Christmas Cards for Friends/Family
7. Have hot chocolate with marshmallows.
8. Make a pipe cleaner candy cane or wreath.
9. Make a Paper Chain.
10. Use puppets to tell a Bedtime Story.
11. Have an indoor picnic.
12. Family Game Night (Wii, board games, puzzles?)
13. Make and Decorate a Gingerbread House.
14. Dance and Sing to Christmas Music.
15. Set up the Mouse Nativity.
16. Make a Christmas Craft.
17. Make a Christmas Ornament.
18. Dress Fancy for Dinner tonight.
19. Fashion Show with Clothes made out of gift wrap!
(Recycled from opening presents with grandparents)
20. Make and Hang Edible Gifts/ornaments for the Birds and Squirrels.
21. Surprise a neighbor with an act of kindness.
22. At Home Pedicures!
23. Watch a Christmas movie with popcorn.
24. Pick your Favorite Christmas book for mom (or dad) to read aloud.
25. Open Presents!
We always drive around our neighborhood
to look at lights and displays,
this year we'll be surprising the girls with an impromptu,
in Pajamas holiday lights tour.
We're taking our cues this year from Shells in My Pocket
blog and her Minivan Express! (so. cool.)
The girls won't know what night it will be until...
Daddy will get them in their PJs
while I pop popcorn and make cocoa downstairs,
then we'll tell them to put on shoes and
go for a ride with our special holiday light viewing glasses--
they change the lights into shapes like stars, words, angels, etc!
(my MIL bought them at a holiday store years ago for us!)
Happy Countdown!
Labels: Christmas, Create, Family, Holidays, Making Memories
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Homemade Christmas Gifts: Scrappy Bookmarks
Pssst....if you're a female relative reading this,
and you don't want to know what you're
getting for Christmas this year,
go read something else!
I like to mix store-bought gifts
with more personalized homemade gifts.
This month, I'm on a roll producing
simple, but heart-felt gifts for family.
I pretty much leave the boys alone but I do
make gifts for the special women
in our family.
I am blessed to have grandmas, aunts, my mom, mother-in-law,
and a lovely sister-in-law to create for.
Many generations of women that came before me
worked as seamstresses for their families,
quilting, making clothing, mending,
and sewing beautiful home made doll clothes.
Whenever I sit at my sewing machine,
I feel a special connection as
I think of these talented women creating for their families.
I also like to come up with gifts that are useful.
We are all voracious readers
so bookmarks hit the spot this year!
My scrap basket still has bits of baby clothes
left over from the
I made for the girls this year.
I also have a nice stack of paint swatches sitting on my craft table
(the perfect bookmark size if you ask me).
I combined the baby clothes scraps
with scrapbooking paper scraps
and machine stitched them to the paint sample cards
to create these easy and whimsical bookmarks.
Labels: Christmas, Create, Holidays, Homemade Gifts, Making Memories, Paint Sample Crafts, Sewing Fun
Friday, November 27, 2009
Homemade Christmas Gifts: Paint Sample Purse Notebooks
I believe I first saw this fantastic project
over at Whimsy Love.
So quick and easy you can whip them out on your own
or with your crafy kid assistants.
Artsy + HeARTfelt + Simple + Useful =
a perfect homemade Christmas gift.
I folded paint samples like a match book.
Trimmed some purple paper from a post-it notepad,
stapled the little stack (approx 15-20 sheets) and tucked under the flap.
I just eyeballed it, I'm not a big fan of exact measurements.
Who doesn't need a little notepad in their purse, glove box, backpack?
Happy Crafting!
Labels: Christmas, Create, Holidays, Homemade Gifts, Paint Sample Crafts, School Age
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving 2009! Things I am Thankful For This Year...
From my little family to yours...
Wishing you a happy and healthy Thanksgiving.
I am so thankful for you taking the time to read about our projects.
Thank you for following us on our little journey here.
Your kind thoughts and comments are something I hold near and dear.
Reading your comments (and your blogs) has been so inspiring and up-lifting.
You have helped me feel less isolated as I spend my days parenting my sweet girls.
I feel like I actually know so many of you and consider you to be my bloggy friends!
I am also thankful for:
* family - -all of us under one roof to celebrate and feast together
(thank you in-laws for traveling great distances, siblings for driving with precious cargo,
and parents willing to host us!)
* a bountiful table of wonderful homemade food (thanks for cooking dad!)
* the gift of time to play with my girls and make fun art year round
* good health, two healthy and happy little girls
and a wonderful best friend of a cancer free husband (almost 14 years!)
* our warm home
* friends (old and new)
* the ability to play flag football (in our turkey bowl) today with good friends and neighbors
* new sweat pants that aren't too short and don't make my butt look fat
* good books!
* peppermint coffee creamer
* digital photography and the ability to record the little things
and share our lives with family across the miles...
and share our lives with family across the miles...
*making home movie DVDs on iDVD and being able to travel back in time
and see my girls when they were smaller!
* my reusable Starbucks to-go cup
(All artwork in today's post was made by my wonderful in-residence artist, the Frog Princess.)
What are you thankful for this year?
Labels: Family, Holidays, Thanksgiving
Monday, November 23, 2009
Play Time: Farm In Our Playroom
When the girls were stuck inside
with the swine flu a few weeks ago,
we had to get creative and come up with some
new quiet games to play.
With cold weather and long afternoons ahead,
I thought this might be fun for some of your households as well.
We decided to build a farm.
First we collected all of our barns,
barnyard critters, fences, and trucks/tractors
from the playroom menagerie.
I put a big piece of green felt from my art studio
on the floor and added some smaller squares of brown and tan.
We cut a duck pond out of some blue felt
and lined it with pebbles
from one of our sensory boxes.
We planted some acorns
and plastic greenery as our crops.
The Frog Princess helped her Polly Pocket
deliver this baby sheep.
I'm hoping to make some wooden pumpkins soon
(and perhaps a few hay bails) to add to our crops.
The girls and I played for hours (for several afternoons) with the farm.
I packed up all of the supplies in one box
so we can set it up again easily.
Daisy the cat guarding our farm.
Labels: Play
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Bubble Wrap Printmaking: Ocean Scene
The Frog Princess got the idea for this project
while we were making our
She asked for some blue and purple paint,
and printed some bubble wrap onto white paper.
Then, she wanted to add fish to her ocean scene,
and asked if we have any fish stamps.
Then I said, "no, but we can make some!"
I folded scraps of cardboard
from our recycling bin
into rectangles and we added
stick-on craft foam fish
I folded the cardboard back
to make handles
and stapled the card board.
I love this picture,
I think she did a great job on it.
Check out the
coral and sea snails
she added with my skinny brushes!
If I was still teaching art,
I would do this as a printmaking lesson
with some Eric Carle books
in a heart beat.
Labels: Create, Paint, Recycle Crafts
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Kid's Art: Marble Painting
The girls asked if we could
paint with marbles.
So, we borrowed a handful of marbles
from our preschool shelves,
dipped them in plates of paint
we had out from this project
(and this project)
Put some scraps of paper inside
two box lids (one for each kid)
and went to work
tipping and rolling.
They created some very abstract
Jackson Pollock-style artwork!
I love a project they can do independently
and have a successful outcome.
Marble painting is wonderful this time of year
for making home-made cards,
gift tags,
gift wrap
(if you used a really big box...
or you were brave enough to let them
roll painted marbles in the tub on big paper)
Of course, the Mini-Saurus
just wanted to paint
after she was done with her marbles,
so why not...
She had a blast mixing colors
on pieces of paper inside
her little box lid
(it's actually a handy way to contain the mess!)
Note: See my handy baby wipes
for cleaning messy little fingers
(and feet, floors, arms, tables, etc.)
* Make Thanksgiving Corn With Bubble Wrap Printmaking
The girls and I decided to get crafty and make some decorations for the upcoming
Thanksgiving holiday.
Thanksgiving holiday.
We dove into our "invention box" (recycling that can't be recycled)
and snagged some bubble wrap.
and yes, we washed it and will be re-using it for our next craft adventure.
I set out plates of washable paint in red, orange, and yellow.
The girls had fun painting the bubble wrap and printing the bubbly textures
on fall colored construction paper.
on fall colored construction paper.
It was a very Eric Carle inspired process!
Note: I keep baby wipes (or damp rag/washcloths)
in arms reach at all times while we are doing
crafts like this with paint or glue for sticky, messy hands.
After the texture papers dried overnight,
(and the girls had a long soak in the bath!)
we practiced "cutting" and cut out some corn shapes.
I also traced Mini-Saurus' feet for some of our corn.
(Little square toes just like her mama, I'm part platypus!)
She helped me tear strips of green and brown paper to add to our corn.
Our finished corn-tastic project... pardon the corny joke.
One more little goodie we made with our "corn feet"
Home-made cards for long-distance relatives to send thankful greetings.
These would be fun place cards if you're hosting thanksgiving dinner!
I cut out the feet but Mini-Saurus was able to tear the paper strips for me.
The Frog Princess had the great idea of printing with some real corn.
I didn't have a fresh ear of corn (which works beautifully by the way)
so we used our pitiful little dried up ear of corn from our garden...
It didn't work very well.
We pretty much just made a huge painted mess but it was fun to try out.
Happy Printmaking!
Labels: Create, Fall, Paint, Preschool, Printmaking, Recycle Crafts, School Age, Thanksgiving
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Your website is a powerful marketing tool. A well maintained website can help Benefits of Website you gain a competitive advantage in your industry and improve your business image. Developing your web site offers many benefits including helping you get more leads and prospects, increase sales, enhance your professional "brand," and improve your customer service.
But surprisingly, according to various recent studies, just about 50% of all small businesses don't have websites. (Read our blog post when you have time.)
Below are 18 benefits of a website for small businesses you may not have thought of:
1. Improve Your Advertising Effectiveness
Placing your website address on all of your promotional material will help you gain additional exposure and encourage the visitors to first check your site for the information they are seeking.


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