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The kick-off meeting of the AEROCEPTOR project was held on 17-18 January, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The meeting was hosted by INTA.
Overview of the project, its objectives, background, work-plan, workpackages and deliverables were discussed. Each partner presented the scope of capabilities and role in the project. The meeting was attended by Project Officer representing DG ENTR, which is in charge of the project supervision.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 285144.

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Acne treatment
Acne scars are caused by injury to dermal layers of the skin as a result of inflammation and rupturing of the oil glands. Collagen is disrupted by the inflammation, resulting in scaring. Therefore, to repair the scarring it is necessary to rebuild new collagen which in turn will restore an even structure to the skin. Because the cause of the scarring lies deep within the skin tissue a treatment is needed that works at this level; this is what acne laser removal does.
There are a range of different options to choose from when it comes to treatments for acne scaring. The best acne treatment for you will largely depend upon the severity of the scaring. The most suitable procedure for you will be discussed before treatment begins. Another factor that will be taken into consideration is the type of PAS (post acne scarring) that you have. Different types include: icepick scars (narrow and deep pitted scars); boxcar scars (wide depressions in the skin with clearly defined edges); rolling scars (wide depressing which have a sloping edge); and atrophic scars (these can be flat and thin or depressed).
What Acne Treatments Are Available?
One option is skin needling using a micro needling device. Very fine needles are injected into the treatment area and these trigger a natural healing process that stimulates the growth of collagen and rejuvenates the skin to treat scars. The number of sessions required will vary from patient to patient, and will continue until the desired results are achieved.
Laser treatments offer faster and often more effective options. At Academy Face and Body, we offer DOT Exide and CO2 laser treatments. Both of these treatments are carried out by one of our doctors. Your treatment may be completed in one session, or multiple sessions may be required depending upon desired outcomes, the nature of the scarring and possible downtime.
DOT Exide Fractional Laser delivers micro beams into the skin. This triggers a natural healing process and the generation of healthy collagen. The treatment penetrates deep into the skin, which is why it is suitable for acne scarring. This method of laser treatment allows quicker healing that traditional forms of laser resurfacing treatments, because the laser energy is highly targeted in dots which leave the surrounding skin unaffected.
Fractional Laser treatment is appropriate for all skin types, on any area of the body. Most people will notice some results almost immediately, but full results may not be seen for almost 6 months.
CO2 Laser treatment targets water under the skin by vaporizing and then removing it, adding heat in the process. At Academy Face and Body, CO2 laser treatments are carried out by Dr Jayson Oates, under local anesthetic and twilight sedation. Before receiving this treatment patients will need to apply pre-surgery preparation cream to their skin for a period of at least one month, stopping the application three days before treatment. Local anesthetic is used to improve patient comfort and cold air may also be administered to counter the heat you will feel. Post treatment, the treatment area will have a skin protectant cream applied. You'll be given detailed instructions regarding after care as well to ensure the best possible results from your treatment. Following the procedure, you'll receive care from one of Academy Face and Body's registered nurses in the recovery unit before being discharged.
How many acne treatment sessions will I need?
For micro needling treatments, the number of sessions required will vary from patient to patient. You can expect to start with six session, depending upon a number of factors including severity of the scarring and desired outcomes. This will be discussed in your consultation, and as treatment progresses. Minimal downtime is caused by skin needling, it is a great option for people who don't have availability to have lengthy periods away from work.
For Fractional DOT Laser treatment, generally 3 – 6 treatment sessions are required, depending upon the level of scarring. The number of treatment sessions required depends upon the individual patient. You may prefer more, but gentler treatment sessions with recovery in a few days from each, or you may choose for fewer, but more intense treatment sessions with a longer downtime. A more intensive treatment session will cause more discomfort, will have increased down time and aftercare requirements.
Risks and Complications
Potential side effects or complications from micro needling for acne scar treatment include infection if the skin if not properly cared for, prolonged redness or grazing and hyper and/ or hypo pigmentation if you prematurely expose your skin to the sun.
Compilations are very rare for CO2 laser treatments. Like all medical cosmetic treatments however, there is an element of risk and you should always make a decision from an informed position. There is a risk of infection – bacterial, fungal or viral. You should wash the treatment area regularly and make sure that you take any prescribed medication. If you suffer from cold sores regularly, please do let us know.
Up to a third of patients may show signs of increased pigmentation, and if you already have pigmentation issues, this will be an increased risk for you. Ideally, you should aim for maximum results from one treatment session. For acne scars however, another treatment may be necessary after 4 – 6 months.
There is also a possibility that you will see a demarcation between treated and untreated areas; to give an even appearance we there fore recommend treating the whole face.
With DOT Laser treatments, most patients will experience from redness, itching, peeling and swelling in the first week following the procedure. There's also a risk of infection, but this can be reduced by using the pre-procedure wash which we will provide you with before your treatment. Should you develop an infection, this will be treated with antibiotics.
Resurfacing of the skin can often cause the herpes virus to flare up (cold sores). If you suffer from cold sores, please let us know and we will prescribe you with antiviral medication – the virus is usually dormant but still present in the skin.
Again, there is a chance that you will experience hyperpigmentation, and people with darker skin types are more susceptible to this.
Please contact us for further information regarding the costs for our acne scar treatments.
If I am interested, what now?
Your first step is an initial consultation with Dr Oates. You do not need a GPs referral for this consultation. Or you can have a complementary consultation with one of our Registered Nurses.
If Dr Oates decides that you are suitable candidate for a labiaplasty and you want to go ahead with the surgery, a booking for the surgery and the pre-operative care is scheduled. The usual waiting period is approximately three to four weeks.
Complimentary Consultations
You may wish to speak with one of our qualified Registered Nurses prior to seeing Dr Oates. During this free consultation, a Registered Nurse can discuss both surgical and non-surgical options to treat your cosmetic concern(s).
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1a/1 Roydhouse St, Subiaco WA 6008, Australia
Perth's leading clinic for acne treatment and acne scar removal. Call today and lets us help you gain more confidence and look your best.


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online edition fall 2011
doll's hapless holiday
proves perfect in pink hardcover
Have you ever planned the perfect holiday only to have everything go wrong? That's what happens to Barbie and her three younger sisters in Elise Allen's new screenplay starring Mattel's popular doll.
Of course with Barbie, two things are guaranteed: Happy endings and plenty of pink. So by the story's conclusion, Barbie and her siblings have discovered that the best holidays aren't the ones you plan but the ones you share with those you love.
Along the way there's plenty to delight Barbie fans, including adorable dogs, holiday decorations, and funky fashions. For girls who want a keepsake from the film and a storybook condensation, Reader's Digest wraps up an adaptation by Justine Fontes with a snowflake necklace embedded in the glitter-dusted cover.
Girls will groove on the pink snowflake patterned endpapers and bright illustrations by Rita Lichtuardt, Carrie Perlow, Taia Morley, and Christian Mussel. A big box of gratitude for editor Kristine Lombardi—a real doll!
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Lerner's Southsides get serious
The good news is that the Justine Fontes junior novel praised by Booklist is now available in hardcover, along with the other Surviving Southside books published by Lerner. The sad news is that its subject matter becomes more relevant each day as growing numbers of emotionally-damaged American parents come home from war.
BENITO RUNS tackles the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on a returning soldier's family. Benito is thrilled to have his beloved father home from Iraq in one piece. But the lack of physical injuries doesn't mean Dad is all right.
How can a teenager cope with the confusion, embarrassment, and out-of-control emotions caused by his father's PTSD? Benito runs away—and almost loses his life!
The subject is high interest, but the reading level is low. Benito tells his story in first person present tense narration. The short chapters constructed of simple sentences are just right for reluctant readers.
Kids won't be bored. And by the end, they might just feel inspired to write their own stories. Curious? Please contact us for a sample copy or learn more at Lerner's website www.lernerbooks.com.
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The 11th installment of the tale of patrician girl Justinia Fonteia
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It's Monday and there's no better way to start the week than by heading out to explore. Today I wound up in New Albany, Indiana and found a honey hole… to bad the honey was expensive!
I did luck into a 1919 college year book and one affordable forgotten portrait. The owner was an incredibly sweet woman and answered a handful of questions I had about pricing of ephemera in the shop. Apparently, the southern Indiana area has some serious paper collectors. She said the dealers with booths raised the price of photos in an effort to deter the destructive trend of some local collectors who were ripping photos off of their mounts to collect the photographer cards. Not everyone in the business would care enough about old portraits to do something as drastic as she has; making them with more as a whole, and to expensive to justify destroying.
She offered me the opportunity to come take some snapshots in the future and I am so excited! She has multiple family groups of portraits there! Of course, I did take a few snapshots today and will be posting them soon.


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Drinking and eating out in Clarkston is to be enhanced with the opening of a contemporary bar bistro on the former site of Beanscene, on Busby Road.
The new venue will open following a major refurbishment that includes installing a new bar and a first-floor bistro that will serve a variety of food throughout the day.
While the main aim is to provide Clarkston with a much-needed local bar and live music venue, it will also serve good quality food, cooked from scratch with fresh ingredients
The new owners are the team behind Loks, the bar bistro in Newlands that has successfully combined a high-quality restaurant and a welcoming, popular bar with a thriving function suite that hosts regular cabaret and disco nights as well as private parties and functions.
The site, at Clarkston Toll, was home to a branch of coffee chain Beanscene for several years and has undergone several incarnations since it closed in 2014.
Phillip Reilly, who owns and manages Loks with his wife, Grace, said they decided to open a bar bistro following extensive research in the local area.
He said: "Clarkston is a hub for several big communities, including Netherlee, Stamperland, Busby and a big chunk of Giffnock, as well as the town itself and it's crying out for a good local pub.
"Time after time we were told by local people that they want somewhere on their doorstep, that has a friendly, community atmosphere, where they can pop in for a drink and a good snack or meal, any time of the day.
"They also want somewhere that's a draw at week-ends, where they can listen to a bit of live music without having to venture into the city."
The owners are currently in the process of lodging applications for a license and for planning permission and work on the refurbishment is dues to start in the coming months.
"The bar will sell great quality wines, craft beers, gins as well as boozy milkshakes, cocktails and coffees. The food will be typical bistro style with items ranging from full Scottish breakfast, sandwiches and bar nibbles to a selection of restaurant favorites like fish n chips, pies and burgers. This should give the locals a new place to go for a bite to eat or a drink anytime of the day and relax in style!
Mr Reilly said he hoped that the new venue will be open by Mid-Summer pending planning approval, and shall keep residents updated with progress as we go.
He added: "Nothing like this has been done before in Clarkston. It's something new and exciting and we're confident it's what the locals – including ourselves – have been looking for."


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text: MOVIES Wrong Cops: Locarno Review 1:30 PM PDT 8/9/2013 by Boyd van Hoeij FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME "Wrong Cops" Don't try this at home (or in the cinema). TWITTER French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux's latest, co-starring Marilyn Manson, follows several policemen who live in a crime-free world in which they are the only criminals. LOCARNO -- Law enforcement officers are the ones committing the crimes in Wrong Cops, another absurd and more-weird-than-funny feature of French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux after his killer-tire movie Rubber and animal-telepathy story Wrong. In a city that looks like contemporary L.A. but without any crime, the bored-out-of-their-minds police officers fill their time selling drugs, blackmailing former porn stars or using their guns to get girls to undress. This all plays out with a misplaced deadpan seriousness -- think how funny a John Waters-esque take on this material could have been -- and with jokes that fall flat so often, the film's cardiograph flatlines before the first five minutes are over. Cops never shows much sign of a heartbeat after that, as the writer-director desperately piles on supposedly funny insults addressed at women, gays, transsexuals, disabled people and practically all other minorities except for untalented hack directors. Dupieux' dubious status as a cult filmmaker will ensure festival visibility, starting with Cannes and Sundance, where parts of Wrong Cops were shown as shorts before finally being assembled into the feature-length version that premiered at Locarno. The presence of Marilyn Manson as a shy, baseball cap-wearing teenager (!) who supposedly tries to sneak a peak at a cop's junk (!!), will surely be featured in marketing materials, though, like the rest of the film, the stunt casting's more bizarre than fully thought through or actually funny. The nonsensical plot fans out from the small, parallel stories of two incompetent and cringe-worthy cops: Duke (Mark Burnham, who already played a cop in Wrong) and Renato (Eric Wareheim), who sell marijuana to kids packaged in rats or use their firearms to get girls to show them their boobs, respectively. When Duke, after taking home supposedly peaking teen David Dolores Frank (Manson), accidentally shoots a neighbor (Daniel Quinn), he subsequently hides the bleeding victim in his car. His suggestion that Sunshine (Steve Little), one of his cannabis-smoking clients, settle all that he owes Duke by burying the half-dead man, leads to all sorts of barely connected filler material. A standout, in the negative sense, is a ridiculously padded out subplot involving Sunshine's gay-porn past that Renato's Barbie-doll partner, officer Shirley (Arden Myrin), gets wind of after Sunshine's found a huge bag of dollars buried in his garden -- yeah, it's that kind of movie -- and Shirley decides to blackmail him. The resulting showdown is not only a disappointment for the characters but also for the viewers (or, at least those that haven't walked out by this point). The film's single chuckle-inducing scene finds the half-dead neighbor and another cop, the weirdly-accented, leather eye patch-wearing Rough (French actor and Dupieux regular Eric Judor), at the office of a big-shot music producer. The mogul, much like the audience, can't believe he's got an actual cop with musical aspirations and half-dead man in front of him and assumes it must be part of a Lady Gaga-meets-Village People act. Actors are in scenery-chewing caricature-mode throughout, and like in Dupieux's other efforts, music plays a big role, which is hardly a surprise given the director's other career as electronic musician Mr. Oizo. But the fact the multi-hyphenate handles not only directorial, screenwriting and music duties but was also responsible for the film's cinematography and editing -- the latter overdosing on freeze-frames for an old-fashioned quickie feel -- clearly suggests there's a critical lack of distance in his work that hinders rather than facilitates his, for lack of a better word, inimitable vision. Venue: Locarno Film Festival (Piazza Grande) Production companies: Realitism Films, Rubber Films Cast: Mark Burnham, Eric Judor, Steve Little, Marilyn Manson, Grace Zabriskie, Arden Myrin, Eric Wareheim, Isabella Palmieri, Eric Roberts, Daniel Quinn Director-screenwriter: Quentin Dupieux Producers: Gregory Bernard, Diane Jassem, Josef Lieck Director of photography: Quentin Dupieux Production designer: Joan Le Boru Music: Mr. Oizo Costume designer: Jamie Redwood Editor: Quentin Dupieux Sales: Le Pacte No rating, 81 minutes. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Boyd van Hoeij email@example.com filmboyd


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Afrospot Outfit has eight or ten personals, a world number one interpreter of Agbajazz, the fusion of Agbadja the traditional music and dance from the Ewe tribe (Togo, Ghana, Benin), its rhythms and time signatures with Jazz and its western influences. This outfit boasts high quality members as Baba Adesose Wallace (Heart Beat, Ibile) on percussions and vocals, Kofi Adu (Highlife International) "drums and percussions", Idris Rahman (Soothsayers) "tenor sax and flute", Emanuel Afram (Osibissa) " Bass", Nick Walters "Trumpet" , Patrick Hachett (Yesking) "Guitar" and other stars of the World Music scene in the UK.
This band is all about the joyous sounds of Agbadja, Highlife the indigenous authentic dance music of West Africa throughout the whole nineties with a touch of Reggae. Led by charismatic Kodjovi Kush, bassist in Soothsayers and Yesking, African music ambassador extraordinaire. Guitars shine, horns sing, bass and percussion blaze in a true band of all-stars.
Join us at one of Camden's best music venue the "Forge" for a night of vibrant West African Sounds at Afrospot. - https://www.facebook.com/events/551657758277533/
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Once again I reveal to you how much I didn't know before I traveled and hopefully how much I've learned in the process of traveling, usually without really even trying. That's right, it's time for some learnin'. Once again, WHDIGH.COM shouts out…
Last time I DID NOT KNOW THAT Mexico City was built on top of a giant lake and because of that fact the giant metropolis is now sinking! This installment of the Well, How Did I Get Here? Series : I Did Not Know That features a summarized history of Antigua, or La Antigua Guatemala. At one time Antigua, Guatemala was the capital of almost all of Central America and also of the Chiapas region of southern Mexico. The history of Antigua has been dramatically influenced by the history of other cities within Guatemala. Due to changing circumstances the capital of the Spanish colony of Guatemala has changed several times. The final relocation of the capital is a fundamental reason why Antigua is the way it is today.
In 1524 the Spanish conquistadors established the first capital of the Spanish colony in Iximche. In November of 1527 the capital was moved to the Valley of Almolonga after several uprisings by the Cakchiquel Mayans. Today this is the location of the city named Ciudad Vieja. This capital city was destroyed by a devastating mud flow from Volcan de Agua on September 11, 1541. After the destruction the capital was moved once again, this time five miles away to the Valley of Panchoy where modern-day Antigua sits.
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Gorgeous image. I love that quote and you've used it beautifully.
I think it's the perfect holiday message. Thanks for sharing it.
Deb – I really like the way you composed this shot – with the great use of negative space, just perfect for the addition of the quote. And I agree – what better message for the holidays?
So beautifully done, Deb! If only more people could take this message into their hearts.
I love this, Deb…such a beautiful image and message.
I treasure you, my friend.
With love,
How beautiful the image and the quote is, love this. It is about the holiday in a way also, for some people this is a dark time for them. For others who may hate this season or aren't close with their families struggle this time of year.
This is a great and positive statement. Thanks for sharing!!
Beautiful! You chose a wonderful quote for this photo.


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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Chesterfield County: A Northern Virginia Future?
So the question is, what will be the issues driving the debate regarding bringing revenues and expenditures in the future in line?
Well, Chesterfield County officials need only to look to Northern Virginia to see what it may be facing in ten years. Uncontrolled and ill-planned growth in places like Fairfax and Prince William County demonstrate the impacts of densely populated areas and the impacts on infrastructure and county services.
Many political folks have touted how Prince William County is the belleweather of Virginia. Today the Washington Post tackles this debate in a piece by Kristen Mack. Much of the focus on PWC is a result of the increasing population. The blogosphere has been engaged with this very issue for quite some time and Raising Kaine, Northern Virginia's most influential liberal blogging community, seems extremely pleased that PWC supported Barack Obama last week. The political takeway very well may be pleasing but what about the economic future of a County that has grown so fast that the growth has now slowed the increases in quality of life that the County had been experiencing. Raising Kaine touts the influence for the rising minority population, in this case the Hispanic community, as fuel to their political agenda but where will the money on the local level come from to offset the expenses associated with the assimilation of the immigrants recently arrving in mass to the County.
PWC is facing rising foreclosure counts that threaten the value of every residents property moving forward. A look at the Countrywide foreclosure list demonstrates hundreds of homes in the Manassas and greater PWC areas rising in default every month by that company. Should property values continue the decline, the County will be unable to generate the level of revenues required by the County to sustain services without drastic redcutions and cuts to the budget. The County has one of the highest influx of non-English speaking children or English as a second language populations in the entire State. How will the County be able to continue spending at the current levels to meet the demands of this population within its school systems moving forward?
This question is'nt exactly new. Prince William and Stafford County have been faced with this issue for years now. Raising Kaine and other liberal bloggers in Northern Virginia have attacked the Republican Board of County Supervisors (though not the Democrats in the area) as racist or anti-immigrant for raising issues facing the County regarding the funding of "illegal" immigrants through county social services and through the school board expenditures. Even raising the economic impact question of "illegals"results in such accusations of racism or bigotry.
The liberals feel it is governments responsibility on the local level it seems to fund the same level of services for "illegals" as it does citizens within the County regardless of whether these individuals are paying into the system. Liberals have secured the ground by making any attempt to address the "illegal" population as an attempt to attack all Hispanics in the region, even thouse who are here legally and are law abiding citizens. The fact that there has been a increase in illegal activity resulting from gangs operating in the region whose composition is mostly "illegal" makes little consequence unless of course they make it into Arlington where liberals then may have a different take on the situation. So the issue of "illegals" results in hard hits to the County budget on all levels; services, schools, police and health-related areas.
How do the liberals propose the rising tide be handled in terms of guaranteeing EVERYONE a higher quality of life? Well, they have very little to offer by way of solutions but are very quick to throw out the race card at every instance. For example, Stafford County recently proposed that
"the use of English language be the sole language for use in Stafford County schools"
This off course was directed at the "teaching" element and not the offering of foriegn languages through the school system. In short, the County wants to make sure that all students in classes such as English, Science, Math, Arts, Social Sciences are "taught" in English regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race or any other factor. Of course, the liberal community attacked this proposal as a measure to end all teachings of foriegn languages in the schools which is completely baseless and has never been the intent. Again, liberals cried bigotry.
Is it not our reponsibilty to give every member of our society the chance to make it? How will immigrants make it in this society if we allow them to move through our school systems without mastering English or if all their classes are being taught in Spanish in order to make learning easier for them just to make it through but not master the subjects. What good will that do them in the real world or in college? By all means we should be funding where appropriate and feasable Adult English as a second language for those immigrants who come to Virginia in order to speed the process of assimilation, but our youth should be educated in the same manner as our native born students in order to prevent such disadvantages that could result later if allowed to graduate high school without mastering English. I certainly support the notion that our teachers should be teaching all classes in English.
I have never understood why declaring English as our official language as been allowed to morph into the same eco-political ideal similar to the contention we actually have an immigration policy. We sorta do, but we don't enforce it. We sorta have English as our native language, but we don't require it to be used in the classroom. Absolute craziness.
If you are sitting in Chesterfield, look to Northern Virginia as a window to a potential future that may be coming. Rising populations and rising foreclosures result in a higher density of rental housing which contributes to increased sprawl even further out. Fifteen years ago it was Fairfax. As home values rose dramatically, relocation patterns increased in PWC and Stafford resulting in a growing population that could afford to live there as opposed to Fairfax, Arlington and even Loudon. Data is now supporting that sprawl from NOVA has now entered the Spotsylvania County market as well. While the Republican opposition in PWC wants to place the blame for foreclosures on them and not the individuals or even the entities who engaged in the financing appears so politically motivated its shameful.
I say this because many of these liberal bloggers care very little of the quality of life in these areas as much as they do whether they can fuel the rage of citizens on the local level by pointing to Republicans as to whose to blame for their lot in life. Economic data, growth and populations patterns are on no consequence it seems.
Chesterfield very well may experience the same trends. Many people will determine to uproot from NOVA unless something is done to address the wide variety of issues. There is burden to be born by all sides and their are no easy fixes, but any solutions must be undertaken from a position of dignity and respect not only for individuals but for our laws as well.
Chesterfield is already experiencing some of the early stages that NOVA had in terms of growth. Transportation and infrastructure being one and school crowding be another. These are but the seedlings to future problems, like rising unemployment, increased commercial and urban sprawl and the decline of homevalues. None of this happens overnight, but we must endeavor to plan for these hurdles now and not wait until we are faced square in the face with the issues that Northern Virginia is facing today.
Ask yourselves. Do you really want Chesterfield County to become just another Fairfax or Prince William in the future?
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The attack machines like RK has set their sights on Corey Stewart in Prince William County who is a Republican and have attempted to inflame the minority community with falsehoods and steriotypes. They claim not only that all GOP supporters are bigots and yet never ever propose anything by by of funding to support dealing with the issues. RK did the same thing to Jerry Connolly in Fairfax in his Primary for the seat in Congress that he eventually won against Fimian. They backed Leslie Byrne- another in denial with no solutions liberal. Its easier to sit back and with the push of a keyboard bash those on the local level who are accountable to the electorate than put forth ideas. RK ideas begin and end with all Republicans relocating downstate, and yet even after that would care less for the people left behind. Its the same over and over. Raising Kaine attacks social conservatives over the pro-life issue but then sit backs and says nothing about the beloved Kaine's reduction in funding for adoptions in the State nor doing anyhting to make it easier for people to adopt. It makes no sense from a civil view, but to them its all about politics. They care less about immigrant filling those jobs because if they did Alter that would run directly counter to their pro-union positon and the base they pull from. They never address how unions have more bigotry towards immigrants than Republicans do. Who do you think will get those green jobs that the liberals are advocating will come to NOVA if the State simply just squashes Dominion Power as they want? I bet it will not be the immigrants in NOVA.
Be thankful you have not been taken over by the liberal mob mentality of cast blame first and worry about the fall out later crowd. And whats happening to all those jobs Warner brought to NOVA? Remember the talks about VW in NOVA earlier this year, I bet those jobs leave as fast as they arrived given the current market for autos and to add to the current job losses, liberals want to shut down anything even related to coal. It will be intersting to see the response undertaken by the local Boards in alot of these Counties to respond to shortfalls but I guess the liberals feel that the illegal alien impacts are meaningless.
- November 12, 2008 at 7:46:00 PM AST
PWC is raising the RE rate about 20c but most residents will pay a little less in 2009 because of falling values.
PWC has some gold mine sales tax generators in Potomac Mills and Ikea.
I remember when we played Woodbridge in the 1974 fb playoffs. There were only 2 hs in PWC then. Now there are 6 within a 3 mile radius.
- November 13, 2008 at 3:10:00 AM AST
Falling values have littel to do with the standing assessments in place. Currently, assessments are higher than selling/listing prices. You are under the misconception that the County will set an across the board reset of the assessments. Some may experience this reduction, but not new homes built within the last five years which are mostly in the 450,000 to 750,000 range.
The foreclosure numbers are staggering and the other issue is whether the county will see any revenue from those in the process and thats thousands of homes.
There is talk of implementing a real estate sale transaction fee as well on future home sales to offset some of the revenue lost from homes in foreclosure. You must also consider that if a house is vacant it is not paying fees for services either into the pot.
- November 13, 2008 at 5:37:00 PM AST
The County sets value by neighborhood. They look at sales within that area and apply the change to all the homes.(There has only been one sale in my neighborhood which sold at 95% of assed value). That in itself will result in very static values which will not sustain salary increases and benefits for current employees and retirees which have driven budget increases.
There are one third less homes coming on line this year over 2007.
A mortgage banker just told me 2009will be about 20 percent of 2007. Additionally, the RE tax contribution to the General Fund fell as a total percentage of revenues in the 2008-09 budget.
That being said, I think the County is very concerned about the drop in sales tax collections ver. projections. PP taxes are going to be hit, but not as much as sales tax.
The wildcard will be the State cutbacks in the next budget.
Our BOS is facing a more difficult task than the last Board. The golden goose tax generator of 2002-2007 is dead and gone.
We can be thankful we are not Richmond. They are going to get creamed from falling sales tax revenue from the shrinking of Stony Point Fashion Mall in 2009.
- November 13, 2008 at 6:41:00 PM AST
And Watkins Centre? What about the progress of leases there?
This Board is challenged alright? A substantial decrease in sales tax revenues and fees associated with the business community will decline. This will be used as the excuse to citizens why the Regional Transportation Authority is required.
Dan Gecker has now been part of this madness for almost nine years as part of the Planning Commission and now the Board representing Midlothian. This area and Mataoca account for the majority of the growth in the last ten years as well as a majority in the revenue generated for the County. He has overseen some of the largest scale developments in Chesterfields history in Roseland, Grayco, and Magnolia Green, offered up a reduced cash proffer compromise proposal policy for the benefit of developers and has opposed impact fees from going into line on properties zoned prior to the cash proffer origination. Gecker articulated his preference to shift additonal portions of the revenue burden unto the commercial community which contributes roughly 20% as of 2007. I fail to see how he nor the remainder Supervisors have done one thing to increase that number and bring citizens portion back to a more appropriate level. I wonder what Henrico County ratio is between citizens and commercial? In fact compared to the number of commercial enterprises located in Henrico, Chesterfield is a disaster. Why is it we have roughly the same income demographics and population and yet are apparently less attractive to the commercial interest. It seems we hooked our future more on residential, which of course is a problem given our overcrowding in our schools already even before these new homes come on line...if they ever come on line. One down in Chester has already pulled out of developing the land that was zoned for residential citing "market conditions".
- November 13, 2008 at 9:03:00 PM AST
A piece in todays RTD pretty much put a nail in the coffin of the Auhtority idea but it will still be presented to the General Assembly.
It figures that Chesterfield was in minority of wanting this as many other Counties said no thanks.
- November 14, 2008 at 7:23:00 PM AST
The transportation authority was a farce from the start. We do not need a 4th level of government to tax us.
Kirk Cox needs to get his act together and get something done for Chesterfield's road needs. His lack of courage is hurting his constitients now and in the future.
- November 19, 2008 at 1:33:00 PM AST
Its not the far from a farce given the implementation of the CDA for Magnolia Green area residents. They will have to pay taxes in addition to the normal property tax that the rest of us pay simply because they chose to buy in that area. The Regional plan was/is simply an extension of that plan that was approved by the County.
Who knows Lucks, before long maybe you will be paying as well as a means to get the funding for the extension of Powhite to Grange Hall elementary.
- November 19, 2008 at 3:01:00 PM AST
John I am a tightwad. I exit on Courthouse Rd before the 75c toll. I pay 50c.
If they raise it, people will stop using it.
- November 19, 2008 at 5:24:00 PM AST
What John is referring to Lucks is the tax set up by the creation of a CDA (Community Development Authority) which was created during the zoning case for Magnolia Green. Every home in the defined area is charged a yearly tax in addition to the property tax they pay for the property. This tax has nothing to do with the Powhite Parkway toll charges. The revenue generated from the CDA taxes is to go to roads and infrastructure much like the plan for the Regional Authority. John's point was it is (the CDA) already in place. Funds from these taxes/fees could be used to extend the Parkway as far as Grange Hall Elementary on Hull Street.
I believe the tax is .21cents per 100 in value for every home in the defined territory on top of the current .97 cent property tax.
- November 20, 2008 at 1:06:00 AM AST
The recent failure of the Regional Transportation Authority to gain support from localities in its present form will certainly lead to the concept of the CDA to be focused more upon moving forward.
There is no way that the County can "responsibly" continue the buildout out phase without addressing infrastructure shortfalls and providing solutions for addressing those needs.
As the single issue of the last camapign in 2007 was around "developers", mostly residential in 2011 the story will be transportation and infrastructure given the largest zoning approvals are coming down the pipe on this current Boards watch. Communities like Brandermill seek to revise its own community plan and this will continue for as with new developments like Roseland, Magnolia, Grayco and such the property values of these older areas like Brandermill and Woodlake certainly could be under pressure.
- November 20, 2008 at 10:45:00 AM AST
Watch this Board in Chesterfield in its totality and not merely on single issues and see if there are any trends. I suspect there will be in the zoning process. They misled voters in the campaigns of 2007 and they now have hand almost a full year now and have stumbled in many areas or have sought deferrals as a backstop to making new policy. Did they solve the issue of the Upper Swift Creek Plan or addressed the inbalance b/t commercial and citizen contributions to the revenues? Was it the Board or the economy that has slowed the growth? Watch the Board attempt to politically take credit for less construction like down in Chester with Hunt pulling out.
If you are a Republican and can articulate clear direction on principle and infrastructure funding as well as addressing the shortfalls that are upon us both in the General and School Board areas, there will be opportunity in Midlothian, Matoaca, and Dale the next cycle. The independents on the current Board are behaving more like progressives and the County may simply, if well informed, reject such ideals.
If after three and half years the schools are still overcrowded and trailers are still the answer, voters will reject them at the polls in large part b/c we do not want to be like Northern Virginia and they are setting the groundwork to be just that.
- December 20, 2008 at 1:45:00 PM AST


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Yes, lucky us! If you're coming to Asheville this weekend, you're in for a treat. Just a few blocks from this Asheville bed and breakfast, at the Asheville Civic Center, is the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands from today through Sunday.
If you want to see the very best of "hand-crafted", the members of the Southern Highlands Craft Guild will show it to you. Coming from all over the South, these talented craftspeople gather twice a year in Asheville where the Guild is based. The array of crafters is amazing. You'll see hand-made musical instruments...and people who know how to play them will be there to entertain you. Hand-made glass is beautiful and the people who create it are a delight to talk to. Jewelry is as individual as the people who wear it...you will not be disappointed if you look for a piece that seems to express you, too. Need a place to sit? Chairs, benches and more wood working are there for your pleasure...Pottery? Breathtaking talent.
Need more encouragement? The weather forecast for is weekend is great. The mountains around Asheville, and near our Asheville bed and breakfast , have been transformed by the Fall leaves into an exquisite tapestry. And of course Asheville has all of its food and wines and breweries that make this area a "happening" place at all times! I hope I'll see you there!
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Asheville Bed and Breakfast is Smiling at the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands
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Transferring modules from Windows 8 or 8.1 to Windows 7
Windows 7 shipped with PowerShell 2.0 installed. Windows 8 brought PowerShell 3.0 and Windows 8.1 brings PowerShell 4.0.
Windows 8 and 8.1 also have a lot of modules installed. This extra functionality widens PowerShell reach immensely – the networking modules alone are a significant step forward.
When you install PowerShell 3.0 or 4.0 on Windows 7 you don't most of the new modules. This has puzzled many people and I'm often asked how those Windows 8/8.1 modules can be made available on Windows 7.
The short answer is that you can't.
The long answer is that you can't because, for the most part, those modules are based on CIM (WMI) classes that were introduced in Windows 8 or 8.1. A lot of the system management functionality you see in modern Windows is based on CIM classes that then use the CDXML approach to create PowerShell modules.
Installing the new CIM classes on Windows 7 is not possible – so you can't get the modules on which they are based.
If you want the new functionality you have to upgrade to Windows 8.1
PowerShell v3 installed modules
This is the list of installed modules in PowerShell v3 on Windows 8
This is the corresponding list on PowerShell v3 installed on Windows 7
As you can see there is quite a difference!
All of the Windows 8 modules that are highlighted in yellow are CDXML based. They can't be made available on Windows 7 because the underlying WMI classes aren't available
PowerShell 3 and Word
This is a common scenario
$word = New-Object -ComObject "Word.application" $word.visible = $true $doc = $word.Documents.Add() $doc.Activate() $word.Selection.Font.Name = "Cambria" $word.Selection.Font.Size = "20" $word.Selection.TypeText("PowerShell") $word.Selection.TypeParagraph() $word.Selection.Font.Name = "Calibri" $word.Selection.Font.Size = "12" $word.Selection.TypeText("The best scripting language in the world!") $word.Selection.TypeParagraph() $file = "c:\scripts\office\test1.doc" $doc.SaveAs([REF]$file) $Word.Quit()
Create a new Word document – put some text into it and save it with a given file name. I've used it successfully to create server documentation.
Unfortunately with PowerShell v3 it fails with this message
Exception calling "SaveAs" with "1" argument(s): "This is not a valid file name.
Try one or more of the following:
* Check the path to make sure it was typed correctly.
* Select a file from the list of files and folders."
At line:17 char:1
+ $doc.SaveAs([REF]$file)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : COMException
It appears not to like the [ref] but if you leave it out you get this
Argument: '1' should be a System.Management.Automation.PSReference. Use [ref].
At line:18 char:1
+ $doc.SaveAs($file)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NonRefArgumentToRefParameterMsg
[ref] isn't case sensitive.
The only way round it that I know of is to create a blank Word document to use as a template
Copy-Item -Path mydoc.doc -Destination testdoc.doc -Force $file = "C:\MyData\SkyDrive\Data\Scripts\Office-Word\testdoc.doc" $word = New-Object -ComObject "Word.application" $word.visible = $true $doc = $word.Documents.Open($file) $word.Selection.Font.Name = "Cambria" $word.Selection.Font.Size = "20" $word.Selection.TypeText("PowerShell") $word.Selection.TypeParagraph() $word.Selection.Font.Name = "Calibri" $word.Selection.Font.Size = "12" $word.Selection.TypeText("The best scripting language in the world!") $word.Selection.TypeParagraph() $doc.Save() $doc.Close() $Word.Quit()
Notice that you need to give the full path to the file. Use the Open method and add the text. You can then save, close and quit the application.
I've tested this using office 2010 & office 2013 on Windows 7 & 8
Unfortunately we are still left with the problem that we can't save the Word document into different formats.
Remoting between PowerShell v3 CTP 2 and PowerShell v2
One of the questions on tonight's Live Meeting concerned the compatibility between remoting on PowerShell v2 and PowerShell v3 CTP 2
The difference is that v3 uses a WSMAN 3.0 stack but v2 uses 2.0
I used two machines:
- Windows 2008 R2 SP 1 with PowerShell v2
- Windows 7 SP1 with PowerShell v3 CTP 2
on each machine I ensured remoting was enabled then ran
$s = New-PSSession –ComputerName <other computer name>
Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock {get-service}
it worked in both cases
Looks like in this case you can remote both ways
Outlook: deleting mail items
As promised here is the function to delete mail items in a specific folder
function remove-mailitem { [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)] param ( [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$mailfolder, [datetime]$start, [datetime]$finish ) if ($start -and $finish){ if ($start -ge $finish){Throw "Finish $($finish) before Start $($start)"} } $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application $folders | where {$_.Path -like "*$mailfolder"} | foreach { $targetfolder = $outlook.Session.GetFolderFromID($_.EntryID, $_.StoreID) foreach ($item in $targetfolder.Items) { if ($start){if ($item.SentOn -lt $start){continue}} if ($finish){if ($item.SentOn -gt $finish){continue}} if ($psCmdlet.ShouldProcess("$($item.Subject) $($item.SentOn)", "deleting")) { $item.Delete() } } } }
If you've been following this series you will recognise how this works. The parameters are the mail folder and an optional start and finish date. A quick check to see if the dates are the right way round and we jump into the processing. The folders that match our input are selected and foreach of them we loop through the mail items.
The SentOn date is compared to the start and finish dates if they are defined. The item is skipped if it falls outside of those dates.
We can then delete the item. I've also added the –whatif parameter to the function by using [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)] and
if ($psCmdlet.ShouldProcess("$($item.Subject) $($item.SentOn)", "deleting")) {
This adds another safety level to the function
Outlook: Viewing mail items
Continuing our perambulation around Outlook when used with multiple hotmail accounts its time to look at the other folders and the mail items they contain. This post will show how to view the mail items and a future post will show how to delete items from a specific folder.
Viewing mail items cam be performed with the following function
function get-mailitem { param ( [parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$mailfolder, [switch]$all ) $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application $folders | where {$_.Path -like "*$mailfolder"} | foreach { $targetfolder = $outlook.Session.GetFolderFromID($_.EntryID, $_.StoreID) if ($all){ $targetfolder.Items } else { $targetfolder.Items | sort SentOn -desc | select SenderEmailAddress, Subject, SentOn } } }
The function takes a mandatory string to identify the mail folder and we use the GetFolderFromID method to access the folder. If the –all switch is used we get a dump of the full object for each mail item otherwise a summary consisting of the sender's address, date sent and subject is output.
If the –all switch is used we can use the PowerShell pipeline to perform further processing e.g.
get-mailitem –mailfolder Baen –all | where {$_.SentOn –lt [datetime]"1 January 2007"}
Clearing junk mail
Getting back to looking at working with Outlook we can adapt the function used to deleted the contents of the Deleted Items folder to work with the Junk mail folders
function clear-junkmail { $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application get-mailitemcount -junk $folders | where {$_.Path -like "*junk*"} | foreach { $mailfolder = $outlook.Session.GetFolderFromID($_.EntryID, $_.StoreID) if ($mailfolder.Items.Count -gt 0){ do { foreach ($item in $mailfolder.Items){$item.Delete()} } while ($mailfolder.Items.Count -gt 0) } } get-mailitemcount -junk }
Very much the same as before but we are looking for folders that contain the work "junk"
It would be possible to combine this function and the clear-deletedmail function but I decided to keep them separate for simplicity
Outlook folder item count revisited
I started this series http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/07/30/outlook-connector-amp-mail-folder-item-count.aspx by looking at how we could enumerate the mail folders in Outlook 2010 when I had had four hotmail accounts open. The function has been modified since then
function get-mailitemcount { param ( [parameter(ParameterSetName="All")] [switch]$all, [parameter(ParameterSetName="Deleted")] [switch]$deleted, [parameter(ParameterSetName="Junk")] [switch]$junk ) $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application foreach ($folder in $outlook.Session.Folders){ foreach($mailfolder in $folder.Folders ) { if ($deleted) {if ($($mailfolder.Name) -notlike "Deleted*"){continue} } if ($junk) {if ($($mailfolder.Name) -notlike "Junk*"){continue} } New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{ Mailbox = $($folder.Name) Folder = $($mailfolder.Name) ItemCount = $($mailfolder.Items.Count) } | select Mailbox, Folder, ItemCount } } }
I use three parameters to determine if I want to look at the Junk or Deleted folders or if I'm going to dump the information for all folders. I've used parameter sets to make the three parameters mutually exclusive.
The same loops are used as before – the outer one loops through the mailboxes and the inner one through each folder in those mailboxes. If the deleted or junk switches have been set any folder that doesn't match the criteria is skipped.
An object is created to output the name of the mailbox, folder and number of items
Emptying the Deleted folders–version 2
The original version of this function only did one pass at deleting and had to iterate through all of the folders to find the Deleted Items folder. This time we use the collection of folders we created using the get-mailfolders function to go directly to the Deleted Items folders
function clear-deletedmail { $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application get-mailitemcount -deleted $folders | where {$_.Path -like "*deleted*"} | foreach { $mailfolder = $outlook.Session.GetFolderFromID($_.EntryID, $_.StoreID) if ($mailfolder.Items.Count -gt 0){ do { foreach ($item in $mailfolder.Items){$item.Delete()} } while ($mailfolder.Items.Count -gt 0) } } get-mailitemcount -deleted }
The function starts by creating an Outlook object. The get-mailitemcount function has been revised to provide just the deleted or junk folders (I'll post about the revisions next)
The folders collection is filtered to select just the Deleted Items folders (I'm assuming the word deleted hasn't been used in any other folder names). Each of the Deleted Items folders is accessed using the GetFoderFromID function using the EntryID and StoreID saved in the objects in the folder. If the number of items in the folder is not zero we create a do loop to control the deletion. This will keep calling the foreach loop that performs the deletion until everything is deleted (remember our original function need several passes to delete all the items in the folder)
A final call to get-mailitemcount shows the position after all of the items are deleted.
Outlook folders
The functions we've seen so far have involved iterating through the whole set of Outlook folders. That's a lot of folders (I have 4 email accounts with lost of folders). The trick is to do this just once and then use the GetFolderFromID method at the Outlook.Session level to access individual mailboxes
The problem is that this method uses the EntryID and the StoreID for the folder. Examples are shown below
StoreID : 0000000038A1BB1005E5101AA1BB08002B2A56C200006D736E636F6E2E646C6C
EntryID : 000000000A9D24A8D4E32445825D043ADB203A6F0100D9539C2261A6BB45B9DA
Path : \\firstname.lastname@example.com\Deleted Items
Now I for one don't want to be typing in the EntryID never mind the StoreID – chances of getting that right range from zero to about … zero
What we can do convert all of our Outlook functions (the two so far and the others I've got planned) into a module. In the psm1 file I can put a line that says
$folders = get-mailfolders
That creates a collection of objects containing the path, storeid and entryid for all of the folders. We can then search through that collection much faster than the outlook folders.
We create the collection like this
function get-mailfolders { $outlookfolders = @() $outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application foreach ($folder in $outlook.Session.Folders){ foreach($mailfolder in $folder.Folders ) { $olkf = New-Object PSObject -Property @{ Path = $($mailfolder.FullFolderPath) EntryID = $($mailfolder.EntryID) StoreID = $($mailfolder.StoreID) } $outlookfolders += $olkf } } $outlookfolders }
Loop through the folders as we've already seen and create an object that has the path, storeid and entryid. Add the object to the collection and output the collection at the end of the function.
We'll see how to use this collection in the revised clear-deletedmail function


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Simon Brint, who has taken his own life aged 60, was a composer and the musical interpreter for a generation of comedians. He was also half of the cult comedy duo Raw Sex, and a celebrated nonconformist. Although he was never particularly happy in the limelight, he was known to many through the music he composed, for television comedy – a long list of shows, including The Comic Strip Presents ..., French & Saunders, Bottom, Absolutely Fabulous, Alexei Sayle's Stuff, The Lenny Henry Show, The Ruby Wax Show, The Mary Whitehouse Experience and A Bit of Fry & Laurie; for the long-running drama series London's Burning and Monarch of the Glen; and even for Blue Peter, a reworking of the theme tune that was used on the show between 1989 and 1994.
It was while he was working regularly at the Blitz club in London in the late 1970s that Simon first encountered the drummer Rowland Rivron and the pianist Rod Melvin. Together they moved round the corner to the Raymond Revuebar to become the house band for the newly formed Comic Strip club in 1980. When that group of comedians started making TV series, Simon was the natural choice to create the music for them. He had a phenomenal gift for interpreting mood through music, and an innate sense of humour which never let the music intrude on any jokes. It was a difficult trick to pull off, but it suited his particular style of creativity, a magpie talent for collecting lots of references and making them into something entirely new that made you appreciate things in a different way.
It was a talent that lent itself readily to the pastiches he wrote for French & Saunders, and it was on Dawn and Jennifer's show that the unlikely duo Raw Sex was born. Simon and Rowland played father and son Ken and Duane Bishop, the fictional remnants of Ken Bishop's Nice Twelve, who had found themselves in reduced circumstances and changed their name to appeal to a younger market. With his hearing aid working intermittently, and his drug-crazed son trying his hardest to finish the show and get to the pub, Ken held steady through the madness – swinging through all the styles from Latin lounge to hip-hop, always delivering "rhythm, value for money and punctuality".
Raw Sex developed as an act in its own right outside French & Saunders, with additions such as Kathy Burke as Duane's girlfriend, and Jakko Jakszyk as Eddie the crazed jazz guitarist. They were totally absurd and brilliant. While Rowland was the more demonstrative character of the pair, it was Simon's creation that held the deeper magic for me.
Simon was born in High Ham, Somerset. His father, Stephen, was from a large working-class family, and had lied about his age to join the army. His mother, Anne Tracey Watts, was the daughter of a high court judge and a former English scholar at St Anne's College, Oxford. They met in Austria after the second world war, where they were both involved in repatriating former PoWs. When the family moved from south Wales to Kent, Simon, aged 15, decided to stay on alone in Wales, and moved into a B&B near his school. Ostensibly this was to allow him to complete his O-levels, but his band at the time, a very stylish R&B outfit called the Blue Imperials, were also doing very well. A year later, he followed the family to Hythe, where he and his friend, Doug Chandler, persuaded the headteacher at Harvey grammar to excuse them from PE because they were both "physical weaklings with towering intellects" and would be better used preparing for school concerts.
They used their time to visit record shops and to float in and out of various musical projects, most successfully combining a bizarre cover version of Ennio Morricone's theme from For a Few Dollars More with Granny Takes a Trip by the Purple Gang to create Granny Takes a Few Dollars More. Simon went on to study English literature at Reading University, where he cut an eccentric figure on a Bernini bicycle fitted with a small engine (he never learned to drive). He became the social secretary's chief arbiter of taste when deciding which bands to bring to the university.
Graduating in 1972, he drifted happily, working in the studio of the artist Anthony Benjamin; playing and recording with the singer and tightrope walker Hermine Demoriane; dressing elephants as mammoths for the 1981 film Quest for Fire; and prop-making – on one occasion, when delivering a prop for Ken Campbell's 1979 production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at the ICA, he was stopped by a policeman who asked what he had in his bag – "the secret of life," he replied. One of his first film compositions, a series of tape loops, was for a documentary about modern surrealist artists, Chance, History, Art (1980). He also co-wrote, with his longterm collaborator Simon Wallace, the music for the Oscar-winning short A Shocking Accident (1982).
In his personal life, Simon was an exquisite minimalist, and lived in spaces that were always painted several barely perceptibly different shades of grey. But although everything looked clean and empty and ordered, all the cupboards were bursting with stuff, absolutely chock-full of multitrack tapes, gizmos and instruments and millions of bits of recording equipment – perhaps that is a metaphor for the man. But he did have rigorous taste, especially in music – the minute he detected anything mediocre in the emotional integrity of what he was listening to, he became disaffected. Tom Waits was loved, and then suddenly dumped for "trying too hard".
He was selective with his friendship, too, but if you became his friend, he was very loyal, very good company, very amusing. We did lots of tours together. There is usually a scramble to sit next to the most interesting and open person on a tour bus – and Simon was always that man. He was so civilised and convivial, knew things I never knew, and would introduce me to things I'd never heard or seen: Pina Bausch, Gillian Welch, the Holy Modal Rounders. And he could be deliciously cruel about stuff he didn't like. That wince that said ,"Oh really, it just won't do", and then the trademark flick of his collar.
In 2004, with his old friend David Campbell (the social secretary from his days at Reading), and under the umbrella of Action for Music, Simon started to help unacknowledged musicians in Kenya record their music and get a return for their work. He had an extraordinary ear for talent, and a lot of the bands he chose to help then are the leading musicians playing in Kenya today. In parallel, he worked on Makutano Junction – a TV soap reaching 12 million east African viewers and the region's biggest show – both as a composer, and a mentor to composers. This was all done from a sea container under an avocado tree in Nairobi that he had converted into a studio.
In 2003, Simon married Amanda Cockerton, and they moved back to Somerset. My daughter, Simon's goddaughter, once remarked: "Everything about Simon is grey, except Amanda." He was the gentlest, kindest man, with extraordinary taste and a sublime, quirky talent that he was never really confident of. He is survived by Amanda, and four brothers.
• Simon Tracey Brint, composer and comedian, born 26 September 1950; died 29 May 2011


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But for someone like myself, who has waited a number of weeks, it is a poor reflection on the attorney and the profession. Admittedly, there is such a factor as over-scheduling an attorney's day and there is also such a factor as an lawyer taking on much more work than he or she can handle. An lawyer who focuses on contracts and transactions is recognized as a transactional lawyer.


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Well in case you haven't noticed the sporty trend flooding your news feeds, magazines, fashion blogs and city streets lately, we're here to confirm (or inform you) that it is one of the biggest trends for spring and summer this year. The look is effortlessly cool and can be attained by grabbing your old-school athletic wear from gym class… 5th period style. You know, your loose fit cotton shorts, sneakers and annoyingly large graphic t-shirts that are now finally cool (grrr)?! Top off your look with a ball cap and you are game on #AEOStyle ready.
A few key pieces mixed in with your modern wear is all it takes! Pair a pop culture-inspired T-shirt with destroyed denim.
Shop the look:
Brunch Destroyer Graphic T-Shirt
Boyfit Bermuda Short
Birkenstock Sandal
Knit Beanie
This relaxed yet cool look will sure to be a traffic stopper!
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Acid Washed Plaid Shirt
Jogger Sweatpant
New Balance 711 Sneaker
Editor's Note: Hit the gym after work or school, hey, why not, you're already dressed for it! Game on!


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CHICAGO — If you laid the Knicks' top six big men from end to end, you would get 41 feet and 4 inches of pain, and enough sore necks, feet, knees and ankles to fill a modest orthopedic ward.
The Knicks stepped onto the United Center court Thursday night without any of them, having arrived without the services of Amar'e Stoudemire's right knee, Kenyon Martin's left ankle, Tyson Chandler's neck, Kurt Thomas's right foot and the two left feet belonging to Marcus Camby and Rasheed Wallace.
They put nine players in uniform, started the 6-foot-8 Chris Copeland at center and put their 13-game winning streak on the line against the feisty, physical Chicago Bulls.
After all the fretting over injured giants, the game was decided by the smallest player on the court.
Nate Robinson, the Chicago Bulls' sprightly 5-9 guard, exploded for 35 points, including 8 in overtime, sending the Knicks to a 118-111 defeat, their first loss since March 17.
The third longest winning streak in Knicks history is over. The Bulls — who two weeks ago snuffed out the Miami Heat's 27-game streak — reign as the N.B.A.'s premier streak stoppers. They also swept the season series with the Knicks.
"They can have it," Carmelo Anthony said, a bit of contempt in his voice. "They can have it. They can have these regular-season wins. They did a great job at beating us four times. We're not worrying about them at this point. We're concerned about ourselves."
For the first time in 26 days, the Knicks have something to be concerned about. They blew a 15-point lead in the second half and never found a way to contain Robinson, who went 10 for 18 from the field and 10 for 10 from the foul line, eluding Raymond Felton, Iman Shumpert and everyone else in a Knicks jersey.
"He's a handful," Coach Mike Woodson said.
Anthony led the Knicks with 36 points, his sixth straight game with at least 35, breaking Bernard King's franchise record. He also grabbed 19 rebounds, helping offset the absences of, well, everybody.
But Anthony missed the biggest shot of the night, an open 19-footer at the regulation buzzer. When overtime arrived, the Knicks had nothing left. They made just 3 of 11 shots and were outscored by Robinson alone.
J. R. Smith scored 28 points but went 1 for 6 in overtime.
There was one more injury scare along the way. Raymond Felton sprained his right knee while chasing after the jump ball in overtime and crumpled to the court, wincing.
"I mean, the first thing you're thinking is, Is he going to get up and continue?" said Woodson, who rushed onto the court to check on Felton.
Felton did get up and finished the game. Despite an obvious limp, he said he would play Friday night in Cleveland.
The Knicks (51-27) still lead the Indiana Pacers (49-29) by two games in the race for the second seed in the East, with four games to play. The Pacers visit Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Chicago (43-35) moved a half-game ahead of the Atlanta Hawks for the fifth seed.
The Bulls are the only team in the East to go undefeated against the Knicks this season — a fact the Knicks dismissed as trivial.
"We played them four times; we came up short four times," Jason Kidd said. "There's a bigger picture right now."
Not as easily dismissed was that the Bulls again flustered the Knicks into technical fouls and tough shots. The Knicks converted just 40.4 percent of their field-goal attempts, with Anthony going 13 for 35 and Smith going 11 for 27.
The Bulls surged ahead by 7 points in the fourth quarter, with Robinson providing a nifty reverse layup and two 3-pointers, celebrating the second one by co-opting Steve Novak's "discount double-check" belt gesture.
The Knicks rallied in the final three minutes of regulation, and Anthony tied the game at 105-105 with 14.5 seconds left.
The Knicks' revival has been built on brilliant shooting, so it is only appropriate that this season will be immortalized with the N.B.A. record for 3-pointers. The Knicks hit 10 more Thursday night, pushing their season total to 847, breaking the mark set by the 2009-10 Orlando Magic, who had 841.
This season has also been defined by the Knicks' move to small-ball, a tact they took to new extremes Thursday, out of sheer necessity. With all of their big men sidelined, the Knicks installed Copeland as their center, making him the shortest player to start at the position since Buck Williams, also 6-8, on April 18, 1998.
The Knicks could have listed the 6-8 Anthony at center, but Woodson dismissed the suggestion with a gentle laugh.
"Cope's the center," he said. "I can't call Carmelo the center. If I do, he'll jump on me for that."
Copeland scored 14 points, and the Knicks battled the Bulls to a virtual draw in rebounds, never looking any worse off for their lack of big bodies.
Chandler, the Knicks' All-Star center, was left in New York to rehabilitate a bulging disk in his neck. Martin, his most recent fill-in, also stayed home to rest a sprained ankle. They will both miss Friday's game in Cleveland as well.
As it happened, the Knicks picked a good night to be undersize, with the Bulls also suffering from an injury-plagued frontcourt rotation. Joakim Noah and Taj Gibson were both out, leaving the 6-9 Carlos Boozer to jump center against Copeland.
Boozer finished with 13 points and 15 rebounds. Jimmy Butler had 22 points and 14 rebounds. Luol Deng returned from a hip injury and finished with 16 points.
The Knicks hit a flurry of 3-pointers en route to a 17-point first-quarter lead. Smith closed the quarter with another 3-pointer, which pushed the Knicks past the Magic for the single-season record.
"We got off to a great start," Anthony said, adding: "We ran out of gas in overtime. They can have it."
The Knicks are working to sign James Singleton, a 31-year-old journeyman forward, to bolster their depleted frontcourt. They intend to waive the injured Kurt Thomas to make room. Singleton, a 6-8, 216-pound forward, has been in and out of the N.B.A. since 2005. He spent this season in China after being cut by the Washington Wizards. Singleton would not solve the Knicks' problems at center, but he could provide some depth and defense in the frontcourt until Tyson Chandler and Kenyon Martin return. Thomas has been out since March 19 because of a broken right foot. The Knicks originally set a timetable of two to four weeks for his return, but it has since become clear that he has no chance of playing again this season. Surgery is a possibility. The Knicks are carrying the maximum 15 players, so they must waive a player to sign anyone. ... The Knicks have set no timetable for Chandler and Martin's return. ... Rasheed Wallace shot a series of 3-pointers before the game, but he has yet to begin running. Wallace is recovering from foot surgery and has not played since Dec. 13.


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Supervisor Don Knabe Set For "Ask Don LIVE" Online Town Hall Tonight
2010-08-04 · By Editor
Join Supervisor Don Knabe tonight at 6:30 p.m., when he answers your questions live on Knabe.com. To view the town hall, click here, and click the play button around 6:30 p.m.
Questions for the Supervisor can still be emailed to email@example.com, and submitted via Facebook or Twitter.
You can also view the online town hall through Facebook. Since his first successful online webcast earlier this year, Supervisor Knabe remains the only member of the Board of Supervisors to host open question sessions online with constituents.


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Published by St. Martin's Paperbacks on June 27th 2017
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Lady Daphne Forysthe is a brilliant young math prodigy with a burning passion for puzzles. When she learns that the library belonging to her benefactress houses the legendary Cameron Cipher a mathematical p that, once solved, holds the key to great riches Daphne is on the case. Unfortunately, her race to unlock the cipher s code is continually thwarted by a deliciously handsome distraction she hadn t counted on. . .and cannot resist.
Dalton Beauchamp, the Duke of Maitland, is curious as to why Daphne is spending so much time snooping around his aunt s bookshelves. He s even more intrigued by her bold yet calculating manner: she is unapologetic about her secret quest. . .and the fiery attraction that develops between them both. But how can they concentrate on decoding a mathematical mystery once the prospect of true love enters the equation?
Witty, sensual historical romance that will captivate readers. Romance Junkies
"There you are, my dear," said the Earl of Forsyth with a beaming smile that didn't quite reach his eyes.
Maitland saw at once that Daphne favored him. Her green eyes were the same shade as his, though there were lines of dissipation bracketing the earl's. And though his expertly cropped blond hair was shot through with silver, what remained of its original color was the same shade as hers. But whereas Daphne's gaze was focused off to the left of whomever she conversed with, like a bird hovering just over a branch, Forsyth's speared one with cold calculation. As he did to Daphne now.
"You are looking well, Daphne," the earl continued, stepping forward to embrace his daughter, who looked as uncomfortable with the contact as Maitland had ever seen her. "The sea air agrees with you. As I knew it would."
"The sea is very beautiful," Daphne replied woodenly. "Why are you here, Father?"
"Is that any way to greet your Papa?" the earl chided, stepping back from her and wandering farther into the room, standing to stare out at the gardens below through the window. "I've traveled all the way from London to see you. And this lovely estate. I must admit that when I first learned of your inheritance, I thought it was all some sort of trick. But you would have your own way and leave the loving bosom of your family no matter what I said. Now that I'm here, though, and see it in person, I must admit that it's a lovely spot. And your chaperone, Lady Serena, is quite beautiful, isn't she? A widow, I take it?"
His jaw clenched at the man's mention of Serena, and Maitland thought perhaps it was time to announce himself. Daphne seemed not to realize he'd followed her in, and the earl was too busy waxing rhapsodic over the beauties of Beauchamp House.
"I don't believe we've met, Forsyth," he said forcefully, stepping up to stand side by side with Daphne. He gave a slight bow, perhaps not quite as deep as was warranted, but not caring. "The Duke of Maitland. I am a friend of your daughter's, you might say."
What he meant by that last, he could not say, but the man made every bit of protective instinct within him go on the alert. He was her father, but all the same Maitland knew that Daphne was no safer with him than she would have been with Sommersby if he still lived.
At the sound of the duke's voice, Lord Forsyth turned with almost comical haste from the window and stared. For the barest flicker, he looked angry. Well, if he were upset at the knowledge that his daughter was not without friends, then he would simply have to swallow it. Because Maitland was damned if he'd leave her alone with the fellow.
"Duke," Lord Forsyth said with a tilt of his head, "I am pleased to make your acquaintance. I was a friend of your father's, and had little notion I'd be meeting you here. He was a good man, your father."
His father had been nothing of the sort, but Maitland was hardly going to discuss it with Forsyth.
"I am here visiting my sister, Lady Serena," Maitland said coolly, letting the other man know in tone rather than words that he had not appreciated the older man's speculative words about her earlier. "And of course my cousin, Kerr. He only recently married another of the heiresses here, and resides here with her."
Forsyth's eyes narrowed at the implication that Daphne was well protected should her father wish to cause trouble. At least that was the message Maitland was endeavoring to send. And by the looks of it, Forsyth read him loud and clear.
"Capital, capital," the earl said with false cheer. "A merry party you must all make here. I had no idea you were in such fine company here, Daphne. No notion at all."
"Because we have not spoken since I left," Daphne said, looking from her father to Maitland then back again, as if wondering what went on between them. "And now, father, I really must ask you to leave. I have a great deal of work to do and . . ."
"Don't be absurd, Daphne," her father said with a shake of his head. "I only just arrived. And there is something very important I must speak to you about." He turned to Maitland with a raised brow. "I'm sure you'll excuse us, Duke. I'm afraid what I need to tell my daughter is private family business."
Maitland was opening his mouth to tell the man he would leave Daphne alone with him when hell froze over, when Daphne did it for him.
"Maitland stays," she said, reaching out to grasp him by the arm. It was as much of a cry for help as he'd ever thought he'd see from her. Wordlessly, he slipped her arm into his, as if they were about to promenade round the room. He covered her hand with his, keenly aware of the thread of tension in her.
Once more, the earl's eyes narrowed, and he turned an assessing gaze on Maitland, perhaps realizing for the first time the threat coming at him from that direction.
His jaw clenched, Forsyth said grimly, "Very well. If you wish your friend to witness our dirty linen, so be it." As if needing to be in motion in order to speak, the earl began to pace the area between the window and the fireplace. "You know, Daphne, you left me without any obvious means of recouping what I lost from years of paying that tutor of yours, old man Sommersby."
"You agreed to pay him," Daphne said tightly. "After I threatened to expose . . ."
Hastily, Forsyth continued, "And I am currently in need of funds. As such, I must insist you return to London with me for the time being and meet a particular gentleman who has expressed interest in marrying you. Though his birth is not as high as yours, he's quite wealthy and will make you a good husband, I trust. He's assured me he has no concern about your odd ways, if you're as beautiful as your portrait."
Before Maitland could burst out with the string of invectives the other man's pronouncement inspired in him, Daphne said, "I cannot marry this person. I've never even met him. You promised me that I would not have to marry someone for money as long as I won enough at the tables. I did so. You promised me, father."
"I never actually promised, Daphne." Forsyth said with a shake of his head. "If you chose to interpret it as such, that is not my fault. Now, go pack your things."
Daphne's hand on Maitland's arm gripped him tightly. And before he even knew what he was doing, he said, "I'm afraid that's impossible, Forsyth. Daphne is staying here."
"I don't know who you think you are, Maitland," said the earl through clenched teeth, "but I am her father, and I am well within my rights to take her back to London. Now, kindly take your hands off of her and let her go pack."
"It might once have been your right, Forsyth," Maitland said coldly, "but Lady Daphne is my betrothed now and as such, she will remain here. With me."
Copyright © 2017 by Manda Collins and reprinted by permission of St. Martin's Press.
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~~Reviewed by Monique~~
Lady Celeste Beauchamp had bequeathed her home and library to four gifted young women, chosen for their particular abilities to advance the cause of women in science, Lady Daphne Forsyth was one of them. Daphne appreciated the opportunity, but it was also a chance to escape her father who used her mathematical skills for his own profit. Lady Celeste has also left Daphne a cryptic message which alludes to deciphering the Cameron Riddle, which supposedly leads to a hidden treasure. In the months she's been at Beauchamp House, in spite of her social ineptitude, Daphne has definitely noticed the ever so handsome Duke of Maitland, Dalton Beauchamp. Dalton, while no intellectual match for Daphne, enjoys her company and her outspokenness, which is not the case for everyone. Dalton is privy to what Daphne is looking for, and as he knows the nooks and crannies of Beauchamp House better than she does, he offers his help, all the while hoping to court her properly.
I had loved READY, SET, ROGUE, the first book in the Studies in Scandal series, I was eagerly waiting for the second instalment, and DUKE WITH BENEFITS exceeded my very high expectations! Manda Collins has achieved a perfect balance where romance and mystery are expertly woven into the type of story I so much enjoy. Ms. Collins is a fine writer, her refined prose reads like a dream, and her characters are positively enchanting. Dalton is as comfortable with everyone, while Daphne entirely lacks social graces, yet he is not judgemental; he yearns to help her. I loved that he acknowledges Daphne's superior intellect, but he has qualities that compensate; they complement each other perfectly because they accept their own limitations without being snotty about it.
Dalton represents my ideal hero: he's kind, charming, protective, understanding, and honourable in every way; he is not a weakling. He strives to be a good man, because he has experienced otherwise. I love the friendship that is evolving between the women, as well as Dalton's relationship with his cousin, the Marquess of Kerr; they make a fine pair.
I just loved how a spontaneous utterance from Daphne which positively shocked Dalton, I thought it was very clever from the author, and it made me love Dalton even more. In DUKE WITH BENEFITS, there are murders, secret rooms, duplicity, and all this added to a very ingenious premise along with captivating and endearing characters and a gorgeous romance make it an absolute delight; DUKE WITH BENEFITS is another fabulous in this wonderful!
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book.


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The sun might be great during the summer as it warms your skin and offers you a gorgeous tan but it can also damage your skin if you don't know how to take proper care of it. To prevent skin burns and dehydration and to maintain your skin looking beautiful, we gathered some efficient skin care tips that will protect your skin's health.
Protect your skin against the sun
Perhaps the most important advice you could get for summer is to use a solar protection cream every time you expose your skin to the sun. The UV rays can damage your skin in depth and, besides burning it, they also destroy their natural moisture and elasticity. A skin cream with a high SPF can act as a barrier against UV sun rays so your skin will not be damaged.
Moisturizing is essential in the summer
Since losing the moisture of your skin is a common skin issue in summer and you wouldn't want that to happen, you have to offer your body plenty of moisture. Therefore, make sure yo apply a moisturizing cream after every shower so your skin will have the necessary resources to recover its natural moisture.
Drink water to hydrate your skin
You can offer your skin moisture from the inside as well by drinking the recommended amount of water every day. As you sweat, your skin will lose water and will become dry and wrinkled, and drinking water will allow your body to send it to every organ including the skin. Whether you go out or you stay inside, you must give your skin enough water from within.
Exfoliate your skin
Your skin will also need more exfoliation during the summer to get rid of all the dry skin cells caused by sun exposure. When you shower, use a harsh loofah that will eliminate dead skin cells. Also, apply an exfoliating body wash that you can do yourself by adding brown sugar or ground coffee to your shower gel. The exfoliation also applies to your face skin only that you will have to be more gentle.
Careful with the razors
During the summer, you shave more often so your skin suffers more damage from the sharp razors. Since you can't skip this step, a way to reduce its effect on your skin is to use quality razors and to replace them more often. A gentle shaving gel will also help protect the skin against the razor.
Keep the makeup to the minimum
Due to the hot weather, it's best to avoid applying too much makeup to your skin to allow it to breathe and to prevent clogged pores. Instead of applying foundation, opt for a BB cream with an SPF factor that is more gentle to your skin. Make sure you clean your skin from every makeup residue and that you apply a toner afterwards.


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Dia a Dia (Day by Day)
Four years ago I initiated a project to create 30 paintings in one month, using other peoples landscape photography as a creative stimulus. I shared each image daily on social media, which enabled me to call it 'finished'. I named the project '30 Days, 30 Landscapes', and its influenced was profoundly rooted on my own personal journey, and recent move to Portugal.
In the first year of this project, I easily assimilated the connection created between the author of photography and my work as an artist, alongside that of the viewer. This connection was crucial to the deepening of the work, and extended on to the next years project, maintaining painting as the chosen medium, but using it with greater experimental application. This series was presented in an individual exhibition in UK.
The third year, with selected work presented in this exhibition, marked a distinct change in my artistic direction, as I made the shift toward collage as my medium. This technique allowed me to explore a greater abstraction of the content, transporting the work into a metaphorical field that is no longer restricted to the authorship of the photograph and my artistic experience alone, instead expanding into a shared universe of experiences of travel in humanity.
The title, Day by Day, reflects the small but important steps I have taken in my daily practice and mark progress that have allowed for a deeper reflection and awareness of my creative path.