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An over-sized hood drapes dramatically into a modern "collar" when worn down.
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NEW OPENING – It has been announced that the first Etruscan Museum in Milan will open in 2018 within the restored spaces of Palazzo Bocconi-Rizzoli-Carraro, in Corso Venezia 52. Based on a design inspired by the traditional Etruscan structures used for burials, the museum features over 700 Etruscan vases from the archaic period set within a house-museum atmosphere, part of the collection Fondazione Luigi Rovati. The project is signed by Mario Cucinella Architects and in addition to the exhibition spaces it will also include specific halls dedicated to study, research and temporary exhibitions. The public visiting the museum will also take advantage of a free access to the above garden which will soon be open to the wider public. After having admired the beauties hosted in the display site guests to the Etruscan museum will have the possibility to enjoy an invigorating pause at the cafeteria, besides a full immersion at the dedicated bookshop.
Being par of special agreements with Milan's Municipality, the museum currently hosts temporary projects and exhibitions, as well as reductions on particuolar occasions.
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The app market is incredibly lucrative — but it's also incredibly competitive.
If you want to succeed, you can't afford to ignore even what might seem like the tiniest of details.
Whether you know it or not, the reality is that your logo design has a tremendous influence on your overall branding strategy.
But if you're trying to raise capital, or just don't have much artistic talent, knowing where to start can be tough.
The solution? Holding an app logo design contest. Read on to decide if it's right for your brand.
If Your Budget Is Tight
Whether you're creating an app that requires Android installs, in-app purchases, or just costs lots to make, you want to do all that you can to keep your costs to a minimum.
A logo design contest allows you to access countless, varied design for a fraction of the cost of what a design agency would.
Plus, because the contest will help you to spread the word about your brand, you might even save some money on marketing costs!
If You Want to Create a User-Focused Experience
Is your app based on influence and the desires of the community it creates? Do you want to stress that your brand is all about user-generated ideas, content, and demands?
If so, having a logo design contest is a great way to make that clear — before you even officially launch.
Participants or just those that are following the contest will get the message. Plus, they'll be even more likely to contribute to your community when they see that others are already doing it.
If You Want More Social Media Followers
Of course, hosting an app logo design contest will also help your brand to gain more followers on social media!
You're likely already aware just how crucial a strong social media presence is to the overall success of your brand. This contest will help you to capitalize on it!
To get the most out of the experience, post about the contest at least once a day. Respond to comments and questions, and ask your followers to share it on their own accounts.
Finally, always make sure you're clear about deadlines, rules, and design constraints in your postings. This will avoid confusion and ensure you get the best possible options to pick from!
How to Pick the Best App Logo Design
Whether you're having your followers vote on the winner of your app logo design contest, or if you plan on selecting them yourself, it's a tough choice.
To make the right decision, you need to present all your contenders in the best possible light. Narrow it down to a list of the top 5 designs you like the best.
Then, using our free online logo maker tool, make any tweaks and changes you like. This way, you'll really get a feel for what they'll look like in real life — not just on the page!
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Foster Youth Scholarships
This section includes scholarship opportunities for foster youth, adopted youth, or biological children of licensed foster parents.
California Chafee Grant for Foster Youth
$5,000 renewable award for former/current foster youth towards vocational/college expenses.
Change a Life Foundation
Non-renewable scholarship for up to $5,000.
College Scholarships.org
Listing of scholarship opportunities for foster youth.
Foster and Adoptive Family Services (New Jersey)
Information about how New Jersey foster children can get scholarships through FAFSA.
Fostering Change (San Diego, CA)
Lists scholarship opportunities for foster youth that live in San Diego, CA.
National Foster Parent Association
The NFPA offers scholarships for foster youth, adopted youth, or biological youth of currently licensed foster parents, who wish to further their education beyond high school, including college or university studies, vocational and job training, and correspondence courses, including the GED. Foster parents must also be members of NFPA.


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The AIRBELT D4 is a powerful, yet ultra-quiet, canister vacuum, which features three on-board attachments, an unmatched 40-foot cord and 50-foot cleaning radius, rubber-coated wheels to protect floor surfaces, a durable telescopic tube with quick-release connections, and a full bag or clog indicator. Two sizes of its commercial-quality power head are available to deep clean carpets. The AIRBELT D4 Premium model comes with the 12-inch-wide ET-1 Power Head, and the red-colored AIRBELT D4 model offers the choice between the 12-inch-wide ET-1 Power Head or the 15-inch-wide ET-2 Power Head. Both models include a parquet brush for cleaning hard floors. An ergonomically designed handle, which also has a suction adjustment switch, provides user comfort and effortless control of the power head's 180° steering ability. The D4's tapered hose, along with its 320° rotating canister connection, improves airflow and provides smooth maneuverability, and its soft bumper protects the vacuum, furniture and walls from scuffs and scratches.
- Designed and Manufactured in Germany – Legendary quality, reliability and performance make SEBO vacuums the choice of cleaning professionals throughout the world.
- Excellent for Users With Allergies or Asthma – The British Allergy Foundation recommends SEBO filters.
- Tightly Sealed Vacuums Ensure Effective Filtration – Dirty air, which flows through a vacuum, can only be filtered completely if it does not escape into the room through seams or seals in the machine. This is why all SEBO vacuums have tight seals throughout. Many vacuum companies with high-filtration claims are actually quoting specifications made by the manufacturer of the filter material, as measured in the laboratory, not the filtration effectiveness of the vacuum itself while operating. Whether or not dirty air can escape through leaks in the body of the machine is not considered. The filtration effectiveness of SEBO vacuums is tested while they operate.
- Save Money! SEBO Vacuums Last for Years and Extend Carpet Life! – If properly maintained, SEBO vacuums save ordinary residential users hundreds of dollars by providing excellent performance for ten to fifteen years or more, and their deep-cleaning power-brush technology extends the life of carpets. Typical vacuums perform poorly, even when new, and usually do not last beyond two years. So six or seven "disposable vacuums" must be purchased during the average life expectancy of just one SEBO machine.
- Five-year Warranty Coverage – All SEBO models include a five-year warranty on the motor and all non- wear parts and a five-year warranty on labor charges.
- SEBO Microfilters Ensure Continuously Strong Suction Performance – They are also long lasting, inexpensive and easy to change in seconds.
- Changing Bags is Easy and Clean – SEBO filter bags can be changed in just a few seconds, and a cap keeps dust sealed inside during removal and disposal.
- Effective Pet Hair Removal – All SEBO vacuums easily remove pet hair!


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Your journey to an enhanced lifestyle starts here. Whether you've got clear fitness goals or need somewhere to start, we've got the experience and the tools to help you get to where you want to be.
The gym team pride themselves on their commitment to every member to identify goals, motivate, support and progress. We specialise in fitness, weight loss and improving your lifestyle and wellbeing. This begins with a tailor-made programme designed for gradual and sustained health improvements.
With a designated Wellness Advisor for every member, the team focus on three key aims: to motivate, educate and encourage.
The standard and variety of equipment in the gym is second to none. Whether your goals are fitness related, weight loss, sport specific, for rehabilitation purposes or functional strength, an activity programme will be designed for you using the best facilities for your needs. Your Wellness Advisor will keep in close contact and review your progress, modifying your regime as you achieve your goals.
We understand the importance of varied workout regimes. Group exercise classes are unlimited, included in the price of your membership, and available seven days a week. With over 70 classes per week and easy online booking available, the flexibility is there to choose your best workout regime with guidance from your Wellness Advisor.
Go aerobic and high energy to burn calories, or try something holistic to reduce life's stresses. With three studios providing a mixture of aerobic, yoga, pilates and Group Cycle classes you will find something that fits into your schedule and gets you closer to your goal.
In addition, circuit-based functional training classes take place in the gym. Outdoor sessions including Bootcamp, Nordic Walking and Running Club are available seasonally.
To view our group exercise class timetable and find out more about each class, click the links below.
As water provides a natural resistance, swimming is an effective way of toning your muscles, increasing flexibility or aiding rehabilitation. Swimming offers a cardio workout while also improving body tone.
The swimming pool at The Essex is 14 metres long and one constant depth. This allows for swimming lessons, aqua classes and Family Splash sessions. To find out more about children's lessons, Aqua Aerobics and the pool timetable, click on the link below.
Personal Training
One-on-one personal training is designed for everyone. Whether you need to increase motivation, rehabilitate from an injury, or have a special date booked in your diary, our Personal Trainers can provide safe, effective and fun sessions tailored to your needs.
Your Personal Trainer will establish your goals, give you exercise and nutritional advice and, most crucially, provide you with a varied and fun workout using a variety of equipment and facilities. Every session is planned to motivate you and achieve the results you want.
Become a Health & Fitness member today. Call our team on 01787 224 466 or click here to get in touch.
Keeping the whole family active is vital. With a strong family culture at the club, activities include swimming lessons, Family Splash, tennis coaching, Teen Gym sessions and much more.
When the whole family visits, the aim is to encourage participation in any activity within family friendly surroundings.
Kids' Activities
Keeping the kids entertained is always a challenge and at The Essex we think we've got it cracked.
From babies of 6 weeks old up to teenagers of 16 years old, we've put together age-appropriate activities for everyone.
What better way to encourage your child to lead a healthy lifestyle than getting them involved in The Essex dedicated children activities, combining fun, education and fitness.
Whether you're looking to start playing socially or competitively, we provide the perfect opportunity for you to get involved in tennis. With nine courts, six of which are indoors, tennis is available to you all year round.
We are a recognised LTA Training Centre, with friendly coaching staff to help you improve your game. We offer tennis to the whole family and encourage participation with active teams and social tennis.
Much more than just a gym.
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text: Preview: The Business of Occupation Filmmaker Tom Evans talks about his series of films on the economy in Nablus. 16 Sep 2010 17:55 GMT Arts & Culture Filmmaker Tom Evans and field producer Ghassan Khader spent one month following two factories and two import-export agents as well as some of the workers of Nablus to get a sense of the daily realities of an economy under the Israeli occupation. They went to find out how illegal land seizures, restrictions, controls, and the Israeli military presence affect business, workers and clients. Witness presenter Ghida Fakhry talks to Tom Evans about the film and some of the the issues behind it. Preview: The Business of Occupation can be sen from Thursday, September 16, at the following times GMT: Thursday: 0830, 1900; Friday: 0330, 1400, 2330.Source: Al Jazeera Tell us what you think


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New York, NY (PRWEB) October 21, 2013
Aiming to give small- and mid-size arts organizations the same technology and marketing power as major cultural institutions, Fractured Atlas today unveiled a web-based software system that transforms how smaller arts groups sell tickets, raise funds, and grow their audiences and organizations.
Created by artists for artists, Artful.ly was developed by Fractured Atlas, a national nonprofit dedicated to building smart technology for artists, in collaboration with hundreds of arts groups from across the country, including New York's Third Rail Projects, Austin's Fuxebox Festival, Florida's Tampa Rep, DC's Pointless Theatre, and Tennessee's Ensemble Theater of Chattanooga. Over the past three years, beta users tested the platform and worked closely with Fractured Atlas to improve and add features in order to better meet the needs of small arts organizations. The development was funded by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, in addition to seed capital provided by Fractured Atlas itself.
According to Adam Huttler, the founder and executive director of Fractured Atlas, Artful.ly was developed to provide smaller arts organizations with an affordable, easy-to-use alternative to the systems used by major cultural institutions, which are costly, restrictive, and often incompatible with needs of small- and mid-size organizations. In light of those of those challenges, Huttler said that many small organizations still rely upon on a combination of Excel spreadsheets, pen and paper, and a dizzying mix of non-compatible programs to run their businesses.
"Our goal was to work closely with arts organization from across the country to develop inexpensive software that met their needs and empowered them to think and work on the same level of large institutions," said Huttler. "No matter how big the organization, they ability to understand, use, and manage data is essential to running a successful organization and making smart decisions.
Brad Carlin, the managing director of the Fusebox Festival and a beta-user of Artful.ly, noted that by using the platform at last year's festival, they were able to capture more data on attendees than in its previous eight years combined. Furthermore, the data captured through Artful.ly helped triple Fusebox's individual donor base.
"Fusebox Festival went through eight different platforms in our first eight years to handle our ticketing, email marketing, and data management," said Carlin. "Last year, Artful.ly provided Fusebox Festival with its first comprehensive box office that has made us a better, faster, and stronger organization."
In keeping with the collaborative development process that led to the launch of Artful.ly, Huttler said that Fractured Atlas would continue to work closely with Fusebox Festival and all Artful.ly users to continue to enhance and improve the platform.
Artful.ly's feature highlights include:
- No sign-up fees or contracts. Supplemental costs comes from a $2 per ticket fee and a standard 3.5% processing fee credit card companies mandatorily charge for tickets and donations.
- Organizations can integrate ticketing and fundraising directly onto their websites as easily as embedding a YouTube video.
- Seamless integration with MailChimp, allows arts organizations to directly manage, search and review all email marketing via one platform.
- Box office tools that enable organizations to sell tickets at the door and track all walk-up sales in the Artful.ly system.
- A single dashboard interface allows organizations to view a customer or patron's entire history, from ticket purchases and donations to contact information and eblasts.
The launch of Artful.ly builds on Fractured Atlas' track record of building technology that helps artists and arts groups build sustainable careers and organization. Its technology milestones include the 2012 launch of Spaces, an online service that has been hailed as an "OpenTable for rehearsal and performance space," and its fiscal sponsorship program, which provides an online platform, digital support, and partnerships with crowdfunding sites IndieGoGo and RocketHub, to enable artists to solicit and receive grants and tax-deductible contributions that are normally available only to 501(c)(3) organizations. In the past year more than 3,200 projects have raised over $13.7 million.
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About Fractured Atlas
Fractured Atlas is the country's largest arts service organization, reaching a network of more than 250,000 artists and organizations in all 50 states and all 435 congressional districts. Dedicated to empowering artists with the support they need to work effectively and thrive, Fractured Atlas provides funding, insurance, technology, education, and other services critical to building sustainable careers and organizations. Founded in 1998, Fractured Atlas is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit the Fractured Atlas Media Center at http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/about/media.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Urban Dare Coral Gables - Top 5 finishers
Thank you to everyone who participated in Urban Dare Coral Gables.
Congratulations to Lynn and Karen Davis of Dead Last who, contrary to their team name, finished in first place. They got their team name by where they finished last year's race that started and ended in Coconut Grove. One of the last year's checkpoints was Domino Park. I had intended for racers to go to Domino Park just a few blocks from the heart of the Grove, but Lynn and Karen went all the way to Domino Park in Little Havana. Before the start of today's race, I told the racers that sometimes there is more than 1 correct answer and that they should travel no more than 3 miles from the start. It's great to see a team go from last to first place. Well done!
Here are the top 5 finishers:
3:00:27 - Lynn Davis & Karen Davis - Dead Last
3:17:39 - Sharon Barkwill & Lisbeth Colon - ForSci Chicks
3:56:13 - Valerie Fender & Nick Boyce - Sobe
4:20:13 - William Thomson & Pamela Onorati - Happy Hour
4:53:59 - Tham Cao & Garren Owens - Monchichi's!!!!
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Urban Dare Winter Park - Top 5 Finishers
Thank you to everyone who came out today for Urban Dare Winter Park.
Congratulations to Michael and Louise Garvey of Raiders of the Lost Clue for winning with an impressive time of 1:28:12. Sherry Cioffi and Allison Carcaise came in second place and third place honors went to Rebecca & Michaela Potvin.
Here are the top 5 finishers:
1:28:12 AM - Michael Garvey & Louise Garvey - Raiders of the Lost Clue
1:40:40 AM - Sherry Cioffi & Allison Carcaise - Splitsville
1:50:37 AM - Rebecca Potvin & Michaela Potvin - Team Awesome
1:52:45 AM - Jodi Bech & Leigh Ann Ledford - The Flamin' Hot Cheetos
1:57:01 AM - Kane Morris-Webster & Amy Ramos - 2nd Chances
Posted by Kevino at 5:01 PM
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Urban Dare Scottsdale - Top 5 Finishers
Thank you to everyone who came out to make Urban Dare Scottsdale a success.
Congratulations to Nicole Moest and Julie Peterson of the Desert Wahinis who won in a time of 1:56:14. Edward Langlois and Michael Toguchi finished a mere 21 seconds behind them. Who says jigsaw puzzles can't be exciting.
We'll be back sometime next Spring.
Here are the results:
1:56:14 - Nicole Moest & Julie Peterson - Desert Wahinis
1:56:35 - Edward Langlois & Michael Toguchi - Drunken Monkeys
2:15:58 - Mynde Cannamela & Nicole Thomsen - Mynde & Nicole
2:16:03 - Tara Cerveny & Alicia Hill - T & A
2:16:30 - Megan Eikenberry & Suzanne O'neal - Team S&M
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Hi Everyone!
Since I am going to be gone most of the day tomorrow with the doctor, and DH has no idea how to make a blog post. I am showing my Art Everyday for day #94. I normally draw from photographs but this one is from my head. I need to do that more. I feel like she has a happy secrete.
Now I am off to watch the last episode of The Walking Dead...... AGAIN. LOL
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It is always better that you know the best options whether you are buying things through brand outlets online or if you are going to search for the products through local sellers.
Knowing which things are important and which of the things may play a great or important role in determining the quality and suitability of the products could be far more helpful then relying on the other\'s opinion about a random product online.
So, we can say that when it comes to the variable options in the field of household machines, the options are limitless because in New Zealand, there is a range of different sellers and brands selling their best products and when buyers have to choose between them they only pick the best from the top sellers.
You can easily find the sellers and brands offering the bench top oven, vacuum cleaners, dryers, vacuum, freezers, gas cooktops, washer dryer, integrated dishwasher, microwave oven.
The things they offer are usually from the top brands and the well-known makers but you need to understand how you can differentiate between the best sellers and brands from the average or below average sellers and manufacturers.
The first thing to notice is the overall presentation of the products, its descriptions and the display of the products online. If it is clear, has clearly states features, and detailed aspects analysis is there, then you can expect to get a solid support from the seller and the brand they offer.
In case of ambiguity you may have an options to chat and discuss as well. In addition to that the best sellers never make lame promises and they are clear about the pricing and deals that are offered. You cannot expect insane offers but reasonable discounts are available through them.
In NZ, the best way if to compare the sellers and their reputation is by considering their reviews online so that you know them better before dealing with them for purchasing goods.


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Fall 2011 Ready-to-WearSass & Bide
Since their Fall collection was completed months ago (recall, they're on the Aussie fashion cycle), you can't really chalk up the giddily optimistic color in Sarah-Jane Clarke and Heidi Middleton's show to their recent cash infusion of almost $43 million from Australian department store chain Myer. Or can you? After all, they presciently named their previous collection Papa Sucre (translation: sugar daddy).
Backstage after the show, Clarke described their Fall girl as "an elegant and ladylike urban warrior." That Xena of Avenue A is a perennial muse, but this time around, the designers took a lighter hand with their crafty embellishment—here in the quiet form of plaited silk and basket-woven belts. Instead, they passed the baton to all of the rich and electric shades of coral, magenta, and fuschia in fluttery solid silks and some ikats and tie-dyes.
These Fall warriors get around the globe, and it shows. "It's about different cultures, different textures, and mediums all coming together," said Middleton. There were enamel feather necklaces and motifs borrowed from African mud cloth. Sometimes the piece of cloth would be draped and belted over a pair of striped "wrap pants"—in exactly the manner that Middleton's been styling herself for a while, At other times, the wrap was worked into a garment and just looked like a separate piece. ("It's pre-styled for you," she exclaimed.) Echoing the graphic black-and-white effect was a silk feather print, which had a terrific textural look with none of the weight.


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After our recent post on wood wine boxes, I got to thinking about all of the great free, or almost free decorating ideas that are out there - Take a look at these 10 ideas that you can copy or at the very least be inspired by
1. Paint Chips
2. Old Light Bulbs
3. Used Books
Often available from free book drop offs, books make a fabulous birdhouse
4. Paint Stirring Sticks
Beautiful Hanging Shade made completely of paint sticks.
5. Paper Grocery Bags
6. Used (and washed) Soda Cans
Gently crush used soda cans and then spray with white gold or silver spray paint - Fabulous!
7. Wood Wine Boxes
Cut a hole or holes in the top of a complete wine box (one that has both a bottom and top), add four wooden doll heads to the bottom of the box to serve as feet.
8. Wood Palette
Make a cool pot rack out of a wood shipping palette!
9. Bottle Caps
Flatten bottle caps to create a unique US Flag.
10. Empty Wine Bottles
Make these beautiful vases out of old wine bottles, stencil, and glitter - Gorgeous!


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Won't power on. Is it the keyboard or logic board?Acquired a 13" MacBook Air (Early 2015) A1466 EMC 2925 that had suspected water damage. Opened it up, cleaned the board,...
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Antwort auf "Blackness on part of screen and cracks"You likely cracked the lcd (liquid crystal display). Unfortunately once the liquid is out, there's no easy fix and you'll have to replace the display.
Antwort auf "Does anyone know how to fix the red ring of death"Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Fix Kit It's a pretty simple fix as long as you're careful, patient and relatively organized.
Antwort auf "Problem with cable or phone?"I ended up erasing the laptop's HD and then upgraded to 10.6. So far haven't had any issues, although I'd love if someone could tell me how to stop iTunes from opening up everytime I plug my phone in to charge. Tried both iTunes, system and user (although I'm the only one) preferences. Thanks!
Antwort auf "Why can't I get service on 2G cellular "no service""It is possible that your carrier does not have a 2G network, and only supports 3G or higher. Even though your phone is capable of operating on 2G, it won't pick up a network that doesn't exist.
Antwort auf "How do I unlock?"I have discovered that my problem was not with not being able to unlock it, but that the Bell network only supports 3G GSM networks or higher. They didn't create one for the 2G, therefore my iphone 2G will never be able to work with my carrier. Only solution is to beef it up as much as I can, sell it to someone who goes with a carrier that support 2G, and get myself a 3G (or maybe an iphone 4 will fall into my lap). Anyhow, thank you for all your help and suggestions. And if anyone knows how to trick a 2G phone into working on a 3G network, I'm all ears. :)
Fitbit Surge Battery Replacement
Perhaps my model is slightly different, but I never saw any 'plastic grey square clamps'. The two tabs seen in the picture are metal, part of the backing but not coloured. They may have been what I was supposed to press, but my backing was almost glued down with dirt. I removed it eventually by starting at a corner and slowly prying, working back and forth between all the corners until one finally released.


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Insidious The Last Key - This Fourth-So-Far Movie Bangs But Never Rocks
Dir: Adam Robitel
Starring Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Caitlin Gerard, Bruce Davison
It's a horror movie with the word "Final" in the title, so we know it won't be the last one. Insidious 4 (by any other name) is certainly not one of the stronger entries in the franchise, this time focusing on the back story of regular series psychic Dr Elise Rainier. As such it serves as a prequel to the others, with an ending that dovetails into the original movie. Also, as before, Elise is joined by her bumbling cohorts Tucker and Specs (played by series writer Whannell) who are simply never as amusing as they're meant to be.
Plot-wise we see Elise return to her childhood home to face up to - very literal – ghosts from her abusive childhood. There are a couple of twists, a good deal of the usual quiet-BANG approach that now defines Blumhouse, and, as ever, it's effective at what it sets out to do. The bar is met, but the bar is set increasingly low in this series.
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What Are the Causes of Jaw Pain & Pain in the Temples?
Jaw pain and pain in the temples are symptoms of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) or temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder. The temporomandibular muscle and joint connect the jaw to the side of the head. The areas affected by the disorders include the jaw, neck and face.
The temporomandibular muscle and joint are in front of your ears on either side of your head and connect your lower jaw to your skull. According to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, "Because these joints are flexible, the jaw can move smoothly up and down and side to side, enabling us to talk, chew and yawn."
Known causes of TMD and TMJ include grinding (or bruxing), clenching, facial trauma, joint injury, stress, fatigued muscles caused by excessive chewing/biting, bite misalignment or arthritis. According to the Mayo Clinic, "In many cases, however, the cause of TMJ symptoms isn't clear."
TMD and TMJ symptoms include headaches, jaw pain or popping, tenderness in jawbone, ear pain or popping, chewing discomfort, facial fatigue or aching, bite misalignment, lockjaw or limited jaw mobility. Visit your doctor if you experience rasping, grating or clicking while chewing or if you cannot open/close your jaw properly.
To help alleviate symptoms, avoid grinding or clenching, alleviate stress, use heat and ice on the affected area, sleep on your back, avoid placing your hand under your chin, avoid excessive jaw motion, eat soft foods and avoid chewing hard foods such as ice. Your doctor may recommend anti-inflammatory medicines, surgery, electrical nerve stimulation, ultrasound treatment or trigger-point injections.
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I am a divorcee, want to marry again
The reason for the divorce is you were in a specific frequency and so you invited a person with whom you couldn't leave.
Now, go and heal that person (you in the past) who got divorced. Send that person all the Reiki symbols; otherwise you will invite a similar person.
This is the case with the most of the divorces. Second marriages fail faster than first and the third faster than the second or may be worse than the previous marriage.
You could heal the cords between the previous partners too.
You are not the same person throughout your life. Every thought you think, every feeling or emotions you feel and the actions you take will change the frequency of you.
Therefore, you will invite different situations and different people, but similar to the past.
Also, heal the past of the person you are going to marry.
Heal the marriage of persons in their family.
Of course, heal the marriage of your parents as you instinctively follow their approach, may be of a different degree, but the content is the same.
Issues in Family
Blogs by Naran S Balakumar
Heal your Family Life: http://healbygems.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/heal-your-family-life-through-gem-remedies/
Sometimes a ring is a hindrance in a marriage: http://healbygems.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/sometimes-a-ring-is-a-hindrance-in-a-marriage/
When you break the Connection things get better: http://healbyreiki.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/healing-others-by-breaking-our-connection-to-them/
No news about our sister, who was married to a NRI: http://healbymeditation.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/didn%e2%80%99t-hear-from-my-sister-in-dubai/
I am afraid my husband mayn't approve of my decision: http://healbyrule.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/watch-out/


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The focal point of the first two seasons, Douglas Henshall's Professor Nick Cutter gave Primeval a very different feel to other contemporary shows. Speaking to Paul Simpson at the end of 2006, shortly before the show's launch, he was looking forward to the public reaction to what he described as "The A-Team with monsters"…
Was this a strenuous shoot?
I think when you're setting up a new show, especially one as ambitious as this, it's pretty difficult. Working with CGI is never particularly easy, because you're working with balls on sticks pretty much all of the time. You go back to being a small child with your imagination, because you're being asked to see monsters and react to essentially nothing, which is how you played when you were a kid. It's making an arse of yourself and not minding too much!
And getting paid for it…
Oh, I'm not complaining about it. It's nice to play and get paid.
Episode two with the spiders looks scarier than the first one.
I think the first one is setting up the world, so we can then take it a little bit further forward in the other episodes, once we've established things. First episodes are notoriously difficult, because you're trying to establish characters and storylines – and chuck in a dinosaur here and there! I think the series gets stronger and stronger as it goes on.
What did they tell you about the series before you signed up?
I was sent scripts for the first three episodes, and I read them pretty much in one go, which was a good sign. I knew Cilla Ware, who directed the first three, as I'd worked with her before on a film about Arthur Conan Doyle that I did a couple of years ago.
I went in and read and it was all very quick. I think I went in on the Tuesday and they offered it to me on the Friday. The thing that attracted me to it was that I haven't seen anything like this before on the telly, certainly not on British telly.
I thought there were so many ways it could go horribly wrong. It seemed like a very ambitious project, and somebody somewhere was really putting their neck on the line with what they'd decided to do. I thought it was a bit of a challenge, to make something like this work. The opportunity that I was given to play this professor was great. It's not like anything I've ever done before. I thought, "This is daft! You have to do this if they'll let you."
How much of yourself did you bring to the character? Did he change as a result?
I don't have anyone else to bring in! I don't have any other frame of reference. I'm still finding ways in which I want to play this guy. It's still evolving. I began to feel a little more comfortable about how I was playing it towards the end of the shoot, at least. It changes a little bit, but I think that's quite natural. If it goes to a second series, it'll be a little easier. You've got to try and see where you can take somebody. We didn't get all six scripts in one go. We got the first three and then another three, so there was the thing of not necessarily knowing where it was going.
Were there revelations in the latter three that would have changed how you played the part?
It certainly made me think about things, but that's the nature of television.
What do you think of Professor Cutter as a person?
If I was to try and sum him up, he's reluctantly optimistic. He's a career scientist – there for the love of the job rather than anything else. He explains to Connor that he's looking for the bits that Darwin missed. Any possibility of finding something new and interesting and real is his kind of thing. He looks forward to his work. As far as his wife is concerned, I think that's just one of those big things that certain people have, and have to live with, but I think it makes him slightly open-minded to all these things.
Some reviewers seem to think that the quest for his wife is driving him – though that doesn't seem to be the case.
I think there have probably been many people over the years who have come and said, "We think we might have found this or that", and it might relate to his wife. I think he's a little bit like a mackerel, in that he will go for anything shiny in the water, because it's something new he has to find out about. It's a sidetrack to the job he does every day. He gets reluctantly pulled into this thing, and then, having discovered it, it opens up a whole new avenue for him.
He's very cutting about Connor at first.
I think he looks at Connor kindly, but he's like a Labrador who jumps around all over the place, and will lick you to death if you let him. He instinctively knows what's good about Connor, but he knows that Connor's got to learn what this is about, and it's not about running about or talking about aliens. It's something real and important, and you have to take it seriously. That ties in with what happened his wife. He's a realist. He doesn't go in for fancy stories.
He seems bristly with the civil servants, too.
I don't think he likes anybody telling him what he has to do; I don't think he likes authority particularly. I think he's used to having a pretty free hand at the university where he works – going out and doing pretty much what he wants. I don't think he reacts well to being straitjacketed in any way. But with something like that, were it to happen, why should that be government property purely? I don't think he reacts well to that, because of his sense of fair play.
Was the character's progress already decided, or were you able to alter his progression?
I was given pretty much carte blanche to play him as I wanted. Obviously, if the powers that be didn't like what they were seeing, I think they would have had a word. But I suppose I made the decision that he wouldn't be hugely enthusiastic and jumping about, wide-eyed at everything.
I wanted him to be a serious man because I wanted the stakes to be as high as possible. I wanted the people who were watching it to believe that what was happening was possible. I didn't want to come at it from a viewpoint that it was just family entertainment, and be reasonably light-hearted and do everything with a smile. I wanted to approach it the way I would approach any drama that I was doing.
I think that making it believable is the only way to get an audience to come along with you. If they believe that you believe you're seeing and dealing with what you've got to deal with, they're far more likely to come with you.
If you don't take it seriously, why should anybody else?
Exactly. And then it's just a bit of fluff. That was the angle I was coming at it from.
How much did you know about what you were supposed to be reacting to on set?
We were certainly given a lot of background information from Framestore. They were absolutely amazing and couldn't have been more helpful. They took us down to their workshops and went through the whole process of how they create things: what these things are going to look like, the whole thing.
Plus, we had a first assistant director in Gareth Tandy who was prepared to jump around like a mad thing every day, making monster noises and waving balls on sticks, or whatever, just to be as helpful as he could. That was fun and very entertaining.
So we knew everything in every episode, except the last one, episode six. We didn't know immediately what was going to happen in that one until a little bit further in. But I think they've done an extraordinary job with that. There's something a wee bit special about episode six…
With the success of Doctor Who and now this, do you think we're entering a new age for this sort of programme in the UK?
I don't really know. Doctor Who is a franchise that has been around since I was a kid. It's part of my childhood and I grew up with it. I think it's a completely unique format, and I don't think that Primeval has anything in common with it whatsoever. Primeval is like The A-Team with monsters. That's more where we're borrowing from.
It's more of an American television format than anything else. This is an ensemble piece. It's not about a professor and a sidekick. There are six of us, with six very strong characters. What we're dealing with is something that happens in London, in real time, here, now. There's a little bit of Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park kicking about, and The A-Team. I think that's where we're coming from.
As far as the effect this is going to have, I haven't seen anything like this on British television, but whether there are spin-offs to come from it depends entirely on how successful it is. I think Doctor Who probably contributed in that people thought, "Oh well that works, so we'll try it."
It's proved that there's still a place for family entertainment.
I'd love to see it get back to that. Reality TV shows? I just wish that they had gone as far as they could go. It's about cheaper and less. People will pretty much watch what you put in front of them on the telly. It's a shame because you pay your licence fee to watch paint dry – literally. I want to see something that makes me excited on a Saturday night, and I think Primeval is that. You can never tell if something is going to be a success or not.
A show that grabs you and pulls you in will hold its audience.
That was apparent to me on the page when I first read this. I thought, if we can pull it off, it's going to be great. When you're standing there looking at thin air and trying to imagine a monster, you think, "I don't know if it's going to work or not," but I went along to a cast and crew screening, to see the first and last episode, and thought, "If it doesn't succeed, it isn't because we haven't done it right." I think everybody has put a hell of a lot into it.
Public taste is fickle at the best of times! If it does get picked up for another series, where would you like to take Cutter?
I'll be honest with you: I don't think about things like where to take him as a character. I honestly don't. Sorry if that's boring. The only thing I think about a second series is that it'll be great to do it if its ambition is to be better than the first. It's the way they do it in America. If they believe in something, then they want everything to be better than it was before.
I think the possibilities are infinite in terms of what you can do with it. There are so many ways you can take it with the relationships that are built up. By the time you get to the end of episode six, you'll see what I mean.
You could really take this anywhere now. With the worlds that are through these anomalies, the scope for what's on the other side, and how far back you want to go, the possibilities are endless.
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When the New York State Senate voted to legalize same-sex marriage on June 24, 2011, I was sitting on the couch with my then-boyfriend, Erik, watching the proceedings on television. We kissed, and then we walked down to Christopher Street, where the happy, sweaty, remarkably family-friendly celebrations were in full swing.
We wandered past some bars, we ran into some friends, and eventually we came back to my apartment, at which point—this is to the best of my recollection, with the caveat that my recollection may not be entirely accurate—we had a screaming fight. (I'd wanted to stay out and see more friends; he'd wanted to go home and be together. Extrovert, meet introvert.)
Before that night, we'd talked about marriage here and there, not so much in the context of "the state should validate our relationship" or even "does this make sense for the two of us?" but rather, homosexually, in terms of "this hotel would be so cute" and "matching ties or coordinated?" Now, for the first time, as New Yorkers, a wedding was a real, legal possibility. By the next spring, and the next nuptial season, we'd split.
The further into one's 30s one remains single, I've sometimes said, the more one's life resembles a Cathy cartoon.
A week or two ago, as the U.S. Supreme Court's term was winding down and it was clear that the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 decisions would come imminently, things were looking promising with my new boyfriend, Paul. (I know, I know: more with the goyim.) The days passed, no decision was handed down, and on Friday I took him on a little surprise trip to Storm King, where we walked and talked and had a picnic under a tree, and then we spent the night at a pretentiously adorable little inn in upper Westchester, where we took a complimentary yoga class in the morning. (It was my first, and both Paul and the teacher, complimentarily, said I was very good.) By Sunday afternoon, the relationship was over.
On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court made gay marriage a federally recognized reality in the United States.
It was 10:15 or 10:30 in the morning, and once again I was on the couch, though this time away at the beach, watching on TV (surely it was for this moment that MSNBC was created), tweeting and reading tweets. I was with Chad, who is a friend and a delight but not a boyfriend and not likely to be one. Earlier that morning, in the wake of the Paul situation and before I'd cooked platonic bacon and eggs for Chad and myself, I'd reactivated my OkCupid profile. Which had been depressing enough. Now the highest court in the land, and a cable network with a full news team of happily partnered gays—from the Washington reporter on the courthouse steps to the anchor in the purple gingham to the chunkily bespectacled face of the network to the mayoral candidate brought on as a commentator—were reminding me of my singleness. Chad and I had spent the previous night, over bayfront cocktails, discussing whether we'd ever meet anyone—didn't we already know all the gays in New York?
I'm an old maid. I'm 37, single, back on that awful dating site (no, OkCupid, a tiny twink in Aussiebum briefs is not in fact an exceptionally good match), and I do want a husband. I wish, in my singlehood, that I was the sort who reveled in the mythic, mustachioed days of New York gayness, who bristled against the strictures of the bourgeoisie, but I'm not; I'm suburban-raised and generally J.Crewed.
All this heteronormativization is only encouraging my dull, heteronormative urges: I don't just want a husband, I want a husband while I'm at marriageable age. It's sweet when Jim, 69, and Bill, 72, appear in the Times, marrying after 30 years together in a ceremony at their weekend home in Ulster County. It'll be sweeter to be married in my 30s, to a man in his 30s, just like a normal couple. (Excuse me: like any other normal couple. Though one without children and with impressive collections of mid-century furniture and Playbills and Starwood points.) I want a wedding to be near the start of a life together, not near the end of it.
And yet, unavoidably, spinsterly, I just haven't met that partner yet. (Even though my neurotic interior monologue now includes Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan as two more nudgy Jewish mothers, not that Elena really has a leg to stand on.) The gay weddings I imagine I'll be going to over the next few years will be for couples who seem made for each other. Which isn't something I had with Erik, or with Paul, or with anyone else. And Bob and Ira, the fun, funny, smart, kvetchy, menschy, loving couple I've long said—still say—I want to grow up to be, didn't meet till they were in their mid-40s. So there's time, I guess.
Meanwhile, a wry little tweet I posted moments after the DOMA verdict was announced earned me 14 retweets, 13 favorites and 84 Facebook likes—not enormous numbers, but I think my biggest ever. For now, I've got my social media to keep me warm.


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1.1 Background
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is committed to take action to strengthen sustainable environmental protection and management of the country's forest resources based on three important pillars, viz.,
To achieve environmental sustainability, the Cambodian Millennium Development Goal 7 has set benchmarks for 2015 related to forest resources:
In December 2006 the Technical Working Group on Forestry and Environment (TWG F & E) adopted a four-year Forestry and Environment Action Plan 2007-2010 aligned with the National Strategic Development Plan, after an extensive consultative process. This provides a broad framework of prioritized actions and investment opportunities in the sector.
1.2 Changes in Cambodia's Forest Cover
In 1965 forests covered an estimated 73 % of the country's territory. To monitor the loss of forestland, the Forestry Administration (FA) has conducted a series of forest cover assessments in 1992/93, 1996/97, 2000 (partial) and 2002. Cambodia's forest cover declined to an estimated 61% of the total land area in 2002. The loss of forest cover is consistent with land use and land cover change patterns associated with demographic growth and economic development in most countries.
Critically, insecure title over land and unclear land use rights continue to hamper the efforts of Cambodia's rural poor to secure their livelihoods. Agricultural expansion, illegal logging, a construction boom and increasing demands for land associated with the growth in Foreign Direct Investment from S.E. Asia continue to result in the loss of forests, and the increased vulnerability of communities who depend on forest resources. There is clearly a need to ensure sustainable management and equitable use of forests, to improve rural livelihoods, and to promote a balanced socio-economic development in Cambodia. Past forest management systems have not contributed sufficiently to these broad policy objectives (Independent Forest Sector Review, 2004).
1.3 Forest Cover Change 2002-2006
The 10th TWG-F&E meeting held on 26 September 2006 agreed to support a national forest cover change assessment for 2005/06 with financial assistance provided by the Royal Danish Embassy-Danida. The Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (RS-GIS) Unit within the FA's Watershed Management and Forest Land Office conducted the forest cover change assessment using Landsat ETM+ data (Figure 1).1 (Documents available at www.twgfe.org).
Figure 1: Landsat 7 satellite images
Independent quality assurance and data verification was carried out by GRAS A/S- University of Copenhagen. Their report concluded: (The) "RS and GIS unit is doing a very good job based on relatively simple mapping methods. However, several improvements can be made using the full multi-spectral capabilities of the satellite data that is difficult to do based alone on a manual classification. Shifting to more automated methods will ensure more systematic and consistent results"2. A three-stage capacity building plan to address these capacity constraints has already been put into effect.3
1.4 Summary of results
Table 1: Cambodian Forest Cover Estimates 1965-2006
Figure 2: Forest Cover Change, 1965-2006
1.5 Conclusions
The Forestry Administration's forest cover assessment for 2006/06 indicates that Cambodia lost 2% of its forest cover during the period 2002-2006, and not 29% as suggested in recent newspaper reports.
The RGC continues its forestry reform and law enforcement activities as an integral part of the National Strategic Development Plan 2006-2010. These include activities which aim to improve the demarcating of the forest estate, up-scaling community forestry, protecting and managing a quarter of all forest land for conservation purposes, developing new service delivery models, undertaking pro-poor market studies, capacity development and internal forest crime monitoring.
In the absence of Development Partner support for an independent monitor since early 2006 the FA has continued its own internal forest crime monitoring (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Trends in FA Forest Crime Monitoring
The Forestry Administration is committed to implement the RGC's policy and strategy for development of the forest sector. It strives to manage and conserve Cambodia's forests in a sustainable way whilst contributing to the alleviation of poverty of the rural people. The TWG F & E calls for all national and international development partners to continue their cooperation by supporting the national forest reform process.
Appendix 1: Forest Cover Classification
Evergreen forest: Evergreen forests are usually multi-storied forests where trees maintain their leaves during the whole year. They comprise the lowland tropical rain forests, the hill evergreen forests and the dry evergreen forest and along streams and rivers (gallery forests).
Semi-evergreen forest: Semi-evergreen forests contain variable percentages of evergreen and deciduous trees, the percentage of evergreen trees varying from 30% to 70%. Semi-evergreen forests continue to appear evergreen throughout the year, even when the percentage of deciduous trees is high.
Deciduous forest: Deciduous forests comprise dry mixed deciduous forests and dry Dipterocarp forests. Deciduous forests drop their leaves more or less completely during the dry season. Human impact such as fire is usually much higher compared to other forest types. Dry Dipterocarp forests naturally have an open character. As undisturbed deciduous forests may have a crown cover of only 40%, soil and grass may have a significant impact on reflections from these forests. As a result, it is difficult to separate deciduous forests from shrub land during the dry season.
Other forests: This land cover type includes regrowth, stunted forests, mangrove forests, inundated forests, and forest plantations. Regrowth of secondary forests is representative of a continuous, usually dense, layer of smaller trees. Stunted forests grow very slowly because of poor site conditions on hydromorphic soils and rock outcrops. Heavily disturbed forest like mosaics of forest, regrowth, and cropping, corresponding to shifting agriculture in which the percentage of forest is more than 40%, and areas of old regrowth and young secondary forest in the process of regenerating after clear cutting, are also included in this category.
Wood and shrub land evergreen: Wood and scrubland is a mixture of shrubs, grass and trees, the trees cover however remaining below 20 percent. This class can be found mainly on shallow soils, on the top of mountains under climax conditions or as a result of non sustainable land use. Theoretically there is a chance of becoming forest again. The signature remains light red during the whole year. Young regrowth after shifting cultivation is also included in this class when the shifting cultivation mosaic becomes invisible. There is usually a dense layer of shrub and grass with some trees.
Wood and shrub land dry: A 'Dry' variant of this class can be found in dry plateaus, but also on dry and sun exposed slopes. The signature is light grey during the dry season and light brownish grey to violet during the wet season, the texture is medium to rough.
Bamboo: Large areas of dense bamboo are usually discernible due to their pink and orange color and their typical texture. A sparse bamboo coverage or small bamboo will not be discernible and will remain in one of the other classes.
Non forests: This category merges agricultural areas, urban areas, water bodies, grass land and barren land.


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Appetite for Skills' Peter Whitfield explains: "With an annual turnover of more than £70billion, the food and drink sector has continued to grow throughout the recession. However, there is a critical skills gap in the industry, particularly in engineering. The sector needs young people with a passion for STEM subjects to consider the opportunities of an engineering career within this exciting sector."
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It is Stir Up Sunday on November 20, traditionally the best time to make your Christmas pudding.
And we've made it easier for you with a simple recipe and a step-by-step video to ensure your pud is perfect for the big day.
Stir Up Sunday is a tradition which goes back to Victorian times and may have been created by Prince Albert, when the family would gather together to stir the Christmas pudding five weeks before December 25.
It is then infused with either rum or brandy every other week in the lead up to the big day.
Traditionally a silver sixpence would be dropped into the mix with each member of the family taking a turn to stir it – this was thought to bring good luck for the year ahead.
Our mouthwatering dessert is versatile and can be made using orange juice if boozy puds aren't to your liking.
For a fuss-free delicious festive family treat watch our handy tutorial.
175g self-raising flour
175g wholemeal bread crumbs
175g vegetable suet
400g mixed fruit
150g finely chopped dates and prunes
50g cherries
3 large eggs
225g molasses sugar
5 tbsp dark rum, brandy or orange juice (don't use a flavoured or spiced rum as this will ruin the taste of the pudding)
1 ½ tsp of mixed spice
1 tbsp cocoa powder
24-48 hours before cooking place the fruit in a bowl. Pour the rum, brandy or orange juice over it. Cover with clingwrap and leave in a cool place, occasionally tossing to ensure all the fruit is nicely covered.
Put the mix fruit, dates, prunes and cherries in a bowl and mix. Add the self-raising flour, molasses sugar, vegetable suet, bread crumbs, mixed spice and cocoa powder. Stir the mixture well.
Whisk the eggs. Add to the bowl and stir into the mixture.
Take a pudding basin, preferably with a snap-on lid. Make a disc of greaseproof paper to fit into the base (this will help the pudding release from the basin). Pour all the mixture into the bowl and cover with another disc of pleated greaseproof. Wrap foil around it and tie with a string to secure.
Put the bowl in a steamer or in a large pan on a small rack so the bowl is not directly in contact with the base. Bring to the boil and steam for eight hours for a three-pint pudding bowl or five-six hours for a 1/½-pint pudding bowl. Occasionally check to see the water has not evaporated.
Leave to cool and store in a cool place until Christmas Day. A couple of weeks before Christmas add a generous tablespoon of rum or brandy (spearing the pudding in several places with a skewer will help the alcohol soak into the middle).
On the big day, steam for a further two hours and serve with white rum sauce or rum butter. If you have used brandy to soak your pudding use brandy butter/sauce. Alternatively you can heat it on full power for three minutes in the microwave.


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How to block USB drives with USB Block?
USB drives and other portable devices are the most popular way to transfer data from one place to another because they are easy to use, small in size, store GBs of data and available in market at very affordable price, but they do pose a security risk. For example; an unauthorized user may plug in a thumb drive to your computer and copy all your important files and documents; or can even copy your entire hard drive to a removable device. Such devices are one of the biggest security threats that allow snoopers to access your data and can also be the source of malware and spyware.
A recent study shows that approximately 1.8 Billion records have been compromised from 2000 to 2009, due to unauthorized access of portable devices. Since it is nearly impossible to predict through which channel the next data leakage will happen because one doesn't have to be an administrator to connect a small USB drive or thumb drive to the USB port and start copying whatever he wants. Therefore, it is important to prevent your data from getting leaked through such storage devices.
USB Block is a data leak prevention software that protects your private files, folders and copyright materials from getting into wrong hands. It blocks unauthorized access of all types of storage devices and drives like USB drive, external drive, CD, DVD, memory sticks, digital camera, blu ray discs, floppy and even network computers and non system drives.
The program prompts for the password every time an unauthorized USB drive is accessed on the computer where USB Block is installed. If correct password is entered, only then the plugged-in USB drive will get full access to your data. Furthermore, the program maintains a list of authorized devices so that you will not be prompted for the password when the devices from Authorize List will plug into your computer. In this way, you can allow your own USB drives and other portable devices to access your files and folders while blocking unauthorized access of all other devices which do not belong to you.
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- To add a device to your Authorize List, simply check the box 'Remember (add to Authorize List)' that appears every time a password prompt window will appear.


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I used in this necklace and earrings set 100 % cotton high quality variegated thread and, powder pink crystal beads.
May 29, 2013
May 25, 2013
Blue Agate Pendant
These eye-catching necklace and earrings are original design.
This center piece is crocheted and wire-wrapped with non-tarnish Artistic gold wire with japanese glass seed beads and gold plated round beads. The center precious stone is dark blue polished agate.
Agate's most noticeable properties overall are balancing yin/yang energy, courage, protection, healing, and calming. Agate is a stone of strength. Emotionally, agate gives courage, emotional strength, self-confidence, and dispels fears.
Palace Green Opal Pendant
The vintage style, antique looking three layer crocheting pendant is very special and unique.
The removable pendant is crocheted wire lace with palace green opal Swarovski crystals and bronze Darice Japanese glass seed beads. The beads are strung onto the permanently colored, non-tarnish copper Parawire then crocheted onto the nickel free and antique bronze filigree pendant.
May 19, 2013
Spring Flowers
"Oya" Traditional Turkish Needle Lace Technique is a type of lace created using a needle and silk thread to stitch up hundreds of small stitches to form the lace itself. These laces are very durable; they don't deform or break.
This is a unique handmade necklace, made by using needle lace flowers attaching on the crocheted % cotton green beaded (stone beads, crystal beads and Japanese glass beads) rope. The necklace is light weight and comfortable to wear.
Pink Romance
May 17, 2013
Black Lace Scallop Necklace
I shuttle tatted this beautiful feminine necklace in black DMC cotton thread working in jet black fire-polished Czech crystal faceted beads ( four different sizes) while tatting.
I took these pictures with my new camera Canon PowerShot SX500 IS Black 16.0 Megapixel Digital Camera . It was a mother's day gift from my dear son.
May 5, 2013
Serenade 3-D Earrings
LaCY Life Elite is stunning collection of one of a kind wearable art.
Serenade earrings are matching with serenade necklace.
These beautiful earrings are one of a kind made using the 56 genuine, silk color Swarovski crystals with ecru and brown color %100 cotton and satin threads combination.
The Serenade earrings are my original 3-dimensional lace design. That means earrings look glamorous in a 360 degree angle.
I shuttle tatted the earrings "Serenade" with DMC thread, adding in all Swarovski crystals while tatting.
May 4, 2013
LaCY Life Elite is stunning collection of one of a kind wearable art.
I always wanted to make a nude color but also attractive, plain, and elegant necklace. This is it. The colors and design are matched perfectly. I used 269 light silk color genuine Swarovski crystals in this necklace. The jewelry components are silver plated.
I combined the ecru color size 5 (DMC) thread with the brown satin embroidery thread for the circles part. Then I realized that the thickness of the brown thread was different then the solid ecru part. Also, there were lots of tension problem. That was disappointing for a while but I didn't give up.
So I found the size 8 in ecru and I combined that with chocolate brown satin embroidery thread. Voila, the thickness was perfectly matched the ecru thread that I used in my design!
After I got my basic supplies then I started to tat, and cut out the mistakes and undo several times .... Finally, the design was completed in two weeks.
It worth the result, huh?
Serenade is double sided necklace, both sides can be used. As seen in the picture.
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White Girl
White Girl is an American film written and directed by Elizabeth Wood in her directorial debut. It stars Morgan Saylor, Brian Marc, India Menuez, Adrian Martinez, Anthony Ramos, Ralph Rodriguez, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Chris Noth and Justin Bartha.
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Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back.


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LOVE is all we need !
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The New year 2011 started and already one month has passed by !
The cold in February is the worst weather here in UK and I can't wait for the month to roll on quickly ! Sitting at home with a mug of hot coffee seems to be the best at the moment, but hey I love shopping too. I can't miss the glitter and sparkle of Valentine's day decorations ! I love those beautiful flowers and lovely hearts displayed in the shop windows. The red and pink colors are the ones I am seeing all around now !
Have a look at my 'Lovely Hearts ' collection in my online shop !
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The real estate market truly is a difficult and complex domain. It is full of dos and don'ts, full of pieces of advice on how to sell or buy a house faster and without complicating the process in any way. The truth is that in this market, where there are so many rules as well as unknowns, interested clients, buyers and sellers alike, should start collaborating with specialists. This is the only way they will make the best of the real estate market. Given these aspects, perhaps it best to mention the reasons for which collaborating with real estate market, specialized in Government relocation might be the best option for those that are part of the Military service. There is a difference between the traditional real estate agent and the military broker. Only by making this separation will the following reasons gain importance.
This first aspect is knowledge. There are various rules and regulations that traditional mortgage brokers might not be aware of when collaborating with those that serve the country. Everything develops at a greater speed in this line of work and relocating in different areas across the country together with the family is part of the military service. A mortgage broker with knowledge of this kind will certainly make things simpler and in the end, more cost effective. This leads to the second reason for which having specialized help on your side is the key to success. With knowledge, comes experience and with this, come the financial benefits. Relocating to a completely different area could most of the times be association with different costs. A mortgage broker that has experience in this domain knows exactly how to relieve those that are part of the military services of unnecessary expanses. Collaborate with one or two such experts and you will understand these aspects completely. It might sound difficult, but when someone with great experience in this regard will explain all important facts to you, it will all make sense.
Also, the relocation process is not very simple. You are bound to discover this less appealing fact on your own if you should have to go through such a process. There are all kinds of unpleasant situations that might appear along the way. The fact of the matter is that only a specialized military mortgage broker will be of service to you in cases of this kind. The training and skills the expert in question has will be necessary to fix these problems and come to your rescue. Unfortunately, not all problems are predictable. Together with your mortgage broker, you will have to come up with all sorts of solutions and strategies. You can imagine that in situations such as a mortgage expiration, experience, training and knowledge could come in handy. You need a trustworthy specialist like Nicole Drummond mortgage broker, specialized in Government relocation, to guide you, properly inform you and most importantly, to help you. This way, the process of relocation will develop smoothly and in your personal best interest.


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Adrian Moorhouse MBE is a former British swimmer who dominated British swimming in the late 1980s.
He became Britain's number one breaststroke swimmer in 1981 when he won a bronze medal for the 200 m in the European Championships in Yugoslavia and the following year he gained his first taste of gold after winning the 100m breaststroke at the Commonwealth Games in Australia.
He won 100 m breaststroke gold medal at the Seoul 1988 Olympics and since retiring, he has translated his sporting success to a career in the business world as well as helping with swimming commentating.


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This Week in Spring: Kafka, Spring Cloud, and Testing
This Week in Spring: Kafka, Spring Cloud, and Testing
It might be the middle of January, but the world of Spring remains hot! Check out this compilation of tutorials and news updates for the Spring and Java worlds.
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Aloha! This week I'm in sunny Honolulu for the first annual LavaOne conference. If you're not here, you should be! The show is amazing, enjoys 50% female to male audience attendance, the speakers are world-class (well, except yours truly, but don't tell them that..), and the location is pretty hard to beat!
That said, nothing gives me more pleasure than saddling up to a table with a laptop, some green tea, sunglasses, and sunscreen and checking in on the community. This week's been a heckuva week indeed! Lot's of great stuff so let's get to it!
- Ryan Baxter just announced Spring Cloud Edgware SR1 which contains updates for several modules.
- Project Reactor team ninja Simon Baslé offers a look at Reactor 3.2.M1.
- Vedran Pavić just announced Spring Session 2.0.0. Check it out — there are a ton of improvements.
- Spring ninja Greg Turnquist has put together a nice post introducing the support in Spring HATEOAS for the Affordances API.
- There's now support for query-by-example in Spring Data Redis.
- A friendly reminder that, going forward, the preferred way to integrate with the OpenZipkin project is to publish messages over RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka using the
spring-cloud-starter-zipkinclient. This is different than using either Spring Cloud Sleuth Stream (which is deprecated) or using Spring Cloud Zipkin with HTTP, as we have demonstrated before. This stuff changes frequently!
- I loved Java community legend Antonio Goncalves' blog post detailing his impressions of testing in Spring (and contrasting that with testing in Arquillian, for Java EE applications).
- Spring Framework test lead Sam Brannen has updated his sample app demonstrating Spring and JUnit 5. Do check it out!
- I loved this The New Stack interview with Spring creator and Atomist CEO Rod Johnson. In it he talks about Spring, enterprise Java, SpringOne Platform and TypeScript, among many other things. Check it out!
- This doesn't have to do with Spring, per se, but it's very interesting: a DZone refcard on Apache Kakfa). Apache Kafka works well with Spring (via Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Binder, Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Streams Stream binder, Spring for Apache Kafka, and the Spring Integration extensions for Apache Kafka).
- InfoQ has a nice roundup of Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 which has been reimagined to be a container, application and serverless-hosting platform.
- This looks kind of interesting. Maybe something you could enable during development and testing. It's a Spring AOP based interceptor that logs all interactions with, for example, Spring MVC.
- Tomasz Nurkiewicz has a nice post that looks at using Spring, Project Reactor, and ElasticSearch.
- Spring community legend Aboullaite Mohammed has a really nice post on monitoring Spring Boot applications with Promtheus and Grafana. Yay observability!
- This blog looks at the new Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities and highlights that, in order to be most effectively protected against something like this, you need completely automated infrastructure of the sort that platforms like Cloud Foundry, which sits on top of BOSH, can provide.
- The code for Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke's talk Refactoring to a System of Systems is available online. You should definitely watch the talk, too!
- Just a friendly reminder that the performance of Spring Cloud Gateway
in the upcoming Spring Cloud Finchley release is boss-sauce and you should definitely try it out.
- Our very own Ben Hale is experimenting with a reactive SQL-based database access API. It's super early days yet, and no idea where it could go, but it's interesting and you might take a look.
- See this post on a Linux (Xenial HWE) vulnerability that affects your Cloud Foundry platform installations.
- I liked Johan Vos' post on the state of Java. This has nothing to do, specifically, with Spring, but you'll enjoy it if you enjoy Spring (and the JVM).
- The New Stack have also published an interesting post on how Netflix built their continuous delivery platform, Spinnaker. One thing that I love about it that I didn't see mentioned here? It's built using Spring Boot!
- Pivotal CTO Onsi Fakhouri was featured on the Software Engineering Daily podcast. This is well worth a listen!
- Ranga Karanam put together a nice post detailing seven things people should know when using Spring Boot.
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Wow! I didn't realize both of your sons were in high school this fall.
There are 3 words that can strike fear into the heart of any child. Do you have any idea what they might be? No?
Well, here they are: BACK TO SCHOOL!
See, my boys just saw me type that and they went screaming from the room! And yes, I did enjoy it just the tiniest bit. But truthfully, I am not really looking forward to the school year starting because it means that I will have TWO in high school!
I look at these two young men of mine and think: didn't they just start kindergarten? Wasn't that just yesterday that we took oldest to the school to do placement testing? And now he's starting his junior year? No, it is not possible! But when I look at him during our college visits, I know it's true.
So in honor of all those sweet memories, I thought I would get back into some book recommendations for the back to school rush. For today's post, I am going to concentrate on that exciting milestone: starting kindergarten!
As many of you know, I work as a bookseller in the Children's Department of our local bookstore. So I have had the pleasure and fun of reading and researching the newer books. And, of course, sharing some of the classic books that are available. So here is a list of a few of my absolute favorite titles.
Kindergarten Picture Books: 8 Titles To Make You Smile:
Miss Bindergartan Gets Ready for Kindergarten
Adventure Annie Goes To Kindergarten
Monkey Not Ready For Kindergarten
I love that these stories are meant to be read to the kids by the parents. Why? Because the stories are just as comforting to Mom & Dad as they are the kids. Going to kindergarten can be a really scary thing, and these kindergarten picture books can make the process a little bit easier on everyone.
Which Kindergarten picture books will you be reading?
Did you like this post? Be sure to check these other great books recommendations I share:
- Great Books For Baseball Fans
- Books For The Frozen Fan
- Halloween Picture Books
- Halloween Chapter Books
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Canucks 2 - 3 Coyotes
Crud. We watched this game, and crud.
- For the fifth game in a row (!!!), the Canucks dug themselves a two-goal hole before they generated anything. This is a problem. They dig more holes than Dig Dug. Word of advice to the Canucks: I have personally found it is easier to win games when, at some point, I am winning.
- We at PITB feel like the topic has been a little played out, but the Canucks defense corps is a shoddy six-man unit right now. There is a corpse-ness to their defensive game, and the holes that they dig for themselves are becoming graves. Wasn't defensive depth supposed to be a strength going into this season? I've never missed Sami Salo so much, and he once spent a wonderful summer living in my backyard, teaching me lessons about life.
- Has anyone seen the Sedins cycle, maybe in a lost and found box somewhere? If so, please return it to Rogers Arena, care of Daniel and Henrik. They continue to avoid sustained offensive pressure like it was housework assigned by their wives (say, doing laundry or taking out the trash--they avoid cycling and recycling). Tonight we noticed that the crummy defense is also playing into this problem, as pucks sent to the blue line have a tendency of sitting on a defenseman's stick long enough for opposing defenders to recover and take away shooting lanes. We request quicker decisions and puck movement.
- We saw hot and cold from the fourth line tonight. I was just beginning to rag on them for playing ungood when Tanner Glass scored on a heads-up setup from Peter Schaefer, briefly nullifying the statement. Then they gave up the game-winning goal, so... yeah. Note: we were going to link to TVTropes.com's "So yeah" entry here, but it appears to be gone. In it's place, let's try: Sorry, I'm Gay.
- Anyway. Tanner Glass pounced on that loose puck like it was an unpluralized word dangling over a triple word score (#ScrabbleMeTanner). He read that play like it was 1984.
- In case anybody thought Joel Perrault was going to accomplish anything, he had 8 shifts tonight and a team-low 4:49 of ice time. He won zero draws, which is notable, as he took two. Who else is left to play center? Bryant "Big Country" Reeves is a natural center looking for a contract, and he's already got some ties to Vancouver.
- Unfortunately, the 4th-line center role is no longer the Canucks key concern. They have more worries than Simba the lion king, pre-Hakuna Matata.
- Mason Raymond is simply struggling with his confidence. He hasn't scored since the fluke in Toronto, and that's his only goal in November. His last tally came on October 26 versus Colorado. You could see his lack of confidence tonight on a shorthanded 2-on-1, when he passed the puck off to Alex Burrows, despite having a step on the lone man back. Mason Raymond is a speed demon, not a passing demon. Maybe he should watch every goal he scored last season to get his confidence back?
- On a positive note, this was a better game than the game which shall not be named, otherwise known as the Voldemort game. Our theory is that the Canucks played the Voldermort game against the Blackhawks in honour of the new Harry Potter movie, which they obviously all saw when it opened the night before.
- Though it didn't lead to a tying goal, the Canucks' urgency in the game's final minute was something to be praised. They should do that fifty-nine more times each night.
- I feel like the sun might be setting on Alain Vigneault's heavily-criticized faith in Aaron Rome. It appears all roads are being diverted away from Rome, having previously led to him exclusively, at least in a common idiom. He played 10:30 tonight, and still managed to find time to take a minor penalty and finish the night minus-2. How does he fit it all in?
- That's what she said.
- Lucky for Aaron Rome, the team is sucking collectively, like they're all on a date at a malt shoppe. Andrew Alberts wins the participant ribbon for his non-play on Scottie Upshall on the game's first goal. Take the stick, NHLberts, or we'll send you down to AHLberts faster than you can say, "Please don't do that."


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My name is Valerie Smith and I have a degree in Art and Design with numerous and varied experiences involving my degree. For eight years, I designed and coordinated the decorating of Mardi Gras floats and costumes in Texas prior to moving to Louisiana nine years ago.
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Summer has finally arrived in the northeast. For a large part of June, I wasn't sure it would ever get here. Daytime highs hovered around 70 degrees instead of the upper 80s. Sodden clouds hovered over wet green lawns and gardens, retarding strawberry ripening and probably other things as well. (But I was seriously looking forward to strawberry picking!)
The first few days of July have been gloriously sunny and warm. We'll pretend it wasn't muggy as all get out as well. What possessed me to clean out the range hood and fan above the stove is a mystery, but once started, I couldn't stop. Besides. It was gross.
I prefer to use 'green' cleaning aides, but there are times when those just won't cut it. Seriously, the grease was so thick I couldn't wipe it off. I couldn't scrape it off, either. Out came the Windex Kitchen spray bottle. Then I tried Pine Sol, my first go-to cleaner after Spic-n-Span, and I boiled water so the steam would help loosen the crud.
By this point I figured I had removed maybe one layer of oil, dust, grease, pollen (this *is* New England, you know), and I was getting a real upper body workout while not making much of a dent in the cleanliness goal. Elbow grease is all fine and good, but I like to have something to show for it, you know?
On the left side of the counter was a basin of concentrated Oxy-Clean working on the greasy kitchen towels I had used to help me disassemble the fan and filter. They were now looking much better than the range hood was, so I hotted up the water again and applied said elbow grease and the Oxy-Clean solution to the inside of the range hood.
Hot damn. It works! Every wipe brought another layer off and I could see the silver aluminum peaking out. Three changes of water later, it was practically sparking. Yup. The inside of the range hood that no one ever sees was sparkling! Mount Washmore was piled waist deep in the basement. The rugs bore evidence of two dogs dashing in and out, romping in over-long wet grass. The vegetable garden and flower beds were inundated with weeds. The counters were covered with displaced items, dirty dishes, and cleaning supplies, but that stove top and range hood? Gorgeous!
Next time, I'll look into how much it costs to replace a range hood. Or maybe try cleaning it more often than once a decade.