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Sure For Women launches a skin care anti-perspirant range to provide ultimate underarm care.
How much thought do you give to your underarm skin? Hidden away under layers of clothing, your underarms are probably the most neglected area of your body. Daily wear and tear from clothing friction, an active lifestyle and shaving can all take their toll on this sensitive, often forgotten skin. The new Sure for Women Skin Care anti-perspirant range combines award-winning Sure for Women 24 hour protection with pro-active skin care to help underarm skin stay healthy.
Available in three variants – Nutritive, Neutral and Calming, each is tailored for specific skin care needs to combat everyday skin wear and tear whilst providing the 24hr anti-perspirant protection you expect from Sure.
New Sure Skin Care Nutritive is an anti-perspirant with Vitamin Complex, which enhances the condition of your underarm skin to avoid the rigours of a women's daily routine.
New Sure Skin Care Neutral is an anti-perspirant that cares for your sensitive underarm skin and contains Pro-Derma as part of a gentle formula which is mild on delicate skin, caring and protecting the underarm area.
New Sure Skin Care Calming is an anti-perspirant, containing Calendula, which helps underarm skin regain its original wellbeing and gives a calming effect on the underarm area.
The new Sure For Women skin care range is available from January 2008 with a RRP of £2.49 (150ml APA) £2.99 (250ml APA) and £1.88 (50ml roll on) and is available in 3 fragrances: Nutritive, Neutral & Calming. All Sure For Women products are available nationwide.
Sure for Women launches revolutionary design for the smoothest roll-on
Fed up with those annoying morning niggles? Make your morning go smoother with new Sure for Women roll-on antiperspirant, created expressly for women. With a revolutionary 'upside down' design, Sure For Women roll-on is always ready to use, gliding on in one smooth, continuous motion while the best ever roll on formulation from Sure dries faster to give the smoothest start to the day, complete with 24hr protection.
The new Sure For Women roll-on design delivers a consistent dosage for every application from the first to the last use. There's no need to shake, it doesn't dry out, get stuck or leak, putting an end to those annoying niggles, to make application even easier, faster and smoother.
Designed for women balancing a hectic lifestyle and who want a deodorant that won't let them down, Sure for Women's advanced formulation offers 24-hour protection from wetness and odour, and is ph Balanced and alcohol free so it is gentle enough to use after shaving.
The new Sure For Women roll-on is available from January 2008 for RRP £1.69 (50 ml format) and is available in a variety of fragrances including: Biorhythm, Cotton Fresh & Cool Blue within the core body responsive range and Clear Aqua to offer protection against white marks. Two fragrances are also available within the New Sure Skin care range: Nutritive & Calming for RRP: £1.88 ( 50ml format) . All Sure For Women products are available nationwide.
For more information on Sure for Women visit www.sureforwomen.co.uk
Vitamin Complex is a combination of both vitamin E and vitamin F, both of which occur naturally in sunflower seed oil
Pro-Derma is a combination of skin care ingredients, which add to the product properties and can make it milder on the skin than a product without these skincare ingredients
Calendula officinalis herb is believed to cure a range of skin problems as it has properties that reduces inflammation, controls bleeding and soothes irritated tissue.


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First of all, I would like to apologize about the big mistake I did while taking this video, and to clarify why, is simply because I snatched this interview as soon as I got the chance, however, my camera was on very low battery and it was set in the previous recording on the zoomed in position, if I have realized that and tried to zoom out before taking the video, I would loose the power and the entire interview in general.
I know it might seem funny, but everyone make mistakes!
In the interview, John Donahoe, eBay's current president (Who also used to be the eBay marketplaces president for a long time), speaks positively with confident about eBay, urging new users to sign up, buy and sell, even create social networks around it.
I first met John last year at eBay's DevCon in Boston, briefly spoke to him about his visions and found out that he is not only a brilliant & open minded person, but I thought that he is the man for the job, taking eBay to the next level (In my opinion, this should have been done a long time ago!) and I agree with every move he made since taking over his position 100% (And yes I don't think that eBay should be just a big garage sale, there is a lot more into it than just that).
John, me and Pierre Omidyar (eBay founder) share the same vision that drove a lot of current sellers away or mad or whatever you have seen in the news latley, but I think that consentrating on eBay's core business, opening more doors to developers (API's), and cleaning up the site in general of some of the old rules that brought the company somehow down, is the only way for eBay to become what it's meant to be since the begining, an online marketplace!
Yes I understand that I might get a lot of comments against my opinion, but I truly believe that if you reialze how much more money you can make though eBay without even selling anything, you will be amaized of what you didn't know before. All I can ask you is to open your eyes, think outside the box, research on how to become a real player in this game (Not just a big seller) and I guarentee you great profit and bigger bussines than you can even imagin.
Before I leave you with the video, I wanted you all to know that I am including at least 2 months total of eBay training, not only on how to sell, but also a complete work around to make profit in other ways but selling, including the affiliate program, API calls, integration into other applications and similler stuff. (Don't start going crazy now, I promise that it will be so easy for any one to do it with the least experiance) and will be all for free on the upcoming Online School that I announced here.
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"It's not enough to do it; it must be communicated" – Virginia Barbour, Executive Director, Australasian Open Access Strategy Group, on a key concept in science.
Providing open access to research, including publications, data, software, methodologies and all other research outputs, is a growing worldwide initiative, as is the drive to solve real-world problems and stimulate innovation. The lack of access to research publications and their accompanying data is inhibiting national and international collaboration, public debate and research, however, times are changing.
Originally applied only to data, the F.A.I.R. principles now apply to all research outputs, as proposed at a November 2016 meeting of the G20 Science, Technology and Innovation Ministers Meeting. Research findings that are F.A.I.R. are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
"With F.A.I.R. access, Australian research will be more visible, the broader community will have better access to well-founded knowledge, Australian researchers will be able to more easily collaborate locally and globally, including with industry, and the Australian research enterprise will be more accountable to the community it serves" – F.A.I.R. Access Working Group
Dr Salvatore Mele from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) reports that research in the field of physics has always been openly available, with researchers posting each other hard copies of publications that were submitted for review. During the World Science Festival, which is being held in Brisbane from 22-26 March, the world-renowned Large Hadron Collider will be on display at the Queensland Museum.
Managed by CERN, the data collected from use of the Collider are published in the CERN Open Data Portal, and are accompanied by the software and documentation required to make sense of the data being shared. Here at QUT, researchers can publish their data and accompanying material through our data repository, Research Data Finder. We're doing our bit to accelerate open science by providing access to open data!
Take a look at datasets that have already been added, including 'Fusion transcripts in prostate cancer using RNA sequences derived from Australian and Chinese men' by Dr Jyotsna Batra and Dr John Lai, and perhaps add one of your own at QUT Research Data Finder.


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For breeding advice, please scroll down, or click here to jump to the appropriate section.
Hip dysplasia is a condition where the hip joint does not develop correctly. As the dog gets older, the joint undergoes wear and tear and the joint deteriorates, leading to a loss of function. This can cause varying degrees of pain, discomfort, stiffness and lameness.
Hip dysplasia is a complex inherited disorder, which is influenced by a number of different genes and by several environmental factors (e.g. diet, exercise or factors when in the womb before birth etc.). Each of the genes that help to make a dog's hips may have different possible versions. Some versions increase the risk of hip dysplasia, while others decrease the risk. Each dog will have a mix of these "good" and "bad" versions of genes, making it very difficult to predict to what extent a dog will be affected. The impact one version of a gene has might only be slight, but lots of genes having a small influence will have a combined additive effect. The way in which these conditions are inherited is not straight forward; hence the name complex inherited disorders. These complex diseases are usually seen across many different breeds and are also described in both cross breeds and mixed breeds.
Since hip dysplasia is partly inherited, dogs that share similar genes are more likely to be similar in terms of how severely they have hip dysplasia. Individuals in each breed share a significant amount of their genetic make-up and so certain breeds are more vulnerable to hip dysplasia than others. It is generally accepted that this condition is more common in larger breeds (possibly because these breeds are heavier, and this greater weight has more of an effect in producing osteoarthritis due to laxity), but can occur in any dog of any size, regardless of whether they are purebred or mixed bred.
Find out which health tests or schemes are recommended for your breed on the Kennel Club's Breed Information Centre. These recommendations are suggested by Breed Clubs and approved by Kennel Club committees.
The severity of hip dysplasia cannot be accurately determined by a vet's physical examination. The most reliable way of determining the health of a dog's hips is by having your dog X-rayed. Owners should make an appointment with their vet who can take the required X-ray of the dog's hips.
Breeders are able to screen their breeding stock for hip dysplasia before the dogs are bred from. Testing all potential breeding stock, where relevant, allows breeders to better understand the kind of genes a dog may pass on to its offspring, giving them the information required to minimise the risk of producing clinically affected puppies. Making informed decisions from health test results enables breeders to adapt their breeding programmes and reduce the risk of the diseases appearing in future generations.
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) and Kennel Club (KC) scoring scheme has been in operation since 1984. The scheme screens animals for faults in the hip joints and allows animals with the best hip joints to be chosen for breeding. A dog's X-rays are scored by a panel of experts who are part of the hip dysplasia scheme. Your vet can organise this for you and will send the X-rays off to be scored and then relay your dog's results to you.
When taking your dog for its X-ray, owners should remember that:
Each hip joint is assessed by BVA/KC scrutineers who assign points based on nine aspects of each hip joint. The degree to which a dog is affected by hip dysplasia is represented by a score given to each hip. This score ranges from zero to 106 (zero to 53 for each hip), with a score of zero representing the least degree of hip dysplasia and 53 representing the most.
The names and results of Kennel Club registered dogs will be sent to the Kennel Club for recording on their database and will be made available:
In addition to the charges levied by the vet for anaesthetic and X-raying, the cost of having one dog graded under the scheme is currently £60.00 (inc VAT). If an owner submits 5 or more dogs at the same time, the cost falls to £52.50 (inc VAT) per dog. There is a reduced fee when radiographs are submitted simultaneously to the BVA/KC Hip and Elbow Dysplasia Schemes. The charge for joint Hip and Elbow submissions is currently £108.00 (inc VAT) per dog.
Number of dogs
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Joint Hip and Elbow
Fast track submission
There is a panel of BVA-appointed radiologists and orthopaedic specialists who will review the X-ray. The X-rays are assessed by two scrutineers who will agree the grading.
Free, detailed leaflets can be download here, or are available from either: Health & Breeder Services Department, The Kennel Club, Clarges St, Piccadilly, London W1J 8AB or the Canine Health Schemes Department, BVA, 7 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NQ.
For further information on the schemes please visit the BVA website.
Data from the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme is used to calculate an estimated inheritance 'risk factor' for each dog (EBV). EBVs help breeders of Kennel Club registered pedigree dogs to continue to make sensible and informed health choices for breeding, based on robust data.
Complex inherited disorders, such as hip dysplasia, are influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. EBVs essentially strip away the environmental influences to estimate the genetic component of these conditions, enabling breeders to better understand the genes a dog may pass on to its offspring. If used as part of breeding decisions, EBVs can help reduce the risk of puppies inheriting hip dysplasia more effectively than by the sire and dam's individual hip scores alone.
EBVs link all available pedigree information with data collected through the BVA/KC testing schemes. The information on relatives (who share genetics) influences the genetic risk of an individual. Therefore, the more breeders that make use of these schemes, and the more dogs that are scored, the more accurate the EBV will be. By continuing to hip score, breeders are securing the future for countless other dogs by providing the information needed to continue Estimated Breeding Values. For a full list of breeds that currently have an EBV for hip dysplasia, please click here. As more breeders continue to hip score their dogs using the BVA/KC schemes, it is hoped that more breeds will be added in the near future.
The Kennel Club's EBV resource provides the hip score, the EBV as a number, the confidence as a percentage, and a graphical representation of the EBV and confidence.
The breed average is always set to zero. Dogs with a higher than average risk of passing on genes associated with hip dysplasia will have an EBV higher than zero. Dogs with a lower than average risk of developing hip dysplasia will have an EBV lower than zero (i.e. a negative number, e.g. -10). The further a dog's EBV is from the average, the higher or lower its genetic risk. A dog's EBV can change during its lifetime, either upward or downward, as more data becomes available, either about the dog itself or its relatives. At birth, a puppy's EBV will be the average of its parents' EBVs. For example, a sire with an EBV of -5 and a dam with an EBV of +5 will produce a litter or puppies with an EBV of zero.
The confidence is an indication of how much scoring information has been used to calculate the EBV. The more scoring information available from the dog itself and/or its relatives, the more confident we are that the EBV is close to the actual genetic risk. The confidence of the EBV can increase if more relatives are, or the dog itself is scored.
EBVs provide a more accurate measurement of genetic risk than using a dog's hip score alone. It is therefore recommended that breeding decisions are principally made using EBVs.
Ideally breeders should use dogs that that have an EBV which is lower than average (i.e. a minus number), and preferably with a confidence rating of at least 60%. EBVs with a confidence less than 60% can still be used, but the higher the confidence, the more accurate the EBV will be. A dog does not need to be hip scored in order to have an EBV, but to ensure an EBV is accurate as possible, it is recommended that breeding dogs are scored under the BVA/KC scheme. This is also important in understanding an individual dog's health risks for being at risk of developing hip dysplasia.
The lower the EBV the better, but breeders do not need to seek out dogs with the lowest risk EBV. Selecting animals with a lower risk EBV than average will still lower the risk of hip dysplasia.
It is recommended that breeders make well balanced breeding decisions. Each puppy will have an EBV that is the average of its parents. Therefore dogs with an EBV which is higher than average can still be bred from, providing that it is mated to a dog with an EBV which is well below average (assuming that the confidence for both dogs is high); and the EBV of the resulting puppies is lower than the breed average.
Previously, the best advice was to use dogs with hip scores below the breed average, which meant that many dogs could have been excluded from a breeding plan if their scores were a significant consideration. Excluding dogs from a breeding plan can have an impact on genetic diversity. By using EBVs, it is reasonable to use a dog with an individual BVA/KC score over the breed average, as long as the EBV indicates low genetic risk with good confidence. In such cases the hip condition of the offspring should be carefully monitored and preferably hip scored themselves.
An average (or median) score is calculated for all breeds scored under the scheme and advice for breeders is to choose breeding stock with hip scores around and ideally below the breed median score, depending on the level of hip dysplasia in the breed. Each breed's median score is available here.
It is recommended that hip scores of a dog's family members should also be considered.
This could be done by using the Kennel Club's Health Test Results Finder to look at parents, grandparents, siblings and progeny.
As well as considering the implications of a dog's EBV or hip score, there are other equally important factors to consider when deciding whether two dogs should be mated together, such as temperament, genetic diversity, conformation, other available health test results, the general health of the dogs, etc. Your breeding decisions should always be well balanced and take into consideration the qualities and compatibility of both the sire and dam that you are considering.
Hip dysplasia is a condition which is inherited in a complicated way not yet fully understood by scientists. Due to the complex nature of inheritance of this condition, it is still possible that affected offspring may arise from parents which have good EBVs. It is hoped that breeding appropriately from screened dogs will reduce the risk of producing affected offspring, and using EBVs reduces this risk even further, but it must be stressed that this is not a guarantee.
It is unlikely. Hip dysplasia is a complex inherited disorder, caused by a number of different genes and also influenced by several environmental factors. Traditional DNA tests can be developed for conditions controlled by only one gene to predict whether a dog will be clear, a carrier or affected, but not for conditions controlled by more than one gene. For a disease such as hip dysplasia, even if the effects of all the genes involved were known, a DNA 'test' would give a genetic risk of the disease.
Statistics on the number of dogs scored by the scheme and their results can be accessed in the Kennel Club's Dog Health Group Annual Report.


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Major Copyright Victory
@lensculture: Haitian Photographer Wins Major U.S. Copyright Victory (@nytimesphoto) http://t.co/SXWYoKp3iY
So It Seems
@UberFacts: Ignorant people are more likely to believe they are brilliant, while intelligent people are more likely to underestimate their abilities.
The Prayer
A song to begin the new year! Let us be mindful of all that we have and what we have to offer!
Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli's "The Prayer" choreographed with the record-setting Dubai Fountain in the UAE, filmed with 5 high-definition video cameras.
Sony a65: the new standard in digital photography
The Sony a65, premiered during the summer of 2011, alongside the a77, is a step forward for Sony. Offering a 24MP APS-C CMOS sensor, 10 fps continuous shooting rate, full-time live view and phase-detection AF as well as numerous other features that it shares with its higher end sibling. The a65 is unique in its market segment. On paper, the a65 is a significantly more interesting camera in some respects than its peers like the Canon EOS 7D and Nikon D7000.
Of particular interest is Sony's SLT (single lens translucent) design, with its ability to offer DSLR-style autofocus in live view, having eliminated the need for a prism and flip-up mirror. As a result, this allows for a higher shooting rate and a more silent operation, as well as real-time live view. In addition, without the mirror/prism design of traditional DSLRs, the A65 pushes the technology considerably further, with the introduction of a high-resolution XGA OLED electronic viewfinder.
Having used the Sony a65 during the past year, in a variety of shooting situations, with a number of different Sony lens, I have come to admire its competent capabilities. The camera feels superbly in the hand, the electronic viewfinder (EVF), with its excellent refresh rate, is brighter and clearer than an optical viewfinder, and the on-board menus are clearly displayed. It's the perfect blend of camera and computer in one package optimized for the aspiring photographer.
Here is a video of the Sony a65:
Leica Lenses… I love 'em!!
A video of the manufacture of Leica lens… quality second to none… they're the best… in German engineering!!
Leica Lenses (English) from Leica Camera on Vimeo.
National Weather Service Open House
The National Weather Service (NWS), headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, is one of the agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States government.
The purpose of the National Weather Service is to provide "weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas, for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy." This is done through a network of national and regional centers, and 122 local weather forecast offices (WFOs). Since the NWS is a government agency, most of its products are in the public domain and available free of charge.
Hirshhorn Museum
Modern art at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on moon, dies at age 82
For the person who pioneered the final frontier… we will miss you as well as remember your words: "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." (2:56 UTC July 21, 1969)
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on moon, dies at age 82.


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George Eads won't be gone from CSI for long!
The actor is slated to return in an episode slated for Wednesday, Nov. 20, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Eads, one of the show's last remaining original stars, took a leave of absence from the CBS drama in August after reportedly getting into an argument with one of the show's writers over the creative direction of his character. He appeared in the first three episodes this season before he left.
Fall TV 2013: The year's biggest cast shakeups
Eads, 46, signed on to return to the procedural as a regular along with the rest of the cast when CBS renewed the show in March. Eads and co-star Jorja Fox were both briefly fired from the show in 2004 after they tried to hold out for more money from the network and studio. Eads is one of only three stars who have been with CSI from the pilot.
CSI airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on CBS.
(Full Disclosure: TVGuide.com is owned by CBS.)


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If you are considering solar panels in Aberdeen, there are many reasons to arrange installation. More and more homes across the UK are soaking up the sun's rays thanks to the latest innovations in solar technology, and reaping the many benefits of greener energy. In this article, we'll take a look at some of these benefits and how you can start taking advantage of domestic solar energy.
1. To Be Kind To The Planet
Because solar panels require no fossil fuels and rely on the sun's rays to energise them, they are kinder to the planet. By using renewable energy you can reduce your carbon footprint, use an energy source that releases no greenhouse gasses and which does not pollute or require water to generate energy.
2. You Save Money
We all want to save money on our household bills, and yet energy bills, no matter what we do, seem to be constantly on the rise. You could continue to switch providers, but the fact is that fossil fuels are running out and are getting more expensive. By generating your own energy through solar panels you can have a headstart on other households (those fossil fuels will run out, and sooner than you might think) and start enjoying cheaper energy.
3. You Can Make Money Too
Solar panels may be an expensive outlay, but they do pay for themselves in both energy savings and money you can make through the Feed-In-Tariff. When your solar panels are connected to the grid, you can make money on the energy you generate and send back to the grid, and go on earning for a guaranteed 15 years. Your solar panels will usually pay for themselves within 7-9 years, and anything you earn from the FIT after this is pure profit.
4. Low Maintenance
Once your solar panels are installed, you will almost forget they are there. There is very little maintenance involved with the system, and you'll only require one professional check a year to ensure they are operating at maximum efficiency. You should also check now and again that the panels are clean, but you can usually do this as a sight check from the road.
5. Think Of Future Generations
Environmental impact and climate change are problems we can solve now, and solar panels are just one way to tackle the problem. Addressing the problem with renewable energy solutions like solar panels is just one of the things we can do to preserve the planet for future generations.
At the Greener Energy Group, we are helping homeowners to reap the many benefits of solar panels in Aberdeen. Speak to us today to find out more about renewable energy.


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Last week we posted our Valentine's Day Shopping Guide and mentioned that there would be contests to give away one product from each category. The contests start today! Here's the schedule:
Tues 1/31/12 Couple's Gift: Two
Wed 2/1/12 Gifts for Her: Heart Mesh Peek-a-Boo Bikini Set
Thurs 2/2/12 Gifts for Him: Intermediate Anal Pleasure Kit
Fri 2/3/12 Romantic Gifts: Bwarm
Mon 2/6/12 Luxury Gifts: Freestyle W
There will be different ways to enter for each day. If you would like to win today's contest, the Two silicone finger extender, leave a comment on this blog post with two reasons you either love or hate Valentine's Day.
All contests are only open to US residents 18+. Each contest will run until the next one is announced. Monday's contest will run through 11:59am 2/7/12.
For the other contests make sure to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook to find out how to enter.
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André Oosterlinck
Professor André Oosterlinck is Honorary Rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) and chairman of the Association KU Leuven, which is Belgium's largest university. In 1984 he was appointed full professor at KU Leuven in the domain of image and signal processing. From 1984 to 1994 he was director of the division Electronics Systems Automatization and Technology (ESAT). He became vice-president for the exact sciences at KU Leuven in 1990 and was rector and president of the KU Leuven from August 1995 until July 2005. He has also been visiting professor at Utah University (1984) and ARC-IBM, San Jose, USA (1986-1996). He was a co-founder of ICOS Vision Systems (now KLA Tencor). He currently is the vice-chairman of imec and board member or chairman at several high-tech companies.
Ramses Valvekens
Ramses Valvekens is the Managing Director of easics, since the management buy-out in December 2004.
Besides his role as Managing Director, Ramses remains active as a systems architect, focusing on technology selection, project risk reduction and cost-effective mixed-signal ASIC and FPGA design trade-offs. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and gives lectures in semiconductor system design.
He holds a Master degree (1997) in Electronics Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Master degree (1994) in industrial engineering / electronics from Groep T in Leuven, Belgium.
He performed research in signal processing at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (California, USA) and at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France).
In 1994, he won the Barco/VIK prize for the design of an FPGA-based reconfigurable processor for industrial image processing in cooperation with imec.
He has been working at easics since 1997. During the TranSwitch years (2000 till 2004), he was technical manager of a product family of mixed-signal telecom chips. He received the TranSwitch Employee Recognition Award in 2003 and is co-inventor of two telecommunication patents[1][2].
Steven Coenen
Steven Coenen is the Managing Director of easics, since the management buy-out in December 2004.
He holds a Master degree (1998) in Computer Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
He has been working at easics since 1998 and has developed most of the easics in-house EDA tools to support easics' design methodology.
He is an all-round hardware/software guru and a vivid GNU/Linux adept.
He is the inventor of a patent[3] on the verification of telecom protocols.
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When men wore pants: Chef Ramsay will save us
by Bernie Quigley
For The Hill on 8/29/11
There is a world inside striving to find the will and intelligence to be born again. I noticed when my youngest son just entering college started listening to Tony Bennett and saving up for a suit.
The Fifties are here. Just under the surface. Just bubbling up. And "Mad Men's" Don Draper, the fictional shaman who created America in the 1950s ("America is everywhere I am . . . as far as I can see.") has created it. Now come knockoffs of men in suits and women in uniform: Two new TV shows this fall: "Pan Am" and "The Playboy Club."
Every athlete does not get a trophy in this world. Every book is not a great book. Every president and ex-president no matter how nuts or squalid does not get a Nobel Prize. That is Oprah world and it is fast dwindling. Chef Ramsey ("Shut up! What is that? Do it over! Stop crying!") is the antidote; the anti-Oprah.
And Don is the anti-Timothy Leary, the anti-Jerry Garcia: Turn on? Don will take two. Tune in? Don sees everything. But never, ever, ever drop out.
You could see this coming with Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of Truman Capote in "Truman." The return of mastery with both Hoffman and Capote. And in Ed Harris's portrayal and direction resurrecting "Pollock." Warrior artists and writers from the fifties who have found no match. Warrior monks then as well: D.T. Suzuki, C.G. Jung, Nancy Ross Wilson, Walpola Rahula.
Recently, in a speech in Toronto, Shmuel Sackett, who speaks for an Israeli group which calls for Jewish leadership in Israel, asked why Israel at war in the 1960s found such strong support here in North America and finds so little today although the situations are not that different. But that was before Bono started writing opinions for The New York Times. Before the Bob Geldorf School of International Studies. I mean, who are you going to listen to, Lady Gaga or Hannah Arendt? And who is Hannah Arendt?
But it was then that a few men still wore pants and not jeans. And they are starting to again.


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I'm experimenting with the form and trying out a few you tube videos – little diaries of what we are up to.
I'd love to know what you think so please check it out and if you feel like it then like and subscribe.
This is episode 1 and episode 2 is going up shortly!
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Julian Casablancas played a host of new material in the early hours of this morning (March 15) at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Accompanied by his new backing bands The Voidz, the Strokes frontman played a 1.10am set at Cedar Street Courtyard. During his eight song set, he played five new songs, tracks thought to be included on his second solo album – which is set for release later this year – alongside 'Ize Of The World' from The Strokes' third album, 'First Impressions of Earth'. Emily Kokal of Warpaint was amongst the fans watching the show in the busy, intimate venue.
The show followed surprise gigs over the past week in Washington DC, New Orleans and Pensacola. New songs in the set included 'Ego', '2231', 'Biz Dog', 'The Phantom of Liberty (Arabic Jam)', and 'Dr. Acula'. Julian Casablancas recently gave a sneak preview of his new solo album. Click here to watch the two-minute clip. There is no further information regarding an album title or release date included with the video, but visitors to Casablancas' website can sign up to pre-order the album now. Casablancas released his debut solo album, 'Phrazes for the Young', in 2009.
"Hello. Hey. What's up? Yes!" said Casablancas to the crowd after this opening track 'Ego', before a squeal of feedback in his mic lead him to ask "Is that me?" Casablancas spent a lot of time in the short set interacting with the front few rows, responding to one fan's question with "I know, I know – I don't mess with Texas. I learned that a long time ago!" He then commented: "What do we do? I don't know…" before launching into 'Ize Of The World'. Casablancas was sporting a number of chains around his neck as well as wearing an American style sports jacket. For 'The Phantom Of Liberty (Arabic Jam)' Casablancas spent most of the song facing the drummer. "Thank you so much guys," he later said to the audience. "Shall I do some lead singer shit?" he then asked, following it with a dramatic "You guys having fun at SXSW?!"
After 'Dr. Acula' Casablancas blew kisses to the crowd, and the band then exited the stage. After five minutes of cheers, they eventually returned. "You chanted well," grinned Casablancas. "Thank you so much. We almost didn't come [back] out, but you guys were super cool. Thank you so much." The band then encored with 'Glass', from 'Phrazes for the Young'.
Julian Casablancas and The Voidz played:
'Ize Of The World'
'Biz Dog'
'The Phantom Of Liberty (Arabic Jam)'
'River Of Brakelights'
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Wow, this is awesome Georgia- amazing!! Don't even know where to start- but you are an incredible inspiration- love your use of color and stamping, misting, grunging- incredible.ReplyDelete
WOW! Georgia.. WOW! WOW! WOW!ReplyDelete
Love Love Love this!! That photo is FANTASTIC....
your busy background is marvelous!! I have become a big fan of busy backgrounds!! THANKS to you..
It's always AWESOME to see your Creations over @ Bird Is The Word....
Enjoy the time with your hubby!
What an absolute SMASHING photo...it's wonderful & I love the layers & colours underneath...also like the mix of straight & zig zag stitching.....lots to feast on here...glad you've been busy:):):)ReplyDelete
wow wow wow ... you are such a talent .... this is oozing with passion and love ... beautiful xReplyDelete
this is amazing...I just love the natural photo.. Amazing colours and designs. Well done. WELL done!ReplyDelete
Great page, love the gesso swipes and pen outlines. Very cool grunge.ReplyDelete
You are amazing!! I loveeeeeeeeeeee the paint, the photo and LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEE those balloons!!!ReplyDelete
Really fantanstic the page, all the details. I like the red all around the page.ReplyDelete
What a fantastic photo!!! Your layout is amazing - loving all of the painting!!!ReplyDelete
So cool & grungy! Luv the colours u have put together! Great page!ReplyDelete
HI Georgia! This looks fabulous! what a great photo, it has caught a special moment between you two! and all the interesting bits to look at... another stunning layout!ReplyDelete
Another awesome background. How do you do it? Great pic and love your use of the word in your title.ReplyDelete
What a neat lo! Love the background and the look of all the mixed pp's...the combo is perfect!ReplyDelete
COOL!!!! %-)ReplyDelete
So so beautiful Georgia! Love it! :)ReplyDelete
fabulous LO!! thanks for playing along at BITWReplyDelete
Oh I love it when you get grungy! This is fantastic, Georgia!!! :DReplyDelete
Wonderful page Georgia love the grunge look...ReplyDelete
Wow, totally awesome page, Georgia...just love the background you have created. So so inspiring! :)ReplyDelete
SO SO SO Amazing!!!!!ReplyDelete
wow, I'm totally in love with all your projects and this one especially!ReplyDelete
This is Amazing, Georgia!!! love it!! the layering is awesome!! Thanks for playing with us at Bird is the Word!!ReplyDelete
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Thanks Cathy =) I think you mean BITW though don't you? Ooops lolDelete
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Oops sorry Georgia, was just at the OUAS blog and had this in my head silly me. shouldn't copy and paste. lol LOVE LOVE LOVE your page, ADORE all your beautiful layering and fantastic background!! Thanks so much for sharing with us at BITW :))ReplyDelete
Georgia this is AHHHHHHHHMAZING i love love the layers and the colours wow I adore you layouts!ReplyDelete
yikes sorry for the typos...I am moonlighting on facebook and blog stalking not a good combo just end up making typos!!!!!ReplyDelete
ummm Geirgia I am gobsmacked this is utterly amazing hun, fantastic page ;))ReplyDelete


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Jiggs Dinner is about as traditional a meal as you can get in Newfoundland & Labrador. Not great for the cholesterol and calories,but DELICIOUS!! I really don't know if there is much that taste better. Imagine a beautiful piece of salted beef boiled in the pot with a peas pudding in a bag, all the vegetables and, if you're lucky, dumplings for dessert---Mmmm-mm!
I remember for us kids, mom would always cook loads of potatoes, because we thought we didn't like carrot, turnip and cabbage very well--ha ha. She would mash our potatoes with lots of butter and we would get the leanest of the salt meat and some roasted chicken or beef. Mom always did a roast of pork or beef or a chicken with the Jiggs Dinner so there was gravy. When I look back on it now, she must have been a magician because we all had tons of whatever we wanted--then from the leftovers, she would make potato salads with the cold chicken or beef ....and lots of that as well. How did she do that with just one chicken or roast?? I guess we can chalk it up to another magical memory of childhood.
- Jiggs Dinner
- 1 (3 pound) boneless corned beef brisket
- 1 1/2 cups yellow split peas
- 1 large head cabbage, quartered
- 1 medium turnip, peeled and cubed
- 6 carrots, peeled and cut in chunks
- 6 large potatoes, peeled
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Dumplings:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons white sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 cup water
- Cover the corned beef with cold water and soak overnight in the refrigerator.
- Drain the beef and place in a large pot. Cover with fresh water. Place the yellow peas in a triple layer of cheesecloth and tie securely. Place the bag in the pot with the beef. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook for 2 hours.
- After 2 hours, add the chopped cabbage, turnip, and carrots to the pot. Simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add the potatoes and simmer an additional 20 to 25 minutes, or until all of the vegetables are fork tender.
- While the vegetables are cooking, prepare the dumpling dough as follows: Combine the flour, sugar, and baking powder in a bowl, then add the water a little bit at a time to make a pasty dough. You may not need to add all of the water. Divide the dough into 6 balls. Be careful not to over-handle the dough.
- During the last 5 to 10 minutes of simmering the vegetables, place the dough balls on top of the vegetables and cover with a lid. Allow the dumplings to steam in the pot for 7 minutes.
- When the dumplings are cooked through, remove all ingredients from the pot and arrange on a warm serving platter. Remove the cooked peas from the cheesecloth bag and mash with the butter and black pepper. Serve with the beef and vegetables.
- Sometimes the dumplings are used as a dessert with fresh partridge berry jam or heated molasses - or can be eaten with the cooked dinner.


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Three Essays: on regeneration, the antedeluvian [sic] patriarchs, and the journies of the Israelites
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Series: X-Ops #.5
Published by Sourcebooks Genres: Paranormal
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Reviewed by Miranda
The Director of Covert Operations John Loughlin is trying to recruit operatives for his top secret covert unit. John has been looking to recruit the foxy Cree Forest. He is supposed to remain detached but he can't seem to stop the urge to keep his eyes on Cree 24/7.
Things are never truly as they seem in the world of covert operations. John has been watching Cree and it turns out Cree has been watching John. Cree has been assigned to keep an eye on John and she is also having problems separating her job from the urge to taste the handsome Agent. Is it possible for these two to find love in the dark world of covert ops they live in?
Author Paige Tyler packs a lot of sexy, suspenseful goodness into Her Secret Agent. John and Cree are two very intriguing characters. One thing that I love about Ms. Tyler's writing is the fact that she creates such strong female characters. Her female characters go head-to-head with the men making the stories must read in my book!
Her Secret Agent is a prequel to the X-Ops series. It was great to learn how things began for the Department of Covert Operations. As usual the story begins rapidly with smoking hot sexual chemistry and loads of bullets flying. John and Cree manage to keep steaming up the pages as trouble follows them everywhere. I couldn't get enough of Her Secret Agent and I'm looking forward to Tyler's next X-Ops novel.


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Global Cheese Awards Somerset Deli of the Year 2013 ' Award ...
The Cheese and Wine Shop is delighted to have been selected as the best delicatessen in Somerset!
How where we judged? Through a series of undercover secret' visits by Committee' members, delicatessens across Somerset have been judged on their passion and flair for customer service, the quality and thought that has gone into selecting and displaying their product range, as well as product knowledge and community initiatives. Elements that will set the winning deli apart from its rivals will be creativity, originality and clever development of their retail offer.
The top three deli's where invited to the Frome Cheese Show Trade Day on the 14th September 2013, and The Cheese and Wine Shop was delighted to be awarded "Best Delicatessen in Somerset" and a handsome cup.
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How to: Feed the City
by ariadnesthread101
A big sustainability challenge over the next few decades is going to be about feeding people in cities. Soon, more people will live in cities than outside them. For the first time in our history, we'll be an Urban species. Cities are traditionally considered to be quite resource-hungry, and we will need to figure out how to make them sustainable. Feeding cities sustainably is a challenge. But it can be done. People are figuring it out. Here's a video describing one way to do this.
This talk woke me right up. By the way, if you're awake – like really awake – when you watch this (or rewatch it 😉 ), you can literally list important MEG-related concepts, theories and principles from within this video.
"Take these seeds… and the people around you are going to be nourished by the splendor of the garden that you grow"
Happy Monday!
ps: Since the MEG is meeting Agriculture for the first time this week, here's a paper (full-text for free) you might be interested in. It's easy and interesting to read, and gives you an overview of the key questions that are important to the future of agriculture.
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There are a few things we already know about the 23rd James Bond film. For starters, we know that Oscar-winner Sam Mendes will direct the film which is currently set to open in the U.K. on October 26th and the U.S. on November 9th. We also have a pretty good feel for the cast which already includes Daniel Craig and Judi Dench reprising their roles as 007 and M respectively as well as Javier Bardem (making a turn as the unspecified villain), Ralph Fiennes (as a character of "extreme complexity"), and potentially Naomie Harris as Ms. Moneypenny.
With all of this info in mind, those concerned for the film's immediate fate following MGM's, um, money problems should be all but put to rest. That said, there's still some aspects that inquiring minds would like to know such as "What's the official title?" and "What's it about?". Hit the jump for a report that claims to answer both.
Definitely file this under "extreme rumor" for now, but reports are surfacing that the 23rd Bond pic will be entitled Carte Blanche, incidentally a title shared by the latest 007 novel from Jeffrey Deaver. This "news" comes from Blic Online [via Bleeding Cool] that, in writing about a Serbian cellist named Jelena Mihailovic landing the opportunity to score the classic opening theme song for the film, also took the liberty of writing:
"At one of the many concerts the musician held in France during the Cannes Film Festival, the producers and the director of the next Bond film were in the audience, who were staggered by what they had heard and on the spot offered Jelena a chance to write the opening score for the new James Bond film, entitled Carte Blanche."
While the potential reveals from that report stop there, as stated above, Carte Blanche is also the title of the latest Bond novel. Therefore, by virtue of a simple Amazon search, we can gather a basic plot synopsis of Jeffrey Deaver's book:
James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan war, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the Realm, by any means necessary.
A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: Casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected.
And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission . . .
If this isn't enough info on the book, Wikipedia provides a fairly spoiltastic take on the events of Carte Blanche:
He [Bond] starts his assignment on the outskirts of Novi Sad in Serbia where an Irish sapper-turned-enforcer named Niall Dunne is planning to derail a train carrying three hundred kilograms of methyl isocyanate, dumping it into the Danube. Bond is able to prevent the catastrophe by derailing the train himself at a much safer place along the line. He is unable to detain Dunne, who kills Bond's Serbian contacts in the course of his escape.
So, what does all of this mean? Like I said before, I would take all of this information with a grain of salt for the time being. While I'm sure Deaver's novel is an intriguing take on the character, I have a hard time believing that the screenplay for Bond 23 will follow the book plot point by plot point. That said, Craig's take on Bond has seemed to get back in touch with some of the suspense and intrigue present in many of the novels, so a faithful adaptation of Carte Blanche could be in the cards. Only time, and the Internet, will tell.


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Filed under: Events, Food, Pictures | Tags: 2008, Christmas, Food, presents
Santa brought a lot of good presents to me this year 🙂 Got a couple of great cooking books from Mom and a copy of The Starbucks Experience from my brother. Kristen rocked and got me a pair of nice flannel PJ bottoms and a universal remote (which I spent all day playing with and programming 🙂 )
My in-laws got me a new bottle of Sapphire Gin which we got to break out today at Christmas Dinner. We had a few people over and it was a little crazy getting everything ready, but we had a good time. Highlight of the evening was my mother in-law leaving us some of her home-baked cookies and buckeyes (pictured below)!
Greetings to everyone! I hope your Holiday season is going well. It's been about a month since my last post, but its been quite a month. Between wrapping up this semester at Business school and working on a new rebalance project at Detroit Diesel, the time to sit down and put pen to paper (or in this case fingers to keyboard) has been difficult to come by. The last few days have been especially crazy as I wrap up work stuff while getting the Christmas shopping done. Thankfully its all done, so tonight we can go have a nice Christmas Eve dinner with Kristen's family. I had thought about writing something about what Christmas means to me, but I think Linus from the Charlie Brown Christmas special says it best (see the video below).
Even though its a happy time of year for us, I get a little blue because my Grandfather Pico passed away around this time in 1996. We usually went to his house on Christmas day to meet up with the rest of the Pico clan and have a big Christmas buffet where everyone had a great time. He was a well known Ear Nose Throat doctor (Otolaryngologist for those want the complicated title) in Puerto Rico who was passionate about the care of his patients. He was born one of seven children at the family farm in Coamo, an agrarian area of Puerto Rico (more so in 1912, when my grandfather was born). He worked hard and got into Villanova University in Philadelphia (no small feat when your commute to school involved a weeklong trip on a steam ship), where he got his medical degree.
One of my favorite stories about my grandfather was that he and a friend would go to the some of the poorer Italian neighborhoods in Philadelphia on the weekends and provide free medical help. The people they helped would then invite them to huge Sunday dinners to repay them for their help, which was great if you were a Puerto Rican in Philadelphia with little money of your own. He lived a great life, traveling throughout the world and having adventures in the oddest places, like the time he ended up treating a relative of Harry Winston while taking on a steam ship to Spain.
The main reason I bring this up is that I didn't learn most of this about my Grandfather until after he died and I wish I had spent more time talking to him and learning about his life, I would now be a richer and better person for it. So for the Holidays I ask that you take some time out from the Egg Nog and Fruit Cake and talk to your elders a little more, maybe you'll learn something you never knew before!
So before this post goes out of sight, Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!


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With Election Over, Can Parties Find Common Ground?
The uncertainty has vanished with the re-election of Barack Obama as president. But the incumbent who won a second term last night still has a number of problems that he continues to face from a sluggish economic recovery, a huge deficit, a stubbornly high unemployment rate and of course, the fiscal cliff.
Other legislation that Obama put in place in his first term will move forward, including the Affordable Care Act but also of much more immediate impact on the financial community is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It clearly wont be rolled back but the question is whether the pace of the rulemaking and implementation will speed up.
In a gracious and dignified concession speech, Republican challenger Mitt Romney noted that this is a time of great challenges, adding I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation. Most notably, former Gov. Romney said we cant risk partisan bickering and he said that both political parties have to put the people before the politics.
In acknowledging both his victory and the tough road ahead, Obama told a crowd of his supporters in Chicago: We rise and fall together as one nation and one people.
Stock futures sagged as the outcome of election became clearer. As Romney spoke Dow futures fell by as much as 65 points and turned around to a smaller drop as the President made his comments.
Meanwhile, the fiscal cliff, which is $600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases, looms at the end of this year as the most immediate threat to economic stability and growth. We will see if the President and the House of Representatives can work together so we dont fall off that cliff. Lets see if both sides can see the word compromise in a positive light and find common ground. Lets see if they can reach agreements on the serious issues of the day such as spending cuts and revenue increases and see if they can make choices that will benefit the entire nation.


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The Curriculum Knowledge Center (CKC) is a special center and library committed to impacting our metropolitan region in southeast Michigan through learning, teaching and outreach.
The CKC serves as the gateway to CEHHS for children, families and teachers to support teaching and learning and serves as a conduit vehicle for enrollment and persistence in college. The CKC operates as a resource for families by supporting each child's potential as a future college student and encouraging families to continue their own education through enrolling in college courses or other CKC opportunities.
The Curriculum Knowledge Center has a variety of resources, student textbooks and equipment available to develop lesson plans, to fulfill class assignments and design presentations. The resources found in the CKC assist the pre-service teacher in understanding the full scope of what is necessary to become an exemplary teacher and contribute to the success of the education and health and human service students in preparing their coursework. Computers, scanners and software are available for student editing of video presentations. Print materials and study guides for the MTTC are available for check-out. The CKC offers all College of Education, Health, and Human Services students a place to study and complete group projects.
The Curriculum Knowledge Center is located in 267, FCS (Fairlane Center South). Please note new hours of operation.
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Students, faculty, and staff may check-out materials from the CKC collection by presenting a valid MCard (UM-Dearborn photo ID card).
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Started with the 3K Program at Camelot September 2013.
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Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education from Wartburg College in Waverly Iowa, taught 3rd grade in Racine for 5 years, Substitute teacher with the FdL School District for 16 years and has been an Instructional Assistant with the Early Childhood Special Education program with the FdL School District since 1987.
"All students learn differently and my challenge is to discover their particular learning style so success can be met. Sense of humor is so important! Laugh and have fun! I believe in the importance of building strong relationships with all students and their families."
Married her husband Dale in 1966. They have 2 sons and 7 grandchildren. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, reading, yard work and spending quality time with family.


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text: Richard Rorty's contribution to American Pragmatism was important and profound. I am deeply saddened by the news of his death, Rorty had a significant influence on my own thinking, especially his distinction between normal and abnormal discourse. It will be a long time coming before another philosopher of Rorty's stature and influence appears on the American landscape.


text: Saakashvili was as once a natural ally for President Poroshenko [Getty Images] Mikheil Saakashvili has been stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship, meaning he is now stateless, according to the former Georgian president and Ukrainian state media. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, whom Saakashvili has accused of perpetuating entrenched corruption in the former Soviet republic, deprived him of citizenship by decree, Ukrainian state media reported on Thursday. "Poroshenko decided to deprive me of my citizenship in an underhanded way, while I am out of the country!" Saakashvili wrote on his Facebook page. "I have only one citizenship, that of Ukraine and I will not be deprived of it," he said. Russian state news media reported that Saakashvili was in the US at the time. RELATED: EU approves visa-free travel for Ukrainians Saakashvili, president of Georgia for nearly a decade until 2013, is wanted on charges of abuse of office, claims that he has denounced as politically motivated. He lost his Georgian citizenship in 2015. Saakashvili had been building a new political career in Ukraine after Poroshenko appointed him governor of the Odessa region in 2015. In an interview to Al Jazeera, Donnacha O Beachain of Dublin City University said supporters of Saakashvili would argue he was not given the proper resources to do the governor's job plus he also realised that Poroshenko was "part of the problem". This made Saakashvili a "threat to the Ukrainian government". On the other hand, Beachain said, detractors of Saakashvili would say this falling out is testimony to his "legendary divisive character". Former Poroshenko ally Saakashvili, whose country fought a war with Russia in 2008 and who is intensely disliked by the Kremlin, was once a natural ally for Poroshenko after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014. However, Saakashvili, who served as Georgian president from 2004 to 2013, has become one of Poroshenko's most vocal critics, casting doubt on the Western-backed Kiev government's commitment to tackling entrenched corruption. Saakashvili resigned last November, citing opposition to reform, and set up a new political party. Attacking Poroshenko's record on reforms, Saakashvili said: "Today the entire country has understood the price of your promises to live anew". Poroshenko's administration did not immediately comment on the decision to strip Saakashvili of his citizenship. SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies Europe Ukraine Georgia


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We are so much more than we remember
I have this place where I dream. I don't know if I am a Star or a Galaxy, but I remember, in my dreams, I travel there with frequency..
In my dream this morning I was standing in my yard watching the goings on around me. I could see that I had this place where I parked my vehicle that was actually in the driveway of my neighbors yard.
I could see the comings and going of my neighbor. One of my neighbors was standing in my yard, in the place where I park my vehicle. He was standing there, without moving staring into space.
Then as I am watching the ghost man passes through my yard, and when I look back over to the man who was staring out into space another man was standing there with the space man. He appeared to be doing something equivalent to rubbing after shave on the the spacemans face.
Then the spaceman faded and the man began rubbing the 'after shave' on his own face. He did it in very slow circular movement. Inside his movements I could see a galaxy spinning… When he saw me staring at him, "It feels very good you know" I told I could sense that in his movements..
Then when I walked back over to my house to go back inside I glanced back at the path the Ghost Man had taken through my yard and saw, off in the distance, a cluster of children, of various ages coming towards us..
It was when I saw the children coming, in the cluster of stars shining bright in my sky that I realized I was in the place where I am a Galaxy, alive and living a life very much like a human does.. only time is different…


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Just some of the knife wall at Your Kitchen Store.
I have major kitchen envy.
Currently we are in the process of moving but for the last five years I have been stuck with a miniature fridge I think came from the house of the Seven Dwarfs, a fickle $20 electric stove (bought at a surplus sale!), and various other older kitchen gadgets in various states of disrepair. It's not that I don't want new and wonderful kitchen things, but for a long time we have been stuck in the oh-we-are-moving-soon-don't-buy-anything-else rut. Thank goodness we close in just 30 days, onto a new kitchen and finally some real kitchen tools!
We have a fabulous local kitchen store (not a chain) that recently relocated to downtown and expanded exponentially. They now have a lovely kitchen in back where they will be giving classes and rows upon rows of everything you could possibly want in your kitchen. Here are just a few fun examples;
We had a really great but really busy day. We spent the majority of last night in the ER after Jaime dove for a ball during her softball game, made an amazing catch, and broke her 4th metacarpal in a big way (that's in your hand). I manage the Orthopaedic department so we were able to have the surgeon look at it..and yes indeed it needs pinning, so we have that fun adventure to look forward to…and we are moving in 30 days. I told her if she didn't want to move boxes she could have told me, she didn't need to break a bone!
Farmer's market bounty this morning!
Above is some local homemade Bulgarian goat's milk yogurt, I had a sample and it was delicious! We are going to try it with Izzie and see if she tolerates it, she has been missing her yogurt!
Speaking of which, I had a rigorous 5 mile run and finally ran my 5 k (with hills) in 29 minutes! First time I have been able to do that! I was very proud and celebrated with yogurt and some fabulous high protein German muesli with cranberries and other yummy stuff.
The farmer's market today had a big tasting table and was hosted by the Monadnock Localvore Project. They had these great cards to hand out with your bill at local restaurants asking them to support local farmers and food, what a great idea!
The remainder of the day was spent packing and organizing, doing yard work and eating some lovely BLT's and pesto pasta!
Wrapped up the day with some beet beer and I am off to bed! Goodnight!


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Some Things Said… (Oct 05)
A great deception
Recently there have been a few articles on creationism and Darwinism in the press. Some of these have been listed or mentioned in part in the columns that regularly appear here. A casual remark made by President Bush seems to have ignited the keyboards, excited the output meters and an interest from the podiums frequented both by intellectuals and scientists as well as by members of the press, those who support both the theories of spontaneous generation of life and that of evolution.
The phrase I used above: "…the theories of spontaneous generation of life and that of evolution," is despised by moderns as it reminds them of the unscientific notions that passed for theories concerning how life appeared and which were proffered during the Dark Ages. But that is exactly what the Big Bang theory and its numerous and ponderous offspring, and the theories of evolution are – just modern day equivalents of the theory of spontaneous generation. So, why dont we just call it what it is.
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, some less than clever fellows thought that life generated out of thin air. They would prove this grand speculation by setting raw meat out and then noting that within a few days it would "produce" maggots and flies and then they would offer this as proof that life had indeed appeared spontaneously. This is a little like noting that since all cats have four legs and fir they therefore may be related to polar bears, or for that matter, to dogs or gerbils, all of which exhibit the same.
For better than a century we have had credentialed scientists and the highest intellectuals theorizing again that life just happened. And it is to them a "true fact" that not just life, mind you, but everything surrounding you generated its way out of nothingness and into existence without so much as a vapor of intelligence behind it.
At the outset it is useful to note that an explanation from great minds is always accompanied by many pages of bad writing full of polysyllables and more than a few fabricated (read: non) words; all in strict scientific jargon with massive footnotes overflowing with pointless and meaningless mathematics. But, my intent is to puncture this pretentious foul rot and to expose it for what it is – it is the modern equivalent of a circus sideshow, a mindless childrens fantasy fostered upon the gullible by scheming godless adults.
Here are the basics. Take a deep breath – youre going to need the oxygen. And hold on – there are no air bags on this ride and these folks take this very serious.
There was a huge gaseous explosion (of unknown origin) with a date and cause so distant in time that it cannot be identified at all. From this gaseous bubble and ensuing belch the eventual orbiting systems of the universe were spewed forth and at some point began to set themselves into discernable patterns of composition from out of the initial chaos. Along the way they also began to move in elliptical patterns and eventually were found to be in geometrically perfect alignment with one another and completely symmetrical in form (after a few odd billion years to allow for random collisions and more unregistered mayhem).
During this formative period, as solar systems began to cluster the careening masses aligned with one another through another accident of time and space, and were "found" to be in juxtaposition with a wide number of dissimilar bodies. Due to the greater mass and speed of some of these they were elected the centers of the formative systems – all of this was of course performed randomly and took place before there were paper ballots.
So, in the beginning there were hot lumps, cold and lonely (as The Firesign Theatre had once put it). After a few more odd billion years, some of these hot lumps began to cool and the spherical planetary bodies we know and love were formed. These were still oozing roiling bodies with methane based atmospheres where nothing could properly exist (remember all that gas?).
Hang in there; this is the best part. One day while nothing much was going on in the universe and things were still finding their way from unintelligent chaos to intelligent order (not such a hard stretch to buy into if you spent your formative years smoking pot and reading comic books while watching Star Trek), a floating garbage can sort of mass appropriately named a blastopod decided to form (randomly of course). Now blastopods were masses of glop with nothing but time on their hands, but they just happened to contain some complex carbon chains lollygagging around at the bottom of the mush pile. A meteorite dropped by accidentally and out of the not so clear sky and by chance happened to plow into one of the blastopods, without destroying the mess, that is, and low and behold, it also turned out (by some mean stroke of fate) to have some amino acid molecules conveniently hitching a joyride on it. Sacre Bleu! (as Blackhawks sidekick used to say) now we have the right ingredients to start life, and not at all a minute too soon!
So, the amino acids decided to get together with the complex hydrocarbons and quite by accident and with a little covalent bonding they formed a new molecule called ribonucleic acid while things were still out maturing. From this point, you need to get to an oxygen atmosphere (and no one has ever explained how this was accomplished) but they can do so without hardly thinking about it, even though its the mental equivalent of leaping over the Atlantic Ocean. With all that done it is a positively simple leap of faith to get to active protoplasm and onward to single cell forms. Why, you could do it all in a kitchen without electricity or in the garage.
Gentle reader, if you werent so poorly educated youd know that if you can make ribonucleic acid it shouldnt have taken but another million years or so without a good chemistry set to randomly (again) produce some deoxyribonucleic acid and within another few million years of that or thereabouts, and with some further specious chaos, there would have been multi-celled and variegated life forms sprouting up like weeds in the hedge. After that it wasnt long then (in the whole scheme of things) until the fish grew some legs and put on his walking shoes – ostensibly so that they could get a house on the shore and get out of that very hot water. In no time at all his progeny were off to the trees and the first monkey was sighted. But the great ape fell when a branch broke, and when he hit the ground he learned about running, with the intent of outpacing the large cats – who are his always-hungry cousins. After staying upright long enough to pass a drivers test he became species Homo Sapiens. That all took place in a few billion years, give or take 300 million one way or the other.
And all of that with mighty words and sounds made against anything contrary, as if the party might be spoiled by mere examination. And all without so much as a wink. This is surely the most serious stuff and very scientific too. If it had been thought up by the Three Stooges it would have made a wonderful short. What a hoot!
And the current Chief of State had the gall to suggest that opposing points of view in the origins of life department might offer some merit in examination. Go figure. –Richard Vandagriff
How to Beat Your Wife
MADRID — An imam who wrote a book on how to beat your wife without leaving marks on her body has been ordered by a judge in Spain to study the countrys constitution.
The judge told Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, imam of a mosque in the southern resort of Fuengirola, to spend six months studying three articles of the constitution and the universal declaration of human rights. –as posted at www.littlegreenfootballs.com 09.29.05
The state of education
Will Rogers once said that it was not ignorance that was so bad, but as he put it, "all the things we know that aint so." Nowhere is that more evident than in American education today, where fashions prevail and evidence is seldom asked for or given. –Thomas Sowell, from his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals.
Wiccan Priestess Loses at High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to consider a Wiccan priestess's claim that she was discriminated against when Virginia officials denied her the opportunity to pray before a government meeting.
Cynthia Simpson, a member of the Broom Riders Association, won her original federal lawsuit against officials in Chesterfield County, Va., arguing that she wasn't given the same opportunity as clergy from more traditional religions, who were invited to open meetings in prayer. The verdict was overturned by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — a decision that will stand in light of the Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Simpson, claimed her rights were violated because the county "refuses to issue invitations to Native Americans, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Wiccans, or members of any other religion."
The county countered that its practice was in line with the Supreme Court's endorsement of legislative prayer that doesn't proselytize, advance or disparage a given religion. –from Focus on the Family
Teacher asked to remove religious necklace
A municipally employed teacher in Kristiansand has been prevented from wearing a Star of David around his neck. Kristiansand Adult Education Center, where the man works, ruled that the Jewish symbol could be deemed a provocation towards the many Muslim students at the school, Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reports.
Teacher Inge Telhaug said he feels this is a violation of his freedom of speech. "I cant accept this. It is a small star, 16 millimeters (0.6 inches) that I have around my neck, usually under a T-shirt. I see it as my right to wear it," Telhaug told NRK.
Telhaug teaches immigrants Norwegian language and culture at the education center. Telhaug is not Jewish. "I see it as the oldest religious symbol we have in our culture, because without Judaism there would be no Christianity," [said] Telhaug.–from www.littlegreenfootballs.com 10.03.05
Article contributed by Richard Vandagriff and Mark Zaveson


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It's that time of year again – Christmas. Okay it's only early November but the Christmas lights have been up in London for some time already and the shops are bulging with decorations, food and ideas to make it your best Christmas ever. All that sort of stuff.
For me the best part of Christmas is the chance to spend time with friends and family – and of course, the food. So I was delighted to get an early taster of Spaghetti House's tasty Christmas offering. I do love this family-run group of London restaurants. You're guaranteed top quality, authentic Italian dishes, it's great value for money and there's always a warm welcome.
The set Christmas menu offers a choice of four starters, mains and desserts. So something to suit everyone. We watched the expert chefs led by Achille Travaglini prepare everything fresh in front of us. Achille was also happy to share some of his top tips with us, like the use of orange zest in his prawn cocktail to give it an extra zing, and a slice of orange to serve for colour.
Here's a taster of what you can enjoy for your Christmas celebration.
The involtini di melanzane al forno is a generous portion of baked aubergines stuffed with basil and ricotta with Napoli sauce. Beautifully rich and satisfying, and extremely cheesy. A deliciously indulgent starter.
The sea bass fillet (branzino also scalogno) came with shallot dressing and balsamic drops, grain mustard mash and spinach. Sweet and perfectly pan-fried fish topped a pile of smooth, zesty mash.
Pasta lovers won't be able to resist the tortellini al funghi and tartufo. Handmade pasta parcels are filled with mushrooms and black truffle and served with a creamy mushroom sauce, crispy sage and lemon zest.
For red meat lovers there's the medaglioni di manzo al vino rosso. Beef tenderloin medallions are served on a bed of aubergine puree with a red wine sauce and smoked sautéed potatoes.
Italian desserts are my absolute favourites and I do love a good tiramisu. Made here with soaked espresso biscuits, mascarpone and amaretto liquor. Simply yum.
Winter fruit compote came with toasted traditional panettone – feather-light panettone soaks up the richness and syrupy-ness of the compote.
There's also an Italian version of crumble – the Bramley apple crumble is served with a large dollop of vanilla ice cream.
Of course there are also traditional choices available like chicken liver pate to start, roast Norfolk turkey with all the trimmings for mains and a stunning Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
The Christmas menu is available from 21 November to 21 December 24 2016.
Today's price point
Spaghetti House's Menu Natalizio (Christmas menu) is great value at £16.95 for two courses, £19.95 for three courses or £29.95 for three courses with half a litre of wine.
To find out more visit spaghettihouse.co.uk


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EU stakeholders call for revising Text and Data Mining exception
Twenty organisations have signed an open letter to European lawmakers calling for changes to a proposed Text and Data Mining exception. These stakeholders fear, if the current proposal for a TDM exception is not revised, the majority of the European research and innovation ecosystem will have to pay extra licences, and small businesses and startups will stop innovating in Europe due to legal uncertainty.
According to the signatory organisations (universities, libraries, research organisations and European businesses), lawmakers should secure Europe's leadership position in the data economy, by fixing the Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception in the European Commission's proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.
The group sent an open letter to the Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee of the European Parliament members asking them to go further than the Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and Internal market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) Committees, and adopt "a forward-looking approach that will help the European data economy grow, hereby fostering innovation and research and encouraging entrepreneurship and support for SMEs".


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Family Kiwidutch had just settled into our accommodation in Hanmer Springs in January 2018, when we received notification that the winter firewood supply would be arriving.
We were asked could we keep the garage open so that it could all be stacked inside to dry out for winter please?
could we also please arrange a time convenient to us for this stacking to take place too?
Kiwi Daughter suddenly jumped up with an emphatic exclamation: "Stacking wood? MY Job! I want to do it!"
Her request was relayed to a very surprised Hanmer Holiday Homes staff who manage the house and bookings and Kiwi Daughter got her wish.
Kiwi Daughter has happy memories of completing a firewood stacking challenge almost five years previously: "Kiwi Daughter Wood Prove Me Wrong…" (https://kiwidutch.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/new-2374/) and clearly is relishing the physical challenge once again.
They came with a trailer and dumped a very decent sized heap of wood in front of the garage door, closer at least to the stacking site than in the playhouse last time. She immediately grabbed the gardening gloves and set to work with gusto. In fact she worked so hard it was difficult to get her to some for dinner… a very familiar theme to that of the last time. She did however admit that it seemed to be harder work this time than last time, and that her hands were suffering a little in spite of the gloves.
Aches and pains aside Kiwi Daughter was proud of herself for persevering, and rightly so, we were proud of her too. She got through more than half of the pile the next day, but a sudden change in our holiday plans put the completion of her task on hold for several days. She did however get back to the task in hand as soon as we returned, and did an amazing job. Well Done sweetheart… this is a challenge you completed almost single handily this time and "Woodn't" you know it, this city kid can get stuck into a heavy manual job and do herself proud!


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Time: August 7, 2020 at 6pm to August 6, 2021 at 7pm
Location: Portugal Yurt Retreat
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These are small group retreats, are suitable for single travellers, friends or couples looking to deepen their yoga practice. The retreats will be inspired by the changing of the seasons, and the principle of change itself. Autumn is a time of great change, the weather cools, days shorten, wind and rain are common. It is a time for us to fortify ourselves to prepare for the winter months. The routine of yoga practice, deeply nourishing breath work and meditation, healthy warming foods and fresh outdoor walks are all a feature of these retreats. The retreats will explore the quietening and restorative qualities of yoga, as well as allowing guests plenty of time to connect with themselves.
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Medium Candlering - Rattan
10% from the sale of this product will be donated to The Aspinall Foundation.
Each wreath/centrepiece has a 30.5cm approximate diameter including its leaves and a 20cm diameter gap which can be filled with a vase, bowl or candles.
Note the medium candlering is featured left in the image.
Our wreath/centrepieces are available all year round, less expensive (without compromising on quality) than fresh ones and can be ordered well in advance, safely stored and kept indefinitely.
Our wreath/centrepieces also stand up well in sunshine and won't shrivel and fray. Whilst they don't like heavy downpours (but who does!) they are easy to wipe clean. Great for hay fever, wasp and flower allergies sufferers too!
They can be used to make up larger arrangements of flowers, fresh or artificial, as decoration on their own, for weddings and events, hotel rooms, at home, and restaurant tables. They are great for arts and crafts and for making home-made gifts and decorations.
We can cater for any amount required.


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Of course the weather did not disappoint, Saturday 80 degrees, Sunday 72, Monday, graduation day, 60 degrees and raining! And......graduation was outside!
the happy graduate
4 of the 5 daughters
After graduation, daughter number 5 and her roommates hosted a potluck. We had a great time, meeting the families of the girls that we have gotten to know over the last four years.
One of the moms made the cutest Oregon Duck cookies!!
Daughter number 4 and her best friend! The best friend's mom made the cookies!!
I have a lot of posts to catch up on....several swaps to share and, a special package from a special blog pal came yesterday in the mail! I can't wait to show you!!
Stay tuned...more to come!


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Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group (UIG) Press Release | February 6, 2003
In October 2001, Goldman Sachs invested in the development of the Dorothy Day Apartments, a low-income housing project located at the comer of 135th Street and Riverside Drive in Harlem, New York. On February 6, 2003, our investment came to fruition as Mayor Bloomberg cut the ribbon and handed keys to three of the building's 72 new tenants. "The measure of a just society is how well it meets the needs of its least fortunate members," said the Mayor. Mayor Bloomberg thanked Goldman Sachs for its role in helping to make the Dorothy Day apartments a reality.
Dorothy Day represents the first deliberate attempt nationwide to apply to families the proven model of supportive housing for adults. In addition to providing shelter, this project will offer 72 families the supportive services they need including counseling, health services, and vocational and employment training. The facility will also include an on-site day care center for the children living in the apartments.
Broadway Housing, a NYC-based nonprofit developer of affordable housing, worked tirelessly to identify both city and state funds to help subsidize the cost of the development and ultimately identified Goldman Sachs as the equity investor. Over the past two years, Broadway Housing completely gutted the interior of the building, replaced all the electrical, plumbing and air circulation systems, and then created 72 units of rental housing. They also refinished the façade of the building and restored it to its original turn-of-the century grandeur. The completed building includes a day-care facility and office spaces for the on-site supportive services.
As John Thain has remarked about the firm's involvement with the Dorothy Day Apartments, "Goldman Sachs is proud to have played a role in creating more affordable housing in New York City. We cannot do it all, and we cannot do it alone. But Dorothy Day was an opportunity to do our part in making this a better city, and to do well at the same time."
Broadway Housing acquired the vacant building through an anonymous gift in tribute to Dorothy Day, a community activist who devoted her life to providing housing for New York's neediest people. In 1933, Dorothy Day began opening shelters for the homeless on Manhattan's Lower East Side and opened scores more in the following decades. Dorothy Day believed not only that society had an obligation to house its neediest members, but that poor people were also entitled to live well and to enjoy inspiration from their surroundings. With sweeping views of the Hudson River and its spacious accommodations, the Dorothy Day Apartments are a fitting legacy.
Goldman Sachs was a limited partner in a partnership that controlled the site. As a limited partner, Goldman played an oversight and monitoring role, closely tracking the progress of construction and the integrity of the project's budget to ensure that our financial targets would be met. The Firm's investment was in the form of low-income housing tax credit equity. In exchange for providing capital for the construction of the project, Goldman Sachs will receive a stream of Federal, dollar-for-dollar tax credits greater than the value of our capital. This investment falls under the Federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, which since 1987 has been responsible for the creation of over 1 million units of affordable housing, and creates approximately 100,000 additional units of affordable housing each year.
Dorothy Day is a unique project among the eleven investments made by the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group (UIG). Our real estate projects also include market-rate and mixed-income housing developments in Harlem. UIG was formed in August 2000 to make equity investments in urban real estate projects and in minority-owned companies. Our corporate investments include a for-profit charter school company and a couture designer of bridal wear.


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"ALPHA" - Captain Lawrence (Lawrie) Arthur DFC.
Lawrie was born of Irish parents in County Durham, England, on 15th October 1919, and his first flights were with an "Aerial Circus" when he was seven and 13 years old. At the age of 14 he started work with a manufacturer of turbine engines and later took the entrance examination to join the Royal Air Force at Halton School of Technical Training as a "boy entrant" aged 151/2.
On completion of a three year technical course he was a fully qualified fitter, an air-gunner on the last biplane bomber of the RAF and gaining pilot experience under supervision at the flight controls of Whitley bombers. This varied experience continued on later aircraft and Lawrie was in charge of the wartime servicing of 12 aircraft at the age of 22 years.
He married Jane in 1941 and lived "off base" in a civilian house, but after only 24 hours of honeymoon leave received a War Office order to share his home with Polish, French and Czech-Slovakian airmen who were awaiting transfer to other units. In 1942 Lawrie started pilot training, flying Gypsy Moth trainer aircraft in Scotland brfore gaining his wings at Miami, Oklahoma, USA where he was commissioned as Pilot Officer and returned to England for advanced training. He flew 30 combat missions, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and designed the crest of his squadron – No. 576.
In 1945 Lawrie gained civil licenses and while still serving in the RAF was seconded to BOAC to fly "airliner" conversions of the Lancaster bomber on the England to Australian route thus gaining his first direct interest in international civil aviation. He attended the first post-war Anglo American Aeronautical Conference, where he met Juan Trippe of Pan American Airways and Edward Warner first President of ICAO. In 1947 Lawrie resigned from the RAF, took civil employment with BOAC, joined BALPA and became involved in the technical work of the newly-formed IFALPA.
As an airline pilot instructor Lawrie trained pilots of many countries and was responsible for airline preparations to use pilot operated HFRT in place of radio telegraphy. Active in both BALPA and IFALPA he was chief IFALPA delegate at more then ten major ICAO meetings over a period of 15 years. He held responsible positions in BALPA, was a Principal Officer of IFALPA, represented pilots at judicial and disciplinary hearings in several countries and when he retired from British Airways in 1973 joined ICAO as field expert in the Asia Region.
Lawrie was later prominent in Technical Assistance programmes in the MID and AFI Regions and was well known in civil aviation circles in more than forty countries. One of his last assignment in ICAO was to represent it at the 1984 IFALPA conference in Israel, thereby neatly completing a circular career in civil aviation during which he accumulated 21,910 hours and made many friends. Lawrie received awards from BALPA, IFALPA, ICAO and the Royal Meteorological Society and a warm tribute from ICAO on his retirement from that organization. A letter from the Chief of Personnel used the expression "outstanding" and comments on his twice extended service as "splendid pioneer work".
Lawrie's unusually full life reached its end in August 1992.
by Laurie Taylor