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The Frederick L. Wellman Award (Premio Frederick L. Wellman)
The Frederick L. Wellman Award recognizes a scientist who has an outstanding career as a plant pathologist. This is the highest distinction bestowed by the APS-CD to a distinguished plant pathologist that has worked during his/her career for the betterment of the science and profession in the context of the Caribbean Division. Nominees for the award will be evaluated on the basis of quality, originality and quantity of their published research and on the basis of service to the APS-CD and to science and profession of Plant Pathology in general. Requirements:
a. The nominee must have been a longstanding and current member of APS-CD.b. The nominee must have received his or her terminal degree at least twenty years prior to the year in which the award is given. There is no minimum age requirement.c. An individual may receive the Frederick Wellman Award only once in his/her career.d. Self-nomination is not allowed.e. A nominator must have been an active member of the APS-CD for at least ten years.
Documents for nomination:
a. A nominating letter, including a detailed account of the nominee's outstanding contributions to the science and profession of plant pathology.b. A current Curriculum Vita, including a list of nominee's publications.c. Three additional letters of support from the active APS-CD membership.
The nominator should prepare the complete nomination package and send it to APS-CD President.
The American Phytopathological Society - Caribbean Division (APS-CD) grants it's most prestigious award, the Frederick L. Wellman Award, to an active member of the Society for his or her contributions to the science of plant pathology in the Caribbean – Latin America area, his or her contributions to the parent society, in general, and in particular to the Caribbean Division of the APS.When describing the development of the "Frederick L. Wellman Award", a brief history of the American Phytopathological Society-Caribbean Division (APS-CD) needs to be considered, since the two are intimately related. Because when the origin of the APS-CD is explained, it becomes obvious the influence that the life, thoughts and contributions made by Dr. Frederick Lovejoy Wellman had on the Caribbean Division.The first mention of the necessity to create this Division appears in a letter dated July 14, 1959, from D.B Waite to Dr. D.H. Raddler, of the United Fruit Company. This communication gives details of the action on the part of a number of Central American plant pathologists toward the establishment of a section of The American Phytopathological Society for the Caribbean Region. A copy of that letter was sent to Dr. Frederick L. Wellman, who at the time was Chairman of the Committee on the International Cooperation of APS. The proposal to form a new division of APS was approved by APS Council at the 52nd Annual Meeting in Wisconsin in August 1960. Dr. Wellman, while working in Central America and the Caribbean Region, was very supportive of the idea of establishing and organizing the Caribbean Division of the APS. After approval by Council, the first meeting of the new division was held in Miami, Florida at a joint meeting with the American Horticultural Society. Dr. Wellman was elected as the first president of the Caribbean division. At the Miami meeting, Dr. Wellman made a historic and stimulating speech, "Adventures among Caribbean Plant Pathologists." Wellman said on that occasion: "If you have lived and worked in some of the remote corners of the Great Caribbean Region, you will realize, as most of us do, one of the things we feel keenly is the tremendous amount of work there is and the lack of contacts with fellow plant pathologists. Here and there, in our corners, may be two or three working beside one another on plant diseases, but usually not. What is it that is most needed in our science of plant pathology in the tropics? I believe it is communication between us, and by that I mean speaking voice communication, at intervals. In the case of our exciting race to keep plants healthy and keep people from starving, particular phase of the disease problem depend on teams of workers, although in some cases a single mind has to do it all. Whatever develops, we, who are the scientific workers, must know about it. The quick, the cheapest the most successful manner in which the largest number get the most value from research is through scientific meetings where contributions are heard and discussed. The meetings are of utmost importance to the participating plant pathologist.As early as the 1920's a few unplanned events in which several of us met together occurred in communication among tropical plant pathologists. In 1959-1960, the now established Caribbean Division of the American Phytopathological Society was first formed. I do not know what will become of it, but we hope it will continue as an active and unique arm of the APS. Members will be at work on problems of diverse and special nature from several tropical countries using three or four languages. Now this international group is not large but it has grown; some day it may number several hundreds or a thousand or two. It will be a highly interesting, stimulating core of the most active workers in plant pathology in the Caribbean and contiguous areas. This is our challenge. It is here where the future of our science is unfolding."Dr. Wellman was born in the village of Kamundongo, Angola (Portuguese West Africa) in 1887, where he spent part of his boyhood. His family moved to Wichita, Kansas where he completed his grammar and high school education. He received his BA degree at Fairmont College (now Wichita State University) and Ph.D degree in Plant Pathology in 1928 from the University of Wisconsin where he was proud to be Dr. J.C Walker's first graduate student.Although most of Dr. Wellman's work was on coffee diseases, he began his career as principal plant pathologist for the United Fruit Company at La Lima, Honduras, working on penetration and histology of Fusarium oxysporum var. cubense, the causal organism of Panama disease of bananas.Most of his distinguished professional life was spent in the American Tropics, but he also served for short terms as pathologist and plant explorer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in places such as the Middle East and northern Africa. Dr. Wellman initiated and gave technical support to coffee research programs at the Interamerican Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IICA) in Turrialba, Costa Rica. His presence at IICA had a strong, positive influence on teaching and research and strengthened the coffee program already in existence in Turrialba.The need for effective measures to keep coffee rust out of the Western Hemisphere was always of concern to Dr. Wellman. Therefore, in the early 1950's, he traveled to coffee-producing countries in Africa and Asia to learn more about the latest control measures for coffee rust, as well as to collect coffee material resistant to rust. Shortly after his trip in 1952, he visited the Centro de Investigacao das Ferrugens de Caffee in Oeiras, Portugal, and made arrangements with the Center to provide technical assistance to coffee-producing countries in the Western Hemisphere should if coffee rust ever be established. As we now know, these efforts were rewarded handsomely during and after the establishment of coffee rust: first in Brazil in 1970 and later in other coffee-producing countries in the Western Hemisphere. Perhaps one of Dr. Wellman's greatest contributions was the 1961 publication, Coffee: Botany, Civilization and Utilization. This outstanding book has been standard text on coffee production for many years.Dr. Wellman was also a notable teacher. Many students who trained under him at IICA went on to pursue careers in Latin American counties, as well as other parts of the world.In 1957, Dr. Wellman became head of the Department of Plant Pathology and Botany at the Agricultural Experimental Station of the University of Puerto Rico, in Rio Piedras. When he retired from this position in 1963 he was appointed Visiting Professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. In 1971 he was appointed Professor Emeritus at NC State, where he continued to be an active writer. Dr. Wellman was the founder and first president of the Caribbean Division of the American Phytopathological Society. He also served as Councilor and chairman of the APS Committee on International Cooperation. He received the Award of Merit from the Caribbean Division for distinguished service to tropical plant pathology and in 1974 was designated a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society.We can say without any doubt that Dr. Wellman's second career, following his retirement, has been an inspiration to his colleagues. During this time, he wrote and published three books: Plant Diseases, An Introduction for the Layman in 1971; Tropical American Plant Diseases in 1972; and Dictionary of Tropical American Crops and Their Diseases, published in 1977.Dr. Wellman died Thursday, 21 April 1994 at the age of 97 at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, NC, following a short illness. He was preceded in death by his wife of 72 years, Dora U'Ren Wellman, who passed away 24 December 1992. The Frederick L. Wellman Award was established in his honor at the business meeting at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Division in October 1995 held in Grosier, in the Island of Guadaloupe. The first recipient of this award was Dr. Roberto García Peña at the Annual Division Meeting held iin Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico in 1996.


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BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The days of the caliphate, the proto-state proclaimed by the Islamic State across Syria and Iraq in mid-2014, are numbered. A perplexing cluster of U.S., Russian, Iranian, Turkish and Syrian military forces along with Kurds, jihadists and Tehran-backed Lebanese, Iraqi, Pakistani and Afghani Shia militias have been driving IS from its last major urban bastions in Mosul and Raqqa.
Despite these hard-won battlefield victories in Iraq and Syria, the claims of Western politicians and commentators that IS is being crushed are dangerously premature.
If the resilience of earlier versions of jihadist movements is anything to go by, IS and its ruthless ideology will survive and emerge in another form, just as others did in Iraq in 2007-09 in the face of U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus and his "surge" strategy by exploiting the sectarian carnage spawned by the war in Syria, which erupted in 2011.
Three years later, IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed the first modern Islamic caliphate.
Remember, too, that Baghdadi, who has reportedly been killed, and his leadership cadre, which includes some of Saddam Hussein's longtime intelligence officers considered to be IS's military brains, spent years underground and have shown themselves to be patient and meticulous strategic planners.
IS is returning to its insurgency and terror roots, with Western Europe and the United States facing intensified attacks. This strategy took shape months ago and is likely to swell as foreign fighters return to their homelands determined to wreak revenge for IS's defeat.
The group's focus for its terror war against the West includes injecting poison into food in supermarkets and grocery stores, according to SITE intelligence, a US-based monitoring group.
In July, Australian authorities reported thwarting a plot to destroy an airliner flying to the United Arab Emirates using poison gas - a new threat to aviation security.
European security officials say IS is building up its forces in chaos-torn Libya to infiltrate operatives with the flood of Middle Eastern war refugees pouring into southern Europe from North Africa.
"The Islamic State will continue to function as a guerrilla army, despite suffering significant losses," warned security analyst Thomas Joscelyn of the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
"There is no question that the Islamic State's finances, senior personnel and other assets have been hit hard but it's premature to say its losses amount to a deathblow," he said in testimony before the U.S. Congress on July 13.
Jennifer Cafarella of the Washington-based Institute for Study of War said IS plans to fight on for years. "This is a highly sophisticated military organization that's waging a generational war," she said.
Analysts say the failure of the United States and its allies to respond to the IS threat beyond the military strategy of pounding it day and night while ignoring the need for long-term plans to ensure stability in war-torn countries such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen and the complex conflicts across the region, will doom the Middle East to years - possibly decades - of savage bloodletting.
"The question that needs to be answered now is who is learning quickest from past mistakes," said Jean-Marie Guéhenno, president of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. So far, the terrorists seem to have the edge.
"The Islamic State brilliantly exploited the U.S. occupation [of Iraq] and the aftermath, gaining support from Sunnis alienated by [Shia] domination," Guéhenno wrote in an Aug. 9 analysis.
"The Western-led coalition, for its part, wages this war on terror as if it were a traditional war in which military dominance opens the path to political victory...
"Such a blind war on terror, with no longer-term vision, lays the ground for endless war. In the Middle East, crushing terrorists without a plan for the day after will generate the same vacuum and chaos that produced them in the first place.
"And in Western countries, the elevation of terrorism into a strategic struggle continuously refills the pool of foreign fighters for whom terrorist acts are the ultimate selfie," Guéhenno cautioned.
Despite IS's serious reverses and the constant loss of territory and manpower, especially its leadership, over the last 18 months, its core group carried out more than 1,400 attacks in 2016 and killed more than 7,000 people, a 20 percent increase over the previous year, an August report by the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database stated.
That's not counting more than 950 attacks in 2016 attributed to affiliated organizations that killed another 3,000 people, the report noted.
During 2016, four major jihadist groups in Yemen, Libya, Bangladesh, Afghanistan-Pakistan and the Philippines pledged allegiance to IS, underscoring the extent that the core group has expanded its global influence.
The IS wars are increasingly moving into cyberspace, in large part to counter its use of encrypted apps such as Telegram to run its network of operatives across Europe and elsewhere and its virulent recruitment effort using slick propaganda videos.
Policy Exchange, a British think tank that monitors jihadist content online, said in a Sept. 19 report that al-Qaida also continues to broadcast propaganda, which is most likely linked to the group's resurgence in recent months, particularly in Syria.
One conclusion of the report, "The New Netwar," is that from Feb. 19 through May 3, jihadist content was viewed more in the United States than every other country except Turkey, which had 16,810 clicks. The United States had 10,388 followed by Saudi Arabia with 10,239, Iraq with 8,138 and Britain with 6,107.
"There is a danger that the blood and treasure we are investing in defeating ISIS in Iraq and Syria will produce little more than a pyrrhic victory unless we are able to defeat the visual threat," the 130-page report stressed.
Petraeus, the former U.S. military commander in Iraq and CIA director, said in a foreword that the report shows that IS is "exploiting the vast, largely ungoverned spaces of cyberspace, demonstrating increasing technical expertise, sophistication in media production and an agility in the face of various efforts to limit its access.
"It is clear that our counter-extremism efforts and other initiatives to combat extremism online have, until now, been inadequate. There is no doubting the urgency of this matter," he said.
The concerns about the inadequacy of Western efforts to counter IS's expected terror campaign are widening as IS transitions into a global threat. Its first attack against Iran that killed 18 people in early June was seen as an opening salvo in the emerging post-caliphate phase.
"Formulating an effective containment policy against ISIS will be a herculean enterprise given the complexities of the disintegrating, sectarian-riven Middle East," warned Marc Ginsberg, a former U.S. ambassador to Morocco and senior adviser to U.S. and European counter-extremism initiatives, in the Huffington Post.
"A sustained military engagement fronted by Sunni Arab ground forces will have to be matched by comparable diplomatic strategy - all buttressed by a global fortified, well-financed reconstruction plan to prevent the ISIS cancer from regaining lost wilayats [provinces] - and that task must begin immediately in Iraq," he said.
However, there is little evidence that the Americans, leaders of the 72-state anti-IS coalition, were contemplating the day-after syndrome.
With the battle for Raqqa, which began June 6, in its final stages, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, a former U.S. Marine Corps general, said the United States has abandoned its strategy of attrition and is employing "annihilation tactics."
"Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa," he said. "We're not going to allow them to do so. We're going to stop them there and take apart the caliphate."
This article originally appeared at The Arab Weekly.

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- Cephalopode Ceph"a*lo*pode (s[e^]f"[.a]*l[-o]*p[=o]d), n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Cephalopoda. [1913 Webster] ||
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cephalopod — 1826, from Fr. cephalopode, from Mod.L. cephalopoda, from Gk. kephale head + pod , stem of pous foot (see FOOT (Cf. foot)) … Etymology dictionary
cephalopod — ► NOUN Zoology ▪ a mollusc of a class including octopuses and squids. ORIGIN from Greek kephal head + pous foot … English terms dictionary
cephalopod — [sef′ə lō päd΄] n. [ CEPHALO + POD] any of a class (Cephalopoda) of marine mollusks having a distinct head with highly developed eyes, varying numbers of arms, with suckers, attached to the head about the mouth, and a saclike fin bearing mantle,… … English World dictionary
Cephalopod — Cephalopods Temporal range: Devonian – Recent[1] (Stem groups from Cambrian)[2] … Wikipedia
cephalopod — /sef euh leuh pod /, n. 1. any mollusk of the class Cephalopoda, having tentacles attached to the head, including the cuttlefish, squid, and octopus. adj. 2. Also, cephalopodic, cephalopodous /sef euh lop euh deuhs/. belonging or pertaining to… … Universalium
cephalopod — noun Etymology: ultimately from cephal + Greek pod , pous foot more at foot Date: 1826 any of a class (Cephalopoda) of marine mollusks including the squids, cuttlefishes, and octopuses that move by expelling water from a tubular siphon under the… … New Collegiate Dictionary
cephalopod — Any of various marine mollusks of the class Cephalopoda, such as the octopus, squid, cuttlefish, or nautilus, having a large head, large eyes, prehensile tentacles, and, in most species, an ink sac containing a dark fluid used for protection or… … Fisheries — dictionary
cephalopod — noun Any mollusc, of the class Cephalopoda, which includes squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nautiloids etc … Wiktionary
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Category:Oblivion-Potion Merchants
The UESPWiki – Your source for The Elder Scrolls since 1995
This category contains a list of Oblivion NPCs who sell potions. A detailed listing of Oblivion merchants can be found here.
Pages in category "Oblivion-Potion Merchants"
The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.


text: Itai Axelrad January 19, 2015 Horse Flats Cody, Eden, Jovanna and I escaped the Los Angeles concrete jungle in hopes of spending our Saturday in a place with a scenic view. We decided to check out Horse Flats and were not disappointed by the granite boulders of the Angeles National Forest. We tried to get on all of the classics the area had to offer but the heat slowed us down and left us with plenty of climbs to return for. Here are some pictures from the ones we got on Cody, getting high off the deck on the beautiful Thin Face (V2) Eden, holding the swing for an impressive flash of Blank Generation (V10) Itai, taking a lap on The Fridge (V2) and enjoying the view Itai working his way up The Fang (V5) I can't wait to get back out there with cooler temps and more skin (and with more pads for Sword of Damocles). - Itai


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Podcasting is blowing up all around. Especially business podcasting! Don't believe me see the chart below.
The question is…
Should you avail this powerful new(ish) technology to grow your business?
The answer is yes.
Business podcasting is right now, what blogging was 10 years ago.
Remember, back then, some folks were blogging and it was really effective for marketing their business — then it became "standard" that businesses should blog regularly.
But hold your horses! Before you rush into the world of podcasting, there are some things you can do to virtually guarantee your success.
And when I use the 'S' word, I don't mean getting rich off your business podcast (which is super-rare). I mean using a podcast to grow your existing business.
Below you'll find seven portions of podcasting wisdom from a podcasting "elder" on the important components of your successful podcast.
Decide on Your Desired Results; Be Clear on Which Outcomes Will Move Your Business Forward
Besides attracting millions of listeners and then making lots of money selling commercials (which rarely happens), there are many other realistic outcomes that your business podcast can achieve, including:
- Build up a valuable library of content which can be shared and re-purposed into other mediums such as eBooks, white papers, blog posts, articles, or social media posts
- Developing more and deeper relationships with your prospects, alliance partners, clients, etc.
- Be a recognized and respected expert in your industry
- Reach new audiences
For a full list of 30 benefits of podcasting visit here.
Poor Sound Quality Can Kill a Podcast
These days if your sound quality is poor, listeners won't stick around.
I had lunch with a friend at the Podcast Movement last year and she told me about her experience with a podcast she started listening to. She liked the host and the discussions, but the sound quality was terrible.
Eventually she couldn't bear to listen anymore.
Invest in a good sounding microphone and recording setup. It's not expensive these days. Don't be cheap or you will sound cheap.
In general, there are two paths you can take with regards to the technical production of your podcast.
- Do everything yourself, which you can learn how to do by watching these videos
- Hire someone to do all the technical production for you — like me 😉
Of course there are many grey areas in between, too.
Episode Preparation
Respect your listeners' time investment by ensuring that you deliver content they want and that will help them in some way. The last thing you want is for a listener to finish listening to one of your episodes and think, "Well that was a waste of time."
Present an organized, well-run and good-paced show. Prepare topics that your audience really wants to hear about.
What questions do they need answers to?
What helpful stories and examples can you share on these subjects?
Usually it's better to go deeper into a specific topic rather than speak generally about various topics.
If you will be interviewing a guest, it's a good idea to give them a heads up regarding what you'll be discussing on the show and specific material you want them to prepare.
Also, many of your listeners will want to do something after you get them all excited about your topic. Prepare an enticing call-to-action which will engage your listeners.
A common and effective strategy is to give away something of value for free in order to grow your email list — your options are only limited by your creativity.
Actual Recording
Bring the energy! You need not scream or get crazy, but if you're too calm and inexpressive your audience will get bored, turn you off and fall asleep.
Don't over-promote yourself because that usually turns listeners off. Stay classy. However it's OK to mention your products and services in a discreet way (which tends to be more effective anyway).
Mike Michalowicz, of The Profit First Podcast, does a great job of promoting his services in a natural way after he has blown his listeners away with an awesome episode.
Posting Your Episodes
Publish new episodes on a regular basis. Over time listeners get in their own personal habit and routine of listening.
They will begin to expect new episodes on the same day and time. Some folks will even go to your show page and keep refreshing the page in order to hear the episode as soon as it's published. Yeah that's a bit crazy, but you'd love to have an army of those folks as your listeners, right?
On your website, you can dedicate a specific blog category to your show. You can even purchase your show's URL, like MyPodcastShow.com, and promote that URL on the show itself, and then redirect that URL to your specific blog category on your main website. That way you don't have to say on the air, "Go to www. XYZ .com, slash this, slash that, slash the other."
Post good show notes, which are the written details of each episode. Some folks like to read a bit about the topics discussed and guests bios. It's also the best place to include links to any resources you mentioned on the air.
Since this text exists on your website, your show notes will help drive search traffic to your site, too. Other elements of show notes can include images, questions asked, episode outline, sponsor details, etc.
Make sure your episodes are also available in the popular podcast directories: iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, Google Play, etc.
Marketing Your Episodes
Drive traffic back to your website by sharing the great content you create on your podcast. You can share your episodes via all of your existing marketing and promotional channels.
You should also ask your guests to promote their appearance on your show. You can make this process VERY easy for them by providing them with the exact text and images needed to post on the popular platforms.
See how I promote our various shows on my Twitter account: @fractalsound
Re-purposing Your Content
One of the greatest benefits of podcasting is that it generates a ton of content! It would be a shame not to make that content available in other mediums as well. After all, why not provide your content to your audience in all of the places where they want to receive it?
Transcribe your audio into text for use in articles, eBooks, white papers, blog posts, bonus audio, or social media posts.
Pam and Scott Harper of Growth Igniters Radio transcribe every one of their episodes and make it available for download – and in the process get folks on their email list, too!
Podcasting has a TON of upside, but the first step is to avoid all the rookie mistakes.
If you follow the advice above, you'll avoid most of them. Then you'll be clear minded enough to focus on the content — the relevant information you'll be sharing.
Then comes your delivery…energizing is the keyword here. Finally, when you begin to intertwine your show into all your existing marketing channels, you'll pick up speed quickly.
Please share this post with friends you think should already be podcasting. Thanks.


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Here at White Closet Bridal, we not only provide a personalized experience for our brides, but also build a genuine connection of true interest and honesty with our girls. We supply a warm and inviting shoppe where we want every bride that visits to feel like she is given an array of styles, silhouettes, and price points to choose from to make for a successful dress shopping experience.
In a world where we can get anything and everything in a click and a couple days, there's something extra special about what happens here at WCB. There's a very special reason that bridal stores are still so important to brides…Memories are made when you are filled with emotion knowing you found THE dress, surrounded by your close family and friends, in a beautiful shop full of women dedicated to support you. It's just one of those things that you want to really see, feel, and experience before you make a decision! We are here to protect this once in a lifetime moment and make sure that you have everything you need to fall in love with your wedding dress, every step of the way.
What to Expect:
Personal appointment with a Bridal Stylist of up to an hour and a half.
Relaxed and welcoming setting.
Wide collection of beautiful and well constructed gowns.
Price ranges of $1500-3300.
Suggestions on What to Bring:
An open mind
Nude undergarments
Hair tie/clips
Someone whose opinion you highly value. If not, there's always FaceTime!
How Far in Advance do I Need to Order My Dress?
We suggest you order your dress 6-9 months prior to your wedding to ensure you have enough time for shipping and alterations. If you need a dress sooner, please contact us and we'll do our best to help you!
What Should I Think About Before My Appointment?
We want you to love your dress. So, bring in pictures of styles that you like. And come in with an open mind, because you may be surprised with what you fall in love with.
The last thing you want is any stress about your budget while shopping, so it's much more fun if you know your price point ahead of time. And definitely fill us in, too, so we can help make the search easy!
During the appointment, if you love a wedding dress, but just wish one thing was different, ask your bridal stylist. Most anything can be done to customize a wedding dress.
Who Should I Bring?
We highly recommend inviting your loved ones to share in this experience with you! Please bring only those whose opinions you highly value. Each of our fitting rooms seats between 3-4 guests comfortably.
How Do I Pay for My Dress?
We accept cash, check, and credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, and Discover). For special order gowns, we accept full payment. If you prefer a payment plan, we require 60% deposit to place the order, with the remaining amount due within 30 days.


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ColourPop Ultra Blotted Lip in Bit-O Sunny and Doozy, Review and Swatches
Feb 06, 2018 - Zubaida -
Liquid lipsticks have many finishes but matte ones are most popular and at the same time they are not easy to flaunt. Most of them are drying and not every one love the look of their lip lines. I found that ColourPop matte lipsticks are most drying and have different formula for different shades. Their thick layer put me off mostly and i try to blend it with lip brush or fingers. ColourPop had introduced their new formula called blotted, provides sheer coverage which i love. During their holiday sales i picked two shade which i am going to share my thoughts about.
Ultra Blotted Lip A medium coverage matte lipstick that creates a soft, diffused look. It is completely transfer-proof and long-wearing but also lightweight and comfortable. No cracking or flaking! Leaves lips smooth and fresh.
Doozy is defined as warm rose and it is a lovely medium nude shade which will suit to all skin tones in my opinion. It's texture is thick creamy which applies smoothly. It provide matte finish but doesn't dry out instantly and give you enough time to even out the look. Bit-O Sunny is described as bright cherry red and gives little berry hues on my lips. It's texture is also creamy but is on thinner side. It doesn't apply as smoothly as doozy and to get even finish, you have to struggle bit.
As it has sheer formula, layering it, is not ideal. On doozy you can swipe one more layer however on Bit-O sunny, second layer will become patchy. The lasting power is more then 4 hours and Bit-O sunny leaves an light tint behind. The good thing about them is that they are very light weight and doesn't feel as dry as other matte lipsticks. They are not completely transfer proof but that is very slight. You can top it with lip balm or wear beneath it.
Overall i really liked these both shades and their formula. They are comfortable to wear and doesn't dry out lips like ultra mattes. I loved their sheer coverage and they are perfect for every day look. The only issue is slight uneven finish, they provide which you need a little time to adjust.
In Favor
- Nice creamy texture
- Sheer coverage
- Light weight
- Doesn't dry out lips
- Longlasting
- Provide little uneven finish
- Both shades have different texture
My Rating
4/5ColourPop Ultra Blotted Lip is priced $6 each
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San Francisco Slang
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For a town that grew up on the frontier during the Gold Rush, San Francisco has developed a highly sophisticated palate. In fact, it sometimes feels as if no two people in the city have the same food preferences. There are all different types of diets throughout the city...hence the term "locavore." This slang term describes a person who only eats locally produced food, such as free-range meat raised in California, or produce raised within driving distance of our city.
There is such an incredible variety of cuisines and restaurants in San Francisco that our ways of distinguishing them might not make sense to outsiders. For instance, a popular cuisine in San Francisco is known in local language as "Asian Fusion," a type of cooking that combines traditional recipes and spices from Asia with the flavors and freshness of California cuisine. One popular Asian Fusion restaurant, Betelnut Pejiu Wu, offers "Emerald fire noodles with mint, Thai basil, and chilies." Don't stick your hand in the emerald fire!
Betelnut Pejiu Wu Restaurant
2030 Union Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
Sun-Thurs 11:30AM-11:00PM
Fri, Sat 11:30AM-12:00AM
Menu Language
Sometimes, the San Franciscan menus are riddled with over the top language, oozing with French, Italian and Spanish phrases. The menu at Acquerello Italian restaurant in Nob Hill boasts of serving, "Delicate Parmesan budino with mushrooms 'trifolati' and shaved Parmigiano 'Vacche Rosse'." Doesn't Vacche Rosse mean "pink cow"? Where are they getting their food? You can follow that course with, "Pan-fried filet of blue nose bass with seaweed pesto, dehydrated cherry tomatoes and abalone." Dehydrated tomatoes? Is this gourmet food for astronauts?
Another eatery called Boulevard features a dish with "Sonoma Foie Gras, Dapple Dandy Pluot, Pistachio & Plum Biscotti, Plum Coulis" for only $27.
But seriously, folks, there is no place for eating like San Francisco. So don't be too intimidated by the abundance of flowery San Francisco lingo--the sensational flavors speak for themselves. If you only eat at Fisherman's Wharf or in Chinatown, it's like going to Disneyland and not seeing Mickey Mouse. You can find listings and reviews of San Francisco restaurants on the website of the San Francisco Chronicle, where you can search for eateries by location, type of food, price range, etc. They even have a list of the 100 best restaurants, most of which are pretty affordable.
Acquerello Restaurant
1722 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Tues-Sat 5:30PM-9:30PM
Boulevard Restaurant
1 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Lunch, Mon-Fri 11:30AM-2:00PM
Dinner, Sun-Thurs 5:30PM-10:00PM
Fri, Sat 5:30PM-10:30PM
Coffee is a local obsession in San Francisco. Some cafes specialize in what San Francisco locals call "single drip," local language that means for each cup of coffee, the beans are ground and brewed individually. Blue Bottle, Phil'z and Sightglass are some of the best places to go for a single drip fix.
Blue Bottle Coffee
66 Mint Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Mon-Fri 7:00AM-7:00PM
Sat 8:00AM-6:00PM
Sun 8:00AM-4:00PM
Phil'z Coffee
3101 24th Street at Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Mon-Fri 6:00AM-8:30PM
Sat, Sun 7:00AM-8:30PM
Sightglass Coffee
270 7th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
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San Francisco Navigation
There is one thing that every visitor should know before bracing the city of San Francisco: there are no streets, avenues or boulevards in the city. Oddly enough, San Franciscans never use the words "Avenue," "Street" or "Boulevard" when they are talking about the name of a thoroughfare. They simply do not exist in San Francisco lingo.
One of the main roads in the city is Geary Boulevard, but you could spend your whole life plowing through the San Francisco fog without ever hearing the "Boulevard" part spoken out loud. You'll often here phrases like, "Just take Geary to the beach," but never, ever, with the "B" word tacked on. The same can be said for the streets and avenues throughout the city of San Francisco. Lingo includes names like Mission, Bryant, and Clementine, but the "Street" never follows it. In fact, the local signs don't even have the words "Street" or "Avenue" on them.
The only time you might hear another word after the name of a byway in San Francisco local lingo is when there's a teeny-tiny street that seems like it needs a bit of extra punch for distinction. Here's an example: much of the movie Tales of the City was shot in a charming little alley with wooden walkways located on Russian Hill called Macondray Lane. When referring to this quaint little back street, San Franciscans actually do use the word "Lane" after Macondray.
Speaking of streets, there are some that aren't pronounced the way that you might expect. For instance, there's a lovely street situated in a neighborhood of old Victorian houses called "Noe," but you must pronounce the "e" at the end: NO-ee. There are a few unusual tidbits to know about this street. It was named for Jose Noe, a rancher and the last Mexican mayor of San Francisco. Noe owned the land where the street runs, as well as the surrounding area. In Spanish, his name sounds like Jose No Way. Another fun fact: the locals paint an extra "L" on the Noe street signs at Christmastime so that they read "NOEL."
Another street that often gets mispronounced is Sansome. San Franciscans say it with two syllables: San-Sum. It's actually pronounced incorrectly on the San Francisco bus recordings to warn riders when their stop is coming up. Interestingly enough, the voice on the recording belongs to a woman named Donna Reed (like the actress who plays the mom in the film It's a Wonderful Life). This Donna Reed lives in Houston, Texas, God bless her, and she is not so fluent in San Francisco slang.
One street name in San Francisco that tourists tend to say incorrectly is Gough. The real San Franciscans say it "Goff," to rhyme with "doff" and "scoff." And here's a quick tip - Gough is a good street to take when heading downtown from the area near the Golden Gate Bridge because it is one-way with timed lights.
Vallejo, which is pronounced Vah-LAY-ho, is an intriguing and exotic street name. It's Spanish and named for a general and statesman, Mariano Vallejo, who served during the transition from Mexican rule. If you were to say it the Spanish way, it would sound more like Bah-YAY-ho. But if you said it in English, it would be Val-LEJ-jo. Instead, we wound up with something in between. Not surprising, since California's heritage is a mix of both Spanish and English cultures.
What's unique about San Francisco is the collection of little neighborhoods, each one with its own character, architecture, and climate (believe it or not, it can be hot and sunny in one neighborhood and cold and foggy a block away). In San Francisco lingo, there are three types of names for the parts of the city.
The "The" type is usually named for a major landmark, street or characteristic in the area, such as The Castro, The Mission or The Sunset.
Other neighborhoods are named based on whether they are at the top of a hill, "Heights," or at the bottom of one, "Valley" (pretty much every area of San Francisco falls into one of the two categories). Take the following areas: Cow Hollow (which I promise you is more upscale than it sounds), Pacific Heights (even fancier), Sea Cliff (the fanciest), Noe Valley, Potrero Hill...you get the idea.
While it is always entertaining to check out the tourist sites like Fisherman's Wharf and Alcatraz, you should not leave San Francisco without visiting the distinctive neighborhoods with breathtaking Victorian houses. Once you see the charming areas like Ashbury Heights, Pacific Heights and Noe Valley, you'll understand why the locals love this city.
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Another quick tip: don't call it "Frisco." No one here does, so get with the San Francisco local language and say the full name - a tribute to St. Francis of Assisi. That's right; "San Francisco" is the Spanish name for an Italian saint...another great example of the city's multicultural traditions.
Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of eighteen plays or books, including The Number Before Infinity and the poetry anthology The Face of Poetry. Read his blog on Red Room.


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Okay, let me tell you what I'm talking about. One of my resolutions for 2011 is to spend less. I have a tendency to spend money without really thinking, and that's a terrible, terrible, terrible habit. This year, I want to simplify life. We have so much"stuff" that we just don't use or need. We started off by purging the kids toys. Donating anything that was in good condition and that they no longer used. We were absolutely flabbergasted by the amount of toys that we've bought them and that they no longer use, it was just crazy. My problem,
So, this is where the pretty jar comes in. I've put myself on a weekly spending budget. I get a certain amount of money to spend on whatever I want and that's it. I've budgeted other things as well. I can do a number at the grocery store, picking things up that we can totally live without. Do you know how hard it is for me to stick to buying only those items on my list? It's almost impossible, as if a magnetic force is pulling me back into the store to buy more! No, no longer!
To make it even tougher, I am on a cash spending budget (a la Til Debt Do Us Part). So I took a jar that we had in the house, added some washi tape to it (had to add a little personal touch) and that's that. It's where I'll keep my spending money.
Here it is....
Notice anything? Yup, it's empty! I'm learning....quickly, it's somewhat painful, but I know I'll get used to it and in the end, it will be second nature (I hope!).
I know that this is going to take time, as with most things, but I'm definitely committed.
I'll keep you posted on how the budget is going throughout the year. Hopefully, the next time I share a picture of it, there will be at least be some money in it......


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Opposition to Saudi Arabia's male guardianship system has been highlighted by an 18-year-old Saudi woman's flight from her allegedly abusive family.
An 18-year-old Saudi woman's flight from her allegedly abusive family has rallied opposition to the kingdom's male guardianship system - with some activists predicting her story could inspire a "revolution" for women in the Muslim country.
Rahaf al-Qunun has now been granted asylum in Canada after fleeing her homeland, alleging she faced persecution and harm from her own family after renouncing Islam.
Some freedoms have been granted under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who ended a ban on women driving, eased restrictions on gender mixing, and championed firsts such as allowing women to serve in the armed forces.
But those changes have been accompanied by a crackdown on dissent, including the arrest and alleged torture of some of the activists who campaigned for decades to improve women's rights - as well as Muslim preachers who opposed them.
Many activists are calling for an end to the guardianship system, which has been chipped away at slowly over the years but remains in force.
Under the system, every Saudi women is assigned a male relative - often a father or husband but sometimes an uncle, brother or even a son - whose approval is needed if she is to marry, obtain a passport and travel abroad.
The plight of Ms Qunun, who slipped away from her family last weekend during a holiday in Kuwait, recalls the cases of other Saudi women who fled mistreatment only to be forcibly returned to the kingdom and never heard from again.
Amid global outrage at Saudi Arabia over last year's murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Ms Qanun's tweets from Bangkok airport sparked an online campaign. She barricaded herself inside a hotel room for hours until the Thai government reversed its decision to send her home.
In some countries, her adult age would have prevented the authorities from telling her family anything about her.
In Saudi Arabia, her gender meant she was her father's ward.
"Remove guardianship and we won't all migrate" trended this week on Twitter in Saudi Arabia and across the globe, women have called for an end to the practice, using the #EndMaleGuardianship to share their stories.
Mai, who identified as a 36-year-old physician, said she was embarrassed to have two children and a degree from Harvard University but still be viewed as a minor.
"I am trusted to make life and death decisions for patients, trusted to raise kids ... but not trusted to make my own decisions regarding MY life. The irony! #EndMaleGuardianship," she tweeted.
Egyptian feminist activist and journalist Mona Eltahawy posted a video on Twitter declaring the incident would trigger change.
"Rahaf Mohammed al-Qanun – mark my words – is going to start a revolution in Saudi Arabia," she said in the video.
"Go on social media now and watch accounts of so many young Saudis saying 'Rahaf, you've shown us that we can do this. Rahaf, you have shown us, that we deserve to be free'."
She said there were more than a dozen Saudi women in jail, imprisoned for challenging the guardianship laws.
"The 15-17 Saudi feminists in prison, being tortured, are the ones who will bring equal rights – it's not a crown prince who has fooled the world," she said in an interview with DW News.
"And sadly, the world has bought his lies that he's an emancipator of women."
Social media user Jawhrah said the message resonated with her. "Just hearing this breaks my heart," she wrote in a message posted on Twitter.
At the same time supporters of Ms Qunun take to Twitter to wish her well in her new life in Canada, trolls and supporters of the Saudi government have been using the #revealrahaf hashtag to discredit her as sexually promiscuous.
However, #revealrahaf has become a virtual battlefield as supporters of the Saudi teen attempt to use the hashtag to drown out trolls.
The teen has also become the victim of numerous death threats via social media, prompting her to suspend her Twitter account.
The status of the guardianship system in law and custom makes it a thorny issue for Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who indicated last year he favoured ending the system but stopped short of endorsing its annulment.
"If I say yes to this question, that means I'm creating problems for the families that don't want to give freedom for their daughters," he told US magazine The Atlantic.
Without a codified system of law to go with the texts making up sharia, or Islamic law, the Saudi police and judiciary have long cited social customs in enforcing certain prohibitions on women. Many aspects of guardianship stem from informal practice rather than specific laws.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most gender-segregated nations, is ranked 138 of 144 states in the 2017 Global Gender Gap, a World Economic Forum study on how women fare in economic and political participation, health and education.
Activists launched the "I Am My Own Guardian" campaign in 2016 demanding legal representation.
King Salman issued an order the following year allowing women to benefit from services such as education and healthcare without the consent of a male guardian, though rights groups say this is being implemented only on a limited basis.
Other challenges remain. There is no formal bar on women buying or renting property but it can be difficult for them to do so without a male relative, according to rights groups.
Authorities have removed restrictions on women in the labour code and ended formal requirements for them to obtain a guardian's permission to work, but some employers still demand this and are not penalised for doing so.
Mohammed al-Issa, a former justice minister who sits on the kingdom's top clerical body, told Reuters last year there was no reason why women should be barred from obtaining a passport or travelling without the consent of a male guardian, but it may take time for society to accept that.
Some Saudi women do not want to wait.
"We have the right (to) be treated as adults since we're above 18 years," a woman named Fatin wrote online. "This guardianship is no more than modern enslavement system!"
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Bradley Cooper looked scruffy and smiley at the Vancouver airport on Saturday. He was recently off traveling on a USO tour, and a stop in DC caused some buzz due to an alleged meet-up with Jennifer Aniston, even though his rep denied it happened. Another of Bradley's rumored flings, Denise Richards, went out of her way to shoot down the stories, calling them "total BS" on her Twitter.
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What went wrong with hospital medicine? One expert says six things, actually. (KevinMD)
A federal appeals court upheld a Missouri law requiring abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges and abortion clinics to be certified as ambulatory surgical centers. (Reuters)
In other legal news, a U.S. appeals court held there was no "interference" between the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT's CRISPR patents and CRISPR patents applied for by the University of California. (STAT)
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A consortium of 40 New York school districts, most on Long Island, has filed suit to have the tate's education-finance system overturned as unfair.
The suit, filed in state supreme court this month on behalf of Reform Educational Financing Inequities Today, or refit, claims New York's complex formula for distributing state aid is grossly inadequate and has resulted in unequal educational opportunities for a significant number of children across the state.
The suit calls for the refinement of a hold-harmless provision in the financing formula which, it says, currently ensures that wealthy school districts will not have their state aid cut from one year to the next despite dwindling enrollments. Robert E. Molloy, executive director of refit, said his organization does not wish to abolish the hold-harmless provision, only to see it made more equitable. A state court of appeals ruled in a similar suit filed by Long Island districts in 1982 that the state's financing system may have been inequitable, but was not illegal.
The suit by refit contends that disparities have worsened since the 1982 decision, with the poorest districts falling from $400 below the regional average then to $1,500 below the regional average this year.
The Wyoming House has passed its annual school-funding bill, which includes an infusion of money into the state funding formu4la, an increase in funding for each classroom unit, and incentive money for class-size reduction.
By a 59-to-5 vote late last month, the House voted to begin doling out money from a $45-million fund that had been standing idle since the demise several years ago of a separate classroom unit for vocational instruction. The money would be fed into the funding formula over the next five years.
The bill tries to compensate for the loss of vocational money to some districts by increasing by $4,000 the payment for each existing classroom unit--a statewide increase of about $18.5 million, according to Representative James C. Hageman, chairman of the House Education Committee. The school-finance measure also offers $2.2 million for incentive pay ments to districts that reduce class sizes.
Colorado school districts that reduce their number of teachers would be required to make pro portionate reductions in administrative staffs, under legislation L approved by the House.
The bill, passed on a 36-to-26 vote, states that reductions in administra tive positions would be made over a three-year "rolling average" period.
A similar bill passed the House last year, but died in the Senate.
Phil Fox, director of government relations for the Colorado Association of School Boards, said the measure is largely directed at the Denver school system, which has reduced its teaching force in recent years, due to declining enrollment, while continuing to increase its administrative staff.
Mr. Fox said his association opposes the bill because staffing decisions are best left up to local school boards.
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Join me in welcoming guest writer, Allison Aylward to the blog! A PhD candidate and new mom, Allison explores the birth pangs of early motherhood and her growing confidence to navigate the changes it brings.
I am a new mom, currently juggling the needs of my one year old son, my husband, and my PhD. My husband and I welcomed our son during the second year of my PhD; my Annual Progress Review was actually scheduled the day before my due date. Sweating out a progress review by panel (literally) at nine months pregnant was one of those life experiences I'll never forget or not mine for laughs.
Prior to getting pregnant, or even as we woke up each morning, wondering if that would be the day I'd go into labour, I had not considered how I'd feel about my career path as a new mom. I had not considered the fact that I'd be pulled towards, and be completely satisfied with, a much more slowed down pace and direction for my professional life. As I approach the final stages of this PhD, my priorities are with my young son and my husband, and making sure my family's needs are met. My desires for the trappings of an academic career have faded into the background, almost like a dream. Thanks to the wisdom of a kind friend, I now realize I'm simply moving into a different season in my life, and there will be other seasons in the future for new opportunities.
I struggled with accepting this while at the same time relishing the rebelliousness of this realization. Part of this discovery was a natural result of the PhD process. As an aspiring academic, I see academia for what it is – warts and all. Inside the ivory tower, all is not dusty old tomes, tweed jackets, and erudite conversations with leading scholars (though there is a bit of that!). It's full of people who work incredibly hard, pushed beyond reasonable professional expectations, to deliver for the university and their students. It's full of people who are expected to maintain a grueling research output schedule, while still handling a full teaching and administrative load that only increases each year. Academics work in uncertain conditions, knowing that their jobs could be ended without much notice.
As PhD candidates, we see all of this. And, in its own way, it's useful. We are confronted with this reality and have to ask ourselves – do we want this for ourselves? Knowing what we know about the realities of academia in the 21st century, do we want to joint this relentless cycle of publishing, admin, grant writing, and if we are lucky, the odd bit of truly satisfying teaching and mentoring?
This process of professional planning was only compounded when I found out I was pregnant. We live in a society that tells women we can truly have it all, if we just 'lean in.' But, what society also tells us, is that if we don't succeed in every single way at work, if we don't embody the ultimate in domestic goddess, and if we don't kill ourselves for our children's well-being, then we've failed. Well, the truth is that no one can do this alone.
As a Type A person, recovering over-achiever in school, and having grown up in a very competitive area, I struggle with this dilemma. I've learned a lot about myself in this post-partum period. I actually can function on zero sleep and I have learned to make peace with clutter and laundry that was done and folded weeks ago, but never put away. A grimy bathroom doesn't give me nightmares anymore. In a previous job, on one annual review, I was told I was a 'pillar of patience' when helping my colleagues learn to use a new filing system. I was amused, thinking if they only knew how short my fuse really was. Now, I own that title. I can handle a willful, angry, baby that is wrecked but doesn't want to sleep and takes an hour to settle. I can get up again and again in the night, with a smile and a cuddle, because my son needs me. I accept that everything will take longer than it used to, and that's ok. That's just where my life is right now.
And it is in this current season of life, learning so much about myself, that I realised I don't want to remain in the ivory tower. I don't even know if I want an academic career. My priorities have shifted, my interests diverted. I know I want to continue working after the PhD is finished, but it's not on the original path I had thought. And that is ok. Maybe later on in my life, but for now I am satisfied where I am. And in accepting this desire, I feel free. Free of the relentless pressure that society places on women, particularly mothers. Free to say that I am in the season of my life where my family takes priority. Perhaps later, in a different season, I will return to a more career focused outlook.
I want my son to see all of this. To see a mother that is confident in her choices in life; who can keep evolving and developing as she grows in years and experience. I hope that this inspires him to realise his own life will be made of seasons, and to weather their passing with confidence, just as is mother is weathering her own.
Many people experience liberation in letting go of the pressure to "have it all". Have you experienced seasons in your life? How can children learn from these experiences?
Allison is a PhD candidate in the UK, researching the Colombian peace process. Her work focuses on confidence building and negotiations in the context of ongoing violence. She enjoys spending time with family, traveling, swimming, yoga, and writing. Brand new journals, full pots of coffee, and soul music make her happy. All opinions and thoughts expressed on this page are her own and not affiliated with any organisation.


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Version Summary
Highlights of Each Upgrade Since Version 3
Highlights of version 12:
- Stack and Paper
- Text browser
- Live click
- Web browser
- Improved Analytics for Search tabs and Research
- Support for ETCBC Syntax, and for Genealogies
- Timeline visual overhaul
- BibleWorks Notes import
Highlights of version 11:
- Quick Entry suggests terms while entering text
- Research tab replaces the Search All with more powerful features
- Info Pane displays links relevant to the top verse
- User Notes support Unicode and images and work with all texts and tools
- Library organization improved
- Bookmarks and Remember my Place
- Topic Searches
- Combined tools in a pane
- Easier purchase and installation with Custom Upgrades
- Unicode Accordance Font
- Syntax enhancements
Highlights of version 10:
- Initial Windows release
- All-new design; More intuitive and polished; Unified workspace window
- More dynamic Library design with increased search capabilities
- New customizable Toolbar
- Full support for Retina and HiDPI machines
- Color themes for quick text and tool customization
- Redesigned Analytics, Instant Details, Highlights, Characters, and Image displays
- New Highlight Symbols
- Highlights can be transferred between compatible modules (i.e. between BECNT and BECNT-16)
- Flex search mode for English texts
- Automation of Accordance through URIs from word processors or webpages (i.e. accord://read/ESVS?Mark_1:1)
- Key number searches by transliterations
- User Notes enhancements for customizing the display
- Reading Mode allows for full-screen viewing
- Combined Texts allows attaching two texts together in a single pane (i.e. Attach a Hebrew Bible to a Greek New Testament)
- Hebrew Literal Search
- Dropbox Support for Mac
- Text can now be copied as Bibliography
Highlights of version 9:
- Workspace zones organize the tabs
- Search All window faster, sorts results, and displays them
- Easy Install downloads most purchased products directly into Accordance
- Syntax databases and searching for original texts
- Sync with Accordance for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch)
- New Help system
- Dynamic Interlinear display of tagged texts and parsing information
- Assistant window
- Daily reading
- Unicode Language texts and support
- Robust searches of Library contents
- Footnote support for texts
- In-app updates of Accordance
- Enhanced diagramming
Highlights of version 8:
- Intel native app runs without Rosetta in OS X, even faster
- Library window to organize and find modules
- New search commands such as INFER and FUZZY
- Key number highlighting between tagged original texts and Key number translations
- More options for text display: background colors, leading, horizontal panes
- Copy as Citation with bibliography of tools, and other copy options
- Enhanced Instant Details, and popover help tags
- Localization of the application to other languages
- Diagram window improved
- Check for Updates downloads free module upgrades
Highlights of version 7:
- Arrange Modules (now Library)
- Favorites
- Slide Show mode
- New graphs
- Contextual (right-click) menus
- User Bibles
Highlights of version 6:
- Reorganized Search window
- Improved User Tools
- Range and Count commands
- Resource palette replaces New Window and Amplify palettes
- Accordance Widget
- Atlas Improvements
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|Weirdy American Tart Thing
*sends job vibes Matt-wards* (sorry, but that still sounds wrong)
Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies.
The brain: not always amenable to logic. ~Hive
|Assistant *fwap*er
Amy told me about the resume you've sent out, Matt. I hope you get the job. *hugs*
The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not so sure about the turnip.
~~ Terry Pratchett
|is tired of these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane
i'm so tired. its painful.
High Ranking Official of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination,
Dean of the UUP, First Class member of the order of the Pineapple.
-scruffy ambulating reanimated hypothetical vegetarian leigonairre of the undead. ~ Cav
-Look, I've got a cape and a tendency towards violence. It does not make me a superhero! ~ Domitella
-The key thing to remember about historians is that we are entirely capable of being objective, empirical and batshit crazy. ~ Dr. Marvinmarymac
|The Doughmaster
*hugs the silly punk*
~ Non-Mod-Amy, aka Amy of the Lost Ark
You are a Bookholder. To prompt, or...LINE! (not to prompt) --not to prompt. That is the question. Whether t'is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of a bad memory, or to take arms against a sea of textual deviations, and...LINE! (by opposing) --by opposing them...LINE! (end) --end...LINE! (them) --end them...LINE! (to prompt, to correct; no more; and by a correction to say we end the heart-ache of a really terrible performance) You didn't have to give me the whole thing! I know it!
|Goofy Beast
Just putting the finishing touches on a big project proposal. I put in what I believe to be realistic yet ambitious success criteria; the bosses put in what I *know* to be wildly unrealistic success criteria, and they actually believe we can reach them... and they won't be happy until the numbers are massaged so we can fool ourselves that we've met the targets.
Which wouldn't be too bad - but I'm the one who has to get this proposal by the Executive Board, i.e. I have to sell something that I believe to be phony, at least in part. The alternative is that I say I won't do it, and then my boss will present it. She's bad at presenting things, she believes in feelings over anything else (which rarely works if you're asking for £3'000'000 over the next three years), so if she does it the project may very well not go through. So either I represent something I have big problems with or I let someone else do an inferior job.
You gotta love double-binds...
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if you manage to get the proposal through and you fail to reach the targets...will there be damage?
I like it maybe 63 percent!
|Goofy Beast
Well, it might just mean that they'll stop giving us money at some point because we didn't do what we claimed we would do.
Or, more likely, the numbers will be re-interpreted beyond recognition so we can say that we actually met the targets. I.e. we have 10,000 hits on our website (results added up for all pages) --> we have 10,000 people who have visited our website --> there's been meaningful interaction with 10,000 people --> we've had a positive impact on the views of 10,000 people, and they're better for having engaged with us, yay team!
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wow, that's...hell, you should be in politics!
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|Goofy Beast
I obviously forgot the rant part of my post... Actually, I despise doing that sort of thing, which is why I am not a big fan of the big, shiny numbers my superiors have put in the success criteria. I think we do great projects, but having to fictionalise the results is unprofessional, dishonest and forces other projects to do the same thing ("Hey, project X reaches millions! Why do you only reach 10,000?").
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internet sarcasm is hard to read. it's okay; I'm not trying to say that I approve of this sort of thing, either.
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|The Biscuitkeeper
Sent out two more last night.
I'm alright. Don't nobody worry bout me.
|little. yellow. different
If any fucker asks me to do one more gigantic piece of ball-aching work at the last possible minute because I should have been psychic and realised that their function existed and known they were planning to do some public facing work I will put them through the nearest plate glass window.
Oh you young people. It's all tea and muffins and excitement in your world I expect.
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Everything is just pissing me off today. Not really sure why.
I'm alright. Don't nobody worry bout me.
|Goofy Beast
Warning: toilet talk.
We share our toilets at work with the offices on the second floor, and there's one guy who works there... I don't know. He must have some sort of illness, because I can't believe that it's poor hygiene. After all, if he works upstairs he must have quite a high-up job, and that's something that usually doesn't go hand in hand with a complete lack of personal hygiene.
In any case: when he's been to the bathroom, the stench in there is unbelievable. It's not a digestive thing. He's simply got body odor that is incredibly vile. It feels tangible. I never thought I'd be able to hold my breath that long, but it's either that or not go to the loo.
Remember Foul Ol' Ron and his stench? That's basically what it's like.
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Annoyed at co-workers. The teachers should not be allowed to work at the front desk.
Also do not thing it's my job to co-ordinate car-pooling between my boss's family and one of the students. Student's mother should be e-mailing boss directly.
The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not so sure about the turnip.
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|Rumble Fish
sent from our Quality Lead. the Professor Umbridge woman.
does she realize we're phone support???
also, "Breathe in unison"???
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Breathing in unison does help. Very NLP, though.
Besides, you'd have to breathe pretty audibly on the phone...
I like it maybe 63 percent!
|Rumble Fish
i honestly can never hear my customers breathing.
also i think Prof. Umbridge just pulled this tip-list out of the Internet and didn't read it first because honestly... "Adopt a similar stance to them in terms of your body language, gestures, voice tone and speed."
on the phone.
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yeah I think that's one for the wastepaper basket.
I like it maybe 63 percent!
|Lexis Nexus
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Some design mistake stories
I spent all yesterday dealing with some mistakes I had made in some boards; I thought I'd blog about it because 1) I spent time on it and want to feel like something came out of it :P, and 2) because I think it might be interesting to someone. Personally I find it very interesting to read about things that go wrong, since I think that that can give a better idea of how to accomplish something than just seeing a success story. When I first started out making circuit boards I had a vague idea of what kinds of things are important, but had no idea what that meant I should actually worry about, so as a result I ended up worrying about everything! Now, I'm starting to develop a sense of what types of things I tend to regret about my designs and I'm gradually getting more focused, but I definitely have a ways to go.
This post is about two specific circuit boards that I made multiple mistakes on, but I thought it'd be worth mentioning what things I normally don't like about my boards. The most common thing I run into is not knowing how to "design for manufacturability" (DFM); on every single board I find myself thinking that the board is obnoxiously hard to validate once it's assembled. Typically this means that I don't have test pads or labels for signals that end up being important; I've learned to always break out and label power nets, but I still find myself trying to touch my scope to the specific pin of a TSSOP part (the hardest part is looking at the screen while not shorting that pin to an adjacent one!). This is pretty clearly a balancing act; I could break out every single signal, or go back to through-hole parts, but at a cost to circuit bulkiness. One thing that I've found quite helpful is to expand the pads for almost all of the footprints I use, since the extra board space is negligible (it would usually be part of a route-out), and it helps a lot with hand-soldering or hand-testing. Anyway, these kinds of DFM things are probably what I think about the most now during the layout part of the design.
The second thing I end up running into is that after I have the board built, I wish that it worked differently or had additional features. Sometimes this can be addressed by leaving do-not-populate parts on the board, though at my typical quantity of 1 assembled board per design, I tend to just cut traces and green-wire when necessary. The second part -- wanting the design to have more features or be different in some other way -- I view as a natural part of any engineering process so I don't feel too bad when it comes up, but trying to make the board "feature-complete" is what I think about the most during the schematic part of the design.
Maybe interesting to know is what I don't worry about that much: I've never put too much thought into the routing of signals or power/ground nets (other than wanting to do it easily). As I've learned more about "grounding best practices", I've realized how far I am from them in all my board designs, but it hasn't seemed to affected any of them so far. This is probably due to the fairly small+simplistic designs plus the low max speeds (16MHz), but so far I've been able to avoid worrying about those kinds of things. That said, having good grounding (right now in the form of having *sufficient* grounding) is starting come up, and I suspect that these types of things will only be more important as I work my way into faster circuits.
Anyway, this was supposed to be a post about some mistakes I made; I don't consider the things I just mentioned to be "mistakes" since they're just things that I'll have to continually improve on. I've started to rush my board-design process, to both decrease the time I spend on it but also force myself to make some mistakes to see what they are, and here's what's come up:
Barely-salvaged: power distribution board
I'll talk about the setup more later, but I've changed my designs so that instead of each board having its own power input and regulation, I have some dedicated power distribution boards so that I only have to design + build that circuitry once. All good in theory, but this board has the privilege of being the first of mine to catch fire:
The fire wasn't really a mistake in the circuit board design, but more in my usage of the board. That large beige connector in the top-left is a 6-pin molex connector, of the kind that you might find inside your computer. I put this on there because I have an extra ATX power supply lying around and I thought this would be an easy way to get lots of DC power. So after I assembled the board, I plugged in the power supply and POOF a fire! I've had chips smoke in the past, but this was a legit orange flame with hissing and crackling. My dog, who usually sleeps under my workbench, immediately ran out of the room. I cut the power and things were fine, though there was some obvious damage to the board.
What happened? It turns out that there are two different 6-pin connectors on this (all?) power supplies, one for the motherboard and the rest for PCI-express boards. Well, I had just grabbed the first one I saw and plugged it into the board: it turns out that the CPU and PCI-express plugs are keyed compatibly, but have opposite polarity! So instead of feeding my 12V->3.3V regulator 12V, I was feeding it -12V, and that was the end of that. This might have been avoided if I had put a reverse-polarity-protection diode; the power supply is perfectly willing to put out enough current to fry any reasonably-sized diode, so I would have needed some sort of over-current protection as well.
I was actually able to get some use out of this particular board; I had to remove the charred regulator, but then I just fed the board 3.3V directly and then the 1.8V regulator (upper right) worked just fine. But there are a couple more problems with the board that you might be able to notice.
The first is the unpopulated barrel-jack socket in the bottom left. You can see that the silkscreen calls for a center-positive plug, but the 12V line goes to what is definitely *not* the center of the plug. This was a result of me misinterpreting the schematic symbol for the Eagle part I obtained (from SparkFun, like usual), and not double-checking the board layout to make sure it matched my expectation. I wasn't too bummed about it since this was just the backup way of getting power onto the board, with the ATX connector being the intended one. That being said, I think I would have rather had the barrel plug because that cable is much more flexible than the ATX power supply cable, which ends up more-or-less fixing the orientation of the board while I use it.
The second major problem with this board is the messed up oscillator, the silver box roughly in the middle of the board. For this one, this was a mistake in me reading the datasheet: for some reason I thought the Enable pin was active-low, when in fact it was active-high, so I in order to get it to work I had to cut some traces and green-wire.
I wasn't able to get the 12V circuitry working on the board that had the fire -- even after replacing the IC that caught on fire, the board didn't work correctly. At that point I decided that debugging a previously-on-fire board was probably a losing battle, so I ordered the parts to make another one, which now works quite well (barring the missing barrel plug socket):
Not recoverable but still interesting: jtag board
I'm using JTAG a fair bit in my current project, for which I built my own JTAG adapter. It was an interesting exercise to understand how the whole thing works, but the result is pretty messy:
It's a little tough to see from this picture, but the way this works is I have a USB connection from my laptop (grey cable coming in from the left), which connects to a CP2103 (USB<->UART chip) breakout board, which connects to an arduino-like board, which then connects to a breadboard where I'm doing level-shifting, which then connects down to the project itself (out of view). I've found the laptop->CP2103->atmega->breadboard toolchain to be quite good for prototyping and development, but it's getting cumbersome and involves quite a few wires. So, I decided to coalesce all of this into a single circuit board in order to make it easier to manage, and here's what I came up with:
As you can see, the through-hole components are unpopulated because I realized that the board wasn't going to work. This board has given me quite some trouble; here's the first run of it, can you spot the difference?
The problem was that I used the wrong footprint for the FT230X, the IC right next to the USB port. (Note: SOP != SSOP, not by a long shot.) I noticed the problem pretty quickly, but only after I had sent out the design to OSH Park for boards and OSH Stencils for a stencil. It was a pretty easy fix, so within a day I sent the new boards to OSH Park, but I forgot to have another stencil made! So yeah, there were a few issues through that process.
I actually managed to use the wrong stencil for the board with reasonable results. The only main problem was that the USB connector was completely misaligned and not connected; not sure if this was a result of the wrong stencil or a bad footprint or what (I used a generic micro-USB footprint, not the one suggested for this particular part). Re-soldering the USB socket was particularly hard because the FT230X, the TSSOP next to the connector, is so close that it was very difficult to fit the soldering iron or multimeter probe in there. (This kind of proximity issue is actually one of my most common ones, and I'm still not great at anticipating it.)
So I got the USB port resoldered, but then I noticed two problems with the ATmega part of the schematic: first, I had forgotten an ISP header to flash the code. For my existing jtag setup I had pre-programmed the chip with a bootloader, and since it was talking serial I could use the bootloader to load new versions. My normal approach is to use my ZIF-socket-programmer to burn the bootloader for DIP chips, but this is a QFP so I was out of luck. What I did instead was I soldered it to another project that uses the same footprint and does have an ISP header, then burnt the bootloader onto it, then removed it and resoldered it to the current board. This was actually all-for-naught, since I burned the wrong bootloader code onto it, so I actually soldered tiny leads onto the four relevant IC pins, and then connected that to the programmer, and flashed the correct bootloader.
Actually, I wasn't able to do that right away, since I noticed that I had messed up the ATmega crystal circuit. It's a very simple circuit and I guess I assumed that I knew it well enough to not look it up again, and so of course it ended up messed up. I had to do some more greenwiring, which included soldering some through-hole capacitors onto the back of the board. But after I did this, I plugged in the USB and saw the bootloader flash the LED!
In the midst of all of this, the USB connector came off. This micro-USB socket has only SMD pads, and is very space efficient, but is very hard to hand-solder (I was doing this with the wrong stencil so I didn't reflow this part). It actually left me in a pretty weird predicament since all the connections broke except for one, while the cable was still plugged in! Do I rip the last pad off, potentially lifting the pad? Do I use pliers to try to remove the socket from the cable without putting force on the board? (tried that and it didn't work) Or do I use my soldering iron to undo that last joint? I was pretty wary of doing that last one, since I learned the hard way that for my fancy Metcal soldering iron the soldering head is actually electrically hot, and Bad Things can happen if I use it on a live circuit. After I tried using pliers unsuccessfully (not possible to get a good hold while the board was still half-attached), I finally just resorted to using it and everything was fine.
After reattaching the USB socket, I was able to boot up my circuit and use the bootloader to flash my JTAG programmer! Everything was going great until I then connected the adapter to my JTAG circuit, at which point it promptly stopped working -- I don't even get the led flashes from the bootloader any more. I'll look into it more later, but for now I'm going to put my effort into designing v0.2 of this circuit. So at the end of the day, this circuit still isn't working, and I'm not sure it's worth investing the time to figure out why, because it lacks the breakouts to make the debugging easy.
On top of all of this, I broke one of my brand-new oscilloscope probes. I'm not 100% sure how it happened, but my guess is that it's from when I was using the heat gun to desolder the QFP ATmega multiple times, since I left the probe in that area. I learned my lesson and moved the scope to a safer part of my bench, away from the heating elements (plus also closer at hand, now that I'm learning how much I use the knobs). Luckily, 100MHz probes are only about $7 each, and the ones I bought even come with little tips to make it easier to grab IC pins.
This post ended up being less informative in the way I thought, but actually ended up being a pretty representative example of what it's like when I debug circuits. I'm sure that for anyone experienced with electronics, what I've said is extremely obvious, but I know that when I was starting out I had absolutely no idea what kinds of things I was going to encounter.
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The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources is now accepting written comments on the 120 rules proposed to regulate fracking. The public comment period is open until September 30.
Send written comments to the Mining & Energy Commission:
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To find key parts of the Draft Oil and Gas Rules that you might want to comment on:
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This is an optical illusion costume. We named it Frankenstein's bounty because it looks like a mini Frankenstein is carrying her away. So what do you think - is she standing or sitting? It looks like she is sitting but she is actually standing.
It is a very easy costume to make and requires very little effort.
We made it with things we had around the house. The only item we bought was Frankenstein mask from dollar tree!
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