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I was lucky to receive some great books for birthday gifts this year. The hands down favorite is Laduree: Sucre (the sweet recipes). What eye candy! It came all boxed up and the cover is a soft velvety fabric.
It's been out for a couple of years, but I hadn't gotten around to getting it yet.
I also got the beautiful exhibition catalog for the Marie Antoinette exhibit Royal Treasures from the Louvre that was at the Legion of Honor.
And then Paris in Color by Nichole Robertson and a lovely annotated Brothers Grimm. I love fairy tales and the annotations give nice supplemental information about variations on the stories and things like that. I first found out about Paris in Color from her Etsy shop.
The book is laid out by color, of course and is so gorgeous.
The illustrations in the Grimm book are also inspirational...
And then a couple of garland sets and the Theatre of Dreams stationery set. I had been really excited for the stationery because everything Wendy Addison does is beautiful.
The set has letter paper, correspondence cards and stickers. Although it's all gorgeous, I was disappointed by the quality of the paper for both the set and the garlands. But, I find that really thin paper is typical of Chronicle Books stationery.
The Theatre of Dreams garland has a nice variety of fonts
And the Botanicals Garland had a few color options
Yeah, it's a lot of books and papery things, but I love it all!

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Hey out there!
I'm getting the urge to gear up the grow light system. Someone please help me with our frost dates for Maryland-I'm in Westminster, zone 6. Not warmer Baltimore which is what the usual online sources give... Someone close to me with some probable dates? OK--tomato and pepper seed starting. Last year, I was too early. Do we count back from Mother's Day by 8 weeks for tomato seed starting? And 10 for peppers? Does anyone start broccoli and other cruciferous veg right now under lights to put in the ground very early spring? Thanks! |
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- Posted by cecilia_md7a 7a/Baltimore,MD (My Page) on Sun, Mar 5, 06 at 10:17
Hi, sujiwan - Victory Seeds has a listing of frost dates for other cities in MD - perhaps Hagerstown's dates would be appropriate for you (they're Zone 6, too). |
Here is a link that might be useful: Victory Seeds frost date listing
Greetings from Westminster! I live near McDaniel College. I have seen published last frost dates anywhere between April 15 and May 15. I tend to be pretty conservative on my planting out dates, so I go with May 15. I figure if I put all that work into the seedlings, I'm sure not going to let them freeze to death! Based on watching the blooming plants in Baltimore City, I'd say we are a good 2 to 3 weeks behind the downtown business district. |
- Posted by susanargus z7 NoVA (My Page) on Mon, Mar 13, 06 at 14:13
On weather.com, put in your zip code, then select "Month" and move forward to April. It will tell you the historical averages, mins, and maxes, for the dates not within a 20-day present spread. On April 1, you can move to historicals for May. This is as good or better for me that official frost dates, because I can decide how risky I want to be. |
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Yupp, still not quite all smiles yet lol Especially since I had my 1st and only cup of coffee. All my own fault. I had the great Idea to buy DH and myself a couple of new coffee mugs. Well...they are SO big hubby says...that he had a hard time leaving me ONE cup. The hole pot content could fit in there roflmao
A few days ago I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw THIS bloom on a otherwise all frilly filled triple or so Datura. I thought it was just gorgeous. Just like all of you are to me....SO hard to not look and when not here....I know you are busy and hopefully ok....but you are missed a LOT!! Hugs
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- Posted by dimples31312 z8Guyton,GA (My Page) on Wed, Nov 18, 09 at 6:18
Morning Lucy, Beautiful my dat's did nothing this year. I know you must my pleased. Big hugs Dorothy |
That is a beautiful dat bloom, Lucy. I like the sharp folds and the color! I may get one more bloom from the purple before we get a freeze. So, did you make another pot of coffee yet? Have you finished the great fall migration of plants? Have a great day everyone! Pam |
- Posted by dave_in_nova VA zone 7a (My Page) on Wed, Nov 18, 09 at 7:45
Lucy, You have still not had frost yet, right? Honestly, if I lived in zone 8, I would be gardening year-round. Hmm, maybe that's not such a good thing! LOL! But if I lived in zone 8, I'd have a ton of palms, broad-leaved evergreens, and hardy citrus. I did my graduate school in Dallas and wished I could have stayed, but no jobs for me at the time. Oh well. I'm stuck at the top of zone 7 now. Maybe when I retire - yeah, like at age 80. |
- Posted by karyn1 MD 7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Wed, Nov 18, 09 at 9:00
That's beautiful. There's so little left growing outside around here. The trees are almost completely bare as well. It's so depressing. Time for me to hibernate. lol |
- Posted by dave_in_nova VA zone 7a (My Page) on Wed, Nov 18, 09 at 9:41
There's so little left growing outside around here. The trees are almost completely bare as well. karyn, This is why I'm concentrating on putting in lots of broad-leaved evergreens on my property. My Chinese Evergreen oak, Live Oaks, hollies, Cherry laurels, euonymous, osmanthuses, palms, evergreen viburnums,lorapetalum, evergreen ferns, etc keep our yard green all winter! Also, I have four camellias in full bloom now! -- Spring's Promise, Winter's Joy, unnamed white, and Winter's Fire. My Ashton's Supreme has not started yet, but will soon. Some pink is peaking out of the buds. |
- Posted by rock_oak_deer 8a TX (My Page) on Wed, Nov 18, 09 at 9:56
Lucy, that triple dat is beautiful. They predicted a possible freeze here two nights and then more warm weather so I took a chance and left everything but the basil outside and it's all okay. So I bought another week or two. Yippee! I'm going to start searching for a greenhouse, though. |
- Posted by haase 10 CA (email@example.com) on Wed, Nov 18, 09 at 13:16
The brug is blooming, the mums are blooming, the sun is shining and no rain in sight. After reading all your posts about the cold weather, I feel like an outsider here! Lucy, your triple dat is beautiful! Another new one for me. Ingrid. |
Lucy, for the past three days, I felt exactly like Goofy and Donald Duck look on that picture, LOL! What a beautiful picture of your dat! The top part looks almost like a waterlily. Ingrid, don't feel like an outsider just because we were having good weather and they weren't, LOL! It's almost 6 PM and I can hear the winds outside growing stronger and stronger. Rats, that means there will be more palm fronds for me to have to pick up and cut up! |
Beautiful Lucy, your photo's are always! Susan |
- Posted by karyn1 MD 7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Nov 19, 09 at 7:36
Dave you know my record with camellias. lol I'm not a big lover of most broadleaf or any evergreens but do have a few. How do your osmanthuses fare over the winter? My fragrant Tea Olives can't take our winter so I have them in containers that are brought in during the coldest times. I had a non fragrant osmanthus that was more hardy but I didn't care for it. Have you ever tried a hardy gardenia? I've seen some advertised as being able to grow in zone 7 but have never tried one. I'm guessing it would have to be 7b, close to 8? |
- Posted by beachplant 9b (email@example.com) on Thu, Nov 19, 09 at 8:40
Nice dat. We have one in the backyard that is over 9' tall this year! And the one near it is barely 3'. The camelias are setting bud but no blooms yet. We're zone 9b and we do garden pretty much year round, there are a few days it's too cold or windy and nasty but for the most part you can get out every month and get something done. If we have ice we all call each other & run out to look before it warms up. When it snowed on Christmas a few years ago almost everyone stayed up all night playing in it. Bad part? The pests never die! And the weeds grow year round. Tally HO! |
- Posted by wickedwickedwitch (My Page) on Thu, Nov 19, 09 at 8:40
these flowers are amazing. |
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7 Insane People Who Sold Their Bodies for Super Bowl Tickets
Everyone is always hustling to get their asses to the Super Bowl. Avid fans know they have to make some sacrifices and come prepared. But some people take acquisitioning their Super Bowl tickets just a little too far. From desperately posting offers to have sex with people, to selling strip club memberships, to using their pregnant bellies as collateral for a ticket, these resourceful individuals really have the resourcefulness to do what it takes to get to the Super Bowl.
Now, if only they could use all that creativity and plan ahead. Hopefully, you'll be able to score some tickets on your own so you won't have to resort to the measures that these people took in order to score tickets to the big game.
Who in their right mind would sell sex for Super Bowl tickets? Here is the list of seven crazy people who tried to do exactly that.
Now, if only they could use all that creativity and plan ahead. Hopefully, you'll be able to score some tickets on your own so you won't have to resort to the measures that these people took in order to score tickets to the big game.
Who in their right mind would sell sex for Super Bowl tickets? Here is the list of seven crazy people who tried to do exactly that.
The List
Rank Name
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Hot Girl Gets Lots of Attention for Selling a Date with Herself, The World Explodes
You've probably heard of the story of Sarah Spain, the girl whose parents named her to become what she looks like she's good for (stripping, porn... I mean business and finance...)
Sarah Spain is a HUGE Bears fan (da Bears), like bigger than her bra size big. She's, of course, from Los Angeles and decided that she'd post an eBay auction where she offered to be some poor schlub's awkward date to the Superbowl (because anyone that has to buy a date to the Superbowl is obviously going to be, unfortunately, waaay out of her league.)
The cool part is she already had a place to stay AND a plane ticket. All she needed was just some guy lonely enough to have bought two Superbowl tickets for himself and that girlfriend that, somehow, still doesn't "exist."
After all kinds of douche nozzles were bidding all kinds of money to probably eventually have this girl's back-skin as part of their newest lampshade, the king of (and supplier to) most douches came in and saved the day...
Axe Body Spray.
They saw that this girl had enough "talent" to not only earn herself four 50-Yard-Line tickets for her and her buddies, but enough to use her as a contest they would run. The contest? Win a date with her to the Superbowl.
Now THAT makes a lot more sense. Well played, Axe.
So, some guy ended up winning, and was apparently a huge jerk to the girls and would refuse to go buy them beers (even though their hotness is what got him there in the first place.)
Sarah ended up hosting and modeling in a bunch of commercials, because that's what you do when you're hot as hell, talentless, lucky, and in Los Angeles.
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Troy Polamalu Look-Alike Offers to Have Sex With Your Wife
First off, let's be honest, from a female perspective (if you're into guys who look like Blanka from Street Fighter) Troy Polamalu is a great looking dude: Troy Polamalu, with his gorgeous locks that cascade down his well-chiseled body and bounce seductively around the number on his jersey, is fine as hell. That's simply the truth of the matter... If you're into guys who look like they're the seemingly-impossible battles Jean-Claude Van Damme can't possibly beat but ends up doing so anyway at the last moment against all odds.
Anyway, there's this guy who looks like Troy Polamalu. And women probably go nuts over him. But this guy has become a John Mayer level douchebag (and hero to many a male throughout the world b/c c'mon, this is ballsy) by putting out an ad for him to "bang your wife" for Superbowl tickets.
Okay. This is a double doozy, which is why it gets first billing.
There's an arguably attractive man that decided to sell his body for Superbowl tickets on one hand. And think about how insanely ballsy this is – the specifications go "WIFE," not girlfriend. SO if things go horribly, then a marriage is being ruined for the sake of giving up tickets to the big game, not a random relationship, a MARRIAGE.
On the other hand, we have the worst husband in the world. The wife REALLY has to be in on it (or severely unhappy anyway) in order for this to work out for anyone.
So the worst part is that not only are two bodies being sold here, but one is being sold by someone that doesn't "own" one of them. Selling your life mate up the river for Superbowl tickets? Jesus.
Also, this guy is willing to pretty much be your slave for these things, which means stuff's going to be missing from your house whenever he comes over.
ALSO, may I point out that someone as dumb as this guy probably isn't well-versed in protection, and well, when he's in there banging your wife, she's going to get chlamydia, AIDS, syphilis, 12 yeast infections (that's right, 12; it's science, look it up), gonorrhea, and then she is going to die.
The specimen in question posted the ad pictured below, and to add insult to injury, threw in "bang your wife" with other items like "fix your pipes," and "clean your house for a year."
These, of course, are euphemisms.
He's willing to do a bunch of other stuff in there that's a lot more reasonable and makes a lot more sense, but nobody in their right mind would give up their wife, as well as probably two days worth of housework for $2000. When does anyone give housekeepers $1,000 a day?
What an idiot... and a legend.
Here is the actual text of the ad:
I have a problem. I NEED to go to the Superbowl but I can't afford the $2000 ticket. What do I have to offer otherwise? Myself.
-I can fix your pipes.
-Shovel your snow for a year.
-Repair your computer.
-Drive your kids around.
-Entertain you by performing a stupid dare.
-Bang your wife.
-Clean your house for a year
YOU NAME IT I CAN DO IT (I won't cut my hair or kill anyone). I just need you to give me your Superbowl ticket.
Email me with your offer and you can have your very own Troy Polamalu look alike! - 3
Jennifer Gordon Sells Ad Space on Her Pregnant Stomach for Tickets
Jennifer Gordon was eight months pregnant, a diehard Bears fan, desperate for tickets to Superbowl XLI, and entirely willing to auction off her pregnant belly in order to get to the big game.
An unusual ploy, but the whole operation panned out beautifully.
Gordon casually posted a creepy ad that feels vaguely like it belongs in the tawdry parts of craigslist.
The ad was titled "My body for Your Super Bowl Tickets," and got nearly 200 offers, many of them of which she dubbed "X-rated" (which must have been shocking for all parties involved, because who would have expected that from the Internet?)
She ended up choosing a Chicago-based company called Ubid.com, and on game day, proudly wore an extra sexy belly shirt to show off the goods.
You've gotta give her credit for effectiveness... she got seats on the 50 yard line, and she looks pretty damn in shape in those sweet kicks.
Sometimes, hot chicks, even pregnant ones, get whatever they want. And by sometimes, I mean every day. You should sign up to become one today!
- 4
Woman Sells Night with Her to Buy Tickets for Her Fiancee
So this woman immediately makes it clear that she is "not selling sex!" and that she needs the tickets in order to impress her fiancee.
However, she offers "a night with ME for Superbowl tickets" on Craigslist, and further comments, "Hell, if I am drunk enough ... and you are cute enough ... maybe we will hit it off and be romantic."
Which will probably impress the hell out of her fiancee, if he ever finds out, so much so that he won't go near her again.
This is confusing, though: On one hand she's a classy girl and simply won't bang some random guy to take her fiancee to the Superbowl, yet, on the other hand, she's posting on Craigslist and making it clear that she's easy when she's having just a little bit of fun and is full of expensive booze.
She finishes her post by saying that the tryst would have to be a "secret" because she wouldn't want her fiancee to find out how she got the ticket.
Because that's what losing your Superbowl tickets is worth, a night with a probably mediocre-looking girl and the looming suspicion that, at any moment in your life, someone will come busting through your door in a jealous rage wielding an ax. - 5
Man Actually Offers His Left Nut for Superbowl Tickets
My main question for this gentleman is, what the hell good is your testicle to someone else?
I mean, can they even medically reattach that gland to replace someone else's? After several calls to specialists (not really) we have come to realize that this simply isn't a feasible option for those in need of a testicle. The man was desperate for Super Bowl XLIV tickets, desperate enough even to list his blood type, and advertise his "goods" as "well maintained" and "larger than average."
But beware, the lister emphatically states "No Perverts!!!!!" with five exclamation points.
Should have thought of that BEFORE YOU POSTED AN AD FOR YOUR TESTICLE ON CRAIGSLIST.
Come on. Of course the only people who are going to be interested in your perfectly well-watered penis plant are perverts. Then again, maybe this guy isn't so stupid... he specifies that the transaction will take place "after the game" and he will "need a ride to the airport and help on a plane."
How would he give over the family jewels, anyway? For this to be anything but a pet testicle in a gradually-greening-jar for someone, it would have to be a transplant. But even then, the body might reject it.
In other words, this is the dumbest idea (for both parties involved) anyone has ever had as far as selling their body for Superbowl tickets goes.
Click the image to enlarge the Craigslist ad
Source. - 6
I Won't Sell my Body I'll Just Sell My Strippers!
A recent Craigslist poster preferred to remain anonymous (can't imagine why) when he placed a want ad for tickets to the Superbowl.
In exchange for the coveted tickets, he offered responders access to his lifetime gold VIP membership to a Wisconsin strip club, which he values at worth over a $1,000 per year.
Does that include free lap dances? Hey... it's a fair question – these are Super Bowl tickets we're considering.
Sports Illustrated.com suggested that he place his ad on the National Football League's Player's Association website to reach his target audience: men who love football, and strip clubs.
The question is, if this guy has enough money lying around to have that kind of membership to a strip club, then why doesn't he just buy the tickets himself?
Also: BAD investment.
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Sometimes when I copy something off the web instead of it being in one paragraph or more, it is in a series of lines some being short some longer. There is no "wrapping" I guess you call it.
I can fix this problem at work by hitting two buttons but those two buttons don't work at home. I know there is a way to do this but I've just searched again and don't find the answer. Thanks,
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- Posted by ginnyginny (My Page) on Thu, Nov 17, 11 at 0:28
I just remembered I posted this question a while back. I just searched for it and found it. I tried the suggestions given and I still can't make it work. I'm going to assume there is no easy way to do this and try to live with it. As I said in my original post in August 2010 I find it amazing that at work it's a simple two key process and here it's complicated and doesn't work for me. Thanks |
When you copy like that, and it ends up weird like you describe, it means you have unavoidably copied over some formatting/codes. I usually find it simplest to copy it, paste it into Word, and then just move my cursor around to the weird formatting locations and backspace to remove everything between a pair of separated words, and then reinsert a space. It's not too hard unless you have pages of text. Alternatively, you could try copying it into Notepad first, and then to Word, and see if that fixes the problem. Here is a description of how this works from a Wikipedia article: "Notepad accepts text from the Windows clipboard. When clipboard data with multiple formats is pasted into Notepad, the program will only accept text in the CF_TEXT format. This is useful for stripping embedded font type and style codes from formatted text, such as when copying text from a web page and pasting into an email message or other WYSIWYG text editor. The formatted text is temporarily pasted into Notepad, and then immediately copied again in stripped format to be pasted into the other program." |
- Posted by fruitjarfla (My Page) on Thu, Nov 17, 11 at 8:08
Also ------ After performing the copy step, open Word. Click Edit, Paste Special, then select Unformatted Unicode Text. |
- Posted by mike_kaiser (My Page) on Thu, Nov 17, 11 at 8:08
Word will recognize embedded code and formatting when you copy from a web page. Word click Edit : Paste As and then choose "unformated text". It also useful for stripping out formatting when you're pasting from another document. |
- Posted by ginnyginny (My Page) on Thu, Nov 17, 11 at 9:15
I can't wait to try those ideas but off to work now. Thank you so much for your help with this even though as I mentioned I've already asked for and received ideas a year ago. Hopefully this time something will work as I copy and paste a lot of stuff of the web. Ginny |
Ginny thanks for posting the question. I don't need it often, but will know what to try now. |
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ø Ignore Son of MeepoRules Question: Rhythm Blade Weapon
I was reviewing all 3 of MetaVoid's characters today.
One common thing I noticed was that he was using a Rhythm blade weapon in his off hand to take a shield bonus to AC and Reflex, but from what I've seen from threads like this one. There is somewhat of a consensus the Rhythm blade only improves and existing shield bonus, but does not provide one on its own in absence of another shield bonus. So if you don't have something like a weapon with the defensive property, or the two-weapon defense feat or anything else that provides a shield bonus to AC and/or Reflex, the Rhythm Blade does nothing.
I wanted some judges to weigh in as to how this weapon will work in L4W, since it appears that it would have a significant impact on MetaVoid's characters.
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Interestingly, this week's episode dealt more with growing up than Nick's brush with mortality. Would you agree Newbies? Generally, the roommates have never had to deal with proper adults without some sort of buffer (Jess's principal's disdain, Schmidt's bosses sexual shortcomings, Remy's... well... Remy-ness). Tonight, they met a certified real-person with responsibility, a job, and the money to prove it. All that's pretty terrifying for a raggedy bunch of Millennials.
Speaking of #millennialproblems,Nick needed a new phone. Only, his abysmal credit score (250!) made him what the folks at the bank would call "undesirable." The phone store employees were too busy congregating and laughing at Nick ("Did you just wake up from a coma?!") to search for the box of Africa-bound charity phones Jess presumed existed, so our plucky heroine tried to bright-side the situation: "This can be your thing! You can be the guy without a phone.... You can go all Ghost Protocol on everyone." Nick snarked, "I always wanted to be a mole person." He did embrace a little Ethan Hunt aesthetic briefly action by rocking a hoodie, though, and also consoled himself by sending snail mail "texts" to friends and getting all Marxist and Damn-the-Man!-y up in here. Nick chose not to have a phone, you see. He totally wasn't rejected for having the credit score of a gambling addict ex-con!
Meanwhile, Jess had a run-in with Russell Schiller, her student's parent. Perhaps she didn't make a good impression by wearing a bowler cap, offering up a pathetic interpretation of a British accent, and yammering about taking condoms off cucumbers. Or perhaps Russell's confidence, richesse, devilish good looks, and (per Schmidt) "voice of a matinee idol" were simply intimidating. In other words, hello Dermot Mulroney! Long story short, these two did not hit it off when Russell wanted to pull his daughter out of Jess's artistic power hour (or "Dream Sess," as she called it) in favor of private tutoring. To be fair, the girl was doing weird 3-D art installations with doll heads, which is less the stuff of dreams than that of nightmares. Jess was angry, but her principal said disagreeing with Russell was not an option because he might pull his megabucks from the school's funding. She ordered Jess to apologize to Russell, saying, "From now on, your classroom is full-on North Korea: 'Math! Math! Math!'"
Of course Jess decided on exactly the opposite course of action. Granted, there was a lot of goading from Nick, who was suddenly a radical Leftist after his phone store humiliation. For the record, Schmidt encouraged Jess to keep groveling and blow off steam on the weekends by... wearing lots of Fila? Yeah, I didn't get it, but it was totes Schmidt. He also urged her to claim she was on her period -- a negotiation tactic he had employed successfully in the past -- mainly because it stunned the other party into confusion and so convinced him that he was willing to humiliate himself that they counterintuitively respected him (or so he convinced himself). Winston's suggestion to apologize was obviously pushed aside, which led us back to Nick's ridiculous proposal to march into Russell's office and call him that most damning of insults: Mr. Fancyman.
On the way over, Jess's car broke down. Way to show the man his material good and wealth can't control you! At any rate, she was close enough to Russell's office that he spotted her, called a tow truck, and loaned her his car to drive home. Yes, you heard that right. Loaned her his car. That's what rich people do, apparently. He also invited her to a barbecue at his mansion. She had no choice but to hate him... and slowly fall in love with him. Schmidt and Nick, with whom Jess was on speaker phone during this entire exchange (she had called them for a pre-confrontation pep talk), had their own responses: Nick screamed "We are the 99 percent!" and Schmidt wondered, "Is [he] a superhero? What kind of car is it? Is it an SL? Does it have a push ignition? Please tell me it's not a hybrid!"
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On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:21:37PM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: > Hrm, This is true. I thought there was something on the sponsors [1] > page about this, but apparently not. Make a bug and assign it to me and > I'll see about making an addition to that page that has requirements and > some guidelines for it. Generally in the past, someone would email > either me or Kurt about providing such hardware. If we felt that we > needed it and could use, then we would go on from there. If they asked > to have some kind of ad on our page, we would only do that depending on > the level of things they offered to us. i.e. - if they provided a bunch > of bandwidth/hardware/support, they would definately get exposure on our > main page. > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/sponsors.xml And if you'd receive 10 valid requests, would we increase the amount of advertisements on our website again? And for how long do we state that the advertisements last? You mentioned possible randomizing the position; do you also mean mixing (like only showing a few of all available ones) or do we have a promise that the ad is always visible)? I can understand that, for continuous support, an advertisement stays until the support is over. What about one-time (but quite large) donations? Or is that not a possible target? Wkr, Sven Vermeulen -- Documentation project leader - Gentoo Foundation Trustee The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>>
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By principal investigator(s): General publications: Details of publications and technical reports may be found on the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) Workplace Employee Relations Surveys web page, and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) (formerly BERR) WERS 2004 web pages, and the WERS 2004 Information and Advice Service (WIAS) web site. Publications specific to WERS Time-Series data: Millward, N., Forth, J. and Bryson, A. (1999) 'Changes in employment relations, 1990-1998', in M. Cully et al. Britain at work: as depicted by the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, London: Routledge. Millward, N., Forth, J. and Bryson, A. (2000) All change at work? British employment relations 1980-1998, as portrayed by the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey series, London: Routledge.
Resulting from secondary analysis: Knight, K.G. and Latreille, P.L. (2000) 'Discipline, dismissals and complaints to employment tribunals', Journal of Industrial Relations, 0007-1080, December, pp.533-555. Sutherland, J. (2003) 'The experience of work: is working for an overseas-owned multinational so different?', Employee Relations, 25(2), pp.149-167. Sutherland, J. (2004) 'The prevalence of 'Japanese' management polices and practices in manufacturing workplaces in the UK', Asian Business and Management, 3, pp.39-56. Sutherland, J. (2004) 'The determinants of training: evidence from the 1998 Workplace and Employee Relations Survey', Economic Issues, 9(1), pp.23-37. Sutherland, J. (2004) 'The prevalence of 'Japanese' management policies and practices in manufacturing workplaces in Britain', Asian Business and Management, 3, pp.39-56. Urwin, P., Michielsens, E. and Waters, J. (2006), 'The contribution of employee relations practice to high performance workplaces: case studies on work-life balance and diversity practice', CIPD Professional Standards Conference, Keele University, June 2006; also presented at BUIRA Conference 2006. Urwin, P. and Buscha, F. (2007), 'Changing gender and ethnic diversity in the UK workplace: what can we learn from the 2004 WERS?', WERS 2004 User Group Meeting, March 2007. Rose, M. (2007) 'Why so fed up and footloose in IT? Spelling out the associations between occupation and overall job satisfaction shown by WERS 2004', Industrial Relations Journal, 38(4), pp.356-384. Rose, M. (2007) 'Extending coverage of job satisfaction in the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004 Employee Survey', in K. Whitfield and K. Huxley (eds.) Substantive and methodological innovations in WERS 5: official guide, London/Swindon: DTI, PSI, NIESR and ESRC. Rose, M. (2007) 'Qualifications and work attitudes: recent findings for the UK', in M. Chaponnière et al. (eds.) Bildung und Beschäftigung, Zurich: Rüegger Verlag; ISBN 978-3-7253-0809-5. Rose, M. (2007) 'Compétences réquises et compétences offertes', in Sociologie empirique, sociologie critique: autour de Claude Durand, Toulouse: Octarès Éditions, EAN 9782915346534, ISSN 1957-9675. Rose, M. (2007) 'Extending coverage of job satisfaction in the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations survey', paper presented at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, 23 March 2007. Rose, M. and Brynin, M. (2007) 'Occupational flexibility: the career trajectories of it workers', paper presented at the BHPS Users Conference, University of Essex, 6 July, 2007, and at the Fifth WES International Conference, University of Aberdeen, 2007. Siebert, W.S., Heywood, J. and Wei, X. (2007) 'The implicit costs of family friendly work practices', Oxford Economic Papers, 59(20), pp.275-300. (Uses WERS98) Forth, J., Bewley, H. and Bryson, A. (2006) Small and medium-sized enterprises: findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey, London: Department of Trade and Industry. Kersley, B. et al. (2006) Inside the workplace: findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey, London: Routledge. Robert A. Hart, Yue Ma (2008) Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3797, Bonn,Germany .


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Britain's new coalition government is doing away with of a plan for a national ID card and a national identity register.
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Conservatives and liberal Democrats, which make up the new coalition, are among the critics warning that Britain had been losing its civil liberties.
"I suppose really we just remain hopeful that the coalition will continue to look not just at identity cards and schemes that back it but the wider tranche of deeply invasive and problematic schemes that the government has brought up in the last 10 years," said Michael Parker, press officer for NO2ID, which has campaigned against the program.
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After children at Imagine School at Lakewood Ranch sold more than $10,000 in books at its Scholastic Book Fair, Principal Stephen Sajewski provided a unique reward to students.
Sajewski on April 5 read aloud to students for 100 minutes while sitting in a kiddie pool filled with water.
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1. Prank SMS and E-mails through Sharpmail : Sharpmail is one of the few mail services that give you a fake e-mail id per mail, you can Create an authentic looking mail in minutes and send it to a co-worker posing as your boss or anything else that comes to your mind. Similarly, for a small fee you can even send out spoof messages to anywhere and the recipient will see the sender number and Name which you want them to see.
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2. Change the Keyboard layout from QWERTY to DVORAK:Dvorak is just another form of Keyboard gaining popularity slowly and on windows especially Windows 7 you can change settings easily to let other people think that their Keyboard has gone wild. Here's how to do it.
1 - Click the Start button.
2 - Click "Control Panel."
3 - Click on either "Clock, Language, and Region" or "Region and Language," depending on if you have your control panel items sorted by categories or icons.
4 - Click the "Keyboards and Languages" tab.
5 - Click the "Change keyboards..." button.
6 - Click the "Add..." button.
7 - Click on "English (United States)," then "Keyboard," and finally, "United States-Dvorak."
3. The Blue Screen of Death Screen saver :Make your co-worker think their PC crashed when they get back from lunch. The BSOD available for windows(ironically.) For other operating system "support," check out the Linux BSOD 'saver with support for Apple, Windows, and Linux crash screens.
4 . Hijack Firefox with a simple addon: Your victim use Firefox? Install the "
Total Confusion Pack " Firefox extension, which enables the following "features" on April 1st only:
a Two Steps Back: Make the back button go back twice—not every time, but only on random instances.
b Rick Rollr: Switch out 2% of the video clips your victim watches with the infamous Rick Astley video.
c The Devil's Inbox: Make the number of unread email in your victim's Gmail inbox exactly 666.
d Highs and Lows/Sarcarsm Enhancer/For real: Add LOL, *sigh*, "for real," "Whatever" and various other commentary to web page text.
e Watch it: Make it look as if the page was loading forever. (Now this is just plain mean.)
5. Use NetSend to give out authentic looking popups that display your message: All you need is netsend and your Victim's IP. Here's one person's prank
A good prank that I have played on some friends involves the net send command. What I did was I used the net send command to send a message that said "Microsoft has detected that you have a small penis. Please consider upgrading for better performance" to other people on my local network. When you use the net send command in the command prompt, you specify the computer you want it sent to by typing the computer name, it also says on the message which computer it came from, so I changed my computer name to Microsoft, so it appeared, to the technically challenged, that the message actually came from Microsoft. In case you were interested, the syntax for the net send is:
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Scientists Seek To Create Inorganic Life. All life on earth is based on organic biology – in the form of carbon compounds – but the inorganic world is considered to be inanimate.A team from Glasgow University has demonstrated a new way of making inorganic chemical cells.
The aim is to create self-replicating, evolving inorganic cells which could be used in medicine and chemistry. The project is being led by Professor Lee Cronin from the university's College of Science and Engineering.He said: "What we are trying do is create self-replicating, evolving, inorganic cells that would essentially be alive. You could call it inorganic biology."Researchers say the cells, which can also store electricity, could potentially be used in all sorts of applications in medicine, as sensors or to confine chemical reactions.The research is part of a project by Prof Cronin to demonstrate that inorganic chemical compounds are capable of self-replicating and evolving – just as organic, biological carbon-based cells do. Antimagnets That Nullify Magnetic Fields. Researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have obtained a formula for building a " Antimagnet." that can nullify the magnetic field, a discovery that was published in the New Journal of Physics.UAB researchers publish in New Journal of Physics a formula to create a device capable of blocking any type of magnetic field.
The antimagnet will make it possible for people with pacemakers to undergo magnetic resonances and to control the magnetic fields of technological devices.Researchers worked to obtain a formula which will cover three objectives. First, an object's magnetic field will not penetrate the exterior once it is covered by the antimagnet. Second, everything cloaked by the antimagnet will be protected from external magnetic fields and the object inside will be undetectable. Nanotechnology pushes battery life to eternity. (PhysOrg.com) -- A simple tap from your finger may be enough to charge your portable device thanks to a discovery made at RMIT University and Australian National University.
In a crucial step towards the development of self-powering portable electronics, researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have for the first time characterised the ability of piezoelectric thin films to turn mechanical pressure into electricity. The pioneering result is published in the 21 June Issue of the leading materials science journal, Advanced Functional Materials. Lead co-author Dr Madhu Bhaskaran said the research combined the potential of piezoelectrics - materials capable of converting pressure into electrical energy - and the cornerstone of microchip manufacturing, thin film technology. Zombie Ant Manipulation Method Revealed in Detail: Study. Zombie ants biting the underside of leaves as a result of infection by O. unilateralis.
(PLoS ONE) Just how exactly parasitic fungi turn their ant hosts into zombies has been unveiled in a new study, to be published in the journal BMC Ecology. Scientists looked at the carpenter ant Camponotus leonardi, which inhabits the rainforest canopy in Thailand. They found that the ant's behavior changes significantly after infection by the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis for a number of reasons. Top Ten New Species Named for This Year. By Cassie RyanEpoch Times Staff Created: May 23, 2011 Last Updated: March 8, 2012 It is flat like a pancake and researchers say when it moves on the sea floor it resembles a 'walking bat' with its odd arm-like fins bouncing it across the abyss.
(Prosanta Chakrabarty/Louisiana State University, USA) A T. rex leech, a pancake batfish, and an underwater mushroom are among the winners on this year's top 10 new species list, announced today, May 23, to coincide with the 304th birthday of Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who fathered modern taxonomy and the classification system used by scientists. Tyrannobdella rex, a Peruvian leech under 2 inches long, has a single jaw with gigantic teeth to match its name, meaning "tyrant leech king."
It was first discovered when a leech attached itself to the inside of someone's nose. New Elements Added to the Periodic Table. By Alex JohnstonEpoch Times Staff Created: June 9, 2011 Last Updated: June 9, 2011 Two new elements, 114 and 116, were introduced to the periodic table.
(Photos.com) Scientists finely control methane combustion to get different products. Scientists have discovered a method to control the gas-phase selective catalytic combustion of methane, so finely that if done at room temperature the reaction produces ethylene, while at lower temperatures it yields formaldehyde.
The process involves using gold dimer cations as catalysts -- that is, positively charged diatomic gold clusters. Being able to catalyze these reactions, at or below room temperature, may lead to significant cost savings in the synthesis of plastics, synthetic fuels and other materials. The research was conducted by scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Ulm. Video: Magnetic Gels That Swim, Shimmy, and 'Walk' DNA nanoforms: Miniature architectural forms. Miniature architectural forms -- some no larger than viruses -- have been constructed through a revolutionary technique known as DNA origami.
Now, Hao Yan, Yan Liu and their colleagues at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have expanded the capability of this method to construct arbitrary, two and three-dimensional shapes, mimicking those commonly found in nature. Such diminutive forms may ultimately find their way into a wide array of devices, from ultra-tiny computing components to nanomedical sentries used to target and destroy aberrant cells or deliver therapeutics at the cellular or even molecular level.
In the April 15 issue of Science, the Yan group describes an approach that capitalizes on (and extends) the architectural potential of DNA. The new method is an important step in the direction of building nanoscale structures with complex curvature -- a feat that has eluded conventional DNA origami methods. Graphene. A team of researchers from the University of Arizona and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have increased the toughness of ceramic composites by using graphene reinforcements that enable new fracture resistance mechanisms in the ceramic.
The research, lead by Assistant Professor Erica L. Corral from the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and Professor Nikhil Koratkar from the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, was recently published in ACS Nano, the monthly journal of the American Chemical Society. "Our work on graphene ceramic composites is the first of its kind in the open literature and shows mechanisms for toughening using two-dimensional graphene sheets that have yet to be seen in ceramic composites," said Corral. New spin on graphene makes it magnetic. A team led by Professor Andre Geim, a recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for graphene, can now show that electric current -- a flow of electrons -- can magnetise graphene.
The results, reported in Science, could be a potentially huge breakthrough in the field of spintronics. Spintronics is a group of emerging technologies that exploit the intrinsic spin of the electron, in addition to its fundamental electric charge that is exploited in microelectronics. New way to control magnetic properties of graphene discovered. University of Maryland researchers have discovered a way to control magnetic properties of graphene that could lead to powerful new applications in magnetic storage and magnetic random access memory. The finding by a team of Maryland researchers, led by Physics Professor Michael S.
Fuhrer of the UMD Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials is the latest of many amazing properties discovered for graphene. A honeycomb sheet of carbon atoms just one atom thick, graphene is the basic constituent of graphite. Some 200 times stronger than steel, it conducts electricity at room temperature better than any other known material (a 2008 discovery by Fuhrer, et. al). What the Heck is Three-Phase Power (and how can you get some)? I recently moved my shop, and in addition to the big issues, from forklift rental to sleep deprivation, we also had to deal with things like three-phase power, a variation of power delivery often used for big equipment. The old shop had it and the new shop doesn't. So what the heck is three-phase power and how can you convert machinery to go from the more common single-phase to three-phase and vice versa? Read on. For us, the impact was limited because only the air compressor had a three-phase motor.
Some of the welding equipment had been running on three-phase, but can easily be re-configured to run on either three-phase or single-phase. Unprecedented Cosmic Explosion Spawns an Intergalactic Mystery. A mystery is unfolding out there in the cosmos, and NASA's Swift, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-Ray Observatory are teaming up to solve the case. But while researchers have pieced together some of the pieces of the puzzle over the last week, the huge, high-energy blast continues to brighten and fade, making it the brightest, longest-lasting such burst of energy researchers have ever seen. It all started when Swift's Burst Alert Telescope picked up a powerful gamma-ray burst on March 28, at which point it notified scientists the world over.
Astronomers sometimes see gamma-ray bursts like this when a star dies, but these bursts generally last a few hours or less. The plot thickened when the burst didn't fade away. "Einstein's Pedometer" App Measures How Special Relativity Affects Your Daily Activity. Runners live longer, so they say, and a new iPhone app proves it through the theory of special relativity. Just in time for marathon season!
As your velocity increases, time as you experience it slows down relative to something moving slower than you. A passenger on a spaceship traveling near the speed of light would appear to have aged less than his friends when he returned to Earth, for instance. Similarly, a fast runner appears to gain time compared to a slow runner. Einstein's Pedometer brings special relativity to your daily activities, showing how much time you gain by moving. How to turn the vacuum into a superconductor - physics-math - 08 April 2011. TURNING a vacuum into a superconductor could be as simple as zapping it with a super-powerful magnet.
That's according to Maxim Chernodub of the University of Tours in France, who believes powerful magnetic fields could pluck charged particles out of the vacuum of space and set them flowing as a current that never encounters any resistance. This seemingly bizarre proposal is a consequence of the uncertainty principle of quantum theory, which says we can never be sure that a vacuum is truly empty. Instead, space is fizzing with "virtual" particles, which tend to disappear almost as soon as they form.


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CatMet Management Group Minutes
January 28, 2009
Attendees: Peter Bushnell, Jane Anne Carey, Jimmie Lundgren, Nancy Poehlmann, Betsy Simpson, Doug Smith, Priscilla Williams, Naomi Young
2/4/09 Department Meeting
The agenda for the upcoming department meeting will include a Q&A time with Dean Russell as well as a recap of highlights from the ALA Midwinter Meeting.
The 10% budget cut proposal for the department is due February 6. To prepare, units should prioritize their core functions.
An FSU library school student, who is currently working in the Education Library, is interested in doing an internship in CatMet during the Summer semester. Betsy is working out the details with Iona.
Brief Records
Recently, Jane Anne noticed that WorldCat includes FUG original Encoding Level M records (with no holdings) for Baldwin titles. Betsy has been in touch with OCLC to find out how the records got there and what should be done about them. Jimmie mentioned that similar records for UF-owned antique maps were discovered in the past. We think, but want OCLC to confirm, that these records were added to RLIN, eventually got loaded into WorldCat as a result of the RLIN merger, and will be removed automatically by OCLC.
Active Directory Migration
Concern was expressed that some staff may not have seen the link to the step-by-step instructions for the e-mail migration.


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This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी" (Tukaram: For a bedbug a bed is like a castle. so much climbing up and down!)... George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"...William Hazlitt: "Pictures are scattered like stray gifts through the world; and while they remain, earth has yet a little gilding."
G C Lichtenberg: "It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word; when we ask for a word, they give us a dash; and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy."
W H Auden: "But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie. / Mortal, guilty, but to me/ The entirely beautiful."
Werner Herzog: "We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution."
John Gray: "Unlike Schopenhauer, who lamented the human lot, Leopardi believed that the best response to life is laughter. What fascinated Schopenhauer, along with many later writers, was Leopardi's insistence that illusion is necessary to human happiness."
Art Spiegelman: "You know words in a way are hitting you on the left side of your brain, music and visual arts hit on the right side of the brain, so the idea is to pummel you, to send you from left brain to right brain and back until you're as unbalanced as I am."
विलास सारंग: "संदर्भ कुठलेही असोत, संस्कृत, इंग्रजी, बुद्धिवादी, तांत्रिक, इतिहासाचे, खगोलशास्त्राचे, आधुनिक पदार्थविज्ञानाचे, शिवकालीन व पेशवाईतील बखरीचे, अगणित ज्ञानक्षेत्रांचे, अशा वैविध्यपूर्ण ज्ञानावर लेखन- विशेषत: कवितालेखन- उभं राहत."
Friday, July 31, 2009
Never Found in Translation that is Lost in the Neglect of One's Own Heritage
Never mind neglect of existing world-class monuments in Mumbai itself: cave temples of Jogeshwari and Mandapeshwar, not to mention sorry state of countless forts and other historical places in Maharashtra.
Read more on this in the essay published by Frontline July 31, 2009 here.
I came across this beautiful line from Thana Gazette (written by a Brit?) in the said essay: "Kanheri is the only rock-cut monastery in western India that has the feeling of having been, and of being ready again to be, a pleasant and popular dwelling place."
...Sir, you may check in because your room is ready...For last hundreds of years!
If we inherit a place like this, shouldn't we be leaving one behind? Isn't that in our contract with our grandchildren?
Remember, the Jogeshwari caves, the Brahminical caves belonging to A.D. 520-550, are the first rock-cut cave temples built by Hindus in the country.
But we are happy chanting: Garv se kaho hum Hindu hai!!! (Say with pride we are Hindus)
When people don't preserve their own glorious heritage, how can we expect them to import great books from other cultures?
Recently on Guardian's website, I found "The top 100 books of all time"
I have not read majority of them but I wondered how many of them have been translated in Marathi.
For someone like me, translation was important because most books from the list, I read first time, were in Marathi. For example, I have read a number of Stefan Zweig's books in Marathi because my father Gopal Dutt Kulkarni गोपाळ दत्त कुलकर्णी had translated them from English.
Translation of great books in a language enriches it. In Marathi, Sane-guruji साने-गुरुजी, who himself translated many books from foreign and other Indian languages, sought such enrichment.
Read a related post that appeared on this blog earlier.
As per my knowledge only following books from the top 100 have been translated in Marathi.
I will be happy to correct this list. ('?????' denotes it probably exists.)
1> Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories (I have read in Marathi first)
2> Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice ?????
3> Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote, (I have read in Marathi first)
4> Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
5> Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations ?????
6> Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
7> Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House
8> Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala, (Read in Marathi)
9> Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC), (Read in Marathi)
10> Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales ?????
11-13> William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
14> Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels, (Read in Marathi)
15> Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500) (Read abridged version in Marathi)
16> Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana, (Read in Marathi)
Just 16 out of 100? Not even passing marks!
And for criminal neglect of our heritage as depicted in the picture below? Negative marks!
Seepage and water stagnation at the Jogeshwari caves
(picture courtesy: Frontline, July 31 2009)


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on-IDLE Deliver New Website and Celebrate 5th Birthday
23 September 2004, London, UK
on-IDLE Deliver New Website and Celebrate 5th Birthday
Design and Web Development Agency on-IDLE Celebrate 5th Birthday and Commence EU Growth
on-IDLE http://www.on-idle.com, the design and web development agency is celebrating its 5th trading year, and delivers a new website.
Steady business and an impressive client list have ensured on-IDLE continues to prosper. on-IDLE established in June 1999 provide Branding, Design and Development services for: web, extranet, intranet, mobile devices, print and signage, with a specialist focus on Flash, XML, XSLT, CSS, accessibility, usability and Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS).
on-IDLE Co-Founder and Managing Director Ané-Mari Peter says, "Reaching our 5th birthday is the realisation that on-IDLE is all grown up, we've just moved to new office space to accommodate necessary expansion and are launching our new website on Wednesday, 23rd of September 2004 – it's a very exciting time".
Their portfolio includes offerings such as the on-line press office for the General Medical Council http://www.gmcpressoffice.co.uk, the corporate website and intranet for the New West End Company http://www.newwestend.com, the International Society of Typographic Designers' website (ISTD) http://www.istd.org.uk, and the home page re-design for the Swiss Embassy London http://www.swissembassy.org.uk. on-IDLE continues to foster vital links with educational institutions such as the London College of Communication (LCC, formerly London College of Printing) designing the dynamic website and corporate identity for the new Photography and the Research Archive Centre http://www.photographyresearchcentre.co.uk, the soon to be launched dynamic website for the LCC's School of Media and the recently launched short courses site for the University of Art and Design, Zurich (HGKZ) http://www.dranbleiben.ch.
on-IDLE's continuing success and measured growth is largely down to the small and sophisticated team that combines great design with best of breed Open Source technologies and a firm belief in accessibility and usability to bring the client effective online and offline solutions that really work and bring measurable results.
Their business-focus has seen a move away from their original high-end software development roots five years ago to a truly holistic design and development hybrid today. The company can handle sections of, or complete developments making them an ideal and non-threatening development and design partner to advertising and media agencies in the UK (e.g. Fox Kalomaski Ltd) and Switzerland (e.g. InfoBox GmbH and WebTrendsMedia GmbH).
Ané-Mari Peter elaborates: "Our continued user-centric focus ensures that our new and existing customers receive the very best from a combination of our consultancy, design and development services. Our business and practices are transparent which our clients appreciate as they generally have perfectly valid reservations and concerns about interactive experiences. To allay these, we tend to support sites with usability-tested content management systems (including Flash-driven sites), which give clients the ability to manage their own online campaigns, databases and sites without the repeat expense of agency services, making for highly cost effective and easy to maintain online solutions".
Marc Peter, Co-founder and Creative Director sums it up, "Today we are enjoying our business. We have moved into a settled stage with an expanding and interesting new client list, whilst maintaining our strong relationships with our existing clients in the UK and Europe – we manage an average of 60% repeat business. As the say, the proof is in the pudding!"
----Notes to editors----
This press release in available in PDF, plain text and Word formats. Photographs are available of the on-IDLE team.
The media spokespeople for on-IDLE are Ané-Mari Peter, Co-Founder and Managing Director and Marc Peter Co-Founder and Creative Director.
About on-IDLE
on-IDLE is an independently owned- and managed London-based design and web development agency, established in June 1999. The company trades in the UK, Swiss, South African and German markets, with clients being on average of 60% repeat business. Typical customers are in the media, retail, travel and education sectors.
on-IDLE provide Branding, Design and Development services for offline and online mediums, which include: internet, extranet, intranet, mobile devices, print and signage. The company specialise in the development of CSS, XSLT, XML and Flash-based solutions, mostly driven by their in-house Open Source Content Management System. on-IDLE staff provide specialist web and print design software training to the London College of Communication, the Swiss Universities of Art and Design in Zürich and Bern, Online Labor Zurich and to the marketing departments of corporations. Marc and Ané-Mari Peter are also the authors of regularly published articles relating to new media industry matters in the UK, Germany and Switzerland.
What does "on-IDLE" mean?
"on-IDLE" is a script handler from the Lingo language used for Macromedia Director. It is a handler that is activated when everything is down – when the computer is idle. The "on" command activates the application / tool / device again. Similar to a car idling, it is ready to go, but only when the handler is activated (gas pedal and gears) does it go. on-IDLE do a lot of trouble-shooting and updates on previously developed work for agencies and companies, making the name more apt than ever in today's fast changing interactive environment. We always tease our customers with this made-up script: "on-IDLE go pub", i.e. leave the problem with us and go and relax.
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Of all of the All-in-One RAID solutions I've tested to date, the Comay BladeDrive G24 is the best I've seen. Most of the others launched either before Windows 8, so they didn't support SCSI Unmap, or the products had issues with SCSI Unmap, even though support was claimed. On a drive that isn't writing database information all day, and is used as a regular computer or workstation, TRIM is essential to keep the performance high. Not only does the BladeDrive support TRIM commands on the specs sheet, but it also actually works.
When it comes to performance, the BladeDrive is amazing. This is as close to enterprise levels of performance as you can get for less than a grand. The hard part is coming up with ways to use all of the performance, because like enterprise products, the BladeDrive needs a lot of multitasking to be effective.
That's really where the rub is though. BladeDrive is like a sports car that you need a place to drive. You can drive it to the gas station for coffee in the morning, but that's not what it's built for. If you need the performance, it has more than enough to offer.
I think anyone shopping for a high performance SSD in this price range will already have the applications in place, and know they need the performance. If this review was a few weeks out, we'd have some professional applications ready to publish with BladeDrive. When we are ready to publish the new test results, we'll be sure to include the BladeDrive in the charts.


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Axl Rose speaks out in rare interview pre show!
Axl Rose & DJ Ashba
Axl Rose speaks out in a very rare video interview pre show in Abu Dhabi!
He's funny, he's polite and he's sweet. Legendary rocker and notoriously media-shy Axl Rose in an exclusive chat with tabloid! reveals why the band has stood the test of time
When Axl Rose and the boys burst onto the stage on Thursday night in Abu Dhabi, you could have already worked out that they were going to rock Abu Dhabi. What you couldn't have known, was just minutes before they set the stage alight, legendary rocker Rose was sipping tea while chatting to tabloid!.
"We better get out there before they tear the house down," said Rose tipping his head acknowledging the gathered crowd cranking up the volume.
"I'll be blaming you. You know that," he added as the entire group broke into laughter and headed off for the show.
According to his manager, Doc Mcghee, Rose has not given an interview for 14 years.
"I don't know what you've done, but you did something right," he said expressing his utter surprise that the red-haired singer was willing to talk.
The American rock star has been notoriously media-shy (read anti-media) since the implosion of the original band — the hitmakers behind seminal rock songs such as Sweet Child O'Mine and Paradise City. Rose even wrote the song Get in the Ring about his disgust for the media and all the lies he claims journalists and publications printed over the years.
But this week was different and as he politely asked for "any kind of tea" from a member of his crew, he settled into his chair and prepared to open up.
As with every good story there's always a bit of drama. You see this story almost wasn't told because while tabloid! knew Rose was in town, it was also made clear, initially, there would be no interview (as has been the case for the past 14 years).
You can therefore understand why a desperate chase across Yas Island (in flip flops) swiftly followed when "that'"call came in to say he said "yes".
"There is a lotta rockin people out there," said Rose looking almost nervous [replace the word rockin with any swear word to get the full effects of the interview]. "Oops, is it bad to say that?" he added before quickly changing the subject.
"I played in the Middle East once before," continued Rose needing no prompt. "It was for about 50,000. It was insane. We've been trying to come play again since so tonight is gonna be wow. A lot of rockets and bombs. We're excited we try to go all out," he said ahead of the sell-out gig, the last of the Flash Entertainment-organised Yas Arena Show Weekends.
"For me one of the really cool things is I don't have to get on at everybody in the band. Hey do this, do that, you know. Because they're excited. Everybody takes a certain amount of pride in what they do. Plus they all get on at each other about it anyway. Everybody goes out there and tries to give everything they can. And we stay out there a couple hours more, you know, until we feel the crowd is happy. Or until we feel like we've done a good job. It's kinda like going to the gym or something, you know, you don't leave until you feel like you're supposed to."
There's a slight pause before all four members burst out laughing. "It's just hard to get in the gym," Rose eventually concedes. "Yeah they won't let me smoke on the treadmill," added guitarist DJ Ashba still laughing.
South America, Asia and just off the back of more than 40 gigs across Europe, Guns N' Roses is off to Russia next saying the diversity of an audience never fails to amaze them.
"I think it's a lot to do with the material from the past and a hell of a lot to do with the heart that was put into it then," said Rose his fingers covered with giant rings, each with a new plaster covering the finger underneath.
"But if we weren't putting the heart into it now, if I wasn't putting my heart into it, the fans, they're not gonna let me get away with it. We have to live up to something, have to work a bit harder because you're living up to the legend or a myth or whatever," he said, deep in thought. "It's more pressure when you're playing to live up to myth."
Guns N' Roses formed in 1985, a time when Rose insists things were very different when it came to restrictions regarding performances.
"In the club days, like '88 and '89, you could fall off stage and that was OK. Then it turned into I can't dive off but other bands can. I'd be doing everything I can not to fall off. I always see the tape on stage. The glow in the dark tape on the edge. I remember when they didn't have it at the LA Coliseum when we opened for The Stones. When the lights went down, I went down."
Multi-cultural crowd
Stopping to listen to the fans getting progressively louder, Rose said he was looking forward to playing to a multi-cultural crowd.
"The diverse crowd aspect is actually the most interesting part for me because I think that pretty much sums up why the Guns catalogue has stood the test of time," he said, still with an ear on the fans.
"It crosses genres, it crosses religious lines, you know. It's music that people can relate to. That there is such a diverse crowd out there it makes it a lot of fun."
Looking up from under the dark lenses of his aviators, Rose broke a smile. "We've crossed a few lines for certain," he said. "And we'll continue that."
Check out the above review online >HERE<
Check out a very rare pre show video interview with Axl & his full band >HERE<
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Palit GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin light LE review -
With pretty much no graphics card releases from NVIDIA for Q4 this year you'll probably see some refresh models from their board partners. Now, we have seen the GTX 560 Ti in many models and flavors already, yet Palit did something really nice. See, they just released a limited edition GeForce GTX 560 Twin Light Turbo Edition.
After the initial launch reference reviews NVIDIA's partners released more customized solutions onto the market for the GeForce GTX 560 Ti series. The Twin Light Turbo Edition we test today comes with a custom PCB and a new heatpipe cooler that will hopefully bring good temperatures versus low noise levels. That new cooler is the shiznit though as honestly, it's an innovative and just really good looking cooler.
The fans are located BEHIND the cooling fins, giving the product that passively cooled look, whilst kicking out some thunder from down under.
In this article we'll take the Palit GeForce GTX 560 Twin Light Turbo Limited Edition for a test spin. In the reference and following reviews you guys learned that NVIDIA has nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to the baseline performance of the GTX 560 Ti, the overclocking potential however was also really impressive.
And AIB/AIC partners realize that very much, so you'll spot products clocked at core frequencies of 900 MHz and some of them will even brute force attack that upper threshold higher.
The GeForce GTX 560 Twin Light Turbo Edition tested today indeed comes all customized and is also factory overclocked, albeit a little. The GPU is clocked at 830 MHz and its memory at 4100 MHz, thus both are a slice faster than the reference baseline clocked products.
As a result of that excellent cooling we can actually overclock this card in the 950 MHz range, and that my friends means value. Boost a little additional voltage in there... and you might even reach that 1 GHz barrier.
Have a peek and then let's head into the review... next page please.
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Westover ARB cuts more than 300 jobs by 2015May 1, 2014 |
By G. Michael Dobbs
email@example.com WESTOVER ARB – Brig. Gen. Steven Vautrain expressed the hope that many of the reservists whose positions are expected to be cut from the 439th Airlift Wing can be maintained by not filling vacancies and re-training. With one of the airwing's 16 C-5 cargo planes as a backdrop at the press event on April 28, Vautrain said the cuts are due to the sequestration legislation that was triggered when Congress failed to find the means to reduce federal spending. He said the announcement is "bad news," but added, "Westover is going to stay here a long time." Eight of the C-5s will be transferred to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, in 2015. Westover will then have eight up-graded C-5 M planes, he explained. The airwing will then lose positions filled by 59 full-time enlisted and 275 drilling reservists on October 2015. Vautrain said that while he was given a number he has not been told the specific positions. Getting the news at this time will give the airwing personnel time to begin plans to keep as many of the affected reservists. He noted the reservists in question are "very experienced people." Vautrain said, "These changes affect the core of our mission here – our dedicated men and women. These reductions will incur hardships on our people. We will take care of our people; we will place as a many as possible in other positions within the wing and programs will be available to assist those displaced by this change in force structure. We will continue to fulfill our global mobility mission before, during and after these changes." The base has about 2,600 reservists, 450 civilian and contract employees as well as 2,200 personnel from the Army, Navy and Marines, the general said. He anticipates the airwing, which performs about 100 missions a year, will still operate at the same level. Vautrain added the airwing is undertaking three missions at this time. Vautrain said the Air Force is refocusing its mission and the number of aircraft in light of the president's new defense strategy and the Budget Control Act's requirements to cut $487 billion from the defense budget over the next eight years. He acknowledged there will be a negative impact on the local economy of which the airwing is a major driver. In 2013, Westover contributed $225 million to the region, according to its website. Chicopee Mayor Richard Kos released a statement after the press conference, "Gen. Vautrain announced today the proposed reduction of the 439th Airlift Wing's C-5 fleet from 16 to eight planes and the loss of more than 300 active and reservist jobs at Westover as a result of Pentagon budget cuts and sequestration. While the nature of the cuts are disheartening, knowing they will not take place until October of 2015 provides an opportunity for the city to work with both state and federal officials to address their impact. We will work with Congressman [Richard] Neal and our state delegation to pursue all options available for Chicopee and Westover." Neal met with Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Deborah Lee James on April 29 and released a written statement: "I had a good conversation with the Secretary Air Force today to discuss the future force structure of Westover Air Reserve Base. As dean of the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation, I invited her to meet with the entire delegation and local, state and federal stakeholders so we can speak with one voice about Westover's importance to the region and the nation. After Gen. Vautrain's announcement yesterday, I thought it was important to contact Secretary James quickly and schedule a meeting to promote and protect the base in Chicopee. "For more than two years, there has been speculation about a potential reduction in Westover's force structure. Because of budget cuts and sequestration, virtually every military base in the country faces force structure reductions. Approximately $487 billion is required to be cut from the defense budget over the next eight years. He concluded, "From my perspective, the Westover announcement was merely a recommendation that has yet to be considered by Congress. I strongly believe the restructuring process remains very fluid. The House and Senate Armed Services Committee will have a significant voice in this debate and so will the entire Congress. I look forward to the delegation meeting with the Air Force Secretary so we can reaffirm our collective support for Westover and all the military bases in Massachusetts." |


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Went to my Hillcrest Kismet plant today and took a few more photos. Let me know if this looks closer to Hillcrest Kismet.
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That looks exactly like my Hillcrest Kizmet...:-) |
That is it, indeed, in all its glory. Very lovely bloom. Did you post the laciniated one in those same colors, or was that someone else? |
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Well done. |
- Posted by plantlady2 NW Washington (My Page) on Mon, Sep 11, 06 at 14:45
The first two are Hillcrest Kismet. The laciniated one looks like Coral Frills. If they were on the same plant you might have a sport that you can take cuttings from & propagate & try again next year. |
Well if that is Coral Frills I'm really sad, because the one I got rotted :( I love those colors! |
If I wind up taking cuttings from the sport, I'll save some for you ladies.... DB |
Fabulous, Dahliaboy! Whatever I can trade you, is yours. |
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openSUSE 11.1 Downloads: 175TByte traffic in first 30 hours
It didn't quite make the planned 200TB, but with 175BT in 30 hours, openSUSE 11.1 has again set a new download record.
openSUSE has published first figures regarding downloads of Version 11.1. Taking the 4.3GByte DVD downloads into consideration, openSUSE counted 40.000 downloads of Version 11.1 in the first 30 hours with the 32 bit version making up 58% of downloads, the 64bit variation 31%. The Live and Add-on CD versions accounting for the rest. The figures relate to the direct downloads from software.opensuse.org only, disregarding the download numbers from mirror servers.
For the 64bit Version, the figures mark an increase of 3% over last year with the complete download volume up 5% (163 TByte for 11.0). Around 23.500 users have uploaded hardware profiles over smolt and with the help of IP addresses, the openSUSE Project has counted about 100.000 updates.
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Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
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Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.
Poll: Vote for the Best Open Source Software for Photographers
The Linux New Media Awards have honored the most significant products, projects, people, and organizations for open source/Linux every year since 2000.
Debian Gets Forked
Legendary Uber-distro splits over the systemd controversy.
Linux Mint Project Releases Mint 17.1
New LTS version offers many refinements for the Cinnamon and Mate desktops and significant improvement under the hood.
CeBIT Open Source Forum Call for Papers
One of CeBIT's most successful forums returns in 2015.