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CSS play - F.a.S.T - Fit and Shrink Technique
11th April 2010
In collaboration with Román Cortés
The Problem
How to fit images of unknown sizes into fixed width and height boxes and maintain their aspect ratio using just CSS.
The four sample images shown below are actual size.
The Answer
The boxes below are 180 pixels square and all use the same code and styling to show how the above images can be styled to fit, and shrink to fit.
Tested and working in IE7, IE7 emulation, IE8, Firefox, Opera, Safari(PC), Chrome, Flock, SeaMonkey, Avant and Maxthon.
IE6 shows all the images correctly sized but does not center the image when it is smaller than the containing box.
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This demonstration is produced in collaboration with Román Cortés who came to me with the idea and a working demonstration that had a few flaws.
I have taken the code and restyled it to produce a version that now works in all modern browsers including IE6 and IE7.
The idea is based on the problem of how to fit images of unknown size into a fixed size containing box, such as used when uploading images for display without having to use javascript to find and manipulate the image size.
With this method an image that is smaller than the box size will be centerd horizontally, one that is the same size as the box will fit exactly, an image that is taller (portrait) than the box will shrink to fit the box height and will be centered horizontally and finally an image that is wider (lanscape) than the box will shrink to fit the box width.
14th April 2010
CSS simplified to remove need for separate IE stylesheet
You may use this method on your personal 'non-profit' web site without seeking my permission. A link back to CSSplay is always appreciated.
Commercial usage is also permitted without seeking approval, but I would ask that a donation is considered to support my work on CSSPlay.
If you are having problems integrating any of my demonstrations into your website then I now offer a service to fault find and correct any errors that you may have introduced. Please email me for more information.


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Fewer Customers Leaves Leap Facing iPhone Glut
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - Wireless company earnings season is revealing that some of are having trouble keeping customers satisfied -- or even keeping customers.
This country's number four major provider, T-Mobile USA, just reported in its fourth-quarter financials that, despite some signs of growth in its prepaid customer rolls, they continue to lose contract customers. The bottom line: a revenue decline of $1 billion for the year, leading to an overall operating loss of $6.4 billion. That's up from a $4.3 billion setback in the previous year.
It remains to be seen whether T-Mobile's upcoming merger with MetroPCS (PCS) will solve that problem, with that pairing set to be completed next month.
Meanwhile Leap Wireless International (LEAP - Get Report) and its pre-paid cellular operation Cricket lost more than 600,000 subscribers last year, which has left the company with a surprisingly large backlog of Apple (AAPL - Get Report) iPhones.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Cricket's excess iPhone inventory is worth some $100 million, and is expected to grow even larger. Cricket/Leap has a three-year, approximately $800 million contract in place with Apple, which includes set purchase amounts of smartphones per year. Unfortunately for Leap, Cricket appears to be on track to sell only half of this year's allotment -- and its commitment to purchase iPhones increases in the second and third years of that contract. Officially, Leap blames its shortfalls on ever-increasing competition and "overall softness in the wireless industry." Cricket currently sells the iPhone 5 for $499 (remember there's no contract) with prepaid service plans starting in the $50 a month range. --Written by Gary Krakow in New York. >To submit a news tip, send an email to: firstname.lastname@example.com Out Our Best Services for Investors
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The next spectacular chapter in I AM AN AVENGER comes at you with fan-favorite writer Roberto Sacasa leading the charge: By day, Ben Grimm is a member of the Fantastic Four; by night, he is one of Luke Cage's New Avengers. Except...it's never that cut-and-dry, is it? Where do your allegiances lie when both teams need you and one team is your family? Avengers across New York engage in a long-forgotten battle--one that Firestar and Justice can end if they're willing to pay the price! Ms. Marvel and Spider-Woman recall their days of past glory, while looking forward to the future (and beating the snot out of punks.) And Tony Stark learns not to mess with teenaged angst, especially when it's "Stature"-esque in scale!
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This came to mind while I was sitting in Sakura at Doral, contemplating a "Philly cheese steak roll" stuffed with grilled meat, melted mozzarella cheese, tomato, lettuce, avocado, and mayo, and assembled behind the counter by a Peruvian sushi chef. That would just be for starters, though. We'd choose our entr'es from the Korean menu. Oh, it's a crazy, mixed-up, sushi-loving world all right, and one in which not all municipalities are equal. Rome, for example, founded in 735 B.C., was named for the great conqueror Romulus. Doral, incorporated as a city four years ago this month, gets its name from Doris and Al Kaskel, the money behind the similarly self-monikered golf and spa resort located within its boundaries. Be that as it may, it is only proper that when in Doral, to do as the Doralites do, which for the past decade has been to dine at Sakura. The Doral Boulevard branch is the second Japanese dining venue for Korean owner Bok H. An. The original South Dixie Highway location, still going strong, debuted 25 years ago as Coral Gables' first sushi restaurant. Like the Gables, Doral has a large Hispanic presence (per capita the most Venezuelan city in the United States), which helps to explain the Latin flavor of Sakura's sushi chefs and clientele. But about three years ago, Bok took a good look around the neighborhood and noted his own ethnicity's numbers growing as well. That's when he added about 20 Korean specialties to the bill of fare.
It's not as if more items were needed. Sushi selections alone filibuster the first four or five pages of the voluminous menu. About two dozen fish and shellfish are offered per piece as sushi or sashimi (all $2.50 or less, excepting sea urchin, Alaskan king crab, yellowtail, and toro tuna). There are small rolls ($5 to $8), medium rolls ($7 to $11), large rolls ($11 to $15), and hand rolls ($4 to $6.50). The last are more common in the States than Japan, probably because the cone shape can accommodate an oversize diet's worth of wacky ingredients.
440 S. Dixie Highway
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Category: Restaurant > Japanese
Region: Coral Gables/South Miami
I couldn't quite bring myself to try that silly Philly steak roll, my reluctance owing more to a sense of gastronomic anti-fusionism than economic anti-globalism. I also passed on spicy tuna roll, an invention of American sushi chefs to unload old scraps of fish by masking them with mayonnaise and chili. I did, though, sample two sashimi slices of toro, the fatty belly of the bluefin, which lacked a melt-on-the-tongue quality usually evident in even the lower-grade cuts. Hamachi's taste was seductively smoky, and its buttery texture turned out richer than that of the toro. Our final selection was eel, an apt finishing fish because of its sweet tang.
Starters slung from the sushi bar are mostly raw fish in other configurations, like tuna carpaccio, tuna tataki, and salmon tartar stimulatingly mingled with sesame oil, masago, scallion, and mayo. We enjoyed kani-su, too -- surimi crab and pastel avocado pieces rolled in cucumber and pooled in rice wine vinegar. Sakura offers an inordinate number of sushi-style rolls that do not contain any raw fish, including at least a dozen vegetable-only options.
Cooked Japanese items brought mixed results. A juicy Katsu chicken cutlet in crisp panko breading was exemplary, as were textbook tempura half-moons of zucchini, onions, sweet potato, and a broccoli floret. Slices of seared beef tataki tasted flat, and yaki soba, a bowl of bland noodles tossed with carrots, onions, and mushrooms, was the sort of dish you might expect to suffer through at a disreputable Chinese joint. la carte pricing is fair, but dinner combos represent a better deal: teriyakis, tempuras, and sushi rolls plated together, with soup or salad, for $21.95 to $23.95. Tuesday nights bring a twofer of Maine lobsters for $27.95. Daily box lunch specials are a steal, a ten-spot or less for chicken teriyaki (or salmon teriyaki, or shrimp tempura) with California roll, salad, and beef dumplings. A few dollars more upgrades the meal to a grilled skirt steak matched with sushi rolls, or to an all-sushi medley.
Do not, under any circumstances, order the tempura ice cream for dessert. It is a prefabricated, prefried, preposterous ball of cheap vanilla ice cream wrapped in lukewarm, malodorous dough.
Sakura's sushi and Japanese cuisine are decent enough, but there are surely superior spots for such. Korean chow, though, is much more difficult to come by in these parts (not just Doral, but South Florida). Those seeking a kim chee fix are therefore apt to be far less picayune in their appraisal of Sakura's efforts -- meaning this most likely will not be the best hae mool pajun you'll ever have, but it is this way or the highway. I've sampled the eggy pan-fried seafood pancake in places that piled it with all manner of sparkling shellfish. Here it comes studded with scallion stalks and stumpy pieces of shrimp and squid -- tasty, not textbook. I've had better bulgogi, too, although there is nothing inherently wrong with the wispy shreds of rib eye beef sweetly marinated in sugar, wine, sesame, and soy, and stir-fried with garlic, carrots, scallions, and mushrooms. Only the tangy, salty, and spicy kimchi jaeyook bokeum, papery snippets of pork and rectangles of tofu seeped in incendiary kim chee cabbage, compared favorably with renditions rendered elsewhere.


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The Kewaskum Area Chamber of Commerce would like to welcome you to Kewaskum, the Gateway to the Kettle Moraine State Forest. Our quaint town offers relaxation, recreation, shopping or dining, depending on what you are seeking! Only 45 miles north of Milwaukee, the short drive will allow you to shop in our historic downtown or dine in one of our restaurants. It is a great way to spend a weekend with the family.
You will find many events, activities and information about Kewaskum within this website. Everything featured on our website is in the village or just a few minutes away.
Join us in the Spring for our Annual KACC Style Show, in June for Party on the Pavement, in July we host the Community Golf Outing and we finish the year with our Christmas Parade. We hope you find Kewaskum enjoyable and visit us soon.


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American Girl's Kit makes her big screen debut in a new feature film coming to theaters nationwide on July 2
New Ruthie Doll, Kit's Best Friend, Joins American Girl's Historical Line
Middleton, WI–May 9, 2008–This summer, Kit Kittredge®, American Girl's popular 1930s-era character, comes to life in the company's first full-length feature film, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. Starring Oscar® nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Nim's Island) as Kit, the new film (based on the bestselling Kit book series) arrives in theaters nationwide on July 2, 2008. To celebrate the film's premiere, American Girl has created an array of Kit movie-related products for girls 8 and up, including an 18-inch Ruthie doll, Kit's best friend and the newest doll to join the company's popular historical line.
Since her introduction in 2000, Kit-a clever, resourceful girl growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1934-has won the hearts of millions of girls for her spirit, compassion, and determination as she and her family struggle against the financial and emotional hardships of the Great Depression. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl shows Kit coping with financial insecurity, missing her father while he is away looking for work, and having to help her mother care for their newly-acquired boarders, but it's her concern for friends and neighbors-from the high and mighty to the down and out-that outweighs her own worries. And, while the movie doesn't shy away from tensions that arise between friends and family during tough times, it always emphasizes cooperation and community as a way to weather the worst storms.
Joining Abigail Breslin in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is an all-star ensemble cast that includes Chris O'Donnell (Batman & Robin), Julia Ormond (Legends of the Fall), Joan Cusack (Working Girl), and Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada). The Kit movie was directed by award-winning filmmaker Patricia Rozema (Mansfield Park) from a screenplay by Ann Peacock (Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe).
To help girls create their own special Kit movie moments, American Girl will introduce several new items to the Kit product line this June, including the 18-inch Ruthie doll. The Ruthie doll features long, wavy dark brown hair and gray eyes and comes with the book, Really Truly Ruthie, written by renowned American Girl author Valerie Tripp. Other featured items include Kit's Tree House, a fun, doll-sized hideaway that holds both the Kit and Ruthie dolls, along with a selection of historically accurate outfits and accessories designed to give girls today a greater understanding of what life was like growing up during America's Great Depression.
In addition, eager Kit fans can go to KitKittredge.com for a comprehensive, behind-the- scenes look at the upcoming feature film, including the movie trailer and video clips, cast and character bios, a photo gallery, games, crafts, and much more. Girls can also go to americangirl.com/movie to read Kit book excerpts, download posters, and participate in a Kit movie blog where they can post their responses to Kit-related questions posed on the site.
The new Kit movie products will be available on June 1, 2008, through the American Girl catalogue, at www.americangirl.com, and at American Girl retail stores in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Dallas. To request a free catalogue, call 1-800-845-0005.
American Girl Brands, LLC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. (NYSE: MAT, www.mattel.com), the world's leading toy company. Since American Girl's inception in 1986, the company has devoted its entire business to celebrating the potential of girls ages 3 to 12. American Girl encourages girls to dream, to grow, to aspire, to create, and to imagine through a wide range of engaging and insightful books, age-appropriate and educational products, and unforgettable experiences. In meeting its mission with a vigilant eye toward quality and service, American Girl has earned the loyal following of millions of girls and the praise and trust of parents and educators. To learn more about American Girl or to place an order, call 1-800-845-0005 or visit www.americangirl.com.
Picturehouse is a theatrical distribution and production company headed by President Bob Berney. Releases include the highly praised La Vie En Rose, winner of two Academy Awards - Best Actress for Marion Cotillard and Make Up; El Cantante, a music-infused biography of Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe, starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony; Rocket Science, the first narrative film from Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound); The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Seth Gordon's crowd-pleasing documentary; The Orphanage, produced by Academy Award-nominated director Guillermo del Toro and directed by J.A. Bayone; Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland in which Vaughn handpicked four up-and-coming comics and lead them on a remarkable comedy tour as creator and emcee; Run, FatBoy, Run, a romantic comedy that affirms that true love isn't a sprint, it's a marathon directed by David Schwimmer and starring Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, and Hank Azaria. Next up for Picturehouse is Mongol, directed by Sergei Bodrov, which delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of Genghis Khan; Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, directed by Patricia Rozema and starring Abigail Breslin as Kit, a clever, resourceful ten-year old growing up in Cincinnati in 1934; Amusement, directed by John Simpson (Freeze Frame), the film is an anthology of seemingly unrelated vignettes shockingly tied together by a common, twisted thread from the past of three former schoolmates; and The Women, a film about friends and mothers and daughters, written and directed by Diane English and starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Debra Messing, Bette Midler, Candice Bergin and Cloris Leachman.


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Before joining Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 2003, F. William Smullen III served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. As principal adviser to the secretary, he was centrally involved in the planning and development of foreign policy matters. A professional soldier for 30 years, Smullen retired from the U.S. Army in 1993. He spoke Wednesday with reporter Hart Seely about the current state of affairs in Afghanistan. Some excerpts:
Q: We've been almost eight years now in Afghanistan. We thought the war would be winding down by now. What's going on?
A: Well, it isn't winding down... The Afghan security forces -- both military and police -- are not able to provide the security that is needed. Therefore ... more U.S. troops across all services, particularly the Marines, have been called on to provide additional operational strength. So as the number of troops increases -- I think it's somewhere near 68,000 that have already been deployed -- I know President Obama ordered an additional 21,000 Americans this past spring to be added to those already on the ground.
So the numbers have gone up, and the scale of military operations has also gone up. That was the purpose for the increase in the number of troops, and that is to go into areas where the insurgents resided, principally the Taliban -- and eject them from those populated areas.
So the military operations have increased. They're not just going in and expelling the Taliban or the insurgents. They're beginning to secure and occupy and hold those pieces of ground, the territory on which the civilian population resides, generally. When you do that, you become more vulnerable.
I think that vulnerability is going to increase. This is a messy situation.
Q: How long do you think we are there?
I hate to use the word "indefinitely," because it's so imprecise -- but we are there for a long period of time.
I'm going to give you a statistic, which is fairly alarming. and which tells you the gravity of the situation. The Rand Corp. has what they call a gold standard for the number of security personnel that are required per 1,000 inhabitants to do the job. In other words, that means to not just go in and have a firefight and then go back to base camp, but to go in and secure that ground and to prevent the insurgents from coming back.
The gold standard is that, for every 1,000 inhabitants, you need 20 security personnel. That's doesn't mean just U.S. personnel, it means NATO personnel and would include Afghan personnel, which obviously needs to be increased significantly.
If you do the math, you'll see that it would take 640,000 -- because there are 32 million Afghans. Six hundred and forty thousand security personnel. Now, that's unlikely that you're ever going to get 640,000 to do the job in Afghanistan.
It does suggest that it's a tall mountain to climb. We have climbed that mountain higher in the past several months, because we have increased the numbers. But the minute you increase the numbers, you increase the vulnerability on the ground. And that means you're going to have an increase in casualties. You're going to have an increase in the number of soldiers and Marines who die. I think the number is somewhere well over 700 now of U.S. personnel that have been killed since the start of the conflict in the October of 2001.
Those numbers are going up, and it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.
Insurgencies are not like conventional war, where you can put the same number on the battlefield, and it's, 'Who's got the best equipment? Who's got the best tactics?' This is a lot more complicated...
We are now in the business of providing increased security in Afghanistan, and that's why you have a new commander, Gen. (Stanley) McChrystal, who was named as the new commander to bring new thinking to the fight and to bring more forces to the fight. I'm sure Gen. McChrystal would love to have more than the 68,000 or so that he has now.
The president is going to have to make a tough decision in the months to come. My guess is that we are there for a long period of time, Years, not months.
Years, if we're going to do this right.
It's like going on a walk in the woods. When you get halfway through the woods, you've got two choices: One is the turn around and go back. The other is to go through and reach the other side. I think that's where we are. We are halfway into this thicket that we began in October 2001. The president is going to have to make a choice that we continue and get the job done, or that we walk away from it.
We have walked away from Afghanistan before, and it was an embarrassment. It was many years ago, when we decided we would help them -- but just for a little bit. We helped them as the Mujahideen fought the Russians, the former Soviets, and we did it in not in manpower ways but in equipment ways. Then we just kind of abandoned the cause. We're back again, because we didn't get it right, and we're going to have to figure out what is right.
If what is right is getting the job done, it's going to take a lot more time than just the remainder of this year.
Q: What gives you hope about Afghanistan?
A: Well, you've got a new commander, so you've got new thinking. And he has been given carte blanche with regards to who he needs on his team to get the job done. He has not been given carte blanche in terms of the numbers; he's got about 68,000, and he has said, 'I'm going to need more.'
The hope is that with new thinking, and with renewed commitment -- we are going in and not just abandoning an area once we secure it. We are staying and holding that area, for a couple reasons.
We don't want the Taliban to return, to continue to make life miserable for the inhabitants of a particular area. We are also going to gain the confidence of the Afghan people. And we're going to provide a model for the Afghan security force, which needs to obviously become much more robust. You can't have the numbers that they are operating with now. You're going to have probably another couple hundred thousand security personnel in Afghanistan. We've got upcoming elections, so there is a lot at stake here. And I think we should be paying close attention to who is elected, or if President Karzai is re-elected, what the renewed degree of commitment on the part of the president of Afghanistan is going to be.
Q: What gives you the most cause for despair?
With the insurgency in Afghanistan, the Taliban -- first of all, they don't wear uniforms, so they can blend into the population much easier. They also have found tactics that are very useful to them. They will come in, make a splash and then depart. They're starting to use roadside bombs a lot more. The U.S. forces and Coalition forces experience in Iraq -- that is going to increase in Afghanistan, and that is a problem.
So we've got to get the equipment there as quickly as we can, as countermeasures to detect the improvised explosive devices, which are going to cause a lot more casualties as troops move around more.
Q: OK, hope or despair? Which balances heavier in your mind?
Well, I'm an optimist. We're going to get the job done, because we have the best fighting force on the face of the Earth, the best force that has ever existed, and we can be proud of that force. We have to give them the right equipment. We have to give them the support they need, not just in terms of probably more shooters, but we need to give them a greater support foundation on which they can rely to get that job done. If we do that, I'm guessing we're going to get the job done. It's just going to take a lot longer than we originally had anticipated.
Q: A lot longer?
I think the American people... need to have a dialogue. The American people have got to brace themselves. And if we don't steel ourselves to the fact that this is a long-term proposition that we are committing ourselves to, then we are going to have the same degree of frustration that we began to have with our commitment to Iraq --that is, we thought it was going to be a walk in the park, and we learned very quickly that this was a slog...
We have got to brace ourselves for the same kind of slog in Afghanistan.
We need to also tell the president our views on that. He needs to hear the views of the American people. I think that's one of the things we haven't done as a nation of people. We haven't had that degree of dialogue over the past seven years, since we invaded Afghanistan, in terms of what we were doing, what we were up against and how long it would take... It's almost as if we're in denial that this was going to take a lot of time and a lot of people power -- and a lot of casualties.
Are we ready for that as a people? If we aren't, we need to tell our elected officials, and indeed, that word needs to reach the president, so that he can make a value judgment here.
I think he's going to have to make one before the end of the year.


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"We didn't have many people, but we had active discussions," said Mayor Joe Funderburg.
The mayor and City Manager Patrick Draper meet with four District 1 residents at Fire Station No. 4 in Eden Tuesday night.
Funderburg said District 1 Council representative Jay Jenkins was unable to attend because he was out of town, but they will return to talk and listen to District 1 residents again.
"We're going to come back down here, and hopefully we'll have more people," he said.
Funderburg said this is the first of many community meetings the city is holding every month, meeting with residents from individual council districts.
"Every area has something different (issues)," Funderburg said.
He said in District 1, some people are concerned about the temporary closing of the Wolf Creek Bridge along U.S. 78.
"I've already received a couple of calls about it from business people," he said.
He said city officials will hold community meetings once a month in each district, and there are plans for another meeting in February.
"We didn't know what to expect," Funderburg said about Tuesday night's attendance. "We welcome and encourage people to attend. This gives us an opportunity to let everyone know what we are doing, and it also gives us a chance to get out and see the people, interact with them."
He was uncertain when and where the next meeting is being held, but the city will try and publicize the meeting.
"I really believe in communication," Funderburg said. "We want to sit down with people and tell them what we are doing. We do not want any mysteries or secrets. We want to be open."
The community meetings also provide an opportunity for residents to voice concerns and even offer possible solutions for city problems.
Residents asked numerous questions and even offered their opinions on city matters at Tuesday night's informal meeting. The meeting lasted about one and a half hours.
"We are trying to work for the people of Pell City, for the benefit of the people," Funderburg said.
The topics at the meeting varied from the city's debt, the new city library proposal, growth, the delivery of water, to the paving of streets and more.
Funderburg talked about the commercial property along Interstate 20 where the old hospital stands, and the plans the city has for developing the 21-acre plot.
He also talked about the current administration's strong relationship with the school system and that an agreement is near about the half-cent sales tax the school system is currently receiving but only for a limited time.
"We are not going to pull out and leave the school system holding the bag," Funderburg said. "We do have debt. Patrick has worked close with Dr. (Bobby) Hathcock and Michael Barber (the superintendent and assistant superintendent of Pell City schools)."
Draper said a resolution is close at hand.
"I am confident we will work out a solution that will not only benefit the school system but also the city," he said.
Both Funderburg and Draper said the city does have debt but the city is in solid financial shape.
Both city officials said it appears the city will have a new library after the former St. Clair County Department of Human Resources facility is renovated.
Draper told District 1 residents that between the city and the Pell City Library Guild, there is enough money to complete the renovations of the former DHR building, which will provide three times the space as the current library.
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Give Keep Your Head Up a spin - it's the latest offering from Ginuwine, having dropped on Thursday, April 28th, 2011.
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Several years ago, Southern Living magazine published a recipe for microwave peanut butter fudge that was awesome. I let it get away from me. Maybe it's on their website.
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Stop talking about Miley Cyrus' shitty video and listen to these chicks instead
Gotta give some beautiful, powerful love to the blog Depressed Fish for this entertaining and musically efficient blog posting about female singers that blow Miley Cyrus out of the effing water. :)
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Miley Cyrus makes lame music and I would call her a poor man's Rhianna but I don't want to offend poor people. She's turned herself into a bizarre creature that I can only attempt to describe as the female hybrid of Vanilla Ice and Justin Bieber, except less talented, which is saying something. People are wasting time being outraged over her predictably 'controversial' and generic new video when they could be spending that time listening to better music from more talented female artists such as these fine ladies below….
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So I had an absolute BLAST djin' (saturday night) at Figueroa Mountain Farmhouse!!! It was really AWESOME!! The bride (Megan) is one of the producers of American Idol. The groom (Clay) is also in T.V. & Production in L.A. I have to say these two people are some of the nicest people I've met. And one of the most important things to them (on their wedding day) was the music and entertainment. Thus, it was an honor to be hired as the "main entertainment" (see above photo) for dinner & dancing.
In edition to my efforts, I was able to work with a few of the bride & grooms close friends on the wedding ceremony music. I played 2 pre-recorded songs for the bridal party and bride (Re: Stacks by Bon Iver & Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Izzy) to walk down the isle too. During the ceremony three of their friends played (un-ampilified & accapella) and sang the song from the ONCE soundtrack… Falling Slowly. It was AMAZING!! They were so good! For the wedding recessional, they had an "old time band" (Triple Chicken Foot) play the wedding recessional. These guys couldn't have been better!! They played banjo, violin & acoustic guitar and sang… once the ceremony finished… Triple Chicken Foot continued playing "old time music" for the cocktail hour inside the farmhouse.


text: Which providers are RDR ready? All you need to know By Michelle Abrego, Jun Merrett 29 Oct, 2012 at 13:21 With the retail distribution review just around the corner we turn our attention to which providers have got themselves into shape for the 31 December. Not every life company out there has unveiled its adviser charging proposition for 2013 onwards. For those that have we run down which products will facilitate the adviser charging and which will be quietly closed and when. Sponsored by: AXA Wealth AXA Wealth is set to offer adviser charging across its entire product range from 31 December. The company will facilitate adviser charging for initial, spread initial, ongoing and ad hoc fees that can be a specific monetary amount or a percentage of premium. Adviser charging will be available on its retirement range including the Elevate Pension Investment account, Family Suntrust, Retirement Wealth account and its Secure Advantage product. For onshore savings and investments, adviser charging will be facilitated on the Elevate General Investment account, Elevate ISA and AXA Wealth Investment Bond. International savings and investments will also be adviser charging-friendly for the Evolution Bond, Estate Planning Bond, Regular Investment account, International Portfolio Bond, Legacy Planning Bond and Secure Advantage. Aviva Aviva announced it was retail distribution (RDR) ready in September when it was able to facilitate initial adviser charging on annuities and retirement plans, bonds, personal pensions, group personal pensions and on the Aviva wrap It will not be administering ongoing adviser charging for bonds and adviser charging on legacy products will only be facilitated on personal pensions and the wrap. Existing pension products will either have a reduced annual management charge or an increased allocation rate. It will offer adviser charging on its personal pension and will also allow it on top-ups and increases on income drawdown and its Your Pension Select @ Aviva and Commercial Union Pension plans. Group personal pensions will have consultancy charging functionality and will also allow flexibility for an individual within the group to turn on adviser charging. Aviva will continue to provide commission on pre-RDR schemes. With annuities, Aviva will offer both factory gate pricing and adviser charging. Its pension annuity, with-profit annuity, immediate life annuity and fixed-term retirement plan will all offer adviser charging. Aviva will not offer adviser charging on collectives because it expects this will be mostly done through platforms. Aviva is also set to close four products that will not be ready for the RDR on 23 November: the Aviva Sipp, Income Drawdown, Crystallised Pension Plan, Your Pension Protector. The company will continue to service the four closed products. Standard Life Standard life launched unveiled its adviser charging proposition on 15 October and announced that it has seen significant uptake since its launch. It has seen more than 6,500 existing wrap accounts moved over to adviser charging since going live with the charging structure, replacing its previous client-agreed remuneration structure. Adviser charging is also available on its Active Money Sipp and Active Money personal pension, with an option to continue with customer agreed remuneration-based transactions until the end of the year. Standard Life Retail International bond and annuities will accept adviser charging from early December. It will also facilitate initial, but not ongoing, adviser charging for annuities. Standard said it would not offer adviser charging on products where there was limited demand or which it no longer actively marketed including retail endowments, protection products, Tailored Investment Bond, With-Profit Bond, Distribution Bond, Individual stakeholder pension, Personal Pension Plan, Personal Pension Flex and Personal Pension one. Skandia Skandia announced its intention to provide adviser charging for all its life products in August. For the Skandia Life Pensions range, the core range of products will facilitate adviser charging. New business will continue to be directed through Skandia Life's current personal pension, buyout bond and drawdown contract. Some earlier pension products will stay open to top-up business and will be developed to facilitate adviser charging. Older Skandia Life pensions that are pre April 2011 will still accept top-ups but will not facilitate adviser charging. Some older products will cease to accept top-ups. Its maximum investment plan will close to new business and top ups. The Skandia Life Bond range is already closed to new business but will continue to accept top ups, however the company will not facilitate adviser charging on the top-ups. Skandia's adviser charging facility for its Skandia Investment Solutions platform launched in May and allows advisers to select monetary or percentage options for initial, ongoing, switching and ad hoc fees. The company set maximum fees of 4.5% for initial, 3% for switching and 1.5% ongoing and will deduct the fees from client accounts. Zurich Life company Zurich has announced plans to facilitate adviser charging through its platform and close some of its off-platform products. Zurich, headed in the UK by Gary Shaughnessy (pictured), said that its intermediary platform will be the 'cornerstone of its post-RDR proposition' and it will close its Zurich Sipp, Zurich Trustee Investment Plan, Sterling ISA, Sterling Investment Account, Sterling Investment Bond, to new business. The products that will be offered through the platform are its cash ISA, stocks and shares ISA, its investment account for unwrapped assets, and its retirement account. The provider is also launching a new off-platform Sterling Investment Bond from 1 January. It will also keep business open for its International Portfolio Bond, but adviser charging will not be available on these products. For annuity business, which is mostly written on a non-advised basis, it will not support commission payments on any policies after 30 December or adviser charging going forward. Zurich will pay commission on new policies beyond 31 December where there is an illustration and application dated prior to 31 December and where payment and application is received by 15 January. Prudential Prudential plans to offer adviser charging on a number of annuities, pensions, onshore and offshore products from January 2013. For annuities, the Guaranteed Pensions Annuity and Income Choice Annuity are all available with adviser charging. For pensions, adviser charging is offered for the Flexible Retirement Plan (including drawdown) and the Trustee Investment Plan. For onshore bonds, the Prudence Inheritance Bond and the Prudential Investment Plan and for offshore products the Portfolio Account and International Prudence Bond are all available through adviser charging. Clients can choose to pay a monthly, quarterly, half yearly or yearly adviser charge depending on the product. Friends Life Friends Life has unveiled its plans for the post-RDR world and will offer adviser charging on investment products for new business in the UK in the Friends Provident International division in July. The company will also provide an adviser charging facility for some of its annuities which can be paid as a percentage of the fund or a flat monetary amount. It will continue to offer fee facilitation for individual full Sipp drawdowns which it offers from the Sipp bank account. Friends Life will provide a consultancy charging facility for its corporate benefits group schemes and also offer a range of remuneration choices on a consultancy charging basis for the flexible retirement account on its corporate platform. It will continue to offer existing commission on individual and group protection but will also facilitate adviser charging if agreed by the adviser and client. Scottish Widows In September Scottish Widows launched an onshore investment bond without adviser charging as any withdrawal from the bond would impact on the client's ability to maximise their 5% deferred tax allowance. Scottish Widows has announced it will add a fixed ongoing monetary charge option to its Retirement Account from November in addition to the existing initial, fund based and ad hoc advice charges. The monetary charge can be paid either for a fixed number of instalments or for the lifetime of the plan, monthly or yearly on the charging date, on its own or in conjunction with a fund based ongoing charge. The company also stated advisers will be required to convert existing trail commission where the consumer receives advice to top up their policy. If no advice is provided no changes are required and the existing fun-based charge will continue to be paid for the lifetime of the plan. Scottish Life Scottish Life will be facilitating adviser charging and closing some of its older contracts to new plans or increments. The provider will be supporting adviser payment on its individual pension, Pension Portfolio, from 31 December 2012. Its group pension plans will also facilitate adviser charging at a later date to enable ad hoc adviser and consultancy charges to be taken from existing plans, subject to each client's consent. Scottish Life plans on putting out more information on their changes to group pensions later this year. It will close its executive pension plan and Section 32 buyout plan to new business. Scottish Life will be closed to new business and to increments for its Talisman Executive Pension Plan, Crest Money Purchase, Capital Investment Bonds and Trustee Investment Plan from 31 December. Products closed to increments from 31 December include the group personal pension plans for non-employed customers, Continuation Plans, the Talisman Personal Pension Plans, Talisman Free-standing AVC Plans, Talisman Retirement Options Plans (phased retirement), Talisman Retirement Options (phased retirement income drawdown), Talisman Group Personal Pension, Profitbuilder Plus Plan, and Capital Trust plans. MetLife New York-based provider MetLife is planning to facilitate adviser charging across the majority of its products from 31 December 2012. MetLife will be offering initial and ongoing adviser charging on its retirement portfolio, trustee retirement portfolio, UK Bonds, and International Bonds. Clients will have the option to either take out a percentage of single premium or transfer value, a monetary amount or regular premiums on some of the plans. MetLife will also facilitate ad hoc charges of a monetary amount. Canada Life Canada Life has not announced details of its post-RDR proposition but has said it has plans to unveil an adviser charger proposition in the near future. The provider said it was making enhancements to its range of onshore and offshore investments, annuities, protection and estate planning solutions. This includes the removal of high allocation charging options and the addition of comprehensive adviser charging facilities, it said. Legal & General said it planned to announce its post-RDR proposition later this year. Aegon has unveiled its post retail distribution review proposition which includes the launch of a new income drawdown plan called One Retirement, but will see it close a series of products to new business. Aegon said it was closing several products to new business, including Retirement Control, Income for Life, Flexible Investment Plan, Private Client Portfolio, Money Market Portfolio, Investment Portfolio and Estate Planning Portfolio. It will not facilitate an adviser or consultancy charging on its onshore bond, annuities, individual stakeholder, group stakeholder and individual section 32 but the products will be available at factory gate prices. The life company will be facilitating adviser charging or consultancy charging on the Aegon Retirement Choices wrap. It will also facilitate it for group personal pensions, flexible personal pension and the One Retirement new income drawdown plan. The company said it would launch an RDR-ready Flexible Pension Plan and Group Personal Pension product on 12 November and replace its current income drawdown plan with the new One Retirement plan. LV= unveiled its adviser charging structure last week, which available for implementation. Adviser charging will be facilitated on LV='s Enhanced Annuity, Fixed Term Annuity, Investment Linked Annuity, Sipp and Flexible Guarantee Bond Series 2. Sipp, annuity and flexible guarantee bond quotes will be available up until 31 December 2012 on a pre-RDR commission basis. It added that if a requote was requested or it received the application after this date, as long as the original quote was dated before 31 December 2012 it could be processed on commission terms, provided no further related advice had been given. Flexible Guarantee Bond applications must be completed before 9 February 2013 and Sipp and annuity applications before 6 April 2013, otherwise they will need to be charged on a post RDR basis. Previous Next


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AP's Greg Bull ('91): a world of images
Greg Bull ('91) is used to a fast pace – the 1 a.m. telephone call and the quick trip to the airport, the photo snapped and transmitted so quickly he doesn't even get to look at it, the mad scramble to the next, much different, assignment.
Bull, 44, is an award-winning Associated Press photojournalist currently based in San Diego. Much of his work is at major sporting events – such as the 2012 Olympics, but he travels internationally to cover all sorts of stories.
"I love being able to go and be an observer in the events around the world. And these things are amazing to witness firsthand," said Bull.
Some of Bull's most memorable international events are the London Olympics and the earthquake in Japan that caused mass destruction and a nuclear crisis.
Bull's name popped up everywhere in the photojournalist world during the London gymnastics competition, when he captured a now-famous image of U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas suspended in mid-air as she leaped powerfully over the balance beam. In the press of deadline, Bull sent the photo to his editor before he even looked at it, but he had prepared for the moment for months.
Excited by the photo prospects that gymnasts' high-intensity movements could create, Bull had asked his editor if he could attend the Olympic trials to study the sport and to take practice shots. After attending the trials and shooting the routines repeatedly, Bull was comfortable with the sport and knew the athletes' routines well.
When he got to London, he witnessed and embraced the exciting atmosphere of the arena, and watched the athletes' different personalities in front of him. He loved the drama that unfolded, and watching the best competitors in the world perform.
On competition day, Bull took a mental step back from the awe-inspiring moment of being at the Olympics and anchored himself to complete the job. Because he had studied the performances, he knew that Douglas would execute her soaring leap over the beam during the women's individual all-around competition. When she was next up in the event, he focused high above the beam and waited patiently for Douglas to jump.
"Literally as fast as I could, I shot," he said. In the break when Douglas and the other athletes switched to different routines, he took the disc from his camera "put it in the folder on the computer and uploaded it to (my) editor." The photo progressed to color fixes and a caption and "was up on the wire five minutes after I uploaded it. It was up (on the website) eight to nine minutes after I took the photo."
The photo grabbed national and international attention. It earned Bull first prize in the 2012 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and the AP Beat of the Week Prize in August 2012 and the photo made numerous "best of the year" lists.
Bull said experiences such as covering the London Olympics and the earthquake in Japan highlight the need for immediate turn-around in journalism.
On Mar. 11, 2011 at 12:46 a.m. EST, Japan was hit by a nine magnitude earthquake that generated a tsunami. Bull received the call about the earthquake from his editor 14 minutes later. He left for Japan five hours later on the last plane available before flights were cancelled due to the quake.
Once he arrived at the earthquake site, Bull and a crew tried to get to a damaged nuclear plant. It was pure chaos. All the roads were closed. The team had to go a back way, all the way around the island and through mountains, to get to the plant. They had no idea what to expect. When they got within two miles of the plant, a terrified police officer who was blocking the road told them to turn around. The level of radiation was too high to go farther.
But Bull and his crew had to get photos. They traveled to the local fishing villages. On one beach, police officers were struggling to pick up the dead bodies. As they lifted one corpse, shouts rose from the top of the hill behind them. The officers dropped the body and ran up the hill. Bull was still snapping photos. One officer yelled at him to leave. Bull didn't understand Japanese, but the officer's frantic arm motions alerted him that something was wrong. Unbeknownst to Bull at the time, another tsunami warning was in effect. Panic took over. Bull and other journalists ran up the hill to escape the impending danger. The tsunami warning was a false alarm. But it was a scary moment for Bull and others on the beach.
After completing the earthquake and tsunami assignment, Bull returned back to the states. At LAX, he was stopped by security. Security picked up radiation on his jacket and bags. Bull told them that he was a photojournalist and had just returned from Japan. The level of radiation was so high on his jacket and bags that airport officials forced him to throw them away.
In Bull's career, immediacy has always been a vital aspect of the job. But, with the progress of technology, editors place an even greater emphasis on submitting a piece seconds after the image is captured. "There is always a deadline around the world. AP is really conscious of that."
Bull grew up in California. When it came time to pick a university, he decided he wanted different scenery and moved to Colorado. At CU, he was exposed to photojournalism for the first time.
Paul Moloney, a professor at CU-Boulder from 1987 to 1996, taught Bull the basics of photography and quickly became his mentor. Bull initially set out to be a writer, but Moloney's class inspired him to switch over to the visual storytelling side.
"He had such a passion for the people that he covered, the places that he covered and the time that he covered. It drove it home for me that this is what I wanted to do," Bull said.
Bull reflects on everything he has seen in the past few years, not only on the London Olympics and Japan's earthquake and tsunami, but also his coverage on Haiti's earthquake and the U.S.-Mexican border. Removing himself from human tragedies is difficult, but it adds a new perspective on life.
"Seeing earthquakes gives you a small sample how much devastation there is in the world. It can leave you with a positive feeling knowing your life could be worse," Bull said while remembering the ravaged areas of Haiti and Japan.
His love of photojournalism, he said, stems from the intimacy an image can provoke. In just the seconds that it takes to shoot a picture and publish it, the photo can tell a story better than any words.


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One of the most trusted health care companies is on the hot seat.
Johnson & Johnson's CEO will admit manufacturing problems, but he'll insist his company did not try to secretly buy up Motrin and Children's Tylenol to avoid a recall.
William Weldon, CEO of Johnson & Johnson said, "We wanted to get these products out of the market, so we took everything out of the market."
But a Congressional panel will produce documents they say show Johnson & Johnson and the FDA both knew about the so-called "phantom recall."
Representative Edolphus Towns, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight & Government Reform said, "We've gotten information that points out that they were fully aware of what was happening and did not do anything."
The panel's top Republican blames the FDA for lax oversight and accuses the agency of stonewalling.
Representative Aaron Schock of the Committee on Oversight & Government Reform said, "What are they hiding? Why haven't they given full disclosure?"
Today's hearing will cover six Johnson & Johnson recalls in the past year…involving 200 million bottles of medicine, including popular brands like Motrin and Children's Tylenol.
But the company says it's on the rebound and Johnson & Johnson plans to start re-shipping a million bottles of children's medicine next week.


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Research Output for Kiran Annaso Patil
Note: The 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 publications have not been audited.
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2013 Institute for Frontier Materials
Patil, Kiran, Wang, Xungai and Lin, Tong (2013) Electrostatic coating of cashmere guard hair powder to fabrics : silver ion loading and antibacterial properties, Powder technology, vol. 245, no. September, pp. 40-47, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [C1]
ERA journal ID: 3918 – Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-84877813975
Citation counts: Scopus - 2, Thomson - 2
DRO entry for this publication2012 Institute for Frontier Materials
Patil, Kiran, Rajkhowa, Rangam, Dai, Xiujuan J., Tsuzuki, Takuya, Lin, Tong and Wang, Xungai (2012) Preparation and surface properties of cashmere guard hair powders, Powder technology, vol. 219, pp. 179-185, Elsevier SA, Lausanne, Switzerland [C1]
ERA journal ID: 3918 – Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-84862796826
Citation counts: Scopus - 4
DRO entry for this publicationPatil, Kiran, Smith, Suzanne V.*, Rajkhowa, Rangam, Tsuzuki, Takuya, Wang, Xungai and Lin, Tong (2012) Milled cashmere guard hair powders : absorption properties to heavy metal ions, Powder technology, vol. 218, pp. 162-168, Elsevier S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland [C1]
ERA journal ID: 3918 – Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-84855844749
Citation counts: Scopus - 8
DRO entry for this publicationPatil, K., Sellaiyan, S.*, Rajkhowa, R., Tsuzuki, T., Lin, T., Smith, S. V.*, Wang, X. and Uedono, A.* (2012) Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy of mechanically milled protein fibre powders and their free volume aspects, in Unknown (ed.), ICPA-16 2012 : Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Positron Annihilation, pp. 1-6, IOP Publishing, Bristol, England [E1]
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Grants and Consultancies
No grants and/or consultancies found or audited – the 2014 HERDC financial return has not been completed or loaded as yet.
Higher Degree by Research Completions supervised by Kiran Annaso Patil
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- * Not a member of Deakin University at time of output.
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Haiti 2004 Coup
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Haitians Need National Sovereignty Most of All
Framing Haiti as a charity case is insulting and wrong, said Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. "The kind of support we need is to denounce the repression that has been imposed on the people of Haiti" since the U.S.-backed coup of 2004. Haiti doesn't need handouts, said Labossiere; it needs solidarity in the struggle to resist the foreign "conspiracy to rob the country of its resources."
Black Folk in Dark Times
Black academics and activists gathered at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, for a "Workshop on Sovereignty, Citizenship and Freedom." Organized by Dr. Jemima Pierre, an anthropologist, and historian Dr. Peter Hudson, the event was titled "Black Folk in Dark Times." Author and community organizer Kevin Alexander Gray, from Columbia, South Carolina, looks forward to Barack Obama's exit from the White House, in two years. Under the First Black President, "we bought into this idea of endless war, and we bought into the idea of star chambers where people are denied due process," said Gray, author of Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics.
Dr. Christina Sharpe, a professor of English at Tufts University, spoke of "ways of seeing and imagining responses to terror in the varied and various ways that our Black lives are lived under occupation." She is author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects.
Dr. Maboula Soumahoro, an English professor born in France to Ivory Coast parents, told the gathering that "Afropea, Black Europe, is in the making." "In my view," she said, "Arabs and Muslims, sub-Saharan Africans, Afro-descended people born in France, people from the Caribbean…Asians of all kinds, Roma communities and all people of color are all Black" in France. Soumahoro is editor of the acclaimed essay collection, Constructing Black France: A Transatlantic Dialogue.
Mumia: A Half-Century of Civil Wrongs
"For the Black bourgeoisie," the 50 years since passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act "has been a rush of opportunity and entre into doors once closed to them," said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation's best known political prisoner, in a report for Prison Radio. However, "for the Black poor and working class," mass incarceration has made "civil rights as ancient and distant as Reconstruction."
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Haiti: Capitalist Plunder and Empty Promises
by Ama Biney
Disaster capitalism operates in the raw in Haiti, where foreign governments, corporations and non-governmental organizations conspire with a venal local elite to mass poverty and brazen resource theft. "It is highly debatable as to whether the lives of most Haitians have markedly improved, if at all, since these NGOs arrived."


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PrepColorado interview with Joel Maly
Posted By Gary Wamsley On March 7, 2010 @ 7:43 pm In Sports | Comments Disabled
Berthoud High School Senior Joel Maly has distinguished himself in several sports. Most recently, his accomplishments in the just completed basketball season show he is one of the top players in the league. He was third in total points scored, fourth in points per game and #1 in 2-point field goals. Additionally, his 64% shooting average was tops among the top twenty scorers in the league. He was number six at free throws and on defense he was second in the league in rebounds and twelfth in steals.
While the 2009-10 edition of the Spartan Boys Basketball was not a one man show, Maly's performance paved the way for a successful season.
An interview with Maly was recently posted on PrepColorado. You can read it by clicking on this link, PrepColorado. [1]
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