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CodeTwo Exchange Rules 2003 automatically adds signatures and disclaimers to outgoing and internal email sent via Exchange Server. Features: creating a global disclaimer for the entire company, separate footers for different users containing sender's data from AD, built-in signature editor to compose HTML disclaimers incl. graphics, AD integration.
CodeTwo Exchange Rules automatically adds signatures and disclaimers to outgoing external and internal email sent via Exchange Server. The application is an ideal solution for all companies using Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 or Small Business Server (SBS) that want to keep a unified look of emails. CodeTwo Exchang is a very convenient solution allowing centralized addition of company disclaimers/signatures to outbound and internal messages without user interference. The program adds important information, e.g. company details and logo, confidentiality clause, sender's personal data to corporate e-mails in a simple way. Features: - adding different disclaimers and signatures to e-mails depending on the message sender/recipient's address or domain, AD attributes or membership to AD units, groups etc. - adding different disclaimers and signatures to e-mails depending on the message sender/recipient's - adding personalized signatures containing the sender's data available in the Active Directory database to e-mails, for instance the first and last name, company, phones, e-mail address, etc; - automated removal of empty AD fields and text; - adding disclaimers and signatures containing images such as the company logo; - built-in editor to easily compose plain-text and HTML disclaimers and add graphics, tables etc.; - extended rule criteria to select the most appropriate footers for messages; - multiple disclaimers in one message e.g. signature + company disclaimer + eco note; - advanced replying and forwarding options; - recording information about all messages processed by Exchange in the archiving utility; - statistics tool to keep track of mail traffic; - user-suppressible disclaimers; - test and preview tools; With CodeTwo Exchange Rules administrators never again have to individually oversee users' workstations to ensure addition of footers.
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By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter)
Republicans want to make this week all about President Obama's signature health care law.
Mitt Romney begins his day at a medical device company in San Diego, California, and his choice of venue is no accident. On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether to consider a challenge to the individual mandate, he will be talking about the need to repeal and replace "Obamacare."
Yesterday in Washington, Rick Santorum, used health care as a weapon against Romney, arguing that his rival's Massachusetts health care plan served as an inspiration for the Obama administration's version, which has become the leading symbol for Republicans of what they see as government overreach.
"Pick any other Republican in the country," Santorum said of Romney at South Hills Country Club in Franksville, Wisconsin. "He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama."
So far, Romney has managed to deflect such criticism, but with the issue of the constitutionality of health care front-and-center this week, Santorum is seeking to more forcefully tie his opponent to the Democratic-backed law. The former Pennsylvania senator plans to speak from the steps of the Supreme Court this afternoon.
But if Republicans want to frame contest in November around "Obamacare," and all it symbolizes, Democrats want to portray the Paul Ryan budget plan as a central example of GOP heartlessness.
In an interview yesterday on "This Week," President Obama's top strategist David Plouffe even went so far as to call it the "Romney-Ryan plan."
"If Mitt Romney's elected president, he'll rubber-stamp that budget," Plouffe said. "And here's what that budget is. It fails the standard — it fails the test of balance and fairness and shared responsibility."
And in advance of the vote in the House of Representatives on the Ryan plan, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has released a new web video titled, "Standing Up For Medicare," feature actor Martin Sheen protesting the GOP's "attempt to end Medicare and give tax cuts to millionaires and special interests." WATCH: http://bit.ly/GQ181Q
SUPREME COURT PRIMER. From ABC's Ariane de Vogue: On Monday the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether it is premature for the Court to consider a challenge to the individual mandate, a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, that requires almost every individual to buy health insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty. At issue will be the Anti Injunction Act (AIA), a federal tax law that says, in essence, that a tax payer cannot challenge a tax, at a minimum, until it comes into effect. If the Supreme Court eventually rules that the individual mandate triggers the AIA, the court will have effectively punted the constitutional debate concerning the individual mandate down the road. It will have found that no challenge to the mandate can be brought until it goes into effect, which is after 2014. Because lower courts have divided on whether the AIA applies, the Supreme Court dedicated 90 minutes of arguments to the issue. http://abcn.ws/H3yCpr
"THIS WEEK" REPLAY: MICHELE BACHMANN ON THE 2012 RACE. Former presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said she believes the Republican party will unify behind the eventual nominee, and does not believe they will be hampered by the ongoing primary fight. "I think the quicker that the Republicans can unify behind our candidate and make Barack Obama and his failed policies the focus of this election, the better off we all will be, but the people need to decide," Bachmann told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week." Bachmann has not endorsed a candidate, and did not say whether Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich should end their challenge to front-runner Mitt Romney. "Whoever the people choose, I will back that candidate, because I want mine not to be a divisive voice," Bachmann said. "I want to help unify the party and bring together the Tea Party element, the evangelical, and the establishment, and then reach out to independents and disaffected Democrats." http://abcn.ws/GS0DSQ
And, the "This Week" roundtable joined the roiling national conversation on the shooting death of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, questioning the controversial "Stand Your Ground" law at the center of the case. WATCH: http://abcn.ws/GM7iwv
In case you missed it, watch George's full interview with Obama strategist David Plouffe and former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann: http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/
VIDEO OF THE DAY: Reagan to Obama: A Front Row Seat. ABC's Jake Tapper and Sam Donaldson on what it's like to covering the White House. WATCH: http://yhoo.it/GQkmkT
SANTORUM GETS FEISTY WITH NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER. Rick Santorum grew heated and accused a New York Times reporter of distorting a statement he made in an earlier speech, even yelling "It's bulls-t" to him, ABC's Arlette Saenz reports. Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times tweeted, "I ask Santorum if Romney is 'worst Republican' to run. He says: 'Quit Distorting my words It's bulls-t.' He says he was talking health care" During the speech, as he railed against Mitt Romney for his healthcare plan in Massachusetts, Santorum said the former Massachusetts governor was the "worst Republican in the country" to take on President Obama. "Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama," Santorum said at South Hills Country Club. Santorum was asked by reporters to elaborate on what he meant by the categorization, and he insisted he was talking about the issue of healthcare. Santorum increasingly grew agitated with the first group of reporters asking him to clarify his statement. "On the issue of health care. That's what I was talking about, and I was very clear about talking about that. OK? C'mon guys, don't do this. I mean you guys are incredible," he said. "I was talking about 'Obamacare,' and he is the worst because he was the author of Romneycare." The exchange with Zeleny occurred towards the end of the ropeline as Santorum finished greeting voters. http://abcn.ws/GQwcsn
PRESIDENT OBAMA TO NORTH KOREAN LEADERS: HAVE THE 'COURAGE TO PURSUE PEACE.' ABC's Jake Tapper reports from Korea: President Obama paused during his speech to local college students in South Korea Monday to directly address the North Korean leaders across the DMZ, urging new dictator Kim Jong-un and his regime to pursue a different path. Saying he wanted to "speak directly to the leadership in Pyongyang," the president insisted that the United States was "committed to peace" and has "no hostile intent toward your country." That said, Mr. Obama scolded North Korea, saying its "provocations and pursuit of nuclear weapons have not achieved the security you seek, they have undermined it. Instead of the dignity you desire, you are more isolated. Instead of earning the respect of the world, you have been met with strong sanctions." Mr. Obama urged the North Koreans to change their ways. "Today we say, Pyongyang: have the courage to pursue peace and give a better life to the North Korean people," he said. The president also addressed Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, saying, "There is time to solve this diplomatically, but time is short." The speech, at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, focused on the Nuclear Security Summit that kicks of later today, with the president heralding progress made in securing the world's vulnerable nuclear materials. http://abcn.ws/H6sb4a
WATCH Tapper's "World News" http://abcn.ws/H5RZPX and "Good Morning America" reports from Korea: http://abcn.ws/GS4j9u
@danbalz: Santorum's says best for GOP is a short, 2-month general election to negate Obama's financial advantage, not quick end to nomination fight.
@AriFleischer: It was only a Romney aide who said Etch-A-Sketch. Now POTUS tells Russian President he himself is an Etch-A-Sketch. #givemespace
@robertcostaNRO: I had breakfast w/ Santorum and a few other reporters this morning. Big takeaway: he's energized and ready to ride anti-O'care msg to Tampa.
@mlcalderone: Romney campaign manager "hasn't given a single on-the-record interview this entire cycle." http://bit.ly/H4iQJv
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–Ron Paul's Missouri Dominance Continues. Ron Paul dominated the Missouri caucuses on March 17, and that continued over the weekend. St. Louis City and Jackson County, which encompasses Kansas City, held their caucuses a week later than most of the state, and on Saturday both went for Paul: in St. Louis, Paul's supporters elected a full slate of delegates to the state and congressional-district conventions, and in Jackson they selected about two thirds of the delegates available. The raucous St. Charles County caucus, which was shut down by police on March 17 amid a dispute between Paul supporters and the caucus chairman, has been rescheduled for April 10. http://bit.ly/GYxX8S
–Santorum Bowls for Votes. President Obama didn't have great luck at the lanes in 2008, but Rick Santorum flashed better form if this photo from the Fond du Lac Reporter proves anything. A greater abundance of blue-collar voters could help Rick Santorum win Wisconsin, and he sought them out at a bowling alley on Sunday, where he told about 300 supporters that Wisconsin "can be a game-changer" in the GOP race. Wisconsin offers Santorum the most friendly territory of any April 3 primary, when D.C. and Maryland will also vote. http://fondul.ac/GS3qhf
– Ron Paul to Rally College Turnout in Maryland. After Louisiana's primary on Saturday, presidential candidates will turn some of their attention toward Maryland's April 3 contest, and the Baltimore Sun notes that Ron Paul will keep to his college-campus strategy with a town-hall at the University of Maryland's Ritchie Coliseum on Wednesday, while Newt Gingrich may step onto the floor of the Maryland General Assembly while campaigning in Annapolis on Tuesday. http://bsun.md/GU1Bx2
–Mitt Romney holds a campaign event in San Diego, California before attending fundraisers in San Diego and Redwood City, Calif.
–Rick Santorum makes remarks outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC.
–Newt Gingrich campaigns at a GOP dinner tonight in Delaware.
–Ron Paul has no public events.
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Dating violence doesn't just affect the individuals in a couple. Rather, a community of support is necessary to help a survivor reach safety and peace. Whether you are a parent, friend or unacquainted bystander, you have the ability to become involved. Here are some dos and don'ts to consider when you're in a situation where you can take action and interrupt a violent situation.
Don't mind your own business.
Whether it's the girl from your math class or a stranger you pass by on your morning run, you can stop the violence just by butting in. Addressing the violence is one way to handle the situation. Let both individuals know that what is occurring isn't right. Reassure the mistreated partner that he or she is undeserving of these actions and inform the violent partner that this behavior is unacceptable and dangerous. If you don't feel comfortable calling out the violent partner, you can still disrupt the situation by asking to borrow notes for class or striking up a conversation about anything.
Don't want to get in the action? Stand away, but let the couple see that you are watching them. Get out your cell and call for help. You can still give support without physically intervening.
Do put yourself in someone else's shoes.
Dating violence is a scary and isolating experience. If you witness someone else going through dating violence and don't know what to do, try to imagine how you would want someone to help you. Stepping in not only temporarily breaks up the violence, but offers support to the victim that he or she may not have received anywhere else.
Do treat them like a friend.
Watching a friend endure dating violence often leaves you feeling helpless and wanting to do something more to help them. You can give the same care and encouragement to someone you don't know as you would to a friend. Ask yourself how you would feel if no one helped your friend and something horrible happened to her or him when you weren't present. Be someone's friend and stop the violence.
Don't neglect your personal safety.
Your safety is always the highest priority and you won't be able to give the best support if you are injured. If for any reason you feel unsafe, do not approach the violence. Alert an adult or call the police immediately. If you do intervene and the violence continues, step away and get help.
Have you ever stepped in to break up a violent situation between a couple? What would you say to someone who was harassing his or her partner to make them stop?
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]]>With twenty years having passed since his death, Kenneth MacMillan remains a towering figure in the world of ballet. He choreographed works that have become core pieces of the repertory including Romeo and Juliet, Mayerling, The Rite of Spring and Manon; his work still delights audiences and the dancers performing them alike.
As well as these full-length works, MacMillan choreographed a number of shorter works such as Concerto, Requiem and Las Hermanas; which make up this current Royal Ballet Mixed Bill.
Kenneth MacMillan's career saw him dance as well as choreograph and we took a look into the archives to find some behind the scenes images from his time at Covent Garden:
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Concerto/Requiem/Las Hermanas Mixed Bill runs from 17 November - 5 December 2012.
]]>The work of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan was the subject of a recent ROH Insights session with Lady MacMillan.
Deborah MacMillan spoke of her relationship with her husband as well as about his career and creative process.
On her husband being labelled a rebel, Deborah said: "I think people thought at the time that he was doing something ghastly to classical ballet. Kenneth was very clear about being very different if he was going to make his mark [but] I don't think he ever set out to shock."
"It has a sort of quirkiness and a surprising way of using music," she said about what makes his work unique, "the way he used music was astonishing, totally surprising and off the wall sometimes but always finding something in the music that worked for the steps and the storytelling."
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Kenneth MacMillan works Concerto, Requiem and Las Hermanas will be on stage from 17 November - 5 December 2012. This Mixed Programme is supported by Marina Hobson as well as Richard and Delia Baker (Las Hermanas); and Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson (Concerto).
The choreographer behind some of the greatest ballets of the 20th century, Sir Kenneth MacMillan (1929-1992) is an illustrious figure in the world of dance.
Kenneth MacMillan was the first British choreographer to be produced entirely by the Sadler's Wells Ballet, now The Royal Ballet. His works remain at the heart of the repertory of The Royal Ballet and his full-length ballets Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling are danced by companies around the world.
MacMillan discovered ballet in 1940, at the age of 11, when he was evacuated from his home-town, Great Yarmouth, to Retford, Nottinghamshire. Although he had already learnt tap and Scottish country dancing, taking part in entertainments for soldiers at American air force bases, it was ballet that became his passion. On his return to Great Yarmouth, he began lessons with dance teacher Phyllis Adams. MacMillan came from a poor background and could not afford classes so Adams, recognising his talent, taught him for free and encouraged his dance ambitions. For MacMillan, whose mother died when he was just 12, she became a hugely important figure in his life.
At the age of 15 MacMillan wrote to Ninette de Valois pretending to be his father "my son, who is nearly 15, wants to be a ballet dancer and many people think he is very talented" asking for an audition for the Sadler's Wells Ballet School (now the Royal Ballet School). MacMillan arrived late and De Valois had him join a Company class and dance alongside Margot Fonteyn and Beryl Grey. She was impressed by what she saw and he was awarded a scholarship. MacMillan was a founder member of Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet in 1946 and over the next ten years appeared with both the Sadler's Wells Companies, dancing the role of Florestan in The Sleeping Beauty during the company's first tour of America in 1949. A talented classical dancer, he also appeared in romantic roles such as the poet in Les Sylphides. His first created role was as The Great Admirer of Mademoiselle Piquant in John Cranko's ballet Children's Corner in 1948 and other created roles include Moondog in John Cranko's The Lady and The Fool and the title role in Margaret Dale's The Great Detective. Although he enjoyed great success as a dancer, MacMillan found himself becoming increasingly interested in choreography.
MacMillan created his first choreographic work, Somnambulism, a ballet set to jazz music by Stan Kenton but based on classical technique, for the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet's First Choreographic Evening in 1953. He prepared it in just a week, in a room at Sadler's Wells Theatre so cluttered with skips and wardrobe baskets that there was barely enough floor space to move. It was apparent to everyone present that here was a new and highly individual talent. In 1954 De Valois commissioned his first stage work for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet Danses concertantes, which was very well received. By this time, MacMillan was suffering from increasingly crippling stage-fright and panic attacks, so De Valois offered him work as a choreographer and in time he became resident choreographer. He explained in an interview for BBC Omnibus:
"I stopped dancing when I was about 23 mainly because I had just terrible stage-fright and I hated performing. I turned to choreography as a release from dancing and I was lucky enough that the first thing I did everyone liked."
MacMillan began to create for The Royal Ballet what would become a huge body of work, and his early ground breaking one-act ballets include The Burrow (1958), The Invitation (1960) and The Rite of Spring (1962). Over the following years, he cemented his reputation as a choreographer of the first rank. From the oppressive setting of The Burrow, a work that reminded many of The Diaries of Anne Frank, to the graphic depiction of rape in The Invitation much of MacMillan's work focused on the theme of the outsider, the rebel and the downtrodden.
Jann Parry, author of the biography of Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan explains that MacMillan was the first choreographer to express the feelings and anxiety of the post-war generation:
"He was rebelling against the conventional idea that ballet was light entertainment… and using ballet to express things that are inexpressible in words."
In 1965, he created his first full-length ballet, Romeo and Juliet, on Royal Ballet Principals Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable. It is based on the Shakespeare tragedy and like Shakespeare's play the ballet is an earthy treatment of the story. MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet are recognisably two teenagers discovering love and sex for the first time. It includes wonderful dancing for the corps de ballet whether it's the two Montague and Capulet gangs street fighting or the stylised court dancing of the Capulet's ball. It received an unprecedented number of ovations at its first performance when the title roles were danced by Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn and is widely regarded as his masterpiece. Find out more about the excitement surrounding the build-up to the premiere.
MacMillan created over forty ballets during his career, winning the respect and admiration of dancers worldwide. Lynn Seymour, on whom he created many leading roles, explained that, "he had the gift of revealing each individual's talents and had won their respect and belief in his work. To be in one of his ballets, even at the humblest level, was seen as a special bestowal of regard and made you one of a select, elite chosen few." Read more of Lynn Seymour's thoughts about MacMillan.
MacMillan worked extensively with The Royal Ballet until 1966. In 1963 Las Hermanas was commissioned by choreographer John Cranko for Stuttgart Ballet. MacMillan and Cranko had become friends and collaborators first at Sadler's Wells Ballet School and then at Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. When Cranko became Director of Stuttgart Ballet he invited MacMillan to create works for the company including one of his greatest ballets Song of the Earth in 1966. From 1966 MacMillan spent four years as Director of the Deutsch Oper Ballet in West Berlin creating Concerto for them during that period.
MacMillan returned to London in 1970, to take up the post of Director of The Royal Ballet, which he held for seven years before retiring to focus on his choreography. He continued to work with The Royal Ballet becoming Principal Choreographer of The Royal Ballet as well as working as Associate Director of American Ballet Theatre (1984 – 1989) and Artistic Associate of the Houston Ballet (1989 – 1992). Later works created for The Royal Ballet include the one-act ballets Elite Syncopations (1974), The Valley of Shadows (1983), Different Drummer (1984), Winter Dreams (1991) and The Judas Tree (1992) and the three full-length ballets Manon (1974) and Mayerling (1978). MacMillan died unexpectedly on 29 October 1992 backstage at the Royal Opera House during a performance of his ballet Mayerling.
A choreographer who changed the nature of classical ballet, he has left a powerful legacy in the dance world. Watch this interview to find out more.
In Autumn 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of Kenneth MacMillan's death, The Royal Ballet is performing three of his one act ballets: Concerto, Las Hermanas and Requiem. This triple bill runs from 17 November - 5 December. Mayerling runs from 19 April - 15 June 2013.


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The winter's arctic cold and the inevitable spring thaw are stressing many plumbing pipes past their breaking points.
The ordeal is more complicated when the break occurs in a condominium or town home than it is in a single-family home. That's because multiple owners and insurers, each with varying interests, usually are involved.
Whether the flow is gushing or trickling, a community association with a broken pipe must take steps to stay afloat. The first one is to shut off the water.
"Take care of the emergency as quickly as possible, and iron out the details later," said Sheila Malchiodi, account manager at QCi Restoration in Elgin. "The goal is to minimize the damage. A delay can cost you tens of thousands of dollars or more after the fact."
Failure to minimize the damage could breach your insurance policy, she added.
If the break is in a vacant condo, or if the owner is not home, the association can enter the unit, said association attorney Dawn Moody of Keough & Moody PC in Naperville.
"The Illinois Condominium Property Act gives the board the authority to enter a unit in the event of an emergency, which a pipe burst clearly is," she said.
Town homes are trickier; the association's access rights are governed by the declaration. Some permit emergency access, and others do not.
Call the police or fire department to get in rather than wait for a legal opinion, Moody advised.
Also, call your insurance carrier as soon as you are aware of a problem, so an adjuster can be assigned, said Cindy Fitts, account executive at CISA Insurance in Elgin.
Many breaks affect property owned by the association and one or more unit owners. For example, a break in the wall between two units could soak drywall, wallpaper and carpeting on both sides and perhaps the units below.
Condo associations are responsible for insuring the common elements and limited common elements, including the bare walls, floor and ceiling of the units plus the developer-installed fixtures. Owners are responsible for insuring their improvements, floor and wall coverings and personal property.
Insurance requirements for town homes are spelled out in their declarations.
Malchiodi advises picking a single contractor to handle the restoration, regardless of which parts are the association's responsibility and which are the owner's responsibility.
"Using one contractor streamlines the process, keeps the communication clear and typically completes the process within the projected time frame," she said. "Delays put stress on the homeowner, board members and property manager."
"If the property is vacant, do the bare minimum to protect the common elements and other units," Moody said. "If there is a lender, request that it take steps to protect its collateral."
Insurance will pay much of the cost, but deductibles tend to run high these days.
If the project total is anywhere near that amount, you might want to skip putting in a claim.
Depending on the size of the claim and your claims frequency, the loss will affect your future insurance costs, Fitts said.
"Most carriers are looking at five years of history to determine renewal premiums," she said. "Right now, we are not seeing premiums go down."
If you file a claim, condo law gives associations three ways to handle the deductible: pay it as a common expense, assess the owner in whose unit the damage originated (after providing proper notice and the opportunity for a hearing) or charge the owners whose units were damaged.
Town home associations must refer to their governing documents for guidance.
Moody's advice is to establish an upfront policy that addresses who pays the deductible under which types of circumstances.
"It helps avoid arguments later," she said.
A final tip from Fitts: "Make sure you know what insurance coverages you have. It's too late at the time of loss to make a change."
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i have been disappointed with REVLON nail polishes in the past, but this has to be the worst. The color is beautiful, but it applies so streaky! Yuck! I love the color though.
*edit- tried using on my finger nails and i tried to apply about 5 times. it was streaky and wouldn't dry and kept smudging! yuck....i have Revlon's clear polish and it does the same thing. the quality is awful. i'll use this only on my toes
The color of this polish is beautiful! I really love the pastel mint green. It's sooo gorgeous, but I wish the formula quality was better. It's extremely streaky and I needed to apply 3 coats for the color to be opaque. and to try to smooth the streaks. I bought this on a whim during a Revlon sale but would never have looked twice at this polish. If Revlon changed the formula to be less streaky than I would looove it!
This color is beautiful -- cool, pastel minty green. The brush is too thin by far, but for $3.00 I can make do. Second coat evens out all streaks from the first coat, good quick dry top coat perfects the whole look. Toes look beautiful.
I absolutely love this colour! I have medium yellow-toned skin and wouldn't recommend it for people paler than me as it might make you look like a zombie. It's a bit of a pain to apply as the brush is very thin and the formula is streaky and uneven with the first coat, but by the second or third it's opaque and good to go. It lasts a long time and doesn't chip off my nails as easily as other polishes. I would buy again unless I found the same colour from another brand with a better brush and formula.
This color reminds me of that Chanel color that was all the rage a couple of years ago. This color is chic. It's a very true mint color. I didn't have much streaking upon application of this as other reviewers have noted. Pastel shades are always thicker and harder to work with than other polish shades. If you aren't a pro at doing your own nails, I suggest you take this shade to a manicurist. It's semi-glossy looking once it dries which is nice, as matte pastel polishes give off an unfortunate easter egg effect. I only put this on last night, so I cannot yet assess the chipping on this one. However I recently had on Lilac Pastelle by Revlon and chipping was quite minimal with that. Hopefully this one will stand up well too. I don't see why I wouldn't repurchase.
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I'm glad i bought a back up for this. It's the perfect pale minty green color. Yes.. the first coat is streaky.. but a lot of drugstore nail polishes are like that.. so I'm use to it =P. I love the results for the second coat. It wasn't streaky and was opaque. Love it.
This is a decent mint green. It was pretty cheap, like $2.50 when I bought it! Application isn't the greatest - it's streaky (evens out by the 3rd coat) and takes awhile to dry. However, I found that it lasted a fair amount of time with minimal chipping! It's a color that looks good on my skin (yellow-toned medium) so I'd buy it again... but you could probably find dupes of better quality!
Pretty colour, especially for Christmas-time. I bought this for spring and when I tried it I was appalled at how streaky the application was. With each coat, it creates different streaks even on the second coat, after the first one is dry. There have been other drugstore brands that have performed better as far as the application goes. If it wasn't for the application, then I would recommend, but in this case, I don't recommend this product.


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Foreign leaders continued to arrive at Damascus airport to attend the funeral of the late Syrian president Hafez Assad.
Some 10 heads of state, half of them from the Arab world and only one, French President Jacques Chirac, were expected.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian president Yasser Arafat flew in together after meeting in Cairo to discuss the Middle East peace process in the light of Assad's death and Israeli-Palestinian talks resuming in Washington.
At 1200 GMT Assad's body will be flown from Mazze military air base outside Damascus to the northern coastal city of Latakia and on to Kerdaha to be buried there – DAMASCUS (AFP)
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Lost in the shuffle of last year's best-album lists was this stellar October effort. It's fitting that Weird Tales came out just before Halloween, not just because of the spooky title, but because Golden Smog is something of a Frankenstein's monster, cobbled from pieces of various upper-Midwestern altcountry bands. There's an arm from Run Westy Run (guitarist Kraig Johnson), another from Big Star (drummer Jody Stephens), a leg from Soul Asylum (guitarist Dan Murphy), the torso of the Jayhawks (guitarist Gary Louris and bassist Marc Perlman), and Wilco's head (Jeff Tweedy).
Back in 1989 when Golden Smog was just a loose Minneapolis-area collective assembled for live shows, the group was at the forefront of altcountry, which fused roots-rock and punk to fight off the artifice of the pop and country charts. The release of Uncle Tupelo's No Depression a year later gave the movement a name and a mission. These days, with an EP (1992's On Golden Smog) and an LP (1995's Down by the Old Mainstream) under their belt and altcountry all over the charts, Golden Smog can be revealed for what they are: a supergroup of country-rock conservators and their friends (Soul Asylum frontman Dave Pirner shows up to contribute back-up vocals) who trace their inspiration directly to the great bands of the early Seventies.
Some of the songs here sound like a rougher version of the countrified Byrds ("Reflections on Me"). Some sound like a more decorous version of the countrified Stones (the ingratiating "Looking Forward to Seeing You"). Some sound like the Flying Burrito Brothers ("Making Waves"). And some sound like the Band (the beautiful "Jennifer Save Me," which actually sounds more like the recent Bandlike efforts of Mercury Rev).
The songwriting and lead-singing duties are shared equally among the bandmates -- only Stephens and Perlman demur -- and many songs end up sounding less like group projects than solo efforts brought to session (Louris's "Until You Came Along" features the soaring harmonies of the Jayhawks). With fifteen songs Weird Tales is difficult to digest in a single sitting. Luckily it's recorded, so you can play it over and over again. Which you will.
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When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again
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Although the double-album format will no doubt lead some fanzine pundits to tag this 21-song scorcher as the Bassholes' own Exile on Main Street, please don't get the idea that this mangy punk-blues duo is capable of such greatness. They're not, and they know it. But throughout the band's third longplayer, Don Howland and Bim Thomas twist the blues into something of their own, and with no less passion and raunch and fierce soul than the Stones did back in '72. And in the process, the Bassholes have produced their best album to date: frantic, furious, laced with bitterness, but determined to rock like mad until the demons are driven away.
As both a summary of their brief career (some of singer-songwriter-guitarist Howland's earliest shriekers are revisited) and a nod to the future (the closest the pair have come to something resembling production), When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again revitalizes the postmodernist garage rock Howland helped create in the Eighties with the sloppy and seminal Gibson Brothers. At its best the disc suggests there's still some new terrain to be tilled in the mostly parched soil of junked-up white-boy blues. Howland's singing and writing have finally caught up with his ability to slam out Stooges-steeped snot-rock stompers, just as Thomas's rhythmic pound has gained more muscle and authority over the years.
That's not to say that you can actually hear every single lyric; hell, most of the blasting opener "Microscope Feeling" is unintelligible, at least to my aging, thirtysomething ears. But then so is a lot of Jagger's garbled wailing on Exile. Still, on songs such as "I Saw Beauty" and "She Came on the Bus," you know they mean something even when you can't be exactly certain what that something may be: You don't sound as torn up as Howland does on those songs (or on "For the River," "Evil Eagle," and the sax-squawky "7 Days") without having something dirty eating at your insides. Nor do you flesh out your opus with a cover of something as dark and ugly as Joy Division's "Interzone." But the Bassholes work this postpunk standard into their own emotional, rhythmic din perfectly, which says plenty about what makes Blue Moon a double album worthy of the indulgence.
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It seems of late that Willie Nelson's career (one built on the resistance to fad or fashion coupled with the outlaw's willingness to try anything once) has been reduced to a series of gimmicks; namely, covering Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon or letting Daniel Lanois turn him into a croaking echo set to an inexplicable samba beat. And the selling point of this soundtrack, which features marvelous new recordings of old standards by the likes of Don Walser, Marty Stuart, and ex-Playboy Leon Rausch, is yet another oddball Willie-and-special-guest pairing. Only this time around, Nelson shares mike time with Beck, a young man whose fondness for "authenticity" and whose desire to mutate and mutilate genres make him a kindred spirit of sorts.


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If I was the lawyer for any of those cases, I would be irate. It actually makes me a little irate anyway. He should go to jail for jeopardizing those convictions and wasting tons of taxpayers money and squandering the time and energy of law enforcement, the bar, and the bench. I do think it's weird that the proceedings weren't also recorded. Most stenographers keep a recording that they can go back and listen to when they are proofing. And most court rooms keep an audio recording going during session. This went on for more than two years? It sounds more likely that he was being paid off to screw up important criminial trials that his brain just short circuited.
On The Up Series, or The Latest Thing I Am Obsessed With That is Available on Netflix
I watched most of them in college, and I'm not embarrassed to say that I went to see 56-up by myself at 2 pm on a Saturday during the yearly film festival at my local art cinema. Well, I'm a little embarrassed. But I wasn't really by myself, I had a solo cup full of wine, so there's that.
On The Nightmare of Being a Virtual Assistant
This is how I felt about actually practicing law. As a lawyer, you are paid to deal with other people's problems and responsibilities. A lot of lawyers suck at dealing with their own problems and responsibilites, and it takes a certain personality to not let other people's problems crush your soul into tiny pieces. It's a really brutal way to make money. Also, clients lie to their attorneys. I would do a full day of work for a client who I was pretty sure could not afford me, only to have them call me and tell me some key detail that changed everything, and made the work I had done useless. I know that debt collection is important to society, but someone else can garnish the wages of single mothers, it doesn't have to be me. Foreclosures make me sad. But bankruptcy can be fascinating. I never really felt that bad telling someone they had to either pay back their creditors in full or get rid of their harley. Life is full of tough choices, but if you can't pay your mortgage, you can't keep your boat. Bankruptcy felt a lot more like a solution than the other areas of law I practiced.
On What Would You Do With a $20,000 Windfall?
This is so interesting. Due to a family issue, I ended up with some extra tax liability this year. At first it was a scary amount, like $10k, but then it ended up being more like $3K. Either way, it is due on October 15, and because I am a federal employee, my Friday paycheck was about $1,000 less than usual and I have no idea when I'm going to get another paycheck. Most of my savings are in two brokerage accounts, one that I've never messed with, and one that is an IRA that I've rolled over 401Ks into, and that I've messed with off and on for things like college and a down payment on a house. I was under the impression the account that I've never messed with was also an IRA, and that I couldn't or shouldn't mess with it because of tax penalties.(My dad started both accounts when I worked for him in high school, and I got control of them in college) Welp, since my paycheck is being held hostage by Congress, and taxes have to be paid, I decided I was going to sell something, tax penalties be damned. Then I discovered that this second account is not an IRA, and I can sell it, and the taxes would be capital gains and not additional income with a penalty. And the account was worth about $18k. So, I sold some of it, to pay these taxes and to be sure I can pay my rent and car payment next month (and to pay off most of my modest credit card debt, you know, why not raid it just a tiny bit), but just knowing it is there, and that I can sell the rest of it if I want to, and go on a trip around the world, and I have a cushion if something happens, is so breathtakingly freeing. It also makes me feel irresponsible for being unaware of my assets, but that's a guilt trip that's going to be buried along side the raiding of my investment account. Congress isn't being responsible and I'm being negatively impacted, maybe a new pair of boots would make me feel better. And I'm going to continue dreaming about going to Michael Franti's yoga retreat in Bali, but since I've taken care of the credit cards, as soon as Congress gets it together, I'm going to save money to go to Bali, and swear to myself not to mess with this account again any time soon.
On Talking About Jealousy of the Professional Variety
My person mantra is from Alfred, Lord Tennyson - "Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt." And my personal trick of confidence - before I go into a room, whether it is an interview, or a cocktail party, or anywhere that confidence is necessary, I take a deep breath and tell myself that everyone in that room wants to talk to me and is happy to see me. And I've found that if you assume people want to talk to you and are happy to see you, you approach them with more enthusiasm and less initial doubt, and this is somehow universally attractive. Most of the time you have no idea whether someone likes you or not, so you might as well assume they do. If I assume someone likes me, I like them more, and vis versa. When people don't respond well to my friendliness, I assume they had a bad day and it has nothing to do with me. So cleave to the sunnier side. It takes a little extra energy, and obviously social boundaries still apply, but it is generally a good policy.
On How's That $148,000 Law Degree Working Out for You
Is this like that piece that Edith did where she said that chamber pots are all the hipster rage in Brooklyn? http://thehairpin.com/2012/12/chamberpots-a-resurgence This is a parady, right?
On A Person With $100K in a Trust Fund
You might not need a prenup - the trust wouldn't be considered marital property in most states. If your husband isn't the beneficiary of the trust, he isn't the beneficiary of the trust. Now, if you cashed out the trust and it was sitting in your checking account, that might be different. And depending on the legalese of the trust and the kind of trust, your grandmother might not have the power to change the terms of the trust. That's the beauty of the trust. You should get an attorney to look over the trust for you and determine what the rules are. Or call the attorney who set the trust up and see if they will explain it to you, which they would probably do for free and are possibly ethically obligated to do.
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I eat a ton of the green giant frozen spinach and the frozen broccoli packs. You just put them in the microwave for like five minutes. I put it in everything from pizza to pasta. Sometimes I just cook a pack, and throw in whatever happens to be lying around my house. Chicken, or whatever sort of protein I have, tomatoes, black beans, throw in some salt and pepper. It's lazy and cheap and doesn't involve any real clean up.
On Debt Just Another Reason I'll Never Be a Spy
When I worked for the Chapter 13 Bankruptcy trustee, the FBI stopped by regularly to look into the bankruptcies of people with security clearances working for contractors at the military base and the nucular power plant. It hadn't occurred to me before that, but I guess it makes sense. The guy with the sick wife and the inherited houses is a really terrible story, that sucks. DO NOT PROBATE THAT WILL. Try not to administer that estate. Let it go in a tax sale, let the bank foreclose.
On Things From a Catalog We'll Never Buy
So, I live in Charleston, and they sell those Callie biscuits at the local gourmet butcher/sandwich/wine/insanity food items store by my house. My mom and I were looking at them the other day, and I am fairly certain that a pack of 12 biscuits was $26, which I thought was ridiculous. And my mom pointed out that they were HAM biscuits, and that while expensive, the fact it at least contained ham did make me feel better. I don't want to pay $2 per ham biscuit that I still have to bake myself, but I'm sure someone does. Maybe a great holiday houseguest present. The ham biscuits are $72 at William Sonoma. WTF. I will send you a pack for $40.


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Roanoke Island Hi, I'm Dave Thurlow for the Weather Notebook. The first English people to settle in North America had a rough go of things. One group settled on Roanoke Island, in the Tidewater area of Virginia, around 1560. But the last record of the group is only 27 years later, in 1587.
The scientists found that the worst three years of the mid-Atlantic drought ran from 1587 to 1589. That's precisely when the Lost Colonists turned up missing. Finding and growing food was clearly a challenge, but another hazard that faced the settlers and native Americans was the brackish water they had to drink. Because rainfall was so scarce, the natural salt of the Tidewater became concentrated, and many people died from salt poisoning. Some historians have blamed these colonies for poor planning and even accused them of being apathetic about their own survival. But according to the new data from tree rings, even the best planned colony would have been severely tested by what could have been the biggest drought of the millennium. Today's contributing writer is Bob Henson. Our show is produced by the Mount Washington Observatory, underwritten by Subaru, the beauty of all wheel drive, with major support provided by the National Science Foundation. |


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This week in SAN Diego Major League Baseball conducts it's annual winter meetings.
For the O's they are here to address some needs including a possible replacement for recently departed Nick Markakis, a dh to replace Nelson Cruz, Left handed relief pitcher to replace Andrew Miller, and maybe even a left fielder.
I don't expect the O's to sign a free agent outfielder unless it's a last resort move. i don't think any of the free agent outfielders would fit as a starter for the Birds.
The team could swing a trade for either Atlanta's Justin Upton, who has one year left on his contract or the Dodgers Matt Kemp, who is signed for a few more years. At this time Kemp could be headed for San Diego.
There's a good chance the O's will go to spring training with De Aza and Pearce penciled in for left field and a battle for right field which could include Darial Alverez and some one year free agent signing
As for Dan Duquette, it looks like he's in Baltimore through this year and if the Toronto CEO job is still open next September/October, I could see Duke leaving for the North
The Chef is cooking up a storm as incredibly Maryland is but 1 win away from a trip to the College Word series in Omaha. Today the victim was UVA the #1 team in the nation. But this band of brothers from College Park is just plain and simply on a roll. The Terps have a great chance to make Bob Turtle Smith's prediction of a 2 game sweep come through Sunday at 12 PM on the deuce.
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Junior Charlie White went 3-for-5 with two runs and made a potential game-changing catch in the first inning to lead the Maryland baseball team to a 5-4 victory over Virginia in the first game of the NCAA Super Regional in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday.
The Terps (40-21) have an opportunity to clinch their first trip to the College World Series in program history tomorrow as they take on the Cavaliers at noon on ESPN2. Maryland claimed its 40th victory of the season in the win, as Jake Stinnett allowed just two earned runs in six innings of work.
"I'm very happy for our guys and everyone who works for our program to be able to come in here and play the way we did against a very good team in a tough environment," said head coach John Szefc. "We felt we did a really good job offensively early on to get their starter out. He's obviously one of the better left-handed pitchers in the country and I know he's had a lot of
success here this season."
University of Maryland right hander Jake Stinnett has been selected in the second round (45th overall) of the 2014 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Chicago Cubs.
Stinnett is the 15th Terrapin to be drafted over the last four years and is the highest-selected Maryland player since Brett Cecil was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the first round (38th overall pick) of the 2007 draft.
With the tying run 90 feet away, Maryland turned a 4-6-3 game-ending double play to seal a dramatic 4-3 victory over top-seeded South Carolina Saturday night at Carolina Stadium snapping the Gamecocks 28-game postseason home winning streak and sending the Terps into the Columbia Regional final.
With one out in the top of the ninth and South Carolina runners at first and third, closer Kevin Mooney induced a ground ball from Joey Pankake to Brandon Lowe. Lowe quickly gathered the ball fired it to Blake Schmit who tagged second and threw a strike to LaMonte Wade to clinch the victory sending Terrapin players streaming from the dugout in celebration.
The victory secures a spot in the region final. Maryland (38-21) will meet the winner of South Carolina and Campbell Sunday night at 7 p.m. with a spot in the Super Regionals at stake. The Gamecocks and Camels square off at 1 p.m. Sunday.
"I am really happy the way our guys responded in that atmosphere under some duress," said head coach John Szefc. "We did a great job of hanging in there. I think the turning point in that game was when they had second and third and no outs [in the sixth inning] and Mike [Shawaryn] was able to minimize that to two runs. That was a spot that really kept us in there.
"Obviously, we are really happy to be sitting where we are sitting at this point, but it is just the second win. We're not here just to get two wins. We are here to finish this thing off and that is our mindset going into tomorrow."
A fantastic pitching performance from starter Mike Shawaryn set the stage for relievers Bobby Ruse and Mooney to preserve the win. In the last four innings Saturday, Maryland's pitchers managed to strand six Carolina base runners including the potential tying run at third in the eighth and ninth innings. from umterps.com
LaMonte Wade hit two home runs as part of a four homer effort to help Maryland defeat third-ranked Virginia by the score of 7-6 in its ACC Championship opener Thursday at NewBridge Bank Park. The Terps (35-19) recorded eight hits on the afternoon, six of which went for extra bases, to win their school record 35th game of the season.
Wade's two solo home runs were half of the total the Terps hit Thursday. Kevin Martir and Charlie White each added one marking Maryland's first four home run game since 2009, when the club totaled four against James Madison on April 28.
The turning point in the contest came in the Terrapin half of the seventh with the game tied at four. After Anthony Papio was hit by a pitch with two outs, Martir blasted his second home run in as many games to put the Terps up by two, the first two-run advantage for either team.
Livid over Alex Rodriguez's decision to tweet an update on his rehab process,Yankees general manager Brian Cashman had a message for the third baseman.
"You know what, when the Yankees want to announce something, [we will]," Cashman told ESPN New York. "Alex should just shut the f— up. That's it. I'm going to call Alex now."
Rodriguez tweeted Tuesday that he has been cleared to play in rehab games. Rodriguez's comments seemed to contradict what Cashman told ESPN New York's Wallace Matthews on Monday.
"Visit from Dr. [Bryan] Kelly over the weekend, who gave me the best news – the green light to play games again!" Rodriguez tweeted.
On Monday, Cashman shot down a report that Rodriguez had been given the go-ahead to play in games.
"He has not been cleared by our doctors to play in rehab games yet," he said. "He's getting closer. There's no doubt about it. But we don't have a date for him to start playing games yet. It could be July 1. It could also be July 5 or maybe June 25."
University of Maryland senior lefthander Jimmy Reed was selected Friday in the sixth round (185th overall) of the 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals.
Reed is the ninth Terp to be drafted over the last three years and is the highest-selected Terrapin since Brett Cecil was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the first round (38th overall pick) of the 2007 draft.
"I'm pretty ecstatic right now," said Reed. "When my name was called, I screamed. It is really awesome to be picked in the sixth round by the Cardinals. The Cardinals are an amazing organization with a proven track record of developing pitchers. It's honestly the best situation for me."
In his first full season in the weekend rotation, Reed served as the Terps' Friday night starter. The Gaithersburg, Md., native posted a 6-4 record with a career-high 74 strikeouts. He finished the 2013 season with a 2.33 ERA, which ranks eighth in the ACC, en route to earning second team All-ACC honors and finished his career with 70 appearances, the ninth-highest total in program history.
Maryland senior lefthander Jimmy Reed and redshirt sophomoreCharlie White were named to the 2013 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Team, the league announced Monday.
Reed, who finished 6-4 with a 2.33 ERA, and White, who led the ACC with 39 stolen bases and hit a team-high .350, were named to the second team. It is the second straight season Maryland has had a player named to the All-ACC team after Brett Harman earned the honor last season.
Maryland's Friday night starter, Reed posted career highs in wins (6) and strikeouts (74), and ranked 10th in the ACC in ERA (2.33), while ranking eighth in strikeouts. He is one of six ACC pitchers to throw two or more complete games this season and one of six pitchers to throw a complete game shutout.
White finished the season highly ranked in several offensive categories. He led the conference with 39 stolen bases, ranked fifth with 75 hits, finished eighth with a .350 batting average, and ranked 10th with a .449 on-base percentage.
Maryland received another sterling pitching performance from Jimmy Reed and pounded out 14 hits in a 7-2 win over 18th-ranked Clemson on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.
Reed, the reigning ACC Pitcher of the Week, quieted the Tiger bats. The senior lefty struck out a career-high 11 batters and scattered four hits over eight innings. Reed has pitched at least eight innings in three of his last four starts and has an ERA of 1.41 in his last four.
The Terrapin offense provided plenty of support for its ace totaling 14 hits including five extra-base hits, two of which were solo home runs from Kyle Convissar and Jordan Hagel. The Terps' 14 hits tied a team high for the most hits in an ACC game this season.
Convissar announced his return to the Maryland lineup with a 3-for-4 outing, which included his first homer of the season in the third inning to stretch the Terps' lead to 4-0. Hagel followed in the fourth with a homer of his own, his second of the season, to increase the advantage to five.
Hagel along with Jack Cleary, LaMonte Wade and Charlie White all recorded two hits. Hagel and Cleary each added two RBI as well.
Maryland overcame a one-run deficit with two runs in the sixth and rode the superb performance of starter Jake Stinnett to a 4-1 win over Duke on Sunday at Jack Coombs Field. With the victory, the Terps (25-21, 8-16 ACC) took two of three from the Blue Devils (25-22, 9-15 ACC) to secure a vital series win.
Stinnett was the star of Sunday's game. The junior righty held the Blue Devils to no earned runs on five hits with four strikeouts for his first career complete game. Stinnett has gone at least seven innings in four of his last five starts including his past three. In those contests, Stinnett has an ERA of 1.54 with 28 strikeouts.
Jordan Hagel and LaMonte Wade had the decisive at-bats on Sunday. After Duke took a 1-0 lead in the fifth, the Terps took the lead in the next half inning. Hagel drove in the tying run with a sacrifice fly to center and Wade singled to center to score Charlie White all the way from first.
LaMonte Wade hit Maryland's first grand slam since 2009 and the Terps held off a ninth-inning rally by Towson to defeat the Tigers, 16-15, Wednesday at Schuerholz Park. The Terps (23-20) benefited from 11 walks and four hit batters by the Tigers' pitchers.
Maryland tacked on what appeared to be an inconsequential run in the ninth to increase its lead to four. But the Terps needed all of those runs to hold off a ninth-inning rally by the Tigers (19-20). Towson scored three runs, two of which came on an error, but Kevin Mooneystayed composed and got a strikeout and a ground stranding the tying run at third.


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By The Daily Green Staff
Main Course
"I always have Thanksgiving with my friends and everybody brings a dish. Fortunately, my friends are good cooks."
- Alice Waters, Chez Panisse
Time to give thanks ... and to celebrate with the delicious harvest of the local farmers and food artisans who bring to market the freshest produce, the most sustainably and compassionately-raised livestock, gorgeous hand-made breads and those delicious artisanal cheeses, preserves, and more.
When you shop locally for your Thanksgiving feast, you're celebrating the glory of real foods -- organic and heirloom vegetables, whole grains, fresh seafood -- most of which are raised without many hormones and pesticides. And because these foods are local, you reduce the number of miles between your plate and the farm, which is important to those of us concerned about the over-use of fossil fuels.
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Main Course
Chef Michel Nischan's Baked Fresh Ham with Roasted Apple and Almond Salad
The Daily Green's Maple Glazed Turkey with Sage Infused Butter
Chef Waldy Malouf's Roasted Oysters with Shallots and Herbs
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Chef Waldy Malouf's Roasted Butternut Squash with Pear Soup
Squash is an abundant, diverse and delicious vegetable available throughout the fall and winter months. Many varieties of pear keep well in storage, and can be enjoyed months after harvests. This soup combines the two seasonal flavors in a wonderful complement.
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Chef John Sundstrom's Roasted Cinderella Pumpkin with Blue Cheese Crostata and Bitter Greens
The ideal holiday salad, this dish offers the best of harvest flavors - green apples, heirloom pumpkin and tangy yet smooth blue cheese.
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Celery Root Salad
Smoky Root Vegetable Gratin
Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Baby Carrots and Pearl Onions
Garlicky Spinach with Red Peppers and Golden Raisins
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Horizons Newsletter - October 2008
"Hello and welcome back to Verification Horizons. Over the past few years, I've come to really enjoy this particular issue because it gives me a chance to reflect on everything that happened at DAC. Since DAC seems always to be the focal point of our industry's year, I find it fascinating to see how things have progressed from year to year—within the industry at large and especially here at Mentor Graphics. The central focus of Mentor's verification activities at DAC this year was our annual luncheon, in which we discussed the topic of "Innovations in Verification."
Aside from giving me a chance to present to my largest audience of the year (this year, we had a standing-room-only crowd of over 300 attendees!), it's a wonderful opportunity for me to immerse myself in the full spectrum of Mentor's verification offerings. I then have the chance through this newsletter to share some of the same thoughts with our ever-expanding (over 35,000 and counting) online audience. So, this quarter's issue will continue with the same theme.
Perhaps the greatest verification innovation to occur in the past year, if I may say so myself, is the Open Verification Methodology (OVM), which we released in partnership with Cadence back in January. The success of this partnership continues with the recent release of OVM 2.0, which strengthens many of the key features of OVM. Our first article, "A Quick Tour through OVM 2.0," provides an overview of some of the new features of this exciting release."
Tom Fitzpatrick, Editor and Verification Technologist
October 2008 Issue Articles
- A Quick Tour Through OVM 2.0
- Using Questa inFact in an OVM Environment
- Does Your RTL Simulation Accurately Predict the Behavior of Your Silicon?
- Understanding and Debugging the Verification Environment
- Processor Driven Verification - Use it for More Than Just Sign-off
- The Innovation Behind Veloce - Time for a Closer Look
- Bringing Everyone on Board with OVM
- A Practical Guide to OVM – Part 2
- Closed Loop Requirement Verification
- Concurrent Verification - Resolving Conflicting Goals
- Automated Register Abstraction Coming to an OVM Near You
- Off to the Races with MVCs
A Quick Tour Through OVM 2.0
Since the initial release back in January of the Open Verification Methodology (OVM), development and collaboration between Mentor Graphics and Cadence has continued its brisk pace. Through some great interaction with OVM users, and guided by the recently-formed OVM Advisory Group (OAG), we've focused our recent efforts on the successful release of OVM 2.0, in which you'll find many usability enhancements, bug fixes and other general improvements. In addition to improving the code, OVM 2.0 also includes the anxiously-awaited OVM User Guide, which provides step-by-step instructions and guidelines for applying OVM most effectively in the development of verification components, testbench environments and general verification IP.
In addition to the User Guide, OVM 2.0 improves the implementation of OVM sequences by adding TLM interfaces and other easeof- use features from OVM scenarios. This "unified sequences" implementation preserves the best of both sequential stimulus
mechanisms while simplifying the use-model and making sequence/driver interaction a conceptual superset of the existing TLM communication facility. We have also added explicit support in the OVM factory for the creation and overriding of parameterized classes and added much-requested debug methods to trace port/export connectivity throughout the testbench hierarchy.
Using Questa inFact in an OVM Environment
The Open Verification Methodology (OVM) provides a framework that includes both a methodology and code libraries that a verification engineer can use to build a testbench that is modular, interoperable, and reusable. It includes mechanisms for creating the various components and other objects that are required and for communicating information between these components.
The Questa inFact® intelligent testbench automation tool allows the user to build testbench components whose activity is controlled by one or more rule graphs that define the verification scenarios and stimuli that are to be applied to the device under verification (DUV) or to one of its interfaces. At simulation run-time these rule graphs interact with the tool's intelligent algorithms and possibly other testbench components to efficiently achieve the required functional coverage.
The compiled binary rule graphs, known as testengines, are defined by describing all the legal sequences of activity that form each verification scenario, with each step in the sequence corresponding to an action (in Questa inFact terminology). Each action in turn is linked to code in the form of a task or function in the high-level verification language (HVL) code. The description syntax is an extended BNF style and, therefore, provides a very compact representation of both sequential operations and parallel choices, as well as other higher level constructs, such as loops.
Does Your RTL Simulation Accurately Predict the Behavior of Your Silicon?
For decades designers have relied on software simulators to predict silicon behavior, so few question whether the software models used to represent silicon behavior are sufficiently accurate to correctly predict silicon behavior. In fact, today's verification methodology is based on this foundation — simulate the logic to ensure the right function is being computed, then use static timing to ensure the logic performs its function within the timing constraints.
So why question whether simulation accurately predicts silicon behavior? The fundamental reason is that the way engineers architect their designs today differs from the designs they did 10, or even 5, years ago. Clearly, designs are much larger and more complex, but that in itself does not cast doubt on whether software simulation is effective at predicting silicon behavior. The reason to revisit this question is that some of the fundamental assumptions that allow the "simulation + static timing" methodology to be effective no longer hold with today's design styles.
Understanding and Debugging the Verification Environment
As more and more users deploy object-oriented design techniques to develop reusable dynamic verification components at the transaction-level, the more important it becomes to provide debug and analysis capabilities that work at that level of abstraction and verification environments composed of class-based objects. You must be able to debug at multiple levels of abstraction, using the same models at the transaction, register transfer, and gate levels.
Transaction-level modeling (TLM), abetted by standards-based verification components, delivers the required capacity, visibility, and performance to thoroughly debug today's extremely complex designs.
Processor Driven Verification - Use it for More Than Just Sign-off
Current techniques of applying test vectors from an HDL testbench only begin to mimic processor bus behavior. The introduction of processor driven testbenches into the existing verification methodology enables real-world verification and extensive re-use of testbench software throughout the project.
One of the limitations to effective utilization of processor driven tests has been the difficulty debugging software in a processor running in a logic simulator. This paper presents proven methods of debugging and trace technology which overcome the limitations to enable the benefits of processor driven tests throughout various hardware and software integration
stages of your project.
The Innovation Behind Veloce - Time for a Closer Look
While chip and verification complexity continues to grow, time to market pressure requires that chip verification be completed on time and on schedule. To help their customers with these issues, emulation vendors face challenges of delivering faster runtime performance, addressing capacity needs, supporting different stimulus sources/methodologies, and offering simulation like ease-of-use and debug.
Providing a level of flexibility where users can employ multiple stimulus methodologies in the same project, or on the same model using single emulator platform is an important capability. As verification moves to higher levels of abstraction, hardware-assisted verification tools are required to handle verification environments using
these advanced methodologies.
Bringing Everyone on Board with OVM
The LSI Boulder verification team decided to verify their latest IP core with OVM and Questa. Although the verification team understood OVM well and could develop the primary constrained random tests, it was necessary to develop an interface that test writers outside the verification team could use to develop their own tests. The test writers are experts in the design they verify but do not know and do not have time to train on OVM or SystemVerilog.
This article describes an approach that preserves the flexibility and capability of the constrained random environment while allowing directed or semi-directed tests to be developed quickly and easily by engineerswho are not experts in OVM or SystemVerilog.
A Practical Guide to OVM – Part 2
This article is the second of a series aimed at helping you get started with OVM in a simple, practical way. The emphasis will be on the steps you need to take to write working code.
In the previous article we explored how to hook up a class-based verification environment to a module-based DUT (design-under-test), and also looked at the structure of an OVM transaction and an OVM verification component. In this article we will look at assembling the verification components, running a test, and then reconfiguring the verification environment.
This article was written just as version 2.0 of the OVM class library was being released. The code you see in this article will run with both OVM-1.1 and OVM-2.0, and can be downloaded from the Doulos website at www.doulos.com/knowhow.
Closed Loop Requirement Verification
The paper talks about a new unifying methodology that ensures closure to Verification planning and execution. Using this methodology and enabling tools, design/verification engineers and managers have a complete handle on the verification process. In a typical flow, a verification plan is created in Excel, Word, XML etc. and imported into the Simulation tool, as the verification process gets underway, the synchronization to the original plan is at best done manually. Further, you need help with understanding if the original requirements are being verified at all.
This new methodology/tool, takes away the guessing game. In one document you describe the Verification Plan, check the latest Verification Status, know when you are done and what you are done with. This methodology works with Mentor's UCDB and advanced verification technologies.
Concurrent Verification - Resolving Conflicting Goals
The purpose of this article is to point out a common issue that affects most ASIC development projects.
Since Verification often consumes most of the man-hours of the ASIC development, typically double that of the RTL implementation, engineers and managers are trying to get as much mileage and value out of the verification as possible. If the verification environment can serve the needs of the designer in the early stages of RTL development, it is a big benefit.
Automated Register Abstraction Coming to an OVM Near You
Picture this, you're heading a specialized verification team, and you've just been handed a new chip with 57 different IP blocks, 5,871 addressable registers, and 22,273 bit-fields. Oh great, you think, what is the probability of the documentation matching the design? And once you get it in sync, how do you keep it that way?
Not to worry, there is a solution: abstracting the registers in a manner that maintains their synchronization with the corresponding RTL code, documentation, firmware, and more. Register-abstraction tools, such as SpectaReg™ SystemVerilog Register Abstraction (SVRA™) from PDTi, auto-generate SystemVerilog modules to provide everything needed for working with registers from a TLM verification standpoint. Since they are auto-generated, you can be confident that the abstracted registers match the single source spec and derived RTL — when the spec changes, so does everything that depends on it.
Off to the Races with MVCs
I should like to share some of our team's recent good experiences with the newly released MVC Verification components library. We have found the MVCs to be extremely useful in solving customer verification problems.
The primary reason for using any verification IP is that it should save you the time and effort to develop and verify a model for your verification environment. At the very least, it should come with a means of generating some stimulus and a means of being able to check a protocol. We were not dissapointed with the MVC Verification IP library since each VIP comes as a comprehensive kit of transactors, monitors, functional coverage monitors, responders, masters, slaves, stimulus classes and a UCDB ready functional coverage plan. There are also examples that illustrate how to use the MVC in different situations and a number of the example classes provided can quickly be adapted to solve specific project verification problems. We have used MVCs in customer verification environments based on both the AVM and the OVM and well as in traditional VHDL and Verilog verification environments.