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Situated near the airport, this hotel is 0.8 mi (1.3 km) from Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site and within 3 mi (5 km) of National Purple Heart Hall of Honor and New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site. Motorcyclepedia Museum and Kristi Babcock Memorial Park are also within 3 mi (5 km).
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A 24-hour front desk, a computer station, and multilingual staff are available at this hotel. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include RV/bus/truck parking and free breakfast.
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A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This New Windsor hotel also offers multilingual staff and RV/bus/truck parking. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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- Number of floors - 2
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First, cut power to the range at the breaker box. I removed the jenn aire vent grill; removed two phillips head screws holding the switch bracket assembly and removed the switch assembly. After making a diagram of wiring, removed 4 bayonet type connectors. Next carefully remove the pushon nuts and save. Remove defective switch and discard. Install new switch on the two metal prongs over the black metal bracket making sure to orient correctly - use wire diagram and compare size of bayonet lugs for proper orientation. Push on nuts. Reconnect four wire bayonets; place switch assembly in proper position. insert and tighten the two phillips head screws that hold the assembly in place; replace vent grill and turn on power at breaker box.Only problem was that new pushon nuts were too small for the jennaire metal prongs. Good thing i saved the old nuts!!
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Google Gives Google Apps Users Credit & Adds Communication Policies
Earlier this month, Google's popular email service had a major outage. News.com is now reporting that Google has responded to Google Apps Premier users with a credit and a promise to provide better communication tools in case this happens again.
Google has issued a 15-day extension of service to all Google Apps Premier users as a credit for the outage. This is the "full SLA credit" Google can give and it has been given to all Premier accounts automatically.
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An Islamic view of December 21st as end of the world
Doomsday tomorrow. What does Islam have to say about it?
World to End 2012?
Shiekh MUSTAFA UMAR gives the Islamic perspective on December 21st.
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What did the Lebanese Google in 2012?
Curious to know what did the Lebanese Google in 2012? The Lebanese Googled Myriam Klink a lot at certain times!
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The key is that the players must spend 50% of their practice time on learning all types of serves and then applying it in pointplay situations. In the coaching camps I observe that too much time is spent on ground strokes and very little on serve. We all know that a point does not start with a ground stroke, it starts with a serve.
The serve should be practiced in two segments:
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Playpoints or a set with the following rule:
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Burton Albion winger Lucas Akins a doubt for visit of QPR to Pirelli Stadium
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LUCAS Akins is a doubt for the visit of Queen's Park Rangers to Burton Albion tonight – but is expected to play through the pain barrier.
The 25-year-old winger broke his hand in the 2-1 win over Dagenham and Redbridge.
"Lucas' hand hasn't healed and we've got to assess if he plays with that or if we give him a break," said Brewers boss Gary Rowett.
Albion host the Premier League newcomers (7.45pm) hoping to continue their excellent run against higher level opponents in the Capital One Cup.
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They knocked out Championship outfit Wigan two weeks ago, while last season Premier League Fulham got a real scare before going out on penalties after a 2-2 draw.
Prior to that, Sheffield United have twice been beaten, as have Leicester City.
Rowett says the side Harry Redknapp puts out at the Pirelli Stadium makes little difference to Albion.
"It doesn't really matter what team QPR send when you've got a squad of household names and international players," he said.
"We know roughly what type of football they're going to play.
"They'll try to pull us around and then play through the gaps, using that extra bit of pace to get into the box.
"But we've done well in these games in the last few years. It's about how good defensively you are and about how you can hurt them when you get the ball, because you get fewer opportunities than at League Two level."
The Brewers boss, though, is hopeful that Rangers struggle for motivation against their League Two hosts – but accepts it is a long shot following the Hoops' weekend hammering at White Hart Lane.
"When players from a higher level, and I know this myself, play against lower level opposition, sometimes they don't look forward to it and you hope they're not as up for the game or as mentally prepared to work hard," said Rowett.
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I'm sure I've had worse than this one, but this always sticks out in my mind.
I was about 12 years old or so, watching television with a few of my relatives at Thanksgiving when a commercial for "Buddy's Carpet Barn" came on and I opened my big mouth.
"Who in the heck would name their kid Buddy? What a stupid name."
My cousin replied, "Well, my name's Buddy."
"Yes it is," I said, recalling a moment too late that a man named Buddy was two feet away.
You know, in thinking back on that, I've met only one person in my life named Buddy, and I've only uttered that sentence one time in my 37 years and he just happened to be sitting right next to me when I did it.


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HYDERABAD: The 42nd 'vardhanti' of Burgula Ramakrishna Rao, the first Chief Minister of the erstwhile Hyderabad State, was observed here on Monday at his statue near the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation office, in the presence of Governor N. D. Tiwari and Chief Minister K. Rosaiah.
Mr. Tiwari, who offered floral tributes to the statue along with several leaders, chanted Sanskrit slokas while moving around it.
N. Chandrababu Naidu, former Chief Minister, D. Srinivas, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president, D. Nagender, Health Minister, Jayaprakash Narayan, and B. Dattatreya, presidents of the Lok Satta and State Bharatiya Janata Party respectively, were among those who paid floral tributes.
B. Babu Rao Varma, chairman, Dr. Burgula Ramakrishna Rao Foundation Committee was also present.


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Heather Marie Wells, Education Technology Coordinator for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, has been elected to serve as a director of the Southeast Museums Conference (SEMC).
She will serve a three-year term, ending in October 2015.
The SEMC, a nonprofit membership organization, is an association of museums, museum staff, independent professionals and corporate partners focusing on museums and museum concerns within the Southeastern United States, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The organization provides education and professional development opportunities, encourages the interchange of ideas and information, and builds collegiality among member organizations.
Wells, who has been at Crystal Bridges since 2010, has been active in the SEMC since 2007, and was awarded the organization's 2008 Emerging Professional of the Year award.
She has also garnered two MUSE awards from the American Alliance of Museums' Media and Technology Committee and several awards from the Arkansas Museums Association.
She has presented at numerous state, regional, and national conferences, and published papers in several museum publications, including the American Public Gardens Association Magazine, the American Alliance of Museum Registrars Committee Newsletter and the Arkansas Museums Association newsletter.
Wells is currently serving her second term on the board of the Arkansas Museums Association.
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Whether it is for adults or kids, the lunch box presents many dilemmas. What to pack, how much time to spend on preparing it, what will taste good a few hours after packing, what can be made ahead — these are some factors one must keep in mind while packing a proper lunch box.
A packed lunch should be a portable, less-elaborate version of a lunch you would have at home and by that, I mean well balanced, hygienic and tasty.
Carbohydrates form the base of any meal. One can choose from wholegrain bread, rotis, pita bread, cooked unpolished rice, broken wheat, semolina, pasta, potato and so on. Younger kids can do with white sandwich bread as too much fibre can fill them up quickly before they can consume the required calories. Wholegrain sandwiches, stuffed pita bread, fried rice with vegetables or chicken, broken wheat patties, semolina upma, pasta tossed with vegetables or in a salad, boiled potato or potato patties are some of the ways to build the carbohydrate component.
The box needs to have a protein component too. You could choose from chicken, eggs, beans, lentils, cheese, tofu, paneer, yogurt and nuts. Shredded lean chicken can be a part of wraps, sandwiches or pasta. A whole boiled egg, sliced in half and sprinkled with a pinch of salt and pepper makes the perfect addition to a kid's lunch box, and the eggs can be boiled the previous night. Cooked beans like chickpeas, black-eyed peas, dried peas, rajma can be mashed and added to vegetable patties or made into hummus for sandwiches. Cheese cubes by themselves or in sandwiches are a most popular protein option for kids. Tofu or paneer can be added to dry vegetable curries that can be used to stuff rotis to make a roll. Yogurt can be set in one of the smaller boxes and put in the fridge overnight to be carried in the lunch box. This makes a good accompaniment to rice and broken wheat based dishes, if the commute is not too long and the workplace / school has a refrigerator. Nuts are a great snacking option, rich in a variety of vital nutrients — add this to your kid's muffins or cookies and to your salad. Carrying it in the lunch box is the best way to eat nuts while exercising portion control. Nut butters are good for spreading in sandwiches.
Since both adults and kids need to get five to nine servings of vegetables and fruit, it is important that the lunch box has a couple of servings from this group. Whatever is going into the lunch box, make sure it is fortified with some vegetables (other than potatoes, which is rich in starch) – for example, green beans and peas in rice, cucumber and carrot sticks with hummus, red bell pepper and zucchini in pasta. Add some pomegranate pearls to raita or curd-rice, grated apples and pears in muffins, sliced banana in peanut butter sandwich.
Nandita Iyer is a medical doctor with a specialisation in nutrition. She blogs her healthy kitchen experiments at www.saffrontrail.com


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Author has written 14 stories for 39 Clues, Harry Potter, Twilight, Knowing, Tokyo Mew Mew, Misc. Books, Avatar: Last Airbender, Death Note, Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, and Sherlock.
Reason behind my screen-name: It is so true! Nerds are going to rule the world and I will be their leader!
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Sometimes I act more like a guy than a girl. I HATE when my mom and sister say I have to go to the mall with them. I used to play with with HotWheel cars and wanted to be a firefighter. But I eventually got over it… I own a D.S., an X-box, and a Minecraft Account (trFishie in case people wanna find me however people do that o-o) and a bunch of games with a lot of 'guy' games that I share with my brother. Most of the time I go to my dad for advice. I don't really like to have sleepovers because it's just sorta weird with a bunch of people who can't stand Gory Movies like I can. Besides most girls would criticize my choice of color for my room. I also I talk with food in my mouth and sleep with my socks on and me and my friends sometimes have animated discussions on which is better Dogs or Cats. Sigh... I'm more of a Dog person anyways.
But on the flip side I act like a girl sometimes because I wear chapstick and consider colorguard a sport. Also I do go to the mall for the Food Court (they actually have some good Chinese food.)I was in Gymnastics and entered beauty pageants. I love going to the movies, even if it's for the action movies. I have never actually owned a doll but Power Rangers count right???
I pass all the classes I hate and fail the ones I love. I joined Yearbook my Sophomore year not because I wanted to take pictures and write stories but because I loved the feeling of unity it brings with my, oh so different classmates. I'd rather take a book to the school dance than a date. I get guys better than I understand girls. I close my locker door on my hand. I don't fit in with I should and aren't quite the same as who I do fit in with. I am the girl guys love to be friends with, but don't love. I got pissed with my friend when she made me choose between Kyou or Sebastian. I am always there and loves that you're always there, even if I don't need to say it. I'd take demons over Geometry any day. I want SO BAD TO BE famous but have stage fright. I wear all black clothing and crack up at everything you say. I answer my Spanish test... in Irish. I will forget we're racing in P.E. and wait for you to catch up. I refuse to live in reality. I love being That Girl.
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If you love something let it go. If comes back... It's yours. If it doesn't... It never was
"We read to know we are not alone."- C.S. Lewis
"It is not over till you look yourself in the mirror and can say "I did everything I could to save this" Then feel free to walk away!"
"Is just plain tired of holding everyone else together. When nobody notices she, herself, is falling apart."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."
"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The Doctor: Of course you're not scared! Box falls out of sky, man falls out of box,man eats fish custard. And look at you! Just sitting there! Do you know what I think?
Amelia: What?
The Doctor: That must be hell of a scary crack in your wall.
I'm like a bipolar chipmunk on Red Bull, with a PH.D in crazy. I'm not sure if your going to survive our friendship.
My life is like an equation, you have to cancel things out and balance it all before you can make it work. But you can't do it if there's a third-wheel.
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Getting High meant swinging at a playground?
When the worst thing you could get from a boy was Cooties?
When Mom was your Hero,
And Dad was the boy you were gonna Marry?
When your WORST ENEMIES were your siblings,
and RaCe ISsUeS were all about who ran the fAsTeSt?
When -War- was only a -card game-?
And Remember when all you wanted to do:
Was to grow up?
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Once I'm dead, I won't even be able to remember you. So I'll win, no matter what. I'll live, no matter what!
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June 29th, 2014 #1
Advice on grass and leaves and over-rendering bgs
I've been doing portraits for a while and recently delved into learning how to do environments and backgrounds. There are a couple things I've found particularly challenging: 1. Not having the background take away from the focal point of the painting (in this case the face and bird) 2. making the character and background looking cohesive (I added a bunch of green to the shadows of the skin) 3. making realistic looking trees, leaves and grass (i.e. replecating a texture rather than exactly what you see). The picture is supposed to communicate a sense of wonder and curiosity from both the fairy and bird.
Comments on other things that might not look right, but are unrelated to above-mentioned concerns are also appreciated
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Hey friend!
Really nice piece you have here, I love the characters and scene
So the first issue is the composition: the picture doesn't seem to know if it wants to be a portrait or an environment. You have a huge empty space in the upper right that demands attention but gives the viewer nothing to look at.
So, I broke this picture down in two ways, depending on where you wanted to go with it. The first small thumb below is just working out those forest colors - I took out the figure so as not to distract. The other deals with the relationship between the figure and the hummingbird and how to use lighting to solve your issues.
The problem with forests is that everyone thinks that forests are green. They are not - there is a huge variety of colors. Colors are relative to their environment, and one thing people often do is they put down a pure green for, let's say, the grass, and then they try to do leaves with either the same green or they try to push it even more toward saturated green. You can make things look green without having to really use a lot of green by surrounding it with other harmonic or contrasting colors/saturations.
In my figure-less paint over, I brought in some browns, grays, and gray-blues. As far as rendering goes, I would work on getting everything to communicate within the environment before worrying about rendering, because you can waste a lot of time going into a ton of detail only to realize the picture as a whole is not working. Just suggest lighting and color, it will be more powerful than spending an hour rending the grass.
You can solve problem #1 but thinking out your light source and cropping the picture more so that the characters dominate it. Below is just my suggestion on how I would handle it. I would make the light source coming right down on them and let the background fall back into darkness (of course, you could always add more trees and bring in a little light, I just wanted to simplify things as an example). Here, the viewer goes right to her face and the bird. Please note: you don't have to crop in on her, but at least re-think the composition (maybe have her sitting up on a log or something) and think about the space around her and how she fits in it.
I might suggest looking at how lighting reacts to skin in an environment. You'll get bounce light and sub surface scattering and all kinds of fun stuff.
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June 29th, 2014 #3
I'm far from an expert on grass. I paint grass by making quick and relatively random strokes. That works quite well and if not, I can fix most of it later.
You could also paint the blades in variable values.
This is a tutorial about drawing grass, I find quite usefull.
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June 29th, 2014 #4
I agree with JadeMere's advice. This looks too much like a mash-up of different elements from Linda Bergkvist paintings. Also you'd need to get some refs for the anatomy.
June 30th, 2014 #5
In addition to that, you are scribbling instead of defining the form with brushstrokes. Use the biggest brush you can, and think of the form before painting.
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#2 Hi, sorry for the late reply. I actually finished the painting within a couple of days of posting, but I just wanted to say thanks for the advice even though it might be a bit late to do so. It was really helpful (at least I think the painting looks a lot better now). I tried to implement those of your suggestions that wouldn't require me to completely re-do the entire thing, and to just keep the rest in mind for the planning stages of paintings in the future. So this is what it looks like now.
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August 10th, 2014 #7
@JadeMere's advice is gold.
I had a quick effort is PS to see if there were any fixes you could apply directly to this image without necessarily needing to reconsider the whole thing.
1 - I didn't feel like the girl was actually looking at the bird, which kind of undermined the narrative of you picture. Rather than try to repaint her head, I just moved the bird slightly so they look like they are actually engaged.
2- I did a bit of an anatomy sketch on top. The only things really I changed were I slimmed down her wrists and repositioned the elbow on the nearside arm. I drew in the rest of her torso and the tops of her legs/hips that are obscured by her dress. There is a mass of white dress around her ass that kind of felt a bit indistinct, didn't seem to conform to the shape of her body as implied by the pose. It also helped dictate the direction of the folds in the material which will help you sell the form.
3- I colourised the background. A bit... brutally really and definitely @jademere's advice here is better than mine. But I thought It did help lend a little bit of separation, and made your bird stand out a bit more.
4- I might be lazy but I use leaf and grass brushes to render in a lot of the environmental stuff, so that could be worth exploring...
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Created voice-to-text message software when she launched SpinVox in 2003. Born in Spain, Domecq moved to America when she was 13 and was educated at Boston College and Notre Dame University. Now based in Marlow, she is a member of the wealthy sherry family and has been named a young entrepreneur of the year. Loves paragliding and rockclimbing, and says the idea for her business came to her in a "blonde moment" in her car, when she had 14 voicemails on her mobile phone and had to pull over to jot them all down.
David Reeves, 50s
Launched the original PlayStation, rising to CEO, and is spearheading the PlayStation 3 console and Sony's plans for online film and music download stores. In an industry that thrives on youth, he is coy about his age. Speaks six languages — not bad for a Cambridge natural sciences graduate with a PhD in chemistry and astrophysics.
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Alex Balfour, 37
Serial new media entrepreneur and sports fan, now leading the Olympics' web coverage. He was part of the original launch team for the Guardian's website, set up online cricket site CricInfo and went on to co-found a sports rights company called Investors in Cricket (helping develop Twenty20 cricket for the Indian market). A keen track cyclist, Balfour studied history at Cambridge.
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Gavyn Davies, 57
Fabulously rich as a former partner of Goldman Sachs, the ex-Oxbridge ex-BBC chairman has serious clout — has made major investments in technology companies, including Node, which provides electronic tour guides for attractions such as London Zoo. He writes a weekly newspaper column on mathematics and statistics and collects modern Art. His other half, Sue Nye, is a longtime Gordon Brown aide.
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Tom Coates, 36
Londoner Coates, who shot to fame through his blog plasticbag, is now head of product at Yahoo's Brickhouse R&D centre, where he is pioneering smart websites that track your location through a mobile phone. He is based in the UK, although travels frequently to Silicon Valley, and is highly influential in the UK technology startup scene.
Laura Wade-Gery, 42
Can boast more than 1m regular customers, with ambitious plans to use video-gaming technology on Tesco websites. Tipped as a future CEO of the supermarket giant. Relaxes by tending to her organic vegetables. As an Oxford undergraduate she retraced Marco Polo's 13th century voyage from Palestine to China with a friend, writer William Dalrymple.
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Jason Gissing, 38
The affable public face of Ocado, which sells groceries online for Waitrose. Annual sales are now over £350m, although it has also racked up big losses. Educated at Oundle, he went on to study law at Oxford, where he was a member of the notorious Bullingdon Club. He is married to a former professional skier.
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Rishi Saha, 30
Protégé of Tory strategy guru Steve Hilton, Saha is credited as the man behind David Cameron's online invention Webcameron. A former hip-hop club promoter and parliamentary candidate in Brent in 2005, Saha is intent on modernising the Tories — helping switch the venue of the Tory Winter ball from Park Lane to Old Billingsgate.
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Iain Dale, 46
Has arguably done more than anyone to popularise the internet at Westminster, using his contacts as an ex-Tory aide to bring in a succession of scoops and gossip on his blog. Continues to innovate, helping to launching an internet TV channel and a political magazine. Had a civil partnership earlier this year.
Wayne Arnold, 34
Boss of the leading digital marketing agency, with a raft of clients such as Channel 4 and Mini cars. Educated at Coventry University, Arnold worked at Merrill Lynch before founding Profero. Named as the "most influential digital Briton" by New Media Age, his tentacles stretch to America, China and Australia. A leading voice warning about the power of Google in the advertising market.
Brent Hoberman, 39
Made his name with Martha Lane Fox at lastminute.com. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Hoberman remains active in the City and is a director of Guardian Media Group. A keen foodie who likes to choose dinner from Selfridge's food hall, Hoberman wants to rediscover the magic of another internet start-up with the launch of interior design firm MyDeco.com.
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Alex Northcott, 39, and Mike Webster, 34
Genial ex-City PR men who have made a small fortune with Gorkana, an online database of journalistic and public relations contacts. City firms pay Gorkana, which recently expanded into America, to keep abreast of the everchanging media world. By getting permission from everyone it writes about, Gorkana has won the trust of the industry.
Suranga Chandratillake, 30
A self-confessed nerd who got his first computer aged seven (a BBC Micro Model B), he studied computer science at Cambridge. At research firm Autonomy he developed advanced search algorithms. Now heads up blinkx, whose video search capabilities are taking on Google and Microsoft. Rupert Murdoch has been linked with a possible bid.
Michael, 38, and Xochi Birch, 36
Spectacularly rich after selling the social networking website to AOL for £425m, netting
70 per cent for them just three years after founding it. They have a huge war chest for their next project. Michael is based in California but he and his wife, Xochi, who met at Imperial College, have a house in Richmond and his brother Paul, a founder investor in Bebo, lives here.
Travis Katz, 36
A senior member of James Murdoch's News Corp team, Katz runs social networking website MySpace in the UK and internationally. Raised in America, he has a blue-chip pedigree having worked for McKinsey and studied at Wharton business school. Married, he describes himself as a music and politics junkie.
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Philip O'Ferrall, 38
O'Ferrall has responsibility for all MTV's activity across online, interactive TV and mobile and is also involved in commissioning shows. Previously he set up an online TV channel, and claims one of his biggest achievements was, at the height of the dotcom boom, raising and spending $30m in six months. An active member of both the Royal Television Society and BAFTA.
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Martin Lewis, 36
Lives in North Kensington and famously set up his site for just £100, offering straight-talking consumer advice. Hugely successful, it has nearly five million unique users a month. Lewis is also a newspaper columnist, spreading the gospel about how to save cash.
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Malcolm Gerrie, 58
The ex-Endemol boss and producer of U2's Zooropa tour is now running Whizz Kid — which funds internet video companies, including Tough Cookie. His early credits include The Tube, Channel 4's famous Eighties TV show.
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Emanuela Pignataro, 39
Educated at New York University, Pignataro has risen through the ranks at Condé Nast and oversees digital strategy. The glossy magazine company is also set to move further into the technology world with the publication of a UK version of Wired magazine, to be edited by techie buff and ex-Evening Standard media interviewer David Rowan.
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Tom Loosemore, 36
With a career spanning the BBC, where he pioneered much of the work on the iPlayer, to Ofcom, where he was a senior adviser for digital media, Loosemore now heads Channel 4's £50m fund to drive public service digital media. 4IP aims to create new ways for online and broadcast programmes to work together.
Saul Klein, 38
Raised in Knightsbridge, studied at Cambridge. The former Skype marketing boss is now key to London's second dotcom boom. He founded seedcamp, which puts investors in touch with entrepreneurs at annual week-long "bootcamps". Successful investments include online retailer Glasses Direct.
Simon Crookall, 41
Crookall set up Gumtree with Michael Pennington in 2000. Aimed largely at London's itinerant Antipodeans, it soon expanded into "local eBay" before being bought, naturally, by eBay. After selling his £1.5m London flat — via Gumtree — Crookhall is working on a similar site aimed at the Eastern European market.
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Matt Jones, 36, and Matt Biddulph, 32
Cut their teeth at the BBC and quit to run their own social networking site — which helps business travellers know where their contacts are and when they will both be in the same city. They also advise other UK internet start-up firms near their Old Street offices, leading them to dub the area "Silicon Roundabout".
Jack Schulze, 32, and Matt Webb, 30
Shaping everything from Nokia's next generation mobile phones to the BBC's digital radio plans for the future, Schulze & Webb have a reputation as digital visionaries. Schulze trained at the Royal College of Art and St Martins; Webb is an ex-BBC research and development engineer.
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Simon Ainslie, 41
Previously head of sales at T-Mobile, Ainslie is tackling the onslaught of new mobile competitors —and taking on the might of the iPhone. He has made the UK one of the key territories for the company. His background is in food — having studied marketing and biochemistry — and he regularly competes in triathlons.
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Mark Read, 41
Right-hand man of WPP advertising king Sir Martin Sorrell, Read is in expansionist mode, buying up a string of digital marketing companies in the past year. Expects to see growth of 20 per cent this year and has huge global clout as part of the WPP empire. Began his career at WPP, leaving briefly to found online firm WebRewards before being lured back.
Ajaz Ahmed, 35
Ahmed, who grew up in Berkshire and was a university dropout, is the founder of web advertising and design firm Akqa, which now employs more than 600 people worldwide. Says he was worth £85m at 27 and last year he sold a majority stake to a private-equity firm. Ahmed says he feels he has "only just got started".
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Cory Doctorow, 36
An accomplished and highly regarded science fiction author, Doctorow also runs the hugely popular Boing Boing website — named as one of the most influential technology sites. A free spirit, he is an outspoken opponent of digital rights which electronically lock content such as films or music.
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Rob Wilkerson, 47
Boss of advertising agency Target, which is focused on online campaigns as a way to promote its big-name entertainment, movie and video game clients, ranging from ITV to Sega. He founded Target in 1990 and after a series of ownership changes Wilkerson's agency has doubled in size and turnover in the past two years — even after the credit crunch took hold.
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Mark Fitzgerald, 30
Technology expert whose firm works with the biggest companies to help send and receive millions of SMS text-message services. Handles transactions as varied as paying the congestion charge to voting on BBC's Match of The Day. Ranked as one of the fastest-growing UK firms in 2008. Former JPMorgan trader Fitzgerald says the boom will continue as video-messaging takes off.
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Chris Price, 39, Katie Lee, 29, and Ashley Norris, 42
All ex-gadget journalists, the trio have made Shiny one of the few companies actually to make a business out of blogging. Shiny covers everything from fashion to festivals and has pioneered the use of professional video blogging. Although Norris recently left, the trio are still highly influential in the UK online media world.
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Dharmash Mistry, 38
Works for Balderton, the venture capital firm that already claims Setanta, Betfair and Bebo among its successes. Educated at Oxford, Mistry rose through the ranks of publisher Emap, and was heavily involved in the launch of its lads mag Zoo and digital operations. He was
part of the management team that successfully sold Emap's consumer magazine business
to H Bauer for £1.1bn.
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Paulina Bozek, 31
Responsible for the hugely popular PlayStation karaoke game hit SingStar, which won two BAFTAs for Interactive New Talent and Originality. Bozek started at UbiSoft in Canada, then studied at the London School of Economics before joining Sony's London Studio.
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Mike Danson, 45
Internet evangelist who made a fortune by selling his information business Datamonitor, netting about £65m. With that budget, he is able to spend — investing a five-figure sum in independent Left-wing blog LabourHome and buying a 50 per cent stake in the New Statesman. A bigger purchase could be in the pipeline.
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Nancy Cruikshank, 37
A former Hearst Digital MD, she was responsible for building brands such as handbag.com and netdoctor. As CEO of videojug, she hopes to bring DIY into the digital age with thousands of how-to-videos covering everything from putting up bookshelves to cooking the perfect Thai green curry.
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Toby Bourne, 37
The man responsible for the deal to bring Sony's electronic book to the UK, effectively stealing a march on industry giant Amazon — which is yet to unveil plans for its Kindle reader's European debut. Bourne has previously overseen the Harry Potter launches for the chain and also worked for Asda.
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This is significant because this is the first time that the large volume of applications filed during the anomalous eight-week period in 2007 has become eligible for approval. In July 2007, the DOS eliminated all cutoff dates from all employment-based (EB) categories, with the result that all foreign nationals seeking EB permanent residence were permitted to file applications for adjustment of status (AOS). This brief window of opportunity lasted approximately eight weeks. Many of these applicants with approved EB immigrant petitions had been waiting for several years for the cutoff dates to advance. While foreign nationals could file AOS applications during this time, these applications could not be approved once this window had closed and cutoff dates had retrogressed. As of October 1, 2011, cutoff dates for the EB-2 India and EB-2 China categories will advance through July 15, 2007, allowing United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to approve the green card applications for foreign nationals in these categories with priority dates of July 15, 2007 or earlier.
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SOSHANGUVE, South Africa — "Perspective."
Mike Friesen didn't have to think long before the word tumbled out of his mouth, didn't have to mull over what he would remember most about a two-week trip to South Africa. It wasn't petting lion cubs, or watching from the stands as the United States scored in the 91st minute to beat Algeria in the World Cup, or training the South African women's national team at the high-performance center in Pretoria.
It was something less tangible, something you can't pet.
The San Diego State women's soccer coach was standing outside the Ebenezer Christian Fellowship Centre in Soshanguve, a township north of Pretoria that stretches to the horizon and beyond — township being the polite way of saying unspeakable poverty. Behind him several dozen children, some without shoes, chased soccer balls across the dirt lot under a cloudless sky, giggles echoing off the buildings, puffs of dust swirling in the afternoon breeze.
He reached a finger behind sunglasses that cost more than some families here make in a month and rubbed the dust from his eyes.
"We'll have a brown spot on our field (at SDSU) and say, 'Hey, we need more water here,' " Friesen said. "Everything is a brown spot here."
Friesen recently led a group of current or former women's players from U.S. and Canadian colleges on the trip sponsored by Athletes in Action, an evangelical Christian sports ministry. For the first week, they lived and trained alongside members of Banyana Banyana ("The Girls, The Girls"), as the senior women's national team is known, as well as national and regional youth teams. The second week was spent in Soshanguve, conducting soccer clinics at the church and an orphanage.
Players had to apply for the trip and raise money to help defray expenses, and NCAA regulations prevented Friesen from coaching any of his own players. Although they had time for an afternoon at a local lion park and got to see the historic U.S.-Algeria game in Pretoria, it was hardly a vacation.
They met in Vancouver, British Columbia, then flew 13 hours across the international date line to Hong Kong, had a four-hour layover, followed by another 13-hour flight to Johannesburg, followed by a one-hour drive to Pretoria. They left on a Friday afternoon. They arrived Sunday morning, dropped off their luggage and were on the field practicing 45 minutes later.
The following day, they took part in "Survivor"-type bonding games with the South African players. Part of it involved trudging through waist-high water while keeping one teammate dry. Part of it was eating exotic foods: animal hearts, monkey brains, cow hoofs.
The most eye-opening part, though, might have been the life stories told by the South African players in the quiet of their cabins at night. Theirs is a country where female sports are not accepted as they are in the United States — there is no Title IX — and that was the least of their worries.
Soccer being a predominantly black sport in South Africa, most players came from townships, from abject poverty. Many didn't have both parents alive. Some had lost one or both to AIDS. Some had been sexually abused. Some couldn't play for clubs because they couldn't afford the bus fare — sometimes as little as 25 cents — to practice. One girl showed up for the weeklong training camp, according to one of the Athletes in Action staff members, with a single pair of underwear.


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