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Syria May Have Used Chemical Weapons
April 26, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House declared Thursday that U.S....
Obama not being cautious, he's just waiting for someone else to take the lead.
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impact the POTUS isn't being cautious, he's kissing their backsides just like he has done with every other middle eastern country/region. He's keeping the Chapstick Company in business. He got chapped lips from all the foreign booty he's kissing!
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Noimpact, I thought the President be black?
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Of course an Israeli Gen thinks they have used WMD's. They want to keep this part of the world stirred-up. The more problems in this area, the more mmoney we will give them. It appears that Obama is playing right into their hands.More American Lives will be lost, for nothing.
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triton, its your repub buddies like McCain who are beating the war drums. the president is be cautious.
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Very hard to disagree with you guys,especially since it is the truth. Not to worry though, the Liberals will break their fingers pushing the disagree button.
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In that the alive Boston bomber has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction (a pressure cooker bomb), I would say it is safe to say much more lethal weapons have been used in Syria. I know the White House is trying not to get us into another major intervention, but ignoring the elephant in the room isn't the way to go about it.--What Wraith says is true. I would say it is time to give President Bush some slack on the WMD, especially since a pressure cooker bomb is now considered a WMD.
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Obama really wants to commit the US military to Syria. I wonder why with all of the billions of aid and arms that we have funneled into the AlQuida units in Syria that the regime still stands. I wondered why it took eight months of 24/7 bombing and arms to the admitted AlQuida units in Libya that it took that long to topple Moomardaffyduck. Perhaps they are not seen as being any worse than what comes next. Libya used to be a secular government, where women could work, teach, doctor, drive cars, etc. Or be dressed like beekeepers. Now they have Sharia law which is the total end of human rights. We did that. We paid for that. And in Egypt, and now Obama wants to topple one regime in Syria for another AlQuida government. Why? The people of Syria seem to NOT be up in arms as the "rebels" are largely foreign fighters. What is Obama's obsession with making Islamic governments at the cost of all human rights. Oh well, for sure we are being greased up for the next fascist
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Of course there are NO WMD's in the Mideast, that was all a figment of Bush Bush Bush imagination.
Now there were BOOKS written on the subject that the WMD'S from Iraq were transported to Syria about one week BEFORE the US Invasion.
An Iraqi pilot wrote a book about flying to Syria with WMDS. The rest were in a convoy of about 20 vehicles which were alleged to have been photographed by spy satellites at the Syrian border.
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Traveling abroad…is there a "quick fix" for my wanderlust?
The options for travel seem to be endless and dreams don't seem so far off!
For years I have been dreaming about traveling abroad. After coming out of an extremely difficult season of my life, it is now time to pursue that dream. I even sold my car and embraced minimalism in an effort to save money for trips. Not exactly sure where I want to go or what I want to do while I am there, I went on search for a plan.
I love Twitter! Twitter has opened the world of real travel to me and has introduced me to numerous bloggers on the subject of travel. There are blogs that alert me about the deals in the tourism industry. Although I appreciate the information I have gained, those who are living "outside the box" intrigue me. I have discovered that there are actually people who have decided to live nomadically, taking their businesses on the road and selling it all to travel full time. One of my favorite bloggers on this subject is the Soultravelers3. This family sold it all, moved to Europe and purchased a motor home to live nomadically for the past five years. I also enjoy Vagabonish and Rolf Potts Vagabonding. These bloggers have opened my eyes to the possibility of traveling frugally. I am learning about Hostels and joined Couch Surfing, an organization that links fellow travelers all over the world that open up there homes and offer a couch to crash on. I have a friend who traveled throughout Germany using Couch Surfing. How fun is that? I now understand that travel does not have to be expensive.
Still, in the vastness of our world…. where do I start? My husband and I are about two years away from having the freedom for extended travel. True to my nature, I want to take off now! So, I keep watching twitter for inspiration.
I received a Direct Message from @Real_Gap. They happened to respond to a comment I made about checking out Argentina. I love Twitter! Real Gap for Grown Ups opened up another intriguing option. What about volunteering, learning a skill or even work while living abroad? I have taken short-term mission trips in the past. Taking extended time off for "holiday" or taking a career gap seems so foreign to most Americans. This organization offers opportunity for people to take a career gap, for as little as two weeks and up to a whole year. I spent the day reading about all their trip options and am excited about possibly going to Costa Rica to learn Spanish, cooking and Latin Dancing. I could go for two or four weeks and be immersed in their culture. This could be a "quick fix" for my wanderlust.
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Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas: targets for comprehensive protected area systems
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Italianchips was born to be my recipes book online. But not a recipe book full of recipes yet to try. My intention was/is to put together only tested recipes, the ones I really like and want to cook/bake/prepare again.
The name Italianchips was meant as small pieces of Italy, as I live in Italy (I am a Brazilian who married an Italian). The recipes are not all Italian, but are the recipes I cook in Italy :-). I leave my intuition decide which recipes deserve to be tested – I am really attracted to some of them, and are the ones I try; but only the ones that satisfy me and my family are the ones that are going to be published.
Sorry for my English mistakes. I love the English language, but I am aware of my mistakes and I am grateful when someone corrects me. I write in English because it is the universal language. I like the feeling that I can connect with people from any part of the world through this language (it would not be possible in Portuguese nor Italian).
Since I was a teenager I like to photograph. I left it apart while children were young and my husband didn't like to focus (I was always blurred in all photos) and that was the time we used some completely automatic cameras. Some years ago I bought a Canon and began to taste again what photograph is. All the photos of the blog are taken by me with my Canon 450D; most of the times using a 50mm lense.
Here you find recipes of all kinds. I do not follow the traditional Italian menu composed by a starter, a first course and a second course. We like to eat what we feel like eating. My favorite way to serve a lunch or dinner is to prepare kind a buffet, so we site alltogether at the table to enjoy ourselves eating together – without me going back and forth from the kitchen.
There are some finger foods as I firmly believe it is something I have on my DNA. When we were on our teens (me and my sister) we used to spend vacations and holidays on a family house close to Rio. Well, my father always prepared finger food for all of us while we were on the pool. Years after my sister began her catering company with…finger food!
I love to prepare bread. I don't know why, but it gives me a special pleasure. I am always trying new recipes of bread, with and without yeast, flat breads, no kneading breads…breads of all kinds.
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Amanda BillyRock Signs the Pledge
Online sensation Amanda BillyRock signs the Statement of Intent, showcasing the new, easy-to-use Free State Project website. Amanda will be joining thousands of other liberty lovers in New Hampshire soon. What are YOU waiting for? Join us for your best chance at Liberty in Our Lifetime.
Bring on the Brewskies!
"Look for a new wave of mini brewpubs to open in New Hampshire soon! On July 24, 2013, Governor Hassan signed HB 253 into law. The bill removes the 4 ounce restriction on over the counter sales by nanobreweries, provided that the brewery also prepares and serves meals." For more on the bill... A number of individual Free State Project Participants were involved in helping to get this bill written, passed, and signed into law. This is just one example of the many types of liberty activism that individuals choose to take part in after they move to New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project. More...
NH Moves in Pro-Freedom Direction on MMJ
New Hampshire finally joins the rest of New England in legalizing the use of marijuana for therapeutic purposes. Governor Maggie Hassan signed HB573, legalizing cannabis for therapeutic purposes on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. You can read more about it here. If you are interested in the history of attempts made by activists over the past several years to legalize medical marijuana/push forward decriminalization, watch the documentary Libertopia, which is now available for free viewing on Youtube. From their website: "Libertopia is a time capsule of the Free State Project from 2008 - 2009. It follows three members of the Free State Project... More...
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New Hampshire's Singular Spirit
New Hampshire is different. While the geography of the state is fantastic - soaring mountains, countless rivers and lakes, expansive forests, and a picturesque coastline, the natural features aren't the source of its uniqueness. The character of the people is what sets New Hampshire apart.
New Hampshirites are known for their fierce independence, encapsulated in the oft-quoted state motto: "Live Free or Die." The motto isn't a floating abstraction either. Article 10 of the state constitution's Bill of Rights, described as the "Right of Revolution," adds some legal teeth to it by declaring: More...
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Welcome to the Free State Project's new website! It has been a long time coming, and I hope you are impressed by what our small team accomplished. The mission of the FSP is to attract 20,000 participants to move to New Hampshire to pursue more Liberty in Our Lifetime. The website is geared towards showcasing all the advantages New Hampshire has to offer: its culture of rugged individualism and personal responsibility, low taxes, a safe environment, natural beauty and clean air, diverse seasons and geography, good neighbors--face it, there is a reason New Hampshire is consistently rated the "most livable" state.
Ultimately, signing up for the FSP and moving to New Hampshire means you are joining a community. A voluntary community of like-minded people, one you choose to associate with in a place that may well be the world's "best kept secret." They say you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends. With the FSP, you can do even more than that, you can choose to make a principled commitment to freedom and liberty, with your family, and with your new friends. More...
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Escape from "Communist Connecticut"
Newlyweds Tyler and Katie Crosson moved to New Hampshire in early June 2013 as part of the Free State Project. More than 30 Porcupines showed up to help them move into their new home.
Earlier on the same day, another new mover was helped in a similar "pay-it-forward" fashion, and afterwards, he had this to say:
"You want to know what the Free State Project is? It's 20+ people you've never met showing up in 95 degree heat to help unload your moving truck after you make a single post on Facebook.... I got a welcome bag with ammo in it, seriously."
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Monday, November 10, 2008
+ MONDAY NETCORDS: Murray making moves...Flink on Doha....Davis Cup format still sucks
Andy on the upswing [Deuce]
Masters Cup missing its mojo? [ESPN]
Flink wraps up Doha [Tennis Channel]
Davis Cup needs an enema [Richard's Court]
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If the mojo is Rafa, then yeah: the MC is missing some!ReplyDelete
BTW, Fed's comment on missing Rafa was hilarious: "We're not dating."
I just imagined if they were... no shakehands at the net, instead a smack on the lips - Fed next to Uncle Toni in Rafa's box all blushing during the fistpumping - Rafa in Fed's box going all Mirka, stuffing M&M's into his mouth - Fed and Rafa having some splashy beach fun in Mallorca... LMAO!!!
I forgot to mention: I MISS RAFA!!!ReplyDelete
- nadalfanNovember 11, 2008 at 8:28 AM
I miss Le Rafalet too. :(ReplyDelete
And why does AR look like some big, beer guzzling frat boy in that t-shirt?
He looks like a t-shirted Good Year Blimp.
we'll havet to get you both a life sized blow up doll of rafa to keep you company until next year. how does that sound?ReplyDelete
as for a-rod, he wears all his clothes way too big. he's a big guys but his clothes are bigger in a bad way.
i don't know how he manages to make lacoste look bad.
Blimp.... LMAO.ReplyDelete
Where can I order blow-up Rafa???
- Tennis ObserverNovember 11, 2008 at 11:22 AM
'Fed's comment on missing Rafa was hilarious: "We're not dating."'ReplyDelete
Federer is dating Wawrinka that's why he said this.
LOL tennis observer!ReplyDelete
Glad Andy's wearing his white shirt again,prefer it to his black stripey one!!
I wonder if Any feels like the fattest one in the locker room? Think he dresses quickly so no one will get a good look? Not that they'd want to...ReplyDelete
Rafa, on the other hand...
...Oh, Rich...why'd you talk me down from the roof yesterday? I must have me some Rafa soon or I'll spontaneously combust.
Oh, and put me down for one of those blow...I mean, blow-up dolls.ReplyDelete
Natch,sorry but Andy's got a great body & give me him over Rafa any day!ReplyDelete
No prob marys, there are already enough Rafanatics around anyway, it's getting crowded... ;-))ReplyDelete
Um, is it me or did I just read something about blow job Rafa?
Man, I think I'm losing my mind. o_O


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This holiday season, let's remember those toiling on the high seas, who make ocean cargo shipping the key symbol of globalization.
It's lonely and often dangerous work, done by professionals who – for the most part – remain background players in the worldwide distribution network. Without them, however, the backbone of the supply chain would surely crumble.
There's one organization that means to change all of that: The Seamen's Church Institute (SCI).
For many years now, SCI has been promoting the safety, dignity and improved working environment for the men and women serving in North American and international maritime workplaces. Founded in 1834, the Institute is a voluntary, ecumenical agency affiliated with the Episcopal Church.
Annually, its chaplains visit thousands of vessels in the Port of New York and New Jersey, the Port of Oakland, and along 2,200 miles of America's inland waterways extending into the Gulf of Mexico. SCI's maritime education facilities provide navigational training to nearly 1,600 mariners each year through simulator-based facilities located in Houston, TX and Paducah, KY.
The Institute and its maritime attorneys are recognized as leading advocates for merchant mariners by the United States Government, including the US Congress, the US Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as the United Nations, the International Maritime Organization, the International Labor Organization and maritime trade associations.
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Coffee Buyer & Quality Manager Tim Hill, visited Ethiopia at the end of November and recently posted two sets of photos from his trip. The first part of the trip, Tim spent several days with coffee researchers in and around Jimma, followed by a trip to southern Ethiopia where he spent time at cooperatives under the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union – the group that includes the producers of Haru, Idido, and Beloya.
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This section contains a selection of Dr. Breggin's scientific articles spanning 1964 to the present. They can be arranged chronologically in order to facilitate an overview of his work over the years.
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"Brain-disabling Therapies," In Valenstein E (ed): The Psychosurgery Debate. San Francisco, WH Freeman, 1980.
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text: Joe Cronauer has been seen and heard on Cleveland airwaves for the last 22 years. He's been up and down the radio dial as part of The Brian and Joe Radio Show. In 2008 he was inducted in the Cleveland Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Currently of WKYC's Good Company.


text: Chinese crunch human genome with videogame chips Science 09 January 12 by Eric Smalley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The world's largest genome sequencing center once needed four days to analyse data describing a human genome. Now it needs just six hours. The trick is servers built with graphics chips -- the sort of processors that were originally designed to draw images on your personal computer. They're called graphics processing units, or GPUs -- a term coined by chip giant Nvidia. This autumn, BGI -- a mega lab headquartered in Shenzhen, China -- switched to servers that use GPUs built by Nvidia, and this slashed its genome analysis time by more than an order of magnitude. In recent years, the cost of sequencing genomes -- mapping out an organism's entire genetic code -- has dropped about five-fold each year. But according to Gregg TeHennepe -- a senior manager and research liaison in the IT department at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine -- the cost of analysing that sequencing data has dropped much more slowly. With its GPU breakthrough, BGI is shrinking the gap.In the world of medicine, this is nothing but good news. It promises to dramatically boost biological exploration, the study of diseases, and efforts to realise the long-touted vision of personalised medicine -- the idea of being able to tailor drugs and other treatments based on an individual's genetic makeup. GPUs get super GPUs began life in desktop PCs. But nowadays, they're widely used for "high-performance computing," driving supercomputers that crunch through huge amounts of data generated by scientists, financial institutions, and government agencies. Much of this data can be broken into small pieces and spread across hundreds or thousands of processors.Graphics processors are designed to crunch floating-point data. Floating point processing -- in which the decimal point can move -- makes it easier for computers to handle the large numbers typical of scientific data. As a bonus, graphics processors are generally less expensive and less energy-intensive than standard CPUs.According to Jackson Lab's TeHennepe, the feat BGI and NVIDIA pulled off was porting key genome analysis tools to NVIDIA's GPU architecture, a nontrivial accomplishment that the open source community and others have been working toward. The development is timely. TeHennepe's Jackson Laboratory is best known as as one of the main sources of mice for the world's biomedical research community, but it's also a research center that focuses on the genetics of cancer and other diseases. The lab has been conducting high-throughput sequencing for more than a year, and it has been looking into GPU computing to bolster the lab's ability to analyse the data.TeHennepe calls BGI's accomplishment "an important step forward in the effort to apply the promise of GPU computing to the challenge of scaling the mountain of high-throughput sequencing data" -- assuming that BGI's accomplishment can be verified and applied elsewhere.GPU computing holds the promise of delivering orders of magnitude increases in performance and reducing power and space requirements for problems that can be structured to take advantage of the highly parallelised architecture. The open question in the high-throughput sequencing community has been the extent to which their analysis challenges can be restructured to fit the GPU model.Beyond the CPU To achieve the same genome analysis speeds with traditional CPUs, BGI would have to use 15 times more computer nodes, with an equivalent increase in power and air conditioning, according to bioinformatics consultant Martin Gollery. With GPUs, Gollery says, BGI gets faster results for its existing algorithms or use more sensitive algorithms to get better results. It can use its existing computing resources for other tasks.According to Chris Dwan -- principal investigator and director of professional services at BioTeam, a consulting firm that specialises in technology for biomedical research -- organisations that use GPU-enabled genome analysis can also pare back their computing infrastructure. Sequencing machines generate hundreds of gigabytes of data at a time. That data has to remain "hot" on disk drives for as long as the analysis software runs."If you can churn through data in a few hours rather than a week you might be able to save quite a bit on high-performance disk space," Dwan says.Another consequence of BGI's GPU initiative is the likelihood that other institutions will be able to use BGI's GPU-enabled applications. "Most of the genomics folks that I know have been waiting for GPU-enabled applications to appear in the wild, rather than dedicating local developers and building the apps themselves," says Dwan. From bench to cloud BGI uses GPUs across a large server farm. But its GPU software port has consequences for other platforms as well. Big, high-throughput sequencing machines have dominated the sequencing market, but smaller bench-top systems are likely to drive growth in the market over the next four years, according to DeciBio, a biomedical technology market research firm. Benchtop sequencers are likely to capture close to half of the market by 2015, according to the firm.As the sequencing manufacturers develop ever smaller bench-top instruments such as Illumina's MiSeq and Ion Torrent's PGM, they will also need to scale down the built-in analysis capabilities of the systems. "GPU-based systems might allow them to fit a traditional CPU-based cluster's worth of compute capacity into the instrument itself," says Jackson Lab's TeHennepe.And then there's the cloud. Running genome sequence analysis pipelines in the cloud is a hot topic. Pipelines refer to the end-to-end process of running DNA sequence data through a series of analysis tools to produce genomes whose structures and variations are identified and labeled. The resulting analysed genomes are tools for researchers studying biology, pharmaceutical companies developing drugs, and physicians treating patients.Harvard Medical School's Laboratory for Personalised Medicine has been running analysis pipelines on Amazon's EC2. All of the major sequencing instrument manufacturers have or will soon have cloud-based analysis services, which are primarily aimed at smaller organisations, says TeHennepe. The combination of sequencing services -- like those offered by BGI and Edge Bio -- and cloud-based genome analysis promises to make genomics more affordable for smaller research outfits. A researcher can send a biological sample to a sequencing service, which can upload the sequencing data directly to a cloud service. "The researcher now no longer has to own a sequencer or a cluster, and does not have to have employees to manage both of these technologies," Gollery says. Read page 2 12 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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As one of the oldest restaurants on the North Coast, Al Pescatore's unwavering popularity is a testament to the wealth of experience behind the team at this beautifully situated dining venue.
With delicious Italian and seafood on offer plus daily specials, diners can be assured of a superb culinary experience and excellent service along with it.
A wooden deck outside provides patrons with stunning views of the Indian ocean and the perfect accompaniment to a meal.
Enjoy seductive cocktails a selection of delicious tapas, grills and gourmet pizza at Ayoba Restaurant in Zimbali.
Dine amidst a stunning beach setting warmed by the lingering aroma of wood fired pizza and the salty Indian Ocean.
Ayoba Restaurant caters for a relaxed and informal meal, flanked by expansive views and is open Thursday to Sunday.
Cradled in the scenic beachside resort of Ballito, Azura Restaurant refreshes the palate with cooling cocktails, romantic dinners and alfresco lunches flanked by ocean views and trailing sunsets.
Enjoy an array of dishes ranging from Mediterranean style fare to succulent steaks and Portuguese style chicken.
The comprehensive menu boasts delicious grilled steaks, succulent prawns, tender calamari, peri-peri chicken, fresh and delicious seafood dishes as well as combos.
Dine alfresco on the wooden deck or by candlelight under a blanket of stars, Azura Restaurant swaddles the palate with a taste of the ocean touched by the murmur of contented chatter.
Prepared using the freshest ingredients, herbs and spices, Beira Alta pampers the palate with family tradition of cooking, passed down from generation to generation.
Located in the scenic coastal town of Ballito, this elegant and sophisticated restaurant delights with delectable Portuguese cuisine, embracing Continental and African influences.
Enjoy a relaxed and tantalising meal soothed by the drifting sounds of smooth jazz and a romantic ambiance.
Indulge in a variety of flavours and tastes starting with succulent prawns smothered in a melange of spices, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic and if red meat takes your palate, try the flame-grilled chicken and platters layered with scrumptious pan-fried prawns.
Beira Alta Restaurant cooks from the heart and their passion for food will reunite a love affair with decadent Portuguese cooking and rich aromatic wines, for a sensational dining experience.
This poolside burger bar, located inside the opulent Zimbali Coastal Resort, invites causal dining in relaxed surrounds.
The menu boasts a fine selection of gourmet burgers with a twist and various light meals. Tables scattered around the poolside provide a refreshing alternative to dining indoors.
Bite Restaurant is ideal for causal lunches and family get-togethers.
Located inside the trendy village boutique, this coffee shops exudes a warm, welcoming ambiance pampered by sublime chocolate brownies and interesting menu.
Delight in light and healthy meals, teas and aromatic coffees or wind down with a glass of fine wine accompanied by freshly prepared food in a home from home setting.
Browse the fashionable range of casual wear, local art and gifts for an added bit of retail therapy at Café Du Soleil in Ballito.
This concept embraces food for thought; a culinary education through inspiration. Sample an array of gastronomic masterpieces, created at the hand of resident chefs.
Through the process of observation, taste and discussion, guests enjoy a casual chat and hands on approach through glass windows with the opportunity to chat and discuss the magic of their culinary creativity.
Dine with friends sampling the decadent tasting menu and well paired wines in the kitchen of the chef at the Chef's Table, Ballito.
A treasure trove of delectable goods and gifts, Cinnamon and Silk Trading invites leisurely coffee breaks filled with a delicious assortment of freshly baked cakes, muffins and quiches all made right there in their micro bakery.
Browse the exquisite selection of décor and gifts before settling down with a hot cinnamon roll covered in custard or do yourself a favour and taste one of their famous chocolate brownies.
If the palate calls for something cooler, try the iced tea, fruit juice or old fashioned lemonade and cinnamon cola. The serve a wide range of herbal teas – all presented in the most beautiful old fashioned way.
This coffee and décor shop provides the perfect balance of shopping and indulging in Ballito's Lifestyle Centre.
Cinnamon and Silk is a managed hot spot – Wi-Fi available to all platforms.
Fabulour Flavours enrobes the palate in luxuriously decadent fare that tantalises the taste buds with flavour and taste.
Enjoy sinful deserts, lip smacking breakfasts and pleasurable lunches at this fine cuisine boutique boasting exceptional gourmet cuisine.
Peruse the homemade deli range and decadent range of gourmet Gateaux before setting off with an oasis of all day treats such as homemade jams, biscuits, pates, salad dressings and specialised deli hams.
Food Matters embraces dining as a gastronomical gift from the gods, spoiled with decadent riches and heavenly flavours.
This Italian grill house prides itself in its use of fresh ingredients, quality grade meat cuts, and mouthwatering seafood. Located inside a boutique hotel, Fiamma Grill offers an exclusive dining experience. Family run and dedicated to its guests, it's perfect for romantic dinners, large families and business functions.
Located in an old house, perfectly positioned from the beach, Fraser's Bistro offers an appealing choice of dishes, catering for all tastes and flavours.
An expansive mixture of contemporary, classic and intercontinental flavours prepared using the freshest ingredients evident in the delicious selection of starters, salads, seafood and meat dishes.
The menu boasts an interesting and varied selection, balanced well within price and flavour. Traditional curries and sensational deserts cater for heartier alternatives with chef's specials available every week for those interested in trying something new.
Enjoy dining indoors or alfresco on the sea facing terrace overlooking a secure garden, perfectly placed for kids to enjoy, allowing parents a much deserved break.
Fraser's Bistro extends a warm and welcoming ambiance, perfectly positioned and brimming with delicious food from the expansive a la carte menu.
The décor inspires with bold palates of sophisticated silver, black and white, exuding elegance and timeless air, softened by delicate words of inspiration, embossed on 'Oscar Wilde' wallpaper.
This classic décor embraces fun heightened by splashes of hot pink and focal chandeliers that give off an air of sophisticated elegance.
The cuisine creatively begins with the best ingredients, grown, chosen and handpicked from the home-grown garden. Every aspect of this brasserie reduces the carbon eco footprint.
Dining at Gigi's Brasserie calls for a serenade of the senses as the palate explores delicious starters of garlic grilled prawns, plump and juicy and served with a tangy Asian noodle salad.
Mains sets the stage with a succulent beef fillet, pork belly or extensive choices of rocket, walnut and gorgonzola salad, seared scallops, mushroom and parma ham ravioli, assiette of fish, Norwegian salmon and seafood platter from the new signature dishes to mention a few.
Conclude the meal with a delicate lavender panna cotta or the bold liquorice ice-cream served with flambé pineapples.
Gigi's Brasserie is an oasis of heavenly dining set amidst the timeless elegance of Hotel iZulu in the North Coast, Ballito.
This trendy restaurant boasts a warm ambience and atmosphere in which diners can enjoy fresh fish, seafood, meat and even Indian treats. Be sure to try the seafood platter with lemon grass mussels, line fish, tiger prawns, and calamari. The restaurant also serves a Sunday buffet, and do not miss the regular breakfast specials and happy hour deals.
Injobo invites relaxation and tranquillity at this exclusive a la carte restaurant brimming with creatively designed cuisine.
Housed inside the Ebandla Hotel, swaddled in the rolling hills of Compensation, Injobo Restaurant immerses the palate in a fusion of modern and traditional cuisine that caters for every desire.
Enjoy a refreshing cocktail at the sophisticated cocktail bar before settling down for an intimate dinner creatively designed by Injobo's resident chef.
The contemporary décor infused with tranquil elegance ensures an unforgettable dining experience at this exclusive a la carte restaurant in Ballito.
John Dory's specialises in seafood, offering a wide variety of fish, shellfish, calamari, and sushi, as well as a variety of meat, poultry and vegetarian dishes. The atmosphere is family friendly and the portions are generous and affordable.
The restaurant has a main menu, a kids' menu, and a wine menu. Great seafood platters are available for the ravenous guest or for parties to share. Diners can also make up their own party platters with sushi, sandwiches, maki, nigiri and California rolls. A creative sushi train is available on the children's menu.
It is the perfect place for enjoying a family outing with delicious seafood and refreshing wines.
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text: Inside Google+ - how the search giant plans to go social Technology 29 June 11 by Steven Levy Wired.com Google, the world's largest search company, is formally making its pitch to become a major force in social networking. The product it announced on Tuesday is called Google+, and observers might wonder whether it's simply one more social effort by a company that's had a lousy track record in that field to date.Parts of it certainly seem to appear similar to what we've seen before. One significant component is a continuous scroll called "the stream" that's an alternative to Facebook's news feed -- a hub of personalised content. It has a companion called "Sparks," related to one's specified interests. Together they are designed to be a primary attention-suck of Google users. Google hopes that eventually people will gravitate to the stream in the same way that members of Facebook or Twitter constantly check those continuous scrolls of personalised information.The second important app is Circles, an improved way to share information with one's friends, family, contacts and the public at large. It's an management tool that's a necessary component of any social network -- a way to organise (and recruit) fellow members of the service.But as I learned in almost year of following the project's development, with multiple interviews with the team and its executives, Google+ is not a typical release. Developed under the code name Emerald Sea, it is the result of a lengthy and urgent effort involving almost all of the company's products. Hundreds of engineers were involved in the effort. It has been a key focus for new CEO Larry Page.The parts announced Tuesday represent only a portion of Google's plans. In an approach the company refers to as "rolling thunder," Google has been quietly been pushing out pieces of its ambitious social strategy -- there are well over 100 launches on its calendar. When some launches were greeted by yawns, the Emerald Sea team leaders weren't ruffled at all -- lack of drama is part of the plan. Google has consciously refrained from contextualising those products into its overall strategy.That will begin now, with the announcement of the two centerpieces of Google+. But even this moment -- revealed in a blog post that marks the first limited "field tests" outside the company -- will be muted, because it marks just one more milestone in a long, tough slog to remake Google into something more "people-centric.""We're transforming Google itself into a social destination at a level and scale that we've never attempted -- orders of magnitude more investment, in terms of people, than any previous project," says Vic Gundotra, who leads Google's social efforts.Some think the battle is already lost. Bloggers and critics opine that social software just isn't in Google's DNA. Google is all about algorithms, they say, not interactions between humans. And where's Larry Page's Facebook profile? (Sergey Brin does have one, under a pseudonym that unmistakably points to its owner.)But Googlers working on Emerald Sea note that the company has a lot advantages to play on the fields of social networking. Hundreds of millions of users, the vast majority of whom trust the company. Unparalleled mastery of determining relevant information. A vault filled with cash, to buy small companies (Aardvark, Picnik, Slide) that have gained a foothold in a given social activity.To grasp the significance of this for Google, you must get past a corporate quarantine and catch a glimpse of the giant hand-painted mural that greets those very few visitors granted access to enter to the fourth floor of Building 2000 on the Google campus, which was an early hub of the initiative.The mural has been there for a year now. On first glance, the artwork, on a wall facing the two elevators, is a frightening mash up of a J.M.W. Turner painting and a storyboard for a scene from The Perfect Storm. It depicts a tumescent oceanscape, dominated by a wall of surf that is about to upturn a pitiful sailing ship.The image was discovered by Google VP of product management Bradley Horowitz when he opened Google Image Search and typed "Emerald Sea" -- which had just been chosen as the project code name. The first result, a depiction of an 1878 painting created by German immigrant artist Albert Bierstadt, so impressed Horowitz that he commissioned a pair of art students to copy it on the wall facing the fourth floor elevators. That way, the hundreds of workers contributing to Emerald Sea would draw inspiration as they headed to their computers to remake Google into a major social networking force.The massive wave symbolises the ways Google views the increasingly prominent social aspect of the web -- as a possible tsunami poised to engulf it, or a maverick surge that it will ride to glory. Beirstadt's turbulent vision is the perfect illustration. "We needed a code name that captured the fact that either there was a great opportunity to sail to new horizons and new things, or that we were going to drown by this wave," Gundotra said last August, when Google first showed me a prototype.Did he say drown? It almost beggars belief that the king of the search -- the most successful internet business ever, with $30 billion in yearly revenue -- would be running scared by the social networking trend led by Facebook, a company that barely rakes in a few billion. Nonetheless, people at Google feel that retooling to integrate the social element isn't a luxury. It's a necessity. As early as last August, I asked Gundotra whether he felt Emerald Sea was a bet-the-company project."I think so," he replied. "I don't know how you can look at it any other way." Google still wants to organise the world's information. But this time, it's personal. Read page 2 1234567 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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02/17/2008, Harbor Village Marina
We took a break today to help the folks get ready to fly back to California. We ate a goodbye dinner at Salsa which is a nice restaurant on the south end of town. Dinner is servied in the second story of an open air wood and palm frond building with a great view of the harbor. A lovely spot for a lazy evening with great food.
02/16/2008, Windsock
The license plates here say Diver's Paradise. I must agree. The entire island is surrounded by a spectacular reef. The government seems well aware that this is perhaps the islands number one stock in trade.
Bonaire is a very environmentally conscious principality. No anchoring is allowed anywhere and they encourage environmentally friendly practices at every turn.
While you could probably jump in the water anywhere and go for a great dive they have established named dive sites all up and down the western coast of the island. They have also ensured that you have beach access to almost all of them.
The standard Bonaire dive trip involves renting a pickup with a tank rack in the back and diving your heart out. Any of the dive shops will swap your tanks out as fast as you can use them. You really don't need a boat unless your headed for Klien Bonaire or the rough east side.
On the down side if you like to dive off of your yacht you can only do so in the overnight yacht mooring field between town and the Harbor Village Marina. This is nothing to scoff at but there are a lot of great dive sites out of reach. You can only tie up boats under 36 feet in length on the dive mooring while diving.
We still had our beater van and the crew was ready to go diving. After checking over the free dive site guide we received at check in we decided to dive Windsock. Mom had been studying for her first dive and was ready to give it a try as well.
Once on the beach Pops watched the gear and the rest of us got the dive equipment ready. It was a nice little beach dive with easy access as the book said. Unfortunately for Mom is was not as flat as I had hoped when we got in to practice her basic SCUBA skills. Mom was a trouper though and completed all of the discover SCUBA skills and then went for a tour of the area.
It was a nice first dive but the last Mom would be able to get in due to her flight home coming up. We had a nice ride back to the marina talking about our first Bonaire dive and a good meal at the Argentinean restaurant next to the marina office.
02/15/2008, Bonaire
We rented a Van today to drive around the island. It was a clunker and the key didn't work on any door except the back hatch. Sort of funny climbing in the back to open the thing every time we stopped.
Bonaire is a neat island and gave us our first taste of the fairly desert like ABCs. Lots of dry earth and catctus. They make fences out of cactus for heaven's sake (very effective that).
Our tour took us around the entire island. We saw flamingos in the north where park lands cover most of the area. The ruggad windward coast had beautiful rocky beaches and breakers along with cave paintings from the original pre colombian inhabitants. The south has Lac Baai, the famous wind surfing destination, and the lighthouse. The West coast has the slave huts and the main town of Kralendyke. A full and enjoyable day.
02/14/2008, Bonaire
We checked into the Harbor Village Marina today to make it easy for the crew to get ashore and see the island. The staff at the marina, and Bonaire at large, are wonderful and as friendly as any place you will find. It is a pretty nice marina and will make a good jumping off point for an island tour tomorrow.
02/13/2008, Bonaire
We had a six hour run to Bonaire in front of us today. Hideko's cousin Em was flying into Bonaire to meet us so we wanted to get there at a reasonable time. As wonderful as the Los Roques were I was completely taken by the Las Aves. Perhaps it was the simple fact that there are fewer people there. I always love the remote places that you can only really get to with a boat. I could easily spend a month here.
Hideko and I went for a short snorkel to look for Lobster but there were not any reefs close enough to the boat to go hunting in. The water is amazingly clear though and we were greeted by a turtle early in the morning and many fish swim about over the white sand bottom. At 79 degrees, the water in this neck of the woods is a bit chilly for us. Thin skin, I know, but we always like at least 80 and like 85 even better. It was refreshing regardless.
We left the anchorage at 10:30 Curacas time, which is a half hour in between AST and EST. The forecast was for big wind and seas even relative to the usual. Nothing dangerous of course but certainly a day where Hideko and I would have stayed put if we weren't meeting family on the next island. We also wanted to make sure that Mom and Pops got to see as much as possible on their trip to the southern Caribbean.
The wind was over 20 knots true all day but we were heading down wind so it was nice on the boat. We sailed along at 9-10 most of the day. It was the first day where I had to keep an eye on the waves coming from behind. Some were up to the bimini but fortunately they were not too steep. We were running off at a nice angle and generally stayed under 12 knots coming down the waves, with a few 15s in there once in a while.
A stream of squally cumulus was running in a continuous line out toward Bonaire much like it had on our way to Los Roques. This was my second time witnessing this phenomenon but this time it was threatening to get me wet. We stayed high on track waiting for a break in the frequently rainy dark spots. When we could wait no longer we jibed, cutting across for the southern tip of Bonaire.
We almost made it. The wind kicked up and the rain came down just as soon as we got under the clouds. It was over quickly though and before long we were rounding the flat southern coast of Bonaire. As we began to turn up wind it became apparent that things were getting more exciting in the afternoon. The wind was in the high 20s. Fortunately the seas flattened out quickly as we came in behind the island. We put in reef two with our wonderful new reefing setup as the wind climbed over 30. We rolled the jib in until just a scrap was left. Then I started to see 40s. Next gusts up to 50! Even our Margarita encrusted log was starting to spin. I was beginning to wonder how far this was going to go. It was just then that the Sea Princess decided to leave the dock.
Normally I try to stay well out of the way of anything approaching the size of a cruise ship. Even more so when I'm in conditions gusting to 50 knots. The problem was we had limited options with the sail trim, Hideko and I had things eased off so that the boat was only doing 10 something with a scrap of jib and a double reefed main. The Sea Princess also gave me no indication of where she was heading. She was turning, speeding up and always increasing our concern. I hailed her on 16 twice but received no reply. My only real goal was to find out where she was going so that I could make sure to not be there. We fell off a bit heading for Klien Bonaire, the little island that makes the entire inner bend of Bonaire a fairly protected harbor, and the Sea Princess kept coming at us. Just before I had to take more action the big hotel trundled off on a southerly course. It sure would have been nice if they'd simply let us know what they were planning so we didn't have to guess at how to avoid them.
As we reached deeper into the bay the wind calmed to the high 20s. This felt like a gentle summer breeze by comparison.
We tried to get a slot at the Nautico Marina where we had told Em we would meet her but they were full up. Nautico is basically a small dock out in the ocean. They have a couple of Manta charter cats on the two ends so don't look there for space if you are a cat. In fact I wouldn't recommend it regardless. Our next shot was the Village Harbor Marina. In retrospect this is the only real marina in Bonaire for non local yachts. They close up promptly though and we had no reply from them.
All of Bonaire is a no anchor zone so we went for the final option which was picking up a park mooring. In the end this would turn out to be our favorite place to be while in Bonaire. A pleasant neighbor in a dinghy from the yacht Willow helped us tie up to the unique Bonaire twin loops.
It was 17:30 by the time we were secure and I had told Em that we would meet her around six. So we quickly cleaned up and put the dink in the water to deliver the shore party. Roq stayed aboard while Mom, Pops, Hideko and I went to find the bar at Nautico Marina where Em would hopefully be waiting.
When we got to Nautico we realized that it really was just a dock. There was no bar (I had just assumed that all marina's have a bar, right?!). Fortunately there was a restaurant across the street with a bar. It Rains Fish is a fantastic restaurant with a nice bar and the hostess informed us that our relative had been waiting for us but that she was gone presently. However, her luggage was in the bar. After some recon down by the Nautico dock we found Em and our mission, short of eating dinner at one of Bonaire's famous restaurants, was complete.
It Rains Fish was booked for the night but we had a tremendous meal at the Tapas place just down the waterfront. As I sat there enjoying the food and the company of family, watching the people walk by on the strand of the busy little town of Kralendyke, I marveled at the fact that just hours ago we were snorkeling in a private anchorage in the middle of no where. Cruising is fun.
02/12/2008, Las Aves
We didn't leave the anchorage until 10:30 today. It was nice to have good light on the way out. As soon as we cleared the entrance to the island group we had a straight shot to Las Aves Barlovento (the eastern group). We were sad to leave the Los Roques and it is certainly on the list of places we'd like to return to and spend more time.
Winter is the windy season in this neck of the woods and it was certainly living up to its reputation. Chris Parker's forecast for this area (the ABCs) is typically "plus 3 knots and plus 1 foot" over the already brisk Venezuela forecast. We had good sized waves and winds in the twenties on the way over.
Half way across Hideko hooked a nice 12 pound Mahi Mahi. We eased the sheets but didn't stop the boat. I was worried that he would get off but we landed him and converted him into fillets shortly there after. A fish this size can feed a family of four for three nights.
We headed for the south side of the Aves reef complex and once running along the south shore the seas die off behind the reef. Much of the Las Aves are simply reef just under the surface of the sea. It is a beautiful place to marvel at. The largest islands are on the southern extent of the large arching reef complex and form the most settled anchorages.
As we cleared the western end of the southern islands we button hooked back around into the shelter of the reefs bay. This is another area where good visibility is a must on you first visit. We entered at 15:00 and were glad to have the good light not only to navigate by but to enjoy the amazing scenery.
There were two yachts in the deepest anchorage back toward the reef and a couple fishing boats at the entrance to the island anchorages but we were all alone when we dropped the hook in the largest of the three bays nestled into the mangroves.
Ave is bird in Spanish and the islands live up to their names. In particular the red footed boobie is here in force. My Aunt Hanna is a big birder and I wished she was with us to see the spectacle. Sea birds of all kinds fill the trees and the air. You can hear them squawking and cooing all day but surprisingly it is a very peaceful anchorage by night.
We barbequed Mahi Mahi for dinner and enjoyed the crystal clear water as the sun set. Someone set a fire on one of the western islands just before sunset and it seemed to be raging out of control by night fall. Perhaps they were clear brush around the little airstrip. Perhaps not. It burned for several hours providing us fireworks to go with the incredibly starry sky.
02/11/2008, Los Roques
I woke up in the pre-dawn grey to the sound of two boats getting underway this morning. The sports fisher closer to the reef and the large motor yacht, Valkyrie, were both getting ready to exit the reef at the south entrance. Today was our day to explore Los Roques but a lazy breakfast was in order first.
Once underway we motored into the wind along the middle reef. The water is often 80 feet or deeper in the dark blue channel just feet away from where the reef breaks the surface. There are channels between the middle reef and the mangroves as well but they are more intricate and some don't run all the way through.
We saw some fly fishermen out in the flats, perhaps bonefishing. I wondered if my old friend and fishing buff Andrew Bassett was out there. It looked like a relaxing way to spend the day.
There are a couple of good sized wrecks on the outer reef that are good warnings for those who would consider approaching in restricted visibility. We wouldn't have time to dive on the reefs here but I imagine it would be fantastic.
Once we cleared the outer reef we killed the motor and sailed over to Grand Roque. It was a wonderful if short 9-10 knot sail. There are lots of boats in the anchorage, many of which are the traditional Venezuelan fishing boats. There are also some dive boats and motor yachts along with an interesting mix of cruisers.
We went ashore to try to pay the park fees but it was Sunday and we had no luck finding anyone to pay. We did however find a lovely little beach front caf� that served a perfect lunch. Grand Roque was certainly the quaintest island town we had run across in Venezuela. There are many small shops, basic services, like a bank and store, lots of restaurants, a dive shop, and several cute little hotels.
After a relaxing lunch we dinghied back to the big boat for a run to the far west side of the Los Roques. Like many areas in South and Central America you should probably only traverse these areas in good light the first time out because the charts are not perfect by any means. We were moving quickly so that we would have good enough light to get safely tucked into our selected anchorage.
We selected the anchorage between Ebert and Bequeve mostly because it looked fairly straight forward to get into and out of and because it was on the far west side giving us a good jump off to the Aves. I would not recommend this anchorage. It is beautiful like the rest of the Los Roques but it is also tricky to pick your way into the anchorage. There are many reefy areas inside the water delineated by the surrounding islands. Once in the general anchoring area it is hard to find enough water to get to the sandy areas. The area is pretty exposed to the wind, and it was honking on this particular evening. Once set it was a pleasurable spot with some nice white sand beach areas and a lovely sunset.


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US welcomes election of CAR President Catherine Samba-Panza
Newscast Media WASHINGTON—The parliament of embattled Central African Republic
(C.A.R) elected Catherine Samba-Panza president, 24 hours ago, to lead the country
out of the chaos that has plagued it for the past several months. As former mayor of
Bangui, Samba-Panza, a lawyer, has vowed to organize free presidential elections and
to also lead the country out of civil strife that has gripped the nation.
"From today, I am the president of all Central Africans. I appeal to each and every
one of you to help rebuild our fatherland," she said immediately after being elected
interim president of the Central African Republic.
The US government welcomed the election results of the parliament and said in a
"The United States welcomes the selection of Catherine Samba-Panza as
Transitional President in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.). As C.A.R.'s first
woman head of state since the country's independence, and with her special
background in human rights work and mediation, she has a unique opportunity
to advance the political transition process, bring all the parties together to end
the violence, and move her country toward elections not later than February
We also commend the Transitional National Council for conducting the selection
process for the new C.A.R. Transitional President in a deliberate, open, and
transparent manner that ensured the airing of a full range of views from C.A.R.'s
civil society.
The United States has been deeply engaged in the work to help pull C.A.R. back
from the brink, including the pivotal visits of Ambassador Power and Assistant
Secretary Thomas-Greenfield less than a month ago…"
The new president is now facing the daunting task of extinguishing the ongoing
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Ashburn, VA (SportsNetwork.com) - The Washington Redskins have promoted Sean
McVay to offensive coordinator.
McVay spent the past three seasons as Washington's tight ends coach after
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ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA) - Police are investigating a series of thefts involving U.S. Mail throughout the county beginning in November 2012, according to Mongomery County Police.
The thefts took place after victims left outgoing mail in their mailboxes. In many cases, the mail contained checks to pay bills. The suspects have been stealing the mail, removing the checks, then altering and cashing or attempting to cash the altered checks at area banks.
Police recommend that citizens drop important outgoing mail at local post offices or in a U.S. Postal Service mailbox, or to not use the "flag" on your mailbox as an alert that there is mail waiting in your box.
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The most important thing in map typography is readability.
Especially in maps there are a few problems with that, because of the background and the small space.
So if you have a font type which is located over mountains or other problematic structures you should choose very readable fonts.
Another good thing is to outline the font with a lighter color in order to maximize contrast between letters and background.
E.g. Black letters on a dark brown mountain could be outlined by a lighter brown to pop up the typeface.
Very nice is a light glow around the letters. It's easy to do in photoshop.
I'd say it isn't always the easiest task to find optimal readable fonts if you search for typefaces with style and
flavor for fantasy maps that aren't out of date.
It's part of the schooling in graphic design, to be at the pulse of fonts. There are websites for typography and fonts.
Key for choosing a special and yet fitting typeface is the association one has with the general form of it.
A hint could be the historic period in which fantasy plays. e.g. If it is a gothic world, choose medieval black scripts.
If it's SF, choose a technical looking typeface. If it's a desert map, choose egyptian looking fonts. etc.
In maps another thing is important. Typefaces for different things should be different, in order to communicate better.
The Typeface for mountains, cities and rivers should be different on the first sight. So that anyone reads something
on the map, he knows from the typeface, what it is. That is very good if there are many labels on small space.
If you want to fill big spaces with e few letters, the only way is to maximize the letter spacing. Sorry.
Do NOT stretch fonts!!! A designer works a year or so on a professional font family and develops it to look most
esthetically with a maximum of readability and a lot of more things. If you stretch a font, you destroy all that work.
I hope that helped a bit. If there are more questions about typography, please ask.


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"Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul and model-turned-actress Kate Upton have been tipped as the breakout stars of 2014.
The actor has a number of high-profile films due to hit cinemas this year following the end of his TV series, with his new projects including Biblical epic "Exodus" and video game adaptation "Need for Speed," and he has been named a face to watch by movie website Fandango.com.
The site's editors have also named Sports Illustrated model Upton as another Breakout Star of 2014 as she is set to appear in upcoming comedy "The Other Woman" with Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann.
Jennifer Lawrence was named the Sexiest Woman of 2014 and her upcoming blockbuster "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" was named the most anticipated film of the year.
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For the uninitiated, that means corpse paint,
leather and tons of tattoos.
Alicia Lozano, wtop.com
WASHINGTON – While most people spent Memorial Day weekend camping, swimming and grilling, thousands of heavy metal fans descended on Baltimore for the 10th annual Maryland Deathfest.
For the uninitiated, that means corpse paint, leather and tons of tattoos.
The four-day fest is the biggest of its kind in North America, and drew more than 60 bands from the U.S., Latin America, Asia and Scandinavia. Hordes of the faithful occupied hotels nearby, filling otherwise wholesome establishments like Holiday Inn and Best Western with sweat and grime.
Some described the scene at Sonar – in the heart of downtown Charm City – as "dirty," while others called it "catharsis" (as screaming can often be). Call it what you will, Deathfest is not for the faint of heart.
But it is for people who appreciate a good show.
With names like Electric Wizard, Neurosis, Morbid Angel and Napalm Death, these musicians are as theatrical as any Richard Wagner opera.
Horna and Sargeist, both from Finland, performed in stifling heat while decked out in black and white makeup and heavy, hooded robes. Ghoul showered their fans with chicken blood. Suffocation took time out of their set to thank veterans and remind concertgoers that Memorial Day weekend is about honoring fallen soldiers.
And the crowd was as diverse as the performers.
In the parking lot just outside Sonar, bodybuilder types mingled with pierced crust-punks, who mingled with music writers, who mingled with black-clad parents escorting their kids to the face painting stand. Dogs roamed freely, panting and smiling in the unrelenting sun. Couples held hands and took naps on the grass.
No matter the purpose, Deathfest has become an institution within a growing genre. Fans from all over the world make the trek every year to see their favorite bands in full regalia, and to let everyone know metal is here to stay.
Check out photos from Maryland Deathfest in the gallery above.
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Goodguys Mid Western Nationals - Kansas CoolWritten by on January 1, 2007 6th Annual Goodguys Mid-Western Nats
The Goodguys Mid-Western Nationals in Kansas City, Kansas, was very cool this year in a few ways. First off, it was the last week of August, which can still be a scorcher in the Midwest, but the weather couldn't have been nicer at the Kansas Speedway, especially since back home in Southern California we were in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave. And secondly, the show was packed with over 2,000 cool cars and trucks!
Kansas City was a great place for the show since it is centrally located smack dab in the middle of the country on the border of Kansas and Missouri. The Kansas City area may be famous for its barbecue (which was delicious), but it's also home to many Jesse James (not the Monster Garage dude) related museums and attractions, as well as the Harley- Davidson Final Assembly Plan that offers tours showing many of your favorite motorcycles getting their finishing touches.
Unfortunately, I'll have to come back another time to really check out the city, because there were plenty of trucks awaiting my attention back at the racetrack. Picking our Classic Trucks Finest Five awards was a tough one, and there were plenty of you out there hoping to snag one, but those who didn't will just have to check the Goodguys Web site, www. good-guys.com, to see which shows we'll be at in '08, and make sure to enter your classic truck. See you there!
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Larry Putter from Wellington, KS, jumped in his newly finished '51 GMC and broke it in on the drive to Kansas City, and we're sure glad he did! Larry's Jimmy is appropriately powered by an '04 GMC 5.3L Vortec V-8 and a corresponding 4L60E. Under the pistachio-colored paint is a full Air ride Technologies-equipped chassis, and up front Larry used a front clip from an '84 Grand Prix complete with Pontiac disc brakes and power steering. Look for a full feature soon!1946 Chevys don't come much nicer than Beverly Pitts' oh-so-low version. The Chevy is smothered in Medium Garnet red paint that goes quite well with the ultra-clean white leather interior. Along with a Mustang II IFS and a 9-inch rearend, Beverly also installed a 350 backed by a Muncie four-speed 'cause he likes to grab some gears. And if the painted-to-match trailer behind the truck wasn't a big enough clue, Beverly drives his '46 all over, including the weekend trip from his home in Gower, MO.Holy Mopar, Batman! Mitch Meyers was at the show proudly displaying his '71 Dodge D-100, but this isn't your ordinary old Dodge. Mitch has owned the D-100 since he was 14 years old and has been through four different motors, so now he decided to drop a built 454 Chevy motor into the '71 along with a Jim Meyer IFS, Air ride Tech system, and Billet Specialties 18- and 20-inch Holeshot wheels. The truck is nicer now than it ever was new, and that's why we shot a feature on it! Stay tuned.This stunning green machine belongs to Pete Klucas from Lincoln, NE. Pete built the '54 F-100 in his shop, Top End Engineering, and drives it like a rental. Under the custom-mixed green metallic PPG paint is a dutiful injected '95 Cobra 302 V-8, AOD-E, and rearend. Pete also stuck a Total Cost Involved IFS under the truck complete with 'bags and disc brakes that slow down the 17- and 18-inch Boyd Coddington Smoothies.Some people may forget what a stock F-100 looks like, but not William Nolle from St. Charles, MO. He brought his restored '53 F-100 to Kansas City for all to see. His grandpa bought the truck new in '52 and parked it in '68, and William got a hold of it in '97 and, as he put it, "It only took five years and a few beers" to get it back to how Grandpa had it. Nice work, William.
Kansas resident Keary Walls was at the show with his 46 Chevy extended cab. The lengthened, chopped, and smoothed orange Chevy was aglow in the Midwest sunshine.This mild custom Advanced Design Chevy belongs to ronny and Lisa McKown from Trimble, MO. The five-window was host to subtle shaving, frenched headlights, and a louvered hood.It's always good to see former CLASSIC TrUCKS feature stars at shows, and Sam and Connie Wright's '64 C-10 is no exception. The gray Fleetside sits a short distance from the pavement while a built 383 stroker motor puts a little pep in its step.Who doesn't like an orange Effie? Terry Zvolanek from Osborne, KS, is partial to his '56, as were we. The Ford pick 'em up rolls on big Cragar S/S wheels and is powered by a reliable 302/AOD combo-sweet.Good as gold was David Collins' '65 C-10 Custom. The shortbed Chevy is from Highland Village, TX, and still has its original 327 and Powerglide under the hood."No Air Bags" was written at the top of the window sticker on Kenny and Natalie Mutert's '50 Chevy, which was in jeopardy of being high-centered on the gravel. The body may be "barn fresh," but we're sure there was plenty of work done to get 'er down to the ground. regardless, the '50 looks good with its whitewalls, chrome wheels and bullet center caps, and visor, and what you can't see is a 355 and a four-speed under the weathered hood.
Air ride Technologies had their autocross track set up for any and all who wanted to run whatcha brung, and Zack Hardy from Joplin, MO, was an eager participant. While his '61 F-100 may be a little lax in the looks department, he has a DOHC Ford mod motor under the, er...um, hood that he was flogging on all weekend.Too much of a good thing? Nope, another '46 Chevy was in attendance, but this one was a stocker for the most part, save for the later 235ci six-cylinder. Owner Jerry Godbey has a blast cruising the two-tone hauler all over the Midwest.Dave Tallant drove his shop truck to the show to drum up some new customers for his shop, and who wouldn't be impressed with this rolling '51 Chevy business card?Not seen too often these days are chopped '67-72 C-10s, but that didn't stop Gary Scharnhorst from showing off his '72 Cheyenne Super.


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Two people are charged with murder in a fatal shooting in the 2100 block of Eye Street, NE from October 2007.
Tuesday, 21-year-old Charles Mason and 21-year old Jekwon Smith, both of Northeast DC were arrested and charged with first degree murder while armed in the fatal shooting of Michael Antonio Pearson.
Pearson was found with gunshot wounds on October 29, 2007 at approximately 8:21 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
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But their school principal does.
This week, Baltic High School, just north of here, became one of the latest across the USA to ban the rubber bracelet, which has a message some say is in poor taste: "I love boobies."
The bracelets have caused controversy in schools in states including California, Colorado, Idaho, Florida and Wisconsin. Some districts allow students to wear them inside-out, and others ban them.
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"When we had an assembly the first day of school, I basically told the students we are not insensitive to the cause," Baltic High Principal Jim Aisenbrey says. "I think everybody in the gym, including myself, has had a family member or relative or friend who has dealt with the issue. I do think there are more proper ways to bring this plight to the attention of people, and I don't think this is a proper way."
"I guess I never thought of them as offensive," Aberson says. Her grandmother and five of her grandmother's sisters battled breast cancer.
The bracelets, which sell for about $4 in stores, were created by Keep A Breast Foundation, a Carlsbad, Calif., non-profit group that seeks to increase breast cancer awareness among young people.
Proceeds from sales support the foundation's programs, founder Shaney Jo Darden says. She says the bracelets are meant to spark discussions.
"That's the whole idea, it's getting people to talk about breast cancer, it's getting people to share their feelings about how this disease has impacted their life," she says. "The bracelet is doing what it's meant to do - it's making people talk."
"Schools banning it? That's crazy," says Julie Hubbell of Lewisville, Texas. Hubbell helped organize an auction and barbeque named "Boobie Q" to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
In the Fresno area, students in the Clovis Unified School District were told not to wear the bracelets in class - or to turn them inside out so the message is not visible, spokeswoman Kelly Avants says. The school district's dress code outlaws jewelry with sexually suggestive language or images, she says.
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|I'm Just Cookin'
|Written by Darci Tomky
|Wednesday, 14 August 2013 10:37
Mini meals a huge hit
I'm at a loss right now. I think we've been mixing and matching and meshing and mashing up so many different foods that we've forgotten what to call them.
What do you call a meal that's made in a cupcake pan? (Sounds like the start of a good joke, doesn't it?!) That's what this column is all about, and frankly, I'm not sure what to call it!
You can't call it a cupcake, because it's not cake. Muffin? No, not really a muffin either.
Anyway, here are a couple delicious mini-meals-you-bake-in-a-muffin-tin for your recipe box pleasure!
There are a ton of recipes out there right now for ... you know ... those muffin cupcake meal things. I think they'll be perfect for potlucks, family gatherings or game-day parties. From breakfast casseroles to tacos to pizzas, you can make just about anything in a muffin tin these days.
The barbecue cup recipe is an old favorite of mine from the Holyoke centennial cookbook, and the mini chicken pot pies come from a recipe at tablespoon.com.
For both recipes, I cooked up all the yummy filling but then only prepared half of the filling in the biscuits in the muffin tin. That way I could save half for another meal so they'd be nice and fresh! (I used a full pound of beef for the barbecue cups so I could have a bit more to fill two containers of biscuits.)
Barbecue Cups
3/4 pound ground beef
1 tablespoon minced onion
1/2 cup barbecue sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
8-ounce refrigerated biscuits
3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
In large skillet, brown beef and onion; drain. Add barbecue sauce and brown sugar. Separate biscuits and place in muffin tins, pressing dough up sides to form a cup. Spoon meat mixture in dough cup and sprinkle with cheese. Bake 10-12 minutes at 400 degrees.
Chicken Pot Pie Cupcakes
1 chicken breast, poached and diced
1 (14.5-ounce) can cream of chicken soup
1 cup Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers
frozen mixed veggies
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 tablespoon Herbs De Provence
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic salt
2 (10-ounce) cans Pillsbury biscuits
Preheat your oven to 400. In a large bowl, combine the cooked chicken, cream of chicken soup, frozen veggies, cheese, herbs and spices. Lightly grease a 12-cup muffin tin and place the Pillsbury biscuits into each cup, pressing into the bottom and up the sides. Evenly spoon the pot pie mixture into each biscuit cup. Slide into the oven and bake for about 15 minutes. Check at the 12-minute mark. Let rest for about 3 minutes and dig in!
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|Haxtun HS grad seeking Will Heginbotham history
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
|Wednesday, 15 May 2013 10:20
Jacki Smith, a 2006 graduate of Haxtun High School, is a doctoral candidate and is doing a project on Phillips County benefactor William Heginbotham as part of her dissertation research.
Smith will be in the area in mid-June, and it is her goal to conduct oral history interviews with local residents who knew Heginbotham or whose families knew him in some way.
She said she would also be glad to collect (borrow or copy) any written documentation on Heginbotham that interviewees are willing to share (correspondence, for example).
Not only will this research seek to understand Heginbotham's interactions with bank clients and tenants in northeastern Colorado, but it will also attempt to situate his social and civic activities within the larger community, explained Smith.
Inquiry into these layers of the banker's character will help develop a complex portrait of the small-town banker, she added.
Heginbotham's case will supplement other studies of lenders and help understand bigger questions about their contributions to Great Plains communities.
A large part of this research on Heginbotham will be used in a comparative manner alongside Smith's previous study of a lender-landlord in southwestern Kansas. The latter study uncovered complex economic motivations and agricultural knowledge on the part of the landlord.
It is Smith's intent to pursue similar questions about whether agricultural science informed Heginbotham's tenant relations and farming practices and about how these dealings played out during the depressions of the 1920s and 1930s.
Smith has received certification to conduct these interviews from the University of Kansas and is working under the supervision of Dr. Kim Warren, her faculty co-advisor.
Smith did her undergraduate work at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Neb., graduating in 2010. She received her Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan., in February 2013 and is a doctoral candidate there.
She is the daughter of Gordon Smith of Haxtun and Jo Hurst of Henry, Neb.
Holyoke Enterprise May 16, 2013


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|Mealtime Makeovers
There's an app for that!
By Ashleigh Noyes
As spring hits I would much rather be out enjoying the weather with my kids than cooped up in the kitchen baking. I still want my family to have a good meal at night and a full belly at bedtime, so finding a happy medium between the two always poses a challenge. Luckily, there is an app for that! Well, kind of! I do have an app on my iPad that I plan my menus with each week and make a grocery list, but it doesn't plan what meals go where. I still have to do that!
Roasted Chicken and Veggies
4 large carrots with tops, peeled