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Social Context and Reproductive Potential Affect Worker Reproductive Decisions in a Eusocial Insect
Eighty-four percent of the fertile bees introduced into a foreign nest (n = 6 colonies) had developed ovaries seven days later, whereas only 55.6% (n = 6 colonies, p = 0.037) did when reintroduced into their native nest. Social context therefore appears to dramatically influence fertile workers reproductive decisions, resulting in a fine tuning of their ovarian activity pattern to their fitness interests. As foreign workers' fertility was not affected by the presence of a queen in the host colony, fertility differences in bees introduced into their mother compared to a foreign nest are likely due to differences in queen signal influence, suggesting that foreign workers do not respond to the host queen signal.


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I think the bar is dropping...
Could I have done the work? Don't know, I imagine if I made it my focus, I probably could. Is it something I would like doing? At this time probably more than what I am currently doing, but not for an almost 2 hour commute along with regular travel around the country. Just thought I would share. There is plenty of work to be had out there. The population of skilled InfoSec pros is growing, but not as fast as the job openings. If you have "security" anywhere in your resume, you will most likely get a call from some outsourced recruiter or a company who doesn't really know what they want but someone says they need a security guy. Anyway sorry for the book, but figured I'd share the story.
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This is a wonderful product to help treat your hair to one of the best products around.
This is perfect for a very quick fix.
The cream smelt wonderful and applied very well.
I over did it on the straighteners and needed a hair mask or conditioner to restore and repair the damage I had done. I have only just grown my hair out and still finding what works and what I like to use.
This is very good in the fact it is a non-drip product that you apply and sweep generously through your hair.
The product recommends 2 min[ they have updated the product since this picture]
But I like leaving the product on for longer and allowing it to really sink it and hopefully help even more.
I would say this is one of the best creams I have used that you can apply once and it works straight away.
The shine was unbelievable and the feel of my hair was much softer.
I used this n a regular basis to prepare my hair and strengthened it in advance of
styling and heating.
I would say I got 3-4 hair mask treatments out of this and would definite;y buy again as they specialise it towards those which thick hair.
I was relieved that this did not add volume in the sense that my hair was fuller and overwhelmed instead it was sleeker and more manageable.
Using this for a number of weeks strengthened my hair was definitely stronger and healthier.
This retails online at various prices but about £4 s average.
I picked this up from Superdrug whilst it was on offer a few months ago. I wanted to give my shoulder-length hair -which is dried out from styling, a moisture boost. This treatment is part of the 'repair and protect' range which aims to nourish hair and provide protection against future styling damage. The range has recently had a re-vamp, so the packaging on the shelves looks different to the image seen above. This product has now been branded a 2 minute intensive repair treatment - but the detail of the product remains the same. The RRP of the product is around £5 which I find to be a reasonable price for a 200ml tub.
The instructions on my tub of intensive repair treatment (prior to re-vamp), tell me to apply to damp hair and leave on for 3-5 mins, then rinse. The product is contained in a screw top pot, and the thick cream is easily scooped out with fingers. The treatment has the same, thick consistency as most conditioners and has the same fragrant aroma as all other pantene pro v products. The cream is silky and soft to the touch and its richness allow easy application to the hair, it does not run down my hands or straight off my hair - it stays put!
As soon as the cream is on my hair I can feel a dramatic change in its softness, my hair feels silky and tangle free. The time I leave this on my can vary between 30 seconds and 5 mins, but each time my hair still feels moisturised and nourished.
Washing out the treatment is stress-free, it rinses out in around 30 seconds. My damp hair is tangle-free and doesn't even need brushing and I don't feel there is any need for serum or additional conditioning sprays on my hair.
When my hair is dry it has shine and still looks and feels soft, plus it smells great and frizz is reduced. This treatment is not miraculous, but it is the best high street product I've tried. If your hair is very dry then extra conditioning spray may be needed, but this is all I need for my shoulder length hair. No residue is left on the hair and my hair doesn't need to be washed any quicker than usual.
Overall, this is a great, budget product, I think this will give some high-end salon brands a run for their money.
I bought this hair treatment a while ago, and the other day when my hair was feeling particularly dry and straw-like for some reason, I dug it out of the back of the cupboard and decided to give my hair a little bit of attention. I had used the treatment previously, but for some reason with these things I never seem to make time (even though it only takes two minutes!) and I tend to wait until my hair reaches "critical" level of damage before doing anything about it.
The tub I have looks slightly different to the one in the picture, mine is white/cream in colour with a navy lid. I've just checked online and the one I have does appear to be the current packaging for this product. The masque is available in the usual places you'd find Pantene products, such as Boots, Superdrug, and the supermarkets. Price-wise, I think I got this in Superdrug and it was about £3 for a 200ml tub. Tesco currently have it priced at £2.00 and it's also on a 3 for 2 offer so you could get it alongside your usual shampoo. I think it's very good value for money as it does actually work and a tub lasts a while.
The idea of this hair masque is to put moisture back in your hair and make it sleek and smooth and generally improve the condition of your hair. The masque comes in a tub as described above, and even if you used this once a week as part of your weekly routine, it would last you a while because you don't need to use much each time. The only criticism I have of the packaging is that it's a good idea to open it before you get your hands wet otherwise you might struggle with the screw top lid. Also, it's worth keeping it out of the way of the shower head otherwise you'll end up with water in your tub which will change the consistency of the masque and make it less effective.
The masque is very easy to apply, you just use your normal shampoo and then slap a blob of the treatment on afterwards. It states on the tub to leave it for a couple of minutes before washing it out, and I tend to put it on first whilst I shave or exfoliate or whatever else needs doing (the joys of being a woman!), then it's ready to rinse out. After this, you style your hair as you normally would.
This masque is a very intense treatment which I find most effective when you use it now and then rather than all the time. As soon as the masque goes on your hair, you can feel the condition of your hair improving. When you rinse it out, your hair feels smooth and it does a really good job of detangling your hair and making it easier to deal with. A comb just glides through your hair after using this product. The masque doesn't make your hair feel heavy or like it's got a build up of products in it, as long as you take your time rinsing it out properly.
I must admit this is one of the few hair products which makes a real difference to the condition of my hair. After drying my hair it feels silky soft and smooth, and I get fewer flyaway frizzy hairs. I'm quite lucky in that my hair is generally in good condition, but it does suffer from heat damage from using hairdryers etc, and also dry ends when I can't afford to have it trimmed and it gets too long! Using this treatment makes my hair look healthier, and also makes me feel better that my hair hasn't been neglected and is in good condition.
Judging my previous reviews, I'm sure you'd be surprised to find there was a hair treatment I haven't tried. I have recently changed my hair products, ditching colour protectants to repair and protect products. This is because my colour went too dark and the last thing I wanted was to prolong the shade. I also wanted the shine and gloss back into my hair.
For those who don't know, a hair masque is an extra treat you can give your hair, in addition to conditioner. Many experts suggest a treatment at least once a week, but for the last few years I have used a treatment after every wash, as it really does benefit my hair. If you buy a good quality mask that suits your hair needs, your hair should be able to take it no problem without there being any build-up. Just give a good rinse afterwards, as you would do with conditioner.
I had tried the sachet of this particular Masque, the Patene Spa Inspired Care Repair & Protect masque - a few weeks ago and was most impressed with the results, so decided to splurge on the real thing, a 200ml sized pot of it costing £4.07. (It is now on offer for an incredible £1.99 at Superdrug!!). I unfortunately bought it before this offer, and £4 is generally the maximum I would be prepared to spend on a hair masque, unless it was for a special occasion or extra special treat.
The packaging is quite sleek - a navy blue lid, white tub with gold and white writing. It certainly looks posh on our bathroom shelf. But, is it any good?
The Claims:
"Instantly restore the look of health to your damaged, tired hair with this rich, luxurious treatment".
After shampoo and conditioner, I apply this throughout my hair and leave for a few minutes before rinsing off. The smell is quite pleasant - it reminds me of lilies, but with a classic conditioner mixed in. Not too overbearing, just pleasant and fragrant enough. 200ml might not sound like a lot, but you really don't need too much of this product as it glides through the hair easily. For a professional touch you could use a wide toothcomb and comb the product through (as they do in my hairdressers) and leave it. The longer you leave it, the better the results.
I always consider a good hair masque to be one which instantly changes the weight of my hair - making it feel ultra light is a good sign of quality and this masque does just that. I instantly notice the difference in how my hair feels, before I've even rinsed the masque off. Even though my hair is still wet, it looks like it has been given a boost and I can see the shine.
When I have rinsed it all off and I've finished drying my hair, I really notice the difference. My hair is really easy to run my hands through - there are no knots and barely any flyaways. The end result is really smooth, wonderfully smelling hair. I would also say it's improve it's glossyness too, which I've found is not as easy to achieve on brunette hair as it is with blonde hair.
Through research I found this masque is just one of five treatments that are available in the Repair & Protect range. I would strongly recommend this product/range to anyone whose hair is lacking smoothness and needs a little tlc to repair any damaged ends. I haven't used Pantene before using this masque, but it actually makes me consider switching to them as I have been really impressed with this product.
I would say this product is one of the top 5 hair masques I have ever used - certainly one of the best for under a fiver. If you can get it whilst it is onsale in Superdrug then I'd say it's an absolute bargain for £1.99!
*please note the product in the picture is different to how it's currently packaged.
I have very fine, limp and flyaway hair and am constantly swapping and changing from one conditioner to another and back again, with little helping the condition. I'm going to admit straight away that this product isn't a miracle worker, but it most definitely warrants recognition as a good quality, effective hair treatment.
Pantene Pro-V is an excellent range of haircare - it is as good as many salon brands without the salon price tag, and is very kind to sensitive scalps, meaning that even those with sensitive skin can use the range without worrying about irritation or inflammation.
A pot of this '2 minute hair treatment' costs around 4.00 normally, but Superdrug are currently running great promotions on Pantene products, and I picked up a tub of this for just 1.75. If you're wishing to take advantage of such offers, I recommend that you pop down to Superdrug soon as such promotions are unlikely to last long.
The mask should be used as follows; after shampooing and conditioning your hair, apply this treatment onto moist hair (dab hair dry with a towel after rinsing out conditioner). Leave the mask on for 2 minutes (if you are in a rush!) as this is the time recommended by the product. However, if your hair is in desperate need of a kiss of life, leave on for as long as you deem necessary! What I tend to do is take a shower before bed and apply it onto wet hair after shampooing. I then leave the treatment on overnight, and rinse off in the morning, before applying a little conditioner to the tips of my hair.
The effects of this treatment can be seen after just one use. Hair looks noticably healthier and smoother and split ends are must less visible. It is a genuinely good quality product which does exactly what it claims to do. One downside is that the treatment conditions so deeply that it leaves hair possibly a little too smooth and almost flyaway. However, I assume that this is due to the fact that my hair is so fine and I do leave the treatment on overnight. However, this effect lasts only until I next wash my hair, whereas the repairing properties of the treatment continue to take effect well past this. Therefore, it is most definitely worth putting up with 'over-conditioned' hair for just one day!
I am never disappointed with Pantene products and this is no exception. It is a good quality product which does actually work, and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg! If your hair is in need of rescue, try this product - at this price, you don't have much to lose!
As someone who regularly bleaches and colours her hair I've been investing in 'intensive' conditioners for some time in an effort to restore some moisture to my chemically frazzled hair shafts. At first I tried several brands but then I discovered that Elvive products were quite effective and began to use them exclusively. That changed when I saw this Pantene product on sale for marginally less than my regular Elvive tub of the same size. The rival products are both around the £3.90 price tag and are marketed as being a stronger masque-style hair treatment than your average conditioners.
The product is labelled as 'Pantene Pro-V Repair and Protect' and is described as an 'intensive hair treatment'. It is not made specifically for a certain type of hair, i.e. dry or coloured, so anybody can use this. The product comes in a 200ml sized sturdy pearly white plastic tub whose labels are tinged with gold and black. The product looks very sleek and professional. The tub has much information on the label including a paragraph on the benefits of the product. Pantene promise that the conditioner will add moisture and 'leave hair more resilient against styling'. They also claim the conditioner will aid shine and give nourishment to the hair. The Pro-V label refers to their vitamin enriched formula.
I have always used intensive conditioners as a weekly treatment as I think the forumla tends to feel quite heavy and thick over the hair. Once a week seems to be enough to keep my hair in order. On the instructions of use on this Pantene product it doesn't specify how often to use this but merely states to apply after shampooing and conditioning (with a regular strength conditioner) and to leave for 3-5 minutes before rinsing. I have been using it once a week though and would recommend this to other users.
The conditioner is glossy and white and has a thick, jelly like consistency. It is easy to scoop it out of the tub with your fingers and seems to stay in soft peaks in your hand. It is actually so dense in texture that whatever fingermarks you leave in the tub stay in that impression until you next use the conditioner! The fragrance is quite mild and airy. It has a sort of cotton-fresh, summer fields kind of aroma - not too fruity or false. It is a mature sort of fragrance that I think would appeal to most customers.
I find the conditioner is easy to apply to the hair and work through. It does seem to have a rather waxy or greasy feel to it. It's as though i'm insulating my hair with some kind of waterproof substance! It is mild on the scalp and it is easy to leave it on the hair for the 3-5 minutes as it does not drip or feel unpleasant. After the stated length of time it is easy to rinse out and as I'm running the clean water through my hair I can feel it is instantly thicker and stronger.
My damp hair is easy to comb through and style and the pleasant fragrance remains. Once dry my hair feels tougher yet soft. It is as though the conditioner has helped to strengthen the hair without making it more coarse or unmanageable. My hair is left quite shiny too - more so on the less damaged parts of hair though. Even on the most damaged, driest ends of my hair though, the changes for the better are obvious with the hair being less flyaway and unruly.
I am very pleased with how this Pantene product performs for me. I would say it performs slightly better than my other regular instensive conditioner from Elvive. This product feels like much more of a luxury and gives a more obvious result. The only advantage Elvive has is that it's conditioners are aimed at specific hair types and they also promise different results from each conditioner treatment. Although I believe you can now get intensive treatments aimed at coloured hair from Pantene. However, I'm happy with this Pantene product and will keep using it!
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I was looking for an intensive conditioner when I found this intensive on made by Pantene. It gives deep conditioning, nourishment and protection to your hair. I have used many of thier products in the past and always find them very good. This particular intesive conditioner caught my eye because of the way it was packaged. Instead of the usual tube or bottle this one comes in a plastic tub. It is a very nice looking tub. It is mainly white and has some very nice gold writing on it. The tub I picked up cotained 200 ml of the product and cost £4.99.
The first thing I noticed about the conditioner when I opened the tub was the lovely smell, it was nice and fresh and I could not wait to try it. The conditioner is a very thick consistency. After washing your hair you apply the conditioner, massage in and then leave 3-5 mins before rinsing out. As I was rinsing my hair it already felt much nicer.
After I had dried my hair there was a visual improvement. My hair looked smoother and the split ends were much less noticable. It also looked very shiny. My hair felt very soft and did not feel dry. I noticed the biggest improvement in the ends of my hair, certainly felt and looked healthier.
I will definately be using this product more. I would probably say once a week is enough as it could get greasy looking if used everyday.
The only downside was actually the fact that it came in a tub. It was quite difficult to scoop out the conditioner with your fingers and avoid losing it all over the bath/shower.
It is available from supermarkets and chemists.
I first tried this product in a small sachet before I went out and spent around £4 on a large pot, and I was extremely pleased with the results!
My hair tends to always look damaged, it gets dry with split ends, and starts to look dull, so I'm always on the look out, and always trying new conditioners and hair masks to try and improve the condition of my hair.
I knew that Pantene was a trustworthy brand, so I thought I'd give it a go!
The conditioner smells really nice, like all other pantene products, and was lovely to put in my hair.
After washing my hair with shampoo I applied the Repair Treatment, rubbing it into my split ends and running it through the rest of my hair. I then left it in for a good 5 minutes before washing it out. Even whilst washing it out, I could feel the improvement in my hair!
After drying my hair, the improvement in my split ends were clearly visible.
My hair was no longer frizzy at the ends and was just so much smoother overall!
I use this product every other time I wash my hair now, to avoid it getting too greasy, but I was so surprised at how well this conditioner worked!
You can buy this product from most chemists, and supermarkets for around £4, and it lasts me just under a month.
I have quite thick hair, and straighten it all the time, so it gets damaged quite a lot. But this product has really helped to reduce my split ends, make my hair smoother and much more manageable.
I would highly recommend it!
Over the years i have tried hundreds of different brands of shampoo that have promised a number of things,i feel these promises have never been met. It happened one night whilst watching tv, during the ad breaks an advert came on for Pantene Pro V Repair and Protect, it said if you used this shampoo you could guarantee a reduction in split ends and your hair would be protected from getting any more, i thought it was probably a long shot but that was the one for me. I dashed out to the local chemist to purchase this miracle shampoo and promptly washed my hair with it that night, it was wonderful my hair felt so clean and teamed with the Pantene Pro V Repair and Protect conditioner my hair never felt and looked so good, i was delighted. On using the shampoo and conditioner for a week i noticed the overall condition of my hair improving, after about a month I could have been an advert for Pantene my hair was just as good as the ladies on the advert. I wont lie to you and say that my split ends are dead and gone forever because they are not but there is definately an 85 per cent improvement.
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Where's the cutoff line between the south and say Missouri? She didn't draw the states in. I'm in there somewhere.
Where's the cutoff line between the south and say Missouri? She didn't draw the states in. I'm in there somewhere.
I wouldn't get too worried about a cutoff line. Many things have an influence, be better to look at it as areas merging and blending. The info on that map is not correct for my country, for a start.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
I believe Lusby's arrived at their numbers from reading [old] literature. Any idea where they would have gotten the size for your area?
Regards, Barry
Me or Sol?
If me, I don't know where they got it from. However, she does say right below the map "Cell sizes are recorded in general for zones, and where altitude and higher latitude occur, use Humbolt's Law for deviations", so that's allowing some leeway.
She also says "Special Note: After studying correlations, we believe brood 4.9 mm cell size could be the upper limit for cell size control for mites worldwide".
Interesting comment. That means according to her, my 5.00 mm comb won't work.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
Yea, you.
I think what she means in that last comment is that 4.9 will work in all areas worldwide, but if the map shows a bigger cell size, that will work as well.
How are your smaller cell bees coming along?
Regards, Barry
They are coming out of the winter the hive is not as strong as the others but it didn't go into the winter very strong either. It literally got down to a fistful of bees at one point. However it's a mostly carni queen and just started showing that explosive carni spring buildup in the last few weeks, it wintered in one box but has now filled it & beginning a second box added.
Did a drone brood sample of maybe 100 or so larvae just a few days ago, couldn't find any varroa.
I recently contacted the guys that made the sc foundation, they have around 80 sheets left and no plans to make any more. So I bought all of it. Once the bees are ready I'll split the hive into 5, which will end up with 2 brood boxes each, and due to lack of foundation, will have to do natural cell for the honey boxes. Don't want to use normal foundation for the honey boxes because I don't want any chemical contamination. The sc foundation I bought was organic.
They will be in their own yard with no other hives, and we'll see what happens.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
>It seems that you say that the queen stays the same size even with smaller than
normal comb sizes.
That is my observation.
>It's just the workers and drones that get smaller.
Yes. The queen has a "oversized" cell and grows to whatever potential she can. The drones and workers totally fill the cell and their size is controlled by the limits of the cell.
>If so that would
be better than I could have imagined. This would allow one to see the queen even
easier than before even if she's not marked as a result of the increased size differences.
I wouldn't count on it. Better to depend on how the bees around her move and how she moves.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Hey Mr. Bush,
If I use less diluted honey will it make a smaller bee when I squeeze the drones
to collect the semen? Like you mentioned in my queen thread. How much should
I use?
There's 10 chefs in a kitchen and still not one will tell you how to boil water unless there's something in it for them.
Maybe if you squeeze the drones really hard you can make them smaller...
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
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Entourage - Season 7 Episodes
Entourage - Season 7
Vince's career is back in high gear--but will his friends be by his side when he crashes off course? Fasten your seatbelts for an exhilarating seventh season of 'Entourage,' the hit HBO comedy series about a young Hollywood star and the three buddies he's brought with him from their hometown in Queens, NY. In Season Seven, a near-fatal accident during the filming of his latest action flick leaves Vince with a new lease on life that makes him even more difficult to manage.
After an accident during the filming of his latest action flick, Vince has developed a new lease on life that makes him even more difficult to manage. Meanwhile, the rest of the guys face the challenge of mapping out their own futures, both personally and professionally.
In the midst of a public relations crisis over Vince's movie, Ari has a face-to-face with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and other top NFL figures, and gets unexpected help from black-sheep agent Lizzie Grant (Autumn Reeser). At Vince's behest, Eric agrees to help Drama find the perfect script. Turtle ends up with egg on his face when he accuses Alex of maxing out his corporate credit card. Sporting a bold new look, Vince takes his risk-taking proclivities to new heights.
Envisioning the possibilities in a partial script written by an old-school scribe, Eric and Phil (William Fichtner) try to convince Drama that he has talent on the sitcom front. In part not to anger his wife, Ari resists when Babs (Beverly D'Angelo) urges that Lizzie be promoted. With his car-service business in shambles, Turtle is intrigued by a business proposal from a suddenly sympathetic Alex. Scott Lavin (Scott Caan) continues to ingratiate himself with Vince following a wine-auction road trip, in the process rankling Eric.
"Tequila Sunrise"
Turtle gets a south-of-the-border business pitch from Alex, but has a hard time believing he isn't being used. Drama enlists Bob Saget to help him smooth out a rough first impression with John Stamos, a potential sitcom co-star. Ari's euphoria after making an NFL pitch to a group of Hollywood high rollers is tempered when he learns that Lizzie may be siphoning off some of his prized clients. Eric and Scott patch up their differences with an eye on Vince's future – and the shared success of their company.
"Bottoms Up"
Vince (Adrian Grenier) is impressed by porn star Sasha Grey and her literary knowledge, and ends up bringing her along to a meeting with Stan Lee. Suspecting that Lizzie (Autumn Reeser) is trying to steal his clients, Ari (Jeremy Piven) woos Jessica Simpson, Aaron Sorkin and Mike Tyson, but not before taking out his ire on Mrs. Ari (Perrey Reeves). Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) pitches Eric (Kevin Connolly) about Vince becoming the face of his new venture. Drama (Kevin Dillon) is anxious about his new series with John Stamos, especially after learning Bob Saget is eyeing his role.
Facing a possible lawsuit, Ari readies himself to do battle with Lizzie and her new boss, old foe Amanda Daniels (Carla Gugino). Vince puts his next big-budget movie in jeopardy with his antics, including a risqué online video. Turtle's romancing of Alex (Dania Ramirez) does not go as well as he'd envisioned. A cleaned-up Billy Walsh (Rhys Coiro) returns to ask Eric about directing jobs – and comes up with new show idea for Drama, who's been wallowing in self-pity.
"Tequila and Coke"
Seeking assurance that Vince's life is under control, director Randall Wallace calls a meeting, but Vince parties a bit too hard the night before. Ari agrees to help Lizzie find a new job in exchange for some potentially damaging audiotapes. Turtle winds up in damage control after promising an L.A. retailer more product than he can deliver. Billy Walsh's latest pitch leaves Drama indignant and Eric intrigued.
"Sniff Sniff Gang Bang"
Eric is informed by Phil Yagoda (William Fichtner) that the network is interested in Drama's show, though the star is not enthused about its content. In the wake of recent bad press, Ari attempts to fashion a kinder, gentler persona at work and home. When demand for Turtle's tequila line outpaces production, he sets out to find new sources of funding. Vince tries to convince Sasha to turn down a high-paying offer to do another porn movie.
"Porn Scenes From An Italian Restaurant"
To keep her out of a porn film, Vince tries to land Sasha a part on his new movie. During a chance run-in with Queen Latifah, Ari finds out that Amanda Daniels may have landed a deal he'd coveted. Eric tries to get Drama on board for Billy Walsh's series, and Eric's assistant Jennie (Janet Montgomery) pitches in to help persuade him. Turtle's efforts to find financial backing from Mark Cuban gets him in hot water with his Mexican boss.
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Drama paces, fearing the worst: Vince never came home. Waiting expectantly for Vince to appear at his kid's Little League game, Ari quarrels with his wife about the scene he caused at the restaurant. John Cleese advises Ari to cancel the surprise party he's throwing her; the tension is too palpable.


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The first stop was Tiger Hill where we viewed an old pagoda. Like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, this pagoda was leaning too. It had seven levels which is a lucky Buddhist number.
Next we went to the Lingering Garden and Mountain Villa which was about 550 years old and one of the most famous gardens in China.
After lunch we visited Han Shan Temple. Cold Mountain Temple, also called Hanshan Si in Pinyin, is situated five kilometers (about three miles) from Fengqiao Old Town in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, a famous monk Han Shan came to take charge of the temple, hence its name. Building originally commenced during the Liang Dynasty (502-557), and was repaired again in the following dynasties. Now, covering an area of about 10,600 square meters (about three acres), it presents the architectural style of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). It includes the Grand Prayer Hall, Sutra-Collection Building, Bell Tower, Fengjiang Pavilion and Tablets Corridor, etc. In 1995, a five-storey Buddhism pagoda as high as 42 meters (about 138 feet) was erected called Puming Pagoda, which then became the symbolic building of the temple. There are many more historical relics in the temple, such as the statue of Han Shan, the stone tablet inscription of the poem A Night Mooring near Maple Bridge and some other tablet inscriptions written by famous intellectuals of ancient China.
In the evening I arrived back at my hotel at 6PM. I took the long walk down Nanjing to the Bund. From there I took a ferry boat across the river to see the other side. I then walked to Jin Mao building which is 88 stories tall. I took an elevator to the top for impressive views of lit up Shanghai.


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CALDWELL, Idaho – Trailing by just four points at the half, a 16-2 College of Idaho run early in the second half broke open a four-point game, as Oregon Tech's season ended in the Cascade Conference semifinal round to third-ranked C of I, 77-57, inside the J.A. Albertson Activities Center tonight in Caldwell.
C of I will host Northwest Christian in the CCC championship game on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. Both teams will advance to the NAIA Division II national tournament in Point Lookout, Mo.
Oregon Tech (17-15) took the early lead on a pair of Josh Johnson free throws and a Brandon Bautista jumper.
C of I's Sydney Donaldson drained a 3-pointer with 16:23 remaining in the first half as the Yotes moved up 7-4 and led throughout.
C of I remained in control, leading by double digits, 36-26, before the Owls closed out the remaining two minutes of the opening period on an 8-2 run. Tanner Manselle connected on one of his two triples of the half to ignite it, while Austen Flint closed out the half on a jumper, as the Owls went into the break trailing just 38-34.
Trailing by the same margin early in the second period, 41-37, the Owls connected on just one made field goal over the next five minutes, with C of I making 8-of-8 free throws and added two treys to open the game up with a 16-2 run.
The Owls never recovered falling by the 77-57 final.
Oregon Tech shot just 34-percent on the night, including just 3-of-23 from three-point range. Tanner Manselle led the Owls with 12 points on 5-of-10 from the floor. Derek Evans added eight points with Brandon Bautista, in just 13 minutes of action, came away with seven points in the loss. Josh Johnson grabbed a team-high nine rebounds with Austen Flint handing out a game-high six assists.


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AES Proved Vulnerable by Microsoft Researchers
Show that algorithm underlying most all of today's online transactions can be compromised
By Joab Jackson
August 18, 2011 12:37 PM ET
IDG News Service - Researchers from Microsoft and Belgian Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered a way to break the widely used Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the encryption algorithm used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications.
Their attack can recover an AES secret key from three to five times faster than previously thought possible, reported the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, a research university based in Belgium.
The researchers caution that the attack is complex is nature, and so can not be easily carried out using existing technologies. In practice, the methodology used by the researchers would take billions of years of computer time to break the AES algorithm, they noted.
But the work, the result of a long-term cryptanalysis project, could be the first chink in the armor of the AES standard, previously considered unbreakable. When an encryption standard is evaluated for vital jobs such as securing financial transactions, security experts judge the algorithm's ability to withstand even the most extreme attacks. Today's seemingly secure encryption method could be more easily broken by tomorrow's faster computers, or by new techniques in number crunching.
The U.S. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) agency commissioned AES in 2001, to replace the DES Digital Encryption Standard (DES), which was then repeatedly being shown to be fragile even as it provided adequate security for most everyday tasks.
With this work, the "safety margin" of AES continues to erode, noted security expert Bruce Schneier in a blog posting. "Attacks always get better; they never get worse," he wrote, quoting an expert from the U.S. National Security Agency.
Though unwieldy to execute, the attack can be applied to all versions of AES.
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I'll be setting up a four frame observation hive in a window frame of a friends house this winter. He's an advocate of apitherapy and will be taking about 20 bees from the hive per day.
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If the hive is being fed and the inside temperature is warm enough, will the hive rear brood? Or will the hive act as any other wintering hive?
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Section 203 of Title II of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 (TA Act) directs the secretary to establish 20 comprehensive centers to provide technical assistance to state educational agencies, local educational agencies, regional educational agencies and schools in implementing the goals and programs of NCLB. In preparation for the new centers, Section 206 of the TA Act directs the secretary to establish 10 regional advisory committees (RACs) to advise on the educational needs of each region. The 10 regions are the same geographical regions served by the current Regional Educational Laboratories.
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As required by the legislation, the secretary selected the membership of each committee after consulting with and receiving recommendations from governors, chief state school officers, and key education stakeholders and organizations within the applicable regions, including nominations resulting from a Federal Register Notice that was published on July 21, 2004. The secretary made his selections in October 2004.
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Susan E Stred, MD
Current Appointments
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Hospital Campus
Clinical Section Affiliations
- Pediatrics: Pediatric Endocrine and Diabetes
Research Programs and Affiliations
- Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at Joslin
Joslin Diabetes Center
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3229 East Genesee Street
Syracuse, NY 13214
315 464-5726
Education & Fellowships
- Fellowship: University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, 1990, Pediatric Endocrinology; Physiology
- Residency: SUNY Upstate Medical University, 1986, Pediatrics
- MD: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1983
Clinical Interests
- Growth disorders; Pituitary dysfunction; Late endocrine effects of concussion and of treatment of childhood malignancies; Turner's syndrome; Disorders of sex development.
Research Interests
Pathophysiology and treatment of pituitary and growth disorders. Best practices care for: late endocrine effects of treatment of childhood malignancies; disorders of sex development.
Specialties & Certification
- Pediatrics
- Pediatric Endocrinology
Diseases & Conditions Treated
- Disorders of Puberty
- Failure to Thrive (FTT)
- Growth Delay or Disorder
- Growth Hormone Deficiency
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Pituitary Disorders
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Autodesk Maya 2013 Review
If you plan on working between the different tools, then the suites are definitely the way to go. There are some cool features such as the Send To commands and Live Connection that share data between different suite applications and that are only available within a suite.
Pipeline Caching and Alembic Files
If you've created a seriously huge model environment or an animated character that is really complex, or a particle simulation that plays back a turtle-speed, then you know the pain of single-digit frame rates. Maya 2013 has a new Pipeline Cache set of tools that lets you save either the entire scene or a selected object as a cached files using the open-source Alembic file format. These saved cached files can then be loaded back into the scene and played back or navigated at a dramatically faster frame rate. This is ideal for moving about a huge data model or playing back just a particle system at a reasonable rate.
The Pipeline Cache menu includes options to export and import files as an Alembic or GPU cache. There are several differences between these two options, but the key visual differences are that the GPU version displays the scene without any textures, only RGBA colors. The GPU cache options also collapses the node hierarchy to a single node making the geometry so it cannot be edited. The benefit for these trade-offs is blinding fast movement about huge scene files. Importing the file as a Alembic cache file isn't quite as fast, but allows editing of geometry and displays applied textures. Both file types use the same Alembic file saved with the .abc extension.
For game developers, this feature lets you load a cached version of a completed environment and move through it at a fast frame rate just like the game player would providing the much needed immediate feedback in the Maya interface, as shown in Figure 1, without having to compile and transport the scene to the game engine.
Figure 1: Using the new Pipeline Cache feature you can load and navigate huge data files at a high frame rate. Image courtesy of Autodesk
Node Editor and Attribute Editor Templates
Maya has always been great at letting you get under the hood and tweak various aspects of the current scene and the new Node Editor makes it even easier to work with and tweak individual nodes. This Node Editor, shown in Figure 2, lets you interactively create connections between different attributes which makes it great for creating shading networks. The Node Editor has several display modes including Simple, Connected and Full mode and lets you create bookmarks to find your way back to a specific view.
Figure 2: The new Node Editor lets you visualize the connections between nodes and interactively create connections between different attributes.
Using a text editor, you can create and edit XML-based Attribute Editor templates that let you specify which attributes are visible in the Attribute Editor for specific node types. This tool is available as a Bonus Tool which you can download using the Help menu.
Access References in the Outliner
References are great, especially for a team environment, where several artists are working on different pieces of the scene. They let you load in the current version and update it when a newer version is available. Creating, loading and unloading references are easier than ever now that the Outliner includes its new Reference menu. Using this menu, you can create references, load and unload and even export scene objects as references without having to open the Reference Editor.
There is also an option to allow animation curves from referenced files to be edited directly without having to reopen the referenced file.
Working with Characters
Maya 2013 includes many new improvements for working with characters, but of all the improvements, I think the new Heat Map skinning method takes the cake. Traditionally skinning a character with weights is one of the hardest aspects of character creation, but the new Heat Map option in Maya 2013 make the process much easier. This option sets skin weights by treating each influence object as a heat source which cools as you move further from the heat source. The results are much better than the other methods and requires less tweaking to get the skin weights right.
The revolutionary Character Controls that were introduced in the previous edition of Maya has been improved in a number of ways to make working with characters even easier. The various Character Controls have all been combined into a single interface with tabs available for Skeleton, Definition, Controls and Custom Rigs, as shown in Figure 3. The basketball character shown in the figure was loaded from the Maya Visor interface and provides a good example. There is also a new Start Pane to walks you through a character setup. The controls have been opened up so you can define your own custom character templates.
Figure 3: All the available Character Controls are now together in a simplified interface making it easier to rig characters.
Animation Improvements
Maya 2013 includes a new Retime Tool that works within the Graph Editor, shown in Figure 4. This tool places visual bars at specific points in the timeline and once placed, you can scale all the animation keys located between those bars by dragging to the left or right which speeds or slows down the animation that is adjacent to the bar's position. You can also lock the bars so that certain sections of animation aren't changed. This gives animators a lot of local control over their animations.
Figure 4: Using the Retime Tool, you can easily speed up or slow down specific areas of your animation.
Retargeting is the magic bullet that lets you reuse animations over and over, but often this is more work than just redoing the animation, but with the new .atom file format, Maya 2013 lets you reuse animations effectively. The .atom file format stands for Animation Transfer Object Model and while importing you can have it match the character hierarchy, match according to joint names or by using a filter template. Once matched up to the current rig, the loaded animation is applied to the new character saving you the trouble of animating from scratch.
When working with separate clips in the Trax Editor, Maya 2013 includes a new Offset setting and a Match Clips feature that lets you match up the clips for better transitions. You can select to Match Translation or Rotation. You can also turn on ghosting to see the clips motion leading to the current frame.
Maya nHair and Bullet Physics
nHair has been added to the Nucleus dynamic simulation framework, which enables the nHair to detect collisions with itself and with other Nucleus objects. It also works much faster than the previous hair system in Maya and has more accurate collision detection. The system also includes a caching feature for saving and playing back hair simulations.
The MayaBullet physics system is also included within Maya 2013. This system, which is installed as a plug-in, includes support for both soft and rigid body dynamics. MayaBullet is only available on 64-bit system and will not work on 32-bit machines.
Viewport 2.0
The Viewport improvements continue to be added to Maya providing a better representation of the scene without having to render the scene. The newest improvements include ghosting features, depth peeling for transparency, single side lighting, better control over lighting effects and area lights. There is also a large number of texture types that are internally baked and you now have control over the viewport fonts and sizes.
Sharing Data with 3ds Max and Live Character Streaming
In the "playing nice with others" category, the File menu includes a new Send to 3ds Max command that moves the current scene over to the 3ds Max. Once loaded in both programs, you can make changes and updates the changes to the other program automatically using the handy little Update icon placed at the bottom of both packages. Be warned that this feature only works between copies of the software that share the same version number.
Another new features found in 3ds Max is that CAT characters created in 3ds Max can be converted to a HumanIK character for use in Maya. This lets you work with characters in either Maya and 3ds Max and move the results to the other software without losing any work.
You can also work with characters between Maya and MotionBuilder by setting up a Live Connection for your HumanIK character. This lets you stream motion capture data applied in MotionBuilder straight to your Maya rig in real-time. This Live Connection is created using the Edit menu or the File, Send To MotionBuilder menu. This causes a Live Connection dialog box to appear which lets you synch the states in the two programs. Once you are happy with the character motion, you can bake the result to the Maya skeleton.
Other Improvements
The Help menu includes a new helpful feature for checking for updates. This opens a dialog box and displays any available hotfixes or service packs.
Maya 2013 can now use the H.264 QuickTime option to output video on 64-bit systems.
There are two new render pass options for UV and World Position. The UV pass converts UV values to red and green values and the World Position pass converts position values to RGB values.
For creating unique textures, the new Mandelbrot texture node has been included. This node lets you add fractals to your textures.
Several new Substance textures have been added to Maya 2013. Substance textures are programmed procedural textures that have a much smaller file size than normal bitmap based textures. The new textures include animated clouds, tiles, metal plates, sunshine, water drips, waves, windscreen glass and more.
mental ray has also been upgraded to version 3.10.
The 2013 version of Maya once again shows Maya commitment to helping game developers, especially character animators. This version tackles some of the toughest aspects of the pipeline with unique solutions. Another key area of focus is between the different suite applications making them work better together than ever before.
The improvements to Viewport 2.0 and the new Pipeline Cache feature let you see your results quicker with fewer renders letting you work with production quality assets during the development phase.
Maya 2013 is available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh OS X. The various Entertainment Creation Suite editions are all available for Windows. For more information on any of these products, visit the Autodesk web site located at www.autodesk.com. A free trial version is also available at www.autodesk.com/freetrials.


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Brazil's Cup of Excellence Competition – Coffee's Journey to the International Jury
To get to the COE's international jury, a coffee must pass through two previous competitions. The first is held immediately after the harvest, and is open to all growers that believe they have had an exceptional harvest. Needless to say, hundreds of samples are submitted! The vetting by the national judges reduces the assortment down to a more manageable group of about 100 coffees. Two weeks before the international competition, the second national competition is held to go through the initial 100 coffees to further narrow the field. So every coffee we start with ad already passed through two rounds of competition, where each had been carefully roasted and then tasted – literally – hundreds of times.
The exact number of coffees tasted in each COE session – and the total number of sessions – is a function of how many coffees the international jury has to evaluate. In Brazil this year, we started with 56 coffees, which were the winners of the national competition held at the end of October. All of the cuppers were assigned to rotating teams of four for each of Tuesday and Wednesday's sessions, taking about 90 minutes per session to complete the cupping process (at different temperature gradients as the coffee cooled) along with time together as a group after each flight to discuss the merits of each coffee and announce our individual scores. This year, of the original 56 coffees we started with on Tuesday, 32 coffees made it to the semi-finals on Thursday; some failed to reach the next round due to a lower than 84.0 composite score, while a few others failed due to imperfections we discovered in the cup.
The scoring system of the Cup of Excellence is somewhat similar to the system developed by The Wine Spectator® magazine – a 1-to-100 scale. The coffee industry generally considers a coffee to be "specialty" if it attains a score of 80.0 or above – and it is this level of coffees (and above) that CBI and most other specialty roasters focus on using. The Cup of Excellence raises the bar for entry into its program to 84.0 – with any coffee achieving a score of 90.0 and over to be considered as extraordinary and given an additional "Presidential Award". The scoring system used to evaluate COE coffees (or conventional specialty coffees) requires a substantially greater effort to advance from 85.0 to 86.0 than from 75.0 to 76.0, or 65.0 to 66.0 for that matter. In other words, advancing from a score of 83.0 - which is a solid (and desirable) specialty coffee – to an 84.0 which is the minimum required for being recognized as a COE coffee requires a substantially better performance in the cup than the number suggests. Given that, consider the scarcity and value of a coffee that receives a score of 91.08, which was the top Brazilian score, awarded this year in Machado!


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Mr. Thomas Verdery
Faculty Directory
Executive In Residence, Soderquist Leadership
Professor of Business
M.B.A., University of Dallas
B.B.A., Texas Tech University
Mr. Tom Verdery serves as Executive in Residence for The Soderquist Center and has over 34 years of experience working with Procter & Gamble. He spent his last 14 years at Procter & Gamble at the senior leadership level working exclusively outside the US with Walmart, Inc.
Mr. Verdery came to Northwest Arkansas in 1989 when P&G asked him to be part of the first supplier team with Walmart. Tom's areas of expertise include: Strategic Planning & Execution, Executive Coaching, Leadership & Ethics, and Starting and Leading Multifunctional Customer Teams.
He brings his experience to the classroom in classes such as Foundations of Leadership.


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There is still time to register for a new program designed to help managers and supervisors become more effective leaders, communicators, time managers and problem solvers.
The Pulaski Technical College Business and Industry Center will offer a six-day Management Development Certificate Program Sept. 9, 16, 23 and 30 and Oct. 7 and 14, with one full day devoted to each of these topics: leadership skills, effective communication, time management, customer service, stress management and team building.
Instructor is Mary S. Deville, a training specialist with extensive experience in education, including communication skills, management development, computer applications and corporate management training.
Classes will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost of the series is $599. For groups of three or more, the fee is $499. Students also may register for a single session; cost is $129. Prices include materials, refreshments and certificates.
The Pulaski Tech Business and Industry Center is located in Little Rock at 3303 East Roosevelt Road next to the Aerospace Education Center/IMAX Theater.
For a brochure describing this program or to register, call (501) 907-6670.
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text: I would be interested in people's advice on negotiating a job offer in academia. I was offered an approximate salary, told it could go up next year (but not specified by any amount), but nothing else was explicitly included in the offer. Some people I've spoken to think the raise should be specified, a research allowance should be included along with a computer, and clarifications on what office furniture/equipment are part of the deal. Are there other things that I should be asking for? I would also like more in the initial salary (though it's a good salary offer). Any advice as to how best to negotiate that? Do you say what you want, or go higher expecting to bargain down? Any and all advice is appreciated


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Beautiful House with Garden
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Boyut105 metrekare
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|Wiedeweltsgade, 2100 Copenhagen, Danimarka
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Bedroom 1: Bedroom with double bed (180 cm wide) for 2 people and a cot.
Bedroom 2: Bedroom with double bed (140 cm wide) for 2 people.
Bedroom 3: Living room with quality sofa bed for 2 people.
Bedroom 4: Large open loft with double bed for (140 cm wide) for 2 people.
You get Copenhagen in walking distance from this apartment. Close to the Copenhagen lakes, Botanical Garden, the National Museum of art and Kings Garden. 10-15 min. walk to Nyhavn, Strøget, Tivoli Garden and the Town Hall Square.
Lots of buses in the area to Copenhagen city centre. Nørreport Station is within walking distance (S-trains, Metro and buses). The metro runs to Copenhagen Airport. Public car parking in the street.
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This is a fantastic house to stay in whilst visiting Copenhagen. It was in a lovely quiet street but within walking distance of everything that we wanted to see. The house itself was lovely and had all the amenities that we required. Would definitely stay there again if we ever went back to Copenhagen!
We were a group of 8 adults staying in this appartment and it was still very convinient. There was enough room for cosy evenings and of course everyone to sleep.
The location is perfect - just walking distance to any attractions.
All arrangements worked also fine, including an early check-in to the appartment. Thanks to Morten for that!
I can warmly recommend.
The location is fantastic and the house is a good size and cosy, the street is very friendly, we love Copenhagen the people are very trusting the place is clean we would love to return thank you. What is worth considering is standard size pillows rather than your square pillows we did find them rather uncomfortable on your neck.
We really enjoyed our stay in this house.
It has plenty of room and has everything you need for à long weekend.
We liked the neighbourhood and did everything by foot.
Kopenhagen in december is à must see, if you want to get The Christmasfeeling.
Tivoli is full of Christmastrees and there is light everywhere.
Be sure to bring enough money, because our women could not stop shopping :-)
The whole experience was very easy and straight forward. Morten as a host was helpful without being intrusive. The apartment location was fantastic. Great for exploring the city and nearby Norrebro. We loved our street, it was a lovely, festive, Christmassy haven - full of lights and cheer. The apartment had all that we needed - lots of space, well equipped kitchen, huge TV, separate dining room.
If I had to suggest a couple of things for improvement then these would be 1) Mend the doorbell - as a group of four it was difficult getting people's attention to be let in if coming in separately (and the living space is on the 2nd floor!) 2) Have better quality bedding on the beds. 3) Have more than one toilet/ bathroom - this is a huge ask admittedly, as one cannot alter the design of the old buildings, but this really impacted on our stay as we felt we were constantly waiting to use the bathroom. If there had been more than 4 of us I don't know what we would have done, this apartment would not suit the 8 advertised.
Despite the issues mentioned above we really did love our stay in the apartment and felt very comfortable and at home. We researched for ages an apartment that would give us a good balance of living space, bedrooms and bathrooms and I don't think we could have got better. Thank you.
Lovely area with the lakes (reservoirs) at one end of the road and the Botanical Gardens near the other end. House was comfortable and well equipped. Easy and pleasant walk to Norreport, takes about 10 minutes and that places you on the edge of the pedestrian shopping streets. Would choose to stay here again as it is so well placed, and the neighbourhod is quiet. There is a cafe at the end of the road which serves nice freshly prepared food at a reasonable price. There is a book in the house giving the history of this area, although it's in Danish the pictures tell the story and it is very interesting.
My husband and I spent 2 weeks in the downstairs apartment in Wiedeweltsgade 45 in Copenhagen. I liked the downstairs bedrooms but the rest of the apartment was only average (considering the price I would have expected a better quality of general accommodation). The linen, bed covers and pillows were of poor quality too; and one became incredibly hot using them. However, the worst was the noise on the street. It seems like all the houses were under renovation, and the nice little courtyard could not be used because there was so much dust and noise that it was impossible to use it most of the time. Also, very limited space even for two people. I would not recommend it to anybody.
I would rate the place as a 2-star (at the most) place to stay.
Excellent accommodation, lovely little street, well within walking distance of the centre of Copenhagen. Would certainly recommend!
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The Immunization Clinic offers a variety of services, including childhood and travel immunizations against common communicable diseases, tuberculosis skin testing, and special influenza immunization clinics. Regularly scheduled immunization clinics are available at the Public Health Office.
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* Need to return for clearance 48 to 72 hours after the test(Thursday of same week between 1:00 pm and 4:30 pm and Friday by appointment only)


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Marina And The Diamonds - Oh No! (Spun DJs Mad Eyes Remix)
Breaking my self-imposed "no more Marina remixes" rule, Spun DJs hit me up with a fix that's a little far out and goes to tip me just over the wall I've put up, so herein, we have a new wash of Marina & the Diamonds' latest single, Oh No!, from debut album, The Family Jewels. Don't you worry, this immediately found solace in my ears, so yep, we're all gonna get in on this rad action right now.
The London duo of Fred and CJ take a walk on the wild side with a fresh fix of the song that's full of some slinky auto-tuning, rubbery bum bumpers and a grinding flip that breathes new life into a track that we've heard in original form way too much, subsequently getting cut up and down and back again.
The blokes did up this new take with pal Mad Eyes, and hey hey, we're giving it to you right now.
Super win.
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works4me, you could always fill in the background with white stitching :D
Muv, I am also very intrigued by the way you pinned your stem so that it doesn't get distorted by the pinning process!
Jenniky, I really like how your border is turning out!
Yes, I thought about white stitching for at least a portion of the background. Afraid it won't cover the pencil. The pencil lines were done a few years ago, before I knew better and before I realized the design was pretty basic and would need to be changed, a lot. I have a laundry product that claims to be safe and be amazing so, we'll see.
Jenniky, I think you are right about posting at the same time. I am still having a lot of issues with the site so a simple post can take 10 minutes and have to be redone several times. Nice to see some action while I was attempting to post, though. :)
I have my maple leaf with me at work so I can work on it at lunch. I want it done soon so I can move on and also put it on my design wall.
This is SO fun to see everyone's progress ... more like we are quilting IRL together!
JenniKy ... Oh no, don't think about taking it apart ... that's part of the charm of it taking on it's own patriotic spirit! As I mentioned before, I really like that star fabric, and it's placement works well with the centre.
Muv ... this is going to be such a delicate quilt, I can tell! Of course, what else for The Queen! ? :)
BluTeddi ... ITA with Works4Me ... patriotic is so variable, and whatever is in one's ♥. And it surely is in yours!
Works4Me ... you're really stitchin' along thereand the leaf taking shape. Lookin' Good!!! I'm with you and worried about the pencil lines ... how about going back to the original lines and cover them up?
I toyed with using the original lines but the leaf will be quite uneven. As the applique diagramme it looks fine, for cross-stitching the right side seems quite a bit wider than the left. When I am done I will play a little. Plus, it now appears it will be close as to whether I have enough floss and there is no brand name on the label so this is it. I knew there was a reason I left the quilt unstarted for so long. lol
Oh Oh on the floss shortage ... YIKES!
I had a needlepoint like that one time and didn't have enough for the background.
The unevenness (word?) could be OK ... maple leaves IRL aren't perfect! Or it could be the flag fluttering in the wind, and the shape changing.
Forgot to mention .... Northcott's new Canadian patriotic line of fabric ... coming in June. Yea!!!!
And being that it's Stonehenge/Northcott, we know it'll be good quality!
http://www.northcott.net/?sid=2&layout=2col&content=fabric_details&colid=51 2&colorid=864
http://www.northcott.net/?sid=2&layout=2col&content=fabric_details&colid=51 2&colorid=864
QuiltE, quit being so reasonable. :p
LOOOVE that Northcott line. Looks like I'll have to go shopping in June. I want the moose and the maple leaves. There is a quilt show at the local community centre in mid-May so I will make sure to ask a couple of the vendors if they will be carrying it.
Reasonable? Me?
Here's more about the fabric line on the QOV site ... it was launched in March in your vicinity W4Me +TBug
Love the Oh Canada Quilt line... Nice quality :thumbup: :)


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Here, we blend garlic-infused low-fat milk, reduced-fat cream cheese and Parmesan cheese for a low-fat Alfredo sauce to replace traditional versions made with copious amounts of butter and heavy cream. With plenty of fiber from whole-wheat pasta and only 6 grams of fat per serving, you can put Alfredo back into your pasta repertoire.
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Serves 6
Prep Time 35 min
Total Time 50 min.
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Put a large pot of water on to boil.
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Combine milk and garlic in a heavy medium saucepan; bring to a simmer over low heat. Simmer gently until the garlic is tender and the milk has reduced to 1 1/2 cups, 15 to 25 minutes. Let cool slightly.
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Puree milk and garlic in a blender until smooth. (Use caution when blending hot liquids.) Return to the pan and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Keep the sauce warm.
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I took a break from blogging about Mass Effect 3 until there was news about the additional content BioWare had planned. No use in wasting time speculating when there wasn't any information to be found about what BioWare was planning. Suffice to say, things have gone from bad to worse.
Hat-tip to IsaacShep at the BioWare Social Network for this. First, the official statement from Electronic Arts (EA).
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BioWare, a Label of Electronic Arts Inc. announced Mass Effect™ 3: Extended Cut, a downloadable content pack that will expand upon the events at the end of the critically acclaimed Action RPG. Through additional cinematic sequences and epilogue scenes, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will give fans seeking further clarity to the ending of Mass Effect 3 deeper insights into how their personal journey concludes. Coming this summer, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be available for download on the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and PC for no extra charge*.
"We are all incredibly proud of Mass Effect 3 and the work done by Casey Hudson and team," said Dr. Ray Muzyka, Co-Founder of BioWare and General Manager of EA's BioWare Label. "Since launch, we have had time to listen to the feedback from our most passionate fans and we are responding. With the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut we think we have struck a good balance in delivering the answers players are looking for while maintaining the team's artistic vision for the end of this story arc in the Mass Effect universe."
Casey Hudson, Executive Producer of the Mass Effect series added, "We have reprioritized our post-launch development efforts to provide the fans who want more closure with even more context and clarity to the ending of the game, in a way that will feel more personalized for each player."
The Mass Effect franchise is one of the most highly decorated series in the history of games, having earned over 250 awards from critics around the world. Mass Effect 3 launched last month to universal critical acclaim, receiving over 75 perfect scores. For more information on Mass Effect 3, please visit http://masseffect.com, follow the game on Twitter at http://twitter.com/masseffect or "like" the game on Facebook at http://facebook.com/masseffect. Press assets for Mass Effect 3 are available at http://www.info.ea.com.
Second, a statement from BioWare's darklarke, as to what "Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut is and isn't."
An official press release went out today announcing how we are re-prioritizing the Mass Effect 3 post release content schedule to provide a more fleshed out experience for our fans. For many of you the "Extended Cut" will help answer some questions and give closure to this chapter of the Mass Effect story. Oh and it's at no cost to you – the fan.
Here is a mini FAQ to help you understand what the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut is and isn't:
What can fans expect from the Extended Cut DLC?
For fans who want more closure in Mass Effect 3, the DLC will offer extended scenes that provide additional context and deeper insight to the conclusion of Commander Shepard's journey.
Are there going to be more/different endings or ending DLCs in the future?
No. BioWare strongly believes in the team's artistic vision for the end of this arc of the Mass Effect franchise. The extended cut DLC will expand on the existing endings, but no further ending DLC is planned.
What is BioWare adding to the ending with the Extended Cut DLC?
BioWare will expanding on the ending to Mass Effect 3 by creating additional cinematics and epilogue scenes to the existing ending sequences. The goal of these new scenes is to provide additional clarity and closure to Mass Effect 3.
When will the Extended Cut DLC be available?
Currently the Extended Cut DLC is planned for this summer, no specific date has been announced at this point.
Why are you releasing the Extended Cut DLC?
Though we remain committed and are proud of the artistic choices we made in the main game, we are aware that there are some fans who would like more closure to Mass Effect 3. The goal of the DLC is not to provide a new ending to the game, rather to offer fans additional context and answers to the end of Commander Shepard's story.
Will there be more Mass Effect 3 DLC?
More content is being planned and we will release information at a later date.
So there you have it. Are we proud of the game we made and the team that made it? Hell yes. Are we going to change the ending of the game? No. Do we appreciate the passion and listen to the feedback delivered to us by our fans? Very much so and we are responding.
Summer is coming…
It's clear that, despite what Dr. Ray Muzyka said, BioWare didn't listen to fan feedback. Mass Effect fans, particularly those involved with 'Retake Mass Effect', were loud and clear as to what they wanted, new endings which reflected the choices they made throughout the Mass Effect series. They were even willing to pay handsomely for these new endings. Instead, BioWare decided that "artistic integrity" meant more to them than pleasing their fans. As an added insult, they justify their decision by pointing to the 75 perfect scores Mass Effect 3 received from now-discredited reviewers.
The stupidity of all this is mind-boggling. There could literally be volumes written about the ongoing public relations nightmare EA and BioWare are suffering through. "Winning" the "Worst Company in America" award from the Consumerist should have been a wake-up call for EA, it should have kept them and BioWare from releasing a statement which serves only to make their predicament worse. This is exactly what happens when companies don't listen to fan feedback. What's even worse is that neither seem able to grasp as to why they're in this situation.
Do I have any sympathy for either company? No. EA's questionable business practices of late have earned them a poor reputation and Consumerist's "Worst Company in America" award. BioWare, on the other hand, betrayed their fans for the sake of their "artistic integrity." This announcement won't get disappointed gamers to buy additional content for Mass Effect 3, nor will it help sell the game itself, no matter how low the price is now (the Walmart in my area has the Playstation 3 version for a mere $29.99 and it's not even been out for a full month yet). It doesn't matter that this additional content is free when it's exactly what the vast majority of fans didn't want. All this announcement does is show why EA and BioWare deserved to be in this situation.
For those who still haven't already liked 'Demand a better ending to Mass Effect 3′ on Facebook, if you feel as myself and thousands of other Mass Effect fans do about Mass Effect 3′s endings, do it. I would also recommend that my readership think about making a charitable donation to 'Full Paragon', which is supporting Kids Need to Read, and/or Fisher House. Both are worthwhile causes that could use our support.
UPDATE: The more and more I think about this, the more frustrated I get. The sheer arrogance of this decision is infuriating. Mass Effect fans were loud and clear as to what they wanted, and it wasn't "clarity and closure." Since this backlash began last month, the vast majority of fans have stated that they want endings which reflected the choices they made throughout the Mass Effect series. They were even to pay handsomely for these new endings. Why would BioWare, knowing all this, refuse to even acknowledge that they made a mistake with Mass Effect 3 endings, let alone change them?
Clinging to "artistic integrity" will not change the fact that Mass Effect 3 isn't selling. Units shipped aren't games sold as store shelves are filled with unsold copies that gamers are refusing to buy, even at it's substantially discounted price. From a business standpoint, it makes no sense to spend money developing content that doesn't address the main problem with this game. If they will not fix the game's endings, they should abandon Mass Effect 3 entirely. It's possible that BioWare could salvage the Mass Effect series by telling fans what their plans are for future games. That being said, I really don't see how there can be another Mass Effect game considering that Mass Effect 3, as of now, is an expensive failure.
I could go on and on about how confusing and infuriating this whole mess is, but for my own sanity, I will stop for now. It's better to spend my time with games I enjoy rather than wasting it discussing one I don't.


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I'm trying to come up with an annual bee pasture mix, and the choices seem rather limited, a great deal of bee plants seeming to be perennials. I was therefore wondering if people could help me out by pointing out which perennials they know to flower on the first year. Does white clover flower on the first year? Alsike clover? Trefoil? Dandelion, I read, will only flower on the second year, though perhaps if sown early enough...?
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Pronghorn paradise: Luxury home sales on upswing
This upscale wonder is yours for $3.9 million
BEND, Ore. - As our visits to some outstanding Central Oregon homes moves on to Pronghorn, we learn from local Realtors that buyers are back in the high end of Central Oregon's real estate market -- welcome news after the housing market bubble burst, bringing high-end sales to a standstill.
A lot of the clientele at this price point are coming back to the market, looking for second and third homes, they say.
This home in Pronghorn offers just the right combination for a buyer that does not want to compromise. The architecture is amazing in this home. The property is unique in that it only has a master and two bedrooms in 5,000 square feet that is dedicated to expansive spaces.
This end of the market is all about custom features, from the one of a kind front door to the designer features that make this home truly a one of a kind.
The fireplace is an architectural feature and support for the entire roof system of the home.
This home is currently being offered at $3.9 million, turn-key and furnished right down to the silverware.
The clientele that purchases a home like this is usually self-employed to a degree and are very successful, obviously. They're positioned a lot differently than the average consumer -- they've got a lot of companies, LLCs and K-1's, and they are paying cash. If it's not cash, it is a super-jumbo loan of over $2 million with 30 percent down.
There's a lot of young money coming up from California, Silicon Valley, the Bay Area -- Google, Facebook, not just baby boomers and retirees. A lot of the clientele in this price range are coming back to our market because Bend is such a great community.


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What I like the most about him is his overall athleticism --- size, speed, hands and vision as a runner with the ball in his hands.
I particularly like that he is very aggressive on short crossing patterns and also that he seems to have an extra gear and rarely gets beat deep.
I do wonder if he likes to tackle -- didn't see much tackling from him and per one scouting summary I saw on him he does seem to tackle too high sometimes (at the pads) rather than the knees/thighs.
Also saw him play-up and play-off coverage and he seemed fine in both positions.
He's a top 15 (some top 11) on most boards/mocks I've seen --- most have him rated about Dennard and I think it's the overall athleticism that separates them (from what I've seen).


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When a person cannot take their hands off their new iMac or Apple Mac based product. It's almost as if they are chronic public masturbators only difference is they jack off over technology.
I got my MacBook Pro Sunday night and I haven't been anywhere near social. I've been all alone in my room with the door closed with my computer practicing Macabation.
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QB: Aaron Rodgers - collarbone
RB: Doug Martin - (edit: not IR, but out for a long time with shoulder injury)
RB: Shane Vereen - IR
WR: Julio Jones - IR
WR: Reggie Wayne - IR
Flex/RB: Andre Brown - IR
TE: Jermichael Finley - IR
Traded Aaron Rodgers to get both Wilsons to boost my RB. Now David is injured too.
EDIT: Rodgers hurt now too...
Also, I checked my draft, and I noticed that I completely forgot that I drafted Ahmad Bradshaw too... holy crap I can't catch a break...


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Playboy.com's WWE Diva Week: Christy Hemme
Playboy.com celebrtates the 20th anniversary of WWE Raw by reliving some of wrestling's Diva's sexiest Playboy pics.
In 2005, WWE Diva Christy Hemme graced the pages of Playboy as the fifth WWE Diva to pose nude for the magazine. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of WWE Raw, we're bringing back the famous pictorial and interview, along with the many other WWE Divas who have posed through the years. Read Christy's interview and see the pics below or check out WWE's other Diva's Chyna and Torrie Wilson here.
At 24 Christy Hemme has played every kind of fantasy girl the male mind can conjure: cheerleader, music video dancer, Hooters waitress on — yes! — roller skates, pudding wrestler, giggling Juggy girl on The Man Show. And now, to complete the resume, Hemme steps into her Latest role as the WWE's newest RAW Diva, having beaten out nine other beauties in a grueling competition finally settled by the fans.
Hemme jumped into the contest in her usual way: high-octane. "I don't do things unless I go full-on," she says. For the Diva Dodgeball challenge, for instance, she overcame a sprained ankle to crush one competitor. For the cream pie fiesta, she zestily clapped one onto her bikinied tush and strutted around the ring as the audience went bonkers.
But Hemme is no diva. She's talkative and friendly and has a boisterous laugh. She's the type of girl who is close to her family and signs autographs for hours after wrestling matches because "it makes me happy when I make someone else happy." Today, as she lounges in the WWE's sleek New York City office, she's making the cubicle dwellers happy in a clingy black sweater, pinstriped pants and a checked newsboy cap. "Normally I'd be wearing jeans," she says, stretching out her five-foot-five frame, "But for the WWE we have to dress in business casual everywhere we go." Her trademark fiery red hair spills luxuriously down her back. "And yes. this hair is all real," she says with a laugh. "Guys come up behind me all the time and put their hands on it, and it's like – smack! — 'That's mine!'" On her right wrist is a tattoo of a little red heart, in honor of her late mom. "I love hearts, and my favorite color is red," she says, "In my bedroom I have all kinds of hearts everywhere."
Hemme is constantly in motion, leaping up to make a point, gesturing with her hands, unleashing that rowdy laugh. This is a woman who likes to have fun. "I've always had this energy," she says, "Always. I mean. I drove my parents crazy growing up. I have so much energy, I can't sleep much. I just wake up and think, Okay, I've got a lot of stuff to do." It's no surprise that this free- spirited California girl is adept at seemingly every sport in the Western world: snowboarding. Capoeira (a Brazilian martial art), skiing, dirt biking, wake- boarding. "Anything that's active and crazy," she says, "I can ride a horse, too."
At the moment, she's in motion without a special someone. "I don't have a boyfriend," she says, "But I am a girlfriend kind of girl. I'm not a dater. I don't want to put my energy into meaningless dates with people I'm not going to be serious with." She smiles wistfully. "I'd like to meet somebody and give them all my love," she says, "But with what I'm doing right now, it's obviously difficult." Indeed, Hemme works 51 weeks a year. She travels every week from Los Angeles for three nights of wrestling matches in various parts of the country, then hustles over to her RAW gig, which is shown live on Spike TV every Monday night. Then it's back to the West Coast for a few errands, and the whole process starts anew.
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Hemme says she isn't attracted to a particular type of man. "If you look at the people in my past," she says, "they are all completely different. But one quality I see in all of them is that they were all very passionate. I'm most attracted to a man who cares about the things he likes to do, who relishes what he does day to day." Her head is also turned by physical quirks. "I don't want a perfect guy," she says, "What's hot to me are interesting things like a scar on a man's face or a crooked tooth. Weird, kooky things."
The ability to ride a motorcycle is also a plus. Mention the words Harley-Davidson and Hemme lights up. Her father taught her to ride when she was three. "I would be thinking, This is really scary, but I'm going to do it," she recalls. "I would never tell him I was scared. And I loved it." Her dad also taught her to be independent, a lesson she absorbed so well that she moved out of her folks' house in Temecula, California at 17. She and three other girls took an apartment near her family. "We just went crazy," she says, "We were loud and had parties and had a really fun time." She subsidized this fun by working at her father's insurance company until she decided she wanted to be a Hooters girl.
"When I first got to Hooters thought, This is fun, but how can I make this more fun?" she says. Then she remembered seeing old photographs of Hooters babes wearing roller skates. Management balked when she proposed the idea, because each waitress had to buss her own tables and haul tubs up and down a staircase. "I was like 'Screw you. I'm wearing my roller skates!'" she says. "I always had this strange fetish about being Rollergirl." After signing a waiver, the determined Hemme won her right to haul dirty dishes down stairs on skates. "I got really good at it," she says.
One night at a bar, in what sounds like the beginning of an excellent adult film, Hemme met a group of former professional cheerleaders. They told her they were getting ready to attend the annual biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. "I was like, 'Yes!" she says, "I love Harley rallies." They left the next day. "All we did was pudding wrestle and sell photos of the girls," she says, "and I ended up making best friends." The gang decided to form a dance troupe called Perfect Angels and started performing at every Harley rally they could find. "We'd just show up and say, 'Can we work here?'" Who would refuse them?
After five years of that, Hemme tried out to be a Juggy dancer on Comedy Central's The Man Show. "I auditioned by jumping on a trampoline in my bikini," she says with a giggle. Twice she was rejected, but the third year she returned to her roots: "When I dyed my hair red, everything started clicking."
She stands up to do a catlike stretch. We decide to take a walk around New York City to continue our conversation. In the elevator she recounts how, after a year spent Juggying, she began thinking of becoming a WWE Diva. "I had been a big fan of the WWE when I was a kid," she says, strolling down a midtown sidewalk. "Undertaker was my favorite." A friend in the wrestling industry discouraged her, saying she was too small. "I was disappointed, because the WWE is so me," she says.
When the Diva search started last summer, she wangled an audition. She felt right at home — the crowds weren't so different from those in Sturgis. "I really get along with bikers," she says as a businessman passes her on the sidewalk and does a comical triple take. "I know how to talk to them, and we party together at night. The WWE audience is the same."
Hemme leaped right into the Diva Search, and the audience quickly got behind its red-haired California spark plug. The only part of the competition that bothered her was the backbiting among the contestants, both on- and offstage. "I'm used to being in a group of girls where everybody gets along. I'm not used to being mean and vindictive," she says. "But now we're all friends." Hmm. really? "Really!" she says. "We talk all the time."
When Hemme aced the contest last September (earning a one-year contract and $250,000), she was ecstatic. "Literally the next day I flew to Cancun to do a Divas photo shoot," she says. "I absolutely love doing sexy photo shoots." The thrill has yet to wear off. "Do you have any idea how exciting the show is?" she says as a couple passes her. The man stares, mouth agape, while his scowling girlfriend elbows him. "It's live, so it's mayhem backstage. And then in the Diva locker room it's so great. If a guy could be a fly on the wall he would be so happy, because all the girls are running around naked."
Since her victory Hemme's schedule has been frenetic (peaking with WrestleMania 21 on April 3), but she did pause long enough to spend a bit of her prize money. "I bought a Harley: she says proudly. "I got a Dyna Low Rider, which is a big bike. Chrome everything, custom everything. I was like,'I want a bigger engine. I want it to be heavier, and I want to go faster!" She laughs delightedly. "I love to go fast." she says. "Big surprise. right?"