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Nasty boys must go if City are to succeed
ROBERTO Mancini smiled in the face of adversity on Sunday evening, warning journalists that if he did sell Mario Balotelli in the summer, they would lose a major source of news stories as well as a supremely talented young footballer.
The Premier League might also lose a supremely talented young footballer – assuming, of course, that no English club would risk spending cash on the player Jose Mourinho described as "unmanageable".
But if ditching Balotelli means protecting opponents from leg-breaking challenges like the one Arsenal's Alex Song was fortunate to survive, then good riddance. Let him wreak havoc somewhere else.
I've joked in the past about football's enfant terrible but when you see him recklessly waving his studs around as if they were a feather duster, then all the japes, all the so-called scrapes that have made him such a colourful character are no longer a source of amusement.
It's no laughing matter when an opponent's career is in jeopardy when Balotelli loses it.
If Mancini is to have any credibility as a manager he should make it his first job this summer, provided he survives the axe himself, to dump the young Italian.
And the second would be to get rid of that other nasty piece of work Carlos Tevez.
Then he might just start fashioning a squad capable of challenging his quiet but enduringly successful Manchester neighbours.
Lennon should keep Celtic title in perspective
NEIL Lennon has had so much to endure in his two-year tenure as manager of Celtic that he can't be blamed for celebrating the Hoops' championship success.
Vile sectarian abuse, a pitchside attack and death threats, including bombs and bullets in the post . . . unreal.
Lennon has admitted battling depression since 2000, so he had good reason to wear his green and white scarf with pride as Celtic secured their first Scottish Premier League title since 2008 with a 6-0 win at Kilmarnock on Saturday.
He deserved his champagne moment, but he got a bit carried away at one point when he gave the media cause to rank him alongside the managerial "greats" when he said: "I feel vindicated. I felt as if I was on probation. Now I feel the Celtic manager."
Well, he is and has been since he was appointed caretaker in March 2010 and, as headstrong as he has been at times, he has had no reason to think otherwise. But he should keep a sense of perspective.
Celtic have walked the league – they are 18 points clear after the weekend's round of games with five still to play.
But come on, their nearest, in fact their only, rivals Rangers are in meltdown: they are in the maelstrom of a financial crisis that threatens their future existence and which cost them 10 points when they went into administration in February.
Yet they still stand eight points clear of third-placed Motherwell, illustrating yet again that the SPL is, nearly always was, and probably always will be a two-horse race.
Celtic can't be held responsible for the crisis at Ibrox, of course, and they will feel they have deserved their title success. But when their Old Firm rivals have been playing with one hand tied behind their backs, their victory, I'm afraid, must be seen as a hollow one.
FA need to appoint a boss soon
IN case you had forgotten, England still doesn't have a football manager worthy of the title.
We've understandably been pre-occupied in this neck of the woods recently, what with the Fabrice Muamba crisis, the continuing battle for Premier League survival and, on our doorsteps, Manchester being the focus of one of the most astonishing turnarounds in title-chasing history.
Nevertheless, there are just 58 days to go to the start of the European Championships and it's now 63 since Fabio Capello walked away in the wake of the John Terry captaincy controversy. And the Football Association appears to be no nearer appointing a replacement.
Stuart Pearce is currently minding the shop but he is nothing more than a stop-gap.
But for how long? I can understand the FA being cautious not to upset the Tottenham applecart and naming Harry Redknapp – the overwhelming favourite. But if he's the man they want, then they should come to some understanding with Spurs.
Mind you, I wouldn't be surprised if Harry was having serious reservations about working for that lot.
All they are doing with their dillying and dallying is allowing things to drift. And when a business is allowed to drift, its performance invariably deteriorates.
I don't care whether the suits have effectively given up on the Euros and are focusing on more long-term ambitions, England are still a major force in Europe and, as such, we have a duty to ourselves and UEFA to perform to the best of our ability in Poland and Ukraine. Whoever is going to be in charge there needs as much time as possible to prepare.
This is the England manager's job we are talking about here – the most important national sporting role.
It's time the FA stopped prevaricating and took some firm and decisive action. Then we'd all know where we were up to.


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A Seated Scribe
Attributed to Gentile Bellini, Italian, 1429–1507
Pen in brown ink with watercolor and gold on paper, 18.2 x 14 x 2.6 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/2 x 1 in.)
Genre: European Art, Works on Paper
Location: Early Italian Room
Accession Number: P15e8
Curious visitors who lift the cover from the unassuming Seated Scribe will be richly rewarded by what they see: an intimate painting in miniature of a young member of the Ottoman court bent intently over a writing pad. Dressed in a navy velvet caftan woven with gold, the elegant youth wears bright silks at his arms and neck. The generous folds of his turban hold in place a ribbed, red taj – headgear worn in the court milieu of Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (1432–1481), who nurtured a passionate interest in portraiture and particularly in western traditions of the genre.
Striking for its gleaming tones and stunning delicacy of line, the Seated Scribe is spectacular not only visually, but also in historiographic terms. The painting's original dimensions have been trimmed, and a later hand has taken care not only to embellish the image, but also to frame, mount, and, ultimately, historicize it. An added inscription in Persian records the image as the "work of Ibn Muezzin who was a famous painter among the Franks." Scholars have never doubted that a European or "Frankish" artist painted the Seated Scribe. The pressing issue of late has been who, precisely? Whether the Venetian Gentile Bellini, a renowned portraitist sent to Istanbul in 1479, or Costanzo da Ferrara, a court artist at Naples who also sojourned at the Porte, the specificity of detail in the Seated Scribe leaves little doubt that the artist drew from life.
Once the debate over attribution subsides, the more intriguing issue to raise is whether one can call the work a portrait. Might western pictorial realism have been the point of the exercise? A pronounced crease just above the youth's elbow suggests the image was initially handled as a loose-leaf, autonomous work of art before being mounted (and in this way preserved) in a sixteenth-century album. Like other western-style works Mehmed II commissioned or obtained during his sultanate, the Seated Scribe may have been used as a pedagogic tool for rising artists of the Ottoman royal workshop. A slightly later copy of the miniature (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington) certainly affirms its value for Ottoman and Persian artists as a pictorial model worthy of imitation. If the pictured youth is not a scribe but an artist, shown in the act of drawing while he himself is being drawn according to Western pictorial practices, the Seated Scribe taught by poignant example – it sits indeed at the nexus of Ottoman art and European traditions of representation.
Source: Susan Spinale, "A Seated Scribe," in Eye of the Beholder, edited by Alan Chong et al. (Boston: ISGM and Beacon Press, 2003): 97.
Probably painted around 1479-1480 when Gentile Bellini was sent by the Venetian Republic to Constantinople to serve as a painter to Sultan Mehmet II (1432–1481).
Probably sent as a gift or trade to the Aqqoyunlu court in Tabriz (later became the Safavid capital) in the fifteenth century.
In the collection of Bahram Mirza (1518–1550), the youngest son of Shah Isma'il of the Persian Safavid court by 1544-45 when it was mounted into an album by Dust Muhammad, a Persian painter, calligrapher, and art historian.
The album was purchased by the Swedish collector, scholar and dealer Fredrik R. Martin (1868–1933) from a Turkish family in Istanbul around 1905.
Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased this single sheet from Fredrik R. Martin on 13 September 1907 for £1,500 through the Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860–1920).
- J. R. Martin. "A Portrait by Gentile Bellini Found in Constantinople." The Burlington Magazine 39 (15 June 1906), pp. 148-49. (as Gentile Bellini, "A Portrait")
- F.P.T. Sarre. "Ein Miniatur Gentile Bellini, gemalt 1479-80 in Konstantinople," Jahrbuch der königlichen preuszischen Kunstammlungen 27 (1906), pp. 302-306, 28 (1907) pp. 51-52.
- Claude Arnet. "Exhibition of Persian Miniatures at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris-II." Burlington Magazine (1915), pp. 105-06.
- F.V.P. "The Goloubew Collectoin of Persian and Indian Paintings." MFA Bulletin (Feb. 1915), p. 3. (as Gentile Bellini, entitled "Portrait of a Prince")
- Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 32-34. ( as Gentile Bellini, entitled "A Turkish Artist")
- Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 93-94. (entitled "A Turkish Artist")
- Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 61
- Stuart Preston. "Seated Scribe" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 16.
- Rollin Hadley. "Notes, Records, Comments." Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 7, no. 40 (31 May 1964), p. 2.
- George L. Stout. Treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1969), pp. 106-107. (entitled "A Turkish Artist")
- Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston: 1974), pp. 16-17. (as attributed to Gentile Bellini, "A Turkish Artist")
- Rollin van N. Hadley. Museums Discovered: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1981), pp. 40-41.
- Jürg Meyer zur Capellen. Gentile Bellini (Stuttgart, 1985), pp 97, 125-26, no. A4. (as Gentile Bellini)
- Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 402, 406, 409.
- Julian Raby. "Pride and Prejudice: Mehmed the Conqueror and the Italian Portrait Medal." in Italian Medals: Studies in the History of Art 21 (National Gallery of Art: Washington DC, 1987), pp. 176, 181, note 26. (as by Costanzo da Ferrara)
- Hilliard Goldfarb. Italian Renaissance Drawings, Medals, and Books. Exploring Treasures in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum I. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1991), p. 5.
- Jay. A. Levenson (ed.). Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Exh. cat. (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1991), p. 212, under no. 108. (as attributed to Costanzo da Ferrara)
- Jill S. Medvedow. "Juan Muñoz: Looking Inside and Out." in Juan Muñoz. Portrait of a Turkish Man Drawing. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1995), pp. 16-21.
- David J. Roxburgh. "Disorderly Conduct?: F. R. Martin and the Bahram Mirza Album." Muqarnas 15 (1998), pp. 32-57. (as ascribed to Ibn Mu'adhdhin)
- Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Gentile Bellini, "Portrait of a Seated Scribe or Artist")
- Gülru Necipoglu. "The serial portraits of Ottoman sultans in comparative perspective." in The Sultan's Portrait: Picturing the House of Oman. Exh. cat. (Istanbul: Topkapi Palace Museum, 2000), pp. 22-66.
- Priscilla P. Soucek. "Walter Pater, Bernard Berenson, and the reception of Persian manuscript illustration." RES: Anthropology and aesthetics (2001), pp. 118-22.
- Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), pp. 96-97. (as attributed to Gentile Bellini)
- Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), pp. 116-118, 136, 237, fig. 91. (as Gentile Bellini)
- David J. Roxburg. The Persian Album, 1400-1600: From Dispersal to Collection (New Haven, 2005), pp. 245-307.
- Caroline Campbell and Alan Chong. Belini and The East. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; London: The National Gallery, 2005), pp. 118-19, 122, 124, no. 32. (as Gentile Bellini)
- Kirsten Dickhaut. "Le vrai est ce qu'il peut - Dur (De- Konstruktion des Orients in Gérard de Nervals Werk" in Michael Bernsen and Martin Neumann. Die französische Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts und der Orientalismus (Tübingen, 2006), pp. 102-103, 109. fig. 1. (as by an anonymous artist)
- Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 36, 52, fig. 2. (as Gentile Bellini)
- Richard Yeomans. The Art and Architecture of Ottoman Istanbul. (United Kingdom: Garnet Publishing Limited, 2012), pp. 193-94. (as Gentile Bellini)
- Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), pp. 61-62, 184. (as attributed to Gentile Bellini)


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-It was as a young girl playing dress up in heirloom corsets and dresses from the 19th century that were found in her grandparents' attic and her fascination with all the French designers that were featured in Vogue from Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent to Balmain, that initially captivated her to the craft – even before she knew how to craft! At the tender age of nine, she was already trying to sketch the Saharienne dress from YSL and discovered that it was not "un exercice facile"! Fortunately, none of this daunted her passion for fashion and after moving to NY, she plunked down and bought a sewing machine, ripped apart some vintage pieces just to see how pants were made or how a sleeve looked lying flat on tracing paper. It was through this process that she taught herself the art of pattern making. With patience and determination, soon some of her pieces landed in a local Brooklyn boutique called Isa and sold out within a week! This got her design juices flowing and and she is now living out her dream as a fashion designer. In many ways, Alice Ritter's life practically changed overnight when she moved to New York from her home in Paris over nine years ago. A former music publicist in France, she followed her American boyfriend to New York, got married and legally changed her last name to that of her husband's. Being in New York gave her a sense of freedom to follow her childhood dream and afforded her a new raison d'être. Ritter's signature style in her own words would be French Girl in New York.


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This is it everyone! This post sums up what to me were the best editorial shots of 2011, along with the trends and runways looks that dominated.
As for the photo sources, they are a mix of my own scans, from fashion gone rogue, and the fashion spot.
For any information of any of the photos, such as the exact source, and where you can find the full editorial - contact me.
And as for the new year, I am so excited. 2011 was an interesting year, it was colorful and controversial. Makes you wonder what 2012 has stored for us.....
All I know is that I will be starting on a very good note, with high hopes to start university. My resolutions are to get in (better) shape, to go to (at least) five new countries, to move on to becoming fluent in French, and to start eating healthy.
To you I wish happiness, good health, and success. May this year bring many new trends, and many fresh inspirations. Thank you for always coming back to my blog and supporting me. I love you all!!!
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Kaboose - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkLooks like a good selection coming up. Reply
Trefugl - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkIt is a good selection indeed.
I do have a question about the HTC Flyer though. I was always under the impression that was using a pressure sensitive pen digitizer (similar to Wacom tablets) vs just using a "meat-stick" capacitive pen. This was a key feature to me as it brings real pressure sensitive input to a tablet device and could lead the way with Photoshop-like apps. Reply
seanleeforever - Friday, March 25, 2011 - linkcapacitive pen. unless the technology has changed dramatically, this will be a total failure due to 2 reasons:
very low resolution. it is fine to draw circles, but to write words you need to have a digitizer.
you palm cannot touch the surface of the screen. or else it will be registered as another input and mass up the note. Reply
ratbert1 - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkNice preview. Not sure about your new nail polish though:) Reply
Azethoth - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkWere you thinking "Harpy Black" or "Zombie Claw Green" instead? I vote black to go with the wrist hardware. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkHaha sorry, some of those products we weren't allowed to handle ourselves and thus the PR people at the companies were hand models :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkI'm guessing they've discovered that people like Anand and Brian can find out an awful lot regarding the internal hardware in a few minutes and are a little worried about early benchmarks and such. Or maybe they just don't want Anand running off with their products? ;-) Reply
tigger2u - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkI believe these were "mechanical prototypes" which means that they were non-functioning "dummy" units.
It is interesting to see how quickly Anand & Co. can get benchmarks loaded onto these devices (were the LG Optimus 3D results obtained with LG's blessing? http://goo.gl/EXovr )
I'm hoping they get a little quality time with the EVO 3D to see how well the MSM8660 is fairing in that unit. Reply
Brian Klug - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkWe actually have an MDP8660 with us that we'll be posting some benchmarks from later this week. :)
-Brian Reply
liem107 - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkI noticed the info posters only indicate "1 ghz dual core application processor" .
i hope the y will use their exynos instead of tegra2... Reply
cactusdog - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkAnand, can you do a story on the OWC accusation that OCZ is using poor quality nand in their SSD's?
Its important for customers to know who is telling the truth.
Thanks Reply
softdrinkviking - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linki am curious about that too.
i also remember reading something about OCZ purposefully making their controllers more tolerant so that they could use cheaper nand without any problems. Reply
strikeback03 - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkThat was one of the advantages Sandforce pushed for their controller, that it could make use of cheaper NAND because of its lower write-amplification and error checking Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkIt's an interesting story, I've been digging for the past few days on it. As far as I can tell the SpecTek NAND is rated for 3K cycles, just like normal Micron NAND (Intel NAND is rated at 5K).
I don't believe there's any issue with SpecTek branded NAND (at least not what's in OWC's picture) but I'm trying to get my hands on some to test for myself to make sure.
Take care,
Anand Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkOWC is lying, plain and simple. They are knowingly making false accusations. They should be sued by OCZ. OCZ has explained the situation very well. Spektek takes a failed wafer and sorts out the failures and sells the good pieces to OCZ. There is nothing substandard in the parts coming from Spektek, if they have the proper numbering ("AL" in this case.)
What OWC is claiming is basically the same as saying that the three working cores of an Athlon X3 are somehow defective because there is a disabled core on the die. It is complete nonsense. Reply
cactusdog - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - linkWell, it seems odd that the article is still up on OWC and OCZ forum mods are locking down threads and refusing to make any further comment.
Anand, that would be good. Maybe you could contact spectek and/or Micron too to get their response. Reply
Conficio - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkWhy do I need to have this 3D nonsense if I'd like a large phone with a good two core processor and a decent GPU? Really HTC, et. al. why do I need an odd 3D display and the bloat of driver software that means and the dual cameras of low quality.
Where is a phone that invests the money into things that matter, like a good camera (8 Mega pixels, flash, recessed or protected as to not become a scratch magnet [ or some screw on cap tha can be replaced for a few dollars]), and a quality 2D screen [qHD sounds good to me], dual core processor, quad or penta band?
I'm in the market this year for a phone (and I replace a Treo 600, if you know what I mean). Reply
jharper12 - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkAnand,
BlueScreen from the Android Forums, someone who allegedly works in software development for HTC and who leaked info on the original Evo, posted a couple of items of interest. First, he claimed the ROM in the Evo 3D was actually "RAM Silicon" and could function as RAM "Depending on the needs of the 2nd processor."
He also mentioned the HTC Shooter benchmarks that popped up earlier in the week. "I know there was some flak on the recent GLBenchmarks and we caught hell for it around here as well. I just wanted to let you know that fit and finish on that has been polished out. Memory allocation was only single set data stream and we have now been able to utilize duel data stream with a bump in memory clock speeds. I guess you could use the analogy of SDRAM compared to DDRAM... I can say that we were able to almost double our GLbench scores with just the memory fix though."
Do either of those things sound remotely possible to you? How do you think the MSM8660 is going to fair against OMAP offerings? How substantial is the difference between the A9 and A8? I've read it's approximately a 25% performance difference clock for clock, which if that's the case, would only give the 1Ghz A9 offerings a 8.5% performance advantage. Lots of random questions, but I suppose I'm most interested in whether or not that RAM ROM business even sounds feasible to you.
Thanks for the amazing website and reporting. This is always the first place I go when I want unbiased, benchmarking, tell it like it is reporting. I've learned a lot here.
Leaked HTC Shooter benchmarks - allegedly the Evo 3D using the MSM8660.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Scores-for-the-unre... Reply
jharper12 - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - linkFrom reading more today, looks like this "inside man" was just trolling and spitting out random information. Sad... I wonder if that means those benchmarks are fairly indicative of how this phone will perform in relation to the other current gen platforms. Rough. Reply
PWRuser - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - linkOptimus 3D appears to be under the radar, all eyes are on the EVO but Optimus 3D is all around a very good phone. Dominates the Incredible as well.
On the other hand, Tegra 3 and OMAP 5 already in the works, makes more sense to wait out unitl 28nm next gen SoC's start shipping. Reply
snakeInTheGrass - Thursday, March 24, 2011 - linkNot sure I agree with the Samsung comment - it doesn't really sound like Samsung had a contingency plan for thinner tablets ready, considering they're basically showing mockups that don't even work.
While the 7" seems too small, and having both a 10.1" and 8.9" seems like overkill, the 8.9" specifically does sound most interesting in terms of just being a little bit smaller/lighter while not losing too much screen space. Reply
worldbfree4me - Friday, March 25, 2011 - linkIs using Gingerbread aka 2.3 ! Good morning :) Reply


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Can there be an upside to being involuntarily unemployed? Sure there can, especially if you're blessed with the go-getter attitude of Barbara Simpson. Since being laid off from her job as a pharmaceutical sales rep, this 36-year-old mother of three brings the same energy that powered her career to daily life in her Hamden, CT home, making the most of becoming what she describes as "an instant stay-at-home mom." There's more time with the kids, more time for her husband, more time for her hobbies...and more time for her favorite online game, Bejeweled Blitz. "I spend about an hour a day playing," Barbara confesses with a smile, "I use it to decompress in between hours of job searching and to stay in touch with family and friends."
Barbara has been a devoted Bejeweled Blitz player ever since she first set up a Facebook profile roughly two years ago. "I discovered Bejeweled Blitz in a search. I always enjoyed the original game on my PC so I thought it would be fun. My first impression was actually a shock. I didn't expect it to be only a minute long!" Barbara's passion for the game has quickly spread among her Facebook friends, leading to an impressive leaderboard of about 45 avid players. Barbara tends to find the usual suspects occupying the top spots on her leaderboard: her cousin, Jamie, her girlfriend, Geneene, her father, and a certain Bejeweled savant aunt. And, of course, Barbara herself - with an all-time high score of 450,000 Barbara is no slouch. That said, Barbara is perhaps most in awe of her dad's Bejeweled Blitz prowess. "My dad is colorblind," she says with begrudging admiration, "So when he beats my score I get all riled up! He's actually quite good," she allows, "But don't tell him I told you that!"
Like so many other Bejeweled Blitz players, Barbara finds that the game provides a great new way to keep in touch with her friends while indulging the sales rep's natural competitive spirit. "Bejeweled Blitz gives me the opportunity to reach out to Facebook friends that I may not talk to all the time," she explains. "And, of course, I'm always trying to beat my dad, cousin and aunt! We have a group of friends, including my friend Geneene, that competes regularly," continues Barbara. "She calls us 'Team Geneene.' I taught her how to play and now she almost always kicks my butt!"
Sitting at her computer with her 10-month-old son on her lap, Barbara dutifully checks the leaderboards and makes a point of gently ribbing any family member she passes. While the baby is a happy spectator during Barb's Bejeweled Blitz time, the rest of the family is a little more hands-on. Her eldest child, Hannah, who is 10, loves to backseat drive and help Barb find matches. "I must admit, however, that my husband is the worst when it comes to that," she laughs. "I actually have to shoo him away!"
While Barbara is itching to get back to work, she's making the most of her unscheduled hiatus, helping her two school-age children with their homework, teaching Sunday school to 3rd and 4th graders, and snuggling up on the couch for weekend family movie nights that invariably feature a huge bowl of communal popcorn. Barbara also loves to scrapbook and hopes to use this time to get caught up, especially on one particular scrapbook. "I started a scrapbook for my wedding and I never finished it," she says. "And we were married 12 years ago!"
Barbara expects to land a new job soon, but in the meantime she's going to continue enjoying the blessing of increased family time along with a little extra Bejeweled time. After all, she practically has a responsibility to play. "I think the game keeps my mind sharp. Playing every day keeps me thinking, on my toes, and alert," she asserts. "And besides, where would Team Geneene be without me?" With three active children and a demanding career, mental sharpness for Barbara isn't a luxury-it's a necessity. All she needs now is to find a way to channel that edge into discovering a way to consistently beat Geneene and her father... and maybe finishing that scrapbook.


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An open day at Otley Rugby Club has been hailed a "superb" success.
The club hosted a range of attractions, including youth squad matches, live music from Otley band Never Ending Reason, army displays and a barbecue on Saturday, March 29.
Visitors also got to watch a first XV game, against Luctonians, for free – with Otley suffering a narrow, 17-19 defeat in the end.
MP Greg Mulholland (Lib Dem, Leeds North West) was among the many residents who took part and also presented the Man of the Match award.
He said: "The open day was a big success, with fun for all the family as well as great sport and I was very pleased to attend as I am a keen rugby fan.
"There was something for all the family and a great turnout and atmosphere all day. It was enjoyed by everyone, though naturally all Otley fans were disappointed with the narrow defeat against Luctonians.
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SCHOOLS are being invited to produce innovative ideas to raise standards in the classroom for the chance to win £10,000 to execute their plans.
The inaugural Randstad Education Awards will reward the entrants with the most innovative ideas to help raise standards in their school.
Those hoping to be in with a chance of winning one of the three prizes across the primary, secondary and SEN (special education needs) categories have until Friday, 24 January to submit their entry.
Schools who wish to enter the awards need to answer six questions relating to how they would invest the £10,000 prize in order to raise standards.
As well as innovation, the panel of independent judges will be looking for an outcome that is measurable alongside existing assessment criteria such as attainment levels or participation ages and levels within a particular subject, topic or curriculum area.
Jenny Rollinson, managing director of Randstad Education, said: "Many schools feel pushed around by current political change and face huge challenges as they are asked to do more with less thanks to squeezed funding.
"Despite these difficulties, many schools still aspire to raise standards and we feel this innovation and change from the bottom up needs to be recognised, encouraged and rewarded.
"We know that raising standards in education could be given an extra push if there were additional resources, equipment or facilities and that's why we want to hear from schools that could use £10,000 to help them on their way."
All ideas will be considered, but entrants are encouraged to adopt a whole-school approach in deciding how the money will be invested and input from a panel of pupils, governors, teachers and even parents is recommended.
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HOUSTON - Black Friday or as some like to call it, the Shopping Olympics is almost here. It is truly the kickoff to the holiday shopping season.
In years past, it was all about waking up early to get the door buster deals, but this year the best deals will be had for those who stay up late.
Black Friday has turned into Black Thursday.
Toys R Us and Wal-Mart will open their doors on Thanksgiving Day at 9 p.m. Target, Macy's, Best Buy, Kohl's and stores at Houston Premium Outlets will open at midnight, Nov. 25.
"It's never too early to shop for your kids, I guess, and to save some money too," said Houston shopper Ashton Griffin.
Last year, Black Friday sales totaled $11.8 billion. This year, retailers are hoping with earlier shopping hours more people will come out and spend.
But not everyone is excited.
"It's crazy. Too early for me. Let's have a day for the family and leave Thanksgiving alone," said shopper Mandy Diaz.
Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said the decision to open earlier is due to consumer desire.
"We have heard from our guests that they want to shop Target following their Thanksgiving celebrations rather than only having the option of getting up in the middle of the night," said Snyder.
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CHRISTMAS is coming but Blackpool's Grand Theatre still has plenty in store to brighten up those dark nights before and after the festivities.
For a festive musical spectacular don't miss Beyond the Barricades at Christmas.
The show beautifully recreates original West End and Broadway songs and features a cast of principal performers from the London production of Les Miserables.
To really get the whole family in the festive spirit, the Grand's Christmas pantomine is the much loved fairtytale Cinderella, starring Emmerdale's Danny Miller in his first panto performance.
Music, dance, a fairy godmother, a handsome prince, a glass slipper, two ugly sisters and a star-studded cast includes soap hearthrob Miller, who will be joined on the boards by Steve Royle and Amy Thompson from Channel 5's Milkshake.
Children's ballet is always popular and Northern Ballet's production of Ugly Duckling should provide a sure fire hit with the kids.
If you're looking for something different, Jim Cartwight's heartwarming northern fairytale The Rise and Fall of Little Voice sees Coronation Street's Beverley Callard and Ray Quinn, from X Factor and Dirty Dancing take the lead roles. But possibly, top of the season's bill is the National Theatre return with the hilarious, award-winning One Man Two Guvnors, with Jodie Prenger returning to her home town and comedian Rufus Hound.
To sooth those winter blues once the excitement of Christmas is over, three spectacular ballets are presented by the Russian State Ballet.
Enjoy the delightful tale of Coppelia, the most famous of fantasy ballets The Nutcracker and the romantic favourite Swan Lake.
Looking further ahead, Sebastian Faulk's captivating Birdsong, a story of love, courage and sacrifice in the First World War, is presented by The Original Theatre Company — while Shakespeare's spellbinding tale, A Midsummer Nights Dream, takes centre stage in the spring.
If it's opera you enjoy, the tale of Hansel and Gretel comes to the Grand for one night only while Opera and Ballet International return with two sensational operas Tosca and Carmen, which tells the tale of the downfall of soldier Don Jose, who is seduced by the fiery and beautiful Carmen.
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Fort Thomas, KY is a suburb of Cincinnati just a few miles south across the river. It's kind of a quaint town that would make you feel like you're stuck in the 50s. There is a pub there that typically used to draw a younger crowd, but during my past few visits I've experienced a more diverse crowd.
With the opening of a dining patio, I think they started taking their food a little more seriously. Case in point, the brisket sammich.
I wasn't even going to eat, but my lovely lady noticed it on the menu so I asked the waitress about it. It sounded legit so I ordered it.
It was pretty doggone delicious. Their "Texas Sauce" actually reminded me of sauce I'd had in small bbq joints in TX. The brisket was very tender and had a good smokiness in the bark.
I was surprised to say the least. This is a place that has typical pub fare like burgers, nachos, and quesadillas - items that take no more than 10 minutes to make. However, I did ask the cook about the brisket and he said that they cook it on the smoker with oak for at least 8 hours and finish by roasting it with a bit of the sauce.
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THIEVES have stolen 30 lambs from a North Yorkshire farm.
The animals - which are nine-month-old Texel lambs - were taken from a field near Oulston, in the Thirsk area, between January 11 and January 14.
North Yorkshire Police said the lambs are distinctive as they have a large 'R' painted on their backs, with Pc Julie Kessell, of Thirsk Safer Neighbourhood Team, saying anybody who saw anything suspicious or a vehicle which seemed "out of place" in the area at the time to come forward.
"I am also keen to speak to anybody who may have been offered the lambs for sale, either alive or slaughtered," she said.
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Due to lack of data, we couldn't rank every college that offers Forestry. To see a full list of all the colleges offering this program check out our listing of Annual Forestry Graduates. To see a list of all the colleges that offer online degree options in Forestry, check out our listing of Annual Forestry Graduates From Programs Offered Online.
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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
You could have an endless budget to invest in training and it would only go so far if you and other frontline managers in your company aren't invested personally in the process.
"You've got to do a coaching session with your frontline managers because it's essentially malpractice if you don't," says Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of Corporate Visions, a globally recognized provider of marketing and sales training.
Riesterer says research shows that adoption of sales training techniques increases by 40 percent when a manager has been taught how to coach the techniques covered and follows through.
Jeff Seeley, CEO of sales training provider Carew International, says companies' executive teams worry too much about salespeople buying into the training that they invest in and not enough about bringing mid-level managers on board.
"Once we get people in the classroom, there is a thirst for knowledge. Where we have problems with most of our clients is engaging leadership," Seeley says. "They say, 'We have to do something about our sales team,' but the reinforcement, follow-up and making this part of the culture is the tough part."
Carew provides executive briefings before training begins as part of its package. Corporate Visions builds a one-day "train the trainer" sessions into its platform (and prices it aggressively enough to make it a no-brainer).
"The sales manager has all of the influence in the world," says Riesterer. "If they feel like they've been let in on what's going to happen and they had an opportunity to respond to that, we have seen that create the most enthusiasm and best acceptance at companies. All the promotion you can do to salespeople will pale in comparison to what their manager tells them."


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Just 25 minutes from St. Simons Island and Jekyll Island, you will find plenty to do at the La Quinta Inn & Suites Brunswick. Take the whole family to historic Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation, have fun in the sun at Summer Waves, or head on out to Okeefenokee Swamp Park. It is only five miles to the Emerald Princess Casino Cruise Ship. You will find great restaurants within walking distance, including one next door, and Colonial Mall and Magnolia Bluff Factory Outlet Store for shopping, just minutes away.
Grab a USA Today mornings in the lobby at the La Quinta Inn & Suites Brunswick and enjoy a Free Bright Side BreakfastTM complete with make-your-own waffles. All guest rooms have interior corridors and include free high-speed Internet access, pillow-top mattresses and down-lite pillows (King rooms feature additional amenities). We have a guest laundry facility and fax/copy services available at the front desk. Don't forget your swimsuit for our refreshing outdoor swimming pool! Conveniently located five miles northeast of downtown off I-95. Stay here when visiting Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center, Brunswick College, and Fort Stewart.


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Medical Experts Present Latest News in Ichthyosis Research #FIRSTNFC
Collaboration was by far the word-of-the-day, with regard to the current culture of the ichthyosis research community.
During the What's Up with Research session on Saturday morning, Dr. Leonard Milstone began by calling attention to the precise goals of ichthyosis research: understanding the medical and social issues, discovering ways to intervene to improve outcomes, and to effectively disseminate new knowledge. He also mentioned the critical importance of advocacy groups to stay involved, be a non-negotiable step of the process, and to continue to create opportunities for affected families and doctors to connect and learn from each other. With regard to the current state of research, Dr. Milstone said, "Advances in technology have led to more rapid, more informative, and more precise information and discoveries than imagined even 25 years ago." Yet, Milstone also noted, "This new technology, which is a direct result of investments in research, is expensive." And with the research expense rising as government support is decreasing, Milstone further emphasized that large-scale collaborations and private foundations will play an increasingly important role in supporting research.
Another key focus of the session was the call for worldwide collaboration. Dr. Bill Rizzo introduced the STAIR Consortium, an international multi-center, collaborative research project focusing on genetic diseases that are caused by defects in Sterol (cholesterol) And IsopRenoid metabolism. The STAIR Consortium was created and funded by the NIH and NCATS. Its goal is to establish the natural history of rare diseases, identify biomarkers for future therapy studies, investigate new treatments, discover new diseases, and to train new physicians/researchers to work on rare diseases. Rizzo, one of the world's leading researchers of Sjögren-Larsson Syndrome explained, "Access to biological data from as many patients as possible is critical for understanding the disease," and he further emphasized that the input from patient advocacy groups is a necessary part of this type of collaboration. STAIR is currently working with seven patient advocacy groups worldwide, including FIRST.
Dr. Choate provided the conference attendees with an update about the promising progress he and his team at Yale have made on the Gene Discovery Project. He mentioned that the Gene Discovery Project began at the FIRST family conference, in one small room, at the 2010 conference in Orlando, Florida. However since then, the research incurred tremendous growth. Including the 57 families recruited here in Indianapolis, they have recruited 375 total families and, so far, they have been able to determine a genetic diagnosis for 247 of those families. Since the Denver conference in 2012, they have also identified three new genes which cause ichthyosis. Choate also noted that advances in genetic sequencing technology has made genetic diagnoses faster and much less expensive. Of the 247 families who were able to obtain a genetic diagnosis from Dr. Choate and his team, 80% of them were able to get that diagnosis through their "pre-screening" process, which looks at the 11 most common genes that cause ichthyosis. This "pre-screening" test now costs the Yale lab between $30 and $50, which is a huge drop in costs from a decade ago. "Learning more about the specific genetic causes of ichthyosis will enable future research to develop effective therapeutic pathways for treating ichthyosis," Choate added.
Dr. Brittany Craiglow introduced a prospective evaluation of infants and children with congenital ichthyosis, discussing the importance of further investigation into the relationship of the phenotype (the way a disease presents itself) and genotype (the way a disease is caused)of ichthyosis. Craiglow's evaluation process predicts that mass observation of infants can assist doctors and families in understanding and preparing for issues in growth and development. Specific medical issues observed include electrolyte disturbances, infections, and possible other medical complications, such as loss or obstruction of hearing or eyesight from birth through early childhood. Again, Craiglow also emphasized the need for a collaborative effort between doctors, patients, and patient advocacy groups so that proper management protocols for these medical issues can be established as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Dr. Phil Fleckman spoke about health related quality of life and patient reported outcomes from enrollees in the Ichthyosis Registry. The registry, which collected data directly from patients from 1994-2004, was a collaboration of the MSAB (Medical & Scientific Advisory Board) and was funded by the NIH. In addition to a clinical diagnosis, this type of doctor-patient collaboration has offered doctors critical regarding the "real life" impact of the disease and opening a window into the day to day physical and emotional challenges that often accompany ichthyosis. He hopes to extend these studies to determine how quality of life changes as participants age, to include those enrolled in Keith Choate's study, and to add newer ways to assess the impact of ichthyosis on those affected and their families.
Judging by the close, supportive and collaborative nature between our doctors, patients, and FIRST, we are poised for great strides in ichthyosis research.


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AN annual beer and music festival will raise thousands of pounds for community groups.
The WivFest, at Cotleigh Brewery, in Ford Road, on Saturday, August 9, includes children's entertainment and craft and produce stalls, with free entry from noon until 5pm.
Musicians from the area will be playing throughout the event, culminating with Devon-based Castletown in the evening, with a £5 entry fee after 5pm or £2.50 for under 18s.
The day is hosted by the Jim Laker Fund in memory of the managing director of Wiveliscombe's Exmoor Brewery and inspiration behind the town's Westfest until his sudden death in 1996.
The fund, set up the following year, has paid out more than £60,000 to support community groups.
Jim Laker Fund chairman Marian Mann said: "We are delighted to be giving a platform to our talented local musicians of all ages.
"To add to the enjoyment our two breweries, Cotleigh and Exmoor, are each providing five local beers at a very reasonable £2.80 a pint, and of course there will be other drinks and delicious food available all day."


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Why is it possible to set a left margin, but not a right one? Why should this command/code be so difficult? I want to center my text on my site, and it is difficult to do (at least to me).
I am a neophyte, and have only been working with HTML/CSS for about a year. I find it amazing that the powers to be can make the process so difficult. There seems to be an effort to keep changing things so that thenewcomer has to constantly change his way of thinking.
I know the ole saying that "the only thing constant is change" but I often wonder if the folks who manage all this just want to keep their elite status.Okay, now shoot me down.
That's simply not the case. They work both the same.
You just need to take a bit of time to learn this stuff properly, preferably with a good book. The basics of CSS (including margins) are very simple. So show us a bit of code and we can show you what to do.
If you are trying to center a div, you can just set a width on it and use a simple rule like
margin: 0 auto;
The 0 means zero top and bottom margin, and "auto" left and right margin, which centers the element inside its parent element.
I know the ole saying that "the only thing constant is change" but I often wonder if the folks who manage all this just want to keep their elite status.
That's quite simple, and has not changed in over a decade. These are not shifting sands!
It is only the marketers that that want you believe the sand has shifted like Ralph said essentially CSS and HTML haven't really changed for over a decade. It's more a case of the browsers and hacks have instead.
welcome to the web development world. As with technology web development is constantly evolving.
Personally I don't think things change so much as improvements are being made.
Once you understand the basics and have a thorough knowledge of what's going on you will see the light.
Just do not want the text running to edge of page on most of my site. Would like decent margins left and right.
CSS to use in an external stylesheet to provide a gap of 20px at each side of all your pages.
body {padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;}
Or a gap of 20px on all sides
body {padding:20px;}
Or 20px sides, 0 top and bottom
body {padding:0 20px}
Pages that are exceptions to the rule can have a class added to the body element. For example:
.something {padding:20px 0;}
Would leave no gap at the sides and 20px top and bottom. The body element for these pages would be
<body class="something">
Your home page uses an external stylesheet but other pages have embedded stylesheets. Are you planning to rework the entire site?
It's good that your site focuses on content rather than eye candy, but the code is in sore need of straightening out. People prepared to help with specific problems expect there to be a baseline standard that the helpee is targeting, otherwise it's like troubleshooting a metal detector made of bean cans and tooth fillings. The builder's ambition is admirable, but the best solution is to use the right components and follow a blueprint.
External AND internal -- with so much internal CSS it begs the question what is that external file even doing?
I do not know how to do an external stylesheet any longer. Not an excuse, but at 70 it's all I can do to keep up with what I do know. Hell I can't remember what I had for breakfast!
You already have one. There's a link to it in the head:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css"/>
So all you need to do is paste your styles into that styles.css file.
Ah, I see that link is just on the home page. Assuming all your pages are in the root folder (as they seem to be) you could place that same link in the head of each page and the styles in that one file will apply to each of your pages.
Which is one of the reasons to use CSS -- so you can say the styling of things that are going to be the same on every page (like the menu) just ONCE in one file, and have it pick up on all the pages. Makes it easier to maintain (less code), easier to make sweeping re-stylings (since you only edit it in one place and every page picks it up), and even saves bandwidth and speeds loading of sub-pages since you are basically pre-caching the appearance of your sub-pages.
I'm only 40, but I know what you mean -- medication induced stroke backed by some nice parkinsonisms thanks to some quackery -- so my short-term memory is a bit wonky.


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SIX bull terrier-type dogs were seized after police investigating fighting animals raided three homes.
RSPCA inspectors and along with specialist dog liaison officers, swooped on the properties after receiving information about suspected illegal breeds being kept for organised fights.
As well as the animals, items linked to dog fighting including treadmills, electric collars and medicines were also found following the raids in Haywood Road, Accrington, and Haslingden Old Road, Oswaldtwistle.
Four men, aged 47, 21, 43 and 57 and a 46-year-old woman were being questioned by officers on suspicion of possession of a fighting dog yesterday ((WED)).
The animals were taken to local kennels until their breed is confirmed. One was found to have suffered minor injuries.
Detective Inspector Simon Upton said the operation was about stopping animal cruelty and removing potentially dangerous dogs from the streets of East Lancashire.
He said: "We take the issue of dangerous dogs and alleged organised dog fighting very seriously and would encourage anyone with concerns to contact us.
"Keeping and training dogs for the purpose of fighting is both cruel and dangerous and will not be tolerated in Lancashire.
"Most dog owners care and look after their dogs very well but it is important to reduce the number of potentially dangerous dogs in local communities to make them safer."
The raids were all carried out under section 23 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and searches of the premises were continuing yesterday.
Chief inspector Ian Briggs, from the RSPCA's special operations unit, said: "The operation is part of the RSPCA's on-going battle to wipe out organised dog fighting.
"The fact this barbaric activity was banned nearly 200 years ago, yet here we are today leading another investigation, shows the scale of the challenge we face.
"The sad reality is that there are people up and down the British Isles who are prepared to train and fight their dogs for their own sick entertainment.
"While these people continue to do so, we'll keep working alongside the police to try and catch them."
Clive Grunshaw, Lancashire police and crime commissioner, welcomed yesterday's action.
He said: "There is no excuse for owning a dangerous dog and the damage an out of control animal can cause can be devastating.
"I will do everything I can to support officers when it comes to tackling dangerous dogs in the county."
Last week, changes to the Dangerous Dogs Act came into effect giving officers greater powers to tackle irresponsible owners.
The law has been extended and it is now an offence for a dog to be dangerously out of control in all places, including inside the dog owner's home.
Previously, the maximum sentence for an aggravated dog attack was two years imprisonment. Under the new Act, the maximum prison sentence for an owner whose dog kills a person has been increased to 14 years.
Anyone with any information about dangerous dogs should contact call 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.


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Place all ingredients in a blender and pulse until the ice is crushed. Pour into glasses and enjoy.
Note: For a sweeter flavor smoothie, add a small amount of organic maple syrup.
Per serving - 163 calories, 2 gram fat (12% calories from fat), 6 gram protein, 31 gram carbohydrate, 0 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 81 milligram sodium


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Cuisinart Rice Cooker
Alton Brown always says not to get a single purpose item for the kitchen...and while there are certain times I disobey that rule (after all how many times can you make mini pumpkin cupcakes) in general I try to follow it. In addition to making rice this rice cooker also lets you steam things (vegetables, meat and dumplings! I love dumplings!).
This sleek rice cooker from Cuisinart has a 4-cup capacity and can be used to steam meats and veggies. It has contemporary appeal with its brushed stainless steel finish.Tags: home, food, kitchen, appliances, diet, rice, stainless steel, chrome, AsianAdded 9 Years Ago from Sears