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These terms & conditions are updated from time to time and the changes will be effective at the point of order.
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- Exchange items can be requested a maximum of two times. Further exchange requests may be refused.
- Customers sending cheque payments will have a delay in their order being despatched.
- Personalised items may take longer to ship (up to 2 additional days)
- Our Returns policy lasts 30 days. If 30 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can't offer you a refund or exchange.
- To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.
-Products that have been personalised cannot be returned or exchanged unless they have a fault .
- Gift cards are non-refundable
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- Refunds (if applicable): Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item. We will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund.
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- Each of our pieces are unique. There are slight variations in colour and detailing - some items may have the Angus Duraline details printed onto the hose when it is first extruded and some may not, but they all look fabulous! If you require a particular style ie writing or no writing, please email James when you place the order stating your name, the product ordered and the style you require and we will do our utmost to accommodate you.
- All sizes and measurements are as accurate as possible.
- Products are made from reclaimed material and as such are vintage and will bear the scars of active duty.
- All Elvis & Kresse products carry a 12 month guarantee from the date of purchase. If within this period you detect a fault, they will be replaced or repaired as appropriate.
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- Eako Ltd is registered for VAT in the UK - GB864102249
- The total cost of the order is that of the goods purchased plus delivery charges.
- We will contact you if there is an excessive delay in sending out your goods.
- Goods will be shipped according to the method selected by you, at the time you place your online order.
- Goods are usually despatched on the same working day if placing your order before 15:00 UK time.
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Baby I am and baby I'll be.
Check tub and toss,
so it won't be me.
What cautionary admonition is expressed by the riddle (it's a common phrase)?
HintIt involves a baby and a tub. So what's probably been happening? Then, what's going to happen next?
AnswerDon't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Prior to indoor plumbing people commonly bathed or did washing in a portable tub, the contents of which were then *tossed* or thrown out into the yard.
The expression signifies not doing something dire or damaging while in the process of doing something routine or habitual.
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The thoqqua is an elemental creature from the Elemental Plane of Fire. It resembles a large (one-foot diameter, foot-long) worm, with segments plated with hard, stony, brown rock. Its topmost segment is longer, is conical shaped, and bears two eyes. Blunt, short, spike-like lumps protrude from each point of its hexagonal segments. Steam comes from each of these lumps. The top, conical segment glows with orange heat, and though the rest of the segments are also hot, hot enough to burn someone or something which touches them, they do not glow. Deep inside the thoqqua is a flexible spinal column of magma.
The thoqqua comes from the Elemental Plane to the Material Plane by burrowing up from the center of the earth. Its head tends to loosen up and dampen the soil, allowing it to do this more easily. Upon reaching the surface, its first motive is to attack any living thing it sees. Its favorite tactic is to come up from the ground beneath a victim, and impale them on its burning, conical head segment. It can also slam opponents. Merely touching the thoqqua causes fire damage.
Thoqquas cannot speak.
They are regarded as neutral in alignment.
- Williams, Skip, Jonathan Tweet, and Monte Cook. Monster Manual. Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
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Day 2 of Ellen's 12 Days of Giveaways brought a whole lot more than turtle doves! After starting the holidays shiny and bright, Ellen rang in the holiday season with more gifts for her audience in the studio and around the world!
Adding to the holiday cheer, KELLY CLARKSON lights up the room! The recently married mom-to-be and pop star extraordinaire drops by to talk to Ellen in her first television interview since getting married. She'll also perform a song from her holiday album, "Wrapped in Red." The collection of merry tunes covers old and new in Kelly's trademark soul-stirring style. It's the latest addition to Kelly's immense body of work, including hit albums like "Breakaway," "Stronger" and "All I Ever Wanted." Happy, glowing and stronger than ever, Kelly opens up to Ellen on all that makes her American dream a fairytale!
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Some of the guys on the Egg forums have been doing these for a while and I have always wanted to try one, but wasn't sure how Mrs. G would react to it. So I did what any smart man would do and waited till she was out of town to give it a go. Set up the Mini Egg at 400F and used the Mini Woo with the grate on top and a pizza stone on top of that. Let it pre-heat and went inside to build my pizzas.
Take my tortilla and added a thin layer of sauce, some mozzarella cheese, cheddar cheese, pepperoni, black olives and 'shrooms.
Tossed it on the Egg.
After about 8 mintues, it was done.
I knew one was not going to be enough, and using an idea tossed around yesterday, decided to make a double layered pizza. Think Mexican Pizzas from Toxic Hell. I added a very thin layer of sauce and cheese between the two tortillas and then topped it simply with pepperoni.
I let this one go a bit longer, about 10 minutes I think to get it crispier. Here it is almost done. You can see where the toppings started to slide off the sides. Whoops.
All plated up on my finest China. Why dirty a dish when SWMBO'ed is out of town?
I think they came out pretty good. All the flavors you would expect with a pizza (duh) and a crispy, cracker thin crust. Perfect snack or an appetizer. I preferred the single layer one. The double layered one was a bit weird. Texture wise/mouth feel. There was a crispy bottom layer and the upper tortilla was warm and soft. I think if I did it again, I would toss the upper tortilla on the Egg for a few minutes so that both layers had that crispness to them. No, its not classic pizza and if you are REALLY into the crust, be it thin, pan or deep dish, this might not be for you. But if you are looking for a quick meal (or snack) and don't feel like messing around with dough, yet still want pizza, this is another way to go.


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Fryda was one of five children born to religious Jewish parents in the industrial city of Lvov. She grew up in the same building as her paternal grandparents. Fryda attended public and private schools in Lvov, and grew up in a non-Jewish neighborhood, speaking Polish, German and Yiddish.
1933-39: When Fryda finished secondary school, she could not go to the university like her older siblings because Polish universities had instituted discriminatory quotas for Jews. In September 1939 the Germans invaded Poland from the west and the Soviets came from the east, occupying Lvov in late September. Until 1941, Soviet rule spared Fryda and her family from German occupation.
1940-44: After the Germans occupied Lvov in 1941, Fryda's brother-in-law bought her a false ID. As a Polish Catholic named Zofia Wolenska, she left Lvov in 1942 and found work in Cracow [Krakow] as a maid. She later worked as a clerk at a pharmacy in the town of Bochnia, where her employer harrassed her sexually; he suspected that she was Jewish and threatened to report her to the Germans. She ran away, and went to Germany where she hoped no one would recognize her. In 1944 the Germans deported Fryda to a forced-labor camp.
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BMC Atrium CMDB 8.x: Administering – Part 3
This course covers advanced topics for the administration, implementation, and configuration of the BMC Atrium CMDB. Through a combination of experience, lecture, lab exercises, interactive scenarios, and collaborative discussions, you will learn to: model complex applications; extend the Common Data Model (CDM); use the AI Spoon graphical user interface to build data transfer jobs with XML and CSV files as data sources; debug data integration jobs in Spoon; configure the CMDB to support Asset Management; reconcile across multiple discovery datasets; and work with various impact service models.
In this workshop environment, students use a real-world case study to plan, analyze, determine, and perform the necessary steps to administer and configure the CMDB to support the corresponding business processes. Workshop activities include online demos, simulations and quizzes, scenario-based guided hands-on lab exercises, and research exercises.
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- Federating Data – Retrieval Method
- Federated Access for Consumers
Working With Complex Data Imports
- Atrium Integrator Overview
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- Importing CSV Data and Debugging a Job
- Normalizing and Importing Data from Database Table
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Adnan Oktar: Notice that every day the border gates of a country withTurkey are being opened… Now for example the border gates with Tajikistan, right? The visa has been lifted. Notice that first visas are being lifted. Then passports will begin to be removed. For instance only identity cards will be sufficient to enter Azerbaijan. One will only take his identity card while traveling to Iran or Pakistan. Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Tunus, Algeria will all remove passport. What does the absence of passports mean? This means the establishment of the Turkish Islamic Union. Insha'Allah.
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Is This the Military?Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I support and protect
There are two protectors above me
Without me - your thoughts are vulnerable
I act as a lever for movements in the body
I am the hardest structure of the body
I am involved indirectly in connection with certain manipulations
HintNo - This is not the Military . . . .
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I give shape and strength to the body. The Occipital bone forms the lower back part of the cranium and is below the parietal bones. The 2 Parietal bones form the sides and top (crown) of the cranium. The bones of the skull protect the brain (your thoughts are vulnerable). Bone is the hardest structure of the body. It is composed of fibrous tissues firmly bound together, consisting of about one-third animal matter and two-thirds mineral matter.
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GHOST NET REMOVAL EXERCISE in Abu Dhabi
Congratulations to the intrepid divers who joined Al Mahara Diving Center on Friday 30th December 2011 in the ghost net removal exercise!
The day started with a safety briefing by Darren Drewery, PADI Instructor who talked about the importance of clearing the abandoned fishing lines and nets as they can cause divers to get entangled as well as marinelife. Previous trips to the MV Jassim wreck off Abu Dhabi caused divers to take action as plenty of abandoned lines were encountered.
About the MV Jassim
The MV Jassim was a 60meter coastal tanker which sank on 25th March 1986 approximately 56km off Abu Dhabi waters. The circumstance of loss was due to the UAE armed forces using the vessel as target practise. It is currently resting on its port side at approx 26m-27meters and is broken up into three sections. The midship cargo section is broken into smaller debris and can be confusing as the pipes and deck is scattered across the seabed and in sometimes poor visibility divers can get confused as they head from the stern to the bow or vice versa. What is interesting in this convoluted derbis are some reminants of lorry wheels and parts and rigging. The engine room and accommodation area is located in the stern and the large propeller and rudder is still intact. The bow is intacted and the deck winches can be found here. There are plenty of marinelife living on this wreck. There is usually a school of batfish that will hover over divers and follow them around, attracted by their bubbles. Schools of barracuda, trevallies, snappers, two-striped breams, oranged spotted groupers (aka hammour), cobia, yellow banded angelfish, lots of bivalves and oystershells/mollusks and lots of marcolife including a variety of nudibranchs and cowries and blennies and dottybacks. Over the years, recreational divers and fishermen visit this site for the marinelife and over time, entangled nets, fishing hooks and lines lie abandoned on the wreck. On some nets, there are already heavy growth of sponges and mollusks and juvenile marinelife hiding on them. Also there are crab shells, fish bones also entangled on these nets. Some lines found are new as not much growth is visible.
The Removal Exercise
Once divers were briefed, we headed out to the wreck. Due to the recent strong winds, there was moderate waves 2-4feet high. Divers endured the choppy seas and splashing waves and cool breeze. They then equipped themselves with the 60cm wooden sticks to roll up the nets, gloves, scissors, line cutters, mesh bags, commercial liftbags and reels and torches. Designated teams entered the cool 20C waters and descended upon the quiet wreck. Immediately the batfish greeted the divers and a school of barracuda cruised by the wreck near the divers. Since the dive was 20-27meter, divers had to watch out for their air and bottom time limits. Each team started in the middle cargo where the mast protruded out. Plenty of lines and nets were found. Divers rolled, cut, lifted the lines and net, one small section at a time and keeping track of their buddies and air supply and bottom time. Divers made 2 dives on the wreck and brought up plenty of debris that day. Some lines and nets were already overgrown with marinelife and were left behind. Plenty more will still need to be removed as they continue to pose a hazard for both divers and sealife. Finally after all the divers ascended, made their safety stops and safely brought up the lines and net, we all headed back to the marina. On behalf of Al Mahara Diving Center and the diving community, we extend a huge thanks to the committed divers who came out for this exercise. Some visiting divers from UK and others drove from Dubai showed their dedication to our initiatives. We will continue to do this exercise in the near future as there are still plenty of ghost nets out there needlessly trapping marinelife and posing hazards to the diving community. Our work has just begun.
Special thanks to Darren who headed up this exercise, Arnel (boat captain who safely got us to the wreck and back in choppy seas) and divers: Andi (PADI OWSI,) Andre (aka drysuitman, PADI MSDT and underwater photographer,) Todd, Lisa, Rania, Sarfaraz, Matt, Peter (PADI IDC-Staff), Lucas and also to Project Aware and Emirates Diving Association for their support.
If you would like to find out more about these activities or other environmental initiatives like underwater clean ups, reef check training (Indo-Pacific species) and school or group presentations, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit our website at www.divemahara.com
Wishing everyone all the best for 2012!!!!
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Underwater Sports of Federal Way is going to break in the New Year with a Beach Clean Up at Redondo Beach in Federal Way, WA. This site, which is loved by many, is often dove by divers new and experienced. Here is our chance to give back to the site that brings us new divers, new experiences and to the businesses that tolerate our love for the water! We will be meeting at Underwater Sports in Federal Way at Noon on January 1st, 2012 and carpooling over to the beach. This will be a beach clean-up so there will be no need for dive equipment, unless you choose to dive afterwards. Please come in or call us at 253-874-9387 to sign up and bring in the New Year with a purpose, SAVING OUR OCEANS!


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NYWIFT to Honor Martha Stewart, Claire Danes at 31st Annual Muse Awards
New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), which has supported the advancement of women in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, will present their 31th annual Muse Awards at a gala luncheon to be held Wednesday, December 7th at the New York Hilton. The Muse Awards honor the outstanding vision and achievement of women in the film, television and digital media industries.
The 2011 NYWIFT Muse honorees include some of the most talented women in the entertainment industry:
· Christine Baranski-Emmy and Tony award-winning actress acclaimed for her work on stage and screen. Baranski currently plays the role of Diane Lockhart, a top litigator and senior partner of a Chicago law firm on THE GOOD WIFE.
· Marcie Bloom-co-founder and former co-president of Sony Pictures Classics and partner of Orion Classics. In 2011, Bloom and IFP (Independent Feature Project) together formed a mentoring program, The IFP-Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film.
· Claire Danes-one of Hollywood's leading actresses, Danes is acclaimed for her work in film, television and theatre. An Emmy and Golden Globe winner, Danes has appeared in diverse roles including Angela Chase in MY SO CALLED LIFE, as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's ROMEO + JULIET and as TEMPLE GRANDIN in the HBO biopic. Danes currently stars as CIA agent Carrie Matheson on the Showtime series HOMELAND opposite Mandy Patinkin.
· Nadine Schramm-President of Budd Enterprises, a family-owned trucking and equipment company. Under Schramm's leadership, Budd Enterprises has become the leading trucking and labor service provider for television, theater, movie and concert productions in the New York metropolitan area.
· Martha Stewart-America's most trusted guide to stylish living, Stewart shares her expertise through award-winning magazines, innovative Web sites, national radio programs and best-selling books. The sixth season of the Emmy Award-winning daily "how-to" series, THE Martha Stewart SHOW, premiered in September 2010; the show anchors a full slate of programming from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (MSLO) on Hallmark Channel.
NYWIFT will also bestow the sixth annual Loreen Arbus Award to the Independent Television Service (ITVS) for its Women and Girls Lead initiative. ITVS brings independently-produced, high-quality public broadcast and new media programs to local, national and international audiences. Women and Girls Lead is a multiyear public media initiative to focus, educate, and connect citizens worldwide in support of the issues facing women and girls. The Loreen Arbus Award was created with the generous support of NYWIFT member Loreen Arbus and recognizes the contributions of individuals, organizations or corporations in the entertainment industry who have been activists for change that has benefitted women.
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to celebrate these remarkable women who have each exhibited strength and courage in their respective roles on and off camera," said NYWIFT Executive Director Terry Lawler. "The Muse Awards continues to be the highlight of the year for us at NYWIFT as there is nothing we value more than supporting the accomplishments of inspirational women in today's diverse entertainment industry landscape."
Tickets are available for $160 for NYWIFT members and $300 for non-members. Corporate tables and sponsorships are also available. To be part of this year's event, please visit www.nywift.org or call (212) 679-0870 for tickets and information.
The NYWIFT Muse Awards luncheon is the most sought-after ticket during the holiday season and is attended by leading executives from major studio, broadcast and cable networks, and film, television and digital media production facilities. Past recipients include Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Nora Ephron, Barbara Walters, Susan Sarandon, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, Rosie O'Donnell, Julianne Moore and Tina Fey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cynthia Nixon, Laura Linney, America Ferrera, Julianna Margulies and Vanessa Williams among others.
The 2011 NYWIFT Muse Honorees:
Christine Baranski
One of the entertainment industry's most honored actresses, Christine Baranski, has achieved acclaim in every medium in which she has performed. Christine is a two-time Tony, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and American Comedy Award winner.
A native of Buffalo, Baranski attended the Juilliard School. She received her big break being cast in Tom Stoppard's hit Broadway comedy THE REAL THING, directed by Mike Nichols for which she won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award.
Baranski went on to earn a second Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance in Neil Simon's RUMORS and a Drama Desk Award for LIPS TOGETHER TEETH APART. She also appeared in BOEING-BOEING, HURLYBURLY, THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, THE LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC, REGRETS ONLY, the Encores! productions of FOLLIES and PROMISES, PROMISES, and the Kennedy Center productions of SWEENEY TODD and MAME.
In addition to the Emmy for the hit CBS comedy CYBILL, Baranski received an American Comedy Award as "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy," as well a Screen Actors Guild Award as "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy." She also received three additional EMMY and three Golden Globe nominations. She was also seen as a guest on FRASIER, for which she received a fifth EMMY nomination. She has appeared twice on the CBS series THE BIG BANG THEORY, and was nominated for an Emmy for "Outstanding Guest Actress in A Comedy Series" for each appearance. She is currently starring in the hit CBS series THE GOOD WIFE, for which she received two Emmy nominations for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series".
Her film credits include MAMMA MIA!, CHICAGO, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, BOWFINGER, BULWORTH, CRUEL INTENTIONS, THE BIRDCAGE, REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, LEGAL EAGLES, THE REF, THE ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES, WELCOME TO MOOSEPORT, THE GURU, 9 ½ WEEKS and JEFFREY.
Marcie Bloom
Marcie Bloom's introduction to and immersion in the film industry began with a college internship at The Film Society of Lincoln Center during the summer of 1978, where she learned to spell, and more importantly, pronounce, names such as Pedro Almodovar, Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Agnieszka Holland, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Istvan Szabo, Louis Malle, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Maria Luisa Bemberg, Atom Egoyan, Luc Besson, Claire Denis and Nikita Mikhalkov. Over time she worked with every one of these directors.
Says Marcie: "I always dreamt of a career where I would have a reason to be around talented, creative people without being just a 'groupie.' "I see this as a way of 'giving back' to a community which has been extremely kind and generous to me, and supportive of me for a long time." Following her graduation from Cornell University in 1979, she returned to Lincoln Center, where she ultimately became the Film Coordinator of the annual New York Film Festival.
In the spring of 1984, Marcie became Director of Publicity at Triumph Films, a partnership between Columbia Pictures and Gaumont, the legendary French production, distribution and exhibition giant responsible for films such as Francesco Rosi's BIZET'S CARMEN, Luc Besson's LE DERNIER COMBAT and Wolfgang Petersen's DAS BOOT. Marcie continued in publicity at the firm of Smith and Siegal, where she met her own mentor, Lois Smith, and began her long and ongoing relationship with then-Orion Classics partners Michael Barker and Tom Bernard. Among the many Orion Classics projects in which Marcie was involved were Stephen Frears' MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, Louis Malle's AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS, Pedro Almodovar's WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, Akira Kurosawa's RAN, Bruno Nuytten's CAMILLE CLAUDEL, Richard Linklater's SLACKER, Jim Jarmusch's MYSTERY TRAIN, Claude Berri's JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING, and Gabriel Axel's Oscar-winning BABETTE'S FEAST, for which she conceived and executed the "see the movie, eat the meal" campaign.
Marcie continued in publicity by moving with Lois Smith to PMK Public Relations, where she became a Vice President, maintained her position as the publicist of all Orion Classics releases, and also represented films released by the Samuel Goldwyn Company and Warner Bros.
In the fall of 1989, Barker and Bernard invited Marcie to join them as their partner at Orion Classics, where she became Vice President of Acquisitions. Marcie became a well-known "player" at the Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Edinburgh, Venice, Montreal, and Toronto Film Festivals, (and at Milan's MIFED and L.A.'s AFM Film Markets respectively). In January 1992, Marcie, along with her partners Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, founded Sony Pictures Classics, the specialized film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. SPC released its first film, Merchant Ivory's HOWARDS END, on March 13, 1992 to nearly unanimous acclaim, $26 million in domestic box office, and three Academy Awards. As of 2009, Sony Pictures Classics has gone on to be nominated for 97 Academy Awards (including three for Best Picture: HOWARDS END, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and CAPOTE), and achieved 24 wins, including for INDOCHINE, BELLE EPOQUE, BURNT BY THE SUN, Anne Frank REMEMBERED, POLLOCK, ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER and ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER.
Over the next few years, Barker, Bernard and Bloom received an Industry Lifetime Achievement Award from the Independent Feature Project, a special award handed to them by Francis Ford Coppola from the Directors Guild of America, and soon afterwards each of the trio was decorated with a Chevalier des Arts and Lettres by the French Government in recognition of the dozens of French-language films they had promoted and released during the course of their association at Orion Classics and Sony Pictures Classics.
In the fall of 1996, Marcie suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair but amazingly enough, cognitively intact. She stays in close contact with SPC; she cheers their successes, mourns their losses, and has shared the benefit of her many international relationships with her successor at SPC, EVP Dylan Leiner, whom Marcie had hired as her own assistant in 1994. In the fall of 2004, Marcie was selected to receive the first "Industry Toast" at the Hamptons International Film Festival, where she was joined by friends, family and colleagues to celebrate her unique contribution to the international film community over the previous twenty years.
In 2011 the IFP-Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film was established. The first of its kind, The IFP-Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film is a New York-based mentoring program designed to introduce up to four college seniors and recent graduates each year to the world in which Marcie has become an integral figure and has helped define over the past twenty years.
Up to four people were chosen in a rigorous application process. During their fellowship year (which started in September 2011), the Fellows meet with Marcie once a month at her Upper West Side apartment. These monthly gatherings (eight to ten in total) involve guests (directors, writers, distribution professionals, producers, festival programmers, etc.) and general community building. In addition, the Fellowship will provide support and direction for the young people entering the film world.
Along with the highly prized networking opportunities the fellowship provides, it also allows the Fellows to more precisely define their particular areas of interest within the film industry - be it development, screenwriting, production, distribution, advertising, marketing or publicity - in an intimate, creative and supportive environment. If possible, Fellows will be tracked into independent film projects, internships or entry-level positions (depending on their previous experience) at a wide range of New York film companies and organizations.
Claire Danes
Claire Danes has established herself as one of Hollywood's leading actresses.
Claire currently stars on the Showtime series HOMELAND opposite Mandy Patinkin. She plays 'Carrie Mathison', a driven CIA officer battling her own psychological demons, who becomes convinced that the intelligence that led to his re-capture was a setup and that this national hero may be connected to an Al Qaeda plot to be carried out on American soil. She has received rave reviews for her performance and the show airs Sunday nights at 10:00 p.m.
She recently starred in HBO's critically acclaimed TEMPLE GRANDIN biopic. The film is based on the extraordinary life of Temple Grandin and chronicles how she turned her unique talent into a behavioral tool that revolutionized the cattle industry and laid the groundwork for her successful career as an author, lecturer, and pioneering advocate for autism and autism spectrum disorder educations. Danes won the 2010 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie" and the film won for "Outstanding Made for Television Movie." She also won the 2011 Golden Globe Award for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television" and the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Award for "Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries."
Claire starred in Richard Linklater's critically acclaimed film, ME & Orson Welles opposite Zac Efron and ChristIan McKay. The screenplay by Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo Jr. is based on the novel by Robert Kaplow and is set in the heady world of Orson Welles' famed Mercury Theater. The National Board of Review named the film as one of 2009's Top Independent Films.
In 2007, Claire made her Broadway debut starring in George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION opposite Jefferson Mays. Her performance as 'Eliza Doolittle' was well reviewed by critics.
Claire garnered critical acclaim for her performances in Anand Tucker's SHOPGIRL opposite Steve Martin and Jason Schwartzman, Richard Eyre's STAGE BEAUTY opposite Billy Crudup, Burr Steer's IGBY GOES DOWN opposite Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Ryan Phillippe and Kieran Culkin, Baz Luhrman's William Shakespeare'S ROMEO & JULIET opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.Claire first caught critics' and audiences' attention in Ed Zwick and Marshall Hershkovitz's acclaimed series, MY SO CALLED LIFE, which earned her an Emmy Nomination and she was awarded the Golden Globe for her leading role as 'Angela Chase.'
Claire's other film credits include: Matthew Vaughn's STARDUST opposite Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer; Lajos Koltai's EVENING opposite Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Natasha Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave; Thomas Bezucha's THE FAMILY STONE opposite Diane Keaton and Sarah Jessica Parker; Jonathan Mostow's TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Nick Stahl; Stephen Daldry's Academy Award winning drama, THE HOURS opposite Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Allison Janney, Ed Harris and Toni Collette; Jonathan Kaplan's BROKEDOWN PALACE opposite Kate Beckinsale; Billie August's LES MISERABLES; Theresa Connelly's POLISH WEDDING; Francis Ford Coppola's THE RAINMAKER opposite Danny DeVito and Matt Damon; Oliver Stones' U TURN opposite Sean Penn, Nick Nolte and Joaquin Phoenix; Michael Pressman's TO GILLIAN ON HER 37th BIRTHDAY opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter Gallagher; Jocelyn Moorhouse's HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT opposite Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft and Ellen Burstyn; Billy Hopkins' I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT opposite Jude Law; Jodie Foster's HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS opposite Robert Downey Jr., Holly Hunter and Anne Bancroft; and Gililan Armstrong's LITTLE WOMEN opposite Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon and Kirsten Dunst.
Claire is also an accomplished dancer and has received critical acclaim for her performances in EDITH AND JENNY and CHRISTINA OLSON: AMERICAN MODEL both choreographed by Tamar Rogoff at P.S. 122.
Nadine Schramm
Nadine Shelby Schramm was born in Charleston, Arkansas where she was raised in a large, loving family during the Depression Era. Her father, five siblings, and nieces and nephews (14 family members in all) suffered from a rare and incurable eye condition known as Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), which progresses throughout life, often leading to blindness, as is demonstrated by her family. Though Nadine does not have RP, she learned from her family's perseverance and strong-held attitude that "can't" simply is a word never to be used.
Nadine holds that belief as a core value in everything she does, which she attributes to her success throughout life. In her 30s, Nadine moved to New York where she started to produce promotional perfumes, boxed with company logos. Five years later, Nadine's entrepreneurial spirit inspired her to buy an antique refinishing company, which grew to incorporate woodwork restoration in brownstones in New York. Nadine went on to become partner in the Village Stripper, an antique shop. She then ventured into the jewelry industry, where she represented five fine jewelry manufacturers.
Her business acumen proved indispensable when Nadine's husband, Louis C. Schramm a.k.a. "Budd" sold his family business, Chelsea Warehouses, an agent for Allied Van Lines. Seizing the opportunity, Budd and Nadine formed a theatrical trucking company called Budd Enterprises. Budd would later supply trucking and personnel to such important entertainment venues as CBS, The Metropolitan Opera and The New York Philharmonic Annual Concerts in the Parks. In addition to this, Budd Enterprises has handled the trucking and labor requirements for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for 45 years.
Sadly Budd died in 1990, and faced with the decision to let the business die with her husband, Nadine invoked that same determination that walking away is simply not an option. Since then, Nadine has expanded the fleet from seven to 74 trucks, tractors, and trailers. Nadine negotiated contracts with Radio City Music Hall and handled their labor requirements for 15 years. She has also greatly expanded the leasing business and now supplies trucks to numerous movie production companies. Budd Leasing supplied trucks to the SOPRANOS for its entire run. It has also handled trucking for many shows including LAW & ORDER, SEX AND THE CITY, and such current shows as BOARDWALK EMPIRE, WHITE COLLAR, PERSON OF INTEREST, BLUE BLOODS and SMASH. The company has also handled trucking for movies, such as the BOURNE IDENTITY and SPIDERMAN franchises.
She was an honoree at 2006 STAR Breakfast for New York Women's Agenda (NYWA) at The New York Hilton where she received their first standing ovation in 16 years, which still holds today.
Nadine was an honoree at The Lighthouse International Golf Tournament, helping to raise over $300,000. She was the Chairperson for the 2008 outing. Nadine was keynote speaker at the Miami Dade College Entrepreneurship Symposium for three groups of students in 2007, each session lasting 1 hour each.
Nadine has sat on the boards for the National Hypertension Society and Peace Links, and has sat on the board of the Local 817 Theatrical Teamsters Pension, Welfare and Scholarship Fund for 20 years. She is also a mentor for the College of Mount St. Vincent. She is also a member of NYWA.
She also maintains an active position in many philanthropic organizations, including Police Athletic League. She is an advocate for the visually impaired, those in situations of domestic abuse, entrepreneurs and women's rights. Most important, Nadine encourages all people to adopt the attitude that they can rather than they can't.
Martha Stewart
From the award-winning magazine, Martha Stewart Living, to the bestselling product lines that bear her name, Martha Stewart shares the creative principles and practical ideas that have made her America's most trusted guide to stylish living. Millions of consumers rely on Martha Stewart as their guide to all aspects of everyday living-from cooking and entertaining to decorating and home renovating and much more.
Martha has always drawn inspiration from her surroundings. Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, in a family with six children, Martha developed her passion for cooking, gardening, and homekeeping in her childhood home on Elm Place. Her mother, a schoolteacher and homemaker, taught her the basics of cooking, baking, canning, and sewing; her father, a pharmaceutical salesman and avid gardener, introduced her to gardening at the age of three in the family's small but orderly backyard plot.
While earning a bachelor's degree in history and architectural history at Barnard College, Martha worked as a model to pay her tuition. She was married in her sophomore year, and upon graduating, became a stockbroker on Wall Street, where she gained her early business training. After moving to Westport, Connecticut, in 1972 with her husband and daughter, Alexis, she developed a catering business that showcased her remarkable talent and originality. Her unique visual presentation of food and the elegant recipes she created for her catered events were the basis for her first book, Entertaining, published in 1982.
Martha's creative vision is the blueprint for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) and its expansive multimedia and merchandising portfolio. MSLO's media offerings encompass award-winning magazines such as Martha Stewart Living and Martha Stewart Weddings; innovative Web sites, including marthastewart.com, and digital apps; Martha Stewart Living Radio on SIRIUS/XM Channel 110; and best-selling books like Martha Stewart's Cooking School, Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts and Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook. The sixth season of the Emmy Award-winning daily, "how-to" series, The Martha Stewart Show, premiered in September 2010; the show anchors a full slate of programming from MSLO on Hallmark Channel.
Martha was a pioneer in bringing high-quality products to mass market with Martha Stewart Everyday products at Kmart. Today, the company's merchandising offerings include the Martha Stewart Collection of products for the home at Macy's; the Martha Stewart Living line of home-improvement products at The Home Depot; Martha Stewart Crafts at Michaels; Martha Stewart Clean home-cleaning solutions with Hain Celestial Group; destination weddings with Sandals Resorts; Martha Stewart Pets products at PetSmart and more.
In 2007, Martha unveiled the new Martha Stewart Center for Living at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. The center is an outpatient facility for geriatric medicine, providing clinical care and education for patients, offering training for physicians and coordinating healthy-aging research and practices. Martha was inspired to create the center by her mother, Martha Kostyra, who remained active and engaged in life to the age of 93.
Loreen Arbus Award
The Loreen Arbus Award for those who take action to effect change was created with the generous support of NYWIFT member Loreen Arbus. The award recognizes the contributions of individuals, organizations or corporations who have been proactive in ensuring equity for women in film, television and new media. Past recipients of the award are producer/writer John Wells, producer Gale Anne Hurd, Chicken & Egg Pictures and Eastman Kodak.
Loreen Arbus is President/Executive Producer of Loreen Arbus Productions, Inc., a multi-tiered Production Company that develops nonfiction programming for network, cable, syndication and the Internet. After rising through the ranks at ABC Television, Arbus became the first woman in the United States to become programming head at a television network, both at Showtime and Cable Health Network/Lifetime.
Arbus supports the arts, women in business and media and cancer research. Arbus is also a leading national for advocate for people with disabilities. She is co-founder of the Media Access Office for the Employment of the Disabled and a Trustee of United Cerebral Palsy.
Arbus has received the Heart of Giving Award (presented by President Bill Clinton), the Headliner Award (Women in Communications), the Lifetime Achievement Award (American Women in Radio and Television) and the Woman of Distinction Award (Hollywood Chamber of Commerce). In December 2006, she was inducted as an honoree into "She Made it: Women Creating Television and Radio" collection at the Paley Center for Media.
The Independent Television Service (ITVS)
The Independent Television Service (ITVS) funds, presents, and promotes award-winning documentaries and dramas on public television and cable, innovative new media projects on the Web, and the Emmy Award-winning weekly series Independent Lens Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m. on PBS.
ITVS International is a division of the Independent Television Service that runs the Global Perspectives Project (GPP), an international exchange of documentary films made by independent producers, bringing international voices to U.S. audiences and American stories to audiences abroad.
ITVS receives core funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. The GPP is made possible through the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The Independent Television Service (ITVS) brings independently-produced, high-quality public broadcast and new media programs to local, national and international audiences. The independent producers who create ITVS programs take creative risks, tackle complex issues and express points of view seldom explored in the mass media. ITVS programs enrich the cultural landscape with the voices and visions of underrepresented communities, and reflect the interests and concerns of a diverse society.
About New York Women in Film & Television
The preeminent entertainment industry association for women in New York City for more than 30 years, NYWIFT is dedicated to helping women reach the highest levels of achievement and promoting equity in film, television and new media. NYWIFT produces over 50 innovative programs and special events annually. Its membership includes almost 2000 women working both above and below the line. NYWIFT is part of a network of 40 women in film organizations worldwide, representing more than 10,000 members. For further information about New York Women in Film & Television, please visit www.NYWIFT.org
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Are you aware that a delicious meal you eat, the air you breathe, the environment you live in, the people you shake hands every day expose you to a great number of foreign substances ?
Sometimes there are microbes that can make you sick and dangerous viruses that lurk even in the water you drink. However, you likely do not even realize the existence of these harmful substances that enter into your body several times a day. The reason for this is the existence of a special army assigned to detect and destroy the things harmful to you. This superior army of defense, which Almighty Allah created as a great blessing for people and which has no equal on earth, is continuously on patrol inside your veins.
Leukocytes or lymphocytes are white blood cells. Under normal conditions, there are around six to ten thousand white blood cells in one cubic millimeter of blood. In the circulatory system, there is one white blood cell for every five hundred red blood cells. If all the white blood cells in the circulatory system get together, they would only fill a coffee cup. (The Human Body: An Intelligent Design, Alan L. Gillen, Frank J. Sherwin III, Alan C. Knowies, Creation Research Society Books, number 8, p. 113-114) However, when there is an infection in the body the number of white blood cells increases up to thirty thousand per one cubic millimeter of blood. (Regina Avraham, The Circulatory System, The Encyclopedia of Health, p. 50)
These cells are warrior cells. They recognize every foreign substance that enters the body and confronts them. While some directly fight with microbes, some recognize foreign molecules and microbes, and warn the system. Now let us examine this struggle of white blood cells in the body.
White Blood Cell Production Center: Bone Marrow
White blood cells are produced and live in the bone marrow. The production speed of white blood cells in the bone marrow is 1.2 million per second. This amount means the production of half a ton of white blood cells over a lifetime. The bone marrow is like a shelter or a storeroom for the white blood cells. There are always a certain amount of white blood cells in the blood ready to be used; the white blood cells in the bone marrow only get included in the circulatory system when there is a dangerous situation. For them, the blood is a mode of transportation through which they can move anywhere in the body. Microbes that have entered the body via the blood are destroyed along the way and those that entered the tissues are destroyed by the white blood cells as they stop in the tissues.
The Travel of White Blood Cells inside the Body
Thanks to the pumping of the heart, a white blood cell can arrive where its needed in a very short span of time: even the most distant region of the body can be reached in about one minute or so. A single white blood cell, over the course of his daily tour of duty, can easily travel throughout the body well over one thousand times.
White blood cells lose their ability to divide once they enter the bloodstream, despite the fact that they are equipped with a nucleus. Their purpose is not to divide but to fight foreign bodies from that moment on. Following entry into the bloodstream, their lifespan is three to four hours in the blood and about three to four days in tissues. (Ayten Sucu, Semra Bayar, Melahat Kupeli, High School Biology 2, MEB State Books, Istanbul 2000, p. 26) These warriors, created especially by Allah to protect the body, usually eliminate the dangerous situation within three to four days.
Why is the Lifetime of White Blood Cells Decreased in Situations of Serious Infections?
In situations of serious infection, the lifespan of white blood cells generally falls down to a couple of hours. Because these cells move rapidly towards the damaged or infected area, they carry out their duties there, and once they are done, they die in a short time as they are spent. But at the same time, production of new white blood cells continues in the bone marrow in order to eliminate the infection.
Why Do White Blood Cells Patrol inside the Body?
When there is no infection in the body, white blood cells are not idle. Even when they are not protecting the body against enemies, they have very important tasks to do. White blood cells patrol by controlling every one of the one hundred trillion cells in the several times every day. During this patrol, they detect sick and old cells and destroy them. Even white blood cells that are too sick or old to carry out their functions are destroyed by other white blood cells.
White blood cells, meaning lymphocytes, have very many different abilities, and are programmed to fight against anything that can be harmful to you since the first moment you begin to breathe. Even the lack of a single part of this flawless mechanism may cause you to die due to a very common disease.
"Allah brought you out of your mothers' wombs knowing nothing at all, and gave you hearing, sight and hearts so that perhaps you would show thanks." (Surat an-Nahl, 78)
"O man! what has deluded you in respect of your Noble Lord? He Who created you and formed you and proportioned you" (Surat al-Infitar, 6-8)


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There's a Brazilian saying, "oito ou oitenta." Eight or eighty. It's either one extreme or the other.
The past nine days have seen a usually passive, non-confrontational Brazilian population hit the "80" on that scale, taking to the streets in their millions to demand better health care, better education, an end to corruption and, with the FIFA World Cup arriving on its shores in less than a year, to protest the tens of billions of Reais being spent on stadiums instead of social infrastructure.
The World Cup, and the ongoing Confederations Cup that precedes it, has become a useful backdrop to protesters who claim the government has its priorities mixed up, but it would be a mistake -- and a lazy one -- to label these demonstrations "football riots."
As a popular action, what's going on in Brazil looks and sounds a lot like recent and concurrent protests in other parts of the world, particularly those that have experienced significant economic growth over the past decade and are home to young, energetic populations with first-world expectations to accompany their arrival in it.
Between 2003 and 2011 nearly 40 million Brazilians made their way from extreme poverty to a new, burgeoning middle class, and while economic inequality is still considered extreme by Canadian standards it is nothing like it was before the new millennium.
A generation of Brazilians has now grown up within this new reality, and on June 13 a handful of them gathered in Sao Paulo to protest a hike in transit fares.
What might have dissipated over time or with a reversal of the decision (which was granted this week) suddenly and unexpectedly escalated when police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd, and like breath blown on sleeping embers their heavy-handed use of force brought the kindling to ignition.
Reached by telephone in Sao Paulo, TV Globo presenter Jon Cotterill told the Free Press that many Brazilians were still trying to make sense of just what the protests had become, and where they could lead.
"I think people haven't really grasped how significant these things are," he said. "I don't think they really, really understand how deep these things, these demonstrations, could be."
Initially, he said, the students who first took the streets in Sao Paulo were looked upon as "vandals" and "troublemakers" by various politicians and media outlets, but, he added, "when they were fired on it really changed. Instead of being these middle class students just out to cause trouble, suddenly they became heroes. Everything changed totally."
With the Confederations Cup and upcoming World Cup fixing more international attention on Brazil than ever before, it was only a matter of time before both events not only got drawn into the demonstrations but also, because of their enormity, came to symbolize them.
The magnitude of the scrutiny and the pressure imposed by FIFA to stage safe, secure competitions has likely had more than a little to do with the severe approach taken by the police, and to that end the governing body of the world's most popular sport is very much tied up with all the other things Brazilians want to see changed.
On Thursday, following Uruguay's 2-1 Confederations Cup win over Nigeria in Salvador, protesters hurled rocks at FIFA vehicles in the Bahia capital, and as demonstrations took place in at least 80 cities Brazilian outlet UOL reported FIFA had presented the Brazilian government with an ultimatum: either ensure the safety of the players, international press and its own officials or face cancellation of the event.
Paulo Freitas, a Brazilian football expert based in Rio de Janeiro, told the Free Press he would be surprised if the Confederations Cup was cancelled, or if the World Cup was in any danger, saying, "(FIFA) will just wait until all of this is over and hope things are more stable in a year, probably with increased and improved security."
The thing is, no one knows just where these demonstrations will take the country over the coming weeks and months, and even if the Brazilian government moves to address the protesters' concerns it's unlikely FIFA will emerge from all this unscathed.
After all, it sets up its World Cups like a tropical resort --a sort of hastily manufactured paradise that caters to the amusements of foreigners.
If things are kept to an "eight" it all works out fine. It's when it hits 80 that things get messy -- that FIFA, quite rightfully, is caught in the crosshairs.
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