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Tennis great Andre Agassi shares with us Box Buddies, a new line of lunch box products, as part of the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education. He also discusses family and even hating tennis once upon a time.
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My favorite place to relax is pemaquid point beach because I can hear the waves rushing in and out. The beach is a great place to go because you can sit there and suntan and go swimming. I go there with my family and we had a picnic there and sea fleas got into my sandwich I was mad at myself for leaving it in the sand. Then I went swimming again because it released my anger. I don't like it when they get in my sandwich. My mother and I we went down there and we sat and watched the fireworks that they had for 4th of July. Allyson and I went swimming why they were setting them off. It was fun I tried not to get burned by it was kind of hard to not to think about getting burns on my body. I was tired after playing in the water I fell asleep on our way home I was that tired then we went down this dirt road and I could hear a lumberjack cutting wood that woke me up I was scared.
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From hive to dive: Pablo Larrazabal finds watery escape from hornets
There was a sting in the tale for Pablo Larrazabal during his impressive second round at the Maybank Malasian Open after he came under attack from hornets on the 5th hole.
The Spaniard, who was forced to dive into a lake to survive the swarm at Kuala Lumpur Golf Club, managed to shake off the incident to record a round of 68, although he admitted it was the "scariest moment of my career".
Larrazabal, perhaps unsurprisingly, is not exactly 'buzzing' to play the same hole tomorrow, with the prospect of a second encounter with his winged foes firmly on his mind.
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A man who was accused of killing a man during a drug deal in Huntington pleaded "no contest" to second degree murder this afternoon in Cabell County Circuit Court.
The Huntington Police Department has made two arrests in connection with a murder that occurred on Foster Avenue Tuesday.
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Police responded to a shot fired call Tuesday morning finding two victims with gunshot wounds. They were taken to the hospital where a third gunshot wound victim showed up.
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Yesterday we reported that our weekly poll question wants to know your opinion about how best to balance the Federal Budget.
As of writing this story, 51% of the nearly 300 voters feel that Congress should just make cuts in spending, and 42% voted that it should be a combination of both spending cuts and tax increases.
In our interview with Representative Rosie Berger over the weekend as she attended the National Conference of State Legislators, she responded to that question by saying it should be a combination of both.
Berger says that President Obama's proposed $3 billion plan and Representative Paul Ryan's $4 billion plan covers a ten-year period, but that still is less than a third of the current debt of $14.3 trillion. Berger says part of the problem is that none of us truly comprehend what a trillion is.
Berger adds that the revenue the Federal Government takes in is $.66 on every dollar that is spent. She expounds on the barrier of the debt ceiling.
Berger indicated that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said last week that they could use the tools they have in place through July 8th in order to not have the Federal Government default.


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RXAUI Interface and XAUI to RXAUI Interface Adapter :: Overview
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Created: Mar 31, 2009
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Category: Communication controller
Language: Verilog
Development status: Mature
Additional info: ASIC proven, Design done, FPGA proven, Specification done
WishBone compliant: No
WishBone version: n/a
RXAUI interface uses two 6.25Gbps SERDES lanes to carry 10GE, instead of using four 3.125Gbps SERDES lanes.
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This projects provides the specifications of RXAUI interface and the verilog code for an adapter from
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An epic tale of love and betrayal, war and hope The Iliad is the first of two legendary ancient poems attributed to the Greek bard Homer. Typically dated between the 8th and 7th centuries BC it is believed by many to be the earliest extant piece of European literature. The poem deals with the exploits of Agamemnon, Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and their comrades in the final year of their siege of the city of Troy.
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Have you every compared the differences between brains honed to disagree well, and those who generate cynicism when they differ. Contrast the difference between an olive branch offered to enemies, and a weapon poised for war? Cynicis criticized President Obama's reach of peace to Chavez, while peacemakers saw an olive branch like a US charm's reached out for global hope. What did you see?
Dr. David Adams, retired Yale researcher, helped create a global movement toward a culture of peace. Have Adams' peace policies reduced violence or aggression where you work?
According to Dr. Adams, and brain facts about plasticity, peace is cultivated daily by people who peacefully solve ordinary dilemmas. Harmony stands in calm opposition to the violence emphasized in the media and in our culture of warfare. Where do you stand when conflicts or stressors strike?
Peaceful cultures reflect brain based premise where:
Tactics exist to solve conflicts while at the same time promoting peace.
Tone skills become brainpowered tools most noticeably missing in acts of violence.
In each encounter with bullies lies a likely opportunity to promote winning peace.
Human minds are capable of creating peace in conflicts as well as warding off war.
You are likely wired more for war than peace – and you can change that reality.
Thanks to newly discovered facts about the human brain's plasticity, we now know how to rewire the human brain daily for a culture of peace with each peaceful act done. Will that discovery add peacemaking experiences to your day?
You may be interested in growing number of peaceful ventures:
Tamera Peace Research Center in Portugal where nearly 200 people from different countries come together to create a peace culture.
The US Association for the University for Peace, which offers an interactive web site to help empower global peace initiatives.
Reading list that promotes a culture for peace.
Living Faith Together offers a tool kit on inter-religious dialogue in youth work.
International Renewable Energy Agency in Germany to ensure renewable energy that builds further peace.
World Social Forum in Brazil – which brings people together in opposition to politics of domination, and to help protect the rain forest.
Commemorative Publication of the UNESCO Chair of Education for Peace at the University of Puerto Rico which contains 40 articles by 24 peacemakers in a university project.
Program of Socio-economic Training and Job Placement for Young Ex-soldiers in North Kivu which helps people to return to peaceful jobs in civilian life.
The Life-link website that works for peace in schools located in Arab countries.
Transcend International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, which works with peace scholars and practitioners
Additional Peace Movements and Global Sites that partner with others to promote peace across differences.
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Learn how to avoid or prevent emotional episodes you later regret.
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Learn how to avoid or prevent emotional episodes you later regret.
Learn to more accurately recognize how others are feeling.
Learn to respond effectively to others in family, social and work contexts.
Our most comprehensive training course in the field of detecting deception that is ideally suited for those that have the responsibility for making decisions after having evaluated truthfulness of a specific person. Improve your capacity and confidence in evaluating truth, lies and credibility in the course of observations, conversations and interviews.
Understand why people lie and use reliable models and approaches to pick up clues from all five communication channels – the face, body, voice, verbal style and verbal content. Paul Ekman and his core team are always keen to be directly involved where the projects are directed towards law enforcement and high level anti-terror/criminal activity due to their extensive experience in these fields.
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Our most comprehensive training course in the field of detecting deception that is ideally suited for those that have the responsibility for making decisions after having evaluated truthfulness of a specific person. ETaC can be presented in a full 4 day program or in four sequential one day modules, and a one day version can serve to introduce the content and teach some skills, for those who cannot attend the full four day course. ETaC embraces a challenging combination of knowledge acquisition and skills refinement with ample opportunity for practical assessment. It is not a conventional training course as it seeks to fine tune an individual's inherent psychological ability to understand communication, in all its guises and to increase the likelihood of making a sound judgment and taking more appropriate and proportionate action. In organizational terms the cost effectiveness of sound and proportionate action resonates with all concerned
When people set out to deceive or are intent on malicious activity they make greater demands on their cognitive and emotional domains, they have to think and remember many more details and in high stake situations their stress and anxiety levels will also be increased – there will be a demand for more cognitive and emotional resources. Such a demand will leak out and those who receive this training can be taught to identify such leakage. There will be evidence of incongruent activity between the channels in their communications and importantly a trained staff member can pick up the early warning signs and messages. When people lie it matters what they are thinking and feeling.
The aim of the course is to make you better able to interact with and elicit information from others, especially in high stake contexts. It will improve your capacity to evaluate the credibility of data received in the course of observations, conversations, interviews, surveillance and investigations by:
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Some law enforcement who may have only one day can take the "Uncovering Hidden Facial Messages" course.
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Identifying concealed emotions, signs of when an emotion is first beginning, the most reliable facial signs, and seeing beneath the mask. This one day program also includes training in recognizing why people lie and under what circumstances lies succeed and fail. It will also cover the importance of Hotspots, clues to something important as well as the importance of conversational facial expressions.
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DREAM builds specific scientifically and spiritually informed skills of cognitive and emotional regulation, professional empathy, mindfulness of self—compassion and setting an intention for meaning and purpose in work and life. This three day training will teach participants emotional awareness through mindful engagement with their individual experience of emotions and identification of emotions in others. The training is highly experiential and will involve basic education on relevant scientific research of emotion and mindfulness, group discussion, and dyadic exercises.
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Iniesta, Guardiola hail Gunners
Andres Iniesta says Barcelona will have to beat "one of the best teams in the world'' if they are to pip Arsenal to a place in the Champions League quarter-finals.
• Wenger rejects Laporta claims
• Nasri passed fit to play
• Arsenal v Barcelona preview
• Chamakh hails Van Persie
• Forum: Can Arsenal match Barca?
Barcelona are regularly described as the greatest club side on the planet, not least by Gunners boss Arsene Wenger at the weekend, but Iniesta says their last-16 clash at the Emirates on Wednesday is a match against equals.
Injury meant Iniesta was not able to play when the sides met in the quarter-finals of last season's competition, where a 2-2 draw followed by a 4-1 thrashing at the Nou Camp sealed Barca's passage, and he is looking forward to featuring this time.
"I couldn't play last year but it was an excellent match here, very interest and a lot of goals,'' Iniesta said. "There were some good moments for us but they put us under a lot of pressure. They are going to try and play a good game again and we need to play really well because this is one of the best teams in the world.
"This tie will be decided in the next match when we return to Barcelona. It is the Champions League, we find ourselves against the best in the world so I don't think anyone will think the tie can be won today.''
Guardiola has promised to remain true to the Barcelona way, with possession and attack the order of the day, though he admits Wenger's style of play could leave his side on the back foot if they are not on top form.
"With Arsenal if you are not well prepared you will be chasing shadows,'' Guardiola said. "I like to watch Arsenal play football but I don't like to play against them. Of course I have worries about the game that Arsene Wenger plays. Theo Walcott has some good moments, Wenger is an incredible coach and Robin van Persie is a very mobile player who has a lot of influence.
"When you play Arsenal you know what is required of you. The players of Barcelona know what we have to do. We will try to play attractive football, we have for the last 20-25 years. We might lose, we might win but we will always play attractive football for our fans.
Arsenal playmaker Samir Nasri, the Gunners' 14-goal top scorer, could feature as Wenger ponders whether to rush him back after a fortnight out with a hamstring injury. Despite his threat, Guardiola admires the Frenchman and wants him play.
"If Nasri doesn't play they still have (Tomas) Rosicky or (Andrey) Arshavin but Nasri is an incredible player. I hope Nasri can play. I always prefer to play the teams who have the best players.''
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Fast and accurate nonenzymatic copying of an RNA-like synthetic genetic polymer.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114.
Recent advances suggest that it may be possible to construct simple artificial cells from two subsystems: a self-replicating cell membrane and a self-replicating genetic polymer. Although multiple pathways for the growth and division of model protocell membranes have been characterized, no self-replicating genetic material is yet available. Nonenzymatic template-directed synthesis of RNA with activated ribonucleotide monomers has led to the copying of short RNA templates; however, these reactions are generally slow (taking days to weeks) and highly error prone. N3'-P5'-linked phosphoramidate DNA (3'-NP-DNA) is similar to RNA in its overall duplex structure, and is attractive as an alternative to RNA because the high reactivity of its corresponding monomers allows rapid and efficient copying of all four nucleobases on homopolymeric RNA and DNA templates. Here we show that both homopolymeric and mixed-sequence 3'-NP-DNA templates can be copied into complementary 3'-NP-DNA sequences. G:T and A:C wobble pairing leads to a high error rate, but the modified nucleoside 2-thiothymidine suppresses wobble pairing. We show that the 2-thiothymidine modification increases both polymerization rate and fidelity in the copying of a 3'-NP-DNA template into a complementary strand of 3'-NP-DNA. Our results suggest that 3'-NP-DNA has the potential to serve as the genetic material of artificial biological systems.
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Some Forest City residents said they have a noisy neighbor that many people may have heard of.
Bob Street lives on land that runs alongside the Facebook data center in Rutherford County. He said the center runs loud generators at all hours of the day, sometimes at 3 or 4 a.m.
Street said Facebook employees would not talk to him about the noise, so he asked local lawmakers for help.
"We've tried to get in touch with them for the last year,' Street said. "Town Manager of Forest City and some of the town council have tried to help us and get the facilitators at Facebook to talk to us. And no one has called us and acknowledged that we exist."
Facebook's site manager Keven McCammon released a statement that said the center strives to be a good neighbor.
"Facebook's Forest City data center strives to be a good neighbor. Our operations require that we sometimes test our generator, but we have restricted such tests to business hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Aside from periodic testing, generators are for as-needed use only and such instances are extraordinarily rare."
McCammon also said the Facebook team also planted trees and shrubs, "To help mitigate the hum of the generator on those infrequent occasions when it's on."
The data center officially opened in the spring of 2012.
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Manchester United have lodged an official bid for Schalke left-back Sead Kolasinac [Reprezentacija]
Bosnian website Reprezentacija.ba claim to have an exclusive on Friday with news of a Manchester United official bid.
According to Reprezentacija, Manchester United have lodged an official bid for Schalke left-back Sead Kolasinac.
Kolasinac is under contract at Schalke until 2017, and the suggestions are that the Red Devils would need to fork out 5 million euros to secure the transfer of the 20-year-old.
Reprezentacija report that "Schalke said they do not want to sell Sead Kolasinca, but it is questionable whether they will be able to resist the financial and footballing supremacy of the most successful English club."
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Frankie Boyle Belfast gig protests to continue
The battle against Frankie Boyle performing at the West Belfast Festival will continue, the family at the forefront of the protest has vowed.
The Feile an Phobail organisers had tried to draw a line under protests against the controversial comedian, who has made jokes about disabled children.
But despite the festival saying sorry and promising to do things differently in future, the show will still go on in Falls Park next week.
While many of those offended by Boyle's tasteless jokes about people with Down's syndrome were satisfied by the organisers' apology, others vowed to fight on.
The Feile for All group opposed to Boyle headlining the festival had held a number of protests outside the organiser's offices.
The two sides met on Monday and reached an agreement despite the gig still going ahead, and the protest group agreed to disband in time for the opening of the Feile this weekend.
But former spokesman Jon Lundy split from the group late last night, releasing his own statement on behalf of his partner Roisin Curran and children saying he would continue his opposition.
He claimed that Feile told the concerned parents they would not cancel the Boyle gig for three reasons: the popularity of the Scot, the high ticket sales and risk that the annual festival could collapse.
Mr Lundy accused them of sidestepping "this stand for human decency and human dignity".
Mr Lundy and Ms Curran have a 12-year-old daughter Mia with Down's syndrome and were at the forefront of the Feile for All protests. Now they have disowned the group.
"I wish to distance myself personally and my family from the 'joint' statement from Feile For All and Feile agreeing to quickly fold before Feile an Phobail's opening ceremony this weekend," he said.
"I will continue to stand with those people who agree that mocking the disabled is wrong, asking them to sign the Change.org petition to register their opposition."
Ms Curran hit out at Feile for All last night on Facebook, posting the message "moral bankruptcy" on its wall.
Feile an Phobail described the meeting on Monday as "full and frank" and said they had listened to the points that the group had made.
"Feile took this criticism extremely seriously, and stated that they completely appreciate that there has been a deep sense of hurt caused with the booking," a spokesman said.
They added that they are "deeply sorry for any hurt or offence that has been caused".
"Feile an Phobail finds the mocking of the disabled totally unacceptable. Going forward, a number of ideas were jointly posted by Feile and the Feile For All group, which included a range of effective measures that Feile would put in place to avoid a situation like this arising in the future."
The spokesman said a representative from a disability group would sit on the Feile entertainments committee in future "to ensure that such incidents do not re-occur". Feile also undertook to represent the concerns of the group to Frankie Boyle's management.
The Feile for All group said they felt they had run a successful campaign despite the Boyle gig remaining on the bill.
"Attacks on the disabled, either verbal or physical, will always be wrong," a spokesperson said.
"While the gig will continue on this occasion, we remain firmly opposed to this act appearing at our festival.
"We believe, however, that we have run an extremely successful campaign.
"We have raised the issue of attacks on the most vulnerable within society as being unacceptable and created awareness of disability issues generally."
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I am honored to be the prime sponsor of House Bill 10-1001 for 2010 expanding Colorado's renewable energy portfolio to 30% by 2020. This bill was signed into law by the Governor on March 22. 2010 and it is anticipated that it will create over 10,000 new Green Jobs in the coming years.
With HB 1001 as support we will manufacture and install panels and turbines all over Colorado to capture free energy. The sun will always shine for free, the winds will always blow for free, and our energy production will be cleaner. Renewable energy, green jobs, and a cleaner future -- what's not to like?"
There were a almost a dozen bills in this year's legislative session focused on a renewable, sustainable energy economy.
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KARACHI: The Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) sports wing has proposed financial assistance to the Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Federation (PBSF) in their quest to build a world class academy in Karachi.
PBSF president Alamgir Sheikh met with the Joint Secretary IPC sports wing Abdul Ghaffar Khan in Islamabad to discuss issues, including the Pakistan-India series which is scheduled for March.
Sheikh said he was pleased Khan pitched the idea of helping them build the academy.
"The IPC are ready to become 50 per cent partners," Sheikh told The Express Tribune. "They wish to help build an academy where talent like Mohammad Asif can be nurtured."
Meanwhile, The PBSF, who were set to host a series against India from March 7-10, may have to postpone the event due to a delay in the issuance of No-Objection Certificates (NOC) from the interior ministry.
However, Sheikh claimed the IPC would make use of their sources to help PBSF get the NOCs before Friday's deadline.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2013.


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Downtown Manhattan is now graced with not one, but two Georgian restaurants! (the other being Oda House on Avenue B).
When we walked into Old Tbilisi Garden yesterday, before seating us the server warned that service would be "very slow", presumably due to two large groups that were having dinner.
Fortunately it wasn't that long of a wait before we got our first dish, the megruli khachapuri. Khachapuri is Georgian bread filled with cheese and comes in all sorts of different varieties; at Oda House I had tried the adjaruli kind (it's shaped like a boat and filled with cheese and butter in the center). The megruli style has a superficial resemblance to an American cheese pizza, being a big circular doughy bread filled with soft white cheese. It was delicious, and would have easily made a filling meal for two on its own. It tastes pretty similar to the khachapuri you can buy from Georgian Bread down in Brighton Beach.
Next up was the tolma (stuffed grape leaves), which while not that dissimilar from the dolma you can find in a Middle Eastern or Mediterranean restaurant, was probably one of the best versions I've had in New York. These had a nicely seasoned meat and rice filling.
Lastly we had the lamb lula kebab, which came wrapped in a lavash-like flat bread and a tomato-based dipping sauce. I didn't think the lavash really added anything and ended up unwrapping it. The kebab meat was good, although not really much different from kebabs I've had in non-Georgian restaurants.
Overall I enjoyed the experience and I'd go back, maybe to try more uniquely Georgian dishes. Old Tbilisi Garden is on Bleecker between Sullivan and Macdougal.


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BAGHDAD, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Iraqi lawmakers with ties to rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called for the country's parliament to be dissolved and for new elections within six months.
Observers said the incident indicates a growing gap between Sadr and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, also Shiite, and draws attention to the political uncertainty that has enveloped Baghdad since U.S. troops left Iraq more than a week ago, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
In calling for a new parliament, Baha al-Araji, leader of the Sadrist Trend political bloc, said the government wasn't addressing the country's basic needs.
The call by Sadrists comes after Maliki's domestic security forces accused Tariq al-Hashimi, Iraq's Sunni vice president, of running a hit squad, prompting him to flee.
Omar al-Mashhadani, a political analyst in Baghdad who worked for the Sunni-supported Iraqiya political party, said Sadrists know the long odds against dissolving parliament, but are trying to put some space between themselves and Maliki.
Meanwhile, a radical group -- accused by the United States of receiving training, funds and weapons from Iran and attacking U.S. forces -- said it would enter the political arena and possibly put up candidates, the Post reported.
Vali Nasr, a Tufts University professor and expert on Iraq, told the Post events are combining to form "a complicated mix of inter-Shiite bickering and escalation of Shiite-Sunni fighting."
But all the turmoil could strengthen Maliki's political hand, one analyst said.
"I predict that Maliki might come out of this conflict more authoritarian than ever," said Babak Rahimi, assistant professor of Iranian and Islamic studies at the University of California-San Diego. "Just like 2008, he will again focus on themes of law and security and try to crush or marginalize his rivals."


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The year is still brand new. As of Monday, the area count for domestic violence murders rested at zero.
In a perfect world, it would stay there. It won't.
At least we're working on it. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, who launched a citywide campaign against domestic abuse a year ago, remains committed to the project.
Police say they're trying to reduce the backlog of outstanding arrest warrants for offenders. Prosecutors have promised to fast-track cases against the most egregious abusers.
There's a staying power to this feet-to-the-fire effort. That's no small thing. Too often, we dismiss ugly societal problems with a rhetorical round of ain't-it-awful hand-wringing, then move on.
As the mayor says, 2013 was significant as the year domestic violence reached the sustained velocity of "community awareness" level.
It's a start.
But unless this year proves to be an astonishing statistical aberration, the count won't remain at zero for long.
Wednesday will mark one year since Karen Cox Smith, who worked at UT Southwestern Medical Center, was shot four times in the head by a berserk husband she was attempting to leave.
He was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the killing, which I guess satisfies our notions of justice, but which doesn't do Smith much good.
There were 22 more domestic violence murders last year in Dallas alone. There were nearly 13,000 family violence offenses in Dallas County, nearly all of them assaults. These are common crimes, which does not make them any less terrifying to the people who experience them.
On Sunday, The Dallas Morning News launched a yearlong effort to examine the stories behind the numbers.
Reporters Diane Jennings and Sarah Mervosh will take the lead in monitoring a four-county area — Dallas, Collin, Denton and Rockwall — to catalog the tragedies in which, as Diane writes, "home becomes a crime scene and loved ones become murderers."
I'm sure they'll forgive me if I say that it would be wonderful if the project turns out to be a colossal flop because there aren't any murders to write about. But there will be.
I'm not trying to be cynical here, and I'm not completely devoid of hope that we can eventually find better ways to stop people, mostly women, from being beaten or killed by partners who profess to love them.
As a society and as a city, we're at least trying to offer more support to victims: better enforcement, new means of identifying risk, better educational programs.
These are all necessary elements. But the only lasting change will come from the hardest task: social change.
"In the end," said Paige Flink, executive director of The Family Place, "we're talking about people being different from the way they are now."
How does that happen? To start with, maybe we need to get past viewing domestic violence as a single-lobby "women's issue" and view it as a dangerous crime and health epidemic.
We could stop asking the wrong questions, such as "Why didn't she just leave?" and "Why didn't she press charges?" and "Why did she think he would change?"
The questions we need to ask are things like "Why does he think he's entitled to 'own' another person?" and "Why does anyone think hitting somebody is the way to get what you want?" and "Why can't he manage his temper? What is he, a baby?"
Asking the fatuous question "Why does she stay?" is like asking burglary victims why they don't move to a better neighborhood. The victims aren't the source of the problem.
Perhaps an obligatory note on gender is in order here. Obviously there are ugly cases of domestic violence perpetrated by women against men, or in the context of same-sex relationships.
But the majority of serious injuries and murders are the result of men assaulting women, if for no other reason than men are bigger and stronger, and our culture encourages them to be more aggressive than women.
One tragedy at a time, this community and others are achieving a better level of "awareness" of the scourge of domestic violence.
That's the easy part. Changing the way people think and behave is a lot harder. We've got a lot to do.
Unless, of course, the problem fixes itself, and the 2014 domestic murder count remains at zero.
But it won't.
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By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey asserted yesterday that the "level of cooperation and communication is very high" between his team and the transition group for President-elect Barack Obama.
But the Justice Department's new leaders may not gain access to the Bush administration's most sensitive legal opinions until after the January inauguration, Mukasey told reporters in what could be his final news conference.
"Without getting into particular things that they've requested, they are getting as much as they can, as quickly as they can" from the Office of Legal Counsel, the department unit that has issued key rulings underpinning detainee treatment and electronic surveillance since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
House and Senate Democrats and Clinton-era Justice Department officials have called for the speedy release of the documents. Three veterans of the Office of Legal Counsel -- Dawn Johnsen, Martin Lederman and Christopher H. Schroeder -- are among the members of the transition unit, several of whom received special security clearances.
But Mukasey said yesterday that the legal opinions are drafted at the request of other federal entities, such as the Defense Department and the CIA, which have a say in how and when they are released. Some of the materials also are highly classified, which adds a layer of complexity.
In some cases, Mukasey said, it is possible that certain documents will not be available to Obama's team until he takes the oath of office in January.
For the most part, the department transition has run smoothly, and lawyers connected to the Obama team have been interviewing career employees and politically appointed leaders of critical units, including the national security, civil and criminal divisions.
Mukasey said he has yet to meet Eric H. Holder Jr., the former federal prosecutor nominated Monday by Obama to take the nation's top law enforcement job. Yesterday, Mukasey refused a request to provide advice to his likely successor, instead pointing out that the department had changed in orientation since the terrorist attacks seven years ago.
Looking back on his year-long tenure, Mukasey said one of his most important tasks was helping to shepherd electronic surveillance legislation through the Congress and developing a uniform set of guidelines for FBI counterterrorism probes.
But he said Congress and the new administration needs to do more work to develop a single set of standards for reviewing claims by terrorism suspects who allege they have been wrongfully held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without judicial oversight for as many as seven years.
The attorney general also scoffed at the idea of prosecuting lawyers and Bush administration figures who designed or approved harsh interrogation practices and warrantless eavesdropping programs, an approach that has met with favor among some left-leaning interest groups and Democrats in Congress.
"There is absolutely no evidence that anybody who rendered a legal opinion . . . did so for any reason other than to protect the safety of the country and in the belief he or she was doing something lawful," Mukasey said. "In those circumstances, there's no occasion to consider prosecution or pardons."
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At Smith Pets we take great pride in our puppies future. We reserve the right at anytime to refuse sale to anyone whom we feel will not put our puppies best interest first.
All of our puppies always have a home with us. If for some reason down the road your situation changes and you can no longer care for your baby, then we want them to be returned to us. Our puppies are to NEVER be placed in any sort of shelter.
We offer lifetime support for our new puppy owners. Any questions you have through out the life of your puppy we are here for you!
All of our miniature schnauzers are now sold as pet only with or without papers. If purchasing with LIMITED registration paper puppies are sold only on a spay/neuter contract, there is NO exception. You will be required to provide proof of this with paperwork from a vet by 8 months of age, if proof is not provided by this time then you will NOT receive papers on your puppy. If for some reason the surgery can not be done and proof produced by 8 months of age due to medical reasons then proof from your vet stating the reason will be required. We reserve the right to refuse sale to anyone we believe isn't going to abide by this contract.
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Realtors, please read the Lake Barcroft Association's policy on reality signs. [PDF]
The following letter from the LBA Board of Directors points out that the Lake Barcroft Association is now subject to the Virginia Property Owner's Association Act of 1989 and describes how home sellers or their agents can obtain the Disclosure Packet required by the Act.
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NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a full subsidiary of Quality Systems (QSII - Free Report) , recently revealed a noteworthy agreement with Medline Industries. As per their agreement, among other provisions, Medline's sales team of over 1,100 reps will collaborate with NextGen Healthcare to jointly sell NextGen offerings to Medline's clientele at over 100,000 addresses comprising hospitals, doctor's practices and other arrangements.
Based in Mundelein, Illinois, Medline is America's biggest privately owned producer and distributor of healthcare offerings. It distributes over 125,000 offerings to doctors' offices, hospitals and other medical settings.
Quality Systems runs a pure-play business model in an attractive industry with a large number of catalysts, which provoke frequent speculation about mergers and acquisitions. On the positive side, we observe the high proportion of recurring revenues. Of late, however, growth of its pipeline metric has seen a falling trend.
The company has made multiple acquisitions to bolster organic growth. Its acquisitions are expected to facilitate its entry in the small hospital segment. We are concerned about execution risk emanating from Quality Systems' entry into the rural inpatient market.
Moreover, competition is intense from well regarded players such as Athenahealth (ATHN - Free Report) , Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (MDRX - Free Report) , Cerner Corporation (CERN - Free Report) and others. Price discounting is frequent, particularly at the lower end, and Software as a Service (SaaS) based model appears to have exacerbated pricing pressure.
Quality Systems has traditionally focused on providing solutions for physician practices. However, core ambulatory EHR providers such as Quality Systems will see opportunities for product sales shrink, as physician groups are increasingly absorbed into hospitals.
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I have completed my center piece for my A Faithful Friend Quilt. I had so much fun stitching it and hope to get a few of the smaller blocks ready for stitching this weekend. Block One, the verse below is available in the Homespun Magazine No95 Vol 12.4 and the remainder of the blocks can be downloaded here for free. I bought my copy of Homespun Magazine on line at Erica's Craft & Sewing Center. Visit the designer Leena Green at Stitching Cow or Little Green Cottage.
It is cloudy here and I can't seem to get the right light to show the creamy color of the fabric
The color is better in this photo. I bought some of the fat quarters to put the quilt together at one of my favorite quilt shops called Fabric Chicks. It is located in Coupeville on Whidbey Island, Washington. I love to visit the shop but there is also a web sight. I will have to pick up the rest of the fat quarters next month when I visit.
As I was leaving Fabric Chicks I saw this piece of fabric in the sale bin. I had to go back to buy this one yard bundle. Hm mm, what shall I do with this, I'm sure I will come up with something.


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"The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) today announced that its membership grew by 45 percent in the first quarter of 2000, with 19 companies joining the organization. OSGi (http://www.osgi.org) is now comprised of 58 leading technology companies working to define and promote open standards for the delivery of multiple services over wide-area networks to local networks and devices. Member companies plan to gather for the OSGi annual member meeting, May 1-3 in San Diego, to finalize the initial release of the OSGi technical specification."
"The OSGi specification, which complements virtually all-residential networking standards, defines an open standard that enables multiple software services to be loaded and run on a services gateway such as a set top box, cable modem, DSL modem, PC or dedicated residential gateway. Initially based on Java technology, the OSGi specification enables a new business model for the home networking market by allowing multiple value-added services to share the cost of a single services gateway and gives application service providers, network operators, and device and appliance manufacturers both application and platform independence."
"Infomatec perceives OSGi as an excellent communications platform and will be playing an active role in the development of OSGi specifications and their implementation," said Franz Hintermayr, CTO of Infomatec Internet Appliance Systems (IAS) GmbH, a subsidiary of Infomatec AG. "We hope to contribute through our extensive experience in the embedded Linux operating systems area."
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Gerolf Heinrichs has increased the span of the Moyes Litespeed S gliders to create the RS series, a glider with decreased induced drag and therefore increased performance. This latest evolution of the Moyes Litespeed line with its higher aspect ratio is combined with changes to the sail design and cut that produce excellent handling characteristics when launching, landing and thermaling. The RS is available in two sizes (RS 3.5 and RS 4) and with optional carbon fibre leading edges, dive struts, and battens which provide reduced inertia, always useful when initiating turns.
The Moyes Litespeed RS is a high performance competition class glider. Its high strength carbon fibre crossbar, high leverage variable geometry setup, inboard and outboard aluminum or carbon fibre sprogs make for a fully realised racing topless glider. This internal structure is combined with a tight wrinkle-free sail with minimum twist.
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Good Questions: Where Can I Find This Wall Mount Plate Rack?
Delairen writes in: "I have been looking for ages for a way to store and display decorative platters and plates on the wall, while still keeping them close at hand and convenient for use. I've finally found EXACTLY what I want, but unfortunately, don't know where I can buy it! Does anyone know where I can find a plate rack like this one the one shown at Better Homes and Gardens?"
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They are the images that affirmed Henry Moore as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, inspired, he claimed, by a moving journey on the London Underground during the Blitz.
But a major new exhibition on Moore's work is to cast doubt on the artist's inspiration for some of his most famous works.
Henry Moore, a retrospective of the artist's work at Tate Britain, will suggest that several of his drawings completed during the Second World War were not inspired by Moore's own wartime experiences, but copied from photographs in a magazine.
Known as the Shelter Drawings, Moore's powerful depictions in gouache and ink of Londoners sheltering in the London Underground from the Blitz, made between 1940 and 1941, proved hugely popular.
They transformed his reputation as an artist feted in art circles to a famous public figure of worldwide renown.
The drawings, which became mythical in their status as documents of the British resistance against Nazi aggression, were hung in the National Gallery during the war and secured Moore's appointment in 1940 as Britain's official war artist.
The drawings were also displayed in New York as part of a campaign to encourage America to join the Allied Forces efforts to defeat the Nazis.
Throughout his career, Moore maintained that the Shelter Drawings were inspired by a moving journey home with his wife, Irina, on the underground on the night of September 11, 1940, the fourth night of the Blitz.
As they travelled home to Belsize Park on a Northern Line train, Moore and his wife witnessed hundreds of families huddling in blankets and taking shelter from the bombs above ground.
Moore subsequently dated the first of the drawings, Women and Children in the Tube, as September 12, 1940 – the day after his journey on the Northern Line.
But the Tate exhibition, which opens this week, will challenge Moore's version of events and the date of the drawing, claiming that he actually copied the images in the picture from photographs that appeared in the weekly Picture Post magazine one month later, in October 1940.
The photographs of mothers nursing children, Life is Very Public Now and New Clothes for Homeless Children, illustrated an article titled Bombed Out which described the plight of homeless mothers during the war.
The poses in the pictures are identical to those in Moore's drawings.
The exhibition, which features more than 150 of Moore's most significant works including stone and bronze sculptures, wood carvings and drawings, will also show how he appears to have again borrowed images from the Picture Post magazine for his drawing Morning after the Blitz, 1940-1941.
The drawing bears a striking resemblance to Barcelona Street Scene and Why Not Piccadilly Circus?, two photographs that appeared in the magazine in 1939 in a feature about the widespread devastation in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War.
David Alan Mellor, a professor of Art History at the University of Sussex and specialist in 20th century photography, made the connection between the Picture Post photographs and Moore's Shelter Drawings after writing an essay on Moore for the Tate exhibition.
He said: "After looking at the Moore drawings many times, I had a eureka moment and realised that I knew this image of the mothers and children, and I was able to track it down to the Picture Post photographs.
"Moore's story about his journey on the tube is a wonderful one. His redating of the drawing made his entire narrative more coherent.
"It would have stood had it not been for the discovery that these pictures were reproduced in Picture Post a full month later."
The exhibition will also show for the first time how another of Moore's war drawings, Tube Shelter Perspective: The Liverpool Street Extension, 1941, appears to borrow from Bible Reading in the Night Ward, an illustration by the artist Gustave Doré that features in Blanchard Jerrold's book, London a Pilgrimage, published in 1872.
Chris Stephens, the Head of Displays at Tate Britain and curator of the exhibition, said: "This is a significant revelation, because in talking about the process of making his work, Moore always said his sources were ones of nature or romantic inspiration, but he has very clearly appropriated these figures [from Picture Post] into his drawings.
"This opens up a whole new idea of his radicalism and shows just how modern he was in recognising the importance of mechanically generated images and being in touch with the modern world.
"But Moore aspired to be one of the greats, so he might have seen photography as a lowly art form not worthy as a source for his ideas. He may also have had anxieties about finding inspiration in another artist's work."


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|Re: The Wonders of eBay
Subject: Re: The Wonders of eBay
by garm on 2013/1/6 3:04:29
Beren - I am informed; better than you know, or imply. Giving a book to Priscilla does not amount to approval of the text, nor obtaining permission to sell. There is all the difference between asking permission of a copyright holder - in this case, the Estate - and presenting it as a fait complit.
I'm not prepared to be lectured by someone who has shown poor judgement in the past, both on these boards
(the 'Dr. Higgins' affair, to give one example) - and on your own website; where recently you published an article containing text and images of some of Tolkien's unpublished writings without seeking permission.


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The first of the Royal Navy's new Type 45 destroyers, HMS Daring, made its maiden voyage 18 July 2007 to begin sea trials.
HMS Daring, billed as the world's most advanced warship, slipped its moorings on the Clyde to begin tests off the west coast of Scotland.
The £1 billion destroyer features the latest propulsion, anti-aircraft weapon and stealth technology – and is the first warship to have a designated gym. Its radar equipment can track a cricket ball moving at up to three times the speed of sound, and it has a range of hundreds of miles.
The 500ft vessel can also make itself appear as small as a fishing boat to enemy radar, and is armed with missiles 20 times more manoeuvrable than a Formula One car.
The ship was cheered by hundreds of spectators and staff from BAE Systems at Scotstoun on the Clyde.
HMS Daring is one of six Type 45s being built for the navy, at a total cost of £6 billion and will enter full service in 2009.
Commander David Shutts, the most senior officer aboard the new ship, said: "Both I and the rest of the Royal Naval ship's company have been looking forward to this event. It's not every day you take a first-of-class warship to sea."
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I have come across too many adults who smugly smile as they brag that they have successfully avoided Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social media. My mother has even bragged that she used to have an iPhone but has gone back to her old flip phone. Not being connected should not be a source of pride, especially if you have children.
The child living under your roof may be a part of the bullying scene. He may be the aggressor, the proxy, the victim or perhaps all three. Bullying is no longer about slipping notes to each other behind the teacher's back and pushing people in the hallway. That's so '90s. No, it's a deep, constant undercurrent that is on 24/7 and happening right in front of you. After all, half of all teens claim to have been a victim of cyberbullying.
Let me let you in on a secret. My students deliberately seek out and navigate websites and apps that they know you don't know how to use. If too many adults begin logging in and asking too many questions, it quickly loses its cool.
You may feel you're too old, and that Twitter is a useless stream of status updates. But it's time to embrace that which many consider juvenile.
As a high school teacher, I ride the tech wave and know what's in before it hits the media. I have to stay on my toes and navigate social media, blogs, Listservs and online communities that aren't in my comfort zone. But it is worth it when a child brings up a seemingly harmless app and I can quickly warn them of the dangers.
A photo sharing app such as Snapchat seems innocent until you learn its dark underbelly of sexting and easy, subversive cheating that doesn't leave an electronic trail. Ask.fm seems innocent enough — a place for people to ask questions and get answers. Ha. Do a Google search on "Ask.fm bullying" and you will find there's an active community where kids can maintain anonymity while saying whatever they want to whoever they want.
"No, not my kid." Look around you as tragedies unfurl around us related to cyberbullying. A 12-year-old jumps off a tower. Kids taken into custody and charged with aggravated stalking. A quick Google search of cyberbullying deaths brings a barrage of depressing stories and photos of children in their prime. A seemingly innocent TBH (to be honest) tag becomes hateful when the comments go from "TBH you're my best friend" to "TBH my mom makes me hang out with you." or "TBH no one would notice if you died."
A seemingly harmless Instagram photo becomes riddled with RDH (Rate Date Hate) tags which range from "R: 9.7 D: Yes H: nah" to "R: 4.2 D: No way H: Yes"
Twitter. 4chan. Instagram. Snapchat. Kik. Facebook. Vine. Tumblr. YouTube. Flickr. Voxer. This is not an exhaustive list — technology is malleable. What is in now may be lame two weeks from now. The solution is not to take technology away. Trust me, they will access it no matter what you do. The solution is to embrace the technology that your kids use.
Have an open dialogue. Be ready to and have the ability to shut it down, if necessary. Your constant vigilance will give you the ability to save your children from themselves.
Get informed. Log on, attend a cyberbullying seminar, learn the basics, verbiage and acronyms. You will not regret this. You may even save a life.
Korinna Kirchhoff of Frisco is a special-education math teacher at Wakeland High School and a Teacher Voices volunteer columnist. Her email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Indian IT Websites Pursued By Phishers: Symantec
Phishers have already proved their criminal intent in the financial sector by causing losses of more than Rs. 130 crore to banks in the past three years itself through various sophisticated means. India is currently under a wave of cybercrime, and is experiencing rapidly rising phishing attacks across the country. Symantec, the security intelligence firm, has published the Symantec Intelligence Report which throws [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media AgencyRead Full Article


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Making egg poach is not easy! While this breakfast recipe is made in minutes, you have to make it in the right way or else you would end up spoiling the effort. This easy egg recipe is very useful for office goers. You can actually poach eggs in 5 minutes but you need to know the right way to cook it. Poached eggs are cooked in water instead of oil and that makes your breakfast really healthy.
The right temperature is essential for making this breakfast recipe. This easy egg recipe requires you to cook the eggs with water and minimum spices, but you add some frills. Cheese and sausages are the best accompaniments for egg poach.
Ingredients For Egg Poach:
Eggs 2
Water 1½ cups
Vinegar 1 tsp
Salt as per taste
Pepper as per taste
Cheese 2 tbsp (grated)
Mint leaves 1 tsp (chopped)
Procedure For Making Egg Poach:
Heat water in a flat pan and add vinegar to it. This helps the egg yolk coagulate easily.
When the water starts boiling, it signifies that the temperature is appropriate to poach the eggs.
On low flame, break the eggs directly into the pan and let the eggs cook for 2 minutes.
Remove the poach carefully onto a paper napkin to soak extra water.
Now spread grated cheese over the poach evenly. Microwave it for 30 seconds to melt the cheese.
Sprinkle salt, pepper and mint leaves on the top.
Your cheese filled egg poach is ready to eat. Serve it hot with bread or cold cuts.


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Author: Jake |
April 16, 2012 |
In: Concept Cars, Mercedes-Benz
If I tried to drive using joysticks I'd end up killing people. GOURANGA!!!
Hell yes I would drive it. where's the twin 50's
I wonder if the joysticks have triggers…
ditch the cheese-grater wheels and shitty green color and I'll take it
give it a steering wheel or at least a setup like an airplane and yeah, fer sure. the joystick thing might be kinda fun but i cant imagine its very intuitive..
wheels r horrendous!
at first i was like well ya i would drive that but then i saw those rims and just instantly changed my mind
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Ref justice for Fenlon
Pat Fenlon has every right to feel aggrieved at recent refereeing decisions against his Hibs side.
They had a penalty awarded against them at Dundee United two-and-a-half weeks ago which was clearly outside the box and on Sunday Leigh Griffiths had a legitimate goal ruled out by the officials as they struggled to see his free kick was at least a yard over the line.
Goal-line technology for me is a necessity but also referees and their assistants have to be made accountable for making such blatant errors.
Players and managers have to answer questions on mistakes they make but referees get into their cars and go home after a game and don't have to face such questioning.
They've always wanted paid fairly for the job they do, time to start earning it I say!
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What makes paul smith unique? To become a great success takes a lot of hard work and commitment. It takes a process or refinement, finding your style and making a name for yourself. My fragrance is designed to display that process. A product that becomes 'refined' with time.
The logo I have created is clean and minimal, to reflect the characteristics of the chosen name 'refined'. The name represents not just the process in which the product goes through but also hints at the characteristics of the clientele purchasing a Paul Smith fragrance.
The bottle shape is based on a champagne glass. Champagne glasses are very elegant and delicate. This mirrors the aesthetic of the product I wanted to create for Paul Smith. In addition to this I wanted the client using the perfume to feel the things associated with champagne (celebration, special times, fond memories, luxury ect...) when applying the fragrence.
The surface of the bottle when purchased appears rough and grubby, perhaps neglected. This is a top layer applied to the bottle, designed to wear off or 'refine' over time as the bottle gets used, revealing the shiny polished surface underneath. In effect the more you use the bottle the more refined it becomes
For the Male fragrence I inverted the shape and colour to make differentiation between the two products clear.
The bottles are made from glass, a long lasting and durable material. I chose this because I wanted the bottle to last a lifetime, being reused instead of replaced. I wanted these same principles to apply to the packaging. For this reason that I chose to make the box In which the bottle is sold out of wood designed to last and be reused for any purpose.
The box's feature some 'wear & tear' as standard. This maintains the 'refined' asthetic aswell as encourage the owner to use the box, without being afraid of damage.
By having a bottle and box designed to be used for life, the fragrance inside will no doubt run out as it gets used. Differing from the box & bottle, the refill packaging is designed to be disposable. It is made from a bio degradable material that will decompose over time, leaving no impact on the environment. Each refill 'bag' features a nozzle that can be attached to the bottle to refill it. The design is clean and minimal to portray the products name & purpose.
To promote the product it will be advertised in certain areas with a video display. The video will change over the duration of a week. When first seen the advert will show a neglected, old and used material (paint cracked and rotting wood, rusty metal ect.) filling the composition. As time goes by the scene will begin to look less and less neglected and start to appear looked after and new. In essence the video will be a time lapse in reverse, showing materials as they become more refined, featuring the qualities of the product it is promoting.
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Little has been heard from offensive guard Brian Gaia. The Baltimore (Md.) Gilman School prospect claims eight scholarships and has been on a pair of visits this spring.
"I've got eight offers from Boston College, East Carolina, Iowa, Maryland, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Virginia and West Virginia," he said. "I'm getting interest from Tennessee, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Auburn, Penn State and Georgia Tech.
"I think the interest is pretty cool. I always wanted to play Division I football since I started playing football in seven grade."
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To date, Gaia has taken two trips to West Virginia and Rutgers earlier this spring.
"I was at West Virginia a few weeks ago and Rutgers about a month or two ago," he said. "I liked both of them, I liked West Virginia a little more than Rutgers, but both were really nice schools.
"I just have a good relationship with the new line coach at West Virginia."
Does Gaia like anybody at this stage in the recruiting cycle?
"I really like Alabama and Penn State," he said. "I've always liked Penn State since I was a kid. I like the way Alabama plays on offense. I talked to Alabama recently and they want me to come down for their spring game and we'll see where it goes from there."
College interest is peaking for the Gilman lineman and he reflected on what he is looking for in a school.
"I want a good fan base, coaches I get along with and a good education. I'm looking to study business."
Gaia earned all-state honors this past season after helping Gilman to a deep run into the playoffs.
"I got a lot stronger and that helped a lot this year," he said. "I'm working to get faster, you can never be too fast."


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ALDI Partners with USDA to Help Make it Easier, More Affordable for Americans to Fill Half their Plate with Fruits and Vegetables
Sep 07, 2011, 09:46 ET from ALDI Inc.
BATAVIA, Ill., Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today ALDI announced its new partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. ALDI, the discount grocer with more than 1,100 stores in 31 states, is launching a campaign this month that aligns with USDA nutrition messages and the MyPlate icon to encourage consumers to fill half their plate with fruits and vegetables.
"Partners like ALDI help us amplify the reach of our nutrition messages and prompt consumers to think about building a healthy plate at mealtime," said Dr. Robert Post, deputy director of the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. "MyPlate is an uncomplicated symbol that helps remind people to think about their food choices in a way that leads to healthier lifestyles."
"This initiative coincides with the ALDI mission to provide the highest quality products at the lowest possible prices to our customers," said Chuck Youngstrom, co-president, ALDI. "We want to play our part to help Americans fill half their plate with fruits and vegetables."
The ALDI MyPlate campaign will reach more than 20 million customers each month by offering produce prices that are significantly lower than at traditional grocery retailers. In addition, each week, ALDI offers produce "Picks of the Week" that provide even greater savings on featured fruits and vegetables. This information will be promoted through weekly ALDI flyers and in store signage. The ALDI website will include recipes and nutrition tips created by a registered dietitian.
Nearly 90 percent of Americans fall short of the recommended daily servings of vegetables, and 80 percent fall short of fruit.* ALDI aims to make it easy and affordable for people to fill half their plate with fruits and vegetables every day.
The USDA also recommends that consumers opt for store brands when possible in order to get the same or similar product for a lower price.** The products at ALDI are a great fit for this recommendation. At ALDI, customers can expect to find more than 1,400 of the most frequently purchased items sold under ALDI exclusive brands for prices up to 50 percent less than traditional supermarkets. ALDI carries fresh, in-season fruits and vegetables and also offers fresh, high-quality USDA-inspected meats and dairy products at significant savings.
Recently, ALDI was recognized as the nation's low price grocery leader, according to a consumer survey*** conducted by Market Force Information, Inc., the world's leading customer intelligence solutions company. When asked to rank the top 10 grocers offering low prices, consumers ranked ALDI number one, ahead of competitors such as WalMart, Costco, Kroger, Meijer and Safeway.
Consumers can visit www.aldi.us to download recipes, tips and shopping lists. For more details about MyPlate, visit www.ChooseMyPlate.gov to find practical information about how to build healthier diets using resources and tools for dietary assessment and nutrition education.
About ALDI Inc.
A leader in the grocery retailing industry since 1976, ALDI is committed to bringing customers the highest quality products at the lowest possible prices. The company's exclusive brands meet or beat the national name brands on taste and quality. With more than 1,100 U.S. stores located in 31 states, primarily from Kansas to the East Coast, ALDI continues to expand, most recently in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and South Florida. ALDI applies smart and efficient operational and business practices to save more than 20 million monthly customers up to 50 percent on their grocery bills. ALDI sells more than 1,400 of the most frequently purchased grocery and household items in a simple and easy-to-navigate shopping environment. For more information about ALDI, visit www.aldi.us.
*Krebs Smith SM, Guenther PM, Subar AF, Kirkpatrick SI, Dodd KW. Americans do not meet federal dietary recommendations. Journal of Nutrition. 2010;140:1832-1838.
** http://www.puripeds.com/pdf_files/myplate-tip-sheets_14_pages.pdf
***Consumers view ALDI as the affordable price leader among top grocers, according to Market Force Research. Study conducted among more than 6,000 consumers across the US and Canada in March 2011.
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Beauty Photography and Fashion | Photography for Moms
Beauty photography and fashion photography is not just for 20 somethings ….
Creating beautiful photography portraits and making your client feel wonderful about themselves is what its all about. This year Jennifer is celebrating fifteen years of marriage and her fortieth birthday! And for Jen, forty is the new twenty nine! Making stunning beauty photography portraits where Jen felt pretty, {sexy ~ she didn't say sexy ~ I did} and beautiful was really important to her. As i turned the camera around to show her how amazingly beautiful she looked during her beauty photography and fashion photography portrait session, she said: "Wow, its so nice to see myself so beautiful after having four kids." If you are reading this and you are a mom a dad or single person, just imagine the patience, love, understanding and time each day that it takes to raise four children. It's a special, full time, 24/7 herculean, life experience.
During her photography session Jen mentioned that something happened and she never had the opportunity to have wedding photographs taken on her wedding day. So, this beauty session took on even more importance to her. I know for myself as I get older I work out more at the gym and make sure to take care of my health even more. I don't feel quite as invincible as I did when I was 20 years old!
A Great Make Up Artist is Essential | For a Successful Beauty Photography Session
Jennifer is not a model but she shure looks like one. You can tell she takes really good care of herself. She took my recommendation and visited with a fab MUA {make up artist} that I recommended Lori Gatuso. One look at Lori's web site and you'll see she a pro! I've known Lori for a number of years now, and she has an infectious enthusiasm for life and is so easy to work with. Everyone that I send her way absolutely love her. Jennifer also picked out some great outfits and accessories to wear to for her beauty photography and fashion photography session.
Amazing Studio Lighting and Great Posing Direction
You Don't Have to be a Model | But You Can Look Like One!
We had all the perfect ingredients for a successful beauty photography and fashion portrait shoot. But what if the lighting totally sucked? If the studio lighting sucked, Jenn's beauty photographs would have turned out awful instead of awesome.
Beautiful Light = Beautiful Portraits
For a women's beauty photography and fashion photography portrait session I use Calmshell lighting. For this type of beauty photography lighting the softbox is positioned at a 45 degree angle just above your subject. The top of the softbox is just above the subject's head and the bottom of the softbox is tilted down just above the camera lens. You'll notice a double catch light. One at the top of the iris from the softbox. A second catchlight is at the bottom of her iris. The second catchlight is created from the light of the softbox reflecting back into Jenifer's face. I could have used a strip box from the bottom too, but instead I used a 3o" Lastolite Trigrip silver reflector positioned on a 45 degree angle, as close to her as possible, just below the camera frame and lens. It's held in place by a Bogen Super Clamp and Bogen Variable Friction Arm attached to a light stand with another Bogen Super Clamp. No assistant and hands free reflectivity. Shot with a Canon Mark III and a 24-70mm 2.8 L @ f11, 200 ISO @ 250sec, on Lexar media.
Art & Posing Direction | During a Beauty Photography and Fashion Photography Shoot
During a beauty and fashion photography shoot the smallest things make a huge difference.
- The slightest Tilt of the Head – angling of the head, moving the chin up or down, turning toward or away from the camera for a 7/8's view of the face: one of the most pleasing views of a woman's face.
- Hand Position – natural or slightly exaggerated, hands can frame the face and be used to direct the eye in the image.
- Facial Expression – natural smile, engage your subject with conversation, i often ask a model to just part their lips a bit. BTW your laughter will put them at ease and make them smile or laugh. So laugh allot add allot to her natural beauty.
- Hair Styling – for some of the shots I pulled Jennifer's hair all the way over to one side, brought it over one eye or pulled it back just a bit so that I didn't cover her eyes.
- Direction and Posing – Takes practice. I'll cover this in my upcoming posing and lighting class.
That's how I throw down!
p.s. I'm setting up Goolge + today see you there soon.
Marc Weisberg is an award winning photographer and Sony Artist of Imagery based in Irvine, California. Specializing in Luxury Architecture & Real Estate Photography, Food + Wine Photography, and Weddings & Family Photography, he's easy to work with and produces clean, crisp, and technically flawless images. Marc's photography is published internationally in over a dozen books and magazines. You can contact Marc by phone at 949.494.5084…. or email.


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