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History of the Garage
It's easy to assume that Garages were invented at the same time as the motor vehicle, but in some ways they actually date back much further. Long before Garages existed, people had a Carriage House which would be where they kept their horses and carts.
Garage Doors, however, probably were invented around the time as the Motor Vehicle, as there was a need to protect the vehicles from the elements, as early Cars were prone to rusting. Garage Doors also gave Cars a warmer place to live, which was a better environment as they started up more easily if they were warm.
Original Garages were very basic, and were more often than not converted barns or sheds or at least designed with a barn or shed in mind. Therefore early Garage Doors were just barn doors.
Over the years, the doors used for garages have changed substantially. They are now stronger and designed for a much better ease-of-use.
Garage Door Styles:
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Up and Over Doors. These are a cost-effective style that are the standard type of door for new builds. Available in Timber, Steel or PVC, Up-and-Over Doors come in a variety of designs including wood panelling which can be chosen to suit the style of your home.
Side Hinged Doors. This traditional door style is one that has been in use for a long time, and does require space in the driveway, so that that it can open. The advantage of this is that you need less space for the doors inside the garage, freeing up space for your vehicles and allowing better access to the sides of your garage.
Sectional Doors. These are great if your garage doubles up as a workspace, as they offer excellent insulation which helps to keep the inside warm. They work in an upward action which frees up space in both your driveway and the entrance, making it an ideal option for larger vehicles.
Roller Doors. If you are really tight on space, both inside your garage, as well as in your driveway – or even if you don't even have a driveway – Roller Doors are the perfect solution, as they roll up to the top of the entryway, without taking up very much ceiling space, which is helpful if you need access to the roof, or if you store things in your garage rafters.
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The tent peg bottle opener is both a tent peg and a bottle opener. I figured that one out all by myself. So, if you're tired of trying to bite bottle caps off with your teeth or trying to open them with another bottle and failing, buy one of these limited edition pegs for $30.
Camping is pretty fun, and drinking is pretty fun, but camping while drinking is like the ultimate best. That, of course, makes this tent peg ++good. But, as I'm sure you know, all things in moderation. Drinking and camping too much can lead to user generated videos like this one in which these frat holes will be forever immortalized doing that ridiculous dance.
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This is something that I find puzzling about the current generation of game consoles. In the past, one of the pros about console systems vs PC was that people usually didn't need to worry about framerates. They understood that while the visuals might not be as good as a PC title, at least they didn't have to worry about uneven framerates due to system requirements. Most console games always had a more or less consistent framerate. It seems that with the PS3 and Xbox 360 however, quite a few titles suffer from framerate issues.


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While we don't know for sure whether or not the all-new Land Rover Defender will make it to U.S. shores, we do know that the automaker has plans will likely build the vehicle at Tata Motors' manufacturing facility in Pune, India.
Tata chairman Ratan Tata told Autocar the main reasons for doing so would be to keep manufacturing costs down — possibly permitting an affordable pricetag — and to keep Defender operations close to Asia-Pacific markets, where Tata expects the iconic off-roader to sell in high volumes. Interestingly, some Defender models would be sent back to the Solihull plant in the U.K. for final assembly as part of what the company is calling a "reverse complete knock down" (CKD) operation.
If the plan gets the green light, there's a good chance the Defender will share chassis and suspension parts with the Tata Aria SUV. The new Defender will be built upon the heavy-duty chassis used by the LR3, which has similar dimensions and specs to the Aria chassis and would allow it to share the same manufacturing process as the Aria. As for styling, executives have said that the DC concepts, which first debuted at the 2011 Frankfurt show, could offer a glimpse of what's to come from the off-roader, but do not necessarily represent the final design.
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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Children in foster care in New Hanover and Pender counties have volunteers to represent them in court after today.
Ten more Guardian ad Litems were sworn in at the Juvenile Justice Court in Wilmington.
For the volunteers, helping children in need is something very important and personal.
"It means a lot for me," Sue Jameson said after being sworn in. "I was a career educator for 34 years and saw lots of children come through my classroom, and some of them, their brains are on stress overload, and they really can't access education, because they're so worried about things in their family."
The Cape Fear Guardian ad Litem Association says on average one child a day is taken from his or her home and placed in foster care in New Hanover and Pender counties.


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ASHBURN, Va. -- In an announcement that surprised only those who thought (hoped) Jim Zorn would be fired today, the Washington Redskins head coach confirmed that offensive consultant Sherman Lewis has been promoted to play-caller, just two weeks after joining the organization.
Following a meeting with Vice President of Football Operations Vinny Cerrato after Sunday's embarrassing 14-6 home loss to previously win-less Kansas City, Zorn decided, of his own volition, to follow Cerrato's suggestion and hand over play-calling -- the job he was originally hired to do in 2008 before the team failed to find anyone else willing to take the head coaching position -- to Lewis.
"It was strongly suggested to me after the game," Zorn said. "[Cerrato] just suggested that I make a play-caller change."
When Cerrato suggests Zorn step down after next week's Monday night loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, we imagine the future ex-coach of the Skins will decide to comply.
"My comfort level is somewhere between one and 10, it's not 10," Zorn said.
Zorn spoke almost apologetically about handing Lewis the keys to this unfamiliar, broken-down car, and can you blame him? The team lacks a proven starting quarterback and plays a sieve of an offensive line. They may have an (aging) star at running back, talent at wide receiver and one of the best tight ends in the league, but how do you get the ball in their hands without running the wildcat?
The offense will prepare for next week's game as usual, Zorn said. The entire offensive staff will game plan. Lewis is a West Coast offense expert, and elsewhere, the staff will continue to try to bring him up to speed. Then on Monday night, he'll be making the calls from the booth.
About those second-string quarterbacks, next week's starter hasn't been decided, but it's Zorn who will make the decision, presumably after getting a suggestion from Cerrato.
Zorn explained that he still likes Jason Campbell's skill set, even after benching him for the second half yesterday.
"It was hard for me," the coach said. "Late in the second quarter, I decided it's either going to be a good drive or I'm going to make a change."
The Skins pulled another three-and-out, and Todd Collins took over, finding Santana Moss for a 42-yard completion to start the second half, but only managing to lead the team to two field goals.
Making football decisions around here apparently is harder than Chinese algebra. Dan Snyder, Vinny Cerrato and Jim Zorn all suck at 'em. Maybe a man who's been away from them for five years -- until the past two weeks -- is the answer.


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One-Dimensional Peg Solitaire, and Duotaire
We solve the problem of one-dimensional Peg Solitaire. In particular, we show that the set of configurations that can be reduced to a single peg forms a regular language, and that a linear-time algorithm exists for reducing any configuration to the minimum number of pegs. We then look at the impartial two-player game, proposed by Ravikumar, where two players take turns making peg moves, and whichever player is left without a move loses. We calculate some simple nim-values and discuss when the game separates into a disjunctive sum of smaller games. In the version where a series of hops can be made in a single move, we show that neither the $\cal P$-positions nor the $\cal N$-positions (i.e. wins for the previous or next player) are described by a regular or context-free language.
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Seven-times champion jumps jockey John Francome stands by his belief that Victoria Pendleton is an "accident waiting to happen" on a racecourse.
Francome told the Guardian last month that the double Olympic champion cyclist "can't ride" and wants "saving from herself" after she was unseated from Pacha Du Polder on her first start over regulation fences at Fakenham.
Pendleton, 35, went some way to silencing the naysayers at Wincanton on Wednesday when she made all of the running aboard the same horse to claim a first victory as a jockey.
Her maiden success sharply brought back into focus the possibility of riding the Paul Nicholls-trained Pacha Du Polder in the St James's Place Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival on 18 March.
But when asked if he felt Pendleton was still an accident waiting to happen in the saddle, Francome said: "Absolutely, yes.
"Every time she gets round in one piece, I'm absolutely delighted, but I'll leave it the people who are advising her. She won, and I've done nothing but wish her well."
Nicholls now believes Pendleton is "more than qualified" to compete at Cheltenham, with a final decision set to be announced on Monday by a team of well-informed judges that also include Tony McCoy and jumps guru Yogi Breisner.
Pacha Du Polder's owner Andy Stewart expects both horse and rider to be in action in what is widely recognised as the Gold Cup for amateur riders.
He said: "She did exactly what Paul Nicholls and Tony McCoy told her to do at Wincanton.
"I'm not the decision-maker, but the committee will get their heads together on Monday - she is also riding in point-to-points this weekend - and they will decide.
"The horse is entered at Cheltenham, though, and it is highly likely it will be a yes."


text: Happy Ney Year Craig and everybody on the list! The way you and me use term "innovation follow manufacturing" is a little different. I have manufacturing company designing Video and Audio equipment. Our entire R&D is done in Mt. Vernon, NY and all manufacturing is done in Asia. However, every time we design new products, and we do generate our own concepts, systems and detail designs, we need to get information from our customers and use our knowledge in technology and parts available to create these new products. It is use to be that all advanced HDMI IC's were available from US vendors. We had regular discussion with these vendors that helped them to create new and better parts and for us to use these parts for new products. That paradigm has shifted in the last 5 years. Now most advanced and price competitive HDMI IC's are made in Asia. These IC makers simply follow their customers that buy and use all the IC's there. Yes we in US continue to innovate but this innovation creates jobs mostly in Asia for both manufacturing of products and manufacturing of enabling IC's. To have enabling technology (in our case IC making) to be centered in US is as important in creating new products (and jobs) as actual product innovation. Both IC manufacturers and product manufacturing feed each other and that used to create a global leadership for the US before. That position is eroding now. There is a nice saying about product development. If ready to go product is 100% of effort, the 1% of it is an "inspiration" and 99% is "perspiration"... Mike Tsinberg http://keydigital.com -----Original Message----- From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Craig Birkmaier Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 9:30 AM To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [opendtv] Re: TV Prices Fall, Squeezing Most Makers and Sellers At 9:44 AM -0500 12/30/11, Mike Tsinberg wrote: >The innovation also follows manufacturing. How long we can innovate >when to build a simple prototype we need to buy every part in Asia? >Do you know that most advanced consumer products are first field tested >in Japan and Korea? > Sorry Mike but I disagree. Innovation and investment LEAD manufacturing. Where the parts are manufactured makes little difference in our global economy; I will agree that government policy CAN drive investment to other countries, as we are seeing with the current anti-business tax policies in the U.S. Apple is investing billions in manufacturing partners across Asia and even in the U.S. (e.g. the Samsung chip factory in Austin). What is important is that they are driving innovation in components then investing in the factories to build them, This gives them two huge advantages in the marketplace: 1. Access to new component technologies ahead of competitors; 2. Lower prices than competitors on these components as they become commodities. I do agree that we can use technology to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. But this cannot happen until we bring the size of government under control and make the U.S. an attractive market for manufacturing investment. The problem is not cheap labor. Both the U.S. and Europe are going bankrupt and are driving investment to other countries... Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.


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Remember those stories of those old Nokia phones that are so durable that you can even use them as a makeshift weapon to ward off attackers? Well here's another seemingly tough and durable handset from Nokia, the upcoming Lumia 920, which survived after PhoneBuff performed a number of torture tests onto it.
First is the customary drop tests from different heights which the Nokia Lumia 920 survived with just some predictable corner scruffs. No scratches nor cracks and the phone worked normally.
Impressed? Using the same device, the guys from PhoneBuff went ahead and scratched, slashed and hammered the phone.
A set of keys was used to scratch the front and back with minimal effects on the phone. Not satisfied, a big knife was used to slash all over the phone with only slash marks showing on the side. Finally, a mallet was used on the Lumia 920 to no effect and to top things off, the phone was used to hammer in a piece of nail onto a wood. The phone is still working a-ok! Now that's impressive.
The Nokia Lumia 920 is made of a glossy polycarbonate unibody, with buttons and the camera deco made of zirconium, and the curved Corning Gorilla Glass protecting its front. It will be really difficult to put scratches on this phone so a case is not required (like the old Nokia phones).
Not only is the Nokia Lumia 920 tough based on these test videos, but it also packs a lot of cool features that would make this one of the phones to desire once it becomes available here.
Here are a few features you can get out of the Nokia Lumia 920:
- PureMotion HD+ screen which is the fastest among smartphones. Nokia claims it's also the brightest display around
- Steadiest camera thanks to floating lens technology
- High-power dual-LED flash for shooting from a distance in dark environments
- Wireless charging support
- Responsive screen via Synaptics ClearPad Series 3 technology which lets you use the touch screen even with gloves on
So what do you think? Are you impressed with the Nokia Lumia 920?
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|Adreno 225 GPU
|1GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, 7GB SkyDrive, no microSD
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|8-megapixel Carl Zeiss optics PureView
|1080p video recording
|1.3-megapixel front camera
|Pentaband, HSPA+/FD-LTE
|Bluetooth 3.1
|Qi Wireless charging
|2000 mAh battery (BP-4GW)
|130.3 x 770.8 x 10.7 mm
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The possible merger of American Airlines Inc. and US Airways Group Inc. has been talked about for so long that it may almost come as a relief for customers to know it's happening.
Now, travelers want to know: What will this mean for me?
The answer is not much immediately, but customers will start to see changes later this year once the merger, expected to be formally announced Thursday, is approved by regulators.
US Airways' customers may see the most initial changes as that airline switches airport signs, websites and tickets to the American name.
But because American is based in Fort Worth and is the largest carrier in the Dallas market — American and its commuter partner American Eagle handle 84 percent of passengers carried at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport — changes will be evident here, too.
American and US Airways' customers gradually may see higher fares, fewer flights to certain cities — especially smaller ones — and service glitches. American travelers will benefit from routes to more East Coast cities such as Charlotte, N.C., and Philadelphia, and US Airways customers will gain access to more international destinations.
Charlie Leocha, director of the Consumer Travel Alliance, sees no consumer benefits from a merger that will create an oligopoly. He listed 10 objections to the merger, including reduced competition, higher airfares and harm to some hub cities.
"Consumer harm is the norm with recent mergers," Leocha said. "While the airline management rakes in merger bonuses, consumers are the ones who bear the brunt of post-merger integration service problems. With prior mergers, these issues have created major problems for passengers."
In any big airline merger, it's always a balancing act between the services and routes that attract and retain loyal customers and those that generate revenue and are profitable.
Airfare, destinations
For leisure travelers, perhaps the biggest determinant in choosing an airline is the price of travel.
"Higher concentration and fewer competitive routes equal higher fares, there's no doubt about that," said Vaughn Cordle, a partner with Ionosphere Capital in Washington, D.C. However, he estimates that declining passenger demand and a still-weak economy will contain average fare hikes to the 2 percent to 3 percent range industrywide this year.
Some experts expect the merged airline to temper airfare increases by also flying fuller planes.
American flier Hyacinth Lawson of Abilene said she would be concerned if airfares rise after the merger, but she's philosophical about the possibility. "That's the way the economy is today," she said this week while waiting for a flight at D/FW Airport.
The merger would give American hubs at seven of the nine busiest U.S. airports and make it a major player in Boston, Tampa, Fla., New York and Washington, D.C. American also would gain routes in Europe and Latin America.
The merger also would give American customers access to nearly 60 unique destinations from US Airways' three hubs in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Phoenix. US Airways fliers would gain access to more than 125 new destinations through American's five hubs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New York.
There's no guarantee American will keep all of those hubs and destinations over time — even if it says it will. For example, hubs in San Jose, Calif., and St. Louis acquired in two previous American mergers eventually disappeared.
Airline loyalty programs are a key way to reward their top customers — and are even more crucial to retain them during a merger.
American and US Airways probably will start to combine their frequent flier programs in six months to nine months, with American's program surviving. American's AAdvantage program is the world's oldest and largest airline loyalty program with some 69 million members. US Airways doesn't disclose its frequent flier numbers, but Randy Petersen, publisher of InsideFlyer magazine, estimates US Airways has about 43 million members.
'Shuffled around'
American and US Airways' customers could see changes and technology glitches as the programs are combined. After its merger with Continental Airlines, United Airlines decreased the number of bags customers could check for free and changed the process for seat upgrades, for some frequent fliers.
Petersen said some frequent fliers have asked him what will happen to their miles. "I'm 100 percent certain that the miles are just fine," he said.
"For US Airways members, they're in the perpetual spin cycle," Petersen said. "The old timers have been shuffled around through three to four consolidations in the last 15 years or so. For the newbies, there will be some stress, some confusion."
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Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008
Time: 3pm
Location Main Entrance, Lutterworth Country Park
A SIXTEEN year-old girl from Lutterworth has been crowned Britain's best young veggie by national veggie group Viva!.
Caroline Butterwich won the competition to find the most inspirational young veggies and vegans in the country. Viva! youth campaigner, Fiona Galbraith, along with her giant friend Piggles the pig (a Viva! supporter dressed up), will be presenting Caroline with a trophy and a goodie bag of prizes on Thursday (September 18).
Caroline says: "I'm surprised, I wasn't expecting it at all! I'm very proud! I love telling people that I'm vegan.'
She was nominated for the award by her big sister, Becky who proudly told Viva!: "Caroline often hands out leaflets at school and gets other students to sign petitions, spreading the message in every way possible. Despite being partially sighted, Caroline has raised lots of money for various animal charities doing things like sponsored swims and vegan cake sales. She can often be found in the kitchen creating various delicious creations ranging from vegan cheese cake to spaghetti bolognaise. Caroline will not rest until animal abuse ends. That is why I feel she deserves to win.'
Her achievement also featured in Viva!'s magazine Viva!ACTIVE, to receive a free copy please email firstname.lastname@example.com. To find out more about going veggie, please visit www.viva.org.uk. If you're under 18 and would like to find out more about Viva! please email email@example.com or visit www.vivaactivists.org.uk .
The competition runners up were Flynn Byrant from Sutton Coldfield, Elizabeth Black from Dundee, Kyle Granville from Dover and Katie Spencer from Hull.
For more information, please contact press officer Helen Rossiter by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or Fiona Galbraith by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 0117 944 1000. To contact Fiona Galbraith on the day, please call 07794 083547.


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Arcade Fire show solidarity with Sinead O'Connor by ripping up photo of Miley Cyrus on stage
Arcade Fire showed their solidarity with Sinead O' Connor in a bizarre enactment on-stage last night at their Dublin concert.
In between songs, a man dressed as the Pope with a giant papier-mâché head came on stage holding a photograph of the singer Miley Cyrus, who was involved in a high-profile feud with Sinead O'Connor earlier this year.
Sinead's classic hit 'Nothing Compares To You', the song that ignited the feud, was played to the crowd and as they sang along, the Pope caricature tore up the photograph of Cyrus to cheers from the audience.
The feud began when Cyrus described her video for the song 'Wrecking Ball' as "the more modern" version of 'Nothing Compares To You'. In response, O'Connor penned Cyrus an open letter warning her of the pitfalls of the music industry, starting a much-publicised feud between the two which played out through Twitter, O' Connors blog, television and the media.
Arcade Fire also paid homage to Ireland as their announcer declared his support for the brief intermission as Gaeilge, adding "Nach raibh sé sin go brea?"
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Interview with Poinciana Paper Press Director, Sonia FarmerThursday, January 17th, 2013 Categories: Features, Interview, Updates
Sonia Farmer is a poet, a bookbinder, letterpress printer, and hand papermaker, and aims to publish books as beautiful as the words they hold. She is the founder of Poinciana Paper Press, a small fine press that produces hand-bound limited-edition chapbooks of Caribbean writing, based out of The Bahamas. Her poetry has won the 2011 Small Axe Literary Competition in Poetry and has appeared in various publications. She holds a BFA in Writing from Pratt institute.
Leanne Haynes: You are a Letterpress expert. Tell me about how you came to learn the technique and what attracted you to it.
Sonia Farmer: I'm not sure I'm exactly an expert! I'm still learning…
I went to Pratt Institute to study writing. I wanted to be a journalist but I soon found a passion in poetry and bookbinding. I took an "art of the book" class in Sophomore year and everything changed—from there, I took as many art classes as my credits would allow, exploring silkscreening, relief printing, etching, letterpress, and even a pop-up books class. I also took internships with master book-binders and papermakers (Robbin Silverberg, Dieu Donne) and letterpress printers (Peter Kruty Editions, where I eventually worked full time) and volunteered with small presses like Ugly Duckling Presse, Small Anchor, and The Corresponding Society.
I had taken up an internship with a literary agency at one point early on in college, and though it gave me great work experience it showed me the ugly inside of the publishing industry. I didn't like how books were commodified and marketed and how the system worked to benefit only a few genres. There was so place for poetry, for books with great ideas, with substance. When I volunteered with small presses, I responded to the spirit of it. They really and truly believed in everything they published, and it showed in the hands-on way they made their books. Whether they had ISBN numbers or not, were carefully bound or crudely stapled, were photocopied on whatever paper was available or handset and letterpress printed on carefully chosen archival paper, books published by small presses challenge the system, carve out a new space for important voices, and define new genres.
I like that, and I want to be a part of it, and I thought that small press culture could do well in the Caribbean, especially in The Bahamas where we haven't had so much of a publishing landscape per se—more like a culture of self-publishing. I wanted to create a new space at home for beautiful books to be made. I consider myself a writer, book-binder, letter-press printer, papermaker and printmaker who aims to make books as beautiful as the words inside of them. For me, books are an extension of the reading experience—books are very present in the stories they hold. So I use a little bit of everything I've learned along the way to make my projects at Poinciana Paper Press.
LH: Do you have your own equipment? If so, how did you come to have this?
SF: I am in the process of restoring some letterpress equipment here for the purposes of Poinciana Paper Press. When I moved home at the end of 2010 with the sole purpose of creating my press, I had a feeling, a hope I guess, that somewhere on the island there would be an old machine that someone just never threw away and that I could restore it and started to build a modest press from there. So I started asking around.
Ironically I did end up in the field of journalism after all—I started as a proof reader at the local paper The Nassau Guardian almost right away and a few months later became the editor for the Arts & Culture section. I asked them if they had any old funny-looking equipment they just never threw away, and the Operations Manager Gilbert Francis said they didn't. However, he passed on the name of Dr Danny Johnson—now our new Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture—as his father, Oscar Johnson Sr. used to have a commercial printing operation in Nassau.
Did he ever. He had a dozen presses, two hundred typecases, and everything to go along with that. I was floored when I first saw the old print shop. After negotiating with the family—who to their credit saved everything in their father's memory instead of scrapping it—I'm now in the process of restoring an old Chandler&Price, a Heidelberg Windmill, a proofing press, and tons of fonts. I also went up to New York City to purchase and move a little Kelsey press and Adana press (tabletop presses) with a couple of drawers of fonts. They're in great condition, so I've been using them for projects while I restore the larger presses that need more work. I also just got a board shears! It's my favourite piece of equipment.
My studio is a repurposed apartment in a larger house in a really lovely residential neighbourhood in Nassau. The house was converted into offices for my parent's company, Custom Computers Ltd., last year. They weren't sure what to do with this strange little apartment attached to the house and when I suddenly came upon this equipment I realized I'd need more than our shed out back, so they're generously letting me use it for free until I can get everything or order. They've been really supportive and encouraging, I wouldn't be anywhere near this stage with this much confidence without them.
LH: How does letter press feature in your life– do you have a business that incorporates this? Is it a hobby?
SF: Right now I'm in the restoring and setting-up stage, taking on only a few projects, so that when I officially launch the press with an open studio hopefully at the end of the summer, I can have everything organized and restored for a smooth operation. It's both a business and a hobby. I'd like to take on commercial projects—wedding invitations and the like—but I'd also like to make fun ephemera for sales—cards, coasters, etc. I'd like these to fund art projects like handmade chapbooks, poetry broadsides, collaborations with artists.
I'd also like to apply for grants to take on projects like republishing out-of-print books by great Bahamian writers so a new generation can read and know their work. I'd like to hold events like writing workshops and broadside poetry readings.
I'm excited for how much potential the press has. I want it to be a place of collaboration—I want people to come in to make things, make things together, I'd like to have artists and writers visit from abroad to make work. I'd like to offer classes in letterpress and bookbinding to keep the craft alive and to invite more people into that collaborative creative space.
In the future, after the letterpress shop is set up, I'd like to explore papermaking with local fibres, like pineapple and banana and set up a papermaking side too—but that's a few years away!
LH: Do you feel there is a need to go back to early forms of printing such as this particular method? It's much more intimate right? Something ever book-lover should learn?
I'm definitely a self-professed luddite—I'd prefer lugging 50 pounds of books in my suitcase than own an eReader. But we have to be smart about books in a digitized age—there can't be this one-or-the-other mentality because it will be to our detriment. There's room for both certainly, but it's important in a digitized world to keep love of books and book objects alive. The way to do this is to make books a tactile and visually arresting experience, and that's what I like to do in my work.
Another way to do this is to teach bookmaking and letterpress printing and papermaking. There is also something really humbling and meditative about pulling and couching sheet after sheet from fibre and water, from setting type letter by letter, considering space and font and composition, and then taking that story or poem on your handmade paper and binding it into a book by hand. It's sort of like making your own bread. It gives the maker a deeper appreciation and connection to the object, and helps them see books as the sacred vessels they are—something that deserves respect. I think the publishing world is a sad celebrity game right now, and taking people back to the basics will help them realize the value of making every sheet of paper, every word, count.
LH: So you've taught classes on letterpress?
I have held classes in the past as well as informal binding parties. The classes are often introductions to bookmaking where we cover basic chapbook forms like the pamphlet stitch and the accordion fold, but when I get the press up and running I hope to offer regular classes that cover a range of fun book-making activities. I've also visited schools and taught some poetry and book-binding workshops for children which is always really fun.
My favorite thing to do in terms of teaching however is to hold book-binding parties. In Brooklyn I would attend book-binding parties by small presses where like-minded creative people would come together to assemble books for the press they support. Traditionally, small presses are part of a local community, and in these book-binding parties you really feel a sense of that community, and a sense that you are helping bring into being some really important cultural work. Even though I would make all of the components of my books under Poinciana Paper Press in New York, I would ship them home uncompleted in order to hold binding parties in Nassau. It's a chance to bring people together in the same of creating art and culture, and it allows me to teach a certain stitch to anyone who attends, thereby passing on the love and skills of bookbinding. I always made it free and for their help they get to take home a book they bound.
LH: And you write poetry as well. When did you start writing poetry?
SF: I have always loved reading and writing poetry and even making books of my illustrated poems from a very young age. My parents encouraged creativity and always nurtured my interests and talents. I'm pretty sure they have some of my poetry books I made at all of seven years old! I kept writing poetry and won competitions in high school, but I felt creative writing—and art!—wasn't 'practical' to continue studying to college, so I opted for journalism. Yet I came back to poetry eventually. I had great teachers at Pratt Institute who helped me find my voice, and I get great encouragement from the local writing community which keeps me writing. In fact it was Christian Campbell who urged me to enter my poetry into the Small Axe competition in 2011, which I won. The poems that won are from my still unpublished manuscript "Infidelities" which examines the myths surrounding the female pirate Anne Bonny.
LH: Who are your influences, if any?
SF: It's hard to say exactly—I think I've been lucky enough to study under amazing writers and artists, and blessed enough to hold friendships with many of them in local and international communities. They've all influenced me either through their own work or the work they introduced me to. I adore the work from such a huge range of poets and writers and artists it would be too much to list.
LH: In 2012, you took part in Youth-IN Visions. What do you hope are the outcomes of the Youth-IN Visions project?
SF: What's funny is despite the digitized world, The Caribbean remains such a fragmented space—not only in our own communities, but between them as well. We're used to operating within our own vacuums, but it's to our detriment—we have so much to exchange, to learn from one another, to inspire with, and yet we have few ways of connecting in order to do this. What Holly (Bynoe) and Nadia (Huggins) are doing with ARC magazine is one major step towards that—and Youth-IN Visions is another. I really hope as a collection of mini documentaries it can help us make the connections we need to operate outside of our vacuums, to collaborate and think bigger—and I hope it can be the beginnings of a major platform that young leaders in the region can add to with their own projects and ideas.
LH: What's next for you?
SF: Right now I'm working on publishing three books that I had promised to make a long while ago. I want my books to have the certain look and feel that letterpress and other printmaking methods provide, so I didn't want to make any books until I had access to the proper equipment. Now with my studio set up, I feel I can make books again. Of course it's not ideal and I am encountering lots of problems, but I'm working through them!
The first book, to be released in early February, is "Saltwater Healing" by poet, academic and cultural activist Angelique V. Nixon. It's a visual narrative—poetry and collage—as well as additional poems that use the Bahamian landscape and cultural lore to explore difficult personal stories.
The second book, to be released late February, is "Vintage Roberts", an examination of early portraiture by the master Bahamian artist Antonius Roberts.
The third book is "Pictures at an Exhibition", a limited-edition artist book of poetry by Obediah Michael Smith inspired by the paintings of master Bahamian artist Stan Burnside. It covers almost a decade of Stan's exhibitions, so it's an exciting project. We are going to launch it during the annual island-wide tour of Nassau's art galleries, Transforming Spaces, on March 16th and 17th. Poinciana Paper Press will have a space at Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Arts.
What's different about these books as opposed to the books that have come before is the presence of visual art. I love that I'm making so many books where writing and visual art come together.
After that I am going to be taking some time to do some traveling to New York City in March to attend the annual Chapbook Festival and to make some paper; to Alice Yard in Trinidad in April for a residency and to read my poetry and speak about my press at the Bocas Literary Festival; and then hopefully to Europe over the summer to take a course and sharpen my skills in book arts. 2013 is an exciting year! Once I get back I'll prepare for the Christmas festivals and continue to set up the studio.


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Task Scheduling Heuristic in Grid Computing
Task scheduling is heart of any grid application which guides resource allocation in grid. Heuristic task scheduling strategies have been used for optimal task scheduling. Heuristic techniques have been widely used by the researchers to solve resource allocation problem in grid computing. In this paper, the authors classify heuristic task scheduling strategies in grid on the basis of their characteristics. They identified different types of heuristics such as population based heuristic, economic heuristic, meta heuristic, simple heuristic, and hybrid heuristic.
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text: Emily Martin has been making movable and/or sculptural artists books since the late 1970's. Her books are narrative sometimes autobiographical and make use of format as a metaphor for content. Emily Martin lives in Iowa City, Iowa, USA where she has her studio and also teaches at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Her work is in public and private collections throughout the United States and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago; The Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, Florida and others.


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" Brand: Aqua One / Type: Aquarium "
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My fish had a smaller tank than this to begin with but Crispin just kept growing and growing and he probably still is today! Soon I will need a pond if he carries on! I bought my tank on a bit of a whim when we were in our local independent aquatics centre, I believe it was on sale for something like £54.99 but this was a complete set up so I thought that actually the price was really reasonable. In the shop you had the choice of black, silver or pink. Guess which one I went for?! Of course I went for the pink as the fish lived in my bedroom and my bedroom was a pink paradise. However, now I live in my own place they are in the living room and the pink doesnt match the decor so much. It would if I put them in my bedroom but I dont spend a great deal of time in my bedroom and I like to watch Crispin and Crystal and Duke and Daisy are also rather keen on watching them too!
You can get stands for the tank but personally I am more than happy sticking mine on a side table or a chest of drawers and anyway you cannot get the stand in pink and I am a stickler for things being co-ordinated. The tank is part of the Aqua One Starter Series and the 320 is actually the smallest tank in the range holding 28 litres of water. You can also get a 340 which holds 40 litres and a 500 which holds 65 litres. As I have only ever had two fish in the tank I was more than happy with the tank but it would happily hold more fish if Crispin wasnt such a giant.
The tank came well packaged in a strong cardboard box. It was quite heavy but this is because the glass is actually glass rather than plastic or perspex. Once home I set about setting the tank up. The instructions told you how to do this very clearly and I found the set up quite easy to do, leaving the water to stand and how much water to put in from your fishes previous tank was well explained and when the fish did go in nobody died so I think I did it right!
As I said before, the tank will hold 28 litres. Its measurements are 33cm deep, 30cm wide and 38cm tall. The glass is 6mm thick. The tank comes complete with pump, filter system and light and this all fits together and is integrated well into the design. The pump has suckers which I use to attach it to the back wall of the tank and the light is situated inside the lid and protected by a plastic casing. I have had this tank for at least 2 years possibly more and I am still using the original bulb but I dont use the light every day as the fish are in a bright place anyway.
There is a small lid to use when you just want to feed your fish. I really like this idea because when lifting the entire lid to clean them out you end up with water drips everywhere and with two curious cats around its best to keep the gap where their paws can go as small as possible. The cats havent figured out a way to open the lid yet either which is brilliant.
I like the look of the tank. I like the tone of pink used as although it is a bright pink it is a metallic colour so doesnt look cheap. The front of the tank has bowed glass which also gives it a nice appearance and everything is put together nicely so you arent left seeing light bulbs and filters etc. All you can see of the actual set up is the black pump that I put at the back of the tank.
I have found the filter system to work really really well and the tank stays cleaner so much longer than our old tank, it can be well over a month or even 6 weeks until I need to do a partial water change in the tank and up until that time the water remains clean and clear and the fish remain happy swimming about. When it comes to cleaning the tank I find this quite easy. I am always amazed at how much rubbish and discarded food etc is held under the gravel and also is absorbed by the sponge in the pump. Yuck!
The tank is heavy but of late it is fair to say I have become somewhat of a weakling since beginning on a particular medication. I am sure I used to be able to carry it a short distance about a third full to clean it but after carrying it down two flights of stairs back in April to take them to my Mums house whilst I went away I can safely say I will not be carrying them again! I suffer from extreme shaking in my hands from my medication and I cant tell you how many times I nearly dropped the tank. However, my Dad and my partner can both carry the tank fine so I dont think its overly heavy.
Crispin and Crystal like their environment. There is plenty of room in it for a large ornament and a few plants and even then there is space leftover. I think the height is good as they love to swim up and down and this gives them more room. For the size of the tank I would guess it would house at least 3 normal sized coldwater fish but of course do check with the supplier first as you dont want your fish to be cramped.
I find the tank easy to clean. I have found it tends to get a bit grubby under the full lid and of course the glass gets quite grubby too but this is really easy to clean and I usually do it with a kitchen sponge and then throw it away.
I think that this tank is really good, especially for the price I paid as it is complete and it has lasted well. Mine has no marks on it and I have never experienced anything stopping working or breaking. The fish love it and I love the colour and the way I can now view my fish so much better than I could previously.
I think the tank is brilliant for the normal family home coldwater fish tank. I would definitely recommend it.
To give you an idea of pricing, seapets currently have the black and silver in stock for £49.95 which is a bargain price http://www.seapets.co.uk/products/aquarium-supplies/aquariums/aqua-one/


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Microsoft hopes to push through adoption of its Silverlight technology by announcing strategic partnerships at its annual MIX 08 conference conference, including a deal with Nokia to put the technology on mobile devices.
Through a deal expected to be announced today, Microsoft is working with Nokia to put Silverlight - a competitor to Adobe's Flash technology - on wireless devices for the first time, said Tom Honeybone, senior director in Microsoft's developer division. Silverlight is a cross-platform plug-in that lets developers create multimedia and rich internet applications (RIAs) and then run them from the browser.
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At MIX, Nokia plans to reveal a beta programme for its runtime for Silverlight on its Series 60 and Series 40 mobile phones, as well as demonstrate Silverlight applications running on the handsets, he said. By the end of the year, Nokia plans to ship handsets with the runtime embedded that can run Silverlight applications, beginning first with the high-end Series 60 smartphones, Honeybone said. Silverlight on Series 40 phones and on Nokia's tablet devices will be available thereafter.
Microsoft eventually plans to include a runtime for Silverlight in its Windows Mobile platform, but it chose Nokia as the first company to bring Silverlight to handsets because of the company's prominent position in the mobile handset market, Honeybone said. "Series 60 is the clear leader," he said. Nokia is not currently one of Microsoft's Windows Mobile handset partners, though there have been rumours that the company eventually will sign on to build Windows Mobile devices alongside competitors such as Sony Ericsson and HTC.
Microsoft will be developing a portability kit so Nokia can port Silverlight from the desktop to its mobile platform; that kit eventually will be available to other handset providers as well, Honeybone said.
Microsoft released Silverlight 1.0 in September 2007 as a plug-in for browsers that could work on Windows, Linux and the Mac platform. Microsoft developed the technology to displace Adobe's Flash, which currently has about 97 percent to 99 percent penetration on the web as a technology for delivering multimedia content and RIAs.
Flash also is available on wireless devices as Flash Lite; the technology is available on more than 450 million phones, according to Adobe.
Microsoft recently renamed its forthcoming 1.1 version to Silverlight 2.0, saying it's more stable and fully baked than merely an incremental release. The company has said Silverlight 2.0 will be available in beta form in the first quarter of the year. It's not unlikely that release will be made available this week at MIX, though Microsoft has not said this and would not comment Monday.
As Microsoft prepares to make Silverlight more ubiquitous, the company is using its own reach on the web to promote its use. The company has been using Silverlight on some of its own websites, confirmed Brian Goldfarb, group product manager, developer platform, at Microsoft.
Silverlight is not a required download to view the sites and users can opt out when prompted to download Silverlight, "but they will miss out on some great rich media content", he said.
Microsoft also has been using Silverlight as the delivery mechanism for some company-generated video, and its use was indeed required in at least one of those instances. Last week, a participant had to download Silverlight to view CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote webcast live from the Microsoft's Windows Server launch event in Los Angeles.
Goldfarb said Microsoft will continue to use Silverlight more and more as part of its web content delivery strategy, including webcasts and other video presentations on the web.
Microsoft also is using partners to promote Silverlight adoption. One of the first partners to develop on Silverlight and use it as a delivery mechanism, MLB.com, now requires the use of Silverlight for baseball enthusiasts to view games, audio and video. And at MIX, AOL is expected to demonstrate a free webmail product built on Silverlight 2.0, according to AOL.


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Firefly Online (FFO) is an online strategic roleplaying game set in the universe of Joss Whedon's cult classic TV show – Firefly.
Players take on the role of a ship captain as they hire a crew and lead missions, while trading with and competing against millions of other players like themselves. Much like the crew of Serenity, the Firefly-class transport ship featured in the original show, players must do whatever it takes to survive in the Verse: find a crew, find a job and keep flying.
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Ming Ming Cheung felt she was living in something close to hell when she came to the United States from Hong Kong in 1989.
Transplanted from a metropolis of 5 million people to a Southern town and speaking no English, Cheung had to build a life that revolved entirely around the kitchen of her new husband's restaurant. But even in the midst of hardship, she could count on her husband, Jone Cheung, for a sympathetic word.
"He loved me so much. Even though we were poor, if I needed anything he would try to get it for me," she said.
That changed May 30, 2009, when Jone Cheung was shot to death behind the counter of his restaurant, House of Cheung King of Wings on Milledgeville Road.
"I had nobody to talk to, nobody to share my anger, my happiness," Cheung said.
Last week, Georgia Supreme Court justices unanimously rejected the appeal of the shooter, Michael Eugene Williams. His attorneys sought to portray him as an emotionally fragile 20-year-old who fired the fatal shot out of panic.
It's a small relief for Cheung, but it doesn't change her circumstances.
Cheung was 30 when a family friend from the United States came to Hong Kong looking for a bride. Her mother urged her to take the opportunity, even though she had just met Jone Cheung. He wasn't handsome, but he was her age and she could sense his kindness and respected his honesty. With a promise that she could come home if things went sour, Cheung traveled to Augusta to start her new life.
The wedding was quick; the reception a simple meal of fried chicken. She transitioned immediately into a six-day work week, 12 hours a day, taking orders at the restaurant, which belonged at the time to her father-in-law. She was miserable that year, but time and her resiliency pulled her through.
In 2009, Cheung and her husband were still scraping by, but they had settled into a peaceful rhythm. After years of sacrifice, they were looking forward to a trip to Hawaii in December for their 20th anniversary.
Business was slow the night of May 30. Cheung was home packing for a trip to Hong Kong, and she urged her husband over the phone to close early. If he were was robbed, all the day's work would be for naught, she said.
He took her advice, but as he flipped over the "open" sign later that night, two patrons appeared at the door. His decision to unlock the door was characteristic of a man always eager for a customer, Cheung said.
According to evidence presented at the trial, while Williams slipped into the bathroom to pull on a green bandana and skull cap, Susan Inglett put a dollar on the counter for a cup of the restaurant's famous "Jone's tea."
While Cheung was distracted, Williams came out of the bathroom and pointed a gun at him.
What happened next shocked all the restaurant regulars, including Amy Reyes, who had known Jone Cheung since she was 8. When she heard the shot, Reyes rushed from the trailer park behind the restaurant. She couldn't get in, but she peeked through a window and saw Cheung on the floor.
"I just wondered why," Reyes said. "Why Jone? Why this place? Why in general?"
Everyone seemed to be crying, including the paramedics, as word of his death spread through the neighborhood, Reyes said.
Cheung continues to take her husband's death one day at a time. Her two children are college-age now and she's supporting them, along with her aging father-in-law. She traded the stress of the restaurant to a leaser and works another full-time job.
Forgiveness for Williams has not arrived. She last saw him at sentencing in January 2011 and said she detected no remorse in his smile or relaxed body language.
It's just one more burden Cheung carries, Reyes said.
"It's been rough on her, but she tries to keep her head up," she said.


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Yahoo Sports reports the Chiefs may approach Alex Smith about restructuring his contract.
That's restructure, not reduce, but it's still notable after the Chiefs made a surprisingly large commitment to Chase Daniel in free agency. The trade price Kansas City paid for Smith should make him the unassailable starter in 2013, but he could have another controversy on his hands as early as 2014.


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"Sprinkler Dash" is a 3D infinite runner game where the goal is to reach the 18th hole while avoiding the mad sprinkler system and the angry golf players. However, avoiding obstacles alone will not help you get a high score unless you have a strategy for pairing power-ups with the running style. "Sprinkler Dash" has an unique approach to the infinite running style by constantly increasing the speed and placement of complex obstacles.
Here's a list of features in "Sprinkler Dash":
- 3D graphics that make the visuals appealing for all players
- Easy gameplay as you only have to swipe to direct the running character or make it jump
- Powerups that help you advance faster such as driving a golf cart, using an umbrella, ...
- Choose between different characters the one you want to play with
- First 1,500 downloads receive a free power-up and 10,000 free points to use for upgrades
Can you stay dry while you run to reach the 18th hole? There's only one way to find out by installing the game for free from Google Play ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ian.spriklerdash ).
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Fans of Showtime's serial killer show "Dexter" knows that the show is in need of a new leading lady — so could that leading lady be Julia Stiles? Possibly, says EW, who reports Stiles's casting in the show's upcoming Season 5, though they have no further information on her role. EW does seem sure that Stiles won't be playing a new love interest for Dexter, citing the serial killer/hero's fresh widower status on the heels of Julie Benz's exit, but come on, he's a serial killer, what's to stop him from jumping right back on the horse? He's kinda different, you know.
Julia Stiles is one of those actresses you've seen in a lot of movies because she's always worked steadily throughout the years, and she's even fronted a couple of them ("Save the Last Stand", "The Prince and Me"), and she's even been in all three "Bourne" films; and yet, you'd be hardpressed to find anyone who can point her out by name. "Dexter" is a pretty popular show, but it is a premium cable show, which means not a lot of people have seen it, but those who have loves it, so I don't expect Stiles's fortunes to change afterwards.
And if you're thinking that Stiles would make a new serial killer opponent for Dexter? Forget about it. Show producer Chip Johannessen has already shot that idea down.
"Dexter" Season 5 premieres September 26, 2010.


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Black actress Stacey Dash isn't black enough. That's the reaction in cyberspace to her endorsement of Republican Mitt Romney.
What does "not black enough" mean, anyway?
Does it mean "supporting a Republican"? As if all blacks must vote Democrat? Does it mean "Supporting someone based on something other than race"? As if voting by skin color was what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had in mind?
Does it mean not supporting the kinds of policies that have ruled American cities for decades?
The withering criticism of the courageous Ms. Dash, who is bold enough to break from the lockstep pack backing Mr. Obama, begs the question: Is Barack Obama black enough?
If by that you mean "Is he pursuing policies that help African-Americans and inner cities?" the answer is clearly no.
Case in point: 83-percent-black Detroit was recently named as too dangerous for visitors – by the city's police officers themselves, who held an "Enter at Your Own Risk" rally Saturday.
Now, you can argue that the provocative statement by that city's finest is a union negotiating ploy – but that would be selling even public-sector unions short. Are you really ready to believe a union is so myopic that it will throw its own city under the bus for a buck?
Wait. Don't answer that. But you get the point.
The point is, what has Barack Obama done for America's cities and African-Americans to earn the kind of blind support he seems to be getting from those sectors?
When Stacey Dash concludes that a change to Mitt Romney is "The only choice for your future," she has considerable facts on her side.
"In August," reports the Chicago Tribune, "the National Urban League's State of Black America 2012 report found that nearly all the economic gains that the black middle class made during the last 30 years have been wiped out by the economic downturn."
And yet, in the nearly four years since electing our first African-American president, the state of black America has been largely ignored – by this president and by the news media that fawn over him.
But when they want votes, they sure come calling.
And when someone like Stacey Dash breaks from the herd, she gets trampled – without regard for whether the thundering mass has any good reasons underlying its sense of direction.
Facts would seem to argue against re-upping for the status quo.
"Blacks overall," writes the Tribune, "are experiencing a 13.4 percent unemployment rate, according to figures released Friday, much higher than the national rate of 7.8 percent.
"The Pew Charitable Trusts' Economic Mobility Project recently released a report projecting that 68 percent of African-Americans reared in the (middle class) will not do as well as the previous generation."
Facts, particularly economic facts, are colorblind.
Maybe our approach to them – and to candidates – should be as well.


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Dressed in a fitted black T-shirt and plain dark pants, Miami artist Michael Israel stands alone on an expansive stage. In his right hand he clutches a paintbrush.
Before him is a blank canvas that measures approximately six by four feet. Behind him are hundreds of people who have gathered to watch him work.
As a familiar ballad resonates from the stage speakers, several onlookers clap encouragingly. Some peer curiously. Others sit in silence. Without warning, Israel crouches, spinning his lithe body in a full circle before catapulting high into the air, arms extended, legs splayed. With the precision of a heart surgeon wielding a scalpel sharper than Bill Maher's wit, he spatters fire-engine-red acrylic paint across the once-stark cloth. In one swift movement, the artist lands, exhibiting the grace of a feline. He grabs a lower corner of the canvas and spins it upside down.
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That's how the piece begins. It ends, unbeknownst to most in the audience, less than four minutes later, with the vast majority of onlookers on their feet, screaming wildly. Some are in tears.
Skeptics may scoff that it's unlikely someone could produce something of creative worth in less time than it takes to order a burger and fries. Granted, he is no Picasso, and his art is the stuff of street fairs. Nevertheless the fact that he completes a piece in minutes is impressive.
Israel who has performed in Monaco and on NBC's reality show America's Got Talent recently decided to capture his work, along with the audience, on camera for a DVD called Art Outburst. It will feature Israel creating an estimated twelve pieces.
And he's doing it here in South Florida. On Friday, August 4, Israel is scheduled to give a rare local performance at the Crest Theatre in Delray Beach free of charge. Tickets will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis (and all attendees must give written consent to be filmed). That could be viewed as a bargain, considering this world-famous artist has shared the stage with celebrities such as comedian Jay Leno and country music singer Lee Ann Womack. Plus he has shown his artistry at presidential galas, and he wowed the crowd at the 2002 Special Olympics in Salt Lake City.
So what is it about Israel's work that inspires the likes of George W. to commission a portrait?
Describing what he does for a living is easy: He paints pictures, such as actors, musicians, athletes, and predictable patriotic images nothing any of us hasn't seen before. But explaining how he does it is another story. And trying to verbalize the range of emotions involved in actually witnessing his artistry is something even the artist admits finding difficult.
"Nothing communicates the emotion or the passion that you'll feel when you actually see a show," Israel says from his North Miami studio. "The goosebumps that come up on your arms, and the tears that run down your face. It's an amazing experience, and to try to explain it ... people think, No, it can't really be that good."
Israel's first foray into the art world ended in relative disaster. Or at least what a toddler might call disaster namely a slap on the rear. Before relocating with his newly married mother to Miami at age two, Israel lived in his native Queens. He recalls a photo snapped at the family home that depicts him with a crayon in hand, drawing on the wall.
"My mother was my first art critic," he laughs. "She walked up to me, looked at the picture, and then slapped me on the butt and said, 'Don't you ever do that again.' It's been parental revenge ever since."
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After graduating from high school, Israel perfected his craft at art fairs around the nation. Although he attended a number of art-related classes at various academic institutions, including the University of Miami, he considers himself largely self-taught. And during the past three decades, he has adopted a style all his own.
Combining his passion for martial arts he has a black belt in karate and trains up to six times per week with painting, he spins, twirls, and jumps around with the energy of a hyperactive four-year-old, in time to a thundering soundtrack. Sometimes he turns the canvas on its head to create suspense (his specially mounted canvases can be spun 360 degrees), or he might produce a piece in less than a minute. But wherever he's booked, be it corporate events, casinos, festivals, et cetera, he razzle-dazzles audiences with a brush-slinging frenzy of color and showmanship unlike any other.
Fans of his work have paid as much as $60,000 for a piece, which might strike serious art enthusiasts as reprehensible. There is even a year-long waiting list to snag one of Israel's live works. Among his most popular pieces is Hero, a man-size painting honoring 9/11 rescue workers.
And I must admit, while watching the videotape of him creating the piece along with Enrique Iglesias cooing his sultry "Hero" ballad, I did feel a tear well up.


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Exfoliating brushes seem to be all the range. Not wanting anything too fancy, but not wanting to miss out on a tool that sounded pretty amazing, I settled on the Dermalogica exfoliating brush. I popped it on my Christmas list and thanks to Santa; it appeared on Christmas day! The exfoliating brush is to be used in company with your Dermalogica clean bar or face wash. However, you use any other branded face wash with it. I guess it all depends what you prefer!
==Price and availability==
This brush retails at around £12.00 online. The only physical place I have that sell Dermalogica products are salons and these tend to hike the prices up.
The design of the brush handle is rounded so that it easy to exfoliate your face and see what you are doing in the mirror. The handle is made from grey plastic and contoured to be comfortable in the hand. The head of the brush is made from soft nylon bristles that are quite resistant to touch but soft at the same time. Nylon dries quickly making the brush hygienic. The head is around the size of a fifty pence coin.
The brush comes in a travel box that prevents the bristles getting crushed in transit. The box is a bit unnecessary really and I would just stick the brush in my wash bag if I was to take it away.
==Using the brush==
I have heard wonderful things about exfoliating face brushes so I was expecting quite a lot from this product. To use the brush, I dampen the head and pop on a little of my face wash. I then rub it over my face, paying special attention to my forehead and nose and being careful around the delicate eye area. On my first usage I went a bit mad and went to town rubbing away at my skin; eager to perfect the polished look! On my next usage I was much less aggressive as it really is not needed. I will use this brush every couple of days. To wash the brush, all you need to do is rinse it in water and leave to dry.
I like the feel of the brush and love the clean feel. What I most like about this is how my skin feels after use; I feel like it really gets rid of dry skin and helps clean my pores out. You can tell you have used the brush when it comes to moisturising as my skin feels soft and subtle. It is a great feeling.
Men can also use the brush; the design of it looks quite blokey anyway. Although I'm not prepared to share it with my boyfriend; I do not like the thought of it cleaning his skin and then mine!
I'll continue using the brush as it is helping the condition of my skin. I bet other cheaper brands will start manufacturing exfoliating brushes such as this as in the future. They really are a simple concept. I'm not knocking the quality of this one, it is excellent quality. The bristles are firm yet soft and none have come loose and the handle is sturdy and comfortable. I just think that £12.00 is quite a lot of money. Despite this, I would hasten to add that you will probably not need to replace the brush for a while, it really does seem like it would last quite a while.
Just over a week ago I finished a product testing trial on Dermalogica products. I was asked to use them for 4 weeks on a daily basis and record my thoughts, views, skin changes and a few other things to watch for alongside this. I always enjoy doing these sort of trials and have over the course of a few years been lucky to test some really fabulous products which I now use regularly and some really rubbish products which I will never use again, even if they do come for free!
When it comes to using products on my face I am always quite careful as to what I do and do not agree to test. The main reason being that I do have sensitive skin and on my face particularly it reacts quite badly to certain ingredients, which over the years of product testing I have managed to work out what will and will not cause skin flare ups. However, when it comes to Dermalogica I have been quite lucky in that my skin has always ended up in a much better condition after using something than it was before I started, but I'm just too mean to part with the money to buy the products out of my own pocket most of the time.
Back in 2009 I bought the Neutrogena Wave which I liked a lot, the downside being it got quite shabby quickly and I had to replace it, the batteries and keep buying the pads and I also grew bored. But I liked the results it gave and over time I haven't managed to find anything to place it. Then I did this product test which gave me a facial cleansing wash called 'The Essential Cleanser' and a facial exfoliating brush which both arrived in a cardboard box in their original packaging with a print off which stated:
"This ultra-gentle brush works with your prescribed Dermalogica Cleanser or Clean Bar to gently exfoliate dulling surface debris and impurities for effective cleansing. The Dermalogica Exfoliating Face Brush is great for sensitive skin that still wants an exfoliating boost and contains no artificial fragrance or colour. It also comes in a convenient travel case".
The facial brush was tightly packaged in a plastic box which was totally see through and around the middle was a label detailing what the product was 'The face brush' and who the manufacturer was 'Dermalogica'. The lid of the box was simply one you pull of and that was really easy to do and in size the box was no bigger than a tube of toothpaste and the brush itself reminds me of a dish washing brush but half the size. The brush is the Dermalogica silver colour and it has bright white bristles which feel slightly smooth to the touch though harsh enough to exfoliate the skin, they are made of nylon which allows the bristles to dry quickly making them very hygienic.
The idea of the brush is to enhance exfoliation of the face and for this you have to be quite careful about which products you use and how you use them to avoid bright red skin and scratching the skin because the skin on your face is quite tender. My problem is that I have an oily t-zone (chin, nose and forehead) but dry cheeks and when the weather is changing from wet, to cold to warm like it has done over the weekend and today, I notice a change in my skin and have to moisturise and exfoliate more regularly otherwise my skin looks and feels terrible.
So when you use this brush you need to wet your face and then the brush using warm water, not hot, and then apply a smallish sized blob of the cleanser to your face. Then using this brush in a circular motion, massage your entire face to ensure the cleanser is being worked on the skin and into the skin to draw out the dirt, grime and other impurities which have settled in and on the skin. The Cleanser that was sent with this brush uses ingredients such as Lemon Oil and Pine cone extract to draw dirt and grime to the skins surface whilst acting as a moisturiser, which allows this brush to draw these impurities away from the skin to leave it feeling, fresh, clean, soft and moisturised. Whilst the bristles are working on your skin you can decide how much pressure you need to apply, but remember the more you press the harder the bristles will be to your skin. You can feel the bristles on your skin as they work their way around and it is the perfect size for getting to hard to reach places like between your eyebrows and just under your eye. Then once you have finished washing, cleansing and exfoliating your face you simply rinse the brush in tepid water and allow it to dry.
I used this brush as directed every other day for 4 weeks and over those 4 weeks I was delighted at the results it gave, they far exceeded my expectations and similar products that I have used simply pale into insignificance and were a waste of money. As you can imagine, living in London can cause havoc on your skin because of pollution and so on and if you don't look after your skin it can be left to look dry, dirty and you can find yourself with breakout of spots quite regularly, not to mention blackheads. So when you have a job which means you spend a lot of your time with members of the public and clients you need to look your best and manky looking skin is not something I can afford to put up with.
To purchase this brush it would cost you anywhere between £9 and £15 depending on where you shop and knowing what I know now having tried and tested it, I would happily purchase it for that price and highly recommend it.


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Model wears a size S. Models height: 5'11" | bust: 32" | waist: 24" | hip: 34"
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This beautifully designed townhouse provides generous living areas with separate open plan living concept. Situated in The Wild ash Estate that enjoys the exclusive use of resort pool and community clubhouse and is within close proximity to rail,shops and schools
- Comprises of 3 great size bedrooms all with built ins.
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-Exceptional value and one the finest in the estate.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Autopsy Results: Cause Of Death 'Inconclusive'
Philip Seymour Hoffman's death on Sunday continues to send shockwaves through Hollywood, but answers surrounding the tragedy are still unavailable following the actor's autopsy report on Wednesday.
Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Nov. 2 after a friend came by to check on him. Police found the 46-year-old with a syringe in his arm and surrounded by plastic bags believed to have contained heroin, and law enforcement sources have indicated that the death was an apparent drug overdose.
Nevertheless, on Wednesday, the preliminary results of an autopsy were released, but only to reveal that Hoffman's cause of death is still "pending further studies," according to the Chicago Tribune. New York City chief medical examiner said that the autopsy was inconclusive, offering no hints as to what chemicals, if any, were found in Hoffman's system at the time of his death.
The Oscar Award-winning actor is remembered as one of the greatest actors of his generation with films such as "Capote," "The Big Lebowski," "Charlie Wilson's War," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "The Hunger Games," to name a few. Despite his success, the actor publicly battled an addiction to drugs, and admitted last year that he had relapsed after 23 years of sobriety.
Dozens of Hoffman's former co-stars and friends in Hollywood are mourning his death, including George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon, among others.
"This is a horrible day for those who worked with Philip," Hanks said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly on Sunday. "He was a giant talent. Our hearts are open for his family."
Clooney noted, "There are no words. It's just terrible."
Hoffman leaves behind his longtime partner, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children. A representative for the actor said that he would be buried in a private memorial service, but that a public memorial is in the works for later this month.
Meanwhile, four people were arrested in NYC under drugs charges that may be linked to the narcotics found at Hoffman's home, including 22-year-olds Max Rosenblum and Juliana Luchkiw, according to the New York Times.


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