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Fight fans were busy Googling "Arfan Iqbal" after Tyson Fury called him "my secret weapon" in his preparations to fight David Haye.
The searches revealed Iqbal is an unbeaten light-heavyweight from Derby – and he can punch.
Last month, Iqbal headed to Belgium to spar Tyson Fury in preparation for his fight with David Haye that has since been rescheduled for February and his new biggest fan – all 6ft 9ins and 18 stones of him – will be there when the 22 year-old aims to make it seven wins out of seven in Whitwick, Leicestershire.
Fury will have a ringside seat at Hermitage Leisure Centre on Sunday, October 13 after promoter Clifton Mitchell added his cousin, unbeaten heavyweight Hughie, to the show.
Fury will also be cheering on Iqbal after sparring "around 70 rounds" with him in Belgium.
"I was there for three-and-a-half weeks," said Iqbal, "but it feels longer when you spar Tyson Fury every day !
"We sparred four rounds every day and it was tough.
"When I first got there his reactions were slow, but when he sharpened up he had great speed and movement.
"I didn't expect a guy who stands 6ft 9ins tall and weighs 18 stones to be so fast and mobile."
Fury has based himself in Belgium with his trainer, and uncle, Peter for his last four fights and Iqbal said: "Essen is in the middle of nowhere.
"The closest shops are a 15-minute drive away. It was just train, train, train and when you finish training all you want to do is sleep."
Iqbal did have the energy to pick the brains of Fury's other sparring partners.
Seve Cunningham, who has twice held the IBF cruiserweight title and decked Fury in his last fight, and contender 'Fast' Eddie Chambers were also part of the camp and Iqbal said: "They gave me a lot of advice about training and how to throw certain shots. I've learned a lot."
Iqbal looks set for a big season.
He already has a place on a Channel Five-televised show pencilled in for November, then Mitchell hopes he will top the bill on a dinner show in Derby before the end of the year.
Iqbal said: "If I keep winning, by the end of the season I should be ready for a shot at a title."
The show in Whitwick also features Prince Dave Davis meeting Jahmaine Smyle for the vacant Midlands Area super-middleweight title, an exciting match up between Marc Ketnor and Kevin Hammond for the vacant British Masters middleweight belt and an English-title eliminator between all-action flyweights Terry Broadbent and Louis Norman.


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'Building up industry at home is key to creating jobs'
His latest initiative to help small business will allow struggling companies to apply for examinership through a less expensive Circuit Court route. By Maeve Dineen
RICHARD Bruton would almost certainly be Taoiseach today had he succeeded in wresting control of the Fine Gael Party from Enda Kenny a few years ago.
While many of those involved in that coup are without office, such is the Meath man's status he remains one of the party's grandees and holds one of the most important portfolios in the present government with responsibility for enterprise, trade and employment.
The job demands constant travel: Mr Bruton has already led 12 major trade and investment missions since taking office in March 2011, including five to the United States as well as trips to Saudi Arabia, India, Canada, France and China.
"The view of Ireland from outside is far better than it is at home but that's for good reason," he said in an interview in his department's Art Deco offices on Kildare Street earlier this week. "The export orientated sectors are doing very well here but we are an economy in transition."
While Bruton has criss-crossed the globe drumming up investment, his main focus is job creation – no easy task when the country is in the teeth of a recession and unemployment continues to bump along at around 14.8pc.
The Clongowes and Oxford-educated economist can't be accused of lack of ambition. The Government's Action for Jobs plan launched earlier this year has set itself the target of increasing the number of people at work in Ireland by 100,000 to 1.9 million by 2016. Many commentators have said this target is widely optimistic but Bruton remains steadfastly commited.
Real challenge
"The real challenge for Ireland is to create a strong indigenous engine for growth," says the 59-year-old who worked in tobacco company PJ Carroll and building materials company CRH before going into politics.
"We are very fortunate to have the multinationals and they are absolutely vital to have built clusters of strength but the real challenge is to build our indigenous capability."
He rejects the frequent criticism from local business that state organisations focus too much on the multinationals at the expense of our home-grown industries.
It is a mistake to put multinationals on one side of the economy and indigenous companies on the other, he adds. Both industries can grow side-by-side.
"In the ICT area, we have a mixture of both and in the medical device sector both grow together. It's not credible to say they are separate to each other except perhaps in the food sector."
But the minister does accept that there is not enough state support for companies making the jump from small to medium sized.
"This is a real problem and that's why we set up the Development Capital Fund – a €150m fund which looks at companies who reach a stage that they are growing well but they don't have the strength to make the next leap and therefore they look to international markets or sell out."
He also appears to be taking the side of business in cabinet when it comes to sick pay – an issue that irks small business. Last year Social Protection Minister Joan Burton put forward a proposal that employers will have to pay the first four weeks of their staff's sick pay under new proposals on sick pay.
The move would shave €150m off her budget but place a massive burden on Irish companies.
Bruton says a lot of very strong arguments have been put forward to oppose Ms Burton's suggestion.
"At the end of the day people will express their view," he says in relation to Ms Burton's intervention. While supporting the views of IBEC and other business lobby groups, he warns the decision will be a collective cabinet decision. We need to be very careful about anything that will be adding to employment costs in the current climate.
Strong reaction
"There has been strong reaction from the business community and they have pointed out that absenteeism in the small business sector is very low and that it would create a double tax for them.
"I can see that there is an issue of concern in Ireland that a lot of people become dependent long-term on the welfare system. My mandate is supporting employment. And what I'm trying to do is to look at the pinch points for business, where are businesses being constrained?" he added.
One area where businesses are obviously feeling the pinch is in bank lending, but can the Government force the banks to lend?
"The new lending to small business figures are disappointing," he concedes before urging businesses turned down for loans to complain to the Credit Review Office (CRO).
"We find them extremely good. Businesses can't take 'no' for an answer. People who use the CRO get credit," he claims.
Bruton said the banks clearly have to learn to lend to SMEs again and Enterprise Ireland is working with them to help reskill the bankers.
His latest initiative to help small business is an amendment to the Companies Acts that will allow small private companies to apply directly to the Circuit Court to have an examiner appointed.
"Last year there were only 30 examinerships in this country. Many, many more companies have closed. Our concern is that examinership is too costly.
Examinership process
The idea of this is to look at ways in which we could make the examinership process more available to a wide range of companies.
This initiative is aimed at the small and medium sector. It's a move that will allow businesses that are viable to seek examinership," he says.
Companies wishing to avail of the examinership will have to satisfy two of the three following criteria: balance sheet turnover not exceeding €4.4m, turnover not exceeding €8.8m and the company cannot have more than 50 employees.
As he speaks, Bruton sometimes looks tired, but it is hardly surprising. Few ministerial portfolios matter more to the country's future but require such a command of detail on so many different topics.
With so much at stake, it is not difficult to see why Enda Kenny buried the hatchet and put a man like Bruton, with his undoubted command of his brief, back at the centre of things.
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Pat's Texaco Tanker Page
I used to have a Yahoo Geocities site about the famous Texaco Tanker. Geocities recently shut down, so the site is no more. A recent request for info has spurred me into action... well, just a little action. I'm too lazy to build a new website, so I'll just post the content here. You're welcome, Jerome!
The "build photos" are dated, but please don't ask for newer-- this is the tanker model I lost in rough weather in a local pond, it is no more either!
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Pat's Texaco Tanker Place
Here's a page dedicated to those famous Texaco tankers- the same ones we lusted after as kids in the 60's- now gone from the seas, and only found on the pages of ebay auctions.
Over a hundred and eighty ships carried the Texaco star, and the fleet came to have a capacity in the millions of dead weight tons... but only five of these vessels, at a tiny 18,000 dwt apiece, are represented by the beloved Texaco Tanker toy ship... North Dakota, New York, California, Connecticut, and Florida. Read on, these ships are rare but worthy!
Pat Matthews, 8/2004
This site is neither sponsored, approved, nor endorsed by ChevronTexaco nor any other holders of registered trademarks depicted herein. Depiction of such trademarks is by "fair usage" in order to tell this story. So there.
This is all about that toy, isn't it?
OK, my brother had one and I didn't, and now they cost a small fortune. In 1961, you could get a 27" Wen-Mac Texaco Tanker ship for $3.98 with an eight gallon fill up at your local Texaco station. Today, a clean example will fetch a few hundred bucks, though enterprising restorers are taking well used examples and replacing the easily broken parts with reproductions.
For a toy, the Wen-Mac was a remarkably faithful reproduction of the North Dakota class tankers… I'd have to say the mold makers worked from the Newport News drawings, which I have copies of myself. Certainly there are simplifications, but the shape of the hull is almost correct, as is the layout of the superstructure and most of the deck piping and fittings. Heck, this thing is almost a model!
Texaco proudly offered the tanker toy as a symbol of their technology, emphasizing their stature as a large international corporation. Of course this was before the Torrey Canyon and Exxon Valdez. Now it's hard to take a model tanker to the pond without enduring oil slick jokes, a publicity angle not lost on the oil companies… I doubt we shall see a toy tanker again any time soon! (See the notes on Texaco's tanker renaming).
I'm still waiting for the right time to latch onto one of these (i.e., when the wife isn't looking)... in the mean time, here are a few shots borrowed from recent auctions.
Wen-Mac Dolphin
Chris at Red Venom Repros (look for the Wen-Mac link) shared this about a Wen-Mac variation on the North Dakota:
"The Wen Mac Dolphin Tanker is the "sister" ship to the North Dakota (in the toy world only). The Dolphin is an exact copy of the ND, but with white masts, chrome deck accents (pipes, etc.) red smokestack, prop, and gray rudder, but no booklet, and actually came disassembled... more of a model type kit. It has only 2 stickers (smokestack and fantail) vs. the ND 3 stickers ( 2 plus forward hull). The Dolphin was issued by Wen Mac in 1964 only...they re-used the molds when Texaco cancelled the contract for the ND".
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Pat's TT Drawing
Pat's Texaco Tanker Drawing:
It's really my brother's, Jeff Matthews. He had the toy tanker, and later got into drafting, then ship modeling and hull building. It was only natural that he'd research and draw up plans for the Texaco Tanker. He had an article and plans published in the June 1986 Scale Ship Modeler.
The original plans, on microfiche prints, came from a helpful source at Newport News. Don't bother asking them now, they don't support requests anymore... though they say all their old unclassified material has been handed over to the Mariners' Museum. A few photos were also provided. Jeff got a few more from Texaco, nice detail shots.
I've done some further work to fill in missing details, like figuring out the radar antenna, lifeboat davits, crane rigging, and deck top piping. I'm in process of creating a new set of CAD drawings with a details sheet; here's a taste of what's to come...
My intention is to offer a plans set along with a high resolution photo set, examples below. A lot of detail can be pulled out of these photos. See the grab rail attached to the lower part of the lifeboat?
Stay tuned!
(edit: Don't hold yer breath!)
Pat's Texaco Tanker Model
Don't hold your breath!
I have a bunch of other models to finish first. But I WILL build a big Texaco Tanker model... someday...
Pat's R/C WenMac Texaco Tanker
Decided to convert a WenMac tanker to radio control.
Bought an old crusty one on Ebay, so I wouldn't mind hacking on it for the conversion.
Note: The conversion includes carving a lot of plastic out of the hull, including a free-flooding ballast compartment.
(see captions below)
Red deck: Rustoleum Colonial Red
Black, white & hull red are generic enamels.
Wet block-sanded all the lettering, which is heat stamped in.
Filled the depressions with several layers of primer-surfacer and spot glazing putty.
Final wet sanding, painted the red; masked the waterline and painted the black.
Other hack jobs:
Chopped out the self filling ballast tank and sealed the holes;
Ditto for the old motor mount, and a few other projections and webs that were in the way.
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Other's Texaco Tanker Models
Newport News Builder's Model of the North Dakota
This model was built by Boucher-Lewis Model Builders for Newport News and Texaco. It was on display at Texaco's headquarters in White Plains NY until Texaco's merger with Chevron. With the closure of the White Plains office, the model was moved to the Boston Marine Society. These photos are courtesy of BMS member Steve Fox.
Other's Texaco Tanker Models, II
Edward Wyatt, Malta
Mr. Wyatt is an Ohio fan, like many Maltese... he's built five (5!) Ohios in 1:96. One is in the Naval Museum of Monaco, others can be found in the Maritime and the War Museums on Malta... these show Ohio in her wartime colors. Edward also has a peactime Ohio at home, in her original Texaco colors. In 1:96, these models are about 5 feet long.
(Note: The Ohio was famous for her heroic Malta run, see elsewhere here... but is not a sister to the North Dakota class).
The FAMM Models
The FAMM Models
There are two different desk-top models packaged under the FAMM name. FAMM is a joint venture set up in 1998 between Chevron and Texaco to market marine fuel and lube oil products, and which continues to operate today under the merged ChevronTexaco company. These are heavy "cold cast" resin models of reasonable detail, nicely mounted on wood bases with brass name plates. The wood base is about 17" long. The maker was Claytown in Davie, FL, but as of Sept. 2004, their phone seems to be disconnected and their e-mail bounces, even though the website is still up (but not updated since about 2000).
I've been told that these models were intended primarily for internal consumption- offered to employees, and probably as gifts for customers. Production was limited- 3300 OHIO's, of which only 1000 were offered for sale through external channels, and 4750 NEW YORK's. They can be found on ebay.
The Ohio model is the first in the series, issued in 2000.
Ohio of course is famous for her Malta run, in Operation Pedestal in August 1942. Only 5 of 14 merchantmen survived the run, with the Ohio being the most critical, with her load of av-gas for the British fighter planes on the island. The convoy is known to this day on Malta as "Il convoy ta Santa Maria", for it's fortuitous arrival on the feast of the Assumption. Read more about it:
Edit: Think this wasn't a tough run? The Brits lost an aircraft carrier, a destroyer, and two cruisers pushing this convoy through... Ohio was bombed and torpedoed... she made it into port with decks awash and the remains of a Stuka embedded in the focsle, towed in by two destoyers. Her American welded hull is credited with her survival.
Merrald Porter tells me there was also a run of 200 special OHIO's for company execs only... these had extra rigging and nice green felt on the base, where the standard base is finished wood with pads.
New York
The New York model is second in the series, and was issued in 2002. The box art dedicates the model as a tribute to those lost on 9/11/01. FAMM is headquartered in White Plains, just outside of NYC.
Sister to North Dakota, the famous gas station Texaco Tanker. In some documents, including the box art here, I've seen reference to the "New York" class, even though New York was the second hull started and the second ship launched in this series, after the North Dakota... both in 1953.
Note that the cargo booms are rigged at 45°, which is typical of display models, but wrong for any vessel heading out to sea! And the deck color should be red.
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The North Dakota Class
The North Dakota Class
The five vessels of the North Dakota class must have been a proud addition to the Texaco family. Just six years before, the Newport News shipyard started launching civilian ships again after the frenzy of WW2 production. Then came these handsome ships, a clear break from the utilitarian design of the pre-war T2 tankers. Almost streamlined, the North Dakota was as different from a T2 as a '49 Ford was from a Model A, and like the '49, reflected the upbeat spirit of a nation newly emerged from war and literally on top of the world.
At first, four sequential hull numbers were built for the Texas Company, with Florida being added three years later: (sorry, RCG doesn't do tables)
N.N. Hull No.
North Dakota
6 Mar 1953
New York
31 July 1953
6 Nov 1953
5 Feb 1954
15 July 1956
Specifications are the same for all five ships:
Length overall: 562-6
Length, between perpendiculars: 535-0
Beam, molded: 75-0
Summer draft: 31-0
Displacement at 31 draft: 24,750 tons
Deadweight tonnage (cargo): 18,075 tons
Capacity: 155,000 barrels
Service Speed: 18 knots
Normal Horsepower: 13,650
Maximum Horsepower: 15,000
Accommodations: 12 officers, 32 crew
These were product tankers, taking finished goods from Texacos refinery at Port Arthur Texas to the northeast US, as opposed to the larger bulk carriers that might be used to bring crude oil from the mideast to American refineries. The North Dakotas 33 wet compartments and a dry-goods hold forward could carry a variety of finished products- avgas, gasoline, kerosene, diesel, lube oil, and other petro-chemicals, earning them the nickname of drugstore tankers.
Four of the five ships were jumboized in the early 70s, with new length added midship, and the bridge relocated to a completely new aft superstructure. The extra 158 feet more than doubled the dead weight tonnage to 40,000.
North Dakota was left in her original general configuration, but was converted to carry asphalt. Two photos in our collection show her post-conversion. While the top side is not visible, its clear that the cargo booms have been removed, the SPS-10 radar has been updated, the hose gantry has been moved midships, and the stack logo has been changed from the old Texaco star to the 60s Texaco hexagon.
North Dakota suffered two serious accidents in her career:
3 October 1973: Explosion in aft pump room, with loss of three lives in the adjacent engine room. Report: USCG/NTSB-MAR-75-5
21 August 1980: Collision with unlit artificial island under construction off Louisiana coast resulted in a fire that burned for three days, destroying the forward section. Report reference. Sold to Sabine Towing & Transportation Co., who planned to rebuild and jumboize her; but due to declining shipping needs, the plan and ship were scrapped in 1984.
Notes on the tankers' markings:
1953-56: The five North Dakota vessels are launched, bearing unprefixed names, and no "TEXACO" hull marking. But the Texaco star is clearly present on the prow and stack at launching.
1959: All Texaco vessels have Texaco added as prefix to name, e.g., Texaco North Dakota. This coincides with a corporate name change from "The Texas Company" to a more familiar "Texaco". It's likely that the "TEXACO" hull marking went on at this time too.
1989: Exxon Valdez gains infamy for Exxon with a major oil spill in Alaska. Every news report, every night, mentions "Exxon Valdez", over and over...
1990: All Texaco vessels are renamed with "Star" prefix in place of "Texaco", e.g., "Star New York". Reason given: To better align with the new star trademark, which was introduced in 1981.
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Texaco Marine
Texaco Marine
Almost from it's very beginning, the Texas Company was involved with tankers. The company was founded in 1902, shortly after the big gushers started coming through in the Texas oil fields. In 1903, the company purchased it's first barge to move oil from it's Port Arthur facilities to Louisiana for use as fuel by sugar producers. Subsequent additions to the fleet led to the formation of the Marine Department, to manage the entire ocean-shipping portion of the business.
The fleet grew, and became an important part of the merchant marine in both world wars. In WW2, numerous Texaco vessels were lost, and 202 men perished while serving on these vessels. One of the most famous Texaco exploits was that of the Ohio, which was chosen as the tanker best suited for a dangerous run to resupply the besieged island of Malta. The convoy was formed up, and found itself under almost constant attack, with the big Ohio receiving much of the attention. But Ohio and her British crew persevered, and even though other ships didn't make it, she managed to limp into Malta's harbor, torpedoed, bombed, rudderless, and decks awash, as part of Il convoy ta Santa Maria, with a much needed load of av-gas for the British fighters.
After the war, Texaco found itself with several T2's, but it must have been at this time that the new North Dakota class ships were commissioned. A bit bigger and slicker than the T2's, they would bring a new look to the tanker fleet.
From here, the story follows the ups and downs of the oil market. The Texaco fleet grew substantially up until the 70's, including the huge VLCC's (very large crude carriers) used to bring overseas crude to market. Four of the North Dakotas were jumboized in the early 70's, but after this time, market forces brought great difficulties to the tanker operations. By 1995, the situation had degraded to the point that Texaco chose to shut down it's marine department, after 93 years of operation. Henceforth, Texaco's oil shipping needs would be outsourced to foreign flag fleets.
Texaco House Flag
See the Flags of the World website.
I also have a longish article from the Nov. 1953 Marine Engineering magazine about the Texas Company's new coastwise tanker, with lots of photos and data. If someone is seriously interested, drop me a line.
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This is a pretty new foundation from the make up brand "NYC". It's a "skin matching" foundation that claims to adapt to the natural colour of your skin. I bought this foundation on one of my many trips to Superdrug because I was intrigued to see if something priced so reasonably really could "adapt" to my natural skin colour. We all know the difficulties in finding the right shade of foundation and whilst usually I can find a matching tone I thought that a foundation able to adapt would be a nice new addition to my make up collection. The foundation also claims to blend seamlessly and it contains vitamins A, C and E. There is no SPF in this foundation.
The foundation comes in a small plastic tube with a black lid. On the front we can see "NYC" in silver writing on a black band at the top of the product. Then there is the name of the product, the product's shade and some details mentioned in the description. On the back of the bottle is a brief product description, manufacturer's details and ingredients. To reach the product you simply unscrew the black lid and squeeze the tube, not much pressure is required to release the product.
You can currently purchase this foundation from Superdrug for £3.49.
This foundation was just ok in my opinion. It was nothing special but it certainly wasn't the worst foundation I have tried. The first real point to note is that from my experience it doesn't seem to "adapt" at all to my skin, as most people I have slightly different tones to my skin depending on the areas of my face. This foundation didn't adapt but still provided a good coverage to give an overall even look.
The shade I bought was slightly lighter than it looks in the bottle and I did find that the liquid itself was a bit too runny making it harder for me to work with, this wasn't the end of the world though. I didn't need a lot of the product to create a good coverage which is always a positive.
I don't really like the feel of this foundation, it feels quite weighty even with a small amount of product blended in and I can really feel it on my face, I prefer my foundation to be light and airy. Another slight qualm I have with this product and any NYC foundation I've tried is that they appear to have a "smell" to them, the smell isn't exactly bad but it's not like it's strawberries or anything either. It smells like something that has been manufactured and I find it very strange to have a "smell" to a foundation. It's not just me that notices it either, me boyfriend has sometimes commented on it.
If you are looking for a cheap foundation with a decent amount of product that provides an even coverage and you don't wear foundation every day then I would go for it, if however you wear foundation regularly and like feeling as though your skin can breathe I would not recommend it. The smell associated with this foundation may also not be everybody's cup of tea.
The staying power is good for this foundation, I don't feel the need to touch it up very often and would probably only do so once in a day.
An OK foundation with an interesting concept that from my experience did not work, despite this the product still provides good coverage for the price.
Anyone who reads my reviews will notice, I love foundation! And after shopping yesterday, I noticed a fairly new brand to my local Superdrug, which was NYC or New York Colour, and they had a range of make up, but my eye was caught by the Skin Matching Foundation, as it boasted a lot about the product and was a good price, so I thought it was good to give it a go!
The packaging of the foundation is really simple but nice, the foundation is in a clear squeeze tube, with a black banner on the top of the tube, which has the NYC logo. The tube is clear, which shows the colour of the foundation, although it looked much darker in the tube then I hoped. There is information of the front of the tube, which states the shade of colour and says the product "adapts to Skin's Colour and Texture" and it has "Vitamins A, C, E". On the back of the tube, there is more information about the product, such as it is "suitable for all skin types and has a "blend of minerals", which are quite large claims for a foundation. Although there is a large amount of information on the back, it is in really small font, so be difficult to read. Ingredients are also stated on the back of the tube.
NYC Matching Foundation comes in a range of 5 shades, 685 (lightest), 686, 687, 688, 689 (darkest). I was fairly disappointed in the selection of shades, as most brands do have a larger selection of shades, and I find it difficult find a shade I want, and some women won't find their shade in the NYC selection. I am currently reviewing 686, as it is the lightest, so should suit my skin tone.
Applying the foundation was pretty tricky, just squeeze abit out of the tube, but I can be difficult to not get too much out of the tube, and with this brand, the tube consisted of a lot of air, which was weird, but made it fairly difficult to get a small amount of the foundation out. The foundation is fairly liquid-y, so it is really easy to apply with fingers and with a sponge. The first thing you notice about the foundation is the smell, it smells like perfume, which I personally don't like as it is quite strong smelling and it lasts throughout the day, so if you don't like perfumed foundations and strong smelling product, then I would avoid this product.
The foundation was really light and liquid like, which made it really easily to apply and blend in, which is a real contrast from other foundations, and it allowed me to get a much more even and thin layer of foundation, but if you want a thicker layer, then this foundation is not really for you. As the foundation allowed a thin layer, it enables my skin to breathe and it feels really light on my skin, which I love as that heavy and thick feeling, feels horrid and often causes me to have spot out breaks. The colour of the foundation actually is much lighter then the tube implies, which is a real positive to fellow pale skin people, and the foundation does match my skin colour, which I guess means the foundation has lived up to it's name, but I'm not sure about the technology or just the shade matches my skin colour, either way it's great! I wasn't expecting the foundation to last long, but it did last a pretty considerable amount of time, maybe 6/7 hours, which is a real positive, but you might have to re-apply throughout the whole day.
New York Colour is a fairly new brand, and you can buy the Skin Matching Foundation for £3..99, which is a real bargain, and currently can buy it in Superdrug.


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Dermatology Research and Practice
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 798324, 2 pages
From Melanocyte to Malignant Metastatic Melanoma
1The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, 522 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
2Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
3Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa
4Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Received 10 August 2010; Accepted 10 August 2010
Copyright © 2010 Prashiela Manga et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Incidence of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, continues to increase among older adults and young women worldwide despite significant efforts to raise awareness and inform the public about risk factors such as sun exposure, use of tanning salon, and the need to monitor skin for potential neoplastic lesions. Whether this increase is due to an actual rise in the number of individuals that develop the disease or due to an increase in classification of lesions as melanoma remains contentious; however it is indisputable that limited progress has been made in improving treatment of malignant melanoma or mortality rates. While new targeted agents against BRAF and immunotherapies directed against CTLA4 are showing great promise in clinical trials, FDA-approved therapies for melanoma remain largely ineffective, highlighting the need to better understand the mechanisms underlying disease initiation and progression. Melanoma results from malignant transformation of melanocytes. The most frequent site of transformation is in the skin where melanocytes produce the pigment melanin that confers skin color and protects against sun-induced damage. Multiple factors contribute to melanoma risk, including genetic predisposition and environmental risk factors such as sun exposure. In this special issue, we present six papers that review some of the crucial issues currently being investigated in the melanoma field.
B. Bandarchi et al. provide a broad review of malignant melanoma, from epidemiology and risk factors to classification and clinical features, highlighting some of the genes that play a role in disease progression. Furthermore they review treatment options and discuss the 2009 American Joint Committee on Cancer Melanoma Staging and Classification.
J. A. H. Lee explores the relationship between incidence rates for in situ and invasive melanoma, proposing that the trends may in fact provide clues to the mechanisms that underlie development and progression of melanoma.
R. Ria et al. review the events and consequences of increasing vascularization during tumorigenesis and summarize the most relevant cytokines involved. They also detail the roles of melanoma-produced factors involved in interacting with or modifying the extracellular environment in favour of neovascularizing processes. Finally, these authors discuss recent efforts to therapeutically target tumor vascularization in patients using a variety of small molecule inhibitors, concluding that there remains much room for improvement.
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J. F. G. Cohen-Solal and coworkers review melanoma's capacity for immune escape, reminding us of extensive studies conducted by themselves and other groups which show that expression of Fc-gamma receptor decoys serves to prevent immune effector cells from recognizing melanoma cells and providing answers as to how melanoma has so far avoided targeted immunotherapy. They close with the hopeful note that it may be possible to design Fc fragments with reduced affinity for decoys and higher affinity for immune-functional receptors.
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Domestic Petroleum Price Smoothing in Developing and Transition Countries
This paper examines the case for government-led smoothing of domestic petroleum prices in the face of volatile international prices. Governments in most developing and transition countries engage in petroleum price smoothing, as the survey of country practice carried out for this paper shows. This paper reviews the potential welfare implications of petroleum price volatility, and assesses different price smoothing rules on the basis of historical oil prices. These simulations reveal the presence of a sharp trade-off between price smoothing and fiscal stability, suggesting that developing and transition country governments should engage in limited price smoothing and, if possible, rely on hedging instruments to do so.
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"Saving and Liquidity Constraints,"
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- Angus Deaton, 1989. "Saving and Liquidity Constraints," NBER Working Papers 3196, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Paul Cashin & Hong Liang & C. John McDermott, 2000. "How Persistent Are Shocks to World Commodity Prices?," IMF Staff Papers, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 47(2), pages 1-2.
- Hong Liang & C. John McDermott & Paul Cashin, 1999. "How Persistent Are Shocks to World Commodity Prices?," IMF Working Papers 99/80, International Monetary Fund.
- Kletzer, Ken & Newbery, David M & Wright, Brian D, 1992. "Smoothing Primary Exporters' Price Risks: Bonds, Futures, Options and Insurance," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 44(4), pages 641-671, October.
- Kletzer, K.M. & Newbery, D.M., 1991. "Smoothing Primary Exporters' Price Risks: Bonds, Futures, Options and Insurance," Papers 647, Yale - Economic Growth Center.
- Rodrigo O. Valdes & Eduardo M Engel, 2000. "Optimal Fiscal Strategy for Oil Exporting Countries," IMF Working Papers 00/118, International Monetary Fund.
- Engel, Eduardo & Valdés, Rodrigo O., 2001. "Optimal fiscal strategy for oil exporting countries," Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago (Estudios e Investigaciones) 34818, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
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- Benton F. Massell, 1969. "Price Stabilization and Welfare," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 83(2), pages 284-298.
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My 'Dinner guest" is a lady whom I got acquainted on internet. I happened to travel to USA so I got the chance and invited her on dinner while I was in transit.
So here is my DINNER GUEST
Dé.jà vu
I was waiting for her in the hotel lobby, where I had to have a short stay as a transit passenger. I did not give her the time, but I e-mailed only the name of the hotel in which the airline was going to provide me the lodging. I had nothing to do specifically there in the hotel, so I came down to the lobby restaurant made myself comfortable in a sofa from where I could keep an eye on the entrance of the hotel. The contents of the e-mail I sent to her were echoing in my mind:
"I am travelling, and I have made my flight arrangement so that I can get a transit in your city. My stay will be for about 10 hours, so the airline will provide me a room in Hotel Serena located near the airport in your city. I would be very pleased if you could pay me a visit and have DINNER WITH ME if it is convenient to you…………………."
I was there sitting on the sofa, and periodically eyeing the entrance. All at once I felt that the atmosphere around me changed, and filled with an enchanting fragrance just as the same I used to feel whenever she came before me in my imagination. Yes she had come! She put her delicate feet in to the entrance.
I didn't know how all it use to happen, or maybe it was because of the love I have for her, I could never see her as a separate person. I always felt that she is a part of me, runs like blood in my veins and I breathe which gives me life. It always surprised me that mere an appearance of her could transform the entire surrounding.
She threw her searching eyes around, and stopped at me. There was complete silence, I was hearing nothing, the slight movement of her bosom, where she was holding the baby was giving me the sense of her breathing, which she was trying to control. There was a smile of content on her face. She stepped towards me; as usual I felt that if she was floating. I stood up when she came near me. She sat on the other corner of the sofa very calmly as if there was not need of any formalities.
There were two more eyes looking at me besides her…………..the baby, she was smiling and cuddling while looking at me. I smiled back to her………………trying to scan her face as I wanted to find some reflection.
We were sitting there in silence, or as we did not need words to communicate, just as our eyes were doing the rest. Quiet, but all was there we talked. I was in a deep calm seeing her contented; the happiness pouring out of her was all I saw.
"Aren't you going to order, am I not invited at dinner?" She was smiling while talking to me.
"You do it."
"Okay, here is Alcatra (menu)." She chose some dishes, as she knew very well what suited to me as well as hers. They were all Egyptian dishes.
I did not know how much time was passed. Then she asked after we have finished the dinner, "When is your connecting flight?" I at once came into the material world. I threw an eye on the clock in the lobby, "the airline coaster is about to come within an hour." I replied very dejectedly.
'Ok, I must leave now!" There was a gloom clouded on her face.
"Tell me, do you feel any remorse after seeing me?" I asked her while she was trying to compose herself.
"Remorse!" There was a shock in her voice, "Why! No!............I am rather finding myself as I am in a complete protection, save, and without any fear………..very contented." She was speaking very confidently and her eyes were shining more and more with every word she spoke.
"I am really having a longing that I might have the power to reverse the turntable of life back to synchronize it with yours." There was a deep smile on her face with a light colour of shy.
"Thanks for the dinner."
"Thanks for coming."
"I had to, I was longing to see you in physical and you provided me that chance." Saying this she stood up to leave.
"I would have to bring some gift for you, but I could not decide what………."
She interjected, "Oh there is no need for it!" She smiled, "I already have my gift………….." She eyed her baby and gave her a big kiss.
That was a 'dé.jà vu'. It was happening to me once again. Many year ago I faced the same situation someone said the same words to me and I could not say a single word in return except staring her as I was seeing her this time spell bound stepping down far away at the last step of the hotel's exit, where she was going out of my sight engraving her last look in my heart. Once again there was a heavy burden on my heart, but this time I did not violate the norms and ethics of love but NATURE did.
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Thank you Seeker.
Thanks angel! I am glad you like it. It means a lot to me.
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once again u depicted a scene sooo well.....
really wonderful!!!!!!!
To some extent you are right, Saba, but if you just imagine it unrelenting to mishaikh, this will became a different one. Besides our literature is full of the stories about unfulfilled love, you will find very rarely the successful love stories. So when there is always an unfulfilled story, you will find the lover (she/he) leaving or departing the beloved.
I hope I have cleared my point and it is easy for you to understand because we both belong to a same eastern background and have mutual legendary love stories.
I am most grateful to have your comments and expect to have in future too.
You have good talent to write your imagination, but your story is repetitive to me, when I was reading it, I immediately could guess who your guest was, because I read about her in your previous blogs, she was again that delicate woman who did a short visit and left you.
Thanks for sharing, I always learn new vocabularies from your blogs.
owaoooo..nice and different, I liked to read it.
Thanks A LOT Tara. I am glad having encouragement from you. I will try my best to be up to the expectations of my seniors.
I was very curious about what I would find here! This story has so much emotion in it. Thanks for taking part in the writing challenge. I love when MyEC bloggers put their own spin on a writing assignment. Keep writing! I'd like to find out what happens next.
Just User a writer should be able to create any atmosphere according to the demand of story, irrespective of his own personality. I am lucky I have some readers like you who keep the deep vision. I am most grateful to you and hope that you will keep continue giving your comments on my future work.
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When I read your blog in which you were talking about your wife, I saw that you have a nice wife.
Then when I read your blog poem dedicated to you from your poetess friend, I saw that you have a nice friend.
So, I counted you as a lucky person having those nice people. But now when I read your this blog, I got that nice person (you) attracts nice surroundings.
Thanks for inviting me to read this really nice blog, I liked it the most.


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For the past forty or fifty years the Algarve has developed into the region of choice for the more discerning and selective type of holiday maker, second and or holiday home buyer.
From its early and more humble origins as a holiday destination attracting the national market, to the advent of the first golf courses that were built in the sixties, that now number over 50, stretching from the Eastern Spanish border to Lagos in the West.
Due to the amount of luxury properties that have been built there, the most famous courses are situated in the Central Algarve and specifically in an area that has been dubbed "The Golden Triangle" This enclave encompasses the exclusive golf estate of Quinta do Lago and Beach and Golf resort of Vale do Lobo. The eclectic mix of super modern luxury villas and Michelin starred restaurants, blends with charming whitewashed village properties, bedecked in bougainvillea, that are dotted around the hills. Regardless of your social and financial status, with the Atlantic Ocean lapping the shoreline of the long sandy beaches, under blue skies and with over 3,000 hours of sunshine per year, there is something for everyone in the Algarve.
However, although life style and quality of life have always been the key motivators, there are now added benefits.
Why Property in the Algarve is a Good Investment?
Although not a "Tax Haven" Portugal has introduced a host of fiscal advantages designed to attract immigrants to Portugal. These benefits are chiefly concerning what is described as "Non Habitual Residence" in short the, to comply with the law the individual only has to prove that they have not resided in Portugal in the previous 10 years. They are then given residence for a 10 year duration, during this time any world-wide income is not taxed by Portugal and any income earned in Portugal is only subject to a 20% rate.
Additionally there are also benefits for pensioners' wishing to take up residence as their pension are taxed at substantially lower rate.
This initiative was introduced to attract non-European Community nationals to Portugal. The concept is simply, to qualify the applicant must either invest a minimum of €500,000 in a property, or invest a minimum of €1,000,000 to establish a business that employs a minimum 10 personnel. The Golden Visa entitles the holder to travel within all Schengen Accord countries in Europe.
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Make a big splash. Get noticed. Make a name for yourself and capitalize on it.
It's not a hockey thing.
It's a life thing.
It's not the culture of hockey that needs to change in order to eliminate unnecessary and avoidable injuries. It's the way kids are parented, schooled and, ultimately, coached.
There needs to be more respect. Players, and people in general, need to find their way back to the idea of doing to others what you'd expect to be done to you.
Debating hits to the head in hockey has become an annual tradition. And it returns to Calgary following Flames winger Curtis Glencross' hit on New York Rangers veteran Chris Drury in the opening minute of Saturday's game at the Saddledome.
Glencross received a three-game suspension for it Monday from a league that has been anything but consistent on its head-shot rulings.
Philly's Mike Richards wasn't penalized for a much more vicious hit on Florida's David Booth -- another blindside ramming that led to a concussion.
Suspending Glencross is the right thing to do, even though his actions were never intended to injure.
Blaming someone for having their head down is easy.
Blaming the guy who punishes them for it with a hit they would never want to receive if they found themselves in that same vulnerable position rarely happens anymore.
The topic nearly netted its first fatality in an Ontario Hockey League game a week ago, when Kitchener Rangers defenceman Ben Fanelli suffered skull and facial fractures after taking a heavy hit against the boards from Erie Otters forward Michael Liambas.
No longer sickened by such things, people -- even those who have never seen a hockey game their entire life -- flock to sites like YouTube to catch the latest violent incident captured on video.
Like a life that's moved gradually from the Model T to the Ferrari and from dial-up to wireless, hockey's players are sleeker, faster and more dangerous than ever.
Expectations are to finish every hit and make the enemy pay for every inch of ice. It's that innocent-sounding philosophy that led to Glencross connecting with a puck-less Drury as the Flames winger tried to bring back some of the grit missing from his game.
And the fans eat it up.
Glencross' impact was minimal -- although you'd have a hard time convincing Drury of that -- but things are at a point now where the results can be devastating. No one holds back when they see a player skating up-ice with their head down or see the numbers on the back of a jersey as they battle for a puck along the boards.
They see an opportunity -- to make that splash, to get a clip on YouTube and to hit the highlight reels of every sports station across North America.
According to the rules of the game that have -- aside from a few -- been changed to allow these athletes to gather even more speed when they slam into one another, the hits are often legal by definition.
As NHL GMs discuss the issue this week, they should remember this game used to be about the puck.
A hit meant to separate a player from the six-ounce disc of vulcanized rubber is fine.
One intended to separate a player's head from his neck ... not so much.
No one wants to see hitting taken out, but there have to be clear-cut guidelines defining what is OK and what isn't.
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Make it simple. Make it work.
In 2010 I had an experience to work for a business that had lots of challenges.
One of those challenges was luck of technical architecture and business value recognition which translated in spending enormous amount of manpower and money on creating C++ solutions for desktop client w/o using .NET to minimize "footprint" (2#) of the client application in deployment environments. This was an awkward experience, considering that C++ custom code was created from scratch to make clients talk to .NET backend while simple having .NET as a dependency would cut time to market by at least 50% (and I'm downplaying the estimate). Regardless, recent Microsoft announcement about .NET vNext has reminded me that experience and how short sighted architecture at that company was. Investment made into making C++ client that cannot be maintained internally by team due to it's specialization in .NET have created a situation where code to maintain will be more brutal over the time and number of developers understanding it will be going and shrinking. Not only that. The ability to go cross-platform (#3) and performance achievement gained with native compilation (#1) would be an immediate pay back.
Why am I saying all this? To make a simple point to myself and remind again – when working on a product that needs to get to the market, make it simple, make it work, and then see how technology is changing and how you can adopt. Simplicity will not let you down. But a complex solution will always do.


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BIKES VS CARS is a documentary about the bicycle and what an amazing tool for change it can be. It highlights a growing conflict in city planning between the bicycle, which supports a diverse city with a human scale, and the car, which engenders urban sprawl and reliance on fossil fuels. From Copenhagen to Los Angeles via Sao Paulo, director Fredrik Gertten explores the ongoing efforts of bicycle activists, who are fighting for their right to ride on city streets against the combined forces of multi-billion dollar auto, oil, and construction lobbies, who are determined to keep our cities car dependent.
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Ten jobs will be lost with the closure of Mothercare in Bury St Edmunds which shuts on October 20 after some 40 years in town.
Now stakeholders in the town are being urged to get together after the bank holiday to look at ways to breathe a new lease life into the area.
The business has been operating for around 40 years in the town, it is understood, with one of the current staff having served for 17 years and another for 13 years.
"It is such a shame it is closing. But there you go, it is life," said a member of staff.
"We are part of the community. It will be sad to go," said another.
No-one at Mothercare's head office in Watford has been available to comment.
Mark Cordell, chief executive of the ourburystedmunds Business Improvement District (BID) group, said the closure should be used to promote a positive case for the town as a shopping centre.
Mr Cordell said: "It is disappointing to hear the news of the Mothercare closure. We now need to try to get a new tenant. We need to be more proactive."
Nearby is the former Officers Club, which has been closed for some time, as well as some others.
Mr Cordell wants to set up a meeting with local authorities, the Bury Town Team and his own organisation to discuss ways to add to the promotion of the town.
"I want to use this opportunity for the Town Team and the key authorities to come up with ideas for attracting new tenants."
"When Bury is doing so well it is the right time for us to attract new tenants."


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Les Miserables COSETTE DOLL 1986 Broadway Victor Hugo
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If you love the show or know someone who does, this is a perfect gift! From the wonderful Broadway production of LES MISERABLES (based on the novel by Victor Hugo), this doll represents, "Cosette" probably before she is rescued and adopted by Jean Val Jean (sp?)She is an all vinyl 13 inch doll by EFFANBEE with long wavy red hair-down to her waist! And her close-fitting hat is so cute. She is a first edition in the Broadway Footlights Collection and was limited to one year of production -1986
"Cosette's wavy hair, painted eyes and delicate waif-like features convey that wide-eyed, soulful expression that theatre aficionados have come to love and identify with. Outfitted in clothing representative of the period, 13" Cosette is fully jointed and carries a wicker basket."She is like new in her box, never removed from the cardboard backer but the back piece, with her still attached,has been taken out for pictures. The box has some wear and excessive amounts of clear packaging tape on many places on it. Cossette has a tiny rub on her nose-not sure what from-tiny dark mark. She has her certificate and hang tag too.
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Swiss chard is a leafy, cruciferous vegetable that is a good source of vitamins A and C and iron. Prepare the leaves like you'd prepare spinach leaves and the stems like asparagus.
In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the shallots, garlic and mushrooms. Saute the vegetables until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the Swiss chard, reduce heat and cover for about 3 minutes. Using tongs, turn the chard over so that uncooked leaves are on the bottom and wilted leaves are on top. Cover and cook until completely wilted, about another 3 minutes.
Fill a large pot 3/4 full with water and bring to boil. Add the pasta and cook until al dente (tender), 10 to 12 minutes, or according to the package directions. Drain thoroughly, reserving 1/4 cup of the pasta water. Return the drained pasta to the pot. Add the Swiss chard mixture and the reserved pasta water. Toss to mix evenly.
Divide the pasta onto warmed plates. Top each serving with 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese and cracked black pepper. Serve immediately.
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Nellie Frances Giles, 91, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999.
A native of Oconee County, Miss Giles was a daughter of the late William Wesley and Della Christopher Giles. She was a retired waitress and was a member of First Christian Church of Athens.
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Victory Dances
It's been a good week for the movement.
-The ACLU claimed a victory in Okeechobee, Florida, a small town near the northern edge of the Everglades, where their federal lawsuit forced Okeechobee High School to recognize the Gay-Straight Student Alliance. The school had banned the group as a "sex-based club", saying it violated their abstinence-only policy.
-New Hampshire's state house has approved civil unions for same-sex partners. The bill also provides for New Hampshire to recognize out of state civil unions. If it passes the NH senate, the bill will be presented to Gov. John Lynch.
-Indiana's proposed ban on same-sex marriage failed to make it out of committee, making it unlikely that the ban would face a vote this year. Conservative Hoosiers are tearing their hair out.
-The HRC busted the American Family Association for lying on their site, Stop Thought Crimes, where the AFA claims that there is no current federal hate crime law to which LGBT people can be added. "The federal hate crimes law (18 U.S.C. section 245), covering race, religion, color and national origin, has been on the books since 1969."
-Family Pride, the gay family advocacy group, will be live-blogging beginning tonight during their wait for tickets for this year's White House Easter Egg Roll. Family Pride expects hundreds of LGBT families to take part, doing what parents do best, showing off their kids. It's a beautiful thing.
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Jerry Sandusky Found Guilty On 45 Counts of Child Sex Abuse
Former Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty of 45 child sex abuse charges on Friday, the jury reaching a verdict after a two-week trial.
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The victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were remembered at a ceremony marking the 10-year anniversary of the tragic events on Sunday.
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The images that emerged in the hours and weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks have been imprinted in many of our minds. With the 10-year anniversary of the attacks, we take a look back at some of the more iconic pictures from the attacks.
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Steve Jobs Stepping Down as Apple CEO
Steve Jobs is stepping down as chief executive at Apple, the company said on Wednesday. Jobs will remain at the company as chairman, but he and his iconic black turtleneck will be replaced by former Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook.
Video Catches Teens Killing Man in Alleged Hate Crime
WARNING: This story contains disturbing details and graphic language.
Video captured by a Mississippi surveillance camera shows a group of teens killing a man in an alleged hate crime, the district attorney says. Video shows 49-year-old auto plant worker James C. Anderson being beaten before being run over with a pickup truck, CNN reported.
Study Links Prenatal Antidepressants Intake With Autism
A study released by the Archives of General Psychiatry says children whose mothers took antidepressants during pregnancy are twice as likely to be autistic.
The study suggests that the class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may be risky early on in a pregnancy, CNN reported.
Casey Anthony Found Not Guilty in Daughter Caylee's Death
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Gemini Man And Pisces Woman
Gemini Man and Pisces Woman
Gemini man and Pisces woman have different requirements in love which may attract both initially. Gemini man is intelligent but lack emotions while Pisces woman is more emotional and has enough intelligence too. This can create problems in their relationship but usually Pisces woman shows understanding nature to save this relationship.
Gemini man: Gemini man likes to travel and meet new people. He wants his life to be adventure. He makes many friends while socializing. He likes to analyze people and sometimes he can even tell how a person is going to react. He makes relationship for fun. He will stay with a person until he fully understands him. Once he has leant enough about that person he feels bore with him and moves on for next person. Gemini man can stay in relationship if his partner can keep him excited. He will show his romantic side that person is willing to understand him.
Pisces woman: Pisces woman is very sensitive person. She always has calm personality and anger is not her virtue. She likes to spread peace and friendship. She is also adaptive person who can adjust with any circumstances and any person. She always co-operates with other to avoid any disputes. She can't see anyone suffering from pain thus she runs to help them. She is gentle person with artistic talents. She is spiritual person and good listener. She can become loyal partner and devote her life for her lover. She wants a partner who can remove her insecurity and provide lot of love.
Gemini Man and Pisces Woman
Pisces woman always keep her calm and never tries to do anything that will irritate Gemini man. If she wishes to do something against his will then she will find a proper time to do it, especially when he is not around her. Gemini man likes her obedient and kind nature. They both show respect to each other. Both of them hate being manhandled thus there is enough space between them. Gemini man and Pisces woman never show jealously or possessiveness.
Gemini man can become angry sometimes but his anger melts down very quickly. Gemini man knows how to use sweet talk to get his work done and this ability impresses the Pisces woman. Gemini man generally lacks the emotional side but with such a caring and supportive Pisces woman he automatically starts showing his emotions to her. Gemini man likes to be heard and praised by people while Pisces woman is very good listener. This combination can keep them both happy in long time relationship.
Gemini Man and Pisces Woman When Gemini man and Pisces woman starts showing their care; they both start understanding how valuable their lover is. Gemini man and Pisces woman feel lucky to have such a partner. Gemini man finds a partner who truly understands him and his imaginations. As Gemini himself is moody person he likes to observe the creative world of Pisces woman. Gemini man can take Pisces woman out with him and show her real world. With this experience she can become more mature and creative person.
Differences between Gemini man and Pisces woman can surface at latter phase of their relationship. Gemini man doesn't just want a person who listens to him; he wants her to engage in conversation. Pisces woman won't talk a word but become cold at him this irritates Gemini man even more. His critical comments can also hurt sensitive Pisces woman. Most of the times, Pisces woman will be ready to sacrifice herself in order to keep her relationship alive. If she thinks her lover deserves more and this relationship has any future then she will continue to make adjustment with Gemini man. Gemini man will have to understand her efforts otherwise she will just move away from him.
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The U.S. Senate took votes last week on several high-profile issues, from reforming the scandal-plagued Department of Veterans Affairs to grappling with the wave of unaccompanied children arriving at the Mexican border.
The issues have played into the race between the three major candidates in the Aug. 19 Republican Party primary, the winner of which will face Democrat Mark Begich in the November general election. So we thought we'd ask all four candidates where they stand.
We picked three key votes -- plus a procedural measure, for variety -- and asked Alaska's two senators to explain their decision on each. We also posed hypothetical versions to the three major Republican candidates: Joe Miller, Dan Sullivan, and Mead Treadwell. Their responses below were edited for length if they were longer than our 50-word limit. Begich's answers come from his campaign, not his official office.
Mexican border
Vote 252. A yes vote on this procedural question would have moved forward a $2.7 billion emergency spending bill to address the migrant crisis on the Mexican border and also included money for Israeli missile defense and fighting wildfires.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski: No. "This emergency supplemental bill to address the border crisis had no opportunity for amendments. While not quite a blank check, it mostly throws money at a problem without addressing the root causes or dealing with any real reforms when thoughtful proposals from (other senators) deserved debate and an opportunity for a vote."
Sen. Mark Begich: Yes. "Sen. Begich voted to open debate on emergency funding for our southern border to find ways to secure our border. Along with Sen. Murkowski and Rep. Don Young, Begich supports efforts to pass a comprehensive immigration reform plan."
Joe Miller: No. "The current border crisis is a result of President Barack Obama's lawlessness, and the Democrats refused to address this central issue. I will not give the president another blank check to continue his assault on our Constitution. Sen. Ted Cruz is right: No more funding until Obama submits to his constitutional limits."
Dan Sullivan: No. "I would have voted no on moving the $3.5 billion immigration funding bill because the legislation did nothing to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. First and foremost, we must secure the borders. Unfortunately, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid once again did not allow any amendments to try to improve this bill."
Mead Treadwell: No. "I will always support Israel, our most steadfast ally and a beacon of democracy. But this appropriations bill appears to be a cynical political move by Harry Reid and Barack Obama to push their ineffective border package through Congress. Only 7 percent of this bill would go to Israel, and there is little it could do immediately to help."
VA spending
Vote 254. A yes vote was in favor of a $17 billion bill that would pay to hire staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs and to cover costs of veterans treated by providers other than the department.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski: Yes. "This bill represents a critical beginning to reforming the VA, but it is only a first step. No amendments were considered that would help this bill better suit Alaska's needs, which remain unique in the nationwide VA system. I am also concerned that the solutions contained in the bill's fine print could create new gaps in health care delivery."
Sen. Mark Begich: Yes. "Sen. Begich believes we need to continue to improve the care and services our veterans have earned and deserve. The legislation contains components of Begich's Heroes Health Card -- currently implemented in Alaska, it allows veterans to receive care from local facilities without traveling to the VA in Anchorage or Seattle."
Joe Miller: Yes. "I am a veteran with significant hearing loss from my combat service and have received medical care from the VA. Efforts to increase veterans' access to care are long overdue given the constitutional mandate for the federal government to provide such services."
Dan Sullivan: Yes. "I have been focused from day one on the critical importance of protecting our veterans. We need adequate funding, more flexible services, and long-term structural change if we're going to honor our sacred trust with our veterans. This bill is a step in that direction."
Mead Treadwell: Yes. "I called on Mark Begich to support VA accountability legislation and I am glad that this new bill will help make that possible. Moreover, in a large state like Alaska, it's important that this bill allows veterans to use private hospitals and clinics when they are far away from a VA clinic."
Highway Trust Fund
Vote 255. A yes vote was in favor of an $11 billion bill to fund highway projects through the Highway Trust Fund, and a no vote would have forced cuts to infrastructure funding.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski: Yes. Declined to respond.
Sen. Mark Begich: Yes. "Failing to pass this bill would jeopardize road improvement and construction projects in Alaska, risking jobs during Alaska's short construction season. Alaska's roads are big business to the tourism industry, to 18-wheelers and to the Alaska family on a dipnetting trip. Alaska's need for new and improved infrastructure can't be ignored."
Joe Miller: No. "Congress's spending addiction is intergenerational theft, stealing opportunity from our children and grandchildren. There should be no more bailouts of the Highway Trust Fund without concessions on structural reform. This is understood by reformers like senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Tom Coburn and Rand Paul, who all voted against this bill."
Dan Sullivan: Yes. "First, this bill does not raise taxes. Second, the Highway Trust Fund was going to run out of money in August, meaning Alaska -- which is a young state from an infrastructure standpoint -- would not have gotten the funding necessary to complete critical infrastructure projects during our short construction season."
Mead Treadwell: Yes. "Highways are critical to Alaska's economy and our quality of life. Currently, many communities in America's largest state are still extremely isolated. I have always supported keeping the Highway Trust Fund solvent, but the fund should not spend more than it takes in, and I am disappointed that the funding measure brought to the floor was more costly than necessary."
Federal judicial appointment
Vote 256. A yes vote on this procedural question was in favor of closing debate on the nomination by President Barack Obama of a Georgia attorney to be a U.S. Circuit Court judge.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski: Yes. "Sen. Murkowski respects the judicial nomination process and supports an up or down vote for a nominee unless there are extraordinary circumstances or factors to consider."
Sen. Mark Begich: Yes. "A constitutional role of the U.S. Senate is to advise and consent on nominations. Sens. Begich and Murkowski vote together on judicial nominees nearly 90 percent of the time in 2014 -- a trend that proves Alaska has a strong team that works together."
Joe Miller: No. "This nomination would not have gone forward without the Democrats' decision to exercise the so-called 'nuclear option.' The requirement to obtain agreement from 60 senators provided a check against Obama's abuse of executive power. Additionally, it limited the appointment of activist judges, who reject constitutional limits."
Dan Sullivan: No. "Last winter, the Democrats took a new step towards ruling the Senate as a dictatorship when they eliminated the cloture vote as it pertains to nominees. Having the ability to take a longer look at nominees is important when you have an administration that continually ignores Alaska -- a prime example being the need for a road in King Cove."
Mead Treadwell: No. "Based on principles of judicial restraint and adherence to the Constitution, I would not support Ms. Pryor's nomination to the 11th Circuit Court. Federal overreach needs to be rolled back, not rubber stamped. I strongly oppose liberal activist judges whose decisions trample on the 10th Amendment and states' rights, and I agree with the Republican opposition to Ms. Pryor's nomination."


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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 760237, 10 pages
Controlled Release from Core-Shell Nanoporous Silica Particles for Corrosion Inhibition of Aluminum Alloys
1Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering and Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
2Aerosol and Respiratory Dosimetry Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, 2425 Ridgecrest Dr. SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA
3Transmission Electron Microscopy Labs, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
4SCB Innovation Accelerator, Dow Corning Corporation, 2200 W. Salzburg Road, P.O. Box 0994, Midland, MI 48686, USA
5Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
6Advanced Material Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
Received 3 November 2010; Accepted 2 December 2010
Academic Editor: Hugh D. Smyth
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Re: Bishops Screening Committee(IO Church)
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Even if they did it to us we should never do that back!!!!!. Let us not be another IOC. Let us show the world that we are following the right path which our Saviour showed us.
We the Jacobite syrian church Led by His Beatitude Baselius Thomas 1 -Catholicos of the East - Under the Holy See of Antioch is respected by all other churches in India. If we bring in People Like Rev Fr.MO John who has spend all his life time to criticize and create problems in our church . We will loose respect from all.I dont think our Bava will do this. We have lots of great Leaders to become methrans in our church. We don't need any external candidates.
Let them perish on their own.We don't have to contribute to that.Let us not even worry about their elections, because for us they are like any other sister churches like marthoma church or malankara catholic church. Whatever they do internaly is their problem.
Let us pray for our Beloved Thirumenis for giving them strength to lead our church through this troubled waters.
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Fiat already offered its compact Panda in a slightly off-road oriented 4X4 trim, but at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show it's debuting the Panda Cross that takes the style even farther. The Panda Cross is meant to be a utilitarian hatchback that drivers can use in the dirt if the need arises.
Fiat Panda Cross
New Fiat Panda Cross looks adorable
We have never gotten the Fiat Panda in North America, but the little city car has represented the entry level into the Fiat range in Europe since 1980. Unlike many of these foreign subcompacts, it was also offered in the 4X4 trim level with a higher ride height and all-wheel drive. The Italian brand will take that idea even further at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show on March 4, with the new Panda Cross.


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Jamie Ford
Jamie Ford is the great grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name "Ford," thus confusing countless generations. His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. His work has been translated into 34 languages. Jamie is still holding out for Klingon (that's when you know you've made it).
New York Times bestselling author, Jamie Ford, brings us an outstanding novel you won't soon forget – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Ford's half-Chinese descent lent him the idea for this powerful book about the World War II internment of Japanese Americans through the eyes of a young Chinese boy who befriends a Japanese American girl. Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet not only made the NYT list, but also was an IndieBound NEXT List Selection, a Barnes & Noble Book Club Selection, Pennie's Pick at Costco, a Target Bookmarked Club Pick, and a National Bestseller. It was named the #1 Book Club Pick for Fall 2009/Winter 2010 by the American Booksellers Association, and has been translated into 34 languages.
His 2nd novel, Songs of Willow Frost, is set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle. This historical novel is a powerful tale of a boy with dreams for his future, and a young woman escaping her haunted past. With many "teachable moments" imbedded throughout this story of hope, forgiveness, and reaching for your dreams, Songs of Willow Frost is a wonderful book for students.
Ford's third novel, Love and Other Consolation Prizes, is due in September 2017.
Ford graduated from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. He is the proud father of two boys and two girls.
For more about Jamie and his works, go to http://www.jamieford.com


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A loopable industrial ambient track with heavy reverb and lots of metal clanging and gears turning and steam sounds. (--CREDIT--
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