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It's difficult to watch Disney's classic movie The Lion King and not fall in love with all the characters and music. If your child can't stop singing "Hakuna Matata" then it may be time to invite your favorite little animals over for a royal birthday celebration! Below are some ideas for you to pounce on including suggestions for Lion King invitations, decorations, food, favors and free games.
Lion King Party Planning & Invitations
In addition to basic jungle party supplies, like plates, cups, napkins and decorations, you may want to consider purchasing, borrowing or renting the following items for your Lion King party:
- The Lion King on DVD or Blu-Ray
- The Lion King music from the movie or Broadway show
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- Animal costumes such as our lion headband.
- A petting zoo
- An animal shaped pinata
- Record a video of your child singing one of the songs from the Lion
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- Mail each invitation with a small Lion King figure or a CD of songs from the movie.
- Dress your child in a Simba or Nala costume and take a photo. Upload the photo to your computer to make an invitation by using photo software. On the front of the invitation you can add the words "I Just Can't Wait to Turn 5!"
Lion King Party Decorations & Food
Turn your home into a jungle fit for a king with the following Lion King decoration ideas.
- Play music from the movie or Broadway show quietly in the background to add ambiance.
- To create a jungle canopy, hang a lot of green, lime green and brown crepe paper streamers from the ceiling.
- Use silk potted plants and flowers to decorate the floor and table of your Lion King party.
- Place Lion King figurines and stuffed animals around the room.
- Draw Simba on brown craft paper to hang around the room. You can use the symbol Rafiki draws on the tree as your example.
- Hakuna Mataters: Turn tater tots into bugs by
drawing faces, antennae and little legs on each tot using ketchup.
- Mini Cheese Steak Subs: Lions love to eat steak but since your cubs aren't fully grown we suggest serving Steak 'Ums with cheese on small sub rolls.
- Banana Pops: Insert a Popsicle stick into the bottom of a halved banana. Pour chocolate syrup over the banana. Roll the chocolate-covered banana in a thin layer of nuts. Freeze before serving.
- Bug Bowl: Set out bowls and fill each with different gummy insects.
Lion King Party Favors
Thank your guests with roaring party favors! We carry Lion King party favors as well as some general jungle party favors. To find a large variety of jungle party favors, visit our store and click the "Party Favors" tab or the "More Fun Stuff" tab. Some of the favors we have include:
- Squirt toys
- Mini stuffed animals
- Animal shaped rubber bands
- Animal wind-up toys
- Jungle animal stickers and temporary tattoos
- Fun-shaped candy


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JP Lamoreaux, I thought he signed with the devils? Is he available? I have always been a fan of this kid. He's undersized at 5-8 but a very good positional goalie who played fantastic at ND.
Lamoureux was in the Blues organization last season on a one year deal. Goalie of the Year in the coast league. He'll be 25 in the fall, and an excellent candidate for a deal in Portland.Reply
Lamoureux would be the perfect backup for Enroth next year. Jhonas could see 60 games or so with JP getting 20-25. Loved him at ND and he has good ability. Wish he was 3-5 inches taller.
I'm really interested how Fienhage looks out there. I know he didn't get a lot of ice time in his freshman year, but I've gotta think that even just going to practice with such a good squad helped him out.Reply
Been watching the IceDogs for 2 years now.While Schiestel is odds-on to be a good pro,DeSousa is a very good pickup.Consistent,feisty,a good team leader(on and off ice)plays bigger than 5'9.Simply does what has to be done -whatever it takes.Probably a better centre than winger,but the Dogs have had a shortage of jam on the boards,and an excess of small centres. It might take Chris a little longer to get there, but a definite positive addition to the Sabres" organizationReply
Thing is, DeSousa is only a camp invitee --- they can not sign him since he's still draft eligible.Reply
Should have said"he'd make a positive addition..." Hopefully,the fact that the Sabres gave Chris this invite will stand them in good stead when the time comes. He should put up some good numbers in 09-10Reply
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The Eva Lake complex fire, which led to around 15 people being made homeless, was likely caused by an electrical-related malfunction.
Fire Chief Rob Whitton of Whistler Fire Rescue said he met the electrical inspector on Tuesday, Oct. 15, and they both believed the wiring of a baseboard heater might have been the problem.
"We can't definitively say that it is the cause, but all things are pointing to it, given the type of fire that it was and where it was located, it is really only the source of ignition that was viable. There is too much damage and not enough remaining to find that 'smoking gun' where we can go 'a-ha!'" he said.
Whitton said two units had been turned over to insurance investigators and the plan was to remove the belongings of those displaced by the Oct. 7 fire. There are eight units in the complex in total.
Stabilization would be added to secure the structural damage from the fire, but the overall building is viable, apart from one unit that is likely to be completely gutted and another that will likely need to be partially gutted, he added.
The remainder will need some work because the insulation between floors absorbed water from the firefighters.
The two units most affected by the blaze had six people living there, three in each.
"I don't know how long the building will be empty but they are working quite quickly on it," Whitton said.
Those made homeless were given six days' accommodation from emergency social services, double the usual number of days, he added, along with vouchers for clothes and other items for the interim, until they can empty their units. Whitton did not know what was planned to help the homeless residents for the long term.
The fire chief recommended that rental residents take out property insurance.
Rachel Bailey, who works at Crystal Lodge along with some others also affected by the fire, hoped to retrieve some of her possessions from Eva Lake on Tuesday.
"We haven't found anything more out. They have been closed for Thanksgiving weekend. They're back in the unit (Tuesday)," she said.
She and some of the other staff members who were made homeless remain at the Crystal Lodge.


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XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition
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XCOM, the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit - humanity's last hope.
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An electrifying combination of turn-based tactics, global strategy and sophisticated role-playing, XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition puts you in charge of XCOM, a top-secret military organization responsible for defending Earth from a devastating alien invasion.
Take command on the battlefield while you simultaneously develop XCOM's headquarters, train and equip its forces and negotiate with national governments. As civilian attacks and abductions work to create worldwide panic, you must outsmart and overpower your mysterious enemies before government funding for XCOM dries up completely.
Key features:
• A beautifully realized re-imagining of the groundbreaking classic X-COM: UFO Defense.
• Command XCOM's soldiers in tense turn-based battles where each decision could be the difference between game-changing gains or devastating losses for humanity.
• Expand the XCOM base, manage its resources, oversee international relations and control Earth's satellite coverage and air defenses.
• Recruit, customize and equip an elite squad, then upgrade each soldier's unique skills and abilities as they gain experience in the field.
• Recover artifacts from battle and use them to research and build powerful technologies that can be turned against the invaders.
• Mix and match aliens and soldiers to create powerful squads in LAN and online multiplayer.
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition includes the Slingshot and Elite Soldier Pack add-on content, as well as the Second Wave update, which includes a series of gameplay modifiers that add further depth and flexibility to the campaign.
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• Minimum System Requirements: Processor: 2.0GHz, RAM: 4GB, Graphics: 256MB, Free Space: 15GB.
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What's new in Version 1.2.2
• Fixes a bug that prevented XCOM: Enemy Within from launching on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
• Fixes a number of minor issues.
Customer Reviews
Great, wonderful, can't put it down!
Ultimately, the revitalization of the xcom series helps set this game (particularly the re-re-imagining of the game via Enemy Within) as one of the best turn based games of the last few years (you don't have to take my word for it, check out any game rating site, or meta critic).
This game is worth every penny. It's one of those games where you may have other, blockbuster, fantastic games to get into… but all you'll want to do is play XCom. Seriously though, get the enemy within expansion pack. It re-tells the game the way (I suspect) the original developers wanted to, but didn't get the chance to do because of crushing deadlines for launching the original XCom enemy unknown.
Found a solution for crash on startup
The game kept crashing on startup before reaching the initial splash page. The crash log indicated an issue originating in 'DNSServiceProcessResult'. I completely disabled internet acess on my computer and it proceeded to start up fine. It appears the problem was originating when the game was attempting to connect to Game Center. Re-enabling internet access while playing the game still appears to cause it to immediately crash. Alternatively, logging out of Game Center appeared to also fix the problem. Notably, my internet connect is otherwise working fine outside of the issue occurring with XCOM....More
Awesome Strategy Game…Definately get the add-on
Love this game. The only issue is when apple puts out a new Operating System. I would highly recommend getting the add on for this as it enhances the fun. For those that already have it and found it crashing since the upgrade to El Capitan I guess there is some issue with Game Center. For me I had to log out of game center to get it to load and work. Otherwise, there seems to be no issue. As for this game being repayable…YES. Once you unlock second wave you can customize the game to make it a bit more difficult, fun and definately frustrating at times. As we all know…the computer cheats....More
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Andreessen still a Web booster
- 07 December, 2001 08:52
Everyone knows the Web boom has gone bust. Everyone except Marc Andreessen, creator of Mosaic, the first graphical Web browser. He described his optimistic vision, including widespread adoption within ten years and an increase in Web-based applications, speaking this week at the Oracle Open World conference here.
Andreessen, who is cofounder and chair of Internet services firm Loudcloud Inc., expects "a wave of applications over the next five to ten years" will make the Internet "very central to how businesses operate." Andreessen co-founded Loudcloud in 1999 after leaving Netscape Communications Corp., where his Mosaic browser provided the basis for the Netscape browser.
For support, he cites the PC industry. Although the first PCs arrived in the early 1980s, not until the mid-1990's did large numbers of people buy them. Similarly, with the early years of the Internet came "a lot of hype, a lot of experimentation, but not a lot of application by business," according to Andreessen. He anticipates "the same adoption of Internet technology by 2010 as occurred with the PC industry 15 years after its inception."
Business challenge
Businesses' technology departments face the challenge of "cleaning up" after the Internet "cocktail party," according to Andreessen. First, they need to cut costs by consolidating systems. At the same time, they have to make the systems more resilient and prepare for new Internet applications that will arrive over the next five to ten years.
"Most IT organizations are in a reactive mode," Andreessen said, "but that's not going to work anymore." Failing to plan (and act) ahead is non-competitive, too costly, and makes companies too slow to deploy new applications.
Yet Internet applications provide a versatility and robustness that can help business better plan ahead with their technology needs, according to Andreessen. The Internet and private networks proved more robust than the telephone system in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Many people turned to the Web for information and communications. Also, Andresseen said browser-based access to applications makes it easier for people to work from home or remotely, another trend that has grown since September 11.
Roving resources
Loudcloud, of course, has a role in this. Andreesseen says that just as storage-area networks can allocate an organization's storage resources as needed on the fly, businesses would do well to regard other computing resources as "utility-like service." He described an approach in which servers and storage devices are connected over a switched network and users can allocate more or less storage for an application at will.
It's a challenge to build an infrastructure that will allocate resources as needed, he said; not surprisingly, Loudcloud's services are among the options. Companies may create such a service themselves, or they may outsource their operations to a company like Loudcloud, which Andreessen says offers "pre-built infrastructure" to support such ventures. Or Loudcloud will sell a company its Opsware software, which can manage systems and allocate services as needed.
It's time for tech departments to "take a serious look at what's possible with outsourcing," Andreessen said. Such services are much more capable now than they have been in the past, he said. Technology workers should also expect to consolidate and cut costs now as part of the "clean-up process from the last five years of euphoria," Andreessen added.
At the same time, businesses must be willing to invest in the infrastructure required to support new environments of resources. While admitting that many Internet outsourcing services "have fallen by the wayside" in recent years, Andreessen expects that "in two, three, four years it will be a solid market."


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French university reforms
Nicolas Sarkozy has made higher education reform one of the main issues in his early presidency. In general, the French universities are underfunded and inefficient. Higher education is free (apart from a small registration fee) and funded almost totally by taxpayers money. Universities are state agencies, staff are civil servants and institutional autonomy is lacking. Unsurprisingly, autonomy is the key word of the reforms announced by Sarkozy and Valérie Pécresse, the higher-education minister.
She clarified here autonomy plans in the Economist:
"Each university's governing body will shrink from 60 to 20-30. University presidents will be allowed to spend their budgets as they wish, including in higher pay to recruit or retain star professors. They will be able to offer jobs more quickly: the creaking central calendar now means it can take over a year to finalise an offer, by which time good candidates have gone abroad. Universities will be permitted to raise private money; students to enrol anywhere. For the first time, universities will own and manage their own property. In exchange universities will share an extra €5 billion over the five years to 2012."
Indeed, revolutionary changes for the French universities. Yet, the Economist would have preferred to see more radical changes. They point to two critical elements that are missing in the plans:
First, tuition fees. This of course is a sensitive issue in France (and some other European countries) where higher education is seen as a right, not a privilege. According to the students, "the university is a public service so the state must pay." Alas, no plans for fees. Given the strains on France's public finances, and ambitious plans for better campus facilities, this looks unsustainable in the long run.
The second gap is selection. An early version of Pécresse's law – which allowed universities to select students at entry for masters' degrees – was considered so controversial that it was quietly dropped. The more pressing issue of student selection at undergraduate entry was never even put on the table. As the Economist describes it, the system relies mainly on selection through failure:
"Anybody who passes the school-leaving baccalauréat exam can enroll at university. Yet roughly half of those who do drop out later. Unsurprisingly, lecturers are half-hearted about teaching in overcrowded amphitheaters filled with half-motivated psychology and sociology students. It is a vast waste of time and resources."
Clearly, university reform in France is a delicate issue. If you go one step to far, the whole student community assembles and before you know it, old times are back again. It's about time that the French students acknowledge that they are the ones loosing out if reforms are not taken soon. Luckily there are some that are able to see this. Let's hope others follow.


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K-os - Emcee Murdah
We've just landed
Alright send a search party out
Duh, don't get caught up on this planet man
These humans are crazy
Just don't even show them your microphone
Cause then you know what?
They want to give you a record deal and then
You end up dead you know what I mean?
It's like body snatchers
But you know what?
We love hip hop
Stop, please stop please
Okay here we go
Holding my raps
Olden is golden and black
Extolling virtues of rap
With monkeys riding my back
I see them falling
Doing commercials and balling
I'm not a hater but she's closing the gate
And we stalling
Woke up in the early morning
I heard a voice that showed me the things to come
And told me I had a choice
To build it three hundred cubits by fifty cubits
Drinking thinking I'm stupid but deep in my heart I knew it
Money and fame could lead to emcee murder
You think you can escape but you can't take it any further
You call it writer's block
But you stop cause the vine is empty
Hip hop's not dead, it's really the mind of the emcee
It's all around me
It's emcee murder
Though God has found me
I thought I heard the
Sound of a thousand angels
It's the sound of danger
Know myself but I'm still a stranger
Emcee murder, emcee murder (oh)
I'll be damned if I do
And damned if I don't
My soul won't allow me to fake on the phone
Rocking the chrome
Another seed gets sown
Anonymous, I'm hailin from parts that's unknown
I looked to the heavens above to spread love
But emcees keep faking hoping to make the bacon
Matters mistaken, cause who we are is not physical
Bury mystical with the mind non typical
But, they want the cash flow
They steady scheming for the number one spot
These emcees they won't last though
I really feel somebody's watching me
From the third the star and telling us who we are
In this universe we like a speck of dust
You can't expect to trust man is living for the lust
Everybody wants the eye in the sky to come and save us
But maybe, the planet itself will terminate us with the
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So… what are your favorite sports-related books?[1:14]
In honor of the Olympics, leave a comment with your favorite book (fiction or non-fiction!) that is related to sports.
This video is sponsored by American Quartet by Warren Adler.
Books Mentioned
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott


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The Bergen Woodwind Quintet has for years been a leading Scandinavian chamber music group, performing to great acclaim the world over.
Audiences and critics alike have come under the spell of the BWQ's interpretations, with the ensemble's trademark virtuosity and breath-taking dynamic range always at the service of the music. In 1982 the quintet was awarded the French Senate's special prize for the best performance of a French composition at the international chamber music competition in Colmar, France. Since then, the ensemble has enjoyed increasing popularity, as featured performers at international festivals such as Bodensee Festival, Helsinki Summer Festival, International Chamber Music Festival in Stavanger, Bergen International Festival, Flanders Festival and Musikherbst Westmünsterland. In 2004 the group was engaged to perform Samuel Barber's well-known quintet, "Summer Music" on the notable Chamber Music Society of Detroit concert series, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the commissioning of the work.
The Bergen Woodwind Quintet's most recent CD, a compilation of chamber music for winds by Jean René Désiré Françaix, was released in the Spring 2012 on BIS. In October 2010, the quintet was on an extensive tour of China. They played concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanping, Tianjin, as well as performing at the Macau International Music Festival. The Bergen Woodwind Quintet also enjoyed performing at the Faroe Islands Festival of Classical and Contemporary Music, "Summartónar 2011."
The BWQ has performed in many well known concert halls, among them Teatro Mancini in Milan, Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Baird Auditorium and National Gallery of Art in Washington DC., as well as at Carnegie Hall in New York. Extensive broadcast credits include programs for BBC-Radio 3, WDR in Germany, WFMT in Chicago, "Saint Paul Sunday" and
"Performance Today" for National Public Radio in the U.S. The BWQ has recorded Carl Nielsen's complete works for winds, all three woodwind quintets by David Maslanka, as well as music of such notable composers as Samuel Barber, Paul Hindemith, Jacques Ibert, André Jolivet, August Klughardt, and Anton Reicha. Harald Sæverud, the Norwegian composer
laureate, enjoyed the group's playing so much that he dedicated two new works to them, both of which are available on CD.
Members of the BWQ are all very much in demand as soloists. They also serve as Professors at the Grieg Academy of the University of Bergen. The quintet has been Visiting Guest Artists in residence at the University of Minnesota for over 10 years.


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Escaping poverty, homelessness and hopelessness was incredibly hard for me. Now 80% of Americans must do the same./
There was a time in my life when I was homeless. I lived in my car and was unemployed. While this was primarily the result of being arrested and tired for a crime I did not commit, I was also living without a safety net.
No family. No savings. No education beyond high school.
Had a family of Jehovah Witnesses not taken me in when I was in trouble, I would've spent a much longer period of time without a roof over my head, and it would've taken me even longer to find a job.
After being out of work for almost three months, I finally landed jobs as a teller at South Shore Bank in Stoughton, Massachusetts and at McDonald's as the closing manager for a franchise in Brockton.
Ironically, both South Shore Bank and McDonald's would later testify against me at my trial while I was still employed by both companies.
For a period of about two years, I was impoverished, surviving only thanks to the kindness of friends. Even before that, I had been living below the poverty level for most of my life.
I mention this because recent data indicates that four out of five US adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives.
That number seems exceedingly high to me, but it may be reflective of the place I live and the people I know. In my circle of friends and associates, my story of homelessness, unemployment and poverty seems like an unusual one. I know very few people who were ever in a position even close to my own, and yet according to the data, 80% of Americans experience this kind of hardship at some point in their lives.
The only reason I am not still not living near the poverty line or worse is because I managed to get myself to college at the age of 24.
This was not easy.
I began my college career with three years at Manchester Community College, followed by three years at Trinity College and St. Joseph's University concurrently, where I earned an Bachelor's in English and a teaching certificate. In order to support myself and a family at the time, I managed a McDonald's restaurant in Hartford, CT fulltime, worked in Trinity's writing center part-time and launched my DJ business.
I was also active in student government, wrote for the school newspaper and was President of the Honor Society.
I still don't know how I managed to do all this. Even though I am the one who managed to slog through those six years, I can't imagine how I found the time and energy to accomplish all that I did. I suspect that the memory of the months spent living in my car, unsure about where my next meal would come from, constantly afraid that I would be robbed or worse when I went to sleep in the backseat, played an important role.
I often think that the poverty I experienced when I was young, both as a child and as a young man, has helped shape the man I have become. If given the chance, I wouldn't change a thing.
My hardship has made me who I am.
But what was good for me is not good for all. If the data is correct, four out of five Americans experience circumstances similar to my own. While I'd like to think that they could also pull themselves up by the bootstraps, this simply isn't the case.
Some are single mothers with childcare demands. Some live in places where education is not nearly as assessable. Some are battling health concerns and disabilities. Some are less equipped for college success. Some are not fortunate enough to find a family willing to take them in at their most desperate moment.
The economy is also very different today than it was in the mid-late 1990s. Jobs are harder to come by. The talent pool is more competitive. Low-skilled jobs are disappearing rapidly.
In a way, I've always felt relieved that it was me who had to live those difficult years, because I always knew that I could find a way to make things work.
Better me than someone else.
But to think that 80% of Americans will be forced to do the same is terrifying to me. My hope is that they have safety nets that I did not possess. Maybe they have access to social services that I did not. Perhaps they will be luckier than I was.
Still, 80% is an enormous number. A terrifying number. Knowing how difficult it is to escape poverty, I fear for these people.


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Boston Ballet
All Balanchine Program: 'Ballo Della Regina,' 'Monumentum Pro Gesualdo,' 'Movements for Piano and Orchestra,' 'The Prodigal Son'
by S.E. Arnold
April 5, 2003 -- Wang Theater, Boston, MA
Like a Roman candle caught in explosive moment, the starburst image of Sarah Lamb captured on the Playbill cover celebrates the art embodied in the Boston Ballet's "All Balanchine" program.
Lamb's rhythmically charged image, the up, out, and forwards motion of her frozen instant pictures the paradoxically ruled but restless sonorities of Stravinsky and the incipient weight change brought by the thrust of her reaching leg marks the pulse, the essence of, Balanchine's choreography.
The All Balanchine program included four works: "Ballo della Regina" set to music from Verdi's opera Don Carlos; two works set to and named for the music of Stravinsky, "Monumentum Pro Gesualdo" and "Movements for Piano and Orchestra;" and "Prodigal Son" set to Prokofiev. Of these four works, however, it was the sparkling "Ballo" that inspired the use of fireworks as a metaphor to describe the artistic ideas that Balanchine shared with Stravinsky as well as the dancing of Lamb and Pollyana Ribeiro.
For example, both Balanchine's and Stravinsky's works hold intrinsic rather than instrumental or affective value -- like the bloom of a bursting Roman candle. And like the explosive power of that candle, the musical cells or tone rows of Stravinsky and the movement choices of Balanchine generate or visualize motion or pulse. However, their promotion of art's intrinsic over its affective value -- Stravinsky more so than Balanchine -- also fits into the fireworks metaphor. For like a fireworks display, their art is bright with interest but distant.
The rigors of Balanchine's use of weight change or beating movements and more to clearly articulate pulse made" Ballo della Regina" look the way the Stravinsky pieces on the program sounded -- bright with interest but distant. In addition, the form of "Ballo," with its rapid-fire sequence of solos danced by the principal couples -- performed by Lamb with Yury Yanowsky at the Saturday matinee, and Ribeiro with Simon Ball on Saturday evening -- and the four female soloists, (Tara Hench, Heather Myers, Shannon Parsley, and Frances Perez-Ball at the Saturday matinee, and Melanie Atkins, Romi Beppu, Hench, and Perez-Ball on Saturday evening) were indeed independent bursts in an overall grand display of balletic fireworks.
In fact, the performance given by Ribeiro on Saturday evening as one of the principal couple went off like a string of firecrackers. No duds. No hang-fires. Rather, she delivered a snapping rush of turns, beats, and jumps. In a neat and complementary contrast, however, Sarah Lamb's performance of the same role like the burst and streaming fire of a Roman candle favored the audience with a thought-provoking luminosity rather than the diversion of a crackling fanfare. In fact, Lamb's subtle muting of the choreography's firecracker pulse informed "Ballo della Regina" with the regality named in its title.
Edited by Mary Ellen Hunt.
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Just on the other side of our February MasterClass, with Liam Reeves, where we were treated to demos and an intense practical workout of Venetian stemware. With a hungry pack of students, we had a lot of humour to balance out the intensity of assembling blown stemware,and getting it in the lehr in one piece!
We started the weekend with a demo, looking at the fundamentals of this more up tempo style of glassmaking, as Liam show students how to cast on the bits for the all important "merese" and "avoglio", essential to master.
Then it was starting to learn how to use specific tools, especially the marver…. no block, no paper, no water! And a lot of puffers, blow tubes and tweezers action. There was a particularly frequent sound of thin glass dropping and occasional cursing on the first day, but by the late afternoon everyone was up to speed with this most acute style of glassblowing. Liam made a beautiful 3 part glass in the afternoon, and we enjoyed a visit from Neil Wilkin and Sonja Klingler, who understand the dangers of this glassy "Venetian Virus".
Day 2, everything came together for the whole group, and we were treated to 2 more excellent demos from Liam, dragon stem and dolphin stemmed glasses. By home time, there was such intensity and focus in the room, that we only heard the sound of tools and pure concentration!
With the students practicing and accomplishing this very different way of blowing glass, some for the first time, there was a huge shift in results, thanks to a combination of excellent mentoring by Liam and James, and focused enthusiasm by the students..
another one we are definitely running again…


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2 pieces?!?
I love Boo.
I'm quite reassured now & poised for more fun, with another 2 pieces of carrot
awww, how lovely would they all look together. Would probably beat the poop out of them though & she isn't the tidiest house guest . She does like her forage though. Its not fair you have double the amount of rabbits that I do
They would make a super cute trio!
Twice the rabbits means twice the poop and twice the hay bills ... Mousie pie looks a bit like my Snowflake
He is a bit of a fave of mine and a right softy.
Snowflake reminds me of my bridge bun Noodle crossed with Mouseypie. I really like your quad - the way they all hang out together when free ranging is so cool
Thank you. I love the way that they often sit or lie down together. Usually close enough to be touching.


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Executive Creative DirectorSteve Cochran
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New World launched its 'Every Day a New World' campaign, with three 60 second spots created by Colenso BBDO Auckland with account service from sister shop .99 and production via Finch.
In this second installment of the campaign, the 'Next Day' spot sees a young couple find what might be the beginning of new love. A great night out is followed by a somewhat awkward morning - but then it develops into something special.


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Submitted by Ulgador on Thu, 2012-06-28 01:39
Creativity sparkles when a creative manufacturer of high-end bathroom fittings encounters a piece of art made of oxydized metal. And it is only when the metal used for the art refracts light into myriads of colors, that the creative process comes to a halt.
Combining the talent of Gabor Ulveczki with the VOLEVATCH know-how, a new line of product is put on the market: the Shower Screen, available in Silver or in Gold.
Submitted by Ulgador on Wed, 2012-06-27 20:09
Submitted by dn designs on Fri, 2012-01-20 13:44
Available in dark brown and in white. Cords lengths are 30 and 60cm.
Submitted by dn designs on Fri, 2012-01-20 13:42
Submitted by Nicolas Aubagnac on Thu, 2011-09-29 23:02
The structure is made of solid oak.
The top is made of glass.
Submitted by Veronese on Thu, 2011-09-29 19:46
The surrounding is made of rectangles of blownglass. The body is made of chrome with a silvery polish.
Submitted by Veronese on Thu, 2011-09-29 19:15
The color of the glass can be adjusted as well as dimensions.
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Forum AZZAHRAE for Moroccan Women (FAFM) is a Moroccan human rights organisation operating on women and family issues. It oversees a network of 114 NGOs working on strengthening the capacities of women and improve their situation politically, culturally, socially and economically.
Main Activities
- Help develop and put in place a strategic & integrated capacity building plan for « Engage » program,
- Ensure the coordination and smooth running of the capacity building operations of FAFM,
- Ensure periodic updating of the capacity-building strategy,
- Identify, develop & promote tools and guidelines for capacity building,
- Design and conduct training workshops for the benefit of partner associations,
- Ensure and oversee the weekly, monthly and quarterly planning of capacity building activities,
- Contribute to the development of capacity building standards and best practices, & recommend how to spread good practice,
- Keep abreast of developments in capacity building practice and recommend enhancements to FAFM's efficiency and effectiveness,
- Conduct field trips to support partner associations throughout Morocco,
- Identify and document success stories and case studies on extraordinary aspects of the projet,
- Develop M&E plans, quarterly and annual reports,
- Organize monitoring & evaluation missions in collaboration with the Executive Director,
- Disseminating evaluation findings and project results to partners and stakeholders,
- Contribute to the development of new projects and programs,
- Representing FAFM in meetings, round tables, workshops, seminars during internal displacements in Morocco and abroad with donors, partners, etc …
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A Story of Two Online Businesses
On a glorious summer day three years ago, two friends – let's call them Bob and Clara – each opened an Etsy account to sell their art to the world. It took each of them a while to find an audience for their creations, but within a year each had a steady following of fans.
Recently, they met for lunch, and found they were both doing very well for themselves. Each had a thousands of followers and likes on social media. Each had a website that received hundreds of visitors every day, with spikes well into the thousands of visitors. Each had an email list with more than a hundred thousand subscribers.
However, when talk to turned to revenue, Bob was stunned by the amount Clara was pulling in each quarter. Bob said, "I've tried everything – Google PPC, Facebook ads, SEO… I didn't think it was possible to get a better conversion rate than mine!"
What Made the Difference
Bob and Clara's online businesses are very similar, and both have a similar number of people who are interested in the products they sell online. However, Clara converts a larger number of those people into paying customers. How does she do it?
The key difference between Bob and Clara is that Clara has a digital marketing strategy for her online business. Each tweet, blog post and Instagram snapshot is informed by a wider, unified plan for promoting her business and converting her admirers into customers.
Digital Marketing Increases Sales
Digital Marketing is a term for a range of marketing disciplines clustered around the channels they use to communicate to customers: email, search engines, social media and mobile apps. While knowing how to grow and use these channels is important, the clarity that arises from bringing them all together in coordination with your business goals is what separates the Claras from the Bobs.
Having a cohesive digital marketing strategy is more than just how you plan to advertise your product, it's a comprehensive plan documenting your business goals and values, your market and your customers.
Although Clara executed a number of the tactics outlined in her digital marketing strategy that directly boosted sales, it was the clarity and direction that having a plan to refer to that gave her the edge to succeed. Bob executed some of those same tactics on his own, but because he didn't have a plan or know how to measure performance, he had a hard time judging which were successful.
Being in business without a plan is a recipe for lackluster performance at best. Having a detailed, step-by-step digital marketing plan along with professional advice and support helped Clara stay on target to reach her goals. Meanwhile Bob was still posting pictures of his cat on his Facebook Business page.
I Help Businesses Grow
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On Wednesday the Atlanta Public School Budget Commission tentatively approved a $685.2 million FY16 Budget on an 8-1 vote. The Commission considered raising property taxes to fund a $700.8 million budget – which included the full list of expenditures considered – but then reached a consensus to accept an increase in funding for additional classroom and programmatic expenditures and for implementing additional positive behavior support programs.
Revenues are projected to be $682.8 million and the remaining $2.4 million deficit will be funded out of General Fund reserves.
The Board will formally act on the proposal in a Special Meeting scheduled for Monday, April 20 at 6 p.m.
Byron Amos voted against the $685.2 million budget and indicated that he was in favor of raising property taxes to fund the full $700.8 million budget which funded most of the priorities considered by the Board over the course of its deliberations.
The Commission participants (all Board members were in attendance) appeared to be generally in favor of funding all the priorities that had been identified. However, they were constrained from doing so as the $14 million Beltline payment from the City of Atlanta remains in dispute and the timing of collecting the moneys remains unknown.
The Commission included the $14 million payment in the revenues, but believed it needed to maintain an adequate level of General Fund reserves to cover expenditures in the event the Beltline payment was not received in FY16. Under the Board's policies, the General Fund reserve must be maintained at no less than 7.5% of expenditures.
At the beginning of the budget deliberations, the Board established a $668.8 million expenditure baseline and then considered other funding sources to increase the expenditure total. Among the items considered were raising property taxes by one millage point ($18.0 million), using additional General Fund reserves (up to $12.2 million) and including the $14.0 million Beltline payment. As noted above, only the latter was adopted.
With the $668.8 million starting point, the following additional expenditures were included:
- $9.1 million for school flexibility. This expenditure added back teaching resources that had initially been cut. The amount has been allocated to each school in APS and the principals have the flexibility to direct the allocated expenditure in a manner that they believe will best impact their school.
- $1.0 million to recalibrate teachers at elementary schools. The initial budget allocation for teaching resources was considered to be inadequate to fund specific issues faced by the elementary schools. The additional funding is intended to redress these issues. [Update – the $1.0 million is in addition to $1.9 million included in the $668.8 million baseline budget]
- $5.0 million for additional cluster flexibility. This amount will be added to the $9.1 million noted above and can be used by the principals to fund additional teaching resources or the cost of programmatic changes.
- $1.3 million for "Positive Behavior Supports. The this line item includes expenditures for positive behavior supports (see BOE presentation on this topic here) and includes social and emotional learning implementation, screeners and dashboard information.
While the Commission accepted the items above, other identified priorities costing approximately $15.6 million were deferred due to lack of funding sources. The deferred items included $7.6 million for enhancing the educational environment, $0.9 million for additional cluster flexibility, $1.5 million for incremental bus maintenance, $1.0 million for Pre-K compensation parity adjustments, $1.0 million for college readiness programs, $1.0 million for career readiness programs, $300 thousand for the transition to the charter system operating model and $2.3 million in additional funding for the District's charter schools.
It would not surprise me if the Administration reviewed the current budget allocations and made additional changes that might ultimately fund some of the unfunded items noted above.
In prior years, the budget process had often been contentious and full of mistrust between the Board and the Administration. This year it has been very different.
Budget Commission Chair Westmoreland and Superintendent Carstarphen led a very open and thorough process of identifying the District's needs, establishing priorities and then funding what it could within the constraint of limited resources.
Nicely done!
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It was now Thursday 1 st November but slightly warmer than it had been of late. Even so it was only 8 deg C as I stepped out of the house on my way for my early morning walk. I was wearing the new Wellington boots just to break them in though I doubt they will become my regular footwear for walks but I may just wear them occasionally. They are more suited for wearing when working in the garden though E says they are too good for that as they are fur-lined and fashionable. I do have basic Wellington boots which have steel toe cap protection and they do get used when gardening in wet weather. It rained constantly whilst I was out and I didn't expect to come across anyone for that reason. However as I walked along The Promenade a guy wearing only trousers and shoes crossed over to my side of the road ahead of me. He was soaking wet and probably cold though he also probably couldn't feel it because he was drunk. He approached me to say hello and broke into a one-sided conversation. He told me that he had just been 'mugged and threatened with a shooter' but I doubted that was true. Why is it that drunken people think they know you? He told me that he knew me and had seen me in a certain supermarket a few times. I told him he was mistaken for I didn't shop in the supermarket he mentioned, which I don't. Then he invites me to his flat (apartment) for a cup of tea! Just then a police patrol car stopped to question him and I took the opportunity to walk away. There had been many patrol cars passing by along the route I had taken which was unusual for usually there are none. I thought they were looking for someone or a group of people as they circled the area. The rest of my walk was uneventful as it normally is when I am out that early. A couple of hours after breakfast found me shopping again but only for the weekly food stock. This time I was wearing knee-high boots of a more fashionable style though I suppose I could have worn the new Wellingtons! It was around ten-fifteen when I decided to put on my overalls and do some work in the utility room. Actually I spent most of the time in the garage cutting the plywood sheet for it was too large to get it into the workshop. A couple of hours later I had finished for the day as I was too tired to carry on but I managed to fit some sheets of plywood…..
There was always tomorrow to do more.
Shirley Anne