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is a city with a lot of history and even more culture. It is one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, and its beauty, livelihood and character will leave a lasting impression on you and your family. At Chinapac, we make sure your Beijing tours will cover all the must-see sights to satisfy your bucket list and make this the trip of a lifetime.
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Day 1 Home City – Beijing
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Day 2 Arrive Beijing
When you land, you'll get your passport stamped in China. You'll also meet your tour guide and transfer to 5-Star Oriental Bay Hotel or Marriott City Wall.
Day 3 Beijing
One of those profoundly mesmerizing sights on all Beijing tours is the Temple of Heaven, where you will be able to watch the iconic morning exercise routine. Visit a silk factory. Experience old Beijing while riding on a pedicab through the ancient narrow streets of the residential Hutong Area. Afterwards, visit YindianBridge and proceed to the Shichahai Bar Street. Experience and appreciate a chinese tea ceremony. Day 3 of this amazing Beijing Tour will find you taking in the magic of Chinese acrobatic theatre. (B/L/D)
Day 4 Beijing
Next on your China Tour, be enchanted by the National Grand Theatre's elegant shape, artificial lake and vast interior. A treat for your inner history buff will be visiting Tian An Men Square, the largest public plaza in the world. Continue on to the Forbidden City where two dozen emperors lived from the 15th to the early 20th century. Visit a pearl factory. Take in the majestic SummerPalace. Tonight you will see a Kung Fu Show. (B/L/D)
Day 5 Beijing
Arise early to visit the famous Juyouguan Great Wall. En route visit a jade factory and after lunch, visit a local handicraft at Cloisonne factory. Return to Beijing and have a photo stop at the Bird Nest and the Water Cube. Finish off the day with a tour of Wangfujing Street and Donghuamen Snack Street. (B/L)
Day 6 Beijing – Chengde
Day 6 of your Beijing tour package will take you on a morning stroll in JingshanPark. Visit the traditional Tong Ren Tang Chinese pharmacy then board a coach to Chengdu and sample local specialties such as mushrooms and nuts. Explore the Imperial Summer Villa. Overnight at the Jing Cheng Hotel or similar. (B/L/D)
Day 7 Chengde – Beijing
Admire the many temples of Waibamiao. Visit a local product shop. After lunch, coach back to Beijing and visit the CapitalMuseum. In the evening, visit The Place Sky Mall featuring opulent design and beautiful architecture. (B/L/D)
Day 8 Beijing – Tianjin – Beijing
Day tour to Tianjin by coach. Taste some local food at Tianjin Food Street and walk along Culture Street. Stop at TianhouTemple dedicated to the Goddess of the Sea before returning to Beijing. Tonight you will have a Beijing Duck Dinner. (B/L/D)
Day 9 Beijing – HomeCity
We hope you enjoyed your China Tour. After breakfast, transfer to the airport to take your own flight home. (B)
I would just like to thank you for the wonderful trip that Chinapac organized for me! I had a wonderful time and your company made travel easy! From the minute we arrived, we were well looked after. The local guides in each city we visited were very informative and helpful. Our accomodations were superb and we were able to experience local food and culture from each region we visited.
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WATCH: Mom Defends Giving Botox to 8-Year-Old
MakenzieR on 12 May 2011 at 11:00am
Back in March the Internet went crazy with the news of 8 year-old Britney Campbell being injected with Botox by her mother. For wrinkles. Did I mention she is EIGHT?
Well now the Campbell Clan is getting their 15 minutes of fame on this Good Morning America exclusive. Be prepared to want to punch your screen.
We try not to get judgemental here at RealSelf, but this caused serious outrage in the office. If your teenager needs Botox for migraines or excessive sweating, fine, but if you are giving your child aesthetic injectables and they can't even articulate why they're getting it, you should be reported.
What is your reaction? Should the mother be charged with child abuse, or is she within her right if the child isn't kicking and screaming?

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As the nation celebrated the annual Veteran's Day holiday, we all should remember the enormous sacrifices these brave men and women made for our nation.
These veterans have fought in every war, from the American Revolution right through the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars, to preserve the wonderful liberties that all Americans enjoy. They were and are the true heroes and heroines of this nation, and we owe them a very deep debt of gratitude for putting their lives in harm's way on the battlefields so that we can enjoy freedom. God Bless each and every one of them past, present and future.
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Whatever one fears as a result of the sudden and unexpected change in command in Egypt, it still could be considered a step in the right direction since the ruling military leaders have been sidelined and the country's first elected president in six decades has landed on the top.
If nothing else, it may spell the elimination of military rule, a hope that is prevalent in many neighbouring Arab countries — evident in the demands heard, loud and clear, during the democracy-wielding Arab Spring.
At lightning speed, Mohammad Mursi, the first Egyptian to be elected president in 60 years on June 24, swept the seven top Egyptian military leaders out of office last weekend.
All were members of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), headed by Field Marshal Mohammad Hussain Al Tantawi, a defence minister for 20 years during the regime of the ousted president, Hosni Mubarak, and whose second term was renewed only last week. Also kicked out were the Army chief of staff, Sami Hafez Anan, and the heads of the air force, air defence branches and the navy.
Moreover, Mursi, a former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, nullified a constitutional declaration issued by Scaf just before he assumed the presidency that restricted his authority by empowering the military.
But last Sunday, the president countered by issuing his own declaration, giving himself broad legislative and executive power — a step that may be limited if the new constitution that is being currently drafted, hopefully in a hurry, will not favour his position by awarding him total power.
Surprisingly, there was no public objection from the military leaders, who were replaced by a younger generation of officers — Field Marshal Tantawi is in his late seventies and had served as de facto president since Mubarak's downfall. This gave rise to speculation that the step may have been negotiated with the outgoing military leaders behind closed doors.
The new younger members of Scaf include General Abdul Fattah Al Sissi, a former head of military intelligence and now defence minister; Sidqi Subhi, a former army commander and now chief of staff; and Mohammad Al Assar, assistant to the defence minister, a position he held previously.
Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Centre for the Middle East, writes that "Al Assar's mention might be read as a signal of reassurance to the United States, as he has been responsible for handling military relations with Washington for years." (US military aid to Egypt totals some $1.5 billion [Dh5.5 billion] annually.)
The Washington Post reported last Tuesday that the Obama administration had "exhaled a collective, if perhaps a temporary, sigh of relief" on learning that General Al Sissi was named defence minister, because he was well-known to US officials."
One of those unnamed officials said the new Egyptian minister had previously "espoused cooperation with the United States and the need for peace with neighbours," assumedly Israel. Nevertheless, the paper reported that "still, the level of US influence with the new Egyptian government remains uncertain and hard to predict."
On the other hand, it seemed obvious that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defence Minister Leon P. Panetta, who visited Egyptian officials in Cairo recently, must have been surprised by the sudden turn of events in Egypt since both have never indicated that any serious changes in the Egyptian hierarchy were imminent. Yet, a senior military official maintained that "there isn't a lot of concern at this point."
A high point in the US reaction, a so-called "red flag," has been Al Sissi's acknowledgment that military officials had conducted "virginity tests" on female demonstrators during the revolution in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
For the record, General Al Sissi told human rights activists that the tests were carried out so that women would not claim to have been raped during interrogation but the Washington Post underlined that the Egyptian general had acknowledged that the tests were a mistake.
The days ahead may still be full of surprises, nationally, regionally and internationally. The main issue remains the new constitution, whose authors are still a guessing game. New hurdles are anticipated, including more security problems in the Sinai where 16 soldiers were recently killed by unidentified militants — an event that helped Mursi to step forward and dislodge the old guard.
It all depends on whether his key supporters, the Muslim Brotherhood, can usher in a period of tranquillity.
George S. Hishmeh is a Washington-based columnist. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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IS there really parts of disney movies that have sex related things hidden in them?
I've heard that the lion king has "sex" written in the clouds and that other disney movies have sex related things hidden in them because the movie people were trying to protest against the small amount of money they were getting paided? Is this true? And where can I go to watch the clips?
HIDDEN sex images in DISNEY movies?
Do you belive they are true , I think they are .
Ive seen a whole video on youtube on this I think but I cant find it right now
watcha think?
there is all kinds of subliminal messages from Disney and all kinds of shows and guys cartoons its terrible, there is something very wrong with people who do this BS.
Has anyone heard of the Disney movie sex hoaxes.?
I remember hearing a while back about little pornographic things hidden in some disney movies and I remember seeing a few of them like on the front cover of the Little Mermaid video cassette tape, ther was a penis hidden in the golden castle in the background (look for yourself, I dont know about the dvd though)
Also in the movie in the end when the guy was getting ready to marry the evil squid looking lady, when the preist says the words "dearly beloved" he starts to get a woody in his pants.
Also in Aladdin, Aladdin wispers "ake of your clothes" when he's on princess jasmines balcony and her pet tiger Raja attacks him.
Contains a list of all the urban legends about Disney movies, including all those sex ones.
What are some hidden messages about sex roles for either males or females in Disney movies?
If you could give some examples, that would be great.
I already have that women need a man to be happy (Cinderella, Snow White, etc.) What are some other views on sex roles that Disney gives?
Males save female characters and are expected to be the strongest man ever while also being effeminate and lacking confidence. Women are all either evil and out to kill more attractive women or basically helpless and naive.
Oh, and everybody's parents are either dead, missing, unimportant, or about to die.
In every Disney movie there is some form of a sex related hidden comment. May I please have a list of this?
Aladian-you hear take off your clothes
Lion King- the word SEX in the dust
Little Mermaid- the penis on the front cover
you have wayyyyyyyyyyy too much free time
Are there hidden sex messages in any more recent disney films?
i was recently reading about the secret sex messages in some of disney's early movies and was wondering if anyone knew if there are messages like that in any more recent movies (such as cars, bolt, tinkerbell, etc.)? Or just in any other movies besides aladdin, little mermaid, rescuers, and who framed rodger rabit.
I think a lot of these so-called messages are taken way out of proportion.
Hidden sexual messages in the disney movies?
do you really think they put hidden sexual messages in the disney movies on purpose or just all a big coincidence? i mean lion king was one of my favorite movie of all time when i was younger and i actually did see when it say sex in the dust but disney went on to say it really says sfx. i don't know if i believe them...i mean really...sfx?
It wouldn't surprise me.
Disney's Hidden messages in movies?
Can someone provide me with a website where i can see all the hidden messages that they put in Disney movies? I know that they have a lot, like the one where they spell out the word SEX in the Lion King movie, so could someone give me a link to a website where i can see all of them? Please and thanks.
Does anyone know the hidden dirty disney secrets? Besides the known ones such as the word "sex" in the Lion?
King, the genie telling teenagers to take off their clothes in aladdin, the little mermaid erection from the priest and the castle cover formed in the shape of a male penis, the resuers down under naked lady in the window, snow white (cocain) and the seven dwarfs (symptoms), and of course alice in wonder land which is all one big drug refrenced movie.
Snow White is based on an old fairy tale (Grimms?), so Disney is not responsible for that.
Also Alice in Wonderland is Lewis Carroll, and is definitely influenced by drugs and plays out like one giant chess game. So Disney is not responsible for that either.


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Be The Best You You Can Be
When your life is over, your tombstone will not read "...was just like Andy Leonard." Well, I certainly hope not. I hope your epitaph will be about things that are important to you now.
Whether we realize it or not, we are being ourselves every day. Want to know what's important in your life today? Look at your plans for the day. Don't just look at your Outlook calendar - look at the plans you have for the evening and the morning before work. The things that are important to you are there.
Before you start beating yourself up (or start thinking that I'm beating you up), you have to include things that you normally don't think about: You're going to call your spouse or significant other just before you eat lunch to see how their day is going, right? That's important. When you finish working this afternoon / evening / morning, you have a standing date with your kids to play a video game, or help them with their homework, or just hang out with them and watch television, right? That's important. There are weekly activities you and your family participate in as well - stuff like soccer practice or karate or dance class (Emma calls hers "dance cwass") or religious ceremonies / meetings on the weekend, right? That's important. There are monthly, semi-annual, or annual developer community events or code camps or SQL Saturdays that you support by attending, volunteering, or presenting, right? That's important.
It's easy to feel guilty about working too much. It's real easy in IT. I know lots of geeks who feel guilty about working too much. I don't know anyone in this category who can afford to not work. If you have enough money in the bank to handle or insure every foreseeable future event and you're still working too much, then you should feel guilty. For the rest of us, work is necessary.
Notice I didn't say it's a necessary evil. If your work is evil, stop right now and find another job.
If you're working to support yourself and your family, stop feeling guilty about it. "But Andy, I had to work until midnight last Thursday - a 16-hour shift!" Ok, do you do that every day? Or even every Thursday? I bet not. If so, your work may be a necessary evil and I covered that earlier.
I bet some emergency popped up and you pulled the double-shift to get things back on track. You can feel bad about that, but it's actually part of being in IT. There are unpredicatable outages in IT. By definition, you cannot plan for the unpredictable.
"Are You Going Somewhere With This?"
Yes - and I'm glad you asked!
It's ok to be disappointed when work intrudes into life. It's not ok to have that diappointment spiral into guilt. If you do, you then have a whole new problem to deal with. What's worse, it's a problem you manufactured. I don't know about you, but I have enough to deal with already. I don't need to be building new issues to consume my heart, mind, and time.
Balance means that sometimes you lean this way and sometimes you lean that way. If you pulled a 16-hour shift last Thursday to bring a dead server back to life, you should be able to schedule an afternoon off this week or next. Is that fair? No. Fair would be getting an entire day or day and a half off for the extra 8 hours you pulled.
Pay attention, this is important: Life isn't always fair.
Balance is important. So is recognizing you're working for a reason, and that reason is not selfish. There's no reason to feel guilty about that.
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Cranberry Popcorn Bars Recipe
Between work and home, I eat popcorn every day. Our company makes old-fashioned stovetop poppers. We're in the heart of popcorn country and are always trying new popcorn varieties and seasonings. These snack bars are crisp and tangy.—Wabash Valley Farms, Steve Dold, Monon, Indiana
- 6 cups popped popcorn
- 3 cups miniature marshmallows
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 cup dried cranberries, chopped
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1. Place popcorn in a large bowl; set aside. In a large heavy saucepan, cook and stir marshmallows and butter over low heat until smooth. Stir in the cranberries, walnuts, orange peel and salt.
- 2. Pour over popcorn and toss to coat. Press into a greased 11x7-in. pan. Cool. Cut into bars with a serrated knife. Yield: 1 dozen.
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1 tablespoon of butter plus more for greasing ramekins
3/4 cup sugar, plus more for dusting ramekins
2 cups fresh raspberries, plus extras for bottom of ramekins
4 eggs, separated
Pinch of cream of tartar
Powdered sugar for garnishing
Preheat oven to 350º. Grease 4 8-ounce ramekins with butter, then dust with sugar. Set 4-5 raspberries in the bottom of each ramekin if desired. Set aside.
Make fruit puree by heating the 2 cups of raspberries, 3/4 cup of sugar and 1 tablespoon of butter in small saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes till sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat, cool slightly, then strain to remove raspberry seeds. Whisk in egg yolks.
In a clean, grease free bowl, beat the egg whites and cream of tartar to soft peaks. Fold one third of whipped whites into the raspberry puree to lighten it. Then gently fold the rest of the whites into the puree. Spoon into prepared ramekins and place ramekins on cookie sheet. Bake in the middle of the oven for about 20 minutes. They should puff over the rim and have a slight jiggle in the center.
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SFCA (South Florida Composers Alliance) is one of the most underrated marvels of Miami. For more than a decade, this organization has presented its annual Subtropics Festival -- at number fifteen this year. Artists like Sonny Rollins, John Cage, Don Pullen, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveiros, and other nonconformists, electronica mavericks, and cyber-poets have come -- from all over the country -- to Miami to perform for the love of sound experimentation.
"Sound is and means everything here," says Gustavo Matamoros, the festival's director. "It is a record of human activity and it means history. As long as there are ears, there is sound, but many people don't understand it." A well-known local composer and performer, Matamoros speaks with the knowledge of having dedicated half his life to the study of sound.
Why is all this relevant to art? Because since the Futurist experiments of Luigi Russolo's "Intonorumori," but particularly since Fluxus, sound as such has been considered art. Not "music" but "sound," as in anything audible, including silence. Many artists are not as keen on sound and miss its challenging implications for art. "If you think of sound as an object without mass, then the mechanics for working with sound are equivalent to those working for art," concludes Matamoros.
"Tinte y Textura" and "Presence"
Dorsch Gallery, 151 NW 24th St;
By Rene Barge and Franklin Einspruch through March 8 305-576-1278.
Helicopter Works by Tall Rickards, Bob Needle, Odalis Valdivieso, and Heather Cantrell through March 16; 305-895-1030. Where: Leonard Tachmes Gallery, 817 NE 125th St, North Miami
Suspended Houses By David Prusko through February 28; 305-892-6331 Where: #831 art, 831 NE 123rd St, North Miami
So we checked out William Tells of Rights, Matamoros's installation, next to the main entrance of the organization's new home, the Sound Arts Workshop (SAW). A spoken text comes out of a speaker while a snare rolls an rrrrrrr sound at two-second intervals. Nothing touches the drum's skin. Instead a second speaker is placed underneath the drums shouting the word "rights" -- as if pronounced by a German native -- sending vibrations that make the snare roll. Next is a little speaker emitting whispered discourse. It's Matamoros's voice reading from his own poetry, like a Buddhist mantra: "Defending their right to protest, demanded the right treatment ... didn't get the right coverage ... do it right ... downright simple, either right or wrong ... embrace the right idea... far from right, far right ..." It goes on and on, with voice and roll in perfect unison.
The piece is about the Bill of Rights to the Constitution, with Matamoros's own puns: "Bill" is short for "William." William Tell is also a fourteenth-century Swiss hero standing against power. Whether we refer to the patriot, a verb, Schiller's play, or Rossini's opera, Matamoros gets his point across: Sound can make us think.
At Dorsch Gallery, Rene Barge's "Tinte y Textura" further combines sound and painting. Within a huge room, Barge smartly mixes a merely audible high frequency -- coming out of two speakers -- with a fluorescent bluish light refracting upon a series of minimalist pattern-paintings. Barge's environment is conducive to a kind of serene aesthetic absorption.
Also at Dorsch Franklin Einspruch opened "Presence," a show of big- and small-format paintings. The small paintings are oils, the big ones are acrylics; while the little ones are delicate and realized with deliberate touches of spatula, the big ones are laden with thick impasto, in a kind of frantic execution. In a sense "Presence" is a contradiction in projects. The double duty forces me to think and judge different things, intentions, and outcomes in the same space.
I prefer Einspruch's small works because they alter the conventional -- the female nude, domesticity, and the portrait -- in a personal way. Borderline Expressionistic in the sinuous treatment of form, but also somewhat Impressionistic in the choice of subject matter, Einspruch's apt spatula turns the surface into a busy window of lattices through which to see these subjects' private lives. In the portraits and some interiors, he makes a careful selection of color shades and strokes. They are elegant, simple, and cogent.
The big acrylics lack these essentials. They look like failed augmentations of the small work, demanding a different physical interaction altogether, perhaps using Einspruch's own hands and arms. Without favoring a particular medium -- spatula, hands, or brush -- I don't see a gain in spontaneity or mystery in these huge pieces, even in spite of their obvious thickness.
On the other side of town as part of NoMI Gallery Walk, Tall Rickards unveiled "Helicopter," an energizing show of artists from Miami and Los Angeles, at Leonard Tachmes Gallery. A thematic dealing with film and its reception, the parts contributed to a whole: disparate, cool, and loud.
First the teasing noise of Bob Needle, coming from behind the back wall. Needle is to Miami electronica what Pierre Schaffer was to musique concrete. He plays an uninterrupted range from delicate, filtered stream noise (sounding like a water hose sprayed on a mike) to denser metallic textures with beats in them. Needle's grooves go well with Odalis Valdivieso's Intersection, a black-and-white piece showing a "go" arrow sign next to a furnished interior. As usual Valdivieso's manufacture is clean and sleek, but in a soft, understated manner. See how intersecting lines meet in a curlicue, oval way, as in a child doodling. Her overlapping of silhouettes is definitely eye-catching.
I dug Heather Cantrell's bluish snapshots that communicate a sense of odd detachment. Her eye cracks into Pop derision at the sight of a proper Udo Kier (infamous for gory roles in Paul Morrissey's films) dressed in black with pomaded hair, in the company of a black dog.
Next, think deep ecology. Matthew Pollock's installation contains a photo of a sparse forest covered with snow. Along with it comes a small table traversed by a beam crowned with a deer's skull, which points to the photo on the wall. At the other end of the piece, we see gold-colored shit. How forcefully art can exemplify by proxy.
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Tall Rickards continues in an unabashedly male theme. His I Saw Thrones, I Sat Upon Them shows an older Rickards as a 1970s "Don" behind a table dressed in sleek suit, daringly looking at us. Next to his hand, a huge knife and tumbler appear as additional proofs of virility. Check the real trophy -- inside a vitrine over a reddish pillow -- suggesting a dead drug lord's prize.
Nearby Celia Silva and Eugenio Espinoza just opened #831 art, another house turned into alternative art space. They transformed the living room for Suspended Houses, an installation of -- what else? -- little houses hung from the ceiling and walls, by recently transplanted New Yorker David Prusko. He has thematically played with the idea of "home," including floating a model house out in the ocean during Art Basel.
Outside in the back yard, another piece in progress, Tell Me Your Secret, was being created by Prusko: a wall in which each brick contains a secret -- confessed, written, and sealed by members of the audience at the event. Prusko's pieces have this urban flavor, very much in tune with the location of this house. Silva sees the space as creating more of an opening for real alternative expression in Miami, and she cares enough about that mission to turn her own home over to such future projects.


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Quebrada #101, Centro, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato State, Mexico
Opened in 2004 on the site of what was––you guessed it––two houses, this elegant boutique hotel with only seven rooms offers the most luxurious experience among the dozens of small inns and B&Bs in San Miguel de Allende.
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That means managers and staffers wear a lot of hats at Dos Casas, but they wear them well. As the situation dictates, they'll play bellhop, taxi flagger, cocktail waiter, or concierge, doing it all with a smile and a flourish.
The restaurant and wine bar had only been open a few months when I visited, but locals were already mentioning it frequently as one of the best spots in town for dinner. The evolving menu makes the most of fresh ingredients from the area as well as mixing in international dishes such as risotto with porcini mushrooms and grilled tuna with Vietnamese spring rolls. At the end, the warm chocolate cake with berries and dulce de leche takes 20 minutes to prepare but is well worth the wait.
The intimate wine bar is separate from the restaurant. It offers a deep collection of bottles from various countries, but also offers two different whites and reds by the glass each evening. The walls of both rooms are covered with photographs of Mexicans who have made a great contribution to the arts over the past century: painters, singers, composers, directors, and actors.
There are several additional public rooms for lounging, including a reading room with a public computer and a roof terrace with lounge chairs, an oversized sofa, and enchanting views at night.
The seven plush rooms at Dos Casas comprise one standard, three suites, and three master suites. Each one is distinct in its layout, furnishings, and fabrics, but with impeccable quality of materials throughout. The regular suites have a sitting area, fireplace, and desk, while the master suites have a separate living room, and a private terrace. The prime three–level Casas Suite has its own private sauna and a whirlpool tub for two outside on the rooftop terrace.
All the rooms are larger than the norm, however, with double–vanity baths to match. They come with a long list of quality amenities: free wireless Internet access, robes, L'Occitane en Provence toiletries, and flat panel TVs for a start. Fluffy robes, high thread–count sheets, and high–end mattresses cocoon you in comfort throughout your stay. The architects and designers who put everything together at Dos Casas were obviously talented and thorough; almost any direction you look in the public areas or rooms, there's a sign of extra care and attention to detail.
With a polished bilingual staff, extraordinary accommodations, and now one of the best restaurants in the city, this member of the Small Luxury Hotels group has vaulted to the top of the heap.
Web Address: www.doscasas.com.mx
Total Number of Rooms: 7
Published rates: $240 to $465 including taxes
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Adding momentum to police investigations that have already cost
The swoop followed others in the past year that resulted in the arrest of more than 100 reporters, editors, investigators and public officials by police investigating whether criminal activity had occurred at British newspapers.
Most of those arrests have involved The Sun, Mr Murdoch's daily tabloid, and News of the World, the highly profitable Sunday tabloid he shut down as the scandal broke in July 2011.
The police statement said five of the arrests on Wednesday took place in London and one in Cheshire. Those held for questioning were three men and three women, none of whom were identified. The Sun later said that two of the six worked for the newspaper, having taken jobs there after News of the World closed.
The police said the homes of all those arrested were being searched.
Mike Darcey, chief executive of News International, the Murdoch subsidiary that publishes The Sun, emailed employees at the paper after the arrests.
"I share your concerns about these arrests and recognise the huge burden it places on our journalists in the daily challenge of producing Britain's most popular newspaper," he wrote.
"I am extremely grateful to all of you who succeed in that mission despite these . . . circumstances."
Scotland Yard gave no details of the conspiracy it contended was behind Wednesday's arrests, beyond saying the "new lines of inquiry" involved offences committed in 2005 and 2006.
That would place the activity in the same period as the only hacking case against the Murdoch papers that has resulted in convictions so far.
In 2007, News of the World's royalty editor, Clive Goodman, and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator, were convicted and jailed after they pleaded guilty to hacking into voice mail messages of members of the royal family.
At the time of their trial, Murdoch executives described the hacking of the royal phones as a "rogue" incident. But a different picture emerged after the police reopened the inquiry in 2011, with hundreds of individuals being informed that their phone messages had been intercepted.
Many of them sued the Murdoch papers for damages.
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The Relative Performance of Socially Responsible Investment Funds. New Evidence from Austria
The aim of this paper is to compare the financial performance of Austrian SRI funds to the performance of Austrian conventional funds. 43 SRI and 1395 conventional funds are found for the analysis. Jensen's alpha and Carhart's 4-factor alpha are used to evaluate fund performance. The results suggest that throughout the sample period from 02/1992 to 3/2012 there was not any performance difference between the two types of funds. However, more detailed results show that SRI equity (debt) funds significantly outperform (underperform) their conventional peers. SRI funds significantly outperform (underperform) conventional funds in the second (first) half of the sample period. Furthermore, signing up to the European SRI Transparency Code (as a proxy for SRI quality) as well as using a matching procedure influence the observed results.
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By Ben Hanneman
SWT Sports Writer
The free throw and turnover fingers that can be oh so fickle on the hardwood poked the Pulaski Lady Cougars in the proverbial eye Tuesday night in a 54-45 loss to the Lord Botetourt Cavaliers in Pulaski.
In the fourth quarter alone, the Cougars, normally decent from the charity stripe, made just one of four shots from the line. They finished the game with just 10 of 22 from the free throw stripe.
Chelsea Golden made two of four free throws, Carlie Clary chipped in five of nine from the line, and the Cougars' leading scorer Meredith Mitchell poured in two of three. She finished with 13 points overall.
"Those girls are really, really good free throw shooters. We just had an off night," said Coach Jason Grubb. "And I think there was a little bit of fatigue setting in. You'd like to have some of those back, but we had plenty of opportunities."
Meanwhile, the Cavaliers, an area top-10 team and a better shooting squad from beyond the three-point line so far this season, made seven of 15 free throws – all in the fourth quarter – to ice the game down the stretch.
And the turnovers didn't help either. All told, Pulaski committed 18 miscues, including two in the final three minutes as they desperately tried to get the ball inside where they had a definite size advantage in the post. The last turnover led to a layup as the game clock expired.
"We had a lot of good looks in the fourth quarter at the basket. We just couldn't get a couple shots to drop and we turned the ball over a couple of times looking for post feeds, but we just overthrew the ball a couple of times in transition. If we get a few of those the game is different," Grubb said.
Point guard Jordan Chrisley picked up her fourth foul early in the third quarter, forcing Grubb to sit her for most of the second half.
Between free-throw and turnover pokes the Cougars did show flashes of decency, breaking the press easier than they did against a much-tougher Floyd squad in the season opener.
"They threw some different looks at us, but our kids handled the press pretty well and shot some layups against the press and that was good to see," Grubb said.
The Cougars also showed a bit of the three-point threat for the first time this season, connecting on five three-pointers, including three by Golden.
"That was nice. She's a very talented shooter and we were able to kind of stretch them out a little bit," Grubb said.
Defensively, Pulaski's zone all but neutralized a potent long-range shooting attack that had poured in 13 three-pointers in a 20-point victory over James River just last Friday.
"The kids executed well and we covered their shooters pretty well, rebounded well and stuck with them for much of the game," Grubb said. "Botetourt is a tough team and I think the girls came out and stepped up to the challenge and played well."
Mitchell led Pulaski with 13 points, followed by Golden with 11 and Clary added nine.
"It was nice to have a balanced scoring attack. We wanted to get Chelsea and Carlie some good looks at the basket and that all starts with dribble penetration. Our guards did a good job getting the ball in and then passing it out to the open shooters," Grubb said.
Maegan Memitt tossed in six but contributed 12 huge rebounds. Defensively, Chrisley and Tyra Redd logged two steals each. The Cougars (0-2) travel to Galax to face the Maroon Tide Monday, December 10. They will play the next three on the road before returning home to host Galax December 20.
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Deming's Salmon Recipe Book With Suggested Menus
The front and back covers of the pamphlet feature a wraparound color photograph of a platter with three sections of salmon, with pineapple, greens and lemon. Also included on the front portion of the photograph is the corner of a plate of biscuits, and on the back portion a corner of a plate of potato chips. Text on the front cover, within a white rectangle, reads Deming's Salmon Recipe Book With Suggested Menus. There is no text on the back cover. The title page indicates that the publication is authored by Dorothy Fisher. In addition to recipe pages (with color and black and white photographs) on the inside, there is also a two-page Story Of Salmon, plus two pages spotlighting Deming's Brands of salmon. Recipes are organized according to: Cocktails and Appetizers; Cocktails and Their Sauces; Tasty Hot Buffets; Delicious Hot Entrees; Pressure Cooker Quickies; Salads and Cold Plates; Salmon; Sandwiches; Sauces to Serve With Salmon.View this piece: jpg pdf
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Author: Fisher, Dorothy
Printer: Farwest (Seattle)
Brand Name: Deming's Quality Canned Salmon
Publisher: Deming & Gould Co. (Bellingham, Wa. ; Chicago, IL)
1945 (ca.)
31 p.
21.3 x 13.7 cm
Language: English
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Citation: Fisher, Dorothy. Deming's Salmon Recipe Book With Suggested Menus. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=7507


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|Table 2: Inhibitory effects of the compounds isolated from the P. vulgaris L. on rat lens aldose reductase (rAR) and human recombinant aldose reductase (rhAR).
aInhibition rates were calculated as percentages with respect to the control value. The values of each sample were estimated from the least-squares regression line of the logarithmic concentration plotted against inhibitory activity. bQuercetin was used as positive control. Inhibitory effect was expressed as mean ± SD of triplicate experiments.


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Truth-O-Meter: Pants on fire in Pasco
With accusations flying in the Pasco County Commission race for the District 1 race, Politifact put the charges flying between Commissioner Ted Schrader and challenger John Nicolette to the test.
Did Schrader really forgive $170,000 in fines for a developer? Not at all, earning Nicolette the lowest Politifact rating: Pants on Fire!
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Hello, my name is Jeremiah, and I have a Twitter problem. Whew, it feels good to admit it. Seriously though, I'm not talking a "check it a few times a day" problem. I mean more to the tune of pulling over to respond to an @ problem. With my beloved Twitter's rise in popularity, there are more and more people out there to follow whether it is a photographer you love, a favorite comedian, or a news service. Twitter has become saturated with noise- a noise that it can be super easy to get lost in. The good news is that there are tons of ways to help separate you from all the static. One really simple way is to customize the look and feel of your Twitter. With more and more people getting their Twitter fix through apps, this method may seem slightly dated, but it goes a long way to show people that you care about even the little things for your brand. The how-to is super simple. If you go to the design tab under you account settings, you will see the standard Twitter backgrounds, and the options to change both your design colors and add a background image. Setting the color palette is really easy. You just follow along with the labels. But choosing a background image can get a little tricky. I wasn't joking when I said changing the color palette was easy. If you ever meet a Twitter exec, give them a hug from me because of how simple they made this.
When choosing a custom background image, there are some things you need to keep in mind. The first is that "new" Twitter uses a scaling method, which means that your background is going to look different for different people. Because of this, if you're choosing something that will be tiled, it is best to select something that is a graphic, seamless, or a collage of images. If you are going to go with a large image, you should have it fade into a solid color, rather than have it start to repeat. Here is the gettotallyrad Twitter as an example of what you want to create. Notice how the background tiles beautifully.
And here is a version of my Twitter showing what you don't want. Notice how horrifying my coffee mug looks as it is repeating? Yup, I made my Twitter look like that for you Rad Nation. That shameful display is a measure of how much I love you.
After you have chosen an image or graphic for your new background, you just need to make sure it is under 800k, a Jpeg, GIF or PNG and upload it to Twitter. Hit "Save Changes," and you're rocking a custom account.
There is one last thing you should do. Try it out! Most browsers have free extensions available that make it really easy to resize your browser window, and see your Twitter how other monitors see it. I would suggest Firesizer for Firefox, ResizeMe for Safari, and Window Resizer for Chrome. Have you tried it out? Does it work on most monitors? GOOD! Now, get out there and GET NOTICED! We can't wait to see what you come up with. Mention us on Twitter @gettotallyrad so we can check out your awesome backgrounds!


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I had RRP and undergone external radio theraphy. My last PSA test (15 months after my treatment) was 0.05. Lately my family doctor advised me to have my PSA Ratio checked. At this stage that my cancer was diagnosed and treated. Is the PSA Ratio test necessary? How valuable is this test?
When you say your "doctor", I am uncertain if you mean your primary care physician or your urologist. To the best of my knowledge, the PSA "ratio" (which I believe is what I refer to as PSA by which I mean total PSA ratio to serum free PSA which is usually reported as percent serum free PSA) has no relevance in monitoring a patient who has been treated for prostate cancer. The total PSA is the benchmark by which we judge response to treatment of prostate cancer.
With the development of more sensitive PSA assays, the lower limits that can be accurately measured is 0.05 ng/ml which is your current level. Some laboratories report less than (< symbol) 0.05 ng/ml and some laboratories report 0.05 ng/ml. However, the difference is moot. I would typically recheck total PSA each 3 months following treatment completion for the first year, and, if no change, then every 6 months for the second year and annually thereafter. Hopefully this helps.
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SAN MARCOS — The City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance that would require hotels and motels to maintain adequate registration records and provide access to records to law enforcement.
The vote was 5-0. The ordinance will take effect in 30 days.
The city considers that measure an investigative tool for law enforcement, said Jenny Peterson, the city's communications officer.
"Our overarching goal is public safety," she said.
A hotel's register must include a guest's full name, address, check-in and checkout dates and times and room number; the names of other occupants in the room; a photocopy of the registered guest's legal identification; a guest's vehicle information, such as make and license plate number; and a guest's signature.
The ordinance requires the hotels to provide access to the register to law enforcement. The information would be kept for three years.
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Hi, I had an IPL done 9 months ago and was burnt. it created an irregular pigmentation on my skin that I still can't get rid of after 9 months. It almost looks greyish compared to my yellowish tone skin that wasn't affected. I read more stories on here about how it's not even suitable for dark skin and I have grade IV skin (mexican).
I've been doing peels, glycolic and salicylic to get rid of it along with hydroquinoine 4%, Vitamin A and nothing has helped. It's actually lightening everything else but where I got the IPL. Can I get rid of it?
I'm assuming that not even several peels aren't going to get rid of it so I'm not considering getting a Yag laser to get rid of this dark pigmentation. I'm just hoping that this isn't permenant. any advice on what I should do?


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London (Jul. 6)
Germans and collaborationist Hungarians in at least one Prague district are being compelled to observe the same regulations that the Nazis imposed upon the Jews, even to wearing identifying badgeas, a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian reports today.
An official poster issued by the local national committee – which is the authoritative administrative body – in Prague's 12th district lists the following regulations:
1. Persons falling into the category of German or Hungarian traitors, and who are over the age of 14, must wear a four-inch-square swastika on a white background.
2. Persons marked with such swastikas are not to receive normal ration cards, are barred from using street cars except when going to work, and then may only enter the rear car and not occupy any seats. They must not walk on sidewalks, but must use the roadways and will be refused admittance to all public parks, woods, barber shops, restaurants, places of entertainment and loctures.
3. Such persons are forbidden to use laundries and cleaning shops and are restricted to shopping between the hours of 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3. p.m. to 4 p.m. Violation of these regulations will result in punishment for both buyers and sellers. After 8 p.m. they are forbidden to appear on the streets.
4. Persons over 14 who have the letter "D" for "Deutsch" stamped on their identity papers must apply for the swastika badges and, at the same time, submit a list of the property held by them and surrender all radios in their possession. They are forbidden to engage in any financial transactions.
5. Germans are not entitled to tobacco rations and are not allowed to smoke in public or at work.
As a final blow, the regulations provide that the words German and Hungarian are henceforth to be written with a small "g" and"h," respectively.
The Guardian correspondent, commenting on these restrictions, calls them "unjust and ruthless" and says that they are merely following totalitarian methods, and applying them to Sudeten Germans and Hungarians, who were formerly Czech subjets.


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The board of directors of Oconee State Bank recently announced the following promotions and elections:
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Steven A. Rogers was promoted to vice president and controller. He joined the bank in April 1997. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.B.A. in accounting and also is a graduate of the Georgia Banking School. He is responsible for the accounting, internal audit and financial reporting functions within the bank.
Kristi O. Greer has been elected and promoted to training officer. Greer joined the bank in February 1996. She graduated from UGA with a B.S. in family and consumer sciences and will complete her master's degree in adult education in December. Greer is responsible for managing and developing the internal training and educational opportunities for the bank's employees.
Kerrie N. Loomis was elected and promoted to banking officer. Loomis has been in banking for 15 years and joined Oconee State Bank in December 2003. Loomis earned an associate degree in criminal justice from Asheville-Buncombe Technical College and has completed numerous banking courses from The Institute of Financial Education, Chicago. She has served as secretary/treasurer and vice president for the Northeast Georgia Chapter of Financial Women International. Loomis manages the eastern Clarke Athens Wal-Mart in-store branch located on Lexington Road.
Kerry E. McKinnon was elected and promoted to banking officer. McKinnon has been with Oconee State Bank since 1990. Previously, he was with C&S Bank for five years in the collections department. He graduated from UGA with a B.S. in zoology and also is a graduate of the Northeast Georgia Police Academy. He has completed several banking courses from the American Institute of Banking. McKinnon manages the bank's collections department.
Dawn G. Perry was elected and promoted to information technology officer. She has served in the data processing area since joining the bank in July 1996. Previously she was employed with the Clarke County Sheriff's Department and is a veteran of the first Gulf War. She attended Tennessee Temple University, Austin Peay State College and Athens Technical College. Perry manages the mail room, statement processing, proof area and systems administration. She is a member of the Winterville Planning and Zoning Commission.
Sandi M. Riddling was elected and promoted to banking officer. She joined the bank in 1996. Riddling is a graduate of Oconee County High School and attended Athens Technical College. Riddling manages the loan operations department within the bank.
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Great Song, Dance Worthy and Epic.
Think i will write the review while listing and title it later.
Ah, nice opening, the high notes and the echos remind me of playing Goldeneye. It nice, makes me want to dance. This makes me think of the type of music you see for a movie trailer and they show like 100 clips in 5 seconds. Yah, This is awesome, I think its a 10 alright.
Buh Buh Buh Dada Buhuhaha. Hey, I think I figured out what to call those sounds, its like on that instrument the xylophone! A, More Drums FTW! You know, I could say this is repetitive, but its in a good way. Much like how green hill zone is. Whoa, nice quiet ending!
Think I will listen to this on my ipod, well, time to spellcheck and fix this mess up....
Good Song.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
nicely done
it sounds very dark and has like a wintery beat to it. very well done
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Even tho it's repetitive, it's really good! I like how you changed the process of repeats and changed the sound of 'em, which makes it quite catchy. If it's techno it's supposed to repeat anyway. I think this song is perfect for a platform action game. Well done indeed.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
nice job. it sounds kinda like a video game lol
nice work. it's a little repetitive but it's still pretty good. it reminds me of the music to one of the online games i play alot. i cant remember which one though lol. r music downloads free on this site? i love downloading songs in the audio portal but i never know if it costs money. i guess i'll download this one and find out. :-)
Nope, it's totally free :)
Rated 5 / 5 stars
I dont like madness, this song on the other hand..
Normally it takes me a few seconds to get into a song this one I liked almost instantly.
Awesome job!


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Tonight's Combo Apps Blog is about The Square Format Apps. I wrote a message to my friends on Instagram, if there was something they like to know about or something I could blog about it. Well one person on Instagram gave me a great topic to blog about. The person goes by altafkw on Instagram, so I end up getting two apps, qbro and Cameramatic. I also got TtV and Leme Leme HD. The reason why I want to talk about Square Format Apps because we know about the popular square apps, Hipstamatic, Retro Camera Plus, Shake It Photo and any Polaroid App out. I get board of using the same camera apps. A lot of the time I take the photo I can see how the photo will look like before it develops. I don't get that surprised results after the picture is done processing. That's why I'm always constantly changing with the way I edit or shoot my photos. I want to make sure I'm not the typical cookie cutter photographer. Even when I do photo shoots, I don't use the typical portrait lenses either. Why be boring ?
The first app we are going to talk about is qbro, this is one of the new and noteworthy app you can buy at the App Store for $.99. You can buy "The Portrait Pack" within the app for $.99 extra. This app really surprised me because it's not just a camera app. You can also upload photos from you library and use the filters they have to offer in the app. Qbro has a wide choice of filters, frame and styles for editing your photos. It's also great for uploading in Instagram, because it's square formatted to fit perfectly.
After the app loads up you will see two white corners, that's where your picture is going to crop. At the time of the screen shot I got an Instagram alter, sorry about that. That guy, bamos I follow and he follows me has an AWESOME feed. I highly recommend you check out his feed, very creative and beautiful images. OK, now back to the app, you can see it's a pretty cut and dry on how to use this app. The icons are really easy to understand. Another great thing about this app is that it loads up instructions on each page of the app. You can turn them off permanently after you understand on how to use the app.
Qbro also offers a "Hall Of Fame" for the day. It has some social sharing going on with this app. Yes, you can be popluar in another app, if Instagram and Flickr is not enough attention for you…I think it's a bit redundant but some people love attention and 15 minutes of fame.
This is how you share your photos with others.
Now this is really important, when you take a picture with your qbro camera, it doesn't autosave to your camera roll. It stays in the stack area of the app. This is where you can load your photo from you library at too. All your photos stay in "Stacks", that's where all you unedited photos stay too.
This is a photo in the Film Bag editing area, you can see I'm trying the Moremini. You can also share your photo on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Just connect the app to all your accounts, it's easy to do and a standard in most photo apps.
Here's one of the filters I used called ConeyIsle.
You can also blend your photo together on Image Blender from the Filter you used in qbro. I like doing that to see what other combinations or blending photos together. I blended a ConeyIsle and Alfred together and got this effect.
The next square app up is TtV, which means "through the viewfinder". A really good friend of mine name Christine a.k.a. Sproutgrrl on Flickr, does the real deal with TtVs. You can click on the TtVs and get her link on Flickr. She is a real master when it comes to shooting this style of photography. This is the link to making a real TtV, http://www.russmorris.com/ttv/ if anyone is interested in making a real TtV camera. This app was $2.99 at the app store but was brought down to $.99. I told the maker of the app that it was pricey for not being a full resolution app. It's a very basic and cut and dry app. It's really important to write reviews and tell the app makers on how to improve their apps. One advantage of being a low res app is it loads quick and processes quick, so you can constantly shoot pictures with this app.
This is what it looks like after the app is loaded, nice size for shooting pictures.
The button with the green light is how you pick your viewfinder with this app. After you shoot your picture is automatically saved in your camera roll/library. Such a simple and easy app to use and well worth the $.99 for quick retro looking snaps. I'm really glad the person who developed this app brought the price down.
Two example shot from the TtV App.
The next app is called Cameramatic, there is a Flickr Group for this app. Here is the link http://www.flickr.com/groups/cameramatic/ for the app. It's one of the app that you can load straight on to Flickr and the actual group. Only other app that does that I know of is Plastic Bullet. I'm sure there are other app that do the same thing but I can't think of any other at the moment. This app has so many combinations on taking photos. That it puts Hipstamatic to shame. I'm thinking after I'm done with my 365 Project with Hipstamatic. I might do Cameramatic next because of the number of different types of photos you can shoot. You can also make a custom style of your own with this app. It's unheard of with all of the photos apps out in the market. The app sells for $1.99. You can also buy film packs on the side to add for $.99 which really blows Hipstamatic away with choices. Every time I use Cameramatic, I get overwhelmed with the choices. The only cons are to this app is the process time at full resolution and switching of film, frames and viewfinders.
This is how you pick all you stuff for shooting your pictures with this app. It's cut and dry.
More choices on effect with your pictures.
The type of pictures you want to shoot.
Your vast huge selection of film filters. See I'm a Libra and this is where it gets overwhelming for me…LOL !!! Look at all those choices, it's crazy !!!
This is your viewfinder and how you shoot your pictures. On the bottom left corner is the last pictures you shot and saved. It also saves in your camera roll/library. The sprocket button is your settings, film, frame and viewfinder choices. The picture frame button is for you location, your better off not using the location. It's not accurate and not connecting properly. I think they are having problems at the moment, but everything else works perfectly.
The picture I shot and processed through the app. It's takes about a minute to process each picture at full resolution.
The corner picture shown on the bottom left of a white beat up fence.
Tree Branches, shot with Cameramatic.
I saved the best for last, LemeLeme HD. There is also LemeLeme. Both app are FREE at the app store, the only difference between the two is you can buy addons to LemeLeme HD. This app has a photo sharing service too. You can also buy the iPad version called LomoLomo for iPad for $2.99. LemeLeme was called LomoLomo, it got lots of bad reviews because of the price and crashing problems. I think they changed the name from the bad press and improved this app drastically with major updates. People complain about paying lots of money for an app upfront, but if you think about it you pay far more with addons. I'm such a sucker for it each and every time. Why ? Because I want to find new and creative styles in my photographs, I can't keep on doing the same style of editing. This app is also becoming one of favorite Square Format Apps. I'll tell you why as I show more about this app.
This is what it looks like after the app is loaded. You can see what my favorite camera lens is and frame. Film is different and no real favorites yet. I love the Tilt Shift, for two reasons. Don't get me wrong I love the Tilt Shift Gen App, but sometimes I like to just be able to do it all in one shot.
1. The Dot…make sure you have your camera set to "HIGH" for high res.
2. The Linear…make sure you have your camera set to "HIGH" for high Res.
After the process of the photo is done you have choices of using or retake of a photo.
If you like your photo, you have the options of how you want to share your photo. I just hare mine in the camera roll on my phone. The Tumblr link is not working properly at the moment, again let the developers know. You can also type in a caption for your photo, kind of cool.
This is the finished photo I shot with LemeLeme HD.
Another type of picture you can shoot is the x2 exposure and red, white and blue frame.
x2 Exposure with Inkjet Frame.
This concludes Combo Apps this week, you can leave comments or e-mail me email@example.com. You can follow me on Twitter, Tumblr and/or Instagram @ashcroft54. Below is the Combo Apps Flickr Group, please check it out on other creations made by other members. Show off you work in the group pool !!!
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North Myrtle Beach 2011 Preview
Sat, 06 Aug 2011 02:44:51 GMT —
Hag's Thoughts
The Chiefs are not likely to make the playoffs but they can be a spoiler. Now that I have most of Little River mad at me, I'll tell you that head coach Perry Woolbright is an excellent teacher. He's been a winner everywhere he's been as both a player and coach. It's up to the players to follow his lead during this rebuilding process. North Myrtle Beach WILL win at least one game this season. Write it down. Remember, arch-rival Myrtle Beach High is on top of the mountain right now. But back in the late 90's they won just three games in three years! The Seahawks proved you can go from worst to first. The Chiefs can do the same with hard work on the field and in the weight room. They certainly have a head coach who can get them there.
Rich's Thoughts
North Myrtle Beach fans need to be patient. I'm impressed with Perry Woolbright and I think he's going to get things turned around. One win will go a long way towards getting back on track. The best chance may come against one of NMB's two North Carolina opponents.
North Myrtle Beach schedule8/19 CONWAY 8/26 at Loris 9/9 SOUTH BRUNSWICK (NC) 9/16 OPEN 9/23 at Carolina Forest 9/30 SOCASTEE 10/7 at Georgetown 10/14 WILSON 10/21 at St James 10/28 MYRTLE BEACH
2010 North Myrtle Beach Football Schedule
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Lip balm by Bella Il Fiore
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This balm is awesome and its definitely worth stocking up on! If you have dry, cracked lips this is a great balm to choose. The peppermint gives you a tingly and refreshed feeling. I highly recommend the scrub with this product in the set that is sold on EdenFantasys called "Lip Lovely".
If you are a lip balm connoisseur, giving this item a try might be an excellent thing for you. If you are just the average daily lip balm user, this item is not likely for you.
This lip balm is easy to use and very effective. As with all lip moisturizers you should apply it at least 2 or 3 times a day every day. Like hand creams, if you stop using them, you will dry out. Listen to your mother...an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...
This uber-cute Peppermint Lip Treatment will come rescue your winter lips. With refreshing minty flavor and only a handful of all-natural ingredients, you'll love the slick smooth caress of Bella Il Fiore's latest lip balm.
Berry Balm is a tasty smelling lip gloss that hydrates the lips and is long lasting. I like how it looks so simple and can be part of a daily routine. It looks good with bare looking makeup and a glam out look.


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Photos of Camila Alves and Levi McConaughey at the Beach
Lil Links: Camila and Levi Take Our Breath Away at the Beach
- It was surf and sand for the McConaughey clan – Celebrity Baby Scoop
- Papa Jerry O'Connell is going to law school – Celebrity Baby Blog
- Orbit fights back on negative consumer report – Parent Dish
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Residents in New York are struggling to recover from a snowstorm, days after superstorm Sandy hit the city.
Cold, rain and powerful winds added to the misery of disaster victims whose homes were destroyed or who were left without power after Sandy on 29 October.
A blanket of snow 8-15cm thick covered the city. "God hates us!" the New York Post said in a front-page headline.
New York and New Jersey evacuated the most vulnerable coastal areas ahead of the "nor'easter" storm.
Sandy's death toll in the United States and Canada reached 121 after New York authorities reported another death linked to the storm, in the coastal neighbourhood of the Rockaways.
Some 300,000 households from the Carolinas to New York lost power, though roughly 250,000 were restored before morning.
In all some 662,000 remained in the dark after the back-to-back hurricane and snowstorm.
New York distributed space heaters and blankets to residents without heat or power and opened shelters to those in need of a warm place to sleep.
New York City officials urged people whose homes have been flooded by Sandy to relocate to the homes of friends or family members or to go to city shelters.
Airlines cancelled flights to and from the region, and petrol remained in short supply.


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Two Eureka residents were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of running a marijuana grow on the 4000 block of Little Fairfield Street.
According to a press release, deputies served a search warrant around 11 a.m. and found two people at the residence, Austin Taylor Koren, 24, and Melissa Nichole Elkin, 22.
Deputies seized approximately nine pounds of processed marijuana, packaging material and scales in the residence. Two bedrooms and a detached shed were being used to grow the marijuana, according to the release. Deputies located 147 growing marijuana plants ranging from three inches to 18 inches in height, according to the release.
Deputies arrested Koren and Elkin on suspicion of marijuana cultivation, possession of marijuana for sale and conspiracy to commit a felony. They were booked into the Humboldt County jail. Their bail was set at $75,000.


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WASHINGTON (Jun. 23)
Secretary of State Dean Acheson said at his press conference today that if a survey of the U. N. Palestine Conciliation Commission talks at Lausanne indicates that the negotiations are stalemated, he thought that the United States would take the position that the talks be recessed so that Israeli and Arab delegates could go home and consult with their governments. He also issued the following prepared statement:
"The Palestine Conciliation Commission- in Lausanne is now trying to develop in as much detail as possible the position of Arab and Israeli representatives on the principal questions which remain unsolved. This effort is designed to discover whether there is at present any basis for agreement and, if not. exactly what the points of difference are.
"It may become necessary for the Commission to adjourn its work for a brief period in order to permit the several delegations to consult their governments and to give an opportunity for further informal discussions. In any event, the work of the Commission itself would continue through its general political committee, its technical committee on refugees and its Jerusalem committee.
"Since these discussions are now going on with the Palestine Conciliation Commission, I do not wish to try to deal with the merits of particular issues. As a member of the Commission, the United States will do everything it can to find a basis for a settlement."


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Not stopping Marquez in the first Pac fight was a GREAT call from Cortez
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Yup, huge credit has to go to Cortez for that.
Just goes to show how close the sport of Boxing always is to a huge change in events.
I mean if Cortez calls the fight off whilst Marquez is on the floor for the 3rd time with both hands over his face who the hell would have complained? That would have been seen as a legit stoppage (not im my own personal opinion but compared to how so many other fights have been stopped for less than that) and forever in the history books it would have been Pacquiao DESTROYED Marquez. Pacquiao KO'd him in the 1st round. Pacquiao is Marquez's daddy. Pacquiao automatically would have been 10 times the fighter Marquez was according to we fickle Boxing fans.
Yet Cortez allows him to continue and here we are today looking forward to a FOURTH fight between the two, when we were a split second away from a Pacquiao KO1 over Marquez, which i highly doubt would have ever meant a 2nd fight between the two never mind 4.
3 fights between the pair which show us just how complicated Boxing really is. I mean if Cortez calls the fight off at that point and Pacquiao gets a KO1 which includes 3 knockdowns, who the **** would have even dreamt of saying that Marquez was a fighter who was more than capable of mixing it up with Pacquiao, nevermind saying that he could beat him. Yet even today so many Boxing fans still look at Boxing as if it's simply written in black and white, if so and so beats someone by an early KO, he's obviously better than him, forgetting the fact that Boxing can change in a split second, one punch can change a fight, one decision by a ref can change the course of Boxing history, one small action that re writes so much of Boxing as we know it.
Looking at it, how many other fights which ended in a quick knockout could have gone onto become great fights if they were given that little bit longer by the ref.... probably quite a few. Everything in Boxing can change in that split second, i guess thats why it's such a great sport.
Great post! Agree with everything you said.
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Command & Conquer Get's My Time And Money
I've played every version of Command & Conquer. I LOVED every one except the one they turned into a 1st person shooter. Now I'm hooked on the online version "Tiberium Alliances". More after the jump.
Tiberium Alliances is a "browser" game meaning there is little to no download. It's in the category of what is called a "tower defense" game. It's also FREE to play. Of course you can pay a little and advance a little quicker through the game and it's upgrades. You build your army, defend your base and destroy other bases. Fortunately most of the other bases you're destroying belong to a race called "the Forgotten"; this gives players a chance to build up and do something other than constantly destroy each other. The ultimate goal of the game is to team up with other players and capture the middle of the map. The game is simple to get involved in and once again free. You can check it out here. I don't know if you can join my actual game, but if you want to try I'm on the "World 39″ server. I have two accounts "Nessmania" and "Nesstopia". I'm over in the West/South West.


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These three pretty things arrived in the mail yesterday. If there's one thing I am constantly on eBay for, it's cute (and cheap as hell) sunnies.
Put dem sunnies on to hide your ugly mug.
All my sunnies:
Not a lot but then, how many do I really need when I only have one pair of eyes?


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BIRMINGHAM, Al. (Oct. 19) - Andy Sanders owns the 1999 tournament's low round, but even the 64 the University of Houston golfer shot in Tuesday's final round wasn't low enough to match the winner. That's what kind of talent was among the field here at the 14th annual Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate.
The 54-hole tournament, which began with two rounds on Monday, ended with a playoff between Clemson and UNLV and an individual champion who finished twelve under par on the par 71 course at Birmingham's Old Overton. It is a stop on the Rolex Collegiate Golf Tour. Clemson beat UNLV by a shot on the second hole of the playoff with two birdies to UNLV's one to take the tournament's championship for the second year in a row.
Oklahoma State's Charles Howell, who ranks tied for third in the current Mastercard Collegiate Golf Rankings which are sponsored by the College Golf Foundation, finished one stroke ahead of Sanders (69-69-64/202) and Arizona State's Paul Casey (65-70-67/202) to win the individual championship. Howell shot 68-66-67/201 to win at twelve under par. He was one of 15 players to finish the tournament under par in this annual event which brings 12 of the nation's best collegiate golf teams to Birmingham and honors Alabama native and former University of Alabama and PGA golfer Jerry Pate. His own son Wesley, a freshman at Alabama whose own credits include champion of the Future Masters national junior golf championship, was among the 60 golfers competing for the team and individual titles.
The final team standings found the defending NCAA Champion University of Georgia third here at 838, Houston fourth (840), Oklahoma State fifth (849), followed by Arizona State (850), Arizona (855), UAB (858), Minnesota (863), Alabama (875), Auburn (884), and Florida (902). Mobile's Austin Hynson, a true freshman who was making only his second collegiate appearance, had Alabama's best finish. The UMS-Wright graduate shot 70-74-71/215 to finish at two over par and among a tie at 18th, his first top 20 finish. Alabama's other scores were: Nicholas Balanis 75-70-72/217, Freeman Fite 74-72-75/221, Jan-Are Larsen 74-72-80/226 and Wesley Pate 80-77-76/233.
"Our freshmen continue to make an impact," said Alabama golf coach Dick Spybey, "which is certainly a positive for this week. I couldn't be prouder of Austin Hynson who in his second collegiate tournament finishes in 18th place individually in the finest collegiate field in the county. Nic Balanis continues his steady play with a 217 total. But if this team is going to reach its potential we've got to get more production out of our few upperclassmen. I continue to be optimistic and truly feel this group will be a special one in the end."


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NEVER enter floodwater
The major cause of death during floods is by people entering floodwater. This includes driving, riding and walking through floodwater and children playing in floodwater.
The NSW SES advises people to NEVER enter floodwater.
Floodwater may be deeper and faster flowing than it appears and often contains hidden snags and debris.
Never drive, ride or walk through floodwater
A 'road closed' or a 'road flooded' sign means that road is unsafe to travel on. Find alternate ways which are free from floodwater or wait until the all clear is given for that road. It is safer to turn around than to enter floodwater.
If there is a flooded road which does not have a 'road closed' or 'road flooded sign', it is still unsafe to travel through floodwater.
Floodwater can also erode and wash away road surfaces leaving deep holes and uneven surfaces which cannot be seen.
Never drive ride or walk through floodwater – if it's flooded, forget it.
During flash floods
In areas prone to flash flooding, leaving low-lying areas (homes and businesses) well before flash flooding begins (evacuation), is the best action to take, but only if it is safe to do so. If you are trapped by rising floodwater, seek refuge in the highest part of a sturdy building. Stay there and call 000 (triple zero) if you need rescuing.
Never play in floodwater
During and after flood events, we often see images in the media of children playing in floodwater – swimming, riding boogie boards, riding through and jumping into floodwater. This activity is highly dangerous and there have been deaths of children due to playing in floodwater.
Floodwater can contain things like rubbish, dead animals, sewage and other contaminants such as poisons. It is safer to stay clear of floodwater. It is not a place to play.
Never play in storm drains
In some areas, large volumes of fast flowing water can come and go very quickly, sucking in or trapping anyone who gets close to drains, pipes or grills. These places are dangerous to play near when flooding. They can be slippery, have strong suction and currents and can be very hard to get out of.
Never swim in flooded dams and weirs
Flooded dams and weirs are dangerous places to play, especially around outlets, overflows and spillways where churning water can knock people off their feet and pin them underwater.