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ISLAMABAD: Safe blood supply is a challenge worldwide which makes blood donation the most precious of all donations. Unfortunately, Pakistan also appallingly suffers from a lack of blood donors. In lieu of this despondent situation, PTCL conducted a nationwide Blood Donation Drive under its "Razakaar Programme" bringing together 9,726 generous donors from across the country providing thousands of deserving people a chance at survival. Hosting the largest blood donation campaign of the year PTCL set up 100 camps across the country, extending from Khyber to Mehran, encouraging its employees, their families and community partners to lend an arm.
The drive kicked off with an ambitious target of 5,000 pints of blood. PTCL partnered with the best blood collection agencies like AFIT, Thalassemia Center and Pakistan Red Crescent Society among some other trusted sources. The astounding jump to 9,726 pints attributes to the volunteers encouraged via a series of outreach programs i.e. social media campaigns, awareness sessions, video messages and roadshows conducted across the country, defying common myths about blood donation and encouraging many first time donors.
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This week's Technologizer column on TIME.com is about e-books–and how e-reading software for computers and smartphones lets you enjoy them without splurging on a Kindle, Nook, or other piece of specialized hardware. Writing it got me thinking about a fact I'd forgotten about: I started reading e-books back in the mid-1990s, before dedicated e-readers event existed.
The tomes I read back then had been digitized by Project Gutenberg, an extremely admirable non-profit enterprise that creates files from public-domain books, then distributes them as widely as possible. They've got everything from some of the greatest works of literature ever (here's Huckleberry Finn and Wuthering Heights) to interesting curiosities (First Lessons in Geography). Everything's available in plain-text versions so you don't need to sweat file-format issues. (Versions with illustrations are also available.) (More on Time.com: 5 E-Readers For 2011)
And I did mention that everything's free, right?
I knew that Project Gutenberg was venerable, but I didn't realize that it had been founded by Michael Hart at the University of Illinois in 1971–which qualifies as a visionary act, period. If you're not familiar with the site and its good deeds, check it out; if, like me, you knew about it but haven't visited recently, it's well worth rediscovering.
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Sunday 5 October 2008
Cardinal welcomes launch of new Cancer Fund.
Cardinal Keith O'Brien has welcomed the launch of a new fund which will
support women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy. The "Andrea Kearney
Fund" has been established in memory of Andrea Kearney who died earlier this
year following a cancer diagnosis at the beginning of 2007 when she was 38
weeks pregnant with her fifth child.
Andrea was 41 when she died following 16 months of treatment in May 2008,
her husband Peter Kearney is Director of the Catholic Media Office.
Commenting on the launch of the fund, Cardinal O'Brien said;
"I am delighted to support the "Andrea Kearney Fund" and hope that in
the years to come it can offer support to women facing the difficult
challenge of coping with a cancer diagnosis during pregnancy. Andrea
was a remarkable woman of great faith who inspired many people. Her
strength throughout her illness was an example to us all. Through
this fund established in her name I'm sure she will continue to
inspire as she did in life."
Peter Kearney welcomed the Cardinal's comments;
"I am very grateful to Cardinal O'Brien for endorsing the "Andrea Kearney
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our inaugural fundraising event a success."
Mr Kearney added;
"An evening of music and entertainment to raise funds to support women and
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the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow on Sunday 9 November. Among those performing
and supporting the event will be the co-founder of the fund, my brother Tony
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Playing the first of two midweek games, Santa Clara softball lost a close game to Cal by a final of 4-3. The Broncos are now 6-26 on the season while the Bears are now 22-17.
Santa Clara returns to the field Thurs., April 17 at 6 p.m. vs. Fresno State.
Ciara Gonzales (3-11) started for Santa Clara and picked up a loss in 6.0 innings. Gonzales allowed four runs on nine hits with four walks and two strikeouts. Stephanie Fisher hit for the cycle and scored two runs to lead the offense. Kelly Scribner was 1-3 with a home run while Cassandra Padilla added a double.
"Stephanie showed some real leadership today at the plate and showed what a threat we can be at the plate. She stayed patient and owned both pitchers. I'm really proud to see her have such a great day," said Santa Clara head coach Lisa Mize about Fisher's day at the plate.
Nisa Ontiveros (9-7) started for Cal and picked up a no-decision in 3.0+ innings. Ontiveros allowed one unearned run on two hits with two strikeouts. Stephanie Trzcinski (7-7) picked up the win with 4.0 innings out of the bullpen. Kylie Reed was 2-4 with a double and two RBIs to lead the offense. Cheyenne Cordes was 2-3 with a double, a walk, an RBI, and two runs scored while Victoria Jones was 1-3 with a walk and an RBI.
Cordes led off the bottom of the first with a double to left. After a fly out, Danielle Henderson and Breana Kostreba singled to left-center to load the bases. V. Jones followed with an RBI single to right to give the Bears the early 1-0 lead. Gonzales bounced back to get the next two outs.
Santa Clara was almost gifted a run on bad defense in the top of the third. Krista Jensen led off the top of the third with a strikeout but reached first on a dropped third strike. She moved to second on a fielder's choice and advanced to third with one out on a wild pitch. A pop out and groundout got Ontiveros out of the inning with the Bears still on top.
Fisher led off the top of the fourth with a triple that ended the day for Ontiveros. Trzcinski came in to pitch and got the first out via strikeout. Breezy Bernard hit a grounder to second but an error let the run come in to score and tied the game 1-1.
Cordes walked to start the bottom of the fifth but was erased o a fielder's choice. Henderson followed with a fielder's choice but was safe on the play. Another fielder's choice put runners at the corners and a walk to V. Jones laded the bases. The inning ended with Ashley Decker grounded out with the score still knotted up.
Fisher put Santa Clara on top with a solo homer to right center to lead off the sixth inning. After two fly outs, Scribner blasted a home run of her own to center to make the score 3-1 Broncos. Chiara Biagini and Jensen followed with singles but Santa Clara was unable to score again and took a two run lead to the bottom of the sixth.
Vanessa Alvarez doubled to left with one out in the bottom of the sixth for Cal. LaRisa Jones put runners on the corners with an infield single and Cordes singled to right to cut the deficit to just one. A wild pitch moved both runners into scoring position and a single by Reed put Cal on top 4-3.
Pinch-hitter Jenna Krummen singled to right center with one out in the top of the seventh. Fisher singled to right to complete the cycle but Krummen was thrown out trying to advance to third. The game ended on a ground out to third.


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I'm posting this here to preservate this wonderful work, as the original link on the author's old web is broken; If you're mr. Metzger and you want your game out of my blog just ask!
What is this about?
It's a -kind of unfinished- game where the players are all thieves on the city of thieves, and they go around stealing things and playing heists. I like everything about this one; from the concept, the approach, the mechanics (On a hurry: roll 2d6 and assign one to achieve your goal -on a 1,2 you miss, on a 3 o 4 you succeed partially, on a 5,6 you succeed- and other die to avoid danger -on a 4,5 or 6 you do it, else you fail. Some traits may grant you more dice to roll). There is also a totally different sub-system for magic, (because all thieves have a little magic). The whole thing reminds me a lot about Lupin the 3rd, and Daredevil and Elektra for some reason. I've never played it yet, but I hope to do it someday.
There is a line that I liked specially, that goes somehow like this "When the heist is over, each player can say one thing that has changed forever on the city of thieves".
It's author did a remake years after, which can be found on it's blog here:
It changes the whole concept of the game, to a strange mix of rpg and boardgame played only with a french deck. Though it's very interesting and finely built, I think it might be a little overcomplicated. Maybe I'll try it or do a mix of both.


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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Cover Love
I just came across this and was intrigued so I thought that I would share it. I found a UK cover of The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan that I thought resembled Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma. What do you think? I wonder what goes into cover design. I knew that some indie books used stock photos but I always thought that the bigger publishing houses used original photos for cover art. Which use of the heart do you like better?
9 comments:
- Joy (joyous reads) said...
Whoa. I've never seen that cover before! I do love that series. I'm still trying to toughen up before I read Forbidden :) Thanks for sharing!
- November 16, 2011 at 3:12 PM
I think Forbidden's cover stands out more. The Dark and Hollow Places cover is dreary looking, too blah with the gray on gray.
- November 17, 2011 at 7:18 AM
- Lenmeo said...
I like them both :-)
- November 17, 2011 at 8:47 PM
- Heather said...
As a cover designer I started realizing that even the big publishers use stock photos. In fact, most covers are stock photos now days. A good designer is able to alter it enough that you'll never see another like it though. Unfortunately in this case, they didn't.
- November 18, 2011 at 7:44 AM
- Susan Bennett said...
I prefer the black and white. It makes me feel desolate. Very evocative.
- November 20, 2011 at 3:50 PM
- anarchist said...
Apologies for the off-topic comment, but I couldn't find a contact email for you.
I recently put out an ebook of my writing, called The New Death and others. It's a collection of short pieces, mostly dark fantasy.
I was wondering if you'd be interested in doing a review on your blog.
If so, please email me: firstname.lastname@example.com. Let me know what file format is easiest for you, and I'll send you a free copy.
You can download a sample from the ebook's page on Smashwords:
I'm also happy to do interviews, guest posts, or giveaways. Just let me know what you'd prefer.
- December 6, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Chayse Sundt said...
I think the heart on the dark and hollow places is better....new follower so come follow me at bookreaper.blogspot.com
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Last week we covered 5 Websites to Scan for Viruses Online. This week we continue the fight against viruses with ten pieces of completely free software that will help protect you from autorun.inf viruses.
The autorun.inf file is used to automatically launch applications on CDs / DVDs / Flash drives etc. This becomes really useful when you want to display a menu that allows the user to view the contents of the CD or to start presentations and so on.
However, over the last two years the autorun.inf file has been used by viruses and worms to automatically launch themselves and thus effect computers. These viruses are all from less harmful blocking of sites (like the popular Orkut virus) to wrecking total havoc on your system requiring a complete reinstall of the operating system.
Since then, antivirus software have become smarter at detecting and removing these viruses and worms. In addition to this, you have a complete dedicated set of applications that help you protect your computer from autorun.inf viruses.
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Autorun Eater was born due to increase of malwares using the 'autorun.inf' tactic to infect users unknowingly be it from flash drives, removable hard disks or any other removable storage device. When an infected device is infected with a malware and an 'autorun.inf' file is dropped, the shell menu is normally modified to execute the malware whenever the unsuspecting user double-clicks the infected drive.
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Photos, documents and certificates that have been collected while researching our family tree are showcased here.
Certificates and Documents relating to people who are still alive are generally not included. If you see a small
'thumbnail' of a certificate or other document, but there is no link to the file itself, please email me for a copy.
Thank You to those who have helped by providing some of the documents and photos you can find here.
Family Trees
|The four branches of Gabriel's family tree are brought together here. Research is ongoing.
Field Family Tree
Allen, Boe, Bye, Callcot, Cox, Dunn, Emmott, Field, Follett, Foster, Hebden, Hogan, House, Ibbitson/Ibbotson, Kay, Kelly, Lawrence/Laurence, Lupton, Luscombe, McDonald, Plymin, Pollard, Proctor, Randall, Richmond, Todd, Umpleby, Watson, Wharton, Whelan
Phillips Family Tree
Bailey, Faro (Convict), Gascoigne (First Fleet), Hollins, Lucas (First Fleet), Manson, McLaren, parsons, Pfeiffer, Phillips, Stevenson, Tait, Zomer
Cifuentes Family Tree
Andrade, Cifuentes, Davidson, Diaz, Pocknee, Smith
Rodriguez Family Tree
Bellota, Farfan, Rodriguez
Photo Albums
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Abuelito's Photos
Over 500 photos from the albums of Francisco Rodriguez (1911-2003). (Rodriguez Tree)
Catalina's Photos
Over 200 photos from the albums of Catalina Andrade (1916-2008). (Cifuentes Tree)
Doreen's Photos
From the secret wooden box of Margaret Doreen Watson nee Field (1914-2000) came over 800 photos, mostly take from old and damaged negatives.(Field Tree)
Other Family Documents
|Below you will find a collection of documents created in recent times by the latest generation of our families.
Scrapbook 2009
A scrapbooking album Cristina made in 2009 to send with her mother to show the family during her mother's trip back to Peru. Right Click and Save Target As... (88 MB; 42 pages).
Catalina's 90th Scrapbook
A scrapbooking album Cristina gave to her grandmother Catalina Cifuentes nee Andrade on her 90th birthday in 2006.
RV Trip Photos
A photobook of our RV trip through the National Parks of the western United States in 2005.
RV Trip Planner
Here's the PDF file of our planned RV trip in September/October 2005. I recommend you Right Click and Save Target As... (59 MB; 195 pages)
Indian Vacation
A photobook of our trip to India in November 2004 with Sumeet and Angela to celebrate their Wedding. Right Click and Save Target As... (85 MB; 44 pages)
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Linguine with Garlic Chili Oil and Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
This past week Jor and I took a break from the craziness of work, school and the everyday routine and ventured off to Italy and it was everything we had hoped for and more! Immersing ourselves into a new culture and soaking in the unbelievable history of another country was both thrilling and invigorating! We left already talking about the next trip. We both are so easily consumed by our work, which we luckily both love, but sometimes you need to be reminded that there is life outside your bubble and that it's ok to press pause on that to experience something completely outside of your element. I plan on sharing more about Italy and especially the food we ate in an upcoming post but for now I wanted to share a pasta meal we made that just resonates with the tomato based pasta we so loved while in Italy! Throw out the jars of tomato sauce (that are honestly on sugar overload) because it's all about using simple, fresh tomatoes in this pasta dish.
Here's what you need:
(Makes enough for two dinner portions but can easily be scaled up or down.)
- 6 ounces uncooked linguine
- 1 pound (1 small carton) of cherry heirloom tomatoes
- salt and pepper
- 1-1.5 tablespoon olive oil (plus a drizzle for the tomatoes)
- 1 large garlic clove (more if desired), minced
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper chili flakes
- handful of fresh basil leaves
- freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees and line a baking sheet with tinfoil (helps with clean up). Wash the cherry tomatoes, halve them and spread them out on the covered baking sheet. Drizzle olive oil over the tomatoes along with a dash of salt and pepper. Mix everything around on the sheet so that each tomato is covered with some of the olive oil. Roast the tomatoes in the oven for about 20 minutes. If your tomatoes are on the smaller side, be sure to start checking them around 15 minutes as the bake time is completely dependent on the size of the tomatoes and you don't want to end up with completely shriveled up or burned tomatoes!
While the tomatoes cook, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil on medium high heat. Throw in the linguine and let that cook for about 8-10 minutes.
At this point, your tomatoes should be just about done and the linguine is also well on its way. Go ahead and heat the olive oil in a smaller pan on medium high heat. Once it is hot, add in the minced garlic clove(s) and the red pepper chili flakes. You want to watch this closely so that the garlic doesn't burn but when you start hearing a little crackling noise from your pan you will know that good things are happening! It will start to become wonderfully aromatic in your kitchen in a matter of minutes!
As your garlic, chili pepper oil is finishing up, your tomatoes and pasta should be about done. The tomatoes will have shrunk just the smallest bit and they should have released some juices (all good things!). Be careful not to let the tomatoes stay in the oven too long because the juice they release will easily and quickly burn on you.
Only cook your pasta until al dente and then add the cooked tomatoes (juices an all) to the pot of pasta along with the garlic, chili pepper oil. Give everything a good but gentle toss so as not to break apart the tomatoes too much. Add in your fresh basil to liven it up just a tad bit more.
Toast up some fresh baked bread and serve the pasta with a little more fresh basil and grated Parmesan cheese and you have a wonderful pasta dish for two (or more!).
What I love most about this meal is that while it is incredibly quick and easy to throw together, roasting the cherry tomatoes brings out such a wonderful, fresh flavor you don't feel like you are eating any plan pasta meal. That combined with the garlic, chili pepper oil is just fantastic! Plus the flavor beats any tomato sauce that comes out of can by a mile for sure! Each tomato based pasta dish we had in Italy consisted of a tomato sauce that had far less sugar than what is often served in America and it was obvious that the base was simply fresh whole tomatoes as opposed to something straight from a can. And right now with the farmers markets being filled with tomatoes of all varieties, this dish is a perfect way to work your way through the different tomatoes in season! I used heirloom in this dish but you can use whatever looks best to you. Perhaps it was just being in Italy that made us think we were eating the freshest tomatoes around but for now we'll just have to enjoy what we can back home until we return again!! For now, that's linguine pasta with garlic chili pepper oil and roasted cherry tomatoes…in the shell of a nut!
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If you want us to find you a partner, hurry up - register without a partner and we will do our best to find you one. For this, please give us as much information as you see nessesary about yourself in the registration form "Additional information" section. Please note that if possible we will "match" you with a partner according to the information that YOU HAVE PROVIDED (level, age, height or similar data), but at the same time we will apply the "first-come-first-serve" principle, meaning that you will most probably be "matched" with the first partner of the opposite "role" as soon as he/she registers.
However, if you register early enough (at least 5 weeks before the festival / by mid-June) you can ask us for the e-mail address of your "mached" partner and sort out whether the level, height etc. of the "matched" partner fits you.
A bit more in detail, usually there is no more than one possible "match" for your chosen workshop, so there is just the "take-it-or-leave-it" option. If there would be different possibilities, we will use your height, age, level etc. for finding the best "match". Otherwise we will "match" you in the order of registration or after sending out the bill we will give privilege to those who have paid earlier.
If there will be no partner for you in the waiting list by 6th July 2015, then, unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that we will find you one. Still, you may register and we will send you out the bill, which you will pay to guarantee a place in the concrete workshop and whichwith you will get priority over other participants in getting the first possible partner who will register afterwards.
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While I'm a traditional theater fan, I do like a play or a concert or a performance that happens in a non-traditional setting that may or may not have an actual stage.
A drama played out in a restaurant? A short concert on a roof? Yes and yes. Call it conflicting concepts occupying the same space (one of the themes of the Wilfair books, indeedy).
Surprising stages are the theme twice over in Los Angeles this weekend. Short plays are being performed by the dinosaur bones at our Natural History Museum and a "multi-sensory" dance piece is leaping about our huge airport.
Both of these surprise stages tickle my brain. Like.
I suppose the hotel and motel in the Wilfair series are stages of sorts, like every fictional setting is a stage. Nope, they're not traditional hotel stories, though there is a bit of that. Rather, pairing up a hotel setting with characters asking questions about love and friendship and personal power and missed opportunities and esoteric ideas seemed perfectly mismatchy to me, in a satisfying way.
A surprise stage, one that looks as if it is going to be about room service and bell carts, is the setting for another drama entirely. I hope the setting and themes feel perfectly mismatchy to you, too.
Do you have a favorite surprise stage, either in life or the life on the page or screen?
And now, dance! The Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre took to a local laundromat a few years ago to shimmy and writhe about the dryers. This hits my personal offbeat sweet spot square in its center, hits it with the force of Cupid's arrow.
Surprise Stages
While I'm a traditional theater fan, I do like a play or a concert or a performance that happens in a non-traditional setting that may or may not have an actual stage.


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"In the end, creativity isn't just the things we choose to put in, it's the things we choose to leave out."
— Austin Kleon
— Austin Kleon
Design to me is part science, part art and a smattering of instinct. It's a multi-disciplinary field, drawing influence and ideas from everywhere (behavioral science, pattern recognition, nature, emotion, to name a few).
I design experiences, interfaces, brands and everything in between. From silicone to fabric to mobile, I work in a variety of mediums, surfaces and sizes and thrive on transitioning between them.


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This blog started off by focussing on NZ's smaller 3rd level airlines, past and present. It has evolved to trying to present some record of NZ's domestic airline operations and some of the larger charter operators, interesting NZ international airliner movements and photos I have taken around the country. Comments, corrections or contributions are welcome, Steve - firstname.lastname@example.com
13 November 2012
MVA at Nelson today
Posted by Steve L at 9:12 AM
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- AnonymousNovember 13, 2012 4:50 PM
Is it coming to TaurangaReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 13, 2012 10:22 PM
Sadly no, only visited Nelson, New Plymouth and Wellington today. Tauranga not scheduled to be visited by this aircraft in the near future.ReplyDelete
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Since September 2015 the Ministry of Finance and Economy has promoted the cluster project "Meta-Cluster Engineering" of the cluster initiative bw-engineers from Stuttgart. For the three-year project about 190.000 Euro are provided by the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE). When handing out the grant agreement on 23 September 2015 in Stuttgart the Secretary of State Peter Hofelich stressed the importance of viable cluster and innovation platforms (CLIP).
Meta Cluster Engineering creates alliances between regional and international clusters and networks of engineers and craftsmen for market development in the MENA region. They focus on joint implementation of innovative measures for market development, network communication and management of design processes as well as project acquisition and management. This contributes to the image building of the brand "Baden-Württemberg" abroad. The implementation of the three-year work program sets the stage for successful and sustainable internationalization activities of SMEs in the sectors of construction and environmental protection in Baden-Württemberg.
The aim of this project is to strengthen the competitiveness of consulting engineer SMEs from Baden-Wuerttemberg. It is supposed to gradually pave the way for cluster members to access the foreign, mainly the Arab market. Especially the Gulf States are an attractive future market. Thereby, the Meta-Cluster project allows them not only to extend their activity abroad, but, at the same time, to intensify their regional ties with partner firms on the national level, thus extending their range of offered services.
Since February 2016, a cross cluster cooperation between bw-engineers and bw-construction has been established. Combining engineering design with handcraft and construction services extends the service spectrum of both cluster initiatives. A joint contact point in Riyadh provides and promotes the connection and contact with local clients – see our Service Brochur Leistungsbroschüre_bwe_wcon.
bw engineers and bw-construction presented themselves as part of the Baden Wuerttemberg Delegation in the German Pavillon on the Saudi Arabian National Festival for Heritage and Culture "Janadriyah" in February 2016. At the opening ceremony Feb 3rd we took the opportunity to network with the high level delegations from the Kingdom and Germany. Our local contact point in Riyadh initiated a number of B2B talks with local clients. This helped to establish first contacts and paved the way for a further cooperation. https://bw-engineers.com/general/bw-engineers-at-janadriyah-festival/
An intensive cooperation has been established with a local team of Abu Dhabi engineers and the National Water Center in AlAin. Details were agreed on our common visit to the 19th Arab-German Business Forum in May 2016 in Berlin https://bw-engineers.com/general/bw-engineers-at-the-arab-german-business-forum-in-berlin/. A local dependency bw engineers Emirates Engineering Consultancy was founded in June 2016. Further cooperation agreements have been established with local cluster networks in Kuwait and Quatar.
A further priority has been given to the implementation of innovative BIM-concepts (Building Information Modelling). An international expert workshop in Riyadh demonstrated the implementation on behalf of a local pilot project. It was followed by the public workshop BIM Open House.https://bw-engineers.com/general/bw-engineers-bim-open-house-2016/
Cluster Manager Dr. Thomas Ertel and technical representatives for water, transport and construction issues participated in a market research delegation to Iran in September 2016, organized by bw-international. They presented themselves on the technical congress "The Art of Civil Engineering and Architecture made in Baden-Württemberg, Germany". B2B Talks and visits to local firms paved the way for a further cooperation.


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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Colton Eastman was superb as usual, but San Diego State was able to do just enough offensively, as the Aztecs hung on to defeat Cal State Fullerton 6-3 in the series opener at Tony Gwynn Stadium on Friday night.
For Fullerton (16-16) the loss snaps what was a season-long six-game win streak and drops its third straight road contest.
Eastman (3-2) took the tough-luck defeat, as he tossed 7.0 innings, surrendered three runs on six hits and fanned a career-high eight batters.
Offensively, Hank LoForte had himself a career game, as produced a career-best four hits, including a run scored, a triple and an RBI. The four-hit game was the first time a Titan had collected four hits in a game since Daniel Cope did it vs. Saint Mary's May 15, 2017.
Mitchell Berryhill went 2-for-3 from the plate with an RBI, while Ruben Cardenas also picked up an RBI. Jace Chamberlin recorded a knock, Brett Borgogno went 2-for-3 with two runs scored.
San Diego State struck first in this one, as it scored three runs off of four hits in the bottom of the first.
However, it didn't take long for the Titans to respond, as Fullerton struck for a run of its own in the top of the third. LoForte led off the frame with a knock through the right side, then Berryhill responded with his first career triple down the right field line to score LoForte to make it just a 3-1 deficit.
Fullerton had a golden opportunity to strike again in the fifth, as The Titans loaded the bases with no one out, thanks to a walk by Borgogno and back-to-back singles by LoForte and Berryhill. However, the Titans couldn't bring a run home.
However this same crew would get another shot in the seventh, and this time they'd come through. Borgogno delivered a single to left field to begin the seventh, before LoForte reached on an infield chopper to the pitcher for his third hit of the day. Berryhill then laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt to advance the runners to second and third before Cardenas drove in Borgogno from third base with a sacrifice fly to left field to make it just a 3-2 deficit.
Unfortunately, the Aztecs put up their second three-spot of the game in the bottom of the eighth to take a commanding 6-2 advantage.
The Titans did their best to battle in the top of the ninth, as Borogono came through with a single through the right side, before LoForte blasted his fourth hit of the game for an RBI triple into the right field corner to make it just a 6-3 ballgame. That's as close as the Titans would get.
The Titans aim to tie the series tomorrow at 6 pm PT.
Fans can purchase tickets for various Cal State Fullerton athletic events by visiting FullertonTitans.com/Tickets. The Athletic Ticket Office can also be contacted by phone at 657-278-2783 or by email at email@example.com. The Ticket Office is located at the Titan House off of Gymnasium Drive at the eastern end of the Intramural Fields and is open from 10 am – 4 pm PT, Monday – Friday.
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Santa Barbara County mulls over UCCE budget
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors is tentatively scheduled to review a UC Cooperative Extension funding request at its July 27 meeting, according to an article published yesterday in the Lompoc Record.
The county had approved $111,700 for the programs and staff expertise provided by UCCE, but at its budget hearings in June, $68,000 in additional funding was requested. On June 22, the Board of Supervisors couldn't get the four votes needed for approval.
For the article, reporter Sam Womack spoke to Don Kingborg of UC ANR Advocacy and County Partnerships.
"The $68,000 is to get us to the minimum level necessary to continue this program," Klingborg was quoted in the article. "Over the past years, the Santa Barbara County program has been funded in the range of $200,000 to $225,000. With this move and other adjustments, we recognized the terrible fiscal shape our counties are in and were able to decrease the cost to $180,000."
With the additional funding, the Santa Barbara County offices would close, but the advisors, services, programs and research would continue out of San Luis Obispo and Ventura county offices, the story said.Interim director of Santa Barbara County UCCE Mark Gaskell told the reporter he already spends about half his time outside of county boundaries. For example, he conducts agricultural research at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
"I don't think its necessarily a critical issue where you sit and type at your computer," he was quoted.
Methyl iodide hearing prompts news coverage
Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez held a hearing of the Food and Agriculture Committee last Thursday to review the Department of Pesticide Regulation's tentative decision to approve the pesticide methyl iodide.
The hearing prompted wide news coverage over the weekend, including a story in the New York Times that said the discussion in California over methyl iodide has implications beyond the Golden State. The U.S. EPA has indicated DPR's decision may influence federal policy on the use of the pesticide nationwide.
The Times article reported that, at the hearing, members of the scientific committee that had reviewed methyl iodide for DPR - and suggested it not be registered - said the state's decision to approve its use was made using "inadequate, flawed and improperly conducted scientific research."
"This is without question one of the most toxic chemicals on earth," John Froines, UCLA professor of environmental health sciences, was quoted. "You don't register a chemical when you don't have the necessary information you need."
Carolyn O'Donnell, the spokeswoman for the California Strawberry Commission, said the pesticide would be deployed by growers safely and only when needed.
"The 500-plus growers of strawberries in the state are largely family farmers who live where they grow," O'Donnell was quoted in the Times. "When they make decisions about how and where they farm, they make those decisions with the health and safety of workers and the community in mind."
An article in the Ventura County Star said stringent regulations would deter growers from using the chemical even if it were registered. Some proposed restrictions are a half-mile buffer zone around schools, hospitals and nursing homes, limiting application to protect groundwater and limiting the number of acres that can be treated.
The Roseville Press-Tribune said field fumigation with methyl iodide would be rare in Placer County.
"There is less need for pesticides to manage strawberry pests because we have fewer species of pests and lower pest populations, partly because we lack the intense cultivation of strawberries as on the Central Coast and farms are scattered throughout the county," the article quoted Cindy Fake, a UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor for Placer and Nevada counties.
The Monterey County Herald ran a commentary about the issue written by State Assemblyman Bill Monning.
"It is unconscionable for DPR to proceed with the registration of methyl iodide when its own scientists have presented unequivocal evidence of extreme risk and insufficient data collection," Monning wrote.
The public comment period on the pending approval of methyl iodide ends on June 29./span>
Lychee: Good for the body, good for the farm
The sub-tropical fruit lychee could be a new crop for farmers along California's coast, according to Mark Gaskell, the UC Cooperative Extension advisor to small-scale farmers in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
A ping-pong-ball-sized tree fruit with white, jelly-like flesh, the red-skinned lychee is popular among Asian consumers. They appear to be adapted to roughly the same conditions as avocados, Gaskell said. Since the fruit is well accepted in areas where it is available, the potential market acceptability of lychees is high. And, demand for fresh lychees already exists in Asian markets that carry whole, frozen, unshelled lychees.
Nutritionists are also looking closely at the fruit, which is a rich source of dietary flavanols, according to UC Davis research nutritionist Robert Hockman.
Flavanols – found in strawberries, cocoa, red wine, green tea and lychees - provide improvements in the smooth lining of the vascular system, reduce blood pressure, reduce blood stickiness and possibly provide cognitive improvements, Hockman reports in a video recorded for UC's website Feeling Fine Online.
However, studies have determined that, just because people eat flavanol-rich foods, it doesn't mean the beneficial compounds get into the blood stream. Most flavanols, he said, are long-chain polyphenols, which are not well absorbed by the body.
In his research, Hockman is using a lychee fruit extract that has been processed to have smaller – more bioactive – molecules. The product was fed to rats and found to pass through the digestive tract and into the blood stream.
"Now we are moving on to human studies," Hockman said.
He is specifically studying the lychee extract and vascular health in post-menopausal women.
"Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer in California and the No. 1 killer in the U.S.," Hockman said. "It represents enormous health care costs. California agriculture products may help reduce the risk (of cardiovascular disease), saving billions of dollars."
Lychee (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Feds provide funding to fight European grapevine moth
The federal government has pledged $1.75 million from the 2008 Farm Bill to fight European grapevine moth, a pest that made its first recorded U.S. appearance last September in a Napa County vineyard. EGVM has since spread to six grape-producing counties, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
"After increased detections of the pest in California in recent weeks, it is clear that additional funding is needed to ensure we can respond quickly and effectively to protect California's grape and wine industries," USDA administrator Cindy Smith was quoted in the Fresno Bee article about the new funding. The money will be used for trapping, detection and surveying of the pest.Growers are currently using low toxicity pesticides to combat EGVM, according to the San Francisco Chronicle's Inside Scoop blog. CDFA has has approved two materials for use in vineyards with EGVM and CCOF, which provides organic certification to growers, has approved ISO-Mate EGVM, a pheromone treatment used to confuse adult male moths in search of a mate.
However, UCCE Napa County viticulture advisor Monica Cooper says it's too soon to know how well the treatments will work, according to the blog. Several trials are under way.
UCCE European grapevine moth fact sheet.
European grapevine moth.
New food safety law could hurt small farmers
A behind-the-scenes battle is raging in the Senate over how to regulate small and organic growers without ruining them - and still protect consumers from contaminated food, according to a story published yesterday in the San Francisco Chronicle.
The crux of the legislation gives the Food and Drug Administration greater authority to regulate how products are grown, stored, transported, inspected, traced from farm to table and recalled when needed.
Small-scale producers may face compliance with tough laws.


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Benjamin Domenech
Domenech joined Heartland in 2009 after several years working and writing on national health care policy, beginning with a political appointment as speechwriter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, and continuing as chief speechwriter for U.S. Senator John Cornyn during the Medicare Part D debate on Capitol Hill.
In addition to his work with Heartland and The Federalist, Domenech is the publisher of a daily subscription newsletter, The Transom, which is read daily by thousands of political insiders.
Domenech co-founded Redstate andhosts a popular podcast on market issues in the global economy -- and for which he won a "Sammy" award in 2011 — called Coffee & Markets.
In 2009 he was selected as a Journalism Fellow by the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution.
Latest posts by Benjamin Domenech (see all)
- Three Potential Paths Post-Obamacare Ruling - March 14, 2015
- Heartland Daily Podcast – Ben Domenech: The Vaccine Debate - February 6, 2015
- The Insane Vaccine Debate - February 5, 2015
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The decline and fall of Newsweek motivated Bethany Shondark Mandel to ask the other day about magazine preferences, curious about who subscribes to what. We subscribe to Commentary, The Economist, Garden & Gun, and Cook's Illustrated, and used to subscribe to The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, and First Things, but there is a point where you can only read so much. New Yorkmagazine has improved dramatically and it would be the next subscription I get.
But the death of Newsweek – in print, at least – reminds me of how much I wish we had a mainstream journal which lives up to Henry Luce's original mission with Time. Today's iteration is almost a slightly less pompous Newsweek, with just as much trollishness to its ridiculous covers.
The original Time was a magazine which aimed to cover and distill the news of politics, economics, world affairs and culture for the nation's rising middle class. Luce's magazine leaned to the center-right, with a small-c conservatism that was seasoned with a populist respect for the middle class reader and an abiding love for America.
Luce's 1920s prospectus for the magazine included this "list of prejudices":
- A belief that the world is round and an admiration of the statesman's view of all the world.
- A general distrust of the present tendency toward increasing interference by government.
- A prejudice against the rising cost of government.
- Faith in the things which money cannot buy.
- A respect for the old, particularly in manners.
- An interest in the new, particularly in ideas.
There are certainly a host of quality magazines out there today. But all too many of today's publications, right and left, are too heavily devoted to horserace politics, with politician profiles and short-term rough and tumble fights; or if they are interested in culture, they are essentially collections of reviews, often so dry and academic as to be very limited in reach.
There's a space for this, certainly, and there's plenty of smart writing done in that area. But I think there's also space for a publication which steps back from this fray and devotes itself to the long game, emphasizing culture as much as politics, targeted at the mass market aspirational consumer as opposed to the politically obsessed. I do that a little in The Transom, but this is a publication that would have a much broader reach.
One additional note: magazines are actually doing quite well, moreso than any other form of media. Ad revenue has been up each year since the recession; paid magazine subscriptions continue to rise by about a 1-2 percent mark each year; this year, 181 magazines started while 61 closed. It's an industry which is more specifically targeted to niches but has stabilized generally even as the bottom has fallen out of the newspaper industry.
Until someone sets a basket of money on Ross Douthat's desk to start the center-right Atlantic, I don't think this idea is very likely to come to fruition. But you never know.


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Brandon Graham Looks Into the Future for PROPHET Finale
This March, the epic space saga of Prophet will come to a close. This 1990s Rob Liefeld creation was given new life when Brandon Graham and a menagerie of imaginative cartoonists took hold of the concept in January 2012, and we're just four issues away from the end of the series. But as Graham has told Newsarama in an exclusive reveal, it's not the end of the story of John Prophet. Any of them.
We're still months before the finale, though, and what comes next is January's Prophet #42, which will see Graham welcome Prince of Cats cartoonist Ron Wimberly to Prophet to both write and draw the long-awaited origin of Diehard, which he calls "Diehard Gaiden." Some of you who've read Liefeld's Youngblood stories in the 1990s might think you know the secret to Diehard's past, but you only know the first moments of his life. After talking together about ideas for the issue, Graham stepped aside from writing the series for this issue to let Wimberly take the reigns of the story.
Newsarama talked with Wimberly and Graham about next month's Prophet #42, and then we stayed with Graham to talk about March's finale of the series and the writer/artist gives us a glimpse of what comes next.
Newsarama: Brandon, Ron, thanks for doing this. Prophet #42 comes out in early January, and Brandon is stepping aside for Ron here to both write and draw the complete issue. This was originally going to be #41, but it was shifted around since it was initially solicited. What can you tell us about it?
Ron Wimberly: Hmm… I can tell you I am behind schedule! (laughs)
But seriously. It's a Diehard Gaiden. It's a window into Diehard's past, a family, a maturity ritual.
Brandon Graham: Something nice about working with so many artists on the book is that multiple issues can be worked on at once. We're doing 3 at the same time now. Ron's issue and one I'm doing with Dave Taylor and the main thread with Simon and Giannis.
Nrama: In this issue you're going back in time to see how Diehard first met the Earth Empire. Diehard already has a history in Youngblood, so how'd you go about dancing around that while keeping it Diehard?
Wimberly: I'm mainly ignorant… I have a computer and the internet, and when that doesn't work, I ask Brandon. He's a Prophet lexicon.
Also, I'm not too worried about fans being able to fill in the gaps. That's what I've always done.
Graham: There's certainly a lot of room to dance around in. The Empire came about long after Youngblood was over.
While Diehard knew the first John Prophet, this is the first time he's met these versions of his clones. (maybe he'd met other Prophets though when they were just being used as terraforming clones hmmm)
Nrama: How does this story fit within the larger sprawling story in the Prophet series as a whole?
Graham: In Prophet #39 we showed a lot of Diehard's life, but he's lived like 10 thousands years so there's a lot of ground to cover. Ron's issue, Prophet #42, is a nice excuse to focus more on Diehard's life away from humanity and show what he lived like beyond just a few pages.
It's fun to try and think about what someone who'd lived that long would be like. I imagine he would've had entire life times he just doesn't think about much. I feel like we could just do an endless number of miniseries of Diehard across time.
Nrama: Correct me if I'm wrong, but Prophet seems to buck the trend and instead of the art being in strict service of the story it works together with some strong give and take. What's that like for you two?
Wimberly: Wow, is that the trend? That's terrible! I think comics is supposed to be about that harmony of marks as pictures and marks as words. In the end it's a mark-making medium, a drawing medium. Brandon let me do what I want with this mostly but I am working in service of the spirit of the narrative that came before.
Graham: I can say that everyone who works on Prophet does draw and write. I feel like understanding both of those things is what comics is all about--its comic book language. I do see a trend of text running the show, which I'm sure works for some books but it's not how I think of comics.
One of the reasons that I send the guys I work with rough layouts instead of a text script is how much I've hated working off of just text in the past. I like that in making comics a lot of times things are learned outside of any set schooled rules, so we all have the chance to learn our own ways of doing things. When I started doing more collaborative books it was important to me to rethink how I would want to go about that. My ideal comics aren't usually collaborations but seeing guys like Naoki Urasawa made me think about how possible it is to do interesting things with multiple people on one book.
Nrama: Ron, in the solicitations it said you were co-writing this with Brandon as well as drawing it, but Brandon mention you were doing the whole thing. Set me straight.
Wimberly: Well, it started out that way, but then Brandon just gave me the reins mostly and just checked me. It was cool…maybe too cool. I was excited to work with Brandon, but I'm excited to do my own thing too. I am humbled and thankful that Brandon gave me the opportunity.
There are few writers whose work I'd want to draw. Brandon is one of them.
Graham: Yeah, this issue is all Ron. Initially I was going to write it and then as we got talking I felt like it made more sense to the book to give it all to him. I think I said, I don't want to be the Stan Lee to your Jack Kirby. It was clear that he had figured out a cool Diehard story on his own.
Ron is a guy who I really think comics needs. He's amazingly talented and well versed in the art form, but also in a lot of ways coming from places outside of comics. He gets fine art and literature and hip hop and punk-- he's a much bigger artist that we often get making comics.
Nrama: Brandon, after this issue you begin your march to the finale, Prophet #45. It's still a couple months away, but I can't help but ask about it. What's coming up?
Graham: Yeah, #45 is the end of the ongoing Prophet. I've been thinking a lot of how readers think of a work once it's done – or if the success of a work has to do with what you leave them with – although, as I type that I'm thinking of the end of one of my favorite comics; Why I Hate Saturn that goes completely off the rails at the end. I still love the book. Either way, I feel like we've set up some threads in Prophet that should get tied off or at least answered to.
Nrama: Is this the end of it all, or is this turning into something else? The solicits do say "the story will continue..."
Graham: After #45 we're planning to do Prophet: Earth War that'll be a shorter series that wraps things up.
In Prophet: Earth War, Giannis Milonogiannis and Joseph Bergin III will still be working on it (with Ed Brisson still on letters). Simon Roy is gonna continue to help me with plotting and edits but not drawing it-- we've got Tim Wilkins and Ron Attinks (who has a back up comic in the December's Prophet #41) both doing art in this new run. And maybe some more Matt Sheean and Malachi Ward too.
It's such a kick to be able to work with these immensely talented artists.
Nrama: Ultimately though, it's the end. How do you look back on the work you, Simon, Giannis and the others have been able to do with the series?
Graham: Like I was saying, I think a lot of how I look back on Prophet is going to be based on how well we pull off the ending. Right now I think of it as a fun experiment. That's one of the joys of monthly comics is you get to take risks and you have to keep moving. I feel like it's been good on the job training for me – and hopefully for the other guys on the book too.


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Villa Pestalozza is a location facing Lake Orta, in the town of Miasino.
Walking inside is like going out of the word: a wonderful mansion out of times.
A wonderful mansion leaning on the Orta Lake, a lot of history made of far-off tales and extraordinary adventures.
A blooming and enchanting garden, a breathtaking view on the Orta Lake, the Sacred Mount and the Madonna del Sasso.
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situated between the surrounded by blue hydrangeas entrance avenue and the garden looking on the lake, with the original first nineteenth century painted in fresco with bunches of flowers ceiling, the walls in blue venetian stucco and an ancient boiserie.
The " Poniatowsky room "
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iPads May Boost Residents' Efficiency: Study
(Reuters Health) - Giving iPads to doctors-in-training helped them be more efficient at ordering tests and procedures for their patients in a new study from one university program.
Most residents who used the devices to access patient records and coordinate their care said they cut about an hour per day off their workload. Researchers also found that the internal medicine trainees tended to put in orders for patient procedures earlier than before they got an iPad.
What's happening to medicine now is it's very data-driven, and a lot of the data is being put into computers and the computers aren't at the (patient's) bedside, said Dr. Bhakti Patel, the study's lead author from the University of Chicago.
A lot of people are feeling that they can't spend a lot of time at the bedside because they're kind of shackled to the computer, she told Reuters Health.
When they're carrying around tablets, Patel said, residents can check test results on the spot, as well as order up whatever a patient needs as soon as a treatment-related decision is made, right from that patient's room.
After a first try of giving a few residents iPads went well, Patel and her colleagues handed the devices out to all 115 of their internal medicine doctors-in-training in late 2010.
The iPads allowed residents to see patients' electronic health records, to contact the hospital laboratory or other departments if they needed tests done and to show patients their own x-rays and other test results, as well as access medical journals.
The devices were locked with passwords, and the researchers also consulted the infection control staff to learn how best to keep them clean.
A few months into using the iPads, Patel's team surveyed the residents and found that almost four out of five said they were more efficient on the wards with the devices, and 68 percent said they avoided delays in patient care by using them.
Compared to before they got the tablets, the residents put in the same number of orders for tests and procedures for their patients, but slightly more of those were placed within two hours of a patient's hospital admission.
The devices cost the program about $650 each, including insurance and software.
The results, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, come less than a week after Apple unveiled the third generation of the iPad.
Clearly this is demonstrating a new trend in integration of personal computing devices with the electronic health record, said Yan Xiao, from the Baylor Health Care System in Dallas. Xiao said his personal views don't represent those of his institution.
There's a lot of interest in using the iPad, not only by residents but by nurses and others -- and also other devices like the Android, said Xiao, who has studied those trends but wasn't involved in the new study.
Still, he told Reuters Health, there are some barriers to using the devices, such as security issues and the fact that not all electronic health record systems are designed so they're easy to use with tablets.
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I was briefed to model an 'Adrenaline Seeking Hippo', given nothing but the prompt to work from. The project had a poly limit of 15,000 Tris, including equipment it was 12,248 tris. It was first modeled as a low poly mesh, then sculpted in mudbox. Maya | Mudbox | Photoshop


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This method is obsolete now. Use the ResetLegendTextPattern method instead.
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You can use the DevExpress.XtraCharts.SeriesBase.LegendPointOptions property to customize the information and format displayed in the chart's legend. However, to reject the changes and synchronize the information and its display format of the chart's legend with that of the series points, use the ResetLegendPointOptions method. It affects all series of the chart, created via the series template and individually.


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Mitt Romney plans to depart next week for a visit to Britain, Israel and Poland, and the Republican presidential candidate hopes the trip will help him project the aura of a statesman and signal to voters back home that he would make a plausible commander in chief.
He will listen to leaders of important U.S. allies, make symbolic appearances at historical sites and build personal relationships. He plans to meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing St. and catch up with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an old friend from their days as business consultants, while aides are preparing speeches for him to give in Israel and Poland.
Romney is not trying to replicate the dramatic scene that unfolded when then-candidate Barack Obama addressed an estimated 200,000 Germans at Berlin's Victory Column four years ago, but his trip will inevitably draw comparisons.
Some elaborate machinations are underway to give Romney gravitas wherever possible, but he will journey across Europe and the Middle East as a private citizen, with his visits devoid of the trappings of the presidency.
"It is an elegant dance, but it is one which is performed pretty regularly," said Tom Rath, a senior adviser to Romney. "I don't think anybody expects him to be treated as the president; he's not the president. . . . He's not going to suggest strategic alliances or say he's going to sign treaties. This is not the place. This is to demonstrate that he can lead the foreign policy of the United States."
Romney's campaign would like maximum attention and access, but his options as a candidate are limited. News photographers can capture many of his meetings with leaders, although in London, for example, diplomatic protocol prevents him from holding a joint news conference with Cameron.
Queen Elizabeth plans to hold an official reception at Buckingham Palace a few hours before the start of next week's Olympic Games. But Romney won't be there because he is not leading a national delegation and therefore was not invited, according to an official involved in the planning who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the trip.
Romney plans to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics as a guest of the International Olympic Committee. The official said he will sit in a separate section of the stadium from the more than 100 heads of state who will be there, as well as from the official U.S. delegation, led by first lady Michelle Obama.
British authorities, meanwhile, are taking special care to keep Obama and Romney (as well as their motorcades) from crossing paths during their overlapping trips to London. The goal, the official said, is to ensure "that the first lady and Governor Romney don't find themselves in a situation they're not comfortable with."
Romney is conscious of the tone he sets, advisers said. Although he has used hot rhetoric to assail Obama's foreign policy, particularly about Israel, he recognizes that it can be considered unseemly for a challenger to attack a president while traveling abroad.
Advisers said Romney's rhetoric during the trip will focus on his worldview and the United States' shared values with foreign allies, leaving any contrasts with Obama to be implied rather than stated.
"He will not be ragging on President Obama while he's overseas," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), a member of Romney's foreign policy advisory team.
The Republican's advisers consider the trip an opportunity to shift the campaign narrative away from his Bain Capital tenure and personal finances. "It's important that he changes the subject from foreign bank accounts to foreign leaders," one top Romney fundraiser said.
Romney is sure to draw significant media attention, with plans to sit down with "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams in London and Fox News Channel anchor Greta Van Susteren in Israel, and he is likely to schedule other television interviews as well.
But the trip brings to the forefront foreign affairs, an issue on which Obama has consistently outpolled Romney. In April, the president led Romney 53 percent to 36 percent on international affairs in a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
In July 2008, after wrapping up the Democratic nomination, Obama traveled to Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and Britain. An Obama adviser said such campaign trips are "very challenging," with many opportunities for logistical and diplomatic complications.
"Ours worked out well, but it wasn't without a whole lot of risk, because there's a lot that can go wrong," the adviser said.
Obama campaign aides said Romney must offer substantive policy proposals during his trip, specifically regarding the war in Afghanistan and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Romney's itinerary is being closely held, with aides saying they are not ready to detail all that he plans to do and say. His schedule in London, where he is to meet with a full arsenal of British officials, is still fluid because he hopes to spend time with visiting leaders of other allied nations who will be there for the Olympics.
Romney's advisers say he hopes the trip will give voters a clearer sense of his worldview, but he is unlikely to make new policy pronouncements. He plans to deliver a defining speech on foreign affairs on Tuesday in Reno, Nev., at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention.
From there, he will head to London, where an official with knowledge of his schedule said he will meet on Thursday with Cameron; Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg; Foreign Secretary William Hague and one of his top deputies, Alistair Burt; Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, the country's treasury secretary equivalent; and Edward Miliband, leader of the Labour Party opposition.
Romney will hold two fundraisers Thursday evening co-hosted by lobbyists and executives from more than two dozen banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions.
He plans to attend the Olympics opening ceremonies on Friday night and perhaps a sporting event or two on Saturday morning before flying to Israel, where he plans to meet with Netanyahu. Their relationship dates to the 1970s, when they worked together as business consultants in Boston.
Romney is expected to meet with U.S. Ambassador Daniel B. Shapiro, Israeli President Shimon Peres and Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. His final stop will be in Poland before returning to the United States.
Romney's advisers said they envision two story lines emerging from his trip, the first being his role running the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. The candidate hopes to use the Olympics spotlight to present himself as someone who "turns around tough situations," said a senior adviser who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the trip.
"What is undersold, or not appreciated enough, is how bad a shape the Olympics were in when he took them over," the adviser said. "It looks easy in retrospect. When you talk to him, it's one of the toughest things he did. Second, certainly going to Israel is an expression of your priorities in foreign policy. Governor Romney strongly believes in Israel, and in Israel as an ally, and the strongest threat is Iran getting a nuclear bomb."
Romney's advisers suggest that the Israel visit will be a symbolic touchstone, in part because it will remind Americans that Obama has not traveled there since he was elected president.
"Governor Romney is there to show in a very visual way" that he supports Israel, Ros-Lehtinen said. "President Obama made a big deal when he went to Egypt [in 2009] and gave that famous speech, yet he couldn't go down the block and say hello to leaders of the strongest democracy in the Middle East who are besieged by very hostile neighbors."
The visit to Israel is an opportunity for Romney to expand his support among Jewish voters. Obama has a wide lead among that demographic, 64 percent to 29 percent, according to recent Gallup polling. In 2008, Obama won with 78 percent of Jewish voters.
Overall, Jews are a small fraction of the electorate, but Christian evangelicals make up a much larger share, and many of them strongly support Israel. Richard Land, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, said Romney's visit to Israel is "very, very important for large segments of evangelical voters."


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If the Eagles win this game against the New York Giants they will go to the Super Bowl.
Let me explain.
Winning this game all but assures the Eagles of winning the NFC East because there is no way the Birds won't win the final two games.
A second seed in the playoffs gives them a bye week and at least one home game.
So with that said there are two games a season which baffle me. I think this game is "REALLY" tough. The Eagles need to be plus-2 in turnovers to win. And honestly I'm really not sure what will happen.
I know people will jump on me but I have no good feel with this one. It comes down to the final drive and…
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Vindication bleeds you
From every pore
Until hope runs out
Until my feel leave the
The first trace of
That too familiar feeling
Smiles and daggers
Hearts are bleeding
Don't say no
I'll soon know
Convictons see you through
Are you all you know?
Your faded costume is
Wearing thin
Was there no comfort in
Your own skin?
You always were a slow
Learner inside your ugly
Living lies
Tell yourself that
Next time you cry
Don't go
Don't go
Don't do it