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Hear Barbara Winfield, inventor of the Perfect Cheesecake Pan, review InventHelp services. Check out Barbara's whole story at http://bit.ly/2oXTfUy and her interview on Huffington Post here: http://huff.to/2hn86nr. InventHelp Intromark
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InventHelp Reviews And Why George Foreman is the Perfect Spokesperson
You've been up watching Tru TV and all of a sudden you see him. The world famous boxer who is more notable for his amazing George Foreman Grill invention than his days in the ring. George lets you know that he gets his ideas for inventions from InventHelp the leader in helping entrepreneurs and inventors to bring their products to life.
George resonates with those who have looked at a popular invention and said, "I thought of that years ago"? In fact, many people come up with fabulous, inventive ideas all the time but never pursue them simply because they do not know how to proceed. Although getting rich from these ideas may be rare, sometimes, people hit the jackpot and become the next George Foreman Grill inventor. For those with the idea for a new, cutting edge device InventHelp offers the services that they need to get started. InventHelp Intromark
InventHelp TV Commercials – iSpot.tv
Watch, interact and learn more about the songs, characters, and celebrities that appear in your favorite InventHelp TV Commercials. Watch the commercial, share it with friends, then discover more great InventHelp TV commercials on iSpot.tv InventHelp Intromark
InventHelp George Foreman Commercial
InventHelp's new commercial featuring George Foreman. Do you have an invention idea? InventHelp Intromark
InventHelp's INPEX Invention Trade Show
InventHelp's INPEX (Invention and New Product Exposition) is America's largest invention trade show, organized by InventHelp. The annual show is held each June in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. InventHelp Intromark
How InventHelp Can Make Your Dreams Come True
There are many people that come up with some fantastic ideas but they end up giving up because of the complications and difficulties involved. For those that come up with these ideas, having lack of knowledge with regards to how to market and get the idea off the ground can be frustrating and annoying. The good news is that companies such as InventHelp are able to make dreams a reality for inventors that have great ideas but no idea how to bring them to market. InventHelp Intromark
Join the Geniuses of the Past Century with the Help of InventHelp
There are also various resources that can help those with these great ideas such as the expertise of people from companies like InventHelp. This makes it easier for those that have great ideas and want to join the geniuses of the past century to get their invention to market thus turning their idea into reality. InventHelp Intromark


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Thoughts from the Surfing Horse — Nilforushan Equisport Event
Horsin' Around at the Temecula Valley National Horse Show
The Temecula Valley National Horse Show was a blast! The venue is gorgeous, the organizers, Nilforushan Equisport Events, are very accommodating and the competition is truly spectacular to watch. One of my favorite parts of the horse show is meeting my customers and seeing how they wear T.K. tees. Here are a few pictures out and about at the #TVNHS2018 : NEW, Kids & Juniors "You're a Star" T-shirt coming soon to www.tarakiwi.com

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Dating is an integral part of socialization for single adults of all ages. The sudden escalation and impact of coronavirus around the world have created a challenge for those who are just starting in a relationship or those who perhaps have finally made the decision to start dating again. There are some very important issues […]
Stress is a six letter word that is probably one of the most damaging words in the English language when it comes to recovery from an addition. This is true for the "hard" addictions like alcohol and drugs as well as for addictions like shopping, love, internet use and pornography. However, as I discuss in the book "The Law of Sobriety" stress is not something that you can eliminate completely from your life.
If you can't eliminate stress then you have to have a way to deal with it. This way has to be easier and more automatic than turning back to the addiction. In addition you need to choose an alternate or replacement activity that is not an addictive behavior in itself. Unfortunately, that is what many people do. For example, a person that is recovering from an alcohol addiction may find that when they are stressed they smoke more, eat more or go online and play poker. This is not a healthy way to deal with stress since you are really just substituting one problem behavior for another.
Having a plan to come up with stress is the best option. This plan needs to include three basic components. These components include:
1, Who – who can you talk to when you being to feel stressed that can help you to avoid turning to the addictive behavior. This could be a sponsor, coach, friend or family member but it has to be someone that is sober, supportive and available.
2. What – what is the replacement behavior that you are going to use. This behavior needs to be healthy, effective and easy to do regardless of where you may be. Deep breathing is a good stress relief option no matter where you may be. Swimming 50 laps is much less practical.
3. How – how does the replacement or alternate behavior make you feel? Does it reduce your stress and your cravings for the addictive behavior or substance? Not all stress reduction works for everyone so you need to customize your plan to meet your needs, not what someone else tells you will work.
An addiction recovery counselor, therapist or life coach can be helpful in developing a stress reduction plan. If you recognize that stress will occur in your life and map out a way to cope that is effective and successful your chances of falling back into the addictive behavior will be dramatically reduced.


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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Automaker Daimler AG said Wednesday that net profit almost doubled in the first quarter, as new Mercedes S-Class and E-Class models fueled sales growth.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) � Automaker Daimler AG said Wednesday that net profit almost doubled in the first quarter, as new Mercedes S-Class and E-Class models fueled sales growth.
The company gave an upbeat outlook for this year and predicted stronger demand for cars in the world's developed countries � including recovering Western Europe.
Net profit rose to 1.086 billion euros ($1.498 billion) from 564 million euros in last year's quarter. Revenue increased 13 percent to 29.5 billion euros. The net profit figure was short of the 1.173 billion euros foreseen by analysts surveyed by financial information provider FactSet, and Daimler shares fell 2.2 percent at 66.35 euros.
The company credited its efforts to update its model line and continue growth in unit sales in China and the United States. The new version of the luxury S-Class more than doubled sales for the brand's flagship model, which brings fat profit margins, and the company's range of smaller cars saw sales growth as well.
The company has also reorganized its China sales operation, whose troubles weighed on earnings last year and contributed to the company having to issue a profit warning. The year-ago quarter was also burdened by heavy expenditures on new plants and equipment, spending that is intended to increase future profits.
CEO Dieter Zetsche said that "our strategy is paying off, our investments are bearing fruit."
Sales in China for the Mercedes-Benz brand rose 52 percent to 70,300 vehicles. The China rebound helped overcome a slide in the company's home market, Germany, where sales fell 3 percent to 59,100 � even as overall sales in Western Europe rose 5 percent.
The company said revenues and earnings would "significantly increase" this year over last year, fueled by stronger growth in the world's richer countries such as the United States and Western Europe.


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Plaid Flannel Shirt, $16 in store, (buy here)
Purple / Teal Plaid (Sz S) and Yellow Plaid (Sz XS)
The colors of these shirts were so much prettier when I saw it in the store! I think these will make great layering pieces. The XS in general fits me better all over except the chest area. Notice the gap between buttons?
Verdict: Buy both in Sz S
Ruffle Tiered Chiffon Maxi Dress, Sz XS, $18 in store, (buy here)
This dress wound up making me look a little shapeless but I really like the print and the dress itself is comfortable and lightweight.
Verdict: Buy and "fix" with a belt and some layers
Chevron Stripe Top, Sz XS, $15 in store, (buy here)
I like the chevron pattern but there was just wasn't anything about the tee that screamed "must have."
Verdict: No
Smocked Printed Chiffon Top, Sz XS, $25 in store (buy here)
Holy big shirt! This was a very large and boxy shirt on me. I wish it would have worked out because I adore the print.
Verdict: No
Sweater: Banana Republic
Shirt: LOFT
Today's shopping outfit is another shot at mixing patterns. This time a navy and white polka dot shirt with a green striped sweater.
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Barbara Lee Ball
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2016 Cross Country: Earned a Second Team All-Conference spot with a time of 17:50.6 at the ASUN Championships...Named to the ASUN All-Academic squad...Earned an ASUN Runner of the Week award for placing eighth at the Alabama Crimson Classic in the 5.914K with a time of 21:06.2...Finsihed 43rd at the NCAA DI South Region Championships with a time of 21:21.9...Placed 11th at the Texas A&M Invite with a time of 21:16.0 in the 6K...Ran a season-best 17:46.5 at the Belmont Opener to finish sixth...
2016 Track and Field: Earned a Second Team All-Conference nod in the 10,000m at the ASUN Outdoor Championships with a time of 36:48.24...Finsihed 26th in the 10,000m at the NCAA DI East Region Prelims with a time of 35:31.15...Named a NCAA Division I CoSIDA Academic honoree...Named the ASUN Indoor Runner of the Week after winning the 3000m at the Commodore Invite with a time of 9:46.13...Earned an ASUN Academic All-Conference nod for both Indoor and Outdoor...Placed fourth at the ASUN Indoor Championships with a time of 16:56.71 in the 5000m...Placed 23rd at the Mt. Sac Relays with a mark of 16:55.24 in the 5000m...
2015 Cross Country: Won the ASUN Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year...Earned a First Team All-Conference spot at the ASUN Championships with a time of 17:35.4...Named a NCAA Division I CoSIDA Academic honoree...Placed 32nd at the DI South Region Championships with a time of 21:15.2...Nabbed an ASUN Runner of the Week award for running a season-best time of 17:15.5 to finish eighth at the Commodore Classic...Earned an ASUN Academic All-Conference nod...Placed sixth at the Belmont Opener with a time of 17:42.7...Placed 30th in the 3.11m at the Coast to Coast Battle in Beantown in a time of 17:39.0...
2015 Track and Field: Earned Third Team All-Conference in the 10,000m at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships with a time of 35:28.60...Earned an A-Sun Indoor Runner of the Week honor...Named a NCAA Division I CoSIDA Academic honoree...Placed on the A-Sun Academic All-Conference team for Indoor and Outdoor...Placed sixth in the 5000m at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships with a time of 17:32.42...Finished fourth at the A-Sun Indoor Championships for both the 5000m and the 3000m with marks of 17:03.69 and 10:01.07...Finished second at the Bog Blue Classic with a mark of 35:21.30...Won the 5000m at the Emory Crossplex Invite with a time of 17:04.00...
2014 Cross Country: Earned Second Team All-Conference...Named to the NCAA CoSIDA District IV All-Academic Team...Named to Atlantic Sun Academic All-Conference Team...Nabbed one A-Sun Runner of the Week award...Finished 8th in the 5K at the A-Sun Championships with a time of 17:54.2...Placed 47th in the 6K at the NCAA Division I South Regionals with a time of 20:52.5...Finished 20th at the Commodore Classic with a time of 17:43.5...Placed 11th at the Belmont Opener with a time of 18:04.4...Ran a 18:10.0 time at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown...
2014 Track and Field: In her first meet of the indoor season at the Emory Crossplex Invitational, Ball competed in the distance medley relay, which placed first with a time of 12:16.58… Also at the Emory Crossplex Invitational, she finished third in the 800m crossing the line in 2:22.60… Competed in the 4x4 at Hoosier Hills finishing third in 4:07.85… Placed fifth at the Atlantic Sun Indoor Championships in the mile run with a finishing time of 5:05.25... Placed third at the Rhodes Open in the 4x800m relay with a time of 9:55.08… Ran a personal best in the 800 meters at the Vanderbilt Black and Gold finishing in 2:20.86… Also bested her time in the 3000 meters at the Shamrock Invite with 10:05.81… Placed fourth at the Georgia Invitational in the 1500 meters logging a time of 4:44.81, a personal best in the event.
2013 Cross Country: Finished second at the Belmont Opener in the 5K finishing in 17:51.1s… Finished fourth in the 5000K at the Commondor Classic with a time of 17:22.5s… Crossed the line of the 6K at the Erik Anderson/Runners Soul XC Invitational in 21:42.8s placing second… Finished fourth at the Atlantic Sun Championships with a time of 17:53.3.
High School: Ran for Albert Thweatt, and Todd Cunningham at Lipscomb Academy… Three-time Tennessee State Cross Country Champion… Two-time Tennessee State Champion in 800m, 1600m and 3200m… Named All-Midstate Runner of the Year in 2009 and 2012… Tennessee Gatorade Cross Country Runner of the Year in 2012… Named Salutatorian of graduating class… PR's 2:16 800m, 5:00 full mile…4:58 1600m equiv., 11:00 3200m, 18:04 5000m
Personal: Daughter of Cindy and Mason Ball… Brother Robert… Plans to major in nursing.


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There is not loads to report for this week. I have applied for probably nearly 50 jobs online. I have an interview tomorrow for a position with Combined Insurance. Who would have thought? What are the chances? Grandma worked for Combined for 30 years. I have in essence sold Combined Insurance for 6 months of my life. That is probably the equivalent that I spent with Grandma out on the road selling insurance. I sure loved it. Funny what we remember isn't it.
There was a couple of times we went to Soda Springs to sell. I remember the Caribou Lodge. It was my first time going over, I must have been about 4-6 years old. We were in the old 1974 two door Mercury Cougar. What a car. As we came down the pass from Lava Hot Springs we hit a pheasant. The old car took it in the headlight cover. So when we needed the light, we were Popeye into Soda. Grandma liked the Red Baron pizza and she promised that she would treat me. Accordingly, we went and bought one and took it back to the Caribou Lodge. It was only then we realized that we did not have an oven. Grandma went down, and knowing the owners well, asked if they would cook it. They agreed and we ate Red Baron Pizza. It sure was good.
This was my first time on the road selling with Grandma. She had taken me several times to other places close like Kimberly, Twin Falls, Wendell, and American Falls. I always felt so loved. She would buy me clothes and completely dress me for the week. This week, she bought this little red suit that had zippers over the pockets. It was a short sleeved shirt with shorts. She gave me the permission to carry the money if I promised not to lose it. So I would zip it up in my little pockets and keep it safe all the time. Made me feel like a million bucks.
Every morning we would get up and she would make oatmeal out of the packets. She had a little warmer that you put in the coffee cup and it would boil the water in the cup. She would pour the water in with the oatmeal and we had the little feast every morning. She would comb and part my hair with a duck's tail in the back. I felt like a little prized doll the way she took care of me.
It was this same week that we stopped at this home to visit some people. That is one thing I remember, we always had leads. Grandma never knocked not knowing who lived there. This house was on a corner or curve in the highway. I could probably take you there today, even though I was only about 5. We were sitting in the front room of the home and the people kept commenting on how adorable I was. Being a little bashful I asked to go in the backyard. I went out and stood at the back fence watching a baseball game. Never had seen a baseball game. I was thrilled, it was warm, slight breeze, and the shining metal baseball bat. Our visit came to a close and they were begging Grandma in front of me if they could keep me. She asked me if they could keep me and I remember breaking out in tears. They thought I was so much more adorable. It would be funny to know who lived there and see if they even remember this. I very much doubt it.
One of the best parts about being with Grandma and doing this insurance business was that when we set out to drive there, she would give me all the lead cards. Sometimes there would be up to 200 of them. It was my job to take a look at the map and figure out where things were. Then I would go through and organize the lead cards according to street, and then line the streets up to area. This was a big job coming to towns like Idaho Falls/Rexburg. I remembered I became quite the pro. The entire week we came back to the car, I could tell her the house number of the next house, and then would direct her how to get there. I became a master at map reading and directions. Even to this day, I can look at a map, get a good feel for where anything is, and I can know how to get where I need to go. Coming to Richmond, I think Amanda is constantly amazed that I already know where everything is. I already know the main streets, where they are, and where they go. Even in church today, changing our ward boundaries, I knew all the roads they talked about. This has been a great blessing to me. All thanks to my beloved Grandmother, and Combined Insurance.
It is funny how much we remember. At least me. I have noticed that others are not so fortunate. I remember that same week going to the sulfur mines and Grandma showing me where the Circle A trucks were. She took me and showed me where my Uncle Doug lived at the time. (Uncle Doug moved from there about 1987, which means I was definitely younger than 8. I remember going to Grace, Idaho and Grandma showing me where Evan was raised. I cannot take you there now, even though I have tried to find it. Evan and Grandma divorced in 1987 as well. I remember her taking me to the Minne Tonka caves, Bennington, Georgetown, and even little Niter. Oddly, driving through Chesterfield a few years ago, it seemed too hauntingly familiar. I still don't know if it was from an expedition with Grandma or if it was for family history purposes. (I did later find family history links)
This weekend we went to Northern Virginia. Amanda and I have made a commitment to keep President Kimball's challenge to the Saints that if circumstances permit, members should attend the temple at least once a month. I have done this ever since I came home from my mission. I have done it pretty well since I was endowed, except for several months in the mission when missionaries were not allowed to attend the temple. Accordingly, Amanda and I needed to attend for the month of July and thought now was as good time as any. We went up Friday night, stayed with Dennis and Gwen Thompson, who I lived with when I worked in Washington, D.C.. We spent the evening, caught up, and planned out Saturday. Saturday, we went to the temple, dropped Miss Mandy Lundstrom off at the Baltimore Washington International Airport, drove to Annapolis, Maryland; and then crashed back at the Thompson home. I did 15 initiatory at the temple and Amanda/Mandy both did a session. We got lost getting there as we talked and passed every single junction for a free way. Mandy was staying with the Thompson's. Oddly, she was the old girlfriend of Brad Hales, my good friend and old roommate. She was going to ride the train from Springfield clear to BWI with all her luggage. Knowing how horrible that is, how much I hate traveling with luggage, I offered our services. Plus she got to go to the temple one last time. Amanda and I then ran to Annapolis to see the historic downtown. Sadly, we got there 5 minutes after they closed the statehouse. But we drove around a little longer. The Maryland Capitol is the longest used Capitol in the U.S.. It has also served at the United States Capitol while the current one was being built. It was in this very building that General George Washington resigned his commission of the Continental Army. Wonderful history. The College of St. John is right by as is the United States Naval Academy. The town reminds me so much of Britain. I love it. I recommend all pay a visit there. Go to the Capitol when it is open. I did last year and enjoyed it.
Anyhow, we came back to Richmond this morning and got ready and went to church. They reorganized our ward, but as we did not know anyone, it did not make much difference to us. At least we don't have to attend another ward. It was a good day. At least we got a new lesson, no more of that adultery lesson we had for the last 3 weeks.


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Nohelia plays an instrument made from items found in a landfill. (Photo: Landfillharmonic Project)
They say everybody's a critic, but as consumer culture spawns growing constellations of refuse, many artists are finding an unusual medium for their visions. From sidewalk trash to landfill piles, garbage is finding its way to museums, theaters, and even concert halls all around the world.
In the slums outside of Asuncion, Paraguay, a community better known for drugs, poverty, and despair has managed to produce one of the most remarkable orchestras you'll ever hear of. Music teacher Favio Chavez came to the town of Cateura to start a music school for local children, but quickly realized the demand was much greater than the number of instruments the school could provide. With help from Cola, a local garbage picker and luthier, they found ways to craft instruments from the vast landfill surrounding the city.
Now Chavez leads an orchestra whose cellos are artfully made from oil cans, violins from aluminum bowls, and a flute section crafted from discarded plumbing. The Recycled Orchestra is the subject of an upcoming documentary, Landfillharmonic, and is currently fundraising for a world tour.
"Eye Test Chart" by Pam Longobardi. (Photo: Pam Longobardi)
Thousands of miles from Paraguay's slums, artist Pam Longobardi has spent years traveling the globe, seeking out seemingly untouched spots — a secluded shoreline in Hawaii, barren stretches of coastal Alaska — and recovering the sea swept debris of remote cities and nations. "For me, plastic has come to stand for the heavy hand of human presence in every corner of the globe," Longobardi tells GSU.edu.
She has created the Drifters Project and is a participating artist with Expedition: Gyre, both of which provide outlets for her creative vision of highlighting the tons of plastic bits and pieces that can now be found everywhere on Earth where oceans touch land. The swirling gyres that form where ocean currents intersect become vortices of trash as toys, containers, fishing nets, buoys, shoes, and other scraps of civilization make a waterborne transit across the globe.
"Shrine to the Last Sailor" by Pam Longobardi is made with found plastic and driftnet. (Photo :Pam Longobardi)
Meanwhile, the ocean stewards at Surfrider Foundation Europe came up with a brilliant way to showcase the problems of oil spills and beached trash when the Foundation began releasing annual pin-up calendars. In the style of Sports Illustrated's celebrated swimsuit issue, Surfrider's features gorgeous models covered in crude oil, or lounging on beaches littered with garbage.
It's a smart and effective way to tell a story that many of us, especially those living inland, may not fully appreciate the scope of.
But for sweeping, detail-oriented art crafted from the cast offs of consumer civilization, maybe no one quite matches the obsessive works of American photographer Chris Jordan. Starting with materials – 400,000 plastic bottle caps (the number discarded every 30 seconds), 139,000 cigarette butts (the number discarded every 15 seconds) — Jordan designs huge works which drive home the startling scale of the problem with consumption in the quantities that we've become used to.
Aside from his conceptual pieces, Jordan has also made numerous trips to Midway Island, part of an uninhabited South Pacific atoll some 2,000 miles from the nearest human population center. His photographs of dead albatrosses, starved after filling their stomachs with brightly colored plastic trinkets like cigarette lighters and pen caps, have been viewed millions of times online, and even spawned an upcoming movie, "Midway: Message From the Gyre," scheduled for release later this year.
These artists and projects may or may not offer us a hopeful glimpse of the world, but by presenting the problem in ways that are approachable and even beautiful, perhaps they give people one more reason to review their relationship with plastic and our system of mass consumption.
Related on MNN:
- Easy upcycling for your garden
- 20 ways to reuse coffee grounds and tea leaves
- 7 things you can make instead of buying


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A man who skillfully attempted to conceal himself inside a car seat was busted trying to sneak into Spain illegally last week, the Daily Mail reported.
The 20-year-old immigrant from the West African country of Guinea reportedly went to great lengths to hide from border patrol at the Beni-Enzar crossing between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. He and the two other Moroccan men with him appeared to have pulled apart the car's passenger seat cushioning, leaving only the metal frame, the Mail reported. The man then slid in behind the caging and one of his co-smugglers sat on top of him, the paper reported.
Even police who detained the trio had to hand it to them, calling their efforts to get by undetected "unique and innovative."
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The two Moroccans were arrested for people smuggling. The man in a car seat disguise was detained, brought before a judge and kicked out of Melilla, according to the Mail.


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Per our inbox, everyone on Wall Street is afraid of one thing tonight: A close or disputed election.
Dave Lutz of Stifel, Nicolaus:
Market's worst nightmare: Mitt Romney could become only the fourth presidential candidate to win the popular vote but lose the White House
Pray That It's Not Close – We have written several times of our concern that a close race could further divide an already polarized populace.
The biggest political risk is the potential that the US result won't be known due to the combination of a tight election and re-count/mail-in issues in swing states.
Citi's Steven Englander:
If the election is uncertain – which is possible if voting is very close in key states – it would probably be viewed as raising the odds of a Romney win, or at least raising uncertainty. On that basis, we would lean to initial concern that we would see austerity both on the fiscal and monetary side – commendable from an ideological viewpoint, but unlikely to inspire confidence in asset markets. So we would lean to partial risk-off.
The most interesting comment comes from SocGen's Kit Juckes, who brings the view from Europe:
Vote early, often and well. That's about all we an ask of Americans. I cannot see an outcome that would make me optimistic about growth in Europe, or keen to own the euro. The best the US can do for the rest of us is to tur the Fiscal Cliff into something more like a fiscal pimple, and re-become a driver of global growth, 'cos we ain't doing nothing this side of the Atlantic to help ourselves.


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Announcing the Micro:bit Mother's Day Challenge!
How could the micro:bit help Mothers and Carers around the world have a better, easier day?
Let's face it, Mothers and Carers all over the world are great. For 365 days a year they make sure their families are ok and have all the things they need. They are busy, ingenious people. To show appreciation for this, Mother's Day is celebrated in more than 46 countries throughout the world. On that day, people express their love for their Mothers and Carers and thank them for all the things they do. The people at the Micro:bit Foundation love the people who look after them and were thinking: how could the micro:bit make a Mother's or Carer's day better? As soon as we asked the question we knew who could answer it – all the amazing micro:bit inventors out there.
So, the new Micro:bit Challenge is a "Micro:bit for Mothers and Carers Challenge". We have three challenges for you to choose from and we will be offering prizes for the best inventions. So, the Micro:bit Foundation Mother's and Carers Challenges are:
- Challenge 1: How could you use the micro:bit to tell your Mother or Carer how much you love them and appreciate all the things they do?
- Challenge 2: How could the micro:bit make your own Mother's or Carer's day easier? Think about all the jobs they have to do during a day, could a micro:bit invention help them do those?
- Challenge 3: In some places in the world, for example where water or food or electricity is difficult to get, looking after your family is not an easy job. How could the micro:bit help Mothers and Carers in those places do the things they need to do? Think about people who get their water from water pumps, where electricity or the Internet is not always available so they cook on fires or rely on solar power or use mobile phones to access the Internet. How could a micro:bit invention help them?
Who can enter?
Anybody 18 or under who has a useful invention for a busy Mother or Carer. Though, of course, adults like teachers, parents, grandparents, club and dojo leaders can help.
Kuinka voin osallistua?
Please send your entries with any attachments to email@example.com with "Challenge" in the subject line.
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Entries must arrive to us by March 27th, 2017. The winners will be announced by April 10th, 2017.
- Kuvaile sinun ideasi dokumentissä, skannaa, videoi tai valokuvaa
- Ota valokuvia tai videokuvaa valmiista ratkaisusta
- Include instructions on how anybody could make your creation, including the script plus the hex file
Ja kaikki voittajat...
Prizes will include micro:bit goodies plus a kit from 4tronix. The winning entries will be published on microbit.org and help build resources and activities for teachers and micro:bit inventors around the globe.
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PS We would love a hint - so as you make progress on your project also Tweet about your entry with a description and image plus the tag #microbitchallenge and @microbit_edu in the tweet.


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N.Y. feds claim most lucrative insider-trading case
- Former hedge fund portfolio manager charged in Manhattan federal court
- Mathew Martoma allegedly carried out scheme from 2006-2008
- Benefits from alleged insider trading totaled more than $276 million
NEW YORK — The government's five-year war to root out illegal insider trading on Wall Street displayed fresh firepower Tuesday when prosecutors charged a former money manager at a unit affiliated with hedge fund titan Steven Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors in what they're calling the "most lucrative insider-trading scheme" ever.
This case is stunning because of the sheer size of the allegedly ill-gotten gains, which federal prosecutors say are around a quarter of a billion dollars.
Also, the "evidence trail" appears to be edging to the billionaire founder of SAC, says Thomas Gorman, partner at law firm Dorsey Whitney and former senior counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission's division of enforcement. "This is a very high-profile case due to the size of the ill-gotten gains and where the case might go," Gorman said. "Stay tuned for the next chapter."
To be perfectly clear, Cohen and SAC Capital were not charged or even mentioned in the 21-page complaint USA v. Mathew Martoma. The 38-year-old former portfolio manager at SAC affiliate CR Intrinsic Investors, Mathew Martoma, was arrested Tuesday. He was the only one charged with allegedly helping the hedge fund make $276 million in illegal profits and avoided losses on shares of drugmakers Elan Pharmaceuticals and Wyeth in July 2008, after getting illegal inside tips related to clinical trial results of an Alzheimer's drug the two companies were developing — and trading on the information before it was made public, which is illegal.
SAC did not return a call from USA TODAY or provide a statement. An SAC spokesman e-mailed TheWall Street Journal that "Mr. Cohen and SAC are confident that they have acted appropriately and will continue to cooperate with the government's inquiry."
The government has stepped up its scrutiny of SAC Capital in recent years. Four former employees of the hedge fund firm or its affiliates have already pleaded guilty to criminal charges during the government's most recent push to weed out illegal insider trading. Last year, Congress probed the firm's trades in the options market.
Prosecutors allege that Martoma got "sneak peeks at drug data" before other investors via phone calls, e-mails and PowerPoint presentations from an 80-year-old neurology professor at the University of Michigan Medical School who was overseeing the drug's clinical trial, as well as providing consulting services to the hedge fund via a so-called expert networking firm, where he "moonlighted" for $1,000 an hour.
In announcing the criminal charges, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Martoma and his hedge fund benefited from "what might be the most lucrative inside tip of all time." Also Tuesday, the SEC filed a parallel civil complaint, charging Martoma, CR Intrinsic and the neurologist, Dr. Sidney Gilman, who is cooperating with prosecutors.
The complaint references Martoma speaking to the "hedge fund owner where he was employed" about his "recommendation" to sell shares of Elan and Wyeth after receiving the illegal inside information on July 17, 2008, that the Phase II trial of the drug did not go as well as Wall Street was expecting. The complaint alleges that on July 21, 2008, both Martoma and the "hedge fund owner" instructed a trader at the firm to sell its entire positions of Elan and Wyeth before the public dissemination of the trial results, scheduled for release on July 29, 2008.
The hedge fund ended up selling 10.5 million shares of Elan and 7 million shares of Wyeth. The hedge firm also placed a big trade that would allow it to profit if the stock fell in value once the bad news on the drug trial findings went public. And that's what happened. Shares of Elan plunged 42% and Wyeth fell 12% in the first trading day after the drug's poor trial results were made public.
The evidence trail pointing toward Cohen includes the mention of Martoma speaking to the "hedge fund owner" about the illegal stock trades.
It also includes the fact that CR Intrinsic Investors is an affiliate of SAC and was named as a defendant in the SEC case. Intrinsic also shares the same address with SAC, adds Jack Sylvia, co-chair of the securities litigation practice at Mintz Levin.
While, Sylvia notes, "there is nothing in the complaint that states that the person Martoma is alleged to have provided the information to was aware the information was non-public or aware of the source of the information, ... the fact that Steven Cohen owns SAC (leads to the) inference that Cohen is the hedge fund owner referenced" in the complaint.
Adds Jacob Frenkel, head of the securities enforcement practice at Shulman Rogers, "The wording of the charges suggests strongly that there still are other targets inside the hedge funds and expert networks whom the government has not charged yet."
FBI special agent-in-charge April Brooks said Tuesday's moves are the latest offensive in the FBI's "five-year campaign to root out insider trading at hedge funds and expert networking firms."
Since the crackdown on insider trading began, there have been more than 70 arrests, says Brooks. The biggest hedge fund titan to be ensnared in the multiyear probe was Raj Rajaratnam, head of hedge fund group Galleon, who was found guilty in October 2011 and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.


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How Quickly Paterson Forgets
(Lt. Gov. Paterson, shown with Gov. Spitzer---remember BUFNY?)
In the November 2-8 issue of The Amsterdam News there is an article by Nayaba Arinde, under the headline "Paterson's mission possible; Giving lieutenant.gov post muscle."
The writer speaks to how State Senator David Paterson's team unveiled his plan to revamp New York State's alleged investment in minority and women owned businesses (WMBE). "If you don't have shoes, it doesn't matter if the playing field is level. If you are not allowed on the field, it doesn't matter if the game starts on time," said Paterson.
As a matter of fact, Paterson wrote these words and others in an article he published in The Amsterdam News on September 21 - 27 titled: "Let's truly level the playing field." Paterson also states that: "We all admire the American ideal of pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps and working hard to make a better future for our children. Yet, when it comes down to actually making that happen, ignoring the role discrimination plays in affording opportunity in our society is both unrealistic and irresponsible, especially of our business and political leadership."
He further tells us that "A January 2005 study showed that from 1997 to 2002 New York City issued a total of 18.8 billion in contracts, with 6 billion alone in construction contracts." In a city where minorities comprise 65 percent of the population, nearly 86 percent of the money for all prime construction contracts was awarded to firms owned by white males.
Paterson goes on to tell us that he and Eliot Spitzer are going to make the playing field level and empower women and minority owned businesses. I think we can assume that he also means Blacks are a part of his minority group. Poor David, he should stop telling lies to Black people. As we observe Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's behavior towards Blacks, one would have to be completely out of his mind to believe that Blacks will experience any kind of empowerment under Spitzer's leadership. Also, has Paterson forgotten his promise to hold legislative hearings against Spitzer for his total destruction of The Black United Fund of New York, then disappeared and surfaced a year later - in bed with Spitzer as his running mate?
In Arinde's article she speaks about those that believe that the Attorney General has been responsible for an all-out attack on Black institutions, such as the Apollo Theatre, Hale House and the Black United Fund of New York. She further states that the supporters of Kermit Eady's defunct BUFNY and especially, the supporters of long suspended Alton Maddox will not be supporting Spitzer. Now, what did Paterson say to all of this? "The Apollo was about a contract, but if you read the Daily News, I think it was a criminal issue." As for Hale House, Paterson replied that Hale House had been given an unwarranted "free pass" and objected to the "automatic sympathy for Hale House." He charged: "I didn't ever (hear) of the board and people of Hale helping this neighborhood."
Regarding Alton Maddox, Paterson said: "Spitzer said that if he applied for his license he wouldn't oppose it. Alton Maddox has chosen not to."Â
"Maddox has maintained for the better part of twenty years that he was punished for simply refusing to break attorney-client privilege regarding a Rev. Al Sharpton case. Maddox does not feel that he needs to apply for the license, maintaining that he was subjected to judicial persecution.�
It is interesting to note that Paterson had no comments about Kermit Eady or BUFNY. What was BUFNY's crime? Why was it destroyed? Who stood to gain? Where were our Black Politicians?
It seems that his memory failed regarding his expressed outrage and his promise. Paterson is without shame as he stood by and watched, if not participated in, the demise of a true self -help organization. You can rest assured that after this election, Paterson and Spitzer will try to smear me and Larry Barton, who worked with me at BUFNY. As stated by Tom Donohue, head of the US. Chamber of Commerce, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is one of the most dangerous men in America: "Spitzer is the investigator, the prosecutor, the judge, the jury and the executioner."
New Yorkers of all ethnicities, this new Governor is out of control and power hungry. He and Paterson seem to feel that they are accountable to no one. The Black community has never been given an explanation of exactly why they destroyed BUFNY. However, I must point out that every Black economic development movement in this country has been squashed by the system. Having said that, we must continue to build in spite of the system.
Kermit Eady is the Founder & Former President of the Black United Fund of New York and Founder & President of Eady Associates (www.kermiteady.com)
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- Mailbox shows (xx) number of unread emails in the left window. When the mailbox is opened only (x) number emails are actually visible and then the number in the left window changes to reflect the number of unread emails visible.
Sometimes she will be in the mailbox and have say 50 unread emails visible. Leave the mailbox and return shortly afterwards to find only a few unread emails remaining.
Now the strange thing is that these emails RETURN if she has a large number of emails in her Trash (>1500) and she empties the Trash. Sometimes a compress is needed after emptying (>1500) emails from the Trash before they return. Emptying smallish numbers from the Trash does not bring the hidden emails back even with a compress.
She's using Pocomail 3.4 build 2130 with only filters to move incoming emails into sub mailboxes. This has been happening on earlier versions of pocomail aswell. Running WinXp SP2 and NAV 2004 with no antispam filters/software.
Can anyone suggest a course of action to try and eliminate any causes of this fault. I have only limited time on her pc as she receives 700+ emails a day and is pretty busy reading them.


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Princess Beatrice is giving up her much-talked about Philip Treacy hat. But it's for a great cause.
The Daily Mail reports that her mother, Sarah Ferguson, revealed the news when visiting the The Oprah Winfrey Show on Wednesday (May 11).
"She's putting it up on eBay to auction it for UNICEF and for Children in Crisis," The Duchess of York said.
Treacy's posh designer fascinators, which have appeared in several Harry Potter films as well as the first Sex and the City movie, typically fetch around $3,300 (£2,000). We're going to put money on Bea's hat bringing in some serious lolly for charity.
In other royal wedding-related news:
• With their honeymoon location widely reported to be the Seychelles, can the royal newlyweds evade the paparazzi? And should they even try to? The Sun's royal photographer Arthur Edwards tells BBC News: "William is an old hand at dodging photographers. And if anyone invades their privacy they're not going to take it lying down, they'll fight back."
But Max Clifford, the famous British publicist, says that William and Kate should lift the veil on their whereabouts, allowing photographers a brief window to snap their shots. "They need the support of the media. These youngsters are the future of the monarchy, they had a tremendously successful wedding, and they need to keep the momentum going."
• It's a rare occasion that you catch The Queen outside her royal sphere, let alone relaxing. But during England's recent Easter holiday, she and her two youngest grandchildren, seven-year-old Lady Louise Windsor and her three-year-old brother James, Viscount Severn, ventured to Windsor Great Park to ride horses. She and the kiddos — whose parents are Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex — looked to have had a lovely time. Go, Grandma, go!
• And speaking of Queen Elizabeth, did you know that the 85-year-old monarch will be crowned "Britain and Canada's second longest reigning monarch in history" this week? According to The Examiner, she bests King George III's reign of 59 years and 96 days. Who holds the top spot? Queen Victoria, who ruled for exactly 63 years and 7 months prior to her death at age 81 in 1901. A Buckingham Palace representative went on to say that The Queen does not plan to commemorate such a record. "It will just be another normal working day," the source said.
• Nevermind Wills and Kate and their recent royal wedding. Pippa Middleton mania is absolutely bonkers right now! In their new issue, out Friday (May 14), People magazine shines the spotlight on Kate's stunning younger sis. There's sure to be plenty of fabulous photos and other tasty tidbits about Miss Pippa.
• When betraying celebrity friends by selling scandalous photos of them, one must have a sound sales strategy. Apparently, Pippa's "friends" aren't very smart businesspeople. A rep from the photo agency X17Online tells Fox News: "I first saw the pictures online, meaning the agency wasn't able to make an exclusive sale to a magazine. At the end of the day, totaling all worldwide licensing, I'd say these photos brought in less than $100,000, in part because the agency representing the photographer didn't strategize properly. A big exclusive sale to a UK publication first, before selling them 'all around,' would have doubled their take."
• Prince Harry, Regis Philbin loves you. When speaking with Keira Knightley on the set of LIVE! With Regis and Kelly on Tuesday (May 10), TV Squad reports that the chat show veteran gushed over the 26-year-old ginger prince and giddily so. However, Philbin's co-host Kelly Ripa called it like she saw it: it's a "man crush."


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ciararavenblaze wrote:I eat things like oranges (whole ones) in pairs.. just a continuation of my "pairs" eccentricity I guess. lol
TomSFox wrote:ciararavenblaze wrote:I'm a little bit ambidextrous.
Ahhh! Don't use so hard words!
ciararavenblaze wrote:sorry! it basically means being able to use both hands. I assume you figured that part out, though. you're smart.
TomSFox wrote:Aww! I sure hope that's no sarcasm there, lady!
Well, yes, I did figure it out. Plus, I could look it up.
It's just that I wouldn't have a clue how to pronounce it!
Why do you have such a hard word for it, though?
Why don't you just call it "both-handed"?
It's basically how we call it in Germany.
Anyway, no need to apologize, I got it, after all.
EDIT: I just did some research and found out there is the term "two-handed," which is odd, because technically most people are two-handed (ie having two hands)!
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Raising a glass of wine and wishing "salud!" - health! - is one of life's many pleasures.
But for women, this well-meaning cheer is a bit hollow: There's mounting evidence that drinking wine and other alcoholic beverages increases the risk of breast cancer.
That's not the image many people have of drinking wine, beer or other alcoholic beverages in moderation. A recent Harvard study of 878 people in Massachusetts found that nearly two-thirds of drinkers - and about a third of teetotalers - considered moderate drinking to be safe and healthful. So healthful that about 30 percent of those surveyed said the purported health benefits of alcohol are one reason they drink.
The link between alcohol and breast cancer is something that "almost nobody [participants] in the [Harvard] study had heard about," says lead author Kenneth Mukamal of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Yet just this month, Danish researchers reported more evidence linking alcohol consumption to greater risk of breast cancer in women. These new results offer a cautionary note for younger women and underscore that it's never too soon to go easy on alcohol.
The researchers tracked nearly 10,000 women for 27 years. The amount of alcohol consumed at the time they entered the study is what correlated best with breast cancer risk nearly three decades later, rather than alcohol intake after menopause.
If women do drink, the consensus is to limit alcohol to one drink per day. (A drink is five ounces of wine, 12 ounces of beer or 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, such as whiskey, tequila or vodka.) But just that amount of alcohol translates to "about a 10 percent increased risk of breast cancer," says Eric Rimm of the Harvard School of Public Health.
More alcohol equals more risk. "Some studies suggest that two or more drinks per day are associated with about a 30 to 40 percent increase in the risk of breast cancer," says JoAnn E. Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. For women who have other risk factors - a mother or sister with breast cancer, for example - "that can be a substantial risk," Manson notes.
Just how alcohol raises breast cancer risk is still unknown. Alcohol boosts estrogen and other hormones, which are linked to breast cancer. Mixing alcohol with hormone replacement therapy can be particularly risky, Manson says, since alcohol and estrogen seem to augment each other. "That combination is something to avoid," she adds.
But there may be ways to help cut the risk from drinking alcohol. Folic acid is one nutrient under investigation. Also known as folate, this vitamin is named for the Latin word for leaf because it occurs in green, leafy vegetables, such as spinach. Citrus fruit and dried beans are also rich in folate. Research suggests that women who eat a lot of fruit and vegetables have a lower risk of breast cancer. Bread, cereal, pasta and rice are among the foods fortified with folate, which is also a common ingredient of multivitamins.
So could diets high in folate offer breast cancer protection? In 1998, researchers studied nearly 3,500 women with breast cancer and found no link between folate intake and breast cancer risk.
But when researchers looked at women who had at least one drink of alcohol per day, they found that breast cancer risk was greatest among those with the lowest folate intake. "Our findings suggest that the excess risk of breast cancer associated with alcohol consumption may be reduced by adequate folate intake," the team reported.
In March, Manson and her colleagues published a report of a 10-year study of multivitamin use and breast cancer risk in about 40,000 women. Multivitamins did not protect against breast cancer - except in women who consumed at least one drink daily. Those results "suggest that multivitamin use might help to counteract the elevated risk of breast cancer for women consuming alcohol," Manson says.
But experts say that doesn't mean that it's OK to imbibe and then pop a multivitamin or eat a lot of spinach to compensate.
Nor is there any evidence that one type of alcohol is better - or worse - than any other in terms of breast cancer risk. Red wine is often touted for health benefits. But there's "not strong evidence that beer or liquor is likely to increase breast cancer risk more than wine," Manson says.
What counts is how much you drink. The more alcohol consumed, the greater the risk of breast cancer for women.
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Some people just write the checks to catch the fade all by themselves. The latest on the fade administration watch list is MTV's reality series The Challenge: Battle Of The Exes contestant Emily Schromm, a former member of The Real World: Washington D.C. cast. Emily, clearly still struggling with being raised in an oppressive religious environment, foolishly paraded around in blackface on the show, to which she found the reaction to her display overwrought.
Emily was making fun of her black ex-boyfriend and RW: DC alum Ty Ruff by covering her face with Nutella (there's an obvious joke here we'll avoid). Calling the act "funny, innocent, theatrical" all at once, young Emily failed to see how offensive this could be. Asking housemate Camila Nakagawa if the portrayal was racist and getting the go-ahead from her pal, Emily, fresh out of Missouri, goes on to mock Ty who gamely acknowledges the pair by saying sarcastically "that's sorta not racist."
Other members of the Challenge home were also appalled at Emily's lame attempt at comedy, and it was clear she was enjoying herself with Camila. After some time, the jabs from the two seemingly affected Ty, a Baltimore native.
Emily, clearly not chemical engineer material, didn't even realize the severity of her joke. ""I grew up really sheltered," she said on the show. "I've never even heard of blackface."
We think Emily is hip right about now. May we recommend she pick up a copy of Bamboozled.
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Alien nation.
For ages we have questioned the existence of intelligent life in the universe. If anything is out there, we want to know what it is and why it's so preoccupied with exploring our anuses. An old-fashioned physical would probably work just as well, you know.
THQ and Pandemic have attempted to answer our extraterrestrial queries by offering Destroy All Humans! as proof that yes, there is life out there, and yes, it wants to probe our privates and harvest our brains. Now if they'd be so kind as to explain why they marred such a clever and stylish concept with such uninspired gameplay, we'd phone home and call it a day.
Destroy All Humans! is set in an alternate version of the 1950s, an era rife with clean living, repressed homosexuality and Communist paranoia. You play as Cryptosporidium 137, the latest in a long line of Furon clones. It seems your race is in deep trouble due to the fact that a.) you've overcloned so extensively that you've weakened the race, and b.) you can't make strong little Furons since you have no genitalia. Sticky pickle, so to speak. Lucky for you and your encephalitic kin, it turns out that Earthlings contain a smidgen of DNA in their brain stems thanks to a romantic rendezvous with the Furons eons ago. Coincidentally, your brother Cryptosporidium 136 crash-landed on the planet and has been captured by its inhabitants. So under the guidance of Pox, a Furon bigwig, you make your way to our little blue rock and proceed to pretty much torch the hell out of it.
Though the plot itself doesn't move around much, campy B-movie humor pervades nearly every inch of Destroy All Humans! and gives the game its unique feel and flavor. Taking cues from cheesy alien invasion films like Plan 9 From Outer Space, the world is equal parts Stepford and Pleasantville. Civilians react in confused horror upon sighting your enlarged skull and bug eyes, mistakenly branding you a Martian (to which you take great offense), while a nefarious group of black suits called Majestic labels you nothing more than just another Commie threat. The cops are Irish and the hicks wear overalls. Everyone likes Ike, everyone hates change, and everyone seems convinced that things will work out just fine despite being slowly eradicated by you. It's a wonderful setting in which to enact wanton destruction.
And destroy you will. Using a combination of weapons, psychic abilities and your trusty UFO, you've got plenty of ways to kill pesky humans and extract their delicious DNA, the game's currency. By far the most useful psychic ability is telekinesis, which allows you to toss objects around like ragdolls. Other abilities, like reading people's thoughts (resulting in the game's best lines) and hypnotizing them, are mostly used for specific purposes during missions.
Perhaps due to a sudden attack of good taste on the part of Pandemic, the lovely Anal Probe doesn't work the way it should, instead just making victims run a few steps before collapsing as their brain stem pops out. Talk about sticking your head up your ass. Thankfully, the three other weapons offer colorful if slightly too lethal ways to kill things, and it all controls smoothly.
Then there's your UFO, which you can hop into at any time to blow stuff up. While it looks and feels cool, there's not much of a point since you can't pick up or extract DNA while hovering around. Blowing up buildings while fighting off tanks and anti-air defenses is fun at first, but never evolves into anything more than that. No boss fights, nothing. Plus, you can only land your UFO in specific "landing spots" on each level. So much for higher intelligence.
But generally speaking, the carnage is enjoyable. Zipping around with your jetpack while dusting hairless monkeys with your Disintegrator or just tossing cows through the air with your mind makes for a pretty lively alien sandbox. It's just a shame that the game doesn't frame this premise well, constricting the experience in a hackneyed, tepid campaign.
The game features a linear single-player story spanning several large locales that run the gamut from a farm to a big city. But since you're completing the same tasks everywhere you go, none of the environments feel as distinct as they should. The main missions require you to wipe out humans left and right during and after various bits of alien tomfoolery. Light stealth mechanics help in this regard as you can take the form of anyone you see (called "Holo-bobbing"), which drains your psychic power but allows you to pass by most people without incident. Majestic men, on the other hand, will sense your disguise in a second, triggering an end to your charade. Unfortunately, there's no radar system in place to figure out how close is too close, often resulting in your being spotted without knowing why or how. You also can't jump or use any weapons while Holo-bobbed. Not so fun.
The action fares better, but none of it is very involving. You kill people, you extract their DNA, and you move on to the next mission. You can upgrade your abilities a bit, but these become available in strict sequence, playing less like actual upgrades and more like required purchases. There's little consequence to your actions beyond increased enemies, and you can quickly lose the heat by finding a cozy corner. The A.I. is pretty bad; enemies will follow you for a few steps but never persist, and other than an infrequently exhibited side-roll maneuver, no one dodges anything.
In a half-hearted effort to add variety, each level contains a few side missions, routinely boring fare like incongruous checkpoint races and timed variations on killing people, all for extra DNA. You never really need it, though, and if you do, you can just mine one easy side mission over and over again for extra cash because they never disappear.
It all looks good, at least, and the PS2 and Xbox versions look roughly the same. The game uses the Havoc physics system well, giving appropriate weight and gravity to the people, objects and vehicles you toss about. Hurl a couple cars into each other enough times and they explode in a glorious fireball with nary a framerate hiccup. While it's evident that more time was spent detailing Crypto than the fairly basic human models, that's no biggie. The limited draw distance is, however, and only serves to further highlight the game's restricting nature.
Most of the sound is terrific, with a top-notch eerie soundtrack and really strong voice-acting all over the place. Except, that is, in Crypto, who intentionally has been made to sound like Jack Nicholson. The voice doesn't match the beast and comes off as a weird, failed stab at humor, an oddity considering how well the rest of the game fares in that department.
I also take issue with the erratic difficulty level. The first half of the game is a total cakewalk, but the second half is riddled with frustrating missions that inexplicably cannot be saved in mid-stream. The game is also pretty short, clocking in at around eight hours.
If you've got that kind of time for an alien fix, you might go with a marathon of E.T., Close Encounters and Killer Klowns From Outer Space rather than watch your high hopes slowly disintegrate with Destroy All Humans. While there's some good stuff here, its sense of humor and playful vision doesn't extend to its repetitive gameplay. Must be another Commie conspiracy.


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Cook pasta as package directs, rinse and set aside. Place the kombu dashi in a pot, bring to a boil. Blanch the sweet corn 1 minute and remove to drain. Blanch the carrots 1 minute and remove to drain. Blanch the zucchini 30 seconds and remove to drain. Add the agar agar flakes and sea salt to the stock. Bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to low and simmer 2 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the flakes dissolve. Pour half the stock into a shallow glass baking dish. Place in the freezer until gelled but not frozen. Place the soba and vegetables in layers on top of the gelled agar. Pour the remaining stock over the soba and vegetables. Refrigerate until gelled, about 1 1/2 hours. The soba and vegetables should now be sandwiched in between two layers of the gelled stock.
Prepare the sauce by mixing together the water, shoyu, ginger and green onions. Slice the aspic into squares and pour 1 to 2 teaspoons of the sauce over each serving of aspic before serving.
Per serving - 218 calories, 1 g fat (6% calories from fat), 8 g protein, 42 g carbohydrate, 6 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 313 mg sodium


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Here's hoping you're not fully and deeply committed to paying for software once, because that business model is clearly headed out the door. Its demise may even be in your best interest.
On Monday, Adobe announced that the current version of its Creative Suite package would be the last. The company will update Creative Suite 6 for compatibility with the next releases of Microsoft's Windows and Apple's OS X, but that will be it.
Instead, Adobe will focus its development efforts on Creative Cloud, versions of its content-creation software that require a subscription. If you want access to the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Premiere Pro and other popular titles, you'll soon be paying by the month.
Of course, Adobe's not the first to do this. Microsoft recently began moving to a subscription model by pushing Office 365, a services-based version of its productivity suite, at consumers. In Microsoft's case, you can still buy a copy of Office that doesn't require a subscription, but the usage terms clearly favor the subscription version. For example, the single-copy license only lets you install Office 2013 on one computer, while Office 365 allows you to install it on up to 5 PCs for $99 a year.
The knee-jerk reaction to subscription-based software is going to be one of resentment. At first blush, paying by the month or the year for the right to use a program seems like a ripoff. But, depending on the kind of user you are, it may be a bargain.
If you're the type who stays up to date with programs, updating when new releases are out, subscriptions can save you money. For example, Adobe has tended to do major updates for its software about every two years. If you want to buy a standalone copy of Photoshop CS6, the list price is $700 (though there are plenty of ways to get discounts).
With its Creative Cloud apps, there are various plans, each bound by a one-year contract. [See update below.] You can pay to access Adobe's entire suite, or you can pay for just one application. Photoshop is $19.99 a month. For two years, that's about $480 – significantly less than buying Photoshop CS6.
If you use the full Creative Suite, the savings are similar – at least, if you are the kind of user who upgrades regularly. If you have a version of Creative Suite 3 or later, you'll pay $29.95 for the full suite of Creative Cloud apps for the first year, or about $360. That goes up to $49.99 if you continue in the second year, which is about $600. The full version of Creative Suite 6 lists for $1,300, though there are other packages that are priced as high as $2,600.
The savings vanish, though, if you are the kind of user who holds off on upgrading for years. If you wait three, four or more years before you'd normally upgrade, you'll end up spending more than you would if you bought the software outright.
Moving to a subscription-based business model makes sense for big software companies, because it makes their revenue more reliable. When they release software every two years, developers ride crests and valleys of income streams. With subscriptions, the money flows in at a steady level.
But it may or may not make sense for users. I have a feeling that Creative Suite 6 is going to be the last version of Adobe's programs that a lot of people and companies buy – it could turn out to be Adobe's Windows XP. There will be resistance, but in the long run, this is where the software business is headed, and resistance is futile.
Update: An Adobe spokesperson points out that there is a plan that does not require an annual contract – but it's a lot more expensive. You can use the full suite for $74.99 a month, or a single program for $29.99, on a month-by-month basis.
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Never Tell (Hardcover)
A Novel of Suspense
Harper, 9780061999161, 368pp.
Publication Date: June 1, 2012
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Detective Ellie Hatcher will be forced to uncover the truth behind the apparent suicide of a teenaged girl with intriguing connections to both New York's wealthiest--and its most dispossessed.
This addictive thriller from acclaimed suspense writer Alafair Burke draws its details from the author's own experiences as a criminal law professor and deputy district attorney, creating an exhilarating, true-to-life tale of crime and its consequences that is perfect for fans of Laura Lippman, Harlan Coben, and Burke's breakout standalone thriller Long Gone.
Praise For Never Tell: A Novel of Suspense…
"[Burke] has delivered another winner….Two seemingly different storylines converge in a shocking way, demonstrating Burke's remarkable abilities as a writer….Hatcher is a complex character, and her journey both personally and professionally will have even the most jaded suspense aficionado rapidly turning the pages."
-Jeff Ayers, Associated Press
"Burke has a good eye for the many faces of New York….Burke's story is complex, but her pace is fast, her prose is crisp and her duplicitous characters ring true in the Darwinian world she creates."
-Patrick Anderson, Washington Post
"Burke's last book was a stand-alone, but in Never Tell she's returned to the character her readers know best, the fierce and gutsy NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher - now investigating the apparent suicide of a privileged Manhattan teen."
-Entertainment Weekly
"The meticulous plotting, coupled with Ellie's complicated evolution as a heroine, make this Burke's strongest work to date."
-Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Once in a while, a book comes along and makes you sit up and notice. A supremely intelligent novel, masterfully created with a telling hand and unique voice, Never Tell is one of those books. Crime writing doesn't get much better than this."
-New York Journal of Books
"Never Tell is perhaps Burke's most ambitious and complex novel to date, yet it's also her most readable….will leave the reader thinking about this book long after the last page as been turned."
-Joe Hartlaub, Bookreporter.com
"One of Burke's trademarks is connecting disparate plotlines, which she does here in spades….Skillfully structured…"
-Michele Leber, Booklist
"What initially appears to be a simple story quickly becomes more intricate and compelling, making the pages fly. Highly recommended, especially for Lisa Gardner or Laura Lippman fans."
-Stacy Alesi, Library Journal
"In Ellie, Burke has built a likable, flawed heroine….her plotting rarely disappoints. A smooth, compelling read that is proof positive that Burke continues to mature as a writer; this entry in the Ellie Hatcher series sings."
-Kirkus Reviews
"Author Alafair Burke takes her mystery fans on another wild ride in Never Tell."
-The Sun Newspaper
"Never Tell is a great read. Alafair Burke writes a riveting story with a strong female protagonist."
-Suspense Magazine
"Burke's writing is brisk and sharp, and her glimpse into the world of Manhattan's super-rich teenaged elite makes for a diverting read."
-Portland Mercury
"In Never Tell, Alafair Burke keeps a tight hold on each of the many strings of a very complicated plot while also expanding the character of her protagonist, Ellie Hatcher."
-The Examiner
"Burke's sharp portrayal of characters, both recurring and otherwise, defies stereotype and predictability….Never Tell is perhaps Burke's most ambitious and complex novel to date, yet it's also her most readable….will leave the reader thinking about this book long after the last page as been turned."
-Joe Hartlaub, Bookreporter.com


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I am participating in the 2011 Mommytography 365 Project! For this year long project I will be posting an image a day, to get me out shooting, using my camera and learning new things with it daily. Anyone interested in photography can join, no need to be a Mommytographer. We have teens to adults, male and female, as well as people from all over the world. Come join the fun!
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Originally published May 25, 2006
So a local television station in Cleveland decided to put together an "investigative report" on the dangers of allowing your children to go to the public library.
They found that man, and that man was an Ohio State fan. What happens next will change the way you see humanity. You're going to watch this and think it's some sort of sketch comedy troupe prank. It isn't.
So, you know, enjoy.
OSU Fans "Using The Library" [Every Day Should Be Saturday]


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Propose Creatively on Valentine Week's Proposal Day
As Valentine's Day approaches, all young and old gear up to enjoy the full week of celebrations. Each day of the week has special significance beginning with the Rose Day which falls on 7th February. Following the Rose Day isthe Propose Day.
Shops too are not to be left behind in their celebration preparations; they stock themselves with a wide variety of items like assorted chocolates, huge teddies, special promises and best of all fresh blooms of roses of varied colours. The propose day is a day of great importance to individuals who want to be a couple.
It is a deciding day for them and can make the rest of the Valentine week truly a romantic one or a desolate one depending upon the decision of the person you like. It is a day to try your luck or to see how deep your feelings are viewed by your partner.
You can propose in a number of ways; gifting a cuddly teddy with a hand written e-card or giving a huge surprise through an attractive jewellery item. A diamond solitaire is meant only for the lucky few but if there is true love between the couple then any gift presented on this day holds great value.
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bjsco1 brauchte ein neues Anderes Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 43 Designs von 13 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We require a modern and professional design for a our new presentation folders for a Real Estate agency. Dimensions 315mm x 215mm.
"Thinking of selling, be SMART!" and/or "Better Service, Better Results and SAVE THOU$AND$!"
Desired Color Scheme:
Any. Surprise me. Although our corporate colours are black, purple and yellow (gold)
Desired Style:
Modern, professional, smart, fresh look and feel
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
We require brand new presentation folder design for a new real estate agency. Design needs to be modern and professional. Think out side the square and come up with something amazing. Colours are up to you. Our corporate colours are black, purple and gold (yellow). integrate those, or use others. I will leave that up to you. Front and back needs to be designed.
If you unsure of what a presentation folder is or what it looks like, please click on the link below:
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We are after design for front and back of the "HE4 Sample".
315mm x 215mm so we can slip about 30Â A4 pages inside and also slot the business card into the slits.
Companies details on the back please.
Smart professional design. Can include photos of houses, people, Surfers Paradise QLD Australia, or simple graphical design. What ever you prefer.
You can download a copy of our logo at http://www.smartrealestate.com.au
Companies contact details are also on this temporary site until our website is finished. Â
I want the design to look amazing and be rememorable. This is first impression that will be left with new clients when we meet them for the first time. We want our new clients to remember our professionalism and care in design, (as to compare to the professionalism and care we will offer them in selling their house) when compared to the many other agents out there in the market with ordinary unprofessional folders.
Smart, professional, modern, fresh look and feel please.
I will try and give you as much positive criticism as possible, to get the design as perfect as possible before the contest runs out.
I want to get as many entries as possible please. Extra work may also be required for the winner, with extra cash offered.


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DS Park Royale Apartment is located in Dighi, Pimpri Chinchwad PCMC in Pune. DS Park Royale Apartment is currently a Under Construction project and is available at approximate price of 0 Per Sq. Ft. Onwards.DS Park Royale Apartment is offering 1, 2 BHK Apartment in size ranging from 636 Sq. Ft. to 1023 Sq. Ft.(Saleable) Project has a connectivity rating of 0, livability rating of 0, lifestyle rating of 0 and value for money rating of 0 out of 10.
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This website is only for the purpose of providing information regarding real estate projects in different geographies. Any information which is being provided on this website is not an advertisement or a solicitation. The company has not verified the information and the compliances of the projects. Further, the company has not checked the RERA* registration status of the real estate projects listed herein. The company does not make any representation in regards to the compliances done against these projects. Please note that you should make yourself aware about the RERA* registration status of the listed real estate projects.
100% Service, 0% Brokerage. We charge our customers nothing. Not today, not ever.
Highly unlikely, but if you find a lower price (from the developer) for the same home you want to buy, tell us and we will match it.
Our sales personnel are customer advocates and are accountable for every step in the process – from search & discovery to site visits, transactions, home loans and post-sales service.
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Rupert van der Linden was born in The Hague, where he also studied to become a drawing teacher. He started his career working for the N.O.F. (Nederlandse Onderwijs Film), where he made films for the dutch government and educational system. He later worked as an animator for the Anglo-Dutch Group.
contribution to the comics issue of Ratio magazine (1964)
In addition, he made illustrations for magazines, newspapers and books. As an illustrator, Van der Linden is known for his drawings of bar scenes and for his chess drawings. Van der Linden has drawn one comic, called 'Mr. D. van Kwikschoten'. This comic, an ironic view on the Dutch film scene of the time, was written by Jan Blokker and published in Algemeen Handelsblad in the 1960s.


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Why can't every single digital camera be encased in gorgeous walnut and cherry wood? Probably because it'd be outrageously expensive. Luckily, for those with the means, these custom Japanese Fujifilm X100 coverings are stunning. High tech meets... trees.
It looks like Aki-Asahi Custom Camera Coverings (which also sells lizard and camel cases!) is out of stock at the moment, but if you're willing to go through the hassle of ordering overseas, your Fuji will make everyone else's look awful. Maybe even the special edition leather one.
Bonus: if you happen to scratch or dink the hell out of your camera, instead of looking beat up, it'll look like an antique cabinet with a fine patina. [Aki-Asahi via PetaPixel]


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There are two certainties heading into the Daytona 500: Kevin Harvick is the favorite, and no one is sure what the action will look like in the "Great American Race."
Harvick remained perfect through Speedweeks on Thursday by winning the first of two 150-mile Budweiser Duel qualifying races, and the victory has positioned him as the top pick to win NASCAR's version of the Super Bowl.
Being labeled the favorite is the last thing the 2007 Daytona 500 winner wanted headed into Sunday's season-opener.
"We like to be the lame-duck underdog. That's what we're shooting for," Harvick said.
Harvick is a perfect 2 for 2 at Daytona International Speedway. He also won an exhibition race last weekend. This strong start comes at a time when Harvick has found a balance in his life with the addition of son, Keelan, who was born last July, and as he heads into his final season with Richard Childress Racing. Harvick has already decided to move to Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014.
"We've been fortunate to win the first two races of Speedweeks. We've just got to keep a level head on our shoulders, not get too high over what we've done, just do the same things that we've done," he said. "If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. I think we definitely have the car and team to be in contention to do that."
But nobody is quite sure what the 500 will look like with NASCAR's new Gen-6 race car. Sunday's race will go off with a full 43-car field, double the amount of cars that ran in Thursday's qualifying races. There were 19 cars in last Saturday's exhibition.
Kyle Busch, winner of the second duel, believes more cars on the track will create a much different race than what fans have seen so far. All three races at Speedweeks to date have lacked much action as drivers continue to learn the new cars and how it reacts in traffic and different aerodynamic situations.
"With more cars out there, we might see it be a little bit different come Sunday," Busch said. "There were half the field in each race, obviously. There's going to be twice as many good cars, twice as many middle of the pack cars, twice as many back of the pack cars. If you can get your car handling, driving, feeling good, you'll be able to be one of the guys that's up front."
Is Busch, who was wrecked out of last week's exhibition just 15 laps into the race, one of those guys?
"I feel that's where we're at," Busch said. "That's an added bonus for us right now."
Busch gave Toyota its first victory of Speedweeks and snapped Chevrolet's dominance. Harvick took the new Chevrolet SS to Victory Lane twice, and Danica Patrick put it on the Daytona 500 pole in time trials.
Busch held off Kasey Kahne, in a Chevrolet, and learned the driver out front is in the strongest position.
"It's hard to pass the leader," said Busch. "Stay out front. When you get out front, you can hold everyone off."
But Kahne, who settled for second, said timing will be critical and nobody is sure just yet what move will be needed to win the Daytona 500.
"I think it's tough because you don't know when you get that push. You don't know when it plays into your time," said Kahne, who never got close enough to Busch to take a solid shot at the win. "I think you need to be ready at any time to get to the front, to second, to third, try to move up. I don't think waiting till the last lap is a ticket the way things are right now."
"I think Kevin looks really good," he said. "He's got this place figured out. I think he can be beat, yeah. There's a few of us in the second race who had really good cars, and I could move around really well, similar to what Harvick did in the first race."
In the first race, Harvick held off Greg Biffle over a four-lap sprint to win. Harvick and Biffle also went 1-2 in last Saturday night's exhibition race.
The starting field for the Daytona 500 is set by the results from the pair of 60-lap qualifiers, but Patrick held onto the pole by running a safe race in the first qualifier. The first woman to win a pole at NASCAR's top level, Patrick earned the top starting spot in time trials last weekend.
She started first in the first qualifier, raced a bit early, then faded back to run a conservative race and ensure she'll start first in the 500.
"I hate coming to the end like that and just lagging back," she said. "That's not fun. But it's also really ignorant to go drive up into the pack and be part of an accident for absolutely no reason. You're really not going to learn much there."
Patrick wound up 17th out of 23 cars.
"What I really feel like I need to do is go down to the Harvick bus and see what he's doing," she said. "He's got it going on down here."
The first race was dull until Denny Hamlin brought out the only caution with seven laps remaining. Hamlin lost control of his car, spun into Carl Edwards and triggered a four-car accident that also collected Regan Smith and Trevor Bayne, who had a dominant car early in the qualifier.
"I know what the wrecks look like now, I am really familiar with them," said Edwards, who was wrecked at testing in January and in practice for the exhibition race last week. He was also black-flagged in the exhibition race when his window net fell off.
Hamlin said the accident was a product of drivers trying to learn the nuances of NASCAR's new Gen-6 car.
"It just shows you that any kind of bad aero position you put yourself in, your car can be vulnerable," said Hamlin, who was running in the high line when he inched into Edwards' space down low.
Juan Pablo Montoya, who infamously crashed into a jet dryer during last year's Daytona 500 to trigger a massive fuel fire, stopped for minor repairs during the caution. Montoya restarted the race in 13th with four laps remaining, but rocketed through the field to finish third.
"It was time to go," he said. "It's hard, you don't want to tear up the car, and at the same time you want to go. The bumpers are a little fragile. You have to be careful with that. You want to have a good car at the end."
The bulk of both races seemed to be one long parade of the Gen-6 race car. Unsure of how the cars handle in packs, and when the drivers choose to side-draft, most of the field in the first race played it conservatively.
"The choice was obviously made by a bunch of us to run around in circles and just make laps," said two-time Daytona 500 champion Michael Waltrip, who needed a clean race to guarantee a spot in Sunday's field. "There were a lot of people that just wanted to get through some laps and understand what was going on. There were some of us that would have run like that until they threw the checkered just to make the race. And then there were some that decided it was time to go, and they made it work."
Waltrip is racing in a special Sandy Hook Special Support Fund paint scheme, and his car number has been changed to No. 26 as a tribute to the 26 students and teachers killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.
"There's a lot of people up in Connecticut with a smile on their face right now. I'm real proud to get in the race for them," Waltrip said.
Austin Dillon, grandson of team owner Richard Childress, finished third in the second qualifying race to put his Richard Childress Racing car in the Daytona 500. It will be the 22-year-old Dillon's first Daytona 500.
"I'm glad my grandfather can sleep now," Dillon said. "He was wearing me out before the race."
Brian Keselowski, older brother of reigning Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski, was the one driver who truly had to race his way into the Daytona 500 in the first qualifier. But he lacked speed early, fell two laps down and missed the race.
Mike Bliss was the driver from the second qualifier trying to make the Daytona 500 field, but finished five laps down and didn't make the race.
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Young Men's Service League is a non-profit organization that initiates and encourages young men and their mothers to pursue philanthropic involvement in their community and provides an opportunity to enhance mother/son relationships.
Young Men's Service League, Inc has a National Board of Directors which governs and promotes the expansion of YMSL Chapters throughout the United States to allow young men and their mothers to assist, serve, and support those who are in need in their communities. YMSL members have served over 100,000 community service hours since the organization was formed in 2001.
YMSL was founded by Pam and Julie Rosener who envisioned an organization that would allow mothers and their high school aged sons to work together in support of those in need within the community. They recruited other interested mothers who shared their vision and turned that dream into the reality that is now YMSL.
The initial YMSL chapter is in Plano, Texas , where Pam and Julie worked with other empowered mothers and sons to create a highly successful philanthropic and developmental organization for young men and their mothers.


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This is Not a Photograph: Amazing Portrait Drawn with Ballpoint Pens by Samuel Silva
Nope, not a photograph. This is an amazing portrait drawn by 29-year-old Portugal-based attorney Samuel Silva (he says art is just his "hobby") based on a photograph by Russian photographer Kristina Tararina. Silva's medium of choice is standard Bic ballpoint pens on paper and this particular portrait uses eight different colors, taking some 30 hours to complete. The drawing went gangbusters on Reddit last night and Silva fields a number of questions about his work over on deviantART. You can see many more of Silva's drawings here.


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Do you control your projects by reading yesterday's news?
Do you struggle to get reliable forecasts for ongoing projects? Is project follow-up in your company merely a general ledger procedure at the end of each accounting period? Where does that leave you when you find out at the end of the month that you are past schedule or over budget? You need to track not just historical costs in the general ledger, but all costs incurred according to plan and progress, and be able to provide reliable forecasts on both detailed and overall level for management. Project management performance in IFS Applications™ is based on the principles of Earned Value Management (EVM), a recognized technique for measuring project progress. With the use of IFS Applications, you get the unique ability to combine measurements of scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated system. This makes your forecasting easier and more accurate, and you can utilize EVM techniques to control your projects.
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Photo No. 32 was once again taken by photographer Charles H. Gallup in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.:
The imprint on the front of this photo is slightly different from the embossed imprint on the front of Photo No. 26. The imprint on the back is almost exactly the same as that of Photo No. 26, except the print is in red instead of green:
I think we've seen the subject of Photo No. 33 before (twice!):
She certainly looks like Friend No. 24:
The eyes, nose and chin are all a match to me. Both photos appear to be taken at around the same time period and both were taken in Danbury, Conn., though at different studios. Photo No. 33 is taken at Mrs. J. H. Folsom's studio — she got a lot of business from these folks! In fact, this is a second photo/view of Friend No. 7! I thought this dress looked familiar, but I didn't recognize it until I started going through all of the photos again for the spreadsheet I am creating.