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During her acceptance speech for the 1929 Pictorial Review Annual Achievement Award, Florence Rena Sabin said,
Sabin, an anatomist, was one of the leading scientists in the United States. In 1925 she had become the first woman elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. But she underestimated the challenges facing women as scientists. Throughout history, intelligence alone has rarely been enough to guarantee women a role in the process of examining and explaining the natural world.
Women Scientists In The Ancient World And Middle Ages
Researchers can only speculate about the relative roles of men and women thousands of years ago, as they made shelters and clothing, tamed fire, and domesticated animals and plants. Prior to the great civilizations of early Greece and Rome, women are known to have practiced medicine in ancient Egypt. Merit Ptah, who lived sometime around 2700–2500 BCE, is described on her tomb as "the chief physician." In ancient Greece, which came into existence sometime around the 8th century BCE, pondering the nature of reality and of health and disease became primarily male endeavours. But by the time that the Roman Empire reached its dying days in the 4th century CE, a woman, Hypatia of Alexandria, had emerged as a symbol of learning and science. Hypatia, who lived from 370 to 415 CE, was a mathematician who rose to be head of her city's Neoplatonist school of philosophy. Sadly, she suffered a violent death at the hands of a Christian mob, who falsely suspected her of political intrigue.
Women fared little better in the Middle Ages, being excluded from the universities that began to be founded in Europe from the late 11th century onward. During this period, convents provided havens where women could become considerable scholars. In the 12th century the abbess Hildegard of Bingen (St. Hildegard) wrote books on the natural world and on the causes and cures of illness. Many other women worldwide were also practicing medicine and herbalism in their homes and communities at this time.
From The Enlightenment To The 19th Century
Higher study in the early modern period was available only to those from particularly enlightened and wealthy families. In 1667 Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle, attended a meeting of the then newly formed Royal Society of London. At a time when most women writers used male pseudonyms, she wrote under her own name on numerous subjects, including experimental philosophy (physics).
In the 18th century the Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, brought new opportunities for some women. In the University of Bologna in Italy, the Newtonian physicist Laura Bassi was appointed to professorships in both anatomy and experimental philosophy, making her the first woman in the world to hold such posts. Pope Benedict XIV awarded the mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi a professorship, which she held in an honorary capacity at the same university. In France the high social status of mathematicians émilie du Chatelet, who carried out some of her most influential work in the 1730s, and Sophie Germain, who was prominent in the late 1700s and early 1800s, enabled them to work independently and receive the recognition of their male peers. About the same time, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made his sister, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, his chief assistant. Caroline performed calculations for her brother's studies, discovered several comets on her own, and published a comprehensive revision of the star catalog. She received a pension from King George III in payment for her work, as did her contemporary, Scottish mathematician and astronomer Mary Somerville. In 1835 both women were elected honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Throughout the 19th century women in Europe and the United States were actively campaigning for the right to the same education as men, and some notable pioneers succeeded, despite the social obstacles in their way. In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell, who was born in Britain and whose family immigrated to the United States in 1832, became the first woman to obtain a medical degree, if one excludes James Barry, a British military surgeon who is widely believed to have been a woman living as a man and who in 1812 qualified as a doctor. The Russian mathematician Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, who was the first woman in modern Europe to earn a doctorate in mathematics, was prohibited from studying at universities in her home country. She earned a degree at a university in Germany and was later elected a full professor at the University of Stockholm in Sweden.
The Growth Of Women's Higher Education In The 19th And Early 20th Centuries
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, in both the United States and the United Kingdom, the founding of women's colleges provided for the first time a clear career path for women scientists. Although some women were able to practice as individual scientists, many benefited from what has been described as the "harem effect," in which male scientists employed groups of women assistants. During this period many women made significant contributions to science, including the astronomers Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming and Annie Jump Cannon, who classified stars for American physicist and astronomer Edward Pickering at the Harvard College Observatory. British botanist and geneticist Rebecca Saunders and British biochemist Muriel Wheldale contributed to the foundation of modern genetics through their work with British biologist William Bateson at the University of Cambridge in England. Saunders and Wheldale had received their early training in the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women, a research facility established specifically for the women students and staff of Newnham and Girton colleges at Cambridge, because women were excluded from the university's other laboratories.
The willingness of a male figure to accept and encourage female colleagues was critical at this time in enabling women to establish themselves. The celebrated partnership between Polish-born French physicist Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie led them to share the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics (it was only the third year the prizes were awarded). Her discovery of new radioactive elements, including polonium and radium, won her the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the first person to win the award in two different fields.
World War II And Social Changes
During World War II (1939–45), women undertook many roles that were previously exclusively male, including scientific researchers. American crystallographer Isabella L. Karle developed processes to isolate plutonium chloride from impure plutonium oxide while working on the Manhattan Project. American mathematician Grace Murray Hopper worked for the U.S. Navy as one of the first computer programmers, and American biologist Rachel Carson worked for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (from 1940 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) as an aquatic biologist. In the postwar years many female wartime workers returned to the domestic sphere, unlike Hopper and Carson, who maintained their positions. However, the argument that women were mentally, physically, or emotionally unfit for scientific work, a notion that had persisted since ancient times, was no longer tenable. In addition, the notion that middle-class women should not continue to work once they were married, which had removed many qualified women from the scientific workforce, also began to lose credibility.
Beginning in the 1960s, when the women's movement in the 20th century was nearing its peak, women campaigned for, and won, equal rights in education and employment. The increasing availability of effective birth-control methods meant that women could plan their families along with their futures, and the dual-career family became the norm rather than the exception. These social changes, which affected women in all walks of life, had a major impact on their participation in higher education. Instead of a few women training to be teachers or nurses, female students in increasing numbers were now choosing careers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics, as well as in law and business. Although women faculty grew slowly in number, their increasing presence provided inspiration for female students, enabling many to persevere. Some women researchers were recognized internationally for their contributions. For example, British crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and American geneticist Barbara McClintock made important discoveries that were duly recognized by the Nobel committees. (Hodgkin received the 1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and McClintock won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.)
For others recognition came belatedly and only after male colleagues had garnered the laurels. Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner calculated the energy that would be released by splitting a uranium atom, but one of her colleagues, German chemist Otto Hahn, won the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery. Meitner and her other colleague, German physical chemist Fritz Strassmann, who also contributed to the discovery, were both later recognized with the 1966 Enrico Fermi Award, which they shared with Hahn. British scientist Rosalind Franklin took the critical X-ray image of DNA that enabled biochemists James Watson and Francis Crick to elucidate the double helix structure of the molecule. Franklin died before Watson and Crick received the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. British astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell identified regular pulses of radio waves in space and, with her thesis adviser, astrophysicist Antony Hewish, reported that the pulses were emitted by cosmic objects, which became known as pulsars. The 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics went to Hewish and the head of the department, radio astronomer Sir Martin Ryle, who designed the radio telescope used by Burnell.
Women Scientists In The 21st Century
In the early 21st century in the United Kingdom and the United States, nearly 50 percent of medical degrees and doctorate degrees in the biomedical sciences were awarded to women. Undergraduate numbers in mathematics and in the physical sciences were approaching similar levels, and only in computing and engineering were women students still significantly underrepresented. This massive statistical shift took place in the context of a general increase in the number of women entering higher education, a product of the widespread movement toward gender equality and of campaigns to encourage girls and women to pursue their interests. Reaching the top tiers of scientific recognition, however, remained difficult for women. But this challenge was not unique to science—women in business and government faced similar difficulties.
By 2001, a century after the presentation of the first Nobel Prizes, only 10 of the prestigious awards in the sciences had been bestowed upon women. But the first decade of the 21st century proved a watershed for women scientists. In 2009 alone three women captured the award—Australian-born American molecular biologist and biochemist Elizabeth H. Blackburn and American molecular biologist Carol Greider for Physiology or Medicine and Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath for Chemistry—bringing, at the end of the decade, the total number of science Nobel Prizes awarded to women to 16. The Nobel for Physiology or Medicine was later awarded to Norwegian neuroscientist May-Britt Moser (2014) and Chinese scientist and phytochemist Tu Youyou (2015). The discoveries of these and other women and the broad recognition of their contributions to scientific progress marked what many hoped would be a promising turning point for women in science.
Written by Georgina Ferry, author of Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life.
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To get to the root of the problem, childhood deprivation must be addressed because it promotes damaging health behaviours in adult life. So say researchers from UCL in a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
The study aimed to quantify the effects of early life circumstances on people's propensity to smoke, and the link between lower social status and increased risk of early death.
Professor Eric Brunner (UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health), senior author of the research, says: "We set out to understand whether the risk of early death is passed from one generation to the next by social and economic disadvantage. Our research, based on a cohort of babies born in 1946, shows that inequalities in childhood and early adult life directly impact on social inequalities in mortality in later life.
Early life circumstances clearly have a huge effect on the health behaviours people exhibit into adulthood…. Our work provides evidence that social inequalities in health will persist unless prevention strategies tackle the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage and risk.
Professor Eric Brunner, UCL Epidemiology and Public Health
"What we found was that whether people smoke or not accounts for a significant amount of the social difference in premature mortality," continues Professor Brunner. "However, when we factor in people's early life circumstances, the independent explanatory power of smoking behaviour reduces from 51 per cent to 28 per cent. The difference is explained by the social and economic inequalities people experienced in their formative years.
"Early life circumstances clearly have a huge effect on the health behaviours people exhibit into adulthood. For example, many teenagers in the study started smoking, and childhood advantage predicted successful quitting. This pattern of quitting leads to the familiar social patterning of smoking in middle age. Our work provides evidence that social inequalities in health will persist unless prevention strategies tackle the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage and risk."
The researchers analysed data from 2,132 participants who were born in 1946 and followed to the age of 66 as part of the 1946 Birth Cohort (MRC National Survey of Health and Development). Socioeconomic circumstances were measured during childhood (based on the father's social class when the participant was aged 4, and the level of maternal education when the participant was aged 6) and at the age of 26 (based on the participant's educational attainment, home ownership and the social class of their head of household).
Lead author Ingrid Giesinger says: "Differences in childhood and early adult circumstances are underlying causes of social inequalities in both adult health behaviours and mortality in the immediate post-war generation. Policies focused only on adult health behaviours do not address the socially patterned causes of these behaviours, or the independent role played by these causes in social inequalities in health."
David Buck, Senior Fellow at health think-tank The Kings Fund, says: "We welcome this study which demonstrates how important early life experiences are directly to our long-term health, and how this is reinforced through shaping our health behaviours which then track through to adulthood and early death. This strengthens the case for increased investment in narrowing inequalities in early childhood experience, as well as measures to support quitting smoking and other damaging health behaviours in adults."
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Previous studies have investigated the 'socioeconomic gradient in mortality' (i.e. the link between lower social status and increased risk of early death). One recent study demonstrated that when people's behaviour over an extended period of time (24 years) is factored in, almost three quarters (72%) of the social gradient can be explained by smoking, drinking, diet and exercise. However, what this earlier work failed to address is the impact of poor circumstances in childhood and early adulthood on later health behaviours.
Media contact: David Weston
Image caption: Teenage smoker, from M Hooper on Flickr

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File_Archive 1.4 introduce the possibility to use a cache to store intermediate result of a zip compression. It uses the Cache_Lite PEAR package to do so.
A zip file is made of compressed files, one after the others. So if you generate an archive that contains files A, B and C and then another archive that contains A and C, you will compress twice the files A and C. The use of the cache will allow to save the compressed version of files A, B and C on the first compression, to use them again in the second compression.
The cache can be (and should be) used if you dynamically create some zip archive that contains frequently the same files. For example, you may want to allow the user to select some images, videos or other files from your gallery and allow them to download a compressed zip archive that contains these files.
If you do so without cache, your server will answer very slowly if a lot of users ask the files. With the cache, the files will be compressed only once.
On my machine (a thinkpad T42P with default factory equipment), generating a 200MB zip archive takes around 30s of CPU without the cache, 32s of CPU with an empty cache and 2s of CPU if all the files to compress are already in cache.
The cache is a Cache_Lite object.
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Comment HP is readying a three-layer storage product as part of its converged infrastructure strategy to collapse multiple server, storage and networking products into single high-level data centre IT units.
We won't call these HP V-blocks, though they are heavily virtualised and integrate server, storage and networking technology in the same fashion as the Cisco, EMC and VMware offering.
Up until now the storage part of the CI triad has been unclear. It's becoming less so as HP executives at the company's Technology@Work event in Frankfurt lifted the veil a little.
Garry Veale, EMEA StorageWorks VP, said an announcement will come in the second half of this year. We should envisage a three-layer offering with a storage drive enclosure, a "3U mount unit" as the base. Above this is a set of storage processor blades and topping this tasty filling is the storage management software. The 3U mount unit contains SAS or SATA or, presumably, solid state drives (SSD), and an active:active pair of controllers for high-availability. The supported interfaces will be iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), as well as Fibre Channel and InfiniBand.
We could think of the 3U Mount units as clever and protected JBODs (Just Bunches Of Disks), though HP disliked that analogy.
Customers will add 3U mount units to scale out capacity in a single virtual pool. They'll add storage blades to scale out processing capacity separately if they wish. Veale said: "All the storage IP will be in the software," and there are two parts to this.
There is the file and block storage, using a combination of LeftHand and Ibrix (scale-out NAS with a 16PB namespace) software, and also upper storage management functions such as deduplication, replication, thin provisioning and snapshots. This software will execute on the storage blades. There will be an integrated management facility using Command View, used today to discover, monitor and configure EVA arrays.
He contrasted this with today's EVA technology, hardware plus micro-code. HP is now moving to an architecture based on having a unit for capacity and network ports and blades for storage processing. This CI storage architecture won't affect the XP arrays, HP's tier one storage offering. The CI storage is for the mid-range, with Veale saying: "The world doesn't need another five 'nines' box like the XP, Symmetrix and DS8000," referring to the 99.999 per cent uptime offered by these high-end arrays.
His boss, EVP for enterprise servers, storage and networking David Donatelli, sang off the same hymn sheet - he probably wrote it, adding that the tier one array market was essentially flat. The big growth area was the mid-range with CIOs most concerned about increases in their file data.
When the CI's storage element arrives what does that mean for the existing P4000 (LeftHand) and X9000 (Ibrix) products? HP is not saying, and our view is that they will continue with the CI being for very large enterprise and public cloud data centres, and the P4000 and X9000 for SME and ordinary enterprise data centres, possibly using 3U mount unit hardware for capacity.
But the EVA is likely to be replaced by the CI storage unit. That probably means the storage processor blades will run storage personality software, such as LeftHand, Ibrix and EVA, with the deduplication and replication being common to these personalities.
The storage mount units will probably have simplified controllers compared to today's EVA, as the storage software in general executes in the storage processor blades leaving basic storage write and read and protection functions to the mount units. This puts us in mind of Xiotech's notion of simplified storage elements being told what to do by upper-level storage software running in servers. And what is an HP storage processing blade but a specialised server?
Our intimation is that HP will offer different flavours of CI storage units. There could be a scale-out NAS unit, a block storage unit, a unified file and block unit, a deduplication unit and so forth, all courtesy of software licenses but using common hardware. Asked about whether HP will offer unified file and block storage, Donatelli smiled sweetly and said: "You'll have to wait and see."
Veale mentioned that HP is also looking for a new architecture for scale-out cloud storage using Ibrix technology.
Donatelli is making his mark here. HP is hoping that its ability to controlled its own converged stack destiny through it having sever, networking and storage design technology in-house will give it a substantial advantage over other integrated IT stack vendors like IBM, the VCE group of VMware, Cisco and EMC, and HDS and Dell, none of whom, it happily points out, need more than two elements of the server, storage and networking triad.
HP's three-layer storage product is entirely made by the company itself, while its competitors have to use outside producers for parts of their converged IT stack. HP says it will provide a better integrated product than its competitors. ®
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For the second consecutive day, significant rainfall drenched players and staff during a session. Today's session, however, did have a patch of sunshine and bright skies just as the warm-ups began before puddles and raincoats returned.
Across the country, the weather might be just a bit better as Crew defender Michael Parkhurst is with the United States Men's National Team in California as the side prepares for Saturday's friendly against Korea Republic.
Parkhurst told reporters in LA about his calculated decision to return to MLS and why he felt it was such an important one.
"I told Jurgen [Klinsmann] it was likely going to be come down to MLS or Denmark, and he was positive with both," said Parkhurst. "He told me to take my time and make sure it was right for me."
As the rain began to soak the water-logged field, the group broke into small teams for competitive games and drills.
Frankie Hejduk – who served as an honorary coach for one of the groups donning the green jerseys – posted a photo of the team that came away on top during the process.
The squad consisted of plenty of Ohio talent. Ohio native Josh Williams was joined by the only non-Ohio guy in the bunch, Justin Meram. Homegrown Players Wil Trapp (captain in this drill), Matt Lampson, Ben Speas, Ross Friedman, Chad Barson and Matt Walker completed the squad.
Friedman felt the hard work – and maybe a bump or bruise or two – was worth it in the end.
A few scrapes but it was worth it for the win #TeamBuckeye #Homegrowns+J9 pic.twitter.com/44agvEqvtd
— Ross Friedman (@RFriedman4) January 31, 2014
The Black & Gold currently have 29 players under contract on top of the five other non-rostered players in camp. Of the 29 players, the Crew has four goalkeepers on the depth chart, all fighting for a chance to be Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter's 'keeper in net come Opening Match at D.C. United on March 8.
Brad Stuver is one of the four goalkeepers and while he was a mainstay in the Crew locker room in 2013 as an MLS Pool Goalkeeper, 2014 marks Stuver's first preseason with the Crew.
"Preseason has started out great," said Stuver. "Pat [Onstad]'s sessions have been excellent. The goalkeeping group is in a nice rhythm right now, we are all working extremely hard and the standard of performance has been great."
Although the wind and the cold were gone today, the rain may have helped the 'keepers in competitive drills, according to Stuver. That all depends, though, on the intensity of the precipitation.
"I like a little cooler day with a light rain. The game speeds up and the ball skips a little more but you just feel like you could play forever," he added.
Off the field, Stuver has worked in the team hotel on course work to complete his college degree. Doing homework for two classes online for Cleveland State, Stuver is expected to graduate in May with a Bachelor's Degree in Health Science.
"After training, you're not always there mentally to do classwork, but it's just one of those things you push through and get it done," said Stuver. "My schoolwork is just as important as soccer right now because my degree will help me whenever soccer is over."
That hard-working motivation certainly has applied on the field to the 22-year-old native of Mayfield, Ohio in his camp under Berhalter. The Crew boss brought Stuver on board after deciding to pick-up Stuver in the 2013 MLS Waiver Draft in November.
"I was very excited about the opportunity to join the Crew," he said. "It's a great team with a great fan base and with the new owner and coaching staff there is nothing but good things to come.
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Thanks Steve. It is a great place.
So, curious where the F-100 in the Thunderbirds livery is located?
Love to see that one someday.
Sort of an odd link to that bird for me...as a youngster in Phoenix our neighbor was a F-100 jockey at Luke AFB. And he took me for my first ever ride on a motorcycle, a BSA Rocket. Sorta changed my life...LOL
Bill Johnston
The F-100 in Thunderbird trim is at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Interesting that you mentioned Luke AFB. I was stationed there in 1967 working on F-100s prior to being shipped off to Vietnam in January 1968. Luke was also the first place I had the opportunity to watch the Thunderbirds.
Great video of 2 of my favorites, check out the torque reaction when he revs up the Sopwith Camel...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6PnK...eature=related
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That's Rickenbacker's squadron insignia, isn't it?
I am on the left with my brother-in-law at Kadena AB on Okinawa in the summer of 1987. I was never one to carry a camera until my assignment to the Thunderbirds. Since then, I always carry one in my bag. By the way, great pics Steve.
Thanks Raptor02. I noticed that you liked the Udar-Hazy Museum also. By the way, I'm envious of your assignment. It had to be a memorable experience.
Yes, I had a fantastic visit to the Udar-Hazy facility and would like to return to see how they have progressed with their exhibits.
As for the assignment, it was a life changer. The people you meet along the way and my teammates made every day special. As a youth we lived on Nellis AFB and my neighbor, who was on the team during their F-4 days, took me to their hangar for a tour. That visit and the influence of my father, set in motion a goal for me to try to become a member of the Thunderbirds. It was a dream come true to become a team member myself.
Take care,
Unfortunately, this proud bird crashed today. The upside is that all seven passengers survived.
From last year.
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I was an impressionable young lad in those Phoenix days and would really have loved to become an Air Force jet jockey. Alas, having been partially blind in one eye for a year in my younger days prohibited that from ever happening. Sure loved to watch those guys fly those hot birds. A couple of years after that we moved to Fallon, NV. Watching the Navy and Marine pilots doing target practice on those remote bombing ranges was pretty fun too.
Thanks again! Cheers!
Bill Johnston


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Following confirmation by the French military that they definitely weren't in the process of invading Somalia, the United States military is now confirming that it is, in fact, American forces that are pouring into the southern portion of the country in a helicopter-backed invasion.
US military officials confirmed to the Associated Press today that forces from the US Joint Special Operations Command had invaded the lawless African nation, and were the ones responsible for the attack on the tiny village of Barawe this morning that was the first staging ground of the attack.
What the officials wouldn't comment on was exactly why the United States, which launched a failed "peacekeeping" operation in the nation in 1993 and backed an Ethiopian invasion in 2007, had decided to launch yet another foreign adventure, though media outlets speculated that it was probably something to do with al-Qaeda.
The United States has recently been supplying the self-described Somali "government" with "tons of arms," according to the State Department. Yet reports on the ground suggest that forces loyal to this faction, which only controls a handful of city blocks in the capital city of Mogadishu, have generally just sold the US-supplied weapons on the open market.
Though without any concrete information about what the American military actually intends to do in Somalia it will be difficult to speculate about the size and scope of the invasion, with roughly 200,000 soldiers committed to Iraq and Afghanistan (and more escalations on the way in the later) it seems hard to imagine the nation is looking to commit to yet another long-term occupation.
The most fascinating part about this expansion of President Barack Obama's wars--there has been a consistent run-up toward US military intervention in Somalia since SecState Clinton's Africa trip--is that the President himself has yet to lay out a cogent foreign policy stance. Instead, we're left examining his actions: slowing down the timetable for withdrawal from Iraq while maintaining larger force profiles there than his predecessor; doubling down in Afghanistan; and now launching raids into Somalia.
I can only think of one other President whose foreign policy this looks like.


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English Country Garden Personalised Favour Boxes
Laser cut wedding favour boxes
Intricate soft floral design, personalised with the couple's initials to all sides.
Intricate soft floral design, personalised with the couple's initials to all sides.
Please email or add a message with your order stating the initials you'd like to be cut. Along with your chosen card stock colour.
For sample orders please add up to six additional card colour swatches.
Each pack will contain flat boxes with blank tags of the same card colour.
If adding ribbon to your order - this will be suplied by the roll (single colour choice) in 10mm double sided satin.
Different size variations available - please email for details.
Easy to assemble with glue tabs for extra stability. Tabs can be secured using glue or double sided tape.
All our favour boxes are designed and made to order in our studio.
Please be advised that due to the intricate designs created by the laser cutting process, burn marks and slight variations will occur.
For a personalised price list or to set up a custom order, simply tell us your details and we'll get in touch with a quotation specific to your wedding.
We have a minimum order of ten for our personalised favour boxes , however specific quantities above this are more than welcome. If you'd like to request a custom order on the quantity or would like an amount larger than 100 please just drop us an email.
With over 90 colours available across three distinct card finishes, matching a scheme or creating your own style is effortless.
If you'd like a little assistance with coordinating colours please let us know and we'll pull together a swatch set based on your wedding colour palette.
Card stock thickness/weight and colours may vary depending on the finish and colour. Ranging between 240gsm and 300gsm.
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How To Pick Brakes for a Big Tire Door Slammer
The Flower Car 1971 Dodge Demon Project, Part IX
Wilwood Brakes has been making brakes since 1977 and currently has 250 different brake kits that cover more than 1,000 models. When you search "drag race" on its website, 52 brake kits appear, all looking more badassed than the next. The options will spin your head. Out of kindness, we are going to break the selection process down so you can have some useful information when you call Wilwood for your kit. Knowing the wheel size, rearend type, how much the car weighs, and what it is going to be used for will take a lot of the hassle out of this decision. Use this article to stop the merry-go-round.
Wheel Size
The size of your wheel dictates the size of the rotor and caliper you will be using. If you are using a 15-inch or smaller wheel, you need a 12-inch or smaller brake rotor that comes in the Dynalite brake kit. If the wheel is larger than 17 inches, you can use a 13-inch-or-larger-diameter rotor that comes in the Superlite kit. The Dynapro caliper line is for late-model Camaros, Challengers, Mustangs, imports, and other specialty applications. The killer-looking dual-caliper Wilwood brake kits are for dragsters with no front brakes and big, sticky tires in the rear that handle all the braking.
Drag Racing vs. Street Driving
After you have decided on a wheel size, you'll need to decide how the car will be driven. Wilwood's Drag Race Kit applies to a dedicated race car that lives on a trailer and weighs less than 2,800 pounds. The Wilwood brake kits come with a 38-inch steel rotor instead of a vented cast-iron one. The difference is the cast-iron rotor's ability to absorb and dissipate energy without overheating. Cooking a rotor will lead to warps and cracks and will require replacement. The steel drag-race rotor is designed to stop the car at the end of the racetrack with a long cooldown period in between. The street kit with a cast-iron rotor is only 5 pounds heavier than the steel-rotor race kit, but the life and longevity of the system increase dramatically. Don't be a hero; if you have a heavy drag car or plan to be on the street, go for the street kit—it will handle more heat. Take it from Wilwood's Dustin Burr, "You would be surprised how many starts and stops you will have on the way to the burger joint. Get the street kit for a car driven on the street."
Wilwood Brake Rotors: Vented vs. Drilled
A vented rotor has an air gap between the two pad contact surfaces, usually with fins or paddles that move fresh air to cool the braking system. Drilling is primarily used to lighten the rotor, and, in theory, makes a difference in heating and cooling characteristics, but not enough to replace a vented rotor on the street. The dedicated Drag Race brake kits are only drilled, not vented.
Wilwood Brake Calipers
The Dynalite kit has a four-piston caliper, and the Superlite has a six-piston caliper. Dynalite kits have smaller rotors and are intended to fit smaller wheels, therefore require a smaller caliper that uses four pistons. This also keeps the weight down. "There is no Superlite drag kit; everyone uses a 15-inch wheel, and that means 11-inch rotor, "Burr says.
The Dodge Demon
Using this knowledge, we narrowed our choice down to the Wilwood Brakes Forged Dynalite Drag Kit. It came with a forged aluminum hat, 38-inch-thick steel rotor, four-piston Dynalite calipers, brackets, pads, and hardware. We have a dedicated front subframe on the Dodge Demon, but if you have an A-body ('65'72), Wilwood Brakes make a kit for stock front spindle. If you have an 834 rearend, the same is true —you just need to have the wheel size, housing flange and offset, and intended use determined when you call Wilwood. That will put you way ahead.
Bed Bugs
We asked Dustin Burr at Wilwood if there was any difference in bedding drag brakes and street brakes. Here is what he said:
"Bedding drag brakes are a little different, as you don't want to get enough heat into the rotor to warp it or crack it, so tread lightly. Start with a couple of low-speed decelerations, say 20 mph to 5 mph, then a couple of higher speed decelerations, 50 mph to 5 mph, then cool the brakes down by driving without touching the brakes. This can be tough to do in a drag car, especially if it's not at all streetable. The good news is that the pads included in our drag kits require little bedding, nothing like our oval-track or road-racing pads that need to see 800 degrees for final curing."
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Ever since the computer age crept into our everyday business and home life web safety has been an issue. Companies around the globe have been affected by this problem and have been forced into setting specific guidelines to combat the problem. Many people love to communicate across the World Wide Web or the Internet as it is most often referred too. With so many personal computers in homes numerous personal email accounts are established in every household. Some people cannot leave the personal account at home. When they get to the office they cannot fight the urge to conduct business and personal communication on the same account. Therefore there can be a breach in safety.
The fact is quite simple that personal email accounts should not be used to transfer business information. Regardless of the natural fact that personal emailing should not be done on company time anyway; using a personal account to transfer sensitive business information can be a serious issue with safety and protocol. As far as technology has come in a relatively short time in reference to computers protection is still a major issue. There are elements out there that are up to know good and work diligently towards gathering useful information about various businesses. This is why certain measures are to be adhered too when emailing is involved. For security and safety purposes strict passwords and encryption methods have to be utilized to protect the businesses and their clients.
If sensitive information is transferred over an insecure server than that information is up for grabs. This can be a very serious problem if the employee happens to be employed by the government. Controls have to be adhered too in order to properly protect all parties. There are many secrets out there that are not meant to be shared rather it be trade secrets or secrets involving national security. If an employee violates these rules of emailing conduct they can put their company, their clients or even the country at risk. This is unacceptable and can lead to serious repercussions. Many people do not think about the potential risk they are placing on their place of business and that is when breaches occur.
The possible effects of internet hacking are a reality. Too many users are led to believe that such efforts are only vivid imaginations presented on the silver screen. It is hard for them to comprehend that without proper protection that passwords can be opened and sensitive information retrieved. Companies and government offices obtain specified computer hardware just for this purpose. They take extraordinary measures to protect valuable information. When an employee passes information along in an insecure method their protective measures become useless. The bottom line is this. Companies are becoming more and more serious about this issue. It is too important to all involved that protection is sustained at all times. There is no excuse for creating an unsafe situation by conducting inappropriate communication through personal email.


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I have been trying to use SWT without having to install eclipse (I hate IDEs). Is it possible to use the Standard Widget Toolkit without installing eclipse, or am I doomed to use an IDE?
I thought "Hey! I know, I could just put all the files in a .jar file" and that failed, I tried compiling, I tried...everything!
I googled only to be disappointed the articles that mention using the SWT without eclipse refers to running the compiled program rather than compiling the code! Very disappointing!
Any help would greatly be appreciated!


text: So, I am sitting a 699 finds and it got me to thinking. I try to find a special cache to find for milestones. For #200 I found the oldest cache in Maine, #400 was tandemstoker's Official Milestone Cache and for #500 I paddled with my son to Dan's cache on 3 Mile Pond. I found the GeoZoo night cache with a group for #650 and that was a great time. I usually reserve the milestones for every 100 though even though I list my milestones for each 50 on my profile page. What does everyone else do? Do you treat all numbers the same or do you go for special caches for your milestones? I can't wait for #1000. I am thinking maybe the highest elevation cache in Maine or the furthest north or something like that.


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Travels With My Aunt cheap tickets and show information. Get discount tickets, special offers on dinner and hotel packages with LondonNet's guide to theatre in London for Travels With My Aunt.
The Menier Chocolate Factory is excited to announce this revival of Giles Havergal's Olivier-winning adaptation of Graham Greene's classic comic novel Travels With My Aunt.
Christopher Luscombe, whose sterling stage comedy credits include the West End production of Spamalot and The History Boys at Bath's Theatre Royal, directs the uplifting and anarchic tale of retired bank manager Henry Pulling and his globetrotting adventures with his Aunt Augusta.
From Paris to Istanbul to Paraguay, the unlikely pair journey together, discovering colourful characters and the possibilities that life conjures up in the most unusual of places.
Venue: Menier Chocolate Factory, 51 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1RU.
Directions: (10 mins) Head towards Borough High Street; cross the street and take Union Street. Turn right at O'Meara Street and the theatre will be at the end.
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(Video: The Noa Dar Dance Group in Tetris, a collaboration between Noa Dar and visual artist Nati Shamia-Opher)
I first wrote about Noa Dar's Tetris (טטריס) in "From Studios to Stages" on my own blog and have edited an excerpt of that article for this post.
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It's no wonder that Tetris (2006) premiered at the Acco Festival for Alternative Theater, or that it won a prize there. This collaboration between choreographer Noa Dar and visual artist Nati Shamia-Opher shapes the performance space into the most alternative set-up that I have ever witnessed, and it left its mark on my mind when I saw it last year.
I heard about Tetris soon after arriving in Israel and eagerly looked forward to seeing a staging in Tel Aviv at the Noa Dar Studio. I was familiar with the the chosen location because I had taken several contemporary technique classes there – but when I arrived for the performance November 10, 2007, I found the studio cleverly transformed. Tetris's treatment of the spectator-performer relationship in this redesigned space is so unique that I would like to describe a bit of it below:


text: Saturn is turning out to be a very electrified place. Last year, NASAs Cassini orbiter spied a massive storm that broke the solar system record; beginning in January 2009, this storm raged on for 7 ½ months, the longest recorded. This marks the ninth storm on Saturn thus recorded; these behemoths tend to be around 1,900 miles in size. Its been known since the initial Voyager flybys of the ringed world in the 1970s that an ionization differential of x100 exists in favor of the daytime side of Saturn over its night side, but routine observations by Cassini are revealing what a turbulent world Saturn really is. Cassini utilizes its antennae aboard its Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument to analyze the powerful radio emissions. Tantalizingly, the storms almost always originate in a region known as Storm Alley at latitude 35° south. The reason for this isnt entirely clear. Scientists also took advantage of a passage of Cassini behind Saturns largest moon, Titan, to confirm the source of these radio emissions. Surely enough, when Titan occulted the body of Saturn, the emissions disappeared, only to return when Saturn came back into view. This was yet another proof that Saturn is still an active and mysterious place.


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Related to Stagnation: blood stagnation
A period of slow economic growth, or, in securities trading, a period of inactive trading.
A period where an economy grows at an extremely low rate without actually entering a recession. During stagnation, it is unlikely that jobs will be created, wages will increase, or that the stock market will boom. While there is no exact definition of economic stagnation, most analysts agree that positive growth under 2%-3% qualifies. It may occur because a business cycle is winding down, because a catastrophic event has caused economic uncertainty, or for any number of other reasons. Classical Keynesian economics states that stagnation will result in a period of low inflation because there is no growth in demand for money, but American stagnation in the 1970s also saw a period of high inflation. See also: Brezhnev Stagnation, Stagflation.
Stagnation is a period during which the economy grows slowly, doesn't grow at all, or actually contracts after adjusting for inflation. Typically, there is a corresponding contraction in the stock market.
As a result of a slowing economy, unemployment increases and consumer spending slows. Policymakers may fear a recession, and, in response, the central bank may try to stimulate growth by increasing liquidity and lowering interest rates.
While stagnation is hard on the economy, it's more common and potentially less disruptive than stagflation, which combines slowing growth with rising inflation.


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The Caspian Sea is an ancient oil producer, but its future may be in natural gas.
The commodity that fuels electric power is becoming a much more prominent driver of energy production in the large body of water north of Iran and south of Russia, a region that produced 3.4 percent of the world's oil supply last year, according to a recent report from the Energy Information Administration.
Since 2006, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, which border the Caspian's west and east coasts, have led a boost in natural gas production in and around the region, where coastal countries extracted a total 2.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in 2011. That's up from about 1.25 trillion cubic feet in 2000 and about 1.75 trillion in 2006.
Each of the Caspian's coastal countries has sizable discovered natural gas fields, one indication that the region's energy production growth will come from natural gas in the future, according to the EIA.
Meanwhile, annual oil production in the Caspian Sea has edged down in recent years, declining from about 2.7 million barrels of oil in the peak year of 2010 to about 2.6 million in 2012.
After the region spent decades under Soviet control, newly independent countries on the coast of the Caspian began to build export infrastructure to tap into global energy markets, a move bolstered by higher oil and gas prices in those countries and foreign investment.
The shift from supplying only local markets has meant that previously untapped reserves in the Caspian Sea have been drawing more attention from state-owned and international oil and gas companies, despite territorial and legal disputes over the region that have made foreign investment a difficult task.
In July, a state-owned oil company in Kazakhstan said it would buy an 8.4 percent stake in a Caspian Sea production sharing agreement from Houston-based ConocoPhillips for $5 billion.
EIA estimates the region houses about 48 billion barrels of oil and 292 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, with most proved reserves sitting 100 miles from the coast.
Last year, the Caspian Sea was the world's seventh-largest spot last year for both undiscovered oil and natural gas, with about 20 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and 243 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas, according to EIA.
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Union Pacific Corporation Invites You to Join Its Fourth Quarter 2012 Earnings Release Broadcast
Omaha, Neb., January 17, 2013
You are invited to listen to Union Pacific Corporation's (NYSE: UNP) fourth quarter and full year 2012 earnings release presentation that will be broadcast live over the Internet and via teleconference on Thursday, January 24, 2013, at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time.
What: Union Pacific Corporation's Fourth Quarter 2012 Earnings Release
When: Thursday, January 24, 2013, at 8:45 a.m. ET
Where: Union Pacific's website at www.up.com/investors
How: Live over the Internet by logging on to the Web at the address above
OR Dial-in telephone access
Domestic 877/407-8293
International 201/689-8349
If you are unable to participate during the live teleconference, presentation materials and the call will be archived on Union Pacific's website at www.up.com/investors. An MP3 downloadable audio file will also be available at the same location.
About Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP). One of America's most recognized companies, Union Pacific Railroad links 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail, providing a critical link in the global supply chain. From 2007-2012, Union Pacific invested $18 billion in its network and operations to support America's transportation infrastructure. The railroad's diversified business mix includes Agricultural Products, Automotive, Chemicals, Coal, Industrial Products and Intermodal. Union Pacific serves many of the fastest-growing U.S. population centers, operates from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways, connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major Mexico gateways. Union Pacific provides value to its roughly 10,000 customers by delivering products in a safe, reliable, fuel-efficient and environmentally responsible manner..
For further information, contact Michelle Gerhardt at (402) 544-4227.
The statements and information contained in the news releases provided by Union Pacific speak only as of the date issued. Such information by its nature may become outdated, and investors should not assume that the statements and information contained in Union Pacific's news releases remain current after the date issued. Union Pacific makes no commitment, and disclaims any duty, to update any of this information.


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The Music through the Years Music Festival will be held on May 11 at George Core Park and will serve as a fundraiser for the Port St. Joe Centennial Celebration events scheduled to take place in June and July.
The Music through the Years Music Festival will be held on May 11 at George Core Park and will serve as a fundraiser for the Port St. Joe Centennial Celebration events scheduled to take place in June and July.
The festival will be headlined by The Villagers, a popular Florida group from the mid-1960s that will reunite for the fourth time in 15 years.
The group�s most notable tune, �Laugh it Off,� reached No. 1 on the WDLP Funtastic 59 chart in Michigan and �Where Have You Been� hit No. 4 on the WBAM Top 40 in Montgomery.
Locals may even recall the dance they played at the Centennial Building on July 4, 1968.
Formed at Chipola College, the group gigged around the state for years and cut its first record with Rick Hall at Fame Studios.
As the band members went their separate ways, singer Cliff Ellis went on to become a basketball coach for Clemson University, Auburn University and most recently, Coastal Carolina University.
The Panama City act, Go Big or Go Home, is scheduled to open the event with their 15-person band jamming out the biggest hits from the 1970s to today.
Local singer-songwriter Charlie Black will also be on hand to perform some of his greatest hits. Black is a Grammy-nominated scribe who has written No. 1 songs for Reba McEntire, George Strait and Alan Jackson.
He will be accompanied by his songwriting/singer wife, Dana.
Local group The Boyer Band, along with hard rockers Again We Rise and Thirty Three will round out the show and complete the music through the years auditory experience.
In October of 2012, Mayor Mel Magidson appointed a centennial committee that included representatives from the Gulf County Chamber of Commerce, Gulf County Tourist Development Council, St. Joseph Bay Historical Society and members of the business and private sector to begin planning the celebration 100 years in the making.
Dana Boyer of Boyer Signs and head of Port St. Joe fundraising committee, worked hard with seven other members to put the fundraising concert together.
�It�s going to be a wonderful day,� she said, especially excited to have The Villagers. �People remember them.�
She took a moment to give thanks to those who donated goods for the event. Sound and lighting equipment for the music festival was donated by St. Joe Music, Centennial Bank provided tents and George Duren provided hamburgers, hot dogs, barbeque and other concessions that will be sold on-site.
�We couldn�t have done it without the generosity of the local merchants,� said Boyer.
All money from the event will go toward the centennial events that will include a parade, light show, art fair, a 30-foot timeline wall to remember the history of Port St. Joe, an alumni basketball game and a birthday celebration.
A book of vintage photographs will be printed for the event along with a special commemorative coin for the occasion. Both items will be available for purchase throughout the celebration. Money raised from the music festival will also toward the annual Fourth of July firework show.
�Lots of people worked hard to make this happen,� said Boyer. �Let�s all celebrate Port St. Joe�s birthday.�
Sponsorship opportunities and donations are still being accepted. Visit www.psjcentennialcelebration.com for more information.
The music festival will run from 3 p.m. to 11. Tickets are $10.


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Paul Good necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
Greetings! My name is Paul Good. I have been researching and finding the best products for customers, friends and family, since I was 16.
My background ranges from Berklee College of Music, to consumer electronics sales and management, to entrepreneur continuing to create new businesses that help people enjoy life more.
Ten years ago I created a fund that uses private donations to revitalize public spaces and bring more art into the public venue. Every project is designed to "accidentally" encourage greater personal interaction and strengthen a local feeling of community.
I am creating the review site GreatStuffThatWorks.com to help people quickly sort through the sea of products in a variety of product categories and to quickly understand what products are the Great Stuff That (Really) Works. ie. products that have been determined by experts in that field to be the best at doing what they say they'll do, are well made and are easy to understand and operate.
Middle to upper income consumers who love to buy great products but are not technically oriented. They are willing to reasonably spend more to buy the right product, but lack the knowledge and expertise to determine what that is.
They are predominately male, but females are quickly and thankfully, becoming more actively interested in understanding what makes a great product. Greater self-sufficiency is a very positive motivator for this group.
They are between 35-60 yrs. old, wanting to create a better lifestyle with a lot less hassles. They are looking for simplicity, elegant design that is classy and engaging but highly functional.
This group is motivated to tell their friends about the cool products they have. ie. they like being known for having the Great Stuff That Works.
We need a logo that can act as a banner header on our WordPress website. Be creative around the GreatStuffThatWorks.com name, in style, color and background.
It needs to be unique, as to be instantly recognizable as GreatStuffThatWorks.com, the way Amazon.com or Old Navy or Monster.com each is distinctively unique for its target market.
It's colors and style should reflect the target audience described above, ie. the image of a better lifestyle, simplicity, engaging and non technical.
At the same time it needs to convey some feeling of the extensive research that goes into every review. The Wall Street Journal on line logo conveys a businesslike feel in the way it looks, but it is non technical, yet strong.
The idea is to convey a feeling of being trustworthy, intelligent, thorough. People should get a positive mental boost every time they see it, accompanied by an underlying sense of curiosity and discovery.
Overall, it should be easy to read when quickly glanced at.
You will be creating the core brand recognition for our site, which we will carry forward into all related branding for GreatStuffThatWorks.com.
I will make myself available to speak directly to answer any questions.
This is a WordPress site. Premier Themes of Elegant Themes or Studiopress will be the themes I will have to pick from for matching. Theme suggestions welcome. Thanks so much, Paul Good
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The recent departure of Gulfcoast Legal Services' top executive offers the Pinellas County-based organization fresh opportunities to question its strategies and service areas.
Specifically, is it in the public interest for Gulfcoast to operate in Manatee and Sarasota counties, where Legal Aid of Manasota provides a high level of services to people who cannot afford to hire lawyers for civil matters?
We asked that question last May, after the now-former director of Gulfcoast fired a popular attorney, Elizabeth Boyle, and abruptly dismissed volunteers in the Sarasota office. We pose that question again, now that Kathleen M. Mullin is no longer Gulfcoast's executive director.
As we wrote in May, the upheaval and uncertainty caused by the firing of Boyle and the dismissals of volunteers were troubling and, in Manatee and Sarasota, resulted in a loss of public confidence in Gulfcoast.
The concerns that resulted provided reasons for lawyers, judges and nonprofit organizations to examine the way legal aid is provided in Manatee and Sarasota counties.
It's fair to ask whether the two counties need two legal-aid organizations. What's more, does the existence of two separate groups result in the effective and efficient provision of services?
Funding has dropped
The answers are particularly important, since funding for legal aid has dropped substantially in recent years.
Legal Aid of Manasota can make a strong case for being the provider of services in our two counties. The nonprofit organization was created in 1991 by the Bar Associations in Manatee and Sarasota. It is the "official entity appointed by the chief judge" of the 12th Judicial Circuit -- which includes Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto -- to administer the provision of assistance.
Since its inception, Legal Aid of Manasota has served only residents of Sarasota and Manatee. All dollars raised and received have remained in the two counties. All of Manasota's board members live and work locally. The organization's services are monitored by a first-rate local advisory board, including judges.
Neither the questions about Gulfcoast nor the citation of Legal Aid of Manasota's advantages are intended to dismiss the good work that Gulfcoast has done over the years in Manatee and Sarasota.
The Herald-Tribune Editorial Board has long supported the underlying concept of legal-aid organizations. Gulfcoast and Manasota have provided much-needed representation to low-income residents in civil cases involving family law, financial problems, foreclosure, housing and medical care.
Potential for redundancy
Unfortunately, funding for legal aid diminished at the same time that demands rose dramatically. The Florida Bar Foundation's financial contributions dropped substantially due to the recession. Many national grants from government and advocacy groups have disappeared. Unlike 23 other states, Florida has not regularly made funding contributions -- despite the documented social and economic benefits of legal aid.
And this is telling: After last year's fiasco, the Sarasota County Commission terminated its contract with Gulfcoast and transferred the remaining funds to Legal Aid of Manasota. The Manatee County Commission almost did the same.
Legal-aid organizations are guided by loose agreements, but there is the potential for redundancy and competition for grants that generally come with strings attached. Especially in an era of diminished funding, providers should strive to be efficient in the communities they seek to serve; the needs of clients, not the organizations themselves, should come first.
As we wrote last May, changes in leadership and competition for scarce funds should prompt the legal community to consider whether services can be offered more efficiently. That consideration should start -- now -- with these questions: Do Manatee and Sarasota counties really need two legal-aid organizations? And, if not, isn't Legal Aid of Manasota best positioned -- based on its local roots and oversight -- to provide and administer those services?
Legal aid analysis Does region need two groups to represent low-income residents?
The recent departure of Gulfcoast Legal Services' top executive offers the Pinellas County-based organization fresh opportunities to question its strategies and service areas.


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When Chicago Fire defender Dan Gargan came into training camp in January, he had a new gadget to use in his free time. Fresh off his honeymoon, the second-year Fire defender brought his favorite wedding gift -- a handheld high definition camcorder – and with it he shot nearly all the scenes from this incredible video showcasing the repetition of preseason camp and the buildup to an MLS campaign.
Please enjoy, "Back to the Grind", shot and directed by Dan Gargan and produced by Scott Riddell and Albert Lanzillo.


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Volunteering isn't just a great way to give back — it can also save (and even make!) you money.
Body weight exercises seem simple, but they can be very challenging. Best of all? You don't need expensive fitness equipment to do them.
Don't want to pay for a full gym membership? Instead, follow these strategies that let you work out at the gym without paying a cent.
Sometimes, getting a workout in just doesn't fit your schedule. But you can train your muscles to burn fat without a gym membership or any equipment.
Yoga classes have a reputation for being expensive, but they don't have to be. Learn how to find budget-friendly yoga in your community.
It can be difficult to stay in shape during the winter, especially if you don't want to spend a bundle on a gym. Learn how to keep exercising when the temperature drops.
The weather is getting cold, but don't let your exercise routine lag. Find out where you can get a cheap workout this winter.
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Bye-bye, Staunton: Daytrip quashed by NYC extension
While Roanoke will soon gain a railroad dream in the form of the new O. Winston Link Museum, Charlottesville rail buffs recently experienced a sort of nightmare. In May, train-lovin' families lost one of the best afternoon rail activities Charlottesville had to offer: the round-trip to Staunton.
"It may change," says Charlottesville station master Bob Aycock of the train schedule, "but I don't have any information that it will."
Aycock says the roundtrip to Staunton was "just a coincidental thing that worked out well for us."
Since the mid-1990s, passengers had been able to leave the Charlottesville station at 1:13pm on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, reaching Staunton an hour later. The eastbound train left Staunton at 3:31pm, allowing a one-and-a-quarter-hour window for strolling, snacking, and shopping in the historic Valley town. When the eastbound train, which originated in Chicago, was running late– as it frequently was– the visit could be considerably longer.
If things ran on schedule, day-trippers would be returned to the Charlottesville station at 4:47pm, just in time to head home for dinner. And at just $20-26 per person, this was a day trip that didn't flatten the wallet.
Jen Bryerton, editor of Albemarle Kids Magazine, counts herself among the dejected parents. "I'm very disappointed," she says. "A lot of families do it, and it's always a really special thing."
But although the news isn't good for family day-trippers, rail lovers do have something to rejoice about. The schedule change that killed the Staunton daytrip resulted from Amtrak extending the run of that train, the Cardinal, all the way to New York. Previously, the Cardinal traveled northward only to Washington. So perhaps Charlottesville families can now mollify their disappointment with a trip to the Big Apple.


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[Freetown, Sierra Leone; September 21. Image via Getty]
An aunt of a nine-month-old Maya (R), whose mother died in a taxi at the hospital parking shortly before giving birth reads a document of Amnesty International on September 21, 2009 in Freetown. Irene Khan, secretary general of Amnesty international will lead a high level mission in Sierra Leone from 18 to 25 September 2009 to launch a campaign to reduce maternal deaths in the country, which has one of the highest maternal death rates in the world. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)


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Background Promoter polymorphisms of the macrophage migration inhibitory factor gene are associated with increased production of macrophage migration inhibitory factor. Elevated levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor have been observed in the sera of patients with pemphigus vulgaris. More than this, macrophage migration inhibitory factor promoter gene polymorphism has been found to confer increased risk of susceptibility to chronic inflammatory diseases.
Objective We investigated whether there is an association between promoter polymorphism of the macrophage migration inhibitory factor gene and pemphigus vulgaris.
Methods One hundred and six patients with pemphigus vulgaris, and a control panel of one hundred healthy volunteers were genotyped for a single nucleotide polymorphism identified in the 5′-flanking region at the position −173 of the gene, using polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment length analysis.
Results We found a notably high prevalence of C/C genotype in our nation but no significant difference was observed between patients and controls.
Conclusion The result of this study using a large and well documented trial of patients showed that macrophage migration inhibitory factor −173G-C polymorphism is not associated with pemphigus vulgaris; but as the role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in the inflammatory process has not been delineated in detail and the prevalence of C/C genotype is notably higher in our nation, this finding merits more consideration.
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Most violent weekend: Six people are arrested in two shootings that may be gang related. Joshua Anthony "Spanky" Magruder, 19, is found dead around 3am July 19 in the 700 block of Sixth Street SE. Four people are arrested in an Emmet Street motel July 20: Bobby Wayne Gardner Jr., 25, Trenton Michael Brock, 20, and Theodore Calvin Timberlake, 20 are charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in commission of a felony, and Rachel Turner, 25, is charged with being an accessory after the fact. Around 7pm on July 19, an 18-year-old man is shot in the chest in the 900 block of Page Street. Calvin Earl Maupin, 18, and Robert Jason Burrell, 22, are charged in that incident.
Worst mugshots: Blake Via, 18, and Michael Seifert, 19, have the daylights beat out of them when they return to a Waynesboro residence for the second time July 15 armed with BB guns and are confronted with angry neighbors and associates of the female victim, who had already called police after their first break in, according to NBC29. The home-invading pair were confronted as they left the apartment with a computer and PlayStation 3; and after a detour to Augusta Medical Center for treatment, have been charged with five counts so far. No word on whether any of the vigilantes will be charged.
Creepiest scenic-overlook encounter: A man allegedly tried to abduct a woman sitting in her car on the Blue Ridge Parkway around midnight July 20 at the Shenandoah Valley Overlook, WINA reports. She fought off the man, described as a "scruffy-looking white male in his 40s or 50s," and was treated at the Augusta Medical Center for minor injuries.
Most suspicious package: Emergency responders descend on an empty rental house at 6271 Plank Road when its owner discovers a mysterious parcel that resembles an "improvised explosive device" July 20, according to a release. Virginia State Police render the package safe by shooting it with a water cannon during the eight-hour incident that involved local fire, rescue and police, as well as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. A suspect has been identified.
Most satisfied attorneys: UVA Law School grads write checks for $10.9 million, the largest alumni gifts in the school's history.
Best score: UVA student Paul Wagoner, 21, gets a perfect LSAT score, something that happens to fewer than .1 percent of the Law School Admission Test takers, according to a release from Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.
Newest dean: State superintendent of schools Billy K. Cannaday Jr. steps in to head UVA's School of Continuing and Professional Studies starting October 1.
Best time to get a $10.83/hour job driving a school bus: Albemarle hosts a bus driver job fair July 26 from 9am to 1pm at the County Office Building on McIntire. The job includes benefits and starting salary can go to $13 an hour.
Best (former) hideaway: Author John Casey's cabin on the Delaware River, where he writes during the summer near wife Rosamond's family digs in Milford, Pennsylvania, is the topic of a July 18 New York Times travel piece.
Best news for Green Fairy fans: Absinthe, favorite beverage of late-19th/early-20th-century creative figures such as Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, and Oscar Wilde, which has been banned in the U.S. for the past 95 years, is now available in Virginia A.B.C. stores, the Associated Press reports. One brand, Kubler Swiss Absinthe Superieure, has been approved for sale in state liquor stores, and costs $59.95 a bottle.


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The Chicago Fire understood the importance of Saturday night's home opener against the San Jose Earthquakes. The club knew the match represented a great opportunity to pick up its first win of 2010 and—in the process—improve on its dismal home record of 2009.
So, when the Fire fell victim to a late goal—as they so often did last season—in their 2-1 loss Saturday night, it was understandable that some players were having unhappy flashbacks to last year.
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"This was one of our issues last year," Fire defender C.J. Brown said. "Concentration for the full 90; and it's biting us in the [rear] again. It's just going back to doing what we did [last year]. You can't teach focus, you got to get that yourself. You've got to stay tuned in. Everybody does it. It's not just one person, it's all of us. We just got to really concentrate for the full 90 and we'll be in games."
Brown was upset that both of San Jose's goals came after lapses in concentration by the Fire defense. In particular, the veteran defender was disappointed with the communication error between him and goalkeeper Andrew Dykstra that led to San Jose's first goal.
"The pass back [to Dykstra] wasn't as strong as it probably could have been," Brown said. "Initially, it looked like Andrew was going for it, so then I slowed down. When I saw him back up I stepped into it. Then both of us were in all or nothing because we didn't know who was going to do what and both of us lost on that one."
Adding to the Fire's disappointment was that they felt they had the best of the run of play. But to the dismay of the 20,276 in attendance at Toyota Park, Chicago wasn't able to capitalize on its opportunities as well as San Jose did.
"It's just a real disappointment," Fire midfielder Patrick Nyarko said. "I was telling the other players ever since last year that we played the best soccer at home, we dominated the game and eventually we end up losing. It just sucks, and it's very strange because we get punished by any mistake we make."
Nyarko, who endured several games like this in his time with the Fire in 2009, offered an explanation as to why he thought the Fire tend concede late goals at home.
"It's kind of hard [to say]," Nyarko said. "If you have more of the ball sometimes you tend get a little bit lackadaisical. This year we're going to try to pass the ball around we're going to try to dominate the game possession-wise, so we just need to stay tuned in for however many minutes we're playing. It's just a matter of building it up in our heads and making sure that going forward we limit the mistakes we make."
The Fire could have been signing a different tune after the match if forward Collins John had put away one of two fantastic opportunities. His first chance, which came in the 11th minute, saw a completely unmarked John fail to properly connect with a Patrick Nyarko cross, causing the Dutch striker to miss an empty net from just three yards out.
"I kind of misjudged the pass," John said. "I should've just stayed in one place and let the ball come to me, but you know that's part of the game. I was so confident we were going to win the game but it wasn't meant to happen today. It's disappointing."
The loss moves the Fire to 0-2-1 on the year. The club, which went undefeated in the first 11 games of 2009, now drops to sixth place in the Eastern Conference, five points behind first place Kansas City. The Fire travel to the nation's capital to take on last-place D.C. United next Saturday.
"It's a disappointing night," said John. "But we have to keep our heads up. Next week is a must-win."


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Apple's long awaited iPhone 5 should be coming this June, according to a Foxconn recruiter speaking on a TV show last night. Yep the bright lights of TV are just too much for some people and one Foxconn employee has cracked under them on World Business Showcast.
The interviewer asked about employee numbers at the manufacturing plant for future Apple products and was answered, "We're looking for 18,000 employees…for the fifth-generation phone," to which the interviewer responded, "Is that because demand is high for the 'iPhone 5?" And the money shot came with the answer, "That's right. It will come out in June."
So we all know the fifth-generation iPhone is the 4S, but the question was clearly iPhone 5, which is the sixth-generation mobile from Apple. It also fits perfectly with Apple's usual release schedule for phones.
Other rumours suggest a September release, but this could still fit as June may merely be the announcement time. Either way we can't wait for Apple's iPhone 5 with its rumoured 5in Retina Display, revolutionary virtual buttons, and aqua friendly body. Check out all the iPhone 5 stories in our iPhone 5 rumour round-up.
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What better way to celebrate a second straight Screen Actors Guild Award than to purchase a gorgeous Manhattan condo? According to the Post, Julianna Margulies, fresh off of her SAG win for "The Good Wife", recently toured a $11.95 million penthouse at 158 Mercer Street. Located in the New Museum Building, the unit boasts three bedrooms, 3.5 baths, soaring 12 foot ceilings, 17 oversized windows, and if that's not enough, an arresting minimalist style that will surely take your breath away. View the listing.
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