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Myconian Kyma Design Hotel in Mykonos Town
A 5 star Luxury hotel for genuine jet-setters
The brand new luxury experience for those who seek the ultimate pleasure in each and every moment is now called Kyma, the Greek word for wave or rather a tide of unprecedented indulgence. Standing on top of the famous Myconian hill, all dressed up in the original Myconian white color and natures bright light bliss, this 5 star Luxury hotel is the offspring of the 4K Hotels, the first member of Myconian Collection Hotels and Resorts and an all-time-classic destination for international jet setters, for more than five decades.
Myconian Kyma reflects the sun in a mystical hide and seek game, right between the straight lines and the curves of the Cycladic architecture. Neither superficially trendy nor traditionally ordinary, it is soothing and yet utterly spoiling. Its striking rooms and suites, exquisitely designed and decorated, some of them with their own private pool overlooking the deep blue and even more with private, delightful Jacuzzis, the restaurant with an authentic Mediterranean orientation, the hip bar located by the main pool with a panoramic view over this iconic island and a state-of-the-art huge spa for long, comforting sessions, is just the beginning of a wonderfully lavish experience. Anything can happen here, in the elegant chic side of the Myconian life.
Luxury Rooms & Suites in Mykonos Town
A sumptuously luxurious Design hotel promises you nothing less than your own slice of paradise, under the bright daylight and the glorious nights of Mykonos. With artfully designed rooms and suites blessed by the Aegean light, all with crisp white interiors, contemporary design and a delicate precision in every single detail on furnishing and lighting, perfection is redefined. A top-notch service will guide through a world of indulgence, on the blissful verandas with spectacular views, private pools and utterly spoiling Jacuzzis. Indeed, the world will not be the same after the Myconian Kyma experience.
Apollon room
Bright and spacious it is gracefully designed to embrace contemporary elements with exquisite fabrics, fine materials, designers furnishing and lighting, draped in white linen. An excellent choice for a genuine Myconian treatment.
Features: 26 m2, 2 adults, Land view, Complimentary Wi-Fi, King size bed or twins
Artemis room
Brighter than the sun, its calming white and clean lines create a unique atmosphere among furniture and design objects of varying yet matching styles. On its private balcony, you will enjoy spectacular views over the Aegean.
Features: 26 m2, 2 adults, Side sea view, Complimentary Wi-Fi, King size bed or twins.
Aegean room
Spacious and yet utterly cozy, it is an elegant haven in the heart of the Myconian action; fine white linen, exquisite materials and contemporary elegant furniture under a carefully designed lighting. Step outside on the veranda and explore the unique experience of a Jacuzzi while enjoying your signature cocktail under the blue sky.
Features: 26 m2, 2 adults, Sea view, Complimentary Wi-Fi, King size bed or twins, Nespresso Machine, Outdoor jacuzzi.
Ocean suite
Magnificent, delightful and indulgingly fresh, it is a secluded retreat full of crisp white details, designers furniture and lighting, the finest fabrics and an eye for true romance; a spectacular bathtub for honeymooners and sinners and a perfect view over the endless sea.
Nissos suite
A private and most exclusive suite that pays homage to the glorious colors of the Aegean light and the unique Myconian architecture, in a minimalist aesthetic. Nissos stunningly beautiful interior, fine blend of art objects and delicate materials, marble bath, superb view in the balcony and all in plenty of Features: 40 m2, 2 adults, Sea view, Complimentary Wi-Fi, King size bed or twins, Nespresso Machine, high-tech amenities, makes it an unforgettable place-to-be.
Sunset suite
One word, a thousand pictures. An exceptional and sophisticated luxury suite with an enviable mix-and-match of genuine Myconian and contemporary elements, featuring two levels of impeccable fabrics, exquisite furniture and carefully designed lighting, a few steps away from a charming veranda and an everlasting view. Features: 35 m2, 2 adults, Sea view, Complimentary Wi-Fi, King size bed or twins, Nespresso Machine, Outdoor jacuzzi.
Horizon suite
Unique and inspiring, it features a unique melange of refined luxury and contemporary aesthetics. Fresh and lovely, with more funky touches and full high-tech amenities, among crisp white details, the finest designers objects, marble bath and a daz zling veranda with a lovely pool right above the heart of Mykonos Town. Features: 28 m2, 2 adults, Sea view, Complimentary Wi-Fi, King size bed or twins, Nespresso Machine, Private pool,
Mediterranean suite
An exceptional retreat, it is elegance-chic epitomized; sumptuously decorated with the finest of materials, fabrics and art objects, equipped with high-tech amenities and a lavishly rich marble bath, it is too good to be called a suite. Out on its gratifying veranda, the infinity pool with the spectacular Aegean background will make want to stay forever.
Features: 40 m2, 2 adults, Sea view, Complimentary Wi-Fi, King size bed or twins, Nespresso Machine, Private infinity pool.
Gastronomy Experience in Mykonos Town
Taste at Kyma is a memorable experience and one of the top highlights of your stay; whether it is a delightful breakfast by the pool, a refreshingly inviting light meal to get you going or a three course dinner inspired by classical Mediterranean cuisine with a modern and utterly different approach. Only the finest and freshest ingredients are used, sourced locally and exclusively for Kalypso Restaurant and only the most innovative ideas are being served, as to highlight the chefs search for the new cutting-edge cuisine. And just before your night out in Town, a signature cocktail at Georges bar is a must-try; elegantly popular, outstanding and always right on time.
Spa and Wellness
Live the Myconian Experience
A bright majestic light in a striking place where sophisticated luxury meets the art of well living
The undoubted air of sophistication of Kyma is part of the bright, majestic light surrounding its grandeur. For a genuine Myconian experience, spend moments of contemplation on the generously-sized pool deck with a panoramic view completed by the most ravishing infinity pool. Signature cocktails and cool refreshments will be served all day long unless you wish to indulge yourself into a relaxing soak and an utterly regenerating massage by Satori Thalasso Spa. Trust your instinct as well as the five-star hotel staff and let yourself go.
Satori Thalasso Spa
Thanks to a paradise location and the sense of well-living that pervades the whole island, it is easy to feel refreshed just by walking into the lobby of the Spa. Close your eyes, let yourself go, boost circulation, relax the nervous system and shake off long, but not gone, fatigue. Enjoy a traditional massage or experience the very latest therapies, according to your needs, wrapped up with exceptional service, preformed only by experts on the field. It all comes with the added benefit of five therapeutic pools and an invigorating sauna, to balance body, mind and soul.
Spa treatment products
Amongst the finest care and treatment products that you will enjoy during your visit at the Satori Thalasso Spa, you will find the famous St Barth spa treatments range that perfectly balances the skin and your senses with its seductive Caribbean appeal. You will also enjoy the well-acclaimed Elemis spa beauty products. Our expert staff will guide you through the right treatments, the perfect moves and the ideal products that fit perfectly to your needs.
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Stephen: A Backpacker's Tale
Sometimes the desire to travel grabs you and never lets go. That's exactly what happened to Stephen after he took his first journey to a foreign country. His trip to Ireland sparked that flame inside that all travelers are familiar with. After that, he just didn't want to go home. So he took off again and started a travel blog and made his passion a priority. We asked Stephen to fill us in on some of the details about his life, how he travels, where he's been, and what motivates him to keep on going after so much time on the road.


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Via Winter is Coming, the role of Ser Ilyn Payne—the mute King's Justice, headsman for King Robert—has been given to musician Wilko Johnson, once of the blues band Dr. Feelgood. Also, Bronson Webb is back on board as the ranger Will after scheduling conflicts put this in jeopardy; we're glad to hear this in particular, having been told by sources involved in the production that he was absolutely terrific on and off set.
Finally, via Twitter, something we'll classify as second-hand, the claim that author Steven Erikson (best known for the Malazan Book of the Fallen epic fantasy series) revealed at the Czech convention, Tricon that he would be riding a horse as an extra during Game of Thrones. From what the original reporter, webmaster of the Czech A Song of Ice and Fire fansite, says, he was told Erikson said this via a friend. We're looking to see if we can get confirmation from Erikson himself.
Updated: As we guessed, this was a misunderstanding due to the second hand nature of the information. Over at Tor.com, Erikson posed that he had expressed interest in being an extra because he's an equestrian, but it's not the case that he is now one.
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Who carries the rope in a group of skiers?
When traveling unroped, the rope must be ready to be effectively deployed in case of an accident. Without going to the point of pre-installing a haul system in a pack, and without overloading the skiers with excessive equipment, it is necessary to anticipate the risks that will be encountered on the planned route, in order to distribute the equipment in a logical manner.
- Read the technical notice before viewing the following techniques.
- It is important to fully understand the information provided in the technical notice before using this complementary information
- Mastering these techniques requires training.
- Consult a professional before attempting to perform these techniques on your own.
Attention: we are talking only about collective or rescue equipment; each user must choose his/her personal equipment according to the situation.
1. Skiing on a glacier with a clear leader
The leader goes in front to find the route, and so is the one most likely to fall into a crevasse, and therefore must not be the only one carrying a rope.
On a snow-covered glacier, all group members are susceptible to being surprised by a hidden hazard. So you must maximize the chances of rescue by having at least two ropes in the group, carried by teammates sufficiently separated from one another.
Note: the decision whether to ski roped or unroped on a glacier cannot be taken except on-site, depending on the conditions and assessed risks. This is not the subject of this advice, which only addresses the case where the choice is made to ski unroped.
2. Couloir or descent which is certain to not have a steep section over 15 m in height
Except for specific cases (route finding, uncertain conditions), the most skilled skier goes second and carries the rope. He/she can help the first skier from above in case of a problem.
Otherwise, if the first skier takes the rope down a steep section which the second skier cannot negotiate, the first skier cannot help the second.
3. Couloir or descent with a planned rappel of more than 15 m or with uncertainty about the possible obstacles.
To share the weight and bulk, each teammate carries a RAD SYSTEM. The equipment in the kit allows a rappel to be improvised in many situations. Depending on the case, it may be complemented with rope slings or pitons to create improvised anchors.


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Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil Recipe
Basil and tomatoes compliment each other beautifully and are usually overflowing in my garden in the late summer months. This is a wonderful way to use them up, serve this as an appetizer or a side dish.
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 26 • Size: 1 slice bread with tomatoes • Points +: 1 pt • Smart Points: 2
Calories: 49.6 • Fat: 0.6 g • Carb: 9.1 g • Fiber: 0.5 g • Protein: 1.1 g • Sugar: 0.2
Sodium: 2 mg (without salt)
6 or 7 ripe plum tomatoes, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 small red onion, chopped
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
olive oil spray
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
6-8 fresh basil leaves, chopped
kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper to taste
16 oz baguette or French bread
1-2 garlic cloves, peeled
Combine tomatoes, chopped garlic, red onion, vinegar, oil, salt, pepper, and basil. Set aside.
Slice bread into 1/2 inch thick slices. Place on a tray and spray lightly with olive oil. Toast bread under broiler, until golden, watching closely not to let it burn. When bread is toasted, rub each piece with whole garlic clove.
Place bread on a platter and top with tomato mixture. Serve immediately or the bread will become soggy. Makes approximately 26 small slices.
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TeX Live
According to Wikipedia:
- TeX Live is a free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system that includes major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts.
TeX Live includes the tex(1) and pdftex(1) programs, the LaTeX and ConTeXt TeX macro packages and the XeTeX and LuaTeX TeX engines.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Usage
- 3 Important information
- 4 Tips and tricks
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 6 See also
- The texlive-most group contains most TeX Live packages.
- texlive-core, the essential package, based on the medium upstream install scheme (all other packages are based on the upstream collections). The package includes pacman hooks to automate mktexlsr, fmtutil and updmap.[1]
- texlive-bin contains the binaries and libraries (it is a dependency of texlive-core).
- The texlive-lang group contains packages providing character sets and features for non-English languages.
- texlive-langextra provides language support for African, Arabic, Armenian, Croatian, Hebrew, Indic, Mongolian, Tibetan and Vietnamese.
- The biber utility used to handle biblatex bibliography is provided as a separate package.
To determine which CTAN packages are included in each texlive- package, look up the files
The tllocalmgr utility, provided by tllocalmgr-gitAUR, lets you install (and update) packages from CTAN as pacman packages, see its usage (
-h) for details.
- While texlive-core provides the tlmgr script in TEXMFDIST, it is broken. You can either fix it as described below or use tllocalmgr instead.
- The texconfig(1) command is mostly broken because it partially depends on tlmgr (FS#59094). The interactive mode of
texconfigrequires dialog.
The tlmgr utility is the standard way of installing and updating packages from CTAN. It requires minor fixes as follows:
First, edit
TEXMFDIST/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl and replace
$Master = "$Master/../.."; with
$Master = "${Master}/../../..";.
The path prefix TEXMFDIST is not a predefined environment variable, it is defined below in this article. Replace it with the correct value.
Create an alias for the perl script (which you can add in your shell's init file).
alias tlmgr='TEXMFDIST/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl --usermode'
Now you can initialize it in user mode (which will use
~/texmf as install prefix):
$ tlmgr init-usertree
Set your preferred mirror, for example:
$ tlmgr option repository http://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
Now you can install CTAN packages as usual:
$ tlmgr install package_name
Package documentation
The packages in the official repositories do not contain the documentation or source files of font/macro packages.
For offline access with
texdoc you can either install the whole TeX Live documentation and source files with texlive-most-docAUR or install documentation of specific packages with tllocalmgr.
You can also access the documentation online at:
- https://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/doc.html
- https://ctan.org/ – the central place for all kinds of material around TeX
- http://texdoc.net/ (
http://texdoc.net/pkg/packagenamedirectly yields the relevant PDF)
Manual installation
Alternatively you can install TeX Live with the upstream installer, which is packaged as texlive-installerAUR. For more information, see the LaTeX Wikibook and the TeX Live Guide.
See the following resources:
- Wikibooks:LaTeX
- The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2ε
- Getting to Grips with LaTeX – Andrew Roberts
- The TeX FAQ
texmf trees and Kpathsea
texmf trees (texmf stands for TeX and Metafont) should follow the TeX Directory Structure, or files may not be found.[2]
TeX Live uses the Kpathsea library to lookup paths by filename across multiple texmf trees and the current working directory.
Kpathsea searches the following variables in the reverse order (later trees override earlier ones).
|Arch default 1)
|Used by [3]
|files of the original distribution
|administrators for system-wide installation of additional or updated macros, fonts, etc.
|updmap and fmtutil (user mode) to store (cached) runtime data
|updmap and fmtutil (user mode) to store modified configuration data
|users for their own individual installations of additional or updated macros, fonts, etc.
|updmap and fmtutil (sys mode) to store (cached) runtime data
|updmap and fmtutil (sys mode) to store modified configuration data
|ConTeXt MkIV and LuaLaTeX to store (cached) runtime data
- The default values are defined in
/etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf[4]; they can be overridden with environment variables.
Kpathsea provides the kpsewhich(1) command to lookup paths. When run with the
-var argument it can also print the values of variables.
Kpathsea uses filename databases (
ls-R) to speed up searches in system-wide texmf trees (configured with the TEXMFDBS variable). This means that when system-wide file trees are changed, mktexlsr(1) or
texhash (a symlink) need to be run as root. Fortunately the texlive-core automates this with a pacman hook targeting all default system-wide texmf trees but
/usr/local/share/texmf.[5] So as long as you install system-wide packages via pacman you should not need to run mktexlsr or texhash at all.
Important information
- The ConTeXt formats (for Mark II and IV) are not automatically generated upon installation. See the ConTeXT wiki for instructions on how to do this.
- TeX Live (upstream) now provides a tool for incremental updates of CTAN packages. On that basis, we also plan to update our packages on a regular basis (we have written tools that almost automate that task).
- The way to handle font mappings for updmap(1) was improved in September 2009, and installation should now be much more reliable than in the past. In the meantime, if you encounter error messages about unavailable map files, simply remove them by hand from the
updmap.cfgfile (ideally using
updmap-sys --edit). You can also run
updmap-sys --syncwithtreesto automatically comment out outdated map lines from the config file.
Tips and tricks
Changing default paper size
It is currently impossible to set the default page size, because the Arch package removes the tool necessary for this, see FS#59094.
Usually, you would run the
texconfig command, which is also capable of changing other useful settings.
Making fonts available to Fontconfig
By default, the fonts that come with the various TeX Live packages are not automatically available to Fontconfig. If you want to use them with, say XeTeX or LibreOffice, the easiest approach is to make symlinks as follows:
ln -s /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/<some_fonts_you_want> ~/.fonts/OTF/ (or TTF or Type1)
To make them available to fontconfig, run:
fc-cache ~/.fonts mkfontscale ~/.fonts/OTF (or TTF or Type1) mkfontdir ~/.fonts/OTF (or TTF or Type1)
Alternatively, texlive-core contains the file
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/09-texlive-fonts.conf that contains a list of the font directories used by TeX Live. You can use this file with:
# ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/09-texlive-fonts.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive-fonts.conf
And then update fontconfig:
# fc-cache && mkfontscale && mkfontdir
Updating babelbib language definitions
If you have the very specific problem of babelbib not having the latest language definitions that you need, and you do not want to recompile everything, you can get them manually from https://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/ and put them in
/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/. For example:
# cd /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/ # wget https://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/romanian.bdf # wget [...all-other-language-files...] # wget https://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/babelbib.sty
Afterwards, you need to run
texhash to update the TeX database:
# texhash
Error with "formats not generated" upon update
See FS#16467. (Note that if you do not use the experimental engine LuaTeX, you can ignore this.) This situation typically occurs when the configuration files
language.def and/or
language.dat for hyphenation patterns contain references to files from earlier releases of texlive-core, in particular to the latest experimental hyphenation patterns for German, whose file name changes frequently. Currently they should point to
To solve this, you need to either remove these files:
or update them using the newest version under:
and then run
# fmtutil-sys --missing
See also
- TeX Live documentation
- The TeX Live Guide (not completely applicable)
- TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
- Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition


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Miami Dolphins owner defends Sun Life Stadium deal
Stephen Ross wants to modernize Sun Life Stadium
PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross told Local 10's Michael Putney why he wants Miami-Dade County taxpayers to contribute to renovations at Sun Life Stadium during an interview at Local1 10's studio in Pembroke Park Friday.
The Dolphins say that their 25-year-old stadium needs at least $350 million in improvements to remain competitive with newer stadiums around the NFL.
"This is really a public-private partnership," replied Ross. "I think by my doing this, it's really my feeling for the community and doing something that's impactful, and being a businessman, you want to kind of align the interest if you will, though I'm paying for a great majority of it, probably 70 percent of it."
The Miami Marlins paid 25 percent of the cost of their new stadium, which stands in the way of the Dolphins winning voter support in the May 14 referendum. Voters will decide whether to increase the hotel bed tax in mainland Miami-Dade by one percent to help fund renovations at the stadium.
"Why is this deal different than the Marlins deal?" said Ross. "One, I knew I couldn't offer the same thing. I'm putting up 70 percent of the money in today's values and, in fact, probably more than that if you look at the real cost. I'm optimistic about what I can bring it down to. And, you're creating a stadium that is going to be a new stadium, tantamount to a new stadium."
The 30-year economic development grant struck between Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and the Dolphins includes a non-relocation agreement. The Dolphins have offered to pay the county and the state back the money it receives from a sales tax rebate of $3 million a year for 30 years.
The state legislature is considering a bill that would authorize the rebate and also raise the hotel bed tax. Under the Senate version of the bill, the Dolphins would have to compete for that money with other professional sports franchises in the state.
The Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers, who will move into a new stadium next year, are vying for Super Bowl L in 2016. The loser will compete against the Houston Texans to host Super Bowl LI in 2017.
NFL team owners will announce the locations of Super Bowls L and LI on May 22 in Boston.
"We're bringing in tourists to come to those Super Bowls. [We're] keeping people employed and bringing new jobs, new opportunities here. It's about the economic development," he said. "It's the taxi drivers, it's the restaurant tours, it's the hotels -- filling them up. That's what Miami needs to keep going."
You can watch the rest of Michael's interview with Stephen Ross on "This Week in South Florida" at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, April 21.
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The summer after my sophomore year in college I had the good fortune to work as a counselor at a camp in Ontario's "Haliburton Highlands," a vacation area north of Toronto. That experience confirmed and extended my interest in Canada so that, after graduation with a B.A. in English (Bowling Green, Ohio), I decided to attend graduate school there, first at Waterloo (M.A.) and then at the University of Manitoba (Ph.D.) Specializing in Canadian Literature in English and in Canadian Studies, I returned to "the States" (as Canadians say) and joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 1983. Here I teach Canadian literature and other English courses, Canadian Studies, and have been a regular presence in the First Year Program. There I teach various Canada connected courses, most recently "Canada's Great War" and a first-year seminar called "Famous Dead Canadians." I've also taught first-year seminars on subjects of personal interest, "The New Yorker" and "Local Boy Makes Good: Frederic Remington's Life, Art, and Career."
As a scholar, I have focused on the literary Wests of both Canada and the United States, on Alice Munro and Willa Cather, and on Canadian writing more generally. My first book, The Great Prairie Fact and Literary Imagination (1989) remains the only critical study of that western landscape in its binational context. Recent work in the same vein are two coedited collections of essays, One West, Two Myths: A Comparative Reader (2004) and One West, Two Myths II: Essays in Comparison (2006). This western work has occasioned a sustained teaching and scholarly interest in the writing of Willa Cather, producing numerous essays and two coedited collections of Cather Studies, the most recent being Willa Cather: A Writer's Worlds (2010). In 2013 I edited Cather's April Twilights and Other Poems in Knopf's Everyman's Library Pocket Poet series and am now historical editor for Cather's Poems in the scholarly edition of Cather's works. Concurrent and coequal with this work has been my scholarship on Alice Munro, a writer who is a mainstay of the New Yorker and also the leading contemporary practitioner of the short story in English. This work culminated in the first extended biography, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives (2005; revised and updated 2011), a book project with which Ms. Munro cooperated. Since Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, I have been at work on various Munro projects, including a short biography for the Nobel Foundation, a collection of essays to be published by Bloomsbury—Academic, and a special Munro issue of the American Review of Canadian Studies.


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Old Amsterdam is a premium aged Gouda cheese with a smooth texture and rich, robust taste. It isn't comparable to the salty Gouda we all know but has a rich delicious flavour.
The story of Old Amsterdam Cheese is all about passion, dedication and craftsmanship of the Westland family who have a cheese obsession. The cheese is produced using a secret recipe - a family-owned starter culture and a unique ripening process. Master cheesemakers oversee every procedure, ensuring each cheese meets their taste and quality, to determine when each batch of perfectly ripened cheese should be released.
The cheese came with it's own board and cheese slicer. I served my cheese on Christmas Day with grapes, apples, dried apricots, walnuts and plain biscuits. We all agreed, this gourmet cheese was very special and how fortunate we were to have this on our cheeseboard. The cheese can also be melted and used in both sweet and savoury dishes.
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Yeah, we couldn't come up with anything better to call it either (feel free to drop your suggestions in the comments below and we'll potentially use the best one). It looks like our breathless buddy Josh Oliver breathlessly procured a copy of the police report in — whatever we're calling this thing. So what can we glean from the document? Well, the car was on the loading dock at Central States Trucking Company and it's a
"2007 Chevrolet Corvette prototype, red in color, no vin. no license plate. Vehicle was shipped to Germany on 02-20-2007. The vehicle is valued at one million dollars."
In addition, we've also learned
"at this time it appears that [REDACTED] will be fired from his job and possible civil action will be taken."
Oopsie. Check out the rest over on Josh's breathless General Motorgasm of a site via the link below. Also, feel free to check back through our gallery demonstrating ways to get caught taking pictures of a million dollar Corvette SS prototype on it's way to Germany.
TheGMSource Has Obtained The Police Report Filed In Romulus, Michigan [TheGMSource.com]
We're Not Yet In Jail: More Speculation On The Corvette SS Spy Photos, Corvette C7; Corvette SS Spy Photographer Now NOT In Jail?; Corvette SS Spy Photographer Now In Jail!; Spy Photos: I Am The Corvette SS Powertrain Mule [internal]


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Bloomquist likely to need full DL stint for knee bruise
SEATTLE -- An MRI test on utility infielder Willie Bloomquist's right knee showed a deep bone bruise, and the Mariners' veteran likely will need most of the full 15 days on the disabled list to recover, manager Lloyd McClendon said Friday.
Bloomquist went on the DL Thursday after injuring the knee while stretching to reach first base on a close play in the eighth inning of Wednesday's 3-2 loss to the Mets.
The 36-year-old was hoping to avoid a DL stint, but McClendon said it would be impossible for the Mariners to be without a backup infielder for any significant period of time. Rookie shortstop Chris Taylor, the club's No. 8-ranked prospect, was called up on Thursday, and he'll split time with Brad Miller at that position, while both are capable of also playing second or third base if needed.
McClendon had Miller back at shortstop on Friday against right-handed Orioles starter Kevin Gausman after Taylor made his Major League debut on Thursday against southpaw Wei-Yin Chen. But the manager said he won't use the two strictly as a right-left platoon.
"I'll look at matchups and see who fits the best that particular day and put them in there," he said.
Bloomquist is the second Mariners position player currently on the 15-day disabled list, joining right fielder Michael Saunders, who has been sidelined since July 10 with a strained left oblique muscle.
Saunders has begun doing some light throwing and swinging in the cage, and McClendon said he'll accompany the team on its upcoming road trip to Cleveland and Baltimore next week so he can take batting practice with the club in preparation for going out on a Minor League rehab assignment.


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The distribution consists of configuration and resource packages installed on top of Debian. There are no changes to the way the Debian base system is administrated.
- Pre-configured Openbox window manager with tint2 panel and conky system monitor
- Assortment of harmonising GTK2/3 themes, wallpapers and conky configurations
- Various configuration and application utilities to maintain this system
- Additional desktop-, multimedia- and hardware-related packages come pre-installed to offer a better "out-of-the-box" experience.
There is no limit to customization: You can review desktop configurations in our forums' Artwork & Screenshots section, and we also host several active threads on conky configuration. As an example, here's an user-contributed walkthrough video showing what kind and style of desktop experience you may end up with.
We offer combined live-CD and installation media for the Debian i386 (i686) and amd64 (x86-64) architectures.
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- 2018-09-29: c't 21/2018, page 122 and online: Revival - Alte Hardware mit Linux wiederbeleben
- 2018-08-26: ordinatechnic.com: BunsenLabs Helium Review
- 2018-06-25: DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 769: Review: BunsenLabs Helium
- 2018-04-26: Report Hot Café, 無料OS『BunsenLabs Linux』軽い…256MBでオフィスソフトも可!
- 2017-07-25: PC-Welt, Openbox/Bunsenlabs vorgestellt: Desktop für Puristen
- 2017-04-28: ghacks.net, A look at Desktop Environments: Openbox Window Manager
- 2017-03-28: Video review in Portuguese: BunsenLabs Linux - Apresentação e Configurações iniciais
- 2017-01: Linux Format, printed issue 219, there is a review of several lightweight distros including BunsenLabs on pages 29f.
- 2017: DistroWatch, Reader supplied reviews for BunsenLabs Linux
- 2016-10/11: LinuxWelt, printed edition 10-11/2016, there is a one-page review on page 34
- 2016-07-29: LinuxWelt, 5/2016: BunsenLabs is featured on the accompanying DVD
- 2016-06-13: DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 665: Review: BunsenLabs Linux
- 2016-05-02: DistroWatch: BunsenLabs Linux entry
- 2016-02-19: LINUX.COM: 5 Linux Desktop Distributions You Should Kow
- 2016-01: Ubuntu User, Spring 2016: BunsenLabs Hydrogen – CrunchBang's lightweight successor
- 2016-01-21: LinuxUser 02/2016: Bunsenbrenner: BunsenLabs "Hydrogen" auch für ältere Hardware
- 2015-12-07: Linux Insider: Hot New BunsenLabs Linux Eases Pain of CrunchBang Loss
- 2015-11-15: Sunday Morning Linux Review, Episode 167: BunsenLabs Linux
- 2015-09-21: DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 628: New Linux distributions
- 2015-06-21: entornos GNU/Linux: Un pasno por BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 8.1 (Hydrogen)


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Cleats of rage.
EA's Street franchise started off as the company's response to the arcade hoops antics of Midway, and in the case of NBA Street, it was one hell of an answer. But instead of sticking with one sport, EA literally went Big and tried porting the concept over to other, less street-worthy sports, like football and soccer, both with mixed results.
One of those already got a mediocre sequel, and now, so does the other. Once you pour FIFA Street 2 on the pavement, you'll quickly see how this collection of arcade debris fails to form anything resembling a ball.
[image1]Much of the shake from EA Big's Street franchises has predictably been sprinkled onto FIFA Street 2. The obligatory character creation tool works as it always did, so you can still warp a player model to Hulk-ish proportions and trick him out with such off-the-wall gear as shirts, shorts, shoes, and socks.
After sifting through the minutia, you can dump him into Career mode, which has a set of not-so-challenging challenges for you to plow through until you rule the streets again. There are a couple of different match types that pop up as you play through the Career, most of which are obvious, but they are varied enough to keep things interesting,. Either score up to 10 goals first, get up to a certain amount of trick points first, or be the first to do a certain trick a couple of times.
Once again, you earn 'skill bills' with which to buy more gear and stat points, but eventually you can juice your entire squad's stats as Career mode exhibits some story elements. Team members will actually squabble over playing time or just have beef with each other for some randomly generated reason. You'll have to choose which guys to keep and which to let go, though the decision-making is very thin since whoever has the higher stats stays.
Regardless of the awkward attempt at drama, the gameplay is neither as engaging nor responsive as either of the sim soccer games. The jukes in FIFA Street 2 have an overly large area of effect and are generally too powerful. You'll juke guys on their asses all the time, and it takes them a really long time to stand back up, during which you can easily get off another couple of uncontestable tricks. Stacking your combo multiplier is made really easy, as you can just pass the ball after the brutal jukes to keep it going. The combo points aren't collected until you get a shot on goal, though unlike NBA Street, you're not required to make the shot to validate the points. As long as you trick, pass, trick again and shoot aimlessly, you will acquire Gamebreakers aplenty, since their threshold is so low. There's just not a great deal of strategy at play.
[image2]It doesn't get much better on the other side of the pitch, either. Jukes come in two varieties – high or low -and you have a counter-trick for each that boils down to a guessing game. If you botch it, you'll eat asphalt and get tricked on consecutively as your poor sap tries to stand back up. The best way out is to switch to another defenseman, but your teammate icons inexplicably disappear on defense. Intercepting passes is a non-issue, since your team's A.I. reacts sluggishly; there's simply not enough time nor intel to switch to a teammate to swipe a pass. More often than not, you're stuck with one player, mauling anyone who touches or juggles the ball in the hopes that you'll nail him before he passes.
But provided it isn't a Gamebreaker, it's not a big deal to let the opponent get a shot off since the goalie is usually exceptionally good at blocking normal shots. An aiming reticule effectively gives the illusion that your skills matter, but it sure doesn't seem like it when the goalies stop so many shots. FIFA Street 2 almost always comes down to looping tricks to reach the Gamebreaker, which is really the only consistently effective way to score. You can alternately take control of your goalie as use him as a fourth man, but since networking passes for strikes is basically useless, doing so is just a surefire way to leave your net nice and open.
Other than the Career mode, the only other way to play is Skills Challenge, really just a glorified mini-game that lets you earn some extra cash for practicing tricky moves. You earn more skill bills faster playing real games, though, so there's also no point in wasting time here aside from watching some nifty trick animations.
Up to three others can join for a game of multiplayer, which is probably the best way to enjoy FIFA Street 2 since it relies less on the repetitive CPU and more on how drunk your friends are. The lack of online play in any version is a bummer, though.
[image3]It comes as no surprise that the presentation is the best part. On all three platforms, the gameplay's framerate is smooth and crisp throughout, and all of the tricks and passes look, animate, and feel believable thanks to a solid ball physics engine. The player and environmental textures look nice and gritty too, accentuated by the occasional camera zoom to amplify a trick-induced spill. Unfortunately, the lack of a basic Sideways cam is a strange, annoying omission, as the other game cameras just aren't as handy.
Bobbito, the DJ from the NBA Street series, was the first and last successful Street commentator. Thankfully, EA ducked having some lame clone and went with megaphone-distorted gibberish worthy of a drunken block party. And like your local pueblo's drink and dance tank, the music is largely superb.
Unfortunately, the delivery is the only real upgrade here. Games like FIFA Street 2 make it no wonder why derivative franchise factories are problematic. Shiny lights and fancy facades cannot hold a candle to a robust, well-developed engine that delivers complex, engaging gameplay, which is exactly what the game lacks. Even after a sequel, this Street still falls flat on its asphalt.


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ENGG 168: Biomedical Radiation Transport
This course will provide a general overview of radiation transport mechanisms in matter, beginning with a derivation of the Boltzmann radiation transport equation, and examining the various approximations possible. Focus on the single-energy Diffusion approximation will be examined in detail, as it relates to neutron diffusion nuclear reactors and optical photon diffusion. Review of photon diffusion in tissue will be discussed as it relates to tissue spectroscopy and imaging. Fundamental research papers in this field will be presented and reviewed, covering aspects of multiple scattering, Mie scattering, and scattering phase functions. Stochastic model-based approaches will be covered as well, such as the Monte Carlo model. Numerical approaches to solving these models will be introduced.


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We're Scout Leaders! We're All Crazy!stevejb68 on October 17, 2013 in Humor, Leadership
I saw this picture online and it brought a huge smile to my face. I could not help but picture a Scout Leader standing up in front of a council or district training session and yelling this to all the attendants.
Just think of this for a moment. It has to be true, doesn't it? Don't you have to be a little crazy to sit there in a room full of teenage boys, trying to steer them into learning constructive life skills? Or a cubmaster trying to keep a few dozen elementary age boys' attention long enough to conduct an award ceremony? Or a scoutmaster taking 15 boys who are not his own into the wilderness for a camping trip? Don't you have to be a little crazy to do these things, and so much more?
Well, maybe a little bit. But you also have to believe in the program and be willing to back it up 100 percent or more. More importantly, you have to believe in the boys and imagine what they are capable of becoming as they grow into adult men and future leaders of our communities, and even our country.
Yes, we Scouters are a little crazy, and though it may not be a competition, it is a worthwhile program to belong to.


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Giant Japanese Spider Crab
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SIZE: Body to 15 inches diameter. Leg span to 15 feet
RANGE: Pacific Ocean near Japan
HABITAT: Seabed at depths of 500 ft to 1000 ft, or more. Giant spider crabs migrate up to 160ft depth during breeding season
DIET: Pacific Ocean near Japan
ON EXHIBIT: Boneless Beauties at Ocean Journey
The giant spider crab is the largest known species of crab and may live up to 100 years. The Japanese name for this species is taka-ashi-gani literally translating to "tall legs crab." Their armored exoskeletons help protect them from larger predators such as octopi, but giant spider crabs also use camouflage. The crab's bumpy carapace blends into the rocky ocean floor. To further the illusion, a spider crab will adorn its shell with sponges and other animals.
The spider crabs are considered a prized delicacy in many parts of Japan. They are caught using small trawling nets. Harvesting of the crab is forbidden during the spring, when crabs move to shallower water to reproduce. Populations of this species of crab have diminished over recent years and there are many efforts to protect them.


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crimsonleaf necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
We are a new company called "Herbs a la Cart". We have designed a unique new product (patent-pending) for balcony gardening. The product - to be called the "Herbmobile" - is a garden on wheels designed for the easy growing of herbs on your balcony, deck or courtyard. It's portable so it can follow the sun and shade or be wheeled inside during the winter.
The personality of the company/brand is quirky and fun, as well as being trendy and stylish. We want to convey this personality by creating a specific character-type logo for the "Herbmobile".
The market for this product is primarily apartment-dwellers who want and appreciate the benefits of growing their own herbs. The main audience is Gen X and baby boomers, as well as the elderly and disabled (as it promotes easy gardening from a chair or wheelchair). The product is also ideal for teachers to teach and demonstrate gardening within the classroom.
We are looking for a character-style logo to represent the "Herbmobile". No branding has yet been determined for the 'Herbs a la Cart' company, so let your creativity take hold! Remember, it should be quirky and fun, but stylish.
We haven't decided on a colour palette yet, but are leaning towards the following:
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The logo will be used both online and in print. It will also have the opportunity to be extended to training material (e.g. as a teaching aide) for the classroom.
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The Massachusetts Governor's Council certified the results of the Nov. 6 general election on Wednesday, Nov. 28. Here is a look at some of those statewide numbers.
Across the country voter turnout was high for a mid-term election, a trend that was reflected in Massachusetts, where voter turn out spiked by 11 percent from 2014.
The 61 percent reflects the highest percentage of voters turning out for a mid-term election since 1994, but it has the most votes cast in any mid-term election.
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Massachusetts voters were able to vote before Election Day for the second time in 2018. Here is a look at what the numbers from all of the cities and towns in Massachusetts.
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Tagliatelle with a lemon pork ragù
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal811
- fat39g
- saturates14g
- carbs69g
- sugars0g
- fibre3g
- protein43g
- salt5.3g
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 1 celery stick, finely chopped
A collection of long, thick, juicy stalks around a central, tender heart, celery ranges in…
- 100g diced pancetta
Pancetta is Italian cured pork belly - the equivalent of streaky bacon. It has a deep, strong,…
- 500g minced pork
- 200ml dry white wine
- 50g parmesan, plus extra for serving
Parmesan is a straw-coloured hard cheese with a natural yellow rind and rich, fruity flavour. It…
- 1 large organic lemon
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
- 400g dried egg tagliatelle (not durum wheat tagliatelle)
- 3 tbsp chopped flatleaf parsley
One of the most ubiquitous herbs in British cookery, parsley is also popular in European and…
Peel the garlic cloves, cut in half lengthways and remove the green shoot at the centre. Gently warm the garlic and oil in a large frying pan (big enough to toss the pasta in later). As it starts to colour, take off the heat and let the garlic infuse for 5 minutes, then discard it.
Tip the onion and celery into the garlic scented oil, sprinkle with a little salt and return to a gentle heat. Let them soften, without colouring, for 8-10 minutes. They should sweat rather than fry, so if you hear sizzling add water, a tablespoon at a time.
Add the pancetta and cook for another 6minutes, adding water as before. Stir in the pork and turn the heat up. Don't colour the meat too much and avoid breaking it up. Add the wine and let it evaporate, then season. Pour in 200ml/7fl oz water, cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes. Mix in a little water if the mixture gets too dry.
While the ragù is cooking, put a pan with plenty of water on to boil. Grate the Parmesan and the zest from the lemon.
When the water is at a rolling boil add 2 tsp salt, then the pasta. Partly cover, bring back to the boil, give it a good stir and reduce the heat so the water boils gently. Taste the pasta 2 minutes before the timing on the packet – remember it will keep cooking while it is tossed with the ragù.
Drain the pasta, reserving some pasta water. Immediately transfer the pasta to the frying pan and toss well over a low heat. Tip in the parmesan and toss well. Add pasta water to dilute, or extra cheese to absorb excess liquid, and mix again.
Toss in the lemon zest and parsley. Serve immediately.


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The Unexpected Sales Tool
This story appears in the July 1997 issue of . Subscribe »
Portfolios are powerful and effective sales tools many small-business owners overlook. Having an eye-catching portfolio that showcases your work can put you ahead of your competitors and clinch sales.
Unlike a brochure, which you leave with clients, a portfolio is more comprehensive. It may contain brochures, as well as photographs and other visual examples of your work, and detailed descriptions of what types of work you do. Most businesspeople only have one portfolio.
"Verbal concepts and ideas aren't as lasting as pictures and other visual impressions," says Jeffrey Garton, co-owner of Paradise Designs Inc., a San Clemente, California, landscape-design and installation company. "If you can point to a picture to illustrate what you're saying, it will remain in a client's mind even after you've left."
You don't have to be a designer or an artist to have an impressive portfolio. Almost any product or service can be illustrated through pictures or other visual materials. If you clean houses, don't just say so--show potential clients photos of homes you've cleaned.
"Even consultants can use a portfolio to make their intangible services more tangible," says workplace training consultant Patricia Seeley, whose Reno, Nevada, company, Training for the Future, specializes in training for job satisfaction, productivity improvement and motivation. Seeley has filled her portfolio with a variety of visual materials, such as her biography, professional association membership cards and certificates of membership, testimonial letters from satisfied customers, information on the training programs she offers, and magazine and newspaper articles she has written.
Creating a portfolio that showcases your work is not very difficult, but it does take some time and thought. The following guidelines cover the basics and will help get you started.
What To Showcase
If you have a product or service that is easily pictured, such as custom jewelry or carpentry, then the bulk of your portfolio should consist of photos of your work. However, if your business doesn't naturally lend itself to photos, don't throw up your hands in defeat. Most businesses can be illustrated in some way; follow some of these examples:
- Photographs of products, such as floral arrangements, furniture, gift baskets, computer systems, arts-and-crafts items; or photos of finished work, such as landscaped backyards, remodeled kitchens or bathrooms, painted homes, new roofs or clean, detailed cars.
- Your business's Web-site address. A Web site shows you're on the cutting edge. Include screen shots of your home page in the portfolio.
- Clips from magazines or newspapers containing articles about your business. These could be stories you've written or articles written about you.
- Brochures illustrating the kind of products or services you offer.
- Client testimonials or thank-you letters, including phone numbers for verification purposes. This creates trust in your work.
- Documents that prove you can legally operate a business, such as licenses, bonds and proof of insurance.
- Paperwork, such as memberships in professional associations or any awards you've received.
- A complete biography of yourself. A bio differs from a resume: For one thing, it is more readable, usually written in paragraph form, and tells about your accomplishments in a more general way. Resumes focus on specifics in relation to qualifications and jobs held. Instead of reciting the specifics of each job you've held and your accomplishments, your bio should mention your career highlights and try to give a glimpse of your personality.
- A list of the products or programs you provide, with a brief description of each.
- Sample products, if possible; some items that would work well include jewelry, watches, wallets, food products (such as candy or nuts), artwork, small arts-and-crafts items (such as Christmas-tree ornaments, bookmarks or recipe cards), small apparel items (such as gloves, scarves or socks), stationery items (such as note paper, envelopes, pens or pencils), or cassette tapes of music or seminar presentations.
Choosing a Portfolio
This is no time to grab a plastic notebook and stick in some pictures. "Buy the highest-quality portfolio you can afford," says Seeley, who suggests looking in stationery stores, catalogs and art-supply stores.
An 8-by-10 or 11-by-17-inch portfolio is best because anything larger becomes unwieldy, and anything smaller doesn't have much impact.
Make sure to get a portfolio with a zipper, which will keep pages from becoming dogeared, says Matt Taylor of Wildwood Designs in Santa Ana, California, who provides residential and commercial cabinetry. He uses his portfolio often, especially when helping clients decide on a design.
Protect your photos and other visual materials with sturdy, plastic sheet protectors.
Photo Quality is Key
One of the secrets to a well-received portfolio is the quality of the photos. "Don't include a poor photoof something," says Taylor, "because it won't do your work justice."
Although a photo shoot can be cost-prohibitive, it is sometimes possible to get high-quality shots without paying for a professional shoot. If your work is photographed for publication, you could ask the photographer about buying usage rights to the photos.
More likely, you'll have to take most of the pictures yourself. "I have a few professional photos in my portfolio, but most of them I photographed myself," says Taylor. "I take pictures whenever I finish a job I consider impressive." Taylor suggests the following tips for taking great photos:
- Wait until the item is in use. If you want to take pictures of a product such as an outdoor patio cover and deck, do so after the customer has accessorized it so things look natural.
- Keep it simple. Rather than trying to take pictures of a scene, simply zero in on your product or service.
- Shoot many photos. If you're not a professional photographer, getting shots worthy of your portfolio will take several attempts.
- Use 200-speed color film in a 35-millimeter camera. Try a variety of lens sizes, including a wide-angle lens, which can be rented at a camera store. Use a tripod, and learn how to work the manual setting on your camera to try different light exposures.
- When at all possible, don't use a flash. Natural lighting makes for much better pictures with more depth.
Presentation Tips
Just as what you include in the portfolio is important, so is the presentation of your work. In general, most portfolio presentations shouldn't last any longer than 15 minutes.
Timing is also important when pulling out your portfolio. Garton likes to present his after he and the client have had a chance to talk. That way, Garton can tailor the presentation to his client's needs and show similar jobs.
During a presentation, keep an eye on the viewer for signs of boredom, which can be detected through body language. If he or she is leaning toward the portfolio and looking interested, then continue as you are. But if the person's eyes are glazing over or he's looking around the room, speed up the presentation.
When showing your portfolio, ask viewers to let you know when they see something they really like. This will let you know what they are looking for.
Throughout the presentation, it is important to relate the portfolio to the client. "Your purpose isn't to gloat
or to wow them," says Garton. "You want to relate what you've done in the past to what you can do for them now."
As a matter of fact, it's critical to be careful about what photos you do describe. Don't, for instance, point out a big, expensive job to a client who only has a small budget.
Maintain enthusiasm when presenting the portfolio, even if it's the tenth time that week you've shown your work. Clients want to know that you enjoy what you do.
Besides illustrating products and services, a portfolio legitimizes you in the eyes of potential clients by showing that you can produce quality work. After seeing your high-quality portfolio, clients will tell you what good work you do--you won't have to tell them.
Setting Up Your Portfolio
How you organize your portfolio will depend on the services or products you offer and your target market. Here are some tips for ways you can set up your portfolio:
- If you are selling products, it's best to break them down into types. Cabinetry designer, Matt Taylor organizes his portfolio of cabinetry, molding work and ceiling treatments into different styles, such as modern, casual and traditional. This enables him to show a client a particular "look" without having to flip through the entire book. Use tabs to help you locate desired sections quickly.
- If you offer a service, such as consulting, you can break the portfolio down into sections, such as the programs you offer, your biography and credentials and testimonials.
- Consider your target market when designing your portfolio. If you would like to attract more business in a particular field, then highlight the jobs you've done in that area.
- Don't overcrowd pages with too many pictures. Make sure each page has a focal point. Create impact by including different picture sizes.
- When choosing pictures, use some restraint. It's much better to have 20 great photos than 50 mediocre ones.
- Keep the portfolio neat and professional looking by not handwriting descriptions in the book. It looks more professional to have words printed on a laser printer.
- Perhaps most important, you should update your portfolio on a regular basis. Add new photos and remove outdated ones every three to six months.
Contact Sources
Paradise Designs Inc., 915 Calle Amanecer, Ste. B, San Clemente, CA 92672.
Training for the Future, 7605 Palos Verdes Cir., Reno, NV 89502, (702) 856-1409.
Wildwood Designs, 1607 E. Edinger Ave., Ste. Q, Santa Ana, CA 92705, (714) 543-6549.


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New 2020 VolkswagenJetta 1.4T R-Line w/ULEV Sedan
- Stock: V00113
- Fuel Economy
- 30.0/40.0 mpg City/Hwy
- Exterior Color
- Pure White
- Interior Color
- Storm Gray/Black
- Body/Seating
- Sedan/5 seats
- Transmission
- 8 speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- front-wheel
- Engine
- 1.4L I-4 cyl
Volkswagen Jetta
Highlighted Features
- Blind spot sensor
- Automatic temperature control
- Power moonroof
- Wireless phone connectivity
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Front dual zone A/C
- Split folding rear seat
- Heated front seats
Detailed Specifications
- 1-touch down
- 1-touch up
- Air conditioning
- Automatic temperature control
- Driver door bin
- Driver vanity mirror
- Front beverage holders
- Front dual zone A/C
- Illuminated entry
- Overhead console
- Passenger door bin
- Passenger vanity mirror
- Power moonroof
- Power windows
- Proximity keyless entry: doors and push button start
- Rear beverage holders
- Rear door bins
- Remote keyless entry
- Speed control
- Telescoping steering wheel
- Tilt steering wheel
- Alloy wheels
- Front anti-roll bar
- Front tires: 205/55HR17.0
- Front wheel independent suspension
- Power steering
- Rear anti-roll bar
- Rear tires: 205/55HR17.0
- Speed-sensing steering
- Sport suspension
- Wheel size: 17"
- 1st row LCD monitors: 2
- AM/FM radio
- Diversity antenna
- Primary LCD size: 6.5"
- Radio data system
- Smart device integration: VW Car-Net App-Connect
- Speakers: 4
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Wireless phone connectivity: Bluetooth
- Basic warranty: 48 months/50,000miles
- Corrosion perforation warranty: 84 months/100,000miles
- Maintenance warranty: 24 months/20,000miles
- Powertrain warranty: 48 months/50,000miles
- Roadside assistance coverage: 36 months/36,000miles
- Front center armrest
- Front seats: bucket
- Heated front seats
- Leather shift knob
- Max seating capacity: 5
- Rear seat center armrest
- Rear seats: bench
- Rear seats Folding position: fold forward seatback
- Split folding rear seat
- Compressor: intercooled turbo
- Cylinder configuration: I-4
- Drive type: front-wheel
- Engine liters: 1.4
- Engine location: front
- Fuel economy city: 30mpg
- Fuel economy combined: 34mpg
- Fuel economy highway: 40mpg
- Fuel tank capacity: 13.2gal.
- Horsepower: 147hp @ 5,000RPM
- Limited slip differential: brake actuated - XDS
- Manual-shift auto: Tiptronic
- Mode select transmission
- Number of valves: 16
- Recommended fuel: Regular Unleaded
- Torque: 184 lb.-ft. @ 1,400RPM
- Transmission: 8 speed automatic
- Variable valve control
- Bumpers: body-color
- Heated door mirrors
- Power door mirrors
- Rear cargo: trunk
- Compression ratio: 10.00 to 1
- Curb weight: 1,342kg (2,959lbs)
- Engine bore x stroke: 74.5mm x 80.0mm (2.93" x 3.15")
- Engine displacement: 1.4 L
- Engine horsepower: 147hp @ 5,000RPM
- Engine torque: 184 lb.-ft. @ 1,400RPM
- Exterior body width: 1,798mm (70.8")
- Exterior height: 1,458mm (57.4")
- Exterior length: 4,702mm (185.1")
- Front headroom: 978mm (38.5")
- Front legroom: 1,044mm (41.1")
- Front shoulder room: 1,420mm (55.9")
- GVWR: 1,870kg (4,123lbs)
- Interior cargo volume: 399 L (14 cu.ft.)
- Interior maximum cargo volume: 399 L (14 cu.ft.)
- Passenger volume: 2,682L (94.7 cu.ft.)
- Payload: 440kg (970lbs)
- Rear headroom: 945mm (37.2")
- Rear legroom: 950mm (37.4")
- Rear shoulder room: 1,372mm (54.0")
- Turning radius: 5.5m (18.2')
- Wheelbase: 2,685mm (105.7")
- Blind spot sensor: Blind Spot Monitor warning
- Delay-off headlights
- Display: analog
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Forward collision: Front Assist w/Autonomous Emergency Braking mitigation
- Front fog lights
- Front reading lights
- Fully automatic headlights
- Low tire pressure warning
- Outside temperature display
- Rear collision: Rear Traffic Alert warning
- Rear reading lights
- Rear window defroster
- Tachometer
- Trip computer
- Variably intermittent wipers
- 4 wheel disc brakes
- ABS brakes
- Brake assist
- Dual front impact airbags
- Dual front side impact airbags
- Electronic stability
- Ignition disable
- Occupant sensing airbag
- Overhead airbag
- Panic alarm
- Perimeter/approach lights
- Traction control
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Very Impressive - Jetta S Stick
By Deek on Wednesday, February 13, 2019It is really almost hard to believe how good a car this is! But it definitely is. I bought a '19 Jetta S with Manual transmission and Driver Assist package (blind spot, front collision avoidance technology and cross traffic alert in rear). My car also had VW maintenance at 10,000 and 20,000 miles, the full Roadside Assistance kit for trunk, All weather mats front and rear and Car-Go trunk liner. Sticker price was 20,425; I bought it for 16,500. I added the hard wired Day / Night rearview mirror with Homelink (a very smart option IMO). My car had Bridgestone tires which I preferred. I am totally impressed with the car. Fit and finish are excellent. The lines are much better than the older models. The interior is quiet and comfortable even though this is a base model. Apple Car Play works as smoothly as you would expect and the audio head is perfectly sufficient for me. Yes, I agree that Sirius/XM would have been nice, but I have SXM on my iPhone from a mobile subscription and it plays fine for me through Bluetooth on the VW head. I also really like the electronic parking brake. Most cars with this price point have a manual parking brake. The electronic one on this car allows you to start out forward or in reverse with the parking brake active and it automatically disengages when you let out the clutch. Found this out in reading the Owner's Manual and so glad I found this nice feature. My daughter leases a 2018 VW Tiguan S and, like her, I find the S trim to be more than sufficient on this car. Who wouldn't want the SE or SEL trim? But at more than 3,000 more than what I paid, I am perfectly happy with all that is packed into the S model. VW called this one right! I am in awe of the responsiveness of the 1.4T motor with the Manual transmission as well as the impressive gas mileage (first drive on highway got me just shy of 42 mpg). The 6 speed stick shifter is truly silky smooth, as good as past BMW's I have owned. The German design and technology is evident throughout. The day after delivery, I had to drive on secondary roads on a 100 mile trip. The weather conditions were just horrible -- high winds, slushy roads, heavy rain / freezing rain / snow. The car remained quiet, responsive, non-flappable and simply stuck to the highway regardless of the wind gusts. I felt very safe and comfortable throughout. I managed another 42 mpg going 60-62 mph. I mainly got this car to use as a tow vehicle behind my 45' motor coach, but I am so impressed with it that it will definitely be a daily driver for me for a lot of the time. I am a big car guy, having owned at least 140 new cars over the years and to be as impressed with this one as I am says a lot. The dealer does not sell lots of S models and not many sticks at all; I am really glad I found this one equipped as it was and made my deal for it. And how about the incredible VW 6 year / 72,000 mile warranty?? You can run it for three years and still have another three year bumper to bumper warranty which is transferrable to a new owner. Fabulous deal! I am very, very happy with my purchase. VW is doing it right on this car!
- 5.0
Best car I have ever owned.
By Jetta owner on Tuesday, February 05, 2019First I have to say Thank you Volkswagen for building a great car. I was hesitant to buy a Volkswagen til I met two people driving a Jetta and a Passat, both cars have more than 160k. When I asked them how is their cars, they both said excellent (*_*). As you see from the photo I got 53 MPG drove for 180 miles about 80% highway 20% city with the air condition ON, when I stopped at the gas station I topped the tank all the way, I filled 3.88 gallons so I got 46.3 MPG. As for fuel mileage it is the best car I ever owned so far. The seating is very comfortable front and rear. The sunroof is big I love it when it's raining. The beats sound system is very very nice but not the best. Highway driving is very good compare to other cars, you feel the car is solid. The engine has adequate power for the car size even with 4 people ( 610 lbs total weight with full tank of fuel ). The aircondition is very cold. I bought the SEL trim level, but the S trim is very basic, yes it comes with nice features such as automatic transmission, powered window and mirror, apple car play, but for a little more about $3000 you can get the SE trim that has a lot of features such as the Rims, the leatherette seats, sun roof, rear seat arm rest, Heated front seats, Forward Collision Warning and Autonomous Emergency Braking, Climatronic® dual-zone automatic climate control, Heated side mirrors..etc. if you can afford the $3000 then go for an SE trim level. If you can afford $25000 then you must get the SEL trim level like mine, it's very luxurious with so many options such as adaptive cruise control, beats sound system, 10 colors interior lights, the digital dash, 4 driving modes ( economy, normal , sport, and custom ). Things that I didn't like about the Jetta are, 1- The center front Air condition vents are low, if both front passenger and driver are resting their arm on the arm rest then they will be blocking the air flow to the back passengers, I solve the problem by adjusting the air vent to the up position and it helps a little, the cooling is very good but I wish if the vents were higher. 2- The Jetta has only 1 USB data. 3- No Aircondition vents for the rear seat passengers especially the front center AC vents are located low. 4- No End call on the steering wheel, you have to end the call from the touch screen. 5- 1 charging USB in the center console, it should be in the back seat. I made a mistake, when I bought my SEL Jetta I didn't know that there was a cold weather package available in the market, you will get a remote engine start, heated rear seat, and heated windshield washer, all of these are for $450 more, remember you can get it the ( SE, R line, and SEL ). I had to install a remote start at the dealer it cost me $739. Overall, this is a perfect car. If you are considering buying a small car you may want to pay a Volkswagen dealer a visit. yes there are 5 things that I don't like about the Jetta, but nothing really serious, I will recommend this car to my friends and family, and definitely I am buying another one next year for my Son. Again, thank you so much Volkswagen for the best warranty 6years/72000 miles.
- 5.0
An absolute hoot to drive
By Jeff on Tuesday, March 03, 2020Bought a leftover 2019 GLI S a couple weeks ago. When looking for a practical, engaging and mature car, there aren't too many options south of $45k. With the 6 speed manual, this car is an absolute blast to drive (I'm sure the 7sp DSG is comparably fun). Like others, I'm slightly disappointed with the cheaper plastics and spartan entertainment options but those are the only complaints! The engine has more than enough power to make the car a rocket. The ride is adequate given the price point, and there is plenty of interior space for my wife and teenage child. Aside from the ear to ear grin factor, I'm absolutely stunned that I'm averaging 34 mpg in mixed driving. If you're looking for a reasonably priced car that is fun to drive, has plenty of space, gets great gas mileage and looks good - you'd be doing yourself a great disservice if a GLI wasnt on your short list to explore!
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Derech to the Rescue
Not every boy without a family enjoys a Bar Mitzvah celebration like the one which took place recently in Jerusalems Sanhedria Childrens Home, an orphanage and rehabilitation center which provides a residence for children at risk.
Yossi Burstein, a student in the Derech Program of Yeshivat Ohr Somayach, came to the celebration with some of his peers. This is how Miriam Braun of Sanhedria describes what happened in a letter she sent to the director of Derech, Rabbi Nachy Brickman:
"From the moment the Derech boys walked in, the atmosphere was filled with ruach, with fun and good will. Yossi & Co. contributed greatly to making the evening one that the children will long remember. They danced, sang, lifted the Chatan Bar Mitzvah on their shoulders and made him feel like king for the day."
In her concluding thanks to the head of Derech, Rabbi Moshe Lazerus, and his staff, she offers a blessing to which every one of our readers will certain say Amen:
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STOCKTON - A new report on jail needs concludes the number of arrests in the county has declined over the past five years, yet the jail population has increased as felony inmates under AB109 stay longer behind bars.
STOCKTON - A new report on jail needs concludes the number of arrests in the county has declined over the past five years, yet the jail population has increased as felony inmates under AB109 stay longer behind bars.
And the substantial flood of felony inmates in San Joaquin County Jail is driving a need for higher security, according to a Jail Needs Assessment that looks at recent population changes and state projections for the county.
It's an updated look at the jail's necessities last quantified in a 2008 report.
According to the latest assessment, the rate of felons in the jail has increased to 94 percent compared with five years ago when the rate was 80.2 percent.
"The overall effect of these shifts is a jail population that is more criminally sophisticated and difficult to manage," the report states.
The assessment prepared by an outside firm accompanies Sheriff Steve Moore's plan to seek state funding to replace the jail's aging Honor Farm with a tighter security facility.
County supervisors approved the report last week along with the proposal that seeks a $40 million grant.
Had it not been for AB109, it appears bookings into the county jail would have reflected a downturn.
Demographic changes in the county's adult population may coincide with lower crime rates and jail bookings in the past several years, according to the assessment.
Most crimes are committed by offenders ages 16 to 24 in the general population and, in the prison population, from the ages 18 to 37, the assessment says.
County births, including births within poverty, dropped during a recessionary period in the early 1990s, accounting for today's lower number of residents in the age group considered to be "at-risk" to likely commit an offense.
The jail shows misdemeanor arrests plunged from 19,690 in 2007 to 12,825 in 2012 and felony arrests dropped from 11,538 to 8,121.
Although fewer people are going to jail than five years ago, local corrections facilities are full.
The jail used to be for inmates waiting on court cases to resolve and those sentenced to jail terms on misdemeanor charges.
Through a process known as realignment, AB109 has added felony convictions to the mix. The responsibility of certain low-level felony offenders was shifted from the state prison and parole system to local jails and probation departments in October 2011.
State parole revocations also are served in county jails instead of prisons.
The report says realignment has increased the average daily population at the jail by 396 inmates and led to more misdemeanor offenders getting released early to meet a court cap on the jail population.
Sentenced felony offenders stay longer, with an average sentence of three years - of which most serve about a third when the terms are split with supervised release and when custody credits are added.
"San Joaquin County has also seen a relatively large number of parole violators compared with other counties," the report states.
In 2012, the county jail booked 2,829 parole violators, and they spent an average of 36 days in custody and increased the jail population by about 280.
One of the problems posed by these offenders, the report says, is an increase in escapes at the Honor Farm. Last year, 10 inmates walked out of the facility.
Major recommendations listed for the county include more high-security housing.
The jail needs facilities for a "substantial proportion" of AB109 sentenced individuals that provide "high minimum" level of security with a secure perimeter, according to the report.
Contact reporter Jennie Rodriguez-Moore at (209) 943-8564 or email@example.com. Visit her blog at recordnet.com/courtsblog.


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We were saddened to hear of the passing of former professor of biology Cindy Fitch last week. She was loved and appreciated during her time at SPU, particularly by her students in the Pre-Professional Health Sciences Program, a program she led with an uncommon care and dedication.
Her 2012 Easter Chapel address was appropriately on resurrection. In it, she reflected on her journey to faith, the many seasons of growth and change as a Christian, and the beauty and meaning she found in the Apostle's Creed, a creed based on 1 Corinthians 15.
Perhaps you'll join me in watching her Chapel address and, at the end, recite that creed along with Cindy, those gathered to hear her that day, and indeed, countless Christians throughout the ages—many of whom have, like Cindy, passed on to their eternal rest—that we believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen.


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Owen McCafferty's version of Sophocles' Antigone is a muscular take on the ancient Greek tragedy that offers a reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights. It was first performed by Prime Cut Productions at the Waterfront Studio Hall, Belfast, in October 2008 as part of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival.
The play takes place in a huge hall within the palace of Creon, the new ruler of Thebes. The palace is in ruins after battle and, although the war has ended, with peace comes conflict. Antigone's brother Polyneices lies on the battlefield where he fell, his burial outlawed by Creon. Antigone is determined to overrule him and attempts to persuade her sister, Ismene, to join her in rebellion against the king, but to no avail. When Creon discovers that Antigone has disobeyed him and buried her brother, she is captured, a decision that triggers a catastrophic chain reaction resulting in the double suicide of his son Haemon and wife Eurydice.
Sophocles' tragedy has a powerful resonance in post-conflict Northern Ireland and this version is set entirely within the walls of a palace destroyed by war. Written in his distinctive style, McCafferty highlights the human frailties of these mythic characters by drawing attention to the family saga element of the story.
The Prime Cut Productions premiere was directed by Owen McCafferty and designed by Lorna Ritchie. It was performed by Walter McMonagle, Katy Ducker (as Antigone), Rosie McClelland, Ian McElhinney, Conor MacNeill, Paul Mallon, Harry Towb, Eoin McCafferty, Tom Loane, Chris Corrigan, Julia Dearden, Cat Barter, Barry Etherson and Matt Faris.


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Abstract: In line with the concept of long-term relationships, as opposed to discrete exchanges, gaining acceptance amongst marketing researchers (e.g. Wilson, 1995; Ganesan, 1994; and Dwyer et al., 1987), the prevalent literature has increasingly emphasised the importance of cooperation between companies. As described in Selnes (1998), the objective of long-term relationships is to establish, maintain and enhance relations with trading partners at a profit. It is a dynamic process, whose success depends on the ability of companies to provide one another with episodes of value on a continuous basis. Definable as, "...similar or complementary coordinated action taken by firms in interdependent relationships to achieve mutual outcomes or singular outcomes with reciprocation over time" (Anderson and Narus, 1990, p. 45), cooperation between companies is viewed as an important foundation to the success of long-term relationships (Eriksson and Sharma, 2003). A joint effort based on coordination of activities thus permits companies to attain outcomes of mutual value otherwise not possible, e.g. exchange efficiency (Cannon and Perreault, 1999), decreased environmental uncertainty (Buvik and Grønhaug, 2000), and management of dependencies (Stern and El-Ansary, 1992).... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8059
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A Good Suggestion For Funding Journalism... And A Great Explanation For Why Micropayments Don't Work
from the fantastic deptWith a bunch of old school journalism industry guys suddenly rehashing the old and tired debate over micropayments for news, the folks over at Freakonomics put together a little "quorom" where they asked four different people, with varying viewpoints, about the whole "micropayments for news" issue. Two of them, William Baker and Alan Mutter, support micropayments. I find their arguments not particularly compelling, as they both seem to focus on why newspapers need money, not why anyone would want to pay. On the other side of the coin is Clay Shirky and Marshall W. Van Alstyne, a professor at BU. Shirky, not surprisingly, does an excellent job rehashing his reasons for why micropayments don't work, but I have to say that Van Alstyne's reasoning is even better (and quite eloquent):
Micropayments won't solve newspapers' pay-or-perish problem, at least not under current proposals. There are many reasons why micro-scalping readers won't work, but let me start with two: the unique properties of information goods, and inefficiency.And, unlike the actual newspaper guys, Van Alstyne actually then makes suggestions for ways that newspapers can both add value and give someone (if not the consumer) a reason to buy. He has three suggestions, and you can click through to read them all, but I found the last one the most interesting:
News is not like an iTunes song; it's perishable. Today's front page is tomorrow's fish wrap, and we don't need to replay it. If anything, a reader benefits more from a second source than repetition from the first. Facts are delivered; songs and movies are created. Facts also can't be owned, so when the Internet places geographically dispersed media in direct competition, the price of facts falls to marginal cost. In digital markets, that's zero.
Micropayments introduce friction into an otherwise frictionless world. This means that no matter how efficient they become, it is more efficient to bundle. If a person makes one or two transactions with a news source, it's more efficient to aggregate lots of them and bill a single advertiser once. If a person makes frequent transactions, it's more efficient to aggregate those and bill that person once as a subscription. Any increase in micropayment efficiency improves bundling efficiency at least as much, because the gains accrue over more transactions.
Putting micropayments on news is like putting tollbooths on an open ocean. Internet users, awash in a sea of information, will avoid new barriers by navigating around them. And frankly, the interests of a free society are rarely served by building barriers between the people and their news.
Invert the whole business. Use the friction of micropayments to solve a consumer problem and stem the flood of information from advertisers vying for their attention. Advertisers can bid for limited units of people's time. This increases ad revenues and helps match particular ads to particular people. Vendors will bid low to rent New York apartments to sports fans checking scores for the Oakland A's, but bid high to offer next week's tickets. Publishers need to give up on the idea of profiting from distribution and focus on the idea of matching people to content.What a surprise. It looks like the folks outside the industry understand how to make the industry work better than those inside of it.
The trick is not to add new types of costs, but to add new types of value.
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