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Interior Designer IV develops plans and designs for the interior of residential, commercial, or industrial buildings based on the needs of the client. Creates functional and aesthetic designs that help boost productivity, increase sales, attract customers, or enhance a living space. Being an Interior Designer IV is responsible for planning the use and layout of the space and decorating with color, furniture, fixtures, etc. Develops drawings, presentations, and cost estimates and coordinates the work of contractors. Requires a bachelor's degree, an Architect license. Additionally, Interior Designer IV typically reports to a manager or head of unit/department. To be an Interior Designer IV typically requires 7+ years of related experience. A specialist on complex technical and business matters. Work is highly independent. May assume a team lead role for the work group. (Copyright 2020 Salary.com)
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Abstract: The internal scientific evaluation of knowledge claims done by peer review is todayhas for the last 20 years been supplemented by new methods of knowledge assessment. These methods are usually taken from other sectors such as the public administration and the corporate sector. Because of their different backgrounds compared to the peer review method, it is necessary to critically examine them in relation to assessment of quality. But this also calls for a new understanding of science and knowledge. The article starts by briefly explaining this new understanding, before going into more details on the new methods of knowledge assessment and the perspectives behind them. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6357
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Lookaway Kennels is 15 acres of land near Fredericktown Ohio dedicated to raising and training the finest German Shorthaired Pointers possible.
We are a small breeder and trainer of German Shorthaired Pointers for competition, companionship and hunting. Our business is located about one hour north of Columbus off Interstate 71. We occasionally have litters of GSP puppies available for sale. We generally have available finished males and females for hunting or competition.


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Archive for May, 2009
Taking Wolfram|Alpha on an Alpha Run
Wolfram|Alpha is being billed as an Answer Engine for the scientifically-minded, as opposed to a Search Engine: It takes your query, implied or otherwise, that critical step further by selecting from its list of matches, the one objective description, image etc, and lays them out in context. Not that Google never attempts definitive answers [chord], but when it does, Wolfram|Alpha [note] handily beats it to it with background information. START, on the other hand, is sometimes embarrassing. Note that it may not know what to do, but it does not give the wrong answer. Yet.
So Wolfram|Alpha dares to do more than say, Google or Yahoo or Microsoft, and impresses despite its alpha status.
There are inherent risks in such an approach in that it hopes our queries are frequently specific enough, which in some cases, will not be because that is how we generally are. There is also that small issue of assigning culpability to its user for a dumb query. But through consistent performance and by avoiding curation, link-fraud etc pitfalls, Wolfram|Alpha has the potential to wean away some of the Google fan-base, notwithstanding Google Squared. And by targeting the scientific community, it has the potential to emerge as a niche Answer Engine despite semantic ambiguity or crowd-sourcing.
Bookmark it now. And keep checking.
Here are some stumpers:
* What is the elevation above sea level at 38.889483,-77.035254? Wolfram|Alpha v Google v START
* What was the annual revenue of the state of Maryland for Fiscal Year 2007?
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* What is the maximum height of the Guggenheim Museum NY? Wolfram|Alpha v Google v START
* How many symphonies did Sergei Rachmaninoff compose? Wolfram|Alpha v Google v START
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I love any sort of doily that's out of the ordinary, and this neat "square in a square" design is right up my alley. I'd love to find the pattern. Below is a similar doily in variegated thread.
I have no idea what to say about this. The significance of the two pineapples at the top of the doily are intriguing... any ideas?
Here is one I made - I like traditional patterns with bold colors. Something different.
Someone had a lot of patience to makes all these small flower motifs...
The embroidery on this vintage dresser scarf really caught my eye. It's done with a heavier, twisted thread, and has an almost "relief" feel to it.
I saved my favorite, at least for this post, for last. I love crocheted butterflies! And this one is large - about 24 inches across, likely made for the back of a sofa. I found it at a garage sale. It's a little frayed in one spot, but I don't know why anyone in their right mind would want to get rid of such a beautiful piece! And the previous owners were probably wondering why anyone in their right mind would want to BUY such a thing!
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bobby arzadon necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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My name is Bobby Arzadon. I own a surfboards and paddle board business (http://www.perfectwave.com). I am originally from Kauai, HI and now I reside in Kirkland, Washington. I have owned the surfboards business for 18years now, but since the new popularity of Stand Up Paddle Boarding, I am looking for a logo(s) to use for clothing, web, brochures, etc.
i'm new to this website and process. if it works well, I will be back.
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surfers, boaters, water-skiers, canoe paddlers, kyakers, hikers, runners, fisherman, swimmers and especially people who already live near or on the water.
Logo must show a board & paddle to represent Stand Up Paddle Boarding
I would like a logo that I can use as my main SUP (Stand Up Paddle) logo part of my business. Being that I am origianlly from Hawaii, I would like a little Hawaii flare in my logo. I will be developing new Perfect Wave SUP clothing, stickers etc with these grapics.
I would like the logo to be 3 color max. 1 or 2 color is fine. If you have a better idea that requires more colors, I would be open to that too.
I already have several logo's for my surfboards and surf shop. I just need some graphics representing SUP and Perfect Wave. I would also like some additional accent logos and font lines. So I can place a smaller different logo on maybe a shirt sleeve or other areas.
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I would like the logo to look strong and classy and very professional. Nothing cutsy. I'm open to other ideas too, flames, water dripped, chromed, etc.
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It's Christmas every day at the automotive shop featured in this reality series. Christmas Automotive, located just south of Youngstown, Ohio, specializes in two things: reviving left-for-dead muscle cars so they can compete in races, and the staff led by owner Tommy Christmas having a whole bunch of fun in the process. From rust buckets to rare tribute cars, Tommy and his buddies Steve, Chuck and Andy know all the tricks to restoring the classics, getting them running and ultimately helping clients who have a serious need for speed.


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The Cincinnati Modern Quilt Guild held it's October meeting this past Wednesday and I thought I'd share some of the fun we have with you. We have an amazing group of women in our Guild, and I'm really proud to be a part of it. It's been a lot of work starting the guild here, in addition to being the first and current president. And there have been stressful situations as well, but all in all, it's been an amazing experience and one that I can honestly say has changed my life. So, here's a little peak into what our meetings are like.
Every month we discuss news that pertains to our Guild and the quilting world in general. Each meeting we also have an educational component, organized and presented by the amazing Victoria. She's such an awesome lady. This week she talked to us about handmade gifts for the holidays and she brought in tons of books and magazines for inspiration. Seriously, tons of books. Our guest note-taker for the evening, Sue, described it as "the most comprehensive craft book collection outside of the Library of Congress." I think Sue may be right.
This Sunday the Guild is having a booth at the Centennial Barn's Harvest Festival. Our members generously donated all types of things that we'll have for sale there including sewing and quilting supplies to handmade items. Here is a sneak at some of the items our Guild members made:
If you're in the area, stop by the Centennial Barn this Sunday from 12-4 to purchase some of these great items!
We also have a swap each month, and this time it was for table runners. Look how amazing these are!
Lynn made a really fun, wonky log cabin table runner with owls. Her quilting was gorgeous!
Danielle's table runner had an amazing appliqued spider web on it. How fun is that?!
One of the best parts of our meetings is Show & Tell. It's definitely a highlight for me because I love to see what everyone has been working on.
Janie made an adorable doll quilt for Loretta, inspired by a quilt made by Jenn at See Jenn Make Stuff
And Janie received this adorable doll quilt made by Gillian.
Gillian is working on some Swoon blocks for a quilt for her husband's grandfather.
Kara is working on a quilt for her baby (her first!) who is due next month.
Kara also brought in a wonderful heirloom quilt that will be shared with her daughter. The quilt was made by Kara's grandmother, using fabric cut from Kara's mother's baby clothing.
The back of the quilt is this really great vintage red floral fabric. So fun!
Lynn brought a quilt she made for one of her daughters. This was the first quilt Lynn ever made! She started with log cabin-like blocks and then chopped them up and added white sashing.
Jean shared a gorgeous rag quilt she made for her husband. We heard he wasn't too happy that she brought it to the meeting because that meant that he couldn't use it for a few hours.
Christy is working on an adorable baby quilt for a friend who is expecting a little boy. Hopefully she'll bring it back when she's finished too!
Jessica received this amazing quilt in her For the Love of Solids flickr swap. She asked for something with bright, bold colors and quilter's linen, and Anna from woollykat didn't disappoint!
Celeste is working on a sudoku inspired baby quilt. We all loved the bright colors and the little giraffes peeking out to the side.
And the improv back was amazing, too! Great job, Celeste!
Awesome, right?! If you're in the Cincinnati area, we'd love for you to join us. Please check our our blog or feel free to email me for more information. I hope to see some of you at our next meeting, which will be held on November 9 at the Centennial Barn from 7-9 pm.


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Recently, he has been travelling extensively in Europe, and his paintings reflect his unique vision here and abroad.
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First off, all cars are different. These are some basic rules that all cars need, but as far as the actual setup goes, different cars react differently to the same adjustments. Also, all tracks are different, Conditions are different, and driving styles are different.
Basics (1)
One thing to do that all pro racers do today is not only build the car, but take time with it. We make sure that everything is moving freely. For example, pop off the shock and make sure that all of the suspension arms are moving freely. Also, take off the steering linkage and make sure the steering is free. Another good thing to do especially on Yokomo, is make sure that your drive train is free. If not, it is fairly easy to clean it out. A) You could have dirt in the pulleys. B.) The belt could be too tight. C.) The bearings could be gritty and cause lots of friction, the list goes on! Also, another important thing is to make sure that neither belt is coming in contact with your electronics or any wires. This can save you money and frustration.
Preparing (2)
Preparing for race day is a very important thing. If you are like me, you don't want to be setting tweak at the track. OK OK, I'm a little lazy but what can I say! Back to the preparation. The first thing I do is pull out a new or slightly used set of tires that I KNOW is going to be straight. Slap them on the car and find a VERY flat surface. To properly set up your car I would recommend:
Adjusting your camber. This should be fairly self-explanatory. Basically, don't run positive camber ever, and only run up to 3 degrees negative camber. On the Yokomo, it is always safe to run around 1 degree.
Set the car down on the table and settle the suspension. Do this by tapping on the front of the car a few times and do the same to the rear. Next, get down so the car's chassis is at eye level. Say that you are going to be looking at the back of the car. Place the x-acto in the center of the chassis and lift up. What happens? Does one wheel leave the ground before the other? Are they the same? Well, if they are the same go to the front of the car and do the same thing. If not , which wheel lifts first, right or left? Say the right wheel lifts first, you can do 2 things: lengthen the right shock, or shorten the left shock. Get the idea? Do this until both wheels leave the ground at the same time. Then check the front if you haven't already done so. Do the same thing to the front now. Then check the rear again to make sure that any of your adjustments from the front didn't effect the rear. This can kind of be a see-saw for a while but it is usually very easy on the Yokomo. Ok, now that the tweak is set, along with the camber and ride height you are pretty much done. You might want to run and get the body and make sure that it doesn't drag on the ground but otherwise you are done!
At the track (3)
Personally I have never been to a race where there are NO racers that are willing to share information. So ask your buddies or someone who is pitted near you what the tire is for the day. Go ahead and try it, do you like it? No? Yes? Has an awkward feel? I have learned that tires are probably the most important thing at a race. If you don't have the tire that everyone seems to like lately, don't expect your car to be off the hook! Another thing that only does good is PRACTICE! I can't say this enough. Track time is another thing probably more valuable then anything! Now that I have that straight, how does the car work? What setup works? Also, try all of the tires you have if you have the time. Ok, I know I said earlier that I don't like doing work at the track but if your car needs it (which it might) you are going to have to break down and spend a little time. If the car is tweaked, re set the tweak, if the tires suck, try other tires, get the idea? Now, as far as the car steering is concerned, this is a whole other matter. First off, Dual Rate is probably the one thing that I use most on my radio. If the car has too much steering, all you have to do is turn down the dual rate! If the car doesn't have enough steering, turn up the DR.
Ideally, you want to find the right balance. This means that the car steers into the turn just as you want it too, and comes out of the turn just as you want it to. Say the car has a push going into the turn, and has kind of an over-steer coming out of the turn. In this situation, put one of your smallest shock shims in both of the rear shocks. This will raise the rear ride height and give you more bite in the rear coming out of the turn, and more bite in the front going into the turn. If the car does the opposite (over-steers going into the turn and under-steers coming out), then put 2 of your smallest shims in both of the front shocks. Do this until you find the right balance.
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Carmelo Anthony stalks the Boston Celtics bus after Knicks loss in New York
While America watched (or fell asleep to) Alabama destroying Notre Dame in the BCS title game on Monday, Carmelo Anthony was seemingly picking a fight with Kevin Garnett.
After the Celtics beat the Knicks 102-96 at Madison Square Garden in New York — a game in which Anthony and Garnett traded trash talk up and down the court — Anthony kept going.
Melo then went to the Celtics locker room and screamed from the hallway. Afterward, he waited for the Celtics to show up at their team bus in the bowels of the arena. Anthony said later he only wanted to talk, not fight.
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Last week in wins over Niagara and Marist, Canisius senior guard Billy Baron became the first Golden Griffin in 29 seasons to score 30-plus points in back-to-back games. On Monday, Baron was named the Lute Olson Award National Player of the Week by CollegeInsider.com and the MAAC Player of the Week. This marks the third time this season he's been honored with a weekly honor by the conference office.
The East Greenwich, R.I. native averaged 34.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.5 steals per game last week as the Griffs improved to 14-7 overall and 8-2 in MAAC play with a pair of victories. In the win over Marist Jan. 26, Baron matched his career-high with 38 points, 25 of which came in the game's first 20 minutes. He ended that game by going 12-for-23 from the field, 5-for-11 from 3-point land and 9-for-10 from the free-throw line. The 12 makes from the floor and 23 shot attempts were both career highs for the East Greenwich, R.I. native, and his five makes from behind the 3-point arc matched his career single-game high.
In Canisius' 87-74 win over Niagara Jan. 22, Baron poured in a game-high 31 points despite having to leave the floor to receive stitches over his left eye following a collision with a Niagara player. For the week, he shot 55 percent from the field (22-for-40), 47.4 percent from 3-point land (9-for-19) and 88.9 percent (16-for-18) from the charity stripe. He also posted an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.7.
Baron ranks second in the MAAC and third in the nation in points per game with 24.2 points per contest. In the team's last five games, where Canisius is 4-1, Baron is averaging 29 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists while shooting 56.3 percent from the field and 54.5 percent from 3-point land. As of Monday's NCAA stats release, he ranks in the top-15 nationally in nine different statistical categories. He has scored 30 or more points five times this season and he's posted double figures in the scoring column in 20 of the team's 21 games to date. He leads the MAAC and ranks 12th in the nation in 3-point field goals made per game with 3.3, and his 71 3-pointers through 21 games rank fourth on the school's single-season 3-point field goal list.
The Lute Olson Award is presented annually to the nation's top Division I player who has played at least two seasons with his respective team. Freshmen and first-year transfers can be named to the All-America team but are not eligible to receive the Player of the Year honors. The award is named in honor of coaching great Lute Olson, who won 780 games in 34 seasons, 24 of which were spent at the University of Arizona. During that stretch he led the Wildcats to 11 Pac-10 Conference titles, 23-consecutive NCAA Tournaments, four Final Four appearances and a National Championship in 1997.
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Motte progressing toward Minors rehab assignment
PITTSBURGH -- With the Cardinals bullpen looking a bit porous in the early going, St. Louis continues to have its eye on rehabbing right-hander Jason Motte, who could help the bullpen in a big way should he return to pre-surgery form.
Motte made more progress on Saturday. Via a text to MLB.com, Motte said he struck out one and induced three grounders in a 15-pitch extended spring training game appearance. Motte's next outing is scheduled for Tuesday, after which he'll make a quick visit to St. Louis for a charity event.
He's expected to be ready for a Minor League rehab assignment soon after that.
The Cardinals have not defined a relief role for Motte, who was the team's closer before an elbow injury cost him the 2013 season. Pitching on back-to-back days during his rehab work, manager Mike Matheny said, is not absolutely necessary. The Cardinals will likely have Motte make at least one multiple-inning relief appearance so that he is prepared for that sort of spot once off the disabled list.
"When we get him back, we'll see how he's throwing the ball and throw him in different situations," Matheny said. "Those could be different every night depending on how well rested everybody else is."


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Creating new jobs is a top priority for addressing the continuing labor market crisis. It's not widely recognized, however, that job retention is as important as job creation in improving our economy. That's why policymakers should pay attention to a tool some states and cities are using to improve employee retention: paid sick days.
Surprising as it may seem, many American workers have no paid sick days—especially among the working poor. A shockingly high 40 percent of private sector workers and 80 percent of low-wage workers have no paid sick days at all. Overall, more than 40 million Americans must choose between working sick or losing a day's pay.
Getting sick is part of life. Yet, workers who lack sick days risk being fired just for taking a needed day off.
These job terminations aren't because workers can't or won't do their jobs—they just need time off to recover from illness. And these job losses hurt the economy, too, because families need to earn and spend if we are ever going to see more robust economic growth.
In light of this threat, many workers engage in "presenteeism": showing up at work even when ill. This is counterproductive and costly to business. Not only are these employees under-performing, but they can put other employees – as well as customers or clients – at risk if their illnesses are contagious.
Many of the low-wage workers who lack paid sick days work in health care, child care, or as personal or home health aides, coming into direct contact with children and the elderly. Others without paid sick days work in restaurants preparing or serving food.
Workers who come to work sick not only put themselves and others in harm's way, they impose costs on the businesses that employ them. In fact, the costs of presenteeism exceed the costs of absenteeism: studies estimate the annual cost of presenteeism at $180 billion, compared to $118 billion for absenteeism.
The good news is that paid sick days policies are gaining support across the country. New York City, Philadelphia, Denver, and Seattle are all considering municipal sick days policies. So are states like Connecticut, Arizona, Illinois, North Carolina, and Maine.
If they succeed, they'll join the District of Columbia, Milwaukee, and San Francisco, as communities that took it on themselves to provide needed support to low-income families.
Yet passage of legislation to allow workers to earn paid sick days faces an uphill climb. Everywhere that public health advocates, workers, and small businesses have fought for paid sick days – both to protect the health of employees, coworkers, and the public and as a means to improve employee retention – there has been opposition from powerful employers' associations.
The good news is that evidence from trailblazing cities can help reassure employers and pave the way for the next steps on paid sick days. San Francisco passed its sick days ordinance in 2006. So far, the local business community has few complaints, as seen in a 2011 study. Employers reported few negative experiences with profitability (14 percent), customer service (2.6 percent), employee morale (1 percent), or predictability of absences (7 percent). Just one third reported any difficulty administering the ordinance and more than two-thirds supported it.
This might seem like a tough time to ask businesses to provide paid sick days, but – as the employers who already provide their workers with paid sick days know – a minimum floor of paid sick days is good for workers, good for businesses, and good for the economy. Now is the right time for policies that improve employee retention, minimize layoffs, and support improvements in the job market.
Paid sick days prove that we don't need to choose between good jobs and a good economy—they go together.


text: Yesterday, the City of Baltimore honored its most beloved mayor and former Maryland governor, William Donald Schaefer with the unveiling of a statue to memorialize his distinguished political career in Maryland. The statue lives in the middle of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, which is fitting since Schaefer's most notable accomplishment was the transformation of the Inner Harbor from an industrial shipping area to a multi-million dollar tourist attraction and the gem of Baltimore. The National Aquarium was one of the first additions to the Inner Harbor. In the mid-1970s Mayor Schaefer conceived and championed the idea of an aquarium as a vital component of the redevelopment. William Donald Schaefer is truly the Aquarium's hero because if wasn't for him, the National Aquarium may not exist today. Dozens of staff members and volunteers, as well as the Aquarium's first board president, Frank Gunther, attended the ceremony yesterday to pay tribute to the man who brought our Aquarium to life. Schaefer's idea for an aquarium may have been his best idea for the City of Baltimore. In 1976, residents supported the Aquarium by voting for it on a bond referendum, and the groundbreaking for the facility took place August 8, 1978. The Aquarium's world-class status was recognized by the United States Congress, which granted the facility national status. The National Aquarium in Baltimore opened to the public exactly three years later on August 8, 1981. Today the Aquarium is huge economic driver for the city and is the most visited destination at the Inner Harbor. Schaefer is also known for his hilarious dip in the Aquarium's seal pool, which has turned out to be his most famous photo op! The mayor lost a bet with a developer who said the National Aquarium would not open on schedule. When the initial date passed, the mayor put on his bathing garb, grabbed a Donald Duck squeaky, and jumped into the seal pool that used to be outside of the Aquarium. The pictures live on in Aquarium history. Many see Schaefer as he is represented in the beautiful new statue, but at the Aquarium, this how we like to remember our hero: Tags: baltimore-city, inner-harbor, seal-pool, william-donald-schaefer Categories: News Previous Post Next Post


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Lenovo shows swish monster multimedia all-in-one
Black and shiny
CES Lenovo is pitching what it claims is the thinnest all-in-one desktop multimedia PC, the IdeaCentre A600.
The A600 features a 21.5in screen, DVD or optional Blu-Ray drive, support for the full beans 1920 x 1080 HD, Dolby Home Cinema certification and an optional hybrid analogue/digital TV tuner. It's not touch-sensitive, mind you, unlike HP's TouchSmart series.
Lenovo's IdeaCentre A600:
Connectivity is handled by 802.11a/b/g - 802.11n is optional - and an ethernet port. You also get four USB ports, a Firewire slot, a six-in-one card reader and a 1.3- or two-megapixel webcam.
On the PC side of things you can specify a hard drive of up to 1TB, up to 4GB of DDR 3 memory and pick from a selection of intel Core 2 Duo processors.
The featherweight Bluetooth keyboard features a set of touch-sensitive media controls, while the four-in-one remote can be used as a VoIP handset and as a Wii-style 'wave it around' game controller. Though keen to stress that the A600 is not a games console, Lenovo is, as we speak, beavering away to develop and encourage the development of games for the A600, and it expects to release five titles with the A600.
Blu-ray optional
Also included is Lenovo's VeriFace face-recognition technology, which uses a picture of the user's ugly mug as the log-on password.
The A600 is due for global release in April. There's no news on UK pricing, but the US model will come in at $800 (£523/€584) without a TV tuner or $1200 (£784/€876) with. ®
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Rechercher une page de manuel
Langue: en
Version: Feb 03, 2004 (fedora - 01/12/10)
Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)
NAMEelvi - surfraw(1) search tools
SYNOPSISsurfraw elviname [options] search words ...
sr elviname [options] search words ...
sr elviname -help
sr -elvi
This is the man page for the elvi, a set of search tools that form part of surfraw(1).
Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.
To search using this elvis, do:
sr elvisname [options] search terms.
For example, to search google for information on Debian ports, using the "I'm feeling lucky" option:
sr google -l debian ports
To find out about options specific to this elvis, do:
sr elvisname -help
To find out about surfraw, see the man page for surfraw(1). To see the full list of elvi, do:
sr -elvi
Adding the elvi to your path
If you are a regular user of surfraw, you will probably get sick of typing sr or surfraw each time. You can regain the old behaviour of running the elvi directly by adding the elvi directory (/usr/libexec/surfraw) to your path, either manually or using surfraw-update-path(1).
Use sr elviname -help for elvi-specific options.
The following options work with all elvi.
- -help
- Show summary of options (including elvi-specific options).
- -version
- Show version of program.
- -browser=EXECUTABLE
- Set browser (default: sensible-browser).
- -elvi
- Display a list of other Surfraw mechanisms for conquering evil.
- -escape-url-args=yes|no
- Apply url escaping to arguments (default: yes)
- -q|-quote
- Bracket arguments with " characters (default: no) Note that putting quotes round arguments works now, so you can do, for example:
sr google foo "bar baz" bam
and the quoting is passed on to the search engine
$ sr ask why is jeeves gay?
$ surfraw google -results=100 RMS, GNU, which is sinner, which is sin?
$ sr austlii -method=phrase dog like
$ /usr/libexec/surfraw/rhyme -method=perfect Julian
Please report any bugs found (or any web sites in need of surfrawizing) either via the debian bug tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/) or to the surfraw-devel list (email@example.com).
I need some
Deep Linking
Let us go
Surfin' in the raw!
Read HACKING. Surfrawize the soul of your favourite internet wonder.
Join the Shell Users' Revolutionary Front
Against the WWW by submitting code.
Reclaim heathen lands.
Bear witness to the truth.
Its love will set you free.
Join us on email@example.com
Originally written by Julian Assange.
Now maintained by the surfraw-devel team
See the file AUTHORS for the full list of contributors.
Man page by Ian Beckwith, based on the original README and an earlier
man page for surfraw(1) by Christian Surchi.
The copyright holders listed above assert no rights on this release
of the software ``surfraw'' and thereby explicity place this release into
the into the public domain. Do what you will.
Contenus ©2006-2020 Benjamin Poulain
Design ©2006-2020 Maxime Vantorre


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Destination guide: Pucallpa, Peru
Pucallpa is a city in the heart of the low-altitude rainforest in Peru.
Thanks to its exceptional geographical location, it offers visitors exuberant vegetation, ideal for adventure tourism and for spotting wildlife.
Fly to Pucallpa and marvel at the secrets of the Peruvian Amazon.
Content provided by Lonely Planet.
The busy port of Pucallpa, Peru's only jungle settlement to be connected by paved road to the rest of the country, has a distinctly less jungle-like appearance than other Amazonian towns. Although this is an important distribution center for goods along the broad, Río Ucayali, which sweeps past the city en route to join the Río Amazonas, the rainforest feels far away. After all those miles of tropical travel to get here, Pucallpa seems underwhelming.
It's a lively enough place come sundown and most importantly, a starting point for a spectacular river adventure north to Iquitos and, if time and inclination allow, on to Brazil and the Atlantic.Beyond the city sprawl, there are reasons for the traveler to linger: interesting indigenous communities to visit and river lodges to relax at.


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Mariasu necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 588 diseños de 89 diseñadores freelance.
We are starting up a business selling upscale interior design for nursery and child rooms (furniture, bed linen, quilts,...), luxury toys and fine clothes for babies and children. The first shop is located in a high-end area of Stockholm. We will have more shops in other cities and countries and we also intend to sell via internet. Our children furniture are very special hand-made furniture that are reproductions of Swedish furniture from the 18th century. All clothes and textiles are very high quality. A big part of the baby and children clothes have very traditional colours; pink and light blue. I have attached a few pictures showing our furniture and sleep wear for children.
Our customers are mothers and fathers with realively high income looking for an alternative to bigger shopping malls. They are prepared to pay for good design and quality. Our shop also attracts grand parents and friends shopping exclusive presents for children.
We are looking for a logo to represent our Cottonville boutique and business. The logo should reflect that we sell products for children but we may want to broaden our product line in the future to sell more general interior design products.A few things to think about;
1. No cartoons. The logo should not be cheap.
2. The shop is very elegant and the logo should reflect that what we sell has high quality and good design.
3. Typeface clear. I like LTC Caslon Small caps but you are free to use something else.
4. Many has used the cotton flower in the proposals. As we sell many non textile products, we would prefer some other graphics in the logo.
5. Please add the words "Baby" and "Child" or "Children" to the logo.
Please feel free to experiment with colours.
The files we will require are:
Print file format- .ai (CMYK)
Web file format- .jpg and .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clipart in the logo.
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Tor Iceland
One of those scenes you see while driving in Iceland where you just have to stop the car!
Mt Assiniboine - Canada
Potter Trees
I saw these trees out of the corner of my eye while I was driving, it took a while to find a spot where I could pull over - I was glad I made the effort, this island was beautiful. It looks very like the one in Harry Potter!
Bindoola Falls - The Kimberley, Western Australia
Bindoola Falls - The Kimberley, Western Australia
Boab Sunrise - The Kimberley, Western Australia
Boab Sunrise - The Kimberley, Western Australia
Boab moon rise - WA, Australia
Victor Harbour
Cherry Tree Farm - Tasmania, Australia
Sunset Church, England
Sunset - Church
English Hill
Tree silhouette on skyline - England
Mt Wilson, NSW, Australia
Mt Wilson in the Blue Mts west of Sydney. One of the most picturesque little villages I've ever been to.
Lost City Light Rays
Taken at the "Lost City" in the Blue Mts west of Sydney, Australia.
Kings Beach, Lord Howe Island, Australia
Taken on a quiet beach on Lord Howe Island, the beach was strewn with debris and pumice.
Oxer Lookout, Karijini National Park, Australia
Hammersley Sunset
Hamersley Ridge
Corunna Lake - NSW, Australia
Cockburn Ranges - WA, Australia
Silver Boab - WA, Australia
Boab burning - WA, Australia
Boab star trails - WA, Australia
Baldy Point, Lake Windamere - NSW, Australia
Lake Windamere, Alligator Point - NSW, Australia
Lake Windamere - NSW, Australia


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Be the first to reserve yours today.
This is a limited edition version of our classic 8L banff air. Only 10 in the world will exist.
This particular one is fitted with 3 individual diamond studs, for a total of 0.3 carat in diamonds
Each diamond is a precious 0.10 Carat. One on the mask, one on the button, and one on the cap. You'll be able to see, feel, and caress the diamonds as you breathe in this luxurious air from the rocky mountains!
This purchase will also come with 10 bottles of our classic 8L banff air
- Unique and custom wooden gift box, engraved with your personal name.
- Only 10 in the world of these will exist. Will include serial number on box.
- Guaranteed purity & freshness with our high grade single piece bottle
- Innovative 2 in 1 cap and mask for precision delivery
- Meticulously checked for imperfections by quality control
- Fits comfortably within your purse, satchel, gym bag or backpack
- Each bottle lasts upwards of 160 one second inhalations
- Weighs: 180 g
- Dimensions: 6.7 cm x 23.8 cm x 6.7 cm
- Check out our built in 2 - 1 mask which provides a direct source of fresh air from our product directly to your face! Great for if you're in a heavily polluted area and you're looking for "a breath of fresh air" With this product - you can definitely enhance your vitality one breath at a time.
Returns Policy
You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).
You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the 'Complete Orders' link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.
We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.
When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.
Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.


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June was the month-o-travel for me. Not counting the roadtrip drive-through bits (I'm looking at YOU, Virginia I-81 corridor that Never.Seems.To.End), I hit up five states plus the District of Columbia. It's been great. It's been a whirlwind. It's been exhausting. It's been invigorating. All rolled up into one.
It seems like my suitcase is in a perpetual state of being half-packed, but I don't mind. That being said, I'm home now, and that's where I really want to be. Especially since Daniel wasn't able to go with me on this last trip when I visited family and I missed him like crazy.
Highlights of this past month: riding the D.C. Metro, Seeing Abe Lincoln up close, visiting Einstein, wandering through modern art, taking a sunset water taxi cruise across the Potomac, gazing at zoo animals, playing tag with my niece and nephew, wading out into the Atlantic ocean with cousins I hadn't seen in ages, and having long conversations with my brother, sister-in-law, father, and husband.
Here's some Instagram shots from my travels. So, what have you been up to this summer?


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Public Company Information:
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schwab Charitable™, one of the largest national donor-advised funds, reported $742 million in donations to charities in 2013, a 36% increase compared to 2012 and the largest percentage increase in more than five years. Grants to charities ranged in size from 50 dollars to 10 million dollars, and went to more than 41,000 charities spanning a wide range of causes. The largest charitable sectors supported include education, health and human services, social benefit and religion, and substantial increases were seen across all sectors.
"We are thrilled to have seen another robust giving season," says Kim Laughton, President of Schwab Charitable. "A strong stock market provided a double boost to giving in 2013. Many of our clients had more windfalls from appreciated assets in their portfolios to share with their favorite charities. In addition, the value of the investments in their donor-advised accounts also grew, making more funds available for granting. I am consistently amazed by the generosity of our donors, and I am happy that donor-advised funds can dramatically simplify the process of giving to enable that generosity."
The surge in grants to charity peaked during the fourth quarter giving season, with the value of grants up 53% and the number of grants up 37% over the same period last year. This in turn drove the total amount granted from Schwab Charitable accounts since the national donor-advised fund's inception past the $4 billion mark.
More than 65% of assets contributed into Schwab Charitable accounts in 2013 were appreciated assets, another five-year high. When appreciated assets, such as publicly traded stock and mutual funds, real estate or privately held shares in a business, are transferred to a donor-advised account, donors receive an immediate tax deduction and also do not pay capital gains tax on the sale of assets. As a result, donors can have as much as 25% more to give to their favorite charities and the charities are spared the administrative burden of accepting and liquidating the assets.
Donor-advised funds allow investors to contribute cash and other assets to a donor-advised account to realize the greatest possible tax benefits and to then more strategically support charities of their choice over time. Donor-advised funds are generally suitable for individuals who regularly give to charity.
About Schwab Charitable
Created as a national donor-advised fund with a mission to increase charitable giving nationwide, Schwab Charitable has received over $9.3 billion in contributions and has facilitated over $4 billion in grants to charities on behalf of its donors since inception. Serving a wide range of philanthropic investors, account sizes range from $5,000 to more than $500 million. Schwab Charitable has been a pioneer in enabling registered investment advisors to manage the investments of donor-advised accounts and remains a leading provider of such professionally managed accounts. Schwab Charitable also offers a private foundation conversion service for private foundations considering donor-advised funds as a complementary or alternative charitable vehicle. For more information, visit schwabcharitable.org.
All figures are as of 12/31/13.
A donor's ability to claim itemized deductions may be subject to further limitations depending upon the donor's specific tax situation and donors should consult their tax advisors. Schwab Charitable does not provide specific individualized legal or tax advice. Please consult a qualified legal or tax advisor where such advice is necessary or appropriate.
Contributions of real estate, private equity or other non-cash assets are accepted via a charitable intermediary, with proceeds of your donation transferred to your donor-advised account upon liquidation. This intermediary considers donations on a case-by-case basis, and assets typically must be valued at $250,000 or more. Call the Fund for more information at 800-746-6216.
Professionally-managed accounts are available only through independent investment advisors working with Schwab Advisor ServicesTM, a business segment of The Charles Schwab Corporation serving independent investment advisors and includes the custody, trading and support services of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.. While donors may recommend an advisor, the Fund must approve the recommendation. Advisors must meet certain eligibility requirements and adhere to Fund fee and investment guidelines. You may request a copy of the investment guidelines by calling us at (800) 746-6216.
Schwab Charitable is the name used for the combined programs and services of Schwab Charitable Fund, an independent nonprofit organization. Schwab Charitable Fund has entered into service agreements with certain affiliates of The Charles Schwab Corporation.
©2014 Schwab Charitable Fund. All Rights Reserved. (0114-0757)
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catob necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 169 diseños de 59 diseñadores freelance.
Sora Marine Services Ltd.
. .I am changing my carrier after being employee for the last 25 years. For some reasons, I don't want to work for someone else but for my own company. I have a marine background and did oil and gas marketing but got tired of trying to please my boss. I lived in Japan and worked for long time with Japanese companies. I have high respect for the quality of service and commitments toward customers. Therefore, I selected the word "Sora" which means sky in Japanese. Sora Marine Services activities will commence with chartering out yachts, boats and jet skies for its customers. Next the company will start marine repair facilities for boats and yachts. After that we will move into providing marine service for suppliers of ship's equipments and spare parts. Ultimately, the company will move into chartering out work boats, tugs and supply boats for offshore oil and gas activities
Initially the company target is leisure marine activities such as holiday makers and groups who are intending to have fun on the water. Our country is surrounded by beautiful sea. No other similar company currently in existence here. In a year time from the initial startup the market will include more professional marine industry targeting large ship owners, dry-docks, marine equipment suppliers and government officials.
The logo should be easy to remember and recognizable. Should be fresh and modern, yet must represent the long tradition of the sea. It should be simple and must show the deep root into the past. The company will be dealing with international markets and our employees are from different nationalities. Therefore the logo must have an international concept. I like contemporary designs but not too extreme. The colors must be fresh and must be able to be photo copied in black and white without losing the identity or the concept. I don't like too sharp edges at the logo and I prefer horizontal projection rather than too much vertical. Reference to the meaning of the name of the company (Sora) can be accepted but need not necessarily be present.
The logo must contain the word "Sora" directly or artistically visible. Capital, small letters or combinations are all OK. The logo will be used in electronic presentations, hard copy printing, business cards and engraving on gifts.
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Seymour Jewelers now offers you the ability to chose your own diamond. Search our extensive collection of loose diamonds to find the stone that fits your needs.
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- WedApr01 E Day
- ThuApr02 F Day
- ThuApr02 HBPA Executive Committee meeting 8:15 AM to 9:30 AM
- FriApr03 A Day
- MonApr06 B Day
We learn not for school, but for life.
About Us
Get to Know HB
Located in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Hathaway Brown School provides an inclusive environment that challenges girls in grades K through 12 and boys and girls in the Early Childhood Program. Founded in 1876, Hathaway Brown is committed to a fusion of academic and experiential learning. The school focuses on educational innovation as it prepares students to rise boldly to the challenges of our times and live out the HB motto of learning "not for school, but for life."
Watch: HB at a glance: experts in girls education
Discover how you can become part of the HB family
For more than 140 years, Hathaway Brown has been helping students find and pursue opportunities, maximize their own potential, and make a difference in the world.
HB is home to 830 students in our Infant & Toddler Center through Grade 12, who hail from nearly 80 different communities in Northeast Ohio.
Early Childhood
Primary School
Middle School
Upper School
Academics & Arts
Yesterday's educational designs simply are not enough to prepare this generation of students.
Hathaway Brown gives girls in grades K through 12 and boys and girls in the Early Childhood program the chance to unleash their creativity, explore the things they're passionate about, and get big things done in a world that doesn't operate by the rules of a classroom syllabus.
Blazer Athletics are designed to shape good character and foster personal growth on and off the field.
School Calendar
Brown Bag
Campus Life
Hathaway Brown's 16 acres cannot possibly contain all the energy and imagination of our students and teachers.
The halls and grounds are filled with excitement every day of the year. With scores of clubs, co-curricular, and extracurricular activities to choose from, students in every division can find something to pique their interests inside and outside the classroom.
Institute for 21st Century Education
Special Programs
Our goal is nothing less than to create the global model for girls' education.
A Hathaway Brown education prepares young women to be the visionaries, the difference makers, and the leaders who will change the world. All of our co-curricular and unique special programming is designed to do just that. And our signature Institute for 21st Century Education represents a complete reimagination of the school experience.
Alumnae Portal
HB Magazine
Hathaway Brown alumnae include more than 3,500 diverse and talented women who live in all 50 states and 23 foreign countries.
Ranging in age from 17 to 102 years old, they hold positions in every type of professional industry, from banking to government to medicine. Many were the first females to complete particular college degree programs or to rise to executive-level offices in their respective firms.
Every HB parent is a member of the Hathaway Brown Parent Association.
Get involved in the life of the school by volunteering, taking part in special events, and becoming invested in your child's education. Join us at our HBPA general meetings to discuss programmatic and business issues.


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So you want to paint like a pro? Well, sit back and let me give you some tips and a tutorial for painting a door for starters. Then we'll work our way around the room.
Our doors are all the six panel type. If you have flat (non-panel) versions, you can skip this post and come back later. For the rest of us, get out your paper and pencils and take some notes (does anyone do this anymore?)
First gather these materials:
(this post contains affiliate links. I make a small percentage if an item is purchased from an affiliate link.)
optional: Painting Pyraminds.
Step 1: The easiest way to paint a door is to start by removing it, then removing all the hardware and lay it horizontally on saw horses. This will eliminate potential drips. But, I've painted plenty of doors without removing them. So, it's your choice.
Step 2: Lightly sand the entire door. No need to bust out the power sander, you can use a sanding block or sheet of sand paper. Be sure to sand down any bumps or blemishes. The main goal is to give your door a little "tooth" for the new paint or primer to adhere to.
Step 3: Time to decide if you need to use primer. Here are reasons you would need to use it:
- If the door is bare wood or stained wood.
- If the door is a dark color and you want to paint it much lighter.
- If the door was painted with oil and you want to use latex paint (how to tell? Rub a small spot with ammonia and if the paint comes off it is latex.)
If you are painting over latex with latex (or oil over oil) and the previous paint job is in good shape you can skip the primer. (This was the case with my door, so I didn't prime it.)
Step 4: Paint the panels first.
Using a small roller to paint doors can greatly speed the process. Begin by rolling paint on the panels.
Work quickly by rolling on the paint, then use a brush to smooth out the paint and fill in any spots missed by the roller. Follow the arrow directions above when brushing on the paint.
Drag your brush in the same direction as the woodgrain on your door. This will highlight the grain and keep your door looking neat and clean. NEVER run your brush strokes perpendicular to the wood grain. This does NOT look professional.
Step 5: Next roll the inside cross pieces. Start by rolling and painting the center vertical piece.
Again, drag your brush up and down vertically with the wood grain (see arrows in the above diagram.)
Then paint the horizontally pieces in the middle of the door.
Keep your brush strokes horizontal as you cross over the tall vertical center.
Step 6: Paint the border. Pay attention to the direction of the woodgrain for this last step. The grain on the two sides should flow vertically from top to bottom.
There are header and footer panels sandwiched between the left and right sides. These "sandwiched" pieces should be painted by dragging your brush horizontally (see diagram above.)
Step 7: The last step is to paint the edges of the door. (Avoid painting the hinges…that's not very professional either!)
Roll paint onto the edges then smooth them with the paintbrush. Be on the lookout for drips or puddles of paint.Go back and check the face of your door for drips as well.
Let your door dry (30 minutes – 1 hour), then follow up with a second coat of paint. When you are done let the doors dry for 2+ hours before flipping them to paint the other side. I have found that it helps to put a pieces of cardboard or scrap bare wood under the door so the paint doesn't stick to the saw horses. But you can also buy Painting Pyraminds.
Ready to perfect more of your painting skills? Check out the Paint Week series with 5 Lessons to Perfect Your Painting Skills:
If you liked this post, you'll love more of my painting tutorials!


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Alda Armless 3X3 Corner Sofa , design a corner sofa
From £812
2 days ago
My order was handled in a very…
My order was handled in a very professional way. The delivery person who assembled my sofa bed appeared to be efficient and conducted himself in an appropriate manner. I would definitely recommend
marzena saladziak
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Highly Recommend
Found this company on the internet when trying to find a decent size modular sofa that I could put up into our loft room where access is tight. I went to their showroom in London, where a young girl
Neil Webb
3 days ago
Delivery was on time and the guys were…
Delivery was on time and the guys were friendly. Sofa was relatively to put together and is comfy. Good value for
Stephen Hooper
3 days ago
Get what you pay for
Ok, first off, you get what you pay for. Every component is as cheap as it's possible to make and the fabric is plasticky and not very nice. However, we have a small-ish living room with a very
26 March
Ordered a sofa for delivery 12th March
Ordered a sofa for delivery 12th March. The day before we got told that they didn't have the fabric and to had to wait. Dan at customer service was excellent at changing it for us and delivering a
19 March
We love our Nabru sofa!
Designing the sofa on the Nabru website was very straightforward and the 3D view makes it easy to picture the finished product. There are a wide range of options to make a sofa to suit everyone! Our
Alison Hunt
7 March
Great product
A great choice of sofa beds and a very quick delivery time. Very simple to put together and a perfect fit for the space we had. Excellent service and
Mr Paul Holland
6 March
Great sofas
Sofas arrived early morning, delivery driver was really helpful and friendly. So easy to put together and getting the covers on was much easier than expected. It was the best choice for us as we
5 March
delivery on time ,couldn't believe…
delivery on time ,couldn't believe amount of items but was a large corner unit . took couple of hours to put together , looks great and is pretty comfortable as well . got the whole family sitting
Micheal Inskip
5 March
Would recommend to anyone with awkward…
Would recommend to anyone with awkward to access rooms. We made a mistake when ordering online but the company couldn't have been more helpful and changed our order for us with no
Lee Whettall
5 March
The sofa was delivered on time the…
The sofa was delivered on time the driver was helpful and brought the components up The sofa was easy to put together and is very very
Mr Lee
5 March
Excellent service from placing my order…
Excellent service from placing my order through to delivery. Prompt delivery as
Carolyn Groves
5 March
Great sofas, great service.
Sofas arrived when they said they would, very easy to assemble once you've found the instructions. They say it takes two people to assemble but I did it on my own and managed to build two 3 seater
Christopher Watson
4 March
Great customer service and quality sofas
I have used Nabru for almost 14 years now and have ordered a few sofas, parts and covers to change configuration and styles. Always received excellent service and the products are fantastic. I would
Horten Paul
2 March
We've bought sofas from Nabru three…
We've bought sofas from Nabru three times now, and have always been very happy with them. The first one we assembled ourselves, and found aspects of that a bit challenging with ageing fingers, so the
2 March
We are very happy with our new sofa. …
We are very happy with our new sofa. The whole process from ordering to delivery was very smooth - everything arrived on time on the day. Assembly was nice and straightforward. Just take a bit of
1 March
Nabru lived up to their promises every step of the way
The ordering process was painless due to the well thought out website. The sofa designer was especially useful as we ordered a U shaped sofa, the software enabled us to swap sections in and out until
Gordon Williams (Fwaffy)
19 February
Great for hard to access room.
I needed a sofa to fit up narrow stairs with a difficult turn and overhang. Thanks to self assembly we have been able to get a corner sofa. Was a wrestling match to get the covers on the frame but
Heidi Gaskin
19 February
Great service
Great service, super fast delivery, kept us updated on arrival time. Wanted this sofa bed upstairs so great that it came in parts as no problem for delivery guy as our stairs are narrow with a turn
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Data Sources
The OSRx uses a combination of the PeaceTech Lab's own risk indices, open data sets related to conflict, and results from monitors developed in third party tools, whose results are then sent via application programming interface (API) to the OSRx. This page lists the sources used:
Realtime Event Data
Social Media
Structured Indices
| Center for Systemic Peace,
Integrated Network for Societal
Conflict Research (INSCR) State
Fragility Index
State Fragility Index and Matrix (1995-2014) provides annual state fragility, effectiveness, and legitimacy indices and the eight component indicators for the world's 167 countries with populations greater than 500,000 in 2014. Technical information on the sources and construction of the indices and indicators is provided with the State Fragility Matrix 2014 and in Global Report 2014.
|Worldwide Governance
Indicators (WGI)
The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 215 economies over the period 1996–2014, for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. These aggregate indicators combine the views of a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. They are based on over 30 individual data sources produced by a variety of survey institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and private sector firms.
Telecommunications Union (ITU)
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Statistics
The ICT Data and Statistics (IDS) Division is part of ITU's Project Support and Knowledge Management Department within the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT). One of the core activities of the Division is the collection, verification and harmonization of telecommunication/ICT statistics for about 200 economies worldwide. There are two key sets of telecommunication/ICT data that ITU collects directly from countries:
|WomanStats.org, Physical
Security of Women
The WomanStats Project is the most comprehensive database on the status of women cross-nationally (available at http://womanstats.org). Containing over 170,000 data points and growing every day, it covers over 350 variables for 175 nations with populations greater than 200,000 persons. Variables include those relating to nine aspects of women's situation and security.
|UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict
Dataset (Uppsala University)
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) offers a number of datasets on organised violence and peacemaking. The UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset v.4-2015, 1946-2014 is a conflict-year dataset with information on armed conflict where at least one party is the government of a state. The most recent is version 4-2015.
|Polity IV Project, Political Regime
Characteristics and Transitions
This dataset includes annual, cross-national, time-series and polity-case formats coding democratic and autocratic "patterns of authority" and regime changes in all independent countries with total population greater than 500,000 in 2014 (167 countries in 2014).
|The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes 2.0 (NAVCO 2.0)
|The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) 2.0 dataset compiles annual data on 250 nonviolent and violent mass movements for regime change, anti-occupation, and secession from 1945 to 2006. NAVCO 2.0 also includes features of each campaign, such as participation size and diversity, the behavior of regime elites, repression and its effects on the campaign, support (or lack thereof) from external actors, and progress toward the campaign outcomes.


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90% of the Racism in America Comes from the Democratic Party and the Left
Ninety percent of the racism in America today comes from the Democratic Party and the Left. They live off it and exploit it. It is unconscionable to the degree they do this, ruining the lives and futures of the very people they say they are helping in the process.
I am uniquely positioned to say this because I spent most of my life on the Left and was a civil rights worker in the South in my early twenties. I was also, to my everlasting regret, a donor to the Black Panther Party in the seventies.
So I have seen this personally from both sides and my conclusion is inescapable. The Left is far, far worse. They are obsessed with race in a manner that does not allow them to see straight. Further, they project racism onto others continually, exacerbating situations, which in most instances weren't even there in the first place. From Al Sharpton to Hillary Clinton, they all do it.
Barack Obama is one of the worst offenders in this regard. Recently, in reaction to the horrid actions of the deranged, but solitary racist Dylann Root, the president claimed racism is in our DNA.
How could he possibly utter such nonsense and who was he talking about? The majority of Americans are from families that came to this country after slavery existed. Many of those were escaping oppression of their own. In my case my family was fleeing the pogroms of Eastern Europe. Many of the members of my family who stayed behind ended up gassed in Auschwitz or exterminated in Treblinka.
Is Obama telling me that racism is in my DNA? What a wretched and insulting statement. If he means that, he should tell it to me face-to-face.
If he does, I will tell him what I think. The racial situation in this country has gotten decidedly worse since he took office. And he is a great deal to blame. Ever since the beer summit it was obvious he was disingenuous and harmful on the subject of race, seeking to stir the pot when it was actually empty or nearly. His claim that if he had had a son he would look like Travyon Martin was ridiculous and self-serving in the extreme. Barack Obama is a product of the fanciest private school in Hawaii and his children go to Sidwell Friends, the fanciest school in D. C. He takes vacations on Oahu and his wife parties in Switzerland. He had as much in common with Trayvon as I do with the queen of Spain.


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Taking a few plot shots at "Lost"
Yes, this is a theater blog, but I have a few things I need to get off my chest about tonight's "Lost" finale before it's too late. And while I've watched the whole series, know that I'm not a "Lost" freak, and that a woman I've watched most of this series with has understood it better than I have all along, even though she falls asleep long before almost every episode ends. But still …
1. Devoting 2 1/2 hours to having one character after another "remember" things that we never forgot is a stupid, stupid conceit for a series finale. Why not just do a clip show? And if all these things happened, how about an explanation for why they ever "forgot" them in the first place?
2. At least the Super Bowl made Focus on the Family pay for its air time.
2a. Seriously, I was an altar boy for six years, and even I was offended by the finale's blatant adherence/rip-off of the gospels. We're treated to the Last Supper, in which Jack has Hugo drink "the blood of life," just as Jesus did with the apostles. Then there's his miracle healing of the cripple ("Sideways" Locke). There's the forgiveness of his enemy. His miracle with the water. Then our hero voluntarily dies so that others might live. And guess what? A short time later he rises from the dead, (let's say three days, since time means nothing here). Then he "dies" again, only to ascend to the right hand of his father in Heaven (a father named Christian!). That's not only lazy and clearly non-secular and agenda-driven … it's plagiarism!
3. Beyond the blatant religious overtones, let's try to sift through what the hell just happened tonight. Consider:
*When Locke tells Sideways Jack that he never had a son, that confirms that "Sideways Lost" never happens. So fully half of the final season was a waste of our time. Never happened.
*Beyond that – What exactly are they all remembering? "Oh yeah, I remember now that … WE'RE ALL DEAD! Some of us twice! And they're all overcome with such serenity by that realization. "Now we can leave purgatory and all go to heaven together." Terrific. Thanks for the reminder! Me? If I'm dead, and living a happy life as a miracle-working surgeon, with a terrific kid … I might not want to be told that I've croaked. I might rather go about my merry way as, say, a happy schoolteacher. Most everyone was better off in "Sideways Lost" than they were in "Future Lost" or "Island Lost."
*And here's the crucial thing: If "Sideways Lost" never happened, consider that tonight's relentlessly predictable series of individual memory "epiphanies" also took place in "Sideways Lost." Meaning they never happened, either. And THAT means that the final scene at Heaven church never happened, either.
That means most of the final episode was a waste of all our time. Because apparently they DID all die on the plane crash, as the closing credits suggest. Jack even dies on the island with the same injuries (the cut gut and bloody head) that he suffered in the plane crash from the pilot episode. So, what, does that mean the whole series took place in Jack's mind in the final seconds before his death? Isn't that "St. Elsewhere" — without the snow globe?
(And yes, I know sideways Christian tells Jack "everything happened." He doesn't say in what reality. And we've already established that Jack's funeral is part of a sideways construct that, again, never happened … so it means nothing.)
Why focus your whole final episode on a scene that doesn't actually happen?
*But let's go with that creepy Happy Jack funeral for a second. Why does Ben not go into the church, i.e., Heaven? Is it because he's committed so many sins? No. According to Christian tenets, Ben could atone for his sins and accept Christ one single second before his death and be welcomed into heaven. And Ben actually atoned earlier this season. And we're told he rules the island in peace as Hugo's No. 2 for a "long time" after Jack's death, so he's obviously lived a righteous life for however long. Is it possible the answer is … because they're setting up Ben for the first post-"Lost" film?
I'm more curious as to why Sayid is happily hand-slapping his way through that church with that bitch Shannon, when even in "Sideways Lost," he's been killing people left and right and not apologizing for it.
And help me out here — Are you saying Sayid's "constant" was Shannon, who he knew for like seven days on a beach, and not the woman he tortured, fell in love with and lived happily ever after with until she got hit by a bus in L.A.? Is it possible the blonde actress was available for the filming — and the other who played his real love interest was not?
I will say that the shot of Jack's eye closing at the end was nice parallelism. Too bad someone at our "Lost" party called it five seconds into tonight's episode. You want to give us parallelism? Give us another plane crash to finish it off!
My question always comes back to "This is the best you could do?" Heaven … and … purgatory (sort of)? Millions of us were guessing they all died in the plane crash, and that this was all some sort of Purgatory … after the pilot episode.
Now these next few carps go back a ways, but, still, I gotta ask:
Tell me again, why did the smoke monster need to assume human form? Not to leave the island. He's smoke — he can fly. So, what: If he tries to "fly" himself to the mainland to wreak his special brand of havoc, does he run out of juice halfway and eventually dissipate into the Pacific? I thought evil had more staying power than that. And I already thought that evil was already quite present – in any time frame – on the mainland.
Seriously, why does the Smoke Monster need a boarding pass on the plane to get off the island? When Kate asked fake Locke straight out last week why he needs to take human form at all, fake Locke says something like, "Because I want to feel my feet on the ground." Um, no. You don't get to get away with that. It's stupid. So too was the answer when Kate asked Jacob about the chalk through her name on the wall. His answer? No reason. "It's just chalk." Again, no. … This is the best you could do?
Now about the demise of evil – Fake Locke dies at Jesus' (Jack's) hands. But tell me, if it were possible to eradicate evil and kill the smoke monster by simply tossing him off a cliff, why is it again that bullets (like words) can never hurt him? Is it possible that the Smoke Monster only needed to take human form because the "Lost" writers needed an excuse to bring back popular actor Terry O'Quinn for the final season after they killed him off? (That was a rhetorical question. I know the answer.)
And don't get me started on Eloise, The Man in Black, how it was that dead Jacob had just enough fire to come back to life for one more speech to Jack last week… Ugh, I have to stop.
As one partygoer said tonight: It was OK enough, I guess, for a 2-1/2 hour TV movie. (We did get to see Kate and Jack say they love each other. That was a payoff.) But it wasn't satisfying for the end of a 120-hour serial.
Whatever. See you in another life, brother …


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 Jim is in this week issue of people magzine . a little blurb about the teen awards.

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a small pic. of Jim and Kate and a small article about Eternal in Premiere magazine(sept. issue). I tried to put the pic. on here but I was to stupid to figure out how to do it.

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Feature Friday: Tech Circle and Editorial Assistant
Some of you noticed that Zemanta Tech Circle did not make the cut in the new AVC redesign. That's sort of true and sort of not true.
Zemanta's oldest product, the one that got me to invest in the company, is a compose window assistant that they now call Editorial Assistant.
On Typepad, I used a broswer plugin to get Editorial Assistant. On WordPress.org, it's available as a WordPress plugin.
So the way I am bringing back tech circles as a default feed in my Editorial Assistant. You will see thumbnails at the end of the post with related links.
Most of the time, they will be tech circles bloggers with related content. Occasionally I will mix in other bloggers if their related content is highly relevant.


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A mysterious stranger arrives in Dantris Town, nestled at the heart of a lush mountain valley. Moving with the sole purpose of acquiring an elusive relic, the stranger agrees to investigate a string of disappearances in exchange for the artifact. When the mission ventures into the heart of an ancient hidden fortress, it soon becomes clear that there is much more to this quiet valley than meets the eye. Quick wits and a competent blade will be needed to keep the would-be hero from joining the list of the vanished. (Manta's Pulse is a single-player adventure for Neverwinter Nights 2. No expansion packs are needed to play the module.)
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Week 31 - Tuesday(Nationals week)
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I had a long day at work today and got to the pool late. I felt ok during the warmup but got better as the workout went on.
1x800 swim with snorkel
5x200 alternate swim and pull no paddles, on 3 mins
4x50 fast on 2mins
3x100 back easy on 1.40
500 swim over kick with snorkel
Total 2800
I went around 2.12 on the 200s and felt strong but relaxed. On the 50s I felt good and built each 50, my times were good, 26,25,25,24. I may surprise myself in the 100 and the 50 this week.


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SpaceX and NASA have confirmed that an "anomaly" occurred yesterday during a static fire test of the SuperDraco engines on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. The Crew Dragon spacecraft has eight SuperDraco engines that are used for its abort system in case of an emergency during launch or ascent to orbit. SpaceX is readying for an in-flight abort test as part of its preparations for commercial crew flights to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Never Judge a Book by its Cover - Guest Post by Gareth Baker
Monday, 30 December 2013
About Time - Guest Post by Tim Stevens
Sunday, 29 December 2013
AUTHORS ELECTRIC HOW TO DAY - ISBNs: What they are and how to apply for them by Chris Longmuir
Saturday, 28 December 2013
SERIAL KILLERS and CELEBRITIES
My first murder happened in Cornwall - in my book for 9-12 year olds, "TWICE TIMES DANGER".I'm making no confession, because anything I say might be used in evidence against me, and would anyway be a spoiler.
Curiously, my second murder takes place in Cornwall too (what is it about Cornwall that incites such violence?) This one takes place in my Young Adult novel, "SIRIUS RISING", which no one has yet had the courage to take on, so I may do it myself in the New Year. If I do, it will be my first purely self-published novel as opposed to re-issuing my currently out of print work as ebooks, but I first have to find the courage and expertise to do it, both of which are sadly lacking since I lost my fantastic husband, David, back in March.
And my third murder? Ah, the third. It's going to happen in France, and the victim won't even suspect anything's happened until... This one's an adult novel, called, "THE RECURRENCE OF RED", and I need a brilliant cover image for it (any reasonably priced recommendations would be gratefully received). It's been one of those 'nearly made it but not quite right for our list' manuscripts, and has been evolving for a long time, edited, re-written... if you write, you'll almost certainly have been there and done that. Maybe I should give up on it, but I can't quite let it go, so maybe, one day, it will find life as an ebook. First, though, I need to confer with my private group of expert assassins in order to polish the details of my perfect homicide.
As for the 'celebrities' in this post? In recent months, and for obvious reasons, I've become a bit obsessed with permanence and impermanence. Life itself isn't permanent - true, of course, but hard to accept. Very soon, I'll be donating David's beloved telescope to a designated 'Space School', which, if you didn't already know (and I didn't) is a state school offering A-level courses in Astronomy. Recently I confirmed his entry into the Book of Remembrance at the crematorium. I've done these two things because I want his name to live on, but why should it matter to be remembered and celebrated? One of my favourite Medieval painters is nameless.
So why are so many of us obsessed with celebrity? Why do people post so-called 'reviews', frequently semi-literate and misinformed, of our books on Amazon? Because it means that what they've written is 'out there', whether it's meaningful or not. And why does the publishing industry rely so heavily at present on the front of 'celebrity' names? Why would anyone want to read a book written by a ghost writer, but purporting to be by a well-known footballer, performer, or - in the case of Katie Price, so-called children's author - simply the owner of surgically enhanced breasts?
If you're a footballer, I want to watch you score goals. I don't expect you to be a professional writer, and in your own field, I admire what you do (and when ghosts are involved in collaborative biographies of talented people in other fields, of course, it's totally different.) But I want to buy books written by real authors I enjoy for their writing - I don't want to invest time or money on fakes. Many years ago, I encountered, in a publisher's office, the first top secret editions of a children's book called: THE LITTLE HELICOPTER. Under normal circumstances, this submission would have bounced back to its author rather quickly, but as the author was a sub-royal... "Is it any good?" I asked. Replies were (shall we say?) muted.
Which leads me by circuitous route to Christmas, which will be over by the time this blog comes out. I hope you've all had a wonderful one, or at least a not too awful one. I will be spending mine in Cornwall, so if you hear of yet another lurid Cornish murder...
Friday, 27 December 2013
Machiavelli, Metadata & Other Matters - Andrew Crofts
Digital publishing has called our bluff on the first two because we can now publish and promote our own stuff, so we have no one to blame but ourselves if things don't go as well as they did in our dreams.
Now a young author called Daisy White has gone one step further and is running pop-up bookshops, not just to sell her own books but also those of other participating authors. Any author who thought they could do better than Waterstones now has a chance to put their money where their mouth is and back Daisy White's "Booktique".
Currently Daisy can be found in Tunsgate Square Shopping Centre in Guildford, nestling up amongst blue-chip names like Barbour and Heals. She will be there until January 12th.
During this period she made my "Secrets of the Italian Gardener" one of her books of the week and this, coupled with a 99p promotion on Amazon as part of the "White Glove Deal" done with my agent, made the book Kindle's number one political title – ahead of names as various as Grisham and Machiavelli, which is great, but pretty weird.
Reaching number one in any of their categories apparently earns you a flag against your book and this, my agent informs me, means that the "metadata" will improve in your favour. I have no idea what she is talking about on that one, but she has proved to be consistently right about everything else, so I am currently feeling confident about my metadata.
So, if authors can be their own agents and their own publishers and their own booksellers we will never be able to complain about anything ever again – apart from the readers of course, and no author ever complains about their readers, only the lack of them.
Thursday, 26 December 2013
Author, You've Got it Wrong Again!
Oh, and I changed my author name from Ruby Barnes to R.A. Barnes, but that's another story for another day, to do with gender and genre confusion.
Wednesday, 25 December 2013
The Authors Electric Christmas Sale!
We hope you've enjoyed following our e-publishing journey and wish you all the best for 2014. Cheers!
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