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Ubuntu Trusty Tahr: More Yawns, More Polish
Apr 24, 2014 11:55 PM PT
A new Ubuntu Linux desktop line -- Ubuntu 14.04, known as "Trusty Tahr" -- lacks much in the way of new features or eye-popping special effects. You will find, however, a fresh batch of improvements in what is already a solid distro family of desktop and server implementations.
Canonical continues its record of consistency with its latest version of Ubuntu, released this month. Consistency is usually a good thing, but after the last few Ubuntu releases, the repetitious ho-hum pattern of not much new on the outside is becoming a bit boring.
The good news is the Ubuntu family line includes considerable growth on the inside. Think of the Ubuntu distro for the desktop as being in a holding pattern.
The Canonical development teams are breathing hard from their endurance race to make the Ubuntu interface excel for tablets and smartphones. However, the developers are not giving much attention to innovations for desktop and laptop OS versions. Not much distinguishes Ubuntu versions 13.04 and 13.10 from version 14.04.
Of course, strides earned in Ubuntu's mobile releases eventually will be vetted in future releases for desktops and laptops. This is called "Ubuntu convergence." Canonical is developing an operating system with a common interface to run on all types of hardware and form factors.
More Maturity
This Trusty Tahr release marks the first time that all of the various desktop versions of Ubuntu -- including Unity, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, GNOME and Kubuntu -- will be maintained for long-term support status. Some for these desktop flavors will have support for five years. A few of them will see a shorter support period of three years.
Canonical launches a new version of Ubuntu Linux every six months, but the Long Term Support releases usually arrive in two-years intervals.
A sore spot for me with the Ubuntu line is the delay in getting upgraded software packages into the distro's repository. Trusty Tahr is off to a great start in this regard. This release includes updated versions of most of Ubuntu's core set of packages. I especially like the newest versions of the Firefox Web browser and the LibreOffice suite.
This also means that all desktops come with the current 3.13.6 kernel version. Do not set aside upgrading to this latest release if you are committed to using the Ubuntu OS just because it will not have a shiny new look and feel. One of the advantages of upgrading is getting all of the newest drivers and kernel improvements.
Finely Finessed
What I experienced with the Ubuntu 14.04 Beta2 release in recent weeks gave me a new satisfaction with the Unity interface. It is nicely polished. Some of the behavioral anomalies of earlier Unity performance have been nicely smoothed over or outright fixed.
I was an early adopter of the first versions of Ubuntu Linux before Canonical locked into the Unity desktop as the default version, but I never fully took to the often clunky Unity design and bounced around instead to other Linux options on my various work and test computers over the years.
Spit and Polish
It is not what you see that makes a nice impression about Ubuntu 14.04. It is what goes on under the hood. The few visual enhancements are very subtle.
One example is improved window resizing functionality. Windows no longer delay displaying their new shape until you finish dragging the corners. The reaction is much more like real-time resizing now.
Another example is Trusty Tahr's TRIM support for Intel and Samsung solid state disks. This produces a longer life cycle life for those storage devices.
Version 14.04 also has improved support for Nvidia Optimus graphics-switching technology. Also built in is better support for high-resolution displays.
Meaningful Makeover
Perhaps one of the biggest visual changes is the Application Menu options in the Unity desktop. It is a nice improvement to be able to decide where application menus appear.
For example, the menus by default continue to show in the top panel, but they do not have to stay there. You now can change that location on the screen by selecting the Local Menus option in System Settings / Appearance / Behavior.
Since I have not been a Unity desktop fan, I immediately appreciated the fix applied to Unity's window management display. It is nice to be able to minimize a running application by clicking on its icon in the launcher -- but changing this behavior takes some work on your part.
For example, you must first add the Compiz Configuration Settings Manager or CCSM application through the Software Center. Then go to the Unity section and find the Launcher tab. Once there, check the box next to minimize on click.
New Likeable Look
The bulk of noticeable makeovers is centralized with the Unity desktop in Ubuntu 14.04. I see the whole Unity concept taking on a slightly clearer focus in this release. This probably contributes to my friendlier reaction.
For example, the Unity Launcher, Dash, Window Controls and Theme scale proportionally. So do certain icons and text. The Unity launcher can be scaled down to 8px.
This improvement may need some additional finessing, though. Some intermittent distortions in the parts of the interface are apparent.
Nice GNOME
Ubuntu's GNOME 14.04 interface might be the most disappointing patchwork of improvements. It has a three-year support cycle, but that might be a good thing.
Even with this general Ubuntu upgrade, GNOME desktop users will have to settle for version 3.10 of the GNOME-shell. The GNOME community did not release GNOME 3.12 by the Feb. 20 Canonical cutoff date for feature freezing Trusty Tahr, according to the Ubuntu GNOME team's blog.
However, Ubuntu's GNOME team could slide it into a later update, given the LTS nature of the Ubuntu 14.04 release. With that bad, however, comes some good. Many of the GNOME apps have been updated to GNOME 3.10. This includes gnome-weather, gnome-maps, gnome-photos and gnome-music.
Another upgrade of sorts for the Ubuntu GNOME release is evident in some of the default GNOME applications. For instance, patches to Rhythmbox, Gedit and the Terminal restore full application menus.
Bottom Line
If you are new to Linux or the Ubuntu Unity interface, the overall performance and polish will be all that matters. If you still are bothered by Unity's look and feel, be sure to try one of the other Ubuntu desktops.
The interface integration and the other desktop interfaces have a really smooth integration with Ubuntu's execution. That will leave no doubt about why Ubuntu is one of the leading Linux distros.
Is the accumulation of subtle polishing and finessing a payoff for making the upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04? That is something more seasoned Ubuntu users will have to decide.
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Retrace Server
Server that simplifies coredump analysis.
- Name: Michal Toman
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Current Status
- Targeted release: Fedora 15
- Last updated: 2010-11-03
- Percentage of completion: 40%
Detailed description
At the moment of backtrace creation, user needs to have all relevant debuginfos installed locally. Downloading and installing them may require a lot of time and storage space. The idea of Retrace Server is to liberate users from this: User sends the coredump packed along with some other required information (e.g. packages list) to the Retrace Server, the Retrace Server installs required debuginfos, creates backtrace and provides it to the user.
Benefit to Fedora
No need to download debuginfo packages while creating backtrace from various binary crashes.
The project itself consists of 3 parts:
- Interface: Receives the archive from user, unpacks all files, puts new task into the queue.
- Analyzer: Takes the task from queue, for each creates a virtual root with all required packages and debuginfos installed and creates the backtrace within.
- Repo Synchronizer: Downloads packages to a local repository containing all versions of all packages, to be able to handle crashes from older versions.
ABRT plugin that packs required files and sends the archive to the Retrace Server must be implemented.
How To Test
Not possible yet.
This section needs to be completed for FESCo submission poelcat 16:45, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
- gdb
- xz
- mod_wsgi
- python-webob
Contingency Plan
Not required, feature can easily be disabled.

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Since 1991, Fidelity Charitable has made more than $14 billion in grants to some 160,000 nonprofit organizations recommended by account holders in its national donor-advised fund program.
On Monday, the organization issued a report detailing the demographics and giving patterns of some 94,000 individuals who advise on DAFs at Fidelity.
At present, Fidelity's DAF program has 57,774 giving accounts, many of which have more than one individual with advisory privileges. Donors come from all 50 states, and range in age from 20 to 100.
The average primary account holder is 62 years old and sets up an account at age 54. Forty percent of donors have maintained a giving account for more than a decade, and 13% have had an account at least 15 years.
In 2012, donors recommended grants totaling $1.6 billion across all charitable sectors. The number of grants per giving account averaged about seven. The average grant size was $3,773, though more than $900 million was granted in amounts of $50,000 or more.
Over the past decade, the total volume of grants grew each year, rising from 154,000 in 2003 to 429,000 in 2012. This was true during the worst years of the financial crisis (2008–2009), with more than $1 billion granted out each year.
Fidelity said in a statement that the consistent number of outgoing grants through the financial crisis demonstrated that donors used their accounts as a "ready reserve" of funds to maintain their charitable impact during challenging economic times.
The number of grants recommended in advance or recommended for recurring distribution rose at an even faster pace than overall grants, showing donors' planned-giving approach. In 2012, scheduled grant recommendations accounted for 21% of all grants, up from 17% in 2008.
By sector, religious organizations accounted for the largest proportion of grants made at 27% in 2012, but education attracted the largest proportion of grant dollars at 26%.
Fidelity also analyzed giving accounts by size. This showed that the proportion of grants made to religious organizations decreases dramatically as the size of the account increases.
The proportion of grants to nonprofits in education, human services, society benefit and health go the opposite way, increasing as the account size grows. Grants to environment and animals, arts and culture, and international affairs remain steady regardless of account size.
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- John Sutter is covering income inequality for the Change the List project
- Help him compile a list of 99 "must-reads" on income inequality
- Submit your top picks on Facebook, Google+ or in the comments below
- Readers voted for Sutter to cover this topic as part of Change the List
Journalism sometimes has a bit of a short-term memory problem. If something didn't happen, or wasn't written, this day, this hour, this minute, then it's easy for us Internet writers to pretend it didn't happen. Or to forget about it and move on to the next post.
The problem with this myopia, of course, is that history is a wise teacher, and all good reporting should build on a thoughtful understanding of the past and the present.
That's why I'm asking for your help in creating a list of "must-reads" on the subject of income inequality. That topic, which you voted for me to cover as part of the Change the List project, has been examined thoughtfully by countless writers, philosophers, historians, politicians, journalists, Web designers and documentarians. As I embark on a series about inequality in the United States, it makes sense to survey the smart, exciting works already out there. Why not make the creation of this must-read list a collective, public experiment? Hopefully, we all can benefit from the process, and the list will be public so others can learn from it, too.
Submit your top picks via these Facebook or Google+ posts -- and make the case for why your favorite book, doc or website should be included. You can also leave a comment at the bottom of the page here if you prefer.
My plan is to compile a list of 99 (or so) must-reads from your submissions.* I'm using the term "must-read" loosely. I think the list should include books and articles as well as thoughtful websites, charts, videos or documentaries.
To get things started, here are 10 of my picks, in no particular order:
1. "Inequality.Is" - This website from the Economic Policy Institute is the best online primer I've found. It explains why inequality is a problem, how it was created and what might fix it.
2. "A Theory of Justice" - The 1971 book by the late John Rawls is often cited as the philosophical basis for opposing income inequality. It's a dense book, but thought-provoking.
3. "Park Avenue" - A documentary by Oscar winner Alex Gibney. It uses the famous New York avenue as a metaphor for American inequality; Park Avenue is home to both extreme wealth, in Manhattan, and extreme poverty, in the Bronx.
4. "The Great Divergence" - Journalist Timothy Noah argues, as his book's description says, that growing inequality "may be the most important change in this country during our lifetimes -- a drastic, elemental change in the character of American society, and not at all for the better."
5. "Wealth Inequality in America" - Chances are you're one of the 6.8 million people who has viewed this YouTube video. It's based on the work of Harvard's Mike Norton.
6. "Inequality and New York's Subway" - A New Yorker interactive, which maps median income levels by subway stops in New York. The power is in its minimalism. Take a look at the 2 train map. It passes through neighborhoods with median incomes of $205,192 and $13,750.
7. "Nickel and Dimed" - A first-person journey by writer Barbara Ehrenreich, who agreed to try to make a living doing jobs that required no higher education or specialized skills.
8. "Born Rich" - Jamie Johnson, from the wealthy Johnson & Johnson family, directed this documentary about his own life and the lives of his super-rich friends and acquaintances. It reveals a fascinating and complicated picture of wealth in modern America.
9. [Untitled letter] - In March 2013, 90 "economists, academics and development experts" sent a letter to a panel tasked by the United Nations with creating a post-2015 development agenda. The experts argue income inequality should be a global priority, in part, because "inequalities threaten our ability to pursue fair and sustainable development as much as they threaten eradication of extreme poverty."
10. "The Spirit Level" - Written by two epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, this book makes a strong, statistics-based argument that ugly social problems -- from obesity to incarceration rates -- are associated with unequal societies. Better health and well-being would follow, they argue, if our societies were made to be more equal.
This quickly thrown-together list has plenty of limitations. It focuses almost entirely on the United States, particularly New York. All these works were published in 1971 or later, which is a huge weakness of my list. Most of them presuppose inequality is a problem, or set out to prove that it is. So, conservatives, skeptics, historians, literary types and international readers: Help me get some diversity going here!
I look forward to your submissions, and thanks in advance for the help with this project.
*Readers of The Atlantic may notice that this concept of a crowdsourced must-read list is based on Alexis Madrigal's "Tech Canon," which he compiled in a similar manner in 2010.


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Welcome to Backpack the Sierra
Backpacking: General Information about Backpacking in the Sierra Nevada
Getting Started
Your Clothes
Dangers on the Trail
Finding Your Way
Food and Water
Life on the Trail
Permits and Processes
Routes and Destinations along the way
Weight and Why It Matters
About Us: About Backpacking in the Sierra Nevada
Isn't Backpacking Dangerous and Hard?
Our Philosophy
Your First Backpacking Trip
Trail Etiquette: Leave No Trace (LNT)
Animals on the Trail
What about a fire?
Destinations: The Best Sierra Hikes, The Best Starter Hikes, and Hikes by Highway
Twelve Great Starter Hikes
Our Favorite Hikes of All Time
Early Season Hikes
Our Favorite Lakes of All Time
Our Favorite Day Hikes
Trip logs
Recommended Hikes By State Highway
A: Lassen and Highway 89 North of Tahoe
B: Highway 80 and Donner Pass
C: Highway 50, Tahoe, and Echo Summit
D: Highway 88/Carson Pass
E: Highway 4/Ebbetts Pass
F: Highway 108/Sonora Pass
G: Northern Yosemite: Highway 120/Tioga Pass/Tuolumne Meadows/Hetch-hetchy
H: Southern Yosemite: Highways 140 and 41, Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point and more
I: Highway 168/Kings Canyon and Sequoia
J: Highway 395--the East side
K: The southern deserts--178 and 190
Our Southwest Trips
Trekking In South America: Machu Picchu, Patagonia, and more.
More Thoughts On Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail
Day Hikes in and around Cusco, Peru
Huaraz and the Cordillera Blanca
Our Equipment List: a High Sierra Backpacking list you can count on.
The LIST
The Ten Essentials for Hiking
Things that Haven't Worked--Or things you can leave behind
Things We'd Like to Try
Things We Really Like
Weight Fanatics--which we sometimes are
You want cheap and easy?
Gear: Our Thoughts on What Works and What Doesn't in the High Sierra
Bear Canisters
On Footwear
Sleeping Bags & Pads
The Backpack
The Kitchen
Water Filters and Treatment
First Aid Kit
Stories, Fun, Fishing, Flowers, and Links
Favorite Nits to Pick
Weird backpacking news stories
Backpacking Books
Photos of us at play
P's watercolors
Sierra Wildflowers
Contact us
Welcome to Backpack the Sierra
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Jun 27, 2016, 6:09 PM
by Paul Wagner
We've been getting a lot of photos from some of the people who have written to us about their trips. Often, they've started by asking for advice, and then sent us photos of how it all turned out. So with a quick nod of the head to these wonderful folks, here are some of the photos they've sent us of themselves having a grand old time in the Sierra...and beyond.
More photos from Sara, these photos of her trip to Desolation Wilderness this summer:
And from Tom, these photos of a trip to the Ansel Adams Wilderness;
And these photos from Matt of his family's first trip to Yosemite:
And finally, these lovely photos from Jim of his kids having fun in the woods...
These folks are proof positive you can have a great time in the Sierra....and we hope we see them all out on the trail
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These resources aim to give learners confidence and equip them with the language necessary to deal with situations where unexpected callers arrive at the door.
These resources aim to give learners confidence and equip them with the language necessary to deal with situations where unexpected callers arrive at the door.
These resources aim to give learners the confidence and the language to deal with situations they may encounter in their homes.
This lesson is about weddings in the UK and in other countries the learners know. This lesson is aimed beginner ESOL learners who can read and write at a basic level. Learners will learn useful vocabulary so they can discuss weddings and they will have the opportunity to read a text aloud and complete some comprehension tasks.
This lesson is about reading and understanding medicine labels. It should follow on from previous lessons on the topic of health e.g. looking at symptoms and going to the doctors. It provides learners with essential vocabulary to how to take medicines and also gives reading practice.
This lesson focuses on spelling and pronunciation of months and seasons in the context of favourite seasons. Students will practise using the language in speaking and writing tasks.
This lesson focuses on the use of –ed/-ing adjectives in the context of watching television. Students will practise using the adjectives to talk about their viewing habits.
This lesson is about the relationships students have. The tasks allows for discussion and personalisation and can lead to stronger group cohesion as the students learn more about each others' lives. It provides practice in all four skills.
This lesson is about the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. It provides students with opportunities to describe places and combine clauses with conjunctions and relative pronouns. Students develop their writing, reading and listening skills as well as their vocabulary and discussion skills.
Parents of primary school children need to gather together a lot of different clothing and equipment to get their children ready for school. This lesson will help students recognise, write and pronounce all the key words that they'll need to know.
This lesson plan is for beginner readers. The main aim is to develop the students' ability to read and understand a short text based some on information about a girl called Sharon. Students practise recognising, spelling and pronouncing individual words and then move on to processing short sentences.


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BANGOR, Maine — A City Council committee agreed that KahBang organizers breached their five-year contract with the city when they decided to move the music and arts festival to Portland this year, three weeks before showtime.
"At this point we consider the contract with KahBang to be terminated," council Chairman Ben Sprague said after emerging from an hourlong executive session held during a meeting of the city's government operations committee.
That contract is now void, and Kahbang no longer will have a weekend in August reserved at the Bangor Waterfront for its festival in 2015 or 2016, the years that remained on its contract. Waterfront Concerts, the Greater Bangor Convention and Visitors Bureau or any other group now could seek to host an event on the weekends that formerly belonged to KahBang.
KahBang still could return to Bangor but would need to apply for an event permit as any other group wanting to use the waterfront venue would.
City Solicitor Norm Heitmann will send a letter Tuesday to KahBang organizers notifying them of the city's decision. There may still be a vote of the full council on the status of the contract, but Heitmann said that might not be necessary.
No KahBang representatives attended Monday night's meeting, but even if they had they wouldn't have been allowed into the contract discussion because it was held in executive session.
"But we would welcome them to have a conversation with the full council soon, or after their event, or any time in the next year," Sprague said, adding that he understands this was a difficult business decision for organizers to make.
Councilors were frustrated to learn of KahBang's sudden change of venue on Thursday through a story published by the Bangor Daily News, Sprague said. No one from the organization reached out city officials to notify them or seek solutions to a number of problems that prompted the move.
Organizers have cited several reasons for the move, including sluggish ticket sales and difficulty finding campground space in the area. They have said they hope to return the festival to Bangor next year. Now, they'll have to apply for the right to do so.
The city is unlikely to pursue any legal action against the festival.
"We receive a very small amount of money from KahBang each year, and our legal department has other things to focus on," Sprague said. "Our focus at this point is finding a different event to fill that space for this year" and future years if needed.
Heitmann said it was his opinion that KahBang had committed an "anticipatory breach" of contract by reneging on its commitment to host its festival on the Bangor Waterfront before the event. City councilors agreed.
Messages left for KahBang officials Monday night after the meeting were not immediately returned, however, they've said that the move to Portland this year was necessary for the survival of the festival.
It's unclear whether KahBang will dispute the city's decision to terminate the contract.
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I was having a pretty horrible day. My computer crashed, my hard drive had to be completely reformatted. I threw my back out two days ago, and the pain is excrutiating. Then Gameloft sent me this, and everything is okay.
Even the initial loading screen makes me happy. It's astounding.
While some of you get angry, the rest of you can sing along to the loading music.
For those asking what kind of game it is, this is a city-building joint with mini-games and such, but that's not important right now. This is important:


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Machine Learning APIs
Advanced 9 Steps 1 day 53 Credits
It's no secret that machine learning is one of the fastest growing fields in tech, and the Google Cloud Platform has been instrumental in furthering it's development. With a host of APIs, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this advanced-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning APIs by taking labs like Implementing an AI Chatbot with Dialogflow and Detect Labels, Faces, and Landmarks in Images with the Cloud Vision API.
Prerequisites:This Quest requires hands-on experience with GCP's machine learning services. Make sure that you have at least earned a Badge by completing the hands-on labs in the Baseline: Data, ML, and AI Quest before beginning—the labs in this series assume foundational ML knowledge and will explore advanced features through specific use cases.
Quest Outline
Introduction to APIs in Google
This lab will teach you about the architecture and basic functioning of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This will be supplemented with hands-on practice, where you will configure and run Cloud Storage API methods in Cloud Shell.
Extract, Analyze, and Translate Text from Images with the Cloud ML APIs
In this lab you'll combine the Cloud Vision, Natural Language, and Translation APIs to capture text strings from images, recognize characters, and analyze and translate the text strings into other languages.
Classify Text into Categories with the Natural Language API
In this lab you'll learn how to classify text into categories using the Natural Language API
Detect Labels, Faces, and Landmarks in Images with the Cloud Vision API
The Cloud Vision API lets you understand the content of an image by encapsulating powerful machine learning models in a simple REST API. In this lab you'll send an image to the Cloud Vision API and have it identify objects, faces, and landmarks.
Entity and Sentiment Analysis with the Natural Language API
The Cloud Natural Language API lets you extract entities, and perform sentiment and syntactic analysis on a block of text. In this hands-on lab you'll learn how to extract entities and sentiment from text using the Cloud Natural Language API.
Awwvision: Cloud Vision API from a Kubernetes Cluster
This hands-on lab uses Kubernetes and Cloud Vision API to create an example of how to use the Vision API to classify (label) images from Reddit's /r/aww subreddit and display the labelled results in a web app.
Classify Images of Clouds in the Cloud with AutoML Vision
AutoML Vision helps developers with limited ML expertise train high quality image recognition models. In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to train a custom model to recognize different types of clouds (cumulus, cumulonimbus, etc.).
Implementing an AI Chatbot with Dialogflow
The goal of this lab is to introduce the basics of Google Cloud Dialogflow by building a responsive chat bot, such as those handling support requests on websites. Demonstrates how to utilize this interactive AI in application development.
AI Platform: Qwik Start
In this lab you train and deploy a TensorFlow model to AI Platform for serving (prediction). Watch these short videos Harness the Power of Machine Learning with AI Platform and AI Platform: Qwik Start - Qwiklabs Preview.


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Posts Tagged 'HID kits'
Bring Your Car Lighting to Another Level
High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting is a technology that offers your car more light output, whiter light and longer service life. HID is installed using HID kits which are sometimes called conversion kits or xenon kits. With this product car owners can feel a brand new experience in their car lighting because HID assure users of three times brighter light, clearer road images and greater efficiency. With the HID technology, car owners can save more energy because this lighting technology only consumes its needed power so there will be no waste in power and battery.
Another feature of this HID is that it does not use filaments like ordinary bulbs do instead they create light by bridging an arc between two electrodes similar to the energy transfer that creates lightning. This is a very smart development created to solve numerous lighting problems by car owners. What am I really talking about? Well let me put it this way. If everyone will use this kind of lighting for their cars then they will be assured that it will last longer and will have longer life because it is beyond the ordinary and the technology it uses is not like that of ordinary bulbs. Then if better lighting is attained there will be fewer accidents on the streets and people will be encouraged to own cars even if they still fear having one. And who know maybe this technology cannot be only developed for cars but for other purposes as well and creators of these might just spark the most magnificent science breakthrough.


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8 May 2011
Two-wheeled beauty...
9 comments
- Unknown said...
...And a helmet! Wow!
- 8 May 2011 at 17:21
- BlueBicycleGirl said...
Nice pic ! Sadly there's only teenagers on bmx's round here or Lycra-clad blokes on mtb. So no photo opportunies !
- 8 May 2011 at 18:49
- Unknown said...
I absolutely love your photos.
Shame I never look that fab on my bike.
- 8 May 2011 at 21:33
- decarola said...
"there is nothing better than seeing a beauty on a bike"
I agree from Italy (You should come over and ride over the sunshine!)
- 9 May 2011 at 16:11
- decarola said...
"Sometimes, there is nothing better than seeing a beauty on a bike."
Your tweed friend agree from Italy!
- 9 May 2011 at 16:12
- Lady Vélo said...
@Julie: Indeed - it looks good! :)
@debbie13b: Thanks!
@The Woolen Typist: Thank you so much. I refuse to believe you do not look fabulous on your bike x
@decarola: Andrea! Hello Sir - so nice to see you on here! I will HAVE to come to Italy and ride in the sunshine & see you! x
- 10 May 2011 at 10:48
- Barbara Malewicz said...
Just discovering your blog, thanks to Tatty devine!
Actually, I'm working for them right now, in the jewelry making :)
I'm here for 4 months, and I was wondering where you could get a bike for cheap, or where you could rent a bike ?
- 16 May 2011 at 19:19
- Lady Vélo said...
Hi Barbara!
Thank you for coming to my blog, via the Tatty Devine piece! How fantastic that you're working for TD too - how I would love to experience that!
Cycling in London is fantastic: it's surely the nicest way to get around this City! If you were thinking of renting a bike, have you looked into the "Boris Bikes" (the Barclays Hire Bikes) which are ideal for quick rides around London.
If you were to buy a bike - which style are you interested in?
- 17 May 2011 at 12:49
- Barbara Malewicz said...
Thing is i would like to have a bike for 2 months, from home to my work place so the Barclays Hire Bikes would not be exactly what I need ..
I would like to buy one for cheap, no matter the style, the cheaper I can, the idea is to save some money, compared to the expensive price of transports in London :)
- 20 May 2011 at 19:53


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Boxer Manny Pacquiao had a very special visitor check out a training session in Los Angeles on Thursday – folk rock legend Bob Dylan.
The fighter was preparing for his upcoming rematch with welterweight champion Timothy Bradley at coach Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing Club when the Lay Lady Lay singer, a longtime boxing fan, phoned and asked if he could stop by with a friend.
Pacquiao's spokesman Fred Sternburg tells RollingStone.com, "I've never seen the place take an aura like this, and I've been going to that gym for nearly a decade. We were all awestruck.
"Manny sparred eight different rounds with two different fighters while Dylan was there. He stayed for an hour and sat on a bench that you'd use to lift weights. Before and after the sparring, Dylan posed for photographs with anyone that asked and signed autographs… He accommodated everybody and smiled the whole time. But, my God, it was Bob Dylan! It was like seeing one of the apostles."
Even Pacquiao got in on the action, tweeting a photo of himself with the singer/songwriter.
He wrote, "After BOB DYLAN watched me train today, Freddie Roach said, 'I think a hard rain's a-gonna fall on Timothy Bradley'," referring to one of the singer's classics.
Pacquiao will be hoping the visit from Dylan will bring him luck when he steps into the ring with Bradley in Las Vegas on 12 April.
Boxer Manny Pacquiao had a very special visitor check out a training session in Los Angeles on Thursday – folk rock legend Bob Dylan.


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If you update to Joomla 3.9.16, you will have to update Fabrik from the latest GitHub version, to fix a bug introduced in Joomla, which makes it impossible to list front end folder locations in backend JForms. This affects things like template selection.Dismiss Notice
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Orbit/Adding Bundles to Orbit
== Creating a new project for an Orbit bundle ==
 When adding an entirely new library to Orbit, you have to create a project in CVS to house the content. Follow these steps to set this up the first time.
- In your workspace, create a project with the desired name (see Bundle Naming). For this example we'll use com.example.foo.
- In the project, create a readme.txt file that alerts users to the fact that the real content of the project is maintained in CVS branches. Something like
Work in this project happens in various branches according to the
- Share the project into the Orbit repository using the Team > Share Project... wizard. There select CVS then the "dev.eclipse.org/cvsroot/tools" repository. In the following page, choose Use specified module name and enter "org.eclipse.orbit/com.example.foo" (remember to fill-in your bundle name). Finish off the wizard steps.
- Immediately create a new branch of the newly created project following the steps in [[#newBranch|Creating a new branch].
== Creating a new branch of an existing Orbit project ==
 Since all real content in Orbit is maintained in branches, HEAD never contains any real content (just the readme.txt file described above). Follow these steps to create a new branch.
- Check out HEAD of the desired project, or Replace with... HEAD if HEAD of the project is not currently in the workspace.
- Create a new branch using the Team > Branch... wizard. You will be asked to enter a branch name. The typical pattern for that is "v<version number>" where the version number is that which was assigned by the original library producers with the '.' (period) characters replaced with '_' (underscore) characters. So a library whose version is 2.3 would go in the v2_3 branch. Ensure that the "Work with this branch" option is selected and and finish off the wizard.
- Delete the readme.txt file
- Proceed to add the desired content and eventually commit the changes into the branch.
Moving an existing bundle to Orbit
Taking a library that is already bundled in another Eclipse project and adding it to Orbit is quite straightforward.
- Create a new project or new branch of an existing project to hold the bundle's content.
- Check out the existing version of the library into a project using a temporary name. You need to do this if the new and old projects have the same name. Use the Team > Check Out As... wizard from the repository navigator. Pick any name you like for the new project. For example, com.example.foo.old helps keep things clear. This project will only be in your workspace for a few minutes.
- Once the original project is checked out, copy and paste all content from the old project into the project you created at the beginning of these steps and delete the old project. Note that you should use the Resource Navigator to ensure you get all the content.
- Commit the changes to the destination project to create an exact copy of the original bundle project in a branch in the Orbit repository.
Adding a library for the first time
Use this approach when you have a library (i.e., JAR) that you want to convert into a bundle.
- Create a new project or new branch of an existing project to hold the bundle's content.
- Start the New > Project > Plugin Development > Plug-in from existing JAR wizard to effectively import the library into a new project.
- Enter the new bundle name etc.
- Ensure that the Analyze library contents and add dependencies checkbox is selected.
- Ensure that the Unzip the JAR into the project checkbox is selected.
- Click Finish
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Ice bucket challenge: Andrew Romanoff gets drenched, challenges Aurora mayor
On Wednesday, Democrat Andrew Romanoff accepted the "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge" from his Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, after Coffman had ice water dumped over his head. On Thursday night, Romanoff posted a video of his own dousing on his Facebook page.
He issued his challenge to Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan and Lilly Marks, executive vice chancellor in charge of the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora.
Watch Romanoff's Ice Bucket Challenge video on Facebook.
Romanoff's Facebook post says he also donated an unspecified amount to the ALS Association. Coffman had said he would donate $1 for every "like" his video got on Facebook, out of his own pocket. As of Friday afternoon, the number was up to 1,101.


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Prospect Education Program
For the second straight January, the Phillies have had some of their top prospects spend a couple of days (yesterday and today) at Citizens Bank Park for a "prospect education program."
RHPs Michael Stutes, Michael Schwimer, Justin DeFratus and Chris Kissock were among the six prospects. The others were 2B Harold Garcia and 1B Matt Rizzotti.
The prospects got to hear from David Montgomery, and Ruben Amaro Jr. The itinerary included sessions with Frank Coppenbarger (clubhouse and travel etiquette), David Buck (the business of baseball), Larry Christenson (success and life after the game), Jeff O'Brien (branded a leader), Charlie Manual and Ryan Howard (playing preparation/expectations), Larry Andersen (how to be a professional ballplayer) and Ron Jaworski (guest speaker). Christenson, Andersen and Jaworski all played in Philadelphia and have had successful careers after their playing days ended.
The six prospects also had a tour of the ballpark and participated in media training headed by the
Communications Department along with Leslie Gudel (Comcast SportsNet), Paul Hagen (Daily News), Jim Salisbury (CSNPHILLY.COM) and Jayson Stark (ESPN.com).
The two-day program was to conclude with the 76ers game tonight. Because of the predicted snow storm, the program started earlier this morning so the players could get 6 p.m. flights to their respective homes.
Want a warm thought? Spring training is underway in five weeks.


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Sorry, the entry deadline for Prix Ars Electronica 2013 is already over.
Thank you very much for your interest in Prix Ars Electronica!
Jury Meeting: April 18 - 21, 2013
Winners notified (Golden Nicas, Awards of Distinction, Honorary Mentions): before middle of May, 2013 Publication of results on website, app. beginning of June 2013
Awards Ceremony: Friday, September 6, 2013 in Linz
Prix Ars Electronica Forum
Winners will present their works to the public in the form of a lecture at the Prix Ars Electronica Forum. This program of artists talks will take place during the Ars Electronica Festival. (September 5 – 9, 2013).
CyberArts 2013 - Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition
An exhibition of selected works of Prix Ars Electronica 2013 will be presented in Linz/Austria during the Ars Electronica Festival.
Ars Electronica 2013 - Festival for Arts, Technology and Society
September 5 – 9, 2013 in Linz (Austria)


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Lattice Diamond Programmer allows device programming for all JTAG based Lattice devices (including devices in ispLEVER Classic, PAC-Designer, and iCEcube2). Diamond Programmer is fully integrated into Diamond and is also available as a standalone application. Diamond Programmer tool simplifies the most common steps:
Lattice Diamond Programmer offers an easy to use solution for programming all Lattice JTAG-based devices. In addition to FPGAs supported in Lattice Diamond, devices from ispLEVER Classic, PAC-Designers, and iCEcube2 are supported by Programmer when used in standalone mode.
Deployment Tool is included as part of Programmer. Deployment Tool offers a wizard-based GUI for deploying programming tools for many different functions. These include file conversion, deploying to testers, using for embedded programming, and deploying to external memory.
Download Debugger is a tool for debugging SVF and STAPL files. This functionality is included with Lattice Diamond and the standalone Programmer tools.


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Welcome to High Wycombe Cycling Club
Founded in 1924 based in Buckinghamshire
High Wycombe Cycling Club was founded in 1924 and has produced many accomplished cyclists across many disciplines. The club has over 200 members participating in road racing, time trialling, cyclocross, track cycling and mountain bike racing as well as cyclocross events, social rides, touring, club runs, training and trips abroad.
On Wednesdays all year the club meets at West Wycombe village hall from 7:30pm for keep-fit, core training, turbo training sessions and then afterwards just for a chat and a drink.
At the weekends we regularly meet on a Saturday at Stratton Road car park in Princes Risborough at 9:00am for a social club ride and on a Sunday we meet at the Guildhall in High Wycombe again at 9:00 for a traditional club run.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Now that the city of Topeka has approved the 2012 Uniform Public Offense Code, openly transporting a loaded firearm in your car will be legal. The new ordinance takes effect next Monday, December 10, according to City spokeswoman Suzie Gilbert.
"Shawnee County allows the open transportation of loaded weapons, but the city of Topeka had up to now, prohibited that," Topeka Police Chief Ron Miller said. In most of the State of KS, that's the same way. You can transport a firearm, in cars loaded."
Others say it could only lead to trouble.
"My main concern is children. There are children that ride in cars as well. A loaded gun with children in the car, is not a good thing."
"It's fine in the county, but in the city it makes me worried for my safety, and my kids safety, bc we dont' bring loaded guns into town."
"Is this an idea l situation 5:53? absolutely not," It's a compromise solution, Miller said.
To appease both advocates of the second amendment and those who want to see more gun control city staff worked with local Second Amendment advocates to allow law-abiding citizens to carry loaded guns in their vehicles, but ban gun possession by those who commit crimes.
Miller said another new ordinance will be proposed to council next week. He says it will give officers another tool in fighting misdemeanor crimes.
"So the idea was to draft an ordinance that made possessing a weapon during the commission of certain misdemeanor crimes a violation of city ordinance," Miller said.
That new ordinance, if passed, would mean that carrying a firearm during specific misdemeanors include theft, assault or battery, stalking, theft, would be an additional chargeable offense.


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KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Two officials with a non-profit aquarium in Idaho have been charged with illegally buying eagle rays and lemon sharks in the Florida Keys.
Ammon Covino, 39, and Christopher Conk, 40, the president and secretary of Idaho Aquarium, were indicted in November by a federal grand jury, KeysNet.com reported.
The indictment on charges that include conspiracy was recently unsealed.
Covino and Conk were arrested in Idaho last week. They appeared before a magistrate there and were ordered to appear in court in Key West on March 15.
The two men allegedly offered to pay fish collectors $1,250 for eagle rays and $650 for lemon sharks to be captured in the Keys and shipped to Idaho. One collector allegedly sent four eagle rays to the aquarium in Boise last year.
In court documents, prosecutors say Covino responded bluntly when he was warned the collector could not get permits for the rays: "Just start doing it.... Who gives a ----."
Another collector allegedly dealt with Conk, sending the aquarium two lemon sharks. Prosecutors said Conk described the permit problem as "no big deal."
The aquarium, housed in a converted warehouse in Boise, is organized as a non-profit educational center.
In a similar case in early February, two aquarium suppliers in the Fort Lauderdale area were charged with selling juvenile nurse sharks without a permit and angelfish bigger than the maximum legal size to a buyer in Michigan.
Covino and Clark face up to five years in prison if they are convicted.


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dougoyster necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 156 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
Shellfish Growers of Virginia
Shellfish Growers of Virginia (SGV) is a group of companies and individuals that farm shellfish in the wild or in captivity. Right now the majority of the farmers are raising oysters and clams, but we expect to see aquaculture of other products take off in the coming years including but not limited to crabs, shrimp, mussels, scallops...etc. The farms are found on both the eastern and western shores of the Chesapeake Bay as well as the seaside bays of Virginia. Our industry is one of the few that is producing a sustainable seafood product of the highest quality, while at the same time providing environmental benefits (clean water). The farms/companies range in size from long standing family owned oyster houses to new growers with just a few years of experience. What bonds these companies together is a solid work ethic of never give up- never give in, a love for the water and their products they harvest from them, and an absolute belief that they are doing something environmentally friendly while at the same time economically feasible.
The audience would be the general public especially Virginians, but more specifically the lawmakers of Virginia our elected officials who make the rules that dictate what we can and can't do out on/in the waters of Virginia, we want them to know who we are and that we stand as a unified voice. Also the growers themselves both in Virginia and around the country as well as the companies who buy our products.
Below are logos for three other associations, all of which are pretty bland.
We want a logo that says Virginia is here and we do this stuff better than anyone. The state has a long and rich heritage in this industry so there is some pride woven into what we do.
We want a logo that someone would like to have on a hat or shirt but not cartoonish and not so stagnant or convoluded that you dont know what it is.
You can use "SGV" as long as somewhere "shellfish growers of virginia" is written out. However, a plain text logo of SGV with what it stands for isn't enough, we can do that.
We would like logo files that can be used in a website and that can be printed out on brochures and merchandise(hats shirts), certainly more potential for more business with us.
Below is a link to a blog post with a couple of the companies in the industry and their web sites, this might help you see who we are.
another company
http://www.bayoyster.com is our company another one you can look at.
Any tag lines for the logo would be welcome also.
Let us know what else might help you.
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For all the debate over the economic impact of the tax cuts and the boost in the federal budget, it looks like fiscal policy had little effect on growth in the first three months of 2018.
According to the newly updated Fiscal Impact Measure at the Brookings Institutions' Hutchins Center, "federal, state and local fiscal policies had little effect on the pace of economic activity in the first quarter of 2018, adding less than one-tenth of a percentage point to GDP growth." The Commerce Department said first quarter GDP grew at a 2.3 percent annual rate in its initial assessment released Friday.
The Hutchins Center model measures the impact that federal, states and local fiscal policy have on economic growth, and includes government purchases, taxes and transfer payments. When the index is positive, government fiscal policy is contributing to economic growth; when it is negative, government fiscal policy is subtracting from it.
Analysts found that "tax and transfer policies had a small negative effect on GDP growth" in the first quarter. A modest increase in state and local spending had a small positive effect, though authors Louise Sheiner and Sage Belz note that the "sector has been persistently weak over the last two years, and has yet to recover to pre-recession spending levels." Federal spending, which rose at a 1.7 annual rate, also provided a small boost.
Review the dynamic chart here.


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This One Crop Is Destroying Rainforests… And You're Probably Eating it Right Now
Each year, Indonesia's rainforests are illegally set aflame to clear more space for commercial palm tree plantations. These monocultural land plots exist to advance the mass production of palm oil — an inexpensive vegetable oil that's common in grocery stores and fast food restaurants, particularly in the United States.
While it is normal for these intentional fires to spark outrage among conservationists, this year's fires have burned an enormous area of rainforest and peatland habitats: 2.1 million hectares, or about 8,100 square miles.
As of 2014, rainforests covered roughly 600 million hectares of the earth's surface. While 2.1 million may seem small in comparison, each burned forest adds up to something significant. Before the industrial revolution, tropical forests covered 1.55 billion hectares — that means only about 38% of our peak rainforest coverage remains.
While in theory we can regrow a leveled forest within 65 years, it can take as many as 4,000 years for a rainforest to regain its full functionality. And even if we don't restore our forests, the carbon debt we accumulate by leveling Indonesia's peatlands could take more than 840 years to reverse.
Some might argue that replacing trees with trees negates the problem of deforestation, but that's not the case. Rainforests rely on biological diversity to maintain a sustainable ecosystem; palm tree plantations result in a uniform, less eco-friendly environment — one that's much drier, hotter, and largely lifeless.
Palm oil production in Indonesia has been blamed for the sharp decline of orangutan and Sumatran tiger populations, and is a major contributor to carbon emissions in our atmosphere. When forests are burned, a thick and deadly cloud of smoke is released into the air; palm trees aren't much help in reversing the effect these emissions have on our climate.
Humans and wildlife alike have been severely affected by this year's haze of smoke, which according to NASA has engulfed at least six countries around the island of Sumatra. People and animals in those areas are currently at a high risk for respiratory illnesses, suffocation, and even death.
The haze has already taken the lives of twenty-one people, and caused respiratory infections in 500,000 more. Native endangered species have it worse. Many orangutans, for example, have lost their food supply, habitat, and have been burned, or infected with respiratory disease. There are only about 50,000 orangutans left in the wild today, and these fires are putting as many as one-third of them at risk.
Yet, despite all this, the Indonesian government has yet to cancel its plans to double their production of palm oil over the next five years, due to ever-increasing demand.
Source: The Rainforest Site | Featured Image
Matthew M. Sullivan holds a bachelor's degree in creative writing from Grand Valley State University, with emphases in fiction and nonfiction. He lives smack-dab between some railroad tracks and Grand Rapids Michigan's third-busiest road, and spends his time studying film and literary fiction.


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Fab night with faux Fab Four
Janet Slate with "Rain" cast members Ralph Castelli, left, Joey Curatolo, Joe Bithorn and Steve Landes. Photo by Steve Peterson, Special to The Denver Post
The fans didn't shriek quite like they did in the Ed Sullivan Theater back in 1964, but the enthusiasm was defintely there when 350 friends of the Denver Center Alliance were seated front and center at Denver's Buell Theatre for "Rain," a Beatles tribute show starring the faux Fab Four: Ralph Castelli (Ringo); Joey Curatolo (Paul McCartney); Joe Bithorn (George Harrison) and Steve Landes (John Lennon).
After seeing the show on Sept. 26, the Alliance followers adjourned to the Donald R. Seawell Grand Ballroom for Beatles Bash, a dinner party highlighted by the presentation of the 2009 Florence K. Ruston Award for Philanthropy in the Arts to Leo and Susan Kiely.
The Kielys — he is chief executive officer at Molson-Coors — were honored for their longstanding personal and corporate support of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Separately and as a couple they have held leadership positions on the DCPA's governing board and the Alliance's signature fund-raiser, Saturday Night Alive. They have also arranged for the brewery to sponsor numerous DCPA programs, especially those involving students, community outreach and accessibility.
In fact, they were even one of four couples chairing Beatles Bash, serving with Dan Ritchie and Joy Burns; Margot and Allan Frank; and Faye and Dr. Reginald Washington. Ritchie is the DCPA's chairman.
The award was presented by Ruston's daughter, Adrienne Ruston Fitzgibbons, who attended Beatles Bash with her husband, Jack.
The evening's $50,000 profit goes to the DCPA's student matinee program.
BJ Dyer and Guenther Vogt, owners of Bouquets, oversaw the decor, festooning Seawell Ballroom in electric colors reminiscent of the psychedelic 1960s. The floral artists had double-duty that night, also decorating the Sheraton Denver Downtown for the High Hopes Carousel Ball.
Guests included Mayor John Hickenlooper; DCPA founder Donald Seawell; Kent Thompson, artistic director of the Denver Center Theatre Company, and his wife, actress Kathleen McCall; Qwest's chief executive, Ed Mueller, and his wife, Susan; Jack Finlaw, the city's director of theaters and arenas, with partner Greg Movesian; Alliance president Gayle Novak and her husband, Ed; Roger Ogden and Ann Penny; Stan and Sarah Sena, who are chairing Saturday Night Alive 2010; Dutchess Scheitler; Edna Chang-Grant; Barry and Mary Berlin; Hilja Herfurth; Jerry and Debi Tepper; Martin and JoAnn Semple; Jim and Kate Taucher; Jane Prancan; Bob Grabowski and Ann Padilla; Bob and Carole Slosky; and former Ruston Award recipients Bob and Judi Newman and Jim and Alison Shetter.
Joanne Davidson: 303-809-1314 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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brightlight precisava de um novo design de página da web e criou um concurso na 99designs.
Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 59 designs enviados por 27 designers freelancers.
A new site template design is required for an E-Commerce web-site.
TV Wall Brackets
LCD & Plasma Wall Mounts
Desired Color Scheme:
No specific requirements
Desired Style:
Modern, fresh, aimed at sales.
Accepted File Formats:
We would like a new modern design for our web-site TV Wall Brackets - which sells Plasma and LCD TV Brackets.
We would like to see fresh ideas for a new site template, one that is not too graphical, not overly texty, and is still focused towards converting sales.
We would like a new site header (no taller than 100 pixels), including a new logo, credit cards, Hacker Safe logo, a telephonists face, telephone number, and opening hours - please use the information from the URL provided above.
The site should be based on a full-screen design, and the layout of the page should be similar to this site.
We have no specific requirements for any particular colour, although various text links through the site will use Internet Blue (#000066) so ensure your colour scheme doesn't clash. We are open to suggestions.


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