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Piece of Cake: DIY English Wedding (Fruitcake) Cake
Prince William and Kate Middleton's eight-tiered wedding cake was a traditional English fruitcake handled by Leicestershire-based cake designer Fiona Cairns.
Having a wedding fruitcake is a longstanding British tradition, but in no way was the cake for Prince William and Kate your average fruitcake. It was decorated using the Lambeth technique, a style of cake decorating that uses intricate piping to create 3D scrollwork, leaves, flowers and other decorations. It's rumored that their cake had over 900 sugar-paste flowers. This is popular in England, but is used by cake decorators around the world. Because these cakes are traditionally all white or cream colored, they are often accented with fresh fruit or flowers for brides who want a pop of color. The result is a gorgeous, detailed wedding cake that looks very traditional and elegant.
Why not stay true to the British way and try your hand at your own fruitcake? If you've never been a fan of the dense cake, try a traditional English version, such as the recipe below, which is packed with dried fruits and repeatedly brushed with brandy. Thanks to JoyofBaking.com for this delicious recipe! Don't miss a recipe for Royal Icing and a Fruitcaker Hater's Fruitcake recipe below as well!
Traditional British Fruitcake
1 cup butter, unsalted
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
3 large eggs
3 tablespoons brandy plus extra for brushing the cake
Juice and zest from one orange
Zest from one lemon
3/4 cup ground almonds
1 cup hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, or almonds, chopped
1 1/2 pounds of an assortment of dried fruits (dried apricots, figs, prunes, etc.), candied and chopped mixed peel, and glace cherries (chopped into bite size pieces)
3/4 pound of an assortment of raisins, sultanas, currants, dried cranberries and/or cherries
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Grease an 8" spring form pan with removable bottom. Line the bottom of the pan with buttered parchment paper. Also line the sides of the pan with a strip of buttered parchment paper that extends about 2 inches above the pan. Preheat oven to 325°F.
Beat the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add the brandy, juice and zest of the orange, and zest of the lemon. Then, fold in the ground almonds, chopped nuts and all the dried and candied fruits. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder. Fold this into the cake batter.
Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and, if desired, sprinkle the top of the cake with blanched almonds. Place the spring form pan on a larger baking sheet. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour. Reduce the oven temperature to 300°F and bake for an additional 1 hour 30 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. Place pan on a wire rack to cool. With a skewer, poke holes in the top surface of the cake and brush with a little brandy. Wrap the cake thoroughly in plastic wrap and aluminum foil and place in a cake tin or plastic bag. Brush the cake periodically (once or twice a week) with brandy until you're ready to serve. This cake will keep several weeks or it can be frozen.
Royal Icing
Royal Icing is thought to get its name from having been the traditional icing for fruitcake – the wedding cake of choice for English royalty. An advantage to using royal icing is that it seals in the freshness of the cake. Below is a recipe that you can use with a fruitcake recipe or to decorate just about anything. If you need to adjust the thickness, add a little milk or a little more confectioners' sugar.
1 lb. confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla, orange, peppermint or other extract
3 large egg whites (you can use pasteurized egg whites or meringue powder)
3 to 6 drops edible glycerin (optional)
Sift together the confectioner's sugar and cream of tartar 2 or 3 times. In a large bowl, combine the vanilla, egg whites and glycerin and mix until frothy. Slowly add the sugar mixture. Turn the mixer speed to high and beat for 3-4 minutes.
For those of you who have decide there isn't a fruitcake in the world that would win you over, we dare you to give this fun fruitcake recipe a try!
BONUS: Fruitcake Haters' Fruitcake
2 cups butter
2 1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup honey
10 eggs
4 cups flour, sifted
2 tsp cinnamon
2 t baking powder
1 tsp allspice
3/4 t salt
7 1/2 cups dried fruits bits and nuts (any combination will work)
1 cup apricot nectar
1/2 cup light cream
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1 cup brandy (optional)
1/4 cup orange liqueur (optional)
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Cream together the butter, brown sugar and honey. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well. In another bowl sift together the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, allspice and salt. Stir half of the dry mix into the butter mixture. Dredge (i.e. dust or cover) the dried fruit and nuts with the remaining dry mixture. Combine the apricot nectar, light cream and lemon juice to the batter and fold in the fruit mixture.
Divide the batter into four buttered and floured 9.5 x 5 inch loaf pans and bake for 2.5¬–3 hours, until tester comes out clean. Cool the fruitcakes in pans on a rack. In a bowl combine the brandy and orange liqueur and sprinkle each cake with 1/4 the blend. Let cakes stand one hour to cool.
Visit the links below for other cake-related posts:
Groom's Cakes
Hampton Roads Vendors
DIY Cake Sizes and Slices
Cupcake Wedding Cakes


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Summer in Georgia is a time for outdoor activities, especially on the water. But when water craft operators behave negligently, tragedy can result. For example, an 11-year-old boy was recently declared brain dead several days after suffering a traumatic brain injury in a Jet Ski accident on Lake Lanier.
Authorities say the youngster was riding on an inner tube being pulled by a pontoon boat when a 38-year-old man apparently attempted to ride across the wake of the boat on a Jet Ski.
The Jet Ski ran over the inner tube, injuring the boy and a 15-year-old girl who was riding with him. The boy was pulled from the water by two unidentified good Samaritans. Both victims were flown to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Officials confirm that the 15-year-old suffered a laceration to her head and a broken arm. Three days following the accident the 11-year-old was pronounced brain dead. All persons involved were apparently members of the same party who had rented the pontoon boat and the Jet Ski.
Charges were not immediately filed against the 38-year-old man; however authorities said charges were pending following completion of the investigation.
Even though the accident occurred on a waterway as opposed to a roadway, rules of negligence for determining civil liability still apply. The operator of a motor-driven vehicle must operate the vehicle in a reasonable manner in order to avoid injury to other persons. If the operator is reckless or negligent in operating the vehicle, all injuries actually resulting from the negligence are compensable and may be recovered in a lawsuit filed in the court of proper jurisdiction.
Source: ABC News, "Usher's Stepson's Accident Still Under Investigation," Sheila Marikar, July 11, 2012; CBS Atlanta, "Usher's stepson brain dead after Jet Ski accident, Jet Ski driver identified", Katie Brace, July 9, 2012

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Earlier this month I was chosen through the lovely Bloggers Required to review the Instanatural Cellulite Cream. If you have seen any posts in the past, you may have seen I have reviewed some of their products in the past and have enjoyed using them so I was excited to try this one out.
The tub is a handy size and the cream itself is a coffee/caramel sort of colour. The first thing I noticed is that the cream has a bit of an odd smell. It doesn't put me off applying the cream itself, however it requires a fair amount of rubbing into the skin. The cream does contain caffeine so this might contribute to the smell of it and some of you out there may like the smell, but it wasnt for me.
I used the cream as the label told me to and mainly used it on my legs. I will admit that I do have a bit of orange peel leg syndrome but it's not necessarily the most noticeable thing in the world, however I know it's there and that's enough to try to make me prevent any more. I have noticed my legs are incredibly smooth after using this cream but I have only been using the cream for a couple of weeks now so I'm yet to see much of a difference to my skin. If I was honest I probably wouldn't purchase this product again as the smell really puts me off of it. It might work for someone longer term if they can put up with the smell but it's not a product for me.
I hope you enjoyed this review and thanks for reading.
Laura x


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Mon 30 Apr 2012
Preview: Waka Flocka Flame Feat. Trey Songz "I Don't Really Care" (Video)Posted by Mr.North under Video Preview , Videos
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Waka Flocka's ready to set the summer blazing with his anticipated Triple F Life sophomore album coming June 12. Here's a sneak peek at the upcoming video for his Trey Songz-assisted single, "I Don't Really Care." Before BET's 106 & Park premieres the video this week, watch the TAJ-directed preview up top.
Below, you can watch Waka's video for "Foreign Shit (Paris)"….
Previously: Waka Flocka Flame and Trey Songz Go Mobbin' On Set of "I Don't Really Care"
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man I wish I could hear Mobb Deep rip dat "Foreign Shit" beat


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The eyeglass case is made from a Riley Blake fabric from the Geeky Chic line; isn't it cute?
Prym recently released all kinds of new purse hardware; snap frames, handles, magnetic closures and more. I am slowly working my way through the bag to make up some samples; here are my first 2. An eyeglass case and a small bag with snap frame.
The eyeglass case is made from a Riley Blake fabric from the Geeky Chic line; isn't it cute?
Maritimes Trip
Its been a long time since I last posted; so much has happened. I spent a week travelling around the Maritimes visiting sewing and quilting stores and businesses. It was a great week. The weather was fabulous, and everyone was so friendly and welcoming. Here are just a few pics.
My name is Betty Gormick and I live in Ontario with my husband and son. I work with Gordon Fabrics, a supplier of quilting and fashion fabrics, and H. A Kidd, the largest supplier of sewing, quilting and knitting notions and yarns in Canada. Join me as I travel all over Ontario and the Maritimes, visiting great quilting, knitting and sewing stores, introducing new products and meeting great people.


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Hot Rock Expedition 5: Lukenya and Hell's Gate, Kenya
Kenya is the true cradle of African rock climbing. While American climbers were scaling Yosemite walls in the 1960s and '70s, European ex-patriots were putting up first ascents in Africa on various crags around Nairobi.
Our next visit to Kenya was directed toward these well-established climbing areas. Hell's Gate may be the most amazing, since it is also a national park. It is abundant with big herds of zebras and giraffes, while the near Naivasha lake is full of flamingos. Climbing there means a great safari-tour at the same time.
The Entrance Wall has some perfectly clean splitters, very much like Indian Creek, and just as slick. The rock is hard slate. The cracks vary in size from thin fingers to hands to offwidth, with many lines next to each other, and they all have an anchor on top. We called it the "sport-trad. Farther down is the Main Wall with multi-pitch climbs of similar quality of rock, but not as clean and with slightly challenging route-finding
Our second stop was at Lukenya. The climbing there revealed mind-blowing mental routes put up by some definitely crazy Brits. The most impressive crag was The Edinburg Castle, which offered a few unbelievable lines up some invisible features. First we tested The Waterloo (5.10a). We started contemplating the Brits' sanity when the ends of our fingertips were barely bending over some lichen-covered miniscule face holds, while getting pumped out some 20 feet above our last tiny nut... Our second choice was The Princess Street (5.10c), which diagonally scales the middle of the wall between its two major overhangs. That route offered some 50 feet whipper-potential. We had definitely fun!
Lukenya also has excellent sport climbing. There are a few walls with relatively short, very steep technical routes, while others offer long lines great for testing one's endurance. We found a couple bouldering problems as well; my favorite was a traverse along The Double Cheeseburger, an interesting feature of one boulder stuck upon another. All the rock was granitic.
The crags around Nairobi were a welcoming change to be able to follow established routes. But since the guidebooks tended to be rather obscure at times, we often climbed whatever line caught our fancy, and only later tried to locate it in the books. We were often wondering if we may have put up a new route That way it added to the fun of African rock-climbing.
To find more about Hot Rock, go to climbhotrock.com


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Francis Wootton starts this story in Newcastle as a very normal fifteen year old. He has an older brother Chris whom he adores, a mother with whom he gets on well, an absent father and a grandmother with a talent for candour.
A diagnosis of leukaemia changes everything. Francis remembers his behaviour with a teacher who had cancer. Francis and his friends were not exactly understanding when she began to take days off and to look exhausted – behaviour he now regrets.
At hospital Francis meets Amber, a fellow patient. She is sharp and witty, from an unconventional family. Her mother is a huge fan of 'crystal healing' (imagine how Francis's caustic granny responds to this information.) Slowly Francis and Amber become close. Now we have a multi-dimensional emotional matrix involving the two of them and the various members of both families. It's a complex picture.
There is a huge trap awaiting any author of a book like this. It is really easy to turn the characters into stereotypes, acting in a consistent and predictable way – at the expense of any humanity. Crow avoids this trap with great skill. We find his characters utterly believable. In short, we wonder what they will do next.
This is a compelling story with three-dimensional characters, a powerful dramatic momentum and a convincingly sad denouement. I hope that some imaginative cinema producer is already taking out his cheque book.


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Rough Weather Strands Philadelphia Eagles' Jason Babin During Alaskan Bear Hunt
OutdoorHub Reporters 05.31.12
Jason Babin, defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles, had one of the better excuses to miss a team activity in the history of the NFL. He was stranded along with his guide in Cold Bay, Alaska living off melted glacier water and freeze-dried food for several days.
In his 9th season, Babin has become one of the more important players on the Philadelphia Eagles' defense after registering 18 sacks and forcing 3 fumbles during the 2011 season.
Babin told the Philadelphia press that there was so much snow drifting over his tent that "the tent was in our sleeping bags."
Babin had a few tips for anyone stuck in his situation. "You've got to pack your food, which are freeze-dried meals. You got to hike up a glacier with snowshoes to get your water. You gotta boil it. If you fall through and get while out hiking, no one's gonna come dry you off with a towel. You've got to survive on your wits."
Babin said he was doubly disappointed. "I don't miss [team activities]. I'm not late." Also, he didn't manage to bag a bear. "Didn't see the one I wanted," he reported.
Babin's experience didn't sully him on risky activities. His next plan: Running with bulls in Pamplona.


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'Israel plans to soon begin deporting migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, who number more than 50,000, back to Africa via Uganda, officials said.
Israel regards most of the Africans as illegal visitors in search of jobs, and largely rejects the position of human rights groups that many fled their countries in search of political asylum.
A statement late on Thursday from interior minister Gideon Sa'ar said Israel would soon begin a staged process of deporting the migrants, most of whom have crossed the border with Egypt since 2006.
Sa'ar said an agreement had been reached with Uganda to absorb the "infiltrators", who would soon be urged "to leave of their own free will".
Sa'ar said the prime minister's special envoy Hagai Hadas had obtained Uganda's consent, Haaretz reported.
The chairwoman of parliament's committee on foreign workers, Michal Rozin, speaking by phone, said there were "rumours" that Uganda may have agreed to the arrangement in exchange for a deal for money and weapons.
There was no immediate comment from officials in Kampala.
"In the first stage, we will focus on raising awareness within the population of infiltrators while helping them with the logistics of their departure, including costs, airfare and dealing with the possessions they accumulated while they were in Israel," Sa'ar said.
Later the state would set a deadline by which "certain sectors within the infiltrator population" would be asked to "willingly" leave the country.
Once the deadline passed, the state would stop issuing extensions on visas and would begin enforcing laws that prohibit the employment of illegal migrants, the minister said.
Rozin urged the government to expose more details of the plan, including whether there were assurances that the migrants would not be forcibly repatriated to Sudan or Eritrea, saying that in these countries "we know many would be at risk of their lives".
Human rights groups say Israel has jailed hundreds of African migrants and taken other steps to get them to agree to leave the country.
A few thousand are believed to have left Israel in the past year since a law enacted in 2012 authorising migrants who lack any official residence permits to be jailed for up to three years, said Sigal Rozen, policy co-ordinator for Hotline for Migrant Workers (HMW), an Israeli human rights group.
In July, a group of 14 Eritreans were repatriated after receiving $1,500 each from Israeli authorities, in what HMW denounced at the time as a "grave human rights violation", citing Eritrea's poor human rights record.
At least one group of Africans was flown out of Israel to South Sudan in the past year and other migrants have been offered cash to leave. Some 2,000 Africans are being held in the southern detention centres.
A fortified fence along Israel's border with Egypt's Sinai has largely stemmed the flow of migrants, who walked across what was a porous frontier at a rate of up to 2,000 a month in 2011.'
(Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/30/israel-plan-deport-african-migrants-uganda … removed now because of copyright bullshit)
Or this from Electronic Intifada:
Israel is a signatory to the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention, which sets out refugees' rights and states' responsibilities towards them. Nevertheless, Israel has not yet formulated a clear policy to determine refugee status. It doesn't officially process refugee claims and has recognized fewer than 200 asylum-seekers as refugees since its creation in 1948.
Today, the UN Refugee Agency estimates that just more than 54,000 refugees and asylum-seekers live in Israel, with the majority coming from Sudan and Eritrea. Because their refugee status is never formally verified, most refugees in Israel hold a "conditional release" visa, which must be renewed every three months and does not allow them to work.
The Israeli high court ruled in 2011 that employers in Israel would not be fined, or charged, for employing asylum-seekers holding a conditional release visa. While the decision effectively allows asylum-seekers to work legally in the country, many employers remain hesitant to hire them.
Last year, the Israeli government threatened to fine business owners and mayors of municipalities that employ African refugees ("Interior minister: We will fine mayors who employ African migrants," Haaretz, 24 May 2012). Israeli politicians have labeled African asylum-seekers as "infiltrators."
Earlier this month, Israel passed a law severely limiting how much money asylum-seekers could withdraw from bank accounts while in Israel and how much money or property can be transferred abroad ("New law to limit money migrants can send abroad," The Jerusalem Post, 4 June). The law now makes it almost impossible for refugees to support relatives in their home countries.
"We are focusing on the infiltrators' departure from Israel. Several thousand infiltrators have already left Israel and we are continuing to work on repatriating the illegal work infiltrators already here," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the law was passed.
As a result of employment restrictions, African asylum-seekers are often forced to work in the informal sector, where they don't have social protection or insurance, receive low wages for long hours and are vulnerable to exploitation.
"[A refugee] doesn't have family here. He doesn't have community support. He doesn't have any money from the government. He has nothing. So he's ready to work 15 hours a day," explained Orit Marom, advocacy coordinator at the Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Israel.
Marom said that Israel's restrictions are motivated by the government's hope that strict conditions, which include a policy of imprisoning asylum-seekers for at least three years for entering the country illegally, will deter others from coming to Israel. It has constructed a fence along its southern border with Egypt and the world's largest refugee detention center for the same purposes.
"This policy is not only harming the very basic human rights of refugees themselves, but also harming Israeli society and especially the very weak populations in the Israeli society," Marom said.
(Source: Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, "Africans Denied Right to Work in Israel", Electronic Intifada 25 June 2013)


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I was in DC this week for a conference. My theme last week was on continuous learning, and I put that into practice this week. Walked away with several ideas. It just so happens to be "cherry season" in DC. This is what got me thinking about time because the cherry trees are beautiful but only in blossom and last for 10-14 days. How ridiculous is that? Talk about a condensed tour season for cherry blossoms! Perhaps that's why all the hotels were booked….
Thus, cherry trees made me think about the impact of time in our work life as well. If there is one common theme I hear from executives, it is that TIME matters – there isn't enough time in the day; customers are demanding quick deliveries; month-end close must be rapid for quick decision-making, etc. I guarantee if you take too long to make decisions, you will miss opportunities. When you are 80% ready, GO! Sure, sometimes you'll be wrong but you'll gain many more successes that would be missed opportunities than you'll experience in failures.
One tip to implement this week:
The nice thing about time is that it is not a resource; it is a priority. We cannot increase or decrease the number of hours in a day; however, we choose where we spend our time – a priority. Thus, one easy tip that might be hard to implement is to stop whining about the lack of time! Instead, think about where you are spending your time. Even track what you are doing for a day – hour by hour.
Did you waste much more than you thought? Reallocate your time to what will drive results – your A tasks. Ignore your C's – you might never get to them; however, wouldn't it be better to miss a C than an A because you started with what was easy vs. what should be your priority? Also, consider this: Find a non-essential activity you can cut 15 minutes from on a daily basis. It will be pretty easy if you create that hour-by-hour log. If you do that for a year, you'll have found 91 hours!
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958), author and educational leader. Fisher helped introduce the Montessori method in the United States. Samuel Tupper was a novelist born in Georgia.
For more information on Fisher, see her biography in the American National Biography.
The collection consists of three typed letters written by Dorothy Canfield Fisher from Arlington, Vermont. In them, she relates her interest and friendship for Samuel Tupper, a Georgia novelist. With one letter to Tupper's mother and two to Tupper himself, Fisher recounts his visits to her Vermont home, his knowledge and grasp of the art of fiction, the similarities of Southerners and Vermonters, her readings for the Book-of-the-Month Club, and other literary matters.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher letters, ms 1122. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.


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We tried to reach Landmannalaugavegur but the road was closed. As far as we read online it was only supposed to open on the 15th of June (road F208) and we were there on the 12th. A real pity.
SouthEast Iceland
South of Iceland
after the Golden Circle it's time to go further towards Vik. Several stops are planned on the way, but here a view you'll see a lot in the area...extensive Lupin fields..LOVE them! :)
Golden Circle
The Golden Circle is probably the most visited part of Iceland. First because you can drive it with a 2WD car, second because you can do it over the weekend if you take Icelandair mystopover deal and third that you see a lot of the different landscapes you can find in Iceland over a smaller area.
Even if you do the complete ring I still suggest you to go, it is quite special.
Ready for a wonderful and exciting adventure in Iceland but let's not hurry. First thing's first: Reykjavik.


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Vincent performed on the show's "blind audition" round and was selected to be on the team mentored by Cee-Lo Green.
Tony Vincent Debuts on NBC's "The Voice"
Vincent has also been seen on Broadway in Jesus Christ Superstar and Rent.
The first season of "The Voice" featured Rent's Frenchie Davis, who made it to the semi-finals of the competition.
For more information about "The Voice," visit www.nbc.com/the-voice.


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Facebook might have come under fire on numerous occasions over privacy concerns; however, the fact is that Facebook has always offered fairly granular settings. The trouble has always been with the default settings, and the often convoluted process involved in changing these default settings.
In an attempt to fix this, Facebook has tweaked the accounts settings section on several occasions in the past. The latest refresh was rolled out a few minutes ago. No settings have been added or deleted. Facebook has simply improved the design of the Account Settings page to make editing and updating your account information easier. Perhaps stung by criticism about the closed nature of its service, Facebook is also making it easier to export your own data. Unfortunately, the data that gets exported hasn't changed and is still pretty limited.
This update is purely a cosmetic change. However, traditionally every little change on Facebook has been met with a vocal backlash. It will be interesting to see if there's one in this case too. My guess is that most people simply wouldn't notice the changes as they are quite insignificant, and the loudmouths are busy shouting about the horrendous new chat-bar anyway.


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9th EARSeL Forest Fires Special Interest Group Workshop
"Quantifying the Environmental Impact of Forest Fires"
Event Type: Conferences and Workshops
When: 15 October 2013 to 17 October 2013
Where: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
As we attempt to model the Earth System it is important that the impact of forest fires on the Earth System is fully understood and quantified. These impacts can be on climate, the biosphere, ecosystem functioning, society and livelihood. Fire disturbance has been identified by climate modellers as an Essential Climate Variable. Forest disturbance and the associated carbon flux needs to be measured and reported under the United Nations REDD+ programme. Furthermore, we have been very good at understanding the short term impacts of fire on forests, but less good at understanding the response of vegetation under different fire frequency and severity scenarios. The workshop will draw out the state of the art research being undertaken to identify and quantify these impacts.
Abstracts are invited on the following topics:
- Characterizing the impact of fire severity and fire frequency across vegetation types
- Validation methods for burned area mapping
- Monitoring and modeling vegetation recovery after fire disturbance
- Scaling from regional to global burned area maps
- Mapping forest fires for REDD+ MRV
- Using active fire mapping and fire radiative energy to inform on fire severity and impact


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Washington National Cathedral reopened its doors over the weekend, with Sunday seeing its first public service since an earthquake on August 23rd.
The 5.8 quake did an estimated $15 million of damage to the church, with the cathedral's central tower pinnacles feeling the brunt.
On Sunday, however, spirits were high, as roughly 2,000 people attended a service that saw 51-year-old Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde installed as the ninth bishop of the Washington Episcopal Diocese. Budde is the first woman to be given the job. A week of concerts and an interfaith day of prayer lie ahead as a celebration of the cathedral's recovery.
At Sunday's service, the cathedral's vicar Rev. Canon Jan Cope said:
"Thank you for your patience and support. This has been quite an extraordinary pilgrimage. There are lessons all around about opportunity."
New bishop Budde said wider lessons should be taken from the damage done to the cathedral, stating:
"Not just for the building itself, but for what our church is for, what the cathedral is for: a spiritual base where we can renew our inspiration and our strength."
The bells are ringing again at the cathedral, but signs of ongoing repairs remain highly visible. According to The Washington Post, swathes of netting still lie below the cathedral's vaulted ceilings to catch debris, while exterior scaffolding is also in abundance.
The 104-year-old Washington National Cathedral is the sixth largest in the world, and previously served as the site of the state funeral of President Ronald Reagan. It has also been used for inaugural prayers services for new presidents since 1985.


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Series: Wildstone #2
Published by William Morrow Paperbacks on June 19, 2018
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Source: Publisher
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I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Following the USA Today bestselling author of Lost and Found Sisters comes Jill Shalvis' moving story of heart, loss, betrayal, and friendship
Six months after Lanie Jacobs' husband's death, it's hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then Lanie discovers she isn't the only one grieving his sudden passing. A serial adulterer, he left behind several other women who, like Lanie, each believe she was his legally wedded wife.
Rocked by the infidelity, Lanie is left to grapple with searing questions. How could she be so wrong about a man she thought she knew better than anyone? Will she ever be able to trust another person? Can she even trust herself?
Desperate to make a fresh start, Lanie impulsively takes a job at the family-run Capriotti Winery. At first, she feels like an outsider among the boisterous Capriottis. With no real family of her own, she's bewildered by how quickly they all take her under their wing and make her feel like she belongs. Especially Mark Capriotti, a gruffly handsome Air Force veteran turned deputy sheriff who manages to wind his way into Lanie's cold, broken heart—along with the rest of the clan.
Everything is finally going well for her, but the arrival of River Brown changes all that. The fresh-faced twenty-one-year old seems as sweet as they come…until her dark secrets come to light—secrets that could destroy the new life Lanie's only just begun to build.
Oh my heart guys, I almost forgot how much I like Jill Shalvis romance.
I've struggled with some of the books in her Heartbreaker Bay series due to my disliking some of the characters in there that keep popping up, but Rainy Day Friends hit all the marks for me.
We follow Lanie Jacob's whose husband's death brought on a deep sense of pain and loss, until she discovers that she isn't the only one grieving his death and that her husband apparently had an addiction to marrying a lot of women, four in fact.
Lanie takes a job to reinvent all the packaging for a very successful winery, where she meets the owner's son, Mark an Air Force veteran turned sheriff who gave up his military career for his two twin daughters.
My heart. I adored this book. It was funny, it was charming, the romance was just right and awesome. I was a bit worried because I have completely struggled with romances lately and this just hit all the marks and pulled me out of the slump long enough to really enjoy it.
Now I know there is a mention that a lot of the jokes in here came from meme's, I don't follow meme's enough to distinguish that fact, so I guess it did not bother me, but I can see how it can bother other people.
Overall, I think despite that little tidbit, I absolutely ended up adoring this. I adored the romance and how Mark's daughters chipped down her walls. I loved the setting of the winery and the family. I struggled with the character of River and felt for Lanie with what she went through, it was unfortunate so it was awesome to see her find happiness.


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Denise Peterson is an attorney, mediator, arbitrator, and principal of her firm, Peterson ADR. Ms. Peterson has earned a Fellowship with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CiArb), establishing her as an experienced and capable dispute resolution professional. Rounding out her practice, Ms. Peterson is an credentialed mediator and mediation instructor.
Before establishing her firm in 2015, Ms. Peterson was an associate with Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius in Houston, Texas. She was national outside counsel to the largest national bank in the United States, including providing guidance in all aspects of consumer lending during the mortgage crisis. Ms. Peterson was the lead attorney on a multi-year investigation related to claims of violations of the Servicemember's Civil Relief Act. Her practice also included both premises and product liability cases, as well as the Deepwater Horizon.
Before her time at Morgan Lewis, Ms. Peterson was an intern at the Harris County District Attorney's Office in the Family Criminal Law Division. Under the supervision of an experienced prosecutor, Ms. Peterson worked all aspects of the civil protective order docket, including obtaining agreed orders, default hearings, and several dozen bench trials.
Ms. Peterson is a Director-at-Large of the Association for Conflict Resolution's Houston Chapter, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, active member of the Houston Bar Association, Texas Credentialed Mediators, and Texas Association of Mediators.
Committed to both mentoring new attorneys and outreach, Ms. Peterson is an administrator of several attorney-only Facebook Groups, including Houston Lawyers, Attorney Mediators, and Law Firm Marketing, which together include a membership of several thousand Texas attorneys.
Ms. Peterson demonstrates her dedication to access to justice for all people by maintaining an active pro bono practice. She was honored to work with Catholic Charities in the case of a baby smuggled into the United States, not only getting special juvenile status for her but also getting her adopted into her foster family. She currently volunteers with both the Montgomery and Harris County Dispute Resolution Centers both as a mediator and a mediation instructor.
She has recently been responding to the housing crisis caused by Hurricane Harvey by volunteering at legal clinics at DeBakey VA Hospital and the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Ms. Peterson received her Juris Doctorate from South Texas College of Law in 2010 and her Bachelor of Arts in History, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Houston in 2007. At the University of Houston, she received the Provost's Undergraduate Research Scholarship.
A second-career attorney, Ms. Peterson came to the legal profession after successful careers as a mortgage servicing portfolio manager and as an Information Architect for a leading technology consulting firm. Born in California, raised in Connecticut, Ms. Peterson settled in Texas twenty years ago, falling in love with the Houston area.
Areas of ADR Practice:
- Business
- Construction
- Consumer
- Creditor/Debtor
- Premises Multi-party
- Construction
- Residential Construction
- Commerical Construction
- Landlord/Tenant
- Property Title
- Insurance
- Commercial
- Personal Injury
- Real Estate
- Contract
- Banking
- Condemnation
- Eminent Domain
- Corporate Fraud
- Partnership
- Toxic Tort
Bar Admissions:
- State of Texas, 2010
- Juris Doctorate, South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas, 2010
- Bachelor of Arts in History, Magna Cum Laude, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 2007
Speaking Engagements:
- Houston Bar Association – Speaker's Bureau at Covenant Capital
- Presenter, "Pitfalls in Landlord-Tenant Law" August 2017, Houston, Texas
- Houston Writer's Guild
- Presenter, "Contracts – the Power of Language" November 2016, Houston, Texas
- Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center – Family Law Mediation Training
- Presenter, "Ethics in Mediating Protective Orders"
- Presenter, "Post-Obergfell – LGBT Issues in Family Law" both November 2016, Conroe, Texas
- Harris County Dispute Resolution Center – Family Law Mediation Training
- Presenter, "Post-Obergfell – LGBT Issues in Family Law" October 2016, Houston, Texas
- Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center – Basic Mediation Training
- Presenter, "The Terrible Three: Identifying Ethical Issues in Mediation" September 2016, Houston, Texas
- Texas Apartment Association
- Presenter, "Legal Updates to Landlord Tenant Law", March 2016, Austin, Texas
Honors and Achievements:
- Vis Moot Competition Team Brief Writer (2009-2010)
- ABA Regional Negotiation Competition Champion (2008-2009)
- ABA National Negotiation Competition Competitor (2008-2009)
- Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society


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British Cycle Quest
What is the British Cycle Quest?
The British Cycle Quest is all about getting outside and cycling to find as many points of interest across the whole of Britain as you can. This is a challenge you've got the rest of your life to complete - there are no time limits - and you're on your way as soon as you've cycled down the road and located your very first checkpoint.
Checkpoints are scattered throughout England, Wales and Scotland including many islands. Wherever you are you'll most likely find one or two checkpoints within cycling range.
To find the checkpoints, you can either use the map below or download the British Cycle Quest Question Book for free from this page below. Once you find a checkpoint, to prove you've been there all you need to do is answer the corresponding question.
You can also receive BCQ certificates and can buy medals for collecting clues. You'll gain your first certificate when you've visited 10 sites. When you've visited all 402 sites, we'll present you with an engraved medal.
It's a brilliant way to motivate yourself to get on your bike and go exploring, so why not start planning your routes? Take a look at the map below to find a checkpoint near you.
What are the rules?
To prove you've visited a checkpoint, all you need to do is answer a question about it. We tell you where the point is – you choose your own route to get to it. It's that easy. You don't need to wait to email all your answers in one go - you can send them back as and when, at convenient points in your BCQ journey, eg after a trip away.
You can do BCQ with someone else. Please let us know if you are and if you want to share a medal!
You are expected to arrive at each location on your choice of cycle, but we don't mind if you drive or take the train to the general area. We hope you have some great times discovering BCQ checkpoints and finding places you might never otherwise have visited.
How do I get started?
Start with the Questions Book or the map, work out which checkpoints are nearest to your current location, then get on your bike and go!
Just email the following information to firstname.lastname@example.com: County number, checkpoint number, answer, date of visit and please also any comment on the checkpoint. eg check point condition, ease of finding. Our Validating Officer, Stephen Dee, will check your answers and confirm your checkpoint score and advise of any certificates or medals you qualify for.
You can order free certificates for the first 10 and 50 checkpoints you complete, and Bronze, Silver and Gold certificate when you complete 100, 200 and 300 checkpoints respectively. You can also order medals from us to further commemorate your achievement. Upon successful completion of all 402 checkpoints, you will be awarded with a Platinum Medal and certificate.
A wall chart to record your progress is also available for free upon request.
Please note that due to the coronavirus crisis and some staff being on furlough, we are unable to process orders until further notice. However you can still email your answers to the email below.
Post: Cycling UK, Parklands, Railton Road, Guildford GU2 9JX United Kingdom
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I have seen many farriers come and go during the last 49 years I've spent in the farrier training business. The number of farriers who stay in the business longer than five years may even be as low as 5 percent. Why? What causes some to succeed and others to shoot themselves in the foot?
Here are seven characteristics that successful farriers have in common. It is often the lack of these qualities that cause them to drop out.
1. Humility. Humility is defined as being "teachable." To be successful in anything you must be teachable. Awareness of ignorance (lack of knowledge) is necessary before learning can take place. While you know what you know, you also realize there is a lot that you don't know. You are willing to "do your homework" by discovering what training you need to improve your skills. You make the sacrifices necessary to get the training needed to make it possible for you to excel. You read books, attend classes or seminars, and work with those who have the knowledge you desire for yourself. Arrogance or a "know it all" attitude is the opposite of humility. Arrogant people are so self-centered that they don't recognize (and don't care) about what they don't know. They figure they know all they need to know.
2. Activity. Marketing your business to the public should be your central activity for creating a successful business because your best marketing tool is a recommendation by a satisfied customer. You must recognize that each contact with the customer is either positive or negative. You realize that the customer's perception is as important, or more important, than reality – especially when they don't understand the work you do. You endeavor to make a good impression every time you meet them. You strive to make each job your best, yet you are constantly improving. Learn how to emphasize your strengths and downplay your weaknesses. It's a given that farriery is hard work; it requires a fit body and a high tolerance for pain. Laziness and carelessness are the opposite, and will get you nowhere as a farrier, except to the poor house.
3. Selflessness. Your motivation should be to help clients enjoy their horses and to help provide their horses a good and comfortable life. You possess what Steven Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, calls "an abundance mentality." There is plenty enough business for everyone. You want to see others succeed as well as yourself. Selfishness and greed are the opposite of selflessness. Because farriers can make a lot of money per hour, there is a great temptation to justify neglecting your health, family time, and self improvement for the almighty dollar.
4. Gratitude. No one gets to where they are in life without help. Acknowledge your mentors and teachers. Each time you use a technique you learned from another, think of them and publicly give them credit. Build a support network of successful people. You are influenced more than you think by who you hang out with. Robert Kiyosaki, author of Cash Flow Quadrant, says that not only will you become like the people you associate with, but your income will be the average of the income of your six closest associates. Plagiarism is the opposite of giving credit; you steal ideas from others without giving them credit. Give credit where credit is due.
5. Practice. Perfect the basics with consistent practice. Practice doesn't make perfect – rather it makes permanent. Practice with a knowledgeable coach. Practice against the clock. Practice daily; put it in your schedule. Master the specific skills that must be learned in this craft if you are to be confident and have a sustainable business. The opposite is to ignore the basics of your craft, attempt to operate above your skill level, and constantly reinvent the wheel while calling it your own idea. Working above your competence level may cause you to damage horses and future business by using shoes or techniques you don't understand and are not qualified to apply.
6. Investment. It is important to invest in systems to provide better service for your customers — the life blood of your business. Acquire software that will help you better utilize your client database and manage your finances. Diversify by taking money out of the business and investing it where you can get a good return. The opposite is not investing in yourself. You do nothing to improve the professional skills that form the basis of your service; rather, you get caught up in buying new tools, new vehicles, new "toys," etc. You must be the sharpest tool in your truck to consistently grow and sustain your business. Seek out and learn from those who can help you become all you can be.
7. Caring service. Your most important business asset is your customer base. Take care of your clients and horses. People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Do your best to provide first-class service to all your clients. Study the breed or type you specialize in by learning all you can about it, such as reading breed publications and searching out and evaluating information on the internet. When possible, attend the horse events your clients attend. The opposite of caring is abusing clients and horses by being habitually late, failing to keep other promises, or not striving to perform perfectly the tasks you are called on to do. It becomes quite obvious when you really don't like your work, and would rather be doing something else. When you care it shows. Your reward will be customer loyalty and confidence, which will make you want to become successful and continue in the farrier business.
As you strive to incorporate these characteristics into your business you will become indispensable to your clients. They will not want to switch to the newest kid on the block. They will depend upon you for the work and advice needed to keep their horses performing at their best.
Now is the time to set goals that include incorporating these things into your life. Develop the characteristics, systems and skills that will help you reach the success you desire. Spend time ON your business, not just IN your business, and you'll be rewarded with much more than just financial prosperity.
For more information on how to build a profitable and rewarding farrier business, check out our popular Six-Figure Shoeing at www.dougbutler.com . This book shows you how to spend time ON your business, not just IN your business — and you'll be rewarded with much more than just financial prosperity.
If you are a practicing farrier and want to boost your proficiency, master a new skill, or learn how to grow a more profitable business, we can customize a training program just for you. Call today to discuss your particular needs and plan to attend an upcoming Practicing Farrier Workshop at our training facility near Chadron, Nebraska. For more information call Jake at 1-800-728-3826.
Doug Butler, PhD, CJF, FWCF, has a doctorate from Cornell University in Veterinary Anatomy and Equine Nutrition. He is a Certified Journeyman Farrier by the American Farriers Association and a Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Farriers of England established in 1356 A.D. He and his sons Jake, CJF, AWCF, and Pete, CJF, operate Butler Professional Farrier School, LLC located near Chadron, Nebraska. Their recently published Essential Principles of Horseshoeing book illustrates – in color – the most important aspects of horse hoof care. Visit www.essentialhorseshoeingbook.com to learn more.


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I have great news, my fire character has finally made it to Azteca! I had a lot of help from Autumn Dreamwalker and her life character Autumn Lifesong which was good because I didn't think I would make it if I didn't have help. She helped me through a lot of quests and dungeons at the end of Avalon, since we leveled a lot, I'm not going to show you and tell you everything (since most of you are probably level 90), I'll show a few pictures though. Thank you Autumn for helping me quest through the end of Avalon!
|I had to show you this picture first, my quest before Azteca!
|Getting ready for Ghost Avalon, oh.. Around the Spiral with Casey
|He's tough, I think you're scared.
|I'm Edward, Gamma and Casey!
|Say hello to my dog!
|...and my Helephant!
|Dumb Bird? Seriously? You're evil and that's all you have?
After the Ghost Avalon dungeon, Autumn and I had to go to another dungeon and defeat yet another dragon! It wasn't so bad though. Well.. Autumn almost died, her life character had about 100 health left! We made it through the fire enemies though. I'm not going to post all of the pictures since there's a lot. I'll post a few where I'm accessing Azteca though! Goodbye Avalon, Hello Azteca! Thank you again famous Autumn for helping me get through Avalon, I can't wait to see Azteca and quest through and make blog posts.


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Could You Be A Living Statue In Covent Garden?
I know I already wrote an earlier blog called European Street Performers but, i just happened to be in town the other day to photograph a certain dragon outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, which I will feature in another blog some time soon. And, as Covent Garden was just around the corner and, as we wanted to get a coffee thats were we ended up. AND we saw something really amazing.
Have you ever tried standing still for longer than 5 minutes, on hot day, dressed in a costume and covered in oil based face paint, which is the type of paint they have to use as it doesn't run when they sweat. Can't be easy.
First there was this beautiful living statue, silent and perfectly still, she was. I read on this website www.thelivingstatuecompany.com that meditation plays part in this kind of street entertainment due to the long periods of time you have to spend without moving.
This chap i reckon had a seat attached to the base which ran up the inside of his trouser leg, great effect, but to sit there looking like you're contemplating having a crap.....
must have been easier than the gent in the top hat who i would imagine had to hold this pose without any help at all!
While wandering around Covent Gardens shops and markets filled with artists, boutiques and the odd antique stall, we came across this quintet playing a lively tune in one of the lower sections of Covent garden outside a restaurant. Lucky i was to catch the gentleman fiddler looking straight at me.
And then.....
How did the living statue of Yoda do that!
Answers on a postcard to PO Box 501. Only joking don't send me postcards! However I would really like your comments on how you reckon this amazing feat of levitation was achieved. I'm NOT joking! I want diagrams, sketches and written theories!


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Live in or around Central Vermont? Want to have a clean and sparkling home? Are you in need of a consistent maid service? It's hard to stay organized and on top of everything with the demands of modern life. Your house keeping services are here! I will wipe down your home and clean it in the manor that best suites you, tailored to whatever your house keeping needs might be.
Are you feeling overwhelmed or maybe you just know that you don't have the time or the energy to get into cleaning up your own home? I am here to help. I will give your home a genuine cleanse that is as general or as detailed as you need it to be. Realign your energy and let a professional with years of experience help get your home in order as soon as possible!
My promise: I only use sustainable and Eco friendly products to care for your home in the healthiest way for you and those you care about, because clean and sterile are totally different things. Some of the products that I use are white vinegar and hydrogen peroxides. I also only use reusable clothes to wipe down and clean your home.
Having a clean home can help you feel more at ease within the other areas of your life. I help to get household chores in order and keep everything tidy. No matter the size of your home I can help out. From small apartments to large houses, and everything in between.
Everyone needs a little help every now and then, I can provide anything from surface organizing work to an A-Z wipe down and deep cleanse throughout your home. It's time for your surfaces to shine and sparkle.
Whatever your schedule, financial and cleaning needs are, I can help accommodate them. Whether it's a one off service, weekly, bi weekly, or monthly just call today and work something out.
I am from Western Massachusetts where I started my first cleaning business, which I ran for more than five years before moving to Vermont.
I use natural sanitation agents to make sure your home doesn't end up with any strong chemical smells once I'm done.
So why wait?
It's time for your home to sparkle.


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Epson LS10000 Laser Projector Offers Top-Notch 3D
Epson's current flagship EH-LS10000 and his laser light engine may well be the most revolutionary projector for your home theatre. And it is stays under $10K (We found it for $7,999)
ProjectorReviews ranks it as "Best in Class", while for HDTVTest, it is "Highly Recommended"
Epson LS10000 Presentation
From Epson: "The elite Pro Cinema LS10000 home theater projector combines revolutionary 3LCD Reflective laser projection and 4K Enhancement Technology for the ultimate movie theater experience. Immerse yourself in stunning, crystal-clear images with unbelievable detail, even close to the screen. Offering 1500 lumens of color brightness and 1500 lumens of white brightness, the LS10000 also boasts an unprecedented Absolute Black contrast ratio, wider color gamut, richer colors and smoother gradations.
Full HD 1080p and 4K content come alive in amazing 2D and 3D with Super Resolution and frame interpolation technologies. ISF calibration tools ensure color accuracy. And, installation is easier and more flexible than ever."
3D on the LS10000
According to HDTVTest, the projector's 3D performance is of a very high quality.
Epson ships the EHLS10000 with two pairs of active-shutter 3D glasses, but we found additional compatible glasses on eBay for as low as $29.95 fro two pairs.
3D Resolution is full HD 3D (1920x1080 pixels). There's very mild judder with 3D 24fps material and crosstalk is minimal across a variety of 3D Blu-ray discs sampled by HDTVTest, so much of the depth and detail remained intact.
More Info
Visit EPSON for details.
Read a full test of the LS10000 inHDTVTest.
Source: HDTVTest, ProjectorReviews.


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Comic-Con Cosplay Revisited
Comic-Con might be three weeks in the past, but we're still digging through some of the photos we got from the event, snapped by Comicbook.com photographer Zach Roberts. Earlier we presented a list of the top ten Comic-Con costumes and the top ten Comic-Con crazy hats and hairdos.
Now, we've got some bonus Comic-Con cosplay photos for you. Some of these cosplays probably would have made our original top ten list if we had come across them earlier.
Speaking of Comic-Con, did you know the dates for next year have already been announced? Comic-Con 2013 will take place from July 18 through July 21 at the San Diego Convention Center.
10. Anime Cosplay
9. Batgirl & Harley Quinn Cosplay
8. Lady Boba Fett Cosplay
7. Brave Cosplay
6. Ghostbusters Cosplay
5. Judge Dredd & X23 Cosplay
4. Tron Cosplay
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2. Video Game Cosplay
1. Lady Captain America & Indiana Jones Cosplay


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Getting the flu.
Oh yeah that's exactly what my weekend consisted of... ALL WEEKEND.
Friday night I felt great. Got home and Bella wanted to play out front so I went out with her to enjoy the beautiful weather we were having. Texted my neighbor to come over and sit with me which ended at 1 a.m. with about 10 more neighbors over having a grand ole' time! (We really do have the best neighbors ever!)
I woke up Saturday morning with what I thought was the absolute worst hangover I've ever had. Except I didn't drink that much, so it wasn't adding up for me. That's when everything hit me at once. Full-on flu.
I had to cancel my girl's lunch (I am so pissed about this!) and Eric ended up taking Bella to our church Easter celebration Saturday afternoon.
Aren't they adorable?! So upset I missed this too, but there's always next year!
(On a side note, we have the BEST CHURCH ever. Gateway Church in Austin is amazing!)
They came back and brought me chicken noodle soup for dinner. I was out by 8 p.m. Woo!
Sunday morning Eric woke me up to remind me the Easter Bunny had come and Bella was starting to wake up. I actually felt somewhat better, so I was able to egg hunt with her.
The Easter Bunny was awesome and brought her an insanely big bunny & camo Easter eggs!
She's in love with anything camo right now & loved the eggs!
So it's Monday morning now & I'm back to normal...
only problem...
Eric caught the flu last night and is now home sick...
Can't catch a break.
Happy Monday.


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Kennington Park
Project date: July 2013 – March 2014
Location: Kennington Park, Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4BE
A mix of Victorian architecture and 1960's function. Kennington park has, like many of the parks in London a comprehensive mix of sports for all.
From the Portuguese under 16 tournament we were lucky enough to watch (some seriously talented players) to the boarders in the skate park, our numerous visits always bought a new sporting experience.
Imprint –
Photographer: Dylan Collard
Art Director: Matt Cottis
Further reading –
> Friends of Kennington Park
Shot using a Gandolfi 10×8 field camera, we captured over a 6 month period, we met some great people from all walks of life, using the same park to pursue their favourite sports.


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New Scientist
New Scientist magazine was launched in 1956 "for all those men and women who are interested in scientific discovery, and in its industrial, commercial and social consequences". The brand's mission is no different today - for its consumers, New Scientist reports, explores and interprets the results of human endeavour set in the context of society and culture.
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Drugs worth more than $30,000 seized at rave party operation
THE unauthorised rave party at Upper Orara on the weekend saw 19 people and seized drugs with an estimated potential street value of more than $30,000.
Operation Borasca was established by officers from Coffs/Clarence Local Area Command, assisted by Operations Support Group, Traffic and Highway Patrol Command and Dog Unit, to manage policing and safety issues associated with the 24-hour event, Frosty FrapTangle, which started at 2pm on Saturday.
Representatives from Coffs Harbour City Council were also in attendance because the event and construction on-site did not have prior approval.
During the operation, police, including drug-detection dogs, conducted 253 vehicle searches, including random breath tests (RBT), and located 41 vehicles containing drugs.
Officers arrested 19 people and charged them with 34 drug-related offences and a further 25 people were issued cannabis cautions.
Officers located and seized cannabis, cocaine, speed, ecstasy (MDMA) and LSD, with an estimated potential street value of $34,000.
In addition, officers conducted a further 38 random breath tests and issued 21 Traffic Infringement Notices.
Acting Coffs/Clarence Local Area Command Crime Manager, Detective Acting Inspector Peter O'Reilly, said police would not tolerate unauthorised events and illegal activity.
"Police have been working closely with the council to prevent unauthorised dance parties from taking place in our community," Det A/Insp O'Reilly said.
"We are happy to provide support to event organisers to hold exciting events on the Coffs Coast, provided they seek appropriate approvals and their activities do not put our community at risk.
"Across NSW, police continually remind people that prohibited drugs are not only illegal, but also highly dangerous and potentially life-threatening, yet some people refuse to heed our warnings.
"We have received reports that a young woman was taken to hospital during the event for treatment for a suspected drug overdose.
"People need to remember that police aren't here to spoil anyone's fun, our job is to minimise harm and keep our community safe."
Significant arrests during the operation include:
- A 19-year-old Forresters Beach man was charged with drug supply and two counts of drug possession.
- A 21-year-old Lismore man was charged with three counts of drug supply and deal with proceeds of crime.
- A 21-year-old Lismore man was charged with drug supply and two counts of drug possession.
The men have been granted strict conditional bail to appear at Coffs Harbour Local Court on July 21.


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If you like shopping here you will love working here even more, just ask our newest employees who have both been loyal Bob's BMW customers for years. Jim used to visit the shop across the street and every time would say to his self, "what a cool place this would be to work." I suppose that is how he came up with, "Living the dream" as his one-liner on his name tag. (Bob lets all of his employees have a little fun with their name tags). So now, after years of serving on the Anne Arundel Police Department, Jim suits up in the morning, hops on his 2004 R1150GS and rides to Bob's to provide the same exceptional customer service he received as a customer on the other side of the counter!
Our new Service Assistant, Chris is another long-time customer. After years of teaching math, science, and computers to middle school children, he decided it was time for a career change and shifted gears towards another passion of his…BMW motorcycles, specifically /5's! Chris will be assisting technicians in the service department to help them to provide your bikes the best service possible.
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Issue 026 is Claim & Reclaim! Monday features new writing from Craig Santos Perez, Tuesday features Kelli Anne Noftle, Wednesday features Gale Nelson, and Thursday features Travis MacDonald.
Craig Santos Perez::
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26 July 2010
New Writing
Craig Santos Perez's work serves as a compelling introduction to this week's theme: what is reclaimed after occupation, modernization, integration? Having just returned from a family trip in Hawaii, I found these poems wonderfully uncomfortable to read. They stick with you. They don't ask, but rather demand, rereading. Experiencing Perez's poems is much like hearing one's voice replayed from a hidden and aged recording device: when it is played back, we are indicted by the content but intrigued by the rich textures in sound. Through verbal collage and appropriation, Perez shows that reclaiming is a reassembling of what has already been claimed.
Kelli Anne Noftle:: Nomenclature & Take a Photograph of Us Here
27 July 2010
New Writing
If I could go back in time, I would have taken a minor in Biology. Why? Because biology gives us Latin, graphs, and specimens to understand the inherently incomprehensible: the otherness of other creatures. Kelli Anne Noftle's poems could be called an enchanted science, seeking to reclaim the sense of wonder and weirdness lacking in more typical forms of scientific inquiry. Her work straddles a desire to know something absolutely and an equally strong reservation that no claim, scientific or otherwise, can entirely exhaust mystery from the universe. Noftle's poetry is particularly enchanted with that moment of scientific suspension opening us into the infinite, if only in the form of distance. It is my empirical opinion that this is an experience worth reclaiming.
Gale Nelson:: Lasting Cure's Ideal & Their Vocal Soul Din
28 July 2010
New Writing
Because it usually takes its source material from another language, register, or dialect, translation is inherently an act of reclamation. But no form of translation excites me quite the way homovocalic translation does. The reason is that homovocalic translation preserves the vowel sound sequence in a line but permits a degree of openness with everything else; sound is reclaimed but it is used toward the construction of entirely novel lines. Gale Nelson's homovocalic translations of Shakespeare should strike you as familiar and strange at the same time—Hugh Kenner once quipped that Shakespeare was the only poet whose diction could never be predicted, and Nelson's poetry preserves that excitement. But Nelson's work is also strikingly original, managing to address topics as varied as city and keel in the span of one line. What emerges is something borrowed and something new, poetry that reclaims one aspect of the past to reconsider the present.
Travis Macdonald:: from
The O Mission Repo
29 July 2010
New Writing
Claim and Reclaim concludes with a selection from Travis Macdonald's
The O Mission Repo
. This text takes as its source material the 9/11 Commission Report and might be more accurately regarded as a kind of sculpture or carving, effacing large sections of text and leaving only certain details legible. In this sort of "constraint" poetry (for lack of a better term), political critique coincides with form: the source text is altered and, in alteration, subverted. However, it would be a mistake to consider this selection merely a political treatise; works like
The O Mission Repo
begin with language's materiality and play with its slipperiness. Listen to the music, repetition and lyricism it has discovered in the daunting and dry pages of a government report. Like any poetic form, its constraints demonstrate that claims don't exist in the ether of absolute truth; instead, each claim is vulnerable in its materiality to the reclamations of other artifice. And, in this case, we are lucky for what Macdonald has reclaimed.
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The Creative Live Cam Voice is a well-rounded camera for IM and Internet-based voiceconferencing. We like its audio options and clear, vivid images and its plethora of image adjustability, physical flexibility, and ample software, but we weren't impressed with the poor integration of animated video effects. This won't be a great loss for professional pursuits, but if your kids like to play with animation, the less expensive Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 is a better choices. For $99, the Creative Live Cam Voice offers many options, but if your needs are more basic, we recommend the less expensive Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks Deluxe or the Creative WebCam Live Ultra.
Though it's fairly large, the Creative Live Cam Voice is surprisingly stable. The camera's bulbous body, which is reminiscent of E.T.'s head, sits atop a claw-like stand. The spring-loaded leg securely holds the camera in place on top of a flat-panel screen, and the leg folds in completely, so the camera can also sit on a desk. The camera offers 360 degrees of horizontal and 65 degrees of vertical range--impressive, considering that the Logitech QuickCam Fusion offers only 90 degrees of vertical movement.
The Creative Live Cam Voice comes with a single CD that includes drivers, a manual, and software. The bundled apps include Creative Muvee software for creating and editing basic videos; My Orb for accessing files such as remote-monitoring images from a computer or a PDA with an Internet connection; SightSpeed, a voice and video calling service; Creative WebCam Center for remote monitoring and taking time-lapse photographs, videos, and still photographs; and Creative Photo Manager, which organizes videos and still photos by date. This is a remarkable bundle, especially since many Webcams offer only basic photo and video software.
The real value of the Creative Live Cam Voice lies with the WebCam Center software, which makes it easy to adjust color, image size, and frame rate. Two tabs at the top of the WebCam Center's main interface lead you to intuitive menus with a plethora of adjustability options. Creative also offers a bonus set of features that you can download from its Web site: Advanced Video FX adds special effects, such as psychedelic color trails and exotic backgrounds, to your picture or video, and WebCam Audio Control lets you choose from normal; Live Audio, which reduces background noise; or Directional Live Audio, which transmits sounds from in front of the camera only. Each of these control panels launches in a separate window, which could make for a cluttered desktop; we'd rather see them incorporated into the main WebCam Center interface. Using the Video FX software is also difficult and requires switching from the standard Live Cam Voice driver to the Creative WebCam (with video effects) driver with a drop-down menu in WebCam Center. Switching drivers results in markedly worse image quality and lower image resolution. We prefer Logitech's Avatars, which work directly in the software window without switching drivers or sacrificing image quality.
We tested the Creative Live Cam Voice under a variety of lighting conditions and were pleased with the image quality. Colors looked accurate and images were sharp. We did, however, notice a slight bit of digital noise in both still and moving images. Video was generally smooth, but quick movements, such as the waving of a hand, appeared jerky and blurred. Video records at a maximum 30 frames per second at resolutions ranging from 160 x 120 to 1.3 megapixels, which is standard for this class of WebCam. You can capture still images at any of those resolutions up to 1.3 megapixels, and the Creative Live Cam Voice can take 5-megapixel still photos, but they're interpolated. The WebCam Center software was a bit frustrating, and we were occasionally greeted with a "Failed to capture image" error message.
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At last week's State of the Division address, Dave, Deb and I shared some of the highlights from 2013, as well as looked forward to the year ahead. We spent the last portion of our time together answering questions from the audience, who attended both in-person as well as many who joined us remotely.
If you missed the event, you can watch the recording here: http://media.oregonstate.edu/media/0_ufqglzw1
Download the presentation slides (PDF, 1.5MB)
If there are additional questions or comments I hope that you will share them here or you can contact me directly. We appreciate your input and your interest in the division's operations and success.


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Teams can retain up to 5 players in IPL auctions
IPL teams can have only 9 foreign players, says BCCI
The auction for the 2014 Indian Premier League (IPL) will beheld Feb 12, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced yesterday. "The auction will be held on Feb 12 and if necessary on Feb 13. The venue of the auction will be announced soon," said the BCCI said in a statement.
The teams can retain up to five players and can't have more than 27 players in the squad, of which nine may be overseas players, according to the regulations laid down by the IPL Governing Council. They need to have at least 16 players to form the squad.
Players whether capped, uncapped, domestic or overseas must enter the auction if they were not part of the 2013 edition. A franchise can spend up to Rs 60 crore on the players' fees with the cap increasing by five percent for 2015 and 2016. The minimum a team will have to shell out is Rs 36cr in each of the next three IPL editions.
Indian currency
From now on, all players will be paid in Indian rupees and overseas players can be paid in the currency of their choice "at the prevailing exchange rate on either the actual date of payment or contract due date, whichever is beneficial to the player." Teams will have to pay Rs 39 crore for retaining their five players, leaving them with Rs 21 crore to buy the rest of the 22 players. A retained player can earn a maximum of Rs 12.5 crore. U-19 cricketers must have played a first-class or List A game before signing the the IPL contract, the BCCI said.
'Rights to match': Here's how it works...
The number of "rights to match" available to a franchise will depend on the number of players that the franchise retained in advance:
>> If the number of players retained by a franchise prior to the auction is three or more, they are entitled to only one "right to match" during the auction.
>> If a franchise retains only one or two players prior to the auction, they are entitled to two "rights to match" during the auction.
>> If a franchise doesn't retain any player prior to the auction, they are entitled to three "rights to match" during the auction.
The "right to match" is to be exercised as follows:
>> Once the bidding for any player who was in a franchise's 2013 squad is complete and the auctioneer is satisfied that no more bids will be forthcoming, the auctioneer will bring down the hammer, declare the player "sold" and then ask the relevant franchise if it wishes to exercise one of its remaining "rights to match".
>> If the franchise chooses to exercise the "right to match", the franchise will take the player for the amount of the final bid that had been made in the Player Auction.
>> No further bidding by any other franchises is possible.
>> Franchises may take no more than four capped Indian players via a combination of retention prior to the auction and the "right to match".
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Clueless in Hollywood
Why is this so hard to comprehend? Education inequalities are not measured by how many boys vs. girls sign up for lacrosse. They are measured in outcomes, as in, who is ready for post-secondary education. Look at the numbers. Title IX results, measured by sports participation, are hopelessly irrelevant.


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We are a church that loves to show Jesus' care for those around us. This takes many different forms in the diverse and vibrant communities of Newtown and Erskineville.
The community bike shed is for all your bike fixing and up-keep needs. We also organise donations of repaired bikes to asylum seekers. This free initiative is run by Newtown Erskineville Anglican Church & is open to all. It is on every Saturday between 11am-2pm.
We Belong is a community of adults with intellectual disabilities who come together to enjoy games, food and sharing in the good news of Jesus. It is on fortnightly on Friday nights from 7-9pm.
The community garden runs every Saturday from 11am behind the cottage of Newtown church. You're welcome to stroll through the garden, buy some fresh honey or join the gardeners in cultivating this beautiful space.
Room For Many is an initiative that runs twice a year to collect donations of goods toward the needs of asylum seekers. We consider it a privilege to partner with the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown.
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Service of Remembrance and Hope
We want to create a space for anyone grieving the loss of a loved one to be comforted in our 'Services of Remembrance and Hope'. During these services there is a time to remember in the lighting of candles and a time to find hope in song, some prayers and in the gathering together with others travelling a similar journey.
Upcoming dates: Friday 8th May, 11th September 2020
Bereavement Support Group
This support group is for anyone who is grieving the loss of a loved one and would like the support of others who understand.
This group meets at Erskineville Church (55 Erskineville Rd) on the last Friday of every month (10am)
Junior Jivers is a half hour music and movement group for children under five, meeting every Monday during public school terms in the Erskineville Anglican Church building. It's a fun session that includes singing, playing instruments, movement, dancing and a story time. Parents and carers join with their children, providing a great opportunity to enjoy singing and dancing together. It's also an opportunity to meet others in our community over morning tea and coffee afterwards.
Kids Club is an after school club for kids within our local community from Kindergarten to Year 5 and includes games, food and an opportunity to share in the good news of Jesus. It runs out of the Newtown church hall until 5pm every Friday of term. Our Kids Club Leaders are well trained, enthusiastic, love to help kids learn about the bible, and are required to have a 'Working with Children' check. As part of our safe ministry practice parents are required to register their kids using link below.
Graveyard Youth is a fun and welcoming space where young people in Years 6-8 can hang out, have fun, and discuss the big questions in life. We meet at the Newtown Church lower-hall, from 4.30-6pm on Fridays during school terms. Cost is $3 per person (max. $6 per family).
Our Youth Leaders are well trained, enthusiastic, love to help kids learn about the bible, and are required to have a 'Working with Children' check. As part of our safe ministry practice parents are required to register their kids using link below.


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From Limbo To Liberation
by Michelle LaBrosse
We all have one hiding over there in the groan zone. Its the unfinished project that lives in a strange sort of limbo. As Nassim Nicholas Taleb reminds us in The Black Swan, the longer a project goes unfinished, there is an exponential increase in the time to finish the project. Sound familiar?So, you see them lurking there getting dusty and forlorn, what should you do about them? How can you move these projects from limbo to liberation (aka completion)? Heres my Project Liberation Check List:
Why do we care about those projects in limbo? Because a bunch of unfinished projects suck the lifeblood out of organizations and keep us from moving forward. For the Project Manager, unfinished projects are our nemesis. We need to tackle them, evaluate them, recycle their assets or finish them.And just like life, when you look back, what is the difference between success and failure? Its often crossing the finish line. See you there. Ill be the one cheering loudly.
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Pharmaceutical Negligence and Florida Law
An improperly filled prescription can lead to a pharmaceutical negligence case. If a patient is injured or dies because of improperly prescribed medication, they or their family members may have grounds to pursue a lawsuit. Over one million people in the United States are injured each year due to medication errors. Some of these accidents are due to mistakes made by drug manufacturers. If they don't test their trial drugs properly, they may be unaware of dangerous side effects and unknowingly put consumers at risk. Because even the drug manufacturers are not completely clear about all possible effects of their own products, and because there is great variability in individuals' reactions to any drug, there is always some risk in taking any medication.
An FDA study conducted in the 1990s found that improper dosage was most often involved in fatal accidents. In other words, overdosing was the main cause. Some times this simple, but potentially fatal error takes place because a pharmacist can't read a doctor's hurried handwriting. Other times, pharmacists make typographical errors while entering dosage information on computer keyboards to print medication labels. The system is fraught with opportunities for simple, but dangerous, mistakes.
Complicating matters is the fact that in Florida, a person can be found guilty of a felony for unknowingly possessing or transporting drugs. Thus, if a pharmacist gave a patient the wrong drug, and the patient was caught by legal authorities, they could face criminal charges. Having a competent Florida pharmaceutical negligence attorney can be very helpful in such complex situations.
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I pick up the receiver and have no dial tone. I need to make a call
First, make sure you have an Internet connection. If you do have a connection to the Internet, but no dial tone, do a complete power cycle, starting with the modem, router and phone/pc. Power them back in the sequence, modem first, then the router and last the phone/pc, making sure to give the modem some time to reconnect with your internet service provider.
I have an Internet connection and have done a complete power cycle, but I still do not get a dial tone.
Try to determine the IP address of the phone/pc. If it is 0.0.0.0 then it is not communicating with your network. Try to reseat and check the Ethernet cable from the phone/pc to the router. If that does not work try connecting the phone/pc directly to the modem and do a power cycle.