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Thanks for visiting my website. Deadfall is out now. You can find out more about Deadfall and my other books here. There's lots more too - videos, audio extracts, games and
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OUT 10/04/2014 - Deadfall: Agent 21
Zak Darke is sent on what seems like a straightforward surveillance op in South Africa but it soon turns into the toughest, most dangerous mission he has ever faced. An old enemy has teamed up with a terrifying gang of child soldiers and Zak is caught in the middle. Having travelled to the heart of the African jungle, will he make it out alive . . . ?


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Creative Business Stationery Designs | Five Simple Design Hacks To Boost The Effectiveness Of Your Stationery
Creative Business Stationery Designs | For a second there, the entire world believed that print was on its way out. The introduction of email, eBook readers and other mobile devices rendered printed materials obsolete. Or did it? After the novelty wore out, we're witnessing the great return of the good old physical books and more business owners are realizing the power of good business stationery. Just like business cards, business stationery is no longer used just to provide basic information about yourself and your small business.
Creative Business Stationery Designs | Website Design – www.medianovak.com
Effective business stationery can do much more than simply help you convey a message or provide a potential client with your contact details. It can help you reinforce your brand, lend credibility to the words on the page, and act as a great marketing opportunity. To help you get the most out of your stationery items, we took a look at the design elements that can add that extra punch to any item and help it stand out. Read on to find out which elements are most important and how you can use them to your advantage!
Who, What, Where, How | Creative Business Stationery Designs
Business stationery is first and foremost a communication tool and you need to treat it as such. It covers everything from your business card and letterhead to the personalized envelopes and thank you notes, but the main purpose of each item is to deliver a message. Once the message is delivered, you'll want to hear back from the recipient, which is why it's vitally important you include your contact details. Keep in mind, though, that each item has specific restrictions and requirements, so you'll need to choose which details are most appropriate for each item, because some will not be large enough to accommodate all the information you want to include.
RELATED: Personalized Photography Stationery | Five Tips For Designing Photography Stationery That Conveys Your Unique Style
So, what's most important? For starters, make sure you include your name! Picking up the phone to call a company without knowing who's going to be on the other side is awkward, and it might turn off your potential clients. Also, your phone number and your email address should definitely be on your stationery items. Keep in mind that not everyone prefers phone calls, so giving your potential clients a few different ways of reaching you might boost your chances of success. Of course, the name of your business and its logo are the norm, so you'll want those as well.
For Font's Sake, Make It Readable | Creative Business Stationery Designs
Another feature of effective communication tools is readability. We get it, you stumbled upon a stunning hand-written font while browsing the Internet and you instantly fell in love, but if it's too complex or difficult to read, it definitely doesn't belong on your stationery items. The last thing you want is to have a potential client sitting there trying to decipher your message or your contact details. Whenever we're designing personalized stationery items for our clients, we stick to 2-3 simple, easy to read fonts. The human eye finds it difficult to scan multiple fonts at once, so choose a few fonts you will use consistently throughout your items.
Show Your True Colors | Creative Business Stationery Designs
Color is one of the most important elements, no matter what you're designing. It can make your stationery items stand out from even the largest pile, but it can also help you emphasize important elements and communicate a particular message. However, just like with the fonts, you'll want to limit your selection to 2-3 colors that are appropriate for your brand and actually work well together. Too many random colors will make your stationery stand out for sure, but it might be for all the wrong reasons. And lastly, when it comes to the colors you use, keep in mind that there needs to be plenty of contrast between the background the content. Light gray text on a white background is the perfect recipe for a disaster.
RELATED: Branded Photography Stationery | Print Is Not Dead! Five Easy Tips To Get More Out Of Your Stationery Package
Leave Plenty Of White Space | Creative Business Stationery Designs
White space refers to blank areas in your design, and it's a definitely an element you'll want to pay special attention to. It might sound obvious, but you'd be surprised just how many people get carried away and clutter up their stationery items. Sure, you want a creative and unique stationery package, but if the design of the stationery overshadows your message, it will be a wasted investment. Remember, the more important something is, the more white space you need to include around it to make it stand out. Not only can white space help emphasize certain areas, but it can also break up larger chunks of text and make the content look more organized.
Creative Business Stationery Designs | Website Design – www.medianovak.com
Invest In High Quality Stock | Creative Business Stationery Designs
Once you're done with the design and you're ready to order your items, do your research and check the available paper stocks for each item. Your potential clients will definitely notice the difference between cheep office paper and thicker, high-quality paper stock. This small detail can be enough to change the perception of your company in the mind of your target audience, no matter how amazing the design is. Think about it: if you hand out a business card to a potential client that gets torn or dented easily, what kind of a message will that send about the quality of the products or services you're providing?

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The theme for April's Make a Garment A Month Challenge is one I suggested - make something from the oldest piece of fabric in your stash. Since this theme was my idea, I guess I better get started! Sorry fellow MAGAMer's who are cursing the theme right now - I take full responsibility for it!
This selection of fabrics is the oldest in my stash. I know they are all over 15 years old because I had them before we moved into our current home in 2001. The two on the left are raw silk, the ikat in the middle is a cotton and the three on the right are linens.
Using Vogue 1382, an Anne Klein design, I'll attempt to use of these pieces in some combination to make the dress.
I think I'll mock-up a drawing of the garment too before I start slicing and dicing the fabric to see which placement I like best. That seemed to work well with my last garment. And - this dress will require a muslin so more to come on this one!
Happy "Stash" sewing everyone!
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
April MAGAM Determined - Vogue 1382
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This is a fun pattern; I've made the dress up in ponte knit.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, I'm looking forward to making it. It looks very comfy and easy to wear.Delete
Hoping you get to use the one in the middle. Unusual and dramatic!ReplyDeleteReplies
Me too. We'll have to see what the drawings look like first.Delete
Beautiful fabrics!ReplyDelete
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If you are in the dark about just what the new health reform law does for you, you're not alone.
If you are in the dark about just what the new health reform law does for you, you're not alone.
According to a poll released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 53 percent of Americans are still confused about the Affordable Care Act, even though the first round of its health care changes kicked in Thursday.
The Affordable Care Act provides many new protections designed to make health insurance coverage stronger and fairer. The more important benefits to individuals and businesses will launch in 2014, but some provisions will affect your coverage when you renew your health insurance. They also will apply to any new insurance coverage you acquire for yourself or your family.
For those who have health insurance through their jobs, the protections will kick in on Jan. 1. About half of America's population, or more than 176 million, receive health care coverage through employer-provided plans.
Although employers are expected to be hit with an 8-9 percent increase in insurance premiums next year, according to the global consulting firm Hewitt Associates, less than 2 percent of that expected increase will be a result of the new provisions under the Affordable Care Act.
"Health care reform has added to the cost burden, but that is only an additional percent or two," said John Vlajkovic, head of Hewitt's health management practice.
Greg Fischer, senior vice president for marketing at AvMed, which insures about 310,000 Floridians, agrees with those estimates.
Among the factors related to the Affordable Care Act that will increase rates, Fischer said, are the preventive care benefits for which you will have no co-pay, the lifetime limits on benefits that will go away on any new policies and the annual limits on essential health benefits that some companies now impose.
As an employee, you can expect to see your health care premium go up about 12.4 percent, according to the Hewitt report. That will be a tough pill to swallow for many. You also will face larger out-of-pocket costs for your co-pays and deductibles. Employees can expect to pay about $486 more toward their medical costs next year than in 2010.
So where's the good news?
If you're having trouble affording insurance coverage and earn less than $44,000 a year (or $88,000 for a family of four), you will get a tax credit to help you pay the cost of coverage. Nearly 2 million Florida residents will be eligible to participate in the middle-class tax credits that begin in 2014, and that will help pay for the cost of private health insurance.
The credits flow directly to your chosen health plan, so there will be no need to pay medical costs and then seek reimbursement at the end of the year.
Laura Goodhue of the consumer group Florida CHAIN says tax credits will make coverage available to many who are not uninsured and many others who are struggling to pay premiums. By 2014, all who can afford it must have health insurance.
As for area physicians, most are reporting few changes in their practices so far.
"Most of the consumer provisions are just going into effect now," said Dr. Mai Dean of the Primary Care Institute in Gainesville.
At the student health care centers of Santa Fe College and the University of Florida, officials are expecting to see more older students with health care coverage because they now can be covered on a parent or guardian's family plan up to the age of 26.
Dr. Phillip Barkley, director of UF's Student Health Care Center, says the Affordable Care Act offers an immediate opportunity to help students. Statistically, as much as 20 percent of college students have no insurance.
"Any student who doesn't have insurance is a student who is really at risk," Barkley said Tuesday. "When they do face a significant medical issue, they will have a plan to help them in a time of need."
A torn ACL suffered while playing sports or a kidney infection that requires hospitalization might not be life-threatening, but it can present a real problem for a student without health insurance, Barkley said.
With the coming changes, Barkley said, "Over time, we are going to learn how many students truly have no insurance at the University of Florida."
UF offers a health-care plan designed for a student-sized budget through United Healthcare Student Resources. However, it might not offer all the options of a parent or guardian's family care plan.
Since Thursday, most health insurance plans now will allow a student onto a parent or guardian's family plan coverage until the student's 26th birthday. If the parents already have a family plan, they won't have to pay extra to cover the student. If they have a plan that covers only themselves, they'll have to buy a family plan at the next open enrollment period, but the cost should still be far less than paying for a separate policy for the student.
There's a new federal government website — www.healthcare.gov — that lists insurers by state, with links to the plans' websites, where you can apply for and buy policies.
Anyone who is renewing and adding health insurance over the next few weeks of open enrollment season will get a first-hand glimpse at cost changes in their coverage.
Once the broadened coverage of the full health reform bill goes into effect by 2014, costs of health coverage should go down, industry experts say.


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Orthodox Church Eyes Syria for Next Patriarch
Al-Akhbar Management
By: Ghassan Saoud
Published Thursday, December 6, 2012
The Orthodox Church will bid farewell to its deceased Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim in a service that will see the participation of the churches of Russia, Greece, Jerusalem, and Egypt. As for Hazim's successor, Syria will have the final say.
Until early 2012, the late Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim maintained a close relationship with the Syrian leadership. This relationship was not shared by the patriarchate of the Maronite Church, but it was in line with the majority of other Christian patriarchates.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had perpetuated a family tradition of inviting the patriarch to participate in Christmas Mass held in a Damascus church each year. In April 2011, Hazim said that he saw "a positive and energetic desire by the government in Syria to foster the state."
"I always perceive Dr. Bashar al-Assad in a positive manner…and I know that he is the head of a family, and an honest man working for reform," he said.
On Wednesday, the meeting of the Holy Assembly of the Orthodox Church was adjourned until Friday morning, after several bishops, particularly those who live in remote parishes outside of the country, confirmed that they would be unable to reach the Balamand Orthodox Monastery today.
The Church's canon law stipulates that the assembly must elect a caretaker patriarch, likely a senior cleric, who would then set a date for the funeral of Patriarch Hazim, and take care of the administrative affairs of the patriarchate.
After about ten days, the caretaker patriarch may summon the assembly to convene once again at one of the patriarchate's headquarters – Damascus or Balamand – to elect a new patriarch.
According to the law that governs how the Orthodox patriarch is elected, candidates may not nominate themselves for the post. Instead, the members of the assembly must each write down the names of three candidates of their choosing. After the votes are counted, the names of the three bishops who received the most votes are announced.
After that, the Holy Assembly votes again for one of the three names, and whoever receives two-thirds of the vote is declared the winner of the first round. If none of the candidates manages to secure a third of the votes, the bishop who receives a majority of votes in a second round is declared the winner.
Canon law limits the right to stand as a candidate to those Antioch bishops who head parishes, or what is known in church terminology as metropolitans. There are about 19 prospective candidates, but many can be ruled out.
Church law does not allow the assembly to choose a bishop who has been a metropolitan for less than five years, so this narrows the list. In addition, the bishops of Hama and Latakia are ill and will likely not encourage their colleagues to nominate them. Meanwhile, the bishop of North America Philippos Saliba is preoccupied by the concerns of his vast parish.
Accordingly, of the remaining prospective bishops who are believed to be the most likely candidates, the Bishop of Brazil, the Bishop of Aleppo, and the Bishop of Horan seem to be the ones who have demonstrated the most desire to stand in the election.
Meanwhile, the most prominent Lebanese bishop besides George Khodr of Mount Lebanon, namely the Bishop of Beirut Elias Aoudeh, has decided not to fight a losing battle, according to sources close to him. Indeed, in light of the continued survival of the regime in Syria, Aoudeh's election as patriarch would be the equivalent of the Orthodox Assembly declaring war on Damascus, given his political positions that explicitly favor the Future Movement.
For this reason, Aoudeh has remained mum on his intentions. This is while bearing in mind that the Russian Orthodox Church, which supports President Assad, is widely believed to wield huge influence on the Holy Assembly.
It may also be worth noting that the attitudes of the majority of bishops over the Syrian crisis and the role of Islamists in the country are largely similar.
With the bishops observing a period of silence in deference to the death of Patriarch Hazim, a cleric familiar with the affairs of the Patriarchate spoke to Al-Akhbar and said that the events in Syria make it imperative and an absolute priority to pay attention to the Syrian parishes.
Therefore, he said, the assembly must think seriously about electing a new patriarch who is well-informed about what is happening in Syria, and who has a minimum level of experience in dealing with the Syrian reality, where the majority of the Antiochian Orthodox community resides. According to this source, this may mean that the race is edging closer towards favoring either the Bishop of Horan Saba Esber, or the Bishop of Aleppo Boulous Yazigi.
What is certain is that the Orthodox Church has officially lost a patriarch who was brought to his post by the bandwagon of the "Orthodox Youths." Like the majority of the youths' bishops, he did not discharge his duties in his post with the same youthful enthusiasm and instead worked quietly, achieving a minimum of institutional achievements and avoiding any clashes.
His successor, no matter who he will be, will not be able to achieve any miracles, not least in Syria and Lebanon.
This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition.
- Section: Portraits
- Category: Articles
- Tags: syria, Patriarch Hazim, Antioch patriarch
Note to the translator-- ابرشية should be translated 'diocese' or 'archdiocese'. 'Parish' in English ordinarily means simply a church, or literally رعية


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Welcome to this week's issue of Support Weekly.
We've got a handful of new folks here thanks to this post from Kayako.
Happy to have you on board. Here's how this works. Every Friday I'll send out links to five great reads on customer support. It could be anything from a recap of a support strategy to a data visualization of a salary survey.
If you come across (or write) something on support that you'd like me to consider for including in an issue, simply hit reply on any issue and send it over. Or shoot me an email directly at firstname.lastname@example.com. Or just say hi!
Here are this week's links.
We're Way Too Nice At Work - The Modern Team
Think of it this way: when a major league pitcher gets demoted to the minor leagues, he knows what went wrong — because his coaches tell him. It's their job to give him the honest truth so that he can improve for the good of the team. Maybe his fastball lost velocity. Or his breaking ball isn't breaking, or he's getting lit up during day games. And so they send him from Fenway to Pawtucket, AT&T Park to Sacramento, and he works doggedly on his mechanics. He works with coaches to improve. His team needs him to be better. His fans need him to be better. Everyone needs him to be better.
How We Transitioned to 24-Hour Support
We've found that our widely distributed team gives a sense of relief to the teammate who signs off for the day, knowing they won't feel compelled to log back in a few hours later to check whether the queue got piled up again. Now, we can simply pass the baton to the next teammate.
The three big customer service trends at Relate Live
This week, Relate Live comes to San Francisco. Over 500 customer service leaders and innovators will come together to explore new ways of building customer relationships.
How to regain customers after a bad experience | Desk.com
Customers should be able to easily understand what the product is, how to use it, and what to do if they are unsatisfied. If any one of those facets should fail, you may have an unhappy customer on your hands.
How SupConf went from an idea to a customer support conference
The idea was 'driven' by the Support Driven community. Members of the community weren't happy with the conferences that were currently available. They felt we could do a better job creating actionable content for professional growth, and making an environment where everyone felt comfortable and included. So various Support Driven members started asking, "Hey, can we do a conference?" That was all the spark we needed.


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Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today reported revenue of $2.475 billion, hard-drive unit shipments of 52.2 million and net income of $225 million, or $0.96 per share, for its second fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31, 2010. In the year-ago quarter, the company reported revenue of $2.619 billion, shipped 49.5 million hard drives, and reported net income and earnings per share of $429 million and $1.85, respectively.
The company generated $505 million in cash from operations during the December quarter, ending with total cash and cash equivalents of $3.1 billion.
"We are pleased to deliver better-than-expected revenues, profitability and gross margin in the December quarter, reflecting solid execution and an improvement in hard drive industry conditions compared with the prior two quarters," said John Coyne, president and chief executive officer. "The opportunity for profitable growth in our industry remains tremendous and we are committed to improving our financial performance over the longer term. We plan to do so with a continued emphasis on our industry-leading low-cost structure, high quality, highly reliable and highly available products, and a sharp focus on matching production with true customer demand."
The investment community conference call to discuss these results will be broadcast live over the Internet today at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST. The call will be accessible live and on an archived basis via the link below. The company is publishing an expanded investor summary sheet today on the investor relations section of its Web site. After the conclusion of today's webcast conference call, the summary sheet will be updated to reflect the company's guidance.
About WD
WD, one of the storage industry's pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.
WD was founded in 1970. The company's storage products are marketed to leading OEMs, systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under the Western Digital® and WD brand names. Visit the Investor section of the company's Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.
This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning opportunities for growth in the industry and WD's financial performance. The foregoing forward-looking statements are based on WD's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including: the impact of continued uncertainty and volatility in global economic conditions; supply and demand conditions in the hard drive industry; actions by competitors; unexpected advances in competing technologies; uncertainties related to the development and introduction of products based on new technologies and expansion into new data storage markets; business conditions and growth in the various hard drive markets; pricing trends and fluctuations in average selling prices; changes in the availability and cost of commodity materials and specialized product components that WD does not make internally; and other risks and uncertainties listed in WD's recent Form 10-Q filed with the SEC Oct. 29, 2010, to which your attention is directed. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and WD undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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"In the centre of Milan [Italy], a loft inside a 19th century soap factory was transformed to be a hybrid between a home and a professional design office."
"In the centre of Milan [Italy], a loft inside a 19th century soap factory was transformed to be a hybrid between a home and a professional design office."
A series of simple yet highly effective design solutions allowed the space to switch in the blink of an eye from an office to a home and vice versa without obstructing the space or abundant flow of light. The non-invasive interventions sanded off the rough edges of the industrial feeling yet staying true to the industrial heritage.
The building's past was the starting point of the new project: a glass version of the "supervisor's office" (with a 4,5m tall sliding glass door) was raised above the antique wooden work floor creating an office space that is isolated acoustically while still seeing the rest of the open space and preserving the abundant flow of light from the roof window.
During office hours, doors appear out of the seamless lateral panels and transform the dining room into the meeting room by hiding the kitchen in an oversized closet.
The tall windows and ceiling light make the space bathe in light, creating a feeling of great lightness. However he 50 cm tall I-beams were sorely prominent. To make them lighter, L-profiles were welded onto the vertical part of the I-beams to recreate the top part of the beams. This gave us the support for the fake ceiling, and created the technical space for air-conditioning, lights, electricity, etc… The final result was that the originally very heavy I-beams became delicate like twigs, and this without being untrue to the nature of their function.
The semi-underground decanting tubs - once used for the soap production - were transformed into one big sleeping room with dressing room and bathroom.


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Nars Sheer Lipstick
This lipstick contains long lasting colour pigments that have been suspended in this translucent formula to provide a sheer, natural tint to the lips.
Once you start wearing NARS lipstick, you won't want to wear anything else.
Nars Sheer Lipstick
This lipstick contains long lasting colour pigments that have been suspended in this translucent formula to provide a sheer, natural tint to the lips.
Once you start wearing NARS lipstick, you won't want to wear anything else.
Where reviews refer to foods or cosmetic products, results may vary from person to person. Customer reviews are independent and do not represent the views of The Hut Group.
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I purchased this lipstick in the colour damage. Its a sheer natural plum colour that brightens my lips and is not too dark, great for everyday wear. Really pleased with it.
this is what i look for long time. very nature
Shade I bought is Manhunt. It's beautiful. All in all, lovely product, good quality
It is the labial perfect for those who want to start with red lipstick and do not dare, easy to carry, extremely flattering, moisturizing need it!
I use these sheer lipsticks in Dolce Vita and Gipsy. Dolce Vita is very natural and an everyday dusty pink colour. Gipsy is amazing if you are pale and want to use a "red/mulberry" colour that is not going to be overpowering. The finish is not too shiny or sticky. The only issue that i have is the moisturising power: notwithstanding it contains a lot of emollients and hyaluronic acid my lips tend to feel dry after about one hour.
It's my favourite colour now!I also bought a lip gloss which is as the same colour as this lipstick.
I love this sheer lipstick! It's sheer, but gives enough color to notice. Very natural looking! I have the Falbala and love this color for everyday use; it gives a nice subtle tint to my lips. The lipstick is enough moisturising and leaves my lips soft! Very comfortable
This product glides smoothly on the lips. It's soft textured and fairly moisturised. In my opinion, the Dolce Vita colour gives enough pigmentation to my lips, not too nude. The only slight problem with this comes to the delivery. I have made orders with HQhair many times and the shipping company they use is called Hermes. Hermes' local service where I live (in Woking) always leaves the parcel on the porch with a note. I have always been at home on the delivery dates and they never attempted to check or wait for the receiver to answer the door. However, their system shortly sends automatic e-mail to their customer saying the parcel is now successfully delivered. Luckily, I have managed to save the parcels in time. No loss or damage yet. I understand the standard delivery doesn't require signature, but it wouldn't do any harm for the local staff to ensure the initial check before leaving parcel outside. With a tiny improvement on this delivery process, I will be very happy to become HQhair's more regular customer.
I really like the texture of these lips leaving a veil of color that lasts many hours. They are easy to use them because are not heavy on the lips. Definitely are my favorite for more natural look and daily life.
I bought the above-mentioned two shades and I'm really pleased with both. As you'll expect from the name you do not get a super opaque lipstick, it is sheer to medium coverage for the darker one, Pago-Pago even has a little less coverage. Therefore the lipsticks come across quite natural, they let your natural lip colour shine through a little. The formula feels good on the lips, slightly moisturising and comfortable to wear.
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It's perfect service
Nice color. I will buy it again.
This Nars Sheer Lipstick is amazing. It is a beautiful shade and not at all cakey!
The Nars Sheer Lipstick is really nice and quite long lasting with around three hours wear before touching up. I highly recommend it!
Love this lipstick! I have the Barbarella shade which is a nude color with a touch of pink. It fits my pale skin perfect! It's also very creamy and hydrating!
I like Nars Sheer Lipstick a lot! It's maybe not the most durable lipstick in the world but it's very moisturising and can be used instead of a lip balm. Leaves lips soft and colourful. I choose shade "gipsy" and it's very easy to wear everyday.
The quality of the Nars Sheer Lipstick is good. Applies smoothly. The only thing is that the colour if damage is almost exactly same as my natural lip colour. Guess it can be a good thing when I want to look good enough without appearing trying hard, but I was hoping it'd look less subtle than that personally. I would like to try different shades.
Good lipstick, is very good, don't do it, very good color
I have been using NARS sheer lipstick in Dolce Vita for ages. It has the perfect colour: my lips but better (dusty rose). It is not an overpowering shade. 4 stars as the moisturising power is not the best. Packaging is great and the finish is not too shiny or sticky.
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For Democrats suffering from Scarecrow Syndrome ("if we only had a brain"), John Podesta, the man behind the curtain at the Center for American Progress, thinks he has the cure: a $10-million-a-year think tank now taking shape in Washington. In a city heavy with well-funded right-wing think tanks (Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, American Enterprise Institute, Hudson Institute, Federalist Society), the center is designed to provide some ballast for the other side. Starting in the 1970s, the conservative tanks have forged the ideas that built Fortress GOP. Podesta believes that what the Democrats need to "balance the national debate" is a Heritage Foundation of their own. Finally, the Democratic Party will have a "brain."
As yet barely known outside policy-wonk circles in Washington, within that world Podesta's center had generated lots of buzz even before it opened its doors last fall. Its arrival has been welcomed–eagerly, cautiously or jealously, depending on who's doing the welcoming–by the liberal and progressive Washington community. All agree that, at the very least, the center can add energy and ideas to the overall anti-Bush effort in 2004. But both Podesta's and the center's close ties to the Clintons, and their desire to appeal to Democrats across the political spectrum, have many people asking how much the center will accomplish in the end.
Podesta, a lawyer and twenty-five-year Washington veteran who worked for the Justice Department, for ACTION (the federal volunteer agency) and on Capitol Hill, is best known as President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff. Now, backed by a small group of wealthy donors, Podesta is assembling a team of former Clinton officials, Capitol Hill veterans and refugees from other liberal think tanks. Thirty-five-strong and growing (around Washington, it seems like nearly everyone with liberal credentials has sent a résumé to Podesta), the center also includes a phalanx of big-think "fellows," including Ruy Teixeira, Gene Sperling, Matt Miller and The Nation's Eric Alterman. Podesta's second-in-command is Morton Halperin, the longtime national security and civil liberties activist, while Laura Nichols, a former top aide to Representative Dick Gephardt, oversees a stable of media-relations experts. The center already boasts a significant web presence (www.centerforamericanprogress.org), and its daily Progress Report, compiled by former Capitol Hill aide David Sirota and delivered electronically to 28,000 subscribers, is a political junkie's "Bush Watch."
Podesta, who has gotten people up and running on white papers and policy initiatives on everything from homeland security to public education, relishes comparisons between his center and Heritage. "I'm a policy wonk at heart," he says. In its first few months, the center has organized a two-day conference on national security, issued a detailed critique of President Bush's record on antiterrorism and civil liberties, prepared a thoughtful analysis of the just-passed Medicare prescription drug bill and sponsored a foreign policy address by Senator Edward Kennedy.


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- FutureMrsM87
- 5 years ago
Fiance and I got engaged on Saturday. We've been talking about a beach/DW for quite some time, so I was ready to jump in feet first.. As a side note: it's a small wedding, just family and my best friend. Everyone is on board, we don't have to worry about that.
I've literally spent all day/night totally consumed by finding a resort. We're pretty experienced travelers and I thought that this would be mostly a breeze for us. BUT we are running into issues:
Either the resort is booked for our May 24th wedding date (I did expect this to be a little difficult) OR they have requirements we can't meet…Like arriving 2-3 days before the wedding.. EVEN for a symbolic wedding.
We aren't picky on where we go. We just want a resort with good reviews, and that will allow us to host our symbolic wedding there. We are pretty open to the other details & I know I can't be super picky with a 4 month timeline.
This morning I brokedown and signed up for DestinationWeddings.com – it's a Destination Wedding service/planning/travel agent. I paid the $50 hoping for some relief. I hope that this company has connections and can find a resort that will allow a symbolic wedding without applying all the legal requirements of a legal ceremony. Hopefully I'll hear from my assigned agent today sometime. Ahhhh…
Bee's, I'm so-so-so stressed. Any words of comfort would be greatly appreciated. Nothing negative, we don't want me crying at work 😉


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22 October 2004AMSTERDAM — A luxury hotel in Amsterdam was evacuated on Thursday evening after traces of the Legionnaires' bacteria were detected in the building.
22 October 2004
AMSTERDAM — A luxury hotel in Amsterdam was evacuated on Thursday evening after traces of the Legionnaires' bacteria were detected in the building.
The bacteria — which can cause the potentially deadly Legionnaires' disease — was discovered in the Amstel Hotel during a routine health and safety inspection.
Health board officials ordered a ban on guests and personnel taking showers and baths in the hotel.
The management decided as a precaution to close the hotel pending the results of further tests, probably until Monday. The guests were transferred to other high-class hotels in Amsterdam.
The Amstel Hotel was first opened in 1867 and currently has 55 rooms and 24 larger suites. A host of celebrities have have stayed at the hotel while in Amsterdam. The most recent include Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Rolling Stone Mick Jagger.
Huub Verweij of Amsterdam's hotel and catering association said the management's decision was "rigorous but effective". He told news agency ANP the temporary closure was the right thing to do if there was any suggestions of a risk to the guests' health.
The bacteria is spread through contaminated water and ventilation pipes.
Cases involving the bacteria that can cause high fever and pneumonia date back to 1947. People infected by the disease can die if not treated with antibiotics.
The disease was first identified and got its name after an outbreak at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia killed 29 people in 1976.
The last major outbreak in the Netherlands occurred at the Westfriese Flora flower exhibition in Bovenkarspel in 1999 when 32 people died.
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Mike Cooley was born too late. Had he come of age in the era of Willie and Waylon, there's little doubt he'd have given the greats a run for their gambling chips, blessed as he is with a booming voice reminiscent of Cash, a distinctive guitar style, and above all, the songs to contend with the legends. This is not to say he hasn't had at least one lucky break – as a founding member of Drive-By Truckers, he's had the privilege of playing in one of the greatest rock and roll bands America's produced in the last thirty years. Unlike his foil and fellow Trucker Patterson Hood (the Mick to Cooley's Keef), Cooley is not a prolific songwriter. So when whispers of a solo album began rippling through the message boards, speculation abounded.
Recorded by David Barbe over the course of three solo shows during a Truckers' sabbatical in March 2012 (a sabbatical which, it turns out, more closely resembles the touring schedule of the average American band) The Fool On Every Corner is a live album of Cooley's greatest hits, featuring just one new song – the understated and sketch-like "Drinking Coke and Eating Ice" – and a raucous cover of Charlie Rich's deceptively bawdy country ballad "Behind Closed Doors."
The solo setting wisely puts the focus on Cooley's nimble fingerpicking and his insightful, clever, often risible turns of phrase. Cooley holds court in the Truckers as the philosophical good ol' boy who plays the mean guitar, which makes it easy to take for granted how frequently astute and sensitive his lyrical observations are, but here, his band's (often misunderstood) associations with Skynyrd notwithstanding, he emerges more Townes than Ronnie.
Where his partner Hood tends to write highly detailed slice of life pieces in the second person, Cooley is often more elliptical, writing in riddles that frequently take a beat to sink in: "Who you see in dreams at night seem to spend their afterlives trying hard to live the last one down," "Jesus made the flowers but it took a dog to make the story good," "I'll be leaving knowing surviving you don't make me stronger than the weakest man who's ever turned you down." No one writes like this anymore, and Cooley, every bit the equal of Prine or Kristofferson, ably carries the torch.
The most interesting renditions here are the ones in which Cooley creatively re-imagines rockers as acoustic pieces. These are not merely strummed 'unplugged' versions of Truckers songs, but old songs approached in new ways, restructured specifically for the occasion of a solo set of music. Southern Rock Opera's boogie-based "Guitar Man Upstairs" is torn down and reassembled as a ragtag country blues, while "Three Dimes Down" transforms from a sleazy Exile On Main Street-style romp into a stark acoustic number that recalls Paul Westerberg's more plaintive solo material. "Carl Perkins Cadillac" is recast as an elegy, while "Where The Devil Don't Stay" surprisingly conjures the dark, brooding Dylan of "Ballad Of A Thin Man." "Marry Me" – still Cooley's finest song – dispenses with an original riff cabbaged from the Eagles' "Already Gone" but retains the song's irresistible swagger, even without the benefit of a guitar pick.
How much you enjoy The Fool On Every Corner will depend greatly on what you expect from a live album. Those anticipating an authentic 'put you right there' sort of document may not mind the sound of audience members tunelessly shouting along to every song, or punctuating any mention of sex, violence, drugs, drinking, or rock and roll with drunken howls of approval. Most, however, will find the crowd noise – which is inexplicably high in the mix – very distracting, and may find themselves wishing Cooley had just cut these tunes in the studio instead.
Still, as a showcase for Mike Cooley's songs, The Fool On Every Corner is a home run, and anyone not already familiar with Cooley's work should make it a point to get acquainted with one of the last (and best) of a fast dying breed. words/ j jackson toth
MP3: Mike Cooley :: 3 Dimes Down
MP3: Mike Cooley :: Drinking Coke And Eating Ice


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The Texas Rangers won the American League last season, and made their first ever World Series appearance.
With that sentence, the book is closed on 2010. Yes, it was a great season but the entire 2011 squad has made their way to Surprise and is doing whatever it is that you do in the first week or so of spring training. Some nice long toss, stretching, jogging, all those fun Spring Training activities. Spring Training is a fun time for all baseball fans, because if you're anything like me once the World Series ends it is a long roughly three-four month layoff. Granted, I had a nice TCU Rose Bowl detour that got me through the winter but that's another topic for another entry. The one thing Spring Training always brings is questions, questions, questions. Will X be ready, will Y be healthy, how will Z and B leaving, and the list goes on. Ten questions have been compiled, and they will be broken up into three posts(1-3, 4-6, and 7-10). Part one, let's rock and roll.
1. Will the Michael Young situation affect the season overall?
Answer: Before I give the actual answer, I'm not writing this first because I feel it is the most important question of the year. I'm writing it first because I'm sick and tired of hearing about it. This story evolved from a blip on the radar to a nuclear submarine bearing down on the Rangers news landscape. Then it devolved into a media slap fight between the "betrayed" Michael Young and Jon Daniels. It's long, it's complicated, it's overplayed, and since he is in camp training with the team until we have a trade to report this issue is dead. So the answer is no, this little off-season spat will not affect the team because Jon Daniels doesn't put on a uniform and play. The players in the clubhouse look at Michael Young as their general, their leader and they love him for that. Young returns the love, which he made abundantly clear in the press conference held when he arrived in camp. He loves the team, he's just having a little bit of a rough time with JD. The plain fact of the matter is I don't care if JD and Young are sharing a bed, or if they never talk to each other. If Young goes out there every day, gets his hits, and acts like the leader he has evolved into over the past five or so years everything on this front will be OK. We can put away our questions on this, because it's over. Michael Young is under contract for three years and sixteen million a year, so that means he will play period end of story.
2. How much will the loss of Cliff Lee affect the pitching staff, and the club on the whole?
Answer: Most people will tell you yes without a doubt. I will tell you it's very possible that it will, but I don't believe so. Let's step in our time machine, and go back to July 9th. Cliff Lee was traded to the Rangers for Justin Smoak and three names randomly picked out of a hat. At that point in the season, Texas had played 85 games(game 86 was that night, a loss to the Orioles 7-6). The team was 50-36 the day the trade was made, and ahead 4.5 games in the AL West at that time. After July 9, the lowest the Rangers lead in the West ever got was 3.5 games. So by the time Cliff Lee joined this team, they were already at the top and weren't going anywhere. Factor in that during the regular season with Texas, Lee's record was 4-6 and he tallied a 3.98 ERA it was not like Lee was God-like when he came over during the regular season. Yes, he was very impressive in Ranger red during the post season until the World Series when he folded like a house of cards and posted an 0-2 record in two starts with a 6.94 ERA in 11.2 innings. So if you're asking me whether I think Cliff Lee leaving for the Phillies is going to hurt this team I have to counter with "How much did he really help them?" What did Cliff Lee really do except bring that Cliff Lee mystique on the whole? In retrospect, very little. I know the argument "Well he paid off in October." If we are talking about the ALDS and ALCS yes. Trading for a guy to play in October is fine, but if you want to sign him to a deal because of his post season experience you're insane. This team has to get there first, and while I will address that question later I feel that the money and years you would have given to Cliff might not have been the best long term solution. JD and Nolan Ryan are not trying to make this team the 2001 Diamondbacks, who won the World Series and then fell off the map. This team is built for the long term, for a chance to go to the World Series every single year. By not blowing your budget on the first big shiny toy you see, you make a more wise decision that is a long term benefit. Is Cliff Lee nice, you bet. Is Cliff Lee necessary, in short no. This team will go on without him, succeed without him.
3. So if not Cliff Lee, who will be in the starting rotation on April 1st?
Answer: Well let's start with what we know as fact, CJ Wilson is your Opening Day starter and Colby Lewis is behind him. Past that, it's open season. There are three spots up for grabs on this thing, and unlike years past there are actually good candidates to fill them. Tommy "Big Game" Hunter posted a 13-4 record in the regular season, then followed it up by looking totally lost in the playoffs. Derek "Dutch Oven" Holland is also a strong candidate, as the 23 year old tries to regain the spot everyone and their mother thought he would have already ascended to by now. Brandon Webb is now with the team after having a monkey shoulder installed to replaced the old shoulder he had that was shredded by his awesomeness in Arizona. You've also got the reigning Rookie of the Year, he of 40 saves and a very awesome fastball Neftali Feliz going to get a look in camp to see if he can find another pitch or three and make this work as a starter. Past that, pencil in the long shots of Matt Harrison, Michael Kirkman, Tanner Scheppers, the extremely long shot of Brett Tomko, and that's your field pretty much. You'e got essentially eight guys for three spots, and from a fan who remembers the days of the "TBA" being written down as the starting pitcher for the Rangers so often you figured the guy had to have some stellar endurance this is a stellar problem to have. My projected rotation as of Opening Day(remember that): CJ, Colby, Hunter, Holland, Kirkman. Hunter is a Mark Buerhle type pitcher to me, he doesn't have a really strong fastball but he knows how to use the pitches at his disposal. He's durable, not afraid to throw what he wants when he wants, and has a mentality that has to be popular with both pitching coach Mike Maddux and Nolan Ryan. Another young gun at 24, Hunter will start the year in the rotation and probably as the number three which is probably his top out.
Holland is my four, and I've got a couple reasons for that. The big one is he is one year older, and that is significant. When this kid was being touted as the next big thing, he was a young man. His first major league experience came at the age of 22, and for any major league player especially a pitcher that is rough. He's 24 now, and the big news on Dutch is that he has gotten a hold on his maturity problems. He has learned how to handle himself better, and that is only a positive. Plus, even though his performance of 13 straight balls in the World Series was horrendous there is a silver lining to that could. At 23 he hit the biggest baseball stage, and he struggled. Which was to be expected, but it's positive because now he has something to measure against. A regular season game seems much more calm, much less of a hassle now because he's had the big time experience. In theory it should be a lot easier for him to mentally get his head around pitching now that he's had a taste of the big time. Couple that with all the articles you read about him, and the quotes about how he feels this will be his breakout year. Rangers fans, you better hope so because if this kid can ever put all the pieces together I really believe you will not be missing Cliff Lee one single bit.
Which brings me to Michael Kirkman, who I've got as my number five to open the year in what most people will see as a head scratcher. Not if you look at his 2010 Oklahoma City numbers: 22 starts, a 13-3 record, 3.09 ERA, 130 strikeouts to only 68 walks with a 8.9 SO/9 ratio and 0.5 HR/9 ratio. Cliff Lee started 28 games total in the regular season, posting a 12-9 record, 3.18 ERA, a very scary 185 strikeout to 18 walks with is good for a 10.28 SO/BB ratio, along with 7.8 SO/9 and 0.7 HR/9. Am I trying to say that Kirkman is the second coming of Cliff Lee? Not at all, because Lee is a one of a kind player who has outstanding control that very few pitchers have and ever will. But Kirkman down in AAA showed some similarities to what Lee put up, and he's only 24 as well. What I'm saying is, Kirkman has shown in a starter's role at the highest minor league level that he deserves a shot at the rotation. In a field that once you get past Hunter and Holland the question marks start to really rack up, Kirkman could emerge as a surprise player for this thing.
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A Molecular Phylogenetic Perspective on the Primary and Secondary Endosymbiotic Origins of Algal Plastids
Debashish Bhattacharya ;
ALGAE, volume 15, issue 1, 2000, Pages 1~1
Algae include all photosynthetic eukaryotes excluding land plants. The algae are of a polyphyletic origin and have gained their photosynthetic organelles (plastids) through symbiosis. In this review I "proto-alga" that was the common ancestor of the three primary algal lineages (Chorophyta, Rhodophyta, Glaucocystophyta). Members of the Chlorophyta and Rhodophyta then gave rise to all other algal plastids through secondary symbioses. All secondary symbioses appear to be independent events involving different algal symbionts. This hypothesis is supported by analyses of plastid-encoded small subunit rDNA sequences which provide strong evidence for the independent origins of the secondary plastids of the Cryptophyta, Haptophyta, and Heterokonta.
Systematic Relationship of Unicellular Red Algae: from the Phenetics to the Phylogeny
Yoshiaki Hara ; Akiko Yokoyama ; 김지희 ;
ALGAE, volume 15, issue 1, 2000, Pages 7~7
The systematic relationship of the unicellular red algae based on their morphological, physiological and habitual characteristics was discussed by referring to the results of their molecular phylogenetic analyses, using 18S rRNA and psbA genes. Five groups (named as one ancestral stock; Porphyridium Group (-G) and other four groups; Rhodospora-Rhodella-, Rhodosorus-and Cyanidium-G) previously reported were partially supported by the molecular phylogeny which showed four phylogenetic groups. However, two of them made a clade with multicellular ones. In the basic framework of the systematic relationship of uncellular reds has to be reconstructed, after taking new findings of molecular information into consideration. The correspondence with the phenetics and phylogentic relationships of unicellular reds is the center of the present Mini-review.
Molecular Relationships of Giant Kelp (Phaeophyceae)
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ALGAE, volume 15, issue 1, 2000, Pages 13~13
Giant kelp, despite the economic and ecological value, is much confused in taxonomy. To discuss possible changes of the current classification system, we introduce published results and newly analysed sequences of both nuclear ribosomal DNA and plastid-encoded RuBisCo spacer. All members of the Alariaceae, Laminariaceae, and Lessoniaceae are grouped into a single monophyletic clade, while each family is not monophyletic. Eight groups are recognized: I) Egregia group, ii) Alaria group, iii) Laminaria group, iv) Hedophyllum group, v) Ecklonis group, vi) Agarum group, vii) Lessonia group, and viii) Macrocystis group. This results appear not to support the current familial system of advanced kelp, and rather suggest that a single family or eight varied families should be established covering the kelp genera. Taxonomic revisions of some genera like Laminaria and Kjellmaniella are necessary because of their paraphyly.
Morphology and Habitat Conditions of Phacus trypanon (Euglenophyceae) from Korea
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ALGAE, volume 15, issue 1, 2000, Pages 17~17
Morphology and habitat conditions of Phacus trypanon were studied using 20 samples collected in 16 fresh eaters of Korea. The chloroplasts are parietal disc-shaped. The paramylon bodies are dimorphic with two parietal dish-like plates and many rod-like grains. The SEM micrographs show that the pellicular strip consists of thick and thin rib and the ridges slope slightly from the thick to thin, rib, forming the deeply depressed furrow. The Korean populations of P. trypanon inhabit the freshwater microhabitats of high concentration of nitrogens originated from animal excretion, organic, debris, and other agricultural interference. The habitat conditions indicate that P. trypanon may prefer eutrophicated waters and also compete with other euglenoid species in nutrients.
Screening for Antioxidant Activity in Some Red Tide Dinoflagellates
김창숙 ; 조용철 ;
ALGAE, volume 15, issue 1, 2000, Pages 23~23
Antioxidant activity of ethanol extracts obtained from 11 red tide dinoflagellates was evaluated by determination of radical scavenging effects and inhibition of lipid peroxidation. Lipoxygenase activity was depressed in the presence of algal extracts of following sequence; Alexandrium tamarense?cochlodinium polykrikoides>Prorocentrium minimum?Gyodinium impudicum>Prorocentium micans?Gymnodinium sanguineum?Pyraminonas sp.?Heterocapsa triquetra?Heterosigma akashiwo?Eutreptiella gymnastica.?Scrippsiella trochoidea The inhibition of lipoxygenase by C. Polykrikoides and A. tamarense extracts resemble that seaweed, Porphyra sp. The extracts of A. tamarense and C. polykrikoides also had the highest antioxidant activity, when measured by the decolorization of ?,?-diphenyl-?-picryhydrazyl (DPPH) and N,N-dimethyl-4-nitrosoaniline (RNO)-imidazole method, respectively. The same species also displayed a very strong antioxidant activity on lipid peroxidation of a multilayer liposome system. These results suggested the possibility of the existence of effective antioxidative compounds in A. tamarense and C. polykrikoides.
Seasonal Succession of Toxic Cyanobacteria and Microcystins Concentration in Paldang Reservoir
박혜경 ; 정원화 ; 권오상 ; 류재근 ;
ALGAE, volume 15, issue 1, 2000, Pages 29~29
The seasonal succession of algal growth and dominant species were investigated from 1996 to 1997 in Paldang Reservoir, which is a man-made dam lake for drinking water source. Cyanobacterial species grew dominantly during summer and autumn, and diatoms in the winter and spring. Microcystis was a dominant genus during summer time. It was revealed that water temperature was a major limiting factor to cyanobacterial production and that precipitation followed by dam gate operation also affected the abundance and dominance of cyanobacterial genera in Paldang reservoir. The temporal variation of cyanobacterial biomass and microcystins concentration in Paldang dam site was monitored from July to December in 1997. The cyanobacterial biomass ranged to ∼11,243 cells/ml and the dominant genus was Microcystis until September and changed to Aphanizomenon from October when water temperature dropped below 15℃. The total concentrations of microcystins in lake water were 0.057∼0.488㎍/l. Highest concentration of microcystins in lake water was found during the exponential growth phase of Microcystis bloom. The dissolved microcystins in the lake water were detected at the end of cyanobacterial bloom, having range of 0.054∼0.076㎍/l.
Bioecological Characteristics of Coral Habitats around Moonsom, Cheju Island, Korea: Ⅱ. Community Dynamics of Phytoplankton and Primary Productivity
이준백 ; 좌종헌 ; 강동우 ; 고유봉 ; 오봉철 ;
ALGAE, volume 15, issue 1, 2000, Pages 37~37
Community dynamics of phytoplankton and primary productivity have been investigated bimonthly from February 1997 to December 1997 in the coastal area around Moonsom of the southern Cheju Island, which is well-known for soft coral habitats in Korea. Auerage water temperature was 18.5℃, being stratified from May to September by the seasonal thermocline, while vertically homogeneous in the winter. Euphotic depths ranged seasonally from 18.9 m to 45.9 m (average 33.7m). Chlorophyll a concentrations varied from 0.02 to 0.92㎍·
. Standing crops of phytoplankton ranged from 2×10₃to 3.9×
, showing a peak only in the spring. Diatims occupied 67.5% of the total standing crops, while phytoflagellates, dinoflagellates and others 24.3%, 7.1% and 1%, respectively. However phytoflagellates and dinoflagellates were prediminated with 36.6% and 38.7% in June, respectively. There was four dominant species in the study area. Chaetoceros socialis Lauder was dominant species from December to April, Prorocentrum micans Ehrenberg in June. In August, Chaetoceros socialis Lauder dominated in inshore but Paralia sulcata (Ehrenberg) Cleve in offshore. In October, Skeletonema costatum (Greville)Gran dominated the whole area. Daily primary productivity varied from 32.2 to 364.9 mgC·
(average 180.7mgC·
). Contribution of nanoplankton (<20 ㎛) to daily primary priductivity was very high, accounting for 28.0-82.8%. Annual primary productivity is estimated 65.97 gC·
, which is lower than those of the coast of Yellow Sea and the southern Korean waters. Nanoplankton seemed to adapt to higher irradiances with
values of 190-1,000 μE·
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Studies on the Ecosystem in the Yeong-Ⅱ Gulf of Korea:Ⅰ. Species Composition and Diversity of Phytoplankton Communities
조은영 ; 차재훈 ; 김미경 ; 김기태 ;
ALGAE, volume 15, issue 1, 2000, Pages 49~49
In order to clarify the capacity of productivity, distribution and dynamics of phytoplanktons which play an improtant role as the primary producer, we tried to analyze their species composition and community along the coast of Yeoung-II Gulf from May 1998 to May 1999. The taxa of phytoplanktons observed in this coast were classified as 4 divisions, 6 classes, 10 orders, 3 suborders, 26 families, 200 species (182 species, 1 subspecies, 12 varieties, 5 forms). The 149 species of diatoms were recognized with 31 species of dinoflagellates, 4 species of silicoflagellates, 11 species of chlorophytes, 1 species of euglenophytes and 4 species of cyanophytes, The number of species was the highest in August when 66 species were observed. The most frequent speies were Licmophora abbreviata AGARDH (51%), Thalassionema nitzschioides HUSTEDT (39%) and Ceratium fura (EHRENBERG) CLAPAREDE et LACHMANN(29%). The cell density of phytoplanktons was the highest (1,218×
on the downstream area of Hyeung-San River in May 1998 and was the lowest (70×
at Hwanho dong in February 1999. The highest concentration of chlorophyll a occurred in May 1998 (4.6 ㎍
, while the lowest value was in February 1999 (0.4 ㎍
. The standing crops of phytoplanktons were remarkably high in spring, summer and autumn. This examination of phytoplankton study will be continued for the fundamental databases of ecosystem study in the Yeong-II Gulf.
Comparison of HPLC Analysis and a Chaanel Biosensor in the Detection of PSP Toxin in Natural Alexandrium tamarense Population
이해옥 ; 전병수 ; Etuo Watanabe ; 한명수 ;
ALGAE, volume 15, issue 1, 2000, Pages 61~61
The PSP(Paralytic Shellfish Posioning)toxin of natural A. tamarense population collected at Masan (Sth M) and Chilchundo (Stn C) in Chinhae Bay, Korea was determined by the biosensor and HPLC.F. From these results, it was recognized the a good relationship was shown between toxicity obtained by the biosensor and HPLC, and that the biosenor was simple, powerful and useful system to monitor the changes of very low PSP toxin in natural A. tamarense population. therefore, the proposed biosensor could be used for monitoring the STX in the toxic phytoplankton and shellfish in near future.
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Environment Minister Greg Hunt claims the government may be able to introduce its emissions reduction fund without legislation.
The $1.5 billion fund is a key part of the coalition government's Direct Action plan to cut emissions and address climate change after it abolishes Labor's carbon-pricing scheme.
The mechanism for setting up the fund has been separated from the bills to repeal the carbon tax to give them a better chance of passing parliament.
Labor argues it can't support repealing the carbon price, especially while there is doubt about the scope and detail of Direct Action.
Mr Hunt, who is currently consulting on the design of the fund, said he is exceptionally confident the government would enact it one way or another.
"There are a variety of ways to do it," Mr Hunt said.
"Our primary approach is through legislation but there are other options to do it, there is no doubt about that."
Mr Hunt said Labor should be in no doubt about the coalition's "comprehensive policy" and was merely making excuses.
"Australians are waiting for Bill Shorten to make up his mind as to whether he will be `Electricity Bill' or whether he will support our push for lower bills," Mr Hunt said.
Mr Hunt says Labor had already said it had terminated the carbon tax when the party proposed at the election to bring forward the start of an emissions trading scheme to July 2014.
The emissions reduction fund involves spending $1.5 billion over three years from July 2014 to buy a variety of greenhouse gas abatement.
A green paper on the issue will be released before Christmas and a white paper early in the new year.
The shadow ministry, meeting for the first time on Monday, reaffirmed Labor's commitment to reducing carbon pollution and will discuss it further ahead of parliament resuming on November 12.
But senior Labor MPs have not yet settled on a strategy to deal with the legislation.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen says Labor wanted to see more detail about the Direct Action policy.
"Every side agrees the carbon tax needs to be terminated and a new set of arrangements need to be put in place," Mr Bowen told Sky News.
"But the key question is what follows it. We have said a market-based mechanism is the best way to deal with it and we have great concerns about Direct Action."


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Cristobal was also likely related to the Antonia de la O, who married Jose Fernandez and then Ysidro Ojas. This conclusion is based on the fact that, in 1796, the padrinos at Cristobal and Gertrudis's daughter Sebastiana's baptism were Antonia Fernandez and Ysidro Ojas. ( FHL 162499, p. 517 .) (As discussed above, Antonia Fernandez was the daughter of Jose Fernandez and Antonia de la O.) This fact suggests that Antonia and Cristobal were related to each other, possibly brother and sister, aunt and nephew, or cousins.
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In about 1795, Cristobal De La O founded the first primary school in Guajoquilla and became the presidio town's first teacher. (Francisco Almada, Resumen del Municipio de Jimemez , p. 35.) He became a teacher via military orders, which suggests that he had a military affiliation. In his home or at the home of the military chaplain Rafael Nevares, he taught the children of soldiers and residents of the town how to read, write and count. As Francisco Almada explained:
En el curso de 1795 visitó el presidio militar y la población el expresado Mariscal Nava, quien dejó instrucciones al capitán Garcia de Tejada para que procediera a establecer una escuela de primeras letras, con objecto de que aprendieran a leer, escriber y contar los hijos de los soldados y vecinos. El segundo hizo arreglos con don Cristóbal de la O, quien se obligó a recibir en su casa habitación a los niños de primera enseñanza que se le enviaran, obligándose a impartirles los rudimentos expresados en el término de un año, mediante la paga de tres pesos por cada uno de ellos. La escuela primaria fundada por el professor de la O es la primera de que he encontrado noticias en la actual Ciudad de Jiménez y funcionó en una pieza de la casa habitación del Pbro. Rafael Navárez, que cedió gratuitamente para el objecto y se encontraba unicaba en la calle Hildalgo.
From 1794 to 1814, Cristobal De La O served as a witness at over 65 marriages in Guajoquilla for members of both the main Presidio and the Compañia Volante communities. As for De La O weddings, he served as the testigo at the wedding of Rita De La O and Tomas Amancio (
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Mainers visiting the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield will find no monuments dedicated to Pine Tree State regiments. A few Union monuments stand here; the first encountered by visitors is the John Sedgwick monument at the intersection of Brock Road and Grant Drive. The low-key monument marks the spot where the Sixth Corps commander offered himself one time too many times as a target to Confederate sharpshooters.
Located at the intersection of Brock Road and Grant Drive in Spotsylvania County, Va. is the Spotsylvania Battlefield Exhibit Shelter. Maintained by the National Park Service and occasionally staffed by a park ranger, the shelter contains maps and information detailing the May 8-21, 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Many Maine soldiers fought in this two-week bloodbath. (Brian Swartz Photo)
The greatest concentration of monuments, both North and South, exists at the Bloody Angle, a charnel house historically submerged by the lesser slaughter at Antietam's Sunken Lane in September 1862. That bloody encounter was over in a few hours; the personalized murder at the Bloody Angle dragged on for 22 hours.
So if no Maine monuments stand at Spotsylvania Court House, then no Maine soldiers fought here, visitors might assume.
They would be incorrect. Great violence occurred across this bucolic landscape southwest of Fredericksburg – and Maine boys were in the thick of it.
Union Gen. John Sedgwick commanded the Sixth Corps of the Army of the Potomac during the opening days of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. On May 9, 1864, as his men fought from behind their entrenchments facing Confederate-held Laurel Hill, Sedgwick moved along the lines and encouraged his soldiers. A Confederate sniper shot Sedgwick dead; in May 1887 the survivors of the Sixth Corps erected this monument in honor of their beloved commander. The Sedgwick Monument is the first monument encountered by modern visitors to the battlefield. (Brian Swartz Photo)
A national park preserves the key features of Spotsylvania Court House: Laurel Hill, the Mule Shoe, and the Confederate trenches extending east to modern Route 208. Most visitors overlook Laurel Hill, which lies across from Grant Drive on a dangerous-for-pedestrians curve of the well-traveled Brock Road. Until the field grass reaches an adequate height each spring, the mown trails are not clearly marked.
Visitors may not understand that the main component of the preserved battlefield is the Mule Shoe, the heavily fortified salient that Robert E. Lee ordered built during the battle's early stages. Grant Drive "enters" the Mule Shoe near the Bloody Angle; Gordon Drive (named for Confederate Gen. John B. Gordon) "exits" the salient at its "East Face." There are several places where visitors can park their cars and walk along the trenches; do stay on the marked trails — or at least do not walk on the surviving Confederate trenches.
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Key Stage 5 – AS/A Level
History at AS/A Level is a highly esteemed qualification which offers genuine opportunities to develop important personal skills as well as enabling students to keep their options open in terms of Higher Education and career choice. Studying History at AS/A Level involves students becoming involved much more in the actual work of historians than GCSE. There will be opportunities for original research and for participating in wider debates about the fundamental features of human society.
You will study the Edexcel qualification and as the course is linear, the four key units (three examinations and one piece of coursework) are studied across Years 12 and 13 but there are fundamental differences in the style of question and the expected depth of knowledge required for the full A Level qualification.
Unit 1 – Britain, 1625 – 1701: conflict, revolution and settlement
Unit 2 – Russia in revolution, 1894 – 1924
Unit 3 – Germany 1871 – 1990: united, divided and reunited
Unit 4 – Coursework essay relating to the appropriateness of Appeasement in the 1930s.
Unit 1
The focus of study is on developments and changes over a broad timescale and so the content is presented as themes spanning a significant duration: 1625–88. This option also contains a study in depth of historical interpretations on a broad question that is contextualised by, and runs on from, the themes: how revolutionary, in the years to 1701, was the Glorious Revolution of 1688–89?
Unit 2
Students will gain an in-depth understanding of revolutionary activity in Russia in the years 1894 to 1917, the response of successive governments to opposition to their rule, and the reasons for the successful consolidation of the revolution of October 1917 under Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
Unit 3
This option comprises two parts: the Aspects in breadth focus on long-term changes and contextualise the aspects in depth, which focus in detail on key episodes. Together, the breadth and depth topics explore the ways in which Germany evolved as a new state in Europe undergoing dramatic changes of fortune, set within broader long-term social and economic developments (after 1945, these focus on West Germany). A dynamic empire ended in a brutal war and defeat; out of the ashes of imperial Germany, first a democratic republic and then an extraordinary dictatorship came into being, followed once again by democracy and finally a new unity in 1990.
What it prepares you for:
Studying History enables students to keep their options open when going into university and choosing careers. Previous students have gone into teaching, accounting, journalism, politics and many other realms. History students tend to be able to write well and clearly, to make judgements confidently and be able to see through the ploys and tactics of others.


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Montreal neighbourhood advice? (Sorry so wordy) (Montréal)
Hi all, I'm currently a DC area resident and we are moving to Montreal next year. I've been looking for good resources to get a feel for what each of the Montreal neighborhoods are like, but so far all I've found are videos from some Montreal government website, most of which are in French. (I don't speak French yet.) I'm also having a hard time finding a website that compares somewhat to apartments.com where I could get a feel for what apartments in different neighbourhoods feature, floor plans, etc.
Does anyone have advice, recommendations, or resources on what each of the neighborhoods in and near Montreal are like, as far as atmosphere, walkability, public transport commute, type of people who typically live in that neighbourhood, etc?
We are a younger couples without kids, but no so young that we need an active bar scene, or want the noise accompanying it. We currently live in Arlington, (Pentagon City/Crystal City area, just outside DC's downtown if you're familiar).
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- it is VERY dog friendly - we have met so many people at dog parks and events, and I work with dogs for a living. Our own apartment has a huge enclosed off-leash dog park (having a good place within walking distance for our dog to run and play is extremely important).
- We have grocery stores, pharmacies, indoor malls, pedestrian retail areas, and other shopping, lots of restaurants and such, all within either walking distance, a short drive, or metro. The more boutique shopping and arts are not walking distance, and while some more of that would be nice, as long as we're close by it's fine.
- While the area is mostly high-rise apartments or mixed-use, we are right next to lots of green spaces for sports, bicycling, etc,
- finding things from great cheap ethnic cuisine to the trendiest restaurants and high-end boutiques to thrift stores is easy and close.
Basically, if we're not right on top of cultural interest, dog parks, shopping, arts, entertainment, downtown, etc. we're within about 20 minutes of it, but our actual place still has a quieter feel about it thanks to the trees and green spaces.
I am also thinking of attending university while there, so proximity to that would be a handy. (but not so handy we're in the "college kids" neighbourhoods) While crime rates are a consideration, we have lived in dodgy areas of Dublin, downtown Lima, and, well, the DC are so we probably don't have the same standard of what "crime ridden" means...
As for housing, I would like to find places that are first off, DOG FRIENDLY - a must! High rises are fine, and historical or unique spaces like lofts would be cool, but I'd rather have amenities like a gym, indoor pool, sauna, terrace or balcony. (I know we'll have to trade off somewhere.) I imagine we can get more for our buck there, though - DC rents are way above Montreal.
Oh, and while I don't speak French yet, my husband speaks some, and we are very used to living in neighbourhoods where the locals don't speak English, so it doesn't matter if it's a French or English speaking neighbourhood.
I know that's a long list, but I'm hoping someone will just sort of know a few neighborhoods that sound about like what we'd enjoy, the way I might know what would work for someone's living preferences in the DC area.
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