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Well, the dwarf villain drinks. Maybe he doesn't NEED to for survival, but clearly he CAN if desired. Therefore we can say dwarves MIGHT need to eat and drink despite being made of stone.
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This is a cool project! I was dubious of 5th edition when it was first announced, but I am now totally sold. It's a stripped-down version of 3.5, tossing out rules that just weren't fun (such as firing into melee).
I prefer to deceive myself that 4th edition never existed.
In any case, since people were asking about lifespans, I'll just leave this here:
Most beings in the world of Entrath die from war, accidents, infections, or misadventure long before reaching old age. For the lucky few who manage to survive to senior citizenhood, each of the player races has a "natural" life span.
The maximum age for an average member of the player races are the following:
Elves: 1000 years
Dwarves: 500 years
Orcs/Vennen: 200 years (note: it is extremely rare for either of these races to die of old age)
Humans/Coyotle: 80 years
Shin'hare: 40 years
Necrotic: unknown
Thanks for the tips! Dang, now you made me want to check out 5th ed. I had completely sworn off DND after 4E came out and ruined everything I ever liked about the game. (OK, so it wasn't quite that bad, but it was close.)
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Every gamer or fantasy buff knows that elves life 1000 or more years. Or should anyway but thanks on other races XD
I started on 4th edition, so while I don't absolutely despise it, I am grateful our group moved on to Pathfinder and 5th edition. 5th Ed does streamline a lot of things, to make playability a priority. It's very nice for a player. I'm not sold on the balancing so far, though. Various things seem like they could have used more testing, like the viability of cantrips as a primary damage source, or the rarity/cost of various magic items. Still, it's very accessible, which is great. I'm looking forward to more character option books coming out. Think there's one later in November.
I've updated the ages, and fiddled a bit with the dwarven construct traits. Don't think I want to change it to be too much like constructs, because at the moment, we don't know that they don't need to eat or sleep, or are immune to mind-affecting abilities. It's something to keep an eye on, though.


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Your Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan—A
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that need NPDES permit
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guidance to the public and the regulated community on how EPA
intends to
exercise its discretion in implementing the Clean Water Act and
its implementing regulations.
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans for Construction Activities [EPA, Website]
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SWPPP Templates;
Sample Inspection Form;
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Key Resources;
Selected State BMP/Guidance Manuals
Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) and Water Pollution
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Prevention Information Center for Montana Residential Construction [Peaks to Prairies Website, Topic Hub]
Phase II Final Rule - Small Construction Program Overview [EPA, Document]
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reference documents.
Phase II Final Rule - Construction Site Runoff Control Minimum
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fact sheet outlines the Phase II Final Rule requirements and offers
some general guidance on how to satisfy them.
Phase II Final Rule - Post-Construction Runoff Control Minimum
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This fact sheet outlines the Phase II Final Rule requirements
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on how to satisfy those requirements.
Phase II Final Rule - Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping Minimum
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management program to meet the conditions of its National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.
Phase II Final Rule - Permitting and Reporting: The Process and
Requirements [EPA, Document]
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for operators of regulated small MS4s and details the permit application
and reporting requirements. Important compliance deadlines also
are highlighted.
Stormwater Management
National Stormwater Quality Database. This project will create a national database of Phase 1 stormwater monitoring data, provide a scientific analysis of the data, and provide recommendations for improving the quality and management value of future NPDES monitoring efforts.
to Rivers—Green Stategies for Controlling Stormwater
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May 2006 report is a policy guide for decision makers looking to
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studies of cities that have successfully used green techniques
to create a healthier urban environment.
Management Practices
BMP Locator. Use this unique CICA on-line tool to locate instructions and specifications for construction stormwater best management practices (BMPs) published by EPA and state agencies.
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California Stormwater
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New Jersey: Best Management Practices for Control
Nonpoint Source Pollution from Stormwater [NJDEP,
Handbook of Best Management Practices for Developing Areas [PA DEP, Document]
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Stormwater Best Management Practice Database [Urban
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proper installation of common sediment and erosion control practices
(best management practices). Side two [PDF Format] describes the process for developing
and implementing a stormwater pollution prevention plan and obtaining
permit coverage. The complete 30x40
poster [PDF Format] is
also available.
Low Impact Development Center, Inc. website
Provides information to stormwater Phase II communities on integrating low impact development (LID) strategies into their compliance programs.
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also available.
Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and Stormwater. EPA web page that links to numerous resources for developing stormwater-source TMDLs and implementing then in NPDES Permits.
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I couldn't agree more. I too love the Ferengi charm.ReplyDelete
Is that a replica or the real dil? Ether way. pleas tell e where you got it( I've been looking for one for months)
It's the real deal. Production made rifle, not sure where or if it was screenused as doing a match on screen would be quite hard.ReplyDelete
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Care, Care & Community in Ghana by Mikaella Caruncho
I am 18 years old and I joined Projects Abroad the summer right before I started as a freshman at New York University. I took part in the 2 Week Special in Ghana and was placed to work at Lady Heike Nursery School and the Home of Hope in Cape Coast. During my placement, I was accompanied by eight other teenagers, one of which was my younger sister.
Arriving in Ghana
My younger sister, Francesca, and I took a five hour flight to New York, had a fourteen hour layover in New York, and then a ten hour flight to Ghana before we finally arrived. We stepped off the plane and were instantly welcomed by the humid Ghanaian heat.
Our first impression of Ghana was frightening but once we got out of the terminal, things started getting better. We were greeted by Nyame, a very friendly Projects Abroad staff member, who gave us our Ghanaian names, mine being Abena because I was born on a Tuesday. He gave us a seemingly rehearsed "speech" about why Ghana is the greatest country to travel to and how we must not break our mother's hearts by choosing to stay in Ghana forever.
We then headed to the Projects Abroad office in Accra where I had my first experience being part of the Ghana culture. When I was offered water, I was given a small plastic pouch with which I was supposed to bite the corner off to drink. We sat in a non-air conditioned room drinking out of this strange pouch until we were met with another volunteer, Evi. The three of us packed ourselves into a small car and started our 5 hour journey to Cape Coast.
After being introduced to our supervisors, Lucy and Jenna, we were introduced to our host family as well as the other seven volunteers who we were going to be living and working with over the next two weeks. Everyone was really nice from the start and from that point on, our journey in Africa really began.
My Care & Community placement
At our placements, the children were all so jumpy and excited to see us and once we were spotted they would run to the window waving and yelling "Abafo" and "Obruni." When they saw us taking pictures, they would run up to us and try to get their faces in the camera, and when you would show them the picture you took they would smile and laugh, amazed at this modern piece of technology.
During school we would sing songs with the children, teach them the alphabet, feed them and do arts and crafts projects with them. After lunch we would leave the kids to start working on building the new nursery school just down the hill. We cemented floors and painted the walls. We would always plug in our iPods into speakers and play music while we work. This got us pumped up and it got the kids excited too. Since we were all teenagers, we shared the same love for pop culture and therefore spread that out to those we met in Ghana as well. I would say our group of 16-18 year olds left an impression in Cape Coast that would be difficult to forget.
Getting to know other volunteers
As a 2 Week Special group our trip also included a weekend trip to sites such as the Cape Coast Castle and Kakum National Park, where we walked over 7 bridges that overlooked the forest. Being able to see these sights in Cape Coast and being able to meet such amazing people really enhanced my love for this village, culture and country.
It helped too that all the volunteers I got to spend the two weeks with were amazing! We all got on together really well because we all shared a similar passion for travelling and humanitarian work. We all got along so well that going to work did not even feel like work. Though at nights we were all exhausted, we still hung out due to all the built up excitement we had over being in Africa. We would bond at the dinner table, where our host mother would give us delicious meals of chicken and rice, plantains, beans and fruits. After dinner we would have dancing/singing parties in each other's bedrooms and just enjoy our time in Ghana.
Even though I was only there for two weeks I gained experience and made friendships I know I will remember forever. All the people, especially the children I worked with, are now memories in my mind that I will be bragging to others about throughout my whole life.
I had to endure the unbearable heat, the unfamiliar smells and foods, and the endless amount of bug bites, but I still feel as if this country is one of the most beautiful and culturally rich places I have ever visited. If I could go back I would in a heartbeat. Ghana is a place everyone should visit; not doing so would mean you are missing out on one of the most amazing experiences of your life.
Mikaella Caruncho
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Although Prince's death had a profound impact on fans of all racial backgrounds, for some black Minnesotans his loss was especially meaningful.
Here are the stories of two of them.
• Prince: His life and music
'He was so unapologetic'
Brynne Crockett, 26, was born in north Minneapolis. She's been rhyming since she was 8. Today she's a hip-hop artist, known in the local music scene as BdotCroc. In a freestyle rap, she describes herself as "living in a basement of royalty, known as the Prince."
That is not just a lyric. She actually lives in the basement where Prince lived as a teenager. She and her family moved into the former home of Prince's grandmother more than 10 years ago, when Crockett was still in high school.
At the time, she wasn't a big Prince fan. And she didn't much care for the basement where her room would be.
"We came down here, and my mom was like, 'This is a really special basement,' and I'm looking at it like, 'It's dry wall, cement floor, nothing special about down here,'" she recalled, laughing.
When she traveled, people would ask her where she was from. When they heard she was from Minnesota, they would reply with a single reference point: Prince.
"The closest thing I got to Prince was at a basketball game," she admitted. "The Lynx were in the championship, and I heard he was there in a suite or something.
"Prince was like a ghost, so I've never seen him."
Her first memories of Prince's music take her back to her childhood, when she skated to his tunes at a roller rink. She completely tuned out her mother's lectures about the basement and those historic jam sessions that Prince had with his childhood best friend, Andre Cymone, and his pal Morris Day. The two later became Prince's first bandmates in the late 1970s.
When Prince died, something curious happened. Flowers started showing up at her family's home, on their front porch, in front of her basement door. The family was suddenly inundated with media requests. CNN called. Film crews wanted to tour the basement. International fans wanted to see the space where Prince created his "Minneapolis sound."
• First Avenue, Paisley Park and more: A tour of Prince landmarks in Minnesota
It was touching, but Crockett feared coming home to emotional Prince fans. "I don't want to come downstairs in my room, and see nobody rolling on the floor, like trying to absorb the purpleness or something," Crockett said. "It's an amazing thing, but it was stressful for my mother and for myself."
After the media frenzy, Crockett looked up more of Prince's story. That's when she discovered his social activism, his political songs, his androgynous style, his battles with corporate music giants and his influence on young artists.
• New book: Prince contained multitudes
"The thing I loved about him the most, that I really identify with, is how he was so unapologetic," she said. "He did not care, really, what people's idea of normal was, and how he should be, what he should do. He was very bold, in his music and in his statements, and he was so serious about his craft.
"So for me, I think I've just adopted that attitude. This is my art. I'm going to do with it what I want, and give it to the people, and let the people make that decision for me. Not companies, not people's ideology of what a female emcee should be. Because he didn't allow himself to be put into any box."
'The first person that looked like me'
Terry Gray, 47, born and raised on the east side of St. Paul, describes himself as a "huge Prince fan."
"He was the first person that kind of looked like me, that was brown, that was playing a really loud guitar," he said. "I wanted to be him."
Gray recalled a time in the Twin Cities when it was hard to find music by black people on the radio.
"Growing up here in the Twin Cities, there really wasn't black radio," he said. "We had KMOJ, that you could get if you were like three blocks away from it, in Minneapolis. I was always on the east side of St. Paul, or in the heart of St. Paul, and we couldn't get KMOJ, so back then our radio was all white. So I grew up with white artists."
Then came Prince.
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"He was the first person that was doing something similar to the folks that I had heard" in other places, Gray said. "And he was brown, or 'mocha brown,' as he used to say."
Because he couldn't follow the path of his black guitar hero, Gray chose the next best thing: recording and producing. He is now an Emmy-award audio engineer at tpt, the Twin Cities public TV station.
Still, he followed Prince's career, and saw him up close at Paisley Park.
"It was one of those dance-party deals," he recalled. "And I happened to be standing in the hallway. And he had this door, that was in a wall. You didn't know that was a door! ... I turned around, and there he was.
"My first initial impression — I'm short, but I'm like, 'This dude is really short.' But then when he got on stage, he might as well have been 10,000 feet tall. Because that's the swagger, and the chops, the skills, and everything that went into that package."
Many artists Gray loved died last year, including David Bowie. But nothing compared to the death of Prince.
"He wasn't family, but he felt like he was. ... Because he was always there. I find myself, all the time, saying, 'Damn, I miss you.' I really miss that dude, like he was a brother or something.
"Prince died. Prince died. That guy is gone. I must have said that for two weeks. And because we're coming up on the anniversary of his death, it's hard, because I'm reliving that day."
A year later, Gray still finds it hard to imagine that he lives in a world without Prince.


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Texas A&M International University honored its students and student organizations for exceeding expectations and making a difference outside the classroom.
The awards ceremony was held April 28.
"We honor undergraduate and graduate students, student organizations and advisors with plaques, certificates, clocks and medals at a yearly ceremony," said Dennis Koch, director, TAMIU Student Activities.
"There is so much that happens outside the classroom that makes the University a community that makes this evening so special. To recognize all the positive events and people that make TAMIU so strong is wonderful," continued Koch.
The students, organizations and advisors who were honored are as follows:
Zaffirini Scholarship and Leadership Award: James Cortez.
Student Employee of the Year: Carlos A. González, student employee for the College of Arts and Sciences department of social sciences.
Contribution to the University Village: Ericka Connie Peña, Amparo Diaz, Diego Aranda, Alberto Kleen, Teresita Rangel and Jessica Dávila.
Contribution to the Residential Learning Community (RLC): Maci Caballero, Jorge Martínez, Alexandria Martínez, Marco Falcón, Juan Espinoza, José de la Cruz, Hilda Cintrón and Esperanza González.
Contribution to the RLC Council: Carlos U. Ramírez, Carolina de la Rosa, Ramón Parra, Samantha Proa, Francisco Eduardo Vila Hoz and José de la Cruz.
Resident Assistant Program of the Year at the University Village: Limbo Luau presented by Diego Aranda.
Resident Assistant Program of the Year at the RLC: Mardi Gras presented by Alexandria Martínez, Marco Falcón, Juan Espinoza and José de la Cruz.
Resident Assistant of the Year at the University Village: Ericka Connie Peña.
Resident Assistant of the Year at the RLC: José de la Cruz.
Office of Student Disabilities certificates for volunteering to assist TAMIU students with disabilities: Myra Janet Luera, Xanath Cristina Plascencia, Juan H. Alonzo Jr., Nuria Abud, Erika D. Lozano, Mayra K. Lozano, Melissa Martínez, Alexandra Sánchez, Jeremy L. Bedwell, Javier Salinas, Cristina Gómez, Gretchen Casarez, Isis Martínez Kouba and Joe Edward Molina.
Student Government Association Awards: Sofia Sanmiguel Gutíerrez, Alfredo Jiménez, James Cortez, Rodolfo Morales, Marc Andres and Matthew Hall.
SGA Certificates: Ana Tijerina, Matthew Hall, Annalie Miravete, Rodolfo Morales, Jacqueline Corrales, Alejandro Cantú, Rodrigo Rodríguez, Laura Peña, Roberto Flores, James Cortez, Gabriel Castillo, Christine Cortez, Yuri Robles and Marc Andres.
Most Outstanding Advisor: Gina Gonzalez, director, Office of Recruitment and Student Relations and Student Ambassador advisor.
Outstanding Community Service: Delta Psi Alpha.
Student Organization Member Achievement: Selina Magaña, Student Ambassadors.
Freshmen Excellence: Luis A. Stagg, Lambda Chi Alpha.
Leader of the Year: Cynthia Gallardo, Student Ambassadors.
Most Active Student Organization: Delta Psi Alpha.
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When you stay at Renaissance Washington, DC Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, you'll be in the business district and minutes from George Washington University Hospital and Christian Heurich House. This 4-star hotel is close to George Washington University and White House.
Make yourself at home in one of the 355 air-conditioned rooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Pay movies provides entertainment, and wired and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
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Outlook 2007 Q's?
I have Outlook 2007 set up to receive and send my emails from a few different accounts, all are set up as POP3 and except one which is IMAP.
In the IMAP one I have changed the long name of the main account IMAP folder so I can fit it into the screen, now it does not show anything in the main window but the mails do show in inbox and sent. Is there an easy way to restore this, no problem if not?
Also in IMAP folder when I receive emails I get the notification in the the system tray there is new email, but no brief pop up of the mail? can this happen?
There is in POP3 a quick selection of emails used when you hover over the outlook icon, but in IMAP it is not there?
Q is in the IMAP colour selection in inbox to group emails is not there, is there a way to get this?
Thanks in advance.
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Have you tried resetting the name back to what it was before you changed it. There may be a problem in using the word EMAIL to name that folder.
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- n. A screw-bolt with a cubical head, used in securing the ends of steam-cylinders.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Figure 26 Connection to cap-screw with holding fixture
Figure 24 Connection by a cap-screw without clamping bow and holding fixture to a connection strap
Figure 25 Connection to a cap-screw with clamping bow
The cap is set at right angles to the cutter, the cap-screw dropped into the slot, the cap is slid up the slot, and turned into line with the cutter, and then slid down the slot till the edge of the cap comes quite near the edge of the cutter.
Carefully remove the cap and cutter taking pains not to let the edge hit any part of the plane, then using the clamp as a screwdriver, loosen the cap-screw and slide the cap back along the slot in the cutter, where it can be held fast by a turn of the cap-screw.
When the cap needs to be entirely removed, for instance, for grinding, after it has been slid along the cutter slot, as before, it is turned at right angles to the cutter, and then slid down the slot until the cap-screw unbuttons from the cutter.
Between the cap-screw holes are eight holes tapped to 3/4-inch, and when it is desired to take the bearing down the cap-screws are taken out of the base and screwed into the threaded holes and used as jacks to force the guide-bearing downward.
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The secret with this curd is to make it, let it cool and then add the gorgeous limey many coloured little bombs of flavour so they burst in your mouth when you eat it.
You can find the recipe from the blog I found here. I have rewritten the measurements for Aussie standards.
200 grams sugar- I used caster sugar
60g of butter
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp finger lime zest
100mls lime juice from regular limes - I had 2 juicy limes so this made up 100mls but it could take 3-4 depending
1/4 cup finger lime caviar- I used 9-10 finger limes
grate 1 teaspoon zest from the finger limes; I grated 9 of them to make a scant teaspoon as the skin is so fine
whisk the sugar, eggs, zest and lime juice in a medium saucepan then cook over low heat for about 20 minutes. I found it went very thick in about 5 minutes, but I kept on for the whole 20 minutes
You then stir in the butter off the heat and place into a glass bowl. Cover the curd with plastic wrap pressed onto the surface and whack in the fridge for an hour till it is cool.
Then stir the caviar in gently and bottle into sterilised jar (s).
|ingredients out and finger limes zested
|whisked in the pan
|butter added in
|curd all cooked up and about to go in the fridge for an hour to cool
|cling wrap on the surface to keep out the wrinkles
|finger lime pearls-love the colours! each one is a surprise; some are orange some pink some yellow some green
|stirring in the caviar
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Vietnam Bust Nets 860 kgs Ivory tusks, two tonnes of Pangolin Scales
Vietnam authorities confiscated almost a tonne of elephant tusks on Sunday, bringing to almost five tonnes the amount of ivory seized in the south-east Asian country since August 2015. Two tonnes of pangolin scales were also found in Sunday's haul.
The consignment was intercepted by customs officers in northern Quang Ninh Province, smuggled from Taiwan, Province of China. The contraband was disguised as "frozen fish" and was found in 1,300 boxes of frozen fish heads.
It is Vietnam's fourth large scale seizure of ivory since August 12, when 603 kgs ivory were confiscated in Da Nang from a ship that had travelled from Mozambique; and followed by further large scale busts of 2,3 tonnes and one tonne also in Dan Nang.
In total media reports indicate 4,859 tonnes of ivory have been seized by Vietnam since August.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare said that while it applauded Vietnam's tough stance against trafficking and the confiscation of illegal ivory and other wildlife, it was crucial that governments looked beyond seizures as the answer to disrupting trafficking.
"Seizures of ivory are always good news in the fight against poaching and illegal trafficking because they indicate improved levels of law enforcement, but seizures are the public face of a very tragic scenario that is killing up to 50,000 elephants a year and shows no sign of abating," said Kelvin Alie, Director of IFAW's Wildlife Trade Programme. The IUCN says the African elephant population currently stands at 470,000 down from 550,000 in 2006.
"Unfortunately their successes are only proving to highlight the extent of the problem. If we are to save elephants we need to address every link in the ivory chain. That means stopping the killing, stopping the trafficking and stopping the demand," said Alie.
Today British customs authorities announced that they too had a made a significant confiscation of 110 kgs of ivory, found in luggage abandoned at London's Heathrow Airport while in transit from Angola on October 14th.
UK Director of IFAW, Philip Mansbridge, said: "Border Force officers are to be congratulated for their work in seizing this ivory, which represents a number of dead elephants. Horrifyingly about one elephant is killed for its ivory every 15 minutes in Africa".
Wildlife crime ranks among the most serious, dangerous and damaging of international crimes along with human trafficking, drug running and illegal arms sales.
"The only way countries and others are going to stop poaching of elephants and illegal trade is by cooperating with agencies such as Interpol, and the law enforcement bodies of other governments to map and profile those behind this transnational criminal activity and dedicate the resources needed to reduce the capacity of those who seek profit from ivory trafficking," said Alie.
As one of the world's most lucrative criminal activities, valued at US$19-billion annually, illegal wildlife trade ranks fifth globally in terms of value, behind the trafficking in drugs, people, oil and counterfeiting.
Most illegal ivory is destined for Asia, in particular China, where it has soared in value as an investment vehicle and is coveted as "white gold". Availability of legal ivory in China purchased form the stockpile sale in southern Africa in 2008 has, in turn, boosted demand encouraging illegal ivory trade and the poaching of elephant to meet market needs.
To date, more than 2,800 participants have attended IFAW's Prevention of Wildlife Trafficking trainings across 81 training workshops in approximately 38 countries. Many of these have been conducted in partnership with INTERPOL.
The IFAW report, Criminal Nature: The Global Security Implications of the Illegal Wildlife Trade, documents the threat the illegal trade poses to animals like elephants and rhinos, and also people.
The learn more about the illegal ivory trade, download IFAW's digital magazine Unveiling the Ivory Trade.
About IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare)
Founded in 1969, IFAW saves animals in crisis around the world. With projects in more than 40 countries, IFAW rescues individual animals, works to prevent cruelty to animals, and advocates for the protection of wildlife and habitats. For more information, visit www.ifaw.org. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.


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In February's issue of Parenting Magazine, Kourtney Kardashian opens up about her first year as a mom to the adorable Mason Dash Disick. She shares some parenting secrets which include her love for for making her own baby food with her Beaba Babycook. "My mom bought me this amazing baby-food maker, the Beaba. I steam and puree fruits and vegetables, and they last for like four days."
The Beaba Babycook, Multiportions, and Babycook Cookbook are available in-store at NessaLee Baby and via www.NessaLeeBaby.com
The Stokke Tripp Trapp High Chair, a NessaLee Baby favorite, makes an appearance in one of the gorgeous shots from Kourtney and Mason's Parenting Magazine's photo shoot.
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For all you brides out there who are looking for a dramatic way to kick off your wedding, there's no better way than with letterpressed invitations!!! I haven't done too many of them myself, but I would definitely LOVE to! So, if you're in the market for this beautiful invite option, please contact me!
Below are a few samples that I found on one of my favorite blogs, Oh So Beautiful Paper.
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Ex Machina: Film Guide
A film guide that looks at Ex Machina (2015), exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion.
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Thu 08 Mar 2018
10:00 - 12:00
Glasgow Film Theatre,
12 Rose St,
WHAT: Into Film are pleased to present a screening of Ex Machina as part of the Spring Screenings programme celebrating women in animation.
WHEN: Thursday 8 March, 2018, 10am 12pm
WHERE: Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose St, Glasgow G3 6RB
Certificate: 15, Into Film recommends 16+
Language: English
In recognition of International Women's Day in March 2018 and in support of Anim18 (the BFI FAN celebration of British Animation, led by Chapter and Film Hub Wales) Into Film's Spring Screenings programme is all about British and International Women in Animation. Highlighting a variety of career opportunities such as VFX supervisor, Puppeteer, Producer and Director within the animation industry, and through the careers of the women that have made these films, we hope to inspire young women and young men aged between 16 and 19 to think about following their own paths into the world of animation.
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Ex Machina
Winning a place on a top-secret project, computer coder Caleb is helicoptered to the secluded home of Internet company owner Nathan. Revealing that he has built a female robot called Ava, Caleb has been enlisted to test her capacity for thought and feeling. Under the gaze of CCTV, Caleb interviews Ava and finds himself not only impressed by her intelligence but also increasingly attracted to her. However, as Nathan's and Ava's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, Caleb is forced to question the ethics of the experiment. Winding up to a grippingly claustrophobic ending, the film slickly explores the morality and threat in creating artificial intelligence while sparking broader discussions on how gender and sexuality inform human identity.
strong language, bloody violence, sex references
Alex Garland
Britain / USA
104 minutes


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Featuring Guest Blogger Carrie Covey, Associate Director of Development, Blue Ridge Area Food Back
If you're like me and grew up in the Valley or have lived here for a while, it may be hard to fathom the fact that more than 34,000 of our Valley neighbors struggle with food insecurity. Maybe it's because the majority of us convey the middle class persona — we work hard in our jobs and take pride in our work. We treasure our families and would do anything for them. We drive nice cars and trucks in order to safely transport our loved ones to school and church. We have built nice homes with our hard-earned dollars. However, with each layer peeled back a harsh reality is revealed for many of our neighbors. That beautiful home may merely be a shell with no furniture or empty cupboards. The nice car or truck may be the only reliable transportation available. Maybe that job is not full-time work, it does not include benefits or pays low wages. The family that looks healthy and fed may resort to watering down their food to make it last longer or only eating one full meal a day. Some parents even skip meals in order to feed their children. Yes, friends, this is our reality… right here in the Shenandoah Valley. These are our neighbors, our family members, our colleagues and friends and one in every 10 of them struggles with food insecurity.
Like the rolling hills and ridges of the Valley, the landscape of hunger is complex. Every individual we serve at the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and our 215 partner agencies has a personal challenge to overcome. As difficult as it is to ask for help, our neighbors graciously and gratefully receive the support they need because they care for their families and their loved ones as much as we care for ours.
You can join us and make their path just a little easier. We invite you to participate in the 2017 Valley Businesses Give Back food and fund drive. This year's drive will take place from June 5 through June 23.
Valley Businesses Give Back is a central Shenandoah Valley initiative that provides the opportunity for your business or organization to Give Back to our hungry neighbors and lead the community by example. First launched in 2011, Valley Businesses Give Back has collectively raised more than $24,000 and brough in more than 46,000 pounds of food to benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Back. All told, we've been able to provide more than 134,000 meals to Shenandaoh Valley Families as a result.
I hope you'll consider joining us by participating in this year's food and fund drive. Every dollar and every can of food helps to feed the hard-working families of the Valley who struggle to make ends meet. By participating in Valley Businesses Give Back, you're setting a place at the table for our friends in need. Thank you for your unwavering commitment to our community and the flourishing of the Shenandoah Valley.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
Together, we can provide nourishment and hope for our Valley neighbors. Together, we can solve hunger.


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Information Minister Khieu Kanharith yesterday reiterated that it was near impossible for Beehive Radio director Mam Sonando to expand his station's reach and obtain a TV licence because he owes "millions of riel" in supposed broadcasting tax.
The comments – similar to those Kanharith made over the weekend – came as the prominent radio director submitted a letter to City Hall yesterday outlining plans for daily protests outside the ministry.
"His strategy is to borrow more money.… His radio [operation] owes the ministry hundreds of millions of riel," Kanarith said, adding that the money supposedly owed was tax for broadcasting.
Sonando, however, said no such law exists.
"How can I pay a broadcasting tax of 3 million riel per month if there is no law? I absolutely won't," he said. "[Kanharith] says I owe hundreds of millions of riel. If so, why does he not file a legal complaint?"
Over the weekend, Kanharith described Sonando's efforts to move into TV and expand his radio station's coverage as a ploy to "borrow more money" from the government, according to a Sunday post on the website of state-run news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP).
The same day, Sonando said he had been forced to postpone a demonstration because the authorities had said his request to rally had been "unlawful".
City Hall has not yet responded to a subsequent request from Sonando to hold week-day rallies in his bid to grow his media company.
City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said officials planned to invite Sonando to talk about his demonstration plans.


text: Hi, I have heard through the grapevine that Ecco have been offering a ladder in London for £300 a month, is this the drifting version they had or are they offering the static version TT have been trying to sue them over? (have they won the court case?) Anyone seen this so called ladder, is it any good? What exchanges are included? Is the spreader included? Reason for asking is £600 a month saved is £600 a month and after the October i've just had, it all counts. Thanks C


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Its going to be a massive task to lift the players after that, he admitted after the record 46-16 defeat. Its like Emergency Ward Nine in there. Weve got major doubts over Richard Fletcher and Duncan MacGillivray for next week and Dene Miller has broken his ankle we think in the A team game before hand. The busiest people this week are going to be the physio and doctor as they will have to patch everybody up.
McCormack had no criticism for his under-strength team that was missing the likes of the rested Castleford duo Danny Brough and Andrew Henderson. I know the players gave their all and will do against Wales and we have a couple more players to bring in. Iain Morrison was immense tonight, Lee Paterson was tremendous and scored a sensational try, Kevin Henderson played a whole game on debut as did Andy Todd. We got plenty out of the game despite the result and the injuries.


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The person who runs Royal Mail was boasting yesterday that half the post her postmen deliver is now junk mail. She wants it to be even more.
This is like BT boasting that half the telephone calls you receive are recorded messages urging you to sue for mis-sold PPI. Or the railway companies boasting that half the passengers have to stand and that overcrowding will become even less bearable if their plans go right.
The Royal Mail under Moya Greene (who, they say, is paid half a million pounds a year) has launched a department called MarketReach, which encourages junk mail. You can tell that MarketReach is The Future because it does not bother with a space between the two words. In The Future, universal provision will mean that no Highland croft is too remote to avoid glossy pictures of exciting new pizza toppings.
In response, many householders put up a sign: No Junk Mail. I have always found this an intriguing indicator of character. It is – rather like calling your house Bethel, or indeed Chatsworth – a refusal to accept reality on its own terms. It can't possibly have any beneficial effect. At best it reinforces moral outrage: "Another charity leaflet with a free ballpoint. Can't they SEE it says No Junk Mail?"
My favourite local No Junk Mail sign is a hand-made job in the spirit of Blue Peter, with letters cut out of coloured paper and no doubt pasted on with Gloy. It hangs on a letter box above a wire carrier that fits four bottles of milk and has a dial to tell the milkman how many pints you'd like today, please. Yet I happen to know that no milkman calls in that street.
There are more genteel No Junk Mail signs. Some, in Fulham, are made of a material resembling hand-beaten brass with the words spelt out in shallow, blunt capitals. Sometimes the words are impressed on to the letter box itself, replacing that more obvious message, "Letters". I do not think letter boxes say Letters in order to inform the postman where to thrust his little burden. It is more in the spirit of bath mats that say BATH or dog bowls that say DOG. This is a tendency deep in the human heart: to plumb the nature of things. It is a kind of poetry. Fire burns, ice freezes and Max eats from a bowl marked DOG.
What Ms Greene is doing is rather the opposite. She is making the dog share its bowl with the cat. It is against nature. We know what post is: a welcome little sheaf of envelopes splayed on the mat like a hand of cards. It is welcome because it comes from people we know. The brown envelopes with threats from HM Revenue and Customs or TV Licensing are doubly horrible because the demand for money, under the pretence of civil communication, comes from strangers.
Ms Green's MarketReach promotes this trespass. It is like a stranger coming up to you in the pub and asking if you are happy with your car insurance. You can't exactly say that it is illegal, but it is an insult.
It's the 60th anniversary of the singles charts. Which of all those years was stranger than 1962, with only 12 number ones, three of them instrumental (Wonderful Land by the Shadows, Telstar by the Tornados and the inestimable 1min 58sec of Nut Rocker by B Bumble and The Stingers)? The novelty item was Come Outside by Mike Sarne (with Wendy Richard interjecting "Get lost!").
The next year, The Beatles arrived and all was utterly changed.
I'd been calling the man who is to be Archbishop of Canterbury "Dr Welby". Then someone told me that he isn't a doctor of any kind, medical, philosophical, divine or even Lambeth.
Lambeth can confer degrees, and I suggest it does so before the enthronisation of the Rt Rev Mr Welby.


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Have you ever heard of the Beeding Bounce?
It was a country dancing routine performed by children at Upper Beeding Primary School at their summer fete in 1983.
And it helped them to raise £800 for audio-visual equipment.
As well as the Bounce, the children took part in gymnastic displays, a fancy cake contest and, of course, a fancy dress competition.
There were some curiously named entrants in the latter, with Katrina Robb coming second in the young juniors section as 'baked beans', and Nicky Luck winning the pre-school contest as 'eight draws'.
Robert Wood, as a Jack In The Box, and Jane Langley, as a butterfly, were much easier to visualise.
Were you one of the Beeding Bouncers?
Elsewhere, the children of tiny St Robert Southwell Primary proved bigger was not necessarily better when they shattered their school's fundraising record in 1983.
The four teachers and 85 children swelled the school's coffers by £1,700 thanks to a rather successful fete.
The fete was opened by Kermit the Frog and saw former Redhill FC goalkeeper Peter O'Brien facing a barrage of shots during the beat the goalie contest.
His professional pride was intact by the end of the day as few of the parents, staff or children managed to slot one past him.
One of the parents showed off his 'dad dancing' and impressive record collection as he served as disc jockey Chris the Disc.
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I recently read a book given by a friend (during the weekend of the storm, on February 27 and 28) and written by Roald Dahl titled « Bizarre ! bizarre ! » (English title: "Someone like you")
I made a bet for a blind tasting of Branaire Ducru 1934, which was a good pretext to offer this book to all the wine (and Branaire Ducru) and blind tastings enthusiasts. But it is not the only reason, "Someone like you" also contains a lot of absurd, tragic endings, watch out for caviar if you like art, try not to mistake a servant with a mustache with a gentleman, even one wearing glasses with an American…
We hosted many people, Koreans, Americans, and meals at home or in the restaurant Marronniers in Montagne with nice bottles: La Grande Barde 2005, Château Saint Georges 2003, Beau Soleil 2006 (sold at a nice price) and a classified growth 1995 which, fortunately today, is very good.
At our house: Whites, some 2009, Compassant 2004, Clos du Beau Père 2006 and Sabines 2006 and of course Lafite Rothschild and Valandraud 1998, very different. When you think that people consider that Valandraud is a concentrated wine ! Taste this Lafite Rothschild 1998 which is still too young to drink today !


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The article from the Washington Post is about the significant letter written by Coretta Scott King to the US Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 regarding opposition to Jeff Sessions' nomination for a federal judgeship. The committee was chaired by renowned white supremacist Senator Strom Thurmond from North Carolina, and, importantly, the committee rejected Session's nomination:
Three decades ago, the Senate Judiciary Committee – in Republican hands and chaired by Strom Thurmond – rejected Sessions' nomination to the federal bench, only the second time such a nominee was rejected by the committee in 49 years.
Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware and the ranking Democrat on the committee, said that Sessions' past statements were "inappropriate for someone holding public office." Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts said Sessions was "a throwback to a shameful era which I know both black and white Americans thought was in our past."
"How any black person would be able to feel they are going to have impartial justice from Mr. Sessions is beyond me," said Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, Democrat of Ohio.
(Vice News)
In 1986, when Mrs. King's letter regarding Sessions was written, I directed the non-violent program for Coretta King at "The King Center for Nonviolent Social Change" in Atlanta.
Heather Gray
Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote
opposing Sessions's 1986 federal nomination
The widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. urged Congress to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions for federal judge, saying that allowing him to join the federal bench would "irreparably damage the work of my husband," according to the letter written by King that was previously publicly unavailable and obtained on Tuesday by The Post.
(Read the full letter at the Washington Post site)
"Anyone who has used the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens should not be elevated to our courts," King wrote in the cover page of her 9-page letter opposing Sessions's nomination, which failed at the time.
"Mr. Sessions has used the awesome powers of his office in a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters. For this reprehensible conduct, he should not be rewarded with a federal judgeship."
Thirty years later, Sessions, now himself a senator, is again undergoing confirmation hearings as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, and is facing fierce opposition from civil rights groups.
Coretta and Martin King
In the letter, King writes that Sessions' ascension to the federal bench "simply cannot be allowed to happen," arguing that as a U.S. attorney, the Alabama lawmaker pursued "politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions" and that he "lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge." She said Sessions's conduct in prosecuting civil rights leaders in a voting fraud case "raises serious questions about his commitment to the protection of the voting rights of all American citizens."
"The irony of Mr. Sessions' nomination is that, if confirmed, he will be given a life tenure for doing with a federal prosecution what the local sheriffs accomplished twenty years ago with clubs and cattle prods," she wrote, later adding: "I believe his confirmation would have a devastating effect on not only the judicial system in Alabama, but also on the progress we have made toward fulfilling my husband's dream."
During the 1986 hearing, the letter and King's opposition became a crucial part of the argument against Sessions' confirmation. Current Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has not previously released the letter, which committee rules grant him the sole authority to reveal.
Buzzfeed News first reported the existence of the letter earlier Tuesday, noting that it was never entered into the congressional record by then-Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond.
Coretta Scott King's 1986 letter opposing Sessions was originally published on atlantadailyworld.com


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Regardless of what you think, you will always be my babies.
I was there before you were born.
When you were stubborn and didn't want to be born, I was cut in half to make sure you were safe. And I was there when your dad nearly passed out.
I was there for your first birthday. And your first day of daycare.
I was there with your dad and walked you to your first day of kindergarten. And I was there when I got the phone call you rode your bike into the window at school.
I was there five minutes after you took a baseball to the face, thrown by someone that never, ever, hit someone in batting practice.
I was there when we got notes from your teachers that said what good citizens you were and how you always had an extra pencil to share.
I was there when you taped money to the floor because you thought it was funny.
I was there when you came home after throwing a baseball across the parking lot that bounced and dented a car.
I was there when you were the quietest one in school, and when you finally got your voice and became the most sarcastic kid in class.
I was there when you played soccer, and then discovered baseball, and football too. I was there during practices and games in grade school, middle school, high school and college.
I was there to help with homework and help (write) edit papers.
I was there for countless movies I didn't necessarily want to see, but saw any way because it meant we were together.
I was there the first time you watched an R rated movie and I tried not to laugh when you turned red because there were boobs on the screen.
I was there to wash the pair of shorts you just had to have for the next day. And I was there when your shoes wore out in gym class and we had to run out at 8:30 at night to find you another pair.
I was there when you discovered girls and fell in (love); and then I was there when I realized you were really in love.
I was there when you wanted to eat the last donut, which you knew was my favorite, but I let you eat it anyway.
I was there when you called me momma, and mom, and woman.
I was there when you laughed. And cried. And couldn't sleep. Or was sick. And when you were scared of Scar. And when nothing scared you as well.
I was there when you still slept with your blanket. And when you grew up and still sometimes used it.
I was there when you sold your Xbox and games and gave some of the profit to your brother so he could buy a new game too.
I was there when you went hunting and came home with your trophy...and there when you came home with nothing. And I was there when you allowed me to sit with you on opening day and I watched in awe when you took the shot three feet from me.
I was there at the dinner table and tried to be the voice of reason, when all you wanted to do was fart to make me laugh. I tried to be the adult and held back the giggles, when deep inside I was already laying on the floor laughing.
I was there during doctor visits and surgeries, and held your hand in the hospital when you weren't sure you'd recover.
I was there when you bumped your head the day before school pictures, and there when you realized chicks dig scars.
I was there when you realized you knew where you wanted to go to college, and what you wanted to study. And when you knew you wanted to play college football and gave it your all.
I was there when you got best hitter awards, and when you were the best defensive lineman, and got the Cwik award, and the all conference nod. And I was there when all the hard work paid off and you were awarded your scholarships.
I'll be there when you graduate college. And when you graduate high school. And you graduate college too.
I'll be there when you fall in love, and get married and have babies of your own.
And I'll be there when your kids test you and you don't know what to do...and you realize the only thing you can think of is to call your mom for her advice.
I love you both with all my heart. Thank you for making life pretty easy for me and your dad.


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Conversation over dinner following Owen's 4-year MOT with Dr. Proslier, which included an eye test.
Fanf: Doctors are there to help us. Mummy and I like Dr. Proslier and we trust him.
Matilda: Doctors know everything.
Fanf: They know all about the human body.
Owen: They don't know everything, he didn't know what cats are. He showed me a picture of a cat and asked me what it was.
Doctors - not all they're cracked up to be.


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"Co-dependence Day"
"If a Cliche Goes Unused, the Aliens Will Win"
Amateur night, pure and simple-minded.
A "nice, young couple" is awakened in a guest-room of a plush L.A. penthouse suite by an incandescent blue light that creeps through the louvre blinds. The guy goes out to investigate and staring into the high-wattage illumination source, his skin begins to burn from the inside, his eyes milking over, compelling him to move towards the light, where he will be sucked into the waiting maw of...
We don't find out, as we're zapped back 15 hours to the start of this bucolic vacation where the "nice, young couple" (Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson) are flying to L.A. to birthday par-tay with male half of NYC's old homey (Donald Faison), who works in the L.A. film industry. Male-half NYC is a visual effects maker and homey wants him to join up. Already you think that the scripters haven't strayed too far from what they know, the directors, the Brothers Strause, being FX techs, with only the egregious Aliens vs. Predators: Requiem, being their only previous feature.
This film was made on a relative shoe-string—production costs being half a mil' and the post-production making up 9.5 of the $10 million budget, but the ledger sheet is the botton-line of what's wrong with this picture: Skyline boasts sophisticated special effects...and that's about it. Kudos to the film-makers for their cost-cutting measures—they filmed around one of the directors' own penthouse and building complex (and you never get beyond the no-doubt locked security gate around the place), with the result of an audience disconnect—it's hard to feel sympathy for your protagonist when he lives better than you do. Plus, there's a self-congratulatory tone that feels a bit like "Mars Attacks MTV Cribs."*
Would that the Brothers had spent a bit more money developing a script, polishing the dialog (which is all of the "What is it?" "I dunno. We should check it out" variety**), or even figuring out what their movie is about besides lighting, burning and floating, and Geiger-esque spacecraft, and gooey brain-sucking "Id-monster" aliens.
Cynically, I think the Brothers Strause*** saw the success of Paranormal Activity (low budget movie+minimal crew+no stars=low-threshold boffo box office) and decided to make an alien invasion version, rather than a possessed household one. But, where Oren Peli's film truly was low-budget—not only did he utilize his own house, but, given the nature of the film, the actors were the cinematographers, ultimately costing $15,000****—and largely improvised, as well, it also had the germ of an idea of how to use it's limited budget to maximum advantage.
In other words, Oren Peli is a gifted film-maker; The Brothers Strause make films.
Skyline is a film that directors cut up so they can put it on their "reel," strictly for demonstration purposes only. It is a shallow, inept, nihilistic crap-fest that dares to not even come to a conclusion in the hopes that some poor slob will clamor for a sequel.
Doubtful that will happen. There was enough brain-sucking in this movie.
Skyline is a complete and utter Waste of Time.
* Maybe it's all a bitter resentment statement by the film-makers attacking slothful materialism and greed in our society and in the L.A. film industry in particular, but I think it's more like "let's use my place, so I can fix it up real cool, charge it to the studio and use it as a tax dodge."
** "I dunno. We should check it out?"
"What do you think those things are?" "It doesn't matter."
"Is that what I think it is?"
"They took Walt." "What do you mean, they took Walt?"
For all the valuable information that is being disseminated in the dialog—there are no convenient scientists in lab-coats living in the high-end condo complex to explain everything, I guess—this could easily have been a silent movie. The gist is that these people don't know what's going on, are confused, and making it up as they go along. But, there is so much false drama being milked out of the situation that you start to wish that everybody in the cast gets taken, just to shut them up. And the film-makers are such "bad-ass-street-cred-bad-boys" that they are only too willing to accomodate.
*** If you follow this link to the Brothers Strause official web-site, you will find that it doesn't work at the time of the writing. Some bad HTML code.
**** And it made Paramount/Dreamworks $194,000,000.00. Nice return on investment!
Saturday, November 20, 2010
"Co-dependence Day"


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Hello! I'm a designer from Valencia (SPAIN).
Here you can take a look at some of my work. If you are interested in working with me or just want to say hello, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Fresc i a casa
Fresc i a casa is a traditional agriculture company based near Valencia.
They offer fresh seasonal products directly from the field through their online store and home delivery service without any intermediary.
For this project, we developed the online store, created the logo, designed the brochures and produced all product photography.
Client: Fresc i a casa
Carme Teatre
Carme Teatre is an alternative theatre located in Valencia.
Carme Teatre won't let you indifferent, it is the theatre of experience, it is a call out.
The brand is mainly based on the essence of theatre: the light, the darkness, the actor and the spoken text.
In collaboration with Helena Pérez, Pablo Funcia and Jose Cuñat.
Client: Carme Teatre
"Unel-moi!" is a campaign for the Helsinki Central Library 2017 project. The campaign aimed to encourage people to share their ideas and dreams about the future library. Those collected ideas will be used during the design process of the future library.
Project developed at the agency Kuudes Kerros in collaboration with Leena Fredriksson.
Client: Helsinki Central Library
Photo credits: Kuudes Kerros
EME magazine
Layout design proposal for EME magazine, published by the Master in Design & Illustration (UPV).
This editorial project talks about design and illustration and it shows some student works.
Estevan Calvo
Estevan Calvo Diseño y Mecanizados S.L. is a company dedicated to the design and manufacture of industrial parts, placed near Valencia.
Their core values are quality, productivity and service. Their main goal is to satisfy customers by providing advise and quality products.
For this project, we created the website, designed the brand, the corporate stationery and the business cards.
Client: Estevan Calvo Diseño y Mecanizados S.L.