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|15 Dec 2011
UxStyleCore stopped working after latest Windows Update
Hello all,
Last Tuesday came a set of updates via Windows Update and since then my custom style displays as Windows Classic and not Aero.
I can use any other official Aero based theme, but using an unsigned theme no longer works.
Has anyone seen this?
What would be your recommendations ?
I tried removing the updates via the appropriate list, but that put my windows in a non bootable state that I could only get out by restoring to a saved state that includes the updates.
Thanks in advance
|My System Specs
|15 Dec 2011
Switch to the default aero theme then
Click on the Start Button type in Services In the search box and then click on Services
Scroll down until you see unsigned themes select it in click on the Stop text and let it stop after that click on Start text and see if that works. Your screen may blink when you do this.
|My System Specs
|16 Dec 2011
Thanks for that, but I'm quite sure I have tried it already.
Well, maybe not with "going back to default aero theme", so I'll try again.
That said, I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling UxStyleCore, to no avail.
Weird thing is that this already happened in the past after windows update, after the first reboot. But a second reboot and I was back to normal. It's just this time that it no longer works.
The situation with regards to Aero themes is as follows :
My theme -> broken
Default Aero theme -> broken
Any other Aero theme -> working
Thanks for your help, I'll try your suggestion
|My System Specs
|16 Dec 2011
Windows update's should not turn off UxStyleCore I have never had one update do that I have had to do as I suggested above a few times but not because of an update.
Now you are saying the default Aero theme is broken but you can use other Aero themes I don't see how the other Aero themes(The ones that came from Microsoft) are tied to the default Aero theme they all work off of 1 aero.msstyles
Try turning it on and off in services first.
Then tried to troubleshoot Aero
Click on start button in the search box type Aero and look for Find and fix problems with transparency and check for problems
|My System Specs
|16 Dec 2011
For the default Aero theme, I had modified aero.theme to use another .msstyles file. After putting back the original value, it works again.
I tried using the aero fixer, it did not find anything.
But now that I have fixed aero.theme, my own theme gets back Aero enabled but without using my own aero_obones2.msstyles despite the .theme file specifying this:
And the above msstyles file is located right there.
I'm quite lost here, but I very much appreciate your help and patience.
|My System Specs
|16 Dec 2011
Take a screenshot of C:\Windows\Resources\Themes and C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Aero in full screen and post them.
Screenshot with Paint
Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Seven Forums
How to Use the Snipping Tool in Vista - Vista Forums
Like this
|My System Specs
|18 Dec 2011
There you go:
My custom theme file (olivier.theme) is stored in my user profile's directory :
Thanks again for your help
|My System Specs
|18 Dec 2011
Seems I cannot post direct links, so here are the attachments
|My System Specs
|18 Dec 2011
You need to remove these and make into themes look at post #38 Start menu color change ?? it will show you how.
These do not belong there
|My System Specs
|09 Jan 2012
Sorry for the delay, but I'm glad to say that this worked a charm, I'm now back with my own theme.
I don't know why my setup worked before and stopped after the latest windows update, but following your indications made it work again.
Many thanks.
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Our events are centered around roller skating with a twist. Winter events include family parties like New Years Eve and Mardi Gras with balloon drops that are attended by hundreds of people each year. Summer events like the 4th of July are enjoyed by our Parade Crew of about 150 skaters that love to skate the Arlington Heights and Palatine parades with us. This year we have a huge party on July 4th that starts at Midnight until 6am with adults from all over the country bringing some of the best R&B and JB skating to Orbit for one amazing night.
Our upscale food is another area you don't expect at any ordinary roller rink. We have a full menu of delicious fresh food to offer our guests that can be viewed on our website. From the pizza to milkshakes, everything is prepared on site and as natural as we can with no preservatives and using the freshest ingredients like our crazy lineup of pizza toppings. We don't serve anything we wouldn't offer to our own children and grandchildren. The bar appetizers like toasted nacho cheese ravioli is a big hit!
Community is very important to us. Our families that have their children in our After School Club trust us to provide a welcoming and wholesome environment. We reach out to our local schools, offering incentives to do better in reading with our Reading Rocks program, learn physics with our Newton Knew IT! program and raise money using our new FUNdraising skating parties. During the school breaks of Winter, Spring and Summer we provide over 100,000 free passes to school children to skate free when school is out of session. We are one of the first rinks in the Chicago area to participate in KidsSkateFree.com, a nationwide initiative to fight childhood obesity by sending member families 2 free skate passes each week for their children until they are 14 years old. With over 6,000 kids enrolled at Orbit Skate Center and approaching half a million kids nationwide, we believe we are making a difference in ways that matter!
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Gary's got the right idea. Fluffy blankets FTW!
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Pendulum logo
Pendulum is my favorite band. They are awesome. And they also have the most complicated logo I've ever seen for a band (thus far). The reason I made this is because I've never seen any Pendulum related clothing in the states, so I was like, "why not just make it yourself?"
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Dead Space 2 rig
This one's design is directly taken from the official t-shirt design in the Dead Space store. I felt like it would be cheaper to paint the design onto something rather than buying it...
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|16-year old Raymond Galloway (source)
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The teen shot his cousin, Raymond Galloway, in the head at around 5:50 a.m. Sunday while Galloway slept in the teen's bedroom in the 500 block of East 38th Place, according to Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors.
The 16-year-old was pronounced dead about 90 minutes later at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to authorities.
The two boys had been arguing earlier about an Xbox, according to a police report.
A fired 9mm cartridge was found in the teen's bedroom and a 9mm semi-automatic handgun was recovered in the apartment, said Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
The 13-year-old told police he shot Galloway, she said. Police said the boy's mother was present when he made that statement.
The boy was charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder just after midnight Monday. Judge Stuart Katz ordered him held in custody, Simonton said.
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It might seem like a dream to be able to lose weight without dieting. Many people are caught in the yo yo diet trap for their entire adult lives. They'll only eat tuna fish for weeks on end & then lose weight. Within days they put it back on & their struggle was all for nothing. Then the dieter becomes discouraged until the next fad diet comes on the scene. Here is how to lose weight without dieting.
Change your idea of thin. You might think that you have to be Hollywood thin. Most of the famous actresses are a size 0-4. However, this might not even be healthy. Instead, check with your doctor or the body mass index to determine if you really need to lose weight. Your body may have just settled at a good weight for you & you should learn to love it as long as it's healthy.
Eat consciously. Turn off the TV. You can consume your dinner or an entire bag of potato chips without even realizing it. This also takes away your opportunity to actually savor & enjoy your food. Most importantly, you will miss the signal that you are full & just keep eating because you aren't paying attention. Instead, bring back meal time. It can be a time everyday where your family sits around the table & enjoys healthy meals & togetherness.
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Stop dieting. This is one of the best parts of losing weight without dieting. You finally get to get off the rollercoaster ride. Instead, it's a life change that you won't even have to think about once it has become habit. Some people say they are naturally thin, but most of them just gravitate towards healthy eating habits.
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Chew & then chew some more. It takes a certain amount of time for the body to realize it has had enough food. Up until then, you might just eat & eat. Sometimes you might consume the entire calorie allotment for the rest of the day at lunch. If you chew your food 20 times, it helps slow things down. It also gives you the opportunity to savor your food.
You can lose weight without dieting but it still takes discipline. Think of it as a change of life. This way, you won't ever have to go off a diet & ultimately fail. Instead, you will find a healthy weight for you where you feel good about the way that you look.


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New footpath connects Edensor Road
Published Friday, 7th July 2017
Edensor Park residents and visitors will be able to get around their neighbourhood more easily with a new 850-metre footpath along Edensor Road from Bosnjak Oval to Allambie Road.
The path better connects residents to shopping centres, parks and other community facilities and makes it easier to get outdoors and stay fit.
Mayor of Fairfield City, Frank Carbone, encourages residents to make full use of the new footpath.
"The new footpath on Edensor Road stretches for almost a kilometre, making life easier for residents to access various facilities across the community," he said.
"Footpaths make it easier and safer for people to get around Fairfield City. They benefit everyone including young families with children and prams, people with a disability, older people, joggers and children walking to school.
"Fairfield City Council is more than doubling its investment in footpaths this financial year to more than $2.7 million. Almost $1.9 million will fund repairs and upgrades for existing footpaths and about $800,000 will fund new footpaths. Council will install 13 kilometres of new and renewed footpaths this financial year.
"In recent months, Council invited residents to review and comment on Council's plans for future road, kerb and gutter, and footpath upgrades. The response was very helpful and I'd like to thank residents for getting involved.
"Over the next four years, Council will invest $10.3 million in building new and renewing existing footpaths," Mayor Carbone said.
In total, Council maintains about 943 kilometres of footpaths and shared cycleways across the City, equating to the road distance between Fairfield and Brisbane.
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Rover K Series engine
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The K-Series was introduced in 1988 by Rover Group as a powerplant for the Rover 200 car. It was revolutionary in that it was the first volume production implementation of the low pressure sand casting technique. This works by injecting liquid aluminium into an upturned sand mould from below. In this way any oxide film always remains on the surface of the casting and is not stirred into the casting structure. This production technology overcame many of the inherent problems of casting aluminium components and consequently permitted lower casting wall thickness and higher strength to weight ratios. However, the process required the use of heat treated LM25 material which gave the engines a reputation for being fragile. An engine overheat would often result in the material becoming annealed and rendering the components scrap. The aluminium engine blocks were fitted with spun cast iron cylinder liners that were initially manufactured by GKN's Sheepbridge Stokes of Chesterfield, but replaced by spun cast iron liners made by Goetze after some seminal research conducted by Charles Bernstein at Longbridge, which proved influential even to Ducati for their race engines. Unfortunately a large number of aftermarket engines, the so-called "VHPD"s" were built with the old substandard GKNs by Minister, Lotus and PTP well after the Goetze liner's introduction to the production line in 2000.
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The two types of head that were bolted to the common four-cylinder block were designated K8 (8 valves) and K16 (16 valves). A later head design also incorporated a Rover-designed Variable Valve Control (VVC) unit (derived from an expired AP patent). This allowed more power to be developed without compromising low-speed torque and flexibility. The VVC system constantly alters the inlet cam period, resulting in a remarkably flexible drive - the torque curve of a VVC K-series engine is virtually flat throughout the rev range and power climbs steadily with no fall-off whatsoever until the rev limiter kicks in at 7,200 rpm.
By comparison, the V6 engines are more conventional engines that do not make use of the through bolts to hold the head to the block.
Engine management
K8 engine
Early K8 engines used a single SU KIF carburetter with a manual choke and a breaker-less distributor mounted on the end of the camshaft. MEMS Single point injection became standard with the launch of the Rover 100 in 1994.
K16 models used MEMS electronic engine management in either Single Point or Multi Point forms, with a single coil on the back of the engine block and a distributor cap and rotor arm on the end of the inlet camshaft. MEMS 2J was used on the VVC engine, to control the Variable Valve Control and also the distributorless ignition system, which was necessary thanks to having camshaft drive belts at both ends of the engine. With the launch of the Rover 25 and Rover 45 in 1999, MEMS 3 was introduced, with twin coils and sequential injection.
Early KV6 as used in the Rover 800 used MEMS 2J, which controlled the three wasted spark coil packs and variable intake manifold geometry. The later KV6 used Siemens EMS 2000.
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- SOHC K8 8-valve, SPI, 60 hp (44 kW)
- SOHC K8 8-valve, MPI, 60 hp (44 kW)
- DOHC K16 16-valve, MPI, 75 hp (55 kW)
Cars that came with the 1100:
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- Rover 25
Engine Codes: 14K2F (8V), 14K4F (16V), 14K16 (16V)?
All 1400 engines displace 1.4 L (1,396 cc/85 cu in). Six variations were created:
- SOHC K8 8-valve, Carburettor, 75 hp (55 kW)
- SOHC K8 8-valve, SPI, 75 hp (55 kW)
- SOHC K8 8-valve, MPI, 75 hp (55 kW)
- DOHC K16 16-valve, SPI, 90 hp (66 kW)
- DOHC K16 16-valve, MPI, 82 hp (61 kW)
- DOHC K16 16-valve, MPI, 103 hp (76 kW)
The K16 82 hp variant is exactly the same as the 103 hp (77 kW) version, apart from a restrictive throttle body designed to lower the car's insurance group; the 90 hp (67 kW) Spi features single-point fuel injection rather than the multi-point of the later engine.
Cars that came with the 1400:
- Rover Metro
- Rover 100
- Rover 200
- Rover 25
- Rover 400
- Rover 45
- Rover Streetwise
- MG ZS - Ireland and Portugal only.
- Caterham Seven
- GTM Libra
- FSO Polonez Caro/Atu
Engine Code: 16K4F
All 1600 engines displace 1.6 L (1,588 cc/96 cu in). Two variations were created:
- DOHC K16 16-valve, MPI, 109 hp (80 kW)
- DOHC K16 16-valve, MPI, 111 hp (82 kW)
Cars that came with the 1600:
- Rover 200
- Rover 25
- Rover Streetwise
- Rover 400
- Rover 45
- Caterham Seven
Engine Codes: 18K4F, 18K4K (VVC variants)
All 1800 engines displace 1.8 L (1,795 cc/109 cu in). Six variations were created:
- DOHC K16 16-valve, MPI, 117 to 120 hp (86 to 88 kW)
- DOHC K16 16-valve, MPI, 136 hp (100 kW)
- DOHC K16 16-valve, MPI, VVC, 145 hp (107 kW)
- DOHC K16 16-valve, MPI, VVC, 160 hp (118 kW)
- DOHC K16 16-valve, MPI, turbocharged, 150 to 160 hp (110 to 118 kW)
- DOHC K16 VHPD - Very High Performance Derivative 16-valve, MPI, 177 hp (130 kW) or 192 hp (142 kW) (Lotus version) (Uses VVC unique cylinder head casting (similar to VVC casting), has big valves, but with fixed cam timing - No development input was requested from Rover)
Cars that came with the 1800:
- Rover 200 (120HP, 145 HP VVC)
- Rover 25 (120HP, 145 HP VVC)
- Rover 45 (120 HP)
- Rover Streetwise (120HP)
- Rover 75 (120 HP, 150 HP Turbo)
- MG ZR (120 HP and 160 HP VVC)
- MG ZT (120HP, 160 HP Turbo)
- MG F (120 HP, 145 HP VVC and 160 HP VVC)
- MG TF (120HP, 135 HP and 160 HP VVC)
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- Lotus Elise
- Land Rover Freelander(120 HP)
- Caterham Seven
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God's taken me and my church on an amazing worship journey these past few weeks. We've been studying the first letter of John, and singing all the dangerous prayers. It's all felt extremely timely.
I've found it very difficult to write recently; the political situation we're in is unlike anything I've seen before and evolving rapidly. I wonder what I can say into the face of it that won't be an irrelevance a week later, or what I have to add to the clamour of voices already speaking loudly, especially when I don't think any of us have navigated anything like this before and none of us entirely know the way. If I'm honest, I'm fumbling along in the dark trying to find what love looks like just as much as anyone else!
But then, into our chaos, God speaks.
The teaching in church over the last few weeks has looked at 1 John, which was written to a church suffering from the effects of false claims, which were causing division in the church. Truth itself was under attack, and the Christian community was finding itself fractured. So John writes to assure the church that there is a real truth we can be sure of, in Jesus, and then sets out how we can know it better.
If we want to know where to walk, we need light to be able to see the path. Walking in the light as he calls it is not about whether or not we are 'saved', but about how well we know God. We must press into God to see clearly. Honesty and accountability are the path to better relationships with one another and with God, and when we are able to live in total honest openness like this, the truth can be seen and known and division healed. Before we leapt to making judgements of others, we must look honestly at ourselves and see the roots of the same problems in us. And all can be forgiven!
Jesus is our standard against which we must measure truth and love. The more we know Him, the more we can discern these things. And His love, real love, is a love that sacrifices itself, its own interests, and its very life for others and for the benefit of the wider community.
We live in dark times, as truth is under attack and we are being divided against one another. But we can face down and overcome the darkness by striving for closeness with God, personal purity coupled with a transparency and humility that keeps us on the right track and helps build connection with others, and sacrificial love.
And then the worship! I don't know how intentional this has been (I like to think it has been), but most of the songs we have been singing these past few weeks have been the surrender songs*. Big, dangerous prayers, reminding us that we follow a God who became a perfect example of surrendered sacrifice and who is worth everything, and committing ourselves to laying down our lives for God's work in the world. I say dangerous, because if we really take what we sing seriously and are prepared to let God take us up on our words, we could find ourselves called into painfully sacrificial love for the benefit of God's people and plans. Laying down our lives is going to hurt! But here we are singing these words, over and over, and I believe truly desiring God's will be done in and through us, whatever the cost.
And it's not just been music; on one week we looked back at the bold prayers we'd been encouraged to pray a few months earlier, and to be encouraged by the answers we'd seen to keep up the bold prayers. One week as part of our worship we spent a while praying over our involvement in the world and in politics, that we as a church can bring light into the world.
And a holy silence has descended between these powerful songs as we have sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit working in us. We can be a very reserved church at times, but it's seemed the Spirit has been at work, breaking down our reservedness, and I've never heard this congregation sing so passionately or keep such profound silences.
It's made me wonder about the implications for me personally; here I am, laying aside my claims to a career (which still eludes me) and an easy, comfortable life, and pledging myself to Christ in the battle for truth and love…. I just don't know how my life and the world situations I find myself in will pan out. I'm aware it could get very difficult and unpleasant, but also that God is worth it all; though I wonder, am I brave enough, should it come to real sacrifice..?
But bigger than my own life, it has felt as if we are being commissioned as a community to face up to the darkness we face in this troubled world, and lay ourselves down in God's service to work to bring light, and love, and truth, and restoration. Will we take up the call?
At the end of one of our worship sessions, an image came to me as we sang; I saw the church standing together, facing a great crowd of terrible dark monsters, but singing out against the darkness these songs of surrender. And the darkness cowered in fear as we sang!
* I mean, just look at these songs and lyrics! –
Jesus, be the centre (be my hope, be my song, be my path, be my guide, be the reason that I live…)
Jesus, all for Jesus (all I am and have and ever hope to be, all of my amvitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands, for it's only in Your will that I am free…)
Receive our adoration (we choose to leave it all behind and turn our eyes towards the prize, the upward call of God in Christ, You have our hearts, Lord, take our lives, receive our adoration Jesus, Lamb (sacrifice) of God, how wonderful You are…)
Amazing grace
Blessed be Your name (You give and take away, my heart will choose to say blessed be Your name…)
I surrender all I am to the Saviour who surrendered all for me
Take my life and let it be…
Mighty to save (take me as You find me, all my fears and failures, fill my life again, I give my life to follow everything I believe in, now I surrender…)
This is my desire (I give You my heart, I give You my soul, I live for You alone, every breath that I take, every moment I'm awake, Lord have Your way in me…)
All to Jesus I surrender…
Jesus, lover of my soul (it's not about me, as if You should do things my way, You alone are God and I surrender to Your ways…)


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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
We Think in Generalities, But We Live in Detail
________I actually finished this a long time ago, but it's been framed in our school's library for probably about a year now and I was never able to take pictures of it; thus, the other day, I decided to smuggle it out since I wanted it back. I unhooked it from the wall and busted out the library doors, frame and all, then dissembled it in the art room and sneakily snuck my prize home. I felt so dastardly and agent-like. Those librarians never suspected a thing.
________Then again, they saw me and didn't give two damns--er, what I really meant is that it was like a James Bond movie up in there with the 007 theme playing in the background and bullets whizzing past me in slow motion and everything. Too rad for words. It's a shame you weren't present.
____Yeah. So. This be sharpie and ink, and it 'twas quite fun to draw. I just love ink and making lots of wonderfully varied lines that slope and curve in and out of each other.
12 comments:
- julianne. said...
such talent wow.<3
- February 2, 2011 at 10:33 PM
- Kat said...
it's so great... the contours -- and all of this with nothing but sharpie and ink?
i love her hair and sequins, too.
you're so amazing, ali!
- February 2, 2011 at 10:34 PM
- Charmalade said...
You pay such attention to detail, you can totally tell from your dedication to your craft!
I also feel like I haven't "talked" to you in ages. How's you?? :D
Toast with Charmalade
- February 2, 2011 at 10:42 PM
- VicissitudiniLombarde said...
Great worK!!!
- February 3, 2011 at 2:27 AM
- Krystal said...
these are AMAZING! such talent.
- February 3, 2011 at 3:41 AM
- jess said...
That is so great. You are really talented.
- February 3, 2011 at 2:46 PM
- LyddieGal said...
Oh my, the early days of the art theif!
You came home with quite the prize.
So much depth and drama with just the simple black line - you are so talented!
- February 3, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- Lexy @ Quirky Explosion said...
I swear, I was just STARING at this computer screen, MESMERIZED, for at least ten minutes. It might be because I'm really tired or because that's FREAKING AMAZING. (Probably both, but a little more of the latter.)
SO INCREDIBLE. Are you applying to art schools for next year?
- February 3, 2011 at 5:26 PM
- Noelle Chantal said...
wow! that's amazing! you are so talented! plus, i really like your style in your art. :)
- February 7, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- Viv said...
gorgeous drawing, i'm jealous of how talented you are :)
- February 7, 2011 at 1:38 PM
- E said...
This is my kind of design. I love black and white intricate pieces. Beautiful.
- February 7, 2011 at 10:53 PM
- Meg said...
Your coats are all amazing! How many do you have?
Great outfit!
- February 18, 2011 at 11:37 AM


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Making your own vanilla is cost effective and has only two ingredients: Vanilla beans and vodka. Most commercially bottled vanilla is 4 ounces which is ½ cup. I can't think of many things I pay that much for and get so little.
I try to research and gather information before beginning any project, so I read dozens of websites to come up with what seems to be the best bean to vodka ratio.
The second question most commonly asked was what type of booze to use. The best alcohol to use is one that is a 35% to 40% (75 to 80 proof) mid price range alcohol. A really good rule of thumb, never use alcohol that you wouldn't normally drink. The vanilla extract will taste better if you use quality alcohol but you don't need the top shelf expensive alcohol. Mid price range vodka seems to produce the best results. Most of us already know that the better the quality of ingredients the better the out come of the recipe.
I have enough beans to make a couple bottles of vanilla now, with lots left over to make vanilla for Christmas gifts!
|Vanilla beans, moist and oily
Grade A or gourmet/prime vanilla beans are superior for cooking, but for vanilla making Grade B or extract grade vanilla beans can be used. And their cheaper than Grade A.
How to Make Vanilla
What you'll need:
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Vintage Celebrity Sighting: It's Jack Tripper!
Vintage Celebrity Sighting: It's Jack Tripper!
It's not very often we get Celebrity Sightings from over twenty years ago, in fact this is probably our first. User A-Team was going through some old photos and dug up this treasure of herself as a little girl with John Ritter. To read her story just click here.
We love hearing about your Celebrity Sightings so keep them coming. They're easy to do and we always feature our favorites on PopSugar.


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"Capable of Horrendous Evils and Unspeakable Beauty"
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Spritely <<<---- ((carefully tiptoes through the mead hall and moves the torches away from the area where guild members are belching so they don't combust!)))
The Guild the Slays Together ..... Stays Together! :D
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*Squinting at computer screen, pours another cinnamon roll*
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*Puts sugar cube on spoon and drizzles ice water over it into glass.*
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Takes a toke and holds the smoke and blows her F'ing mind.
I'll get you and your little dog too.
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Spectral evolution of weak bursts from SGR 1806–20 observed with INTEGRAL*
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica – CNR, Sezione di Milano "G. Occhialini", via Bassini 15, 20133 Milano, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, P.zza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
3 Service d'Astrophysique, CEA/Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, Bât. 709, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
4 Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio / CONICET, cc67, suc 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
5 UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720-7450, USA
Corresponding author: D. Götz, firstname.lastname@example.com
Accepted: 29 February 2004
We report on bursts from the Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater SGR 1806–20 detected with INTEGRAL in October 2003, during a period of moderate activity of the source. The spectral and temporal properties of 21 short bursts are consistent with those found in previous observations, even if these bursts are among the faintest observed in the 15–200 keV range from this source. During some of the bursts a clear spectral evolution is visible. The data also show, for the first time, evidence for a hardness-intensity anti-correlation within SGR 1806–20 bursts.
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Alison Jones, who knows her seafood and is also one of our expert consultants for Barbados, recommends Oistins. But she admits it's a close thing. There are literally hundreds of very fine places to eat scattered around the coastline of Barbados, all serving their own excellent versions of the famous Bajan cuisine. You could go on a gastronomic tour of the West Coast alone.
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Engage this company again for my next trip
I am well satisfied with my trip. The company has done a great job in organizing it for me. It was customized to my needs my trekking guide, Lal Bahadur Ale Magar, is very patient and helpful. He ensures that I am traveling at my own pace and enjoy the journey. He has also offered to help me with my heavy backpack when I am having different in some hate, Overall, the company has planned my trip well and I have definitely enjoyed my trekking. I will definitely engage this company again for my next trip.
Lee Wei Jing
1st November, 2012
I can confidently recommend
I came to Nepal, I went trekking and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Kathmandu Guesthouse recommended Nepal Environmental Treks & Expedition to myself and they did not disappoint. My guide was extremely polite, patient and knowledgeable. I feel that this is extremely important when trekking in totally unfamiliar terrain. He contributed to my understanding or Nepali culture and to him I am extremely grateful.
To anyone who may read this I can confidently recommend Nepal Environmental Trekking.
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Bristol B56 5SJ UK
Congratulations to all the team at Nepal Environmental Treks!
Congratulations to all the team at Nepal Environmental Treks! I thoroughly enjoyed the trekking very much……something I have wanted to do for more than 30 years….the high Himalayas were all I expected, words can never express the sublime grandeur of those snowy peaks, I also fell in love with your forests, I never imagined the trees would be so big and the jungle so varied and magnificent. I especially like the fast- flowing streams & rivers. I hope & pray the crystal waters will remain clear & pristine. This is truly a wonderful country with such important natural environmental values.
I must give special praise + thanks to my guide excellent, Hari. It was a privilege for me to have his expertise, experience & gentle nature, to myself for 12 days. I would not hesitate to recommend Hari his charm, courtesy & considerateness to anyone. He gave very personal attention u all time.
Thanks also to my porter, Arjun whose cheerful face was always welcome!
I hope this will be the first of many treks.
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Brisbane, Australia
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This was a strong adventure and a wonderful experience, to be able to share the mountains and the small village with our greatest guide Hari Krishna, a man of respect and a sweet soul who taught us about Nepal and many others things about this country. We visited many places and meet wonderful people, we ate "Dal Bhat"every day and drink Nepali Tea and enjoy every minute of it. This was a trip of a life time, something I will keep in my heart forever.
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Innovation, from cotton growers to apparel manufacturers, will be a key issue in the future of the entire cotton industry, according to Berrye Worsham, president and CEO of Cotton Incorporated.
"We have to continue to innovate with cotton whether we want to or not," says Worsham. "And, we have to be innovative from the front-end of the industry to the back on a global basis," he adds.
Speaking at the recent Southern Cotton Growers/Southeastern Cotton Ginners annual meeting, Worsham said the three biggest changes in the cotton industry over the past 25 years have been: Globalization of the market, a quick change to a communication-driven supply chain and customer-driven changes.
No longer is the United States the single driving market for cotton products. China, Japan, western European countries and other emerging countries now compete for high quality cotton products.
It is no secret the U.S. textile industry has dramatically shrunk in the past 25 years. How U.S. cotton growers and the whole U.S. cotton industry react to the global changes in the use of raw cotton is critical to the prosperity, if not the survival of our cotton industry, according to Worsham.
Companies like Wal-Mart, he says, are so advanced in communication technology they know what every store in their chain is selling every day. These huge companies know what their vendors are doing, and they are able to make buying decisions on a global basis very rapidly.
"Companies like Wal-Mart want to know what is happening to products they purchase all the way to the production change. In some cases they even want to know the environmental footprint left behind in the production process.
"To keep up with this rapidly changing marketplace, the U.S. cotton industry must be in position to react to these changes in a positive way," Worsham says.
"Today's cotton market is driven by the customer and not just the cotton buyer. The end-user of cotton products is aware of and interested in how these products are made. As an industry, we must address such issues and environmental concerns by end-users of cotton products.
"In addition to highly motivated cotton farmers, we have great people all up and down the line in cotton. And, we have great organizational structure. Because of the people and the structure, we are able to face the changes of the past 25 years and address the challenges of the future," Worsham says.
"Economic realities today have driven estimates of cotton use worldwide from 125 million bales down to 115 million bales and possibly lower before we begin to recover. In the U.S. the purchase of cotton products was down by five percent in 2008 from 2007. The best we can expect in 2009 is to avoid any further reduction is in cotton product usage."
On the bright side, Worsham says, cotton is doing well compared to other fabrics. Cotton or mostly cotton clothes still make up 61 percent of the imports of clothing coming into the U.S. — that's about the same level as 2006 and 2007.
Extensive global polling of consumers by Cotton Incorporated indicates a significant jump in consumer demand for products made from natural fibers.
The environment has become a big issue for consumers in the past few years. In 2006, a CI survey indicated only 53 percent of consumers believed cotton is safe for the environment. Similar surveys in 2008 showed 68 percent now think cotton is a good environmental choice for clothing products.
"This is a significant change in attitude on a global basis, and it offers a big opportunity for U.S. cotton, because we are recognized for producing high quality cotton and for our reliability in delivering our cotton on time anywhere in the world," Worsham says.
At the Southern/Southeastern cotton meeting, he pointed out the importance of Cotton Incorporated — and other agencies that promote cotton — have a uniform message that promotes the many advantages of U.S. grown cotton.
Worsham noted that EFI licensing, which requires the mill to buy cotton from the U.S., was recently adopted by the largest textile mill in China. Currently, eight mills in China hold EFI licensing, insuring that U.S. grown cotton continues to be important to the world's largest end-user.
During the same meeting, Georgia cotton grower Ronnie Lee and North Carolina cotton grower Taylor Slade said U.S. cotton growers need to be aware of the importance of China as their customer, but to not overlook possibilities nearer home.
Both growers agree the U.S. textile market is not likely to be a major player in the cotton market, but both contend that textile production in Central America and in a number of Caribbean countries may hold great promise for U.S. growers.
"We toured several cotton mills in Central America and they want to expand. They like doing business with Americans, and they are a lot closer to us than China," Lee says.
In the summer of 2008, Cotton Council International held one of their more successful meetings in Panama. At a time when economies worldwide were struggling, the turnout was promising.
At the meeting, 26 manufacturers from eight countries throughout the Western Hemisphere met with 15 brands/retailers and nine U.S. mills participating in the Cotton USA Sourcing Program in Playa Bonita, Panama.
The focal point of the two-day event was the private Sourcing Fair, which included over 500 one-on-one meetings to provide retailers with sourcing options in the Western Hemisphere, in addition to their current Asia-based manufacturers. Each of the brands/retailers reported finding several potential vendors in the Western Hemisphere to help balance their international sourcing efforts.
The Western Hemisphere represents 95 percent of the exports of U.S. manufactured cotton products, and the Sourcing Fair could lead to increased sales of U.S. yarn and fabrics to fill these new orders.
Last year Cotton Incorporated worked with 441 textile companies in 19 countries. Of these companies, only 35 percent were in the United States. Evidence, Worsham contends, of the globalization of the cotton industry.
At the grower level, Virginia cotton grower Mike Griffin, says U.S. cotton farmers simply have to understand what type of cotton foreign mills want and strive to grow the fiber they demand.
"I'm a cotton farmer, and I know how to grow cotton, but I didn't really understand the global nature of this business until I attended one of Cotton Incorporated's grower tours. It was an eye-opening experience, to say the least, to see what all goes into selling U.S. grown cotton to China and other markets," Griffin says.
Despite the dire economic forecasts worldwide for the next few years, and the current drag in cotton prices to the farmer, Worsham says the long-term future of U.S. grown cotton is good and will remain good as long as there is a worldwide demand for high quality cotton.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Snow Day!
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How dang grungy cute is he?! I want to play with you guys... you make the bestest stuff!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 19, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Wonderful! Just wonderful! I LOVE the way your snowman turned out! I'm going to make a bottle guy next... and then one with wings...and then one with buttons...ReplyDelete
Love it! I saw these on the cover of the mag and it drew me in. Clarissa plans to do these for stamp club Christmas gifts and I'm in the process of rounding up the bottles. I like the addition of red!ReplyDelete
he looks better than what i saw on the cover of cp&s..what a cool (get it) ideal..i am with roxi i want to come and play with you guys:DReplyDelete
This is awesome! I'm going to have to check out Martha's glitter! I've seen itr mentioned several times!ReplyDelete
oh good another fan of CPS mag..love these they would be great for kids or the young at heart..arent we all..ReplyDelete
Came here by way of your post on the TJ yahoo group because your blue card blew me away. I love these snowmen, and I must say that I'm surprised you managed to create this so quickly since the mag just came out. I grabbed the issue quick as I want to make the snowmen too. What an awesome job you and your girlfriend did.ReplyDelete


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Beat a corps of a monster which attacks by tap continuous hits!
Only tap! Tap intently! Is your stamina exhausted? Is a monster exterminated? The battle which divided fate starts here!
Let's command 10,000 soldiers and win by overwhelming military power!
Or believes your own power and will beat an enemy!
Its ability will know in ranking how much it is!
Let's kill a monster and get an achievement medal!


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By Margaret Browne, Joint Munitions Command Public AffairsApril 3, 2008
When Soldiers and other servicemembers are out in the field and have battle-damaged, possibly contaminated equipment, they need to know where they can go for safe, reliable turn-in.
Joint Munitions Command fields the Army Contaminated Equipment Retrograde Team to provide that service. ACERT is a team capable of responding to accidents and incidents involving the retrograde of radioactively contaminated equipment.
ACERT provides support to the Southwest Asia theater of operations through its collection point at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
The facility consolidates excessed radioactive materials from throughout the theater and is a safe haven and storage area.
Materials include battle-damaged vehicles/equipment contaminated with depleted uranium or other radioactive materials and any equipment containing radioactive sources turned in by Soldiers or discovered in theater. It is a secure fenced area with restricted access.
Michael Kurth, a health physicist with the JMC Safety/Rad Waste Directorate, is the currently deployed ACERT member at Camp Arifjan. He maintains the facility and performs radiation safety related duties for the Army Materiel Command while attached to the 401st Army Field Support Brigade.
His duties may seem daunting to some because they relate to radiation and radioactive contamination. He conducts radiological surveys, looking for contamination, and does any required sampling analysis at the facility on-site laboratory.
"I am the point of contact for any logistics-related radiation issue for all of Southwest Asia," said Kurth. "The ACERT facility serves as the repository for all radioactive materials that require disposal and I'm always available to respond."
ACERT performed radiation surveys of 259 vehicles and aircraft last year alone. This included 147 Bradley fighting vehicles, 107 Abrams tanks and five OH-58 Kiowa helicopters.
"ACERT identified and decontaminated several vehicles prior to retrograde," said Kurth. Retrograde is the process through which damaged vehicles go in for repair and after repair get sent back to units for use on the battlefield.
Volunteers from not only JMC, but also the U.S. Army Garrison Rock Island, Corps of Engineers, Army Medical Command, and even Headquarters, Department of Army have staffed the facility.
Other JMC ACERT health physicists who have deployed to Camp Arifjan facility include Frank Whitaker, Joe Hart and Bill Metcalf.
"The team supports all military services and allies and offers a one-stop shop for excessed radioactive items," said Whitaker. "Some of the radioactive elements that the yard handles are tritium contained in illumination items such as fire control azimuths, thorium for night vision items, americium and nickel contained in chemical agent detectors, strontium contained in calibrators, and many others."
Once the items are collected, "they are shipped to our ACERT Field Services Facility located at Rock Island Arsenal for sorting and segregating, then shipped for recycle or disposal," said Whitaker, health physicist, JMC Safety/Rad Waste Directorate.
Finally, the Arifjan facility serves as the eyes and ears in the SWA theater for much of the CONUS-based Army radiation safety community.
"The ACERT members not only advise the local commander on all things radioactive, they also keep the various command radiation safety officers and item managers for the radioactive materials current on events and issues involving those items in theater," said Kelly Crooks, chief, JMC Rad Waste Operations Division.


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Hair raising cost of parking for Barnet residents
Fast forward to a set of 21st century motorists in North London. The people of Barnet recently won a victory over their local council, who had raised the cost of parking permits for both residents and visitors by 300%. Locals banded together and took the council to court resulting in a winning verdict with the judge, Mrs Justice Lang, ruling that Barnet Council had acted unlawfully. Councils do have powers under the 1984 Road Traffic Regulation Act but this said Mrs Lang, " is not a fiscal measure", and she went on to state that it did not mean that the local authority can use "its powers to charge local residents for parking in order to raise surplus revenue for other transport services." In effect the council were using this as a "stealth tax" to subside other services.
The true cost of filling up?
There seem to be a number of such stealth taxes hitting the headlines recently all squeezing income from consumers but not in a visually apparent way. Driving has to be one of the most easily taxed activities with a number of less apparent levies. The Original Fuel Protest group have an interesting calculator on their website www.fuelprotest.com where you can fill in details of the cost of your last petrol bill and it calculates how much you are paying in tax. After filling up a small family car recently, the shocking total tax bill came to £27.43 out of £46.01 worth of diesel.
The breakdown of costs were as follows;
Filling Station £1.71
Oil Company £16.87
Fuel Duty £19.76
VAT on Fuel £3.72
VAT on Fuel Duty £3.95
Whilst appreciating the need for a greener environment and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, seeing the costs set out in black and white does give the average motorist, who needs a reliable form of transport for work as well as family and social events, quite a jolt. Not enough, you will be grateful to hear, to have me saddling up, donning the old birthday suit and trotting around the city centre in protest, but certainly keeping a close eye on other hidden levies that may just be around the corner. What stealth taxes have affected your consumer habits recently?


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Call of Duty game engine criticism unfair, Treyarch claims
Critics of the Call of Duty game engine are being unfair, developer Treyarch has insisted.
With high-profile FPS rivals like Crysis and Battlefield sporting relatively modern game-engines, many have been quick to point the finger at Call of Duty and its various creators' willingness to stick with the same engine it launched with in 2005.
But speaking to OXM, Treyarch's David Vondehaar said that the engine evolves significantly with every release and that none of its rivals have successfully delivered the 60 frames per second so reliably delivered by the Call of Duty series.
"Anybody who comes at the engine needs to remember it's the 60 frames they love in the first place," Vondehaar explained. "And we can make it beautiful - that's through years and years of working with the engine, improving upon it and improving the pipeline and improving our approach, our lighting rendering.
"People like to talk about the engine, but the truth of the matter is that this isn't like something that was invented six years ago. At this point that engine doesn't resemble anything like any engine – we've ripped out the UI system, the rendering and the lighting are all new, the core gameplay systems are all new."
"To me, it's like I never really understood. It runs at 60 and it's gorgeous. What exactly is there to be upset about with the engine?"


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Artist: GO, THE
Title: Free Electricity
Format: LP
Label: No Label
Country: US
Price: $25.00
|"Originally recorded for Sub Pop in 2000 but rejected for being too uncommercial. The album remained unreleased until it was finally issued as a bootleg (but from the master tapes - and featuring the band confirmed final mix ) in 2011 in a numbered edition of 200 with an insert." Guest appearances from John Olson and Cary Loren.


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Colour Out of Space 7 International Festival of Experimental Sound and Art
Welcome to the archive of Colour Out of Space 7. Thankyou to everyone who made COOS 7 one of our favourite editions yet! Over the weekend Brian Turner, music director of New Jersey's WFMU, and sound artist Ilia Rogatchevsk of Resonance FM were at venues throughout the city recording performances, panels and interviews. Take a listen below, more to follow.
Resonance FM from COOS
Ilia Rogatchevsk's hour long intro to COOS 7 includes Myriam Van Imschoot & Doreen Kutzke, Matt Krefting, Claire Potter, Birgit Ulher, Stephen Cornford, Kent Tankred, Johannes Bergmark, Steve Beresford, Tania Chen & Stewart Lee. Tune in here.
Wire - Free Form Radio Panel
Derek Walmsley, editor of Wire, hosted a panel at Brighton's Hope and Ruin on contemporary broadcasting and the legacy of freeform radio - 'the Golden era of radio today!'. Joining Derek were Brian Turner and Fabio Roberti of WFMU, independent curator and broadcaster Bronac Ferran who hosts the programme Making Conversations on Resonance FM, Luke Younger aka Helm who DJs monthly on online station NTS, and Daniel De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus (AKA Cassis Cornuta) of Antwerp's Radio Centraal. Hear it here
Come On, Come Down! #11 – Resonance FM
London-based sound artist Ilia Rogatchevski presents a six-hour 'atmospheric re-imagining' of the weekend - loosely divided into two hour sections representing each day. Here! Superb!
WFMU - The Brian Turner Show at COOS
Turner's WFMU COOS special features 'gorgeous soundshaping from New Englander Matt Krefting, Australian sound/visual artist Matthew P. Hopkins, a claustrophobic collaboration between Schimpfluch-Gruppe veteran and Tochnit-Aleph label founder Daniel Lowenbruck with Brazilian-born visual artist Marcellvs L, plus a final head scratching set from the Clappy Shandy Dads (featuring Dylan Nyoukis with members of Hyperion Ensemble, Vibracathedral Orchestra, and Chastity Potato)'. A big thanks also to Brian for helping to set the ambience each night with a DJ set and for live stills on this page (featuring clockwise from top left - Angharad Davies & Lina Lapelyte, WOL, Johannes Bergmark, Iancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram). WFMU's COOS outing is here.
For 2016's performance weekend alongside an international programme of artists, exhibitions, talks and panels, we welcomed Stockholm's fantastic, long running experimental 'artist society' Fylkingen to host Saturday night. Some insights from the weekend can be found here and here, and there's an intrepid audio diary recorded each night by Matt Dalby, revolving footage from the Radiophonic Laboratory of Antimatter and documentation of Stephen Cornford's magnificent, kinetic sculpture Constant Linear Velocity. COOS T-shirts, merchandise and releases from festival artists - and many more - are available from Chocolate Monk, where you'll also find further artwork from Karen Constance. Meanwhile Open Colour's experimental film series runs throughout the year. We're aiming to get COOS 8 to you...soon!
Performance Weekend Timetable: 18th - 20th November 2016 - Full Details Here
Friday 18th November
Sallis Benney Theatre, 6pm – 12 Midnight (Doors 5.30pm) Matt Krefting (USA), Cassis Cornuta (BE), Clappy Shandy Dads (UK), Guy Rombouts (BE), Angharad Davies & Lina Lapelyte (UK), Mathhew P Hopkins (AUS), W.Mark Sutherland (CAN), Esther Strauss (AUT)
+ This Darkness is Not Exclusive. This Darkness is as much Yours as it is Mine - Esther Strauss (AUT) - Daytime (Free)
Saturday 19th November
Sallis Benney Theatre, 6pm – 12 Midnight (Doors 5.30pm) Fylkingen presents: Anne Pajunen (SWE), Wol (SWE), KOEFF (SWE), Kent Tankred (SWE), Marja-leena Sillanpaa (SWE), Johannes Bergmark (SWE), Daniel Rozenhall & Sten Backman (SWE), Mikael Prey (SWE), Leif Elggren (SWE)
One Church, 2.30pm - 5.30pm Fylkingen panel with Fabio (WFMU) Michael Barthel (DE), Claire Potter (UK), Langley & Murphy (UK)
Oxfam, Western Rd, 12 Midday (Free) Plastic Containers of Nothing (UK)
Sunday 20th November
Sallis Benney Theatre, 6pm – 12 Midnight (Doors 5.30pm) Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram and Hyperion Ensemble's members Yoni Silver, Alex Drool Yonovic, Cosmin Postolache. (ROU/ISR), Steve Beresford & Tania Chen & Stewart Lee (UK), Olympic Shit Man (FR/UK), Birgit Ulher (DE), Phantom Chips (AUS), Daniel Löwenbrück & Marcellvs L. (DE/BR), Daniel WJ Mackenzie (UK)
One Church, 2.30pm – 5.30pm Myriam Van Imschoot & Doreen Kutzke (BE/DE), Aine O'Dwyer (IE), TALK(4pm) Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram with Andy Wilson
Hope and Ruin, 12 Midday (Free) Derek Walmsley and Wire present Freeform Radio: Past and Present
Tarner Tower, 10.30am (Free) Duncan Harrison: Revisiting Tarner Tape Centre
Extended Programme running throughout Brighton from 7th November - 12th December: Stephen Cornford's Constant Linear Velocity + COOS Small Press Exhibition + Workshops + Films + COOS at Cafe OTO


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Poland-based designer Marta Chmielarz of the 'GO4MEDIA' agency created the branding for these hand-made goat milk soaps. This branding concept promotes the use of all-natural ingredients and emphasizes the use of goat milk through hand-drawn images of billy goats.
All of the goal milk soaps are handmade, which was an important characteristic for the designer to incorporate into the packaging. Using hand-drawn labels and images, the brand presents a more authentic image to its target consumer audience.
The designer used light color tones such as lilac purple and warm yellow to display the brand's soft and elegant product. The packaging remains cohesive and fluent using the same image and typography on all of the soap labels. The only differentiation is the color scheme and the scent -- both clearly labeled on each package.
Goat Milk Soaps
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All-Natural Homemade Cosmetics
Organic Tie-Dye Soaps
Playful Pokemon Soaps
Flavorful French Pastry Soaps
Breast Cancer-Fighting Soaps
These Hand-Made Soaps Boast Illustrated Imagery and Packaging Labels
- By: Ady FloydNov 3, 2015
References: behance.net & packageinspiration
References: behance.net & packageinspiration


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UC Irvine baseball pitcher Evan Brock, who went 6-4 with a 3.14 earned-run average as a freshman in 2010 and limited opponents to a .162 batting average, is out indefinitely after undergoing surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right throwing shoulder, school officials said Monday.
Brock, whose participation with the collegiate national team over the summer was cut short due to the injury, was named to the all-regional team at the NCAA Los Angeles Regional, in which the Anteaters were eliminated.
Brock struck out nine in 81/3 innings in two appearances in the regional at UCLA, including earning the victory in a 4-3 triumph that eliminated then-defending national champion LSU.


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This is a good enough reason alone to regularly review your network security, and here at East Devon IT, we are experienced in keeping business computer systems water tight.
As part of our managed IT services, we can remotely install, update and configure the right security software to keep your data out of harm's way.
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We provide a full cloud backup system which makes a daily backup of your sensitive data to a secure remote location. This data can be retrieved at any time, and offers you protection not only from accidental losses, but also from fire or water damage.
Equally important, we also provide a service to make sure your IT hardware and infrastructure is up to the task. Worn out parts and ill considered networking can lead to data being lost, sometimes before it's even saved. Our expertise will bring you piece of mind so that you can go on with the real business of running your business.
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But due to the encouragement from the WoW community, I've been submitting essays to some of the online humor 'zines, and a very popular site called Yankee Pot Roast picked up one of my articles today.
It explores the recent resignation of Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
I would repaste it here for ya'll, but I don't think that would be appropriate since I've given them the article. But you can read it now, at http://www.yankeepot


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Here's yet another selection of interesting links from around the internet. As always, I welcome your thoughts and your feedback.
PS: Follow me on Twitter!
Why I eat like a caveman: the basics of the Paleolithic Diet. (A Sweet Life)
Thirteen ways to cook without using an oven. (Cheap Healthy Good)
On carnivore guilt. (The KitchenBitsch)
Six surprisingly creative ways to reuse empty wine bottles. (NorCal Wine Blog, via Lonely Gourmet)
Why dairly farmers across the country wasted perfectly good milk on July 4th by pouring it down the drain. (Wasted Food)
Recipe Links:
Yes, you can nail that "Thai restaurant flavor" of Drunken Noodles in your own home! (Alosha's Kitchen)
Three important secrets for delicious Homemade Peanut Butter. (stonesoup)
How to make homemade Ghee. (A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa) Bonus post for beet lovers: Stuffed Beets or Remolachas Rellenas.
Off-Topic Links:
This week's unsolicited book recommendation: William Trevor's A Bit on the Side. I've been savoring this collection of short stories over the past couple of weeks, and I can't recommend it enough to readers. Trevor is an exceptional writer.
Why our civilization is doomed if we do not rein in our social scientists. (The Last Psychiatrist)
Shut up! Talking about your goals gives you a premature sense of completeness, and it can actually prevent you from accomplishing them. (Derek Sivers' Blog)
Seven power tips for more productive RSS feed reading. (Work Awesome, via @elizabethscraig)
Do you have an interesting article or recipe that you'd like to see featured in Casual Kitchen's Food Links? Send me an email!
Help support Casual Kitchen by buying Everett Bogue's exceptional book The Art of Being Minimalist. (This is an affiliate link for an e-book I strongly recommend to my readers--and if you decide to make a purchase, your purchase will help fund all of the free content here at CK!)
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CK Friday Links--Friday July 9, 2010
4 comments:
- KitschenBitsch said...
Oh wow! Thanks for the shout-out.
And oddly enough, I just had drunken noodles last weekend for the first time and have been trying to figure out how to recreate the magic at home. Sweet!
- Daniel said...
You are more than welcome KB! That was quite a thought-provoking post.
- Melissa said...
That WAS a great post KitschenBitsch.
And thank you Dan, as always, for the link love. I am just so lucky to have the Thai and other Asian markets nearby to get the right ingredients. With the proper sauces and herbs and a wok, it's surprisingly easy to recreate Asian cuisine at home. Believe me, I was shocked!
- Daniel said...
Melissa, any time. Just please keep those great recipes coming. ;)
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Trademark Info: Is it Possible to Search my Trademark for Free?
Yes and no is really the only way to answer this question. While there are some great preliminary sites anyone can access for free, that is NOT a clear cut indication of what's out there in terms of company names, service names or product names.
Only comprehensive research will tell you if a name is truly available.
Let's take a look at some free, preliminary sites and where they fail to be comprehensive:
- The USPTO Web Site: You'll be able to search some of the Federal trademark files at this site.
What it's missing: State trademarks; Common-Law databases such as incorporation listings, DBA records, company directories, newspapers, product announcements, etc.
What it lacks: Does NOT search intelligently (i.e. synonyms, spelling variations, word placement, etc.) unless you manually enter in those variations
- Your Secretary of State web site: Your state may have an online searchable database.
What it's missing: Federal trademarks; All other State trademark listings; Common-Law databases
What it lacks: Provided that your state does have a searchable database, you'll want to be sure to check how often it's updated and if it searches intelligently
- Yellow pages: SuperPages allows users to search nationwide. Simply enter the business name & leave the other fields blank.
What it's missing: Federal AND State trademarks; Common-Law databases
What it lacks: Does NOT search intelligently (i.e. synonyms, spelling variations, word placement, etc.) unless you manually enter in those variations
Yes, you can search your business name for free – just know that it's not comprehensive!


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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. This project is designed to develop, characterize, compare and contrast two prototypes for a genetically modified mouse model for a human disease of protein folding. Diseases caused by misfolding include cystic fibrosis, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, retinitis pigmentosa, hypercholesterolemia, cataracts, neurodegenerative diseases (Huntington's, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's), particular cancers and a number of digestive disorders resulting from enzyme mutation. It is fair to say that virtually every person will be affected by protein folding diseases during his or her lifetime, either directly or due to the illness of a loved one. In spite of this, there are few model systems, and none in rodents, that allow the translation of the available cell-culture data on protein rescue into in vivo systems. A convenient laboratory model for the use of pharmacoperones will be designed in order to translate pharmacoperone use to treatment of human disease.
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|Slayden, Ov Daniel (2016) Translational In Vivo Models for Women's Health: The Nonhuman Primate Endometrium--A Predictive Model for Assessing Steroid Receptor Modulators. Handb Exp Pharmacol 232:191-202
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Agriculture is a multi-billion dollar industry in Louisiana. To acknowledge the exceptional contributions of its farmers, the Louisiana Radio Network, Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, LSU AgCenter and Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry will honor the 2012 Louisiana Farmer of the Year.
Nominations for the award are being accepted now through Dec. 19, 2011. Application forms can be obtained at any parish LSU AgCenter extension office or online at www.lsuagcenter.com/farmeroftheyear. Producers from all areas of agriculture are eligible to enter.
"Even in the tough times such as this year's drought, our farmers were able to produce an abundance of food and fiber," says Bill Richardson, LSU AgCenter Chancellor. "Louisiana farmers are a resilient group and continue to be an essential economic engine for the state."
Three finalists will be recognized at White Oak Plantation in Baton Rouge on Feb. 23, 2012, with the winner receiving a cash award and other prizes.
This is the fifteenth year of presenting the Louisiana Farmer of the Year award. Last year's winner was Charles Gravois, a sugarcane farmer from Vacherie in St. James Parish.


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In Canada, in February, warm knuckles are CRUCIAL. It seems as though no matter how much lotion you slather on your chilly paws, you just can't keep up with the dry, dry skin that ensues.
Pair some lotion with some fingerless gloves however? And you just might have a solution to your dry/cracked hands problem. (Gross- I know. But there are many gross facts of life out there. Blech!).
|Nail Colour- RBG in shade 'Red'
I know that these gloves probably look familiar. And that's because... it wasn't too long ago that you saw another pair right on this here blog.
But after seeing my friend Tara churn through many-a-pair in this beautiful yarn (not only beautiful to look at, but also SO beautiful to knit with!), I couldn't contain myself.
I cast on, and before I knew it, a new pair of fingerless mitts had just fallen off of my needles.
Two by two ribbing and hand painted merino with 20% alpaca.
Pattern- Churchmouse Yarns and Teas Ferryboat Mitts
Yarn- Misti Alpaca Handpainted Worsted in the shade 'Flora'
Needles- 4mm DPN
So if you don't have a pair yet.
What are you waiting for?
Surely you don't want to end up like this guy.
Do you?


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Much like you, we have just about had it struggling to find African lyrics online.
So we decided to do something about it.
We are building up a repository of African music. Not only Africappella music, but whatever African music we can find.
Granted this is no small feat, but we know we can count on you to help make this documentation project a success.
- composed by: Kenton Windvogel & M. L. Molapo
Key Signature = Not yet available
(Verse 1)
As long you feel it in your heart and
You mind won't ever let it go and
Your words can't even fully explain it, No
As long as you feel your passion deeply
As long as your mind sees it clearly
The possibility is exciting
All you need to use is your..
Brave heart
Do what you feel inside kinda heart
Brave heart dare to be who you are
Dare to be free, fare to live your own life
Be your own start.. Let your light fill the sky
(Verse 2)
Get to know the truth within your heart
Find the spark that lights up your own life
Don't let anyone try to break you down
See 'cause bravery emerges in the presence of what scares you
Let yourself be born out of the presence of what breaks you
Sometimes you feel a little pain
In the long run you can only really gain
From using your..
(You've come too far, let your light fill the sky)
Face your deepest fears kinda heart
Stand up for yourself kinda heart
Trust and honor yourself
Live what you believe
Trust your intuition
And live out all dreams
Take that leap of faith
Let go, your self grow
Yilapho ngiyakhona
Kwanhliziyo ngise.
Lapho ngiya khona nhliziyo ngise
Buy this Song on iTunes
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