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Natural World Heritage sites are formally recognized by the international community, under the framework of the World Heritage Convention as among the most outstanding intact ecosystems on Earth. It is critical that managers have the information needed to manage these sites effectively and that the global community has confidence that site values are being maintained.
The Enhancing our Heritage project, a joint project of UNESCO World Heritage Centre, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and the University of Queensland, supported by the United Nations Foundation, aimed to improve monitoring and evaluation in natural World Heritage sites. The project team worked with staff at nine World Heritage sites in Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop and test assessment methods looking at management systems and processes as well as social and ecological impacts
The Enhancing our Heritage Toolkit builds on the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Framework for Assessment of Protected Area Management Effectiveness, which is based around analysis of the whole management cycle, including context (importance and threats), planning, inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes. The toolkit is a comprehensive set of evaluation methods to help natural World Heritage site managers to design and implement detailed management effectiveness assessments suitable for such globally significant conservation areas.
The "tools" consist of 12 questionnaires, scorecards, data sheets and monitoring procedures. The toolkit provides technical guidance on developing a monitoring system. It was designed in collaboration with World Heritage site managers to complement existing monitoring undertaken at sites and to identify and fill any gaps to provide a comprehensive assessment.
The assessments undertaken as part of the project have provided a clearer picture of the status and threats to the site, as well as management strengths and weaknesses. Managers used the results of the assessments to improve both management and monitoring and assessment systems. IUCN and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre hope that the experience can be replicated to improve monitoring and evaluation in all natural World Heritage sites
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So says David Gregory of NBC.
Brad Wilmouth of Newsbusters chronicles the pontifications of Gregory so we don't have to:
Appearing on the Sunday, November, 13, Today show on NBC to discuss Saturday night's GOP presidential debate that focused on foreign policy, Meet the Press host David Gregory suggested that, because President Obama's foreign policy, "by a lot of accounts," has been "very successful," the Republican candidates may not be so eager to go after Obama in that realm. Gregory, speaking of the candidates:
This was not necessarily the format or I should say the subject to try to distinguish one from the other. What they wanted to do was level attacks against President Obama, but that's going to be difficult as well. I don't think the Republican nominee for President really feels like that is the most vulnerable area for President Obama. His foreign policy by a lot of accounts has been very successful, particularly on the war on terror, and I think they want to focus on the economy.
A few weeks ago, on the Sunday, October 23, Today show, Gregory had similarly asserted that "I don't think there's any question" that President Obama had erased the Democratic Party's vulnerability on the issue of foreign policy. Host Lester Holt had set up the segment:
There was the death of Muammar Gadhafi, and in Iraq all U.S. troops will be home by year's end. Two milestones reached in just a matter of days. What will it all mean for the President and the Republican candidates? … The opposition to the war was central to President Obama's original campaign. How will it affect his legacy now that that war probably barely registers on the list of issues among American voters?
As he noted that Americans will likely be more interested in the economy than foreign policy, and that even the future in the foreign policy arena could still be uncertain, he praised President Obama's performance so far:
I don't think this is top of mind for American voters as we start thinking about the election, but this is a leadership moment for the President, and at a time when government can't do a lot about the economy, it's certainly a time when he's accomplishing a lot, the President is, in foreign policy at a, at a momentous time for the rest of the world if you look at what's happening particularly in the Middle East.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the full extent of Iran's nuclear program was not reflected in a recent U.N. report, which said that Tehran appeared to have worked on designing an atomic bomb.
"Iran is closer to getting an (atomic) bomb than is thought," Netanyahu said in remarks to cabinet ministers, quoted by an official from his office.
"Only things that could be proven were written (in the U.N. report), but in reality there are many other things that we see," Netanyahu said, according to the official.
Iran's bank of rapidly spinning centrifuges has produced a growing stockpile of low-enriched uranium, able to fuel nuclear reactors, but able also to fuel nuclear weapons if further enriched. Enrichment raises the concentration of the uranium isotope U-235, which fissions in first-generation nuclear weapons.
Based on the amount of low-enriched uranium Iran has stockpiled, and the amount it is believed to be producing each month, the Wisconsin Project estimates that by December 2008, Iran had accumulated enough U-235 to fuel one bomb — assuming Iran decided to further enrich the low-enriched material to weapon-grade. The Project further estimates that by the end of 2009, Iran had enough U-235 to fuel a second bomb; that Iran had enough of this material for a third bomb by August 2010; that Iran had enough of this material for a fourth bomb by April 2011; and that Iran had enough of this material for a fifth bomb by November 2011 — in each case assuming that Iran decided to raise the level of U-235 in its low-enriched uranium stockpile (3.5 percent U-235) to weapon-grade (90 percent or more U-235).
As Iran increases its stockpile of low-enriched uranium, and its stockpile of uranium enriched to 20 percent U-235, it will consolidate its status as a "virtual" nuclear weapon state.
Iran's progress towards this status is estimateda below. These estimates are based upon the theoretical performance of Iran's existing centrifuges and upon how these centrifuges appear to have performed in the past:
Bomb potential of Iran's low-enriched uranium stockpile
- Amount of U-235 contained in Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium:
116 kg b
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- Date by which Iran probably had stockpiled the above:
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- Number of additional months needed to convert this low-enriched uranium to weapon-grade g:
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- Date by which Iran probably had enough U-235 to fuel a second bomb:
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- Date by which Iran probably had enough U-235 to fuel a third bomb:
August 2010 j
- Date by which Iran probably had enough U-235 to fuel a fourth bomb:
April 2011 bb
- Date by which Iran probably had enough U-235 to fuel a fifth bomb:
November 2011ff
It is pretty clear that no president has been able to stop Iran, Israel will have to take care of it… but for Obama, begging the Chinese and Russians for help, cutting and running in Afghanistan and Iraq and killing an old and ineffective bin Laden and "droning" Anwar al-Awaki hardly amounts to a record to fear.
Maybe since the memes of the #OWS narrative, the "jobs saved or created", the "stimulus worked", "unemployment would have been 15% if not for us", and "we bent the health care cost curve down", haven't worked it is time to try a new one.


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Ford said it will stop producing cars in Australia in 2016, closing two plants at the cost of 1,200 jobs. The WSJ's Enda Curran has the story.
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Bloomberg reported late Wednesday that Medtronic Inc. is eyeing the prospect of buying British-based Smith & Nephew in a merger of two medical device makers that would allow Medtronic to move overseas and lower its tax liability.
Minneapolis-based Medtronic /quotes/zigman/233680/delayed /quotes/nls/mdt MDT is the second company mentioned as a potential suitor for Smith & Nephew /quotes/zigman/264745/delayed /quotes/nls/snn SNN . Last week Stryker Corp. /quotes/zigman/242189/delayed /quotes/nls/syk SYK was identified as a prospective buyer.
Medtronic officials wouldn't comment on the report. Various sources place Smith & Nephew's market cap at around $16 billion.
Smith & Nephew shares soared on the report, jumping more than 12% to $97.27. The stock was trading just above $80 a week ago, just before the Stryker report came out from the Financial Times. Medtronic shares were up more than 3% to $63.22 while Stryker still managed to eke out a slight gain to $85.53.
Medtronic's possible tax inversion plan to relocate its legal address comes on the heels of a similar proposal by drug giant Pfizer Inc. /quotes/zigman/238207/delayed /quotes/nls/pfe PFE , which sought to lower its tax rate by buying U.K.-based AstraZeneca /quotes/zigman/134653/delayed /quotes/nls/azn AZN
However, RBC Capital Markets analyst Glenn Novarro says using Smith & Nephew's corporate address would do little to lower Medtronic's tax rate of roughly 19%. The U.K. tax rate is roughly 21% and Smith & Nephew's is 29%, Novarro said.
He added that the deal could help spread Medtronic's reach but may not be the best fit in product lines.
"We believe the deal fits with [Medtronic] CEO Omar Ishrak's strategy of globalization. However, while [Smith & Nephew] may fill gaps in trauma and sports medicine, the company's presence in joint reconstruction, which is the largest part of the market, is still modest," Novarro said.
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According to Terry Collins, it's too early to worry about Ike Davis and his prolonged slump.
"There is no need to panic about Ike Davis, or talk about sending him to the minor leagues," Collins told reporters.
Would the Mets consider sending Ike to minors?
"If that discussion is going to be had, it's not going to be had for a long time. You have to have patience."
Ike Davis is batting seventh in the order in tonight's game against the Phillies.
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Ike Davis should log on to his computer, Google the book, "Ted Williams: The Science of Hitting,'' and order a copy.
Maybe it is time both he and the Mets realize Davis isn't just struggling, but that perhaps he doesn't know too much about hitting. Davis homered yesterday, but for my money I would rather he slapped a single to left in the sixth with runners on second and third and two outs.
Instead, he struck out. Again. For those scoring at home, it was the 24thtime he has walked back to the dugout in disgust, compared to just 12 hits. Old stats, new stats, it doesn't matter, Davis is not producing.Davis has four homers and seven RBI. He's hitting .174 with a .260 on-base percentage, .348 slugging percentage and .608 OPS. However, the number that kills me is he's on pace for 194 strikeouts.
I spoke with Davis about strikeouts and using the whole field and he told me he's a home run hitter, he likes to hit home runs, and strikeouts are part of the equation. He's missing the boat with that reasoning, much like he's missing the breaking ball away.
Suppose Davis cut his strikeouts in half to 97, which is still a lot. That would be 97 times he would be putting the ball in play instead of throwing his bat. Think how many more homers he'd produce in those 97 at-bats, not to mention productive at-bats when he'll drive in a run with a hit, sacrifice fly or ground out.
"It's about contact,'' manager Terry Collins said. "These big home run hitters, they're going to strike out. That's part of the program. Ike, when he's going good, he gets hits. He just doesn't get home runs.
"You go back two years ago in the first half where he drove in everybody who was standing at second base. They were base hits. They weren't always home runs. I think if he again starts using the field more – especially the opposite field – it also takes that shift away from them, which a lot of teams play on him. And I think it'll make a difference.''
That's what Williams preached in his book. Teams used the shift against Williams, and this is when he didn't use his own advice. However, Williams was so good he produced over his own stubbornness. In his wildest dreams, Davis isn't half as good as Williams.
Williams might have been the greatest hitter ever, even considering Babe Ruth. Williams' average year was .344 with 37 homers and 130 RBI. When you factor in he lost five prime years of his career serving in World War II and the Korean War, his lifetime numbers would have been through the roof.
When you boil it down, Williams' fundamental advice about hitting was get a good pitch to hit. Williams was so precise he broke down the strike zone into baseball-size segments to where he had each area had its own batting average.
"As we've studied his at-bats, they're just killing him away,'' Collins told reporters after Thursday's loss.
Williams calculated the low-and-away pitch at best would produce a .230 average. Davis isn't even giving the Mets that much. That average would increase, Williams said, if the hitter went that way instead of trying to pull. Instead, Davis is chasing everything, which means the pitch doesn't have to be that good.
Collins sees that: "If he starts going that way to where he's going to use more of the field to hit, he's got some better opportunities to drive some runs in.''
Unfortunately, Davis does not: "Sometimes they're helpful. Sometimes they're not. Me slapping the ball the other way early in the count is probably not helpful.''
Rebuttal: How would Davis know if he hasn't tried it routinely? He did when he first came up, but rarely since.
Either Davis doesn't know the fundamentals of hitting, or refuses to listen to his coaches and manager. And, Collins and GM Sandy Alderson are wrong for accepting this kind of performance.
Listen, I don't know how to build a watch, but I know how to tell time, and the time has come for Davis to change. Either him, or the Mets should.
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If you never had the pleasure of witnessing Lady Gaga when she was an NYC music scene upstart who went by her given name of Stefani Germanotta, the wonders of technology solve that problem for you. Previously unseen footage of Gaga performing in 2006 under her real name and with brown hair has surfaced.
Here, Gaga – er, Stefani -- performs two songs at The Cutting Room. She soars through 'Master Heartbreaker' and 'Hollywood' -- proving that her songwriting style hasn't changed much and neither has her stage banter. She wrote catchy songs then and made cute comments!
She was still an NYU student at the time and played with a band. Wearing a matronly (and uncharacteristic by today's standards) brown and orange paisley style blazer and sporting long brown hair, Gaga looks very much like her little sister Natali and sounds like the Gaga we know and love. She definitely stands out more as a blonde, so it was a good career move to lighten her locks.
She stands and grinds while playing her pop songs on the piano. Little did the people in the room know that this girl would go on to change pop music and become the Mother Monster. Still, it was so weird to hear her call herself "Stefani!" Before she performs the super catchy 'Hollywood,' she reveals she wrote it about the media. Stef goes on to sing lyrics that implore the listener not to tell her she'd never be a superstar. Touche.
The second two songs, 'Wonderful' and 'Fever,' are from another show and are performed as Lady Gaga. Gaga still sports butt-length brown hair and blunt bangs, but she started to show her fashion sense, in a white dress and thigh high boots. She reveals she is signed to Island Def Jam, which eventually dropped her (and is probably still regretting!)
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Maran's mention of Picoult reminded me that the bestselling novelist's latest, The Storyteller, comes out this week. Though some authors bridle when labeled "commercial" rather than "literary," Picoult has embraced "the C word" with panache. Her website gives pride of place to this quote from USA Today: "Nobody in commercial fiction cranks out the pages more effectively than Jodi Picoult."
Picoult has racked up sales by taking a hot-button issue (homosexuality in Sing You Home, for instance, or school shootings in Nineteen Minutes) and exploring how it might play out in one particular family or town. Yes, tears will be jerked and bombshells will be dropped (often in court). But her characters are lifelike, the dialogue crackles, and the underlying research might just teach you something about the real world as well.
One other writer who hit it big in both salons and sales has just been brought back to life by Ellen Meister in her hilarious new novel, Farewell, Dorothy Parker (February 21). In it a middle-aged movie critic named Violet Epps is about to give up searching for love when Parker-the Algonquin wit who coined such phrases as "Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses"-wafts in on a cloud of gin and sets Violet's life to rights. Is Meister's novel commercial or literary? I was too busy laughing to care.
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From Uniforms to Cybersecurity, Report Details Defense Dept. ActivitiesIf you want to get a sense of the broad range of Defense Department activities, there's no better reading than the 638-page House-Senate conferee report on the fiscal 2010 defense authorization bill released last week. You could start with apparel. Each service has its camouflage uniforms, which are different even within services. What to do? The House wants to standardize uniforms ...Published over 9 years ago |
Border Fence Funds Pulled from Spending BillWASHINGTON — A provision to build an additional 300 miles of pedestrian fence along the U.S.-Mexico border has been stripped out of a $42.8 billion spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The provision by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., was removed at the behest of House members from Texas, Arizona and California who called the fencing a waste of taxpayer ...Published over 9 years ago |
Obama Again Pledges to Change Policy on GaysWASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama restated his campaign pledge to allow homosexual men and women to serve openly in the military, but many in his audience of gay activists were left wondering when he would make good on the promise. "I will end 'don't ask-don't tell,'" Obama said Saturday night to a standing ovation from the crowd of about 3,000 ...Published over 9 years ago |
Insurance Providers Drop Out of Federal Employee Health ProgramSome federal employees will have to choose new health plans during open season this year because their insurance providers are leaving the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, or reducing the number of areas they cover. "Some employees still might not receive instructions to change plans during open season," Kathleen M. McGettigan, deputy associate director of the Center for Retirement and Insurance ...Published over 9 years ago |
Obama Looks to Increase Hiring of Disabled WorkersThe White House and the Office of Personnel Management this week announced hiring initiatives aimed at halting a decline in the representation of disabled employees in the federal workforce. President Obama earlier this week said he hoped the government could become a model for other employers. "Across this country, millions of people with disabilities are working or want to work, and ...Published over 9 years ago |
Indiana Governor Alarmed About State RevenueINDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's state tax collections are continuing to take a dive, prompting Gov. Mitch Daniels to warn Thursday that budget cuts that could include schools and employee layoffs might be needed soon. Revenue for September was $166 million short of a May forecast that lawmakers and Daniels used to put together a new two-year budget that took effect July 1. ...Published over 9 years ago |
The Times Are a-Changin' for Postal ServiceThe U.S. Postal Service lost billions of dollars in revenue during the last fiscal year as the volume of mail plunged. Lawmakers may one day soon consider cutting mail delivery to five days a week. They also may need to sort out how the Postal Service pays for the benefits of current and future retirees. But most customers only care about ...Published over 9 years ago |
In a Surprise, Obama Wins Nobel Peace PrizeOSLO (AP) -- President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. Nobel observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than two ...Published over 9 years ago |
Pay-for-Performance Program Gets the BootChristmas came early for some federal employees and their unions Wednesday as lawmakers delivered one of the biggest items on their wish list, repealing a controversial pay-for-performance program. The repeal of the National Security Personnel System came as part of a compromise House and Senate members announced in their negotiations over the Defense Department authorization bill. The Defense Department will maintain ...Published over 9 years ago |
Defense Authorization Bill Repeals NSPSFederal employees and their unions should remember Oct. 7, 2009: It's the day they got to cross several items off their wish list. The conference committee working on a compromise version of the Defense authorization bill (pdf) delivered several long-sought reforms impacting current and former federal employees, their salaries and the way the government measures their performance. The big one: a ...Published over 9 years ago |
Congress Puts NSPS Pay-Scale on Life Support: FERS flu might be cured"It's a done deal," says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey when he joined the Federal Drive. It is a trifecta win for all federal employees because NSPS is going to be phased out, the FERS Flu is going to be cured, and retired federal employees are going to be allowed to return to work without harming their annuities. The Defense Authorization Bill ...Published over 9 years ago |
Candidate Puts Rivals' Names on Tombstone in YardSYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) - A man running for office in Ohio has put a Halloween display in his yard that includes tombstones bearing the names of his political opponents. Royal Barber of Sylvania Township near Toledo said it's all in good fun. Some of his opponents don't think so. One asked that his name be taken off the tombstone. Barber agreed, ...Published over 9 years ago |
Even With Check in Hand, GI Benefits ElusiveThe Department of Veterans Affairs' problems with the Post-9/11 GI Bill's benefits seem to linger, no matter what the government does. Tens of thousands of veterans, active-duty servicemembers and their dependents have been waiting for promised higher-education benefits from VA since fall classes began last month. The agency attempted to address the backlog by granting $3,000 in emergency checks, but that ...Published over 9 years ago |
Investing In Job Training Paying Off For MinneapolisAs he coasts toward probable reelection, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak can boast of something that hasn't happened since at least 1990: parity between the unemployment rates of the city and the seven-county metro. Both averaged 5.1 percent last year, after several years of a steadily narrowing gap. The 13-county metropolitan unemployment rate was 5.2 percent. Although there's no way to determine ...Published over 9 years ago |
Schwarzenegger Supports Health Overhaul GoalsWASHINGTON — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger praised President Barack Obama's drive to overhaul the nation's health care system on Tuesday and urged fellow Republicans to join in efforts to finish the job this year. Although Schwarzenegger stopped short of embracing a Democratic bill, his words of encouragement came on the heels of similar statements from other Republicans outside Congress, including former ...Published over 9 years ago |
Obama Puts Union Strings on Federal JobsDelivering on President Obama's promise to boost the labor movement, the administration has announced a $35 million federal construction project in New Hampshire that requires union representation for the workers and forces nonunion employees to pay dues and contribute to a union pension fund. Mr. Obama issued an executive order in the first weeks of his presidency that would make the ...Published over 9 years ago |
Vaccine Arrives as Flu SpreadsThe first doses of swine flu vaccine arrived Monday as more than half the USA reported widespread flu cases. "The level of activity we're seeing for this time of year is really unusual," said Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "We just really don't see the level of activity we're seeing." The high number ...Published over 9 years ago |
Government Lags in Hiring of LatinosLatino Americans may be the nation's fastest-growing minority group, but they're also the most underrepresented among civilian federal employees. As of last September, Hispanics accounted for about 8 percent of the total civilian federal workforce, according to the Office of Personnel Management. That's well below the 13.2 percent of Hispanics in the national civilian labor force, according to Labor Department statistics. ...Published over 9 years ago |
New Cyber Hiring Authority at DHSThe Senate was moving closer to passage of the $636.3 billion fiscal 2010 Defense Appropriations bill Thursday night, although a long list of amendments awaiting consideration and votes will push a final vote on the measure to Tuesday at the earliest. During floor debate, the chamber approved an amendment offered by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., that requires the Missile Defense Agency ...Published over 9 years ago |
McChrystal Comments Bring WH RebukeWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's national security adviser, retired Gen. James Jones, says decisions on how best to stabilize Afghanistan and beat back the insurgency must extend beyond the issue of troop levels to improved governance and how best to foster economic development. The debate over sending up to 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan is just one element that ...Published over 9 years ago |


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
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Two9Three Consulting is a consulting company that offers financial consulting and strategic business consulting to non-profit organizations. The website two9three.com gives a good overview of the company and the genesis of the name.
Two9Three Consulting has been in business for a short-while now, but has been successful and I would like to send a Happy New Year's Card to all of my supporters, mentors, clients, colleagues, contemporaries and referral sources.
The design requested is for the front of a New Year's Card. I have a logo that I would like to use on the card - in some creative way. The design should be both elegant and whimsical. Be completely creative with the use of the logo and the name. The genesis of the name is a good indicator of our philosophy. This will be the first "holiday" card sent by the company - it is purposefully not a "holiday card" but a New Year's card wishing peace and giving thanks to recipients. The logo does not have to appear as it is in the attached file - meaning that the name need not appear alongside the logo - it should otherwise remain intact.
The card should be 5x7. Assume 3-4 lines of text in a 9 point font. Orientation in either direction.
The logo should be an integral part of the design. Feel free to play with the actual logo - take it apart from the name of the company, manipulate it, use it in single color, in negative, etc. The design of the card should be clearly custom - not a New Year's card that simply has a logo inserted on it.


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Mother's Day 2012 Quotes: Top 50 Famous Sayings About Motherhood
Time is now to dedicate your mom a great card with a classic quote sayings on it. To help you choose any writer's block, here are 50 famous, touching, classic and wise quotes that define motherhood entirely.
Top 50 Mother's Day 2012 Quotes
- God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. – Rudyard Kipling
- The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Theodore Hesburgh
- Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. – William Makepeace Thackeray
- My mother is a walking miracle. – Leonardo DiCaprio
- All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln
- I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. – Abraham Lincoln
- Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. – Robert Browning
- The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. – Henry Ward Beecher
- I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me. – Antonio Villaraigosa
- There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. – Billy Sunday
- My mom is definitely my rock. – Alicia Keys
- Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding. – Gloria Estefan
- I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me. – Martina Hingis
- With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. – Isadora Duncan
- Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. – George Eliot
- Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. – Barbara Kingsolver
- Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. – Erich Fromm
- A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. – Victor Hugo
- The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. – Honore de Balzac
- Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother? – Donald E. Westlake
- Children are the anchors of a mother's life. – Sophocles
- A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. – Tenneva Jordan
- Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
– George Cooper
- The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
– William Goldsmith Brown
- The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. – Rajneesh
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honore de Balzac
- A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. – Florida Scott-Maxwell
- My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. – Graycie Harmon
- Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone
- Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty
- I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. – Abraham Lincoln
- Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love. – Mildred B. Vermont
- Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. – Robert Brault
- A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." – Washington Irving
- If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. – Lord Langdale
- We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves. – Henry Ward Beecher
- A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. – Emily Dickinson
- One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. – George Herbert
- Mother's love grows by giving. – Charles Lamb
- Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. – Oprah Winfrey
- All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln
- Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. – Lin Yutang
- A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking – Helen Rice
- That best academy, a mother's knee. Heaven on Earth at mother's feet. – James Russell Lowel
- Women do not have to sacrifice person-hood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering. – Elaine Heffner
- Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate. – Charlotte Gray
- My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. – George Washington
May 13, Mother's Day 2012 is a day to celebrate motherhood. In this day, we can show our love and gratefulness to our mothers by these classic Mother's Day 2012 quotes.


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NBC's Chuck Todd, Savannah Guthrie and Tom Brokaw join Brian Williams to discuss the events of the last day of the Democratic National Convention.
Updated, 6:43 p.m. ET: After a brief health scare earlier Thursday, former "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw was back on camera at the Democratic National Convention.
Brokaw was taken to a Charlotte, N.C., hospital earlier Thursday after mistakenly taking a sleeping pill instead of an aspirin.
"I am fine. It's a cautionary tale," Brokaw told NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. "Know what you ingest. I have a daughter who's a doctor, and I'll be paying penance for a long, long time."
Brokaw was discharged later the same day and was in "great health," NBC News President Steve Capus said Thursday.
"We're immensely grateful to the team at Carolinas Medical Center for their excellent care and professionalism," Capus said in a statement.
Earlier, the network said that Brokaw "felt light-headed" on the set of the MSNBC talk show "Morning Joe," and was taken to the hospital "out of an abundance of caution."
Brokaw, 72, was said to be in good spirits while at the hospital, and even joked about his condition on Twitter, writing, "All is well. Early AM I mistakenly took a half dose of (sleep aid) Ambien and made less sense than usual. Made a better comeback than Giants..."
Chris McCumber, the co-president of USA Network, tweeted in reply, "Glad ur feeling better. We need you to suit up next Sunday to play D for #NYGiants."
Brokaw, who served as anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News" from 1982 to 2004, is the author of numerous books, including 1998's acclaimed, "The Greatest Generation."
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Campus Recycling Program
Updated Recycling Guidelines (.pdf)
More Recycling Bins
You may have noticed an increase in the number of BLUE recycling containers in the Academic and Administrative buildings. You might have also noticed the new recycling containers around campus on the grounds. All these containers have a recycling logo and a blue lid.
Additional blue recycling bins have also been placed in the common and/or recreation areas of the buildings. There amount and accesibility of these containers to students have also been increased in all the residence halls.
Watch a video from Waste Management for an explanation on Single Stream Recycling, how the recycling material is handled, and what happens once it leave the College.
More Information
- Read the list of materials that are acceptable in our recycling program. Please understand that ALL recycling materials may be placed in any of recycling containers on campus.
- Read the list of electronics that are acceptable to deposit in the brown box in the Wired Scot.
- Locate the exterior recycling containers on the campus map (.pdf) (includes Waste Management recycling dumpsters and campus containers).
- Read the list of compostable materials (.pdf) that are acceptable to deposit outside of Lowry's main entrance and behind Mom's Truck Stop.
- Read answers to frequently asked questions on campus recycling
- Enjoy this video featuring "Captain Recycle" created by the Recycling Awareness group for Environmental Studies 200 course during Spring 2010.
Have other questions regarding recycling? Please email us.
Thank you for your efforts.


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Jodi Meyer, senior print production manager, AbelsonTaylor
Jodi Meyer has been promoted to senior print production manager at health care ad agency AbelsonTaylor. Meyer, 37, with more than a decade of production experience, will be working on products in the areas of nutrition, diabetes, wound care, pediatric and respiratory distress. Before joining AbelsonTaylor in 2010, she spent four years as advertising manager at Schawk Retail Marketing (formerly Ambrosi), Chicago, where she managed the day-to-day advertising operations for retailers such as Bloomingdale's, Lord and Taylor, Sears, Kmart, Fannie May Candies, DirecTV and Home Depot. Previously, she was print production/traffic manager for Gams Communications, a marketing and branding agency in Chicago, where she handled Cingular Wireless, DoubleTree Hotels, McCormick Distilling, VW and the Chicago Midwest Beauty Show, among other accounts. She has a B.A. in business from Calvin College.
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All commissioners of the Watonwan County Board met Tuesday, Nov. 20 and approved all payments of bills before discussing the construction of a new E-911 tower near St. James.
All commissioners of the Watonwan County Board met Tuesday, Nov. 20 and approved all payments of bills before discussing the construction of a new E-911 tower near St. James.
Money for the project would be pulled from the E-911 fund which is at about $50,000 at this time with just under $7,000 a month allocated for fees.
With Jackson County replacing a tower, now is a good time to make a move. Watonwan County can use Jackson County's old tower for a very small price, and avoid having to build a brand new tower.
The cost for the project would be $95,518.73. This price includes Site surveys, engineering and design fees, equipment costs (hardware), installation, commissioning and optimization of the system.
"We've been having coverage issues," said Watonwan County Sheriff Gary Menssen.
"What we're saying is this tower is a must," said Commissioner John Baerg.
With about 45 percent of Watonwan County living in St. James, bad emergency coverage could become an issue.
The board approved unanimously to start the process of purchasing a tower and finding a compatible site to build that tower.
Public Works Director Roger Risser updated the commissioners on the activities of the public works department in Watonwan County.
He started by presenting the new county highway map which will be released as an online map in the near future.
"We're pretty proud of it," said Risser.
The new map should be practical for ten years, before it needs to be replaced. A printed map is not yet available, but will feature city maps for both Madelia and St. James on the back side of the Watonwan County highway map. The new map includes the four lane expansion that will take place on Highway 60 and the Watline Trail plans.
The final voucher for the replacement of the Highway 4 bridge over North Fork Watonwan River was approved unanimously.
The construction estimates from M & K Construction, Inc. initially cam in at $444,097.97 but due to an increase in some costs during the process the final cost for Watonwan County was $447,162.72.
The Watonwan County Board also agreed to pay for the maintenance of intersection lights over the Highway 60 expansion. MDOT agreed to pay for the overhead lights with the caveat that Watonwan County pays for the maintenance of the overhead lights. Electricity on the lights will cost about $40 per month and the four year replacement of bulbs costs $200 per bulb.
County Recorder Joy Sing met with the commissioners to discuss the county bulk image sales.
Watonwan County is in contract with Fidlar Technologies, who seeks viable subscribers interested in securely accessing information in exchange for a service fee. The idea behind the agreement was to ensure that Watonwan County receives payment when information from their data base is used.
The commission agreed to extend the contract with Fidlar Technologies unanimously.
Marjorie Smith, Watonwan County solid waste coordinator, met with the board Tuesday to discuss updating the Solid Waste Management plan for Watonwan County.
"I just don't have time," said Smith. "I do believe most counties do this themselves."
Without a current Solid Waste Management Plan, Watonwan County will be missing out on $27,975 first half score block grants from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
The Watonwan County Board is looking into ways to update the plan so the county will not miss out on the extra funds coming in through the grant.
The meeting closed with a reschedule of the Jan. 1 Watonwan County Board meeting. New commissioners will be sworn in Jan. 7, so the first January meeting will take place Jan. 8 at 9 a.m. The second January meeting was also rescheduled and will take place Jan. 22 at 9 a.m.


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|Jun 04, 2013
Fraunhofer ISE Teams Up With EV Group To Enable Direct Semiconductor Wafer Bonds For Next-Generation Solar Cells
|(Nanowerk News) The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE today announced that it has joined forces with EV Group (EVG) to develop equipment and process technology to enable electrically conductive and optically transparent direct wafer bonds at room temperature. The new solutions, developed in partnership with Fraunhofer ISE based on EVG's recently announced ComBond® technology, aim to enable highly mismatched material combinations like gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon, GaAs on indium phosphide (InP), InP on germanium (Ge) and GaAs on gallium antimonide (GaSb). Direct wafer bonding provides the ability to combine a variety of materials with optimal properties for integration into multi-junction solar cells, which can lead to new device architectures with unparalleled performance.
|"Using direct semiconductor bond technology developed in cooperation with EVG, we expect that the best material choices for multi-junction solar cell devices will become available and allow us to increase the conversion efficiency toward 50 percent," stated Dr. Frank Dimroth, Head of department III-V Epitaxy and Solar Cells of Fraunhofer ISE. "We are excited to partner with EVG, a leading supplier of wafer bonding equipment, to develop industrial tools and processes for this application."
|Fraunhofer ISE has developed III-V multi-junction solar cells for more than 20 years and has reached record device efficiencies of up to 41 percent with its metamorphic triple-junction solar cell technology on Ge. Higher efficiencies require the development of four- and five-junction solar cells with new material combinations to span the full absorption range of the sun's spectrum between 300-2000 nm. Integration of III-V solar cells on silicon opens another opportunity to reduce manufacturing cost, especially when combined with modern substrate lift-off technologies. Direct wafer-bonding is expected to play an important role in the development of next-generation III-V solar cell devices with applications in space as well as in terrestrial concentrator photovoltaics (PV).
|"We are excited about refining our new process technology together with Fraunhofer ISE, the largest solar energy research institute in Europe," stated Markus Wimplinger, corporate technology development and IP director for EVG. "Fraunhofer ISE's broad expertise in the area of PV, specifically in concentrated PV cell manufacturing and photonics, will allow us to characterize bonding interfaces with respect to PV applications on our new ComBond® equipment platform."
|EVG's ComBond® technology has been developed in response to market needs for more sophisticated integration processes for combining materials with different lattice constant and coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). The process and equipment technology enables the formation of bond interfaces between heterogeneous materialssuch as silicon to compound semiconductors, compound semiconductors to compound semiconductors, Ge to silicon and Ge to compound semiconductorsat room temperature, while achieving excellent bonding strength. The ComBond® technology will be commercially available later this year on a new 200-mm modular platform currently in development, called EVG580® ComBond®, which will include process modules that are designed to perform surface preparation processes on both semiconductor materials and metals.
|In addition to PV, other potential application areas for processes developed in cooperation between EVG and Fraunhofer ISE include light emitting diodes (LEDs) and silicon photonics.
|About EV Group
|EV Group (EVG) is a leading supplier of equipment and process solutions for the manufacture of semiconductors, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), compound semiconductors and power devices, and nanotechnology devices. Key products include wafer bonding, thin-wafer processing, lithography/nanoimprint lithography (NIL) and metrology equipment, as well as photoresist coaters, cleaners and inspection systems. Founded in 1980, EV Group services and supports an elaborate network of global customers and partners all over the world. More information about EVG is available at www.EVGroup.com.
|About Fraunhofer ISE
|With a staff of 1270, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, based in Freiburg, is the largest solar energy research institute in Europe. Fraunhofer ISE is committed to promoting energy supply systems which are sustainable, economic, safe and socially just. It creates the technological foundations for supplying energy efficiently and on an environmentally sound basis in industrialized, threshold and developing countries. To this end, the institute develops materials, components, systems and processes for a total of eight different business areas: Energy-Efficient Buildings, Applied Optics and Functional Surfaces, Solar Thermal Technology, Silicon Photovoltaics, Photovoltaic Modules and Systems, Alternative Photovoltaic Technology, Renewable Power Supply and Hydrogen Technology. Fraunhofer ISE also has numerous accredited test facilities. For more information, visit www.ise.fraunhofer.de.
|Source: EV Group (press release)
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OpenStack Continuous Integration on Ubuntu 101
We (the Canonical OIL dev team) are about to finish the production roll out of our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL). It's been an awesome time getting here so I thought I would take the opportunity to get everyone familiar, at a high level, with what OIL is and some of the cool technology behind it.
So what is OIL?
For starters, OIL is essentially continuous integration of the entire stack, from hardware preparation, to Operating System deployment, to orchestration of OpenStack and third party software, all while running specific tests at each point in the process. All test results and CI artifacts are centrally stored for analysis and monthly report generation.
Typically, setting up a cloud (particularly OpenStack) for the first time can be frustrating and time consuming. The potential combinations and permutations of hardware/software components and configurations can quickly become mind-numbing. To help ease the process and provide stability across options we sought to develop an interoperability test lab to vet as much of the ecosystem as possible.
To accomplish this we developed a CI process for building and tearing down entire OpenStack deployments in order to validate every step in the process and to make sure it is repeatable. The OIL lab is comprised of a pool of machines (including routers/switches, storage systems, and computer servers) from a large number of partners. We continually pull available nodes from the pool, setup the entire stack, go to town testing, and then tear it all back down again. We do this so many times that we are already deploying around 50 clouds a day and expect to scale this by a factor of 3-4 with our production roll-out. Generally, each cloud is composed of about 5-7 machines each but we have the ability to scale each test as well.
But that's not all, in addition to testing we also do bug triage, defect analysis and work both internally and with our partners on fixing as many things as we can. All to ensure that deploying OpenStack on Ubuntu is as seamless a process as possible for both users and vendors alike.
Underlying Technology
We didn't want to reinvent the wheel so, we are leveraging the latest Ubuntu technologies as well as some standard tools to do all of this. In fact the majority of the OIL infrastructure is public code you can get and start playing with right away!
Here is a small list of what we are using for all this CI goodness:
- MaaS — to do the base OS install
- Juju — for all the complicated OpenStack setup steps — and linking them together
- Tempest — the standard test suite that pokes and prods OpenStack to ensure everything is working
- Machine selections & random config generation code — to make sure we get a good hardware/software cross sections
- Jenkins — gluing everything together
Using all of this we are able to manage our hardware effectively, and with a similar setup you can easily too. This is just a high-level overview so we will have to leave the in-depth technological discussions for another time.
More to come
We plan on having a few more blog posts cover some of the more interesting aspects (both results we are getting from OIL and some underlying technological discussions).
We are getting very close to OIL's official debut and are excited to start publishing some really insightful data.Tags: juju, maas, oil, openstack


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Lying on the western bank of Lake Mascoma, the Shaker community
of Enfield was established in 1793. While the society was founded
in the late 18th century, many of its significant buildings were
not constructed until the mid-19th century. These buildings have
been heralded for their sophistication and the dynamic use of
stone masonry techniques, specifically the use of granite, previously
not found in early 19th-century New England architecture.
The Enfield community, like all Shaker societies, was divided
into separate groups--the Church, North and South families. Ranging
anywhere from 30 to 90 people, each family had its own set of
important communal buildings, such as dwellings or workshops.
The largest Shaker residential building, the Great Stone Dwellinghouse,
was built as part of the Church Family complex in 1837 and was
the tallest domestic building north of Boston. The six-story building
housed both genders of the Family, each relegated to their appropriate
sectors of the building and entering through separate doors. While
most members of the community resided in houses such as this,
the religious leaders lived in the Ministry's shop, erected around
1870. Reflecting a stylistic convergence of Shaker and Victorian
architecture, the Ministry shop is an unusually elaborate building
within the community.
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Friday, April 21, 2006
Blog Patrol # 1
1. Cream of Broccoli Soup: I had a recipe for this soup sitting on my hard disk, but never really felt motivated to go ahead and try it out. After Saffron Hut did a post on it, I had enough motivation (read 'more than enough saliva in the oral cavity'). I tried out her version and was it good! It was great even without the pepper, which means that it is good also for infants and small children. (I have a seventeen-month-old fussy daughter, remember?)
2. Palak Paneer: I have numerous recipes for this one, none of which has satisfied me so far. The other day, when I wanted to make Palak Paneer, I just knew that only a fellow food blogger would have the solution for this. As I was doing a search on Blogger, I came across this one by Indira of Mahanandi and I was sure that I had found the 'right' one. Moreover, using roasted cashews really intrigued me. I have used soaked cashews in Punjabi/Moghlai preparations so far. But roasted cashews was something totally new and exotic. I was glad that I tried out this one. The spinach gravy was creamy and very, very aromatic. I know what I am gonna cook, whenever I want to impress my guests at dinners.
3. Tart Ratatouille with goat's cheese: Does this happen to you? That you read a recipe and you know at that instant that you are gonna like the outcome. This was one such recipe. I knew I had to try it out as soon as I read this one by Meeta of What's For Lunch Honey?. And it was indeed very good. I made my own pizza base for this. (Now then, who was calling me lazy?) Otherwise, I stuck to Meeta's recipe through and through. It is a hearty dish with a lot of vegetables. Her recipe would serve 3 to 4 persons. I reduced the amount of vegetables to 2/3 for the two of us and had the Tart as a one-dish meal. Mmmmmm....
4. Tuesday Soup: I have tried out several recipes by Nupur of One Hot Stove. I am happy to confirm that ALL have turned out well. I have chosen this one for this round-up, because I have made it something like 5976 times so far. Ok, I am exaggerating, but I have really made it quite often since January 2006 (that's when I got to know about food-blogging in general and Nupur's blog in particular). I have also tried adding different ingredients to it e.g. sweet corn kernels, sweet potato, asparagus (my current love interest!) and it has given fantastic results every time. I have also used a fistful of moong dal sometimes and offered the soup with lots of crusty bread to make it a simple yet filling dinner. I don't use the garnishes in Nupur's recipe, especially the croutons, but you could go ahead and use them. This soup again is fit for infants and small children (that's without the pepper and the croutons). By the way, did I mention that I always pressure-cook it? I do, and it is super-fast.
Hope you too try these out. In case you have done already, please let me know.
13 comments:
- Meeta said...
Hi Vaishali,
Great round up and a super idea! I am really flattered that you liked the tart. I have a few other similar recipes in mind that i just know you will love. Just have to get a good camera ;-).
Otherwise I have started a monthly event. Monthly Mingle that I just posted. I'll announce the theme on Mondy. Vaishali as you too live in Germany it is an absolute must that you take part. I will be soooo disappointed if you don't. Tune in on Monday OK?
- Fri Apr 21, 06:01:00 PM
- Saffron said...
Hey Vaishali, glad that you liked the soup. Cool title for your post too :-)
- Fri Apr 21, 06:12:00 PM
- Indira said...
I can hear the siren sound at Mahanandi. :), wondering where the siren sound is coming from. aha.. you are doing the blog patrol.:)
All kidding aside, I am happy that you had success with the palak paneer recipe and enjoyed it.
All your other tries look wonderful, I've also bookmarked SF's broccoli soup. Now I am confident to try it out, because you featured it in 'blog patrol'.:)
- Fri Apr 21, 06:51:00 PM
- Vaishali said...
Meeta, SH and Indira, thanks for stopping by. Blog Patrol is working on the next edition as this comment is being written. :)
- Mon Apr 24, 04:33:00 PM
- Nupur said...
Thanks for the link, Vaishali! I am so glad that you like the soup recipe...it is a childhood favorite of mine and hopefully will become a childhood favorite for your little one too.
I'm looking forward to trying the other recipes you have featured here on "blog patrol".
- Mon Apr 24, 09:22:00 PM
- Vaishali said...
Thanks for stopping by, Nupur. Do try the other recipes featured here. I think it's worth it.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Caramel Previews: Mitchell Sweets & Caramoos
There were quite a few caramels at the Fancy Food Show. Here are two vastly different caramel products.
Hammond Candies makes a product unlike all their other wonderful twisty/swirly hard candies, it's a caramel covered marshmallow block called Mitchell Sweets. I have no idea why they're called Mitchell, but hey, I guess if I had a great caramel and marshmallow product, maybe I'd just start calling it Mitch, too.
The Mitchell Sweet comes in two varieties - plain and chocolate. They're pretty big, about 2 1/2" long, 1 1/4 inch square and weigh 3/4 of an ounce. They're a bit messy, but not as messy as you might guess.
The caramel is soft and chewy without being too stiff. The marshmallow, on the other hand, is rather stiff and solid. It still maintains a lightness and bouncy texture which helps it stand up to the caramel.
The chocolate one didn't smell any different but I have to say I was really pleased with how fudgy it was. The chocolate caramel was even a little salty and set off the otherwise sweet marshmallow really well. This is a real standout candy. I could use a little honey or extra vanilla hit in the marshmallow itself, but Hammond's has been making these treats for a long time, so who am I to say they need an adjustment?
Notes: you can buy them direct on the Hammond's Candies website for $17.00 a pound. These are very similar to the Littlejohn Caramel Marshmallows.
I give them a 7 out of 10
If I was looking for a candy that advertised its honey flavor, then Caramoos to the rescue. Caramoos aren't quite the chewy caramel that we're used to though they are indeed caramelized sugar. It's more like a light fudge. They come in two flavors in the Caramel Crumble: Original & Honey and a bunch of others in their Creme Fudge line: Dark Chocolate, Mocha & Vanilla
They're cute little square rods, perfect to pop in your mouth whole or do it in two bites.
They smell very buttery and have a very grainy texture. The sweetness is mitigated by a little hit of salt and of course the darker flavors of the caramelized sugars. The Honey one smelled like a sweet hand cream instead of a caramel. The fragrant candy grew on me so much that in the end I preferred it to the Original flavor.
The Creme Fudges are a little different. They don't have the distinct crystallized structure to them. The Dark Chocolate one reminded me of a very good Tootsie roll. Soft, smoky tasting and a little salty. Mocha was rich and milky tasting with a wonderful flavor of rich espresso. The Vanilla one was also chewy and soft and had a nice milky taste to it but not the buttery flavors so apparent in the Caramel Crumble.
They're an interesting new look at caramelized sugars.
Notes: Caramoos are made in Poland. There's no ordering info on their website (I emailed but haven't heard back) but you can get them on Amazon for $14 for 2.5 pounds ($5.60 a pound). Nicole from Slashfood was equally smitten with Caramoos. Quite a few folks also got samples of them from Amazon last year.
I give them a 7 out of 10
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Val Waters brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 44 Designs von 17 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Red Carpet Ready
I'm a personal trainer based in Los Angeles. I specialize in training celebrities, getting them ready for photoshoots, movie roles and red carpet events.
My clients include
Jennifer Garner
Cindy Crawford
Jessica Biel
Rachel Nichols
Bradley Cooper
My blog is at http://www.valeriewaters.com
You can find my old RCR site at http://www.redcarpetready.com - but this offer is changing ( more info in the brief)
The target market is women: ages 25-45 who want to achieve the look of the stars they see on the Red Carpet and in the cover of magazines.
Red Carpet Ready is a weight loss/body transformation program I originally designed for use with my celebrity clients to get them ready for the red carpet. This site is for the product I'm providing to the general population.
I'd like to site to reflect that same sleek, sexy, classy appearance.
This file does not need to be coded, it just needs to be a photoshop file with appropriately named layers so my design team can easily navigate
I'd like to model this site:
That style header with the model provided in the PSD file
However, I'd like to colors to reflect my product. Blacks, reds, grays,..
Think red carpet events/paparazzi, sexy dresses, etc.
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The attractive header
The visible "celebrity" endorsement
The sliding box with user before/after pics and testimonials (my designer will code this)
The headline and sales copy can be just filler text as my team will handle this.
The way the "what's included" images are displayed and bonuses
(you'll find information about what's included in this project in the attached document - rcr_included.doc)
I included product shots, logos, and images of my model in the attached zip file: rcr_graphics.zip
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Our Scarecrow Café has great home smoked pork, fresh cut curly fries and the best sugar cookie you will eat. The gift shop is stocked with holiday themed gourds you will not find any were else. The gourds are grown and dried here, Brenda hand cuts, paints and decorates them all. Truly unique.
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Tutorial Studies Bees, Up Close• September 24, 2012 Share:
For several decades, Wabash College faculty members have delved into about every possible subject to develop Freshman Tutorial courses.
Tutorials are the first all-college course a Wabash student takes, and are designed to get them used to the teaching and learning that will be expected of them over their time at the College. In many ways, the topic — assuming it can hold up to a liberal arts examination — matters less than the professor's (and students') enthusiasm for the subject.
Political science professor Ethan Hollander expanded the range of tutorials even further this year by creating a course focused on bugs.
"The tutorial is, of course, about 'bugs' in the traditional sense (i.e., insects, arachnids, and other small arthropods); however, we also look at bugs from many other perspectives, including representations of bugs in art and literature, the impact of pesticides on the economy, the impact of disease on the course of human history, and the importance of bugs in the ecosystem," Hollander said.
Last week his class took a field trip to art professor Doug Calisch's home a few miles from campus. Calisch and his wife, Laura Conners, keep bees there, which gave Hollander and his students an up-close-and-personal look at the life of bees.
"Bees are important creatures, of course, because they produce honey – the primary sweetener for most of human history and a foodstuff rich in cultural, historic, and religious significance," said Hollander. "But bees are even more crucial as pollinators of plants. In fact, the ongoing decline in bee populations around the country has reached crisis proportions, costing farmers thousands of dollars in unrealized revenue and prompting legislative action in a number of states.
"But in some ways, the most interesting facet of bee life is that they are social creatures – they live in societies, complete with castes and particular forms of communication. But of course, they are societies in only a peculiar way – they have no centralized governance and, even at the individual level, bees have only the most rudimentary instincts."
Before traveling to study Calisch's bees, Hollander's students had done their homework. They read about swarming behavior and about how animals that can't even really think somehow manage to live in huge, organized, and complex societies.
"We even investigated how we, as humans, can better organize our social infrastructure – from roads and traffic patterns to apartments and living units – all by watching swarming behavior of insects such as bees and ants," said Hollander. "The true complexity of a bee hive, and the fascinating process by which honey is collected and processed, can only be fully appreciated first-hand. That's why we went on this trip."
Hollander credited the Know Indiana Program and the Freshman Tutorial Program for making the trip possible.
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SLAM! Wrestling's Blaine van der Griend goes through The Undertaker's undefeated streak at WrestleMania, one match at a time.
Match #17, #18
The event: WrestleMania 25, WrestleMania 26
Where: Reliant Stadium, Houston; University of Phoenix Stadium, Phoenix, Arizona
The results: Wins over Shawn Michaels; WrestleMania record, 18-0
When The Undertaker told Shawn Michaels "It's hell, trying to get into heaven," Michaels responded by challenging The Phenom to a match at WrestleMania 25. Veteran Announcer Jim Ross recalls that all hell did indeed break loose.
"Announcers can only embellish what they see and can't make something great with smoke and mirrors," Ross said. "The in-ring talents lay the ground work, but the broadcasters should be able to make a good match better and a great match a classic."
This was actually the last WrestleMania that Ross called, as part of the main roster. Looking back, he has no regrets, and really considers the match between Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker as a highlight of his last few years with the company; maybe even a highlight of his career.
"I was ecstatic. It was very important for me to personally be a part of this event and specifically this historic bout at the 25th WrestleMania," Ross said. "My respect for both Undertaker and Shawn Michaels is genuine and goes back many, many years. It wasn't about me. It was about being able to contribute to what two men that I professionally admire, were doing on the biggest stage of their lives."
This was the first time that Michaels squared off against The Undertaker at WrestleMania, but it was nothing new to him, as he was a huge part of several 'firsts.' Michaels participated in the first WrestleMania ladder match, the first WWE Ironman Match, the first Elimination Chamber and the first Hell in a Cell match; he won three out of those four.
Before Michaels made a name for himself as 'The showstopper, the headliner and the main event,' his early years in the business were spent as part of a tag team with Marty Janetty; a combination known as The Midnight Rockers in the AWA.
The Midnight Rockers had a heated feud with Buddy Rose and Doug Somers, before bringing their gimmick to the World Wrestling Federation, and dropping the word 'Midnight' from the team name.
The Rockers were quite a pleasure to watch, as they showcased some of their skills in the aerial department, bringing everyone to their feet.
But as the popular saying goes 'All good things must come to an end.' The Rockers officially split up in early 1992, when Michaels turned on Janetty and launched him through the Barber Shop window; a segment that is still referenced today.
After the break-up, it seemed like a rocket was strapped to Michaels' back. He was managed by Sensational Sherri and captured the Intercontinental Championship later that year. Once Michaels and Sherri parted ways, Michaels introduced Kevin Nash as his bodyguard Diesel.
He and Diesel were an almost unstoppable force, as they won the Tag Team Championships in the summer of 1994. Unfortunately for Michaels, he was never great at keeping friends, and actually challenged Diesel for the WWE Championship at the following year's WrestleMania. Of course, this was after Michaels had become the first man in history to enter the Royal Rumble match as number one and win it.
Michaels came up short in the WrestleMania match, but would later recapture the Intercontinental Championship from Jeff Jarrett that summer.
The following year, Michaels' childhood dream was realized as he defeated Bret Hart for the WWE Championship in the 60-minute Ironman Match, which Michaels actually won in overtime.
In early 1998, Michaels was the reigning WWE Champion, but was taken out of action due to an injury, actually caused by his WrestleMania 25 opponent The Undertaker. He was able to fight through the pain long enough though, to be able to drop the title to Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 14.
At this point, Michaels feared that he would never wrestle again, but four years later, he returned triumphantly to square off with his long-time friend Triple H, and won the World Heavyweight Championship shortly afterwards.
Michaels will also forever be known as the man who started D-Generation X, the man who lost his smile, and the man who retired Ric Flair.
It seemed like Michaels had done it all in the business, except for one thing: ending The Undertaker's WrestleMania streak.
Michaels gave it everything he had, but quickly realized why his moves are called 'high risk,' as he attempted a moonsault, but was caught in the waiting arms of The Deadman and driven into the mat with the Tombstone, moving Taker up to 17-0.
Michaels did not take that loss well. He ended up taking a few months off, immediately following WrestleMania, only to return that summer to reform D-X with Triple H. It was fun while it lasted, but ultimately, Michaels could not get over the loss to Taker at WrestleMania, and he needed another opportunity at WrestleMania 26.
Taker refused at first, but Michaels wasn't exactly a one-hit wonder. He even went as far as costing The Undertaker the World Heavyweight Championship.
With that action, Undertaker agreed to the match on the condition that Michaels put his career on the line. Without blinking an eye, Michaels accepted the terms and was ready to make history again.
"I thought that they would have a heck of a time topping the previous year's classic," Ross said. "But they succeeded. It was an amazing bout to watch as a fan."
Most agree that sequels are not as good as the original, but this was as close as it gets to duplicating an outstanding performance the previous year.
Michaels pushed The Undertaker to his absolute limit, but it wasn't enough, as Taker always kicks it into his highest gear at WrestleMania, and was able to put Michaels away with a series of Tombstones.
Michaels may have lost the match and been forced into retirement, but he did expose a more human side of The Undertaker, who was almost showing signs of compassion in the final stages of the match. But a thunderous slap from Michaels forced The Deadman to keep his focus on the task at hand and move his undefeated streak to 18-0.
"I've generally been able to naturally allow the fan in me to take over and to do my job as a broadcasting professional," Ross said. "I've become emotional during many matches, but have been able to suppress those emotions, as to not distract from what the athletes are doing. Sometimes, those emotions are manifested in the presentation."
Blaine van der Griend is looking forward to see the Heartbreak Kid at this year's WrestleMania...


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