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The title of this ad tells it all – I am offering our exceptional PRE Andalusian Girl for sale at a price that does not at all reflect her quality and most of all her potential in the right hands – both for dressage and for breeding. Find out more information and details and many more photos and video at our website www.yeguadad.com. Thank you
Hermosa is just turning 4 years old though and she is ready for her ONE PERSON (this is the typical one person PRE horse, she is not available to a home that will throw her in a pasture and not pay attention to her) that will work with her and give her the attention she would like and spend quality time with her. She is truly a one person horse with an incredible huge heart – takes a little bit to trust and then she would do absolutely everything in the whole world for you. I can only imagine what she will be like under saddle for her one own person, this is the type of heart that takes dressage horses to victory over others and that just brings tears to your eyes. Which is why she is being offered under these terms, as I want to give her this and given all the work and other horses here, I am just not it for her.
She is going to be exceptional in every single way one day. I am saying one day because she is the daughter of our PRE stallion Dobres PLC (Yeguada Sierra de Guadalupe, some of the best PRE lines in the world these days with recent siblings becoming champions of Mexico and Costa Rica and all over the place, SICAB finalist, see our first SICAB adventure video on our website) and a champion mother line that matures very late. So even though she is turning 4 years old, she still has ways to go to fully mature and this is also why she has been just left to be happy with her friends to give her time and keep her healthy. She is at a perfect time then for her own person to start her and get to know her and start their journey together. She is still in that leggy stage with no filling out yet and we have kept her weight on the reasonable levels because of that, she has been well taken care of and ever since I have known her, she has never had a single health issue. (I have known her since she was a weanling as you can see on her weanling photos).
Hermosa is about 168 cm tall at this very moment and I think she will still grow a bit more before she will start to finally fill out a bit. She is bay with no white markings. Has a beautiful head and eyes, feminine looking, very sweet look on her face. Great back and strong hind end. She does not move like a typical PRE – she has true dressage potential with extension and power from behind, just look at her photos. Even as a young foal she had it and even when butt high during all this growing she had it. You can just imagine what she will move like when fully mature.
She is located in Europe and currently with me here in the Czech Republic. She is piroplasmosis free and so eligible for export to USA. As I have already sold few of our horses to USA (I lived in the USA for almost 10 years and imported my stallion from there so am happy to provide references for your peace of mind) and have family in Spain where I spend quite a bit of time on regular basis, I am going to help you with every single step of the way so she could be exported having a safe and happy experience. She would travel from here to Spain, close to Madrid, to my family where she would have to wait for few months in order to qualify for the ANCCE virgin certificate export, which would allow her to bypass the CEM quarantine in the USA upon arrival. The export process would then start and she would then be able to travel once all the paperwork gets taken care of. She would be in the best hands the whole time, I will manage it all and help with completely everything, all the way until you get her in your hands.
It is very hard to find PRE mares like this given her talent, her height, her breeding potential and her age (knowing she had the time to grow up without starting her too early) – all of that is a combination that is tough to find. Her lines are also very rare in the USA and she is the granddaughter of one of the very best PRE mares of all times – LOTUS. These lines are not just legendary in Spain, they are pretty much guaranteed to produce quality and consistently.
Now the conditions…. I am only doing this for her so she can have the home she in her heart wants. This means that I am only going to sell her for this price to a home where she will have her one person as her person and would get the chance to be started and ridden and have the quality life I described above. The more time in pasture the better as she has been used to this her whole life and of course she could be bred and have foals (it would probably be a shame if she never did given her quality and her lines), however I would really love a home where she would also be ridden and not be "just" a broodmare. This is a girl that should not ever get sold and I was hoping to keep her but I had few PREs in the past with her heart being one person horses and when I see how incredible they are for their soulmates and get the updates and photos from their happy owners, I just really want her to have the same. Some horses are happy being in the pastures and having horse friends and not a close human relationship with one human, however some are like her and it is just not fair to her. I love all my horses more than I can say and even though I can see her mature in my head already and know how special she will be and her foals, I know the right thing to do for her and for somebody out there is to let her go. She will make somebody truly blessed and I feel honored to be a part of her journey in finding her soulmate.
Her price to this kind of home at this point would be 12500 USD, which means that after the fees to get her to Spain and to get her through the export etc, you will still be on a price that is well below her worth and below what she would cost you in the USA. She is a steal for this price even including the export cost – but you have to be the right home for her.
You can find more information about her on our website, which is still in progress but has info – Hermosa has her page there and so does her sire Dobres PLC and her grandmother LOTUS and you can see her half siblings there too.
She is only available under these conditions for a short time so please contact us early if you think you would be the right home for her. Thank you so much for your time and for considering her, she will change your life, I can guarantee that!
PS: I also have a PRE buckskin yearling colt with such one person heart looking for his soulmate, also on the website if you would like a boy for dressage and breeding.
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Elston knows whereof he speaks. He's a former broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs, the Mutual Game of the Week and CBS Radio's Game of the Week. He even designed the cap logo for the Houston Colt .45s. But he's best known as the original voice of the Houston Astros, serving the team from its inception in 1962 through the 1986 playoff run.
"Houston will draw only when it's winning," he says. "It's an average major-league city." And as true fans know, "winning" and "Astros" are two words that have not always gone together.
"The Judge" -- Roy Hofheinz, original owner of the Astros and the mind behind the Astrodome -- "wanted to win," says Elston, "but he didn't think he could win with the talent he had." Thus, the Astros spent many of their early years being purged of their greats and near-greats. Joe Morgan, Rusty Staub and Jim Wynn are just a few who began their careers in Houston before finding success elsewhere. "The Judge was a great entrepreneur," according to Elston, but over his head as a major-league owner.
While Houston may be an average baseball city, it has had a profound effect on the game. "The Astrodome was neither good or bad," says Elston, "but it started a bad trend: symmetrical, round stadiums designed for both football and baseball." Elston laments the lack of character in multi-use stadiums, but the trend may have started to turn with the ballparks in Baltimore, Cleveland and Arlington. While the new Houston ballpark follows these footsteps in the right direction, he says, it's "too little."
One of Houston's problems, Elston says, is that the city has built too many ballparks: Colt Stadium, the Astrodome and Minute Maid Park in just over 40 years. "Ballparks have been overbuilt," he says. "They're going to end up being white elephants."
As a broadcaster, Elston didn't get too close to the players. "If I stayed away, I could be fairer and more critical," he explains. But of the Astros players that he covered, Terry Puhl was a favorite. "He was one of the greatest outfielders I ever saw, because he could anticipate so well. He had great senses."
Elston treated all players, all teams, equally. "If somebody made a great play, I said it," he remembers. "Same for both teams. If he made a bad play, I said it." He was a big fan of Pete Rose because he never quit and always hustled, and he calls Willie Mays "the most exciting player I ever saw."
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Nikon Inc. Announces New 'I AM Generation Image' Integrated Campaign To Celebrate and Support a World That Communicates Visually
"I AM Generation Image" Will Include Inspiring Content and Encourage Others to Share Their Own Passions Through Authentic Imagery
Nov 20, 2014, 09:01 ET
MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Nikon Inc. has announced its new "I AM Generation Image" integrated campaign, which is the imaging leader's new platform to amplify the voices of individuals who want to stand out in a world of visual noise. The brand campaign aims to reinforce confidence in the entry-level and enthusiast DSLR markets, and inspire people to create images far beyond just "good enough," to have their stories heard. "I AM Generation Image" will officially start today, with the launch of an immersive website featuring the content of a select group of creative individuals representing some of the eyes and voices of this generation.
"Each day we upload tens of thousands of images, making us the first generation to truly embrace pervasive visual communication. Whether it's love, laughter or a call to act for the greater good, the feeling you get when you look at a photo or watch a video should reflect the intent and emotions of the person behind the lens," said Lisa Baxt, Associate General Manager of Communications, Nikon Inc. "Generation Image was created to answer this need, and celebrates the stories of our lives and the important role that imagery plays in telling them, while inspiring users to capture more, and capture better using Nikon."
Defining "I AM Generation Image"
The concept of "Generation Image" was born from a desire to understand people's relationships with their images. After extensive research, it became clear that the number of images captured and shared every day is significantly increasing, and that quality is critical to celebrate and purposefully represent the motivations of this new generation of image makers. Across the country, people are using their cameras as a tool to share what is important to them and each have the potential for significant impact. From families or hobbies, personal causes to accomplishments, this new segment of creative individuals enjoys expressing and sharing what they are passionate about through photos and videos. On social media channels, the hashtag #IAMGenerationImage is a rallying cry. It echoes the desire to deliver the best images possible, in order to convey emotions and passions that rise above the noise.
"I AM Generation Image" reminds us that we are all part of this generation, and Nikon will enable our stories to ring loud, true and authentic. The campaign will help to define this generation as the first to overwhelmingly express themselves through images en masse and on a global scale. The successful "I AM" international campaign has acted as a worldwide catalyst for millions of fans to self-identify with the Nikon brand. The new campaign builds upon the "I AM" architecture to make imaging a personal experience for North America.
Campaign Elements
In North America, the campaign begins today in the United States with an experience site that features content from a select group of extraordinary individuals who document their own passions through imagery. This group of visual storytellers will capture content that will be seen through an immersive experiential website that acts as a portal, offering a glimpse into their fascinating worlds. These individuals are a diverse group of personalities who are not professional photographers; they represent a wide range of stories from entrepreneurs, philanthropists, comedians and more. The online portal will also act as a hub for the campaign, offering followers a chance to become personally invested with the lives of this imaginative group as they share content in real-time. Formal participants in the campaign will share imagery under the hashtag "#IAMGenerationImage" and Nikon will encourage widespread consumer participation through its social channels.
The "I AM Generation Image" Campaign will be driven by non-traditional media, including video advertisements, digital media on relevant websites, rich media and social paid promotion. Additionally, a series of videos defining the campaign will drive to the branded microsite. Consumers will see an immersive experience through rich media advertisements, and both mobile and desktop users will enjoy an interactive experience with high production values for video and sound. Users will also be encouraged to interact with the campaign by tagging their own visual stories with #IAmGenerationImage for the chance to be incorporated into the campaign. Advertisements will run through the end of 2014 and the Spring of 2015 to support the various aspects of the campaign.
The integrated campaign was created and will be executed by Nikon's agency partners, McCann Erickson, ID Media, MRM / McCann, Initiative Media and MWW.
About Nikon
Nikon, At the Heart of the Image™. Nikon Inc. is a world leader in digital imaging, precision optics and photo imaging technology; globally recognized for setting new standards in product design and performance for an award-winning array of equipment that enables users to tell their stories through amazing photos and videos. Nikon Inc. distributes consumer and professional digital SLR cameras, NIKKOR optics, Speedlights and system accessories; Nikon COOLPIX® compact digital cameras; 35mm film SLR cameras; Nikon software products and Nikon sports and recreational optics as well as the Nikon 1 compact interchangeable lens camera system. Nikon Corporation, the parent company of Nikon Inc., recently celebrated its 80th anniversary of NIKKOR optics, and announced the production of over 90 million NIKKOR lenses in 2014, creating a new milestone in Nikon's heritage of superior optics. For more information, dial (800) NIKON-US or visit http://www.nikonusa.com, which links all levels of photographers to the Web's most comprehensive photo learning and sharing communities. Connect with Nikon and other photographers on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Vimeo and Flickr.
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$65 Brushless 1/16 EBAY Linxtech 16889A RC qui semble vraiment familier
This is one six, Huit, eight nine and when i bought this it's actually under this brand on ebay, Il's called lintx or lynx text. Pardon, let me pronounce it correctly: lynx tech, 16889Un, 116 Échelle, and i got this for 65. Why is it at this price number? One is not under hbx, not high boxing or drc, actually before christmas, starting from maybe november into the black friday area, all the way to the beginning of february. These things were really expensive. Let me go through my phone and see if i could find the pricing of it real, Rapide. I noticed a lot of these rc cars, especially like the chinese brand ones, on amazon or ebay. Normally in america, during black friday or christmas, you get huge sales on brands right, mais que's the opposite for these guys. Their prices on these tends to go up and to show you what i meant look at the price on these 142 Et 114. They are insane. So basically i didn't buy it earlier. I just waited and waited and waited and waited and waited until i saw a good deal and once i saw the good deal i jumped on it for 65. C'est la version brushless, normally at banggood. Pour cela, as over a hundred dollars even for the brush run, est comme 80 Dollars, donc i'm really happy to find this deal like the biggest clue. When you look at these a lot of these branding, they always have different names, un six, Six.
Je'M. Pardon, Un! Six: huit huit neuf. When you look at these numbers, they match. Look at the pictures. Look at everything make sure they match most likely, Il's the same vehicle, probably from the same factory, alors laissez's go through the box, real quick before you open it. Two for four gigahertz: these are optional upgrades that you can get and here's the specs 270 millimeter length with this 215 hauteur 130 empattement 175 Roue, diameter 78 width of the wheels 41 et là's the gear ratio on this side. Pretty much it tells you. It comes with full bar bearings, it does not come with oil filled shocks. These are just regular. Dampers electronics are splash, Étanche, meaning not totally waterproof splash water resistance, because waterproof people think hey man. I can submerge this thing. Nope here's, a paragraph of general information introduction. nous'Ll read it later on the back general safety, information, operation, precaution. I urge everybody to read these before they even play with these, surtout lorsque vous're dealing with lipos or lithium ion. Dans ce cas,, lithium ion is still volatile. A lot of people mistaken that lithium ion is safer than lipo; en fait,, il peut't be as bad and the car is made for 14 and up some good information in the manual pretty detailed. I love cars that comes with detailed manual. They teach you how to charge. The battery there's, a headlight installation, là's a parts list and we've got the decals some information on esc and receiver, which looks to be a combo it's, un assez bon.
Looking rig, really bouncy oil fill shocks, Il's, possibly a very good upgrade. Not possibly, it will be a good upgrade, so these are the lights that comes with it and has a willy bar sweet charger extra body clips that's, actually really nice of them to include these well in the manual it doesn't dire, Il's made by high boxing or Hbx so right now i can't really confirm it, but based off of everything the looks of it, the boxing it's très similaire. So i could be wrong. Je'M. Just gon na take a guess right here that is made by them. Laisser'S check out the transmitter pretty good, feel to it. No full amount of steering steering trim do a rate you could adjust the speed. This is a dial knob, donc il's gon na be linear, has a binding button overall for the price i say not too bad at all. I got a little touch of orange right here. I do prefer to be solid black, but i do understand why they put this here because to match these colors sorry, my dog is drinking water right now, alors laissez's make a little noise. This is the on off switch. You just press right here, ce qui est assez cool. I like that so you'd have to dig inside, sometimes comes in really handy there's, a protective film you got ta, remove and then put some decals on here, là's a front bumper with the hose for the lights.
The chassis is slightly raised right here. Considering this is a monster. Truck gives us some good ground clearance. Screws are phillips plastic here, chef is steel, the front is actually plastic, d'accord, laisser's open it up and take a look inside. It looks pretty cool. The build quality is really good. Clear mesh is good. Transmission feels really smooth. Servo feels good. Aussi, we got the leading iron battery right here with dean's connecteur i'm gon na try to put lipo in here i'M, not sure what this is cut off. Yet we have to make sure of that, because i think the cutoff for lithium ion is slightly lower than cut off for lipo battery, donc i'M, not sure what this esc is set to. So when i put the light bulb in here, Je'm gon na use a alarm meter and set it to about 3.0 and see where is it at and make sure that it doesn't dip below the voltage because it will damage the light bulb. So we are looking at a 2535 moteur brushless avec 3 900 Kv. Pardon, my dog is walking around and i can't stop her and you know she's ancien. Je ne sais pas't want to force her to sit down just let her exercise a little bit. The esc receiver is a combo three wire servo, which is a huge plus let's, take the battery out and see the specs on it real, musique rapide, 1500 heure milliamp. The center shaft is still, Je don'T, see a slipper clutch.
The bumper has this little rounding here that supports it. The plastic quality feels pretty good. They do not feel cheap for sure. I have a feeling that this thing can take a pretty good beating. I have seen some videos of it and it looks to perform really well and i want to say it. Another thing is that redcat has a 16 scale monster truck it's called a volcano. Looking at the picture, it looks really similar to this and that's. Another reason why i bought this because a lot of times with these amazon cards, ils're kind of like one off or part supports a little bit more difficult and they keep changing different names. So you really have to do your research and find out what car it is in the future, and then there are some that just went off. They just make it next year. They just totally redesigned it and they don't even support anywhere so that's. pourquoi? I want to make sure that i'm getting something that's still supported with hobby grade rc it's, very important to know that you can get parts and support it at least for two years, which is how big manufacturers do it nowadays. But there are other brands that keep it longer, which i prefer, because at the end of the day, money is not easy to come by and i like to invest in something that has longevity and look at the red cat. Si c'est le cas's, in fact very similar and parts are interchangeable, cela's, a huge plus because redcat a company like them will be able to bring more parts supplies and supports into the usa, donc il'll be a lot easier, Et alors's.
Why buying this thing for 65 is a huge, Énorme, huge deal and i'J'en suis vraiment content, mais j'ai gagné't be doing a running video, yet today's, just unboxing video i'm not going to be running it, yet i will take it out in the future. I do want to grow out all these other videos and unbox them first before i start doing other ones. Let me just put the body back on real, quick and show you something else, parce qu'il s'agit d'un 116 Échelle. I want to put it next to something something more familiar, so you guys know the size difference. Let me go get it real, Rapide. J'ai eu un 118 Échelle. My tracks short course truck. Just put it right next to it to let you see the shortcut trucks. Does seems like a little bit longer than their teton, que je'm going to open it in a bit i'm gon na. Take this away and show you another 116 échelle rc. What we got is ultra popular traxxas mini e revo. The traxxas does look bigger. Aussi. Has a longer wheelbase let's check the width, Réel, Rapide, D'accord, you can see that i'm gon na pop it open. Oh l'homme, Il's filthy. Je l'ai fait't get a chance to clean it. Yet let me put this on top, so it does look a little bit smaller, but not by a whole lot. The viewer has a bigger motor and, Bien sûr, better electronics and it's a lot more expensive.
This thing is about what 250 right now the street price compared to 65. I mean the street price on. This goes around 60, something to about 100 anything over 100. I would really wait for it to drop back down because when you go over 100 là's other options and that's juste mes deux cents, guys just my two cents, vous ne le faites pas't have to agree with me but anyways. Je suppose que je'm fait ici. Stay tuned in the future. Je'Ll do some running video of this and possibly compare them and even with the tracks until next time.


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Good Evening. It's about time for bed around here. We have had some full days with too much food and sitting around 😜
Kevin and Travis spend some time out in the shop. We all headed up to our two antique shops for just a couple of hours. I made my Mom's Famous Spaghetti Sauce for supper. I'm not sure why I buy Ragu when making it from scratch is so simple.
Our card today is a simple Valentines card. By the way , who saw my grammar error yesterday !? 😜😛😝 I suspect Tamara, Alida, Faye, oh and probably Eden 😊 Sometimes Karissa fixes them for me!! At least it makes me smile and think about all you with good grammar! We are happy to have Karissa here for the holidays. By the way, it was my brother who pointed out the grammar error to me🙃
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RDI attends 2015 Canadian Agri-food Forum in Ottawa
November 6, 2015
Manitoba food strategy
While many gathered in Ottawa to hear the appointments of new Federal ministers, others were discussing becoming a trusted food supplier to the world. Mike Evans, President of Alibaba, was pitching his E-commerce solution with 380 clients buying $500 billion a year. He announced that Canada needs provincial food selling strategies. With Buy-Manitoba in place, the next step is for food producers to join the 10 million SMEs already with Alibaba and establish distribution connections. If fresh cherries from the USA northwest can be picked and eaten in China within 72 hours, Manitoba producers can quickly become exporters to the world's growing markets. RDI is interested in innovations and this marketing one seems to hold great potential for exports.
Innovation key to feeding the worldCan we feed the world? What we have produced in the last 8000 years, we must produce that same amount – plus more – over next 20-30 years. Innovation is needed to increase production with same amount of land – science and policy are central to increased producation. Dan Mazier, with KAP, asked can science move fast enough to feed the world? RDI is attending the forum on Canadian Agri-food future in Ottawa where the role of the industry is being discussed regarding a trusted food producer.
Food and rural prosperity highlighted at Canada's Agri-food ForumAt the forum on Canada's Agri-food Future, David McInnes, Executive Director of CAPI, spoke that food united rural and urban Canadians. Food is a gateway topic to safe food, addressing environmental concerns, and adding to our prosperity. This forum is about new ways of thinking and conversations. Trust is essential to be competitive globally. Ireland's 'Initiative Green' was mentioned as an example, despite EU subsidizes. Our end game is people trust our food. RDI offered the Ireland example in our forum submission.
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How is already the end of July? I truly can't figure out where the month went. We were so busy in July, but August looks like it'll be a pretty quiet month—at least it does right now— and I hope it will stay that way!
Like I often do, I wanted to do a quick round-up of what's being going on this month, what I'm loving, what I'm reading—you get the idea!
High Points of July:
- I launched my book! It feels surreal and also completely normal. You can buy your copy here.
- I joined Barre3 Charleston! Honestly, if you had told me that I would be joining a workout studio a month ago, I would've laughed. I never though group exercise classes were my thing, but I absolutely LOVE Barre3. It pushes me every single time, but I always feel amazing after I finish a class. That cold, damp, lavender-scented towel they give me to help cool down is often the highlight of my day.
- I went to Daytona for the weekend with my sister Luci and her two girls, Isabelle & Caroline. We spent a fun couple of days together, soaking up lots of sun and eating lots of fried shrimp.
What I Loved in July:
- Anthropologie's Plus Size Line. A friend of mine recommended Anthropologie's clothes to me, and I've purchased two dresses from them that I love! The fit is great, and the items all seem to be well made. My advice is to purchase sale items (but not final sale) because Anthropologie's prices can be pretty high!
- Neutrogena Deep Clean Purifying Micellar Water. This micellar water helps me clean so much makeup and dirt off my skin at the end of the day, and I use it daily. I feel like my skin is so much cleaner when I use this product, and I highly recommend trying it or any micellar water.
- Teavana Iced Craft Tea. I picked one of these up at Walgreens a few weeks back, and they are so refreshing. They aren't super healthy, but they have less calories than a soda, and I think they quench my thirst better than a soda, too. My favorite flavors are the Peach Green Tea, Pineapple Berry Blue Herbal Tea, & Mango Black Tea. They're perfect for a hot summer day by the pool or at the beach.
What I Read in July:
- The Summer I Was Pretty series by Jenny Han. You may be familiar with Jenny Han—she wrote To All The Boys I've Loved Before. I'm not even sure how I stumbled along this series (three books), but I thoroughly enjoyed Books 1 & 2. Book 3 did feel like a little bit of a stretch, though, and I found myself starting to get annoyed with the main character.
- The Cliff House by Raeanne Thayne. I picked this one up from the library because, quite honestly, the cover was pretty. I wouldn't recommend it, though. It was just "meh".
- Summer of '69 by Elin Hildebrand. I shared my review of this book with y'all earlier this month, and I can't recommend it enough.
- I'm currently reading Ember Dragon Daughter, my friend Rebecca's debut novel. Up next after that is The Idea Of You which was highly recommended by the ladies at Bad on Paper Podcast.
So, like I said, July was pretty busy. I didn't quite meet all of my goals for the month, but that's okay. I had fun, but I'm very excited to have a relaxing month in August. I'm not starting to write my next book until late August/early September, so Ryan and I are planning to binge watch Game of Thrones and I've got a lot of books piled up that I need to read. I also want to get in some serious beach time!
What was the best part of your July? Leave a comment below and let me know!


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JJsHouse is now providing fantastic discounts on all its prom dresses, up to 69% off.
(PRWEB) March 20, 2013
As Hong Kong's well-known wedding dresses manufacturer and retailer, JJsHouse offers nearly one thousand of prom dresses in its product collection. Now, the company is now providing fantastic discounts on all its prom dresses, up to 69% off, to give ladies a cheaper way to order trendy prom dresses online.
JJsHouse's prom dresses are available in a choice of modern colors, featuring trendy designs, gorgeous looks and delicate craftsmanship. Now, the company is selling these dresses at discounted prices. For example, one of the prom dresses (item code: 020017361), A-Line Scoop Neck Floor-Length Chiffon Holiday Dresses With Ruffle Beading, was previously priced at $280, and it is offered at a new discounted price of $149.
JJsHouse's prom dresses collection includes many popular styles, such as A-line prom dresses, sweetheart prom dresses, empire prom dresses, modest prom dresses, and etc. They are now available, especially for the ladies who never compromise on quality and style. Customers can also contact the store if their desired option or size is not available or if they want a completely custom design.
"We decided to offer our prom dresses to ladies worldwide. This allows them to receive our product at lower prices. The shopping of high-quality prom dresses and wedding shoes from JJsHouse must be a great shopping experience," says, Jennifer Nicole, CEO of the company. "We hope to expand the middle-end online market, and I would like to thank all our clients."
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JJsHouse aims to 'make women more beautiful' by offering stylish and high-quality women dresses to each customer. JJsHouse has been in existence for more than 5 years, supplying a range of women dresses. Good customer service, high-quality, fast delivery, and competitive prices, are the reasons to choose JJsHouse.
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Are you looking for high-quality, affordable iPhone lenses for macro or wide-angle photography? If so, the Hitcase iPhone lenses might be just what you're looking for. Read on to discover more about the Hitcase Macro, Wide, and SuperWide lenses… and how they performed when we tested them out. [Read More]
Discover The SANDMARC Lenses For iPhone X (Wide, Fisheye, Macro & Telephoto)
SANDMARC are best known for their GoPro and DJI camera accessories. But they've been creating lenses for iPhones for several years and are fast becoming a household name. Based in California, their focus is on action photography, but they offer a range of iPhone lenses for landscape and macro photography too. In this article, you'll discover four different SANDMARC lenses for the iPhone X camera. And we'll help you decide if they're right for you and your iPhone photography. [Read More]
8 iPhone Camera Accessories For Getting More Out Of Your Photography
iPhone accessories expand the creative photographic and practical possibilities available to you. But with so many iPhone accessories available, how do you know which to choose? In this article, you'll discover eight useful iPhone accessories that will help you get even more out of your iPhone. [Read More]
Take Better Candid iPhone Photos With COVR Case
If you shoot street photography or take pictures of your kids, you'll know that as soon as your subject sees you taking their photo, they instantly stiffen up or alter their behavior. To take natural and candid photos of people, you have to remain discreet… which is difficult when you're pointing your iPhone's lens directly at them. Luckily, the COVR Photo Lens Case offers an ingenious solution to this problem. In this article you'll discover how the unique lens prism system of the COVR case allows you to take great candid photos without being noticed. [Read More]
New ProShot Waterproof Case For Underwater iPhone Photography
Do you love to capture your active lifestyle with your iPhone, but worry about it getting damaged in the process? The new ProShot case offers a waterproof and shockproof housing that will protect your iPhone when shooting in or around water, or whenever you're on the move. These features essentially turn your iPhone into a GoPro camera, but for a lot less money. In this article you'll discover more about the ProShot iPhone case, and how you can use it for great underwater, sports and action photography. [Read More]
Take Great Underwater iPhone Photos With Watershot PRO Housing
iPhones and water don't mix! But that doesn't mean you can take stunning underwater photos with your iPhone. You just need a reliable housing to keep your iPhone dry. The Watershot PRO is a robust underwater housing that allows you to shoot up to a depth of 60 meters. It's already available for iPhone models 4, 5 and 6, and a Kickstarter campaign is currently underway to raise funds to develop a larger housing for the 6/6s Plus. If you're interested in shooting in or around water, read on to find out more about this great iPhone accessory. [Read More]
SNAP PRO Case For iPhone Has Built-In Shutter Button & Lens System
A year ago, Bitplay launched the SNAP! 6 iPhone case with built-in shutter release and add-on lenses. Now they've launched another Kickstarter campaign with an updated version of the case called SNAP! PRO. In this article you'll discover how the new case design promises to take the unique innovation of the original SNAP! 6 case and raise it to a whole new level. [Read More]
Review Of Olloclip Active Lens & Case For iPhone Photography
I've recently had fun testing out a couple of new olloclip products: the ollocase iPhone case which lets you use any olloclip lens system without having to remove the iPhone's case, and the Active Lens system which includes an Ultra-Wide lens and 2x Telephoto lens. In this in-depth review you'll discover how they performed, and whether they'd make a useful addition to your iPhone camera bag. [Read More]
New Olloclip Studio Kit Offers iPhone Case & Camera Accessories
olloclip lenses are amongst the most popular add-on lenses for the iPhone, and they're now developing an exciting new mobile camera accessory. Their current Kickstarter campaign introduces the new olloclip Studio – a protective case with mountable accessory solutions. In this article you'll learn more about the olloclip Studio and how you can be the first to get your hands on this new iPhone accessory. [Read More]
New Olloclip Active Lens & iPhone OlloCase Announced
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{via the little things we do}
1. If I could only read one magazine publication for the rest of eternity, I would choose Harper's Bazaar! I love the editorials and ads. It's through them that I found my favorite makeup and dream shoes.
2. If I were to run my own magazine it would be something very art-centric.
3. I buy my magazines (at the grocery check stand or via subscription) via subscription. I love getting magazine in the mail!
4. I prefer my magazines (in print or online) in print because I'm a horder when it comes to things that fit on a bookshelf. I love writing for online magazines though! In fact, I'll be announcing a collaboration come next month's issue :)
5. The number of magazines I buy each month is (via subscription) around 7, plus 1 or 2 home decor mag impulse buys at the grocery store.
6. My favorite magazine genre is (lifestyle, gossip, home, etc...) home decor and fashion.
7. The magazines I read regularly are Harpers Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Vogue, O, Food Network, W, Rolling Stone


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What Is the Moral of the Fairy Tale, "The Princess and the Pea?"
There are several morals that can be derived from "The Princess and the Pea." However, the most popular one is that people should not judge others based on their appearances.
One version of the tale begins with a young girl who shows up at the king's house at night claiming to be a princess. Due to the girl's poor and dishevelled appearance, the royal family has a hard time believing her story. The queen decides to test the girl and discover if she is telling the truth by placing a small pea under her bed, which is made up of 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds. The next morning, the girl complains of bruises and says she was unable to sleep because of something hard pressing down on her back. The queen then reveals the truth about the pea, and everyone rejoices as they realize that she was telling the truth all along because only a princess could have such delicate and sensitive skin. The prince, who was looking for a true princess, joyfully marries her, and they live happily ever after. Some of the other morals of this fairy tale are that first impressions are not always correct and that the smallest of things can make a difference.


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This class definition lets you create a Data Model from a specific JSON object which
describes a n-dimensional system. The created model allows you to query
and navigate through the data via an API, UI control, and/or mouse interaction.
That model will handle all the data management and delegate the data processing
or rendering to your application.
This documentation will focus on its API and its usage.
JSON Structure
The core of that Query Data Model is the JSON structure that it loads
and works with. The following JSON structure illustrate what this module is expecting:
A string that can be used to uniquely identify the given model. If none is provided,
the QueryDataModel will automatically generate one.
Describe the composition of the given model. As we describe a Query Data Model
it must contain 'tonic-query-data-model' but can be augmented with any
additional data which could also then be used to drive the querying/processing/rendering.
What is described here is what we expect as a 'tonic-query-data-model' type.
Additional data structures can be added but they should not interfere or redefine
the existing core structure.
List of arguments that can be used to describe the query.
Each argument must have at least a list of values.
The rest of the options will then be derived from their default.
Here is the list of defaults that will be picked if they are not provided.
Here is the possible set of values for each argument and what they are:
- label : Human readable name for UI.
- default : Index within the values for initial value. (default: 0)
- ui : Type of UI component to use. Can either be [ undefined, 'slider', 'list'].
- loop : Specify a periodic/looping behavior. Can either be [ undefined, 'modulo', 'reverse']
- bind : Specify how to bind interactions to attribute.
Order of the arguments that should be used to build the user interface.
This is an array of strings with the name of all the attributes you want to see
inside the user interface.
List of data to be fetched. Each element in the list must have a name, type and a pattern.
Then if the type is 'blob', a mimeType must be specified.
pattern must be defined is using the {} to surround the name of the
parameter that can compose the query.
Optionally, data can be grouped by categories to simplify the way they're fetched. This allows you to exclusively fetch the data you are currently interested in.
If no category is provided, that means the full data list is mandatory.
User data that can easily be accessed via the API.
constructor(jsonObject, basepath)
The jsonObject content has been previously described but the basepath is used to
fetch the related resource relative to that basepath.
getQuery() : { argA: valueA, argB: valueB }
Returns a simple map where the keys are the arguments attribute names and the
values are the actual value for the given attribute.
Triggers the download of the data associated with the current query.
If no category is provided, then only the data with no category will be downloaded
while if a category is provided all the data that belong to that category will be
In order to be aware when that set of data is available for processing you can
attach a listener by calling the following method.
// For the default category
Similar to fetchData(category) except that it won't make a network request
until the previous one is fully done. Moreover any lazyFetchData() call made
during that pending period will be ignored and only the latest one will be triggered.
Very useful when interacting with a slider and/or mouse interaction for changing
the underlying query.
{action}(attributeName) : changeDetected
Several actions can be performed on a given attribute to change the query.
Sometimes an action won't result in any change as we may have reached the end
of the range of a non-looping attribute. Hence we provide feedback to the user
to let them know if their method call affected the underline query or not.
Here is the list of possible actions:
- first : Move to the first value of the values list.
- previous : Move to the previous value in the values list.
- next : Move to the next value in the values list.
- last : Move to the last value in the values list.
This will trigger the following events:
- state.change.first
- state.change.previous
- state.change.next
- state.change.last
Those events could be capture by adding a listener using the onStateChange method.
setValue(attributeName, value) : changeDetected
Assigns a new value to the attribute, but the value must be part of the values list.
This will trigger the following event:
- state.change.value
That event can be capture by adding a listener using the onStateChange method.
setIndex(attributeName, index) : changeDetected
Assigns a new value to the attribute base on the value that is at provided index
inside the values list.
This will trigger the following event:
- state.change.idx
That event can be capture by adding a listener using the onStateChange method.
getValue(attributeName) : value
Returns the current value inside the values list.
getValues(attributeName) : values
Returns the full list of possible values.
getIndex(attributeName) : index
Returns the current value index inside the values list.
getSize(attributeName) : index
Returns the number of values inside the values list or null if the attribute
was not found.
getUiType(attributeName) : String
Returns the type of the UI that should be created. It can either be slider or list.
label(attributeName) : String
Returns the label that should be used for the given attribute.
setAnimationFlag(attributeName, flagState)
Tags or untags a given attribute to be part of the animation process.
This will trigger the following event:
- state.change.animation
That event can be capture by adding a listener using the onStateChange method.
Returns the current state of the animation flag for a given attribute.
toggleAnimationFlag(attributeName) : currentState
Toggles the animation flag state and return its actual value.
This will trigger the following event:
- state.change.animation
That event can be capture by adding a listener using the onStateChange method.
hasAnimationFlag() : Boolean
Returns true if at least one argument has been toggled for animation.
isAnimating() : Boolean
Returns true if an animation is currently playing.
animate( start[, deltaT=500] )
Start or stop an animation where a deltaT can be provided in milliseconds. For example:
// Will start the animation with a wait time of 750ms
To stop a running animation.
On an animation stop, the following event will be triggered:
- state.change.play
That event can be capture by adding a listener using the onStateChange method.
getDataMetaData(dataName) : { data metadata }
Helper function used to retrieved any metadata that could be associated to a data
onDataChange( listener ) : subscriptionObject
Add a data listener to be aware when the expected set of data will be ready.
The data object that is provided to the listener will contains all the
cachedDataObject from dataManager instance that is part of the category that was
used to register the listener, using their name from the original JSON data model.
function listener(data, envelope) {
More information on subscriptionObject and listeners can be found on
For instance, to listen for a specific category, you should use the following method:
instance.on(categoryName, listener);
In fact, the onDataChange is calling the this.on('_', listener) as the '_' is
the default category name.
Shortcut for this.on('state.change.*', listener).
And the content of such event will be as follow.
var event = {
getMouseListener() : { drag: callback, zoom: callback }
This method will create a callback map that can be used to be attach to a MouseHandler instance.
If no mouse binding was defined in the original model, then the method will return null.
clone() : new instance
This method will create a new instance of QueryDataModel using the same core
but totally disconnected event or query wise.
Return the maximum size that the cache can contain before the gc() take any action.
setCacheSize( maxSizeInBytes )
Update the maximum cache size to adjust when the garbage collector should empty it.
Return the current memory usage of the cache data in Bytes.
link(queryDataModel, args=null, fetch=false) : Subscription
Link any attribute change from the given queryDataModel to your local instance.
Optionally, you can provide a list of arguments that you want to synchronize as
well as any change could also trigger a fetchData() call on your instance.
The returned object let you unsubscribe of the change update.
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NC Education Lottery 200 Odds
CONCORD, NCA (TheSpread) – The 2012 Camping World Truck Series returns to action on Friday night with the running of the North Carolina Education Lottery 200.
According to oddsmakers, Brad Keselowski is the favorite to win this race with 3/1 odds. Other short odds to win are Johnny Sauter and Timothy Peters, who each have 6/1 odds to win.
Keselowski has competed in two truck races this year. He finished third in one and 27th in the other. He has never won a truck race in 50 career attempts.
Sauter is 16th in the point standings and struggling a bit this year. He has just one top 5 in four races and he has finished 24th or worse in the other three races.
Peters is leading the point standings right now by four points. He has not won a race yet, but he has finished in the top 5 in all four races this season.
The North Carolina Education Lottery 200 will take place Friday, May 18 from Charlotte Motor Speedway at 8:19PM ET. For complete odds and track information on this year's event, see below.
Odds to win the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 – 2012 North Carolina Education Lottery 200 – Charlotte Motor Speedway – Friday, May 18, 2012
Brad Keselowski 3/1
Johnny Sauter 6/1
Timothy Peters 6/1
Ron Hornaday 9/1
Matt Crafton 9/1
James Buescher 10/1
Nelson Piquet Jr 10/1
Jason Leffler 10/1
Ty Dillon 12/1
Todd Bodine 12/1
Brendan Gaughan 12/1
Parker Kligerman 15/1
Cale Gale 25/1
Joey Coulter 25/1
Field 12/1
2012 North Carolina Education Lottery 200 Information
Race Date: Friday, May 18
Location: Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, NC
Pre-Race: 7:30PM ET
Green Flag: Approx. 8:19PM ET
TV Coverage: SPEED
Radio Coverage: MRN
Track Type: Oval (134 laps)
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The media can celebrate, as another black teen was shot, and only TWO miles from Ferguson.
In the town of Berkeley, an 18-year old teenager was fatally shot by a cop, and you guessed it: angry demonstrators were already protesting.
I'm sure we will find that Anthonio Martin was just another "huggable" bear, and the cop got bored and went on a hunt for a young black teen.
What timing!
St. Louis County Police confirmed in a statement that an officer from the city of Berkeley had "fired several shots," saying the cop was "fearing for his life" after a male allegedly pulled out a handgun and pointed it at him. A handgun was recovered at the scene, police added.
"He only just left the house to go see his girlfriend. Maybe he started to run and they got shooting," she said, adding that she did not think her son was carrying a gun.
We are to believe that Martin was only going to see his girlfriend at 11PM.
According to a statement from St. Louis County police spokesman Sgt. Brian Schellman, a Berkeley police officer was conducting a routine business check at a gas station around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday when he saw two men and approached them.
One of the men pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer, Schellman said. The officer fired several shots, striking and fatally wounding the man.
The second man fled, and the dead man's handgun has been recovered, according to Schellman.
And then there were two. Yes, young Antonio had a "Dorian Johnson," because he always visits his girlfriend with a friend.
Toni Martin said her son's girlfriend had told her about the shooting and brought her to the scene.
I love the narrative that's already being set, quote:
Antonio had turned 18 in September and used to attend nearby Jennings High School.
So he just became a man and that was taken away from him. Oh, and he "used to attend." What does that mean? Did he graduate or did he drop out.
The Left won't care anything about Martin's past. They will white-wash whatever wrongs he may have done, and they won't care when it's confirmed that he DID attempt to shoot at the cop, and has a criminal record longer than an elephant's…well, let's just say as long as one's arm.
The protests are underway, as an angry crowd of about 200 gathered in Berkeley near the gas station and clashed with police as a body lay covered on the ground. These people know NOTHING about what happened. They are just ignorant animals who heard the dinner bell ring.
One has to wonder how many black bodies these terrorists stepped over to get the cop shooting. Black men die every day is epidemic numbers at the hands of other blacks, and you won't see any protest, just silent acceptance.
Obama, Holder, Sharpton, and the other race pimps are smiling, prepping their talking points, gearing up for the church sermons, and notifying their bankers and investment counselors that more money is on the way.


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IIt's always a good day when Five Finger Death Punch give us new music! Not only have the band announced details of their long awaited eighth studio album "F8", but we also have a brand new track titled "Inside Out", as well as an enormous headlining arena tour with the likes of Papa Roach, I Prevail and Ice Nine Kills in tow. F8 is currently slated for a February 28 release and will feature 13 tracks along with bonus material. The second leg of Five Finger Death Punch's headline tour will take place shortly after the album's release next spring. Fans can now preorder F8 here.
Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory says, "We had an extremely successful, yet tumultuous couple of years as a band. We didn't just weather the storm but came out on the other side better than ever. It was a focused sober group recording, our most important album to date and without a question it shows. This album represents rebirth, progression, transcendence both personally and musically." Vocalist Ivan Moody adds, "This record to me is 'absolution' - everything I've done in my life has led up to this moment."
To get you adequately revved up for F8's release, you can check out the lyric video for the brand new single "Inside Out" below.


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February 2007 PROGRAM John Hennessy "Using and Abusing Hallowed Ground: The Adventures, Misadventures and Evolution of Virginia's Battlefields" 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 13, 2007, at the Boulevard United Methodist Church, 321 N. Boulevard, Richmond, VA (corner of Boulevard and Stuart Ave.) Enter the basement door on the right side under the front steps. Civil War Round Tables like ours devote time, energy, and money to help preserve, protect, and extend Civil War battlefields. This work and the simple act of touring those battlefields make round tables - us - active participants in the ongoing historical drama of battlefield preservation. The preceding acts in this drama will be the focus of February's program. John Hennessy, a veteran National Park Service historian and administrator will put our modern battlefield preservation efforts in historical context. With particular reference to Fredericksburg and Manassas (parks where he has worked), Hennessy will "look at both the changing cultural use of these hallowed places (from 1864 onward) and their physical evolution and (later) struggle for survival." Hennessy will explain how "the place of battlefields and the Civil War in American culture is, nearly 150 years after the fact, very similar to the place held by Ground Zero five years after the event." Hennessy is best known to Civil War audiences as author of Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas. He is also author of Second Manassas Battlefield Study and The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence. After graduating from the State University of New York at Albany, he worked for five years as historian at Manassas National Battlefield. After an interlude with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, he returned to Virginia and the National Park Service as an exhibit planner at Harpers Ferry Center and has worked since 1995 as assistant superintendent at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
Brief Summary of January Meeting At the RCWRT's first meeting of 2007, Mark Greenough gave an informal presentation on the Virginia Capitol during the Civil War. The Confederate Congress and the Virginia General Assembly met simultaneously at least 363 days between 1861 and 1865. Jefferson Davis took the oath of office under the George Washington statue on the Capitol grounds on February 22, 1862 (Washington's birthday). This equestrian statue was the inspiration for the seal of the Confederate States. The Robert E. Lee statue inside the Capitol was unveiled on Lee's 125th birthday. The likeness of Marse Robert stands six feet four inches tall. Greenough smiled and reminded the Round Table, "In Virginia, Lee is always larger than life."
Pamplin Historical Park Offers "A Visit with Mr. Lincoln" Nationally renowned Abraham Lincoln actor, James Getty, presents his award-winning one-man show "A Visit with Mr. Lincoln" on Saturday, February 17 at Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier. Getty's performance is free and open to the public at 11am and again at 2pm in the park's Education Center. Getty recounts stories of Lincoln's youth, his personal and political life, his views of slavery, the decision to arm African Americans, the impact of African Americans to the war effort and the background of, and rationale behind, the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. Getty conveys the Commander-in-Chief's personal torment over the difficult decisions he faced in preserving the Union. Park members are invited to join President Lincoln for lunch and birthday cake in the Hardtack & Coffee Caf�'s private banquet room from 12:30-1:30 to commemorate his birthday, February 12, 1809. Members receive a 10% discount on all lunches purchased in the caf�. Throughout the day, visitors to the park can also watch costumed interpreter Wisteria Perry demonstrate 19th century cooking techniques and the role of domestic slaves at the Tudor Hall Plantation kitchen. She will present an African American storytelling program at 1:30. Throughout African American History Month, park visitors can experience "Many Thousands Go: African Americans and the Civil War." This 1,500 square-foot exhibit highlighting the military and civilian experiences of African Americans on both sides of the conflict was featured on the PBS program, Virginia Currents, in November 2006. The exhibit lists the names of the 25 African Americans who won the Medal of Honor during the Civil War, 15 of those during the Richmond and Petersburg campaigns. "Many Thousands Go: African Americans and the Civil War" closes on May 31. "A Visit with Mr. Lincoln" performances are free and open to the public. All other programming and exhibits are free with paid park admission. For additional information about any of Pamplin Historical Park's programs or about park membership, please call (804) 861-2408 or log on to www.pamplinpark.org
ACWC to Examine How George Washington Inspired Civil War Armies By the early 19th century, George Washington had achieved iconic status in the United States as a soldier, statesman, and politician. Heralded as a hero in the fight for independence during the American Revolution, Washington became a symbol of freedom for both Confederate and Union causes during the Civil War. On Saturday, February 17, the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar will present "Liberty's Father: George Washington and the American Civil War." Using images and personal accounts from the Civil War era, this 30 minute program will explore how Washington's legacy was embraced by North and South to promote their respective visions of liberty. The event is free with museum admission and will run between 11am and 2pm. There is no admission charge for ACWC members.
RCWRT Members Invited to Take an Inside Tour of New Exhibit All members of the Richmond Civil War Round Table are cordially invited to an inside tour of "In the Cause of Liberty," the new exhibit at the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar. The exhibit has received outstanding reviews nationally. It is the first to weave together Confederate, Union, and African American stories and to show how their interaction shaped the course of American history. The presentation contains artifacts from 30 different institutions and uses a number of different media to tell the story. The group will meet in the entry pavilion of the Center at 10:30am on Saturday, March 10.
Symposium Will Examine How Southerners Chose Sides in 1861 When Robert E. Lee resigned his commission from the U.S. Army in April 1861 and cast his lot with his native state, it was, observed his biographer Douglas Southall Freeman, "the answer he was born to make." The bicentennial of Lee's birth in 2007 provides an opportunity to examine the often-agonizing decisions that Southern American military and political leaders had to make about their loyalties. The Library of Virginia and the Museum of the Confederacy are co-sponsoring The Answers They Were Born to Make: Choosing Sides in the Civil War. This symposium will feature presentations by Emory M. Thomas on Robert E. Lee; William C. Davis on U.S. Vice-President and Confederate Gen. John C. Breckinridge; Craig L. Symonds on naval officers Capt. Franklin Buchanan and Capt. David G. Farragut; Brian Steele Wills on Gen. George H. Thomas; and a panel discussion about the importance of Lee's 1861 decision. The symposium will be held from 9am to 4pm on Saturday, February 24 at the Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street in Richmond. Reservations are required. Registration is $45 or $35 for Museum of the Confederacy members or Library of Virginia donors. The fee includes a boxed lunch. Free parking is available in the library's underground garage. For information or to register e-mail Linda Lipscomb at email@example.com or call (804) 649-1861, ext. 32.
RCWRT Dues for 2007 It's time once again to renew your membership in the Richmond Civil War Round Table. The Ides of March (March 15) is the deadline for payment of 2007 dues. $30 - Resident member $40 - Resident couple $15 - Non-resident member (75 miles outside of Richmond) $20 - Non-resident couple $15 - Senior member (65 and older with at least 10 years of membership) $20 - Senior couple $15 - Student member (age 13-17) $30 - International member $40 - International couple You can make payment at the February or March meetings or mail your check to: Sandy Parker, RCWRT Secretary P.O. Box 37052 Richmond, VA 23234 With your support, 2007 will be another banner year for the Richmond Civil War Round Table!
RCWRT Monthly Speakers for 2007
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Vol 5. Issue 20 / June 20, 2005
NIH Awards $10.4 Million to Scripps Research in La Jolla and Palm Beach County
By Jason Socrates Bardi
A group of researchers at the La Jolla, California, and Palm Beach County, Florida, campuses of The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded a $10.4 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish The Scripps Research Institute Molecular Screening Center. This is a pilot program to discover small-molecule tools for translating basic biomedical discoveries more quickly into medically relevant applications.
The Scripps Research screening center, together with nine screening centers from the public and private sectors, will comprise the Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network (MLSCN), a part of the NIH's strategic funding plan, the Roadmap Initiative. The funds will be administered jointly by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) on behalf of NIH. The work, which is scheduled to last three years, begins this month.
These centers will conduct high throughput screens against various biological targets to uncover "proof-of-concept" molecules useful in studying human health and in developing new treatments for human diseases.
"This sort of work has traditionally been done by pharmaceutical companies, never before in the public/non-profit sector," says Scripps Research President Richard A. Lerner. "With this grant, the NIH has recognized the unique capabilities of our established researchers in La Jolla with our newest investigators and equipment in Palm Beach County."
Scripps Research Professor Hugh Rosen, who is the principal investigator on the grant, says, "Our goal is to provide tools for the broad scientific community so that we can accelerate the pace of the application of chemical biology to the understanding of physiology and pathophysiology."
Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who was instrumental in the creation of Scripps Florida, congratulated the entire Scripps Research team, adding: "Today's announcement is a testament to the dynamic synergy that exists between The Scripps Research Institute/Scripps Florida and our national objectives to cure disease and improve human health. I am proud of Scripps Florida, its scientists, and the Florida support organizations that will participate in the implementation work associated with this grant. This kind of cross-pollination between The Scripps Research Institute and its East Coast campus, Scripps Florida, is an example of the synergies we envisioned when we first approached Scripps, and is only a precursor of what lies ahead."
The Grant: Part of the NIH Roadmap Initiative
The NIH Roadmap Initiative (see: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov) is a series of separate initiatives, many of which cross the traditional boundaries between the NIH's 27 institutes and centers. One of these initiatives is the "Molecular Libraries and Imaging" initiative, which aims to provide university investigators and other publicly funded researchers with high-throughput screening resources and small-molecule tools for exploring human proteins and other molecules involved in human health and disease.
One such resource is called the Molecular Libraries Small Molecule Repository, a public collection of hundreds of thousands of chemically diverse small organic compounds. This repository consists of the active ingredients of drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a targeted set of bioactive compounds, natural products, and other compounds. These molecules are "probe-like" in terms of their size, structure, and other properties, and scientists expect that many of them will interact in some way with the various human proteins and other molecules involved in different diseases. The only question is how—which probe-like compound will interact with which human "target" involved in which disease? Once these "targets" are identified, scientists armed with this knowledge can take the next step and work on finding ways to control or otherwise correct them.
By placing these molecules in the Small Molecule Repository, the NIH is granting biomedical researchers access to them. Gaining access to the compounds will allow public sector scientists to explore these questions, and the Molecular Libraries Screening Center Network grant is intended to speed the process along.
The MLSCN will act as a national resource capable of providing relatively high-throughput screening approaches for taking a significant number of targets, testing them against hundreds of thousands of compounds from the Small Molecule Repository, and coming up with new chemical probes to study the normal and abnormal physiology of cells, organs, model systems, and/or organisms.
"With this sort of approach, we can learn things we would not necessarily have stumbled across given what we currently know," says Rosen, who cites the high-throughput screening research established in La Jolla in the last few years by Scripps Research Professor Peter G. Schultz, who also holds the title of Scripps Family Chair in Chemistry. "Our competitiveness rested on the critical infrastructure put in place by [Professor] Schultz."
The Search for Proof-of-Concept Molecules
In the world of basic biomedical science, a great disparity exists between the information that's available and the information that's useful.
There is almost no end to the available information that basic biomedical science has uncovered. We know of hundreds of diseases that afflict humankind, thousands of distinct phenotypes and physiologies that characterize human health and disease, tens of thousands of genes that are in the human genome, an even larger number of protein variants and other products made by these genes, an impossible to estimate number of interactions that these various biological molecules make in the body, and an almost infinite universe of "probe-like" small chemical compounds that might possibly modulate these interactions.
But what would be most useful to know for any one disease is which particular human molecules are interacting and which exact type of small chemical compounds could modulate these interactions.
The primary goal of the Molecular Libraries Screening Center Network is to help close these gaps for diverse "targets" involved in health and disease.
Ultimately, the Scripps Research scientists will be tasked with screening at least 100,000 compounds per year against 20 or more different targets to develop probes that Rosen refers to as proof-of-concept molecules. These proof-of-concept molecules will be compounds that modulate these targets in ways that allow other scientists to test biological hypotheses and define the key properties of the target and its related physiology or disease.
To take an abstract example, a target might be a membrane-spanning protein that is believed to be involved in inflammation. A proof-of-concept molecule would be one that activates the protein and produces an inflammatory effect—or conversely, one that blocks the protein and protects from inflammation.
The target need not be a defined molecule, but might be a cellular process or complex pathway such as the complicated process of synthesis and secretion of insulin in the body. A proof-of-concept molecule in this sense would be one that induces insulin production, and such a molecule would be helpful in establishing which particular human proteins are involved in the process.
These proof-of-concept molecules may also open promising avenues for drug development in academic laboratories or in the biotech or pharmaceutical sectors because some of them may show some degree of efficacy against a particular target. These could serve as "lead compounds," or starting points for designing what would eventually become a new drug.
Research Across the Nation: From La Jolla to Palm Beach County
This grant is the first to fund a variety of activities across the two campuses of Scripps Research. Assay development will take place in La Jolla, and the high-throughput screening will be conducted by Scripps Florida scientists, including Josephine Harada, at temporary facilities in Jupiter.
Nick Tsinoremas, senior director of Bioinformatics at Scripps Florida, will oversee the establishment of a data management infrastructure for managing and analyzing the flood of data that comes from those screens. He will also develop the interfaces for users and for scientific instruments so that data can be automatically analyzed and uploaded once acquired. The data will have to be standardized and pass quality control to ensure it is accurate and relevant.
After the data is acquired, scientists in La Jolla and Palm Beach County will perform high-level data analysis. If a compound interacts with a particular molecular target, they will investigate the interactions of the compound and whether these interactions could be adjusted to optimize the compound's drug-like characteristics—its potency, solubility, stability, the degree to which it is absorbed by the body, and whether or not it is degraded into dangerous metabolites in the body.
These are all issues that fall generally within the purview of Pat Griffin, professor in the Department of Drug Discovery and head of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics at Scripps Florida. By looking at which compounds are the most promising, Griffin and his colleagues will be able to take them a step further by modifying the compounds to optimize some of their chemical features.
Key to this effort will be a chemistry group in La Jolla led by Assistant Professor Sheng Ding, who is a graduate of Scripps Research's Kellogg School of Science and Technology. Ding and the other chemists in La Jolla will take the information generated by Griffin and others and perform medicinal chemistry on individual compounds—making improved versions, including some that may serve as high-quality leads for drug design. Ding and his group will also be helping to develop some of the screens that the Molecular Libraries Screening Center Network will utilize as well as some of the chemical probes that will be used in these screens.
Finally, all the chemical structures and biological data generated by the network screening centers will be deposited into a government-owned database called PubChem, which is a component of the NIH Molecular Libraries and Imaging Roadmap Initiative and maintained by the National Library of Medicine.


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Livni participates in panel on Middle Eastern political processes at Vienna Women Leaders conference.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attended a conference of women leaders on Thursday in Vienna, Austria, where she met with women from all parts of the Arab and Muslim world, including first lady of Iraq, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed Talabani.
Talabani and Livni spent several minutes discussing the peace process while they participated in a panel on the topic.
In discussion with Talabani, Livni described the situation faced by residents of Sderot in Israel's south, who are terrorized daily by Qassam rockets fired from the nearby Gaza Strip.
Over the past two weeks, during the conflict between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces, Hamas has launched around 275 rockets causing two deaths, many injuries, and extensive damage to homes in the town. Israel has responded with continuous air strikes at Hamas targets in the Gaza strip, killing around 50 people, mostly militants.
"There is much better understanding that Middle Eastern politics is not a zero-sum game," Livni told the panel. "Nations in the region face common threats," she added. Livni commended the Arab League's initiative which is aimed at normalizing relations with Israel. "Normalizing relations now will help advance the political process," she said.
During the conference, Livni also met with Pakistani Minister for Women's Development, Sumaira Malik. The two spoke informally and warmly in the lounge. They discussed the need to broaden the range of nations who supported and aided the political process to include Islamic nations such as Pakistan and Indonesia rather than exclusively Arab nations.
"The whole world's involvement in the peace process should be strengthened," the Pakistani minister said.
The conference, which was titled entitled Women Leaders Networking for Peace and Security in the Middle East, was initiated by Austrian Foreign Minister, Ursula Plassnik and attended by other female leaders including former president of the United Nations General Assembly, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Palestinian representative Dr. Hanan Ashrawi and Minister for Scientific Research Souad Bendjaballah of Algeria.


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By connecting your heat pump you can control the operation of the heat pump, if there's any alarms or you can also integrate it in your smart home.
You can connect your heat pump in several ways, internet and cloud services for example, and the opportunities to connect your heat pump are increasing all the time. Today, almost all heat pumps have the possibility to connect to internet. This means that most of these solutions also are compatible with Google Assistant, Google Home, Alexa and other smart home solutions.
If you have another smart home solution, do not hesitate to contact us and we will help you. Since it often involve links and sharing information when we help you, the best way to contact us is by email or the chat in the right corner.
It can looks quite different between the solutions depending on what heat pump you have. Some solutions, mostly air conditioners, don't have any annual fees, while most of the third part solutions for air/water heat pumps, exhaust air heat pumps and GSHP have annual or monthly fees. It may also occur that the manufactures own solutions have it.


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While plans for the construction of an apartment complex along Fly Creek are in motion, the preservation and protection of the creek remains a priority for a handful of environmentalists, attorneys and even U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne.
Last week during debate on the U.S. House of Representatives floor, Byrne — a Fairhope resident — encouraged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize local projects such as the dredging of Mobile and Baldwin waterways like Fly Creek, Dog River and Fowl River. Byrne said the waterways play a critical role in tourism, commercial and recreational fishing, and shipbuilding in coastal Alabama.
Byrne said Fly Creek needs to be dredged to repair damages it suffered during historic flooding in Mobile and Baldwin counties in April 2014. Byrne said he has heard numerous complaints about sediment levels in the creek.
"I hear from people all the time who are experiencing issues related to the depths at Fly Creek," Byrne said. "I understand that the Army Corps of Engineers has limited resources, so I continue working with them to make clear that this project needs to be a top priority. We made the similar argument with Perdido Pass down at the beach and were able to get that project taken care of. Hopefully, by keeping the pressure on the Army Corps, we can get the issues with Fly Creek resolved as well."
According to Byrne, smaller projects like the dredging of Fly Creek are often overlooked when listed among larger projects with a broader reach. However, waterways like Fly Creek are vital to the coastal economy.
"While they may not include a major waterway, these projects are vital to many of our local communities and have a significant economic impact from commercial and recreational fishing, as well as tourism in general," Byrne said.
The Mobile Bay National Estuary Program anticipates federal funding from the RESTORE Act to complete its proposed Fly Creek Watershed Management Plan. Tom Herder from Mobile Bay NEP said he expects funding for the project to be released sometime this year.
"The Fly Creek watershed assessment is on the RESTORE project list," Herder said. "As soon as the money comes down, we will get moving on it."
The Fly Creek Watershed Management Plan will likely be combined with similar projects at Yancey Branch and Gum Creek for an estimated $250,000, according to Herder, who said other RESTORE funds will be used to fund an invasive-species study at Three Mile Creek, among other projects.
Previously, Mobile Bay NEP secured money to work on seven watershed management plans with funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in accordance with the terms of two plea agreements in criminal cases against BP and Transocean following the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in 2010.
Fly Creek is one of the smaller watersheds studied by MBNEP at just 29 to 30 square miles. By comparison, the Dog River Watershed is roughly 100 square miles.
Herder said the management plans are comprehensive and analyze the watershed's climate, geology, soils, streamflow and health, and topography. The plan will also provide an analysis of problems in the watershed and a cost analysis for addressing those issues. Without going into great detail, Herder acknowledged MBNEP is aware of reports of damage to Fly Creek related to development throughout the years.
"Anything that we can study scientifically is in these plans," Herder said. "We expect to be able to document whatever is wrong in Fly Creek and we expect to be able to make recommendations on how to fix those problems. These management plans are incredibly comprehensive."
According to Herder, Mobile Bay NEP attempted to perform a sediment analysis at Fly Creek a few years ago but was unable to secure necessary access on private property along the creek.
"There were a few property owners along the creek who would not let us onto their property," Herder said. "Because of that, we were unable to secure the proper access and we could not complete the sediment analysis. We hope that when the RESTORE money comes down, we can get the proper access to look at sediment in the creek."
Meanwhile, attorney Adam Milam has filed an amended complaint against the city of Fairhope, Fairhope City Council, Fairhope Planning Commission, property owner Angelo A. Corte and developer Leaf River Group LLC to stop the planned construction of the Retreat at Fairhope Village apartment development near the creek.
In April, Milam filed a complaint alleging the Fairhope City Council's April 11 approval of a change to the Fly Creek PUD to allow the development will adversely affect and damage the creek. Milam represents Friends of Fly Creek LLC, an Alabama limited liability corporation with the stated goal of protecting and preserving Fly Creek. Four Fairhope residents — Laura Ann and Chip Shaw and Riley and Mitsy Murphy — live downstream from the development and make up the Friends of Fly Creek group.
The amended complaint cites Fairhope's Comprehensive Plan, as well as the city's red soil and land disturbance ordinances, as examples of city regulations that should render the apartment development's construction illegal. The complaint also cites the city's 2013 Fly Creek Watershed Restoration Project and Fairhope's 2015 low-impact development ordinance as further reasons the apartments should not be built.
The complaint seeks to have the court declare the city's ordinance allowing the development's construction to be rendered null and void in order to protect Fly Creek. It also seeks unspecified compensatory damages for the plaintiffs from the city of Fairhope.
"All that has happened is we are building our case and [filed] an amended complaint alleging substantive causes of action," Milam said. "We look forward to bringing to light the illegal and wrongful nature of the process involved in the city approving this amended PUD."
Milam said there will be a hearing on the complaint June 9.
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- 1 package yellow cake mix
- 1/4 c. firm butter (not softened)
- 1 c. brown sugar
- 3/4 c. chopped pecans (fine)
- 3 eggs
- 16 oz. carton AE Sour Cream
Put 2 cups dry cake mix into small bowl. Cut in butter. Mix in brown sugar and nuts. Set aside.
Beat eggs lightly with fork. Stir in sour cream and blend in remaining dry cake mix. Pour half of the batter into greased 9 x 13 pan. Sprinkle 2/3 of the topping mixture over the batter. Spoon and gently spread remaining batter and top with remaining topping mixture. Bake 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until done.
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Scotch Ellis Loring has been in arts and entertainment for almost thirty years. His first professional job for television was as Tootie's suitor on The Facts of Life.
In film, he has had the pleasure of working with decorated directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, David Fincher, Cameron Crowe and Todd Holland. Currently and for several years Scotch is producing pilots, features, live productions and indie features.
Noteworthy projects; WIG produced by Sara Woomer, John Baumgartner and Scotch Ellis Loring. Stars the very talented Tim Bagley, Judy Greer, Jason Dudey and Kim Coles, Tim Lounibos, Jenny Murano, Daresha Kyi &Lanny Lee Leyda. Directed by and co-executive produced with Scotch's husband, Todd Holland. FAUX SHOW web series is currently streaming on Facebook and YouTube. Currently, he is in post-production for the follow-up reality show, " Mo' Faux".
Scotch has enjoyed a successful singer/songwriter career that has spanned from musical theater, television and film to the completion of 2 solo albums that he wrote, produced and sang called; "Original Scotch" and "Standard Scotch". He sang the beautiful ballad "Lost Til I Found You", which he penned, playing over the closing credits of the feature film Firehouse Dog. Scotch has performed with Larry Gatlin, BeBe Winans, Carl Anderson, Dennis DeYoung, Freda Payne and Syreeta Wright and composers Ray Davies, Larry Hart Charles Fox, Barry Gordy and Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil.
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The far darrig, pronounced "fear dearg", is
an Irish fairy, though its original home may have been
Scotland. Translated, the name means "red man." They
are also known by the name Rat Boys, largely due to
their appearance; they have dark, hairy skin, long snouts,
skinny tails and are rather fat. Even their clothing looks
as though it might have been scrounged from a sewer, being
extremely torn and shabby.
The far darrig wears a red cap and coat, and busies
himself by being the practical joker of the otherworld.
Of all these solitary, and mainly evil fairies, there is
none more wretched than the far darrig. Like many other
phantoms, he presides over evil dreams. Some legends hold that the far darrig
is an unlucky former human who wandered into fairy land by
mistake and now attempts to warn others from making the same
Despite this
apparently good natured move, they revel in cruel and gruesome
practical jokes, which they play upon those who have made the
mistake of irritating them. A favorite trick is to make some poor
mortal tramp over hedges and ditches, carrying a corpse on his back,
or to make him turn it on a spit.
Possessing a similar lack of taste in their
choice of foodstuffs, far darrigs consume carrion as their
main staple.
Most active in winter, and found along
polluted coastlines, in swamps, marshes and coastal ruins,
it is best to avoid these creatures at almost any cost.
Occasionally they venture into the land of humans, where
they delight in startling people by knocking upon their
doors in the dead of night and asking to warm themselves at
the fire. Never refuse such a request, as it is exceedingly
bad luck and you may wake to find a
changeling in your child's crib or that your cows have
come down with the pox.
Should you happen to encounter a far darrig,
take great pains to be polite to it, lest you become the
victim for one of its practical jokes.
No matter
what one doubts,
one never doubts the fairies....
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A Blog in Sharepoint is a site on which an individual or group of users record their opinions and information.
Sharepoint is the easiest way to accomplish the user's opinions, information on their site with ease and can schedule their blogs to launch.
In this article we will discuss how to create Blog, post, categories and comments.
Creating Blogs in Sharepoint
1. Open your Sharepoint site.
2. Click more option from site actions, create Blogs from it.
3. When the create button is clicked a blog is created with default categories.
4. We can edit and add categories by clicking on Categories link.
5. We can create post in our blogs by clicking on Create Post from Blog tools
6. After editing the content in the post click on Publish to post. We can also save the post as a draft for editing in future.
7. When the blog is published we can post comments for the blog
8. We can create many Posts in a Blog, when the Blog is clicked it show the list of posts that we created.
As you have seen, it's easy to create blogs and posts in Sharepoint; we'll continue this topic in our next article where we'll see more options to manage blogs.


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Bread was and still is the fundamental food of humans, because it contains nutritious elements which are essential to the human organism.
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The Professional Bakeries
In Larissa, during the Ottoman Occupation and in parallel with the domestic bread production, there were many traditional professional bakeries that produced massively bread, serving a part of the population.
The Guild of Bakers of the Prefecture of Larissa
The Guild of Bakers of the Prefecture of Larissa is in Larissa and it was founded in 1919. Its objective is to promote the financial, social and professional interests of the sector.


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Nettles and her husband have been married barely six months but announced today they are already expecting their first child.
Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles is expecting her first child!
The announcement came today, just six months after she married her boyfriend Justin Miller. The couple had been together for two years when they got married last November during Thanksgiving weekend.
According to People magazine, "[Miller] appeared in the video for the band's 2006 single, "Want To" and accompanied the singer to the CMA Awards on Nov. 9, where Sugarland took home the award for vocal duo of the year."
Soon after the wedding, Nettles sang with Lady Gaga at the Grammy Nomination Concert as well as a CMA Country Christmas special.
The baby is reportedly due in November, just around the couple's one-year anniversary.
"They are thrilled beyond belief," Sugarland's manager, Gail Gellman, told People magazine.
Justin Miller is reportedly an entrepreneur.
Less than a year has passed since a stage collapse at the Indiana state fair where four people were killed before a Sugarland show.
Just last weekend, the music world suffered another loss when a stage collapsed before a Radiohead show in Toronto. The collapse killed one crew member.
"We are all right. We are praying for our fans, and the people of Indianapolis," Sugarland tweeted in response to the collapse in August. "We hope you will join us. They need our strength.
Unlike Sugarland's tragedy, the Radiohead collapse was not thought to be caused by weather.
But the band has continued on. It seems the couple may not exactly have time for a child right now, with all the projects Nettles is involved in.
Sugarland is currently on a U.S. tour until the beginning of September. It seems like Nettles may be just pregnant enough to not want to be performing on stage every night by September.
Nettles is also currently a mentor on the show Duets, along with Kelly Clarkson, Robin Thicke and John Legend. The newest episode of the show is Thursday on ABC.