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|Lots of greens to paint in this coffee plant
Yesterday was a day off from Kew, so I spent it at the drawing board in the studio, working on the big coffee plant. The night before I had worked on some of the leaves higher up, which meant standing for a couple of hours, but yesterday I wanted to sit down. I am making a lot of more progress on the bottom part of the painting because I am lazy and want to sit down all the time! So with less leaves to choose from I decided to start the tricky ones on the left which have the sun shining on them.
It's amazing - the coffee leaves are almost white. Really tricky to do but completely worth the effort. I am pretty pleased with the results of a days labour. Definitely went for quality rather than paper coverage! It took ages to get it right. Lots of Winsor and Newton French Ultramarine in the mix, and Daler Rowney Mauve making this part of the painting less 'green'. I have a little stubby brush which is great in these scenarios. I used it a lot for Sally the Savoy and it's brilliant for blending the edges of washes to give an overall feeling of smoothness. I find this is particularly good in the lighter areas where you are using the colour of the paper in the body of the subject.
A close up on the coffee leaves (in progress)
I hope to get a few evenings of painting done next week after work so I can start filling out the top a bit more. As you can see - there is still lots to be done!
|Coffea arabica painting in progress


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Maria Hernandez Park
The Daily Plant : Wednesday, December 27, 2006
A Park Worthy Of Its Namesake
Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick, Brooklyn is December's Park of the Month. This nearly seven-acre recreational oases is bordered by Knickerbocker Avenue, Irving Avenue, Starr Street and Suydam Street.
Maria Hernandez Park was completely reconstructed in the past few years. Thanks to funds from the Mayor and the City Council, Parks rebuilt the entire playground with new play equipment, a spray shower, fencing, pavement, and benches. The basketball courts were renovated and new exercise equipment, decorative gates and landscaping were installed. A plaza with a performance stage was installed creating an ideal locale for community gatherings. The perimeter sidewalks around the park were reconstructed by the Department of Transportation. Currently, Parks is installing new steel fencing around the planting beds and rebuilding the Park's drainage system. This work will be complete by next spring.
Patrons frequent Maria Hernandez Park to participate in sports including soccer, basketball, handball, volleyball, and tag football. The Park is also a natural community gathering place and hosts several popular events each year. The annual events include theatrical programming from the City Parks Foundation, a children's art and literacy event from the Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, National Night Out from the 83rd Precinct, and various health fairs.
"Maria Hernandez helped to rid the community of drugs and crime by organizing positive activities such as block parties, athletic activities, and cultural events," said Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe. "Maria Hernandez Park honors her legacy by hosting countless events focusing on the arts, literacy, health and safety. In recent years, we completely reconstructed the park, building a new playground, basketball courts, handball courts, and a performance plaza. A popular recreational haven in Bushwick, Maria Hernandez Park continues the positive influence of its namesake."
Maria Hernandez and her husband Carlos were leaders in the struggle against drugs in Bushwick. They pleaded with drug dealers to leave the streets and provided information to the police about drug trafficking. She was a positive role model for young people, organizing community events to educate her neighbors of the perils of drugs. On the morning of August 8, 1989, Hernandez was fatally struck by five shots fired through the window of her Starr Street home. The death of this brave and dedicated woman was commemorated later that year when the City renamed the park in her honor.
Prior to the renaming, it was known as Bushwick Park. The City of Brooklyn purchased the land for Bushwick Park from several landowners including showman Phineas T. Barnum and his wife Nancy. Major landscaping and building transformed the site into a showplace park by 1896.Park of the Month introduces some of our greatest parks and green spaces to curious New Yorkers and visitors alike.
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Someone, or something is threatening your business.
The question is, how prepared are you? ARE you, REALLY?
Have you done a complete Business Risk Assessment to fully identify and evaluate all the risks aimed at your business? Do you have a Disaster Recovery Plan, and a Business Continuity Plan in place? Insurance companies may offer reduced premiums to businesses who implement a full, ongoing, iterative effort to mitigate risks, so this information may not only save you some outgoing capital, but it can also downright save your business.
This week, I am going to pull the shades back a little bit so you can take a peek into my world, what I come up against daily in the fight against threats of all kinds. Certainly, protecting your data and IT systems from hackers is a necessity, but there are more threats than just that.
All right, so you are sitting in your office, or your front counter, depending on your type of business, and everything seems to be humming along smoothly. Great. I want to keep things like this for you, but in order to do so, we need to anticipate certain risks, and consider how to minimize them. I am going to give you an extremely condensed crash course of some things you should consider, and have a serious discussion with your partners to make sure some of the following points are taken into consideration. While I will just briefly touch on a few items, I think this will be quite valuable for you.
First, let's identify your business assets: Inventory, buildings and property, cash, information and data, hardware, software, documents, personnel, brand recognition, the reputation and goodwill of your business or organization.
Next, we look at threats, risks, and vulnerabilities that can come in a variety of ways:
Outside threats include natural disasters, man made disasters, terrorism, errors, malicious damage or attacks, fraud, theft, equipment or software failure, these are just a few.
Then we need to consider internal vulnerabilities, such as Management or Administrative, Technical, Operations or Physical. This means things like unprotected facilities, computer systems, data, insufficient procedures and controls, and insufficient or unqualified personnel.
It doesn't stop there. IF you are a business that depends on suppliers for raw materials, do you have an alternate backup supplier lined up in the instance your main supplier is unable to deliver to you?
All of the factors above can seriously impact your business. Simply put, an impact is the loss created when a threat exploits a vulnerability.
Threats impact tangibles, such as direct loss of money, endangered staff or customers, loss of business opportunity, reduction in operational efficiency or performance, and interruption of business activity. These also affect intangibles, for example, breach of legislation or regulatory requirements, loss of reputation or goodwill, and breach of confidence.
Now that we talked about some threats and things to consider, let's talk about implementing a good Business Continuity Plan. There are four levels of operation for your business:
Critical: Your business can not function without these functions for more than 24 hours.
Necessary: Required for normal operation, but your business can function for up to 30 days without these functions.
Desirable: Not necessary for normal operation, but enhances operations.
Optional: Nice to have, but does not affect normal operations.
Let's consider what your business NEEDS in order to perform and function, then ask yourself the following questions:
WHO is responsible for the operation of this function? WHAT do these individuals need to perform their function? WHEN should this function be accomplished relative to other functions? WHERE will this function be performed? How is this function performed? Why is this function so critical to the operation of your business?
Now you see how important it is to have controls, counter measures, and safeguards in place. Simply skimming the surface has revealed some critical points for you to consider.
Hopefully this will give you a good starting foundation with which you can build on, and prepare for any event that may happen in the future.


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The Federal Communications Commission yesterday halted a plan by AT&T to raise prices for "special access" customers, a potential rate hike that could ultimately hit the wallets of businesses and cell phone users.
AT&T wanted to make the rate increase effective today, but the FCC suspended it for five months while it investigates further, noting that there is widespread opposition. "There are substantial questions regarding the lawfulness of AT&T's tariff revisions that require further investigation," the FCC said. This move does not prevent the price increase in perpetuity but makes it possible that the FCC could at least soften the blow a bit.
What is special access? It's like the Internet equivalent of a barrel of oil, the price AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink charge other businesses for Internet bandwidth. Special access customers include the likes of Sprint and T-Mobile, who rely on their rivals for bandwidth. Special access rates can thus indirectly raise the prices paid by cell phone users, even those who aren't directly customers of AT&T.
Public Knowledge Senior VP Harold Feld explains it in this video from 2011:"Special access is supposed to be regulated to make sure it's affordable because anybody who relies on any kind of broadband for telecommunications, or for any kind of business, depends on some level on special access," Feld said. "Every time you buy anything that touches on telecommunications, you're basically paying a monopoly tax if the special access market doesn't work right. Every time you buy Internet access from somebody, if you're a business buying Web hosting, if you're using a cell phone and your company like Sprint or T-Mobile relies on those special access lines to take the information from the tower back to the cloud so you can use your smartphone, all of that depends on special access. When the special access market isn't working right, you pay more. It's like when oil prices go up."
If you want a more technical definition of special access, it's "telecommunications services/facilities that telecommunications companies are required to make available for resale to business customers, including rivals," Feld said. "That is what distinguishes them from 'general access' facilities and services that providers make available to the general public."
The FCC "substantially" deregulated the special access market "back in 2000 in the expectation that competition was just about to emerge and that deregulating critical input would not allow the telcos to totally crush the emerging competition," Feld has also noted. In a blog post last year, he succinctly described the state of the resulting "competitive" market: "As a result, the special access market remained an effective monopoly. As the Baby Bells consolidated, the vast majority of special access circuits fell under the control of AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink. To be clear, however, these companies do not overbuild and compete against each other—each maintains its local monopoly."
AT&T: Y'all are just confused
Back to the present day, AT&T "notified customers [in October] that it would no longer offer extended contracts—and the discounts that come with them," the Wall Street Journal reported at the time. "AT&T said that... it will stop offering contracts longer than 36 months for older types of connections, known as TDM [time-division multiplexing], because it plans to phase out the technology by 2020." This is part of AT&T's shift to an all-IP network.
In a blog post on Nov. 25, AT&T said it planned to make the price change effective on Dec. 10. "[W]e have taken a step to make sure that multi-year commitments we enter into today for aging TDM-based services reflect the ongoing transition to IP and do not extend beyond the expected completion of our transition in 2020," AT&T said.Sprint called the move anticompetitive and complained to the FCC, and it wasn't alone. Other competing service providers and telcos like TW Telecom, EarthLink, XO Communications, and Level 3 protested, as did several members of Congress. A government office known as the US Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy raised a red flag as well.
"AT&T has cited its desire to move its customers to Internet Protocol (IP) based services as its rationale for discontinuing its discounted contracts for special access," the office said in an FCC filling. "In effect, AT&T is proposing to shift demand toward more expensive IP-based offerings by artificially increasing the price of its TDM services. Without discounted contracts, purchasers of special access will be forced to pay higher rates for TDM services, and the increased costs will inevitably be passed on to consumers. While the evolution to an all-IP network is something for small business consumers to look forward to, it should not be financed through artificial price increases in the special access market."
Sprint has estimated that the price it pays AT&T for backhaul would go up 24 percent in some markets, and that backhaul accounts for about 30 percent of each cell site's operating expenses, according to the Journal. "Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile US, Inc. could also be affected in areas where they have to buy backhaul from AT&T. T-Mobile could feel less pain from the price increase because it has deliberately tried to purchase backhaul from a broad range of providers, according to a person familiar with the carrier's network," the Journal report said.
AT&T says its customers are confused. In its decision yesterday, the FCC said, "AT&T responds to Petitioners' arguments by asserting that they largely reflect confusion over the purpose of the tariff revisions and how the sunset of the five- and seven-year term plans will actually operate. AT&T argues that the mere elimination of a discount plan cannot violate section 201(b) because that section does not obligate AT&T to maintain any specific type of discount plan. AT&T asserts next that this tariff proceeding is not a proper forum for Petitioners to challenge the reasonableness of the rates that would remain following the proposed eliminations of discount plans. AT&T further disputes that this filing is a restructured service since AT&T's tariff revision does not replace any existing service or option. Finally, AT&T argues that the Petitioners that cited concerns about how these revisions would impact specific contract tariffs misunderstand how these provisions would work."
In a statement e-mailed to Ars, AT&T said, "We continue to meet with our customers in a good faith effort to address their needs. As the transition to more robust and efficient Internet-based network and services moves forward, we will remain flexible in attempting to meet their needs."
In a recent congressional hearing, AT&T Senior VP James Cicconi was asked how his company could raise prices 24 percent if it was operating in a competitive market. "I don't think we've raised prices; I think we eliminated some rate plans," Cicconi said.
Feld said the FCC decision shows that new chairman Tom Wheeler "is not going to let AT&T rush him. This was a test." At first, AT&T argued that it didn't even need FCC approval to raise rates, but the FCC forced the company to file a request, Feld said.
That doesn't mean AT&T won't ultimately be able to raise prices, though. Telecom investment firm Stifel said it "doubt[s] the FCC will ultimately prevent the phase-out outright, though we wouldn't be surprised if it seeks changes to lighten the fallout somewhat."


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I'm not a comic person, but shit... news articles are reporting its shifted way beyond what was expected:
http://blog.boom-studios.net/2008/12/fa ... in-5-days/
[quote]After garnering near unanimous critical acclaim, BOOM! Studios announced today that FARSCAPE #1 is completely sold out.
Fans should keep in mind, while distributor Diamond Comics are completely sold out, Farscape #1 may still be found at direct market retailers across the country. BOOM! Studios is working closely with Diamond Comics Distributors and evaluating the demand for a second printing.
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She RAN to get it and out she came...looking like..................A BRIDE!
Woah! I was not ready to see my wedding dress on my TEN year old daughter and see her look like the woman she will one day become. That was a glimpse into the future I wasn't quite ready for. But, rather than let my emotions get the best of me, I just smothered the tears that were threatening to explode from my eyes and together we giggled and laughed and dreamed about "her day". Then we had to grab the camera and snap some photos!
I thought it was SO CUTE that she thinks my dress is "amazing and beautiful" and that she totally (THINKS SHE) wants to wear it on her wedding day! That's so sweet...but I know better! Give her another 10-15 years and I'm PRETTY sure she won't feel the same way.
This dress is the only wedding dress I ever tried on. My mom and I got up one day, went to David's Bridal, I showed the lady a picture of a dress from an Estee Lauder 'Beautiful' perfume ad that I had admired, she led me to this dress...which is the EXACT dress from the picture! I tried it on, saw that it was on sale for $199 and we bought it. Done deal. I never looked back or even considered that I might have liked or wanted another dress. At that time (I was only 19) all I could think about was MATTHEW PAUL JONES and how infatuated I was with him. I would've worn a trash bag and carried dandilions for all I cared..I just wanted to HURRY UP and be his wife! :) We got engaged on Dec. 26, 1997 and got married almost exactly 3 months later on March 28, 1998. I don't remember much of anything from those 3 months other than dreaming of what our life together would be like. My poor mom..she had to plan and prepare the whole wedding herself. I didn't have preferances about anything. Can you believe that? I am SO DIFFERENT from that now! Boy oh boy...my parents should be SO GLAD I got married when I was so young because if I was doing it now...it would take YEARS to plan and I would need a small fortune to pay for my "preferences" now! :) I've developed expensive taste over the years!
Anyway, I never even considered having my dress preserved or anything. It was just the outfit I wore to walk down the isle...nothing sentimental. My niece wore it at her wedding a few years after mine and I think she felt the same way. Just needed a white dress to get the job done. All this time it's been hanging in the closet and I've actually tried to get rid of it (garage sales) or give it away plenty of times...but somehow the thing just won't go away...and now I'm so glad! Brooklyn is going to have a blast over the next few years playing dress up in this gown and I'm gonna enjoy it with her (and try to hide the occasional tear that slips out! :)


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Dinner Tonight: Cinnamon-Flavored Black-Eyed Peas Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
Last time I ate black-eyed peas, I was nestled up to the bar at Ed Mitchell's barbecue joint, The Pit, in Raleigh, North Carolina. They looked familiar and comforting, swimming in a porky broth that paired nicely with the incredible chopped pork.
I'm probably not alone in pairing black-eyed peas with Southern cuisine, but did you know they are just as at home in Indian cuisine, too? This recipe from Raghavan Iyer's 660 Curries is about as good of an introduction as you can find.
One great thing about black-eyed peas: they cook quickly. It only takes around 35 to 45 minutes to cook them from scratch (and less if you're using a pressure cooker). That will give you time to focus on flavoring these guys, which Iyer takes on with abandon.
This is not a mild dish. Red onions are cooked in oil until deep-red and caramelized, before being blended up with fresh garlic. Cinnamon sticks, bay leaves, and cardamom also make an appearance along with turmeric and a healthy pinch of cayenne. Each bite is layered and intense. When paired with some rice, this makes an excellent vegetarian meal.
- Yield:3 to 4
- 1 cup dried black-eyed peas
- 1/4 large red onion, thinly sliced
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
- 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 cardamom pods
- 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
Dump the black-eyed peas into a large pot. Pour enough water in to cover, then stir with your fingers. The water might appear slightly dirty. Drain this water off and repeat this process twice, then pour in 3 cups of water and turn the heat to high. When boiling, cover the pot, reduce heat to medium-low and cook for 35 to 45 minutes or until tender.
Meanwhile, pour 1 tablespoons of the oil into a small skillet set over medium heat. Add the red onion. Stir often, and cook until they are well caramelized and dark purple. It should take about 25 to 30 minutes. When done, add this to a blender along with 1/4 water and the garlic cloves. Blend until smooth.
Combine the garlic and red onion mixture with 1/2 cup water, tomato paste, salt, cayenne, and turmeric in a bowl. Stir well until combined.
Pour the rest of the oil into a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the cinnamon sticks, bay leaves, and cardamom pods. Cook for about 30 seconds, or until fragrant, then add spice mixture. Stir well, then reduce heat to medium-low. Partially cover the pan and simmer for 8 minutes. When done, turn off the heat and wait for the black-eyed peas to finish.
When the black-eyed peas are tender, pour in the sauce from the skillet. Simmer the blacked-eyed peas for another 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove the cinnamon sticks, bay leaves, and cardamom pods.
Serves with white rice and a sprinkling of cilantro.
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Starr Hill a star on 'Top Chef'
Does Starr Hill Brewery have a product placement deal with Bravo's Top Chef? As some viewers have noticed, during each episode of the reality show (taped this year in Washington, D.C.), when the chefs are hanging out in some back-room-looking area, they're frequently knocking back a Jomo Lager or an Amber Ale while surrounded by boxes of the Crozet-brewed beer.
Indeed, on Starr Hill's Facebook page it says "catch up on your Top Chef before the new episode tonight on Bravo"Š and look out for Starr Hill in the background while the chef-testants are sweatin' it in the stew room!"
You can check out the frequent sightings in this clip from the show.
However, according Red Light Managment's Margaret Murray (Coran Capshaw is the brewery's primary owner), Starr Hill's appearance on the show is the result of good luck and a fortunate former professional relationship between Red Light and the producers of the show.
"They found out we had a connection with a brewery and asked us to send them some beer," says Murray, "and they liked it."
Murray says that while Starr Hill Brewery is included in the credits of the show, and the beer can been seen on camera "behind the scenes," there's no formal product placement deal. She characterizes it as more of a trade deal.
"We've had some attention about it on our social networking sites," says Murray, "but I can't say its actually affected sales."
Of course, Starr Hill isn't alone on the show. Other products spotted on the show include Whole Foods' 365, Farmland Dairies, Seattle's Best Coffee, Dial soap, and the Inn at Little Washington among many others.
Still, Dish can't say he's noticed too many other beer companies featured on the show.
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Actually, Lucy is our beer with lime oil in it (the original test batches had lime in them). The Love is our wheat beer, which only contains four ingredients: water, malt, hops and yeast.
It is a matter of fact that stuff is gross and they use lime flavoring instead of real lime gimme a break. Imitation lime? It all starts with the ingredients they should use real limes.
How fun! Their beer is fantastic and what great PR!
That's odd! What are we loyal Hook readers to make of the author calling his own reporting into question?
Oh please. No way is there no formal product placement deal in place. Have you seen the degree to which it's plastered in every episode?
No surprise about the Inn. Patrick O'Connell was a guest judge on the show.
The Love is the best beer on the planet.
The "Love" is not one of the best beers anywhere. Too much lime flavoring they did'nt even use real lime!
Please copy edit your web pieces more carefully--it's this kind of slipshod editing that calls the veracity of your pieces into question. For instance, it's not "the Red Light Management's..." "The" is extraneous. Also, it's not "can't say its actually effected sales;" the correct word is affected and it should be it's, given that it is a correct for "it has."
Since school is now back in session, reading articles like this would be an excellent lesson for grammar school children to find the mistakes.
Since it is not a matter of personal preference you are wrong. It actually won a silver medal at the 2008 Great American Beer Festival according to their website. It also won THE gold/platinum/diamond/moon rock award at the Grant American Beer Festival held weekly in my den.


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The Roca Active & Relax has floor-to-ceiling "mirror-screen LCD plates" that act as either windows, monitors or mirrors, a floor that moves at the command of your voice to convert the bath into a fitness facility, and hidden features galore.
Designed by Michal Mitek, this concept bathroom design is intended to make the most of a space by hiding several features in each aspect of its design. From the LCDs that can either give a beautiful panoramic view or double as computer monitors to the rising floor that covers the tub to turn the area into a fitness floor, everything is smoothly integrated.
I'd love a bathroom like the Roca, but I'll be damned if I can figure out where the soap holder is. [Yanko Design]


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Stu Scott was hyping an upcoming replay of Derek Anderson's meltdown last night when, in describing the cough button that "bleeps" out curse words on TV, Scott accidentally used a curse word on TV.
Oh, we bet they've got somebody controlling the "bleep fucktion" over there. Also, we're really glad Matt Millen and Steve Young were able to bury the hatchet and share a giggle over accidental profanity. They're just like us.
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Pizza CS in Rockville, MD: Decent Neapolitan Among the Strip Malls
Pizza CS
1596-B Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852 (map); 240-833-8090;
Pizza Style: Neapolitan
Oven Type: Stefano Ferrara wood-fired
The Skinny: Respectable Neapolitan comes to Rockville Pike.
Price: 11-inch pizzas, $8 to $13
Reaching north from the nation's capital, choked with traffic and strewn with strip malls and big-box stores, is Rockville Pike; normally a boulevard to be avoided at all costs. But just as one traverses a particularly dreary stretch and hopes are fading, there appears Pizza CS, a new and respectable Neapolitan joint in an unremarkable shopping center.
Operated by local restaurant veterans Jon Allen and Ankur Rajpara, CS's Stefano Ferrara oven offers up a nice pie at a good price. While not exhibiting the depth of flavor or dazzling execution of a Pupatella (the region's standard-bearer across the river), pizzas at CS are satisfying and the atmosphere is friendly, if fluorescently drab.
The prosciutto pie is a pleasing balance of salty cured meat, creamy fresh mozzarella, and bitter arugula, with a nice jolt of Grana and garlic. The crust at Pizza CS is fine but not great, considering the potential of that oven. It's well-bubbled and lightly charred, but lacks complexity in both taste and texture—maybe these traits needed a bit more time to develop. That said, if this was your first Neapolitan pie you'd find it startlingly good.
CS's Margherita pizza is a good example of the classic, made with crushed San Marzano tomatoes and offered with mozzarella from either a water buffalo or cow. Again, the crust is average for the style, but perfectly acceptable.
A telling test of dough quality is whether you go back and eat the scattered crusts once you've consumed the interior of the pie. Here the answer is probably not, but the potential is there for improvement.
The CS white pizza is what might be called a filetti or filetto elsewhere. The wan grape tomatoes, in place of the usual brilliant cherry variety, diminished what could have been a beautiful composition and suggested a lapse in ingredient quality that the best pizzerias never allow.
This inattention to detail was also evident in the house salad, served in a sad little woven-wood cafeteria bowl, with an astringent and curiously viscous dressing. The same ingredients spread on a simple white plate and properly dressed would have turned a miss into a hit.
In short, Pizza CS is a welcome addition to a Neapolitan-starved swath of the Maryland suburbs, and a fine place to eat while out shopping. With a little more effort and focus, it could someday become a destination in itself.
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The Constitution Party is a paleoconservative minor political party in the United States. The Constitution Party strongly champions the principles of our Republican form of government laid down by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The goal of the Constitution Party is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries. It is the third largest political party in terms of voter registration with 367,000 registered voters.[1] Rick Jore, Member of the Montana House of Representatives, was the highest elected official who is a member of the Constitution Party.
Howard Phillips founded the U.S. Taxpayers Party in 1992, with a goal to limit the Federal Government to its constitutional boundaries and to restore civil government to the principles our country was founded upon. In 1999, at its national nominating convention for the 2000 elections, convention delegates chose to change the party name to "Constitution Party," believing that the new name better reflected the party's primary policy approach of enforcing the U.S. Constitution's provisions and limitations.
In 2004, the party nominated lawyer Michael Peroutka and Christian radio host from Montana Chuck Baldwin as its presidential ticket. Baldwin was nominated in 2008 for the Constitution party candidacy, over former U.N. Ambassador, Alan Keyes.[2] In 2012 the party nominated former congressman Virgil Goode.
Core Principles
- Abortion: The pre-born child, whose life begins at fertilization, is a human being created in God's image. The first duty of the law is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood. It is, therefore, the duty of all civil governments to secure and to safeguard the lives of the pre-born.
- Local Government: Civil government should reside close to the people. The best way to ensure this, is to keep it in the local arena, this ensures that government will be more responsible, responsive, and accountable than the current Federal Government.
- Congressional Reform: The Seventeenth Amendment (providing for direct, popular election of U.S. Senators) should be repealed
- Deficit Spending: The government must not spend more than it takes in during the payoff period.
- Crime: Crime, in most cases, is to be dealt with by state and local governments. "Hate crimes" is an excuse for the federal government to extend its jurisdiction to crimes which would otherwise be in the province of the states.
- Defense: The primary obligation of the federal government to provide for the common defense.
- Education: The federal government has absolutely no jurisdiction concerning the education of our children, the United States Department of Education should be abolished; all federal legislation related to education should be repealed. Education should be then relegated solely to the states.
- Immigration: The Constitution Party affirms the integrity of the international borders of these United States and the Constitutional authority and duty of the federal government to guard and to protect those borders, including the regulation of the numbers and of the qualifications of immigrants into the country.
- The Judiciary: The Constitution Party supports Congressional enforcement of the Constitutional rule of good behavior and to restrain judicial activism by properly removing offending judges through the process of impeachment provided for in Article I, § 2 and 3 of the Constitution.
- Trade: The Constitution Party favors the abolition of the Office of Special Trade Representative, and insist on the withdrawal of these United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and all other agreements wherein agencies other than the Congress of these United States improperly assume responsibility for establishing American trade policies.
- Religious Freedom: The Constitution grants no authority to the federal government either to grant or deny the religious expressions of the people in any place.
- State Sovereignty: The Constitution Party believes the federal government should divest itself of operations not authorized by the Constitution, the operations include, but are not limited too, policies relating to state education, natural resources, transportation, private business, housing, health care, and many more.
- Taxes: The IRS should be abolished. The Liberty Amendment should be ratified which would repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, and provide that "Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts."


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Look, it's so not 2009 anymore. The Presidential Inauguration Committee has jumped on the smartphone bandwagon with its first-ever app for inauguration weekend.
Available for iPhone, iPad and Android devices, the app lets attendees find access points, viewing screen locations... and those all-important porta-potties. Choose "get me there" on various events to have your route mapped. The software even takes into account your ticket color to get you to the right gates.
Users can also check the schedule of official events; find news, photos and videos about the inauguration; and search (and RSVP) for National Day of Service volunteer opportunities.
You can download the free app here, or search the App Store or Google Play.
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By Jim Harris
School is out and parents are once again faced with the unimaginable horror of being stuck with their children 24 hours a day. Enter the cavalry — summer camp! Luckily, there are a lot of them out there. Unfortunately, though, they fill up quickly, and most are already full. To help out, I have opened several camps of my own, for which I am accepting applications now:
•Camp Swap the Kids: Kids learn macho outdoor skills, like tracking wild animals and frightening them to death with airhorns. (Unfortunately, state law prohibits guns in camp, or I could hire the Friends of the Wissahickon to teach kids how to kill deer.) The real twist, however, is that when camp is over, you get DIFFERENT kids back, and YOUR kids go to some other family. You're rolling the dice, of course, but really, what have you got to lose? You're probably sick of your own kids by now, and it will probably take your "new" kids a year to figure out how to push all your buttons, but then you can just send them to Camp Swap the Kids and get some new kids back again.
•Camp Fear: Today's young brats are not afraid of anything — least of all, adults. When we were kids, we were afraid of everything — parents, teachers, cockroaches, nuclear war — and, of course, we all turned out perfect. So this camp will teach kids to fear things like God, the devil, the government, terrorists, camp counselors and adults in general. Our head counselor is Mel Gibson. Don't be surprised if your kids return with white hair and a new-found respect for the terrifying world around them.
•Speaking of fear, every parent lives in fear of the day that the children of the world suddenly wake up and realize that adults have no idea what they're doing. Imagine the anarchy and chaos that would result. In order to lessen the chances of this happening, I have created a camp called Camp Grownups are Great.
Over a three-week period, a team of celebrity rap artists will rhythmically recite a mind-boggling litany of the trillions of things that grownups all know — everything from the reproductive process of the amoeba to the lifetime batting averages of all Phillies players over the last 50 years to the names and dates of birth of every Roman Emperor.
This will all be sharply contrasted to the mere handful of ridiculous things that children and teenagers know, such as how to reach level 5 in the 'Ninja Warriors' video game; how to send, like, 50 text messages in five minutes and, like, how to persuade your parents to pay for, like, private school, a new car and breast implants. Youngsters will come away thinking that we adults are really, like, smart, and no one will be, like, the wiser.
•Space Camp: There are other space camps already, but mine is the only one that actually sends your kids into space. The nice thing about this one is that, even though your kids will be 120,000 miles away, you'll still be able to see them every night (with the aid of a high-powered telescope).
And just in case these camps are completely filled up, maybe you can still grab a place, if you offer enough money to the camp owner (me) in one of my adventure camps, which are all the rage these days:
•Antarctic Adventure: Kids sail down to the coast of Antarctica on a three-masted wooden ship, then fly over the barren, frozen terrain in an observation balloon. Depending on weather conditions, this trip could take up to two years. Participants will be provided with a note to present to their schools upon their return. ("Please excuse Johnny for missing 6th and 7th grades. He was exploring the South Pole.") Everyone must have up-to-date scurvy inoculations, and not be allergic to whale blubber.
•Appalachian Adventure: Eat squirrels, build a still and marry your cousin (must be 13 or older).
•Camp Back-in-the-Day: Kids live like their parents did. No cell phones, iPods or computers. Learn Latin and Greek; walk three miles to the grocery store wearing cardboard shoes; listen to every song ever recorded by Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Rosemary Clooney and Patti Page; learn to address adults as "sir" and "ma'am"; watch black and white TV.
•Rock 'n' Roll Band Camp: Travel in a private jet, punch out paparazzi, get groupies, trash hotel rooms.
•School Camp: (Shhh … Don't tell the kids until they are at the camp; it's really school.)
•Camp Caring: Kids learn to care about something other than themselves, Unfortunately, this camp was cancelled due to lack of interest.
Each course at one of my camps is $1,500. No checks or credit cards. Cash only — small bills in a plain brown bag. Meet me in front of the former Borders Bookstore building any night at 2 a.m. Sign your kids up now, and have a lovely summer.


text: Common images evoked during this spooky time of year include pumpkins, black cats, and – of course - bats! The species of bats native to North America are small, quick flying, highly maneuverable and typically eat insects. These are the types of bats the use echolocation to hunt their food and are the ones generally portrayed in these spooky images. However, in many other parts of the world, bat species are large, slow-flying frugivores (fruit-eaters). These bats do not use echolocation to find food. And these are the types of bats we have here at the Aquarium. We have grey-headed flying foxes (so called because of their triangular, fox-like faces). This is the largest bat species in Australia. They can weigh up to 2 pounds and have wing spans that are as wide as 3 feet. We are currently treating one of the bats for a small abscess on his face. Right now keepers are "hot-packing" it daily and it's definitely improving. To positively reinforce him for staying still while they apply the hot-pack, my team provides him juice or a bit of baby food. This type of reinforcement training is integral to our care of the animals. Did you know that you can train your pets to voluntarily participate in their care (such as nail trimming, vaccines, blood draws) and even look forward to it? I'd love to have you share your stories about what husbandry behaviors you and your pets are doing. Tags: animal-health, animal-health-update, australia, bats, behind-the-scenes, halloweek, halloween, national-aquarium-experts Categories: News Previous Post Next Post


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MWC 15 Special
of Microsoft's official Windows Mobile 6.5 launch tomorrow, AT&T and HTC today
announced the upcoming availability of the HTC Tilt 2 and the HTC PURE with
Windows Mobile 6.5. The HTC PURE delivers a touch screen experience in an
alluring, compact form factor, and the HTC Tilt 2 features the convenience of a
tilting touch screen combined with the practicality of a slide out full QWERTY
Powered by the nation's fastest 3G network and the Windows phone platform, the
HTC Tilt 2 and HTC PURE deliver an enhanced TouchFLO 3D interface on a large
vibrant touch screen that makes navigation intuitive and rich while enabling
smooth access to desktop like web browsing.
Both devices embody HTC's approach to put people at the center of the
communications experience by providing full access to voice, text, or E-Mail in
a single contact view, regardless of whether voice, text or E-Mail was used.
This view can be accessed from the contact card or in the in-call screen during
a phone conversation, ensuring the latest conversations are always at hand.
Also AT&T will support
Windows Marketplace
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devices, including the HTC PURE and HTC Tilt 2. Additionally, AT&T customers'
purchases from Windows Marketplace can be added to their monthly statements.
After Microsoft delivers Windows Marketplace later this year for other versions
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Windows Mobile 6.5 received several upgrades that enhance ease-of-use, such
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Content and applications are just a fingertip away on the redesigned Start Menu
and Internet Explorer Mobile will support the rich experiences that many Web
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HTC Tilt 2 - Designed for the business professional, the HTC Tilt 2 is
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E-Mail use. A quality speakerphone experience is enabled by dual speakers and
dual microphones with advanced noise cancellation, and HTC's Straight Talk which
allows for simplified conference calling and activation of the speakerphone by
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HTC PURE - Leveraging HTC's TouchFLO 3D experience, the all touch
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a large, brilliant 3.2" WVGA touch screen, the HTC PURE is crafted to fit
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advanced five megapixel auto-focus camera with video capture, expandable memory,
gravity sensor and an ambient light sensor, the HTC PURE brings many of the most
sophisticated features to a broad consumer audience looking for the professional
benefits of a smartphone, without sacrificing size, looks or functionality.
The HTC PURE is available from today at AT&T retail stores nationwide and
online for US$ 149.99. The HTC Tilt 2, will be available in the following weeks
for US$ 299.99. (For the HTC PURE, pay US$ 199.99 and receive US$ 50
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Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson condemned members of the "extreme right wing" of the Republican Party for holding the nation "hostage" during the government shutdown because they oppose the Affordable Care Act.
"They have an extreme dislike for President Obama, and are willing to do anything to halt the effectiveness of his presidency," Johnson wrote in a statement to the suburban Dallas Focus Daily News on Friday.
"Their behavior is not political, it is personal!"
The congresswoman went on about the huge impact the shutdown has on the nation. She complained of hundreds of thousands of furloughed employees, damage to businesses relying on government contracts, and harm to veterans and hospital patients. Even the American food supply in danger, she said, due to the suspension of food inspections. Overall, Johnson stated, the shutdown is doing "severe" damage to the economy's recovery.
"There are reasonable members in both political parties who would vote to open the government tomorrow if a bill was allowed to come to the floor of the House, " Johnson wrote, "But the extremists are making all types of threats and insisting that such a vote not take place."
Johnson argued that a majority of the American people voted for President Obama in 2012, and by doing so, they showed support of Obamacare, his signature health-care initiative.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, meanwhile, said Friday in a speech to the Values Voters Summit that "We are engaged in a national debate about the enormous harms "Obamacare" is causing, all of the millions of Americans who are losing their jobs, being pushed into part-time work, losing their health insurance." He urged House Republicans to keep "standing strong" and "listening to the American people."


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Located on the beach of the island Contadora, the hotel is just 20 minutes by plane from Panama City or 1.5 hours by boat. Contadora Island has 13 beaches, one of which is nudist and is called the 'Sueca'. It is a space where lovers of naturist activity can integrate with natural tranquillity. The hotel has the largest beach on the island.
The establishment comprises a total of 354 accommodation units. Guests of the establishment are welcomed in the lobby, which has a 24-hour reception and a 24-hour check-out service. Services such as a cloakroom and a safe make for a comfortable stay. Internet access (for a fee) and wireless internet access (for a fee) are available in the public areas. Gastronomic options include a restaurant and a bar. Shopping facilities are available. The grounds of the establishment feature a playground and an attractive garden. A TV room is also among the amenities at the establishment. Guests arriving by car can park their vehicles in the garage or car park. Guests can also use the bicycle storage facilities. Additional services include medical assistance, room service and a laundry. Active guests can make use of the bicycle hire service to explore the surrounding area.
All accommodation units feature air conditioning and a bathroom. A balcony completes the range of amenities available in most rooms. Each accommodation unit features a double bed or a king-size bed. All accommodation units offer a mini-fridge, a TV and a safe. Wheelchair-accessible rooms are also bookable.
A refreshing dip in the indoor or outdoor pool can be pleasantly cooling on hot days. Sun loungers and parasols offer the ideal way to unwind. Various refreshing drinks are available from the poolside bar. Those wishing to enjoy sports whilst on holiday can have fun on-site with tennis and beach volleyball. For a fee, cycling/mountain biking is also available. With canoeing, and for a fee, jet skiing, a motorboat and diving, fans of watersports will have plenty of options to choose from. Table tennis and pool/billiards are some of the sports and leisure options available at the establishment. Additional leisure options available to guests include an entertainment programme, an entertainment programme for adults, an entertainment programme for children and a disco.
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First Published : 05 Apr 2009 12:43:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 05 Apr 2009 08:36:50 AM IST
Michel de Nostre-Dame, better known as Nostradamus (1503-1566), was a famous French astrologer whose predictions, which included the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, have proved infallibly accurate.
Last month, unpublished manuscripts of Nostradamus have been discovered (and authenticated) in an old trunk in the French city of Lyon.
Curiously, there are two full pages, which deal at length with India, particularly with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the forthcoming elections.
We are giving here the first words in Latin, the language which he used, along with a rough translation in English.
"Politicus Bharatus Janatus Indicus veni grandus est para Indus cognisant Indica tum est… " The BJP will represent the aspirations of the Hindus, the overwhelming majority of India.
He goes on to explain who are the Hindus: "Indus terrum nostrum grandus homo manus onum unus familium planetum est. Indicus pax pacis terra est ferrum tempus…" They will be the most tolerant people, even in the Age of Iron, because they will still accept that God may manifest Himself at different times under different names, using different scriptures. Hence all persecuted people throughout the ages, will always found refuge in India, where they will practice their religion in peace.
Then Nostradamus makes his first prediction: "Indus cursum est trahisum nostrum est… Politicum Bharatus Indicus trahisum est…" But the curse of the Hindus will always be disunity and they will betray each other to the enemy again and again. One day, some of the highest bearers of the BJP party will not even say hello to each other.
Next, another prophecy: "Politicus Bharatus Janatus Indicus tri pillarus est, Vajpayum, Advanum et Murlum Joshum Kashmirum drapus levus. Vajpayum maladum est…" The BJP will have three pillars: AB Vajpayee, LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi. As eventually, Vajpayee will no longer have an active life, Advani will become the leader. MM Joshi, who hoisted the Indian flag in Srinagar, will be his number two.
He goes on: Narendrum Modum supremus chefum, ironus manus est et economicum grandum est…" Narendra Modi in between will raise himself as a national figure, not only because he is an iron man, but also because he has made of his state a model of economic efficiency.
Then comes another forecast, which Nostradamus may have got wrong: "Duo millenum novo, Jesus Christum postum, Advanum racontum narrates est Joshum grandus princeps est et Modum dux ducis rector est, sixtum legatus est…" In 2009 AD, Advani will announce that if his party is elected, MM Joshi will be made External Affairs Minister and Narendra Modi, Home Minister. Then the party will gain an extra 50 seats.
Nostradamus is not done. It goes on: "Politicus Bharatus Janatus Indicus prnonuncio Ramum templum et Christanium consto est et gurum defendo est, kashmirum macto est…" The BJP will also make it known that it will build the Ram Mandir, protect temples, stop conversions and keep Kashmir for India.
Michel has also some forecast about foreign policy: Chinum pugna est, Tibetum sanctum est, proctectiorum, amen ; pakistanus attakum est et ereptor latrunculus iugolo, caido.
The BJP will reaffirm its commitment to eastern states (he probably meant Arunachal Pradesh), stand-up to China's bullying, and support Tibet to counteract Beijing which is propping-up Maoist Nepal. It will swiftly punish Pakistan next time it attacks India by proxy.
However, added Senor Nostradamus: "Politicus Bharatus Janatus Indicus comes, comitus amicus desertus est congressus victis ." The allies of the BJP will be deserting the boat as they think (the Congress) will win. But if the BJP stands true to the aspirations of its Hindu voters, it can come on its own at the Center.
Why? "Independantum Blancum copium est; necessarus changum indianus cumum facus est"… As India has heavily borrowed from the White Man (British?) at Independence, it will become necessary to "Indianise" the nation so that it may manifest again its true unique soul.
What is it? "Lex legis mutation, presidentum auctorita dato est, confuto desisto lex legis…" Introduce a common civil code, repeal false laws (article 370?), reform the Judiciary, change to a Parliamentary system, which will give true powers to the President who can nominate a Prime Minister from the majority.
Nostradamus goes on to explain why these changes are important: "Congressus niveus domina regnus, Indicus forcus inmicus est. Maurus, Christianus presentum est." Under the reign of the White lady (Sonia Gandhi?) forces inimical to India have crept in. Madrasas have sprung up everywhere and so have churches that are converting by the thousands, Hindus gurus are jailed and mocked at… As for the foreign diplomatic corps, Nostradamus has this prediction: "Fransiscus ambassadorus, Jeromus Bonnafus, negatum Indus massacrum Sabartinum et supportus Maurus genocidus et accusum Politicum Bharatus Indicus ".
French ambassador Jerome Bonnafont will deny the burning of the Hindus in the Sabarmati Express and accuse the BJP of being fascists.
Finally, Nostradamus' ultimate prophecy: "Aurobindus Ghosus Matre Indica realisum est, Indianum Agus ancientus mortum non est…" Under the BJP's leadership, Indians will worship again their country as Mother India and Sri Aurobindo's words will echo: "India of the ages is not dead nor has She spoken Her last creative word. And that which She must seek now to awake, is not an anglicized oriental people, doomed to repeat the cycle of the Occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorial Shakti recovering Her deepest self ".


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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
I read of a Christian woman years ago who went on a forty day meditation retreat in a monastic cell. When she finally came out, all she could say is: "Everything is love!"
Surely those who open to faith and do beautiful wholesome works, for them the One Who is the Most Gracious will appoint Love. – Qur'an 19:96
A man once came to the Prophet (puh) and asked him about the hereafter. The Prophet asked him, "And what have you prepared for that time?" The man replied, "Nothing, except that I love Allah and I love you." The Prophet (puh) answered him, "You are with the ones you love."
I profess the religion of love,
Love is my religion and my faith.
My mother is love
My father is love
My prophet is love
My God is love
I am a child of love
I have come only to speak of love
– Jalaluddin Rumi
"…the guidance of Islam is the guidance of love. The innate, natural and ancient religion that is Islam is the religion of love. The Prophet (pbuh) came to guide us to love and to make clear the love that is at the core of all religion. Our purpose as human beings is to consciously manifest Allah's love in our lives."
– from Love in Islam, a Khutbah (Sermon) by Mahmoud Mostafa
Ya Haqq!


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BOSTON (AP) Siyani Chambers matched a career high with 21 points and Wesley Saunders added 18 on Tuesday night to lead Harvard to a 79-63 victory over Boston College - the Crimson's fifth consecutive victory over its crosstown, power-conference rival.
Chambers scored eight points during a 15-1 run early in the second half that turned a six-point lead into a 57-37 advantage with 12 1/2 minutes to play.
Ryan Anderson scored 23 with seven rebounds for Boston College (3-5), which was without starting center Dennis Clifford, who sat on the bench with his right foot in a boot.
Andrew Van Nest, who played for Harvard (4-3) as an undergraduate but is now at BC for graduate school, scored four points for the Eagles against his former team.
It's the fifth consecutive season Harvard has beaten Boston College and the second year in a row that the Crimson have blown out the Eagles, an Atlantic Coast Conference school with a respectable history of NCAA appearances.
Harvard hadn't been to the tournament since 1946 and had never won the Ivy League title before sharing it in 2011 and winning it outright last season. But the Crimson lost their co-captains before the start of the season to an academic cheating scandal, and this year's roster was supposed to be less threatening.
It was 42-36 when Chambers drove to the basket for a score to start the 15-1 run that lasted 4:23. He finished it up with a 3-pointer and then a three-point play that gave the Crimson the 57-37 lead.


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If he isn't already, he's probably gonna be a big star."
- Chris Athens(Sterling Sound, NYC)
- クリス・アセンス(スターリング・サウンド)
- Jin Nakamura
Yuya Matsushita
His 1st album "I AM ME" was released in June 2010 and ranked #7 at Oricon (Japanese Billboard)daily chart.
His 8th single released in May 2011 " Naturally" was used for TV commercial song for popular female fashion brand "NATURAL BEAUTY BASIC" and it ranked #4 at Oricon daily chart.
He released 9th single "SUPER DRIVE" in Aug 2011 and went on a domestic national tour titled "Matsushita Yuya Live Tour 2011~SUPER DRIVE~" visiting 8 places in Japan.
In December 2011, he attracted much attentions in performing for "Michael Jackson Tribute Live"in Tokyo as a youngest performer on stage.
His latest single "Kimi Heno Love Song -Jyunensakimo-"scored #5 at Oricon daily chart and after releasing his 2nd album "2U" in Feb 2012, he went on Japan national live tour visiting 22 cities.
He is now creating a buzz releasing new album"2U"over 20 countries around the world.
Yuya Matsushita is currently expanding his field as an actor on musical, film, TV drama, and so forth. In 2011, he sang drama theme song for "Quartet", in which he played a lead role and also played a role for a TV drama "Asuno Hikariwo Tsukame2" starting July 2011 .
In 2011, he performed in one of the largest anime conventions in North America ' FanimeCon' (held in San Jose, California)
where he performed for the first time in overseas to a crowd of 4000 fans.
In the summer of 2012, he played as Song Sam Dong, a lead role in musical '' Dream High'' in Tokyo Shin Kokuritsu Gekijo. His new single "SEE YOU" which has tie- in with opening theme for TV animation "Natsuyuki Rendez vous" is released on Aug.29, 2012.
His summer tour titled "YUYA MATSUSHITA LIVE TOUR 2012~SUPPORTED by SHIONOGI~" starts Aug.21, 2012.
In Thailand, he is chosen as the "No.1 Asia pop artist of the month" at one of the largest music channels.
|Born May 24 in Kobe
(age 12) Suddenly decides to become a singer
Did his own researches at bookstores, and visited Caless Vocal & Dance School, the school he selected first. The school quickly discovered his talent and admitted him on scholarship. At school, his training mainly focused on gospel and Western music. Around the same time, he was also intrigued with street dance, and began spending much time practicing it.
|Formed dance/vocal group "SUGER" with Caless classmate Shota Shimizu and others.
Met producer Jin Nakamura.
Nakamura wrote "foolish foolish", inspired by the first impression he had on Yuya.
Visited New York City, the city of his dreams, in October, when Yuya was in the 9th grade. This trip, which he made all by himself, became the turning point of his life; he made the decision of his life to pursue music instead of going to high school.
|Recorded "foolish foolish" under producer Nakamura.
|Quit SUGER due to decision to go solo. Continued working with Nakamura, aiming for major debut.
|Signed with Epic Records Japan and started full-scale preparation for major debut. Visited New York City once again, this time as 'Yuya Matsushita the artist'. Video/photo shoot for debut single "foolish foolish" was done there. "foolish foolish" is set for release this coming winter.


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The Unconquered – animation about Poland's recent historyMade at the initiative of the Institute of National Remembrance, the film shows Poles' struggle for freedom from the first day of WWII until the fall of communism in Europe in 1989. The animation presents the turning points and the heroes of Poles' fifty-year-long struggle for freedom. History is presented by one protagonist, who on the one hand is a symbol of the Polish struggle for a free state, and on the other uses each scene to talk about historical figures such as Cavalry Captain Witold Pilecki, the co-founder of the Polish Underground Army, Irena Sendler, who saved over 2,500 Jewish children during WWII, and Witold Urbanowicz, the commander of 303 Squadron. The production also tells the story of General Stanisław Maczek, the 1st Armoured Division commander during the campaign to free Western Europe from the German occupation in 1944, Jan Karski, the first person to deliver a report on the Holocaust to the Allied Powers, and Marian Rejewski, a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who broke the Enigma code. "With this film we want to start an international educational campaign presenting the 1939–1989 period from a Polish historical perspective. I have a feeling that with The Unconquered we have returned to the perspective embraced by soldiers of General Władysław Anders' 2nd Polish Corps, that is to an uncompromising struggle for our country's freedom" says Adam Hlebowicz, Vice-Director of the Office of National Education of the Institute of National Remembrance. "It is the voice of a sovereign state which had mustered the fourth largest army for this war, made the greatest sacrifices, and was the only state to have fought in this war from day one. Without the Polish perspective it is not possible to fully grasp the course as well as the consequences of WWII," he adds. Once they have seen the film, viewers are directed to a website especially designed for this purpose which presents facts and personal histories of the Poles featured in the animation. The Unconquered was for the first time presented before the 78th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. The film's English version narrated by the British actor Sean Bean, and the Polish version by Mirosław Zbrojewicz.
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"C"s preschool teachers are doing an Apple themed unit of study this week.
A perfect start for fall.
I volunteered to make some sensory boxes for their preschool and this is the
apple sensory box I put together for them.
"C" helped me put it together and we had fun coming up with this
simple little box. I can't wait to hear what the kids think of it this week.
We started with dried split green peas,
you could also use green paper easter grass or green dyed rice.
I do recommend the peas, they have a lovely texture and are half the fun
of this sensory experience!
The small brown craft foam tree came from the dollar bins at Target,
it came with some foam leaves and a little scarecrow that we added
to their fall sensory box kit.
The tiny straw brooms are some from our craft stash
that we use with our Fairies in our homemade Fairy House.
(I think you might be able to find them at the craft store but I may have ordered mine online.)
Then we added a small wooden scoop, small buckets and pails
and this little wooden rake we had left over from a Dollar Tree Zen Garden Kit.
It was "C"s awesome idea to add some real Cinnamon Sticks as well.
The tiny red apples in this bucket are tiny red styrofoam balls from Dollar Tree
that are intended to be filler for centerpieces.
I picked up the larger faux apples from JoAnne's Craft store with a coupon
from the floral/wreath making department.
"C" (age 4.5) and "E" (age 8.5) helped me make these felt trees for the box.
It's tricky to make apple trees, these look a bit more like
the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom coconut tree...
I'm thinking we need to make a set of felt alphabet letters
and bring them over for a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom lesson/sensory box!
Here are our felt trees with red pom-pom apples.
You can pick the "apples" and then put them back on again later!
The apple box organized by my 8 year old, "E".
She likes everything to be neat and tidy! "C" calls it "Order-nized" : )
Happy Sensory Box Playing!
Next up, I'll show and tell this year's Fall Sensory Box.
Pink and Green Mama, MaryLea


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Monday, August 24, 2009
Okay, Everybody, Back to Work!
In an attempt to be part of the solution, as well as part of the problem, I want to post links to two shareware programs that temporarily block access to web browsers and other virtual time-wasters, so that you can concentrate on what you should be doing instead of reading this blog. A good friend recommends Freedom, which runs only on Macs. I've been using Temptation Blocker, a comparable program for Windows, and I'm pleased with the results so far.
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- Patrick S. O'Donnell said...
Very interesting!
Some folks might not realize that this is an exquisite example of "self-binding" mechanisms that Jon Elster first discussed in Ulysses and the Sirens (1984) and revisited in Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints (2000). As he writes in the latter book, some individuals may want to restrict their freedom of choice, specifically, "they may want to protect themselves against passion, preference change, and (two varieties of) time-inconsistency. They do so by removing certain options from the feasible set, by making them more costly or available only with a delay, and by insulating themselves from knowledge about their existence."
- August 24, 2009 at 12:39:00 PM EDT
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Ashley Greene's West Hollywood condo caught fire early Friday.
While Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman could not say that the apartment at the Granville Towers belonged to the "Twilight" actress, a source confirms to E! News that it is indeed Greene's place.
The LAFD spokesman confirmed that three people complained of injuries and were treated on the scene. The individuals were told that they should go to the hospital, but chose not to.
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The LAFD confirmed there were two dogs inside when the fire occurred; however, the status of the dogs' health is not yet known.
In photos from inside Greene's third-story condo, smoke damage can be seen covering the walls while debris is scattered around the floors. There's also smoke damage on the outside of the building where smoke escaped from the windows. What caused the apartment fire is still unknown.
While we're not totally sure if the 26-year-old star was home during the incident, Greene is in town. Just last night, she taped an episode for Daniel Tosh's Comedy Central clip show "Tosh.O."
Details are still coming in; more updates to come...
--Reporting by Marcus Mulick and Holly Passalaqua


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A Culture of Creativity is life at GoDaddy.
We hire the best, give them first-class training and set them loose. If you're driven to perform, you'll fit right in. We approach our work fearlessly, learn quickly, improve constantly, and celebrate our wins at every turn. Everyone is welcome—as an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic whole selves to work. Be you.
Our Values make us strong.
They are witnessed every day in our company's culture and are a declaration of who we are. Our values are the North Star for every member of Team GoDaddy and power our success. They help each of us be our best selves and are paramount to how we attract, hire, promote and reward the best employees.
Extraordinary Customer Focus
Extraordinary focus on the experience and achievement of our customers is how we make a difference in the lives of millions today. Working at GoDaddy is a life-changing experience that offers people an environment to learn, grow, and do the best work of their career for a group of people that are critical to the world's economy. We are creating exceptionally uncommon outcomes for our business tomorrow by our extraordinary customer focus today.
Own Outcomes
Every line of code, every pixel, every interaction with a teammate, customer or partner is a chance to change the world. Our actions and results speak for themselves. We work toward the best possible outcome because we are passionate about our customers. We bring humanity to technology that helps our customers achieve their dreams.
Join Forces
As a team, we move the company toward its vision. When I can help others, I do. Great teams multiply individual talents. Great teammates make others better without taking credit. We win together and lose together. Together, we celebrate our successes and learn from our failures.
Work Fearlessly
We innovate and take risks to achieve uncommon outcomes. We are curious and not afraid of experimentation or failure. We take risks and try new ways of doing things. There are valuable discoveries and lessons to be learned everywhere. We ask questions, we seek to understand, we give feedback and challenge the status quo. We measure our results and continually grow and improve.
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A healthy life fueled by fun and passion for a better world shows in our work. To truly take care of our customers, we begin by taking care of each other and ourselves. Finding meaning and personal fulfillment enables us to be at the top of our game. Our health and time away from the office are as important to us as being extraordinary at work.
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Our Diversity is experienced through a variety of Employee Resource Groups
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GoDaddy Women in Technology (GDWIT) serves to create an ongoing conversation among employees regarding issues of interest to women in the workplace and to provide new opportunities to create impact for women and girls in our local communities. In addition to a robust speaker series, who have included BlogHer founders, Lisa Stone and Elisa Camahort to Anita Borg President Telle Whitney, we also host networking events and community activism.
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GoDaddy LatinXs in Technology (GDLIT) is a community of employees who share the goal of seeing the LatinX community have a greater impact and presence at GoDaddy. Promoting GoDaddy as a multicultural organization and further attracting LatinXs to work in a culturally diverse environment. We strive to provide personal and professional development through peer mentoring, volunteerism and community involvement.
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GoDaddy Fitness in Technology (GDFIT) electrifies our culture through energizing movement, motivational wisdom, teamwork and determination. By creating opportunities to connect, get active and get informed, we will foster a supportive, health inspired work-life culture. And we like to MOVE IT, MOVE IT!
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Our group, GoDaddy Black in Technology (GDBIT) aims to bring awareness of the many opportunities and possibilities of a career within GoDaddy to the African American Community. Our goal is to assist in recruiting, hiring and advancement by preparing the community, both internal and external, young and experienced, with additional knowledge and skills needed for a successful career. GDBIT provides employees with continued career development through a diverse speaker series, ever increasing network of employees and a shared desire for inclusion.
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I'ma A Diva, I'ma I'ma A Diva: 15 Celebs With The Most Outrageous Demands
The multiple homes, plushy cars, and extravagant jewelry pieces are fabulous, sure. But possibly the best part about being a celebrity is having the ability – dare I say right – to demand whatever is desired no matter how ridiculous, and not be given side eye for it. Remember that story about the 1980's rock group, Van Halen, demanding a candy bowl full of M&M's with all of the brown ones removed? Well that little request is piddly compared to some of the things these divas have demanded. Click through to find out.
Diva is the female version of a hustla… but not just any hustla if you're Beyoncé. This diva demands a dressing room temperature set precisely at 78 degrees Fahrenheit, chicken wings seasoned with cayenne pepper, and Pepsi-products only; per her endorsement contract. And for the poor person(s) in charge of fulfilling these demands: they had better be sure not to look or speak to Beyoncé – another of her demands.


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Slumping forward Cornell Glen has a message for San Jose Earthquakes fans wanting to vent their frustrations about his inability to convert goal-scoring opportunities of late:
There's nothing you can say that he's not already telling myself.
"I'm my own worst enemy," Glen told MLSsoccer.com. "I'm my own worst critic. I criticize myself worse than anyone else, so it doesn't matter to me much what people say."
Tongues have been wagging of late because Glen has been the point of San Jose's rather dull spear. The Quakes have just two goals in their last five matches, while Glen has seen several prime opportunities sail out of bounds after an errant touch with his feet or head.
Against Kansas City on Aug. 14, Glen steamed down the middle of the pitch on a counter and drew out goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen, but he couldn't put his 26th-minute shot on net.
Three minutes later, Khari Stephenson found Glen with a chip pass, and Glen correctly deduced which direction Nielsen would go – but put his header wide of the open goalmouth [WATCH HERE].
Last weekend in Red Bull Arena, Glen beat the hosts' offside trap and pounced on a lead pass from Chris Wondolowski in the 25th minute, but he pushed his 12-yard shot over a sliding Bouna Coundoul wide past the far post [WATCH HERE].
He also made a sliding stab at a perfect cross from Omar Jasseh in the 65th minute, but he couldn't control it as it flew over the crossbar [WATCH HERE].
"[Glen] works hard at his finishing in training," coach Frank Yallop told MLSsoccer.com. "It's a bit like when Wondo had that stretch where he couldn't seem to score, and then he scores two in a row."
Maybe so, but the two in the row haven't yet come for Glen, who has just one goal to Wondolowski's eight on the year. And even after more than a decade as a professional, Glen admits that misses such as the ones he had against New York still get into his head.
"Definitely," Glen said. "But it's something that you've got to put a mental block to and just try to forget it and move on to the next one. Especially games like this, where we have chances and missed chances, sometimes you have sleepless nights. You just come out the next day and work hard, work on doing the correct stuff and hope it goes well the next game."
Yallop looks at those examples as proof that Glen should remain in the starting lineup.
"Cornell played well on Saturday," Yallop told MLSsoccer.com. "His all-around game was good, he was very dangerous, he ran the line well and played a good game without getting that goal that he deserved. But it'll come. We've got to make sure we don't get too down on players that are working hard and trying hard for the team, which he is doing."
Glen knows that opprobrium comes with the territory as a forward. After all, even on a night with a hat trick, fans almost always think you could have scored one or two more goals.
"You can play well, but as forward, all [fans] see are the chances you miss, because primarily, that's your job," Glen said.


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Kicking it back old school by taking my own blog photos today. I've actually never taken any outdoor photos of myself before, and I can confirm it isn't as easy as I imagined. This shoot took 300 shots, I normally do about 50 max doing my own ones, and with me and Ella it was around 100. Lets just say I'm learning. I need to get a shutter release thing to make things a bit easier. But to be honest I'm satisfied with how they came out. I took to my garden to do these photos, as you can tell none of us in my house are particularly green fingered, and it is a bit of a mess! We're always vowing to de-weed it all and plant some nice stuff and get a hot tub, but tha's all just fantasy.
So for today's outfit, the outfit I am actually wearing today and following on from yesterdays Primark haul and do a pretty much fully Primark Outfit. Primark has upped their game. So much. While they do still have some… lets just say questionable pieces. Every season they have consistently got better and better with time. I'm wearing a chain drapey vest, which I adore and wear all the time, paired with a pair of skinny jeans. I don't LOVE Primark jeans, they are okay at best. But they are cheap, and a good budget buy. I also decided on my new primark cropped jacket, at £17 it's one of the pricey Primark pieces, but I'd buy something similar for £40+ from elsewhere without batting an eye lid! I dont actually own any weather appropriate footwear from Primark so I'm wearing my new loves the Vagabond Dioon boots. I cant keep them off my feet. I might even dedicate a whole post to
So what do you think of my full Primark outfit? Does it look like it's a whole Primark outfit? I think not.


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Addiction to harmful drug such as cocaine, prescription drugs, marijuana or heroin is an issue for many people that, unfortunately, often seems insurmountable. It often seems harmless in the beginning. An individual may feel like they are just going to use a substance recreationally before they end up becoming dependent. Although some drugs are more addictive than others, every substance carries the potential to cause dependency.
It's never easy to try to beat an addiction alone. A Cranston drug detox program can make a world of difference for individuals trying to beat their addictions. The two types of drug facilities for those in Cranston, Providence, Warwick and Barrington are inpatient and outpatient, and each type uses a variety of treatment methods.
Cranston Addiction Treatment Programs
Whether one is at an inpatient or outpatient facility, the treatment program will often use an approach that combines medication, especially during the detox phase, with multiple types of therapy. As patients go through detox, medication is often used at Cranston inpatient drug detox centers to reduce common withdrawal symptoms.
Because every substance affects the body differently, treatment facilities will use medication suitable to the patient's drug, or drugs, of choice. For example, cocaine, prescription drugs, marijuana and heroin would all have different effects and lead to different withdrawal symptoms that may require the use of medication for detoxing purposes. After the detox phase is complete, the facility may continue giving the patient prescribed medication to keep his or her cravings in check.
Addiction therapy is a crucial aspect of any treatment program because it helps the patient learn why they became addicted to drugs in the first place and how they can move forward with a drug-free life. In private therapy sessions, the patient will talk to a therapist alone. This individual attention can help an individual make breakthroughs in his or her recovery. Addiction treatment can also utilize group therapy sessions that typically consist of the therapist and up to 10 patients. In group sessions, patients get peer support that can help them stay on the right path and away from the temptation of using cocaine, prescription drugs, marijuana or heroin.
Cranston Inpatient Drug Rehab
Patients in Cranston and Providence, Warwick and Barrington who attend an inpatient drug rehab will stay at the facility for a determined length of time. Depending on the patient's needs, some Cranston inpatient drug detox centers may only keep a patient through the detox phase before helping them transition to an outpatient program. Other inpatient drug rehabs will have a patient spend weeks or even months living on site.
Inpatient facilities have experienced staff to both support and monitor patients. Inpatient care removes recovering individuals from temptations back home and places them in a supportive environment where they can focus entirely on recovery. Individuals in an inpatient facility also have the benefit of attending therapy sessions and taking part in activities with others who are dealing with some of the same issues.
Cranston Intensive Outpatient Addiction Treatment
In some cases, an outpatient Cranston drug detox program may be more suited to a person's needs. Outpatient programs offer many of the same services, including addiction therapy, that are provided in an inpatient facility without requiring an individual to stay on site. Outpatient care also allows patients to spend more time with family, which can help facilitate recovery in some situations. These types of flexible programs are especially well-suited for those who need to keep up with day-to-day responsibilities while getting the addiction help they need.
With the many treatment programs available for residents of Providence, Warwick and Barrington, it can be tough to choose the right one. Our addiction specialists are available to help individuals find a program suited to their specific needs.


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Watchuseek strongly supports genuine innovation and authenticity in watches and is staunchly against fakes and counterfeits. But as Europe prepares for summer vacations, it's a sad fact that counterfeiters are ready and waiting, rubbing their hands, confident that many tourists will return home proudly sporting the fake watch they could never otherwise have afforded. Provided, that is, they make it through Customs.
Flirting with risk is a game they're willing to play in exchange for what they see as their reward. But in reality, counterfeiting is anything but a game:
- With revenues in excess of US$ 400 billion, counterfeiting siphons off 7% of world trade
- More than 40 million fake watches are sold each year, compared with the 26 million genuine watches made in 2010; this equals a net profit of US$1 billion for counterfeiters
- Counterfeiting incurs fewer sanctions than drug trafficking and is a highly lucrative activity for criminal organisations.
When a customer buys a counterfeit watch they admire the accuracy and precision of the timepiece. What they don't realise is they are becoming an accomplice to child labour, money laundering, job losses and intellectual property theft, all of which benefit organised crime.
As part of its mission, the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH) has made the fight against fakes a priority objective by supporting action in the markets by fine watch brands.
In 2009, the Foundation launched Fake Watches are for Fake People, a major public information campaign that appeared in 120 media in 24 countries.
Now a new campaign is declaring You have the choice! – Don't be a partner in crime.
To extend the scope of its action, the FHH also launched a short-film competition for the general public and students of the 1st year in visual communication at Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL) on the theme, Take a true look at fakes.
Out of all the entries, some thirty "infomercials" and short films – cartoons, fictions and montages – were selected to be shown in Switzerland and internationally.
The true cost of counterfeiting
The continued purchase of counterfeit watches, whether online or while shopping abroad, has far reaching consequences and continues to exploit thousands of innocent young lives. Fake time is anything but a good time for these victims. Buy only genuine watches.
• 7% of world trade
• 40 million fake watches are made each year, compared with 26 million genuine Swiss watches
• US$ 400 billion in revenues
• Intellectual property theft
• Damage to brand identity
• Funding organised crime (drug trafficking, money laundering, child labour, etc.)
Risks to consumers:
• Fines
• Civil and criminal charges
• Health hazards
• Only buy from official retailers and distributors
• When buying online, always check the seller's identity
• Demand the product's authenticity certificate


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