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Imagine you just paid to have some great photographer :) take your family pictures. You purchased your 15-20 digital images on a disk and now it's in your hot little hand. You can't wait to go print them out somewhere, but where? Not all photo labs are created equal. I noticed a while ago that some of them gave me different results so I wanted to share that with you.
I decided to print out one picture at six different labs, some in town and some online, some in town BUT with online access too. Confused? I hope not.
The labs I tested this time were:
Walgreens ( nationwide in-store/online 1 hour lab)
Sam's Club ( nationwide in-store/ online 1 hour lab-Does every state have them? )
Creve Coeur Camera ( in town/online access STL camera store/lab)
MPix ( online only consumer division of Millers Pro Lab)
Shutterfly ( online only)
Diversified Lab ( professional photo lab here in the STL)
You deserve to get the most consistent results from your digital files that you can. You should see the same color and quality in your prints as you do when you view them on your computer screen. That being said...the pro labs will always give you the best color and quality. Getting prints through your photographer is always the best way to go.
I understand the need to save some moola so that is why I did this test. I know most the folks I take photos of now ( here in the STL) want the digital files and want to go get prints out and about.
Here are some of the things you should be looking for when you print your images:
Type of paper
Do you want your picture to be glossy or not glossy? It really does change the look/feel of most images. Some photo places give you a choice, some don't. Don't be surprised. If you don't know or can't tell from their site, throw them an email and ask.
Cropping preview ( again... a whole other blog post)
When you print anything above the size of 4x6, there is going to be some cropping that happens. If you are ordering a vertical picture, the cropping will be on the top and bottom. If you are ordering a horizontal image, the cropping will be on the left and right. You may lose some of the image that you don't necessarily want to . That's why previewing your crop is so important. Look for a place that let's YOU decide where you want to crop and then let's you preview it.
Too Dark or too light or weird color
You don't want your images to be way darker than you intended or way lighter. Like I said , they should look very close to what you see on your computer screen ( for the most part). Test out a few places yourself, you might be surprised like I was. Some you will definitely notice a color whether it's yellow, red, or blue.
I used the picture of Louie above to check for color, clarity, and lightness/darkness in my prints. I sent the same exact file that I had corrected to six different photo labs. I wanted all of them to print as is but as you will see, that didn't always happen. To be fair, I also think my monitor needs to be calibrated. That just means that you buy a little contraption that helps you to make your screen as neutral as you can so your prints don't have too much of any one color at any time. But I digress, that's a whole other blog post.
Here are all of the prints laying together so you can see the differences with them close up.
1) Walgreens
The only option you have as far as paper goes for a one hour print in any size is glossy. Now, I'm not knocking glossy but sometimes you want it and sometimes you don't. My image came out dark and I lost alot of detail in anything that was even sort of shaded. I usually only use them in situations where I need something asap like a school poster for K. You do get the option on how you want to crop your picture so make sure you use it. ( see image below)
2) MPix
This one was pretty good. It was a little on the warm (orangey) side compared to my screen but all of the details were in the shadows. And it was in a matte (non-glossy) paper which I wanted. They offer the cropping tool as well. ( see image below)
3) Diversified Lab
They offered me some test prints to test the color between my monitor and their printers. It was still off , a little too yellow/orange compared to my screen. Over all the lightness and details of the picture were good. They also got it to me very quickly. They offered many different types of paper: matte, glossy, metallic, etc. Lots to choose from based on the kid of image you would have. As I chose any given size , they had a very easy to use cropping tool that left nothing to the imagination. What I saw, was what I got. They also have the option to not( see image below)
4) Creve Coeur Camera
This one was one of the top three for me. It was probably the best as far as looking like my screen. It was the right lightness and the details were all there. They have the crop tool along with a setting that says " no color correction" . That is important when you receive digital files from your photographer as they have taken the time to edit and enhance all of the images they have given you. They also give you a choice of paper.
5) Sams Club
Again, just like Walgreens, very dark and I lost all details in the shadows. yuck. That being said I have used them for 4x6 album prints in the past but know I'm wondering how good my prints would have looked from somewhere else. I would only use them in pinch if I really had to. Someone told me Costco was really good but I don't have a membership there so I don't know.( see image below)
6) Shutterfly
This one was again very close to my screen....good lightness, good details and decent color. I got the glossy here and I don't know whay I chose that. You only have the choice of matte in prints bigger than 11x14 here in case you like the gloss.I would definitely order other images from them. And as they seem to always be running some kind of special, it would be good for your wallet as well.( see image below)
I think I would rate my favs as Creve Coeur and with a tie between Mpix and Shutterfly. I hope this helps you decide on where to take your pictures. I know there are so many other photo labs you can go to and this is all just my opinion. There might even be some better than these. I just know that I do my best to take awesome pictures and when they don't turn out awesome being printed. I get kinda mad.
So where do you go for pictures and do you love them? Tell me so I can go try them out and report back to you. Happy photo taking!
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Says it "does not ensure our most basic rights as American citizens are protected"
Adan Salazar
December 21, 2013
Texas Senator Ted Cruz was one of a handful of legislators who took a stand against the renewal of the National Defense Reauthorization Act this week by refusing to sign onto the legislation, which Cruz says still contains wording allowing President Obama to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens absent of due process.
Just voted against NDAA because it does not ensure our most basic rights as American citizens are protected http://t.co/Ewi4GAah1t
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) December 20, 2013
"Just voted against NDAA because it does not ensure our most basic rights as American citizens are protected," Cruz tweeted Thursday evening.
The legislation passed the Senate in an 84-15 vote late last Thursday night and "clears the Pentagon to spend $607 billion, including $527 billion in base funding and $80 billion for America's global operations," reports Defense News.
According to Cruz, the bill contains many provisions he supports and even introduced, including provisions requiring "an independent investigation into reports of religious discrimination against troops sharing their faith," and one insisting on "Improved assistance for widows of troops killed in combat."
However, the embattled senator, who earlier this year helped defeat an assault on gun rights and staged a 21-hour filibuster against the president's namesake healthcare law, also stated in a press release that attempts to amend the bill for the betterment of due process rights were blocked.
Cruz said in a Facebook post Thursday:
Today I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act. I am deeply concerned that Congress still has not prohibited President Obama's ability to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens arrested on American soil without trial or due process.
The Constitution does not allow President Obama, or any President, to apprehend an American citizen, arrested on U.S. soil, and detain these citizens indefinitely without a trial. When I ran for office, I promised the people of Texas I would oppose any National Defense Authorization Act that did not explicitly prohibit the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens. Although this legislation does contain several positive provisions that I support, it does not ensure our most basic rights as American citizens are protected.
I hope that next year the Senate and the House can come together in a bipartisan way to recognize the importance of our constitutional rights even in the face of ongoing terrorist threats and national security challenges. I look forward to working with my colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee toward this common goal.
Last July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned a September 2012 decision made by U.S. District Court Judge Katherine B. Forrest which ruled that Section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA bill, the section authorizing the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, was unconstitutional. However, in less than 24 hours the Obama administration appealed the ruling.
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D., writing for The New American, says the 2014 version of the bill additionally contains "frightening" provisions strengthening government surveillance powers under the Patriot Act, and will also "establish a center to be known as the 'Conflict Records Research Center,'" whose goal it would be to compile a "digital research database including translations and to facilitate research and analysis of records captured from countries, organizations, and individuals, now or once hostile to the United States."
"…[T]here is in the NDAA for 2014 a frightening fusion of the federal government's constant surveillance of innocent Americans and the assistance it will give to justifying the indefinite detention of anyone labeled an enemy of the regime," Wolverton writes.
The website Activist Post published the roll call vote results,
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One thing that's become clear is that a Belgian Linux initiative, how promising it may sound, is far from happening. Not only is language a blocking factor, duplicating/translating work in your free time is not a sheerful task.
Take a look at the Belgian HOWTO for an overview of what Linux in Belgium means.
The whole be.comp.os.linux-newsgroup (BCOL) is also being mirrored by Google.
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Four online ways to grow your business
There are multiple ways to market your business online. This video explains how business listings, paid advertising, email marketing, and social media can improve the visibility of your website and drive more traffic your way.
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Your business is up and running, your website is getting traffic - now you're ready to grow. Let's take a look at four online marketing methods to win more customers and keep them coming back: business listings, paid advertising, email marketing, and social media.
First up, business listings. We're talking online directories, review sites, and maps. Great ways to reach customers. And most of them don't cost you a penny!
Google My Business, Google Maps, Yelp, Bing, MapQuest, Foursquare -these are just some of the many places you'll want your business to appear. Search engines pull information from these sites and display it under your web address for local search results.
Not sure where, or if, you're listed. Simply search for your business online and see where it shows up; then claim your listings. This allows you to make updates and respond to reviews - which is especially important for managing negative reviews.
An easy way to manage all your directory listings at once is to subscribe to a service, such as GoDaddy's Get Found. Adding and updating your info in one place and then sending it to multiple sites and apps with a single click can save you loads of time.
Let's move on to paid online advertising - an investment that can generate big returns. Search engine advertising and sponsored ads are designed to drive traffic to your website. Google Adwords, Bing Ads, Facebook, and LinkedIn are among the many places offering paid online ads - often called pay-per-click advertising.
In general, online ads are affordable and easy to execute. They can target a specific demographic, location, or interest, and provide valuable metrics for measuring what's working and what's not. When people click your ad, be sure they land on a focused page with a clear call-to-action - one that converts them from prospects to customers.
Now, to email marketing. It's a powerful way to reach customers - if you do it right. Do it wrong and you may end up annoying them, or worse, getting slammed as spam.
Always remember - one email equals one call-to-action. Have a clear goal and zero in on it with engaging but concise messaging. Use your customer's name, send them emails triggered by certain events, like their birthday, and cater to their interests. Research shows personalized emails have much higher open and click-through rates than generic email. This means better engagement and ROI for you.
Reassure customers you will send only valuable email. They'll thank you by continuing to open and read your messages.
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Finally, there's social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram - just to name a few. Social media channels offer a cost-effective way to generate leads, drive traffic, and nurture customer relationships.
With so many sites, it's worth doing some research to figure out where your target customers - and competitors - hang out. Then make sure you're there too.
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After being wrongly imprisoned for 26 years, Dewey Bozella, 52, won his professional boxing debut against Larry Hopkins in a four-round cruiserweight fight at the Los Angeles Staples Center in Los Angeles.
After Hopkins landed several punches on Bozella in the first round, the 52-year-old rallied to out-punch and outpoint his younger opponent the rest of the way. Judges scored the fight 39-36, 38-37 and 38-36, all for Bozella.
The fighter, who called the win "a dream come true," announced the match would be his last. He plans to concentrate on helping disadvantaged children near his residence in Newburgh, NY by opening a gym through his foundation. Bozella said:
"This was my first and last fight… It's a young man's game. I did what I wanted to do, and I'm happy. I appreciate everybody that made this possible. This has been one of the greatest experiences of my life."
After being convicted despite little physical evidence tying him to the 1983 murder of Emma Crapser in Poughkeepsie, NY, Bozella was wrongly imprisoned until his conviction was overturned in 2009. While in prison at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, NY, Bozella earned both a bachelor's and master's degree and became the light heavyweight champ of the facility.
The bout, promoted by former boxing champ Oscar DeLa Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions, was on the undercard of the Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson fight in Los Angeles. De La Hoya and others took interest in facilitating a professional fight for Bozella after hearing reports of his wrongful incarceration and subsequent interest in a boxing match.
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Former Coheed and Cambria Bassist Michael Todd Indicted in Massachusetts
It's gone from bad to worse for ex-Coheed and Cambria bassist Michael Todd.
A grand jury in Massachusetts' Bristol County has indicted Todd, who was arrested in July for allegedly robbing a Walgreens in Attleboro just hours before his then-band was to open for Soundgarden in nearby Mansfield.
The 30-year-old Todd will be arraigned Sept. 8. He faces charges of armed robbery and possession of narcotic pain pills stemming from the July 10 incident. Todd was released from jail on July 25 after posting $25,000 bail.
In early August, Coheed and Cambria announced that the band was moving on without Todd, and his departure was described as a mutual decision.


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I think it's more possible on Kindle if you recode the entire book in HTML and then convert. Possibly someone has ways to automate this. I've hand-coded HTML for over 15 years and it would take me far longer to convert a book to HTML than it would take to write the book in the first place - after which you could commit me to a mental institution for fried brains
Besides - one of our specific secondary goals is to further people's commitment to physical books. The theory is that if we make the book well enough, people will see reason to have the physical book. And one of my primary goals in writing these books is to leave a revenue stream (however small) for College of Thelema when I'm dread and gone. Even in a protected commercial environment like Amazon, going eBook route basically means giving the book away. If one sells a million copies, it's worth it; but the occult market isn't that large.
I think we're generous with information, including answering just about anything for free on this site, giving away all of our historic periodicals digitally, etc. I'm not going to work two years to write a major work and then just give it away for not enough revenue to take a couple of people to a cheap dinner. (That would amount to abandoning physical publication forever, since our business model is to recover enough money from one book to pay for publishing the next one.)


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Yesterday we celebrated our nation's 237th birthday. On July 4, 1776 a group of brave men signed a document, The Declaration of Independence, which has forever changed the world.
Yesterday we celebrated our nation's 237th birthday. On July 4, 1776 a group of brave men signed a document, The Declaration of Independence, which has forever changed the world.
There is something special about our mid-summer holiday. The Fourth of July undeniably belongs to the United States of America.
I love Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. Each is a special day to celebrate my faith and to take time to recognize the one who gives us every good and perfect gift. I also love Memorial Day, as we take a day to honor those brave men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice so we can be free.
However, my favorite holiday is the Fourth of July. Maybe it's because I was a member of the Bicentennial Class way back in 1976. But more than that, I just love the All-American celebration.
There's something special about burgers on the grill, a nice cold watermelon and time with family and friends.
The holiday evokes special memories of long ago summer days and evenings playing ball with my friends or enjoying a day at a crowded Pensacola Beach. And what would the holiday be without fireworks.
One of my favorite movie scenes of all times comes from the baseball classic, "The Sandlot." Those of you who know the movie as I do will quickly recall that the Fourth of July was the one chance the boys had to play night baseball as fireworks lit up the sky.
Most of us will never experience anything like that movie scene. But I think there's a part of every boy who has ever picked up a bat and ball that longs for the perfect summer night of playing baseball as Roman candles explode overhead to the tune of Ray Charles singing �America the Beautiful� in the background.
I'm in DeLand this week celebrating the holiday with my family. I'm hoping my dad and I can catch a few innings of a baseball game on TV. Fortunately, Dad's favorite team, the Philadelphia Phillies, and my favorite, the Los Angeles Dodgers, aren�t playing each other, so maybe we will be pulling for the same team.
It seems like only yesterday I was a boy enjoying those endless summers of youth. Sadly, every summer eventually comes to an end, as do all the seasons of life.
In every season we should look for a reason to celebrate. I celebrated the Fourth with those I love. I�m thankful for the day, all the days past and those still to come, that living in this great country allows.
Happy Birthday, America.
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Kid Ink announces 21 new tour dates for his "My Own Lane" tour.
Kid Ink has had quite the successful 2013, and he kept things going into 2014 with the release of his debut effort on RCA, My Own Lane. The album sold 50,000 units opening week, which is pretty impressive for the LA native, as he continues to expand his fan base outside of the Los Angeles area.
The rapper is continuing to promote My Own Lane, with a new tour titled after the album in conjunction with Live Nation. The tour has 21 dates, and commences in April, running until the end of May. Ink will hit up cities in both the U.S. and Canada. The tatted up rapper commented on the upcoming tour, revealing that King Los and Bizzy Crook would be joining him.
"I live on the road, so once again I can't wait to get out there and perform all my new records, and see how the fans respond," Ink said. "Bringing along friend and collaborator King Los is also gonna be great. I know he's gonna add some excitement to the bill as well as Bizzy Crook, whom I hear lots of great things about."
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April 1st Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
April 2nd Seattle, WA Neptune
April 4th San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
April 6th Hollywood, CA House Of Blues Sunset
April 7th San Diego, CA House Of Blues
April 8th Riverside, CA Riverside Municipal Auditorium
April 13th New Orleans, LA House Of Blues New Orleans
April 16th Charlotte, NC The Fillmore
April 18th Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore Silver Spring
April 19th Boston, MA House of Blues
April 20th New York, NY Irving Plaza
April 22nd Philadelphia, PA TLA
April 23rd Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
April 25th Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
April 27th Indianapolis, IN Deluxe at Old National Center
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Blu Tuesday: Spider-Man Redux, Crazy Cage and Chaplin
Following last week's windfall of new releases, I'm happy to report that the rest of June looks just as bright, with a number of noteworthy Blu-rays arriving in stores today. In addition to the titles featured below, there are several other releases that I'd be remiss if I didn't mention, including the new "Sherlock Holmes" sequel, the eighth and final season of "Entourage," and Criterion editions of Hal Ashby's "Harold and Maude" and Danny Boyle's "Shallow Grave." Those would have made for a pretty killer column on their own, but due to what has become a standard complaint around these parts, they weren't sent to me for review. Nevertheless, it speaks volumes of the quality of this week's Blu-rays that I was still able to conjure up three more titles worth talking about.
I'm not exactly sure why Sony would want to remind moviegoers about the original "Spider-Man" trilogy when the studio is only weeks away from rebooting the lucrative superhero franchise, but if you never got around to buying the films on Blu-ray, it's as good a time as any to get them now. Granted, the cover art for all three movies is an appalling Photoshop hack job that shows just how little work went into these re-releases, but it's what's inside that really counts. Though "X-Men" was the first movie to revitalize the comic book genre, Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" films are what turned it into Hollywood's obsession. Though the legacy of Raimi's trilogy may have been marred a bit by the tepid reaction to the third installment (although for the record, I actually liked it quite a bit), it still contains some of the best superhero movies to date, especially the well-received sequel featuring Alfred Molina as classic Spidey villain Doc Ock. And no matter how amazing Mark Webb's reboot may turn out to be, it wouldn't have been possible without the spectacular trilogy that came before it.
Blu-ray Highlight: Fans will be happy to learn that the bonus material for "Spider-Man" and "Spider-Man 2" has been reinstated on their respective discs (unlike their Blu-ray debuts), even if "Spider-Man 3" was shortchanged in the process. Although it's hard to pick just one highlight from the treasure trove of special features, the 12-part "Spider-Man 2" documentary "Making the Amazing" is an incredibly in-depth look at the amount of work that went into making the film. If you're not a big fan of production featurettes, however, the numerous audio commentaries that appear on each disc are also great.
Mark Steven Johnson's 2007 attempt to bring Ghost Rider to the big screen didn't turn out particularly well, and although many believed that would be the last we'd ever see of Marvel's B-list antihero, Sony decided to give the character another shot with this equally shoddy reboot by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Though the directing duo behind the "Crank" films seemed like a natural fit to take on such a bizarre character, "Spirit of Vengeance" is only slightly better than the first movie. One of the few things they do get right is the scenes with Ghost Rider, emphasizing his demonic nature by making him as frightening and intimidating as possible, but he's used far too sparingly. And unfortunately, that's where the magic ends, because the rest of the film makes many of the same mistakes as its predecessors, with plenty of bad dialogue, poor attempts at humor, and a laughably bad performance by Johnny Whitworth. Neveldine and Taylor's version at least seems to have been made more with fans of the comic in mind, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still bad.
Blu-ray Highlight: In addition to an excellent six-part documentary that runs the entire gamut of production – from location shooting in Romania, to Nicolas Cage's (creepy) performance capture of the Ghost Rider, to special effects and more – the Blu-ray also includes a feature similar to Warner Bros.' Maximum Movie Mode where directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor dissect the film (sometimes pausing it to discuss certain scenes in more detail) with the help of behind-the-scenes footage. Both extras are definitely worth your time, even if it means having to watch the movie more than once.
Call me crazy, but I've never quite understood why Charlie Chaplin's "The Gold Rush" was considered to be a cinematic masterpiece. Although there's a lot to love about the movie – particularly the first 30 minutes in the cabin with the Tramp, Big Jim and Black Larsen – the second half is incredibly uneven. The gags that do work are still hilarious to this day, however, and it's no doubt the memory of those iconic scenes that has led people to hold the film in such high regard. From eating a boiled leather shoe, to getting caught in the middle of a crosswind, to the dancing dinner roll routine, "The Gold Rush" contains some of Chaplin's best movie moments. Unfortunately, the film's dramatic beats only get in the way of its comic genius, while the big finale in the teetering cabin isn't nearly as funny as some of the earlier scenes, like the bit where Chaplin tries to avoid the barrel of a shotgun, or when Big Jim imagines the Tramp as a giant chicken. It's definitely one of those movies that you need to see at least once in your life, but it's hardly the definitive Chaplin picture.
Blu-ray Highlight: There's some really great bonus material included on the disc, but the standout extra is "Presenting 'The Gold Rush'," a 16-minute featurette about the film's long history that covers its initial theatrical release, Charlie Chaplin's reworked 1942 sound version, and the various re-releases throughout the years, including the restoration of the 1925 original completed by David Gill and Kevin Brownlow in 1993.
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Flood of royal wedding smartphone apps hits market
(AP) -- Not feeling the royal wedding spirit yet? It may be time to download a countdown clock to your smartphone.
More than a dozen smartphone apps are offering to bring fans everything royal wedding-related wherever they are - so they can check the days and minutes until Prince William and Kate Middleton's April 29 wedding, hoard news and pictures about them and instantly share their favorite royal wedding tidbits on social media networks.
Most of the apps are tailored for iPhones or iPads. Some are fairly informative: There are apps that feature live coverage of the wedding on the day, a weather forecast for London's Westminster Abbey up to 10 days in advance, and royal protocol in case, for whatever reason, you need to greet the queen.
Hello! Magazine, a popular source of celebrity news, promises exclusive commentary, while an app developed by mobile games company Neon Play has teamed up with Ian Jones, a photographer who has snapped William's portrait in the past, to dish up 100 exclusive images of the royal family.
If that isn't enough, one iPhone app - "Alarm Royale" - even lets people set their phone alarm clock to a wedding march or royal-themed music like "God Save the Queen" and "Rule Britannia."
Once a person wakes up, the app also shows them a new fact about the royal couple every day, said developer Mark Riley.
"It's fairly lighthearted," he said. "There are more modern elements in it as well, like social networking - you can share the facts on Facebook and Twitter."
Like Riley, many app developers aim to connect users to a digital community of royalists all over the world. While the U.S. and Britain are the largest markets, people are downloading the apps from as far away as the Philippines and Saudi Arabia.
"It's one big party," said Diane Hall, president of Toronto-based 2 For Life Media Inc., which launched an iPad royal wedding app that lets users share marriage advice and wedding tips to the royal couple through a virtual guestbook. Wills and Kate - as they are known in the British tabloids - most likely will never read the entries, but part of the fun is reading up on what other "guests" want to tell them, she said.
"You get an interactive experience. You can be informed but also share with others and have a good laugh," Hall said.
With online social media and digital technology, more people than ever can "participate" in the historic event in real time.
Palace officials are putting all their official royal wedding photos up on the photo-share site Flickr, and a royal wedding website is in place to spread the word for the latest announcements. An official Twitter account ensures that those messages travel far and wide.
And the millions of fans who won't get a chance to line London's streets for the royal wedding procession can still get a feel for the route with a 3D map introduced by Google maps earlier this month.
All that is probably too much information for most men, though.
"We make it fun for the men, but I think the women are the really keen ones," Hall said with a laugh.
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February 28, 2013
US lawmakers have accused the White House of rebuffing their inquiries into CIA drone bombing raids abroad and vowed to assert more congressional oversight over the secretive drone war.
Both Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday denounced President Barack Obama's administration for refusing to share key documents or details of the killings by armed, robotic aircraft.
"The need for oversight is clear," said Representative John Conyers, a Democrat and normally a staunch ally of the Obama administration.
Conyers and other members of the committee said it was unacceptable that the Attorney General, Eric Holder, or other officials from the Justice Department declined an invitation to appear at the hearing devoted to the drone campaign.
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Fossils collected by a young Charles Darwin have been discovered in a gloomy corner of a British Geological Survey vault.
The treasure trove of fossilised wood, stone and vegetation includes samples that Darwin collected on the HMS Beagle journey during which he came up with his theory of evolution. Lost for 165 years, the cabinet belonged to Darwin's good friend Joseph Hooker and also contained specimens from Darwin's mentor at Cambridge University, the Rev John Henslow.
Dr Howard Falcon-Lang, a palaeontologist at Royal Holloway University, stumbled across the old wooden cabinet shoved in a dark corner of a vault belonging to the Geological Survey in Surrey. He said that he was stunned to pull a slide out and see Charles Darwin's signature on the specimen.
The slides include dense volcanic rock and samples gathered from all over the world - from Dorset to Antigua, India and Australia.
"To find a treasure trove of lost Darwin specimens from the Beagle voyage is just extraordinary," Falcon-Lang told the Associated Press. "We can see there's more to learn. There are a lot of very, very significant fossils in there that we didn't know existed."
Hooker's failure to use the specimen register properly, and the fact that Darwin was not particularly famous in 1846 when the cabinet was put in storage, allowed the fossils to lie undiscovered for well over a century and a half. It would be 13 years before Darwin published his masterpiece On the Origin of Species in 1859.
Over three million fossils are stored in Geological Survey's collection. A report on the latest finding - Fossil 'treasure trove' found in British Geological Survey vaults - was published in Geology Today. ®
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MILAN (Reuters) - Former Finmeccanica SIFI.MI Chairman and CEO Giuseppe Orsi, who faces a trial in June over allegations of corruption in a helicopter deal with India, was released from jail on Saturday, his lawyer said.
Orsi was arrested on February 12 on a warrant alleging he paid bribes to win a 560 million euro ($727 million) contract to sell helicopters to India in 2010, when he was at the helm of Finmeccanica's helicopter unit AgustaWestland.
Orsi, who resigned from the state-owned aerospace and defense group a few days after his arrest, denies any wrongdoing. He was released from jail because the terms that allowed prosecutors to keep him in custody ahead of a trial had expired.
Orsi's trial will begin on June 19 after a judge ruled on Friday that there was enough evidence for a procedure to start immediately, legal sources close to the case told Reuters.
In an e-mailed statement, Orsi's lawyer Ennio Amodio said on Saturday that his client had sought to bring order and transparency to a company hit by internal power struggles, and that he was confident truth would prevail at the trial.
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Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant.
These series of maps show which parts of Central Luzon, Metro Manila and Souithern Tagalog will be affected if a similar 80.5-km radius evacuation zone had to be declared due to a hypothetical nuclear disaster at the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (14.6291667N, 120.3136111E). The whole of Bataan will have to be evacuated.
In Bulacan, all town lying along Manila Bay and the southwestern towns of San Rafael, Baliuag, Bustos, Pandi, Sta. Maria, including San Jose del Monte City are within the danger zone.


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Weekend Herb Blogging #31 Recap
Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A.
Toronto, Canada
At Once Upon a Feast, Ruth is excited that warm weather has finally come to Toronto, and she's featured a great Spring to Summer Menu. Featured dishes include Grilled Asparagus, Cedar Plank Salmon, Quinoa Tabbouli, Chickpea Couscous Salad and Blueberry Mint Granita. Yum.
Tampa, Florida, U.S.A.
At Tony's Food Chronicles, Tony is sharing some Gardening Inspiration which was provided by an Italian grandmother in the Philadelphia neighborhood where Tony grew up. There's a photo of Tony's healthy looking tomato cuttings and a tomato planting tip.
New Jersey, U.S.A.
At Sweetnicks, Cate is doing her monthly recipe roundup and spotlights two recipes for WHB, Parmesan Parsley Bread and Da Silvano's Sugo di Pomodoro. I'm going to try this pasta sauce recipe if I ever get my fresh basil going this year!
The Beach, California, U.S.A.
A new herb blogger this week is Gabriella from the delightfully named blog My Life as a Reluctant Housewife. Gabriella posts a delicious recipe for Lavendar Lemon Chicken, featuring lavendar and thyme, and also a beautiful photo of her lavendar plant.
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
This week Nandita from Saffron Trail is blogging about mint and sharing a recipe for Minty Cucumber Raita. Raita is a dish made with cucumbers, yogurt, and spices and it's eaten as a salad or as an accompaniment with rice and hot dishes. This recipe sounds great.
Milan, Italy
When Piperita from The Kitchen Pantry titled her post Orchiette con Pesto di Rucola e Burrata, I was quite proud that I could read some of the Italian, but she stumped me on the Burrata, a type of fresh Italian cheese that sounds wonderful. In English, this delightful sounding recipe would be fresh pasta with pesto of arugula and fresh cheese.
Istanbul, Turkey
Isil from Veggie Way has a lovely new header for her blog. This week she's writing about Snow Pea Salad which features olive oil, lemon and dill, and she's also sharing memories of shelling peas as a child.
Kronshagen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Ulrike from Kuchenlatein has been visiting the farmers market, where she got some lovely looking herb plants. She used some of her newly-acquired tarragon in a White Asparagus (aspiration) Salad with Ham from Parma. (Parma ham is one of those foodie things I'm dying to taste, but I've never seen it here.)
Davis, California, U.S.A.
Sher from What Did You Eat is once again featuring cilantro in her dish, which is fine for me since it's my very favorite herb! Sher uses the Cilantro in Chipotle Chicken Salad Tacos, featuring homemade corn tortillas. (Yes, we are impressed!)
Nantes, France
I'm always wowed by the bilingual bloggers who submit things for Weekend Herb Blogging, and this week we have a new herb blogger writing in French! For this delightful post by Virginie of Absolutely Green I'm giving you the permalink to the French version for Dandelion Marmalade, but click on the English translation if your French isn't any better than mine. The process does sound quite amazing for turning this common weed into jam!
Astoria, New York, U.S.A.
Stacey from Just Braise reports that the term Coke is commonly used for all types of soda in some parts of the U.S., but nevertheless, it was the real thing that she used for her Soda Braised Beef. Stacey used rosemary, parsley, and thyme to flavor her beef, but she also mentions other herbs that could be used.
Barcelona, Spain
It's amazing how good recipes get passed around the world! This week Kel from Green Olive Tree shares a recipe she calls Easy Broccoli Salad, which is something my family has been eating for years. Kel reports this is a good way to get some ARF veggies into children, and her photos to accompany this are fantastic.
Salt Lake City, Utah. U.S.A.
My own herb of choice this week was sage, the first time I've repeated an ingredient, but the sage in my garden was calling me. I used my sage to make Sausage and Lentils with Wild Sage from The Silver Spoon, a cookbook I'm exploring when I'm not out traveling around the country.
That's all the herb posts for this week, but don't forget to check out Weekend Cat Blogging at Eat Stuff and Weekend Dog Blogging at Sweetnicks.
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Lee Miller in Colour, Farleys Gallery, (Lee Miller's home), ENGLAND
Sundays, 7th April to 13th October 2019
The Lee Miller Archives are proud to present the first exhibition dedicated to Lee Miller's colour photography.
An icon of 20th century photography, Lee Miller is renowned for her striking black and white surrealist imagery and fearless war reportage. Now for the first time, through this exhibition, her colour photographs show her extraordinary mastery of colour. For most of the images this exhibition is their debut appearance as they have never been seen before outside of the Lee Miller Archives.
The exhibition features her use of the Tri-Carbro process in her New York studio in 1933 before colour film was available. She endured many hours completing the slow and complex process necessary to create the perfect tricolour. As a surrealist in Paris, drawing on her experience from working with Man Ray and Edward Steichen she grew to value technical innovation as a way to capture the dreamlike images of the marvellous that form much of her surrealist work. Later she seized on the newly invented colour reversal film to capture scenes from her life in Egypt. As one of the major photographers contributing to British Vogue during the Second World War, Lee Miller had access to large format colour film and her heavily saturated fashion shots often graced the magazine's front cover. Later, keeping abreast of the curve, she used colour reversal to capture the likeness of some of the greatest modern artists such as; Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, and Wilfredo Lam.
The Lee Miller Archives, based at Farleys House & Gallery has over 60,000 negatives in the collection, in addition to colour transparencies. Until recently the colour images were almost completely unseen due to the risk of printing from such fragile original images. Now digital scanning technology allow us to preserve them for generations to come. This exhibition also includes works by Roland Penrose, the British surrealist artist who Miller married in 1947 and David E. Scherman, LIFE Magazine combat photographer and Miller's wartime buddy. They capture Miller in holiday snapshots, surreal compositions, and even for demonstrations in camouflage with her skills as a fashion model in her earlier career often evident in her pose.
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VANCOUVER — Bigger challenges need bigger solutions.
In an academic environment, that can mean pulling together a team of researchers dispersed across a campus, a country, or the entire world.
"If I'm able to solve the problem myself I shouldn't be working on that problem, it would be too trivial," University of Alberta researcher Sushanta Mitra recently remarked to a colleague.
Mitra, a professor of mechanical engineering, works on projects that address global challenges in the fields of medicine, energy, and the environment.
He is a director at the National Institute for Nanotechnology, one of the world's largest nanotech labs. He's one of the Canadian leads on a $30-million, five-year collaboration among 11 universities in Canada and India focusing on water quality, disease control and infrastructure known as IC-Impacts. As well, he's the lead on a team of 15 researchers in Canada and the United States who are working through Carbon Management Canada to convert coal into natural gas without taking the coal out of the ground.
The IC-Impacts project, Mitra said, will boost Canada's ability to participate in international research and engineering collaborations.
"The way things are evolving now is that the (research challenges) are becoming so complex that it's almost impossible as an individual researcher to attack it," Mitra said, adding that "there is no point" attempting to work in isolation on a project because budget-minded funding agencies such as Canada's NSERC are loath to support duplicate efforts.
"Along with University of Alberta, researchers at University of British Columbia and University of Toronto are involved in the IC-Impacts project. UBC is the host school for Canada. Indian Institutes of Technology, autonomous engineering institutes dispersed around India, are also participating.
Researchers have not abandoned their desire to compete against one another, either locally or globally, but they're using it constructively in collaborations, Mitra said.
"We compete, but this is the new paradigm — cooperative competition. Through collaboration, even though you are competing individually, I think you can tackle bigger problems," Mitra said.
Mitra's piece of IC-Impacts is water — including availability and treatment.
"This is a big problem, be it (in) Canada or elsewhere globally. It will be a problem in the next decades when you have eight to 10 billion people that the Earth has to support. This kind of global challenge, problem, has to be dealt with through this multi-pronged, multi-university collaboration approach."
In India, the challenge is providing easy access to safe drinking water for hundreds of millions of people, including those in large population centres. More than 37 million Indians get sick each year from drinking contaminated water.
In Canada, the problem is reaching a smaller number of people living in remote areas. Roughly 5,000 Canadians get sick each year from drinking water contaminated with giardia, the world's most common intestinal parasite. At any given time, about 1,400 boil water advisories are in place in Canadian cities, small towns, neighbourhoods, and even business establishments, plus about 100 advisories in First Nations communities.
At UAlberta, the IC-Impacts project involves 100 students and researchers. Across the entire collaboration, that climbs to 700.
Peter Wild of University of Victoria also leads a Carbon Management Canada project. It involves four universities including St. Francis Xavier, University of Toronto and University of Calgary. They're developing underground sensors to monitor the stability of underground reservoirs where carbon dioxide would be stored after being collected at industrial facilities that emit large volumes of CO2, such as coal-fired generating plants.
As with Mitra's work, it has global importance. Effective, permanent underground storage of carbon dioxide is one of the methods championed by the International Energy Agency for reducing the global warming effects of fossil fuel combustion. If it's possible to sequester CO2 in underground reservoirs, typically in drained natural gas fields, then a major obstacle to future development of coal generation facilities will be overcome.
"When you start out and you look at a problem and you think about how you're going to approach it you say 'OK, well what's the palette of expertise that we need to tackle this thing? What can I do, what my colleagues here at UVic do, what can people elsewhere do?'" Wild said. "Often the best way, if you can't find the expertise locally, is to reach out.
"I can't speak for all academics, but I think that if I had to make a list of the things I enjoy most about the job I'd have to say that the productive collaborations I've had over the years with academics here at my own institution or elsewhere would be pretty high on the list. It's a lot of fun. It's very stimulating to work with people from other disciplines and other perspectives."
Wild is executive director of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at the University of Victoria. IESVic focuses on renewable energy research and, again, it's an enterprise of global importance that has attracted international interest.
"We've got research collaborations with China. We've got research collaborations with Germany, Japan and Taiwan," Wild said.
"The collaborations have different motivations. Sometimes it's expertise, sometimes it's facilities and equipment. If there are people who have unique equipment that is going to allow you to do some special things with your work that you haven't been able to do before, then that's a great motivator to get on a plane and make it happen."
One of the world's largest research organizations, the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, recently struck an agreement with UAlberta to collaborate on research focusing on energy and environment.
Helmholtz, named for 19th-century scientific giant Hermann von Helmholtz, has 18 research centres in Germany and supports 33,000 scientists and staff on an annual budget that will exceed 3.7 billion euros in 2013. That includes 7,400 foreign scientists and 6,200 doctoral students.
Helmholtz focuses on large infrastructure properties, including particle accelerators, research vessels and aircraft. The majority of its funding is from the federal government.
The association maintains an international focus. It has research partners in Europe, North America, Asia and the Pacific Rim.
"Cooperation and networking with national and international partners from science and research, and especially from the universities and industry, are its key to producing outstanding research findings — more efficiently and quickly," says a webpage representing Helmholtz's international offices.
Helmholtz and University of Alberta in 2009 struck a partnership that sees the two institutions build a research collaboration that will eventually expand into six fields, starting with clean technology development in bitumen extraction and thermal coal combustion.
Typically, Helmholtz starts out with an administrative office — they've had them in Beijing and Moscow for decades — and then expands into research partnerships. At UAlberta, they established a research partnership first.
"Consider some of the natural resources which are in Alberta as well as the lignite and coal mining operations where Germany is still very active," Stefan Scherer, managing director of the Helmholtz Alberta Initiative, said. Germany "has learned a lot over the last decade especially after unification and inheriting lignite mines in the east part of Germany."
Since the initial partnership, other researchers in other disciplines at the institutions including medicine have expressed an interest in similar relationships.
"The University of Alberta has some internationally recognized expertise in infectious disease research. We are just in the process of setting up a project in infectious disease (research) as well," Scherer said. "This is a really nice development nobody was seeing when they started on energy and environment to bring them together."
Anne Naeth, a theme lead in the Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative, just set up the Land Reclamation International Graduate School at UAlberta, focusing on restoration and recovery of land disturbed by human use. That could mean an open pit mine, a pipeline, or even a road.
Students from GeoForshungsZentrum (GFZ) in Potsdam, Germany, are coming to her graduate school, and the German research foundation is developing a federally funded graduate school which UAlberta students will be able to attend.
"It's a really nice example of how the ball has been played back and forth and there is some evidence and track of success where something has been done. It's more than just an idea on PowerPoint," Scherer said.
Naeth began researching reclamation in the mid-1980s, looking at everything from open pit mines and pipelines to roads and contaminated or abandoned lands.
"We really understand a whole lot more about what we need to do to reclaim areas," Naeth said. "Just understanding how to build soils may not seem like a big thing but it is when you're working with areas like (open pit) mines where all of the soil has been completely destroyed.
"There is technology associated with that. In essence, it's the technology associated with rebuilding that whole ecosystem all the way from the soil up."
But while a lot of that work involves science, the biggest challenge is working out how to piece the land back together after a disturbance.
"Most of us have research liaisons with people around the world. I, for example, work with people in the U.K., in Germany, in Australia, New Zealand, the United States. There's a lot of sharing of information — which means you're not simply developing something and then going onto the next thing. There's a whole network of sharing."
Working with Helmholtz, she said, is "just a more formal and larger scale liaison than what we had before. There's a sharing of funds, a sharing of ideas. Putting it in a nutshell, the more people who are working on a problem, the more likely you are to find a solution — particularly if you are working together and not off in your own little silos."


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At the IOC's upcoming extraordinary session, the Council of Members will draw up a proposal for the participation of the IOC in COP22, which will be held in Marrakech in November, by organizing a conference on the carbon sink effect of olive trees
For the first time ever, the International Olive Council held the Mario Solinas Award Ceremony in Japan within the framework of its Believe in Olive Oil promotion campaign in this Asian country.
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Interview with Gian Franco Carli: Our oil is "made by the people who bring it, brought by the people who make it", without using middlemen. You have to experience the product. You have to immerse yourself in it. To the point of saturation. Penetrate through to its heart. In fact, if you can't manage to crystallize what you want to tell consumers in one single idea, one single topic, you can't be creative. A good rule is to always tell the truth, and if possible the whole truth. Because in the long term, only the truth will win over people's trust. And what other purpose should there be for advertising, if not to encourage and establish trust? > Luigi Caricato
Interview to Fabrizio Fusi, founded two companies Castel del Chianti and Fiorentini Firenze: "You have to aim for an oil that's as harmonious as possible. Everyone always wants an oil that's not too fruity, not too bitter and not too pungent. A mild oil raises fewer issues with a consumer, but the milder an EVO is, the more criticism it will encounter during panel tests and in any case, it will have a shorter shelf life" > Luigi Caricato
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Marisa Iocco, chef and owner of Spiga Ristorante in Boston, offers us a typically American dessert, very popular and now considered so familiar that it cannot be taken off the menu, as much as it is required. The same dessert was proposed during the communication and training project held at the end of 2019 in Boston, Providence and New York, organized by the quality consortia of extra virgin olive oils Ceq Italia and, for Spain, by QvExtra! with the support of the European Union.
Extra Virgin Garda DOP olive oil's distinctive traits are its naturally delicate flavor and its elegance. At the taste it can be recognized for harmony or its organoleptic notes and for the light and balanced aromas: the scents of fresh grass, aromatic herbs, hay and artichoke, together with the typical almond aftertaste, make it unique. Recipe by chef Carlo Bresciani
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text: Two loggerhead turtles were recently admitted into the care of the National Aquarium Animal Rescue after having been hooked by fishing gear. Portsmouth and Niagra arrived from the Virginia Aquarium yesterday afternoon, and were met with full medical exams and a new pool. Both turtles were brought to the Virginia Aquarium Stranding Center because they had been hooked by fishing gear on a local pier. The fisherman did the best thing for the turtles by calling their local rescue team, who gladly took in the turtles and stabilized them before calling us for a transfer. After quite a ride up to the National Aquarium, Portsmouth and Niagra were ready to go back into the water. They have started a round of antibiotics, which is routine, and will have radiographs taken later this week to check those areas where they were hooked. Hook injuries like these are not uncommon . Season after season, you will hear animal rescue facilities along the coastlines talking about safe viewing of marine animals and helping stranded or injured marine animals in their local areas. As protected species, there are federal laws that protect these animals from human activities such as harassment, poaching, hunting, killing, feeding, and touching within our waterways; however, reporting suspicious incidents, entanglement cases, and sightings or strandings of these animals is not a crime against them…it is actually helping them! With summer in full swing, and boaters constantly out on the waters, we would like to take this time to talk about sea turtle safety and how YOU can help save them! First, we understand that it is not always easy to spot sea turtles in the open water, as they will only surface for a breath of air. This means that a hint of their carapace (shell) and their head will appear out of the water for a few seconds. Sea turtles are not basking turtles, so you will not find them lounging on rocks or beaches to rest. Spring and summer are often the months where we see an increase in boat strike injuries because of these subtle sightings. Another increase that we see is hook ingestion and entanglement cases that involve fishing gear and marine debris. There are ways to help save these animals, most of which are simple and thoughtful for all marine life! If you capture a sea turtle while fishing in local waters, immediately contact the appropriate response team and await further instruction. Locally, these teams can be reached at: Maryland, National Aquarium: 410-373-0083 Delaware, MERR Institute: 302-228-5029 Virginia, Virginia Aquarium: 757-385-7575 NOAA Fisheries Hotline: 1-866-755-6622 While you wait for the response team to arrive, here are a few things to remember: Keep your hands away from the turtle's mouth and flippers. Use a net or the shell to lift the animal onto land/pier, or into a boat. Do NOT lift the animal via hook or pull on the line. If the turtle is too large, try to guide it to the beach. When you have control of the animal, use blunt scissors/knife to cut the line, leaving at least 2 feet of line. Leave the hook in place, as removing it could cause further damage. NEVER take the hook out on your own and release the animal. The response team wants to make sure that the turtle is safe before releasing it back into the wild. Keep the turtle out of direct sunlight, and cover the shell with a damp towel. The response team will communicate with you to retrieve the animal for treatment and an exam. We take every precaution to make sure that these animals go back into their natural environment with the best chance possible at survival, and we would like you to join us in this effort by simply educating yourself on the laws for their protection, visiting our website for further insight, and using safe boating practices! Stay tuned for updates on Portsmouth and Niagra's stay with the Animal Rescue team! Tags: animal-rescue, national-aquarium-2, national-aquarium-experts, national-aquarium-in-baltimore, sea-turtle-conservation, sea-turtles, virginia-aquarium Categories: Animals, Conservation, News Previous Post Next Post


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Topic: Quota not appropriate
I have assigned quota on every users in a domain. The quota is based on designation/experience. I haven't changed any setting in setting.ini file available with iredadmin-pro.
On Roundcube I see quota for every users as a static 100MB. How can this be set based on the designation/experience for individual users.
Can this 100MB be changed to any other number...?


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These are two interviews with Paul Cole from 2004, which I have decided to preserve here, because they have now vanished from the original sites where they were published.
The Daily Mirror: BEATLES MYSTERY MAN REVEALED
By Anthony Harwood Us Editor In New York
HE wasn't a fan and still doesn't know any of their songs, but Paul Cole can now be revealed as part of Beatles history.
The retired American salesman, 92, has finally admitted he was the "extra Paul" on one of the group's most famous album covers, Abbey Road.
Taken in August 1969, the photograph enjoys iconic status - and Mr Cole is the one next to the black police van, just behind John Lennon's head.
He said: "I was on holiday in London with my wife and I told her, 'I've seen enough museums. You go on, take your time and I'll see you later'.
"I saw this police van and I went over. I must have been talking to the policeman for about half an hour.
"I then saw these four guys walking across the street like a line of ducks.
"A bunch of kooks I called them because they all had long hair and one of them was even barefoot."
Mr Cole had no idea who they were or that they were being photographed.
It wasn't until six months later, back at home in America, he found out.
"My wife used to play the organ and a couple wanted her to play a song off the album at their wedding.
"I saw the album and I recognised myself right away. I had a new sports jacket on and I'd just bought new shell-rimmed glasses. I said to my children, 'get a magnifying glass out and you'll see me'." Mr Cole, who lives in Florida, used to tell his friends that "my picture is in millions of houses".
But no one else had a clue who he was - until now. Yet despite being forever linked to the album, he has never actually listened to Abbey Road.
"It's still brand new in its sleeve," he said. "I couldn't name a single song."
At the time, though, his children were delighted. "They blew up pictures for their bedroom walls which they got me to sign as a joke," he said.
The famous shot was taken by photographer Iain McMillan.
The Fab Four were pictured on a pedestrian crossing outside their studio in Abbey Road, North London. It was the last album they recorded.
When it appeared, the picture sparked rumours that Paul McCartney was dead. As well as being barefoot he was out of step with the rest of the group.
Fans also pointed to the number plate of a Beetle car parked on the left which ended: "28IF". McCartney would have been 28 if he had died that year.
But Mr Cole does at least know Macca is very much alive. "If you ever see the Beatle, tell him he's a wonderful guy."
BAREFOOT BAY - Paul Cole was in one of the most famous photographs of the
20th century, and yet he wasn't famous.
Cole, a longtime Barefoot Bay resident, died Wednesday in Pensacola at age
96. He is clearly seen in the famous shot of the Beatles walking across
London's Abbey Road, used as the front cover of the group's classic 1969
album, "Abbey Road." Over the years, the picture has been reproduced in
books, on posters, coffee mugs, T-shirts and hundreds of other places.
The retired salesman is standing on the sidewalk, just behind the Beatles.
Gawking at them.
In a 2004 interview with Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, Cole explained
how he came to be there at that precise moment.
On a London vacation with his wife, Cole - then a resident of Deerfield
Beach - declined to enter a museum on the north London thoroughfare.
"I told her, 'I've seen enough museums. You go on in, take your time and
look around and so on, and I'll just stay out here and see what's going on
outside,'" he recalled.
Parked just outside was a black police van. "I like to just start talking
with people," Cole said. "I walked out, and that cop was sitting there in
that police car. I just started carrying on a conversation with him. I was
asking him about all kinds of things, about the city of London and the
traffic control, things like that. Passing the time of day."
In the picture, Cole is standing next to the police van.
It was 10 a.m., Aug. 8, 1969. Photographer Iain McMillan was on a stepladder
in the middle of the street, photographing the four Beatles as they walked,
single-file, across Abbey Road, John Lennon in his famous white suit, Paul
McCartney without shoes. The entire shoot lasted 10 minutes.
"I just happened to look up, and I saw those guys walking across the street
like a line of ducks," Cole remembered. "A bunch of kooks, I called them,
because they were rather radical-looking at that time. You didn't walk
around in London barefoot."
About a year later, Cole first noticed the "Abbey Road" album on top of the
family record player (his wife was learning to play George Harrison's love
song "Something" on the organ). He did a double-take when he eyeballed
McMillan's photo.
"I had a new sportcoat on, and I had just gotten new shell-rimmed glasses
before I left," he says. "I had to convince the kids that that was me for a
while. I told them, 'Get the magnifying glass out, kids, and you'll see it's


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TJ Cunningham, a 22-month-old Dublin toddler who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy, has traveled to the U.S. with his family to undergo two stages of brain surgery.
While being treated in Detroit Children's Medical Center a series of fundraisers have been held throughout Dublin and in his native, Tallaght to help cover the costs of medical bills. In addition to events being held in Ireland, TJ also has a large family base in New York and Nassau County, Long Island who are working endlessly to spread the word and to advertise benefits across NYC in the upcoming weeks in aid of TJ.
TJ was born perfectly healthy in May 2011 and was a normal baby only having some sleep issues. At 13 -months, TJ had his first seizure sitting in his high chair, just hours after his 13 month vaccination. Three weeks later he was diagnosed with a rare and severe form of epilepsy called 'Infantile Spasms'. After many hospital admissions, MRI scans, CT scan, EEG's, lumber puncture, endless amounts of needles, drugs and sleepless nights TJ is continuing to get worse week by week. He now has over 100 seizures every day. No medicine has been of any advantage to TJ, it only cause him terrible side effects.
This is why TJ needs to have major brain surgery before he is two-years-old. The toddler underwent surgery on Thursday, March 7 in the Detroit Children's Medical Center. The hospital in Michigan is one of the best hospitals in the world for treating Infantile Spasms. IrishCentral spoke to TJ's mother's step mother, Ellen Keneally who lives in New York and she said, "TJ is doing well after his first surgery. Over the course of five hours, electrodes were implanted to monitor and track where the seizures are coming from- this part of the specialized treatment could not be received in Ireland. Part two of the surgery was scheduled for Thursday the 14th of March toremove the areas identified by the electrodes ." The surgery was since moved forward to Tuesday, March 12th where surgeons were to remove most of the right side of TJ's brain.
Leah and Tony, TJ's parents say TJ is doing well and will just be at TJ's side trying to keep him comfortable, but they remain positive.
The neurologist and surgeon are optimistic that TJ will regain lost abilities such as his ability to walk, talk, sit and communicate and has every possibility for a normal childhood, with time and therapy.
As medical staff do the best to save TJ's life, the Irish community in New York can do their bit by attending upcoming benefits and donating in various ways to help give TJ the life he deserves.
The Long Island Epilepsy foundation has helped the family tremendously and they are taking donations in TJ's name on their website. TJ's mother has made a Youtube video documenting TJ's story and created a Facebook page following 'TJ's epilepsy journey'. There is also links on this page where you can donate.
A benefit with all proceeds going to TJ has already been held on Long Island and there are two upcoming events. The next benefit will be held on Saturday April 13 at Mickey Malones- 381 Jericho TPKE, Floral Park, NY starting at 2pm. Three vacations are to be raffled to Mexico, Miami and a night at the Fitzpatrick Hotel, NYC with airfare included. Tickets will be sold at the events, along with baskets to be given away.
All money raised at benefits already held in Ireland and here in the states are an attempt to help deter the costs of the Cunningham's extreme medical bills in their bid to save their beautiful sons life.
The family and extended family here in New York are overwhelmed by the support they have received already, so let's hope it continues.


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Scottiewegs necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Diehl and Associates
Education and Training company known for FHA(Federal Housing Administration) expertise. Expanded in to SAFE Act and compliance training. Our Mission is to provide the highest quality training and educational opportunities with the most delivery options available.
Age 35+, Female more than male, tough thick skin jobs, very detail oriented, need new info all the time to stay current.
We want to make dry information interesting and enjoyable. Our compliance courses are required so we want them to be as painless as possible.
We sell our training courses online so technology look would be key.
http://www.fhamortgagtraining.com has current logo (we hate it though and are not tied to design color etc)
We want to be the leader in new technology in our inustry as well, maybe a ols stabel companys (27 yrs in niz, 20,000 trained) but focused on the future and emplying technology to aid in on demand access to our stuff
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SuicideGirls of the Day — Glitch and Pilot [PICS]
Meet Glitch and Pilot, two SuicideGirls that like to get affectionate. Glitch gets hot when she sees brains and blood and Pilot hates casseroles as much as she hates mosquitos.
Name: Glitch
Age: 30
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Occupation: Tea Shop manager, ex-body jewelry retailer, ex-porn shop associate, alchemist, vegan, vagabond, student of life, kinkster and activist.
Current crush: A few — Tegan Quin, Syd Blacovich, Belladonna, Kimberly Kane, Katherine Moening, Mila Jovavich, Mosh and Sinn Sage.
Stats: Bumbleena.
Body mods: 18mm ears, stitched heart, Japanese inspired sleeve on right arm, doll parts, retired septum, lip, monroe, candy skull/owl wing chest piece, hood, robotic limbs, mandala on back of neck, medusa, R2D2 on right leg and Sepia tone insects on left leg.
Heroes: Coleen-Patrick Goudreau, Gary Francione, Captain Paul Watson, animals and Atheists.
Gets me hot: Brains, blood, lips, latex, hair pulling, choking, candle wax, nipple play, biting, lingerie and medical tools.
Name: Pilot
Location: Indiana
Current crush: Lloyd Dobler.
Stats: 34-28-32
Body mods: Tattoozles.
Gets me hot: Sweat.
Sign: Scorpio
Alcohol: Occasionally.
Into: Bicycling, collecting old stuff, records, vinyasa, a good rhyming thesaurus, word masters, film, Batman and traveling.
Not into: Mosquitos and casseroles.
Makes me happy: My dogs Igby & Fred, sex, cuddles, Autumn and making things.
Makes me sad: Friends who live far away and the world we live in.
5 things I can't live without: My dogs, caffeine, my iPhone, my bicycle and sex.
SuicideGirls is a community that celebrates alternative beauty and alternative culture from all over the world. Since 2001, tens of thousands of models have submitted millions of photos to their website hoping to become SuicideGirls.


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Liberty News
Curtain raised on new Tower Theater
|Linda Nell Cooper, head of Liberty's Theatre Arts Department, greets students at the open house Wednesday.
An open house was held at the new Tower Theater at Liberty University Wednesday, giving students and the local press a chance to view the $7 million project.
The contemporary-style 640-seat theater consists of balcony seating, an orchestra pit, catwalks, a fly tower (an intricate system of ropes and pulleys that can move Broadway-size sets and scenery), a box office and 12,000 square feet of support area that includes dressing rooms, a practice room, offices, costume shop, prop room and woodworking and scene shops. The existing lobby also received a facelift.
"It's much bigger," said sophomore Anthony Boardwine as he walked into the theater on Wednesday. "There will be much more opportunity for cool effects … and more experience for the students, so it's very practical."
The project broke ground in October 2009 in the only undeveloped portion of the 1 million-square-foot Campus North building (originally a cell phone plant), dubbed "the tower." The space, with its 85-foot ceiling, turned out to be perfect for a new theater, a desperate need for Liberty's growing Theatre Arts Department.
"Our drama productions have become such high-quality that the facility just didn't match them. We have needed this for a long time," said Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr.
By using the available space, Falwell said the pricetag was a third of what it would have cost if it were built from scratch.
That doesn't mean planners skimped on furnishings and equipment, however. Its complex rigging system and lighting and audio capabilities are on par with the nation's best theaters.
"A Broadway travelling production could literally come in here and do a show," he said. Liberty is the only college on the East Coast to have the complex rigging system (and only the third among all theaters on the East Coast to have it).
The theater also lends itself to many other uses to enhance student life, including showing high-definition, widescreen movies.
Linda Nell Cooper, head of the Theatre Arts Department, said the theater is "exquisite."
"It's exactly what we talked about in the planning stages, which is the room itself would be a work of art," she said. "I feel that it is a very artistic space; it's a creative environment. It's relaxing, so the audience will feel very free to even be creative in their own imaginations sitting in this room."
Cooper and her staff didn't wait to put the new theater to use. Auditions began last week for the first show of the season, Hairspray, opening Sept. 24.
"It's a show that's a celebration, and so we thought it was perfect for opening up the theater … it allows for a huge cast so we could get as many of our students involved in the first show on this stage."
She said they will be using all the lights and every single fly rig.
"What I've told my staff is that I want it to look like a birthday cake exploded."
The rest of the season's lineup is a cause to celebrate, too. All the shows are ones that have never been done at Liberty before — and two are first-timers for the Central Virginia area: Hairspray and The Phantom of the Opera. Liberty is the first college to get permission to perform these shows.
Cooper said the new theater will be a chance for even more of the Lynchburg community to see the talent of Liberty's award-winning theater students.
"In the past, people have had to be put on a waiting list to see a show — and now we won't have that problem. There's plenty of seats for every show, and they're all good seats."
- To see a schedule of the 2010-11 theater season, and for ticket information, go to the Theatre Arts webpage.


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According to S&P Capital IQ, retailer sentiment is buoyant, "with sales rising, retailers expanding, and many retail REITs trading at elevated levels driven by improving operating results and relatively rich dividend yields.
As of March 20, the average shopping-center REIT had a dividend yield of 3.3%, the real-estate industry group NAREIT says, vs. 1.96% for the S&P 500. S&P Capital IQ expects shopping-center REITs touse their improving cash flows to increase dividends over the course of 2012.
"Signs that the economy is on the mend, combined with what we view as continued positive retailer sentiment and expansion plans, bode well for the sub-industry, in our view," said S&P Capital IQ equity analyst Robert McMillan in a March 21 report.
Plus, S&P Capital IQ is forecasting that GDP will advance 2.1%, year on year, in 2012, up from a 1.7% gain in 2011, and that personal consumption will rise 2%, after a 2.2% gain in 2011. This bodes well for retail.
Data from CBRE Econometric Advisors supports this view with an outlook of absorbed retail space in the U.S. jumping to +29.4 million and +37.4 million square feet in 2012 and 2013, respectively, from -3.9 million and +2.1 million square feet in 2010 and 2011.
"While we anticipate that shopping-center development will pick up, we anticipate that the larger REITs will spearhead development and will remain cautious towards new developments; we believe that smaller local and regional shopping center developers will continue to face hurdles," explained McMillan.
The real estate market supply/demand dynamics should increasingly benefit retail REITs, he says, "especially those with highly productive centers in supply constrained markets with barriers to entry."
Average occupancy for the fourth quarter increased to about 93.2%, from 92.9% a year earlier, the analysts adds.
Simon Property Group (SPG), for instance, saw occupancy levels in the fourth quarter climb to 94.8% from 94.5%, while CBL & Associates Properties (CBL) experienced a jump in occupancy to 93.6% from 92.4%.
"In general, we expect the retail REITS we follow to generate positive year-over-year improvement in occupancy levels in the first quarter as well as for 2012," the analyst concluded.


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Every four years, the World Cup draws unparalleled attention to soccer and its stars — the "beautiful game" played on its grandest stage for all to see. Far less attention is minded to those whose passion for the game has led to their exploitation.
In his series of photographs "Black Diamonds," Jason Andrew chronicles the human trafficking of African soccer players from Nigeria to Istanbul by an assortment of scouts and unlicensed agents. These young athletes, largely under-informed and uneducated, are promised the opportunity to realize their dreams of becoming soccer stars — if their impoverished families are willing to pay fees that can exceed $5,000 to send them to Turkey. But instead of using their time in Turkey to kickstart successful soccer careers in top-tier European leagues, the players are typically abandoned shortly after their arrival and forced to fend for themselves in a harsh and unforgiving land.
Since 2011, Andrew has followed the journeys of these young men, many of whom end up destitute and desperate for whatever work they are able to find. Some have returned home to West Africa, more have remained in Turkey, sharing apartments and jobs with others lured north under false pretenses, but very few have found even a fraction of the glory and riches once promised.
The problem is a growing one. Jean Claude Mbvoumin of the Foot Solidaire group, a charity whose goal is to protect young African soccer players, estimated that as many as 15,000 soccer-playing African youths were emigrating under what can only be described as the falsest of pretenses, and that number shows no sign of shrinking. Nearly every day more of these young players arrive in Turkey, just as their predecessors' visas expire.
"Black Diamonds" highlights a few of these exploited players, tracking their attempts to fulfill the dreams that had once been promised them — the same dreams that others have been living at this summer's World Cup. For these exploited soccer players, however, the path forward is far less certain.
All photographs by Jason Andrew.


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Come on... Twilight is far, far away from being a good book. It's incredibly entertaining and it captured me completely, but it is incredibly badly written.Lynzeee wrote:WELL SAID navarre!
ESPECIALLY the part about twilight not being good writing.
It is good writing- not all writing as to be complicated and hard to freaking read to be a good book.
No two ways about it. SM has a long way to go.
There are some incredibly well written books that are pretty simple in their literary style. The Road by Cormac McCarthy comes to mind, or On The Beach by Nevil Shute...


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PriorityParts necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 149 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Case Culture
In today's world, a phone case can be the most visible fashion accessory. We believe that unlike clothing, jewelry and purses, a phone case represents a persons image on a constant, minute-by-minute basis. It is because of this belief that we aim to design and sell unique, professional and most-importantly fashionable cases for today's generation. Our current web site (http://www.caseculture.com) contains our first collection of cases but we are in the process of launching several new designs with a variety of styles. Please note that our current web site is very out-dated and a new web site will be launched (once we have our new logo).
Our target audience are fashion-conscious, tech-savvy professionals, aged 18 - 50. We sell cases for both men and women, but women prefer to use cases slightly more than men do. We also target socially conscious individuals and we design cases and charitable programs to support causes such as breast cancer research and the environment.
The logo must contain our name Case Culture. The style should match our target audience (fashionable, tech savvy individuals). We encourage creativity and independent thinking with regards to the design.
Final format should be hi-res (print quality) JPEG and Photoshop (if possible) formats. It should also be designed in a way that can be resized as needed.
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Baby Dots Reversible Gift Wrap
Baby dots reversible gift wrap is the perfect all in one paper! Pink with white polka dots on one side and blue on the other to make your life easier! This patterned gift wrap is available in a range of sizes.
* Disclaimer: Sold out items will be removed from the website, however delays can occur. We will contact you if an item is sold out and cannot be filled on your order. Closeout items cannot be returned. Due to color variations in monitors and printers, including settings and lighting, actual color may vary. For a true color representation, please call 888.429.5673 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for actual sample(s).