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  • Black Vine Votive

    Here is a project for you to make if you want to add a contemporary flair to your home décor. It’s a votive candle holder with a black vine/leaf design. It holds a single candle and creates a focal point that is different, but beautiful.

    Kathy Zengolewicz

    Kathy Zengolewicz

    Here is what you will need to get started.

    • Vitrea 160 Glass Paints- #66 Black Tube Outliner
    • A glass votive candle holder
    • Paper towels
    • Cotton swabs
    • A glass cleaner with ammonia
    • A stencil or template to follow.

    Start off by cleaning the glace surface with the window cleaner, or you can use rubbing alcohol if you choose, to remove any debris, grease or fingerprints.

    Open the outliner tube and make sure the nozzle is clear. Squeeze the tube to start the flow of paint. Try this on a paper towel first.

    Draw the stem lines onto the votive glass by squeezing the tube gently. The lines should be fairly thin.

    If the lines are too thick they may bubble up if and when you use the baking process. If you don’t plan to ever put the votive in the dishwasher, there is no need to bake the glass for permanence. If you would like to give it permanence, it will require you to bake it in a regular kitchen oven.

    Next, draw the small leaf designs on the stems and fill them in with black paint. Arrange the leaves around the votive as seen in the photo.

    If you are going to bake the glass, allow the piece to dry 24 hours and then place it in a cool oven on the middle oven rack. Set the temperature to 325° Farenheit and bake for 40 minutes. After baking, turn the oven off and open the door to allow the piece to cool down gradually.  Once the votive is cool remove it from the oven. The paint will then be permanent and you can safely put it in the dishwasher.

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    Black Vine Votive

  • Kuwait Tests Investor Confidence

    Kuwait Tests Investor Confidence
    By Oliver Klaus

    After Dubai’s debt debacle, will Kuwait become the next Persian Gulf state to come under greater international scrutiny?

    The wealthy state, owner of 10% of the world’s oil, isn’t about to run out of money. But a political crisis, exemplified by Parliament’s demand this week that the state bail out its indebted citizens by buying $23 billion of consumer loans, is driving away foreign investment, damaging the country’s economic prospects.

    Kuwait is the only Arab Gulf state with a fully elected Legislature. But the fractious relationship between Kuwait’s ruling Al Sabah family and the Islamist-dominated Parliament risks creating economic stagnation. In the past three years, Kuwait has seen the dissolution of three parliaments and the resignation of five governments. The emir, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, is expected to oppose Parliament’s consumer-loan bailout bill, leading to a new bout of hostilities between the two camps.

    The dispute will do little to raise Kuwait’s profile for investors. The sheikdom already receives less foreign direct investment than any other Gulf Cooperation Council state, ranking alongside Yemen and Iraq, according to the U.N. Foreign investors are losing confidence despite the emirate’s energy riches. Last year, Kuwait canceled contracts valued at more than $8 billion to build a new refinery in the Gulf state due to political objections.Oil companies, including BP, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips, have become weary of the promise that Kuwait may open up its border oil fields with Iraq for investment. BP, which has operated in Kuwait for more than 50 years, has scaled back its office.

    But without more foreign investment and expertise Kuwait is unlikely to achieve its target of boosting oil-production capacity to four million barrels a day, from below three million barrels now. Kuwait’s economy was the worst performer among the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council in 2009, according to the International Monetary Fund. Shares on the Kuwait Stock Exchange slumped 10% last year, compared with double-digit-percentage gains for Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and even Dubai.

    Without radical overhauls, Kuwait’s economy will continue to lag behind others and oil production will suffer, threatening the country’s role as one of the top producers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. For investors, Kuwait is a further reminder of the political risks that lurk among even the most oil-rich states as their institutions struggle to keep up with the pace of social and economic change.

    www.online.wsj.com

  • KFC Ad Racist? KFC Commercial Yanked In Australia Amid Allegations Of Racism

    An Australian ad for fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken — that depicted a crowd of rowdy Blacks being calmed by a bucket of the Colonel’s chicken — has been pulled from the airwaves amid allegations of racism.

    The ad opens with a distressed White man surrounded by a crowd of Black people at a cricket match. “Need a tip when you’re stuck in an awkward situation?” he wonders. He deals with said “awkward situation” by placating the group a bucket of fried chicken.

    After criticism of the ad reached KFC Australia, the company issued a statement explaining its concept and announcing its removal, stating: “We apologize for any misinterpretation of the ad as it was not meant to offend anyone. It is a light-hearted reference to the West Indian cricket team … The ad was reproduced online in the US without KFC’s permission, where we are told a culturally-based stereotype exists, leading to the incorrect assertion of racism.”


  • Aqua Notes: For People Who Get Their Best Ideas In The Shower [Writing]

    If your short term memory is shot, and you are the kind of person that gets their best ideas in the shower, Aqua Notes can help. This waterproof notepad can be used even when submerged.

    The woman in the video seems pretty confident that most of the world’s greatest ideas start in the shower. I’m more of a toilet/car man myself. What about you? [Aqua Notes via Twitter]







  • inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry wrist-on

    We managed to track down the guys from Canada’s Allerta and got to spend some time with a couple dummy models of the soon-to-be-released inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry. Design-wise, it’s very attractive, with a brushed metal body and a leather band. As a bonus to early orderers, the first 1,000 sold will be custom-milled on a CNC router — ironically, it’ll actually be more cost-effective for them to do it that way while they build up production volume. In terms of functionality, it will launch with support for displaying text messages, caller ID, new e-mails, and BlackBerry Messenger messages (yes, it supports BBM!). It’ll give you information on who the message is from and a preview of the message’s contents. We couldn’t get a hard shipping date, but rest assured we’ll let you know as soon as we do — for now, our hands-on gallery will have to suffice.

    inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry wrist-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • You Rock Guitar spotted at CES, we shred on video

    Surely you remember the You Rock Guitar from earlier this week. How could you forget, right? Well here on the CES show floor, we had the opportunity to rock out (gently, of course) with the lightweight, multitouch Guitar Hero / Rock Band controller — which just so happens to be platform agnostic. It’s got a plethora of settings and buttons, but it can actually double as a semi-legitimate guitar when plugged into an amp. For a music game peripheral, it’s about as real as it gets, though it’s hard to say if you’re better off dropping 180 bones on this instead of a standard controller and a swanky new Squier. Don’t take our word for it, though — jump on past the break and mash play.

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    You Rock Guitar spotted at CES, we shred on video originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Boxee Box interface demo video

    We’re already gone hands-on with the Boxee Box and its sweet QWERTY RF remote, but now that we know there’s a dual-core Tegra 2 in there it’s time for a little interface demo with founder Avner Ronen. First things first: yes, it ran Hulu in the browser — but the network connection on the show floor was acting up, so we couldn’t demo it very well. Avner tells us the built-in browser IDs itself as essentially standard Mozilla, so we’ll have to see if Hulu goes out of its way to block it –it’s definitely still possible, but it’ll take some work. Apart from that minor drama, we’ve got to say we’re incredibly impressed — the interface was lightning fast, the remote’s keyboard felt great, and we’re liking the Facebook / Twitter integration, which mines your feeds for videos posted by your friends and displays them on the home page. Avner tells us he thinks D-Link will be “aggressive” with that under-$200 price point when the Box launches in Q2, and there’ll be tons of content partners at launch. Video after the break!

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    Boxee Box interface demo video originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Live from All Things D at CES 2010

    We’re live at the All Things D event at CES 2010. We’re slated to see conversations with Jon Rubinstein, Reed Hastings, and Andy Rubin, so stay tuned — we start at 3:30PM PT!

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    Live from All Things D at CES 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Edificio Mantica

    Edificio Mantica

    No conocia este edificio, lo habia visto, pero nunca lo habia analizado, esta increible la fachada, se nota que por dentro lo han pinpiado, pero la fachada esta increible.

  • Follow Gear Live CES updates on Twitter!

    We’re on hand at 2010, capturing the sights and sounds as normal, and we figured we’d let you guys know that you can get instant updates from us over on the Gear Live Twitter account. We are posting live findings and images of some of the coolest gadgets that we find during events and from the show floor. Be sure to check it out!


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    Follow Gear Live CES updates on Twitter! originally appeared on Gear Live on Fri, January 08, 2010 – 4:32:44


  • More HP Tablet Rumors: HP Android Tablet Will Be Bite-Sized…and More [Tablets]

    If Ballmer’s revelation of the slate wasn’t enough HP news for you, Bits reports the Palo Alto-based company is also working on an Android tablet roughly twice the size of an iPhone, and seemingly similar to Dell’s Mini 5 Tablet.

    Citing an anonymous source, Bits editor Nick Bilton was told there are multiple tablets HP has in the works, and the Android “half-pint” tablet was one of them. HP is also said to be rounding up magazine content partners for the devices, which include Microsoft, Adobe, BusinessWeek and Wired/Conde Nast.

    In addition, TechCrunch heard similar rumblings about a HP Android tablet yesterday. [Bits]







  • Conrad Gilliam Named Dean for Research at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division

    Conrad Gilliam, PhD, has been named the Dean for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, a new position, effective Jan. 1, 2010.

    Gilliam, the Marjorie I. and Bernard A. Mitchell Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Genetics and a Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute and Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, will assume responsibility for the strategic planning and quality control of research and graduate education throughout the Biological Sciences Division.

    As dean for research, he will ensure that faculty in the Division have effective advocacy for their academic missions.

    An authority on the identification and characterization of heritable mutations that affect the nervous system, Gilliam studies rare disease mutations and common heritable traits and disorders, such as fear-learning and autism, using mouse models as well as genomic and bioinformatic approaches.

    A 1977 graduate of Clemson University with a 1981 PhD in biochemistry from the University of Missouri, Gilliam completed postdoctoral training in human genetics at the University of London before joining the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 1983.

    He moved to Columbia University in 1986, where he was a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Genetics & Development. He was named Director of the Columbia Genome Center in 2000. He came to the University of Chicago in 2004 as chair of human genetics.

    Since he first arrived at the University, Conrad Gilliam has “demonstrated a talent for tactful handling of difficult academic issues and assembling teams of leading scholars that often cross departmental and divisional boundaries,” said Everett E. Vokes, MD, interim dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and CEO of the Medical Center.

    “He has been a strong voice for the faculty and for research during difficult times, deft at building consensus and sensitive to the best interests of our research community.”


  • Ford’s V8 engineer says Shelby GT500 will not get twin-turbo 5.0L

    The base 2011 Ford Mustang and Mustang GT have both been upgraded to produce more power and performance than their 2010 predecessor. Next in line to see the upgrade is Ford’s Shelby GT500. Early rumors suggested that the next Ford Shelby GT500 would get a twin-turbo charged version of the 5.0L V8 Coyote that makes its debut this spring – code-named the “Road Runner.”

    According to Ford’s chief engineer for the 5.0L and 6.2L V8 engines, Mike Harrison, the rumor is false.

    Harrison says that it is almost impossible for Ford engineers to fit turbos on top of the 5.0L V8, which already consumes most of the engine compartment.

    The current 2010 Ford Shelby GT500 is powered by Ford’s 5.4L V8 making 540-hp.

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    – By: Kap Shah

    Source: AutoBlog


  • Le Palais du Bey, Constantine.

    ‘Le Palais du Bey’ under refurbishment. This historical landmark is located in the heart of the ‘Medina’ of Constantine.

    28/12/2009

    This tree was planted by Emperor NapoleonIII

  • Lindsay Lohan Indian Child Trafficking Documentary Sneak Peek

    The BBC has released a sneak peek of its documentary on Indian child trafficking, narrated by actress-turned-fashionista Lindsay Lohan.

    The star recently described her visit to India as “the most amazing time of my life.”

    The Mean Girls star traveled across the continent interviewing people involved in trying to find solutions to the illegal trade, according to the United Kingdom’s leading news network. While in India, LiLo visited Kolkata’s Sanlaap Shelter, which houses young women and girls who were victims of trafficking and other forms of abuse.

    The documentary will debut on BBC Three later this month.


  • CES 2010: Noise-Reducing AUX Audio Cable

    Picture 17The inexplicable humming that seems to always cling on after you have been driving awhile gets old. The only humming inside your car will be yours thanks to the Kensington Noise-Reducing AUX Audio Cable. The direct AUX (auxiliary) connection and noise reducing technology combine to deliver clear, clean sound through your car´s stereo.

    Features and Benefits
    •Reduces hum from your car´s electrical system                                  
    •Provides a direct connection to your car´s AUX (auxiliary)
    port for pure sound                                                         
    •Cable braiding for strength, durability and limited tangle
    •4-ft long, 3.5mm audio cable

    Available at Kensington for $20.

    CES 2010: Noise Reducing AUX Audio Cable


  • Projectos e Notícias de Albergaria-a-Velha

    Ordenação heráldica do brasão e bandeira

    Armas – Escudo de ouro, com uma cruz azul. Orla de negro carregada de oito rosas de ouro folhadas de verde e abotoadas de vermelho.

    Coroa mural de quatro torres de prata. Listel branco com legenda de negro: "vila de Albergaria-a-Velha"

    Cor azul – símbolo do espírito cristão, da representação das armas de D. Teresa e o antigo nome de Santa Cruz de Albergaria-a-Velha, a rainha D.Teresa mandou criar a "albergaria, "servindo de exemplo à protecção aos pobres, doentes e aos desprotegidos da sorte"

    Orla de negro – representada de negro por ser deste esmalte que, em heráldica, se representa a honestidade e a terra.

    Oito rosas de ouro – representam a caridade, generosidade, a esmola que se dá aos pobres, foi escolhido ouro porque este material significa nobreza, constância e liberdade.

    Escudo de ouro – por ser este o material mais nobre.

    Albergaria-a-Velha, com uma área de 158,0 km2, 25 921 habitantes e 8 freguesias, é um dos 19 municípios distrito de AVEIRO.

    Em 1117, D. Teresa, "rainha" de Portugal e mãe de Afonso Henriques, doou ao fidalgo Gonçalo Eriz vastas terras. Como contrapartida, o fidalgo comprometeu-se a manter aberta uma Albergaria para acolher os viajantes pobres.

    A Carta do Couto de Osseloa é considerado o primeiro documento em que Portugal figura com o título de reino e constitui a certidão de nascimento e de baptismo de Albergaria-a-Velha.

    Os primeiros registos de Albergaria como Vila, surgem em meados do século XVI, na forma de uma lápide existente nos Paços do Concelho, oriunda da frontaria do primeiro Hospital. Foi mandada colocar no Hospital por Acórdão da Relação de Lisboa, de 27 de Maio de 1629.

  • [Wschowa] Zabytki królewskiego miasta Wschowa

    Witam, jako, że pochodzę z małego, choć urokliwego miasta z województwa lubuskiego chciałbym w tym miejscu podzielić się informacjami o swoim mieście. Bogata historia, bogactwo zabytkowych budowli sprawia, że Wschowa jest chętnie odwiedzanym miastem przez rzesze turystów z wielu krajów Europy, a może i nawet świata…

    Jako pierwszy, a jeden z licznych tuaj zabytków wyróżnię Zespół Klasztorny Ojców Franciszkanów we Wschowie

    Dla zainteresowanych oraz ciekawskich polecam równiez stronę internetową poświęconą historii całego Zakonu Franciszkanów, historii klasztoru, a także jego architekturze.
    http://www.klasztor.wschowa.net.pl/

  • Palm Files for Location-Sharing Patent

    GoRumors noticed a Palm Patent filing titled, creatively enough, "Notification on mobile device based on location of other mobile device," which basically describes exactly what the patent is for:

    The processing circuit is configured to receive user input from the user input device indicative of a request to associate the stored data with a second mobile computing device, to receive an indication that the second mobile computing device is proximate to the mobile computing device, and to provide a notification to the user via the output device based on the indication.

    Sure, we can hack together Google Latitude if we want, but wouldn’t it give you a warmer, fuzzier feeling to know that a fellow Palm lover is nearby, not just another Googler? As Engadget notes, the patent also includes location-based reminders. Hopefully it all of those features will mean that the dream of our hero, Roger McNamee dream of super-location-reminders can come true.

    Thanks to everybody who sent this in!

  • Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 1.8.10

    Ford V8 boss says no twin-turbo 5.0L for Shelby GT500

    We’ve been hearing rumors of a twin-turbocharged GT500 for nearly a year, but today we get a definitive answer: No.

    Chrysler reveals slew of special-edition models for 2010

    Chrysler’s been hard at working tarting up its aging lineup with a number of special-edition models before the Fiat infusion begins.

    Saab board reportedly votes to liquidate company, but GM still weighing bids

    In yet another round of back and forth, GM has tapped a consulting firm to wind down Saab, but Spyker and Bernie Ecclestone are still in the offing to save the brand.

    Also of interest:

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    Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 1.8.10 originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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