Este simple programa nos permite con unos clicks utilizar el fondo de pantalla de nuestro ubuntu como xsplash tambien!
Una de las pocas cosas que faltaba a karmic para poder personalizarlo completamente y fácilmente era esto..
Para instalarlo tenemos el siguiente archivo .deb
xsplash-background-settings_1.6-1_all.deb
Via – gnome-look.org
Cynthia Nixon — best known to us Sex And The City fans as Carrie’s bestie Miranda Hobbs-Brady — will be honored at the 21st annual GLAAD Media Awards later this year.
Nixon, 43, came out as a lesbian after splitting from longtime beau Danny Mozes in 2003. In recent months, she devoted her time to helping to secure marriage rights for same sex couples. She will be handed the Vito Russo Award for her gay rights work during a ceremony in New York City in March.
The Vito Russo Award is named after a founding member of gay rights organization the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), and presented to someone who has made “a significant difference in promoting equal rights for our community.”
“Cynthia Nixon has been a vocal and visible advocate who has transformed cultural attitudes about our community,” GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios said this week. “She is a perfect example of how sharing your personal story and speaking out for marriage equality can inspire change among fair-minded Americans. It is our privilege to honor her,” he added.
It was all golden lemons this week in our most popular posts! Lemon pull-apart bread (looks heavenly), sticky lemon chicken, chicken with lemon and garlic… Plus meaty short ribs, roasted vegetables, the true scoop on concrete countertops, fried rice balls, and much more. Read on for the top ten posts of the past week.
15. Sticky Lemon Chicken and Rolling Trash Bins
14. Root Vegetable Storage: Vegetable Store Box
13. Cheap and Meaty: How To Make Oven-Braised Short Ribs
12. How Can I Store Leftover Wine (and How Long?)
11. Ninja Magnets and Cinnamon Bun Bread
Baldness is not caused by a disease but is related to aging, heredity, and testosterone. Genetic predisposition to lose hair is the main cause of most of partial or complete baldness. Other possible causes of baldness include hormonal changes brought about by thyroid diseases, serious illnesses, and medications such as chemotherapy, as well as excessive shampooing and blow-drying, emotional or physical stress, bald patches that develop on the scalp, and ringworm disease of the scalp. The body’s failure to produce new hair is the main cause of genetic baldness.
As well as the hormonal influence, genetics can play a key part in male pattern baldness. The genetic makeup hair follicles in males that suffer from male pattern baldness can be more susceptible to the negative effects of hormones. Male pattern baldness affects 60% of all men by age 35. What seems to start out as simple thinning of the hair if left untreated will grow to full blown baldness. Hair loss treatments seem to abound everywhere from television to your local grocery store and pharmacies. All seem to promise hair growth but fail to deliver any noticeable results.
What balding hair treatment companies that manufacture products for loss of hair won’t tell you is that you can regrow hair naturally with male baldness cures. There are ways to stop hair loss without buying an expensive male baldness treatment product such as prescription drugs or over-the-counter solutions. First if you are a male, chances are you may be suffering from male pattern baldness. The reason for this is not because of heredity as many think, but it’s because of a hormone in your body. That hormone is dihydrotestosterone (DHT). DHT levels increase as we get older and bind to healthy hair follicles. After a period of time the hair follicles die and fall out in a pattern. The result is male pattern baldness.
There are certain nutrients and herbs you can take that are clinically proven to block DHT. Saw Palmetto is an effective nutrient in not only maintaining good prostrate health in men, but it also blocks DHT and promotes the growth of your hair. Biotin is a great supplement that aids in preventing male hair loss as well. It’s found at a low concentration in most multi-vitamin supplements, but can be purchased from any nutrition center at the recommended dosage of 3000mcg/day for hair loss prevention. These are only but two nutrients you can take daily to stop male pattern baldness. Olive oil is another very useful ingredient not only for cooking but for regrowth of your hair.
Purchase Saw Palmetto. Saw Palmetto can be purchased at your local nutrition center for cheap. This herb has many benefits and importantly one benefit is that it aids in preventing pattern baldness and other causes of hair loss. Purchase Biotin. Biotin is a B-vitamin that is essential for healthy hair, skin, and nails. The recommended daily dosage for good hair health is 3000mcg. Your local general nutrition center will have Biotin in this dosage. Taken daily Biotin is a great nutrient for regrowing hair.
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We recently test-drove the 2010 Audi S4 and felt it was a much better vehicle than its closest competitor – the BMW 335i. The S4’s new 3.0 TSFI Supercharged V6 pumps out 333-hp and 325 lb-ft of torque, as compared to the 335i 3.0L inline 24-valve 6-cylinder with TwinPower Turbo technology that produces 300-hp and 300 lb-ft of torque.
Well, all that’s about to change because BMW is going to beef up its 3-Series lineup with the new 2011 BMW 335is Coupe and Cabriolet. According to leaked documents from BMW Canada, the 2011 BMW 335i Cabriolet and Coupe will enter production in March and May respectively.
Power will come from a modified 3.0L inline 6-cylinder with an extra 22-hp for a total of 322-hp and 332 lb-ft of torque. The 335is will come standard with a 6-speed manual transmission but will get an optional 7-speed double clutch automatic.
Other modifications include a sports exhaust system with black chrome tailpipes, M sport package, rear bumper diffuser insert in body color, 18-inch alloy wheels, high output cooling fans and the fog lamps have been dropped for additional engine cooling.
– By: Kap Shah
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We’re always curious about the decorative things people choose to display in their kitchens. What do they like to have about them as they cook? Some kitchens, too, have picture rails or shelves just begging for a collection to be displayed. Here are five favorite kitchen collections from real homes.
A roundup of economic news from around the Web.
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Honda Motorcycle’s British division announced that it is expecting customers at their motorcycle dealerships across the country on Valentine’s weekend for the ‘Start Something Special’ official launch of the exciting 2010 model range and a chance to win one of six romantic weekends in Paris.
During the weekend, visitors will get to see and test ride Honda’s new motorcycle models for the first time, including the VFR1200F sports tourer, the VT1300CX Fury and the Shadow Black Spirit. More… (read more)
· Govt anticipates setting up camps for quake survivors
· Water most immediate problem
· Oxfam warns that picture from rural epicentre yet to emerge
· Oxfam staff available for interview in quake zone
Oxfam staff in Haiti are providing shovels and picks for local civil workers to clear rubble to search for trapped victims in the capital, Port-au-Prince, following Tuesday’s massive earthquake in Haiti.
From its Oxford UK warehouse, Oxfam also has up to 10 tonnes of water, sanitation, health and shelter equipment, valued at around £70,000, that will be flown on a specially-stripped British Airways flight to Santa Domingo at 2pm Saturday UK time. It also has pre-positioned stocks in Panama on stand-by. Oxfam plans to scale-up aid delivery are now being finalised. The destruction continues to severely hamper aid efforts. Seventeen Oxfam International humanitarian experts flew into the Dominican Republic and will arrive in Haiti today.
Oxfam has had brief and erratic communications with members of team in Haiti. Many have themselves had their houses destroyed and are now having to sleep in the street. Some have lost family members. One Oxfam staff was killed in the quake. Essential communications with the team are marginally improving. Oxfam has more communication equipment arriving today. The horrific picture of need, and the vast obstacles to getting aid to people in need, is emerging.
While international efforts are focused on establishing a foothold in the wrecked capital from which to disperse aid, Oxfam warns that the actual epicentre of the quake was in the countryside. There is no access to rural areas, so no picture yet of the disaster there and scale of people’s needs.
The Oxfam team in Port-Au-Prince is working on assessments now. This is the essential first step in emergency aid delivery. Oxfam has linked with the UN and other aid agencies on the ground. The UN, many of whose own offices were levelled, has regrouped its headquarters near Port-au-Prince’s stricken airport.
“This is a nightmare for survivors and aid workers alike. The airport is near ruined, communications fractured and people are traumatized and in great need. We are now beginning to get aid through despite the challenges,” said Oxfam’s international director Penny Lawrence.
Oxfam understands the Haitian government is planning to set up 14 camps around the capital to give people somewhere to sleep. In this situation camps could offer the best temporary solution to get food and water and sanitation to people in need. Access for survivors to clean water is probably the most immediate problem to resolve now.
The Disasters Emergency Committee – a group of the 13 leading UK aid agencies including Oxfam – launched a joint appeal for funds from the UK public today. To make a donation to the DEC Haiti appeal visit http://www.dec.org.uk or donate over the counter at any post office or high street bank, or send a cheque – see details below.
Oxfam affiliates around the world are appealing for funds. Oxfam has two staff members in Port-Au-Prince who are available for interview. They are Louis Belanger and Caroline Gluck. For further information, and to arrange interviews for Louis Belanger and Caroline Gluck, please contact Ian Bray on +44 (0)1865 472289/ +44 (0)7721 461339 or Rebecca Wynn on + 44 (0) 1865 472530/+ 44 (0) 7769 887139 or the Oxfam Media Unit hotline on 01865 472498 or email [email protected] with enquiries.
The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces is based off an anime series, and developed by Project Aces (Ace Combat series)… so it’s no surprise that the animated cut-scenes and in-game dialog tends toward the overwrought. We’ll leave the story alone—although it actually is somewhat interesting—so we can talk about the control scheme. The game tries something most Wii gamers aren’t used to: by having you hold the nunchuk controller in your right hand and the Wiimote in your left hand, it simulates holding a flight stick and throttle.
It’s a very unique way of dealing with flying on the Nintendo Wii, but does it work? After playing the game for hours last night, I can report that the experiment, sadly, seems to be a failure.
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If we don’t get a rebound in small businesses, we’ll keep getting ugly jobs numbers like we did last week.
And for now, there’s no sign of a rebound at all.
The National Federation of Independent Businesses has come out with its latest survey of members, and across the board it’s clear: small businesses are not getting access to credit, they’re not living up to their rebound expectations, they’re not hiring, and they’re not upping CAPEX.
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Courtney Love has taken to her Twitter page to rant about plans to sue the mother and sister of her late husband Kurt Cobain after the duo took custody of her daughter Frances Bean late last year.
The 45-year-old rocker — who used her recently-revived Twitter page CourtneyLoveUK to post semi-nude pictures of herself on Tuesday — is now ranting about her in-laws, Wendy O’Connor and Kurt’s sister Kimberly Dawn Cobain.
“This s–t with the bean needs to be exposed for what it is right f–king NOW enough,” Courtney fumed in a Tweet on Thursday. “They squeesed my bank accounts so that they were frozen because they know im going to sue the holy s–t out of them and now are … crocodiling my kid whose better than this seriously she was raised too well to be bought,” she stated.
Courtney was stripped of her parental rights last month, amid rumors of abuse and neglect. The singer has a temporary restraining order that prevents her from contacting Frances, now 17.
By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s, Tech Trader Daily
The video game industry posted sales of $5.53 billion in December, up four percent from a year ago, and the best single month ever, according to market research firm NPD. Hardware sales were especially strong, up 16 percent, and accessories were up 15 percent. But software sales were down seven percent from a year earlier.
Among the consoles, the Nintendo Wii sold 3.81 million units, more than triple the 1.26 million sold in November. The Sony (SNE) Playstation 3 sold 1.36 million units, nearly twice the number sold in the previous month. Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 units were 1.31 million, up from 819,500 in November. Even the aging PS2 had a good month, with 333,200 units, up from 203,100 one month earlier.
In the handheld category, the Nintendo DS sold 3.31 million units, up from 1.7 million in November, while the Sony PSP sold 654,700 units, up from 293,000.
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GreenWire: Biologists spotted a record number of bald eagles at two lakes in southern Nevada during an annual count Monday, providing further evidence of the comeback that prompted the national bird’s removal from the endangered species list in 2007.
Bird-watchers at Lakes Mead and Mohave counted 163 bald eagles, more than three times as many as in 2000 and the most seen since the start of the annual count around 1980. The previous high was 116 bald eagles in 2008.
“It’s definitely the best year we’ve had,” said Dawn Fletcher, a research assistant at the Public Lands Institute of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Nevada state wildlife officials are wondering whether the strong numbers mean the lakes are becoming a permanent destination for the birds. Jef Jaeger, an assistant research professor at the Public Lands Institute, said cold weather may have caused this year’s spike, driving more eagles to migrate early from the Pacific Northwest (Keith Rogers, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jan. 14). – GN
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Quit while you’re ahead. Sounds like a good idea, right? But how often do you actually see it happen? Most of the time, winning individuals, teams and companies drag out their glory days until the bitter end when victory seems like nothing more than a distant memory. Retiring at the top of its game, however, is exactly what SEAT is doing this year.
Volkswagen‘s Spanish subsidiary has dominated the World Touring Car Championship for the last two years running. After winning both the drivers’ and manufacturers’ championships in 2008, SEAT came back to repeat the feat, adding the Independents’ Trophy to the cabinet while they were at it and completely eclipsing the competition in all three categories. However the last couple of years in the WTCC also saw heated controversy, of which SEAT found itself at the center, as race organizers tried to level the playing field between SEAT’s turbo diesels and the naturally-aspirated gasoline engines used by the other teams in the series.
Although SEAT will remain to support privateer entries, including the Sunred Engineering team that took home the trophy last year, it will be shuttering its factory team. The move follows a similar reorganization of BMW’s presence in the series, and takes the WTCC one step further away from its glory days as its grid dwindles to just a handful of teams.
Gallery: SEAT Leon TDI at WTCC Macau
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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,” Mark Twain used to say and, unlike so many other things, the phrase is as true today as it was then. That being said, analytics firm Hitwise has released its numbers for the US search engine market in December and, yes, Google is still far ahead of its competition and growing… (read more)
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Like others in the tech-journalism business, we here at Xconomy tend to pore over the latest statistics about the entrepreneurial economy pretty obsessively: how much money venture firms are raising and investing from quarter to quarter; how much they dole out to each new startup in their portfolios; how much these portfolio companies eventually return to their investors through mergers, acquisitions, or public offerings.
But what if none of this really matters? What if it turned out that the number of new companies created by entrepreneurs is pretty much the same every year—and that things like how much money venture firms are handing out, or how many companies are achieving lucrative exits, or how many students are graduating from business school, or how many startup incubator programs are springing up, make no difference whatsoever to the nation’s overall levels of entrepreneurial activity? Would this mean that all the conferences and white papers and blog posts about the best ways to boost innovation and entrepreneurship are, in the end, pointless?
Well, that’s a serious question now—because the last three decades of data, according to a new study from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, MO, show that the number of new businesses incorporated in the United States holds steady at about 700,000 per year, give or take 50,000. It’s as regular as clockwork. In fact, it’s as if American entrepreneurs were programmed to start 700,000 new ventures every year—in the same way that, say, American parents pass on the genes for red-headedness to roughly 170,000 newborns every year.
You can read all about it in Exploring Firm Formation: Why Is the Number of New Firms Constant?, by Kauffman Foundation senior analyst Dane Stangler and senior fellow Paul Kedrosky. (Kedrosky, a San Diego-based investor, entrepreneur, and essayist, is also an Xconomist, and to complete the disclosures, the Kauffman Foundation is an underwriter of Xconomy’s Startups Channel.) When I first met Stangler at a Kauffman Foundation function last October, he and Kedrosky were still puzzling over the numbers they’d been digging up from places like the Census Bureau, the Small Business Administration, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which all seemed to show the same thing: Americans start the same number of businesses every year, come hell or high water.
That is a remarkable and, at least on the surface, counterintuitive finding. As Stangler and Kedrosky point out in their final report, which was published Wednesday, a casual observer might guess that the number of new firms would fluctuate from year to year in response to such major forces as economic recessions or expansions, technological change, and the availability of capital and credit. (We certainly hear the howls of local technology innovators every time venture firms scale back the number or size of Series A rounds.) But these things don’t seem to make any difference in the big picture.
“It’s a real puzzle, and it didn’t appear as if anyone else had noticed it or written about it,” Stangler told me by phone yesterday.
He and Kedrosky might not have noticed the phenomenon themselves if they hadn’t already been examining, for a different study, the question of survival rates for new companies. The percentage of the companies founded in 1990 that were still in business in 1995, they’d found, is almost exactly the same as the percentage of companies founded in 2002 that were still around in 2007. (It’s about 50 percent.) “That was interesting,” Stangler says, “and one of the possible inputs to that is that the number of new companies founded each year is remarkably similar”—which turned out to be the case.
Nobody had noticed this fact before, Stangler speculates, because it’s about constancy, not change: “You don’t stop to think, ‘Why is there not a trend here? You have to recognize the absence of something.”
Being good scientists, Kedrosky and Stangler first checked to see whether there might be something wrong with their instruments—that is, that the data might be wrong or incomplete. But all the datasets they checked showed …Next Page »
Our colleagues at Oxfam Australia have interviewed Louis Belanger in Haiti, where delivering aid that has now arrived remains a monumental challenge.
Oxfam’s response (updated 16:00 GMT Friday 15 Feb)
Oxfam staff in Haiti are providing shovels and picks for local civil workers to clear rubble to search for trapped victims in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
From its Oxford UK warehouse, Oxfam also has up to 10 tonnes of water, sanitation, health and shelter equipment, valued at around £70,000, that will be flown on a specially-stripped British Airways flight to Santa Domingo at 2pm Saturday UK time. It also has pre-positioned stocks in Panama on stand-by. Oxfam plans to scale-up aid delivery are now being finalised. The destruction continues to severely hamper aid efforts. Seventeen Oxfam International humanitarian experts flew into the Dominican Republic and will arrive in Haiti today.
Donate now and find out more about Oxfam’s Haiti Earthquake response
A google search showed up in the site meter a couple days ago that read, “NFL coaches colleges.” Since I’ve been breaking down players, I figured I’d enlighten the masses on what colleges all the NFL coaches went to (I’ll work my way up to the 120 I-A coaches eventually). Over the course of the 2009-2010 season, there were 33 different head coaches. Dick Jauron was fired by Buffalo midseason so I added the interim coach into the mix.
Since about ~70% of the players in the NFL are from I-A programs, it’s only fitting that 13 of the NFL head coaches this past season were from I-A programs. The Pac 10 had the most alums with 4 (2 from USC, 1 from Oregon, and 1 from Washington). The real champions of Division I football (I-AA) had 6 head coach alum in the NFL while Divisions II and III combined for 8. NAIA football had a single head coach. And defunct football programs or schools that don’t even have football teams had 3 reps.
The most represented universities were Eastern Illinois (a I-AA school in the Ohio Valley Conference), Southern Cal, and Wesleyan (Belichick/Mangini). Brad Childress, Sean Payton, and Mike Shanahan all went to EIU. If there’s one school that can lay claim to Head Coach U for the 2010-2011 Season, it’s EIU.
Georgia Tech was 1 of 12 I-A institutions represented by an NFL head coach this season (Ken Whisenhunt). The other 11 I-A programs represented were Houston, Idaho, Iowa, Miami (OH), Oregon, San Diego State, Syracuse, Texas A&M, Tulsa, Southern Cal, and Washington.
So far, the newest additions to the NFL head coaching fold are Pete Carroll (Pacific) and Mike Shanahan (EIU). Pacific’s football program shut down in the ’90s. Buffalo still hasn’t named a permanent head coach for 2010.
