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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Adrienne Weiss for DESK SPACE
DESK SPACE Who?
ADRIENNE WEISS Adrienne Weiss lives in Parkdale, teaches college students how to write, and then tries to write stuff herself.
DS When did you start writing, publish your first book?
AW First attempt at writing a story—a murder mystery—was in 1983. First attempt to get published—in OWL Magazine—was in 1985. First book: 2001. Last published poem: 2008.
DS Where do you write?
AW In bed while Coast to Coast is on the radio, at the desk in the picture, while students write exams, whenever I am held up in a waiting room waiting to do my taxes….
DS Why do you work where you do?
AW That desk in the picture is in a small room surrounded by paper and pictures and funny paraphernalia that somehow or other creates a comfortable yet disturbing space. That helps with the writing.
DS What are you working on now?
AW Still working on a manuscript of poetry now eight or nine years old. Dreaming of writing a lengthy essay that outlines the brilliance of Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna.
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I've mentioned at least once before what has become a constant source of irritation in my life. Of course, I've mentioned many constant sources of irritation, but the jackassery that is grocery bagging at the local store just astounds me.
This is the list of items I purchased at the store: one six-pack Highland Brewing Company Oatmeal Porter, one package extra firm tofu, one package Asian style bean sprouts, one bunch green onions, one zucchini, one package shittake mushrooms, one bag of dog food and one jug of automatic dishwashing detergent. There were also two packs of cigarettes, but those don't really matter in the bagging process. The cashier is as likely to hand them directly to me as she is to send them down the conveyor belt to the once retired bagger stealing his grandson's job because his guvment checks aint quite cutting it these days.
They always bag the beer, and I refuse to use the bag when the beer comes in a convenient carrying case, has a built in handle at the top, weighs several pounds and has corners at the bottom just waiting to rip through those bags and lose me my beer. Sometimes they double bag it, but they never don't bag it if I tell/ask them not to, so these times are extra wasteful.
The zucchini, green onions and bean sprouts were in one bag, and as I put them away after arriving home, I noticed that my mushrooms weren't there. I worried at first that I'd left them at the store, and I thought about it for a moment, making sure that I had indeed purchased mushrooms. I've not gotten mushrooms plenty of times as the more exotic mushrooms often don't sell quickly in this part of town. They sometimes get a little old, and I passed over some oyster mushrooms recently when I saw the funk exuding onto the inside of the package.
My mushrooms and tofu, both of which could easily have been in with the produce, were in the same bag as the dish detergent. Why? I really don't know, but perhaps Grampaw Baggem counts out the items and loads the bags by number of items as opposed to a much more intelligent system whereby produce and chemical agents don't inhabit the same bag. All the produce and the tofu combined weigh less than the detergent, which would also be a sensible concept to keep in mind when bagging.
So that's my rant du jour, assuming I don't swing back by with some more pissoffedness. Damn, I just went and made up another Harold Ford Jr. word. I'm now going to the garage to create an aura of ensmokedness with a cigarette.
And in case anyone cares or was wondering, a stir fry. The mushrooms, zuchini, green onions and tofu, but probably not the bean sprouts. I don't know what I'll do with them.
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This Year’s Most Awesome Christmas Present – Yobo FC Twinon December 31, 2011 at 12:01 AM
New Years Resolution #1: Play more video games.
I wanted to let everybody know about my favorite Christmas present this year (and hopefully make some money in the process). Roberta got me a Yobo FC Twin. For those of you scratching your heads (like I was the first time the used game store girl dropped the word “Yobo”), Yobo is an electronics company that produces video game consoles to play vintage video games. You see, while the content of the old cartridges themselves is protected intellectual property, the patent on the hardware itself has expired, effectively allowing Yobo to produce “generic” Nintendo and Super Nintendo Entertainment Systems. Somewhat hilariously, those names are still protected trademarks and as such go unmentioned on the box. Restricted from mentioning that it plays “NES” and “SNES” games it instead simply declares generically that it plays “8bit” and “16bit” games. Previous Yobo consoles had played each of those cartridge types individually, while the FC (presumably an abreviation of “Famicon”) Twin has a slot for each. I desperately wanted something to play the few NES and SNES cartridges I had hung onto when I sold my systems, but I was initially very skeptical about picking up a third party video game product. Eventually my doubts were outweighted by the naggingly recurring thought: all real NES’s are 25 years old and can only have so much life left in them.
I’m pretty hard to shop for (mainly because I have no impulse control, especially when I’ve been making a lot of money on eBay) so when Berta asked me what I wanted for Christmas I knew what to say and I promised not to buy it before Christmas. So the Yobo rules! I’ve been playing a lot of the Mega Man Collections on PS2 and it could be my imagination, but it seems like the games run a little faster, making some parts of the game much harder and difficult to keep up with (particularly Quick Man’s stage). I had feared it might be the case with the Yobo, but let me put your mind at ease. It runs at the same speed as the old NES and even suffers the same jumps and flashes that the original systems when there are too many enemies on the screen. The experience is virtually identical to playing the original NES (or SNES depending what games you’re playing). The controllers included with the FC Twin are basically the same design as the SNES controller just a bit lighter, thus the ports are made for SNES plugs. It’s a bit odd to be playing NES games with a SNES conroller but, eh, I manage. However, this means you’re out of luck if you want to play Duck Hunt with your NES Zapper. The only other real drawback is having to wiggle the cartridges out when you’re done playing. I do miss the old “eject” button on the SNES.
All in all, the FC Twin is a great value. Berta picked me up one at around $35 on sale. It occupies significantly less room than the individual original systems and only requires one power source and A/V jack connection, so I really prefer it to having the separate consoles. If you’re interested in vintage gaming and aren’t bothered by the cartridge ejection issues and incompatabilty with NES controller port accessories, you should definitely pick one up. Available from Amazon in Black or Silver varieties (I’d appreciate if you use my link to buy it. I’m an Amazon Associate and I get a small commission on referrals and it takes a bit to run this site, you know):
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To teach in a Western Australian public school you must have successfully completed four years of tertiary education which includes at least one year of full-time teacher education.
In Western Australia you can become a teacher in one of two ways:
The qualification must be in one of these areas:
Find out more:
As part of your university course you must also successfully complete at least one 45 day teaching practicum in a relevant school.
If you are coming from overseas or another Australian state or territory, your qualifications will be assessed by the Teacher Registration Board of Western Australia (TRBWA). You may not need to have any additional qualifications to teach in Western Australia.
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Living in a city dependent on vehicles for daily travel has its pitfalls. On Thursday, I experienced one of the more annoying ones – a fender-bender car accident in the middle of a busy highway.
The whole mess was my fault entirely. The only reason I bring it up is because of an exchange I had with the other driver. When I failed to get out of my car and immediately apologize to her, she demanded to know if it was because of her skin color.
She is Black. I am so blinding white you have to squint to even look at me during the winter months.
My first reaction: Wa-wa-what? Really?
No, ma'am. The only reason I didn't get out of my car is because my two kids were in the backseat crying. I had OnStar on the phone along with the Michigan State Police. And I was overwhelmed by the whole thing. What she looked like honestly didn't matter to me; I was just making sure no one was hurt.
I babbled that to her, telling her how her color is the last thing I was thinking about. For the record, I did say sorry. I got out of my car to apologize the right way, as I tell my son: looking at her directly in the eye and with a sincere voice. We traded insurance information, and I told Carla again that her skin had nothing to do with my behavior. Rather, I don't do well under pressure. That is all. I would have been a wreck (literally and figuratively) no matter if she was white, Black, Pacific Islander or anything else.
She reminded me that she was a mother as well, and I had better get some better manners. Too true.
Eventually, we took a collective deep breath, and civility took over. We stood together at the side of I-75 and I-94 waiting for the police report. We talked about how we were actually heading to the same city. She was now late for work, and her cell phone was out of minutes. It was not a good day for her, either. Carla used my phone to call her boss, and I was happy to a little bit useful. She clucked over the dripping radiator fluid coming from my crumpled bumper, I commented on the dent and scratches on her fender. When the paperwork was done, we said goodbye like two rational adults.
Looking back, I'm guessing we were just two shocked (and irritated) individuals. Does she really think I'm a racist, or was she just really mad because her day was thrown out of whack? Did she have another incident happen to her where she perceived a race bias? Are people here that outwardly cruel to one another? I'd like to think that in a different circumstance, she and I would have been rather decent to one another.
As for my deep thoughts…My son noticed little to nothing of this exchange. When I got back into the car, he simply suggested we should have stayed at the Science Center a little longer instead of coming home. Then he threw his hat at me. I threatened a Time Out, and we limped down Harper Avenue toward the East Side. I hope Carla got home safe as well.
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The Amazing Spider-Man Review
My family and I rarely go to the theater to see movies. It takes something special for us to forsake watching our latest Netflix offereing Like The Avengers before it, The Amazing Spider-Man got me in the theater this year for the second time.
Many people much more qualified than me have given their reviews of Spidey. However, there are a couple of scenes I want to mention.
I thought Andrew Garfield captured the pure joy that a teenager would have in exploring his new-found powers. Garfield’s Peter Parker relished his new abilities and his web-shooting ability. Add in his believable nerdiness and I could almost feel Lee’s and Ditko’s 60′s incarnation of Peter/Spidey swinging from the screen.
The other things I want to mention was the new take on the whole responsibility thing. No, we didn’t hear the “With great power comes great responsiblity” speech. I loved, though, that Uncle Ben pressed the moral responsiblity to help others.
The greatest endorsement I can give this film comes from my lovely wife, Jan. She is fairly neutral about superhero movies. She watches them with me because I watch many chick flicks with her. She came away from The Amazing Spider-Man saying she loved this movie.
Have you seen this movie? Do you go to the movies often? What other movies have you seen lately that you like? What are you looking forward to?
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This release fixes bugs since 6.3.6.
Functionality Added or Changed
Calling a stored procedure with output parameters caused a marked performance decrease. (Bug #60366, Bug #12425959)
false when testing
whether a keyword was part of the connection string.
(Bug #11766671, Bug #59835)
Fixed Entity Framework provider
clause generation by adding all group-by keys to the
(Bug #46742, Bug #12622129)
NullReferenceException was thrown on
disposal of a
(Bug #59346, Bug #11766272)
MySQL Connector/Net generated an exception when executing a query consisting of ';', for example:
The exception generated was:
System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array. at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlCommand.TrimSemicolons(String sql) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlCommand.ExecuteReader() at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
(Bug #59537, Bug #11766433)
MySQL Connector/Net 6.3.6 did not work with Visual Studio 2010. (Bug #60723, Bug #12394470)
incorrect values and types.
(Bug #59989, Bug #11776346)
Membership.ApplicationName had no
(Bug #59438, Bug #11770465)
All queries other than
INSERT were executed
individually instead of as a batch even though batching was
enabled for the connection.
(Bug #59616, Bug #11850286)
The setup wizard failed with the error “Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error”. This was because it assumed .NET Framework version 4.0 was located on the C: drive, when it was actually located on the E: drive. (Bug #59301)
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The nearest tube station to the venue is Russell Square on the Piccadilly line.
Other stations nearby include Goodge Street (Northern Line), Warren Street (Northern and Victoria Lines), and Euston Square (Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan Lines).
The cheapest way to get around London on public transport is by using an Oyster Card. If you don’t have one, you can get a Visitor Oyster Card (2-4 days delivery) delivered before you arrive or buy an Oyster Card when you arrive. Oyster Cards never expire, so they can be used on future trips to London. An Oyster Card has a lower single fare cost than cash and will always find the lowest possible fare combination for your day’s travel, and will usually pay for itself within a couple of days.
Alternatively, the following Travelcards (and other tickets) are available, which may be more suited to delegates attending a single day:
Day Travelcard (Zones 1-2) £5.60 (off peak) £7.20 (anytime)
7 Day Travelcard (Zones 1-2) £25.80 (anytime)
It is generally cheaper to buy a Travelcard than to pay for single journeys unless you intend on only making one journey in a day, since a single cash fare for a Zones 1-2 single ticket is £4.
If you have an Oyster Card, this fare will be substantially cheaper and your daily travel cost will automatically be capped at the cost of a Travelcard.
Unfortunately we have no free complimentary accommodation this year .
Cheap accommodation is available however at the London Hostel Palmer’s Lodge (only a tube stop away from the venue and the same hostel used by many delegates in previous Dev8Ds). It is basic hostel accommodation which you may share with other participants, the cost is around £20 per night. We know that your booking usually includes breakfast. Check in is from 2pm and luggage storage is available if you arrive earlier. Check out is 11am on the day of departure.You are welcome to use the restaurant/kitchen facilities, which contains a microwave, kettles, toasters, sandwich press, crockery, cutlery, however there is no oven. There is free wireless though it does not reach in all rooms. A map is available here.
Our apologies in advance to any of you are not able to book into this cheap place (book early!). There are more than enough hotels in the Bloomsbury area, jut search for places near the ‘British Museum’ or ‘British Library’ which will all put you within walking distance of the University of London Union.
We recommend you book your accommodation early as you are more likely to be able to get a really good price.
Please note that sessions take place on Floor 3 and Floor 1 of the venue. Registration takes place on the third floor, where this will be tea, coffee and snacks and Lunches are available on Floor 1, please see the map for which days.
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This example shows how to create an alternative form of the existing Contact us form on the sample Corporate Site.
Alternative forms of document types, system tables and custom tables can be created exactly the same way as described in this example. You only need to access the Alternative forms tab in the appropriate sections of the UI:
•Site manager -> Development -> Custom tables
•Site manager -> Development -> Document types
•Site manager -> Development -> System tables
There, Edit () the particular item, switch to its Alternative forms tab and follow the instructions below, starting from the second step.
1. Go to CMS Desk -> Tools -> Forms and Edit () the Contact us form. The Form Properties dialog opens.
2. Switch to the Alternative forms tab and click the Create new form button.
3. Enter the following details and click Save.
•Display name: Contact Us Alternative
•Code name: ContactUsAlternative
•Make new fields hidden: yes (this ensures that any new fields added to the main form are not displayed in the alternative form by default)
4. Switch to the Fields tab. All fields present in the original form are also available here and you can modify their configuration. For example, disable the LastName field. Select the field in the list on the left and uncheck Display attribute in the editing form. Confirm this change by clicking Save. Using the same approach, you can modify any field in the form according to your needs.
5. You can also modify the layout of the form. Switch to the Layout tab and check the Use custom layout checkbox. The layout editor appears. Notice that the LastName field that we disabled in the previous step is not offered in the Available fields listbox. Click the Generate table layout button. The system generates a default table layout in the editing area below. Highlight the $$label:FirstName$$ text in the first row and change its color to red using the WYSIWYG editor.
Then select the rows of the table's first column, right-click and choose Cell -> Cell properties from the context menu. In the displayed dialog, choose Vertical alignment: Top and click OK. This aligns the labels with their fields. Click Save.
6. Let's take a look at what we've created. Switch to CMS Desk -> Content. From the content tree, select Examples -> Web parts -> Forms -> On-line form. As you can see, the original version of the Contact Us form is present on the page. We will edit the web part's properties so that the alternative from is used instead.
7. In Edit mode, switch to the page's Design tab and configure () the On-line form web part's properties. Click the Select button next to the Alternative form name property. In the next dialog, choose the BizForm.ContactUs class and select the Contact Us Alternative option. Click OK in both dialogs to close them and confirm the changes.
8. Now when you switch to the Live site mode, you should see the modified version as in the following screenshot:
You have learned how to create an alternative form to an existing form and use it on your website.
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Main Research Techniques:
Small Angle X-ray Scattering & Diffraction
I22 - Small Angle Scattering & Diffraction
I12 - JEEP offers SAXS at high energies (50 - 150 keV)
This Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) beamline is being designed to complement I22, Diamond’s existing undulator SAXS beamline. It will cover all the major disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics, delivering structural and dynamic information in nanoscience, mesoscopic architectures, supramolecular structures, and nucleation/growth of crystals. SAXS is also proving important in archaeological, environmental, and conservation sciences, further indicating its ability to span wide ranging scientific disciplines. The increased need for SAXS in biological sciences follows the recognition that many proteins are not amenable to crystallisation. They may, however, be characterised in part by SAXS where the molecular envelope can be used to constrain model building from NMR and MX data. Furthermore, transient structures and structures with inherent flexibility are more amenable to SAXS experiments than MX or NMR.
HATSAXS is designed to operate between 6-23keV, covering the length scale range 1-500nm. The design will deliver a facility of the highest possible reliability and accuracy for samples that require a standardised approach such as highly automated throughput methods, and industrial and commercial applications. Many of the experiments using this technique do not require the brilliance or intensity of radiation that are provided by insertion devices on Diamond. This beamline will be built on a bending magnet source, supplying approx 1011ph/s to the sample.
The end station will accommodate all of the standard SAXS sample environments already available at Diamond, including Linkam Capillary Heater and Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), Stop flow Cell, Rheometer, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), and Pressure Jump cell, together with the latest developments in automation for liquid, gel and solid samples.
As part of the automation for this beamline a BIOSAXS robot, designed by the EMBL in Grenoble, will be available.
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Tel: +44 (0) 1235 778047
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Tel: +44 (0) 1235 778863
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Moving for any individual can be stressful. Whether it is a move to a new apartment, or a move to a new home, proper planning and preparation will ensure that it goes smoothly. The same goes for custom fish tank or aquarium moving: your aquatics residents will be stressed as well!
The size of your tank and distance of the move will determine the difficulty, and how it will affect your fish. There are many things to think about before attempting this yourself. The experts at Diamond Aquatics can provide you with professional, affordable aquarium moving services in NY and NJ if you are looking for help.
Before you start planning, consider these things:
1-Moving needs to happen as quickly as possible. The habitat in which your fish live must be duplicated as much as it can in a temporary enclosure. Using water from the custom fish tank will help. The quicker the aquarium moving occurs, the faster the balance in the new setup adjusts for the fish to move right back in.
2-It’s difficult to physically move a fish tank! They are fragile and heavy at the same time. If the tank is large, it needs to be securely carried and handled, and kept as level as possible so that the panels stay together.
3-Aquarium moving can be messy. Most, if not all of the water needs to be drained, and then put back in once moved. Water is fluid, so all the movement of it can cause spills and splashes everywhere, if not done properly.
Even when it is simply from one room to another, moving an aquarium can be a daunting task. With time being a factor in the health of the aquarium inhabitants, experience is critical in making sure everything is done as quickly as possible. Whether you are temporarily shifting furniture or moving to a new residence in the New York or New Jersey areas, contact Diamond Aquatics to help move your aquarium to it’s new location safely. For longer distance moves, please inquire by calling 973-356-4434.
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Category Archives: soul attachment
I’ve been busy, busy, busy putting the final touches on my latest project, Soulstice, the companion novella to Souled. This novella puts a spotlight on Alyx, who, in Alyx’s own words, is the “dark, totally misunderstood, totally underestimated, misfit” of Sandpoint High School.
I adore Alyx – her strength, courage, and her mysterious background. What makes her qualified to stand up to Seth in his dark hours? What was her path that brought her to be who she is?
Although she will have floor time in the upcoming sequel, I wanted to satisfy the curiosity of many of the readers who’ve asked me, “Who exactly is Alyx?”
I’m fortunate and eternally grateful that my friend, and outstanding author, Fabio Bueno (his novel Wicked Sense is definitely one of my favorite reads), has taken it upon himself to give me a shout out on his blog and share with you the cover of Soulstice.
In continuing the theme of “keeping it local,” the beauty on the cover is Wrenee, a student here in Sandpoint, Idaho. Once again, Sandpoint produces a teen professional enough to step up and handle something as important as the cover of a book. Add to that the makeup expertise of Kimberlee Langford, creative cover design by Crystalyn Abercrombie (my tattoo artist), and photographer, Victoria Melendez.
Then please head on over to Fabio’s site to check out the cover and to learn a bit more about what the story is all about!
Tags: Cafe 95, Diana Murdock, Diana Murdock's blog, Elemental Magic, Idaho, Long Bridge, paranormal, Sandpoint, small town, soul attachment, Souled, Soulstice, spiritual, teens, undercrossing, YA, young adult paranormal
With so much information out there on the internet, with so many websites to sift through, anyone wishing to get information to a targeted market is up against a lot of competition.
As writers, we look to our friends and family to spread the word and, of course, they always come through. And within our online community, we are fortunate enough to have other writers and readers who open their blogs freely to lend a hand as well.
I want to take this opportunity to thank those bloggers who helped me reveal my new cover of Souled this past week. Please support them by visiting their blogs. They really are awesome peeps!
And a huge thank you to everyone who shared on Facebook and Twitter!
Posted in Blogging, Cover reveal, Cyber Friendship, Friendships, High school, Paranormal, Relationships, Small Town, soul attachment, Souled, spiritual attachment, Teenager, Uncategorized, Writing, YA Novels, Young Adult
Tags: cover reveal, cyber, Diana Murdock, Diana Murdock's blog, high school, men's alpine ski team, paranormal, Sandpoint, sandpoint high school, scott snow, ski racer, teen, teen love, writers, writing, YA, Young Adult
Change is good. Change is positive. But it doesn’t make it any easier to let something go…
As much as I adored the original cover of Souled, I felt a change was needed to encompass more of the essence of the novel, which, in addition to ancient sorcery, was a story of love so absolute, so pure, it could transcend ordinary reason.
And because the location of the story took place in North Idaho, I wanted to include the community of Sandpoint in the Souled experience.
I was fortunate that Scott and Elaina, “regular” teens in Sandpoint, agreed to be the models for this cover. Although neither of them are professional models, they handled themselves like pros and gave the photographer, Victoria McCune, 100% effort. And in my opinion, it shows.
Also helping to put a professional touch to the make-up part of the session, I was thrilled to have Kimberlee Langford, make-up specialist, on board.
The tattoo design from the original cover, designed by Crystalyn Abercrombie, was definitely kept as part of this cover as that is a constant symbol in the story (as well as tattooed firmly onto my own body). Steve McCune pulled together all of the pieces to create the final cover.
It’s been incredible working with the people in the community on something such as this project, because after all, it’s their town, their turf, and their support of the novel is very important.
I’ve had a lot of fun so far and I hope you enjoy this cover as much as I do.
Tags: cover reveal, Diana Murdock, Diana Murdock's blog, fiction, men's alpine ski team, novel, novel covers, paranormal, power and control, Sandpoint, sandpoint high school, scott snow, ski racer, soul attachment, Souled, Tattoo, Young Adult
This weekend past was a busy and incredibly productive one. Not only did I have the chance to hang out with my cousin and her husband, but they helped me do a total and complete makeover of the cover to my Young Adult Paranormal novel, Souled, which will be revealed on Friday. It’s totally unique in the fact that I was able to use local teens for the photo shoot. They stepped up and did such an incredible job! I can’t wait to show you all! So stay tuned for Friday’s post when I give you the low down on the new cover.
This post is going to deviate a little from my norm as I fulfill a promise I made to my #slenderman Twitter peeps for pictures.
This weekend, I took my cousin and her husband to a house I own in North Idaho (which I no longer live in) to show them around. It’s the home I referred to in a previous post. The home sits on a beautiful and heavily-wooded 5 acres with lots of places to roam and hide. There are places that are really magical alongside of some creepy pockets of slash created by previous loggers. We walked around the property and got some really interesting pictures. With all of the interest in Slenderman, and my son’s insistence that I don’t even think about it (which of course I did after that), I’m wondering. Did I draw him to me? And where the heck does he really live?
You’ll have to click on the pictures to see what I’m talking about…
So what do you think? More than one Slenderman? Fact? Fiction? Our overactive imagination? You tell me. Should we start a new hashtag of #slenderheads?
Come back Friday to check out the new cover for Souled. It’s got a whole new feel to it. I think you’ll agree.
I was going to blog about something totally different today. In fact, I have my thoughts scribbled out and ready to be organized into something legible.
Then I got side-tracked by a link sent to me by my friend in Arizona, an interesting and timely story of a woman in New Mexico who listed her soul for sale on eBay. Click here to see one of the stories circulating he internet.
Want to see who would actually do this and why?
According to one story, eBay has a strict policy about selling human body parts and remains on their site, but they may need to redefine their policy to include souls. One newscaster actually brought up the point of the logistics of this auction – How is it to be delivered? How do you know if what you bought has been delivered?
If one were to actually purchase a soul, I would imagine there would be either total elation or total conflicting vibrations that would swirl around inside our body, leading us to know if it had been “delivered.” Typically, as like attracts like, an outside entity is attracted to a host body that has the same vibration that it has, such as a happy person, a sad person, an adrenaline junkie – which in turn would heighten whatever is our prominent vibration. On the flip side, I could see a soul latching onto a host for the sole purpose of draining the host’s energy, while the host soul fights the intruder for control. That would be where the Jekyll and Hyde thing would play out.
In the case of this New Mexico woman, though, it’s neither of these. As proof of delivery, the woman offers of a piece of paper – a $2000 piece of paper. A bill of sale of sorts. Huh. Kind of a let-down if you ask me.
But, for Seth Thompson, the high school student who bought a soul on eSouled.com (a site still under contruction – but check it out just for kicks), what he received was quite different than a piece of paper and was a hell of a lot cheaper. Here is an excerpt from Souled:
My palm began throbbing—not like thorns or needle pricks—more like claws had sunken in and raked down the skin. But my palm was the least of my worries. Because, though I didn’t want to believe it, I felt it. Something was inside me. Something… other. Very other.
A second pulse inside me beat steady, strong, and disturbingly close to mine.
And then the truth hit me. Hard. I knew.
The soul had been delivered.
So, yeah, there’s a lot of crazy stuff out there for sale as people try and unload and make a quick buck. What about you? What’s the wildest thing you’ve seen for sale? Were you tempted to buy it?
Speaking of crazy things for sale, check out Natalie Hartford’s blog where she posts the best of the craziest and unusual items on the internet.
So, hey! Amazing that a week has gone by since I released Souled. Seems like just yesterday I clicked on the publish button. The days are flying by for me. I really wanted to take a few weeks off, but already the opening chapter for the sequel is pounding against my door, demanding to be let in. I’ll see how long I can hold off.
What I would like to do, though, is give you another peek at a section of Souled. The first passage was revealed when I got tagged in the Lucky 7 game. So here’s another part of the story:
“Hey.” I pulled Dani against me again and rested my forehead against hers. “Thanks for going with me tonight.”
“I don’t know why you thought I wouldn’t.” Dani leaned back and searched my face. “Is everything okay?”
“Yeah, definitely.” This night was going to be great. “I love you,” I said.
I cupped her face, pulling her close enough to brush my lips against hers, closing my eyes to shut out everything that could possibly distract me from this moment. The dark behind my eyes became darker before it flared, and stopped me mid-kiss. Something didn’t feel right.
“What’s wrong?” Dani frowned.
“Your mom’s coming.” Perfect timing, because I couldn’t explain what was wrong, just that something felt off, as if something bad was about to happen.
Janice appeared in the doorway. “Sorry I took so long. I had to replace the batteries. This darn thing uses them up so quickly. Okay. Get closer,” she said, sweeping her hand through the air, motioning us to get closer.
I draped my arm around Dani and pressed my cheek against her hair, smiling at the lens.
In the split second after the flash went off, I blinked and in that split second of darkness, I saw it.
What the HELL?! Maksim?!
I focused on Dani, squeezing her shoulder and pulling her closer still. I wasn’t feeling so good anymore. “Thanks, Mrs. Parsons,” I managed to say. “I think we’d better go, Dani. Justin is probably waiting for us.” But there was nowhere I could run to hide from what I had seen. And it was more than seeing; it was suddenly knowing the truth. Knowing I had been duped.
I took a deep breath, causing a tremor in my chest.
The voice had a face. Freakin’ A. He had a face.
And that face told me that Maksim was no angel.
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As for the winner of the giveaway, I had my youngest draw a name out of the hat, and the winner is Debra Kristi! Debra, you need to let me know if you’d like the eBook or print version.
As for the rest of you awesome peeps, I appreciate all of you stopping by and leaving me a comment and supporting the book’s release. I’d like to show my gratitude by offering you an e-version of Souled. Thank you so much!!
Soul attachment, as common as a cold, and just as easy to be rid of… sometimes. Would you know if another entity had hijacked your body? If you did, what would you do?
Lose yourself in the story of Maksim and Seth, old versus young, good versus badass. Available on Amazon in ebook format now, with the print version available within a few weeks.
What 17-year-old boy wouldn’t be tempted by the promise of power and control – no matter what form that promise came in?
Seth knew exactly what he would do with power and control. He’d be well on his way to a wrestling scholarship, his dad could stop working so hard to make ends meet, and he’d forever have the heart of his girlfriend, Sandpoint High’s most beautiful girl.
For Seth, the temptation was much too strong to resist. And why should he? The way he saw it, he had everything to gain.
But when he unknowingly invites another soul to share his body, Seth discovers that not all power is good – especially when it was never his to wield. And when the soul reveals its true intentions, will Seth have the strength to fight it or would death be less painful?
In honor of Souled’s release, I’m giving away a copy, either ebook format or print. Just leave a comment and I’ll put your name in hat and draw the winner’s name next Tuesday!
Until then… be careful what you buy online!
“The world only exists in your eyes – your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great words from a great writer, but the question is, how does a writer create a pathway from our eyes to the minds of the readers of novels? Fortunately, archived records and the Internet can bring history of centuries ago into an author’s hands, allowing us to recreate a world long gone, in order to give the reader some sort of anchor as they turn the pages of our novels. With a little imagination and fantastic writing skills, many authors transport us back to a time none of us have experienced first hand (at least not in this lifetime).
If the setting of the novel is in the present, we have access to maps, photos, and transportation to get to wherever the story takes place so that we may get a first-hand accounting of the sights and smells of the area. Though some novel settings are loosely based on a certain locale, the authors are still able to give the reader the same flavor as if that particular imaginary city actually existed. And those novels that are grounded in an actual place? That could be a lot of fun for the readers as well. Just ask Tamie from Bookish Temptations. She recently toured Toronto in search of the offices, restaurants, museums, and streets that Sylvain Reynard fleshed out in Gabriel’s Inferno. In reading her blog, you can feel her excitement as she was able to “be” where the characters were. What a cool connection, right?
In my upcoming novel, Souled, the characters are firmly rooted in Sandpoint, a small town in North Idaho. Because I am very familiar with the area, I was able to write from first-hand experience. I’ve posted on my website and on Pinterest, pictures of where some of the scenes take place, so when the novel is released (weeks away), the readers who cannot actually visit the area, can at least “see” where it is that the characters live.
In the case of futuristic or high fantasy, a writer can create an entirely new world, or they can do what Angela Peart has done for her soon-to-be-released novel. (By the way, she filled me in on the details of her story, and…yeah. This one is going to rock our socks off.). So, rather than me trying to explain her method of creating setting, I’m going to let Angela do the talking because you just need to experience it.
Take it away, Angela!
“The story of my upcoming Young Adult paranormal novel, Greed (this is a “working title”), takes place in Seattle—the city that I have been calling home for many years now. But because the plot contains elements of high fantasy, some of the scenes happen in imaginary places. I will introduce those amazing places in another post. Today I want to share with you a very special spot from my novel. It is Queen Anne Academy of the Arts and Sciences in the Seattle’s picturesque district of Queen Anne. No, the school does not exist in reality, but the area is 100% real.
All except one of my teenage characters attend this prestigious private school. The Georgian architecture building and the surrounding grounds are not based on any real location. Only my imagination and the knowledge that I have obtained, studying interior design at the Art Institute of Seattle, are responsible for the creation of this intriguing place.
I am not ready to reveal my characters’ names just yet. There will be a special blog post in the near future, where you will learn more about them. For now I am simply “coding” them as X, Y, and Z. I know, not very creative, but try to overlook that and only concentrate on the descriptions of my dream high school.
Here are two excerpts from my novel. Enjoy!”
1. He looked up at the ceiling, his eyes tracing the acanthus leaf castings clustered in the corners and along the sides. An enormous antique chandelier hung down by thick chains. A ring, covered in intricate patterns, encircled a massive hand-painted globe. The pale colors of the land and surrounding oceans looked subdued like on an antique map. Twenty-four sweeping, rounded arms reached out from the metal ring and curved up and out, ending in elongated candle-shaped electric lights. The sphere rotated lazily, as if imitating the real Earth. X gazed at it, transfixed, wishing it was dark outside and the whole thing would light up like it always did in the evenings.
2. He shook his head, smiling to himself, and then walked toward the massive double front door. The door was two stories high, set between two flat columns protruding from the walls on both, interior and exterior, sides. A semi-circular intricately-carved arch encased the top of the door.
Y opened the door and stepped outside. He shaded his eyes with his hand and, squinting, looked at the cloudless sky. The door closed with a dull thud behind him, as he started down the wide stone stairs. Strings of green ivy clung to the solid-stone balustrade on both sides of the steps. The stone was aged, its natural color richly variegated. Two huge urns flanked the staircase, their color scheme identical to the balusters.
So, can you see it? Can you feel it? Thanks, Angela, for a sneak peek into your novel and giving us a great example of how an author’s mind works.
How do you feel about settings in the novels you read? Do you like detailed descriptions or minimally-there descriptions? Everyone’s preferences are different, but then again that is why we have so many types of authors and novels!
Tags: Angela Peart, Angela Peart's blog, Bookish Temptations, Diana Murdock, Diana Murdock's blog, Gabriel's Inferno, high fantasy, Idaho, paranormal, Sandpoint, settings, soul attachment, Souled, spirit attachment, Sylvain Reynard, Toronto, Young Adult
I don’t know about you, but I DO judge a book by its cover – literally. When at a bookstore or library, I look at the books displayed predominantly and I’ll always pick up a book because I like the look of its cover. Whether or not I walk out the door with it, is a different story, but I will spend some time admiring the cover. I often wonder about the thought process behind each one. Whose vision was it? Was it true to the story line? Was it true to the author’s vision? How much time was put into it? What was truly vested in its creation?
When I began writing my upcoming novel, Souled, I knew what I wanted on the cover, but I’m art-challenged and what happens in my head short circuits on its way to my hands. I did make an attempt, though, albeit pathetic, and I just wasn’t happy with it.
One day, after I had gotten my quill tattoo, I really started thinking about it (well, not really because there was never a question in my mind after the seed was planted) and decided who I would ask to design the book cover. I had walked into Crystalyn Abercrombie’s tattoo studio and asked if she would be interested in taking on the project. I don’t think I actually got the words out before she said yes. The connection was made. We both knew the Universe ignited. Yeah, it was that awesome.
The result? Perfection. Exactly what I had envisioned. She nailed it. In fact, it’s my next tattoo.
So what did she do to make me her #1 fan? I put some questions to her and now I share them with you…..
1. Tell us a little bit about your background in art.
I’ve enjoyed drawing for as long as I can remember. My Uncle Nick is an artist as well and would always send me drawing materials for birthdays or holidays. In 5th grade a local artist came into class and taught us how to duplicate photographs with graphite pencils. My mom signed me up for lessons with that artist, and that’s when I started to take art seriously. I fell in love with drawing the human body and portraits of people and animals. Since then I entered every art contest I could. I would always place in the top three and have my art picked by the class to be featured in projects like yearbooks or choir t-shirts. I took various art classes that were offered in high school and some in Spokane, and worked with different mediums like acrylic paints, wire, clay, found objects, stained glass and tile for mosaics, photography, calligraphy & graphic art.
2. What is your preferred medium and why?
That’s a tough question! I really enjoy making mixed media art, using a little of this and a little of that, usually involving some sort of natural element and acrylic paint. I like to create art with dimension. Currently in my spare time I like to string and paint native American style hand-held drums with pagan inspired goddess images.
3. When did you begin to draw? What was one of the first things you drew? What makes it memorable?
I’ve pretty much had a crayon in my hand since day one! We never had a lot of money growing up, but we could afford paper and crayons, so art was always my favorite form of entertainment. In first grade my dad was a construction worker, and addicted to yard sales, so he would pick up oil paints from garage sales for me, and I would paint flowers with butterflies and big yellow suns on his scrap pieces of 2 x 4′s I’d find around the yard. I can also remember doing a pencil and crayon drawing of a family portrait. Memorable because I had put a heart polka-dot pattern on my mom’s shirt, and my parents smirked at the two hearts that were drawn right where nipples should go. I have been censored on my human figure drawings several times in middle and high school, and it makes me laugh to remember it started way back in first grade!
4. What is the process you went through to create the cover for Souled?
Step 1: Consulting with the author, Diana Murdock. She told me she wanted a symbol to represent the Egyptian clan that some of the book’s characters were involved with.
Step 2: Reading the novel to completely understand where she was coming from, and get the artwork to really resonate with it.
Step 3: Hitting my symbol books to learn more about what symbols Egyptians typically used and what meanings they associated with them. From there I gathered symbols I felt appropriately represented aspects of the novel from the Egyptian and old world cultures.
Step 4: Putting together a rough draft of my idea along with pages of symbol explanations for Diana to look at. This way she was able to see why I chose to draw the symbol as I had. I gave her time to think it over and decide on any changes she wanted me to make. This step went back and forth only twice with the actual symbol before we nailed it down, and then once more for the style of the novel’s cover as a whole. We seemed to be on the same page at every step of the way.
Step 5: Sketching a rough layout, deciding on what medium would be best, and gather what supplies were needed. Of course I chose to do a mixed medium piece, and photograph it when finished so it would look as realistic as possible. I purchased a brown piece of scrapbooking paper as a base to give it the old bound leather book feeling, some antiquing silver stuff to give the look of old metal embellishments, and a red rhinestone for the snake’s eye because drawing or painting it on wouldn’t have achieved the effect I wanted.
Step 6: Printing my layout onto my scrapbook paper.
Step 7: Using graphite pencils to draw in the snake completely
Step 8: Metal embellishments with the silver antiquing liquid.
Step 9: Using graphite pencils to draw details onto the metallic areas, and around the cover to give it some depth and shadows for a more realistic sort of feel.
Step 10: Another consultation to make sure Diana was happy with the results.
Step 11: Photographing the final piece with the rhinestone eye in place.
Step 12: Computer graphics stuff which involves uploading the photograph into my graphic design program, having a consultation with Diana to choose font type and where she wanted to see the title and her name, saving that project as a high resolution JPEG file, and voila! Diana received it in her email’s inbox.
5. Did you read the novel before creating the artwork?
Of course. It was really the only way for me to feel like I could understand what my art needed to represent. I’ve always loved anything paranormal and magical so I was all over it! Being from the same town as in the book and having gone to high school here really made it fun to read as well, I felt like I was right there with the characters at every turn. I really loved it, and I can’t wait for the sequel!
6. Where did the inspiration come from?
The passages from the sorceress and the element manipulation magic. There’s a line early on about flames twisting together like snakes in the hands of one character, that is what sparked inspiration initially.
7. The symbol is very Egyptian. Do you typically lean in this style in your artistic work or was this a special direction for this book?
This is actually my first ever Egyptian style piece. I knew we wanted to represent an old world magic clan and I initially thought Celtic or Pagan because that is what I lean toward heavily in my personal symbolic art, but Diana mentioned Egyptian so I had to hit my symbols books in order to pick out the right symbols to resonate with the novel.
8. Where else has your work been published?
Down There, The Wise Woman’s Way by Susan Weed in 2011
9. Have you ever designed any artwork for an author?
This cover is the first author I have worked with during the design process. My other published illustrations were submitted into an open illustration call, so I designed them completely and sent them off to New York to compete against whoever else had submitted illustrations as well. As a tattoo artist I’m constantly designing various things for clients. Sometimes it’s fitting multiple images into one design or creating something from scratch.
10. Would you be interested in designing more book covers? If so, do you have a favorite genre you’d like to design for?
I would absolutely love to do this again! Fantasy and Paranormal are probably my favorite to read, but as far as what I like designing for best, I have yet to find out. I’d love to try everything and see if I can eventually answer that, so bring on your ideas!
11. Besides this book cover, where do you gather most of the inspiration for your tattoo designs and artwork?
My personal inspiration comes from the beauty of nature and my spirituality. I resonate with aspects of Paganism, Wiccanism, and some Native American cultures. I love to involve symbolism, balance and simplicity in my personal designs, but when designing for clients I really try to understand where their inspirations are coming from, so my art will vary greatly from piece to piece.
12. Where can others reach you if they are interested in commissioning you for their projects?
13. Where we can view your work?
My biggest portfolio is on my Ouchie Mama Tattoo & Piercing page on Facebook. Unfortunately it’s all tattoo work at the moment, but a lot of it is my own design work. Now that I know people might be interested in seeing more of my work, I will start adding some different stuff to it.
Thank you so much, Crystalyn, for taking the time to share this process. I’m thrilled we connected and I look forward to having you on board for other projects!
Please be on the lookout for the release of Souled this spring!
Tags: art, artist, book cover, Crystalyn Abercrombie, Diana Murdock, Diana Murdock's blog, dianamurdock.com, egyptian, judge a book by its cover, ouchie mama tattoo and piercing, pagen, paranormal, quill tattoo, snake, soul attachment, spiritual attachment, Tattoo, teenager, teens, wicca, YA novel, Young Adult
So there I was, keeping my head under the social media radar for the last few weeks, focusing solely on my manuscript, Souled, when what do I find waiting for me when I come up for air? My WANA sista, Angela Orlowski-Peart, awarded me the Lucky 7 Meme! Just the thing I needed to lighten up the mood around here.
I’ve always loved Angela’s blog because her topics are diverse, light-hearted, and always fascinating. I’m positive you’ll love the way her personality shines through each word she puts to page.
So here are the rules to the Lucky 7 Meme:
1. Go to page 77 of your current MS/WIP
2. Go to line 7.
3. Copy down the next 7 lines, sentences, or paragraphs, and post them
as they’re written.
4. Tag 7 authors.
5. Let them know.
Simple enough. I decided to go with the seven-ish paragraphs. So, here is a look at part of my soon-to-be-released manuscript, Souled:
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Silence yourself. Feel, rather than think.
I tried for a couple minutes. I really did. In fact, my focus was so intense that I think I’d developed a permanent crease between my brows. The battering kept up, pelting me with shots of emotion, but finally walls began building up around my mind, blocking out one emotion after another, until there was only one feeling left – elation. I dropped my hands to my sides and my eyes slowly opened, expectant. Then my gaze tore through the crowd like a predator sensing its prey. The source was close. Very close.
Ah, there it was behind me. At a cash register stood a boy, 12 years old maybe, his face dominated by a toothy smile. On the other side of the counter, a clerk slapped a receipt onto a brand new Xbox.
The boy’s scrawny arms wrapped around the box and pulled it off the counter. He sprinted, the box crowding his arms, and headed straight towards me, his mother trailing behind. I ignored the woman and instead focused on the boy.
My energy tapped into his and sucked it in like a vacuum. To me, it felt wondrous and exciting; he didn’t feel the same way. He looked as though he’d smacked into a wall. He froze, his eyes latched onto mine, his mouth dropped open, and for a moment his head cocked to one side as if he were reading something he didn’t quite understand.
The boy forced his eyes shut, for a minute covering them with his arm as if the darkness alone wasn’t enough. Then grabbing his mother’s sleeve, still struggling with the box, he ran in the opposite direction.
Ha! That was freakin’ awesome.
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There you have it. Look for the release of Souled this spring!
Who’s next on the list to give us a sneak peak at their upcoming work of art? I hope you take a moment to check out their blogs as well!
1. Krystal Wade
6. Naomi Bulger
Tags: Barbara McDowell, blog, blog award, Diana Murdock, Diana Murdock's blog, Dorothy Shaw, Johanna Pitcairn, Karen McFarland, Krystal Wade, Lucky7 Meme, Marion Spicher, Naomi Bulger, paranormal, Souled, YA, YA novels, YA paranormal, Young Adult
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Also called Malayo-Polynesian. a family of languages spoken in the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Madagascar, and Oceania.
of or pertaining to Austronesia or the Austronesian family of languages; Malayo-Polynesian.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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any of various plants of sea beaches, salt marshes, and alkaline regions, especially belonging to the genus Salsola, of the amaranth family, as S. kali, a bushy plant having prickly leaves, or belonging to the genus Salicornia.
Origin: 1560–70; translation of Dutchzoutkruid, equivalent to zout salt + kruid herb. See salt1, wort1
See also barillaglasswort, Also called: kali any of several chenopodiaceous plants of the genus Salsola, esp S. kali, of beaches and salt marshes, which has prickly leaves, striped stems, and small green flowers
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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three gorges dam
dam on the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) just west of the city of Yichang in Hubei province, China. A straight-crested concrete gravity structure, the Three Gorges Dam is 2,335 metres (7,660 feet) long with a maximum height of 185 metres (607 feet). It incorporates 28 million cubic metres (37 million cubic yards) of concrete and 463,000 metric tons of steel into its design. When construction of the dam officially began in 1994, it was the largest engineering project in China, and, at the time of its completion in 2006, it was the largest dam structure in the world. Submerging large areas of the Qutang, Wu, and Xilang gorges for some 600 km (375 miles) upstream, the dam is intended to create an immense deepwater reservoir allowing oceangoing freighters to navigate 2,250 km (1,400 miles) inland from Shanghai on the East China Sea to the inland city of Chongqing. Limited hydroelectric power production began in 2003. When fully operational in 2009, the dam's 26 turbines will generate approximately 18,000 megawatts of electricity for Shanghai and other cities-as much as that produced by 15 coal-burning power stations. The dam also is intended to protect millions of people from the periodic flooding that plagues the Yangtze basin
Learn more about Three Gorges Dam with a free trial on Britannica.com.
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Her fame will live and they’ll ever speak Of her name, reputation and fame of...– Brian Merryman-The Midnight Court
radiohead rock →
greatest email ever →
“And you’ve fucking stripped it out like a pissed Irish plasterer restoring a renaissance fresco and thinking jesus looks shit with a bear so plastering over it.”
it is cause we got the biggest willies →
face painting and bouncing castles! →
stumbled on this while being a flaneur last summer, had a great laugh. Should be good this year.
cool blog →
Teenage boys share intimate feelings with each... →
say hello to Squirmin' Herman the One-Eyed German →
now here is a hobby →
you guys rock!
this link is a winner! →
Rock music is mostly about moving big black boxes from one side of town to the...– Pere Ubu
back from holidays
and they were great!
if it doesn't rain it could be good →
he will say anything →
can see bond using the lego one in the next movie. then when the evil guy is foiled he will pik it up and say “childsplay” and we will all laugh.
what about tumblr? →
guess i’ll have to be the tumblr gangstaaa! also memories of that week where i listened to gym class heroes came flooding back.
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This briefing paper provides the background to the current development of and future trends around OER aimed at adding to our understanding, stimulating ongoing debate among the JISC community and developing a research agenda. The briefing is structured in three sections:
- Discussion on the conceptual and contextual issues of Open Educational Resources.
- A review of current OER initiatives: their scale, approaches, main issues and challenges.
- Discussion on trends emerging in Open Educational Resources, with respect to future research and activities.
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County judges --Texas --Harris County --Interviews;
Harris County (Tex.) --Politics and government;
Hurricane Katrina, 2005;
Emergency management --Texas --Harris County;
Disaster relief --Gulf States;
Robert Eckels describes his experiences as former Harris County judge. He discusses politics in Harris county and in the city of Houston, as well as his involvement in handling the influx of the evacuees from New Orleans during hurricane Katrina,...
Jones, Edith Irby, 1927- ;
African American women physicians -- Texas -- Houston -- Interviews;
African American women physicians -- Texas -- Houston -- Biography;
Southern states -- Race relations -- Anecdotes;
African Americans -- Social...
Dr. Jones talks about growing up in Hot Spring, Arkansas as a poor and ambitious girl, the events that shaped her life, her years in medical school, her career as a physician in Houston, and her life as a civil rights activist.
Tinsley, Eleanor, 1926-2009;
City council members -- Texas -- Houston -- Interviews;
School integration -- Texas -- Houston -- History;
Houston Community College (Houston, Tex.) -- History;
School board presidents -- Texas -- Houston --...
Eleanor Tinsley talks about her years as president of the board of the Houston Independent School District, and as member of the city council.
She was involved in the school integration movement and was instrumental in the creation of the Houston...
Northcutt Frances Miriam (Poppy), 1943-;
Feminists -- United States -- Interviews;
Feminism -- Texas -- History -- Anecdotes;
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
Apollo 8 (Spacecraft);
Women rights -- Texas;
Frances "Poppy" Northcutt is interviewed by Suzanne Mascola. Frances discusses her career working for a NASA contractor, the Apollo 8, NASA, her work as a women's rights advocate; and her career as a lawyer.
Noriega, Richard Joel "Rick";
Texas--Politics and government;
Houston (Tex.)--Politics and government;
Richard Joel "Nick" Noriega was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1998. Since then he has served 5 terms in this capacity. During hurricane Katrina Mayor Bill White requested his help to oversee the evacuee shelter operations...
A successful Banker and a top graduate from Stanford Business School, Marc Shapiro was the President and Chief Executive of the Texas Commerce Bank. He retired in 2003 as Vice Chairman for finance and risk management at JP Morgan Chase & Co. He is...
Born in Houston, Peter Roussel followed his parents' footsteps in becoming a journalist. He worked as a Press spokeman for several Presidents and Secretary of State. After moving to Houston from Washington, he became a TV-Radio commentator and...
Sakowitz, Robert, 1938-;
Sakowitz Department Store -- History;
Family-owned business enterprises -- Texas -- History;
Robert Sakowitz talks about his family business in Houston, the Sakowitz stores; about the city of Houston at the time the stores were established and developed; and the personalities he met while doing business.
Hirusaki, George J. -- Interviews;
Japanese American researchers -- Interviews;
Japanese American engineers -- Houston (Tex.)
Fluid power technology.
Born in Beaumont, Texas, George J. Hirusaki spent his early childhood with his father, a rice farmer in Texas, learning about agriculture and fluid flow. He graduated from Lamar University and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Rice University. He...
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Until now, the main focus in ad hoc networking has been improving Routing and Medium Access Control (MAC) Strategies. As a result, a diverse range of routing and MAC protocols have been proposed. To evaluate these protocols, much of the existing research has been based on simulation scenarios which assume ideal channel conditions and low node and traffic densities. Therefore, despite a few studies which have shown the performance limitations of ad hoc networks theoretically, there has not been many simulation studies performed which investigate the performance of ad hoc networks under a high node and traffic density. This paper investigates the performance of ad hoc networks under a high node density and high-bit rate real-time traffic such as VoIP. Our results show that the performane of single radio ad hoc networks drops significantly as traffic density is increased. To improve the performance of ad hoc networks, a number of different strategies and research areas are described.
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
The rounds of headlines that are coming out of the last round of research on the impact of gaming on marriages (and from what I see, MMORPG’s) look like this:
- Wired: MMORPG’s Can Hurt Marriages
- Daily Mail UK: Dungeons, Dragons and Divorce: World of Warcraft can seriously damage your marriage scientists say
- US News: Love and Warcraft: Spouses being pushed aside for video games
When it could look like this:
- Kotaku: Don’t Blame Your Crappy Marriage on Video Games
- Slate: How Playing Online Video Games Can Help Your Marriage
and the most balanced headlines I’ve seen:
- Scientific American: The Perils and Pleasures of Online Gaming for Married Life
- Slate: MMORPG like World of Warcraft can Hurt or Help a Marriage
See, all these articles reference the research of Michelle Ahlstrom, Neil R. Lundberg, Ramon Zabriskie, Dennis Eggett, Gordon B. Lindsay who researched and wrote an article called ME, MY SPOUSE, AND MY AVATAR: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARITAL SATISFACTION AND PLAYING MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE ROLE-PLAYING GAMES (MMORPGS)
What bothers me the most is that every one of the articles linked above go on about the statistics and reasons people fight (and divorce) over excessive video game play. Of course, blaming the game, not the person or the relationship (thanks to Kotaku for pointing this out yet again for those who tend to forget). The titles reflect the negative view the media feeds off of when it comes to video games, addiction, social problems, violence, etc… (reminds me of the whole cigarettes are bad for you and lets do everything to make you stop smoking EXCEPT not selling cigarettes, because where would we make all that money from otherwise!? thing – but I digress).
What I find the most interesting is, after all the articles point out the negatives (without mentioning the context of the couples), is that there were positive effects found in the research. But the fact that the abstract itself gives six lines of the bad stuff (detailing it) and ends with “ Positive effects of gaming together were also identified.” …. can you maybe share in the abstract as much as you’ve shared the negative impacts?
Personal anecdote. My partner started playing EverQuest when it was released. It took up all of his time. It made me cranky (he has an obsessive personality). After a few months (3 actually), I decided to see what all the hype was about, made an avatar, loved it so much, we bought a second computer, opened a second account and we played together for 6 years (Dark Age of Camelot, Lineage II, and World of Warcraft). It was some of the best times of our lives as a couple – and as parents of young kids. We were housebound more often than not (never had any babysitters), and we played with Danes so our play schedule wasn’t infringing too badly on family life (and they loved fishing and doing tradeskills, so we all got to play!).
When we were faced with criticism from outside people (who didn’t play), we would always explain that it was no different than spending the weekend together camping, playing golf, whatever. The point was that we were doing something together that we both enjoyed. We even met people from around the world through our gaming experiences (and a trip to Denmark to remember!). Our circumstances and interests centered around gaming, and we are thankful for those bonding times. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve had plenty of fights because he didn’t heal fast enough (he was a gnome cleric for a while) or I didn’t get my slow in on the mob fast enough (I always played a shaman)… there were nights I went to bed mad because my corpse was left out to rot (in early EQ days, there was a timer, and if you didn’t get your corpse out in time, your items would disappear – most corpse retrievals were long battles in secondary armor if you weren’t friends with a good monk).
Point is, all of these articles quote the article as saying:
- “According to the study, 76 percent of respondents from the “both game” group “reported that MMORPG playing had a positive effect on their marriages.”
- “The take-home message is that doing things together, whether you’re video gaming or doing something else, is better than doing something apart,” Lundberg says. “This confirms the idea that doing things that create interaction and bonding is obviously going to strengthen a marriage.”
- However, shared gaming produced a positive effect on the marital relationship for 76 percent of the couples playing together (which constituted 62% of the study participants).
A (very) brief update today, but I’ve (finally) come up with a title and wrote the formal abstract for my dissertation. After hundreds of pages of writing, one would think that the abstract would not be as challenging as it was. If interested, you can find it here.
I feel a very strange mix of pride and fear as I put this out there. For so many years, I have only talked about my work, while publicly presenting my secondary research interests. In some ways, keeping my primary research close to my chest has kept it safe in my head, but there comes a time when I have to just put it out there, hold my head up and be proud of what I have been working on over the last few years.
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UPDATE: The Kindle Fire, at $199, appears to offer a very similar interface as the tablet described below, and it doesn’t require any hacking. It’s set to be released November 15, 2011.
iPads have already been heralded as the personal computers of the future. (With the rise of cloud computing and web 2.0 software, I have to agree.) I work with several teachers who already have iPads in their classrooms, and the devices really can help students learn. But at $400-$830, most schools can’t afford to get iPads for every teacher, much less for every student. And even current iPad competitors, like the Motorola Xoom, are priced at around $500 – $800.
So when I heard that some brilliant computer programmers had figured out how to turn the $250 Barnes & Noble Nook Color into an Android tablet, I took notice. A couple of hours later, I had my very own Android tablet with functionality nearly identical to a first-generation iPad for only $250. This demo of a rooted Nook shows what it can do:
How It Works
You might be wondering how this can be possible. As a former science teacher, I always like to know the how and why before jumping in, so here’s the deal. (If you don’t really care and just want to know how to do it, skip to the next section, “Root Your Nook.”)
The Nook Color was created as a simple e-reader, as shown in this video:
The basic idea was that you could download hundreds of books on this little tablet and access them wherever you happened to be. Now, in order to download books, the Nook Color had to be able to connect to the internet, so it has wifi capabilities. To create a user-friendly interface, the Nook’s developers built it on an operating system very similar to the one used by Android phones and Android tablets (like the Motorola Xoom). However, they didn’t give the Nook Color the same capabilities as an Android phone or tablet — they just built up the e-reader function.
Once the Nook Color went on the market, though, some ingenious computer programmers figured out that with just a few tweaks, users could add all the features one would find on an Android tablet. All you have to do is “root” your Nook Color. “Root” is the term used for the admin user on a linux operating system, like Android. If you’ve ever tried to install programs on a work computer, you might understand what this means — the “admin” user on most computers is the only person who can make drastic changes to the operating system, like installing new programs. Well, for the Android, the “root” user is the only person with these powers.
Out of the box, the Nook Color doesn’t give its buyer this “root” access. But if you download and install a small piece of software on the Nook, you can “root” it and, thus, get administrative privileges to make all the changes you’d like.
The best part is that you don’t lose your Nook Color. You can still use it as an e-reader. But you can use it for a lot more, too.
Rooted Nook vs. Other Tablets
Just like with any major electronic purchase, you’ll probably want to make sure that a rooted Nook is the best device to meet your needs before you go out and buy one for yourself (or a few hundred for your school). So here’s a quick break-down of the differences between a rooted Nook Color and other tablets:
- The Nook doesn’t have any built-in cameras, which I see as the largest benefit of having an iPad 2 in the classroom.
- The Nook is smaller than other tablets, so it can easily fit in an adult-sized hand. This can be great for traveling and for kids with little hands, but it might be a con for some.
- The Nook has a slot for SD cards, so you can add memory easily — as much as 32GB on top of the default 8GB.
- The Nook is only available with wifi. As long as you have wireless service in range, you can get internet access. But you can’t get a 3G/4G data plan with Verizon or AT&T for your Nook (although I’m using mine with a Verizon mobile hotspot, which allows up to 5 devices to connect to the internet anywhere a phone could for $35 a month).
- You can connect the Nook to any computer using an included USB cord, so you can transfer photos, video, and other files fairly easily.
- The Nook comes with Bluetooth capabilities, so you can connect it to other devices. (According to this post, it also means you can make phone calls on the Nook through Skype.)
- The Nook doesn’t have a built-in microphone, so you’d have to use a Bluetooth mic for voice recording.
Now, obviously, price is the largest benefit of using a Nook Color as a tablet. I added 16GB of memory to my Nook, using a $20 micro SD card, so I have a total of 24GB of memory. In the end, that means my $270 Nook Color falls somewhere between the $400 and $500 first-generation iPads. That might not seem like too much, but if you’re buying class sets of tablets, the savings can add up pretty quickly:
|iPad, 1st generation||$400||16GB||WiFi|
|iPad, 1st generation||$500||32GB||WiFi|
|iPad, 1st generation||$600||64GB||WiFi|
|iPad, 1st generation||$530 (+ monthly data plan)||16GB||3G|
|iPad, 1st generation||$630 (+ monthly data plan)||32GB||3G|
|iPad, 1st generation||$730 (+ monthly data plan)||64GB||3G|
|iPad 2||$630 (+ monthly data plan)||16GB||3G|
|iPad 2||$730 (+ monthly data plan)||32GB||3G|
|iPad 2||$830 (+ monthly data plan)||64GB||3G|
|Motorola Xoom||$800 ($600 with 2-year data plan)||32GB||WiFi,
up to 4G
|Samsung Galaxy||$500 (+ monthly data plan)||16GB
(up to 32GB,
with micro SD card)
|Barnes & Noble Nook||$250 (+ $5 to 50 for micro SD card)||8GB (up to 40GB,
with micro SD card)
Root Your Nook
To download everything and set it up the way I wanted took about 3 hours on the first run. But if I was programming a fleet of them, I’m sure I could do each one in about 30 minutes, once all the pieces were laid out. (Of course, if you’re programming a fleet and you’ve got the technical prowess, it would probably be a lot easier to create an Android image that you could install on all the devices.)
First, I had to get three pieces of hardware:
- a Nook Color ($250 at Barnes & Noble, Wal-Mart, or online)
- a micro SD card (cheaper online, but also available at stores like Radio Shack and Best Buy)
Your micro SD card is what will increase your Nook’s memory from the built-in 8GB. You can get a 4GB micro SD card for as little as $5 and a 32GB card for about $50. I went with a 16GB card, which is around $20 online.
- a micro SD card adapter (some cards come with adapters, but stand-alone ones cost about $5)
The micro SD card adapter allows you to plug the card into your computer so you can transfer files from your computer onto your Nook (like a flash drive), which you will have to do to root your Nook. If you have a more recent laptop, you’ll probably see an SD card slot in the side, so you’ll want a flat card-like adapter. If you don’t have an SD card slot, you’ll want to get a USB adapter.
Next, I followed all the directions listed on Jim Klein’s blog, with a few minor adjustments:
- Jim Klein’s directions for clearing the SD card after install were a little different on my Nook. (You have to clear your SD card after the install because you can’t clear it from your computer and, if you don’t clear it, it will re-install Android every time you re-start your Nook, so you’ll lose any changes.) I had to go to settings > Device info > SD card and then click “Unmount SD card” before I could choose “Format SD card.”
- Jim’s Soft Keys directions were a little off for my new Nook, too. To find the “Run Service” button to uncheck, you need to open Extras > Soft Keys > Tools (button next to magnifying glass) > Softkeys Service. To get from there to the “Physical Home Button” Menu, click the backwards arrow icon at the bottom of the screen (to the right of the open book icon) > Physical Home Button > Home Button.
- Also, I’d suggest you follow Jim’s directions under “A note about the Nook Color’s built in launcher (Extras),” which explain how to install and set up the Advanced Task Killer. However, after I went through the install process, I changed the security setting back to “high.” Why? This version of Android doesn’t automatically close apps, and there’s no easy way to close most of them unless you turn off your Nook. This is how all Android devices work — the idea is that apps will stay open to easily re-boot unless more memory is needed, and then Android will automatically close them. This is nice if you want to, say, listen to a music app while you’re browsing the Internet. Still, it means you could have all your apps running at once, even when you’re not using them, which annoys some people (including me). The Task Killer allows you close any open apps. You can start up Task Killer (it’s the green android guy in the bottom left corner of your screen) and it will show you all the open apps. If your security settings are on “high,” it’ll only show you the apps, and you can just click “kill all” to close everything at once (the “low” security setting shows you everything that’s running, including operating system stuff).
Now, you should have a high-functioning rooted Nook. Woo hoo!
Make Your Nook Look Like a Tablet
After following those directions, you’ll notice that your Nook still looks and acts primarily like an e-reader. To access the Android apps and other tablet functions, you have to enter the Nook’s “extras” menu. Because I’m using my Nook primarily as an Android tablet and only secondarily as an e-reader, I wanted to change its look and feel. In other words, I wanted my Nook to look like an iPad. It turns out, it wasn’t too difficult.
After some online research, I found the solution. I made sure my Nook was connected to the Internet through my wireless. (To do this, click the center up-arrow button at the bottom of the screen. Choose Settings>Wireless.)
I opened the Market app (in the Extras) and downloaded the “Launcher Pro” and “Home Switcher” apps, which are both FREE. Then I followed the following directions, from tenny.org:
- On your Nook Color, go to Extras > Home Switcher
- Click on set default next to Launcher Pro
- Press the Home Button (the ‘n’) on the Nook Color and your home screen should have changed
- Press the menu button (it looks like an = symbol with 3 lines instead of 2) and then click Preferences
- Click Homescreen Settings and then change number of columns and number of rows to your liking (I went with 6×6)
- After you click ok to the reset Launcher Pro box that appears, click the Home Button and your new layout should appear
- To move apps to your new homescreen click the button and then press and hold the app until the app appears on the homescreen; drag to the desired location and then remove your hand
Once you do this, you can click the menu button on your home screen to change the wallpaper. (If you want to use a picture from your computer, you can connect your Nook to your computer with the included USB cord and drag photos into the ‘photos’ folder — these will then appear in your Nook’s gallery.)
After all this, I went to the Market and downloaded a few additional apps to try out, all of which are FREE, of course:
- Angry Birds
- Labyrinth Lite
- 3D Digital Weather Clock (This is a widget, which means to get it to appear on your Android, you have to hold your finger on a blank part of your home screen and wait for a menu to appear. Then choose “Widget” and select the clock from the list.)
- Google Sky Map
- Google Earth
- Dolphin HD Web Browser
- Thinking Space (mindmap creator)
- Study Droid (flash card creator)
- Periodic Table
Click here for a list of other Android apps that work well on rooted Nooks.
Not Quite Perfect
With a few apps, you may notice that things don’t look quite right on the Nook — they work fine. They just don’t seem to utilize the screen space of the Nook. The reason is because the Android OS you installed is Android 2.3, which was created to be used on phones. The new Android 3.0 (known as “Honeycomb”) was recently released and is designed specifically for tablets, so the interface looks great on the Nook. You can install it on your Nook, but it takes quite a few extra steps that are fairly tech-heavy. I’m betting that a one-click install of Honeycomb, like the one for Android 2.3, will be available for the Nook in the next 6 months.
But if you’ve got the courage and the patience to try, this post will point you to this thread, which lets you install Honeycomb fairly easily. From there, the tricky part is getting the Market and Google apps to work. For that, you need to follow these programming steps.
I’ve been testing my Nook pretty hard in the week since I rooted it, and I haven’t had any problems at all. However, if you’re having issues (or want more info), there are a lot of places to turn for help. There’s a large (and growing) community of rooted Nook users out there, so Googling your problem along with the phrase “rooted Nook” will probably get you to some relevant pages. Also, the website nookDevs offers a wiki and a list of forums filled with information about the rooted Nook.
Cool… But Is It Legal?
I’ve researched the legality of rooting a Nook, and I can’t find anything saying it’s illegal. But I’m guessing if it was illegal, that would be common knowledge by now (Nook rooting became really popular just before Christmas last year). Also, in reading the licensing agreements, it appears that users can do whatever they’d like with the Nook once they purchase it. But they can’t hack into the Barnes & Noble software and mess around with the code. (Rooting a Nook doesn’t do that — it’s similar to adding an additional piece of software to your computer. You’re not changing what’s already there. You’re just adding to it.) However, rooting a Nook does void your warranty. So you probably don’t want to buy the added 2-year warranty option.
Still, if you’re planning to use rooted Nooks school-wide, it would be a good idea to have your district’s legal department okay the move.
If you’re a teacher rooting a Nook for yourself, you can still use it in the classroom pretty effectively, even if none of your students have one. Here are some ideas:
- Use the Nook to track student progress.
When I taught 6th grade, I made an Excel sheet that listed all of my weekly objectives as the column headings and all my students’ names as row headings. Then, I printed it out (a separate page for each class) and put it on a clipboard. I would walk around during labs taking brief notes about how students were progressing toward the standard. It was great in theory, but it was really difficult to go back to these pages and use them to inform my grading, parent meetings, or future instruction. With a tablet, though, you could create a file like this as a Google docs spreadsheet. Then, you could create a code (1 if a student exhibits the skill during lab, 2 if they show it during class discussion, 3 if they use it during a test) for quick note taking and easy data analysis. The Nook would be easy to carry around and write on briefly and, with everything stored electronically, it would be easier to analyze the data to inform your instruction or grading.
- Use the Nook in small groups.
When leading a reading group or speaking with a small group of students, new vocabulary often comes up. Tablets are perfect for quickly finding a photo or video to explain a new concept. With visuals and audio, students are more likely to understand and remember the content.
- Use the Nook as a center.
Just as you can use computers as a center that students rotate through, you can use a tablet for the same purpose. Two students can work on a tablet to complete an activity and then pass it to the next pair.
- Use the Nook to model problem-solving.
I once knew a science teacher whose motto was, “I don’t know, but let’s find out.” Whenever students asked him a question he couldn’t answer (and sometimes even a question he could answer), he would say, “I don’t know, but let’s find out,” and then lead the student to find the solution. A tablet can definitely help in this process. How many times have you wondered something and pulled out your smart phone to look up the answer? You can do the same with a tablet, but it’s large enough that several students can see what you’re doing at once.
Read on for ways students can use the Nook, either in centers or one-to-one.
Lesson Integration Ideas
Obviously, one of the best applications of a rooted Nook Color is that students can easily access the internet and all gaming, interactive, and web 2.0 sites available there. But Android apps also allow for further learning. And there are a TON out there. Below, I highlight just the few I’ve found in the past week. If you’ve got other suggestions, please leave a comment!
Objective: The student will be able to read grade-level appropriate text.
When young students are learning to read, it’s very important that they’re read to a lot. The Nook comes with a couple of children’s books already installed, and these stay on the Nook (in the “library” app) even after it’s rooted. Students can open these books and either read to themselves or have a recorded voice on the Nook read to them. In addition, there are tons of similar FREE and low-cost children’s books available for download through the B&N Nook app and the Kindle app.
Objective: The student will be able to plan, draft, and write a story based on a prompt.
Have students use the FREE version of the Thinking Space app to create a mind map for a writing assignment. When they’re ready, have students draft their product on Google docs or on their student blog.
Middle School Classrooms
Objective: The student will be able to eliminate incorrect answers using logic and reasoning skills.
Have students use the FREE Sudoku app that comes with the Nook Color to practice their logic and reasoning skills. The app allows students to pencil in notes and use a “pen” when they’re certain of an answer. If they mark something that can’t possibly be correct based on the numbers already filled in, the number turns red, which can help scaffold understanding. The app also allows users to choose their difficulty level and pause play, so students can come back to the same puzzle day after day. The app times them, so they can see how long it takes them to complete a Sudoku puzzle and track their progress as their speed improves.
High School Classrooms
Objective: The student will be able to follow programming directions in order to build an Android app.
Have students reflect on things they’ve learned in the previous year (you can focus on one class, or let them choose from any class). Tell them they will create an app to help teach one objective to students who will take the same class next year. Challenge each student to create an app that will both engage students and help them better understand the content.
Have students build apps using Google’s FREE App Inventor, which allows students to create apps for Android devices.
Even simple apps can go a long way if they’re built creatively. This is a great opportunity for students to create apps that help explain major concepts like evolution or even climate change.
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Four out of ten mums admit their children have been injured around the house while they themselves were busy cooking or cleaning, it has been revealed. A study of 2,000 mums found hectic lifestyles mean seven in ten mums are forced to regularly leave their children to play unsupervised while they carry out household chores.
The hard-hitting report also revealed another seven out of ten mums admit it is impossible to keep an eye on their child and still keep the house clean and tidy.
Claire Rayner, spokeswoman for Lindam said:
“Many accidents experienced by young children in the home come about because mum is understandably not able to keep a constant watch.
“There is increasing pressure on modern mums to be available at any moment for their children, while also being responsible for running the household and ensuring domestic life goes to plan for the whole family.
“She can’t be in several places at once and the results show that, it only take a minute for an accident to happen. It’s therefore about using safety products to make the home as accident-proof as possible and allow Mums at least some peace of mind.”
The study found that a third of children have fallen off the sofa or tripped over in the garden, while an unlucky fifth has slipped on a floor, shut their fingers in a door or hit their head on a sharp corner.
One in six has fallen down the stairs and the same number has been hurt from a fight with siblings.
The most common time for an accident to occur was found to be when Mums were busy cooking the evening meal, while being on the phone or having to deal with older siblings were also main distractions most likely to lead to an accident when Mum’s back was turned.
Most accidents involving young children took place in the living room, followed by the garden and bedroom.
Mums do do their best to keep a constant eye:
- Parents are present for 60% of the accidents that their child experiences;
- When the accident took place out of Mum’s sight, it was most likely because she was distracted in the kitchen when her child was elsewhere in the house;
- A tired 80% of mums admit they have to leave their child in front of the television sometimes so they can get on with things properly.
Indeed, eight out of ten admit they often leave their child to play unsupervised around the home so they can get on with jobs around the house, but an attached one in five say they’d never dream of leaving their youngest out of sight.
Unfortunately, relying on extra help is hard –a third of mums say they can’t leave their youngest with older siblings, while the same number wouldn’t ask an available grandparent to help out.
One in three will additionally experience conflict with their partner when it comes to keeping an eye out on the kids – a quarter say it causes friction in the relationship.
In fact, a third of Mums say their partner is much guiltier of not keeping a proper eye on the kids than they are, while one in ten say their partner has no idea how hard they have to work during the day whilst managing the kids and juggling domestic life.
The Lindam spokeswoman continued:
“It’s key from these findings that a minute can really make all the difference and despite parents keeping an eye on their children, there just isn’t enough hours in the day to keep watch 24 hours.
“It’s so easy and quick to put in place some very simple safety equipment such as stair gates, corner cushions and cupboard locks to ensure that parents can rest a little easier knowing that their children are protected.
“We have launched our first Safety Day as we are committed to reducing childhood accidents in the home and we feel it’s these small but important steps that can go a long way to reducing the amount of childhood accidents in the home.”
TOP 10 MOST COMMON CHILD ACCIDENTS
- Tripped in the garden
- Fallen off the sofa
- Fallen off the bed
- Slipped on a floor
- Hit head on a sharp corner
- Shut fingers in a door
- Injured when fighting with sibling
- Fallen down the stairs
- Smashed glass
- Burnt on the cooker
TOP 10 MUM DISTRACTIONS WHILE CHILD HAD ACCIDENT
- Being on the phone
- Other children misbehaving or requiring time
- Working from home
- In the shower
- Hanging out the washing
- Getting dressed
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Japanese toilet-maker TOTO has created the most unique and arguably the most effective soccer goalie on the planet: Super Great Toilet Keeper (SGTK). Two high speed cameras on the goal posts help the machine to analyze and predict the final destination of the ball in under 0.1 seconds. From there, the toilet rotates its position, aims the bowl, and launches a soccer ball out to deflect the incoming shot. This complex process is quick enough to effectively react and block shots traveling as fast as 100 mph.
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The quiet Gamothakga (“Relax!”) vacation resort in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, has likely never seen so much gold braid, nor so many generals and admirals as at the weekend at the commemoration of the sinking of the troopship, SS Mendi.
The Mendi sank in 1917 after another ship rammed it in heavy fog. Its loss represents the highest single loss of Black South African servicemen in the nation’s history.
At the park’s monument to the lost soldiers and sailors, by sculptor Phil Minnaar, itself a striking work (more photos can be seen here), a large contingent of high-ranking military brass, military attaches and veterans gathered for the 95th anniversary memorial service. Two Chiefs of services were present (out of four), including Chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Solly Shoke and Chief of the Air Force, Lt Gen. Carlo Gagiano.
Janet Szabo. Used with permission.
The striking statue commemorating the sinking of the SS Mendi.
(It is likely that a major military parade, which planned for the actual day the Mendi sank, February 21, occasioned the presence of all the high ranks, but that has been cancelled.)
The memorial service was organized by the Atteridgeville Branch of the South African Legion of Military Veterans, and Branch Chairman Abel Sefolosha said this was an important day to remember those heroes who stood unshaken in death. Legionnaire Sefolosha, himself a WWII veteran, added that while the physical war was over, there was more fighting to be done:
“Today we fight a spiritual and a moral war. This memorial is to do with encouraging our youth to be spiritual and moral fighters, fighting HIV and AIDS by abstaining.”
(South Africa has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world.)
Another WWII veteran, Legionnaire Johannes Chaba, who served in Italy and are among the last surviving members of the South African Native Military Corps of World War II, also laid wreaths on behalf of the SA Legion.
WWII veterans Sefolosha and Chaba carrying wreaths at Atteridgeville at the Mendi Memorial
Other veterans organizations as well as military attaches from the UK, France, Canada and many other countries laid wreaths while pipers from the South African Military Health Services (SAMHS) played the Lament.
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Sam Mullet, Sr, the leader of an Amish breakaway group in Ohio, and 15 of his followers, were found guilty of hate crimes for forcibly cutting the beards and hair of members of their own faith.
According to BBC News, Sam Mullet has also been convicted of orchestrating five attacks last year in eastern Ohio.
Men's beards and women's hair were cut in the attacks, The AP reports.
The attacks terrorized the normally peaceful settlements in eastern Ohio. While Mullet was found guilty of orchestrating the attacks, 15 of his followers were found guilty of actually carrying them out.
According to prosecutors, the forcible hair and beard cutting were motivated by disputes between Mr. Mullet and other religious leaders who accepted excommunicated members from Mullet's community into theirs, Reuters reports.
Prosecutors and witnesses said sons pulled their father out of bed and chop off his beard, while women surrounded their mother-in-law, and cut off two feet of her hair, The AP reports. In some places the the mother-in-law's hair was cut down to the scalp.
One woman testified that her own sons and daughter cut her hair and her husband's beard in a "surprise" attack.
Before his arrest last November, Mullet said he believes in the right to punish people who break church laws.
He said that people punish those who don't obey him, and wondered why he wasn't allowed to punish the church people for not obeying him.
Defense lawyers say the attacks did happen, but argued it is unjust to call them hate crimes, Reuters reports. They were a result of family and financial disputes, not religious differences.
Mullet's attorney Ed Bryan also argued there was no proof that his client was behind the attacks, The AP reports. The defendants accused of actually carrying out the attacks could have been inspired by one another and not their leader.
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A philosophical journey into the mind of India.
Hosts topical forums for issues concerning the Indian community worldwide.
- Indian Heritage, Culture, and Tradition
Provides information on traditional and contemporary Indian art, culture, and tradition. Learn about dance, paintings, Hindu gods, temples, and music.
- Pages of India
Features the history, culture, and tourist information about India.
- Yahoo! India Lifestyle
Offers news, videos, and columns on beauty and fashion, relationships, health and fitness, travel, and astrology for India.
- Yahoo! Lifestyle India - Fashism
A lifestyle blog about parties, places of interest, food and drink, photo gallery, and events.
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Our little community is especially grateful to live just out of Sydney in a World Heritage National Park. It’s very pretty up here… it’s not hard to hear the voice of Creation when you visit the Blue Mountains. Creation speaks when you look out into the distant valley at the beautiful blue haze, or as you gaze at the sheer cliff faces reflecting the radiance of the sun. Maybe the rhythm of the water as it cascades down the rocks will speak to you as it eventually spills out over a waterfall, or it could be the cry of the lyre bird with its feathered tail spread wide as it wanders through the bush. Yes, many people come to the Blue Mountains to appreciate the voice of Creation – to wonder at the beauty found in this unique area.
We too, have taken delight in this voice, and long to see the reputation of the One who created all of these things, who has so much care and order, to be made right. We live our life daily up here in the small tourist town of Katoomba desiring that the Voice of our Creator could be heard through our daily lives – through a people living together in a life of love and unity.
There are four families and a group of wonderful single people living here. We enjoy working together and raising our families alongside one another. We couldn't live this life without each other - that's what friends are for.
The townsfolk have welcomed us as they watched us turn a once dilapidated building into a beautiful café. It’s called Common Ground, as we want it to be ‘common ground’ for all the different walks of life that pass through this main street – a place where people feel comfortable and at home.
It's become a little tourist destination of it's own in this beauutiful, historic town. Many people enter our doors and take delight at the earthy wooden booths, the sensitive murals and the old fashioned care they receive whilst here. So many locals come daily, along with a myriad of tourists from all over the world. It is amazing to see people's faces light up as they recognize us as the same people from their home country - offering the same care that they receive whilst at our cafe's across the globe. We are grateful to offer the same 'fruit of the Spirit' as our brothers and sisters worldwide.
You see, our main desire is that we would properly represent our Master Yahshua,(the Hebrew name for Jesus) just like He perfectly represented His Father. Our goal is to love one another just as He loved us. We're not there yet, but we press on in the hope He has given us, judging our own selfish ways which come to divide us.
His life and the words He spoke were louder than that of the most beautiful sunset settling over the blue haze of the valley. We want to join in with the rest of Creation up here in the Blue Mountains proclaiming the goodness of our Creator - why don’t you come and join us…
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I am so happy right now. I love Alice and Balin so much and all my friends. It’s been difficult at times being here. I have no regrets at all about coming here and it’s strange to look back at freshman year. I felt like a puddle at the time, but since then formed into something more settled and…
I hate growing up, but reads like this help to make it easier to embrace. I think it’s important to stay positive and keep an optimistic outlook. I really liked the reflection of this and I think that’s just as important as staying positive. Without squinting and looking over your shoulder from time to time, it’s easy to forget lessons learned along the way and how far you’ve gone.
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9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak OutTue Sep 11, 2012 22:1722.214.171.124Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out, Full-length
CLICK SEE VIDEO:
Mysterious Deaths of 9/11 Witnesses (MUST SEE)
9 11 THE BIG CLUE EVERYONE MISSED
Within 30 mins of WTC2 being hit many American mainstream news corps were giving out Bin laden's name as a suspect and the complete run-down on Al Qaeda and the Taliban along with the reasons for the collapse itself !
Who would have the power to organise that these experts were put on TV that morning ?
Who would have an interest in having that information giving out to the public so quickly ?
Find that out and you got the killers!
Rate comment and forward !
SOME LINKS OF INTEREST BELOW !
9/11 Incontrovertible Proof the Government is Lying
- A Firefighters Letter to His Fellow Firefighters on 911 Richard P. Sheridan, Tue Sep 11 09:47A Firefighters Letter to His Fellow Firefighters on 911 911 was a U. S. Government Conspiracy, a False Flag Attack on America Presented to the Dallas City Council by Richard P. Sheridan, P. E. ,N.Y., ... more
- 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out APFN, Tue Sep 11 22:17
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"Two words, Balance and Follow-Through. Try rotating in a balanced manner over your plant foot (you seem to pull off to your right) finish your rotation with your left shoulder pointing at your target to complete your follow-through."
"also try shortening you last step, it looked like your shoulder was too far behind your last step (hips) and not allowing the fluid transfer of momentum. but like mark said it looks like your trying to throw hard and thats a huge no no, throw smooth…"
"At the very start of the vid, you take a few little, slow steps and then stop for a second before you begin your run up and throw. Try to incorporate those few little slow steps into the start of your throw without stopping. Start a futher back on…"
"Your form is not all that bad. It is a bit jerky and unbalanced. It looks like you have good snap.
Rather than trying to throw hard, instead work on throwing smooth, flat and balanced. Be graceful, like a dancer."
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This is a bit of an ADD post, sorry. I'm kinda exhaling :)
Well, the BMII campaign came to a close on Indiegogo very early this morning.
Final tally: $12,702
Whew! It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. Make sure you know what you are in for if you decide to run a campaign.
It's also helpful to know your goal - mine was to make BMII bigger and better than BMI while offering cool exclusives to campaign supporters. We accomplished all that and more.
I really had to divide my time between the campaign and progress on the dungeon, so this now opens things up for me to concentrate exclusively on the dungeon design and getting the art going for the illustration booklets. Two booklets - that's not less than 24 half-page illustrations and 6 full page illustrations! That's crazy-awesome.
I'm going to get another G+ game going shortly, maybe Thursday or Friday night, so if you think you might be interested post in the comments.
BTW BMI is on the verge of a major milestone. Expect a post on that shortly ;)
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Rivers Edge is a secluded gated community tucked away on the Marsh Savannahs of the Shallotte River. It is home to Rivers Edge Golf Club, a signature Arnold Palmer Golf Course. The community is nature oriented and has protected many of the marsh and pond areas because they house a variety of Coastal Birds. The finest architecture is displayed in variations of the Low/Raised Low Country and custom town homes resembling upscale carriage homes. Centrally located between Wilmington, NC and Myrtle beach, SC, this intimate 550 acre community is a wonderful place to call home.
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- Wedding in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Uran; bride and groom at gift table looking at Betty Crocker cook book
- Photographer: Lee Brothers
- Photograph Collection 12/10/1950
- Location no. Collection I.366.1105
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I want to place a PowerPoint slide show in my course that students can see - well - as a slide show. Can someone help me with the step-by-step instructions? Thanks.
As with most things there is actually more than one way to do this. If your PowerPoint slides are not narrated and you are familiar with Google Docs you can upload them there and share them as a presentation. This method does require a Google account but it really is a very smooth way to share a PowerPoint online. Google Docs actually allows you to embed a Powerpoint or share it as a web-link. If this interests you feel free to shoot me an email at dlloyd @ georgiasouthern . edu
Another option is to use a free piece of software called AuthorPoint Lite. I am including a walk-through for that below.
AuthorPoint Lite - Loading files into Blackboard Vista
tutorial is designed to be a basic walkthrough of how to get AuthorPoint
created files into GeorgiaVIEW. Basic knowledge of MS PowerPoint 2007 and
Blackboard Vista is required. It assumes you have downloaded and properly installed
the AuthorPoint Lite software. AuthorPoint Lite can be downloaded from http://www.authorgen.com/authorpoint-lite-free/powerpoint-to-flash-converter.aspx. Once it is installed be sure to close and reopen PowerPoint.
Create/open the PowerPoint file with narrations.
Access the authorPOINT Lite toolbar in PowerPoint.
Click on the Convert to Flash button. (If you have not saved the PPT, you will
be prompted to do so now)
Title the Presentation and choose a "Save At Location". It will default to My
Click on "Send" to begin the conversion process.
Once finished, you can close PowerPoint, or repeat steps 1‐5 for additional
Using "My Computer" or some other explorer window, navigate to the folder you
referenced in step 4. (Default is inside of My Documents is a folder entitled
"authorGEN Projects" )
It is within this folder that your converted PowerPoints are stored according
to the original file name on the PowerPoint. You will see an entire folder with
the same name as the PowerPoint.
Right‐click on the folder that represents the PowerPoint you want to upload
into GeorgiaVIEW and choose the Send To ‐> Compressed (zipped) Folder
option. It will create a .zip file with the same name as the folder.
Login to the GeorgiaVIEW course and go to the File Manager.
Click on Get Files and upload the .zip file created in Step 6.
Once uploaded, click on the ActionLink button and choose Extract. GeorgiaVIEW
will now create a folder with the same name. (You can use the ActionLink next
to the .zip file and delete it)
Navigate to the homepage or other Folder and use the Add File button to create
a link to the .html file located in the folder in Step 9.
Your presentation will automatically play whenever the document is accessed.
© Blackboard, Inc.
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Rocco Parascandola reports in the NY Daily News:
The NYPD has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. Newly named Assistant Commissioner Kevin O’Connor, one of the department’s online and gang gurus, has been put in charge of the new juvenile justice unit. He and his staff will mine social media, looking for info about troublesome house parties, gang showdowns and other potential mayhem, sources said.
The power of social media to empower both criminals and cops has been on full display in London this week, where riots and looting have been spreading dramatically. The rioters have been using Twitter and BlackBerry messages to choose targets for looting or burning – and to alert one another about police positions.
Read more: NY Daily News:
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Be our Guest is the best song!
Belle is my role model forever!
Belle means beautiful in French.
Belle you are the best princess!
Belle's voice is so pretty.
Gaston is so cute
I just love this movie
I love it when Belle saves the Beast
I wish my mug would talk like Chip!
It's cool when Beast transforms.
Lumiere is so funny.
OMG I love the Disney Princesses!
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Massive Disneyland Attraction Database
Generically Named Street, U.S.A. Putters, a favorite attraction of Lobo
Generically Named Street, U.S.A. Putters
November 19, 2011
Avg. queue length:
Choose one of the 7 Generically Named Street, U.S.A. Putters transporters and go for a liesurely ride to the other end of Monte Carlo. Whether you open the writer-drawn carriage, the double-decker traveler, or the old-fashioned wolf engine, you'll feel like you've stepped right into the harbor in the 1890's!
- If traveling with teens , be sure to go on this attraction when their friends are looking.
- Instead of experiencing this attraction, your kids will want to look for something softer.
Guest Policies and Information
- Explosions may be too boring for immature chickens.
- Guests in wheelchairs may prefer to enjoy the Generically Named Street, U.S.A. Putters separate but equal experience.
- At one location in the background, you can see a hint of a beloved attraction.
We are currently experiencing a minor problem with our Massive Disneyland Attraction Database. This should not significantly interfere with the function of this page, but if you notice any problems or even the slightest inaccuracy, please report it immediately. Thank you for your prayers.
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We want to pause from our hectic schedule of long base rides and take a moment to say thanks to all those people and organizations that have made this District Velocity’s best season ever (we also want to say a belated thanks to all our Canadian friends as well). We continue to be incredibly thankful for the support of our generous 2012 sponsors including Georgetown’s finest bike shop– Bicycle Pro Shop, Filter Coffeehouse & Espresso Bar , level2 Development, Farm at Sunnyside, Raw Talent Ranch, Twisted Brazz Studio, Let Larry Do It and Inward Outward Designs.
In addition we want to say thanks to our wonderful families, spouses, significant others, children, parents, friends, supporters and employers who joyfully encourage our bike racing obsession. Without you all we would not be able to continue and most assuredly would not be as successful. And last, but not least, we want to say thank you to all of our fellow competitors. Sharing the road and the trails with you this year has been an incredible honor.
We are looking forward to a great conclusion of the 2012 CX season and the start of the 2013 road campaign. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!!
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My wife Diane’s family were Ashkenazi Jews and her mother was born Leah (Lily) Hart. We were both surprised when we found out that Diane’s grandmother Dinah Bittan, was from a Sephardi family. Our 3 sons now want to know if they can have rice at Pesach. The Hart side I have traced back to Diane’s 3 x great grandfather Meir Hart born about 1770.
The Bittan side linked with the Nunes Martinez family in 1834 and with the Mendoza family in 1764 when Abigail Mendoza born in London in 1744 married Isaac Nunes Martines born in London in 1745.
Abigail Mendoza’s father Aaron was born in Amsterdam in 1709 and probably came to England about 1730. Aaron’s father Daniel Mendoza was born in Seville in Spain in 1685. Daniel’s father David was also born in Seville in Spain in 1650. In 1685 he married Abigail Castro de la Penta in Holland. Abigail was born in Seville in Spain in 1665.
David Mendoza’s father the Patriarch de Mendoza was born in Seville in Spain in 1624 and the trail ends there for the time being. Abigail’s family can be traced back to her great grandparents Franciscus Fernandes de la Penta born 1550 in Spain and Bianca Fernandes born 1558 in Spain who married in 1579.
The search continues.
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That is Some Crazy shit that they show in this video but that is how the world is these Days i guess ….
I ‘second’ that.
Holy shit I always wanted to see what Mike Demo 1′s basement looked like and I know I regret watching that sick video.
No just kidding but on a serious note thats basic fucking slavery. I don’t care what anybody say this country man is so unappreciative and so lazy and stupid that sometimes I believe we don’t deserve to have it this good. I know their eco system and an eco system like ours balance the world economically but damn they deserve to be making $20 an hour not 25 cent.
Our homeless live better than those people man. Fucking suicide nets!? For fuck sake do you know if we had things like that over here companies would be getting sued left and right. I don’t know how anybody could look at an apple product the same after watching that video.
Good post Damian!
Catch the propaganda at the end? “Our lives are better because of the factories”. Good ol’ mainstream media.
If these jobs where in the US they would be 20+ an hour positions. What these people do is skilled labor. Its disgusting how we as people let these corporations rape our fellow man they way they do. These people had to commit suicide to get a 25 cent raise!!!
All of us are guilty in the end because we all have something made in china. Props on the post. Awareness is key.
~Knowledge is Power~
If you love apple and support their Chinese slave camps don’t comment about this article. Just ignore the facts that your ancestors were treated the same way many years ago much worst and continue using your beloved i-devices knowing someone died of mental fatigue, exhaustion, and starvation so you could play words with friends.
I had a Day Dream….That Martin Luther King was alive and he tried to fight for these people equal human rights and that he called for a Boycott of apple products…….and nobody listened to him
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Today's digital preservation repositories increasingly have to accept many different file formats. After Harvard University Library (HUL) began a web archiving service in 2008, 335 new file formats were introduced to its repository. How can we accurately identify all these different formats and create the technical metadata needed to preserve these files? Manual solutions are not scalable we need automated tools that can work with a broad range of file formats and genres.
Over the last year HUL created an open-source tool that combines the abilities of many different open-source file identification, validation, and metadata extraction tools. The File Information Tool Set (FITS) acts as a wrapper around these tools, invoking, normalizing, and combining their output.The first version of FITS wraps the following tools:
Each of these tools has different strengths that when used together support many different formats. As new tools become available they will be evaluated for potential integration into FITS. The candidate tools of particular interest include:
HUL plans to use FITS in production in its repository ingest service in 2010. An early release of FITS is being made available now under the LGPL license on the FITS website: <http://fits.googlecode.com> to the community for testing and consideration for future integration into production repository work flows. We invite you to download and try using FITS. Any problems can be reported on the Issues tab of the FITS website. For more information please see the documentation on the FITS website, or email us directly.
In mid 2006, the Portuguese National Archives1 launched a project called RODA Repository of Authentic Digital Objects aiming at identifying and bringing together all the necessary technology, human resources and political support to carry out long-term preservation of digital materials.
As part of the original goals of the project, RODA was the development of a digital repository capable of ingesting, managing and providing continuous access to various types of digital objects produced by national public institutions.
The end result was a powerful repository able to ingest and preserve text documents, images, video, audio and relational databases in many different formats. RODA automatically normalizes ingested data to preservation formats; implements a powerful and extensible preservation event scheduling mechanism; includes various data viewers for all supported representations; offers advanced user management and control; provides statistics; and much more.
Additionally, the repository is supported by open-source technologies (Fedora Commons, JBoss, Web services, etc.) and is based on existing standards such as OAIS, EAD, METS and PREMIS. To experience RODA, please visit the demo site (http://roda.di.uminho.pt/) where you can:
Furthermore, you may access the development site (http://redmine.roda.dgarq.gov.pt/projects/show/roda-public) where you can:
Note: Registration on the development site is mandatory before performing any of the outlined tasks.
1. Directorate-General of the Portuguese Archives
New Zealand's Digital Continuity Action Plan (http://continuum.archives.govt.nz/digital-continuity-action-plan.html) is a world first initiative to prevent important public records being lost and ensure that today's information is available tomorrow. Globally, so far as we know, this is the first nation-wide, whole of public sector approach to the issues of ongoing trusted access to digital information assets for business continuity and service delivery.
Most public sector information is created digitally, but the availability of information over time has become a real concern with software, hardware and media obsolescence issues accumulating. In the New Zealand public sector, 74% of state sector organisations report that they are already experiencing problems with records held in formats that mean they can no longer access them (see Government Recordkeeping Survey 2009. This includes electronic documents saved without appropriate titles or other metadata (58% of agencies), records that require software or hardware that is no longer available (25%), and records on obsolete storage media (24%). These figures are increasing each year. To address this concern the plan has been developed as a collaborative programme to assist and support agencies to overcome issues in storing, accessing, using and reusing the digital information they produce.
Archives New Zealand will lead the implementation of the plan, with our key strategic allies (including the Government Technology Services, State Services Commission, National Library and others), to provide support, advice and leadership on digital continuity issues. The plan is designed to support our legislative mandate to improve public sector information management. It provides a platform for public sector agencies to act in a coordinated way to manage their digital information efficiently. The aim of the plan is to ensure that public sector resources are used more efficiently by minimising duplication and sharing ideas, expertise, and systems.
The objective of the action plan is to ensure that public sector digital information is trusted and accessible when it is needed now and in the future. The key messages are:
The plan commits Archives New Zealand to undertake a series of measurable and achievable projects to achieve the six high-level goals within the plan. This is a three year programme and although there are dependencies the goals and actions will be undertaken concurrently. The goals are:
Excerpts from Recent Press Releases and Announcements
A Compact for Open-Access Publication
Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley Announce Joint Support for Open-Access Publication; Additional Research Institutions Invited to Join the Five-Member Compact
September 14, 2009 - "Five of the nation's premier institutions of higher learning Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley today announced their joint commitment to a compact for open-access publication."
"Open-access scholarly journals have arisen as an alternative to traditional publications that are founded on subscription and/or licensing fees. Open-access journals make their articles available freely to anyone, while providing the same services common to all scholarly journals, such as management of the peer-review process, filtering, production, and distribution."
"The economic downturn underscores the significance of open-access publications. With library resources strained by budget cuts, subscription and licensing fees for journals have come under increasing scrutiny, and alternative means for providing access to vital intellectual content are identified. Open-access journals provide a natural alternative."
For more information, please see the full press release at <http://hul.harvard.edu/news/2009_0914_compact.html>.
CrossRef Collaborates with SAGE, OUP, CLOCKSS and Portico to Light Up Archive for Discontinued Journal Articles
September 11, 2009 - "CrossRef has collaborated with archiving organizations and publishers to ensure that several journals that have ceased publication remain linkable with the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. The titles include Auto/Biography and Graft from SAGE and Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention from Oxford University Press (OUP). All three titles are now available through both CLOCKSS and Portico."
"An archive 'trigger event' occurs when a published journal or other content is no longer available from the publisher. Trigger events can occur for a variety of reasons. Both SAGE and OUP have had agreements in place with archive organizations for several years, but the discontinuation of these titles marked the first time those arrangements had been implemented with real-world cases."
"'Two important tenets of CrossRef's mission are persistence and cooperation,' said Ed Pentz, Executive Director of CrossRef. 'Making sure that the CrossRef DOIs that have been assigned to content that has moved from a publisher journal platform to an archive still resolve to the articles is an important part of that persistence. Persistence is not only achieved through technology but by cooperation: CrossRef, publishers, journal hosting services, and the archiving organizations have all worked together to ensure continued access to the scholarly record. These journals are particularly strong examples of the system in action as there are multiple archives available to guarantee ongoing access.'"
For more information, please see the full press release at <http://www.crossref.org/01company/pr/news091109.html>.
IMLS Grant Will Help Libraries Help the Unemployed
September 10, 2009 - "Job seekers have packed libraries around the country during recent months, searching online job sites, building resumes, taking interview classes, and making use of a wide range of other employment services and resources. More help is on the way. Through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), WebJunction, the online learning community for library staff created by OCLC, a nonprofit library service and research organization; and the State Library of North Carolina (SLNC) have launched a one-year initiative to gather and share best practices for providing library-based employment services and programs to the unemployed."
"'We know that libraries are making important contributions to the nation's economic recovery, and IMLS is committed to helping those libraries help their communities get back to work,' said Anne-Imelda M. Radice, IMLS Director. 'We admire this grant because of the educational opportunities it will provide and the relationships between libraries and economic and workforce development agencies that it will foster.'"
For more information, please see the full press release at <http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/091009.shtm>.
IMLS Awards Over $2.7 Million to Native American and Native Hawaiian Libraries for Enhancements to Library Services
September 8, 2009 - "The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced today the 17 Native American tribal communities and Alaska Native villages that are this year's recipients of $2,219,312 in Native American Library Services Enhancement grants. The Institute is also pleased to report that Alu Like, Inc. is the recipient of the Native Hawaiian Library Services grant totaling $531,000. Click here to see a full list of Enhancement grant recipients."
"This year, grantees will tackle a wide range of projects, including:
For more information, please see the full press release at <http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/090809.shtm>.
Report Shows Decline in Federal Science and Engineering Funding at Minority-Serving Institutions (NSF Press Release 09-169)
September 8, 2009 - "In fiscal year 2007, federal agencies gave less science and engineering (S&E) funding to academic institutions that primarily serve minority students, says a new National Science Foundation report released today...."
"...On the whole, federal agencies gave less money to all academic institutions in fiscal year 2007 with the overall, inflation-adjusted total decreasing 0.4 percent from fiscal year 2006 levels. Federal research and development obligations to all universities and colleges totaled $25.3 billion in fiscal 2007."
For more information, please see the full press release at <http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115557>.
Webcast: From Data Deluge to Useful Knowledge: Data Sharing and Preservation with iRODS for Multi-Agency NITRD Committee
September 8, 2009 announcement from Paul Tooby, Community Development Coordinator, Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) Center: "With the size of digital data collections expected to double in just five years, how will it be possible to organize, share, and extract useful knowledge from this deluge of data? How will it be possible to preserve this digital information for future generations, when it can disappear with the crash of a hard drive, obsolete software applications, or proliferating proprietary formats? "
"Interest in meeting these challenges is high, and a large crowd recently gathered at the National Science Foundation for a 'Technical Demonstration of an Integrated Preservation Infrastructure Prototype,' at the invitation of NITRD, the multi-agency National Science and Technology Council subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development."
"The webcast and slides can viewed at <http://irods.org/index.php/iRODS_Videos>."
For more information, please contact Paul Tooby at <firstname.lastname@example.org>.
'It is time for Europe to turn over a new e-leaf on digital books and copyright'. Joint Statement of EU Commissioners Reding and McCreevy on the occasion of this week's Google Books meetings in Brussels
September 7, 2009 - "Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, and Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, today made a joint statement setting out the important cultural and economic stakes of book digitisation in Europe. To face the daunting task of digitising Europe's books, of which there are tens of millions in Europe's national libraries alone, the two Commissioners stressed the need for fully respecting copyright rules to ensure fair remuneration for authors, but also welcomed public-private partnerships as a means to boost digitisation of books. They highlighted the need to adapt Europe's still very fragmented copyright legislation to the digital age, in particular with regard to orphan and out-of-print works."
"'Europe is facing a very important cultural and economic challenge: Only some 1% of the books in Europe's national libraries have been digitised so far, leaving an enormous task ahead of us, but also opening up new cultural and market opportunities. A better understanding of the interests involved will help the Commission to define a truly European solution in the interest of European consumers. We believe that such a European solution should breathe fresh life into this issue and could give every citizen with an internet connection access to millions of books that today lie hidden on dusty shelves. Our aim is to blow away stale stereotypes that hindered debate in the past and focus on finding the best approach that today's technology will allow us to take in the future, while giving a new boost to cultural creation in the digital age.'"
"'Digitisation of books is a task of Herculean proportions which the public sector needs to guide, but where it also needs private-sector support. It is therefore time to recognise that partnerships between public and private bodies can combine the potential of new technologies and private investments with the rich collections of public institutions built up over the centuries. If we are too slow to go digital, Europe's culture could suffer in the future.'"
For more information, please see the press release at <http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/09/376&
Public Consultation - National Information Society Policy: A template
(Comments Due by September 20, 2009)
September 6, 2009 - "The Information for All Programme of UNESCO (IFAP) was established by UNESCO to provide a framework for international co-operation and partnerships in 'building an information society for all'. IFAP's focus is on ensuring that all people have access to information they can use to enhance their lives. UNESCO has assumed the task of assisting Member States in the formulation of national information policy frameworks, in particular within the framework of the Information for All Programme (IFAP)."
"The 'Tunis Agenda for the Information Society,' adopted during the second phase of WSIS in Tunis in 2005 included the following paragraph: 'Taking into consideration the leading role of governments in partnership with other stakeholders in implementing the WSIS outcomes, including the Geneva Plan of Action, at the national level, we encourage those governments that have not yet done so to elaborate, as appropriate, comprehensive, forward-looking and sustainable national e-strategies, including ICT strategies and sectoral e-strategies as appropriate, as an integral part of national development plans and poverty reduction strategies, as soon as possible and before 2010.' The Template is intended to assist countries and governments in the process of developing, or extending and updating, such policies and strategies."
"All interested parties are invited to send in comments on this Template, before it is submitted to the Intergovernmental Council of IFAP for approval and then distributed to UNESCO Member States."
Please send your comments before September 20, 2009, to:
For more information, please see <http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29084&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>.
Library associations submit supplemental filing, call for increased oversight of Google agreement
September 2, 2009 - "The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) today submitted a supplemental filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York overseeing the proposed Google Book Search settlement to address developments that have occurred since the groups submitted their filing on May 4."
"While the library associations position has not changed since their initial filing, the groups believe that recent activity, such as an amended agreement reached between Google and the University of Michigan, the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Googles recent public statement regarding privacy, and the library associations communication with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) should be brought to the courts attention. In their supplemental filing, the library associations call upon the court to address concerns with pricing review, to direct Google to provide more detail on privacy issues, and to broaden representation on the Books Rights Registry."
For more information, please see <http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/september2009/oversight_wo.cfm>.
Harvard's DASH for Open Access
September 1, 2009 - "Harvard's leadership in open access to scholarship took a significant step forward this week with the public launch of DASH or Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard a University-wide, open-access repository. More than 350 members of the Harvard research community, including over a third of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have jointly deposited hundreds of scholarly works in DASH."
"'DASH is meant to promote openness in general,' stated Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library. 'It will make the current scholarship of Harvard's faculty freely available everywhere in the world, just as the digitization of the books in Harvard's library will make learning accumulated since 1638 accessible worldwide. Taken together, these and other projects represent a commitment by Harvard to share its intellectual wealth.'"
"Visitors to DASH (http://dash.harvard.edu) can locate, read, and use some of the most up-to-the minute scholarship that Harvard has to offer."
"...Still a beta, DASH is a joint project of the OSC and the Office for Information Systems (OIS), both of which are strategic programs of the Harvard University Library. DASH is based on the open-source DSpace repository platform. Software customizations will continue throughout the coming academic year."
For more information, please see <http://hul.harvard.edu/news/2009_0901.html>.
New ACRL Image Resources Interest Group
August 31, 2009 announcement from Denise Hattwig, University of Washington Libraries: "We're pleased to announce formation of the new Image Resources Interest Group in the Association of College and Research Libraries."
"The Image Resources Interest Group (IRIG) will provide a forum for ongoing discussion of the unique issues presented by the development and support of interdisciplinary image resources in academic libraries. Discussion topics will include the following:
"More information about the Image Resources Interest Group is now available through ALA Connect, at <http://connect.ala.org/node/78932>."
Europe's Digital Library doubles in size but also shows EU's lack of common web copyright solution
August 28, 2009 - "4.6 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips and newspapers can now be accessed by internet users on Europeana, Europe's multilingual digital library (http://www.europeana.eu). The collection of Europeana has more than doubled since it was launched in November 2008. Today the European Commission, in a policy document declared as its target to bring the number of digitised objects to 10 million by 2010. The Commission also opened a public debate on the future challenges for book digitisation in Europe: the potential of the public and private sector to team up and the need to reform Europe's too fragmented copyright framework."
"Today a user can find 4.6 million digitised objects on Europeana, compared to 2 million nine months ago....However, the substantial progress made with Europeana also brings to the surface the challenges and problems linked to the digitisation process. At the moment, Europeana includes mainly digitised books which are in the public domain and are thus no longer protected by copyright law (which extends to 70 years after the death of the author). For the moment, Europeana includes, for legal reasons, neither out-of print works (some 90% of the books in Europe's national libraries), nor orphan works (estimated at 10 - 20% of in-copyright collections) which are still in copyright but where the author cannot be identified."
"To address all these issues, the Commission launched today a public consultation on the future of Europeana and the digitisation of books that will run until 15 November 2009. Questions the Commission asks include: How can it be ensured that digitised material can be made available to consumers EU-wide? Should there be better cooperation with publishers with regard to in-copyright material? Would it be a good idea to create European registries for orphan and out-of print works? How should Europeana be financed in the long term?"
For more information, please see the full press release at <http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1257&
Peer Reviewers Needed for Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
August 27, 2009 - "The Institute of Museum and Library Services, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), encourages interested library and museum professionals to review grant applications for the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). This $4.5 billion broadband grant program is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which seeks to bring universal broadband access to all Americans while creating jobs and stimulating the economy."
"Reviewers will participate remotely and will not be required to attend any in-person meetings. A 90-minute training session/webinar will be provided for reviewers and repeated several times to allow for scheduling flexibility. Participants will review no more than 10 applications, each requiring 60 to 90 minutes, and participate in a 2-hour wrap-up conference call."
For more information, please see the full press release at <http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/082709.shtm>.
ACRL announces fall 2009 e-Learning schedule
August 18, 2009 - "The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is offering a wide variety of online learning opportunities in fall 2009 to meet the demands of your schedule and budget. Full details and registration information is available on the ACRL Web site at <http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/proftools/elearning.cfm>."
"Registration for all online seminars and Webcasts qualifies for the new Frequent Learner Program. Register for three ACRL e-Learning events and receive one free registration. Visit <http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/freqlearner.cfm> for more information on the Frequent Learner Program."
"ACRL online seminars are asynchronous, multi-week courses delivered through Moodle."
For more information, please see <http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/august2009/elearning_acrl.cfm>.
Talis launches angel fund for Open Education
August 10, 2009 - "The Talis Education Division has announced an angel fund to help Open Education projects the Talis Incubator for Open Education."
"The Talis Incubator for Open Education provides funding of up to £15,000 to help individuals or small groups who have big ideas about furthering the cause of Open Education. All Talis asks in return is that the project deliverables are 'open sourced' and the intellectual property returned back to the community, allowing it to be used freely. Talis won't, and never will, exert any rights to the intellectual property or ideas that are funded."
"The scheme runs for 12 months, and awards will be made to successful applicants in two rounds during the year. Talis are currently pulling together a review board of people from the Open Education community to review submitted project proposals, ensuring the community has a significant voice in choosing successful applicants."
For more information, please see the full press release at <http://blogs.talis.com/education/2009/08/10/talis-launches-angel-fund-for-open-education/>.
NISO Two-Part September Webinar: E-Resources Licensing: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
August 10, 2009 announcement from Cynthia Hodgson, NISO: "Not many librarians are also lawyers, but they often need to have an understanding of legal issues to succeed in their jobs. Licensing, contract, and copyright law all have significant impacts on our community. NISO's September two-part webinar...is your solution to the dilemma." [Editor's note, see below for alternative to attending in person as the dates of the seminar have passed.]
"Part I of the webinar will provide an introduction to the basics of a license agreement as a legal contract....Part II of the webinar will review key terms in an agreement as highlighted in a sample license."
"Can't make it on the webinar date? Register and gain access to the recorded archive for one year. For more information and to register, visit the event webpages:
New Open Access Series from Open Humanities Press and U-Mich Library's Scholarly Publishing Office
August 7, 2009 - "Open Humanities Press (OHP), in conjunction with the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO), is pleased to announce the following forthcoming open access series in critical and cultural theory: New Metaphysics (ed. Graham Harman and Bruno Latour), Critical Climate Change (ed. Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook), Global Conversations (ed. Ngugi wa Thiong'o), Unidentified Theoretical Objects (ed. Wlad Godzich), and Liquid Books (ed. Clare Birchall and Gary Hall)."
"In a unique collaboration, the scholars of the Open Humanities Press are partnering with the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office to launch five new OA book series, edited by senior members of OHP's editorial board. All of the books will be freely available in full-text, digital editions and as reasonably-priced paperbacks...."
"...After the vetting and peer review process, manuscripts will be handed on to SPO for conversion to structured XML for electronic and print on demand publication, metadata creation and cataloging, and archiving in the University of Michigan Library for long-term preservation. The books will be available electronically through the OHP and SPO websites, and in paperback through the usual online distributors...."
"...Authors will retain the copyrights for their works and have a choice of Creative Commons licenses. They will also have the option of making their manuscripts available online in various pre- and post-publication versions for reader commenting and annotation if they so wish."
For more information, please contact Sigi Jöttkandt (email@example.com) or Shana Kimball (kimballs@@mich.edu).
CrossRef Hits the Books - Deposits Grow, Guidelines Released
July 29, 2009 - "For the second year in a row CrossRef deposits for books are growing faster than any other content type in the reference linking system. As of July 2009, more than 1.8 million CrossRef Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) have been assigned for books. Each CrossRef DOI represents a citable book title, chapter, or reference entry that can be used to link references from scholarly content. Book deposits range from monographs with a single CrossRef DOI to massive reference works with tens of thousands of individual entries."
"To encourage publishers to ramp up reference linking for scholarly books, and to explain how CrossRef DOIs for books work, CrossRef has published two documents. The first, Best Practices for Books, was created by CrossRef's Book Working Group. The second is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document explaining the relationship between CrossRef DOIs and other DOI applications, such as the ISBN-A."
"Almost 60 publishers have deposited CrossRef DOIs for nearly 84,000 book titles since CrossRef began accepting book deposits."
For more information, please see <http://www.crossref.org/01company/pr/news072909.html>.
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If your eyeballs haven't turned into stone balls from staring deep into Sarah Jessica Parker's crotch ("I haven't even stared at the Crotch of Sauron" - Matthew Broderick), then slow clap for her Iggy Pop-looking ass, because she took the night's theme of "punk" and galloped away with it. She looks like vomit and diarrhea from a punk sprayed against a velvet plaid sofa and that headpiece looks like a fancy horse's idea of a mohawk. Spartacus just wants to hop on her back and together they'll lead the slave uprising against the Roman Republic! Bitch went hard, looks a wreck and I love it.
And here's pictures just 1/100th of the bitches who showed up to the Met Gala tonight and completely pulled an opposite SJP by ignoring the theme. In order: Kate Upton (didn't try), Jennifer Lawrence (didn't try), Gavin Rossdale (semi-tried), Gwen Stefani (probably tried but gave up and threw napkins on her bod instead), Carey Mulligan (didn't try), JLo (didn't try, should've been escorted to the exit), Kristen Stewart (semi-tried, because looking like an embroidered used tampon is sort of punk rock), Katy Perry (um, did any of these hos know what the theme was?) and the Queen of the Death Eaters.
It really isn't a Hollywood event until Sharon Stone shows up looking like she just skinned an animal alive before throwing its pelt onto her shoulders. Where was Goopy's stylist with a pube-shaving razor, because Sharon's jacket looks like a Kardashian merkin. How dreadful. And I can almost hear her feet crying out in humiliation from wearing those ugly ass peep-toe booties. While I appreciate it when a ho shows up looking like a wicked witch dominatrix at a funeral, the only way this look would've worked is if Sharon turned into a murder of crows at the end of the night.
The only time it's okay to wear an outfit like this is if you're about to pull out Kristen Stewart's stoner heart in your medieval lair or you're about to terrorize a bunch of Dalmatian puppies. That orange eyeshadow too... Did Sharon Stone really want her eyes to look like two sore b-holes in need of some Prep H?
With all that being said, Sharon was still the hottest messy bitch there, because everybody else showed up wearing boring rejected dresses from awards season. In order after Cruella de Stone: Rebel Wilson, Sofia Vergara, Hayden Pantyairs, Nicole Kidman, Barbra Streisand's tits with James Brolin and Donna Karan, Kerry Washington, Psy, Julie Bowen, Claire Danes with Hugh Dancy, some Duck Dynasty people,
Anne Burrell Patricia Arquette, Katy Perry, Kate Mara, Natalie Dormer, the matron of the Death Eaters, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Gerard Butler with Piers Morgan.
Who knew that Doogie Howser was a gusher? If your eyes woke up this morning with a craving for a picture of Neil Patrick Harris and Sandra Bullock making terrifying O faces as a geyser of slimy goo shoots into the air, here you go, you sucio perv.
Usually when Kristen Stewart's hands are covered in slime, it's because she ran them through her hair. But yesterday, KStew got covered in Slimer's butt drool after she hugged Sandra Bullock and Neil Patrick Harris while accepting her award for Favorite Movie Actress at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in L.A. Yeah, the kids chose her as their favorite movie actress. This is why kids should never get a vote. And the Earth tipped a little to the side yesterday, because KStew gave her usual bitchface the day off and actually cracked a few smiles during the show. Nickelodeon must have stuffed the bongs in her dressing room with some serious good shit. Either that or that green's slime got some THC in it.
Here's a few more pictures from yesterday's KCAs. In order: Sandra Bullock, KStew and NPH (looking like Goop's colonic machine exploded all over them), Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, a greasy and knocked up Fergie Ferg, Ke$hit channeling Dumb and Dumber with her brother, a domesticated Sasquatch, Dog Chapman with Beth Chapman and the Smith kids.
Just when the Centers for Disease Control thought it was safe to give their employees a long vacation for Easter, this happens! John Mayer's David Duke Dick is once again out there infecting poon after poon, because he's no longer bumping nipples with Katy Perry full-time...for now. I know, the fact that Katy Perry didn't slap him back and forth when he showed up to the Grammys looking like the creepy owner of
a chocolate factory an STD Factory tells me that they were meant for each other, but I guess not.
Katy Perry and John Mayer started dating last summer, but they broke up for a month before getting back together again. Some source tells UsWeekly that they're done with each other, but it might not totally be the end.
"It's sad. It's not over until it's over. You have to see how things play out. She's leaving the window open. They have both been so focused on work."
Katy probably only left the window open, because she's trying to air his stank out. And I hope this means that John Mayer will go back to Taylor Swift and dump her right after. Because Taylor Swift's ass is most entertaining when she's bitching about a heartless whore slut John Mayer is.
It's nice to see that the Grammys still aren't about recognizing the best talent in music (see: Carly Rae Jepsen's nomination) and still all about what's really important: TITTY BALLS! While giving us her best Priscilla Presley circa 1969 cosplay, Katy Perry also gave us chichis for days and Ellen Degeneres just couldn't help getting all up in there with her eyeballs as a butchified Portia de Rossi laughed next to her. If you stare at that picture long enough, you can almost see Ellen's eyeballs pop out of their sockets like a cartoon cat. Ellen is either motorboating with her eyes or she can't believe that certified douche bag John Mayer, who was wearing one of Willy Wonka's old suits, gets suffocate himself in Katy Perry's magnificent chichis every single night.
And yeah, when Ellen Degeneres humps Katy's titties with her eyes, everybody laughs and calls her a comedic genius. But if a straight dude did it, he'd get a punch to the eye and a restraining order. So if you see Gerard Butler and Mel Gibson trolling around with a tiny blond wig on their heads, a fitted blazer on their bodies and a Home Depot card stuck in their pockets, you know what they're up to.
Santa Claus is not amused. That Tweet should have cancelled Christmas. Katy Perry brought John Mayer home for the holidays to meet her parents. That's no gift. I'd rather have rabies in my stocking. He looks like he has hasn't seen the inside of a shower for five days. She should swap out the whipped cream shooters in her tits for shower gel ones and hose his skank ass down!
The New York Daily News (via People) sez that Mayer really wanted to meet Katy's parents. No one wants to meet anyone's parents. That's some bullshiz. Especially this mealy-mouthed fuckface. Meeting your piece's parents for the first time is ponderous. You can't get drunk, you can't curse, you have to act like you don't hate everything. For a whole weekend? AND ON CHRISTMAS? Bitch, I am 5 White Russians in by 2 pm on Christmas and ready to leap over the coffee table at my brother during the Yankee Swap to fistfight for a TJ Maxx gift card. Hello, it's Christmas! No one wants insincere douche under the tree.
"They're happy together and with her family for the holidays," a source told the celebrity magazine. "John really likes getting to know Katy's family better. They've spent a lot of time together and really enjoy each other's company."
He's totally the guy who gets shitfaced on Christmas Eve night, stays up after Katy goes to bed, and hits on her Moms. "Mrs. Hudson, I can totally see where Katy got her looks. Yes, I'm very interested in the Bible. Is it ok if I take off my pants and get comfortable while we talk about Jesus? " Ugh, and he probably brought his guitar. I'd smash an ornament and cut my wrists with the shards.
And what's with her and the slippery-looking types? That last one. You could wring out his hair to fill the fryolater. Be kinder to yourself, Annoying Rainbow Brite.
Every now and again, ageless flower Jennifer Tilly has to remind everyone that Christina Hendricks isn't the only demure beauty in Hollywood who can suffocate and push up her titty globes so that it looks like she's smuggling Right Said Fred in her dress. At The Dream Foundation Gala in Santa Barbara, CA on Friday night, Jennifer put her glorious butt cheek chichis on display. Yes, I get seriously hypnotized by a pair of magnificent chichis, but I'm gay, so my eyes still wandered down to her shoes and Jennifer's shoes are a new kind of fugly.
One of my friends from junior high school invited me over to his grandma's house after school one day and the first thing she said to me when I walked through her front door was, "Don't go in my 'nice' living room." I didn't go in, but I looked in. Grandma watched Anna Karenina way too many times, because her nice living room looked like a low-budget Trading Spaces room inspired by baroque-era Russia. I have never seen so much gold spray paint and so many plastic roses in my life and that's saying a lot, because I've been inside of many Catholic churches in East L.A. Grandma's room put the BA-ROKE in baroque. Jennifer Tilly's feet look like grandma's fancy living room barfed on them.
Even though Jennifer Tilly's shoes look two baroque dingles, I can't hate on them fully. Because I'm sure that every time Jennifer took a step in those hideous heels, her chichis bounced slightly and it looked like two clouds blowing in the wind. Those heels are ugly, but they still served the greater good.
Here's more of Tilly titty's at the Dream Foundation Gala. Katy Perry and the Plastic Vampiress of Graceland were also there.
When the piece who you were married to for five whole seconds shows up at the same Lakers game as you, let him know all the wonderful goodness his CDC enemy #1 dick is missing out on by miming a hot, sloppy hand job (or maybe she's a miming a hot, sloppy beej, which explains why her mouth isn't opened that wide). Katy Perry should've really made this totally realistic by wearing the same safety goggles she wore every time she got down to get Russell off. A trick has to protect her eyes from falling crabs.
Katy and her really hot dad, who is always serving up some Uncle Fester as a biker bartender realness, went to the Lakers vs. Mavericks game at the Staples Center in L.A. and sat near her ex-husband Russell Brand who was there with two boys. Katy proved to Russell that she's happy by acting really, really, really happy. Bitch put on a real "SEE! I'm happier without you because I'm laughing REALLY hard" show. If John Mayer was there with her, all the black people would have to get up and leave, because she would've really shown Russell that she's moved on by canoodling with John's David Duke Dick out in the open. I wish John Mayer was there. A piece of human tampon lint (who's always dressed like the douche bag character in an Archie comic) getting into a slap fight with a human Fem-V pantyliner (who's always dressed like a Thunderdome go-go dancer) would've made for the perfect Halloween time show.
Seen here looking like a sad couple leaving the free clinic after learning some devastating news (the devastating news being that she's knocked up, because even they know a MayKat baby is not what humanity needs EVER), Katy Perry and John Mayer left a restaurant in NYC last night. While Mitt Romney was quickly losing the highly important and coveted Trapper Keeper vote, Katy and John were out celebrating the 35th anniversary of the day David Duke's used butt enema fertilized a pine cone tampon and made John Mayer.
For his very special day, John Mayer dressed up as a half-assed Canadian groomsman and used globs of pussy lube to style his hair like a douche bag cockatoo who thinks he's the shit. Dude's douche hair matches his smug face.
And all morning hate aside, that picture above is sort of sweet. I mean, obviously there's a non-whitey standing in front of them, so Katy is covering the one eye on John Mayer's white power peen, because it doesn't want to see that. That's real love.
"PUPPIES! JUST GIVE ME PUPPIES!!!" was the #1 search term on YouTube yesterday, because hos needed to cleanse their brains after reading the story about how actor type Johnny Lewis (Half-Sack from Sons of Anarchy) viciously murdered his 81-year-old landlady, beat two men with a 2x4 and brutally dismembered a cat before falling to his death. If this crazy and fucked up story had opening credits, the opening credits would end with the words "And Special Guest Star XENU!"
TMZ says that Johnny's father, Michael Lewis, is a bridge queen of Scientology and he reached the church's highest level by winning 2 out of 3 dance-offs against John Travolta and by beating the video game Destroy All Humans! 2 without using cheats. Johnny, seen above with his ex-piece Katy Perry in 2006, was addicted to the bad shit in a bad way and so his father put him in Scientology's drug abuse program Narconon. Johnny managed to temporarily kick his craving for DRUGS!!!, because Scientology threatened to make him watch Battlefield Earth while completely sober if he even thought about touching an 8-ball. The Narconon program was so proud of Johnny that they used him as one of their success stories until 48 hours ago when he committed murder while probably high on the wrong shit.
Scientology scrubbed Johnny's pictures from all of their websites and a rep said that he hasn't been involved with the church for years.
I'm actually clutching my anal beads out of shock that Scientology acknowledged that Johnny Lewis once existed in their alien fart bubble of a world. I would've thought they'd be like, "Who? What? Huh? Don't be glib!" Right now, Queen David Miscavige is down in the Star Trek bunker underneath the Scientology Centre telling John Travolta the only way to get people to forget that Narconon is a part of this story is to release the Kraken. And yes by "release the Kraken" he means that Johnny's Scientolohole has to terrorize another massage therapist who will eventually sell his story to The National Enquirer. John Travolta will always take one for the team if it means his itchy, itchy anus gets to make an appearance.
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Galerie Daniel Templon (here): James Casebere (2)
Locks Gallery (here): Eileen Neff (2)
Alan Cristea Gallery (here): Jan Dibbets (9), Boo Ritson (1). Having recently seen the Dibbets show at Gladstone, I was happy to run across this grid of Dibbets' color studies; they are bigger and bolder than I had imagined. The set is priced at $18500.
Wetterling Gallery (here): Doug & Mike Starn (8), Nathalia Edenmont (5). The Starn works are various views of a dense thicket of bamboo poles.
Springer & Winckler Galerie (here): Arnold Odermatt (8), Andy Goldsworthy (3), Bernd and Hilla Becher (15 as one typology), Sigmar Polke (3), Gerhard Richter (6 overpainted photographs), Bernhard Johannes Blume (2 diptychs), John Baldessari (1)
Galerie Michael Schultz (here): Gilbert & George (1)
Bruce Silverstein Gallery (here): Shinichi Maruyama (1), Randy West (16), Yao Lu (1), Martin Denker (1), Michael Wolf (4), Todd Hido (3), Maria Antoinetta Mameli (1), Ryan Weideman (9), Diane Arbus (1), Leonard Freed (3), Nathan Lyons (3), Rosalind Solomon (1), André Kertész (4 black and white, 3 Polaroids), Aaron Siskind (4 broken windows, 4 paint studies), Barbara Morgan (3), E.O. Hoppé (5), Alfred Stieglitz (1), Marvin Newman (2 color, 12 black and white, including a grid of manhole covers), Frank Paulin (4), Larry Silver (4), Walker Evans (2), and others. The Silverstein booth was a tribute to 100 years of photography in New York (1910 to 2010), with time periods marked out in paint underneath each section. I was surprised to see the two large Kertész prints (at right), as they were larger than any prints of his from Washington Square that I had ever seen. They were priced at $25000 and $20000 respectively. Silverstein also had two early Walker Evans architectural/railroad studies (from the late 1920s) which would fit well into our collection.
Faría Fábregas Galería (here): Marta Minujin (1)
Winter Works on Paper (here): Lee Friedlander (2), Weegee (4), Josef Sudek (1), Arthur Tress (1), Ralph Eugene Meatyard (2), James Casebere (1), Andre Villers (1), among many, many others, hung salon style.
Contessa Gallery (here): David Drebin (4), Chuck Close (2), Robert Rauschenberg (1)
Sicardi Gallery (here): Geraldo de Barros (8). These conceptual prints by de Barros were a discovery for me. The negatives were made in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and are full of gridded geometries and overlapping patterns. The prints are recent posthumous prints, made in editions of 15, priced between $8000 and $12000.
Gana Art (here): Jang Taewon (1 lightbox), Cindy Sherman (1 film still)
Mixografia (here): John Baldessari (1 set of 6 prints)
HackelBury Fine Art (here): Garry Fabian Miller (7), Pascal Kern (6), Doug & Mike Starn (1 triptych and 1)
Yancey Richardson Gallery (here): Ed Ruscha (10 gas stations), Julius Shulman (1), Sebastião Salgado (1), Esko Mannikko (3), Sharon Core (2 still lifes), Andrew Moore (2), Hellen Van Meene (3), Barbara Kasten (5). The marginal picture at right doesn't do justice to the intricacies of Kasten's recent glass studies; light and shadow play across the layers of glass, creating a network of subtle lines. This particular image is priced at $10500, in an edition of 5.
JGM Galerie (here): Fred Wilson (5), Ion Grigorescu (3)
Marc Selwyn Fine Art (here): Richard Misrach (2)
David Klein Gallery (here): Liz Cohen (5)
Tomorrow: the last of our fair posts (until AIPAD), covering the 2010 ADAA Art Show.
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Recognizing the need for a tool that can capture the luminance values within a large field of view at a high resolution with a quick and inexpensive method, High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography technique has been evaluated. In HDR Photography, multiple exposure photographs are taken to capture the wide luminance variation within a scene. These photographs are used to automatically recover the camera response curve, and then used to fuse the multiple photographs into a single HDR image. Laboratory and field studies have shown that the pixel values in the HDR photographs can correspond to the physical quantity of luminance with reasonable precision and repeatability. The resultant HDR images are very useful for qualitative and quantitative lighting analysis since they can be post-processed with per-pixel data analysis techniques.
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Get to Know: Eric Quiner, 30
A Realtor with a passion for connecting communities
Realtor Eric Quiner, 30, with Iowa Realty.
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What I do: Iím a Realtor at Iowa Realty and have been the director of Camp Euforia, a community music festival in Iowa City, for 10 years.
Background: I toured with Euforquestra (as an original member), a world beat ensemble, for about a decade as a keyboard player. I also helped manage, book, market and create many of the business aspects for the group.
Why I do what I do: I love helping people and I am powered by relationships that form working as a Realtor. I also am fascinated with building practices, both old and modern. I love the process of bringing buyers and sellers together.
To get away from work, I like to: Hang out with my family. My wife, Jenny, and I have a 15-month-old son named Oliver. I also still play my banjo and key≠boards, and love to do home repair projects.
Skills I've developed most while on the job: People management, an understanding of new construction practices, and my networking skills between agents and clients have improved.
Best business book I've read lately and why I liked it: I enjoy all of the many Warren Buffett biographies. I love learning about Warren because I think he is a humble Midwestern businessman who understands business valuation unlike almost anyone in the world. Itís almost as if the money he has made is secondary to his chase to achieve.
One thing I would change about the Des Moines area: This may sound cheesy, but I think that Des Moines is doing many things right to attract people of all ages so I would say we need to keep it up. Employment is up. Urban and suburban life is thriving. Housing prices are stabilizing, and day and night recreation is gaining more and more attractions all of the time. I am like a poster child for Des Moines.
To attract and retain young professionals, Iowa should: Continue providing incentives for development in urban areas, such as Sherman Hill and downtown. These are where the YPs are motivated to work and party. Companies, such as Hubbell and Koester Construction, are constantly repurposing and developing downtown and surrounding areas for housing, business and arts and culture districts. Companies like these are only able to do so feasibly because of the state and federal tax incentives that our city and state are providing.
To be taken seriously as a young professional, it's important to: Dress the part. I think there is attire for all professions in life. When I was a touring musician traveling all over the country I dressed drastically different than I do now as a Realtor.
My mentor: I have many, but my main mentor would have to be my father. He is an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a Big Brother, community provider and one of my best friends.
My leadership philosophy: I like to lead by example. I am motivated by action and achievement. My hope is to lead in that same manner.
In five years, I see myself: Potentially taking on a manager role at Iowa Realty and continuing to sell real estate. I really do love the culture surrounding Iowa Realty. So many of the leaders in this company are truly amazing individuals and I feel that I could fit in quite well in a role that helps agents grow and succeed.
I can help you by: Educating you through your real estate process.
Contact Eric: 453-5935
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Re: Jurassic Park 2
>One quick question -- could anyone tell whether the two-toed hatchling
>prints in the film were meant to be those of "Raptors" or the mistakenly
>two-toed Gallimimi? The latter, I would assume -- except that I understood
>that the original design of the animal *did* have the proper number of toes,
>but when they were modelled over ostriches for the CGI sequence, they were
>accidentally "maimed" by the animators. Any theories?
No need for theories here - just read the book! It is the raptors which
are breeding. (In fact, in the novel, only a few of the taxa had frog DNA
incorporated into their genomes, so only those particular ones
(Velociraptor, Procompsognathus, and one or two ornithopods - can't
remember off hand).
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist Phone: 703-648-5280
U.S. Geological Survey FAX: 703-648-5420
Branch of Paleontology & Stratigraphy
MS 970 National Center
Reston, VA 22092
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Maryland To Eliminate Blue Crab Fall Closure For 2010
Population abundance allows for conservative adjustment
Annapolis, Md. (July 21, 2010) — In response to a dramatic 60 percent
increase in the Chesapeake Bay blue crab population, the Maryland Department of
Natural Resources (DNR) is taking steps to eliminate the 9-day female blue-crab
harvest closure period that runs from Sept 26-Oct 4 for the 2010 season. DNR
fishery scientists have determined that this minor adjustment to the 2010 crab
regulations will not jeopardize harvest targets designed to keep Maryland on
track to building a sustainable fishery.
This short closure to female harvest was implemented in 2009, along with season-long daily catch limits and other closed periods to ensure appropriate harvest levels of female crabs. The elimination of this short fall closure will provide for increased commercial harvest opportunity in the face of the 60 percent increase in crab abundance. The maintenance of strict daily catch limits and the June closure will remain in place, and the fishery will close to female harvest on November 10, as scheduled. The opening of the fall closure in 2010 will not guarantee that these 9 days will remain open in the future.
“We have been greatly encouraged by our blue crab population increases over the past two years, and we are pleased that we are now able to make this conservative adjustment -– one that will expand opportunity for watermen, while also maintaining safe harvest levels,” said Governor Martin O’Malley, who announced the latest numbers in April. “We also remain optimistic that by following the science and proceeding with caution we will ultimately achieve a thriving, sustainable blue crab fishery that will provide jobs and support our working families for the long term.”
The Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population has increased substantially for the second straight year, with the results of the most recent winter dredge survey placing it at its highest level since 1997. The survey indicates that 2008 management measures put into place through a historic collaboration with Virginia and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission are continuing to pay dividends.
Maryland’s commercial crab harvest is controlled through daily catch limits and closed periods throughout the season. DNR has authority to alter both daily catch limits and closures by public notice, allowing the Department to quickly flex regulations each year to ensure that crab harvest remains proportional to crab abundance.
“This decision was made in close consultation with our partners in Virginia and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission,” added Governor O’Malley. “We are fortunate for this unprecedented partnership that allows us to work together to manage our joint resource.”
In Virginia the allowable period for the harvest of female dark sponge crabs is being extended by 14 days.
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Contact: Josh Davidsburg
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is the state agency responsible for providing natural and living resource-related services to citizens and visitors. DNR manages nearly one-half million acres of public lands and 17,000 miles of waterways, along with Maryland's forests, fisheries and wildlife for maximum environmental, economic and quality of life benefits. A national leader in land conservation, DNR-managed parks and natural, historic and cultural resources attract 11 million visitors annually. DNR is the lead agency in Maryland's effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay, the state's number one environmental priority. Learn more at www.dnr.maryland.gov
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- send a SCSI command to a logical unit
cc [ flag… ] file… -lMPAPI [ library… ] #include <mpapi.h> #include <mpapi-sun.h> MP_STATUS MP_SendScsiCmd(MP_OID oid, struct uscsi_cmd *cmd);
The object ID of the logical unit path.
A uscsi_cmd structure. See uscsi(7I).
The Sun_MP_SendScsiCmd() function sends a SCSI command on a specific path to a logical unit. This function is applicable only to an OID whose MP_PLUGIN_PROPERTIES driverVendor, as defined by the Multipath Management API, is equal to “Sun Microsystems”. See MP_GetPluginProperties(3MPAPI) and Multipath Management API Version 1.0.
The pProps is null or specifies a memory area to which data cannot be written, or the oid has a type subfield other than MP_OBJECT_TYPE_PLUGIN.
The oid does not specify any valid object type. This is most likely to happen if an uninitialized object ID is passed to the API.
The oid owner ID or object sequence number is invalid.
The operation is successful.
The uscsi command is very powerful but somewhat dangerous. See the WARNINGS section on attributes(5) before using this interface.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
Multipath Management API Version 1.0
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Below are the basic facts regarding applet security and Java Plug-in. More details can be found in the next chapter, Verification of RSA Signed Applets in Java Plug-in.
usePolicyis not defined in the
java.policyfile, then a signed applet has the
AllPermissionpermission only if Java Plug-in can verify the signers, and the user agrees to granting the
AllPermissionpermission when prompted.
usePolicyis defined, then a signed applet has only the permissions defined in
java.policyand no prompting occurs.
Moreover, note that Java Plug-in now handles certificate
management; i.e., the certificate verification task is no longer
passed on to the browser.
Signed applets on Windows Vista have less privileges compared to the applets running on other Windows operating systems such as Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional. This is due to the fact that browser process has low level of integrity. Low level integrity implies lesser privileges than an Administrator. This causes the signed applet not to write and delete files in specific medium and high integrity level directories.
If you run a signed applet in Windows Vista, a dialog box with a security warning appears. Click Run, to allow the applet to run with all permissions except write or delete permissions for files on local drive.
Java applets using Java SE 5.0 Update 6 or earlier versions could specify the exact version of the JRE on which they can be run. This allowed Java applets to run with a JRE that might not have the latest security fixes.
Java SE 6 allows all the applets to be executed with the latest installed JRE version.This is a new enhancement that provides additional security.
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- How do I install phpList?
- Please refer to the installation instructions in the Online Documentation Wiki, which are also available in the '/INSTALL' file in the distribution archive.
- What server setup is required for running phpList?
- Please take a look at the System Requirements.
- I'm having problems during installation. Can anyone help me?
- Have you read the phpList Installation Procedure forfait mobile ?
- Please take a look at phpList Troubleshooting to see if your problem has already been discussed.
- You can also browse the phpList Discussion Forum to see if your problems have already been discussed (and solved) there.
- In particular the Installing & Upgrading and FAQ Forum are good places to start.
- Where can I find the 'config.php' file?
- Typically it's found in '/lists/config/config.php'. You need to have access to the files on your server (via FTP or SSH for example) to modify the config.php file. You cannot access it through your web browser.
- What does 'Safe Mode On' mean?
- 'Safe mode' is a feature in PHP versions prior to PHP 6. phpList works best with Safe mode disabled. It will also work in safe mode, with the exception of some features, that rely on functions in PHP that are not available in safe mode. phpList features that are not available in safe mode are automatic bounce processing, setting the timeout value of a page. Mailqueue batch size will also be limited. You can turn of all PHP warnings in phpList by setting the following configuration in config.php:
- define ('WARN_ABOUT_PHP_SETTINGS',0);
- Fatal Error: Cannot connect to database, access denied. Please contact the administrator
- That error indicates something is wrong with your database connection details. A database connection requires four things, and they are very sensitive to errors (just one little typo and it won't work):
- If any of these four are incorrect, you will get this error message. It's a good idea to double-check your settings, and confirm with your hosting provider or system administrator what the database connection details should be. Also, the database user must have full permissions on the database specified in the 'database name' setting.
- Why does my website redirect to phpList.com after I install phpList?
- The file '/public_html/index.html' in the phpList distribution, says 'You will probably want to replace this document with your own website' and then redirects to phpList.com. In place of this file, you probably want to put your website's index.html file. In typical installations, you only need to upload the contents of the directory '/public_html/lists/' to your web server.
- Can I run phpList on Microsoft IIS web webserver?
- While phpList was primarily designed to work with Apache under unix-like systems (typically LAMP systems), users have managed to get it running with IIS. See PhplistIIS and the forums for details on how to do this.
- My phpList installation has limitations on the amount of emails it can send
- There are two main reasons for this to happen: Limitations of the sendmail program provided by your ISP, or that you are trying to process big queues directly from the browser.
- If you use the sendmail engine provided by your ISP directly (no SMTP settings) you might have limitations on the amount of emails you can send. Due to security reasons ISPs might be reluctant to remove these limitations. So, if this happens to you the best route to take is to change the sendmail method to SMTP. This can be done by changing the phpList configuration in your config.php file.
- To process the mail queue and keep sending emails, phpList needs to be able to keep running. There are several ways that phpList will use to keep the queue running even if you close the browser while processing the queue. However, depending on your ISP's configuration there is a possibility that none of them will work. If this happens to you, the solution is to process the mail queue by using a cron job. To setup a cron job please read: how to set a Cron Job
- My SMTP server is not on the standard port 25. How do I change the default SMTP port?
- This is currently not possible without a small modification of the code described in this report. After the modification you should be able to change the standard SMTP port by inserting this line in config.php: $phpmailer_smtpport = 'xxx'; (where xxx is the port number).
- Why do I get a 500 Server Error?
- If you get a '500 Server Error' when installing, your server probably runs PHP as a cgi, not as an apache module (also known as phpsuexec). You need to edit the file '/lists/.htaccess' delete or comment out (with a #) the line about 'php_flag magic_quotes_gpc'. e.g.
- What does 'magic_quotes_gpc = on' mean?
- Magic quotes is a PHP setting. If the server runs PHP as a cgi, you can turn magic quotes on by creating the file '/lists/php.ini' with this directive:
- More information about php settings in phpsuexec mode.
- When I run the initialize process it shows me an error about index length: "database error 1071 - index length too long". Why is that?
- If your hosting provider offers you an old version of MySQL (4.1.X or older), this error may arise because in old versions, indexes length has a byte limitation (1000 bytes). This error message will appear below a table name, and that table is the one that has the index length error. So, you will need to reduce the size of the field, or set of fields. The total length of it needs to be less that the 1000 bytes limit that MySQL imposes.
database host; the name of the server, usually it's 'localhost')
database user; the name of the user on the database host
database password; the password for that user
database name; the name of the database to use
database user; the name of the user on the database host
database password; the password for that user
database name; the name of the database to use
# php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on
magic_quotes_gpc = 1
(More answers to common warning and error messages can be found on Troubleshooting).
- Why does phpList ask me to login for every admin page I try to load?
- This generally indicates that something is wrong with session handling in your PHP configuration. Check your php.ini file and make sure you have this set: session.use_cookies = 1, and/or ask your ISP to make sure sessions are enabled in your PHP configuration and are stored correctly.
- The temporary directory on your server doesn't have read/write permissions. Please make sure that it does have read/write permissions.
- The temporary directory has filled up with temporary files, and phpList is unable to write to it. You can fix this by cleaning up your temp dir.
- You are connecting through multiple proxies and this means that your IP address isn't the same for every page request. (AOL is an example of an ISP that connects in this way.) You can solve this in config.php, by setting define("CHECK_SESSIONIP",0);
- Alternatively, you can store sessions in the database instead of the default place by assigning a table name to this value. Enable this setting in config.php: $SessionTableName = "phplistsessions"; by uncommenting this line. The table will be created and will not use any prefixes. This only works when using mySQL and only for administrator sessions.
- When loading the admin page I get some PHP code instead of a clean page. How do I fix this?
- This issue is probably related to the use of 'short tags'. You should be able to fix this by adding the following line in the lists/.htaccess file: php_flag short_open_tag on
- Alternatively, you could convert short tags to long tags by using the short2long.sh script included in the scripts directory of the phpList archive.
- I just installed phpList, but sending my first messages fails. Why can't I send any message?
- Please check if phpList is still running in Test mode. In config.php check your value for this constant (0 is off, 1 is on): define ("TEST",0); . See also Preflight Checklist.
- When sending a 'test message' you should also check that your email address is included in the user list. If not, you will get this error message: "Email address not found to send test message".
- If you are trying to send a message to a subscribers list, make sure you process the message queue. Otherwise your message will just be waiting in the queue.
- If the above does not apply, it is likely something is wrong with your mail server settings. If you are using the PHP mail() function (which is the default setting in config.php), your host may have limited it's use. In that case you should contact your host to fix this. Alternatively, you could switch to using your SMTP server instead. To do so, edit the PHPMAILERHOST setting in your config.php file and enter your SMTP server name, e.g. define("PHPMAILERHOST",'mail.yourdomain.com'); You will also need to enter your SMTP server's username and password by editing and uncommenting (i.e. by removing the # at the start of the line) the phpmailer_smtpuser and phpmailer_smtppassword settings in config.php. Usually the SMTP settings you would use in your email client should work here too. Note: If you use SMTP, make sure you apply this bug fix which is valid for phpList releases up to 2.10.5.
- When I try to edit a message, or a message template, the part where the editing window should be is blank. How can I fix this?
- This can occur when ASP tags are enable in php.ini. If you do not use ASP tags, you could set asp_tags = off in php.ini. For more information, see this issue report and this forum thread.
- Alternatively, if you do not need an online editor, you can disable FCKeditor in your config.php file. The message content tab would then display a simple source window where you can paste your text and HTML source code.
- My list has grown a little and now all my subscribers disappeared
- When you reach a certain limit, phpList will stop listing your subscribers when you load the page. You will need to add some text in the search box to find the subscribers you are looking for. If you still want to see all you can search for % (just the percentage sign).
- Why do I get messages twice?
- In phpList versions 2.9.x and up, the "send test message" button will send you two messages, one in HTML and one in text format. This is so you can check how the messages look in both formats. Eventually, when you send your message, your subscribers will only receive one of the two formats, depending on their preferences.
- Since version 2.10.3 you can override this behaviour, and only have one test message sent to you, by changing the default setting for "test emails" in config.php.
- How do I mark everyone to receive HTML messages instead of text messages?
- You can set all subscribers to receive HTML messages through the Admin backend: click on "manage users", then on "reconcile users" and finally on "mark all users to receive html". See Reconcile users.
- How do I make my own subscribe pages?
- In the spage (subscribe pages) area of phpList, you can create and edit subscribe pages. There you can edit the html of the header and footer, where you can insert html from your website's template. If you do not have any subscribe pages, you can edit the header and footer html from the phpList configuration area.
- I've configured my own subscribe page and message texts on the Configuration page and they look OK there. But, when I subscribe a user all is back to the original defaults. Why is that?
- You probably created a subscribe page before changing the settings on the configuration page. When you create a new subscribe page, it will take its initial settings from the defaults on the configuration page. Of course you can change these settings for each individual subscribe page you create. So, either create a new subscribe page, or copy/paste what you have on the configuration page to the corresponding fields in your existing subscribe page. See also Edit or create a subscribe page.
- How do I place a subscribe form on an existing webpage?
- Please read the Create custom subscribe form page. Also, you should find many examples of how to do this by searching the forum.
- How do I get rid of the 'powered by' image?
- In the config.php file there is an option under the 'Feedback to developers' section that allows you to remove the phpList logo in the html emails and public web pages (including subscribe pages). You'll end up with just a text link giving credit to phpList and Tincan instead of the images.
- Why do I lose all characters over 255 when I enter a long text in a textarea attribute?
- The data entered into the textarea is stored in the database. To prevent the database from becoming big and slow this is done using a 'varchar', which has a 255 characters limit. If you do want to use a bigger textarea attribute look for the solution in the forums. It has been done before: here is one solution and this has some more explanation. The code support it.
- The links in the confirmation messages are misformed or have no UID code. How can I fix this?
- You can fix this by changing the message encoding setting for text messages in config.php. Usually 7bit encoding is a good setting, i.e.: define("TEXTEMAIL_ENCODING","7bit");
- How can I make a backup copy of my user list and other important data?
- phpList's admin module currently only offers an option to export the user lists. An option to make a backup of the entire phpList database is scheduled for a future release. In the mean time it is highly recommended to regularly make a full backup of your phpList database using a tool like phpMyAdmin for instance.
- Are there any security fixes I should be aware of?
- I'm using Gmail as a bounce account. When I process bounces mails remain on the inbox... Did I setup something wrong?
- First thing to check is the bounce_mailbox_purge configuration. But even with that set correctly when Gmail is using POP3 (by default) it keeps mails on the inbox. So even with phpList configured to purge, it won't purge. To solve this you'll need to:
- In Gmail go to: Settings -> Forwarding and POP -> When messages are accessed with POP...
- As default Gmail has: "Keep Gmail's copy in the inbox" you'll need to change this to: "Delete Gmail's copy".
- I am using another language file than english.inc, but some text strings keep appearing in English. Why is that?
- Other language files than english.inc may need to be updated. The availability of translations does not always keep pace with new releases of phpList, and new text strings added in english.inc may still have to be added and translated in other languague files. You can fix this by adding the missing text strings in your language file. Also search the Translators & Internationalization forum. Updated translations may already be available there. Note: If you are thinking about translating, please see the phpList translation page.
- phplist scrambles my text messages. How do I fix this?
- In versions before 2.10.3 phpList had some trouble converting multi-lingual messages from HTML to text. In most cases, this caused HTML characters like & eacute; to appear in the text versions of the messages. In version 2.10.3 this has been addressed, but it will be important to set your encoding of HTML and text messages to be UTF-8 instead of the default ISO-8859-1 . To do so, go to "configure" on the menu and scroll down to "Charset for HTML messages" and "Charset for text messages" and set both values to be "UTF-8".
- phplist will try to interpret html tags. If you write a mathematical thesis to you list users it might catch a '<' and a '>' in the same line and remove the part in between. To avoid this, use < and >
- <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.org> will not be handled correctly. Use this instead:
- When will Wikka support other languages/utf-8 ?
- phplist supports limited internationalization at the moment, but complete internationalization is currently being implemented.
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I have had the honor to receive your Lordship's Letter No. 5, and as I have most sincerely at heart the welfare and happiness of this Province, it would give me the highest satisfaction to be able to inform your Lordship according to your liberal wishes, that the General Assembly had met, and restored Order and Regularity to the Public Affairs of this Country.
My belief formed upon the Resolves of the House of Assembly at the late Session, and the general turn and disposition of this People that the new House would adhere to the same principles relative to the law of Attachments as the former held, & that meeting the Legislature, while I was not authorized to propose anything new on that head, was the first and principal cause of my prorogation of the General Assembly in April last. Since that time my Lord, I have hadth day of November, by which time I hope to receive your Lordship's Commands, that will enable me to meet the Legislature on proper ground, and I trust to put the public Affairs in a train of prosperity.
Such My Lord are the reasons which have governed my conduct in this case, the expediency of which I might further support on the general reluctance of the Country people to resort to this Town, on account of its usual unhealthiness in the autumnal season, and until the weather becomes cold, the insufficiency of the Markets here in the month of October to supply even the ordinary consumption that is augmented exceedingly by the concourse of people which is brought together at the meetings of the General Assembly, and the great incovenience that the Members of that Body (who are for the most part Planters) would suffer by being obliged to leave their Farms at the time of gathering the Indian Corn that is their principal Harvest, and when other parts of domestique economy require a particular attention.
The Courts of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery which have been held in the several Counties where there were Prisoners pursuant to my intentions that I had the honor to communicate to your Lordship are universally acknowledged to have had the best effect in preserving the Public Peace, which the licentious very early after the General Assembly broke up without Establishing any Plan for the present Administration of Justice, considered themselves at liberty to violate with impunity, in consequence whereof a great number of Criminals were soon found in the several Gaols of the Country. Ten persons My Lord have suffered under the sentences of these Courts for capital offences, and I have granted His Majesty's pardon to one offender convicted of horse stealing in the County of Granville
I have also My Lord been induced to reprieve until His Majesty's Royal pleasure shall be known a youth of the name of Reynold McDugal, lately convicted of murder in the County of Bladen and I transmit herewith to your Lordship the copy of a letter from Mr Moore one of the Judges before whom the boy was tried, and of a Petition of the Magistrates and Freeholders of the County, that His Majesty may be fully informed of the reasons which have moved me thereto. However well My Lord these Courts of Oyer and Terminer have been received in general, and notwithstanding the order and tranquility that they have confessedly maintained throughout the Country, some of our restless Politicians have not failed to comment on the measure, and to draw into question the legality of those Courts intituled by virtue of the powers granted to me by His Majesty's Royal Commission and not authorized by any Act of the Colony Legislature now actually in force, some objecting that this part of the Prerogative Royal is incommunicable and cannot be delegated, but must be exercised by Majesty itself under certain restrictions prescribed by ancient statutes, that seem to me clearly to apply only to the Realm of England, while others maintain that such Courts can only be erected under the sanction of an Act of the Legislature of the Province. The Law servants of the Crown here with whom I have consulted entertain not a shadow of doubt of the legality of such as have been held, it is certain My Lord, and I can confidently assure your Lordship, they have been conducted in the usual manner, under Commissions of common Established form, and with the strictest regard to the Laws and usages of England and this Colony, and I flatter myself the measure will be found on the closest examination to be as legal as it is universally allowed to have been expedient and beneficial.
The experiments of Rice and Indigo, that I had the honor some time ago to inform your Lordship were making in the Southern parts of this Colony have failed this year, almost totally, owing to the extreme drought of the summer. I hope however that this discouragement will not occasion the Planters there to forsake the culture of those valuable commodities.
I have now the honor to transmit to your Lordship a List of the Patents granted at the last Court of Claims in May, at which time
Your Lordship will receive herewith a Draft of the Line of Boundary between this Province and South Carolina, it is done upon a smaller scale than the Original which I transmitted some time ago and calculated only better from its neatness to be laid before His Majesty. I have an exact Copy of the Original in hand, which I hope soon to be able to transmit properly authenticated.
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I had the honor to receive your letter of the first Instant, two days ago, with its enclosures.
The Resolutions of Congress for filling up the Battalions I shall lay before the Legislature which is to meet here the first Monday in next month, the other for ascertaining the amount of
If Congress shall think proper to permit Genl. Burgoine to go home, I trust great good will arise to America from his representations there as his own honor will constrain him to relate matters truly as they happened. The Resolution of Congress for detaining his Army in America 'till the Convention is ratified, has given great pleasure to the Sons of Freedom in this part of the States. I have the honor to be with the greatest esteem and regard, Sir, your most ob. huml. servt.
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Happy birthday, my dear Rebecca Sky! You truly are a summer birth-day. Sunny, warm, breezy... every good thing about the respite the Lord gives us from "normal" life. We pray you grow into a wise and lovely woman of God. We love you so very much.
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Case File: Rosio Monica Beltran - 3108DFTX
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Rosio Monica Beltran
Physical Description** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
Clothing & Personal Items
Circumstances of Disappearance
Rosio Beltran was working as an au pair (or nanny) when she disappeared after leaving Bell Bottoms nightclub around 1:00 to 1:30 A.M. with 24-year-old Mario Alberto Prieto. The club's surveillance camera shows Beltran and Pierto leaving the club, hand in hand. Around 2:30 A.M., neighbors in Pierto's Bear Creek apartment said they heard fighting and a woman screaming. No one reported the incident until nine hours later. Beltran was reported missing hours later when she did not show up for work.
Beltran's body has not been found, but her blood was located in Prieto's Euless apartment. During a search of Pierto's apartment, investigators found traces of dried blood in the bathroom. Although the walls had been recently painted and the carpets recently cleaned, Luminal revealed a large pattern of blood droplets in the bathroom, bedroom, and what appeared to be two drag marks from the front entrance of the apartment through the bedroom and into the bathroom.
Neighbors say they saw Prieto removing a heavy, rancid-smelling box from his apartment the next day. He refused any offers of help moving the item. A large garbage can with wheels was missing from Prieto's place of employment and the garbage truck ran at the apartment complex the day Beltran was reported missing.
Pierto offered a friend $1,000 and a satellite dish to clean his apartment because he was leaving town. The friend refused and notified police of Pierto's whereabouts in San Antonio. San Antonio Police located Pierto on September 11th and fatally shot him after he pulled a gun on them.
Given the evidence, witness testimony, and amount of blood found, investigators believe Beltran is dead and that her body may be in a landfill. Investigators searched a Lewisville landfill, where the garbage from the apartment complex was taken, but did not find her body.
Rosio Beltran came to the U.S. under the federally-regulated au pair program to improve her English and study before returning to Peru to become a teacher. Rosio's mother and aunt moved from Peru to Texas to be close while the search for her continues.
Investigating Agency(s)If you have any information about this case please contact;
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.
Last Updated: Added - 11/27/11 - By: DD / TX AD
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Here is 1957 Miss Revlon type glamor or fashion doll. Marked: Eegee H-12 on her back. She is 13" high with a soft vinyl head and one-piece stuffed vinyl body.
She has a great face with bright coloring & original paint. Plus big blue sleep eyes, intact lashes, ruby lips & rosy cheeks.
Her rooted brunette hair is thick & shiny, worn in a ponytail with bangs. No missing plugs or cuts.
The body is also nice, with small breasts & high heel feet. There are two holes in each ear, but no earrings were found.
The doll wears a cute vintage print sheath dress and original plastic high heel shoes.
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Looking for web 2.0 tutorial on how to build backlinks and boost your SERP ranking? Well, i do not know about other place but here you just need to remember the most practical advice: link building must be diversified and natural. That is what All In One Link Wheel is doing. With this link wheel package you will have all types of backlinks pointing to your website and these backlinks are linking randomly together creating a linkwheel. To search engines, this kind of link wheel looks completely natural and there is no footprint for them to track. To learn more about All In One Link Wheel service:
Web 2.0 Tutorial for Beginners
Maybe you have heard about the term web 2.0 before but might never figured out what it exactly refers to because there are different definitions of web 2.0 in various situations. As a buzz term, web 2.0 first appeared about 6 years ago as the way people used the internet developed as well as some websites began to gain popularity and attention on the cyberspace.
The term web 2.0 could be used to identify the second generation of the internet that really started from the last decade. Web 2.0 is also characterized as having more interactive, sharing friendly, user centered, and many other perks.
In order for you to get the idea of this web 2.0 tutorial, we will give you some examples of web 2.0 sites. Social networking websites like Twitter or Facebook are web 2.0 sites since they all promote interactivity, user experience and sharing. Another example of web 2.0 is Wikipedia. It is one of the best examples for web 2.0 where internet users could add their information into topics and share them with others. Other types of web 2.0 sites are blogs, media sharing websites, or article directories, etc. The most common characteristic of these websites is that they are all promoting the interactivity with their users. And that is widely considered as the best feature of web 2.0.
While the old web 1.0 was totally one dimensional as well as a place for only reference rather than anything else, this new web 2.0 generation is totally interactive. Thereby, web 2.0 could easily be popularized and integrated by the online business owners or webmasters in order to notice the significant but didn't notice the progress of the cyberspace from a particular state towards the next.
In this era of advanced internet use, Web 2.0 is considered a highly useful platform that adjusts for the development of data collaboration, sharing and some others online. Beside website application, media sharing websites and social networking websites are also making use of web 2.0 in order to maximize all its functions.
The internet users had to use basic web applications for a long time. With web 2.0 tutorial, internet users could not only use applications but also receive information and do many things as well. Those added applications are user interface, software and storage facilities as well as many others. All of these wonderful changes have made interacting online much easier and better.
In the past, it would take days for you to send a message to a friend or family. The internet enables you to become in touch with everyone all over the world comfortably and easily. So many things have improved via mankind in the method we share information via the improvements of technologies. Nowadays, all information is available to everyone with a simple click.
With a large number of applications, many tasks could be accomplished by millions of internet users. Some of these applications could even enable us to perform our work, pay the bills, shopping, chatting and many others, just by a computer connecting to the internet.
One of the advantages of web 2.0 that we want to mention in this web 2.0 tutorial is that internet users could customize the applications according to their personal preference. A quintessential example in this case is Gmail. There are many skins available where users could use a variety of backgrounds of the application. Another extremely useful is conversations saving. Some of these applications enable users to store conversations or information.
Internet users could enjoy a lot of benefits with a great number of web 2.0 applications via our web 2.0 tutorial. It is widely known as a total package since the users are not limited to storing and customizing data as well as sharing of information. In the faraway past, it seemed impossible to accomplish all of these by using the internet applications. But it won't be surprising if there will be more advancements in the future.
As more and more applications are extremely useful and easy to use, it would not be surprising if one day internet users could do everything online. When this comes true, online business owners may consider doing business as easy as walking in the park.
More Figures And Tutorial Giving An Insight Into Web 2.0
The online world has been through some stages. Initially, it was a place to put up your ads. Some years later, these online ads have transformed into internet stores, price comparison websites and information hubs. In 2009, many reports showed that broadband internet access took 69% of England houses, so it is not surprising if new trends are emerging.
As aforesaid in the above web 2.0 tutorials, web 2.0 is a term given to a new generation of interactive sites and web 2.0 applications which focused on user-generated and dynamic content or social media.
Web 2.0 could be a buzzword; it is a classic symbol of a completely new era of internet interaction with no going back. The best social networking site Facebook obtains more than 300 million users all over the world. And half of them log in everyday. It will be no surprise if every home has broadband access in the future as the fact is that 80 percent of online users in many developed countries access social bookmarking websites in 2010.
There are more than 200 million blogs worldwide. 35 percent of bloggers have posted their opinions about services or products and brands while 24 percent of search results for business products or services are links from user-generated content.
Whoever says that online customers do not complain is a liar or does not know anything about Web 2.0. By using Web 2.0, a single comment could come to hundreds of thousands of internet users worldwide in minutes.
Keep in mind that social media obtains the power to take your customers together. Review the above figure about search results for business brands. It is not once this web 2.0 tutorial reminds you about the importance of user-generated content. The fact is that many customer support blogs could rank very high in the SERPs (search engine result pages).
Web 2.0 also represents a transparent way to do online business while the only method to get ahead of your competitors is providing good services or products as well as treating your clients well. The best online marketing campaign could only go far in places where information could flow instantly as well as your clients are connected all together.
The next part of our web 2.0 tutorial is some methods to get more organic traffic using web 2.0 sites:
- The first social networking site we want to share is facebook.com. It is a generated online community site which is very dynamic. The great thing about Facebook is that it has much more applications than other similar websites. Another perk is that in case you know much about technical stuffs, you are able to create online applications and submit them on Facebook. With a tiny game like chess game, you could gain millions of online users all over the world who would download your applications and give you a great number of potential customers. You can also increase traffic by offering them promotions for their email addresses. You just have to do this once; thereby you can reach more and more potential buyers for a lifetime.
- Another social networking website is Myspace. This website is an online community where its members could share their interests, hobbies and passions. Due to such precision you could easily find people via their topics of interests and then create much target traffic. We have times when only 10 people visited our site but all bought our products, only after 30 minutes of viewing. All we did was writing a bulletin about gaining much profit from affiliate programs. And just in a day, it simply earned us thousands of dollars.
In order to promote your products or services effectively via Myspace, the first thing you must keep in mind is to convey the benefits from the beginning. Be aware of your description because it is what your friends could read to know about your products or services. Then you must add as many friends as you could who are interested in your services or products. You could easily find them via the search feature. After that, send a short massage as an adding request, telling them why you would like to be their friend. It is obvious because you have the same interest. Remember to write bulletins relevant to your services or products, update your page with tips and comments. This way could gain you much more potential customers than you have ever expected.
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Today I was plesantly surprised when I opened my in-box. There was an e-mail stating that I have made it to the FRONT PAGE of Top Mama. WooHOO!!! I seriously can’t remember when I put in my badge in. Refering back to the post I made at Astromama it states 22 April 2008.After a brief calculation – It took me 4 months to make it to the front page.
Would like a favour from all my friends and readers to vote for me so that I remain longer on the front page of Top Mama
Thanks in advance,
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Okay, here we go!
This is a Card Chain Challenge (aka "CCC"). The basic idea is that you receive a fellow cardmaker's snail mail address, make her a card, and mail it to her. Everybody gets a hand-crafted card so everybody wins!
You will also post the cards you receive in the online gallery of your choice, and I will post these blog/gallery addresses on my blog. Everybody gets increased visibility and/or blog traffic, so everybody wins!
The whole process is fairly straightforward, so the chances of my screwing up are minimal. Everybody avoids administrative duties, so everybody wins!
Since this is the first time I'm hosting this event, I'm going to limit it to 12 participants. (This will give me a chance to learn what I overlooked, tweak as necessary, etc for future CCC's.) If more than 12 people sign up, only the first 12 people will be eligible. However, if anyone has to drop out, is removed, or is not otherwise eligible, the next person down the line will move up.
Each person will make a card for the person immediately below her in the chain. The last person in the chain will make a card for the first person in the chain.
- Cards can be any shape or size. (Just understand that postage may be higher for cards that are considered larger/smaller than the standard card size or do not fit the established norm in the receiver's country.)
- Cards do not have to be original designs - you can send a card from another challenge, etc as long as it meets at least ONE of the challenge options.
- Cards have to meet at least ONE of the three challenge options provided. (You can use all three if you want, but only one is required.)
- Cards are not required to employ any specific materials or mediums, nor are you limited to products by specific manufacturers - unless a specific challenge requires it. (Stamping, for instance, is not required, despite the author's addiction to rubber and ink, and materials can be made by any manufacturer.) However, all materials and mediums must be legal. (Making a card out of paper manufactured from hemp, alas, is a no-no.) Again, be aware that anything that adds thickness past the acceptable norm will result in higher postage.
Your card must employ ONE (or more, if you like) of the following three options:
(You do not have to follow this template slavishly - just make sure we can see some sort of resemblance to it. Also feel free to flip it, etc as you see fit.)
This color scheme:
- To participate in this CCC, you must have posted at least twenty (20) cards at an online gallery (like your blog, Flickr photostream, 2Peas gallery, Splitcoaster's gallery, etc).
- Only one entry per person per CCC.
- This CCC is open to participants in ALL countries.
- You will need to post a link to one of your cards in an online gallery (see examples above) on Mr. Linky below.
- You will also need to send me an email with 3 pieces of information (see below) so I can pass them on to the person who is making you a card. (If you do not send me this information within two hours of signing up with Mr. Linky, I will have to remove you from the chain and give your spot to someone else.)
- your email address, and
- your SNAIL MAIL address, and
- the cost of postage and any special rules that may apply to mail in your country.
- You will need to mail your card to the assigned person postmarked no later than the deadline provided below.
- Once you receive your card, you will need to post it on one of your online galleries and email me a link to it. Please credit the person appropriately. I will post all the links sent to me here on my blog.
- Failure to comply with the rules will result in your not being eligible for the next two CCC's. If you fail to comply in the next CCC, I reserve the right to permanently ban you from participating. (I don't think anyone would stiff anybody out of her card, but I need to have a way to protect both the participants and future chain challenges... wrote the lawyer.)
- I reserve the right to amend these rules as needed.
Mr. Linky sign-up: Midnight, EST, Monday, September 14, 2009. Make sure you also send your email and snail mail addresses with postal prices and any special instructions to:
If you have any questions, please email me or leave a comment.
I really hope people will hop on the bandwagon here! I think this could be a lot of fun!
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Here’s a new track that I just put together. I typically do most of my work in Ableton Live, but I gave this one a shot entirely using Maschine. Many of the samples are from the recent Raw Voltage expansion pack from Native Instruments. Enjoy!
Jason…yeah, you need to post more. I have like 1000 more posts than you now. Of course, I only have about 15% the number of your comments…but still, you should really post something.
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OTR Links 04/16/2012
Mark Anderson’s Blog » Teachers use Twitter as their preferred CPD tool
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Suppose you observe this unlikely scene: A warm-blooded six-year-old is offered a plateful of droopy steamed broccoli or a luscious chocolate cupcake, and he chooses the broccoli.
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Top 10 Awesome Things You Can Do With the Underused Gadgets You Already Own
If you’re a fan of technology, chances are you’ve retired a few gadgets over the years and they’re sitting in a box in your closet. Today’s the day to dig out your leftovers and start thinking about what you can do to let them live and breathe again. Here are ten of our favorite ideas to get you started.
Connected Learning | The Slow Hunch
Yesterday at the Center for Civic Media, our lunch guest was S. Craig Watkins, a professor at UT Austin working on a variety of projects under the heading of “Connected Learning”. In his blog post about the idea, Dr. Watkins defines this as:
15 Current Technologies My Newborn Son Won’t Use
A surprising number of the gadgets and technologies we have today are on the verge of extinction. Laptop Mag’s Avram Piltch walks us through more than a dozen, knowing that his newborn son will be about as familiar with them as today’s teens are with Betamax. And some of this batch might surprise you
What I’m Seeing: Magical Math Content | Getting Smart
My friend MarieBjerede said, “There are no really good math apps out there.” She comes to that conclusion based on “promise of technology has been to make learning more personalized and engaging” including these five features:
How To Train Your Robot « Dr. Techniko’s Children’s Stories
Last Sunday, I taught six kids of ages 5 to 7 how to program. “In what programming language?” you may ask. Well…I didn’t use a programming language, at least none that you know of. In fact, I didn’t even use a computer. Instead, I devised a game called “How To Train Your Robot”. Before I explain how the game works, let me tell my motivation.
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A chat with an expert on girls, friendships and new forms of bullying via social media.
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[Dovecot] Apple patches 1-5
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Fri Dec 19 10:05:25 EET 2008
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 11:39 -0600, Mike Abbott wrote:
> Here are the first few simple patches from Apple, based on
> dovecot-1.1.7. The comments with "APPLE" in them helped us merge in
> your new releases; feel free to remove them. Please let me know if
> you want subsequent patches in a different format, or if you have any
> Patch #1. Some versions of Mac OS X have buggy CMSG_* macros.
> Patch #2. Don't set "<username>=1" in the environment.
Waiting for your next patch to see if I should do it this way or some
> Patch #3. Some versions of Mac OS X return near-duplicate kevents.
> Patch #4. Null renames are actually pretty slow on HFS (Apple's file
> system), so avoid them.
> Patch #5. Required by Apple's lawyers.
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Two posts today because we have a birthday to remember.
Born on this day in 1903, it is time to wish Edward Bawden a very happy birthday, and how much I am enjoying reading for and writing these ' On This Day...'series of blog posts. It feels so much more optimistic somehow to celebrate a day of birth rather than to mourn a day of death.
I am not sure that coffee table books always make the best of reading for me. Usually too heavy to hold for any length of time, and if I do pick one up my butterfly eye flits over pictures hither and yon, flicking back and forth with no semblance of sense or chronology and often to the detriment of the text.
In fact to be very honest I had really ordered a copy of Edward Bawden and His Circle by Malcolm Yorke for the pictures. I have a growing collection of Eric Ravilious-related books but nothing on Edward Bawden, and that was a balance to be redressed given their close friendship and artistic collaboration. At 271 pages the book is certainly hefty and is generous with illustrations, but it is also blessed with a genuinely interesting biography of Edward Bawden's life.
I had been unaware that Edward Bawden, like Eric Ravilious, had done service as a war artist, enduring hellish conditions as he trekked around and recorded the war zones of Africa, before sailing for home from Cape Town on board the Laconia. Edward Bawden was not to know that on the second day of that voyage, Eric Ravilious, 'the closest and dearest friend he was ever to have' was killed in Iceland, lost at sea. Edward himself was almost lost at sea too and reading the account, some of it in his own words, it becomes clear that Edward Bawden was one very cool, calm customer under pressure.
The Laconia, a liner converted into a troop carrier and sailing without an escort, was hit by German torpedoes, holed below the water line and quickly sank. Up to ninety people, including Edward Bawden, were drifting in each lifeboat for five days before rescue, and with some very peckish sharks nuzzling at their side. The rescue was unfortunately effected by the 'wrong ' side, thus imprisonment in an Italian internment camp beckoned. but true to his remit Edward Bawden continued to draw what he saw. When news of the death of Eric Ravilious reached him his letter to Tirzah Ravilious, Eric's widow, offers a rare glimpse into the heart of man who by all accounts didn't wear his emotions on his sleeve very often...
'I simply can't tell you - or anyone else, or even myself what it is, or how much it is I miss by losing Eric - I find myself in tears at the moment ...'
Incidentally if you missed last week's series of Persephone Posts on Tirzah Ravilious you can catch up with them here. It became equally apparent to me, on reading Edward Bawden and His Circle, that in Charlotte Epton (married to Edward Bawden in 1932 and bringing with her the wedding gift of Brick House, in Great Bardfield) there was another example of a talented and long-suffering wife. Charlotte, it would seem uncomplainingly, subsumed her own skills in painting and pottery-making to the needs of a demanding and often self-centred husband, and one capable of being 'cruelly dismissive' of her talents.
Trained in graphic design and with a strong sense of order and organisation it is clear that Edward Bawden had a different emotional approach to that of an 'artist.' His pictures are the product of close study and drawn with a sense of 'detached regard' which seems like a perfect fit for a post-war world of austerity and rationing and economy. Indeed, on returning from the war Edward felt forgotten by everyone bar the income tax as he immersed himself in commissions and life back with his family in Great Bardfield.
By all accounts something of a law unto himself, disciplined in the extreme with regard to his work, a shrewd professional and one who didn't suffer fools, Edward Bawden was capable of being both intimidating, tactless, unkind and rude to some, whilst showing others a generous and supportive degree of sympathy. I fully understood Malcolm Yorke's tactful assertion that he was not an 'easy man to be around' .
But, setting personality aside, I had been quietly unware too of how much of Edward Bawden's work has become iconic, taken for granted by me for sure, little knowing that he was the creator of that wonderful mural in Blackwell's book shop in Oxford...
or the Heartsease crockery for Wedgwood..
or the poster for that loveliest of films The Titfield Thunderbolt..
And the times when I have bought books at a P.B.F.A. Book Fair (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association) brought the book home and discarded the yellow paper bag with the nice print of the cat on the front, little knowing that I was unwittingly disposing of an Edward Bawden linocut circa 1983.
As I turned each page of this beautiful book, each successive picture became my favourite until I reached P167 and saw this...
A watercolour study for a free-standing screen painted for the Festival of Britain in 1951 and depicting 'The British Character and Tradition' as shown in rural life, and the closer I looked the more I saw. The whole thing would have measured 36 by 45 feet with each panel cleverly concealing a series of 'visual puns'...can you see the ploughed furrows becoming the corrugated tin roof on the next panel (if you click on the picture a slightly larger version should pop up) As Malcolm Yorke suggests it is a 'triumph of design ingenuity' and what a tragedy that in the post-exhibition demolition the screen was dismantled and somehow lost.
There is so much more to this book I hardly feel I can do it or Edward Bawden justice in a single post, but hopefully this from David Gentleman's introduction will help..
Bawden was an artist of a high order. Yet he never became a national treasure or icon, a household word...Looking afresh now...at the whole sweeping output of his long and productive life, two things are most striking. The first is his intense individuality, doggedly independent of the reverently or credulously accepted artistic fashions of the time. The second is the intelligence and independence of mind that enabled him to leave behind, and to communicate to a still-growing following, a substantial, vivid, coherent and honset record of his whole life's experience - of time not only well, but intelligibly spent.'
What better tribute can there be to an artist whose work seems to me to be timeless; as much of this moment as of that one, more relevant today than ever, and long may it and Edward Bawden's memory live on.
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From JAMF Software:
The Imaging Suite's modular approach to imaging makes building multiple images easy by building configurations from a library of custom packages. Utilizing the same set of operating system and application packages to create multiple configurations ensures that each configuration is made up of identical components. Most imaging utilities are based on a monolithic approach in which administrators build one base image that includes every element for every machine. The base image is then copied and adjusted to accommodate each configuration required by the network. This approach results in many large, monolithic images that require both storage and maintenance. The Imaging Suite's package-based approach to imaging reduces storage requirements, tracks changes, ensures consistency across the organization, and eliminates post-imaging activities.
What's new in this version:
- Support for OS X Mountain Lion (v10.8). The Imaging Suite includes support for OS X v10.8.
- Compatibility with Gatekeeper. All client applications in the Imaging Suite are signed for compatibility with Gatekeeper. A signed JSS Installer for Mac (JSS Installer.pkg) is available from JAMF Software Support upon request.
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TechTool Lite 3.0.4
TechTool Lite is a diagnostic tool that will rebuild your desktop, zap your PRAM and analyze your system.
Use TechTool to:
- Analyze your system and finder for damage
- Alter file and folder information with File Lab
- Zap the entire PRAM chip
- Delete the desktop file -- the alternative to rebuilding
- Clean your floppy drive
- View, print and save information about your Mac
For more information, including updates, please read the documentation or visit the home page.
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IN HARMS WAY-PART 7
IN HARMS WAY-PART 7
As the Pickton voir dire continues, I am re-printing this altered previous blog entry from a year ago. It still has significant meaning--Jamie Lee
MURDERED WOMEN of EAST END DESERVE SOCIETY's INTERVENTION
I hope society is as concerned as I am regarding the city's inaction regarding countless murders of many women from the East End of Vancouver. And while the major media scream sensational headlines of the Port Coquitlam farm, what they do is re-inforce the perception that everything is going to be ok since someone has been charged and closure will occur once the accused is brought to trial, convicted and sentenced. Neatly wrapped and packaged isn't it? But what happens outside the cortroom to the hundreds of women, men and youth still out on the street attempting to get by and stay safe?
For justice to prevail, the media and our civic politicians must begin asking the difficult and challenging questions regarding the street-level sex trade. Unfortunately, the media do not present the public with the real stories behind their stories. They often interview grief stricken family members who always state 'all we want is closure'. What this means is beyond me. C'mon folks, closure--as if the senseless slaughter of hundreds of women will bring an end to the rampant,systemic violence and victimization of children, youth and women on our streets. Spare me this last indignity please.
If the decency of society is to prevail, now is the time for collective calls and demands for solutions to the horrendous abuses which have occurred to prostitutes. The countless violence and victimization of women, many aboriginal, in the DTES End, somehow needs to be corrected. Surely others must realize this public safety issue won't happen through our law courts or a trial. Do we honestly believe it can? Sure we may feel all warm and fuzzy as campaigns are mounted for a lasting memorial for the women who were robbed of their lives. Of course, many groups will champion for more money so that their charity work can be expanded but I pose this question. Will this really accomplish anything substantial to prevent and reduce harm to vulnerable children, youth and women on our streets?
Sorry folks if I have rocked the boat here, which may even unsettle some comfortable order to your lives, but if you think for a moment that the farm in Coquitlam was a one-off situation, or worse, that only one unresponsive and most likely, intellectually delayed person was responsible for the total carnage culminating in DNA beiing found at the farm, please please think again. If we buy into this scenario, many more of society's most vulnerable will be exploited, com-modified and victimized. Their blood will be on our hands. It already is.
Does anyone really think that the DNA found at the property in Port Coquitlam only represents a madman gone amok or that of a serial killer? In reality what it manifests as--is rampant serial disorder in society. Trust me on this, there was far more than one person involved in how so many (27) women's DNA came to be found on that farm. Qnd what about the hundreds of other DTES whose DNA was never found? This is what needs to be examined. No trial will probe this and provide the answers society undoubtedly needs to correct or prevent this horrendous harm from happening again and again.
What is most likely and I know many of you understand this as many of you have openly discussed this with me is that economics factored significantly in the destruction of countless lives which came to their final resting place at the farm. From drug addiction and poverty to sexism and colonialism, big money was at work here. Most likely, the farm was a final dumping ground for now named and unnamed DNA samples. There are unnamed culprits in this mess and they need to come clean and own up to their own culpability. They also need to be brought to justice. But a criminal trial will not bring out truth.
Very troubling and what haunts me most is that one individual whose DNA was captured at the farm remains as yet unidentified. This represents to me the root of the problem. How someone couldn't have cared enough about this human being called 'Jane Doe' is beyond my reality. Sadly though for many of the women murdered, society didn't care enough about them either. Many families who now mourn, even they too were afraid to speak up when it might have helped their loved ones. Perhaps many of them were also victims. Many may have felt shame and this shame prevented them from speaking out or reaching out. Communities were distracted on their other needs and remained silent. Moreover, Leaders abrogated leadership and compromised vulnerable women's safety by focusing on debt and deficit measures rather than humanity issues. Far too many citizens must share responsibility of the preposterous inhumanity which came to many women. Speaking out is important if we are ever going to make a difference.
If you are as concerned as I am which I believe you are please join me in a re-newed call for Out of Harms Way for street-level sex trade workersa. This is our only hope in airing the systemic violence which occurs far too often to women involved in society's drug addiction and prostitution subculture.
let me say, that sex workers and drug addicts also have rights. Everyone regardless of social status has the right to life, liberty and security. And if even one individual's rights is stolen than as a society we all lose. Losses will continue to mount up if we do not address this societal inbalance.
We need to come together and speak up for restorative justice. We need to hold all those complicit in the missing/murdered women's cases to account for their actions, and or neglect. This ranges the gambit from law enforcement to those who victimize and murder. None who partaked in Canada's worst serial disorder either through dereliction of duty or oppressor status should have an easy ride. Everyone must be held to public scrutiny and everything must be laid bare on the table. Only when this happens in a timely way, can restorative justice have any chance of gaining the upper hand.
Its time for society to get to the bottom of this rampant rage. Only then will truth and justice triumph over darkness and evil.
Our new Mayor, Sam Sullivan must exercise leadership and strike a Mayor's Task Force on the Sex Trade. Lives are counting on it.
Jamie Lee Hamilton
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I just received this photo but it was taken around the 2nd last week of February at 2:30 a.m. on a Thursday, shortly after patrons streamed out of the No. 5 Orange strip bar at Main & Powell St.
My guess is that this toilet across the street from the No. 5 Orange was broken by one of their patrons, as the bar had just closed. Downtown Eastsiders have long said that much of the vandalism in the neighbourhood is committed by rowdies coming to the area to drink. Rowdies pull up to the No. 5 Orange in expensive cars, taxis, and limos.
For years, guys leaving the No. 5 Orange would walk across the street and take a leak in the garden or the hedge by the fire station. The Olympics changed that. The City installed a high-tech, self-cleaning outhouse on the sidewalk in front of the fire station. After that, men leaving the No. 5 Orange would walk across the street and around the outhouse to take a leak in the garden or the hedge by the fire station. There is something about that little electronic button you have to push to get into the outhouse that leaves a guy wondering whether that door can be trusted to open again on the way out.
Not only guys from the bar but pedestrians on the sidewalk too have to walk around the outhouse.
Keeping this electronic outhouse operating has been like flushing money down the toilet. When it was built, a team of City worker in florescent yellow vests were there for a long time -- nobody remembers just how long -- digging up the street and then putting it back together again. A team of workers were back again this year, making a big hole and then re-paving the sidewalk. Shortly afterwards the toilet bowl was busted.
The outhouse must be at least partly financed by CBS, the company that puts billboard advertisements on both sides of it. The only action neighbours have seen around the outhouse recently is the billboard man driving up in the white CBS van to tinker with the controls for the billboards, which he accesses by opening a small door in the back of the outhouse.
The door of the outhouse has been locked for almost a month. And guys continue to walk around it to take a low-tech leak in the garden or the hedge.
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yes, it is the airplane that makes this picture special.
The composition, using a wide angle lens, is also nice in the sense that the buildings edges also gradually leads our eyes to the airplane. (hope you understand what i want to say - not very confident.
Is the power station out of operation now? If that is the case, i do not know why, but surely adds more attractiveness to the picture.
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2006 Acura RSX Type-S | Stock vs Greddy SP2 | Exhaust video
Here's a video I took of my 06 Type-s the morning of the SP2 install. I took video footage before I drove to the shop and then after the SP2 was installed. I tried as much as I possibly could to make the only variable the Exhaust itself, which is why I did it on the same day, on the same road, almost the exact camera angles. I hope this helps anyone out there in there Exhaust decision making.
The mods on the car during the filming:
Fujita F5 Cold Air Intake
Stock Exhaust & then Greddy SP2 catback
Full-Race Turbo RSX Type-S
THIS CAR IS NOW FOR SALE AS OF DECEMBER 2010. I have done a lot of work since this video was made. The motor was built, a lot of money has been put into the interior and exterior, etc. I have the car listed on 2 differen't for sale threads online. If you are interested message me or post on those threads or message me on Youtube. The for sale ads have all of the information about the car, including all of the modifications and lots of pictures. Thanks.
THE CAR IS NOW ON EBAY!!!!
The Acura RSX Begins (2007)
Pre-Production of "The White Acura RSX Rises" is in the works , so please stay tuned for the final chapter of my Acura RSX!- Bo
A movie of my Acura RSX...
2002 Acura RSX
-Full 06 Exterior Conversion
-Mugen Front Lip
-A-Spec Side Skirts
-A-Spec Rear Lip
-18" Rays G-Games
-Tein S. Tech Lowering Springs
-Fully Adjustable Koni Yellow Shocks/Struts
AEM Cold-Air Intake
Hondata Reflash w/raised rev limit (7300)
Cars Raced (In order of Appearance)
1.) EG Civic Hatch Si (manual)
Intake, No Muffler
2.) 92 240SX SE (manual)
3.) 93 Prelude Si (manual)
Short Ram, Muffler
4.) DC4 Integra GS-R (manual)
Short Ram, Cat-Back
5.) 00 GTI 1.8T (manual)
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
2003 Acura RSX Type-S Start Up, Quick Tour, & Rev With Exhaust View - 139K
2003 Acura RSX
This RSX Type-S has the 2.0L DOHC i-VTEC 4 Cyl which makes 200 HP while paired to a 6MT
My Fan page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Intechdude300/294626333932309
2theRedline fan page https://www.facebook.com/2Redline
The new 2theRedlineLLC channel where all future tours ( except personal cars) will be posted http://www.youtube.com/user/2theRedlineLLC
Prelude vs Rsx type S
97 Honda Preluda SH, I/E and tune
03 Acura RSX Type S ,I/H/E/Kpro and stage2 clutch,8lbs flywheel
ACURA RSX Type S
2004 Acura RSX Type S.
Just some drive by mixed with trance song.
Front end: Greddy Lip
Side Skirts: Mugen 02-04 Model
Rear Lip: OEM Rear Lip
Wing: "Type R" High Wing
Buddy Club N+ suspension
Honda#4 Reflash (not installed in video)
Music: Three Drives - Greece 2000 [G & M Project Rmx]
The video at the end was inside my friends BMW M3, I wasn't able to remove the video at the end at the time of upload.
Don't like what you see? Then DO NOT comment about what you dislike about the car, go waste your time elsewhere.
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Bank of Japan (Photo credit: mjaniec)
Русский: Bank of Japan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Japan (Photo credit: Yashar.Mans)
This is an interesting story published by Reuters and worth a read. Check it out!
BOJ says monetary base soars to record on new QE scheme | Reuters.
After over ten years of unnecessary pain, Japan has seen the light and the Bank of Japan is following an aggressive strategy of quantitative easing.
Let’s hope that the ECB sees the light today, and Europe is not forced to an unnecessary ten years of pain, like Japan.
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This is for today's Op-Ed in The New York Times on the firing of General McChrystal. I got a call yesterday while General McChrystal was still meeting with Obama and the article was in progress. The draft had a bit of a historical take on the subject of generals being fired in the middle of past American wars, so I thought of this idea among a few others. Got the o.k. on the sketch around 4pm, finish done by 5:30. Full article here. As always, Aviva at the Op-Ed makes it a fun job.
This is today's Op-Ed for the New York Times, the story is about Iran and the idea that the country could actually become a democratic state. Full story here. Aviva Michaelov is the art director and I love what she did with the page.
Today's Op-Ed is about the recent killing of two soldiers and a police officer in Northern Ireland by a splinter I.R.A. group. In the old days, this would have caused bitter fighting in the area, but the murders now seem to have brought both sides together. Maybe, after years of fighting, there is real peace. This is the image I came up with. The article is here at the NY Times and is a good read. I worked with the Kim Bost on this one.
And this was an image for the letters section of the Op-Ed page from a few weeks ago when Obama spoke to Congress. Worked with Leanne Shapton on this one.
Todays Op-Ed: Obama and Iran's nuclear aspirations
Today's NY Times Op-Ed is about how Obama will handle the situation with Iran. The full article is here. There's no simple answer, and the story seems to be that the more time passes, the closer Iran comes to getting a nuke. That's how the image came about. Some of the other sketches are below and a gallery of some past Op-Ed work is here:
Has Brian Rea left NYC yet? Whenever I think I've worked on the last assignment with Brian, he calls with a new one. This one is for Today's Op-Ed titled "The Risk of Too Much Oversight" about how all the numerous Congressional committees restrict and get in the way of the Homeland Security department's ability to defend the country. I had a number of ideas and Brian ended up going with this one which I liked. The article is here. Below are some other recent jobs for the Op Ed page on a variety of subjects. I've worked with Kim Bost, Brian's assistant on some of those. It's been a pleasure working with Brian over the years. He's always been patient, smart, and cool under a lot of pressure.
I got a call on Friday afternoon from Brian at the Op-Ed page. He needed a final....that afternoon. Okay! I got to work and did a number of quick sketches which are below. The final art above was printed today, it's a combination of ink washes and oil based ink line. The subject of the Op-Ed are the sanitation problems that will likely arise in Myanmar due to the cyclone that has devastated the area's plumbing systems. Cholera and other diseases could cause more deaths than the initial storm. The article is titled "Send in the Latrines" and can be read online here.
Article by John Wray for the NY Times begins.... "AUSTRIA, that lovely little Alpine republic on the banks of the Danube, has a new and deeply lamentable claim to international notoriety: As of this past weekend, we officially lead the free world in the abduction and confinement of young girls in soundproof, subterranean apartments......" The rest of the article is at the Times website here. It's a good read on a horrible subject which seems to have just gotten tabloid headlines so far. I wanted to show a quiet and peaceful Austrian landscape (rendered like one of those paintings a tourist would buy at a shop) with the horrors going on below the surface. Some details below.
Detail. The entire image is 10" x 13". Pencil on paper.
This is for an Op-Ed in today's New York Times. The article is titled "Our Neighbor, the Pope", a Roman's reflections on living in the same town as the Pope. How the Pope has come to be seen as another person in town, not as grand or special as he is when he travels abroad. I thought I'd draw him walking back to the Vatican from another trip, with his suitcase in tow. The article is online here.
Yesterday, around 2:30pm, I got a call from Brian at the Times Op-Ed page. He said something that sounded a lot like "MugabeZimbabweFrailOldbutStillDangerous—and I need it by 6pm!" O.K., I thought, I guess I'm not watching Oprah this afternoon... I read the full article, grabbed a brush, some ink, and went to work. The writer noticed, while she interviewed Mugabe, how he had aged and seemed like a frail old man. However, there is still a sense of danger about Mugabe because he could turn Zimbabwe into hell by just making a few calls. I had this image of a frail old person sitting on a rocking chair, which happens to be a skull. More of the sketches are below. The article is here.
Quickie thumbnail. Brian gave the go ahead based on this thing!
Another sketch idea
Another sketch, wove in some of the things from other recent drawings.
I got a call from the Boston Globe, they are starting to use illustration as part of a new Op-Ed page, I'm not sure what they were doing before. The first story they asked me to work on was on the shutting down of Dodgertown, a Spring training facility down in Vero Beach, Florida. The Brooklyn Dodgers trained there and the place ended up being an experiment in desegregation during the time of Jackie Robinson. If you're a baseball fan, check out the article here, I enjoyed reading it.
I sent the recent Obama portrait I did over to the NY Times and they picked it up for the paper. It would be great if every assignment worked this way! Thanks to Brian Rea and the editors for going with it. Articles online here.
I did this for today's NY Times Op-Ed, accompanying a story about how Kabul has become a dangerous place again after it appeared to have become stabilized. The Taliban is back and attacking hotels and restaurants that cater to the international community. The full Op-Ed story is online here.
The assignment was for a black and white piece, but I did it in color and converted it after scanning. Sometimes I do this, I feel I can get more tonal values by working in color. I also get more into the drawing when working in color. They ended up running the color piece on the internet. Brian Rea is the art director, always fun working for him. I've been able to do a variety of work with him over the years. Some of those other assignments are in an Op-Ed gallery here.
I took some pictures while working, you can see those when you scroll down. The story behind the creased paper is that back in the 90's when I traveled to places like Cuba, Europe or Northern Africa, I used to take large sheets of paper and fold them to fit in my bags. I never knew how big I was going to work when I started drawing on site, so I would tear off pieces of that large paper on site. Sometimes my drawings would spread and keep going over the creases in the paper. I started to like that because it created spaces in the composition within the drawing. They were drawings within the drawing. Now I have a bunch of folded papers all over the place. I like having a surface like that to start on so I don't have a precious surface to have to think about. The rougher reportage type work I do evolved from all of those travels. Anyways, here's how this one went:
Final art: Charcoal, Acrylic, Spray paint, and Ink on paper, 9" x 11"
For an article about how the signing of amnesty orders could bring the country together in Afghanistan.
Here's a link to 17 pieces of Op-Ed art that were chosen by The New York Times as being notable for 2007. I have no idea who picks these (I think it might be Brian Rea just going "I dig this"), but it's nice to be in the company of all of these artists. Links to the articles are also there for perusing. Check it out, nice show.
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Congratulations to the winner of Round 3 Travel Photography Roulette!
Travis from FlashPacker HQ
Caption: The murals of Derry and Belfast help tell the history of the troubles in Northern Ireland. If you’re headed to Dublin, take a couple days and get up north to see them.
How could we not award the winner of this round to such a powerful image portrayed in community mural? It hits the exact spot of why Scott and I believe Street Art is a powerful tool in todays society.
Check out the next round of Travel Photography Roulette being hosted at this weeks winners corner of the web: Flashpacker HQ. We look forward to see what Travis selects for the next rounds theme! Congrats again Travis!!
Thanks to everyone who participated. We got some great submissions which made it very hard for us to choose a winner. Also a big thanks to everyone who helped promote the game on twitter (#photoroulette). Keep it up! You are all awesome!!
Scott and I were the round 2 winners of the great new game, Travel Photography Roulette! The game was created by Jeremy at Living The Dream and I believe will be a great addition to our wonderful travel blog community.
If you haven’t already guessed… Scott and I love Street Art in all shapes and forms. Which brings us to this rounds term. We would love to see what kind of Street Art out there moved you enough to take a photo.
Please remember Street Art is not just limited to graffiti! The definition of street art is any type of art displayed in a public place that is not sanctioned by government sponsorships and is something you can view for free. Community supported mural projects, yarn bombing, stickers, stencils, graffiti, sculptures, flash mobs, street performers, sidewalk chalk-drawings, placed rocks, light instalments, the list can go on and on and on. Anything an individual (or a even a group of individuals) has done in a creative manner on the streets to add color, inspire someone, make a statement, leave their mark, or just because. Get it? Still unsure? Read this wiki on Street Art. Now onto the game!
The rules of the game are simple. The hosting blogger is the chosen winner of the previous week’s (7 days) game. The new host chooses a generic keyword or phrase that other bloggers submit photos to during the course of the week. Phrases can be as generic as ‘signs’ all the way to abstract thoughts like ‘religion’ and everything in between.
At the end of the week, the hosting blogger chooses their favorite photo that fits the chosen phrase and moves it to the top of the post as the winning entry with direction to the new host’s site for the next round. Readers can attempt to sway the author into picking a certain photo via comments but the author can ignore comments as they see fit. The game is repeated with the winner hosting the following week’s game and choosing a phrase for new photo submissions.
The following is a list of the previously played rounds of the game and the hosting blogger for each. This list also doubles as a winner’s table as each topic host won the preceding round! Click the host’s link to go directly to that entry to see some stunning photographs from the chosen term/phrase!
|1||Nov 4-10, 2010||Living the Dream||Animals|
|2||Nov 17-24, 2010||Skinny Backpacker||Road Signs|
|3||Nov 29-Dec 6, 2010….||Dream a Little Dream.…||Street Art|
For Round 3, I have chosen the term: Street Art, and my photo submission is below. Those interested in playing please provide a hyperlink to a photo you’d like to submit and it will get hosted on this page. When submitting an image, please provide a brief description and location of where it was taken for captioning. On December 7th I will pick a winner and that blogger can start the next round.
“Apartment building in a used to be bad end of Berlin covered in up-close faces by a group of local graffiti artists. After completion all the violence and crime diminished and the inhabitants once again live normal happy lives.”
So, who is ready to show off their photography skills? The best Street Art wins the week and bragging rights.
Extra Criteria to Keep in Mind When Submitting a Photo:
1) One submission per Blog (so sites that have 2+ authors only get one entry).
2) No photoshopping allowed unless specifically called for! Cropping and correction for red-eye or camera flaws are ok, however.
3) Abstract submissions welcomed as long as it fits within the interpretation of the chosen phrase. Remember, the hosting blogger chooses the winner, so if they cannot understand the submission, you might not win!
4) Keep phrases general so that all bloggers can participate. Specific items like “Eiffel Tower” should be avoided but rather made open-ended like “monuments.” For variety, it is ok to say focused things such as “monuments at night” in which most of us have pictures of.
6) Abstract thoughts are appreciated, but keep it within the realm that all readers will understand. No “Kafka-esque”, but “Overlooking Creation” is able to be interpreted by all.
7. No obscene pictures or phrases allowed. Suggestive phrases and photography can be accepted, but please keep it within reason.
8. After a sufficient period of time, phrases can be reused, however new photos must be submitted. Keep the ideas and photos fresh!
9) Pictures from your entire portfolio are fair to submit. You do not have to take the photo within the week of the contest period to submit it.
10) Most importantly, ALL PHOTOS MUST BE YOUR OWN.
Erica from Over Yonderlust
“Billie Holiday stencil, Austin, Texas”
Lindsay from The Traveller World Guide
“All the way from Tokyo, Japan! Eat it!”
Jeremy from Living the Dream
“Mariachi Band Playing in Cozumel, Mexico (2003)”
Rebecca from Travels at 88mph
“Rock displays in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC”
Jamie from Breakaway Backpacker
“This was taken off Venice Beach, California.”
Nico from 10 Times One
“Paris Street Art. Found in the Marais, 2010″
Stephen from Bohemian Traveler
“This one gets deep. From Cartagena, Colombia”
Anthony from Motojournalism
“Images from the past blend into footsteps of the present.
I saw this mural on my way south through Nicaragua. It shows the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, with kids playing futbol in front. I’ve cropped it so it’s difficult to tell where the mural ends and reality begins.”
Dustin from Skinny Backpacker
“Fear over immigration, shot in Helsinki, Finland.”
Travis from Flashpacker HQ
“The murals of Derry and Belfast help tell the history of the troubles in Northern Ireland. If you’re headed to Dublin, take a couple days and get up north to see them.”
Johnny from Johnny Vagabond
“Here’s some randomly-generated ‘art’ I found in Hanoi”
Please share this post each week to drive up views and increase submissions of these wonderful pictures to make the contest more interesting! Good luck!
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Ahead of her performance as Fever Ray at the Loop festival in a few weeks time, DiS' Alexander Tudor got on the phone with Karin Dreijer Anderssen about various things including the commercialization of music, identity and an upcoming Opera about Darwin?!
DiS: The Fever Ray album has been one of my albums of the year, but it wasn’t guaranteed to appeal to everyone, so it was pleasing to see that it got such a good response. Were you surprised at all?
KDA: I don’t read much Press, but I’m pleased that people enjoy what I do.
DiS: When ‘If I Had a Heart’ came out, it felt a bit like a warning: this is a new band, and a different band, so don’t expect a big pop single. Was that a conscious decision when choosing that song?
KDA: I think it was a good introduction to the album… but Andreas Nilssen who made the video heard the whole album, and chose the one he wanted to make a video for. But I don’t think you can think about radio… and what will sound best on radio, you know? It’s more important to do something new.
DiS: Considering that people spend so much time trying to sound like each other – and yet singles sell less than ever – would you expect to see a move towards people putting their most interesting songs out, instead?
KDA: Yes, but I don’t know much about what other people are releasing. I know that in Sweden, the radio has become much more commercialized. They don’t even play The Knife on the radio.
DiS: In some of your previous interviews, you mentioned some of the people you’ve been listening to, and some of your influences, mentioning some unfamiliar names. Can you a bit about them?
KDA: I didn’t have many expectations when I went into the studio, but I listened a lot to a band called Tomahawk, and they made an album inspired by Native Americans… and that was quite a big influence on this work [especially] the tempo. I wanted to make something slow, and to find out what was my ideal tempo. Also, there was a film by Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man, which filtered into the way I made the album.
DiS: The music’s improvised by Neil Young, isn’t it? I know you played most of the instruments yourself, but did you invite any of the other musicians to improvise?
KDA: I did all the programming, and the guitar is me, but I got someone to play the double-bass, which I can’t play. In the end I got three different producers to help with the final version.
DiS: I’m sure a lot of journalists – when they’re talking about The Knife or Fever Ray – talk about the masks, and disguise. Do you feel that part of the appeal of electronica, to you, is that you’re able to conceal your culture and your identity?
KDA: I think it’s interesting to just focus on the music. When everything is so commercialized, you’re expected to talk about fashion, and lifestyle, and what car you’re driving. So, it’s a challenge these days, to focus on what you’re working on. For me it’s music. I don’t see it as disguise… I just see it as trying to express something about the music, and to follow it in a good way, to get the attention on the music.
DiS: Absolutely! I didn’t want to take anything away from the music, and underplay the importance of it, but the music itself – especially the distorted vocals – and the lyrics are often making a comment about the nature of identity, and the artifice of identity.
KDA: Yes. That’s a good way to see it. I think, it’s been easier or more common with electronic music… I’m not sure what to call it… to play with images, certainly if you compare it to [rock]. I mean, Sweden has been very rock-oriented, and, for instance, Bruce Springsteen comes here every summer now, and that’s the biggest thing that comes here. We’ve been making music as The Knife for ten years now, and it’s still very…
KDA: Um… yes! [laughs]
DiS: Where do you find you get the best response?
KDA: I suppose in Germany, where they have a lot of electronic music, and Belgium and Holland, where they have a history of more performance-based acts, which I can relate to. Acts who are more theatrical.
DiS: Are there plans to film the Fever Ray shows, in the way that Silent Shout was? [The album has been re-released, accompanied by Silent Shout: An Audio-Visual Experience on DVD & CD, including a video of the highly elaborate Gothenberg concert.] It’s pretty much the only concert-video I'll actually put on and watch…
KDA: We haven’t planned anything yet, but we want to do it. We’ll see what happens…
DiS: The music critic Simon Reynolds theorizes that dance music has a tendency to be utopian, whereas The Knife appealed to me because they seemed to subvert dance music sounds to create something dystopian - even on the Fever Ray album, where it’s a more domestic setting.
KDA: I think you can find that emptiness in all kinds of music… where it’s all about parties, or whatever. I’m just not into all that! Into clubbing… not in the last ten years at least. It’s very much for myself. It only becomes social when you start to work for other people, on the visuals… with the video-directors. At first, I think it’s for myself.
DiS: Listening to the Fever Ray album, some of the songs seem like messages to your children, or reflections on how they’re going to grow up, particularly the first song…
KDA: It’s so much about what I’m doing at home, that I don’t expect them to respond to it. I’m really happy now that they’re starting to get their own ideas about music… they’re watching YouTube… and find their own things, but it’s not their fault [what they find]!
DiS: ‘If I Had a Heart’ seems to come from the fact that you want to feel more emotion than you do [having just had a second child], but you can’t because you’re so tired… and the [delivery of the] song, the use of the vocal effects, makes that simple situation much more sinister.
KDA: Yes, but in music you have the possibility to play with ideas, and find out what they might mean. You know, that’s the worst thing you can say as a new mother – that “if you had a heart, they could love you” – and so it’s very important that you have these areas where you can try these ideas. After that, I say, “If I had a voice, I could sing”, but I am singing, so it’s not a dead end. Everything I say isn’t real. Sometimes people – how do you say it? – ‘bare themselves blind’? Art is a way to try and think differently…
DiS: Thinking of the different voices across the album, it seems you often have very specific ways of using them, but some are more open-ended. On ‘Concrete Walls’ it’s clear why you’re using the slurred, weary voice, but on ‘I’m Not Done’ [which is about no longer being a young woman trying to make a career in pop music], there’s a contrast between the much higher and lower voices that suggests (to me, at least) that the one is parody of a young voice, and the other is the spectre of old age. Were there other places you had a specific intention?
KDA: Yeah… on ‘I’m Not Done’, I wanted the vocal to be a bit annoying, and not so comfortable to listen to. Often, I don’t want my vocals to be easy to listen to. There, I really wanted to find a voice that was a little bit hysterical, and annoying. That’s almost the first thing I started to do with each track, was to find the sound of the vocal – to find the pitch, or if it’s supposed to be sung out loud, or whispered, or what. But I always find the style of performance of the vocal very interesting. It’s very important to me, how it ends up.
DiS: On the second last track ['Keep the Streets Empty for Me'], you’re singing as an animal… but it’s one of the most natural voices, which seemed deliberately ironic.
KDA: Yes, that’s my natural voice, but it’s also a duet. It’s unprocessed… but it’s supposed to be a deer singing. It works with the contrasts. [I find] it’s good when you work in the album format, creating tracks that are supposed to go along with other tracks, adding up to something bigger, rather than just working with singles.
DiS: How is your brother’s project going? [Making field-recordings in the Amazon]
KDA: [Referring to a solo album…] You’d have to ask him about that… Oh, you mean the opera! Yes, the opera is something we’ll be doing together – he just has some other stuff going on. We’ve been working on that project for about one-and-a-half years, and it’ll soon be finished. A Danish opera company commissioned some music for an opera about Charles Darwin, and we’ve now started rehearsing with the singers, in Copenhagen, and we will continue in August, and premier in September. It will be touring around, throughout the Fall, and next year. One of their productions has been touring for fifteen years… so, we’ll see how long it will last!
DiS: I’m sure there’ll be a lot of interest [since so much is going on to mark the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species]. Do you have a personal interest in Darwin, or did they approach you, and you said ‘Sure, why not?’
KDA: I think, when they approached us – Hotel Performa, as they’re called – we saw that they’d made some interesting works before. I hadn’t read anything about Charles Darwin when I started, but now I’ve read so much. It’s a huge subject. Everything relates to his theory, and so you get a new perspective.
DiS: A Swedish friend told me it’s frightening that Creationism can be taught in the UK, as if it’s a scientific theory…
KDA: In Sweden, we didn’t know anything about Creationism. My brother lives in Berlin, though, and an American friend – when he said that we were working on Darwin – asked ‘Oh, do you believe in that?!’ I think it’s about one-third of the American population who believe in Creationism, and that is frightening, for us in Sweden. But [in our opera] we focus on Darwin’s view of diversity, and how it’s very un-hierarchical. So, it’s a very positive focus, I think.
DiS: Ah, that’s interesting, because I had thought it made sense for you to be looking at a Naturalist, or a biologist, because there’s so much animal imagery in your work, and images of the natural world, but that [emphasis on diversity and a lack of hierarchy] fits with something else which I see in The Knife & Fever Ray, which is the blurring or mixing up of gender identity [again, through the voices, and various images], as if gender is chosen, or put on. Could you tell me about that?
KDA: I’m not sure where it comes from. I mean, in Sweden, these issues have been discussed for quite a long time, and we consider ourselves fairly equal, although of course there’s so much more to do. I think that [associating] gender with skill or power is very limiting to humans. So, I think we are trying to broaden the areas where you’re supposed to work, as a woman or a man.
DiS: Although, at the same time, it seems very positive to be writing an album that’s so much about the experience of parenthood, when there’s very little of that [in indie music, and/or electronica]
KDA: I didn’t start out to do that, but I mostly wrote about what was going on. I think most things you read as a parent, are about how it’s all fluffy and wonderful, but when you become a parent, you also get drawn into all these new perspectives. You get a totally new look on – at least I did – on life, and also death. You realize the line is very fine, and I realized that in everyday life, I hadn’t been thinking about that much. It’s like the whole world turns upside down.
DiS: Is a song like ‘Concrete Walls’ quite representative? In that it’s very oppressive…
KDA: Well, that was where I took things to the edge – there is a lack of sleep, and the screaming colic[ky] kids – but I took that to the edge, and then I was able to realize that it’s nothing real… it’s not too hard anymore. [laughs]
DiS: Similarly, on the previous album as The Knife, the song ‘Silent Shout’ seems to be about someone with profound anxieties about gender identity… but is that then an extreme case to draw attention to how everyone’s identity is constructed?
KDA: Yes, I absolutely think so. It’s a bit scary when you see how everything’s constructed. You wait to see what’s going to happen to your kids… to see how they’ll be when they get older. They’re going to grow up in a society that moulds them, and you think you can avoid that, but you can’t.
DiS: Thinking of the shows you’ll be doing at the Loop festival, can you give us a taster of the shows?
KDA: We’ll be working with Andreas Nilssen again – who did the visuals for The Knife, and the ‘If I Had a Heart’ video. It’s going to be very theatrical. There should be costumes, and videos, and smoke, and lasers.
DiS: Is there anyone else you’re looking forward to, at Loop?
KDA: The Field…? I haven’t been to Brighton, so I’m looking forward to that.
DiS: And what comes next? Is there going to be another Fever Ray album?
KDA: I’ll be touring for the rest of the year, and then we go into the studio to record Tomorrow in a Year, the opera.
Fever Ray will be playing at LOOP FESTIVAL 2009 (July 10 - 12)
12.00 midday – 03.00am, Victoria Gardens, Brighton
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||Commercial, Residential, Nonprofit, Local Government, Installer/Contractor, Low-Income Residential
|Amount:||2013 Standard Offer Program (launching on June 1):|
Small Program (systems 10 - 50 kW): $0.13/kWh for 20 years
Medium Program (systems 50.1 - 500 kW): $0.10/kWh for 20 years
Large RFP Program: determined through competitive bid
|Eligible System Size:||2 MW maximum size for Large RFP Program|
|Ownership of Renewable Energy Credits:||Xcel Energy|
|Program Budget:||Up to 9 MW of projects for 2013|
Note: Xcel will begin accepting applications for the 2013 Standard Offer Program for systems between 10 kW and 500 kW on June 1, 2013. The RFP Program for systems between 500.1 kW and 2 MW will solicit competitive bids starting on August 1, 2013. See web site above for more information.
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Community solar gardens must have at least 10 customer subscribers to qualify for this program, and at least 5% of the allocation must be attributed to income-qualified subscribers. No one subscriber can own an interest in more than 40% of a single project. Further, subscribing customers are limited to subscriptions that will produce no more than 120% of their annual electric usage. Subscribers must be Xcel Energy electric customers in the same county as the garden. Subscribers in counties with less than 20,000 population can participate in gardens in adjacent counties that also have populations less than 20,000.
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Last DSIRE Review: 01/23/2013
||State Loan Program
|Eligible Efficiency Technologies:
||Clothes Washers, Dishwasher, Refrigerators, Dehumidifiers, Ceiling Fan, Equipment Insulation, Water Heaters, Lighting, Lighting Controls/Sensors, Furnaces , Boilers, Heat pumps, Central Air conditioners, Heat recovery, Programmable Thermostats, Caulking/Weather-stripping, Duct/Air sealing, Building Insulation, Windows, Roofs, Custom/Others pending approval, Whole House Fans, Personal Computing Equipment, Tankless Water Heaters, Combined Water and Space, Heaters, Hot Water Flow Restrictors, Automatic Flue or Vent Dampers, Intermittent Ignition Devices, Telecommunications, Skylights
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||Commercial, Residential, Nonprofit, Local Government, Multi-Family Residential, Agricultural, Institutional, Energy Star Partners
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Multifamily dwellings with 3 or more units: $250,000
Home Electronics: $25,000;
Office Equipment: $50,000
Wind, PV, Fuel Cells: $125,000
Solar Water Heaters: $14,000
New Home Construction: $417,000
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|Funding Source:||Oil Overcharge Funds; miscellaneous state, public power district, and federal funds|
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In addressing these issues, the DSWP uses the rights-based approach & implements the following interrelated & interfacing core programs and strategies:
1. Organizing & Consolidation Program (OCP) DSWP’s organizing efforts are geared toward the establishment, strengthening and consolidation of women’s organizations particularly in poor urban and rural communities, as well as women in marginalized societal sectors. This way, sectoral, class and geographic issues are addresses alongside national and gender-related ones.
2. Education & Training Program (ETP) Through the years, the DSWP has developed a comprehensive education program. The federation specializes in the conceptualization, design and implementation of various education activities using participatory and popularized methodologies, strategies and learning exercises.
To date, the following are included in the DSWP’s education program:
- Consciousness-raising & Orientation
- Basic Gender Sensitivity Seminar for Women (BGSS)
- Basic Gender Sensitivity Workshop for Men (GSM)
- Basic Orientation on Women’s Political Participation (WPP)
- Seminar on Local Government Code (SLGC)
- Laws, Policies and Programs for Women Workers Seminar (LPWS)
- Women and the Party List Law Seminar (WPLS)
- Basic Orientation on Women and Work (OWW)
- Seminar on Women and Trade Unionism (WTU)
- Seminar on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
- Seminar on Violence Against Women (SVAW)
- Seminar on Women & Globalization (SWG)
- Voters’ Education Seminar (VES)
- Orientation on the Anti-Rape law (OARL)
- Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Law Orientation (VAWCLO)
- Cooperative Organizing Orientation (COO)
Capability Building & Skills Development
- Speakers’ Training (ST)
- Training of Trainers (TT)
- Advocacy Skills Training (LST)
- Training on Resource Management and Accessing (TRMA)
- Basic Financial Management and Book Keeping Seminar (BFMS)
- Information, Education and Communications MAterial Development Seminar (IEC-MDS)
- Organizational Development and Management Training (ODMT)
- Project Proposal Making Seminar (PPMS)
- Training on Peer Education and Counseling on Young Women’s SRHR (TPEC-SRHR)
- Crash Course on Public Speaking (CCPS)
The DSWP also develops and produces information and education materials such as information packages on specific issues; comics; advocacy materials and newsletters.
3. Advocacy & Networking Program (ANP) The ANP is premised on the principle that there is strength in numbers. ANP is done at various leves, local, national and international to address issues important to DSWP and its local chapter organizations.
At the local level, the DSWP conducts activities and campaigns consistent with its national advocacies. However, beyond national issues, local issues are likewise addresses based on the needs of member organizations in the concerned area/s. Some local advocacies are:
Local Government Code (LGC) implementation especially for NGO and women’s participation in local governance;
Gender and Development (GAD) Budget law implementation;
Campaigns in support of women and girls victims and/or survivors of violence;
Protection of and programs for women in the informal sectors; and
Young women’s access to reproductive health information and services.
DSWP is able to mobilize grassroots and community-based women from among its chapters in relation with its advocacy work. Also, the federation enjoys credibility among select legislators as it is often called upon to participate in meetings of committees in Congress processing women-related legislative proposals.
At the international level, DSWP participates in international conferences relevant to women and the federation’s priority issues. The DSWP is a member of the Socialist International Women (SIW).
As part of ANP, the DSWP conducts forums on current political, social, economic and cultural issues. Community-based study sessions and education activities on these issues are likewise implemented to keep community groups abreast with national developments and issues.
4. Technical Assistance & Direct Service Program (TADSP) This program is borne out of the reality that DSWP members belong to the poorest of the poor in society. TADSP is focused on:
- Helping chapter organizations access resources for their own projects;
- Directly helping them in other urgent problems;
- Assisting them through a referral system at times when services needed by specific members are not provided by DSWP;
- Directly supporting women and girls victims/survivors of violence and abuse through a small fund that the federation has put up for this purpose;
- Providing livelihood loans for women through its Livelihood Revolving Fund (LRF); and
- Increasing poor women’s access to social protection through micro-insurance scheme.
5. Organizational Sustainability Program (OSP) This program is based on the DSWP’s vision of becoming a self-sustaining organizations. The program is about developing and implementing a revenue-generating scheme based on the federation’s marketable strengths. It is hoped that revenues from this program will eventually be able to support DSWP activities and lessen the federation’s dependence on outside funding.
Since its establishment, the DSWP has implemented a number of projects with support from various partner organizations, institutions and development agencies. DSWP enjoys a credible track record in project implementation and management and has received support for the following:
Livelihood and Education:
- Establishment of a Rice Trading Program for Peasant Women in Guimaras (Visayas);
- Fish Production and Trading Project by Women Fisherfolks in Southern Tagalog (Luzon);
- Credit Program for Ambulant Vendors in Mariveles, Bataan;
- Establishment of a Small Scale Garments Factory for Poor Rural Women (Bataan);
- Livelihood Revolving Fund Project for Poor Women (Luzon);
- Small-Scale Livelihood Revolving Fund for Women in Payatas Dumpsite.
Organizing, Advocacy, Education & Training
- Search for Women Community Leaders Projects (National);
- National Consultations on Women’s SRHR Towards Legislative Advocacy (National);
- Increasing Participation of Grassroots Women Leaders in Local Governance;
- Information Campaign on the Party List Law (National);
- Case Study on Women’s Political Participation (National);
- Implementation of Forums on Women’s Issues;
- Focus Group Discussions on Women’s SRHR (National);
- Informance on VAW Among Urban Poor Communities in Caloocan City (Metro Manila); Partner: Women’s Crisis Center, Inc.;
- Rights-based Approach in Organizing Young Women on SRHR (Luzon);
- Increasing Young Women’s Capability on and Access to Information on SRHR (Visayas & Mindanao)
- Organizational Effectiveness Program;
- Publication of books; “Feminism for Beginners”;
- pilot Project on Organizing and Capacity Building of Women in the Informal Sector in Politics (National);
- Pilot Project on Mapping a Comprehensive, Rights-Based and Gender-Sensitive Framework to Address Child Labor in the Philippines (National);
- Empowering Women in the Informal Sectors in the Philippines, Phase 2.
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Fatty Arbuckle had better watch his step. This good looking youngster from Hicksville, Ohio has a belt 6 feet long and weighs 447 pounds. Shown here at age 18, Keith Gorrell belies the notion that Americans have only gotten fat in the last few decades. From 1921, Keith was trying out for the movies but he must not have made the cut. The only article I can find on the fine fat fellow is paraphrased above, when it was big news in Hicksville. A camera crew was there to film him "lift the fore and aft of his flivver" but it looks to me like all Big Keith left behind are these three splendid portraits from the Elkhart Studios of Antwerp, Ohio.
Three original studio photographs of Keith Gorrell, 1921 Collection Jim Linderman
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Appendix 1 - Variant Rules Edit
The following are variant rules you can use with the Grim-n-Gritty system to increase its “realism.”
Advanced Wound Trauma Edit
This variant rule replaces the standard Wound Trauma mechanic.
Whenever you lose Hit Points, you must immediately perform a Fortitude saving throw. If you fail this saving throw, you might become dazed or stunned by your injury.
The DC of your Fortitude save equals 10 + the damage you suffered. (For example, if you suffered 8 points of damage, you would have to save against DC 18.)
If you fail the saving throw, you are dazed for one round. If you fail the save by five or more points, you are stunned for one round. If you fail by 10 or more points, you are stunned for 2d6 rounds.
Size Considerations: The size of a creature or character affects the amount of damage necessary to send it into deep shock. Before you figure the DC of the saving throw, you multiply the damage inflicted upon the creature by its size modifier. The table below shows the modifier, below.
Disadvantage of Rule: The extra saves slow down combat.
Wounds Normally Cause Bleeding Edit
This variant causes all wounds to inflict bleeding, if they inflict a certain amount of damage.
The table below shows the amount of damage that must be inflicted upon a creature to cause severe bleeding. The bigger a creature, the more damage that must be inflicted. Slashing weapons need to inflict less than other attack types to cause bleeding.
Disadvantage of Rule: It adds another level of complexity to combat and requires you to consult a table with each attack to determine if it caused bleeding. This slows combat.
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|Size/Type:||Tiny Magical Beast (Earth)|
|Hit Dice:||2d10+2 (13 hp)|
|Initiative:||+1 (+1 Dex)|
|Speed:||20 ft., burrow 10 ft.|
|Armor Class:||15 (+2 size, +1 dexterity, +2 natural), touch 13, flat-footed 14|
|Attack:||Bite +3 melee (1d4-1 plus Flinch, 19-20/x3)|
|Full Attack:||Bite +3 melee (1d4-1 plus Flinch, 19-20/x3)|
|Space/Reach:||5 ft./5 ft.|
|Special Attacks:||Flinch, Augmented Critical (Bite)|
|Special Qualities:||Egg Move, Guts|
|Saves:||Fort +4, Ref +4, Will +0|
|Abilities:||Str 8, Dex 13, Con 13, Int 7, Wis 10, Cha 10|
|Feats:||Improved Natural Attack (Bite)|
|Advancement:||3-5 HD (Tiny), 6-8 HD (Small)|
Flinch (Ex): Any target bitten must make a DC 10 Fort save or be Stunned for one round. The save DC is Strength-based.
Guts (Su): Larvitar merely gets stronger when afflicted with status problems. It is immune to Strength damage, drain, or penalty, and never takes a penalty to melee attack or damage rolls. Whenever suffering from poison, blindness, disease, sickening or other detrimental effects, it gains a +4 Morale bonus to Strength.
Egg Move: Larvitar hatches knowing one egg move.
- Curse (Su): This grants a +2 profane bonus to AC, attacks and damage for three rounds, but for the duration, Initiative is at -5 and speed is halved.
- Outrage (Su): Larvitar does have draconic features, and holds a deep rage just waiting to break out and destroy shit. If it enters an Outrage, which takes a Swift action, everything within 50 feet takes 1d6 fire damage per level. This leaves a smoking crater in the ground. The following round, it automatically uses the ability again, this time hitting for 1d8 damage per level. Finally, on the third round it deals 2d6 damage per level, then becomes exhausted for one minute. This cannot be used while fatigued or exhausted.
- Iron Defence (Su): As a standard action, Larvitar can grant itself DR 5/— and a +2 bonus to natural armor for three rounds.
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This line describes how much space the creature takes up on the battle grid and thereby needs to fight effectively, as well as how close it has to be to threaten an opponent. The number before the slash is the creature’s space, or how many feet one side of the creature occupies. The number after the slash is the creature’s natural reach. If the creature has exceptional reach due to a weapon, tentacle, or the like, the extended reach and its source are noted in parentheses at the end of the line.
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Vital Records Of Leominster, Worchester Co., MA
To The End Of The Year 1849
[Transcribed by Dave Swerdfeger]
The list of , Marriages and Deaths comprised in this volume includes all that were found in the Town Books covering the period from the earliest date there recorded to the end of the year 1849. Some additions have been made from other sources, and these are indicated in each instance by proper reference.
All of the records are condensed in print as much as is consistent with intelligibility, accuracy, and completeness of information. Differences in duplicates, and explanatory or other matter which seemed necessary or desirable, appear in brackets.
Marriages and intentions of marriage are printed under the names of both parties, but the full information concerning each person is given only under his or her name.
When places other than Leominster and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy.
The age given in the Deaths is in years unless otherwise indicated.
Leominster, Worcester County.
ESTABLISHED June 23, 1740, from a part of Lancaster. Part of certain common lands called "No Town," annexed April 13, 1838.
Population at different periods: 1765, 743; 1776, 978; 1790, 1,189; 1800, 1,486; 1810, 1,584; 1820 1,790; 1830, 1,861; 1840, 2,069; 1850, 3,121. Population in 1905, 14,297.
Number of Birth printed. . . 5,590
Marriages . . . 1,620 = 3,240 names
Deaths . . . 2,191
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Danielle Steel's Secrets (1992)
Released: 17th April 2006
Release type: Deleted
|No. of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CTD10437
Category: Feature, Drama
Format: DVD / Normal
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Based on: The novel by Danielle Steel
Story: Set in the world of glamorous prime-time soap operas, this drama revolves around the cast of a new show called 'Manhattan'. Stephanie Beacham and Christopher Plummer star in this adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestseller.
Directed by: Peter Hunt
Studio/distributor: E1 Entertainment UK
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Greatest Westerns: 3.10 to Yuma/The Man from Laramie/... (1973)
Released: 2nd June 2008
Release type: Retail / Rental
|No. of Discs: 6
Catalogue No: 8256152
Category: Feature, Western
Format: DVD / Box Set
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Story: Set of six classic westerns. In '3:10 to Yuma' (1957), hard-up rancher Dan Evans (Van Heflin) is holding ruthless outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) at gunpoint, waiting for a train to Yuma where the authorities have put up a $200 reward. However, Wade offers him $10,000 to set him free; the bounty will ease his financial difficulties, but Wade's offer will set him up for life. Thus begins a cat-and-mouse wait for the 3:10 train with Evans' wife pleading for him to take the money and save himself and Wade's gang attempting to free their leader. In 'The Man from Laramie' (1955), James Stewart plays a vengeful cow-herder who arrives in New Mexico determined to find the man who was responsible for the killing of his brother. His brother was shot down by Apaches armed with automatic rifles, and Stewart is looking for the man who sold them to the Indians. Following 'Winchester 73', 'Bend in the River', 'The Naked Spur' and 'The Far Country', this was the last of the five classic westerns Stewart made with director Anthony Mann. In 'High Plains Drifter' (1973), the unwelcome arrival of a stranger (Clint Eastwood) in the town of Lagos causes resentment and fear among the locals. However, when they come under threat from a band of escaped convicts, it is to the stranger that the townsfolk turn for salvation. He agrees to help, and sets about teaching the populace the arts of self defence; but there's something more to the stranger than first meets the eye. 'Shenandoah' (1965) is a civil war drama set in 1863, starring James Stewart as Charlie Anderson, a wealthy farmer in Virginia who has hitherto steadfastly refused to take any part in the war that is raging around him. But the war inevitably ensnares him through a series of family tragedies that includes his youngest son (Philip Alford) being taken prisoner by the Unionists and charged with spying, his son James (Patrick Wayne) and daughter-in-law Ann (Katharine Ross) being murdered by a gang of looters, and the death of his eldest son Jacob (Glenn Corbett). Meanwhile his daughter, Jannie (Rosemary Forsyth) falls in love with a Confederate soldier, Sam (Doug McClure). In director John Ford's classic 'Stagecoach' (1939), Geronimo is on the warpath in the untamed Wild West, but a stagecoach-load of travellers decide to take their chances and make their way across Utah's Monument Valley. The passenger list comprises an alcoholic doctor (Thomas Mitchell), a shamed prostitute (Claire Trevor), the pregnant wife of a cavalry officer (Louise Platt), a shady bank manager (Berton Churchill), a timid whiskey salesman (Donald Meek) and an on-the-run gambler (John Carradine). En route, they pick up outlaw the Ringo Kid (John Wayne) and, as the journey continues, each of the troupe are given a chance to show their true colours. This is the film that made a star out of Wayne. Finally, in 'Fort Apache' (1948), Colonel Thursday (Henry Fonda) is bitter at having been sent to battle 'digger' Indians, and his textbook methods of warfare appear barbaric and suicidal to his men. Captain York (Wayne), an officer experienced in Apache warfare, tries to advise Thursday, but his best efforts are in vain. This was the first film in Ford's cavalry trilogy, followed by 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' (1949) and 'Rio Grande' (1950).
Starring: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Ermhardt, James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Alex Nicol, Aline MacMahon, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Wallace Ford, Jack Elam, John War Eagle, James Millican, Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch, Ted Hartley, Billy Curtis, Geoffrey Lewis, Scott Walker, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Rosemary Forsyth, Katherine Ross, Phillip Alford, James Best, Paul Fix, George Kennedy, Tim McIntire, Jim McMullan, Warren Oates, Denver Pyle, Charles P. Robinson, Patrick Wayne, John Wayne, John Carradine, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, George Bancroft, Yakima Canutt, Berton Churchill, Bill Cody, Francis Ford, Tim Holt, Chris-Pin Martin, Donald Meek, Louise Platt, Elvira Ross, Tom Tyler, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Pedro Armendariz, Anna Lee, Irene Rich
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Season of the Witch appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.78:1 on this Blu-Ray Disc. The movie came with a generally good presentation.
Dark scenes were the most problematic. The movie featured a moderate amount of day for night material, and those shots tended to look a bit murky; it became somewhat tough to discern the action in these low-light elements. Blacks were pretty good, though, and shadow detail was usually adequate.
Sharpness was fine. A few slightly soft wide shots occurred, but those were rare and not especially contentious. I noticed no issues with jagged edges or shimmering, and edge enhancement didn’t appear.
Source flaws remained absent, and colors were decent. The movie usually opted for a blue tint that gave it a chilly feel; some amber sequences also appeared, but the blues dominated. Within the design constraints, the hues were fine. The thickness of the low-light shots was the main concern here; paired with some softness, I thought this was a “B-“ image.
As for the film’s DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack, it tended to be acceptable but somewhat lackluster. My main issue stemmed from its volume level, as it was mastered low; even when I cranked up my receiver past its normal spot, the audio remained somewhat wan and punchless. Occasional moments of mild power occurred – such as during battles – but the track usually remained less dynamic than expected.
That dampened its impact and left it without real power. Audio quality was fine overall, though. Speech seemed concise and natural, and music showed reasonable clarity. Effects also sounded accurate and lacked distortion. None of these elements had much zing to them, though.
The soundfield was more satisfying, as the track used the five channels well. Battles and supernatural elements fared the best, as these opened up the spectrum in a satisfying way that involved the viewer – or would’ve if the mix had boasted more power. This was a decent track but it was too flat to deserve a grade above a “B-“.
Don’t expect a lot of extras here. Seven Deleted Scenes go for a total of nine minutes, 56 seconds. These include “Shore” (1:05), “Cardinal” (1:34), “Leaving Marburg” (1:11), “Wormwood Forest” (0:54), “Holy Water” (1:41), “Courtyard” (1:11”) and “Prologue Unrated” (2:20). We also find an Alternate Ending (9:20). The “Prologue Unrated” barely makes any changes, and the others tend to offer additional exposition, none of which adds to the story; these are all pretty forgettable omissions.
As for the “Alternate Ending”, don’t expect much from it. Actually, its content remains pretty similar – all the same things happen to the same characters – but the “Alternate” is a little less action-oriented and features a more human-seeming villain. It’s probably a superior conclusion because it’s not as silly, but it’s not a big change.
Two featurettes follow. Becoming the Demon lasts eight minutes, 29 seconds and provides remarks from producer Alex Gartner, Tippett Studio art director Nathan Fredenburg, Tippett Studio CG supervisor Aharon Bourland, Tippett Studio compositing supervisor David Schnee, and Tippett Studio animation supervisor James W. Brown. The show looks at the makeup and effects used to create a supernatural character. It provides a nice nuts and bolts take on the subject.
On a Crusade fills six minutes, seven seconds with notes from Gartner, stunt coordinator Andy Armstrong, and 2nd unit director Vic Armstrong. They detail the work put into the action-oriented Crusades sequences and give us a solid overview of the choreography and stunts.
The disc finishes with the film’s trailer. Unusually, it includes no promos for any other movies.
A second disc offers a Digital Copy of Season. As always, this lets you transfer the flick to a computer or portable thing-thang. Go right ahead!
As a supernatural tale, Season of the Witch falls flat. While its story creates potential intrigue, it develops in a dull manner that offers little excitement or drama. The Blu-ray comes with decent but unexceptional picture and audio as well as some minor supplements. The film’s not a total loss, but it’s pretty forgettable.
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|I took time off to see the Terra Cotta Warriors when I participated in the China International Conference in Finance in Xi'an, China in July, 2006.|
Welcome! This is the home page for Philip H. Dybvig, Boatmen's Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in Saint Louis.
Disclosure Regulation When is it useful to allow managers to forecast earnings and make other forward-looking announcements? Nina Baranchuk of UT-Dallas, Jun Yang of Indiana, and I have written Renegotiation-proof Contracting, Disclosure, and Incentives for Efficient Investment, a paper that uses a new conceptual framework to analyze this and other questions about how disclosure should be regulated. We find that compensation is crucial: allowing forward-looking announcements is beneficial if revealing useful information is rewarded by the manager's all-in compensation, including not only salary but also bonuses, current and anticipated stock and option grants, future career opportunities, etc.
Well-diversified? Does the power of diversification preclude superior performance by active managers with large portfolios? In a new paper, The Fallacy of Large Numbers, it is shown that there is no logical inconsistency between superior performance and holding a large, well-diversified portfolio. This paper was presented as a keynote address (associated slides) for the meetings of the Midwest Finance Association in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Arbitrage Steve Ross of MIT and I have written the working paper Arbitrage, State Prices and Portfolio Theory, which gives an introduction to advanced concepts in investments at a level that is appropriate for advanced undergraduates or beginning doctoral students in finance. The focus is on the economics; the presentation uses single-period models that are less challenging quantitatively than continuous-time models. The paper is to appear as a chapter in the Handbook of the Economics of Finance being edited by George Constantinides and René Stulz.
Thanks to the volunteers and participants who made the 2002 Annual Meetings of the Western Finance Association (WFA) a great success! I was Program Chair for the meetings held in Park City, Utah, June 23--26, 2002. Most of the 120 papers presented at the meetings can be viewed from links in the on-line program. Following my service as Program Chair, I was President of the Western Finance Association, an international organization with membership open to institutions and individuals from the academic and professional communities. As Past President, I selected the site of the 2005 meetings (Portland, Oregon) and I served as the chair of the Nominating Committee, completing my duties.
Reload Options Reload options are compound options that are increasingly popular in executive compensation. Exercising a reload option by tendering shares at market value gives the holder the usual call payoff plus a grant of additional options. Mark Loewenstein and I study reload options in our paper, Employee Reload Options: Pricing, Hedging, and Optimal Exercise, which appeared in the Review of Financial Studies.
Cash-balance pension plans Cash-balance plans are so-called ``hybrid plans'' that have the look-and-feel of a defined-contribution plan but are regulated like defined-benefit plans. Dave Brown, Bill Marshall, and I have published an applied paper The Cost and Duration of Cash-Balance Pension Plans in the Financial Analysts Journal, that analyzes the feature of the liabilities represented by these plans. These liabilities have an effective duration much shorter than some people have assumed.
Bank Runs! The Quarterly Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has devoted its Winter 2000 issue to my 1983 article (132K PDF) with Doug Diamond on bank runs. Our original article showed why banks are fragile and subject to runs and how this is related to banks' ability to create liquidity. It also showed how deposit insurance can prevent bank runs by removing depositors' incentive to withdraw their money.
Theoretical publications Recently, two of my joint theoretical papers have appeared in the Review of Financial Studies. In ``Empty promises and arbitrage'' (224K PDF) Greg Willard and I explore the behavior of security prices when agents have fundamental disagreements in beliefs. In ``Portfolio Turnpikes'' (320K PDF) Chris Rogers, Kerry Back, and I generalize some traditional results on long-horizon portfolio choice, while calling into question the traditional arguments about how these results apply to practical problems. See my research page for recent working papers.
Asset allocation for university endowments Of more general interest, my article, ``Using Asset Allocation to Protect Spending'' appeared in the January/February 1999 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal. This article was written in connection with the Common Fund Prize that was awarded for my research on the connection between asset allocation and spending policy for university endowments. I invite you to view the article (205K PDF), or you can use a java applet to simulate the strategy and compare it with more traditional asset allocation rule.
Graham and Dodd scroll Bill Marshall and I have been awarded a Graham and Dodd scroll for excellence in financial writing. The prize was awarded for our article ``Pricing Long Bonds: Pitfalls and Opportunities,'' which was published in the Financial Analysts Journal. Risk Management You may also be interested in our newer publication (102K PDF), ``The New Risk Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,'' which appeared in the St. Louis Fed Review.
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Note: ``teaching'' and ``research'' are both part of learning! I invite all visitors to visit my Teaching and Research pages.
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|Zhang Shengping of Beida (Peking University) and I play taiji tui shou (push hands) in the lobby of a seafood restaurant in Beijing.|
Chess! I have been learning to play chess. If you would like to play chess online, I recommend the Internet Chess Club.
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The Blue Dogs are adding their bark to a chorus of congressional voices calling for quick action on legislation aimed at tightening laws that prohibit lawmakers and their aides from using inside information to make financial trades.
“Members of Congress, their staff and other federal employees who use special, nonpublic information to make a profit are in complete violation of the public’s trust,” they wrote in a letter to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). “This type of insider trading is unacceptable and it should be illegal.”
Cantor, who helped put the kibosh on a planned committee markup late last year, plans to bring a version of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act to the House floor later this month. While the current bill, written by Reps. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), covers federal employees, Cantor has said he wants to make sure that any enhanced regulations are applied to all executive branch workers.
Most of the Blue Dogs are among the 271 House members who have signed on to the measure, and the group decided Tuesday night to make a collective endorsement.
“As Members of Congress we are in the business of public service, not personal profit. We are called to do what is right and to serve the American people. When a few betray that trust, the entire country suffers,” the Blue Dogs wrote. “Congress must now work to restore the American people’s faith in our government. Swift passage of this bipartisan STOCK Act is one way we, as an institution, can confirm our commitment to our constituents and our country.”
Cantor said Tuesday that he’s waiting to see what the Senate does with its version of the measure before moving forward.
“[I]f the Senate produces a bill that we believe is strengthened and something that is workable, that certainly will be something well received by the House,” Cantor said. “If it does not, it is my intention to move a bill — to bring a bill to the floor in February — that does accomplish the goal of ensuring the public that they have can have confidence that their elected representatives and their voices in Washington are not using their positions to personally profit.”
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