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Seasonal Team Member
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Clintons is in the business of helping our customers celebrate life's occasions and those of the people they care about. We understand that all kinds of relationships are to be treasured and we provide ways to enhance and cherish these everyday.
Under the leadership of our new owners we have a restructured estate geared towards on-going profitability, investment in our stores and a fantastic new product offering. Our stores really are benefiting from a radical transformation so it is an exciting time to join us on our journey.
As one of our Seasonal Team Members, your role will be key in helping the business to achieve sales targets whilst delivering outstanding customer service. Our teams spend their time on the shop floor so an enjoyment of interacting with customers and natural selling skills are crucial to the role.
All of our Seasonal Team Members need flexibility in the hours that they are available to work; this includes weekends and working additional hours at our busiest trading times such as Christmas, Halloween and Valentines Day.
To be successful in the role, we are looking for someone with:
- A passion for customer service who can be a real ambassador for the brand.
- Previous retail experience in a fast paced store or service environment.
- Experience of working towards targets
- Experience of working in a team environment
- A genuine love of the products we sell (cards, wrap, gifts and balloons)
- Availability to work hours to suit the trading patterns of the store
In return, you'll enjoy a competitive salary and generous staff discount of 40%. You'll also be supported with your personal development through the range of learning and development initiatives we offer.
We would love to hear from you if your skills and experience match those we are looking for. Be part of our team and help enhance the lives of others.
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The Hill Family Goes to Washington – Day Two, Part 2
After we left the Capitol building, we headed down the street to meet another Patriot Academy friend, Jacque O., at the Good Stuff Eatery. The only problem – we were heading the wrong direction. So, we walked round and round and round….
So we saw a U.S. Courthouse…
And the National Archives….
And the Canadian Embassy, which has a privileged place in the Capitol in return for a privileged place for our Embassy in theirs….
And thousands of crosswalks….
Aaron checked the political wind to see if that would help…..
We saw the Supreme Court…..
And finally we found her! And we also discovered that the restaurant is not called the Good Stuff Eatery for nothing. Let me tell you….that is some GOOD eating! The hamburgers are small, but I think mine was more filling that others, based on the after-dinner conversations. They should've ordered the "Good Stuff Melt". Yum!
Patriot Reunion! It was so much fun to meet up in DC. Left to right is: Aaron Snodderly, Jacque Otto, yours truly, and Jonathon.
And Jackie and I were the only ones who had our golf balls! (We were given our golf balls at Patriot Academy. The leadership said that they represented our character and integrity, so we should treat them as such.)
Next stop: the Union Station, where the car was parked. This is a magnificent, stately bus/train depot and parking garage. It almost looks like an airport inside.
We were tired and windblown, but otherwise very happy, and we knew where we were going and how to get there! Hurray!
Next on schedule: Arlington cemetary, and our first introduction to the preferred mode of transit next to walking: the Metro trains! We became very good friends with the Metro before we left DC.
Thank you, Veterans.
I find it incomprehensible how the entirety of our Federal government can live within site of this sacred place, and be so unaffected by it. It is maddening how they trample on the sacrifices made by the thousands who have died to preserve, not only America, but everything our country stands for.
After missing our tour bus in Arlington (we seem to have a knack for that sort of thing, don't we?), we made our way to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers and watched the changing of the guard.
Here we are in the Arlington Amphitheater.
After Arlington, we headed out to find the location where the sign-making party was being held. Jonathon was scheduled to help as a volunteer, so we started out pronto. Once again, however, we had the wrong name for the location. So guess what happened? That's right – we got lost again.
We were rescued by two friendly TEA-party protesters who got lost with us, and finally gave up and hailed a couple of taxies. At this point in DC, the people you ran into on the streets and in the Metro stations were most likely fellow protesters. These two gentlemen felt like family after the first five minutes. Between the two of them, they've done just about everything – ranching, bull-riding, flying helicopters, secret service, military service….
Joe Wilson was the most popular man in DC for once – there were hundreds of signs alluding to his outburst to Obama and showing support for him.
We met some of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet here. The camraderie and excitement crackling in the air can't be described – you would just have had to be there. It was amazing, and the feeling was growing that we were going to have an unbelievable turnout for tomorrow's rally…..
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ICMT-2 will take place on five days and therefore it is planned to have one plenary lecture each day. The opening lecture will be given by the Brazilian speaker.
A Multimodal Approach for Theorising and Analysing Mathematics Textbooks
Kay O'Halloran
Multimodal analysis has emerged in recent decades as an interdisciplinary area of research, arising out of linguistics, semiotics and drawing on other relevant fields (in this case, mathematics) to study the contributions and interactions of linguistic and non-linguistic resources (e.g. spoken and written language, image, gesture, sound, page layout and website design) in the communication of meaning (Jewitt, 2014; Jewitt, Bezemer, & O'Halloran, 2016). From this perspective, mathematical knowledge is constructed using language, images and mathematical symbolism which integrate in specific ways in mathematical texts (O'Halloran, 2015a, 2015b). In this talk, I provide an overview of the semiotic nature of each resource, including their underlying organisation that enables them to fulfil different functions in mathematics. Following this, I undertake an analysis of a mathematics text in order to demonstrate how linguistic, visual and symbolic choices combine to solve mathematics problems, and the expansions of meaning that take place during this process. I conclude with a discussion of the difficulties of teaching and learning mathematics (O'Halloran, 2000, 2015a) with specific reference to mathematics textbooks.
Jewitt, C. (Ed.). (2014). The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.
Jewitt, C., Bezemer, J., & O'Halloran, K. L. (2016). Introducing Multimodality. London & New York: Routledge.
O'Halloran, K. L. (2000). Classroom Discourse in Mathematics: A Multisemiotic Analysis. Linguistics and Education, 10(3), 359-388.
O'Halloran, K. L. (2015a). The Language of Learning Mathematics: A Multimodal Perspective. The Journal of Mathematical Behaviour, 40 Part A, 63-74.
O'Halloran, K. L. (2015b). Mathematics as Multimodal Semiosis. In E. Davis & P. J. Davis (Eds.), Mathematics, Substance, and Surmise (pp. 287-303). Berlin: Springer.
Kay O'Halloran is Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Perth Western Australia. Her area of research is multimodal analysis which is concerned with the meaning arising from the interaction of language and other resources in multimodal texts, interactions and events. She has a specific interest in mathematics discourse, and has explored the historical evolution of the semiotics of mathematics, the semantic expansions of meaning arising from the integration of language, image and symbolism in mathematical texts, and multimodal approaches to mathematics, grammar and literacy, with a focus on the difficulties of teaching and learning mathematics stemming from its multi-semiotic nature.
Mathematics textbooks for the million – Brazil's mathematics textbooks assessment program.
João Bosco Pitombeira de Carvalho
We will discuss Brazil's mathematics textbooks assessment program, which selects the textbooks freely distributed by the Ministry of Education. This program distributed 6 million mathematics textbooks among high school students in 2015. We will analyse the methodology used in the assessment program, its legal framework, how the programme's results are known by mathematics teacher in schools all over the country and the way they choose the textbooks they will use in their classrooms. Finally, we discuss the programme's influence on the textbooks — their quality, contents and formatting.
João Bosco Pitombeira de Carvalho received his PhD degree from the University of Chicago and was on the faculty of the Mathematics Department of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro, from which he retired as Emeritus, after 40 years of service. His fields of interest are the history of mathematics education, particularly in Brazil, the relations between history of mathematics and mathematics education. He is especially interested in the history of mathematics textbooks. For the last 15 years he has been actively involved in the national assessment textbook program of the Ministry of Education in Brazil.
The diagrams of Euclid's Elements.
Ken Saito
Although Euclid's Elements are no longer directly used in school mathematics, Euclid's style deeply permeates in the education of mathematics. Our use of diagrams in elementary geometry, especially the use of labelled points to designate geometrical objects such as triangle ABC, comes from the Elements.
The study of diagrams in Greek mathematical texts is rather a new field, for diagrams called the attention of scholars only after 2000. The first result of these recent researches was that the diagrams we find in the translations of the Elements available today, are quite different from those in the best extant manuscripts, the sources of the text of the Elements. The former all depend on the critical Greek edition of the Elements by Danish scholar Johan Ludvig Heiberg, published in 1880's. So Heiberg was by no means critical for the diagrams in his critical edition.
In the manuscript diagrams, we often see isosceles triangles in a proposition valid for any triangle, and rectangles where any parallelogram is intended. This tendency may be called overspecification (an angle which can be right is often drawn as a right angle, and two sides which can be equal are drawn as if they were equal).
Another characteristic typical to manuscript diagrams, which is somewhat contradictory to what is just said, is that they are indifferent to metrical accuracy: two equal lines or equal areas do not always appear equal in the diagrams. Sometimes a right angle may be drawn as acute or obtuse.
Heiberg's diagrams are always accurate, and avoid over-specification. For example, in the so-called Pythagorean theorem, proposition I.47, the triangle is rectangular but not isosceles in Heiberg, while the manuscripts draw it as an isosceles triangle, mostly also rectangular, but sometimes obtuse-angled.
We know that Heiberg copied the diagrams of geometrical books of the Elements from an edition of 1820's, edited by Ernst Ferdinand August, a Prussian gymnasium teacher. August, without access to manuscripts, systematically eliminated over-specifications and metrical inaccuracy in the diagrams of previous editions, apparently from pedagogical intention.
So today we read the geometry of the Elements accompanied by the diagrams intended for gymnasium students of 19th century.
As for the arithmetical books of the Elements, which are also accompanied by diagrams, the situation I have found is different from geometry, and is no less interesting. In short, Heiberg invented himself all the diagrams for arithmetic, but this was a disaster. They are much less helpful for the understanding of the text than those found in the manuscripts.
In my lecture, I will compare the diagrams of the Elementsin the manuscripts, in earlier editions, in Heiberg's edition, and examine their expected roles in different periods.
Ken Saito is professor for history of mathematics at the Osaka Prefecture University since 1997. His main research interest is Greek mathematics. The method adopted in his research is to analyse the mathematical argument of each step of the proofs in the extant textbooks, and try to find out the ideas, which led the ancient mathematicians to write those proofs in their specific manner. The trend of research into Greek mathematics has considerably changed over the last decades. The mathematical texts, such as Euclid's Elements, used to be read as if they were wholly genuine. Now scholars are more conscious of changes of text by later intervention; diagrams are a revealing indicator. Following this trend, he is undertaking syntactical analyses of the Greek text of Euclid's Elements to identify the expressions typical of (or more frequent in) later commentators. A particularly innovative aspect of his research is to study the role of diagrams in the transmission of Greek textbooks; their high degree of variance reveals the relation between text and diagram as a key dimension of textbook analysis.
Electronic vs. Paper Textbook Presentations of Various Aspects of Mathematics
Zalman Usiskin
Textbooks now appear in paper form, in electronic form for computers, tablets, or phones, and in hybrids moving among the platforms. Whether an adaptation of a pre-existing paper text or an entirely new book, some aspects of mathematics seem better suited for traditional paper book presentations while others seem better suited for certain kinds of electronic formats. Based in large part on our current work in adapting our own existing paper textbooks for secondary schools for several digital formats, this talk discusses the platforms with regard to the presentation of various aspects of mathematics, including: vocabulary and notation, deduction, modelling, algorithms, and representations.
Zalman Usiskin is a professor emeritus of education at the University of Chicago, where he was an active faculty member from 1969 through 2007. He continues at the university as the overall director of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, a position he has held since 1987. His research has focused on the teaching and learning of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry, with particular attention to applications of mathematics at all levels and the use of transformations and related concepts in geometry, algebra, and statistics. He has directed the writing (student and teacher materials) and development (from pilot through large-scale classroom tests) of multiple editions of textbooks for all the secondary school grades known for their innovations in geometry, applications and modelling, and the use of the latest in technology.
An International Comparison on Selection of Contents and Difficulty Level of Examples in High School Mathematics Textbooks
Jianpan Wang
Based on our research project "A Comparative Study on High School Mathematics Textbooks of Certain Countries" (a China's national key research project in educational sciences), this talk focuses on the following two aspects:
- On the selection of contents. The selection and presentation of contents has fundamental importance for mathematics textbooks. In this relation, the presentation will provide an analysis of the features of content selection in the textbooks of different countries with focus on four major areas of mathematics, i.e., algebra (including functions), geometry, probability and statistics, and calculus, illustrate (with tables) the similarities and differences of different countries in the selection of contents, and delineate (with examples) different ways of presenting a number of mathematics contents in the textbooks of different countries.
- On the difficulty level of mathematical examples. Mathematical examples are an important component of mathematics textbooks and their difficulty level largely reflects the expectation of the textbooks for the students. The presentation will provide a comparison of the difficulty level of mathematics examples provided in the selected textbooks from different countries, which is carried out in five dimensions including background level, mathematics cognitive level, reasoning level, operation level and knowledge coverage level. The talk will end with an analysis on the composite difficulty level of the examples presented in the textbooks.
Jiansheng Bao (2002). A comparative study on the composite difficulty of intended mathematics curriculum in Chinese and UK junior high schools. Global Education, vol. 31, no. 9. 48—52.
Jianpan Wang & Jiansheng Bao (2014). Cross-national comparison on examples in high school mathematics textbooks. Global Education, vol. 43, no. 8. 101—110. In Chinese.
Jianpan Wang & Jianyue Zhang (2014). An international comparison of core content in high school mathematics textbooks. Curriculum, Teaching Material and Method, vol. 34 no. 10. 112—119. In Chinese.
Jianpan Wang (ed.) (2015). An International Comparison on High School Mathematics Textbooks. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press. In Chinese.
Jianpan Wang, born January 1949, PhD of Math, a mathematics professor and a former president of ECNU (East China Normal University), as well as a former ICMI EC member. His primary research interest is the theory of algebraic groups and quantum groups. He is also deeply involved in math education, focusing on school textbook research and schoolteacher education. In the recent years, he leads a national key research project Comparative Study on High School Math Textbooks in Major Countries and a Shanghai local project On the Effective Design of School Math Textbooks. He is the convenor of ICME-14 to be held in Shanghai in 2020.


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POP- QUIZ! How well does your human treat you?
1. Does your human do these things for you? How often?
a) Your human cleans your litter box everyday- 5 points
b) Prepared a cozy place near themselves for you to sleep all day long. Your cozy zone has your cat bed; either box made out of cardboard or a fluffy one. – 5 points
c) Your human has managed to make you a water feeder and changes the water quite often, so you can always drink fresh water. – 5 points
d) Your human searched for a quiet and clean space to put your feeder, so nothing disturbs you while you eat. – 5 points
e) Your human keeps in mind your cat needs, so he or she has placed: Scrapers (so you don't sharpen your nails on the furniture); High areas (For you to climb on, sleep and watch everything from above); a box with toys that you can bite and move from one place to another. -5 points
2. How often does your human cleans your litter box?
a) Not often, only when there is no room for your feces or its smelly- 0 points
b) Once a week – 2 points
c) Two to three times a week – 3 points
d) Every day! – 5 points
3. How often does your human take you to the vet?
a) They think you're just an animal and that nature will do the rest. – 0 points
b) Only when you're very sick, but he's never given you any vaccine. – 2 points
c) If you are a healthy and adult cat: once a year, to give you your rabies vaccines, leukemia and trivalent reinforcement. Plus, they always take you if you had suffered an accident or if you are sick. – 5 Points
4. What parts of your body caress you most often?
a) Doesn't usually do it but if they do, they always caress your gut, legs and tail. – 0 points
b) They don't care, your human caresses you everywhere without asking themselves whether you like it or not. – 2 Points
c) Your human usually caresses you gently on the front and upper area of your body: head, chin, neck, and spine. – 5 points
5. At what time of the day does your human caress you?
a) Your human caresses you while: eating, drinking, bathing yourself, sleeping, or while doing your needs. It's so annoying! – 0 points
b) Even though they really want to caress you, your human gives you your space; they always wait, patiently, for you to decide when you want to be caressed. – 5 points
c) If your human wants to caress you at a certain time in which you don't want to be caressed, he or she will always find a way to convince you. They will offer you a tasty treat for you to come closer and they could caress you gently. -5 points
6. Does your human understand your body language when he or she is stroking you?
a) Your human still caresses you even if you fold your ears, move your tail quickly from side to side, or try to get away. – 0 points
b) Your human caresses you while you are purring and relaxed, or when you bow down and try to cuddle with them. – 5 points
7. How and how often does your human play with you?
a) Your human never plays with you. – 0 points
b) They play with you using their hands and feet. – 2 points
c) Your human plays with you with special toys for cats: your human speaks to you while you guys play; he or she also leaves bags and boxes for you to play with when he or she is not around. Your human has conditioned a safe place by the window, so you can watch other animals on the street; like for example: birds, other cats, and dogs. – 5 points
Scored 0 points in most questions: Do you think your human loves you enough? If you have a chance, look for another family that can give you the attention you deserve!
Scored between 2 or 3 points in most questions: Keep teaching your human you cat- needs. You're on the right track, but you still have work to do!
Scored 5 points in most questions: Congratulations! You and your human have the ideal relationship. Your human understands you and is constantly looking out for your well-being. Keep it up!


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A Grand Farewell for Katharine Graham
W A S H I N G T O N, July 23, 2001 -- Thousands paid tribute today to Katharine Graham, remembering her as a gallant lady who remained steadfast as she guided The Washington Post through turbulence and extraordinary growth.
Graham's power and influence were on display in the Washington National Cathedral, where former President Clinton and Vice President Dick Cheney shared a pew with their wives. Senators left the Capitol together in a blue-and-white striped bus to attend the funeral.
Despite her power in Washington circles, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recalled, she remained "matter of factly loyal to her friends and deeply devoted to her family."
Kissinger wove his personal tales of friendship with tributes to her contributions to journalism and her fierce defense of the First Amendment. Their friendship grew despite the fact that the Post under her stewardship often was a relentless critic of the administrations in which he served, he said.
"This paradox was overwhelmed by the admiration and affection I felt for Kay as a person," Kissinger said, recalling how Graham once took him out to the movies because he looked weary from dealing with the Vietnam War.
'The Enduring Legacy of a Gallant Lady'
Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., another close friend, also eulogized her. "Katharine Graham was a very gallant lady. She will leave an enduring mark on the nation's capital and the irreverent press."
Bill Graham, one of the publisher's son, opened the funeral by reading from the Book of Revelation, and the congregation followed by reading aloud from Psalm 23.
Led by former Sen. John Danforth, an Episcopal priest, and other priests, Graham's casket was carried in by former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, lawyer Vernon Jordan and broadcast executive Barry Diller, among others.
Ben Bradlee, Graham's former executive editor, also was paid tribute. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed "Sarabande" from Bach's "6th Cello Suite."
Graham, a trailblazer among women in business and journalism, also was honored by those who followed her, television news anchors Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer, who served as ushers. Graham died Tuesday at 84.
As prominent as she was on the national stage, Graham remained closely linked with the issues and personalities in the District of Columbia. Two former Washington mayors, Harold Washington and Marion Barry, as well as the city's top police officials, attended.
"She's one of the leading people in the 20th century," Mayor Anthony Williams told CNN on the steps of the church, "and we're very, very proud to have called her our own."
Watergate and the Pentagon Papers
Bradlee, whose hiring at the Post was one of Graham's most admired moves, wrote in his memoir that when she gave the go-ahead in 1971 to publish the Pentagon Papers despite government objections, "it crystallized for editors and reporters everywhere how independent and determined and confident of its purpose the new Washington Post had become."
Graham was "the premier American publisher. She got tested more than most of them, and she stood up with such bravery," Bradlee said Sunday.
Kissinger developed a lasting friendship with Graham that flourished even through the Watergate investigation, when Kissinger was President Nixon's ally and the Post was leading the way in investigating the scandal.
In her Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, published in 1997, Graham recalled that Kissinger "didn't seem to suffer within the administration even though he went on coming to my house — but not to the Post — during Watergate."
Schlesinger, too, was a longtime friend of Graham's.
Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan Attend
The list of notables attending the funeral read like the high-powered guest lists of those who frequented Graham's dinner parties. Among those attending were Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who was an usher, theater producer Mike Nichols and investor Warren Buffett.
Among the media representatives were Associated Press chief executive Louis D. Boccardi and Donald Newhouse, chairman of the AP board.
Graham, who served as chairman of The Washington Post Co. for two decades, died Tuesday, three days after suffering a head injury in a fall outside a condominium in Sun Valley, Idaho. A private burial was planned at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington.


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Wild Arms Alter Code: F is a retelling of the original Wild Arms game for the Playstation back in 1997. It's eight years later, and the game has been completely redone for the Playstation 2 and has had additional content added to it, as well as new playable characters that you can use.
Personally, I was really looking forward to this title both because it's an RPG in the first place and also because it's a chance to go back and take a look at one of the classic games and see how it's held up over the past eight years as well as see what has been added.
Being that Wild Arms Alter Code: F is a remake and update of an RPG originally released in 1997, it's expected that the graphics will be updated over the original's Playstation version. This is true, but the thought one might have when starting to play it is, "We waited eight years for this?" The graphics, while passable, aren't really much of an improvement on those in Wild Arms 3, which was produced early in the Playstation 2's life cycle. Comparing it to Dragon Quest VIII or even Final Fantasy X graphically only points out the graphical weaknesses in the title.
True, for years graphics have never been the important thing in the game to the point where it has become a catchphrase to say, "Gameplay doesn't equal graphics", but in the past few years, that's no longer as true. When in the field you've got a varying overhead view with the characters sometimes being so far away from the camera that there's almost no detail to be discerned.
Combined with this is a sometimes-awkward camera. Granted, it's easily rotated with either L1 or R1, but in many screens the other architecture can block the camera's view. It's more of an annoyance than a true hindrance, really.
The cutscenes show a fair bit more graphic power and depth of detail, but it's still nothing compared to even a venerable title such as Final Fantasy X. The characters show a fair amount of emotion, but the hands have a certain blocky look to them and it really causes the overall look to suffer, espcially after seeing the anime opening for the game, much less the episode of the Wild Arms anime which comes with the game. All in all the graphics aren't much better than late Playstation to early Playstation 2 in many cases
The music in a game, especially in an RPG, can sometimes make or break the game. Final Fantasy probably wouldn't be the amazing juggernaut that it is today if the music wasn't as incredibly stirring as it is. Luckily, the music in Wild Arms Alter Code: F is likewise incredible. As the world is western-themed, the music is as well. Additionally there's simply a large amount of music in the game, throwing together the field music, various battle music as well as music suited to particular characters.
As a bonus, there's a spot uncovered early in the game where you can go back and listen to any of the music that you've unlocked so far. It's nice, and great for music to relax or listen to while doing something else, if you want to leave your PS2 and TV on long enough to do that. Also, you can go back and listen to something that you particularly liked from a different part of the game.
Outside of the music, there's not a lot of other sounds involved. There's the various attack and area noises which are passable but nothing to really draw you in. The one thing that was really lacking was the complete exclusion of voices. This is especially surprising, considering that the original Japanese release of the title had voices in battle as well as a voice file option which could be unlocked later. Perhaps either the time or cost involved in dubbing the voices was an issue, although they could have left the original Japanese voices in and it would have been just fine. However, it's more of a minor quibble than anything else and some would rather there be no voices than some (in some people's opinions) badly-dubbed character voices.
In most RPGs, controls are very basic and simple, and it's hard to mess them up. The same holds true for Wild Arms Alter Code: F, as the game uses pretty much the same controls most other RPGs use. The directional buttons and left analog stick moves the characters and navigates the various menus while the right analog stick allows you to zoom in or out on the character. L1 and R1 rotate the map and change menu pages, while L2 changes characters. R2 turns a character in place, X executes actions and confirms commands and allows your character to dash while O cancels commands and closes the menu, while allowing you to tiptoe in the field as well as cancelling encounters.
The square button activates the search system in the field and uses a tool in towns or dungeons, the triangle button opens the menu and displays your help messages. Select displays the map while in the field and finally, the start button skips movies and switches characters and tools.
One nice feature of the game is that you can make changes to these default settings to suit your personal preferences. The only issue that cropped up with the controls is that it's difficult sometimes to position a character to use a switch or item, especially when the X button both handles activating switches and dashing, sometimes causing your character to run instead of hitting a switch. It's more of a minor inconvience and a frustration than a true issue, but it's worth mentioning.
Wild Arms Alter Code: F is the story of the world of Filgaia (and not Phil Gaia, as Penny Arcade astutely points out in a comic in the strategy guide). Over a thousand years ago, demons from another planet invaded Filgaia. After many years of battle, the once-green world had been turned into a brown, desert-like planet, with people banding together in small towns for mutual protection, rarely leaving their homes.
Those who chose to explore, who didn't settle down, were known as Wanderers. WAAC:F is the story of three of these: Rudy Roughknight, a young man who inherited an ARM from his grandfather. Unfortunately, most people consider ARMs to be the legacy of the demonic invaders and basically the cause of the world's destruction, which keeps him on the move. There's Jack Van Burace, a treasure hunter with a sword who is searching the world for 'Absolute Power' and his wind mouse, Hanpan. Finally, there's Cecilia, who begins as just a girl helping Jack and Rudy on a quest to explore ruins and turns out to be the princess of Adlehyde, joining the other two on a quest to repel the return of the demons who destroyed her home and killed her father as well as took her heirloom, the Teardrop.
One different thing about WAAC:F is that each character has the use of tools which are often necessary for getting through puzzle areas. Rudy starts with bombs, Jack with Hanpan, which can be controlled mid-movement with the analog stick, and Cecilia begins with a magic staff that shoots fire. Outside of this, though, there's a lot of solid, basic RPG action. The only indicator that there are enemies approaching is a white exclamation mark over your head. At that point, if you want to avoid battle, you have to hit the circle key and use a Migrant Seal. Unfortunately, as with many older RPGs, there are a large number of random encounters, and its very easy to run out of Migrant Seals. Granted, this isn't truly a bad thing, but it can get annoying when you're trying very quickly to get somewhere to heal, for example.
Being that the game is a revamp of the original Wild Arms from 1997, one might think that if they've played Wild Arms, then there's no need to play this. Fortunately, that isn't the case, as numerous changes and additions have been made to the title. For one, the prologue chapters can be done in any order instead of being forced to do Rudy's, then Jack's, then Cecilia's.
Another change is the addition of three new playable characters. Unfortunately, this is a minor change at best as the three cannot be unlocked until near the end of the game once the final dungeon is entered. So, approximately 95 to 99 percent of the game will be played with the same trio of characters. There've been changes to many areas and additional optional areas as well. One example is the Abyss, which has been modified into a massive 100 level dungeon that you cannot leave for most of the dungeon's length. There are also new puzzles to explore with new treasures to discover as rewards. Even the map is different, as it is a mirror image of the original Wild Arms world. Also, advances from later games in the series make appearances here, inclduing the search mode from Wild Arms 3.
For those of us who are interested in game length, a straightforward runthrough of this game is a hefty forty to sixty hours. If you do all the sidequests, hit the Abyss, do the puzzle boxes and everything, you can easy lose eighty or more hours in this monster game.
The only reason I can really offer for not buying this game as soon as possible is if you already own Dragon Quest VIII and are playing it currently. This is only because graphically Wild Arms Alter Code: F suffers in comparison. If you've already beaten Dragon Quest VIII or don't have it, this game is definitely worth the $50. Even if you're part of the group who is playing DQ8 right now, still get this game in a couple of months.
The game is so huge and the music and story are so wonderful that it's a crime to miss this. Of note is the fact that the upcoming Wild Arms 4 will use the save game from WAAC:F in some method. As far as gameplay for the money, in this time of ten hour games costing $50, it's definitely worth it for a solid 40 to 80 hour game.
Also, for those who are into such, there's a bonus disc with the first episode of the Wild Arms anime. Unfortunately, it's only in English with no option for the original Japanese track with subtitles and the disc has no menu or features at all.


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Today's Scripture: And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? Hebrews 12:5‑7
I wish God used something other than chastening to get us to grow as Christians. I hate to say it, and I wish it wasn't true, but there's no other way to grow. One of my pastor friends chose to learn this the hard way.
When we were in Florida Bible College, this man told God, "Lord, I'm not sure You love me enough. I want more chastisement."
He soon found out that wasn't a very wise thing to pray. He got just what he asked for, and then some. But the chastening made him a better person.
Once we become Christians, God wants us to grow. He uses disciplinary correction, or chastening, to accomplish this growth. Our reaction to God's correction is just as important as the correction itself. It reveals our character, while chastening refines our character.
Our reaction to chastening often falls into one of two extremes, which we see in today's verse. We can either despise it, or we can faint under it. To despise chastening is to make no account of it, or to ignore the things God is trying to teach us from it. I would define fainting under correction as not preparing ourselves for God's actions. The key to our spiritual growth lies in being open to the things God teaches us through chastening. Through this, the mind is enlarged, the heart purified, and the life exalted.
God may be putting you through a time of chastening right now. You may be wondering why God is making you suffer. I've gone through this at times myself, but I have learned that God chastens us to make us better. He wants to make our good better and our better best. He loves us that much.
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In Ursula Meier's stunning theatrical debut HOME (the official Swiss submission for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film), a family's peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened right next to their isolated property. When the five members of the central family find their remote domestic paradise invaded by the reopening of the abandoned highway adjacent to their house, they resort to increasingly lunatic measures to block out the noise—it's but a small step from earplugs to bricking up their house entirely.
Michel (Olivier Gourmet) and his wife Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) are nonconformists who have consciously chosen to live as far away from others as possible. They have a house in the French countryside alongside a highway that has been left uncompleted for ten years. they live in a comfortable small home in the middle of vast fields and next to the highway, which hasn't been used for 10 years. So much is the road their turf that the story begins with them playing a family game of street hockey on its pavement.Their kids have chosen different ways of adapting to their lifestyle: Judith (Adelaide Leroux) puts on a bikini, turns on loud music, and sunbathes; Marion (Madeleine Budd) does mathematical games to keep herself amused; and Julien (Kacey Mottet Klein) rides his bike on the highway and loves his little pool.
One day, unexpectedly, construction workers appear on the scene and start laying down tar and lines down the center of the highway. Then big trucks arrive to lay down a fresh coating of asphalt, and steel guardrails are installed on each side and down the middle. Workmen wordlessly clear the highway of their hockey sticks, inflatable swimming pool, satellite dish, charcoal grill and so on. On the radio, they hear breathless coverage of the road's grand opening, and eventually the first car speeds past their house.On the day of its opening, a radio announcer celebrates how much easier this will make life for drivers. So begins the nightmare for this closely bonded family used to privacy and the silence of the natural world.
The opening scenes of Home—a nighttime game of street hockey, a bathing session that turns into a five-way splash fight—establish the anarchic sense of play that defines the interactions of the film's central family, while the casual nudity on display hints at the vaguely incestuous tensions in this uniquely insular clan. The rest of Ursula Meier's confident, appealingly bizarre theatrical debut subjects these tensions to the hothouse environment of a self-willed isolation.
The opening of the highway was not a surprise for them. But the heavy, unceasing traffic is a big problem. The two younger kids always ran across the bare pavement to cut through a field for school. Dad parked on the other side. Now even getting to the house is a problem. Marion the smart younger sister (Madeleine Budd) is concerned about carbon dioxide poisoning. Young Julien (Kacey Mottet Klein) can't safely get to his pals. Judith (Adelaide Leroux) continues to sunbathe in the front yard and gives the finger to honking truck drivers.
Marthe is the one most seriously deranged by the noise pollution of trucks and cars whizzing by at all hours of the day and night. She can't sleep and quickly becomes very irritable. Judith gets angry at the intruders but tries to shut them out with her music. She eventually runs away from home, fed up with this new development. Marion focuses on the problem of pollution and starts worrying about the toxic effect of all the cars and trucks on their bodies. She tries to scare Julien by checking his back for signs of poisoning. Michel purchases insulation for the house and then barricades the place shut with concrete bricks. It works for a while by blocking out the noise but they all suffer from claustrophobia.
Home is written and directed by Ursula Meier, and it is a very clever and creative film with its probes on family solidarity, change, the toxic residues of a car culture, and the physical, psychological and spiritual effects of noise pollution. In an idyllic scene, Marthe, Marion, and Julien escape the din and retreat to the countryside where they spend a quiet afternoon sleeping and sitting under a tree. In another, Michel unsuccessfully tries to drag his family from their home and force them to move. They refuse.
There are two questions never answered in the French film "Home." How did this family come to live here? And why does the mother fiercely refuse to leave, even after a four-lane freeway opens in her front yard? Both are more satisfactory remaining as questions. Meier effectively communicates the sense of upended privacy, moving easily from the nighttime intrusion of brightly clad construction workers (the eye-straining oranges and yellows of their uniforms registering as a truly alien presence) to the incongruous sight of Isabelle Huppert tending her garden as blurry streaks of traffic zip by.
Ursula Meier (born 24 June 1971) is a French-Swiss film director who received the Best Director award at the 2008 Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême [Angoulême French-Language Film Festival] for her first theatrical feature, Home, which won the 2009 Swiss Film Prize for Bester Spielfilm [Best Film] as well as Bestes Drehbuch [Best Screenplay] (shared with Antoine Jaccoud). It also received France's César nomination for Meilleur Premier Film [Best First Film] and a Best Film nomination at Argentina's Mar del Plata Film Festival.
DIR Ursula Meier
PROD Denis Delcampe, Denis Freyd, Thierry Spicher, Elena Tatti
SCR Ursula Meier, Alice Winocour, Antoine Jaccoud, Olivier Lorelle
DP Agnès Godard
CAST Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adélaïde Leroux, Madeleine Budd, Kacey Mottet Klein
ED François Gédigier, Nelly Quettier, Susana Rossberg
PROD DES Ivan Niclass
SOUND Étienne Curchod


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The Alpico walking axe passes UIAA 'B rating' tests and, compared to other axes, the manufacturers suggest that it provides a more solid belay in soft snow because of its shape. The axe can be stowed away in a holster without needing to access rucksack straps, and once stowed it does not have exposed points which tend to get caught on things whilst climbing. The handle is made from a carbon fibre based composite. It was designed by Soluzion Inventive and is distributed by Climbing Technology.
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Create a One-on-One Training Relationship Built to Last.
You can fall in love with fitness by finding your [personal trainer] bae.
Why Personal Training?
You're not into group fitness classes. Because you still haven't found your motivation. Or you have hit a plateau. You're working out but you're not really WORKING. That fully loaded work, family, social schedule is not allowing you a consistent opportunity to hit the gym. The results have slowed or are not happening at all. Even worse, you are feeling aches and pains that are a slow burn to injury. When something is off, you know. These are all signs that one-on-one training is the right choice for you.
Your Partner in Health.
Consider this: working with a trainer is like being in a relationship. You should train with someone you WANT to be around. A partner in your health and wellness journey. Your personal trainer should challenge you and bring out the best in you.
Trainers have trainers too.
I've told you before, I don't necessarily love WORKING OUT. I love to move. Though I've got great form and know a lot of the exercise do's and don'ts, if left to my own devices I'll either choose not to do the work or short myself on the exertion level. My coach is Terrence Smith, a former boxing pro whom I'll formally introduce you to on YFDNA soon. I'm sharing the health and giving away some sessions with him! Sometimes I cheat on him with IzzyFit just to shake things up a bit. That's as deep as my harem of trainers goes and I don't recommend you change up personal coaches much either unless they are a part of the same fitness network. (Email me if you want to know of other trusted personal trainers, even if you aren't Chicago-based.)
Getting Started.
Think of how you cringe when you see obnoxious ads for discounts on breast augmentation or LASIK procedures. This is your ONE body! Being reasonable is one thing; being flat out cheap with your body is NO BUENO. What's your health and physical well-being worth to you?!
The Three C's.
Once you have selected the trainer with whom you have the right chemistry or connection, maintain the relationship! Communicate. Got some concerns? Abnormal aches? Tell your trainer. That's your personal coach and they need all of your feedback. Be consistent. Do what your trainer tells you to do, show up and show out and be courteous. If you are starting to cancel or not make appointment times, then you need to rework the deal.


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Savage Roleplaying in the world of Hellfrost
The campaign using these pages has come out of the HexTCG PvE guild The Unnamed Council. We use the excellent (as in "fast, furious, fun") Savage Worlds ruleset on the Fantasy Grounds VTT.
The setting is provided by Triple Ace Games' Hellfrost setting, only playing out 300 years after the described setting. In that sense it is a post-apocalyptic fantasy campaign.


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Max Gregory & Sonia Bennett (Blue Goose) & Ian Macintosh (Wheeze & Suck), + Lance Whear & The Book of Vilah.
Café Dalor Open Mic has been running for eight months now meeting on first & third Fridays of each month providing a relaxed stage for mixed performance styles, wide age range with high degrees of musical experience. Cosy, intimate atmosphere with courtyard ideal for folksinger songwriters, soft blues etc. Great coffee, good food, BYO wine & beer etc. PA Supplied.
Café Dalor
237 Wardell Road
Dulwich Hill (lower village, near train station on Bankstown Line)
All welcome. Come along and enjoy this cosy new venue.
Go to Website Performer Listings
Info: Roger Fyfe (0425) 261 953
Supported by Smallstage, Cafe Dalor, & SO Music Record store Newtown
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J. Soto is an interdisciplinary artist and poet with a focus on project-specific collaborations in performance and arts organizing through various media and programs. His collaborative project, "Ya Presente Ayer" can be found in Support Networks, Chicago Social Practice History Series (University of Chicago Press). Most recently, Soto launched the Latinx Artist Visibility Award (LAVA) for Ox-Bow school of art with his longtime collaborator Anthony Romero. Soto received his BA from San Francisco State University in Art and an MFA in Performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
The 5th Edition of Miami Performance Festival International '16 (M/P '16) will take place from June 23-26, 2016. M/P '16 will be staged in five different venues around Miami-Dade County with 17 countries represented and a host of local talent . The festival will show a total of 37 different works and will encourage viewers to investigate performance art's and Noise artistic influence and contributions to our visual and sound culture and will provide the viewer with a unique performance and sound experience beyond the realm of traditional art. A four-days long interdisciplinary complex multileveled platform which will include videos of performances, live performances, noise, experimental sound art audience participation, publications, artist talks and visual art exhibitions, demonstrates the commitment by Edge Zones to the professional development of South Florida artists in national and international forum.
M/P '16 is a stage for both young and emerging artists, curators, critics, and scholars to present their latest work. This world-class performing arts festival will provide the opportunity for our live audience of approximately 7,000 to engage deeply with the ideas emerging from these provocative works.
Miami Performance International Festival (M/P'16) seeks to continue to expand and provide a platform for South Florida-based performance and sound artists to create new work in Miami. This "challenge", also bringing professionals together for the sake of a common goal: pushing the boundaries of their practice and making that same work accessible to a wider audience.


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Error 0x8007000E occurs when you download a game on Xbox One
You get the following error code and message when you try to download a game on your Xbox One console:
Installation stopped.
To resolve this problem, try the following solutions:
Solution 1: Check the Xbox Live service status
If you see any alerts here, wait until the service is up and running and then try again:
Solution 2: Cancel the game installation and then reinstall
Cancel the game installation, restart the console, and then reinstall the game. Here's how:
- On the Home screen, move right and select My games & apps.
- Select Queue and highlight the game you're trying to download.
- Press the Menu button on your controller, and then select Cancel.
- Press the Xbox button to open the guide.
Note Double-tapping the Xbox button will open the guide from any other screen on the console.
- Select Settings.
- Select Restart console.
- Select Yes to confirm.
Note If you're unable to access the guide or if the console appears to be frozen, press and hold the Xbox button on the console for about 10 seconds until the console turns off. After the console shuts down, touch the Xbox button on the console again to restart.
You can then reinstall the game by downloading again from the Store. To download the game again, search for the game in the Store, select the game, and then select Install.
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Whether you're a first time buyer or not, choosing the right mortgage for you is too important to get wrong.
There are two main types of mortgages; a tracker mortgage and a fixed rate mortgage.
With a fixed rate mortgage the payments don't go up or down and you can typically fix them over three or five years. "That give you that piece of mind every month that your payments won't change" says Angela Howard, Halifax's regional mortgage advisor.
A tracker mortgage 'tracks' the Bank of England base rate and at the moment is typically cheaper than a fixed rate mortgage.


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On 9 September 2010 the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect held a panel discussion on Sudan. The meeting drew on the findings of the first Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect Occasional Paper entitled, "Unwilling and Unable: The Failed Response to the Atrocities in Darfur," written by James Traub.
The following document was distributed to panelists and meeting attendees prior to the event and gives an overview of past failures and what needs to be done, by whom, to prevent a return to mass atrocities in Sudan.


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My Jewish Calendar – a card matching game for children
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This past week, I designed a little Jewish card game/board game for my daughter (aged 4). In it, you need to match 3 pictures to each of a selection of Jewish holidays.
For example, Shabbat is represented by candles, a kiddush cup and challah; Chanukah has a menorah, dreidel and latkes; Pesach has a seder plate, the plagues and matzah; and Yom Ha'atzmaut has an Israeli flag, a map of Israel and some Israeli dancers.
I found this game to be a fun way to review a lot of the festivals, identify some key symbols and talk about what we do, what we eat and so forth. Please feel free to use it yourself. The instructions are included on the pdf. I suggested putting the pieces into boxes or bags during the game, but I've thought of another way to do it (especially for older children) – put all the pieces face down in the middle, and turn over two at a time as you would if playing Memory. If either matches your card, move them to your card. If not, turn face down again and let the next person take their turn.
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I absolutely love the idea. I wish all your cards would show. I am just studying about the Jewish festivals, and this is a great idea you have. Well done!


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A Closer Look at the JavaScript Scripting Language
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Is it time to take a closer look at JavaScript, the venerable scripting language? One developer believes the unique scripting language has radical features that make it an exciting workhorse that is often misunderstood and misrepresented.
We are at the point in online evolution when the JavaScript language needs to be taken seriously--after all, it is currently used for image processing, game development, 3D graphics, sound, video and more. The idea that JavaScript has objects, rather than classes, is fundamental to understanding why some developers reject its merits.
In a typical JavaScript application, objects are created through the execution of instructions which build an object. To create more than one copy of an object, it is necessary to create a function that creates the object and returns it. Simple solution!
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Plans to build a new mental health inpatient facility in Omagh have been frozen due to a lack of funding amid Northern Ireland's political deadlock, the News Letter can reveal.
The former health minister Simon Hamilton first approved plans in March 2016, describing the proposed new facility as an "important and much-needed second mental health facility in the Western Trust area".
However, the Western Trust has confirmed that, due to a lack of funding, it is "unable to progress" with the project.
Stormont's health department has warned that its budget is under pressure and that it will need considerably more money in future years just to maintain services at current levels.
The original plan was to develop the new facility, claimed to be worth around £30 million, as phase two of the new Omagh hospital that first opened to patients in July.
Andrew McKane, chairman of the Omagh branch of the trade union Unison, said that "everything is in place" for the new facility's construction but that the lack of a health minister is holding things back.
"Approximately £30 million was to be set aside for phase two of the new Omagh hospital," he said. "The infrastructure is in place, the grounds are in place, everything is ready to go. It is the same argument as they used with the 1% pay rise. They say there isn't a minister to move money on. This is where we are and it's a very worrying development."
SDLP MLA Daniel McCrossan said: "The full development of the Omagh hospital site is what was promised to the people here. It is a sad day for Omagh that these plans are now shelved.
"This area has a huge mental health deficit in terms of providing adequate care and facilities. It's my fear, given the high rate of suicides in the trust area, that more and more people will not be seen in a timely fashion."
A spokesperson for the Western Trust said: "In terms of the phase two mental health crisis unit, the business case is currently with the Department of Health (DoH) and has not yet been approved nor funding for the same ring fenced.
"The trust is therefore unable to progress with this scheme and does not have the resources to retain team members on this project until it receives business case approval and funding."


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A good way to conceptualize the cost of borrowing money is to annualize interest rates, which offers an easy way to compare loans of varying maturities. One trend you'll notice is that loans with longer maturities generally require higher interest rates. What is the rationale behind this trend? Salman Khan of the Khan Academy explains.
From this video, you will understand:
- Why long term borrowing tends to demand higher interest rates compared to short term
- How risk factors in to higher interest rates on loans


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The Stations of the Cross, also called The Way of the Cross and Via Dolorosa depict fourteen key events on the day of Christ's crucifixion. The custom originated in medieval Europe. By the 17th century they were quite common in Catholic churches.
Here is a photograph we took of the second Station, where the cross is laid upon Jesus. We received permission from the mission to take this photograph.
The interior of the San Gabriel church is rather dark and the lighting is quite uneven. We used special equipment to take this photograph. If you visit San Gabriel the paintings will look darker under the available light.
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Faggoting lace is the most basic kind of lace there is. Barbara G. Walker notes in A Treasury of Knitting Patterns that faggoting lace can be seen as lace that is reduced to its two bare essentials: a yarn-over stitch, and a decrease. "Typically, faggoting consists of just these two operations and the pattern had only one row," says Walker. "In spite of this simple structure there are a surprising number of different types of faggoting."
The differences lie in what type of decrease is used, whether the decrease comes before or after the yarn over and whether there are any plain knit or purl stitches between the yarn over and decrease sections.
All of these patterns produce a very stretchy openwork pattern that is great in panels or as an allover pattern and is particularly great for socks or fancy gloves.
Turkish Stitch is one of the most basic forms of faggoting, consisting of yarn overs and knit 2 together with knit stitches on each end of the row. Specifically, the repeat, which works on an even number of stitches, is:
- K1, *yo, k2tog. Repeat from * across, ending with a K1.
Repeat this row.
An alternative version uses ssk instead of k2tog for the decrease, which does give it quite a different look.
Another alternative is Purse Stitch, which uses purl 2 together as its decrease.
Garter Stitch Faggot uses the same pattern row as Turkish Stitch, but it is alternated with a row of Garter Stitch, which makes the fabric a little firmer and more solid (it also biases thanks to all those right-leaning decreases; you could alternate a row of k2togs with a row of ssks to reduce this tendency).
These stitches can look very different depending on the weight of yarn you use, the size of needles you choose and whether they are blocked or unblocked. Blocking is necessary to open up the yarn overs, but the look of the fabric is really interesting when it isn't stretched, too.
Patterns Using Faggoting Lace
I used Turkish Stitch to knit a clingy openwork tank top/swimsuit cover. Crystal Palace Yarns also has a scarf using this stitch pattern, which is a great spring and summer scarf.
Rex Decker's King Cake Faggot Stitch Scarf shows what the stitch looks like when not heavily blocked, which adds cool texture to the colorful yarn he chose.
Faggoting is used as part of the leg for the Faggoting Ribs Socks from Claudia Tietze, which also feature ruffles, a lace panel, and cool gusset shaping. (It's a free pattern, but you have to register to download.)
If you're willing to pay for a pattern, these Steampunk Faggoted Rib Mitts from the Little Songbird are cute and would be great for wearing with a costume or just every day to take the chill off in a feminine way. The Faggoting and Beehive Lace Tee by Amy McElwain is another paid pattern that uses openwork stitches for the bottom part of the shirt.
And if you happen to have the book Together or Separate by Ann McCauley, there you will find a Moss and Feather Faggot Shell, which uses the faggoting on the yoke and Moss Stitch on the body of the top.
Faggoting lace patterns are a lot of fun to knit, and another alternative would be to make your sampler of the stitches. Many of the basic patterns work on any even number of stitches or multiples of 4, so you can work a scarf with, say, 16 stitches and do a foot or so of scarf in each of four or five different stitches. You'd learn a lot about how increases and decreases work and have a great scarf at the end.


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My two preschoolers love to play with playdough. I love it because it's such a great way to sneak in some fine motor work and it fosters creativity. {Okay, I really love it because it keeps my preschools occupied and quiet for a few minutes. The true confession comes out!}
Christmas Playdough Mats
For the Christmas season, I created some open-ended playdough mats. Kids can use playdough and decorate them any way they'd like! I know my kids did.
These make a perfect activity to do with kids during the long Christmas break from school. We plan on pulling them out again. You can be sure of that!
And don't miss that the pack also includes three winter-themed playdough mats, perfect for after Christmas!
Download these FREE Printable Playdough Mats HERE!
Enjoy and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! I will be taking this Christmas week OFF from blogging to enjoy the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ with family and friends.
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General Motors reported better-than-expected earnings on Thursday, led by its North American business and a smaller-than-anticipated loss in Europe.
After the earnings announcement, the company's shares rose in premarket trading. (Click here to get the latest quotes for GM.)
The company posted first-quarter earnings excluding items of 67 cents per share, down from 93 cents a share in the year-earlier period.
Revenue slipped to $36.9 billion from $37.76 billion a year ago.
Analysts had expected the automaker to report earnings excluding items of 54 cents a share on $36.6 billion in revenue, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
The quarter included a $162 million noncash charge for the devaluation of the Venezuelan currency.
"Overall a solid quarter and good start to the year," CFO Daniel Ammann said. "Very much on plan from our point of view. We are really going into the heart of all of our launch activity that we've been talking about for some time now. You see that starting to show up in the top line. We gained market share in most markets around the world in North American and even Europe."
GM's North American business earned $1.4 billion. The automaker posted a loss in its European operations of $175 million, narrowing from a loss of $256 million in the year-earlier period.
GM sales were up 3.6 percent in the quarter overall, with North American sales up 8 percent. Despite the narrower loss, sales in Europe fell 6 percent.
—Reuters contributed to this report.


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Baseball Lands Three Student-Athletes On Pac-10 All-Academic Team
June 2, 2010
TEMPE, Ariz. - Three Arizona State University baseball student-athletes were named to the Pacific-10 Conference All-Academic team, the conference announced Tuesday. Sophomore first baseman Riccio Torrez was named to the First Team, while junior pitcher Seth Blair and junior outfielder Matt Newman were both named to the Second Team.
Torrez (Phoenix, Ariz.) is an Exploratory major with a 3.48 GPA. He leads the Pac-10 with his .391. Torrez also has nine homers, 50 RBI and has stolen 16 bases.
Blair (Rock Falls, Ill.) earns Academic All-Pac-10 honors for the second straight year thanks to his 3.20 GPA as an interdisciplinary studies major. He is 11-0 with a 3.20 ERA so far this year. Blair was a First Team honoree in 2009.
Newman (Glendale, Ariz.) makes the Second Team for the second straight year with his 3.17 GPA in interdisciplinary studies. The junior is hitting .264 with two homers and 27 RBI.
A student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall GPA and either be a starter or a significant contributor to be eligible for All-Academic selection. True freshman and transfer students are not eligible. This is the 14th consecutive season that Arizona State had had at least two members of the All-Academic Team.
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Richard Greenberg's "The Violet Hour" was probably the ideal choice to inaugurate Manhattan Theater Club's new Broadway home at the Biltmore Theater. The latest play from the author of "Take Me Out" is a chamber piece that muses on the elusive intersections between the past, the present and the future, so there's a pleasing serendipity in seeing it staged at the intimate, impeccably restored Biltmore. Just a few years ago, the theater was an empty shell with a distinguished past and a questionable future. Now the smell of paint and new upholstery fills the lobby, fresh gilt gleams from the proscenium. The bustle of activity on a recently gloomy stretch of 47th Street provides happy testament to the theater's admirable ability to shape its artistic future by resurrecting its past.
But one of the poignant themes of Greenberg's play is destiny's tendency to play funny tricks, and this truth is borne out, unhappily, by what's on the Biltmore stage. The sad news is that this ideal play for the occasion has not arrived in an ideal production — probably through no fault of the artists involved.
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As has been widely reported, the two female roles (in a play of just five characters) are not being played by the women originally cast. Laura Benanti left during rehearsals due to "artistic differences," and an ailing Jasmine Guy was replaced by her understudy, Robin Miles, during previews. Such disruptions inevitably take a toll on the smooth development of a production.
Miles and Benanti's replacement, Dagmara Dominczyk, are perfectly adequate, and their co-stars, Scott Foley, Mario Cantone and the inestimable Robert Sean Leonard, are likewise talented performers giving polished and appealing performances. But the production has a mottled, pieced-together quality that is particularly damaging to this delicate, complex play, which may just be Greenberg's finest.
Although it is set in the past, "The Violet Hour" has an unmistakably contemporary sensibility. There is much comedy, but the overriding tone is melancholy. The style is naturalistic, with a flagrantly fantastic twist. And Greenberg's dialogue is alternately earthbound and bewitchingly rhapsodic.
Director Evan Yionoulis, who staged the play's well-received world-premiere production at South Coast Repertory in California, has not been able to blend this challenging tapestry of textures together to create an artful, emotionally resonant whole. The snappy comedy steps on the feet of the philosophical musings, and the lyrical flights proves daunting to some of the performers, who are not uniformly able to discover in Greenberg's intricate language the emotional core of their characters. Overall, it's as if a lovely poem has been translated deflatingly into prose.
A haunting tale of a man given a chance to foresee the consequences of his actions, "The Violet Hour" might almost be titled "It's Not Such a Wonderful Life." Greenberg has concocted an ingenious time-travel story with a novel twist: Instead of characters being magically transported to the past or future, the future itself is transported to the past here, through a sort of mystical fax machine that arrives one day at the office of budding publisher John Pace Seavering (Leonard).
Seavering has just set up shop in somewhat dingy digs in Manhattan. The year is 1919, and this recent Princeton grad hopes to become the conduit for voices of the Lost Generation. He's filled with a sense of immense possibility — the result of his youth, his comfortable upbringing and the aftermath of the Great War. Asked how he comes by his enthusiasm, he says, "I think it's because the century's still so young … and all the worst things have already happened in it."
But Seavering is already becoming aware of the limits that life might place on ambition. He only has enough money to publish one book, and he is faced with two strong contenders — both of which come with knotty personal strings attached. His college pal Denis McCleary (Foley) has written a precocious magnum opus that Seavering warmly admires. When Denis arrives to lobby for it, he reveals that more than just a literary debut is at stake: He has fallen passionately in love with an heiress, Rosamund Plinth (Dominczyk), who will be forced to marry a more suitable suitor if McCleary can't prove he's got promise.
On the other hand, Seavering is equally enamored of the autobiography of a fashionable black singer, Jessie Brewster (Miles). And his loyalty to her is possibly even stronger than his affection for Denis — they're having a tempestuous affair.
An idealist who believes he's destined for great things, Seavering is hesitant to make a choice: He's paralyzed by his belief that the future is his to shape — "and I don't want to mess that up!," he cries.
Indeed, all the characters in the play evince a touching belief in the profound importance of the present moment — Denny delivers a rhapsodic description of what he calls the "violet hour," the time when "the evening's about to reward you for the day." Greenberg has a tender regard for his characters' impassioned sense that beauty and meaning and happiness are immanent in the world and must be grasped before they can escape. Rosamund, for example, is convinced that she and Denny "are the only happiness that will ever be possible to each other."
Those words take on an acute poignance in the play's increasingly somber second act. While Seavering has been wrestling with his decision, his assistant Gidger (Cantone) has been confronting his own demon, namely the peculiar machine, provenance unknown, that has arrived at the office and begun spewing out piles of printed paper. The first act closes with Gidger and Seavering's startled discovery that these are dispatches — pages of books — written many years in the future.
As act two opens, Gidger and Seavering sit amid neat stacks of paper, absorbing the news of the century to come. Greenberg exploits the rich comic possibilities in this scenario primarily through the character of Gidger, a flamboyant, histrionic fellow — played to the ahistorical hilt, and then some, by Cantone — who is steamed to discover that one of his favorite words, "gay," will acquire a new, exclusive meaning in the years to come. (He's also outraged that none of the books detailing the respectable life of prominent publisher John Pace Seavering make reference to him.)
But Seavering is unnerved by more upsetting revelations: He learns that his decision to publish Denis' book did not lead to the expected marital bliss, and that Jessie has been harboring secrets that will one day destroy her. How to proceed in the light of this burdensome knowledge? Can the future be undone?
Marvelous writing abounds here. Greenberg often has displayed an irksome tendency to bestow his own wit and erudition on his characters indiscriminately, lending them the two-dimensional quality of smart mouthpieces. Here he largely tames that flaw, finding voices for his characters that, while still eloquent, are specific to their emotional predicaments (the one exception might be Jessie, whose wry, archly sophisticated voice doesn't always ring true). The play is continually amusing, but also deeply touching in his juxtaposition of the disillusion forced upon Seavering with the hopefulness of his compatriots.
And yet "The Violet Hour," as staged here, never reaches the heights you keep hoping for. Leonard is dependably fine, as always, communicating with economical grace the anguish in Seavering's dilemma. And the other actors all have fine moments, too. But the play needs a little bit of magic — a Proustian daydream poised halfway between reality and fantasy, it probably would require a production of immense sensitivity to be entirely persuasive.
Yionoulis' production, while attractive, may be too earthbound — the set by Christopher Barreca could use less specificity, and Jane Greenwood's costumes are perhaps too period-perfect, particularly for the female characters. Even the lighting by Donald Holder, gorgeous as it is, is perhaps too generous in its literal-minded applications of the title color. These are small matters, of course, but they contribute to the general sense that a painting best suited to watercolors has been rendered in oils: You can admire the beauty of the composition, but it leaves you unmoved.


text: Dear Ghost of Kim Jong Il, We trust you've enjoyed the many military marches that were performed with sycophantic fervour in your honour. Posters of your fat face adorned with retro sunglasses and topped with a Cabbage Patch haircut (that always made you look very much like an asshole) can still be seen throughout the city of Pyongyang – the air-raid and starvation capital of the world. How's death treating you? Do you miss the tactile pleasures of the flesh? We suppose it will take some time to get used to the fact that you can no longer murder a woman in cold blood for rebuffing your sweaty-handed advances as you did with the late North Korean musician Yun Hye-yong. Maybe she has some choice words to share with you now that you're both on the other side of life's great divide, and on equal footing. We trust that things must be easier without having to deal with the more humiliating aspects of life, even though North Korean textbooks for years have stated that the great leader "does not produce urine or faeces". Still, it must be quite a relief not to have to tediously remove all the disabled children from the city of Pyongyang as you did in 1989, in anticipation of the World Festival of Youth. Disability, of course, was an unnecessary imperfection in the eyes of such a great man. (Never mind the fact that the failure to shit like a normal person might be construed as a pretty grave disability in its own right.) Shit could accurately describe the substance found smeared all over one of your citizens. He was first found by Rimjingang, an illegally-penned North Korean newspaper. The starving man was video-taped (using a hidden camera), desperately scouring fields for any kind of food to sustain his life. When the covertly-operated paper returned to follow up with the man, they found his corpse. Maybe he, and the many North Koreans who have gone mad and/or starved to death, will have something to say to you as well – on the other side. I hope this isn't making you a sad ghost. Maybe we can rehash some lighter memories: Like that time when you, according to state-run newspapers, shot a 38-under par in golf. You needn't be an expert to know that that was a record breaking achievement – in bullshit. And what about that time when you kidnapped a South Korean filmmaker and forced him to create a crappy, communist version of Godzilla called Pulgasari. Or when you hired staff to ensure that each grainof rice that made its way to your plate was precisely the same size, or when you had hand-selected Swedish prostitutes flown into do your bidding, as your people starved, or when you injected yourself with the blood of virgins to stay young. (Guess that last one didn't work out for you, did it?) We know you're still here, Kim. In fact, we hope you linger. Under normal circumstances, we'd say that a man like you had gone to the devil, but then again, nothing could be a greater approximation of hell than the hopeless wasteland you left behind: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.


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NEW ORLEANS — Adding chemotherapy to standard radiation treatment can boost survival for patients with an aggressive form of brain cancer that usually kills within months of diagnosis, new study findings show.
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Nearly three times as many patients were still alive after two years with the combination treatment than with radiation alone, according to results presented here Monday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
"This treatment clearly improved overall survival," said study author Dr. Roger Stupp of the University Hospital Mutidisciplinary Oncology Center in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The patients had glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and most aggressive type of brain cancer that is considered incurable. It is diagnosed in about 18,400 Americans each year and kills nearly 13,000 annually.
"Patients usually die within less than one year," Stupp said.
Chemotherapy can make a difference
Radiation treatment after surgery to remove a tumor has been the standard treatment for these patients for three decades, Stupp noted. The new findings are the first to show that chemotherapy can make a difference when given in combination with radiation.
The latest facts and figures"This will probably change the standard of care," Stupp said.
While not a cure, he said, the findings offer new hope for a notoriously difficult and deadly cancer.
"These are pretty good-looking data," commented Dr. Frank Haluska, a cancer specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
The study involved almost 575 patients, ages 18 to 70, treated at more than 80 centers in Europe, Canada and Australia. Half were given standard radiation treatment after surgery to remove their tumors, while the other half were given both radiation and chemotherapy with the oral drug temozolomide.
Results showed that 26 percent of patients who received chemotherapy survived at least two years, compared with 10 percent in the other group. Patients on chemotherapy also saw their disease progress more slowly.
'It is progress'
While a 26 percent survival rate may not seem terrific, Haluska noted, it's nearly three times as long as with standard treatment, and for a very deadly disease.
"It is progress," he said.
Stupp said the chemo drug was well-tolerated by patients, generally only causing "mild to moderate" side effects such as fatigue and nausea.
Another study presented at the meeting showed that chemotherapy may also help patients with less common brain cancers called gliomas.
Researchers in the United States and Canada found that adding the drugs procarbazine, lomustine and vincristine to radiation therapy slowed the advance of the disease, which took about 2.6 years to progress in this group versus 1.9 years in the group receiving radiation alone.
But the chemo combination did not prolong overall survival in the study of almost 300 patients, who lived a median of about 4.5 years, reported Dr. Gregory Cairncross of the University of Calgary.
However, patients with certain genetic mutations in chromosomes 1 and 19 lived longer, regardless of their treatment.
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PALM CITY, Fla. — It was not his motivation, certainly, but President Obama is honoring his modern predecessors on this Presidents' Day weekend by doing what many of them liked to do on breaks: chill out in Florida with the guys — including, in his case, one of golf's most famous guys, Tiger Woods.
And chilling the president is. Northerners who begrudge Mr. Obama's golf getaway to South Florida might take solace in knowing that Sunday started with temperatures in the low 40s, with winds making it feel like the 30s and whipping up the waves along the shore. On Saturday, the president's first full day here, the temperature reached the 60s, still lower than usual and chilled further by the gusts.
Mr. Obama is playing a lot of golf, the unofficial game of presidents. But aside from that fact, the few reporters who followed him south were able to learn more from watching the Golf Channel, which had access to the playing grounds, than from the White House and did not expect to see Mr. Obama over the holiday weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, the deputy press secretary, Joshua R. Earnest, issued statements that Mr. Obama would not be leaving the golf club.
All told, the weekend offered another sign of a president who is freed from worry about running for election again. It is hard to imagine that a year ago Mr. Obama would have spent a three-day weekend at an exclusive resort with an all-male group, especially given recurring complaints of too few women in his innermost circle. (His wife and daughters were away skiing — not a sport favored by the Hawaii-born president.) And his retreat is effectively off-limits to ordinary Americans in the middle class or aspiring to be, who were the focus of Mr. Obama's State of the Union address last week and his 2012 campaign.
The president's aides say he takes fewer vacations than many of his predecessors did, and even then he often cannot catch a break, with crises at home or abroad interrupting. Mr. Earnest remarked in an e-mail, "The military aides, White House staffers and Secret Service agents who traveled with him are a reminder that he's never far from the responsibilities of his job."
After flying into West Palm Beach's airport aboard Air Force One on Friday night — having picked up a longtime friend, Dr. Eric Whitaker, in Chicago during Friday's visit there to speak about his antipoverty initiatives — Mr. Obama has been cloistered at the Floridian Yacht and Golf Club here. The resort is on the state's Treasure Coast, home to many of its wealthiest residents.
It is also an area that other presidents have frequented. John F. Kennedy often visited his family mansion in Palm Beach. Bill Clinton, on one of his golf and fund-raising trips as president, had emergency surgery after a late-night fall at the nearby estate of the golf champion Greg Norman. As it happens, also in Florida over the weekend were descendants of five presidents back to Herbert Hoover, gathered at Harry S. Truman's "Little White House" on Key West to reminisce about presidents' lives outside what the event called the Washington "fishbowl."
With Mr. Obama besides Mr. Whitaker were Marvin Nicholson, the president's travel director, who once dreamed of being a professional caddy, and four Texans: Ron Kirk, a former Dallas mayor who will soon step down as Mr. Obama's trade representative; Tony Chase, a Houston lawyer who left the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in 2008 to raise money for Mr. Obama's campaign; Milton Carroll of Houston, the chairman of CenterPoint Energy and another Obama donor; and James R. Crane, a contributor and the owner of the freight company EGL, the Houston Astros baseball team and the resort where the stag party is staying. (Mr. Crane once topped Golf Digest's ranking of chief executive golfers).
On Saturday, the group was joined by top golfing coaches affiliated with the resort: Butch Harmon and his son Claude Harmon III, who according to his Web site offers to mere mortals a six-hour "total game evaluation" for $1,500 or two-hour group instruction for $225 a player.
But the highlight for Mr. Obama had to be on Sunday, when he was joined for a foursome by a former student of Butch Harmon's: Mr. Woods, once the top-ranked golfer in the world.
"Historic day in golf. Their first round," Tim Rosaforte, a reporter for Golf Digest and Golf World, wrote on his Twitter account.
Perhaps Mr. Woods was hoping that by striding onto the course with the president he was taking further steps toward rehabilitation after the revelations in 2009 of infidelities that cost him his marriage, lucrative endorsement contracts and his standing in the game. He and the president had met at the White House during Mr. Obama's first term, and both indicated that they would like to golf together.
Mr. Obama arrived for Sunday's game well-practiced and primed for 36 holes, according to accounts from Mr. Rosaforte, who emerged as the best source of information. While the small pool of White House reporters and photographers remained out of sight, restricted to a bus just inside the resort's iron gates and reliant on Mr. Earnest for sparse details, Mr. Rosaforte apparently was allowed access to the grounds and the elite group.
"The president loves his golf," he reported on the Golf Channel after Saturday's long outing.
Mr. Obama played 18 holes on Saturday, broke for lunch and then went straight to a driving range for practice with the Harmons, Mr. Rosaforte said. Nine more holes followed, with the team of Mr. Obama and Butch Harmon winning and "taking a couple bucks off" the others, Mr. Rosaforte added, and then Mr. Obama headed to the Harmons' Learning Center "and beat balls for almost an hour."
The coaches said they had instructed Mr. Obama on "pretty simple stuff," Mr. Rosaforte said, like advising the left-handed president on how to better align his right shoulder when he swings.
"The president," he added, "walked over to say that Butch had given him a couple things to work on — big smile on his face."