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text: This wholecloth quilt took me 330 hours to complete – a white on white – and was given to a very dear friend who has always wanted one. She surely was surprised – didn't expect a thing! I put it on my frame on September 1 of 2012, thinking that if I spent an hour a day hand quilting on it, I would finish it by Christmas 2012. Well, by Thanksgiving, I could see pretty clearly that I had not given myself enough time…so my daily hand quilting turned into 4 hour stints and I finished it on December 27th and gave it to her on New Years Eve. It was so much fun to do and even more fun to see the expression on her face!


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We recently sat down with Brent Shelton, FatWallet's director of PR, and asked why the site was launched and how it works. Here he tells us how the site has evolved and some of the new offerings for loyal followers.
FatWallet started out as an online coupon and deal sharing community 12 years ago, but it's also become a popular shopping resource with a blog. How did that come about?
FatWallet started as a message board where like-minded consumers shared coupons and inside information on money-saving tips, mostly for buying tech online. Shortly after that, founder Tim Storm created the FatWallet forums, including Hot Deals, where thousands of crowd-sourced deals and coupons post monthly. These forums are also home to active Deal Discussion, Travel Discussion, and Finance forums, where some very smart people share all kinds of personal finance tips. It's a valuable resource if you're serious about saving money.
Was the blog part of the original plan?
The FatWallet blog started in 2009. Our goal was to mirror the content found in our forums with guest blogs from personal finance experts, couponers and shopping gurus. It's also the hub for our social media channels for news, savings opportunities, giveaways and light fun via facebook, twitter, youtube and pinterist.
How did you come up with the idea of offering cash back through key affiliates, and what does that mean for the consumer?
Cash back rewards (rebates) were implemented in 2004. This loyalty program was really the springboard to opening FatWallet up to mainstream consumers. The principle behind cash back is simple: when you shop through FatWallet to make a purchase at a retailer, FatWallet gets paid a commission and then shares some of that commission with you. Make it a habit and it adds up to a nice little savings account that you can receive via check or Paypal.
What is your favorite FatWallet deal?
For me the best deal is not paying the listed price and getting cash back. That money comes in handy when I want to make a bigger purchase or I sock it away for holiday gifts, an anniversary celebration, guitars (I have a slight fetish), etc. I also like any deal where I can stack discounts like a coupon code for free shipping, cash back, and a mail-in-rebate–cha-ching!
Your blog offers consumers a wide variety of personal finance information. How have consumers responded?
As guest blogging strengthened, we gained more readership. There are a lot of great posts on a variety of topics, most notably ones that help you save money. We have blogs on everything from lowering your insurance costs to refinancing your house.
What are the hottest blog posts currently on the site?
Proof: FatWallet Free After Rebate Deals Can Pay Your College Tuition (this went viral)
The Ultimate Laptop Buying Guide
15 Must-Have Video Games for the 2012 Holiday Season
The site also has a hot deals forum. What is that all about?
The hot deals forum is the life-blood of FatWallet. For the dedicated deal-hunter, it's the daily check-in, hangout, and place where some really savvy consumers share some of the best deals and shopping tactics on the internet. It's a great place to set an alert if you are in the market for finding an unbelievable deal on laptops, smartphones, computers and all sort of gadgets and everyday merchandise. It is also a great resource for mail-in-rebates and storewide discounts.
FatWallet offers a consumers access to the deals in their city. How does that work?
Getting cash back! Local Deals, our newest section, features Groupon, LivingSocial, Saveology, Woot, GILT, etc. deals in your city with added cash back savings. It offers one-stop check-in versus getting tons of daily emails in your inbox.


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Quick note for Mythic: Blackhand:
ATTENTION @Blynks
So it turns out Warlocks can utilize their Demonic Circle teleport to independently get onto the balcony at any time once the initial setup has been performed properly, allowing a single Warlock to solo the East balcony without the need of sending up another DPS or a healer.
The trick seems to be creating the portal on the very outside edge of the balcony while up top, effectively so it "hangs over" and can be teleported to from down below. So the order of events for Phase 2 Warlock are:
1. While falling from Phase 1, Leap to the East balcony.
2. Demo Form and Shadowfury > burn the entire add set.
3. Move toward the edge (ideally with walk turned on/run turned off) and take slow angular steps along the edge, pushing out slightly further each time.
4. Once out far enough, Demonic Circle can be dropped and the Warlock can drop down.
5. Then watch timers closely and teleport back up before East adds spawn, repeating Step 2 each time of stunning/burning them all down before jumping off as normal.
6. Since Demonic Circle lasts 6 minutes, getting it properly placed after the initial transition means it will last the entire duration of the phase.
In the event that a mistake is made and the Demonic Circle isn't properly placed after the transition fall and the Warlock falls off accidentally, it is probably advisable to send a single healer along with the Warlock up to the East side during Smash #2 to prepare for the next East side spawn set. After that second set is killed, place the Demonic Circle as intended and proceed with solo method from there.
More information can be found in this thread or by watching this video example starting around 2:20: http://www.hitbox.tv/video/534538/description
Dear warlocks, you special little snowflakes, stop being such an OP FTM all the tims.
Every other class (but mostly warriors)


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Comic Book Guy
"This will not do!"
It always amazes me peoples' varied perceptions of our cumulative geekiness as comic and SF fans. And were you in my position you, too, would struggle with the connotations people in "the real world" associate with my work in a store that sells comics.
I was at my friend's birthday party this past weekend when it was remarked to me, "Oh, you're comic book Jeff." While I was fully aware that this was an allusion to the birthday girl having at least two friends with the name "Jeff," and that I'd been designated by my occupation and not my general demeanor, the horrible- yet funny and occasionally true- stigma that Matt Groening, Hank Azaria, the Simpsons' writers, and dozens of dweeby comic store employees have attributed to people such as myself crept in my mind faster than the indigenous brain slugs of Seti-Alpha 5, and I found myself, once again, become much too defensive.
Like now.
For those of not in the know: the Simpson's character Comic Book Guy is also named Jeff. It was revealed in Season 16, episode 8, and has been a source of consternation for me since. Kinda hard to shake off those associations when you share a name with them. Y'know, that image of a lazy, obsessive dweeb whose adolescent fantasies and inability to deal with the real world plant him firmly on a stool behind the counter of The Android's Dungeon spewing sarcasm, insults, the kind of platitudes that come with an overly-compensatory superiority complex?
Well that just ain't me. And to many a stranger I meet, I find myself having to demonstrate that all too often.
We should embrace that which we are, though. Gnothi Seauton. Know thyself. I supposed I am "comic book Jeff," however much I wish certain associated pre-conceived notions didn't come with the moniker. And I realize that's a bit of a flip-flop of I am Not Spock/I am Spock proportions, but so be it. I am large, contain multitudes, and am versed in Klingon to boot.
6/25 Releases on Comic Book Guy's shopping list:
Get Lost– by Ross Andru & Mike Esposito. The publisher (Hermes) solicitation for this book is spot on, so it shall be reprinted here: "Love Harvey Kurtzman's original MAD? [I do! -j] Then you will have to have Andru and Esposito's historic satire and parody magazine, Get Lost. Originally released in 1953, Get Lost delivered three groundbreaking, laugh-filled issues before Bill Gaines sued the magazine's distributor, shutting down production of the magazine. Even though Gaines lost the lawsuit, Andru and Esposito never produced more Get Lost. Hermes Press' historic reprint collects all three issues of the magazine on heavy coated matte paper together with an introductory essay by noted pop-culture historian Ron Goulart, an interview with Mike Esposito, and tons of documentary material in one volume. For this archival edition Hermes Press has painstakingly reconstructed Get Lost's artwork using the original black-and-white line art and recoloring it from scratch. Mike Esposito says it 'looks better than the original.' MAD's most noteworthy competitor is a treasure to behold for fans of Alfred E. Newman as well as comic book collectors, fans, and anyone looking for a good laugh."
Final Crisis #2– by Grant Morrison and JG Jones. So much to say so little room. Not overly feeling this new mega-seriesso far, but hope you are.
Science Fiction Stuph
I don't think I've ever mentioned this to you cats before, but I'm a big, big fan of the SF and essays of writer Cory Doctorow. While perusing the phenomenally interesting blog/webzine he contributes to (BoingBoing.net) the other day I learned he'd just won a Locus Award (his fourth in four years) for his novella "After the Siege," which was collected in his short story collection Overclocked (available now at FP) and graphically adapted in comic format in Cory Doctorow's Future Tales (also available). Congrats to Cory, and all the winners of this years Locus Magazine Awards, reprinted here:
SF NOVEL The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
FANTASY NOVEL Making Money, Terry Pratchett
YA BOOK Un Lun Dun, China Miéville
FIRST NOVEL Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill
NOVELETTE "The Witch's Headstone", Neil Gaiman
SHORT STORY "A Small Room in Koboldtown", Michael Swanwick
COLLECTION The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Connie Willis
ANTHOLOGY The New Space Opera, Gardner Dozois ed.
NON-FICTION Breakfast in the Ruins, Barry N. Malzberg
ART BOOK The Arrival, Shaun Tan
EDITOR Ellen Datlow
MAGAZINE Fantasy&ScienceFiction
PUBLISHER Tor
ARTIST Charles Vess
Finally, I highly suggest you seek out, procure, watch, and enjoy a little documentary film titled "Tilt, The Battle to Save Pinball" from producer/director Greg Maletic. Every bit as good as last year's "King of Kong" this film "tells an account that any follower of technology, design, or business will find fascinating." A pinball fan myself (my trip to the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas is in a scant 3 weeks) I found it doubly so!


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text: Most of the waste collected in sub-Saharan African cities is biodegradable but it is usually dumped in landfills, creating environmental and health challenges for residents. However, there are biodegradable waste treatment methods that could mitigate these challenges. This study analysed anaerobic digestion, composting, vermicomposting and fly larvae waste treatments using life cycle assessment (LCA). The impact categories assessed were energy use, global warming and eutrophication potential. The results showed that anaerobic digestion performed best in all impact categories assessed. However, management of the anaerobic digestion process is critical and methane losses must be kept very small, as otherwise they will cause global warming.


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Japan's economy shrinks, raising fears of recession
Japan's economy shrank in the latest quarter, data showed Monday, raising fears it could slip into recession due to financial turmoil in Europe, a strong yen and a painful diplomatic row with China.
The world's third-largest economy contracted 0.9 percent between July and September from the previous three months, equivalent to an annualized 3.5 percent drop which Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda described as "severe".
The fall is yet more bad news for an economy that was already showing signs of strain, with tumbling factory output and the worst September trade figures in three decades.
Commentators warned the future is bleak, with a litany of worries including the Chinese consumer boycott of Japanese goods caused by a territorial row, an export-denting strong yen and the expiry of incentives for car buyers.
Noda – under pressure to call a general election – told parliament on Monday he would work "with a sense of crisis" to address the country's economic woes.
"I have also been instructing ministers concerned to draw up an economic package, possibly this month," Noda said, as he pointed to the first US$5.0 billion tranche of a previously-announced stimulus.
File photo of workers checking paints and bodies of Toyota Motor's best selling car "Corolla" at a plant of the company's subsidiary Central Motor at Ohira village in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan. Demand for Japanese cars has plunged in China, the world's biggest vehicle market, amid a consumer boycott that followed a territorial dispute over islands in the East China Sea.
Photo: AFP
The package came on top of measures taken in the wake of last year's quake-tsunami disaster, when Tokyo tried to spur growth by offering incentives for fuel-efficient vehicle purchases and measures to rebuild the northeastern coastline after the disaster.
While the latest figures beat market expectations of a 3.9 percent annualized contraction, it was the sharpest decline since last year's crisis, with household and company spending as well as exports all slowing.
Another three months of shrinkage in the October-December quarter would mean Japan has slipped back into a technical recession, which is defined as two successive quarters of contraction.
Economy minister Seiji Maehara pointed to those fears on Monday with comments likely to heap pressure on the Bank of Japan for further stimulus.
"We cannot deny the possibility that the Japanese economy has entered into a recessionary phase," Maehara told a press briefing.
Last month, the Bank of Japan unveiled $138 billion in fresh monetary easing after central banks in the United States and debt-hit Europe also announced fresh measures to fuel growth.
The central bank, which also said it would provide new loans to banks, had been under pressure from politicians calling for urgent action. It was likely to face renewed calls for stimulus in light of the growth data Monday.
Japan's trade picture has become increasingly bleak as exports to China, especially in the car market, suffer because of a consumer boycott.
This was sparked by Japan's nationalization in September of an East China Sea island chain claimed by both Tokyo and Beijing.
RBS Securities chief Japan economist Junko Nishioka told Dow Jones Newswires that the economy was unlikely to show growth again "until the April-June period at the earliest".
The strong yen is a particularly acute problem for major exporters such as automakers, with Honda and Nissan recently warning their full-year profits would shrink because of the surging currency and the China dispute.
Last month, Japan posted its worst September trade figures since 1979 due partly to the China row as well as weakness in the United States and Europe, two key export markets.
US-bound shipments were up just 0.9 percent in September, while exports to debt-hit Europe dived 21.1 percent. Exports to China were down 14.1 percent.


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Top Decks
Deck Search
As a casual player with almost 50 decks, this is the feature I want most. I'm not interested in tournaments, nor colors or likes. Maybe not the exact same thing, but all I want is to look at my collection and have it tell me which of my decks I have the card in. This would be a great help!https://deckstats.net/collection/5671/
https://deckstats.net/collection/1967/Standard or Pauper (your choice)Thanks in advance!
Awesome! I'll try it out and let you know. Thanks for the quick work!Edit: Works perfect! Now I can find my own cards. Thanks!
Can you add budget constraints?
Hm, maybe this is what i'm looking for.Could you try with this ? https://deckstats.net/collection/6002/


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October, 3 1945
On this day in 1945, it was children's day at the annual Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show at the Fairgrounds in the middle of town. Ten-year-old Elvis stood on a chair at a microphone and sang 'Old Shep' in the youth talent contest. The talent show was broadcast over WELO Radio. Legend has it that Elvis won second prize; $5.00 and free admission to all the rides at the fair.
However, further research has shown the Elvis did not place second at the fair, but he may have placed fifth, and probably did not win a prize. By Elvis's own recollection he won fifth place but got a whipping the same day from his mother for going on one of the more 'dangerous' rides.
Elvis is pictured here, he is the boy in the glasses.


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Professor Douglas Densmore, PhD
Boston University
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Director, CIDAR Group
Primary Investigator, Center of Synthetic Biology
Faculty, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry Program
Faculty, Bioinformatics Program
Faculty, Biomedical Engineering Dept.
Affiliated PI, SynBERC
Douglas Densmore
Boston University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Photonics Building, Rm 335
8 Saint Mary's Street
Boston, MA 02215
Office: (617) 358-6238
Fax: (617) 353-6440
He is the director of the Cross-disciplinary Integration of Design Automation Research (CIDAR) group at Boston University, where his team of staff and postdoctoral researchers, undergraduate interns, and graduate students develop computational and experimental tools for synthetic biology. His research facilities include both a computational workspace in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as experimental laboratory space in the Boston University Biological Design Center (BDC). He is the lead PI for the NSF Expeditions "Living Computing Project" and a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM.
His research interests include Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, Logic Synthesis, Digital Logic Design, System Level Design, and Synthetic Biology.
He received his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in May 2004. His master's thesis, "Platform Based Reconfigurable Architecture Exploration vis Boolean Expression," demonstrated how boolean satisfiability could be used to produce configurations for programmable hardware.
He went on to receive his PhD in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley as well in May 2007. His PhD thesis, "A Design Flow for the Development, Characterization, and Refinement of System Level Architecture Services," investigated how electronic system level design methodologies can be abstract and modular while remaining accurate and efficient.
After his graduation, he became a UC Chancellor's postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley under Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, where he studied the development of System Level Design methodologies for electronic systems, particularly architecture modeling and refinement verification. He also served as the leader of the UC Berkeley Software team in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, which earned a gold medal and the "Best Software Tool" award in 2008 for the development of the Clotho toolset.
In 2010, he carried out his postdoctoral research in the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), where he developed software tools for the design of synthetic biological devices.
He is currently a member of the Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC), the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems (CHESS), and the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC).
He has published work regarding a method of successful refinement verification of electronic systems, taxonomies of EDA design tools, and algebraic frameworks for the manipulation of functional design descriptions to expose computational parallelism.
He is the founder of the Nona Research Foundation, as well as the International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA), which is co-located at the annual Design Automation Conference (DAC). He is also the co-founder of the Bio-Design Automation Consortium (BDAC).
Hariri Institute Faculty Fellow 2016
ACM Senior Member
IEEE Senior Member
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium participant, 2013
Boston University Ignition Award, 2013
Boston University College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award, 2013
NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2013
Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering Junior Faculty Fellow, 2012-2014
Boston University Dean's Catalyst Award, 2012
Boston University ECE Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012
Richard and Minda Reidy Family Career Professor, 2010-2013
International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition "Best Software", 2008, 2009, 2011
International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition Gold Medals, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
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Day 4 - The second day of filming covers the second section of the day; from lunch until the evening. As the process of filming is time-consuming, it might be necessary to film the whole day.
Day 5 - An extra filming day, if needed.
At this stage I will return home and edit the video we filmed into a short film, between 5 and 10 minutes long, which is basically like a day in your life.
When the film is ready, I will return and show it to you. You will then be asked to describe what is happening in the film, as you are it, which I will record. You can have as many attempts as you need to record the voice-over as it might be difficult to recall all the information the first time through the film. If you are not happy with the film, for example if you feel it is not accurate, or you do not want something that was filmed to be seen by other people, the I will re-edit it
(Working method for producing participatory moving image portraits)
Day 1 – On this day you will be asked to keep a diary describing what happens during that particular day. There is no right or wrong answer and it is your decision what you want to write down. I will not be with you and nothing will be filmed.
Day 2 – The next day, I will meet with you and discuss what you have written down the previous day. The diary will be used to plan a film about the day the diary was written. Over the following two days, you will then be asked to act out that day, to act in a film about yourself.
Day 2 - In order to plan this day, we will design a 'storyboard' together and sketch out how the film will be made. For example, which locations will be used for filming, in these locations, where the camera will be and where you will be, etc.
Day 3 - On the first day of filming we will start to film in the early morning, and film the first section of the day; what happened before lunch. The storyboard designed the day before will make it clear what needs to be filmed.
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Hi Stefan,
We do not have an 8080 implementation I'm afraid. I think you'll be able to get something running relatively quickly though. TouchGFX calls a hook function whenever something in the frame buffer changes, and you'll need to implement this so it transfers the updated region to the display using 8080. This is explained in more detail in this knowledge base article: https://touchgfx.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203642951-MCUs-without-TFT-controller
You can also check out this forum post: https://touchgfx.zendesk.com/hc/communities/public/questions/201481402-Porting-TouchGFX-to-8080-based-LCDs
Maybe John has some additional tips he can share.


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On a recent visit to Portland, Oregon, I found myself unexpectedly with an extra day in my itinerary. So, being an aviation buff and former flight engineer in the Naval Air Reserve, it was a no-brainer to visit the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.
For me, part of the draw was that I knew McMinnville had been put on the map back in 1950, when it made national headlines for UFO sightings and two famous photos by a farmer and his wife. The nation was mesmerized with what appeared to be authentic documentation of interstellar travel, and now – over 60 years later – the photos have yet to be proven as a hoax and the mystery continues.
But I digress: my real goal was to check off an item on my life list of "things I must do," which was to see one of the best aviation museums on the planet.
Located on Highway 18 across from the McMinnville Municipal Airport, the museum complex is only an hour drive from Portland. However, it's located in an area where I would least expect to find it – amidst pinot noir vineyards and farms of turkey producers. And maybe some abandoned UFO. In short, it's in the middle of nowhere.
I turn off of Highway 18 toward what seem like giant hangars – only bigger. And then I do a double take, as it seems the road leading to the complex is an airport runway.
Glancing around to make sure I didn't take a wrong turn, I realize that this is all part of the aviation experience. Very cool. As I drive closer to the museum, I see an array of jets, tanks and helicopters displayed on the grounds.
The Aviation museum complex consists of three monstrous buildings. One houses aircraft, including the original Spruce Goose, while the next is dedicated to space flight. The third contains the IMAX cinemas. (A fourth building – the one with a Boeing 747 on the rooftop – is the recently opened waterpark and H20 museum featuring 10 slides, four of which exit directly from the fuselage of a 747. Admission is separate.)
Aviation Museum
With over 200 aircraft and exhibits ranging from military aircraft and helicopters to commercial and private aircraft, this is indeed a world-class collection. Admittedly, if for no reason but sheer size, the centerpiece is the Spruce Goose – a flying boat built entirely of wood due to wartime rationing of metals.
The largest warplane ever constructed, it was flown only once on November 12, 1947, by Howard Hughes. Hughes managed to fly it for a mile at an altitude of 70 feet along the Long Beach coastline before it succumbed to the laws of aerodynamics.
Unfortunately, it's next to impossible to convey the size of this plane with a camera. But if you must try, the best vantage point is by climbing the stairs to the second floor – right before the gift shop. Here you'll get the best view of the Spruce Goose and see how massive it really is.
Another "check-off" is the B-17 bomber, best known for its ability to dodge anti-aircraft fire during World War II and for successfully conducting daylight raids against Germany.
But one of my favorites was the somewhat obscure exhibit on international smokejumpers. Filled with facts and datelines, it gives an excellent portrayal of their important role in fighting forest fires.
Space Museum
The space museum is located at the other end of the parking lot from the aviation museum, adjacent to the IMAX, and showcases an array of rockets, engines, crew compartments and lots of fun facts about space flight. Plus the actual Space Shuttle will soon be coming to rest here, too!
For now, my favorite is the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a high-altitude strategic reconnaissance plane that flew at speeds over 2,000 miles per hour. One of the world's fastest aircraft, it also set an sustained speed altitude record at 85,069 feet – flying too high for surface-to-air missile systems to track and destroy. It's incredible to think that this former stealth secret is now on public display.
Don't miss the Titan II, a large booster rocket that began as a missile and was then used to launch NASA's Gemini astronauts. The best part is the exact replica of the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch room, where you can experience a simulated launch sequence.
No Time for IMAX
With so much to see in each museum, I easily lost track of time and spent several hours more than I originally anticipated. So I had to forgo the IMAX movies on this visit. (It gives me a good reason to come back.) I did hear from many visitors that the movies are well worth the separate admission price: $11 for adults, $10 for seniors and $9 for youth.
However, I did save time for a glass of the 2008 Spruce Goose Pinot Noir Reserve, served at the tasting rooms located in both the Aviation and Space museums. You can also purchase bottles of favorite wines from Evergreen Vineyards. (So that's why there are so many vineyards surrounding the property!)
In summary, be sure to save a full day for the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. It's the "Disneyland" of aviation and should be on the bucket list for any veteran, aviator, WWII buff or space nut.


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11,002 Things to Be Miserable About is a list of all the reasons NOT to wake up in the morning. Ironically enough, when you put all of them under one cover, it's actually very funny. This decidedly absurd inventory of misery is perfect for sardonic and disaffected youth, for people seeking gifts for Traumatic Event Birthdays (like 21, 25, 30, 40, and, well, anything after 40), and for anyone else with an offbeat sense of humor. Enjoy.
Some of the entries are pretty basic, like imitation crabmeat, student loans, and David Hasselhoff, but other entries actually include educational things, like: Dust mites, which make up one-third of the weight of a six-year-old pillow. See, you can laugh and learn.
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"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Duncesare as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life.
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In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.
But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.
As Jenny says:
"Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he's never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos.
"Most of my favorite people are dangerously fucked-up but you'd never guess because we've learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new normal. Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, 'We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.' Except go back and cross out the word 'hiding.'"
Furiously Happy is about "taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they're the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. It's the difference between "surviving life" and "living life". It's the difference between "taking a shower" and "teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair." It's the difference between being "sane" and being "furiously happy."
Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. This is a book about embracing everything that makes us who we are - the beautiful and the flawed - and then using it to find joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Because as Jenny's mom says, "Maybe 'crazy' isn't so bad after all." Sometimes crazy is just right.
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The Hand of the King serves as the head of the reigning king's Small Council and, in the king's absence, the Hand becomes his proxy. The individual charged with this powerful responsibility uses the Hand of the King's wax seal stamp to seal royally issued documents. Game of Thrones: Hand of the King Wax Seal Kit includes a Hand of the King wax seal, wax stick, mini envelopes, and blank scrolls.
"How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To." —CNET
"[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend." —Simone Giertz
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun.
By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
#1 New York Times Bestseller
"Funny and smart as hell" (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.
Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.
This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, "The God of Cake," "Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving," and her astonishing, "Adventures in Depression," and "Depression Part Two," which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written.
Brosh's debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to.
This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn't me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I'm not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book:
Stories about things that happened to me
Stories about things that happened to other people because of me
Eight billion dollars*
Stories about dogs
The secret to eternal happiness*
*These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence "Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I'll shut up about it?"
Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you've come to the right book, mostly!
In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door—not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Little Miss Basic loves her Uggs, her pumpkin spice lattes, and texting her totes amaze Basic B*tches. But when she gets dumped by her BAE, Mr. Douchebag, she feels sad and ratchet inside. How can a Basic bounce back?
Meet her friends from the Little Miss and Mr. ME ME ME parody series: Mr. Selfie, Little Miss Overshare, and Mr. Humblebrag!
Little Miss Overshare is so very generous, she sometimes gives toomuch. Too much information! In this heartwarming tell-all tale, she informs a senior citizen about her sex life, discusses her digestive system with her roommate, and chit-chats about her lady problems at the office water cooler. Do you know a silly someone who shares more than her fair share? Then you'll want to share Little Miss Overshare!
Meet her friends from the Little Miss and Mr. ME ME ME parody series: Mr. Selfie , Mr. Humblebrag and Little Miss Basic!
Silly Mr. Humblebrag. He has fame, fortune, and a hot fiancé, and he can't wait to tell everyone how darn #lucky he is. But what if they hate his guts instead of revel in his success? In this inspiring tribute to false modesty, Mr. Humblebrag learns the most important lesson of all: Everyone loves a winner as long as he acts like a loser.
Meet his friends from the Little Miss and Mr. ME ME ME parody series: Mr. Selfie, Little Miss Overshare, and Little Miss Basic!
For Mr. Selfie, every op is a photo op—as long as he is the one in front of the lens. And also behind it! He risks his job taking selfies at work. He risks his life taking selfies at the zoo. And whenever he feels romantic, he whips out his selfie stick and sexts that special someone: himself. Do you know someone with no selfie-control? Then you'll love Mr. Selfie as much as Mr. Selfie does!
Meet his friends from the Little Miss and Mr. ME ME ME parody series: Little Miss Overshare, Mr. Humblebrag and Little Miss Basic!
The Bard meets the Backstreet Boys in Pop Sonnets, a collection of 100 classic pop songs reimagined as Shakespearean sonnets. All of your favorite artists are represented in these pages—from Bon Jovi and Green Day to Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé, and beyond. Already a smash sensation on the Internet—the Tumblr page has 20,000+ followers—Pop Sonnets has been featured by the A.V. Club, BuzzFeed, and Vanity Fair, among many others. More than half of these pop sonnets are exclusive to this collection and have never been published in any form.
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk chronicles the greatest Starfleet captain's life (2233–2371), in his own words. From his birth on the U.S.S. Kelvin, his youth spent on Tarsus IV, his time in the Starfleet Academy, his meteoric raise through the ranks of Starfleet, and his illustrious career at the helm of the Enterprise, this in-world memoir uncovers Captain Kirk in a way Star Trek fans have never seen. Kirk's singular voice rings throughout the text, giving insight into his convictions, his bravery, and his commitment to the life—in all forms—throughout this Galaxy and beyond. Excerpts from his personal correspondence, captain's logs, and more give Kirk's personal narrative further depth.
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The perfect gift for any bookworm in your life, The Book Lover's Cup of Tea includes an innovative book-shaped tea infuser (titled A Tale of Two Ci-Teas) that offers two ways to brew: Dunk the entire book into your cup, or let the cover rest on the rim of your tea cup and hang the tea-filled pages into your hot water to steep. The kit also includes a 32-page book with tips for making the perfect cup of tea; suggestions for tea and book pairings (fancy a cup of Dorian Earl Gray?); and scrumptious recipes for tea sandwiches, cakes, and cookies, perfect for a book club gathering or a long, lazy day of reading.
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Fanfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more—it's never been a better time to be a girl geek. The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy is the ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life, a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated world of geekdom. With delightful illustrations and an unabashed love for all the in(ternet)s and outs of geek culture, this book is packed with tips, playthroughs, and cheat codes, including:
• How to make nerdy friends
• How to rock awesome cosplay
• How to write fanfic with feels
• How to defeat Internet trolls
• How to attend your first con
And more! Plus, insightful interviews with fangirl faves, like Jane Espenson, Erin Morgenstern, Kate Beaton, Ashley Eckstein, Laura Vandervoort, Beth Revis, Kate Leth, and many others.
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THE "GENIUS" (Cosmopolitan) NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Are you stressed out, overbooked, and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? It's time to stop giving a f*ck.
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With this kit, complete with a 32page book explaining bonsai gardening, an instruction sheet, a small pot, a peat pellet, a packet of seeds, and a pair of scissors, indoor gardeners can grow a peaceful mini-garden anywhere they choose. Whether it's on a desk or in a kitchen, this little bit of greenery will brighten up the day-just add water! Also available in a full-size kit
Stressed out by the upcoming holidays? Invite tranquility into your home or workplace with your own holiday bonsai tree. Based upon a centuries-old tradition, the kit includes a pot, seeds, a peat pellet, and small scissors, plus a 44-page introduction to the beauty of berry bonsai. With a little patience, you'll enjoy growing a miniature version of this already miniature art!
With The Uxbridge English Dictionary the stars of BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue had the nation in stitches. But times move on, words change and their meanings with them. Comedy's most outrageous dictionary is back with a hilarious new collection of definitions for all those English words that don't mean anything like they should.
If you have ever pondered the meaning of Platypus (to give your cat pigtails), Flemish (rather like snot) or Celtic (a prison for fleas), then this is the book for you.
With nearly 600 new definitions from radio's best loved comedy show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, The New Uxbridge English Dictionary pushes the boundaries of the English language to new side-splitting limits.
A must for any fan of British comedy.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction
Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature
Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review
Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Denver Post, BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly
Named a "Must-Read" by Flavorwire and New York Magazine's "Vulture" Blog
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant.
Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Selloutresigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral.
Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident—the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
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Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, "ten hundred") most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including:
How do these things work? Where do they come from? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we opened them up, heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever wondered how things work, and why.
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Sparky Sweets, PhD, and Wisecrack proudly present this outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to literature based on the hit online series,Thug Notes. Inside, you'll find hilarious plot breakdowns and masterful analyses of sixteen of literature's most beloved classics, including:Things Fall Apart, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet, The Catcher in the Rye,Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, and more!
The series Thug Notes has been featured on BET, PBS, and NPR and has been used in hundreds of classrooms around the world. Whether you're a student, teacher, or straight-up literary gangster like Dr. Sweets, Thug Notes has got you covered. You'll certainly never look at literature the same way again.
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From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, surprising answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask
Millions of people around the world visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans' strangest questions. The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical:
• What if I took a swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool?
• Could you build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns?
• What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City?
• What would happen if someone's DNA vanished?
His responses are comic gems, accurately and entertainingly explaining everything from your odds of meeting your soul mate to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements.
This book features the most popular answers from the xkcd's What If blog, but many of the questions (51 percent!) are new and answered here for the first time. What If? is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.
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With universal appeal (everyone poops, after all), this witty, illustrated description of over two dozen dookies (each with a medical explanation written by a doctor) details what one can learn about health and well-being by studying what's in the bowl. A floater? It's probably due to a buildup of gas. Now think back on last night's dinner, a burrito perhaps? . . .All the greatest hits are here: The Log Jam, The Glass Shard, The Deja Poo, The Hanging Chad . . . the list goes on. Sidebars, trivia, over 60 euphemisms for number 2, and unusual case histories all make this the ultimate bathroom reader. Who knew you could learn so much from your poo?
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Janet Pells
Ms. Pells' ability to connect and listen to what is relevant to a business and its owners has earned her the reputation of being the most sought-after HR Outsourcing sales professional on the East Coast. Ms. Pells has been recognized as a top producer within the industry and is responsible for acquiring some of the largest clients at Employee Services, Inc. Following the acquisition of Employee Services, Inc., Janet joined Anurag Dandiya's team as a sales leader managing 13 sales professionals nationwide. Her success has generated revenues in excess of $200 million within the healthcare and hospitality industries.
Today, Ms. Pells serves as Director of Business Development at Anthros and plays an integral role in attracting and retaining the company's largest clientele. Ms. Pells is regarded as a top producer within the industry and her ongoing commitment to client needs and changing state and federal employment rules continues to provide incredible value to the Anthros leadership team.
Ms. Pells is consistently committed to professional growth and possesses a keen interest in adapting to technology enhancements required to create efficiencies. She is also involved in creating a coaching curriculum for Anthros sales professionals and is revered as a respected member of the Anthros Senior Leadership team.
Ms. Pells has supported Make-a-Wish foundation and Special Olympics for more than a decade and has donated her time and personal resources to Celebration Exotic Car Festival as an Event Organizer in 2009. Janet has been an avid water skier since childhood and continues to enjoy time on the lakes water skiing with her husband, daughter, son and two granddaughters.


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First let me show you what my friend Maria Laura sent me that made me all giddy inside! She and I both have such a love for paper crafts and items that we are always sending each other little finds...
My dear friend Christelle from France sent me this delicious eye-candy smorgasbord of paper goods, postcards, magnets, teas, and trinkets as a wonderful surprise too! Just look at the wonderful little things she sent me:
|A package of delights: Parisian postcards, quote cards, samples, a lovely necklace
with two charms, lots of paper ephemera, personalised magnets, and teas! Thanks
to Christelle for such a beautiful surprise present!
|Clockwise from left: Happy Holidays card from Maria Laura (US), Christmas Wishes
card from Andy (UK), Santa Claus card from Jenny (US) and Feliz Navidad card from Fany (Spain).
We've displayed them in the china cabinet along with all the other decorations for Christmas which I will also share with you here:
Well, I am sure I will have more to show you all in the very near future! Happy preparing for the holidays! May it be joyous and merry!
Kind Regards,
Nadia Marie


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11 Jul
Across July and August 2018, The Virtual Orchestra takes over the heart of Bedford, bringing audiences an immersive 10-room installation and virtual reality showcase to the city centre - all for free. Accompanying The Virtual Orchestra is a vibrant Fringe programme of live performances showcasing local artists and Philharmonia musicians - look out for our Fringe logo!
In this blog post, we'll give a taste of what you can expect, and shine a spotlight on some of the wonderful groups and projects that serve communities across Bedford.
Local music hubs transform young people's lives through music across the UK. Here in Bedford, Music for Bedford Borough run a variety of creative ensembles across different musical genres, supported by a network of tutors. They present two massed performances as part of The Virtual Orchestra Fringe - it's going to be loud!
Massed Brass Bands
Thursday 12th July, 7pm | Riverside Square, by The Virtual Orchestra installation
Bedford Progress band join forces with Olney Development Brass Band in a concert at Riverside Square. Each band will deliver a short individual programme before combining to play an arrangement of 'Mars' from 'The Planets Suite'. This is the first time that the bands have met and performed together and it's hoped that it will be the first in a long and successful collaboration.
Music Centre Concert
Saturday 14th July, 10.30am | University of Bedford, Polhill Avenue
Music for Bedford Borough's Saturday Morning Music Centre (SMMC) is the setting for a collaborative performance with the Centre's young students and those of Bedford Music Co-op's 'Friday's Fliers'. Ensembles will perform separately and then join together for a massed performance of 'Mars' from 'The Planets Suite'.
Find out more about Music for Bedford Borough - click here.
Now in its eighth year, Hear and Now is one of the Philharmonia's flagship projects. Crossing generations and backgrounds, it brings together musicians from Fusion Youth Singing and The Tibbs Dementia Foundation's Music for Memory singing group with Philharmonia musicians for an extraordinary creative collaboration, all under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Steiner.
Sunday 15 July, 2pm | Riverside Square, by The Virtual Orchestra installation
At The Virtual Orchestra Fringe, we'll celebrate the achievements of the project so far, reflecting on some of the stories our participants shared in their music over the years. Hear them perform Take the Time, Daisy Daisy, and God Only Knows (heard in the project film, above), alongside a brand new piece based on Mars from Holst's The Planets.
Find out more about Hear and Now - click here.
Bedford Creative Arts brings artists and communities together to create great new art in unexpected ways and in unusual places. Working in Bedfordshire for over 30 years, wherever you find one of their projects you can expect something inspiring and ever-so-slightly extraordinary.
Friday 3 August, 11am-5pm | Riverside Square, by The Virtual Orchestra installation
As part of their current Future Town commission with artist Sadie Hennessy they bring you Futur-oke. This pop-up, galactic-inspired, karaoke booth next to The Virtual Orchestra, invites you to release your inner superstar.
Using the ultra accessible form of musical performance that is Karaoke, in which failure is almost a positive, they hope to provide a stepping stone into the Virtual Orchestra and the world of classical music.
Find out more about Bedford Creative Arts's Future Towns project - click here.


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Hi guys!
Welcome back to the place that aims to please readers of all shapes, sizes, and ages every day of the week....Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers!
Today, we are heading back into the digital wild to read and share te latest Children's eBook from an author you've seen featured on the site time and again. Why do I feature here work so often? Well, that should be obvious, but to those that are new to the site, it's because while they were good to start with, they've grown better and better over time. This newest release is no exception! Ready to meet your next pick for the little reader beside (or inside) you? Let's do this! Today's ebook of choice is...
Humpfree: The Humpless Camel
Julia Dweck
Illustrated by
Young-Min Yoon
This is the story of Humpfree Camel and his quest to find his humps. Once you get done laughing at that sentence, let me know...because while there is humor abounding within these pages, there is also a distinct message of JUST BE YOU because you are special, you are important, you are a one of a kind original...and in Humpfree's case, he really is.
He grows up knowing he's different but not in the "I'm-good-with-that" sorta way. It makes him uncomfortable, so much so he embarks on a quest for his humps. He looks everyone. High. Low. On top of...and below. He finds many a makeshift substitute and yet nothing feels meant to be. Down in the mouth and head hanging low, he's just about given up.. until "redemption" comes in the form of a snappily dressed explorer with a little food for thought to share. The rest as they say is history. ..in the most smile inducing way possible.
Perhaps the coolest part of this little beauty outside of the AWESOME illustrations and ADORABLE story is the fact that it has a tie to real life. There is actually a "humpless" camel that has more recently been discovered, a fact readers are encouraged to investigate at story's end. Ms. Dweck includes a few fun facts to entice the curious thinker in you along with a warning to NEVER irritate a camel (*-*) should the occasion arrive. It's fun, it's informative; it's a beauty to behold and another reading treasure of Ms Dweck's creation I'm proud to say "been there, read that"...and highly recommend for all ages.
ARC ebook for review courtesy of author Julia Dweck. (THANKS!) For more on this title as well as her growing catalog of bookish wonders, be sure to like her on Facebook (www.facebook.com/juliadweckbooks) or follow along on Twitter (http://twitter.com/juleloves2write). This title is coming to an ebook retailer near you October 5th via Xist Publishing, so mark your calendars or simply preorder it now ( http://ow.ly/p50cD)! You won't be sorry.
Until next time...revel in the you that is you...and happy reading!


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Symbol of peace, under attack: Vatican doves attacked by black crow, seagull
A dove which was freed by children flanked by Pope Francis during the Angelus prayer, is chased by a black crow in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. Symbols of peace have come under attack at the Vatican. The doves' fate was not immediately known. While speaking at the window, Francis appealed for peace to prevail in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
VATICAN CITY -- Two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis as a peace gesture have been attacked by other birds.
As tens of thousands of people watched in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, a seagull and a large black crow swept down on the doves right after they were set free from an open window of the Apostolic Palace.
One dove lost some feathers as it broke free from the gull. But the crow pecked repeatedly at the other dove.
It was not clear what happened to the doves as they flew off.
While speaking at the window beforehand, Francis had appealed for peace in Ukraine, where anti-government protesters have died.


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"Robertson said, one man had more judgment, another more imagination.
JOHNSON. 'No, sir; it is only, one man has more mind than another. He may direct it differently; he may, by accident, see the success of one kind of study, and take a desire to excel in it. I am persuaded that, had Sir Isaac Newton applied to poetry, he would have made a very fine epick poem. I could as easily apply to law as to tragick poetry.'
BOSWELL. 'Yet, sir, you did apply to tragick poetry, not to law.'
JOHNSON. 'Because, sir, I had not money to study law. Sir, the man who has vigour, may walk to the east, just as well as to the west, if he happens to tune his head that way.'
BOSWELL. 'But, sir, 'tis like walking up and down a hill; one man will naturally do the one better than the other. A hare will run up a hill best, from her fore-legs being short; a dog down.'
JOHNSON. 'Nay, sir; that is from mechanical powers. If you make mind mechanical, you may argue in that manner. One mind is a vice, and holds fast; there's a good memory. Another is a file; and he is a disputant, a ontroversialist. Another is a razor; and he is sarcastical.'
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August 2011, Volume 9, Issue 8
Year of the Bat
Thousands of people braved triple-digit temperatures to celebrate the first annual International Bat Night Saturday (August 27) in Austin, Texas, hometown of Bat Conservation International. More than a dozen similar events were held around the United States as BCI helped organize and promote simultaneous festivals, lectures and bat-watching forays as part of the International Year of the Bat.
The United Nations declared 2011-2012 as Year of the Bat. BCI is among Founding Partners for the Year, with a key role in encouraging bat-awareness celebrations around the world, from Philadelphia to the Philippines, and Portland to Peru. These expanding festivities offer an unprecedented opportunity to educate millions of people about the benefits of bats and the threats they face.
Bat Night, on the last weekend in August, began in Europe 15 years ago, under the auspices of EUROBATS (the Agreement on the Conservation of European Bats). Increasingly popular across the continent, it is now celebrated in about 30 countries – as it was on Saturday. Now Bat Night has gone intercontinental as a result of BCI's efforts for International Year of the Bat.
In Austin, Bat Night was combined with the seventh annual Batfest at the downtown Congress Avenue Bridge, summer home to about 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats. The bridge bats are revered in Austin and draw tens of thousands of bat-watchers each summer.
Bat Night visitors learned about bats from BCI staff and volunteers at the bridge. They also gathered at a nearby Hyatt Regency hotel to see a live fruit bat during a presentation by BCI Outreach Associate Dianne Odegard. The free, city-sponsored celebration also featured live music and variety of arts, crafts and food vendors. And if that wasn't enough, the bridge bats staged an especially dramatic emergence as the sun was setting.
International Bat Night was also celebrated at BCI's Bracken Bat Cave near San Antonio. Other events were held in Georgia, Indiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, and elsewhere.
Activities really began about two weeks earlier, when BCI and Lake Superior Zoo presented Bat Week. Events included a daily "Bat Breakfast" with children's activities, a bat-house workshop and several speakers who discussed bat myths, benefits and research.
BCI is also organizing an important bat symposium, hosted by The Field Museum of Chicago on October 15. The keynote speaker will be BCI Founder Merlin Tuttle, with presentations by BCI Executive Director Nina Fascione, BCI Director of Education James Eggers, as well as Endangered Species Manager Joe Kath of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Director Cory Holliday of The Nature Conservancy's Tennessee Cave & Karst Program, educator Scott Heinrichs and representatives of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service White-nose Syndrome team and the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center.
Among Year of the Bat events next year, BCI is organizing the first U.S. Bat Appreciation Week beginning April 9, 2012. BCI and the Houston Zoo are planning a bat symposium on April 14, and local conservation groups are planning a wide range events, from bat-related crafts and games to bat walks, talks and viewings as part of the weeklong celebration.
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Former national striker Stern John and several of his colleagues brought a touch of excitement and inspiration when the bpTT Mayaro Football League launched its 2013 season with an exhibition double-header at the Mayaro Recreation Ground on Sunday.
John was a member of the year-old D-14 FC, a team comprising several former national stars, which hammered a youthful Mayaro All Stars X1 5-0 in the feature match.
"Coming to Mayaro presents a fantastic opportunity for the young footballers in the community to match their skills against players who have competed at the highest level.
We are happy to be able to offer some inspiration to these youngsters. We are in existence for about a year now, and we go to different communities and schools and assist them to develop their skills," explained John, who holds the goal-scoring record for Trinidad and Tobago.
Other past national players who featured in the match were Gary Glasgow, Ancil Elcock, and Peter Alfred. Scorers were Glasgow, Brian Yorke, Mark James, Alfred, with an own goal by the Mayaro All Stars team.
The first match, which ended goalless, featured the Under-1`7 teams of Mayguaya United and Mandingo Simple.
Earlier, Biche FC won the March Past competition, with Mayguaya United placing second and Caution FC, third.
Run by Illusion International Sports Club, the Mayaro Football League is sponsored by energy company BP Trinidad and Tobago whose home community is Mayaro.
Illusion's public relations officer, Roderick Alexander, acknowledged that the presence of the former T&T footballers would be a great motivating factor for the youths of Mayaro. "Just to have these players in Mayaro in the flesh is a fillip for our aspiring footballers. We are sure it will spur them on to reach the highest levels of the sport," he noted.
Joel Primus, community sustainability and stakeholder relations adviser, bpTT, said the league helped to build community spirit and camaraderie. He gave the assurance that bpTT would continue its support of the league in the future.
Encouraging the young players to "play hard but fair' was Raymond Cozier, councilloer for Mayaro/Guayaguayare.
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1. What is the significance of the fallen tree in the Kellers' yard?
The tree that cracked in the wind the night before the play begins was planted for Larry Keller, the Kellers' son who disappeared several years ago while fighting in the war. Today would have been his birthday.
2. Describe Joe Keller.
Joe Keller is the quintessence of the self-made man. He comes from working class roots, and he is stoic, pragmatic, considerate and loving toward his family. He speaks only when certain of what he will say.
3. Why is Frank Lubey drawing up a horoscope?
Frank is drawing up Larry Keller's horoscope for November 25 at the request of Kate Keller, Larry's mother. Larry disappeared on November 25, and Kate wants to know if that was a favorable day for Larry, since that would be a day that he could not have conceivably died if it were favorable.
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Petunias are dependable annuals, perfect in containers, hanging baskets or in a flower bed. The range of colors is almost endless, from white to pastel pink and yellow to bright purple and hot pink. Although the surefire way to get started with petunias is to purchase bedding plants, if you're adventurous, you can collect seeds from existing petunias, and plant them the following year. Keep in mind that only a small percentage of the seeds will be viable, and that there is no guarantee the color will be the same as the original plant.
Choose a few of your healthiest petunia plants, and allow several petunia blooms to die on the plant. When they are completely dead, cut the blooms from the plant with a pair of garden shears. Save the seed pod, or calyx, on each dead petunia. It will look like a small, plump pod at the base of the bloom.
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The SNAP longboard is able to fold for easy and practical use just about anywhere you go.
The Longboard is a great tool for getting around town in a hurry, but storing it is usually much trickier. The difference between this board and the regular ones is that it comes equipped with two specialized hinges that are able to fold into half, which changes its size from 38 inches down to 19. This means that rather than having to awkwardly place it on the floor and risking it getting in the way of other passersby, the foldable option will allow you to store it easily in your backpack instead.
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Last Thursday we bid farewell and good luck to our director, Judy! Judy has been our director for over 3 years and led Sound Harmony to our first contest medal in 2016! We had a party with lots of great treats and presented her with some mementos of our time together.
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Grand Prairie Farmers Market Voted No. 1 in Texas, Top 10 Nationally for 3rd Year
American Farmland Trust's annual survey called on shoppers to identify the best of America's farmers markets.
Grand Prairie Farmers Market has been voted by the public as the No. 1 farmers market in Texas and 7th in the nation in this year's "Farmers Market Celebration" contest by American Farmland Trust. This marks the third year Grand Prairie has been voted No. 1 in the state of Texas and top 10 nationally.
What you put on your fork matters. That's the message behind American Farmland Trust's annual Farmers Market Celebration. The celebration calls on shoppers to help identify the best of America's farmers markets. The summer-long event launched in June and concluded on September 22, 2017. The public voted online for their favorite and Grand Prairie has been in the running for the top market each year since 2012.
"The Celebration encourages market customers, family farmers, community activists – anyone who believes they've got the best farmers market in the country – to endorse their market in four special areas: Focus on Farmers, Healthy Food for All, Pillar of the Community, and Champion for the Environment," said Susan Sink, Vice President of Development and External Relations.
The Grand Prairie Farmers Market, which is managed by the City of Grand Prairie Parks, Arts & Recreation Department, has been consistently marketing and promoting the market with special events every Saturday during the season, frequent social media content, and encouraging patrons, vendors, and citizens to join in on helping promote the city's local market located downtown.
"We are thankful for the participation and excitement from our city departments and citizens in helping promote, take pride, and visit our award-winning farmers market," Brandon Huether, Marketing and Communications Specialist for the Parks, Arts & Recreation Department, said. "This yearly competition proves we have one of the best markets and helps bring more national recognition to the services we provide within our city and what a great crown jewel we have in the downtown area."
To learn more, visit markets.farmland.org and gptx.org/farmersmarket.
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France has become the 14th country to legally recognize same sex marriages. After bitter debate, public protests and numerous violent acts against gays, the French Government finalized the law allowing gay marriage as well as gay adoption. The vote was 331-225 in favor.
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LAPD's Response to Our Story Restores Our Faith in Humanity
This is flat-out awesome. Two days ago, we wrote a story about David Bridson's experience after his backpack was stolen out of his car in Silver Lake, a Los Angeles neighborhood. The LAPD's response was tepid at first, then absurd later on. But we got a note from David that suggests that there are real, live human beings on the job, even at a huge bureaucracy like the LAPD. If you didn't read the story, David Bridson parked his car on a busy street in Silver Lake, in broad daylight, and made the mistake of leaving his backpack in the locked car. When he came back, his window was smashed, and his backpack containing his laptop, iPad and phone was gone. He contacted the LAPD to fill out a report, and then later realized that using the iPad's locator feature, he could might be able to find its location. It worked and he provided the address to the Auto Theft Division. Fourteen hours later, after calling the officer back, David got the response that detectives were out on vacation and that they really didn't have the time to go tracking stolen goods around the city.
To make matters worse, David got a letter -- addressed from the Chief of the LAPD -- noting that in order to prevent him from being victimized again, the LAPD was offering a smoking good deal on The CLUB, a state-of-the-art security device from back when Ronald Reagan was president.
Our story sat out there for a day with a bunch of shares and comments, and last night, I got the following message from David:
"So guess who just got a call from the LAPD burglary division....
They are very embarrassed and they feel as though they failed me. They will be holding new training sessions in regards to how situations like this are handled."
The Burglary Division noted: "For the record: the letter I received is a mass mailing that is done by volunteers that have no information about your case."
"The detective was very nice and I appreciated the call," David wrote. "Overall it goes to show that raising your voice...can actually make a difference."
Awesome way to reach out, LAPD! Thanks for the followup.