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Book-banning, Bahai-hating, regime bigot-in-chief Sheikh Ali Gomaa, the Mufti of Egypt, has decreed that women are barred from the presidency in Egypt.
Who will rid us of these turbulent priests?
"Under Islamic sharia (religious law), a woman cannot be head of state because it is one of the duties of the position to lead Muslims in prayer and that role can only be carried out by men," said the fatwa carried by leading state daily Al-Ahram.I'm afraid this AFP article rather misses the point when it ends with the following paragraph:
"If by political rights, we mean the right to vote, stand as candidate or assume public office, then the sharia has no objection to women enjoying them, but a woman cannot serve as head of state.
"Women can stand as candidates for parliament or the consultative council, in so far as they can reconcile their duties with the rights that their husbands and children have over them."
But in a country where the Muslim Brotherhood is the main opposition group, social pressures still limit women's political role.This implies that the MB is behind the growing conservatism of regime clerics, even though women's representation has steadily dropped under Mubarak (partly because he removed quotas in 1987) and the ruling NDP did not give much if any backing to female in the last elections (whereas the admittedly also bigoted MB fielded one female candidate). It is becoming increasingly clear that the Mubarak regime and the NDP has its own Islamo-conservatives, and in some ways they are worse than the MB. Just look at the recent uproar in the NDP over Farouq Hosni's veil remarks, the agitation of "clash of civilization" issues, and Mubarak's own pronouncements over Shias' loyalty to Iran.
Who will rid us of these turbulent priests?


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what is the grammatical gender concord argument for 1John 5?
why is this grammatical question of significance?
is the argument complex? does it require Greek knowledge to understand?
are there other grammatical arguments involving 1John 5?
what is an internal argument?
how does the grammatical argument relate to the external (manuscript and ECW evidences)?
what is the history of the development of the argument?
who are the principle figures in favor of the argument? opposed? others?
who are the principle figures in the public debate today?
who is the most important historical figure in seeing the short 3-witness text as a solecism?
what are the objection responses to the force of the argument?
a) constructio ad sensum
b) masculine participle acts as subjunctive
c) hybrid and other arguments
d) the grammar does not change with the heavenly witnesses
what is the basic underlying theory of grammatical excellence in reviewing variants?
how have Greek grammar studies changed from the days of Bible belief and classical studies?
are there interesting quotes form short text supporters?
why do the short text defenders have so many conflicting explanations for their text?
what is the overall conclusion as to the grammatical argument?


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UK 'Snooper's Charter' Seeks To Eliminate Pesky Private Communications
from the eat-your-heart-out,-china dept
As expected, the UK government has published its Draft Communications Bill (pdf) -- better known as the "snooper's charter," since it requires ISPs to record key information about every email sent and Web site visited by UK citizens, and mobile phone companies to log all their calls (landline information is already recorded).
Since this was only released a few hours ago, people are still trawling through it to find out what delights it holds, but an eagle-eyed David Meyer has already spotted something rather extraordinary: the UK government seems to be proposing to log not just every IP packet, but every physical packet -- and letter, and postcard -- too.
That's thanks to Section 25 of the Draft, which states:
Part 1 [the main requirements to log communications data] applies to public postal operators and public postal services as it applies to telecommunications operators and telecommunications services.
And if you were wondering what "communications data" means when applied to letters and postcards, it includes:
postal data comprised in or attached to a communication (whether by the sender or otherwise) for the purposes of a postal service by means of which it is being or may be transmitted
Letters, telephone calls, email and the Web -- this is a level of total surveillance that countries like China, North Korea or Iran can only dream of. What remains unclear is how the UK government will try to gather this incredible flood of information, and whether it can access it in real time. Here's what the site Privacy International thinks will happen:
The government today published a draft version of a bill that, if signed into law in its current form, would force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and mobile phone network providers in Britain to install 'black boxes' in order to collect and store information on everyone's internet and phone activity, and give the police the ability to self-authorise access to this information.
That article points out that two important questions on the Internet side of things remain unanswered:
However, the Home Office failed to explain whether or not companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter will be brought under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), and how they intend to deal with HTTPS encryption.
When an official was pressed on that last point, he gave a rather disturbing reply:
At this morning's Home Office briefing, Director of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism Charles Farr was asked about how the black box technology would handle HTTPS encryption. His only response was: "It will."
This is going to get very interesting.
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GARNET Interventions
"They know enough who know how to learn." Henry Brooks Adams, 1838 - 1918 American journalist/author
The following list of teaching and learning interventions is by no means exhaustive. It is just some of the intervention strategies that previous GARNET participants have used. The goal of these interventions is to help students become aware of their learning and to enable them to take control of their learning. The Metacognitive Self-Regulated Learning Cycle below illustrates the various aspects of how learners learn. Each of the interventions listed below addresses one or more of the four Learning Cycle components. The resources and links associated with each intervention is just a bit to get you started.
Four step model of self-regulated learning cycle (yellow numbered boxes) and the components of the students' affective domain (white boxes) that have the potential to influence self-regulation, student behavior, and ultimately student learning.
Learning to Learn
Several GARNET participants use this document in combination with other class activities (journaling, in-class discussion, etc.) and the assignments below to help students begin to take some responsibility for their learning by becoming concious of what they do or do not do when trying to learn new content or skills. Students are asked to review and/or discuss these different topics in class or out-of-class integrated into the geoscience curriculum. This intervention gets at metacognitive knowledge and at the Planning phase of the Metacognitive/Self-Regulation Cycle. Set up: Low and Instructor Effort: Low.
Learning to Learn (Acrobat (PDF) 1.4MB Aug8 11)
How I earned an A
This intervention is used in many ways by GARNET faculty, but most commonly as a journal activity at the beginning and the middle of the semester. On the first day of class you ask students to write a letter to themselves from the future that starts, "Here's how I earned an A in this class." (An alternative could be, "Here's how I achieved my goals for this class.") Half-way through the term, students are then asked to revisit their letter and reflect on where they are relative to where they said they would be and ask them to reflect on what (if anything) needs to change in order for them to achieve their A/goals. This intervention addresses three aspects of the Metacognitive/Self-Regulation Learning Cycle - Goal Setting, Monitoring and Reflection. Set up: Low and Instructor Effort: Medium.
Journaling can be implemented in many ways over the course of a semester. Generally, students are given one or more writing prompts either as individual assignments, a regular periodic task or as part of a course portfolio of student work. This intervention addresses all four components of the Metacognitive/Self-Regulation Learning Cycle - Goal Setting, Monitoring, Regulation and Reflection. Set up: Low and Instructor Effort: High.
Reading Reflections
Several GARNET participants use reading reflections where students are given 2-3 questions to reflect on and write about after a particular reading assignment. These short writing assignments are not individually graded but students get credit for doing them. Reading Reflections get at the Monitoring and Reflection components of the Metacognitive/Self-Regulation Learning Cycle. Set up: Low and Instructor Effort: Medium. See example instructions and links below.
Instructions and Rubric for Reading Reflections (Acrobat (PDF) 134kB Aug8 11)
Knowledge Surveys
A knowledge survey is comprised of learning objectives framed as questions. It aims to test students' mastery of the objectives of a particular course. The knowledge survey is given at the beginning and the end of a course and/or prior to an exam. Goal Setting, Monitoring and Reflection are the aspects of the Metacognitive/Self-Regulation Learning Cycle that Knowledge Surveys address. Set up: HIgh and Instructor Effort: Low.
Introduction to Knowledge Surveys
Knowledge Surveys: An Indispensable Course Design and Assessment Tool (Acrobat (PDF) 447kB Aug15 11)
The Knowledge Survey: A Tool for All Reasons (Acrobat (PDF) 831kB Aug15 11)
Some Examples of Knowledge Survey Questions (Acrobat (PDF) 209kB Aug15 11)
Mastery Exercises
Mastery Exercises are most commonly used in a weekly quiz format where students can test their understanding of course content and their grasp of the necessary skills required by the course. These are often administered online and students can take them over again. This helps students gain mastery and allows them to monitor their learning. These are particularly effective if the questions that students repeat are NOT the same, but address the same concept. Mastery Exercises get at the Monitoring and the Reflection components of the Metacognitive/Self-Regulation Learning Cycle. Set up: High and Instructor Effort: Medium.
Exam Wrappers
Exam or assignment wrappers are designed to give students a chance to reflect on the work they have done and to help them improve their future learning. The answers to the questions are used to improve both teaching and learning in a particular course. This reflective intervention when completed after or both before and after an exam can become a goal setting activity before the next exam. Wrappers address the Reflection and Planning aspects of the Metacognitive/Self-Regulation Learning Cycle. Set up: Low and Instructor Effort: Medium. Some examples of wrappers are below along with some useful links to websites on exam wrappers.
Exam Wrappers defined and some examples
The Teaching Professor on Exam Wrappers
Example of a Paper Wrapper (Acrobat (PDF) 98kB Aug15 11)
Example of a Physics Homework Wrapper (Acrobat (PDF) 63kB Aug15 11)
Example of a Physics Exam Wrapper that was given both before and after an exam (Acrobat (PDF) 57kB Aug15 11)
Example of a Geology Exam Wrapper. (Microsoft Word 79kB Aug15 11)


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Good Food and Wine Show Melbourne
Did you know? Drinking beer from a bottle causes bloating.
Did you know? A good head on your beer will make it taste better.
Did you know? The shape and size of your glass makes a difference.
Join Spiegelau, as part of the Good Food and Wine Show, for an enlightening class about the importance of the shape of your beer glass, hosted by Alan Elder from Spiegelau Australia. After you've done a tasting with us, you'll never drink from the bottle again!
You'll also receive a Spiegelau Beer Craft Tasting Kit valued at $59.95


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Movies have subgenres, not subgenera.
Student or Learner
Can you correct this review?
Thank You Very Much.
In 1973, William Friedkins The Exorcist set up the main bases of the possession and exorcism subgenus which has been repeated since ad nauseam. What became interesting in Friedkins movie was its serious tone for this horror tale in a way it was possible not to consider the story as a fantastic one despite it was.
Lately, we have been able to see quite a lot of movies related to possessions and/or exorcisms; some of them have even taken advantage of the genre vogue adding the word possession in their title despite the fact that their contents had nothing to do with what audiences were expecting. Between the offer in 2010, we could have seen The possession of David ORelly (which is not what it seems), Exorcismus, or The Last Exorcism, pictures with very tight budged that have tried to bring in new points of view, mainly from the formal side, but with mixed fortune. To this category, we can include The Rite, Swede Mikel Hafströms made in Hollywood production, who was already familiar with horror genre by directing Sweden Drowning Gosht and the American and far more successful 1408.
The Rite is haunted by the will to get a truthful story audiences could buy, by the need its tale be taken seriously despite the improbability of it. Thats why this classical production is centered in elaborating atmosphere to be credible, all details as for setting, locations, photography, and mise-en-scene being extremely attended. Inside the movie, appropriate messages are also trhown in order to get this credibility: Father Lucas says not believing in the Devil wont protect you from Him, or what was you expecting? Heads turning around and green foam? But suddenly, it seems as if Hafström or the producers thought actual facts were not enough, and before arriving at the half of the movie it betrays itself. Then, the sense of reality becomes infected by fiction viruses and, after the first truthful exorcism try, we evolve untill a climax in which the story has too much fictitious elements reinforced by fx (usually, not a lot of them but at the end), blood vomits, otherworldly voices, impossible body postures, fantastic phenomena, red eyes of Lucifers horse, girls sexual insinuations to the priest, insults, and all the clichés popular belief connects with possessions and exorcisms thanks to Mr. Friedkin.
To reinforce this story which is more than dubitable, with its too-much-words deployment and few things to really say, and that drifts between vagueness and lack of guts (film doesnt stop flattering Vaticano as if fearing what it may say), Hafström counts on the very vet Anthony Hopkins to almost ensure box office incomes from middle viewer. Nevertheless, Hopkins work, magnificent as always, and histrionic as lately, seems to be a mix of his Dr. Lecter and his Dr. Van Helsing. No doubt Hopkins makes his character works perfectly, achieving the wanted effect, but Alicia Bragas character has no clear purpose, and is acted in an anodyne way; she is expendable and her presence only seems to search Vaticanos relish by giving, indirectly, an open image of it. Braga circumscribes herself to go along with a young priest who is not hesitating about faith but lacking it completely. Young ODonell, an absolutely film newcomer, fits his task easily without any big acting rotundity. He is even with great Hopkins, and thats quite remarkable in a newcomer. In short, what we have here is sketched characters drawn by rough brushstrokes who unbelievably work, some better than others, and who are extremely plain taking into account the conflicts and reflections they pretend to face.
All in all, maybe we have to admit the movie faces some jeopardy by putting in children facing delicate situations as incest, a possessed young girl who is pregnant, ill-treatments Nowadays, showing youngsters to violence in the silver screen is extremely daring, and it has to be recognized as risky even in a mainstream movie.
Among the much questions I rise, here are some: ¿Is The Rite pretending to state Western World is needing an exorcism? ¿Is corruption and evilness even in those entities thought sacred, as Church or children? ¿Is the movie talking on faith against lack of it? ¿Have values of our society fallen into doom (of course they already had in past decades -needed not to forget it-) as the family values, the regard for human life, etc...? In any case, the movie doesnt answer any of these questions, and the only one it insinuates is more than dubitable, at least according to this your humble servant, not a religious man.
In short, The Rite is a work closer to a religious drama and suspense than to horror. Its the mainstream (of course) answer to this subgenus of possessions and exorcisms, an anodyne movie that does take part neither in the genre nor in the questions it proposes.
Movies have subgenres, not subgenera.
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Peter Volpe
American bass, Peter Volpe, continually receives critical acclaim on four continents. Possessing a vast and ever-expanding repertoire of six languages, his captivating style and interpretive skill embraces the historical and fictional characters. Of a recent portrayal as Prince Eugene Onegin, Opera News said he "managed to create in his single scene an impressive dignity. His full-bodied bass and great candor of with his intelligent interpretation, won him a well-deserved ovation."
Recent performances include Daland in The Flying Dutchman with Florentine Opera, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Portland Opera, Philip II in Don Carlo at Austin Lyric Opera, Ferrando in Il Trovatore at Arizona Opera, Zuniga in Carmen with the Florentine Opera, Ramfis in Aida at Michigan Opera Theatre, the bass soloist in the Verdi Requiem with the Chattanooga Symphony, and Daland in The Flying Dutchman with Glimmerglass Opera.
Most recent operatic engagements from the past three seasons (2008-2012) include Idraote in Armida and Angelotti in Tosca, and La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera, Deguiche in DiChiera's Cyrano at the Florida Grand Opera, Marcel in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots at the Bard Festival, Gremin in Eugene Onegin at Vancouver Opera and Opera Lyra Ottawa, Frere Laurent in Romeo et Juliette at Vancouver Opera, Timur in Turandot at Opera Lyra Ottawa, the Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, and in concert with New Orleans Opera, Ramfis in Aida with Arizona Opera, Silva in Ernani and Mephistopheles in Faustcovers at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Commendatore in Don Giovanni at Palm Beach Opera, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Austin Lyric Opera, Zuniga in Carmen at Arizona Opera, and Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Austin Lyric Opera, Arizona Opera and Portland Opera.
In the 2007-2008 season, Mr. Volpe created the role of Deguiche in world premiere of Cyrano with the Michigan Opera Theatre and Opera Company of Philadelphia, as well as performing Frere Laurent in Romeo et Juliette with the Baltimore Opera, and Jacqueau in War and Peace and Frere Laurent cover in Romeo et Juliette at the MET. Operatic engagements from 2006-2007 season include Banquo in Macbeth with Arizona Opera, the title role in Don Giovanni with Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Frere Laurent in Romeo et Juliette with Atlanta Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre, and Zuniga inCarmen with the Seiji Ozawa Opera Project in Japan.
Mr. Volpe made his notable Metropolitan Opera debut in their new production of Prokofiev's War and Peace, and has subsequently returned for new productions of Berlioz' Les Troyen, Strauss' Salome, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, as well as Falstaff, Gianni Schicchi, Carmen, Aida, I Vespri Siciliani, Cyrano di Bergerac, and Andrea Chenier, among others.


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Lancaster High School head football coach Bennie McMurray is hoping for a little deja vu as he looks to Friday night.McMurray, recalling the Bruins' response to their first loss this season, is hoping for a similar answer following LHS's second setback this fall.Lancaster, after falling to Northwestern 27-7 for its first defeat this season, rebounded to throttle Nation Ford 30-0 at home."This time, it's different," McMurray said. "We're on the road and we face a team which is playing pretty good football.
There were are a lot dedicated readers at Buford Middle School over the summer.
In fact, the students and faculty read more than 1 million pages and have recently been recognized for their work.
Buford Middle is this year's statewide winner of the No Book Left Unread summer reading contest. The initiative started last year as a way to encourage recreational reading during the summer.
More than 8,000 students and 173 schools in South Carolina participated in this year's challenge, reading nearly 16 million pages.
Most of us drive down Lancaster's Main Street at least several times each week without giving it a second thought.
Granted, there are still a few businesses surviving among the otherwise empty buildings, but I cling to my memories when Main Street was the center of my small universe. It was every bit what a County Seat should be.
Be nice now here comes Lancaster Police Chief Huey Montgomery out for a walk, too. He knows most everybody in town, including me.ee
By Sherry Archie
For The Lancaster News
Hues of delicate pinks, blues and yellows sprinkled throughout the yard hint that a lady must be nearby.
Indeed she is. The lady- Lynn Carter- planned and designed the tapestry of color that blankets her lawn, at 3963 Major Evans Road in Lancaster.
Do you have weeds growing in your pond?Would you like to know how to get rid of the weeds?Then the Clemson Extension Office in your county can help.If you have a pond, you understand the severity in which pond weeds can rapidly establish in still water.Each year throughout the Southeast, local, state and federal government agencies spend millions of dollars controlling aquatic weeds in public waterways.
This week's tremendous rainfall amounts in such a short period of time may bring an unwelcome visitor up to ground level in your yard.If fire ant nests pockmark your lawn in the next few days, it's to be expected, said Tim Davis, fire ant suppression expert with Clemson University."Fire ants don't have a difficult time with flooding and rain at all," said Davis.
The official mascot of North Elementary School is a no-named, medieval armor-wearing knight.Unofficially, it has to be a chicken, said North Elementary School science teacher Kim Threatt.More specifically, it's Ashley, Clem and Fluffy, the three chickens that now make their home in a barn-red and white chicken coop built by Jamie Gainer inside a fence beside the school science lab.The rooster and two hens are carryovers from a 4-H science project at North last spring to teach science students about the life cycle.Threatt said three were
The Lancaster American Legion baseball teams returned to Post 31 on Monday night to be honored for their summer play.
A host of awards were presented, but the spotlight was clearly on a trio of players brothers Khoury Hammond and Trevor Hammond along with Andrew Smyre.
Khoury Hammond, a first baseman in the P-31 senior team, was presented the team MVP Award.
Trevor Hammond, the P-31 senior team catcher, reaped the David Dagenhart Award.
Smyre, the Post 31 junior team catcher, was named the team MVP after leading the squad to a first-ever state tournament berth.
South Carolina's corn crop is now in season, but there's not very much of it.
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Robert Pattinson's Fans Help 'Water For Elephants' Make Big Money At The Box Office!
The world's hunkiest man helps this small film do better than expected financially!
Robert Pattinson has proven himself to be one of the box office's best bets!
Even though it was not a big-budget blockbuster or an established sequel, Water For Elephants outperformed expectations at the box office this weekend, netting $7 million on its April 22 opening night. That beat expectations, and the film will end the holiday weekend with about $18 million — not bad for a modestly budgeted drama, Deadline reports. It is slated to end the weekend trailing the high-profile animated movie Rio and the new Tyler Perry film, Madea's Big Happy Family.
Fox, which distributed the film, thanked 24-year-old Rob's star power, as well as a great marketing campaign.
"Terrific start for Elephants as we could hit higher teens," an executive from Fox said.
Congratulations, Rob — you can do great at the box office even when you aren't a vampire!
— William Earl
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5 New Digital Services That Connect Events and Sponsors
October 12, 2012
Sponsorship is a critical issue for planners and brands. Whether the event is a community festival or a global technology conference, sponsors add dollars to the bottom line for the organizer. For the brands, event sponsorship can create strategic marketing opportunities to reach a target demographic. Here's a look at five services working to simplify and improve the business of sponsorship sales.
1. Planana launched in September, making it one of the newest services to connect planners and sponsors. It's based on the concept of offering attendees rewards, known as Planana Perks, for doing simple tasks such as promoting the event on their social networks. Planana works to identify sponsors to cover the cost of those rewards, and planners can use the system on their own as a selling point with sponsors. For example, at the recent DEMO conference in California, Square 1 Bank sponsored a $700 discount for attendees who shared their registration on LinkedIn.
"We went to TechCrunch Disrupt to launch our company, and we talked to about 300 attendees. We asked them to name one of TechCrunch's sponsors. TechCrunch had about 80 sponsors that spent a total of a million dollars to be there. Almost 95 percent of the attendees could not name a single sponsor, because the sponsor did not really enhance the event for them, did not give them any tangible benefit. But in our model, the sponsors get to directly interact with the attendees, provide them with a tangible benefit, and that's huge for both sides," said Anna Sergeeva, who began developing Planana in January along with co-founder Fei Xiao, while both were seniors in college.
Planana can also serve as an event's Web site to handle registration and program information. It's free to create the first event and $10 per additional event. Planana also charges 99 cents per ticket sold through the site. Future updates will include the ability for sponsors to hyper-target attendees. "Based on your demographic profile as an attendee, you'll see a reward from a like-minded sponsor rather than a random sponsor that doesn't really match your interests or want to connect with you," Sergeeva said.
2. SponsorHub launched in March and has listed more than 10,000 events seeking sponsorship. The events are worldwide and include those "as small as local meetups and as large as concerts for 60,000 in Central Park. Everything that's not the Super Bowl and the Olympics," said Sponsorhub co-founder Andrew Reid.
Planners use an online wizard that walks them through questions about the event's purpose, location, demographics, potential media reach, and social media activity. Sponsorhub reviews each entry before making it live in the online marketplace and creates a "SponsorHub Score" based on social media data and other analytics. Sponsors can search for events that meet their needs, and Sponsorhub also pushes out suggested bundles of events. "We have two types of curators. One type is algorithmic; it's software, that matches a series of events to a given sponsor. The second is through human curation—people who look at the preferences and look at the automated bundles and either add to those bundles or create completely new bundles for sponsors to take a look at," Reid said. The system alerts sponsors to new opportunities through an online dashboard, and they can choose whether to buy the sponsorship or to submit a counter offer.
After the event, SponsorHub scores the event so sponsors "can see the delta between what they thought they were getting and what they actually got," Reid said. Users get one free listing on SponsorHub (that will soon increase to two); beyond that there are pricing plans for five, 20, or unlimited listings per month. In addition, SponsorHub takes a fee of 15-20 percent of all successful sponsorships. In the coming months, Sponsorhub "will be making a deeper push into athletes and celebrities and the scoring around them," Reid said.
3. Founder Rosston Meyer describes Sponsorist as being similar to Kickstarter: The platform makes it easy for anyone—individuals or businesses of any size—to sponsor events, nonprofits, schools, and sports teams. He launched the site in November 2011 and currently has more than 100 listings of events and groups looking for funding. Planners can create a listing for free, which includes the event's date, location, description, and sponsorship opportunities. Meyer reviews each one before making it live.
Sponsors can browse categories such as tech events, sports, or charity sponsorships. By the end of the year, potential sponsors will be able to search events by location. There will also be an embeddable widget so planners can add Sponsorist to their event's Web site. Sponsorist collects a fee of 10 percent from every sponsorship sold, and Meyer said so far there has been more than $10,000 in sponsorships sold. In the coming months, he plans to focus on reaching out to potential sponsors to make them aware of the site. "Right now it's primarily a tool for organizers to help them manage their sponsorship sales in one place," he said.
4. Kris Mathis created SponsorPitch as "a network for buyers and sellers to research qualified leads and connect with each other faster and more effectively." The site launched in 2009 and now has more than 13,000 members. "Once you've created a free member profile, whether you are a buyer, a seller, or an agency, then you can attach yourself to a brand or property, similar to LinkedIn," Mathis said. Planners list their events in the system, and brands can search by keyword, date, location, age demographic, genre, and more.
"What really makes us different is we also have a proactive mechanism which allows you to search through all the brands within the network and find the brands that make the most sense for your opportunity. Rather than starting with 100 brands you think might make sense for your event, through three or four clicks we can give you a list of, say, 25 really solid brands based on historical deal patterns," Mathis said. Planners can then click through to each brand to see contact information, suggestions on when to contact them, and sample budgets.
SponsorPitch has a new feature in beta called Proposal Requests. Brands create these requests based on their preferences in order to reach people in a certain demographic or part of the country. SponsorPitch identifies events that might fulfill these preferences and distributes the brief to those planners who can then respond to brands through the system. "In beta testing it has shown to save both sides time because brands, and, in particular, agencies, for the first time have a way to crowd-source ideas on deadline that are uniquely tailored to their expressed objectives, while events get the inside scoop on what a brand is looking to accomplish prior to making their proposal. Traditionally, events have to guess on sponsor objectives in their sponsorship proposal, which quite often leaves sponsors disappointed with the cookie-cutter ideas they receive," Mathis said. Members can browse listing of brands and events for free; additional functions such as responding to proposal requests, viewing deal history, and accessing contact information requires a subscription, which costs $25 to $35 per month.
5. SponsorPark is a free listing service for sponsorship opportunities. The product launched in beta in March 2009, and in February it merged with Pinpoint, a sponsorship marketing evaluation firm. "We are able to introduce the SponsorPark idea to the companies Pinpoint was already working with. We have a knowledge base of knowing what brands are looking for as well as what are events doing and offering to make it viable for brands to integrate into those activities," said David Rachell, president of SponsorPark.
The system has about 5,000 sponsorship opportunities, and more than 500 brands, from regional to international companies. The directory is free for sponsors. For planners, a basic event listing is free and includes a brief description, date, and demographic information. For a fee of $15 the first month and $30 each month thereafter, planners can have a premium membership that lets them add more detailed information, such as levels of sponsorship. SponsorPark currently has a total of about 13,000 basic and premium members.
Planners can push their event listings to potential sponsors by sending an email link, but the site's search function is driven by the brands, which are kept anonymous. "Sponsors input preferences regarding demographics and location. And they can actually save that search so when a new opportunity arises that matches that criteria, they get an email notification and they can reach out to those events and organizations that have those listings," Rachell said.
In August, SponsorPark added a new benefit for premium members. "We will ask the event planner to give us five brands that you feel would be a good fit for your opportunity, that you may not have access to. We will actually push your proposal to decision makers at those brands, whether they are SponsorPark users or not," Rachell said. Early next year SponsorPark will add another membership benefit: webinars hosted by brand managers to help planners understand how to be successful in sponsorship acquisitions.
Photo: Courtesy of SponsorPark
Photo: Courtesy of Planana
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About Tehrm
"....you're fucking kidding me, right?" by Dark Helmet
At the least, this was unproductive and arrogant. At the worst, such a response hurts the Techdirt brand.
By intention or accident, it was a poorly worded headline:
"Street Performer Gets Someone's Brooklyn Bridge YouTube Video Taken Down"
The original headline implies that the performer filed a DMCA. "Street Performance" might have been more precise.
New headline:
"YouTube Video Taken Down Because Of Background Street Performer Impersonating Michael Jackson"
The two degree targeting requirement instead of three is still troubling. In order to be qualified for targeting, a single, intermediary relationship is all that is required between me and an named 'terrorist' organization. If I've been targeted in this way, does the targeting reach now extend two degrees away from me?
If I follow an account associated with a known hacker collective, which then follows and is followed by known hacker activists- is the requirement met to target my activity?
What about restaurants on social networks? If Bob's Bacon-Wrapped Bacon and an internally recognized terrorist follow each other, then has the requirement for targeting been met for everyone who follows Bob's Bacon-Wrapped Bacon?
Philosophers and Logicians call this a category error: "Ascribing one kind (or 'category') of thing to another kind". It's like petty a dog while saying "Nice kitty."
Category errors pervade political rhetoric. Pick apart the next article you read on 'terrorists' and 'terrorism' and consider whether the actions and actors in the story have been appropriately categorized.
Sadly, this verbal sleight of hand passes by most people pretty easily. Whether by inherent bias, intellectual laziness, or inattention, such disingenuous category errors are committed constantly.
However, instances like these (from the articles in Mike's post) are excellent opportunities to point out the abundant, willful fallacies bandied by [insert person to blame]. I don't think any one group or person is to blame. It seems that too many people in just the right positions are terribly clueless, unthinking, solipsists disconnected to the affects of their actions.
"In order to eliminate debasing practices and alleviate concerns of authoritarian encroachment, we will instead begin reading everyone's thoughts. This 'Thought Prevention" method renders physical assessment obsolete. In fact, you'll be notified even before leaving your home for the airport whether you've been selected for further interest. We hope to continue to streamline the process with more 'don't come to us, we'll come to you' services."
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The quote is attributed to Buying Time, LLC.
My mistake.
Ironically, the author has intentionally misused copyright to address an unrelated topic.
As to trotting out copyright in order to undermine criticism- this article doesn't seem to suggest that such a thing has happened. According to this article, Fox News did not seek to universally remove or prevent from publication works containing allegedly infringing content. According to this article, Fox News did blatantly confuse 'copyright rules' with internal marketing policy. Or perhaps the quote from UltraViolet indicates that Fox News misunderstands that 'copyright rules' are not subject to in-house edits.
This article does seem to mix topics intentionally. The summary paragraph tailors the focus significantly toward applying a hatchet to Fox News. The crux of this article isn't about copyright abuse. If it deals with copyright at all, it reveals the rampant ignorance of the general public concerning copyrights through Fox News' obvious misinformation.
Doublespeak is as effective as it is ancient.
The fear of 'the other' shapes community policy in nearly every social-cooperative species (ant colonies, ape communities, etc.). It happens that we wise bipeds have cannibalized its evolutionary utility for social survivalism.
"Cyber" hints at precise description, but remains ambiguous enough for the majority public to create their own monster from it. Cultures of simpler cosmology fear magic, the power to manipulate that which cannot (or should not) be controlled. "Cyber" is the magic of our culture.
::Cue Arthur C. Clarke::
This highlights one of the problems in a representative democracy. An elected official can only accurately represent those with whom he or she has meaningful contact. Meaningful contact results in transformative personal knowledge (experience or verisimilitude) as concerns overlap, mesh, and begin to create new perceptions of reality.
Constant exposure to various individuals with a concerted worldview results in a congressperson who cannot accurately represent the constituents of his or her district or state.
In a sense, we vote not for whom we wish to represent us, but for whom we wish to bear the Faustian temptations of monied lobbyists.
It's not that they can't agree on anything to avoid the so-called 'fiscal cliff' (brilliant bit of marketing, that). Rather, the budget is an easy smokescreen (see also 'misdirection', 'feint') to avoid public discourse on NDAA, FISA, and other legislation that would undermine constitutional rights.
This a not conspiracy theory, this is politics in truest form. When many politicians come out the woodwork to make noise on the same bill, it's time to glance around for what they hope will remain unnoticed.
Larry and Curly never caught on to Moe's method (wave left hand until person is distracted by it, then smack person with right hand). Our failure as citizens to engage the political process, the stuff that happens after elections, will make stooges of us all.
It's not that they can't agree on anything to avoid the so-called 'fiscal cliff' ( after elections, will make stooges of us all.


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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The building was designed to house the Smithsonian Institution's new contemporary art collection. Both the museum building and the collection were gifts of Joseph Hirshhorn, a uranium and mining magnate. In 1964 Sidney Dillon Ripley, the secretary of the Smithsonian, contacted Hirshhorn in order to encourage him to bequeath his collection of contemporary art to the Smithsonian (Hyams, 142). Hirshhorn's attorney contacted Ripley and expressed Hirshhorn's desire to have the museum named after him in order to donate his collection. Ripley agreed and continued to pursue the issue with Hirshhorn (Hyams, 142-43). On May 17, 1965, Hirshhorn expressed his terms, including that the collection be housed in a modern museum on the Mall to be named after him in perpetuity (Hyams, 144). On May 17, 1966 a proposed bill stipulated that Hirshhorn's gift be accepted (Hyams, 153). It sparked controversy in Congress: "The museum site was contested, its name opposed, its donor disparaged, its sponsor investigated, appropriations delayed" (Hyams, 155). By September the bill had passed, including a construction budget of $15 million (Hyams, 157).
The building is a three-story tall cylindrical concrete building raised fourteen feet on four massive pylons with a circular open court (Hyams, 183-84). The skin of the cylinder does not open to the exterior but for a single elongated balcony overlooking the Mall. Windows open in the interior towards the courtyard. The two floors containing the galleries consist of an inner and an outer ring separated by curved wall partitions so that paintings and sculpture may be exhibited separately. The inner and outer perimeters of the hollow cylinder are slightly eccentric – by only four feet.
The building was constructed using 14'-0" x 7'-0" precast concrete panels (White).
The building sits on the National Mall and forms part of the collection of buildings of the Smithsonian Institution.
The building made use of 14'-0" x 7'-0" precast concrete panels (White). These had a granite-chip finish (Hyams, 167).
The prospect of the erection of a modernist building on the Mall became the cause of intense controversy. Earlier (1939) the Smithsonian Institution had sponsored a design competition for a museum of contemporary art won by Eliel and Eero Saarinen and J. Robert F. Swanson, but the project was never built. The donor's insistence on a building bearing his name in perpetuity led to further controversy. A 1970 column in the Washington Post wondered how a building "intended to memorialize a stock manipulator and convicted money smuggler" was "accorded an honored spot on Washington's historic Mall" (Anderson). For the construction of the Hirshhorn Museum, the Army Medical Museum was demolished, after the National Park Service clarified that National Historic Landmark status was accorded only to the collections, and not the building (Hyams, 157).
With the presentation of Bunshaft's design of the museum "all hell broke loose," and reporters "outdid one another in making fun of the circular design" (Kammen, 265). Ada Louise Huxtable focused on its scale and monumentality and called it "the largest marble doughnut in the world." ("Marble Home Seen as a Realization of American Dream"). Unease at the building's modern design persisted even after it opened. In a 1974 review in the Washington Post it was described as "an unabashed manifesto of the architecture of our time – the best and the worst of it" (Von Eckardt). This very mixed review concluded that although one could admire the building, one would "hardly love it." It has been often compared to Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, even though the rotunda of the 1959 building is small enough to fit inside the Hirshhorn's courtyard.
The building is the first manifestation of the U.S. government's desire to develop a contemporary art collection for display on the Mall (Krinsky, 251). It represents the culmination of Joseph Hirshhorn's patronage of twentieth century art.
The Hirshhorn Museum is a fine late modernist building with a design and construction history that speaks about the acceptance of modernist architecture in America.
Anderson, Jack. "Mall Memorial to Hirshhorn Probed." Washington Post, Times Herald 11 April 1970, C11.
Fletcher, Valerie J. A Garden for Art: Outdoor Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with Thames and Hudson, 1998.
Hyams, Barry. Hirshhorn, Medici from Brooklyn: A Biography. New York: Dutton, 1979.
Kammen, Michael G. Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture. New York: Knopf, 2006.
Krinsky, Carol Herselle. Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1988.
Von Eckardt, Wolfgang. "Hirshhorn Enclave: You May Admire It, But You'll Hardly Love It." Washington Post 28 September 1974: B1+.
White, Jean M. "Museum of the Future." Washington Post 15 April 1973: M1+.


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Perhaps the artists on this thread can recognize such a "longing" to keep on working with something? There's a strange sort of comfort in that. I know that the changes I made aren't as big they might seem, you'd probably only hear it on a side by side comparison. It's an interesting subject though, can you go back to your past work, should you leave it alone? I don't think there's a definitive answer, perhaps just a purist one.
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By Nathalie Baptiste | Sep 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton has come under fire for failing to sufficiently galvanize Latinos, a bloc of voters key to Democrats in both the presidential and Senate contests. The Washington Post this week quoted critics saying Clinton had run too few Spanish-language ads, and spent too little on targeted messaging.
But there may be another reason why Clinton's performance lags behind President Obama's in 2012: Obama's own deportation policies, which have drawn fire from Latinos on several fronts. These include the Obama administration's deportations of the children who crossed the border in droves two years ago to flee violence in Central America. Overall, the administration deported 2.4 million people between fiscal 2009 and 2014. And non-criminal deportees outnumber those charged with crimes.
Deportation orders dipped when Obama signed the executive order known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), which would have shielded several classes of immigrants from deportation. But a series of state lawsuits and a Supreme Court deadlock have blocked the administration from implementing that order, and Latinos remain frustrated. Some of that frustration seems to be spilling over to Clinton—despite widespread Latino antipathy to Trump.
"People are very disappointed and they don't want to vote," said Adriana Cazorla, a domestic worker from Washington state. "They don't want to be guilty of putting a person in office who will do the same as [Obama]."
Cazorla made her comments Friday at a march from the Supreme Court to the White House organized by the National Alliance for Domestic Workers and several allied groups. The march brought out hundreds of immigrant women, many of them undocumented, to deliver a message to Obama: Stop the deportations.
Dubbed the Immigrant Women's Walk Against Deportations, the event took place on the one-year anniversary of last year's 100-mile march for immigration reform. Before the march Cazorla told The American Prospect how she had been hiding from an abusive husband when he found her and called immigration officials. She was detained for four months in a detention center.
"I was treated badly, given spoiled food, had no access to potable water or medical attention like the rest of the people did," Cazorla says of her time in the detention center. Cazorla says she now has legal status thanks to the Violence Against Women Act—but that her children, who were without their mother for four months, suffered the most during her detention. The separation of families was a big point of contention for the marchers and their supporters.
"Many children worry about it," Cazorla said with tears in her eyes. "They go to school with fear that they'll go back home and their parents won't be there."
Marcher Patricia Rosas described how she immigrated to the United States from Mexico more than two decades ago with her children. But four years ago, her son was deported back to Mexico. "I brought him here when he was one year old," said Rosas, "so he was basically raised here. When he got to Mexico, he didn't know what to do or where to go." Rosas's son left behind a wife and a two-year-old son. "He wanted to be with his son, so he tried to come back," explained Rosas, "but he was apprehended and was deported again."
Rosas said she was marching in hope that DAPA would become law so, that "after 26 years, I can see my mom and my siblings again."
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
The goal of wealth equality in America is a long way off.Nathalie BaptisteAug 15, 2016
Community Policing in a Time of Crisis
Community policing programs can improve relations between police officers and residents, but current tensions underscore the challenges.Nathalie BaptisteAug 11, 2016
Korryn Gaines and the Criminalization of Disabilities
A new study released in July asserts that the criminal justice system discriminates against people with mental disabilities.Nathalie BaptisteAug 04, 2016
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Protests against police violence worked their way through downtown Philadelphia, in opposition to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Convention.Nathalie BaptisteJul 28, 2016


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James Careless is a long-time contributor to Rotor & Wing. He has written for other aviation magazines such as our sister publications, Aviation Maintenance and Avionics, as well as other industry publications.
Giovanni de Briganti has covered the aerospace and defense industry since the beginning. Born in Italy, he lived in Texas, Virginia and South Australia before settling in Paris. He is currently editor-in-chief of http://www.defense-aerospace.com, a news website, having previously worked for Defense News, Armed Forces Journal and various European defense publications, including two that he founded. A self-avowed total helicopter person, he has been covering European issues for Rotor & Wing since the mid-1980s.
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When bulldozers showed up at the Farmer's Market in Sherman Heights last April and began knocking down portions of the historic building to make way for a Walmart grocery, many in the community protested.
They complained to City Hall. They summoned reporters to organized protests. They took their case to Superior Court.
City officials said the project was fully permitted and would create jobs in business-friendly San Diego. They said all appropriate reviews had been conducted, even though the complex dated to the 1920s and once served as the core of a thriving poultry industry.
Days later, a judge turned down a request for an injunction because much of the demolition had been completed before the plaintiffs got to court.
Eventually, the renovation prompted a review of the Development Services office by state auditors.
According to findings released Thursday, city building officials failed to perform required historical reviews, did not issue certain permits for the Walmart project until November 2012 and made other mistakes.
"The assistant deputy director for Development Services' advanced planning and engineering division was unable to explain why a historical resource review was not conducted for this project," the audit found.
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• Failure to properly notify the public about environmental determinations.
• Late filing of required conflict-of-interest forms by decision-making city officials.
"Form 700s submitted by four of the 15 employees we selected for review were between one month and more than 12 months late," Howle wrote.
The audit said Development Services generally followed requirements for reviewing permits but could do more to protect historical resources.
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The report concluded with multiple recommendations aimed at improving the permit application and review process. In his response to the report, Mayor
"All of the recommendations are reasonable and appropriate and will be implemented by the city," Filner wrote. "Thank you for providing the city with an opportunity to respond."
A spokeswoman for the mayor said Thursday she could not immediately say why permits were issued on the Walmart project after the demolition work was completed last year.
The Sherman Heights construction project gained approval even as Walmart was making donations to political causes favored by former San Diego Mayor
"In the case of our Imperial Avenue project, all permits were secured separately and independently by the landlord," spokesman Steven Restivo said.
In response to the Watchdog revelations, state Sen.
In an interview Thursday, Hueso said after receiving numerous complaints from his constituents, he could not get straight answers from City Hall so he approached the Joint Legislative Audit Committee about opening a review.
Hueso said he was not surprised at the findings.
"They found so many things that it makes me wonder what other parts of the permitting process citywide is really in need of attention," he said. "It leaves a lot of questions unresolved, but it does raise serious concerns."
Cory Briggs, the attorney representing Sherman Heights residents who opposed the Walmart, said he was stunned to learn from the state audit that city officials approved two permits in November — months after the lawsuit was filed.
"We're suing over the project and they're issuing permits without telling the court or the other party?" he asked. "Development Services thinks it doesn't have to follow the rules."
Briggs said he contacted the deputy city attorney defending the suit to find out why the permits were not disclosed, but he had not received a response.
The lawsuit is not seeking monetary damages. Instead, the plaintiffs want a memorial of some kind acknowledging the history of the site.


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|Top: H&M {old} || Jacket: Forever 21 {old, but loving this} || Pants: J.Crew {on sale!} || Shoes: Jessica Simpson {similar} || Bag: Chanel || Necklace: J.Crew || Bracelet: Hermes || Watch: Michael Kors
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This is so cute! Love these colors together and the pants are awesome on you!ReplyDelete
Loving the little black booties! I've been searching for a similar pair, I might have to try these out!ReplyDelete
The Glossy Life
I love looks like this, totally classic with a twist. You've reminded me to get out my red jeans! xxxReplyDelete
South Molton St Style
These red pants look killer on you!ReplyDelete
xo, tasha
twenty-something blog
love that blazer, classic look!ReplyDelete
C's Evolution of Style
Love this look. The peplum + bootie combo is a total score! New fan lady!ReplyDelete
I've been resisting the red pants trend, but the more I see them styled so well, I'm thinking I may have to take the plunge. I love this look! You're so polished and perfect for fall :) I found your blog via the "It List" and had to stop in and say hello! I'm most definitely a follower now!ReplyDelete
Secondhand Magpie
Love that peplum top and the bold pants! Great look.ReplyDelete
<3 Melissa
I love this look,red and black has to be my fav. color comboReplyDelete
Obsessed w your shoes!! Love the whole look, so classy!ReplyDelete
Rachel, I am so glad I stumbled over your blog, the style is after my heart :-).ReplyDelete
Love this whole outfit and look polished from head to toe. Peplum are such classic and timeless pieces, great pairing with the red pants which gives your outfit that splash of colour. I really need a similar pair of your booties, they are killer. You have a new follower from Germany via GFC and Blogoving. So excited to see more of your posts in the future :-)
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2012 at 6:35 PM
Oh, I love every part of this outfit! Loving that necklace, tooReplyDelete
Xo, Rachel
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christmas is right around the corner and for years and years i have yet to make or buy a christmas tree skirt. this year it was time to change that. first off, my tree skirt isn't round. i'm digging it like that. after putting together this christmas tree roundup i fell head over heels in love with the idea of a rectangular tree skirt. something i could play with some quilting on and finally get to use the essex linen that i've been hoarding like a mad woman since the summertime.
when the fabulous bari j came out with her new line of fabrics - splendor 1920 i was sold. fabric that was modern, yet classic with geometrics and girly, feminine florals and teapots - it was a line after my own heart. the gemini in me just swooned. at xmas time i obsess with coffee, tea, treats, curling up under quilts by the fire and doing needlepoint or knitting....splendor 1920 reminds me of xmas. it creates that vibe for me. it's something that rings through in my home and even my wee ones right away loved the fabrics and have taken to curling up under the tree on it and pointing at tea pots. they know momma loves her tea and coffee and of course...her downton abbey.
the very bari christmas tree skirt tutorial is a great project for a beginner looking to to advance in their piecing and quilting skills and is also a great canvas for more advanced quilters to have fun with. all the shapes (besides the circular opening) are either square or rectangular for simple and quick sewing and the quilting lines are all straight and mostly follow along your seam lines so it's easy quilting too! just the way i like it right before the holiday gift making rush. the tree skirt is a great size at 43.25"W x 38.25"H and my fave part is that even when the pressies will be under the tree parts of my skirt will still show. it's soft, cozy and even the back looks great! i fought the lighting in my condo the last few days with our dark, dreary coastal weather and don't have a shot of the back but it's all solid essex and the quilting patterns add some pizazz. i gotta give a shout out to my mom who suggested the lovely diagonal line pattern for my 4 corner pieces. they are my fave and i owe her one for that one :)
i adore the warmth that splendor 1920 lends to my tree that is mostly silver and blues with hits of turqoise. i don't go for gold much for my tree and love that the soft creams in some of bari's print warm up my tree but don't conflict with the cool tones of the greys and blues. it's a happy harmony for me and just what my tree needed to finish it off. you might even see an ornament to go with it soon....
the very, bari christmas tree skirt tutorial features:
: : 6 page full color pdf pattern complete with clear & easy to understand step by step instructions with bright photos and digitally drafted diagrams
: : instructions for a finished quilt including the quilting pattern.
: : fabric requirements, notions needed
: : a fun quilting/sewing experience :)
the very bari christmas tree skirt tutorial is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD here:
the fabrics used in the very bari christmas tree skirt tutorial are:
Splendor 1920 from Bari J. for Art Gallery Fabrics
- Tea Delights Honey - Nouveau Geo Coral - Knotted Trellis Gold
- Abbey Roses Blush - Grandeur Bloom
Robert Kaufman Yarn-Dyed Essex Linen Denim
thanks for the fabric inspiration bari and for letting me use your name :) you're awesome!
what do you think? do you make your own christmas tree skirt? is yours rectangular too? let's chat sewing! i've got tea on with a cup for you too :)
happy sewing and make sure to upload your pics to our flickr group or leave a comment below. i love to see what you're making and to hear from you! i hope you enjoy making the tree skirt as much as i did!


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If you believe something is evidence... ask yourself is this really proof? Is this scientific proof? Would this hold up in court? Or is it just a photo that could be faked? An idea that could be misrepresented? Or information that is just hearsay?
Ask yourself these questions... Do you like the concept of being innocent until PROVEN guilty? Then RESPECT IT.
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The two buildings were made using a new architectural design which was thought to be more stabilising for the height. Consequently the main support for the structure, I believe was in the core, rather than distributed. Whilst increasing stability for the overall structure, it acted adversely when hit by planes, and this is why the buildings appear to crumble the way they did, in an unusual pattern.
(I read the insurance loss adjusters report as part of a previous job)
I'll believe the conspiracy theories when Anonymous publishes the memos and emails.
All modern prophets are about 98% wrong,
So I'd be better off asking one what the lottery numbers aren't...
Am I wrong or is the common theme among the religious, conspiracy theorists and Preppers, fear?
Have we as a culture and or species made fear our obsession?
Are we addicted?
The FEAR of death and dying is one of our biggest and most problematic phobias. Religion waltzes in and sticks a pacifer in our collective mouth.
Religion is the exploitation of the fear of death.
But it seems to me like our species has to have a boogeyman.
Some overwhelming dark specter that means to do us in.
Death, the devil, evil government, dooms day, alien invasion, Artificial intelligence, etc.
But in reality it is nothing more that fear itself.
Fear of the boogeyman probably kept us alert and saved a lot of our early ancestors out in the bush.
I think another quirk of the human mind which feeds conspiricism is our tendency to find order where there is none. We seek out patterns and causation.
Very good point. I hadn't thought of that. As if there must be a reason behind every noise you happened to perceive... every shadow that crosses your path.
There is a cycle to it as well...using the supernatural as an example... you can't believe in ghosts without believing in the supernatural... and if you believe in the supernatural.. you are more likely to mistake something as a ghost.
How is death nothing?
No, you're absolutely correct. And you've picked up on my point of this post and posting it here.
I posted this on page 1..
"There's a piece of brain matter in the human temporal lobe called the amygdla which is responsible for our primal emotions like rage, hate and fear... it's also the part of our brain which conditions the media (through ratings) to be 99% negative.
It's why humans LOVE fear and negative news. We've used it for 100s of thousands of years to keep us alert and aware of predators... these days it gets bored and is often working when it doesn't need to be. It also fuels religion... AND conspiracy theorists and makes anti-science people fear science."
This is why people believed the world was gonna end in 2012... it goes on and on...
This is why EVERYONE thinks that humanity is doomed in some way. And they're WRONG. The problem with this is that it doesn't help. In facts it actually helps bring a negative outcome. If more people were optimistic in what humanity can and WILL do in our future. We have a much greater chance of achieving that grand future and solving our current grand challenges.
Read a book called Abundance:The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis.This man is helping pave the way to our future...
I watched it, and it was really uplifting. Thanks!
Can I get you to watch 6 minutes of Michio Kaku here on the Big Think, answering the question "Will Mankind destroy itself"? I've been so impressed with this guy, the energy in his voice simply delights me. Come on, six minutes.....


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The Winter Spare the Air program runs from November 1 through the end of February. During these months it is illegal to burn wood during a Winter Spare the Air Alert. The following answers some frequently asked questions about the program. If you are unable to find the answer to your question here, please feel free to call 415-749-4900.
When wood and other solid fuels are burned, the smoke contains fine particulate air pollution (also known as PM2.5 and these tiny particles (about 1/70th the width of a human hair) can pass deep into the lungs and cause serious health effects to the public. High levels of fine particulates can result in difficulty breathing, aggravate asthma and even cause premature death for people with heart or lung disease. Winter weather conditions can trap wood smoke close to the ground concentrating the air pollution to unhealthy levels. When these conditions occur, wood smoke is the largest portion (approximately 33%) of the wintertime fine particulate matter in the Bay Area.
The Winter Spare the Air program was a voluntary outreach campaign for nearly two decades. Unfortunately, voluntary reductions did not achieve clean air standards. Therefore, the regulation with the mandatory program is necessary to reduce the wood smoke emissions and protect public health.
The Air District meteorologists evaluate the levels of fine particulate air pollution and meteorological conditions in order to forecast which days will have unhealthy air quality (typically on cold, still, winter days with stagnant air). On these days, a Winter Spare the Air Alert is called to protect public health of Bay Area residents.
Fine particulate air pollution can stay in the air for prolonged periods and can be transported from one area to another in the Bay Area.
The Bay Area currently fails to meet the federal air quality standard for PM2.5 (fine particulates), which translates to potentially serious health consequences for many of our residents. On any day that air pollution levels become unhealthy, the Air District is obligated to notify the public and mitigate sources of air pollution, so on these days, a Winter Spare the Air Alert is called to protect public health of Bay Area residents, regardless of the day.
During the winter months starting November 1st through the end of February, you can:
• Call - 1-877-4NO-BURN
• Check the Winter Spare the Alert status at www.sparetheair.org or www.baaqmd.gov
• Listen for Alerts on local radio and TV news media
For your convenience, you can also sign up for e-mail alerts or phone alerts. . Whenever you light a fire you should always check before you burn; burn clean dry wood; burn short, hotter fires that don't smoke; and keep your hearth and chimney well maintained. Excessive smoke or the burning of garbage, plastics, wrapping paper or other inappropriate materials is never allowed.
While they burn more cleanly, these wood-burning devices still emit fine particulate air pollution and when the wintertime air pollution reaches unhealthy levels, any burning contributes to excessive air pollution. Therefore, in order to protect the public health of Bay Area residents, the Air District must reduce fine particulate air pollution by banning burning in all types of wood-burning devices on these days.
No, only during a Winter Spare the Air Alert. The Air District issues Winter Spare the Air Alerts when air pollution reaches unhealthy levels – approximately 20 days each winter – and then the public is not allowed to burn on these days. Other than these few days, you can still burn a legal fire in your fireplace with clean, not wet and dry (seasoned) wood with plenty of air to prevent excessive smoke.
No. Another Air District rule, Regulation 5: Open Burning, prohibits the use of outdoor wood-burning devices (including firepits and chimineas) and other recreational fires during a Winter Spare the Air Alert.
Barbequing during a Winter Spare the Air Alert is not prohibited. However, the Air District asks all Bay Area residents to voluntarily reduce air pollution by making clean air choices every day. Reducing or postponing activities that pollute, including barbequing, when the air quality is forecast to be unhealthy, is one way to help reduce fine particulate emissions and improve air quality.
Yes. The regulation allows for a limited exemption from the requirement of complying with a Winter Spare the Air Alert if there is a temporary power outage.
The exemption does not apply when there is any type of permanently installed heating device in a residence or business. Therefore, if you are in an area that does not have natural gas service, but you have a permanently-installed heater (for instance, a propane heater), then you are not exempt from the burn ban.
The Air District realizes that some residents may not have another form of heat. The Air District developed an Exemption Guidance document to help assist you regarding this situation.
The wood smoke rule places year-round restrictions on excessive smoke. When burning is allowed, residents must burn only clean, dry (seasoned) wood in short, hot fires with plenty of air to prevent excessive smoke. No visible smoke is allowed beyond the 20-minute start-up period.
A public complaint can be filed by either:
• Filling out the wood smoke complaint form on the Air District's website, or
• Calling 1-877-4NO-BURN to file a complaint.
Complaints can be filed anonymously so your identity will not be revealed.
Air District inspectors use wood smoke complaints to develop inspection patrols in areas with high complaints and/or high levels of burning. Due to the large volume of wood smoke complaints, inspectors are not dispatched to meet with complainants in most cases. The complaint information places the address in our wood smoke database to help direct wood smoke investigations. Information about the wood smoke regulation and compliance instructions will be mailed to the address. Air District inspectors will use this wood smoke database to route patrols and conduct investigations in areas where there are high numbers of wood smoke complaints or high rates of wood burning.
An Air District Notice of Violation (NOV) for a residence or business that violates the wood smoke regulation can be issued only if an Air District inspector personally observes and documents the violation. First time violators will be issued an NOV but will have an opportunity to take the Air District's Wood Smoke Awareness School in lieu of paying a fine. Those who are found in violation a second time are issued a NOV citation and are subject to a $500 fine. Repeat violators who subsequently continue to burn in violation of the regulation will face increasing financial penalties.
Burning garbage is strictly prohibited within the Bay Area any time of the year, and doing so releases many harmful pollutants. If you suspect somebody is burning illegal materials, please file a complaint (see above).
It is very difficult for Air District inspectors to locate the exact source of wood smoke from a multi-unit complex. Therefore, we often send informational packets to all addresses in the complex to educate them about the harmful effects of woodsmoke, the regulation requirements and how to burn cleanly. To assist us, if you register a complaint on a multi-unit complex, please provide as much information as possible, such as the main building address where the unit is located.
Outdoor wood-burning devices are not covered in Regulation 6, Rule 3: Wood-burning Devices. Newly installed outdoor wood-burning devices do not have to be an EPA-certified or pellet-fueled device. However, Regulation 5: Open Burning, prohibits the use of outdoor wood-burning devices (including fireplaces, firepits and chimineas) and other recreational fires during a Winter Spare the Air Alert.
Newly installed indoor wood-burning devices must be EPA-certified or pellet-fueled devices. A list of approved devices for installation can be found here. However, EPA-certified and pellet-fueled devices are still prohibited from operation during a Winter Spare the Air Alert. Natural gas-fueled devices are allowed for installation within the Air District and not subject to burn bans.
Repairs can be made to existing wood-burning devices. However, any newly installed indoor wood-burning device must be an EPA-certified or pellet-fueled device, regardless if the new device is replacing an existing fireplace or other wood-burning device. If a remodel alters or moves an existing devices firebox and/or requires a building permit, then the remodel is considered a new install and only an EPA certified-device or a pellet-fueled device can be installed.
Seasoned wood is firewood that has a moisture content of less than 20% by weight. Only seasoned firewood is appropriate for burning in your fireplace and/or wood stove. Seasoned firewood has the following characteristics:
• Dark colored with cracked ends with cracks radiating from the center like bicycle spokes;
• Light in weight since much of the moisture has been removed,
• Unique sound when two pieces of firewood are hit together. Dry wood rings with a resonant "crack", like a bat hitting a baseball while wet wood makes a dull "thud" sound;
• Easily peeled or broken bark with no green under the bark.
Additionally, all firewood suppliers must label their firewood as seasoned or unseasoned with instructions on how to properly season the wood.
Pursuant to Section 404.1 of Regulation 6, Rule 3, each package of solid-fuel or wood sold or provided within the Air District boundaries must be labeled with the following language:
"Use of this and other solid fuels may be restricted at times by law. Please
check 1-877-4NO-BURN or http://www.8774NOBURN.ORG before burning."
Solid-fuels include but are not limited to the following:
• Firewood or wood • Other fire logs (such as EnviroLog and JavaLog)
• Any manufactured logs (such as DuraFlame) • Any solid or semisolid fire starters
• Any pressed logs (such as Presto Logs) • Pellets (wood-based or plant-based)
The requirement to label "each package" means that the smallest unit of product that is intended for sale shall be labeled. For product that can be sold either as individual units or in boxes containing multiple units, the individual units must be labeled. There is no requirement to label the box containing units that are labeled and packaged for individual sale.
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I laid beside you in your bed tonight, staring up at the yellow and blue and green stars that flickered and danced through your ceiling fan and across the expanse of your little 10X15 vaulted sky. You rested your head against the space where my neck and my body meet, and in those few moments there was no way humanly possible for me to hold you tightly enough.
I know that you are seven now, and i remember what seven means. Your biggest brother was seven when I started this old blog, back before I had any idea there would ever be a you. Your biggest brother, well, he seemed enormous at seven, most certainly seasoned enough to stand with my midwife between my knees and help you come into this world. I looked at him and saw a dude, a manling, a thing becoming, and I look at you seven years later and I see the itsy bitsy tiny helpless little gelfling they carted away to the NICU because if there is one thing in this life you will do right, it is make the grandest of entrances.
The day? night? incomprehendable expanse of time from when you left my body until you entered my arms? after you were born, I held you much like I did tonight - in your bed, buried under blankets, staring into the dark. We laid beside each other for hours - 10, if the nurses tell me correctly, and we didn't have much to say to one another. You nursed until you couldn't muster enough strength to continue, and I stared at you though the thickest haze of exhaustion that only comes from doing something truly other-worldly, like falling though the air or surfing inside of salt water tubes or creating the most exquiste human being to ever grace the earth, and I kept staring into your then-blue eyes without blinking once, until I had little choice but to declare you the wildest thing of all.
That night you were 24 hours old, and tonight you somewhere around 61,416 hours old. The best thing about you is that tonight, my mind was just as blown as it was that first night we hung out all night watching Law & Order reruns and eating really atrocious Jello cups. You have changed everything I ever thought I knew about anything. You've changed the way I see my life, the way I see the lives of others. You've changed me at the core of the person I thought I was, and I will never be able to thank you enough for that.
But I know what seven means. I know that you need me to start easing up on my grip. I know you need me to hold you just as tightly, just maybe sometimes not, like, in front of your friends or stuff? I know that you're about to start pushing off of me and rowing into the seas of your own life, and so you're going to have to forgive me for a little while while I lay in your bed more often than you think I need to and stare at the ceiling with you. It's really not that you're the only person in this house with a not-Ikea mattress (thought that is true and totally a bonus), it's that I can still smell you brand new in my arms. I can still feel you warm on my neck. I haven't quite figured out how to see you as gigantic, a womanlingthing, a lady becoming, and I am almost, but not quite, possibly ready to start talking about that.
Under fake stars.
Under a ridiculous amount of blankets.
In our own little world.
For as long as you will let this magic keep happening.
Happy 7th birthday, my angel. There is nothing I love more than being your mom.