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I have mixed feelings about waiting for the new costume.: Biggrin:
I have mixed feelings about waiting for the new costume.: Biggrin:
weir costume.. "foundation, lotion, milky lotion", shichi-go-san girlish kimono, kawai skirt outfit in THE ICE...
Yuzu, come back home.
4CC FS CBC Commentary
LOL at Kurt's comment at 0:53 alluding to Yuzu's bad encounter with a door leaving the hotel:
What's obvious to me that walking through a door is harder for him than doing four revolutions. That is absolutely, quintessentially perfect.
I agree!
It shocked me.
Oh boy... CBC commentators surely found out about the accident very quickly.
Are there any more reports in Japan regarding of the new costume?
No, jjanet, since he is preparing for Worlds in Canada, no news, no reports, no interviews these days. But Worlds is almost 10 days away, so we'll see.


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The rest of the population was held in check by fear "of the terrorists" (ex-Separatists, new Rebel Alliance anyone?) Taxes needed to be raised and stormtroopers needed to be stationed in order to maintain domestic security. It's a darn allusion to what is happening in the republic called the USA presently. The Loyalists (rich people not paying the brunt of the taxes, though that's questionable in light of the blockade around Naboo in TPM) had their cake and ate it too by siding with Romney err... I meant Palpatine.
2. An all-powerful, central, unified government is ripe for corruption to grow unchecked. This kind of government is accountable to no one (remember the citizens have been turned into fat, contented cows happily grazing on the government's feet) and can literally get away with whatever it wants. Just think of Nazi Germany, imagine if their had been no Allied forces to confront them and hold them accountable for the Holocaust. If we had had a centralized, all-powerful, one-world government under Adolf Hitler just think of what kind of horrors our entire planet would be living under right now. This is why a unified, one-world government is NEVER, NEVER, NEVER a good idea. Because when that government becomes corrupt (it's not even a question of "if"), then you would actually have to leave the planet to escape the tyranny.
Star Trek has earth in a one-world government. I don't understand the intricacies of it, but I am certain that North America cannot make a treaty with the Klingons and NOT expect that Asia won't go along with it. The Klingons would use any excuse to force total conquest of earth if they could.
A one-world republic government, so long as a constitution saw opposition parties routinely have a voice and share in the power, could work. By extension, so could the Old Republic in Star Wars (and the Federation of Planets as we started talking about Star Trek at my post).
But if one day the United States was attacked by the Klingons because the North Koreans upset them, and the Klingons just said, "What the heck? They are all Terans (earthlings, humans)," that would make us real sorry we didn't have a functional United Nations forum to help coordinate some kind of united policy with the North Koreans.
And that being said, in finality (Deep Space Nine), Terans (United Earth citizens, Federation of Planet peoples) had to have a united alliance with the Klingons to resist The Dominion. And you know - the Founders of the Dominion, with their shape-shifting, might be useful allies against the Borg who probably couldn't assimilate them.
Alliances and the eventual united governments are not stupid things.
Back to Star Wars, the Hutts were not even ever under Imperial jurisdiction - and the Hutt's hold on slavery was a good thing? Really?
He could cloak himself in the Force, reduce his presence. Jedi could do that as well, but it was considered against their principles to always be acting from the shadows. Palpatine was not "super" powerful, nor is any Sith (Yoda said "not MORE powerful").3. Also, if Palpatine was powerful enough to fog the Jedi's minds... every single Jedi, for every waking moment, for over ten years, no matter where they were in the galaxy.... then just imagine what he could do to the minds of normal citizens. I think it's called the Plot-Hole Steamrolling Power of the Dark Side. Which is a pretty convenient power to give your main villain if you want to gloss over the fact that none of your heroes do anything that makes any sense whatsoever.
BigB: you are a trained soldier and pretty strong I imagine. If you needed to, you could cause someone you needed to underestimate YOU by pretending you were scared and needed help to even open a glass bottle. If you had a plan in mind, you could keep this illusion up for however long it was necessary before they'd never suspect it when you turned on them and kicked some serious butt.
Anyway, the Prequel Trilogy was deeper (politically) than the OT and much more sophistocated. Part of Lucas' greed that lent to his shortcomings in writing, was his desire to hook the kids with sillyness like JarJar. He also was not subtle about showing everything "start and end happy" with Gungans and Ewoks. Even AOTC is not "cute," like TPM and ROTJ was a serious departure of tone from ANH and ESB since back in the day. Yub-Nub. Beecheewa-wawaa.

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Rise Against are putting out a new album July 15th called The Black Market. Is anyone going to check it out? I hope it's better than Endgame
Rise Against are putting out a new album July 15th called The Black Market. Is anyone going to check it out? I hope it's better than Endgame
I'm excited for the new album, and yes, I will check it out.
The founder of The Offspring Wikia, and looking for someone to help out, find out why at this thread.
I must admit, I didn't really care for "Appeal to Reason" or "Endgame". I love the other albums, though, including the recent b-sides comp! I'm cautiously optimistic toward "The Black Market" since I like the music I've heard in each teaser video.
I'm still a big fan of their first 3 albums and I like The Sufferer & the Witness but after that I kinda lost interest. I will of course listen to the new one though.
The new single has been posted
Meh. I kinda liked Endgame at first, but now I can't remember a single thing from it. I'm on my first listen through the new album now, and I doubt there will be a second listen for me. I have no feelings whatsoever about these songs. Maybe it's a grower, but even with growers there's at least something that grabs my attention on the first listen, but there's nothing like that here. That said, I wasn't expecting anything, so I can't say I'm disappointed. Loved this band during The Sufferer era, but I don't really care about them anymore.
I have said this before, and I'll say it again, as it's what bothers me with this album as well: the production sucks. Everything sounds too polished, too perfect, as if it's not actual human beings that are making the music.


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Cheryl Claassen
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America: An Interpretive Guide. University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 2013.
Frank Aycock
Television in The Cloud. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Seattle, Washington. 2014.
Nina-Jo Moore
Nonverbal Communication: Studies and Applications, 6th Ed. Oxford University Press. New York, NY. 2014.
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Joseph Cazier
Hacking to Learn: A Hands on Prep Guide for CEH Certification. Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Seattle, Washington. 2013.
Richard Crandall
Vanishing Boundaries, How Integrating Manufacturing and Services Creates Customer Value. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, Florida. 2013.
Christopher Taylor
Hacking to Learn: A Hands on Prep Guide for CEH Certification. Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Seattle, Washington. 2013.
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CD/DVD/Video; The Middle Level Legacy Video Series; The Legacy of Middle School Leaders: In Their Own Words. Association for Middle Level Education. Westerville, OH. 2013.
Todd Cherry
Toward a New Climate Agreement: Conflict, Resolution and Governance. Routledge. New York, NY. 2013.
David McEvoy
Toward a New Climate Agreement: Conflict, Resolution and Governance. Routledge. New York, NY. 2013.
Joseph Bathanti
Half of What I Say Is Meaningless. Mercer University Press. Macon, Georgia. 2014.
Alison Gulley
Chastity and Martyrdom: The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives. Ashgate Publishers. Surrey, United Kingdom. 2014.
Nathan Hauke
Pastoral (years later). Shirt Pocket Press. Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2013.
Kirsten Jorgenson
Sediment & Veil. Horseless Press. Grand Rapids, MI. 2014.
Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful: Poems. Clemson University Press. Clemson, South Carolina. 2014.
Alexander Pitofsky
American Boarding-School Fiction, 1928-1981: A Critical Study of All the Privileged Young Men. McFarland Publishers. Jefferson, North Carolina. 2014.
Government and Justice Studies
James Barnes
Wisdom and Initiation in Gabon: A Philosophical Analysis of Fang Tales, Myths and Legends by Bonaventure Mve Ondo, Translation. Lexington Books. Lanham, Maryland. 2013.
Nancy Love
Love, Nancy S., Studying Politics Today: Critical Approaches to Political Science, co-edited with Mark Mattern, (Oxford, UK: Routledge/Taylor&Francis, 2014). [Special Issue 35.3 (September 2013) of New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture.]
Catherine Marcum
Cybercrime. Wolters Kluwer. New York, New York. 2013.
Matthew Robinson
Media Coverage of Crime and Criminal Justice, 2nd Edition. Carolina Academic Press. Durham, North Carolina. 2014.
Andrea Burns
From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement. University of Massachusetts Press. Amherst, Massachusetts. 2013.
Anatoly Isaenko
Polygon of Satan: Ethnic Traumas and Conflicts in the Caucasus. 3rd Edition. Kendall Hunt Publishing. Dubuque, Iowa. 2014
Michael Turner
Liberty and Liberticide: The Role of America in Nineteenth-Century British Radicalism. Lexington Books. Lanham, Maryland. 2013.
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Geraldine Miller
Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling, 4th Edition. Wiley Press. Hoboken, New Jersey. 2014
Jon Winek
CD/DVD/Video; From Theory to Practice: Emotional Focused Therapy. Sage Publications; Thousand Oakes, California. 2013
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Benito del Pliego
Extraccio - Notas de un dietario. El tucán de Virginia. Mexico. 2013
Objetos y Retratos: Geografía. Gertrude Stein. Amargord. Madrid, Spain, 2014
Andres Fisher
Objetos y Retratos: Geografía. Gertrude Stein. Amargord. Madrid, Spain, 2014
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Barbara Bonham
Developmental Education: Readings on its Past, Present, and Future. Bedford/St. Martin's. Boston, Massachusetts. 2014.
Hunter Boylan
Developmental Education: Readings on its Past, Present, and Future. Bedford/St. Martin's. Boston, Massachusetts. 2014.
Rick Howe
Serendipitous Gleanings, Volume XIII, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. 2014
Serendipitous Gleanings, Volume XIV, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. 201
Alan Singer
Business Ethics in the 21st Century: Stability and Change. Nova Science Publishers. New York, New York. 2013.
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Witold Kosmala
A Friendly Introduction to Analysis: Single and Multivariable, 2nd Edition. Pearson. New York, New York. 2013.
William Harbinson
At Twilight (A musical composition). Carl Fischer Publications. New York, New York. 2014.
Steve Hopkins
Praise the Lord (for men's voices and piano). Carl Fischer, LLC. New York, New York. 2014.
Jennifer Snodgrass
Contemporary Musicianship: Analysis and the Artist. Oxford University Press. New York, New York. 2014.
Phoebe Pollitt
The History of Professional Nursing in North Carolina, 1902-2002. Carolina Academic Press. Durham, North Carolina. 2014
Nutrition and Health Care Management
Martin Root
Nutrition and Health. Burlington, MA. Jones and Bartlett Learning, Inc. 2014.
David Williams
The Funding of Biopharmaceutical R&D. Woodhead Publishing. 2013.
Philosophy and Religion
Tom Ellis
On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta. Springer Publishing. New York, New York. 2013.
Davis Hankins
The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of Transcendence. Northwestern University Press. Evanston, Illinois. 2014.
Kevin Schilbrack
Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto. Wiley Blackwell. Hoboken, New Jersey. 2014
Reading Education and Special Education
Darrell Morris
Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Problems. Gilford Press. New York, New York. 2014
Research Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics
John Pine
Hazards Analysis: Reducing the Impact of Disasters. Second Edition. CRC Press, Taylor Frances Group. Boca Raton, Florida. 2014.
Cameron Lippard
Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic. Greenwood Press. Santa Barbara, California. 2014.
Martha McCaughey
Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web. Routledge Press. New York, New York. 2014.
Kenneth Muir
The Sociological Perspective. Kendall-Hunt. Dubuque, Iowa. 2013.
Theatre and Dance
Laurie Atkins
Stolen Goods-take 2. Laurie Atkins, Choreographer. Vision of Sound Concert, Rochester, NY 2014. (Performance)
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Appalachian State University. Arcadia Publishing. 2014.
The Library will participate in International Education Week with a display of its resources for international travelers and researchers. Starting Monday, check out our resources on display in the center of the first floor (straight ahead as you come into the Library). IEW 2014 is November 17-21.
Physical resources on display will include:
Books in various languages (and of course in English on almost any topic and/or place).
Examples: works by Nobel winner Patrick Modiano in both French and translated to English
Music and films from abroad.
Examples: El Tempo entre Costuras, Pather Panchali = Song of the Little Road
Games in non-English languages. Stop by and play!
We also have electronic resources. As usual, you can find ebooks and articles on your topic/place. Want to learn about Poland or maybe something as specific as the political history of radio in Argentina? We also have practical travel resources such as travel guides and Mango Languages for developing your skills. And we have fun ways to help you experience international film, music, and art.
Examples: ebook -- Herb Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia. (We have the physical version too.)
ebook -- Lonely Planet's India, Poland -- Eyewitness Travel
Mango Languages, including Finnish and Malayalam
Streaming video such as: Metal and Melancholy, Hidden Korea
Contemporary World Music or Smithsonian Global Sound
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Do not overlook that the Library continues to provide good service when you are abroad. We can help you in person before you go or when you return, but we can help by chat or email even when you're gone. Also, we now have excellent web conference software and we would be glad to set up an appointment.
Charlie Lovett will speak on Friday, November 14 at 3:30pm. Born in Winston-Salem, this book collector, author, teacher and playwright combined his passions in the acclaimed novel, The Bookman's Tale. The deeply moving love story is also a delightful exploration of one of literature's most tantalizing mysteries. His new book, First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Young Love, and Jane Austen was published by Viking in October 2014.
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In honor of Veteran's Day, you can hear about the experiences of military personnel first-hand through oral history interviews in Belk Library's Digital Collections. Students in Dr. Judkin Browning's History 3823, "American Military History," conduct and transcribe oral history interviews with veterans about their military experiences each year. Veterans in this collection have served in the United States military from World War II through the current War on Terror. Audio files and transcripts are available for most interviews and can be access through this portal. Click on the "Select Items from the Veterans Oral History Project" link to see a list of all interviews. Check back often, as interviews are continually being added.
Sections of First-Year Seminar (UCO 1200) and Expository Writing (ENG 1000) visited Special Collections recently to use our collections and expertise for course assignments.
On September 29, Rebecca Keeter's UCO 1200, "Appalachian Music and Dance," students attended a session led by Special Collections Reading Room Manager Dean Williams about genealogy sources. The students have an assignment this semester to trace their family genealogies to an ancestor outside of the United States, and from there, learn a dance of that country and teach it to their classmates. Williams explained how to use the AncestryLibrary database and then the students used the class as a work period to start creating their family trees (pictured).
On October 2 and 14, Preservation and Digital Projects Archivist Pam Mitchem led two instructional sessions for UCO 1200, "Pictures and Stories: Our Place," taught by Chery Zibisky and David Crosby. The students' assignment was to choose a place, which could be and building, area, or landmark, and discuss its history in a research paper. The students used the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection and the University Archives, including the digitized collection of Appalachian State Historical Photographs.
On October 10 and 13, Lorraine Harris' three sections of ENG 1000, "Expository Writing," met with Reference Archivist/Librarian Greta Browning in Special Collections for a work session using University yearbooks (1922-1992, 2004-2006) and student handbooks (1930s-1980s) for an assignment about historical dating rules and social interaction on campus. Students are pictured above using yearbooks in the Cratis Williams Reading Room.
Our database CQ Researcher is often a good place to start looking at a topic. Each report contains charts, graphs, sidebar articles, a pro-con feature, chronology, lengthy bibliographies, and a list of contacts. They address "hot" topics.
This week's report is "Campus Sexual Assault," by Barbara Mantel.
For more, search "Article Search" and our many databases that will have peer-reviewed research on this topic.
The Library offers on-campus access to Scopus through November 20. Scopus is an Elsevier product (like Science Direct), which can be used to find articles on your topic, articles that cite an article you've already found, and articles that cite you or an author you're interested in. It is especially strong in the sciences, health sciences, and social sciences. (I say articles, but Scopus has also added records for 75,000 books recently.) The "Cited by" and citation analysis functions are similar to what is offered in Google Scholar and Web of Science. We are not likely to keep both Web of Science and Scopus.
It is not currently set up to link to full text of articles, but it will link effectively if we acquire it.
Let us know what you think of this product.
Scopus is not currently available off campus.
We now have full access to current issues of the Journal of American College Health.
We also recently gotten JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Well, it was 32 degrees out this morning and I was running late. I made it to my hunting area after first light, I decided to go to a spot I usually hunt later in the mornings. I heard a gobble below me, I sat down and let out a couple yelps and got ready. All of a sudden this big guy pitched out of a tree right behind me, I jumped up, repositioned myself, purred and clucked. He was walking away from me so as soon as I had a clear shot I took it. I to was using a hevi•shot choke I got off Clark along with hevi•shot 6 shot. He dropped in his tracks at about 40 yards.
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Essentially, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) allows developed countries to offset their carbon emissions by funding projects that would reduce emissions in developing countries. In this way, developing countries may develop more sustainably, while developed countries meet their emission targets. Since its inception, the CDM has been criticized for its overall efficiency, as well as for funding unsustainable and sometimes fraudulent activity. There have also been concerns over the exclusion of forest conservation, which led to the development of REDD+.


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The unusual appearance of pilot whales illustrates the extreme diversity within the dolphin family. They swim in pods of 20 to 90 animals throughout temperate and tropical oceans worldwide. The name "pilot whale" is believed to originate from the idea that the pods were piloted by a leader whale.
Pilot whales transcend human boundaries as they dive to depths of over 1,000 feet in search of squid and can reach swimming speeds of nearly 20 miles per hour when pursuing their prey.
Blue Horizons stars, Bubbles and Shadow, are the only two performing short-finned pilot whales in the world. Bubbles, approximately 47 years old, is about 15 feet long and weighs 2,800 pounds. Shadow, about 30 years old, is 13 feet long and weighs 1,800 pounds. Both eat a diet of squid and fish, consuming 5 percent of their body weight in food each day.
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I'm leaving for Oslo in a couple of hours to finally meet up with some of the GNOME multimedia developers. I'm really stoked about this. Hopefully we'll have a productive few days together, I'd like to get a lot of coding and documentation done. And also see some of the norwegian countryside. Maybe get to see a moose as well, aïe, so much to do !
Work and open source
It's been quite a roller coaster trying to convince our boss to let us open source this project at work. Or maybe a transistor, more like : on, off, yes, no, ... supposedly we get a final answer soon, hopefully the response will be yes. It would be nice to know that the coding I've done in the last 6 months will see the light of day somewhere outside this group of 200 employees.
Realtime CORBA and JACK
I'm getting more intrigued by this "quality of service" concept for distributed applications. Although I'm not terribly familiar with it, JACK seems to have taken a great step forward in the linux world of realtime audio processing. (And hopefully after this weekend we'll have functional JACK elements for quality audio processing with GStreamer.)
But I'm also wondering now if a realtime CORBA element would make sense in GStreamer ; with such powerful interprocess communication it would be relatively easy to write things like a cluster-based audio editing application, or a videoconferencing application. Maybe all these things exist already and I should just stop now. Just thoughts at the moment.


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By Enda Curran
For Australia's bond market, the surprise decision by global banking regulators to widen the type of debt securities that banks can hold as a liquid asset likely won't mean much at all, according to Deutsche Bank.
The reason? The bank expects Australia's regulators to maintain a view that triple-A rated government and state bonds are the gold standard with no room for mortgage-backed debt or other securities.
"We do not expect any substantive changes to the eligible asset mix or to the stress scenarios," Deutsche strategist David Plank said in a note.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, a group of the world's top regulators and central bankers, Sunday said it will push back to 2019 the full implementation of the new 'liquidity coverage ratio' and will allow banks to use securities such as residential mortgage-backed debt to satisfy up to 15% of their requirements.
Until now they had largely insisted on only the highest rated and safe assets such as government bonds or cash, a policy pursued with vigor in Australia.
Under the new changes local regulators will have full discretion on how they want to implement any tweaks. The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority has consistently sent a stern message to banks that only the best assets will do and has been reluctant to offer any concessions.
Still, even by delaying the implementation of the new rules could be enough to ease red hot demand for Australia's federal and state triple-A rated bonds.
"This will have mixed implications for spreads, in our view. We think it will add to the existing pressure on swap spreads to narrow," said Mr. Plank.
A big part of the demand for the triple-A state debt in Australia has been driven by banks hoovering up these securities to meet the new rules. Because of a shortage of government debt in Australia the central bank has set up a credit facility that allows banks to swap assets that currently don't make the grade for securities deemed eligible by APRA.


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Everything about this forum is great to me except one thing: the logo. Why not change the log, I think it greatly declined the feeling of gamedev to a lower status
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TUPELO – TNA's Impact Wrestling will broadcast live from the BancorpSouth Arena on May 9, complete with stars like Hulk Hogan, Sting and the newest wrestler, Joseph Park.
"It's been 11 years since we've had a televised live event here," said BancorpSouth Arena's executive director, Todd Hunt.
Fans will really get two shows for the price of one. The live broadcast will be 7-9 p.m. May 9, and after the live broadcast is over, Impact Wrestling will tape another episode that will air the following week.
"Impact Wrestling is seen by over 5 million people in over 100 countries in 14 languages," said Michael Weber, TNA Entertainment's vice president of marketing. "This is truly a global product and it's good for a city like Tupelo that doesn't get global attention."
More than 40 wrestlers will be brought in for the show, and Impact Wrestling will bring in another 100 people as support staff. They'll hire another 40 local workers to set the stage up and tear it down, Weber said.
Impact Wrestling hosted a press conference announcing the show at the arena on Tuesday morning, where they gave tickets to local chapters of the Boys & Girls Clubs.
Park was also on hand, and he spoke about how his character made the transition from being a lawyer to becoming a wrestler. Park gave a heavyweight championship belt to another lawyer, Mayor Jack Reed Jr., at the press conference.
"I'll leave office July 1, so I may need something else to keep me busy," Reed joked. "(Park) may be my new role model."
This will be Impact Wrestling's fifth show on the road, and Park said he's looking forward to the Tupelo event.
"I know Hulk Hogan and Sting are excited about performing in front of a traditional wrestling audience," he said. "It's an honor to perform in front of an audience like that."
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• Can't be there in person?
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:29 PM GMT on February 08, 2010
A major new winter storm is headed east over the U.S. today, and threatens to dump a foot or more of snow on Philadelphia, New York City, and surrounding regions Tuesday and Wednesday. Philadelphia is still digging out from its second top-ten snowstorm of recorded history to hit the city this winter, and the streets are going to begin looking like canyons if this week's snowstorm adds a significant amount of snow to the incredible 28.5" that fell during "Snowmageddon" last Friday and Saturday. Philadelphia has had two snowstorms exceeding 23" this winter. According to the National Climatic Data Center, the return period for a 22+ inch snow storm is once every 100 years--and we've had two 100-year snow storms in Philadelphia this winter. It is true that if the winter pattern of jet stream location, sea surface temperatures, etc, are suitable for a 100-year storm to form, that will increase the chances for a second such storm to occur that same year, and thus the odds have having two 100-year storms the same year are not 1 in 10,000. Still, the two huge snowstorms this winter in the Mid-Atlantic are definitely a very rare event one should see only once every few hundred years, and is something that has not occurred since modern records began in 1870. The situation is similar for Baltimore and Washington D.C. According to the National Climatic Data Center, the expected return period in the Washington D.C./Baltimore region for snowstorms with more than 16 inches of snow is about once every 25 years. This one-two punch of two major Nor'easters in one winter with 16+ inches of snow is unprecedented in the historical record for the region, which goes back to the late 1800s.
Figure 1. Car buried in Virginia by "Snowmageddon" on February 8, 2010. Image credit: wunderphotographer Brabus Cave.
Top 9 snowstorms on record for Philadelphia:
1. 30.7", Jan 7-8, 1996
2. 28.5", Feb 5-6, 2010 (Snowmageddon)
3. 23.2", Dec 19-20, 2009 (Snowpocalypse)
4. 21.3", Feb 11-12, 1983
5. 21.0", Dec 25-26, 1909
6. 19.4", Apr 3-4, 1915
7. 18.9", Feb 12-14, 1899
8. 16.7", Jan 22-24, 1935
9. 15.1", Feb 28-Mar 1, 1941
The top 10 snowstorms on record for Baltimore:
1. 28.2", Feb 15-18, 2003
2. 26.5", Jan 27-29, 1922
3. 24.8", Feb 5-6, 2010 (Snowmageddon)
4. 22.8", Feb 11-12, 1983
5. 22.5", Jan 7-8, 1996
6. 22.0", Mar 29-30, 1942
7. 21.4", Feb 11-14, 1899
8. 21.0", Dec 19-20, 2009 (Snowpocalypse)
9. 20.0", Feb 18-19, 1979
10. 16.0", Mar 15-18, 1892
The top 10 snowstorms on record for Washington, D.C.:
1. 28.0", Jan 27-28, 1922
2. 20.5", Feb 11-13, 1899
3. 18.7", Feb 18-19, 1979
4. 17.8" Feb 5-6, 2010 (Snowmageddon)
5. 17.1", Jan 6-8, 1996
6. 16.7", Feb 15-18, 2003
7. 16.6", Feb 11-12, 1983
8. 16.4", Dec 19-20, 2009 (Snowpocalypse)
9. 14.4", Feb 15-16, 1958
10. 14.4", Feb 7, 1936
Heavy snow events--a contradiction to global warming theory?
Global warming skeptics regularly have a field day whenever a record snow storm pounds the U.S., claiming that such events are inconsistent with a globe that is warming. If the globe is warming, there should, on average, be fewer days when it snows, and thus fewer snow storms. However, it is possible that if climate change is simultaneously causing an increase in ratio of snowstorms with very heavy snow to storms with ordinary amounts of snow, we could actually see an increase in very heavy snowstorms in some portions of the world. There is evidence that this is happening for winter storms in the Northeast U.S.--the mighty Nor'easters like the "Snowmageddon" storm of February 5-6 and "Snowpocalypse" of December 19, 2009. Let's take a look at the evidence. There are two requirements for a record snow storm:
1) A near-record amount of moisture in the air (or a very slow moving storm).
2) Temperatures cold enough for snow.
It's not hard at all to get temperatures cold enough for snow in a world experiencing global warming. According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, the globe warmed 0.74°C (1.3°F) over the past 100 years. There will still be colder than average winters in a world that is experiencing warming, with plenty of opportunities for snow. The more difficult ingredient for producing a record snowstorm is the requirement of near-record levels of moisture. Global warming theory predicts that global precipitation will increase, and that heavy precipitation events--the ones most likely to cause flash flooding--will also increase. This occurs because as the climate warms, evaporation of moisture from the oceans increases, resulting in more water vapor in the air. According to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, water vapor in the global atmosphere has increased by about 5% over the 20th century, and 4% since 1970. This extra moisture in the air will tend to produce heavier snowstorms, assuming it is cold enough to snow. Groisman et al. (2004) found a 14% increase in heavy (top 5%) and 20% increase in very heavy (top 1%) precipitation events in the U.S. over the past 100 years, though mainly in spring and summer. However, the authors did find a significant increase in winter heavy precipitation events have occurred in the Northeast U.S. This was echoed by Changnon et al. (2006), who found, "The temporal distribution of snowstorms exhibited wide fluctuations during 1901-2000, with downward 100-yr trends in the lower Midwest, South, and West Coast. Upward trends occurred in the upper Midwest, East, and Northeast, and the national trend for 1901-2000 was upward, corresponding to trends in strong cyclonic activity."
The strongest cold-season storms are likely to become stronger and more frequent for the U.S.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) began as a presidential initiative in 1989 and was mandated by Congress in the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-606), which called for "a comprehensive and integrated United States research program which will assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change." This program has put out some excellent peer-reviewed science on climate change that, in my view, is as authoritative as the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. In 2009, the USGCRP put out its excellent U.S. Climate Impacts Report, summarizing the observed and forecast impacts of climate change on the U.S. The report's main conclusion about cold season storms was " Cold-season storm tracks are shifting northward and the strongest storms are likely to become stronger and more frequent".
The report's more detailed analysis: "Large-scale storm systems are the dominant weather phenomenon during the cold season in the United States. Although the analysis of these storms is complicated by a relatively short length of most observational records and by the highly variable nature of strong storms, some clear patterns have emerged (Kunkel et al., 2008).
Storm tracks have shifted northward over the last 50 years as evidenced by a decrease in the frequency of storms in mid-latitude areas of the Northern Hemisphere, while high-latitude activity has increased. There is also evidence of an increase in the intensity of storms in both the mid- and high-latitude areas of the Northern Hemisphere, with greater confidence in the increases occurring in high latitudes (Kunkel et al., 2008). The northward shift is projected to continue, and strong cold season storms are likely to become stronger and more frequent, with greater wind speeds and more extreme wave heights". The study also noted that we should expect an increase in lake-effect snowstorms over the next few decades. Lake-effect snow is produced by the strong flow of cold air across large areas of relatively warmer ice-free water. The report says, "As the climate has warmed, ice coverage on the Great Lakes has fallen. The maximum seasonal coverage of Great Lakes ice decreased at a rate of 8.4 percent per decade from 1973 through 2008, amounting to a roughly 30 percent decrease in ice coverage. This has created conditions conducive to greater evaporation of moisture and thus heavier snowstorms. Among recent extreme lake-effect snow events was a February 2007 10-day storm total of over 10 feet of snow in western New York state. Climate models suggest that lake-effect snowfalls are likely to increase over the next few decades. In the longer term, lake-effect snows are likely to decrease as temperatures continue to rise, with the precipitation then falling as rain".
Figure 2. The annual average number of snowstorms with a 6 inch (15.2 cm) or greater accumulation, from the years 1901 - 2001. A value of 0.1 means an average of one 6+ inch snowstorm every ten years. Image credit: Changnon, S.A., D. Changnon, and T.R. Karl, 2006, Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Snowstorms in the Contiguous United States, J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 45, 8, pp. 1141-1155, DOI: 10.1175/JAM2395.1.
More heavy snowstorms occur in warmer-than-average years
Another interesting result from the Changnon et al. (2006) paper (Figure 2) is the relationship between heavy snowstorms and the average winter temperature. For the contiguous U.S. between 1900 - 2001, the authors found that 61% - 80% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches occurred during winters with above normal temperatures. In other words, the old adage, "it's too cold to snow", has some truth to it. The authors also found that 61% - 85% of all heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches occurred during winters that were wetter than average. The authors conclude, "a future with wetter and warmer winters, which is one outcome expected (National Assessment Synthesis Team 2001), will bring more heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches than in 1901 - 2000. The authors found that over the U.S. as a whole, there had been a slight but significant increase in heavy snowstorms of 6+ inches between 1901 - 2000. However, a separate paper by Houston and Changnon (2009), "Characteristics of the top ten snowstorms at First-Order Stations in the U.S.", found that there was no upward or downward trend in the very heaviest snowstorms for the contiguous U.S. between 1948 - 2001, as evaluated by looking at the top ten snowstorms for 121 major cities.
One can "load the dice" in favor of events that used to be rare--or unheard of--if the climate is changing to a new state. It is quite possible that nature's weather dice have been loaded in favor of more intense Nor'easters for the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, thanks to the higher levels of moisture present in the air due to warmer global temperatures. It's worth mentioning that heavy snow storms should be getting increasingly rare for the extreme southern portion of the U.S. in coming decades. There's almost always high amounts of moisture available for a potential heavy snow in the South--just not enough cold air. With freezing temperatures expected to decrease and the jet stream and associated storm track expected to move northward, the extreme southern portion of the U.S. should see a reduction in both heavy and ordinary snow storms in the coming decades.
The CapitalClimate blog has a nice perspective on "Snowmageddon", and Joe Romm of climateprogress.org has some interesting things to say about snowstorms in a warming climate.
Changnon, S.A., D. Changnon, and T.R. Karl, 2006, , "Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Snowstorms in the Contiguous United States", J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 45, 1141.1155.
Groisman, P.Y., R.W. Knight, T.R. Karl, D.R. Easterling, B. Sun, and J.H. Lawrimore, 2004, "Contemporary Changes of the Hydrological Cycle over the Contiguous United States: Trends Derived from In Situ Observations," J. Hydrometeor., 5, 64-85.
Kunkel, K.E., P.D. Bromirski, H.E. Brooks, T. Cavazos, A.V. Douglas, D.R. Easterling, K.A. Emanuel, P.Ya. Groisman, G.J. Holland, T.R. Knutson, J.P. Kossin, P.D. Komar, D.H. Levinson, and R.L. Smith, 2008: Observed changes in weather and climate extremes. In: Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate: Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands [Karl, T.R., G.A. Meehl, C.D. Miller, S.J. Hassol, A.M. Waple, and W.L. Murray (eds.)]. Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.3. U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Washington, DC, pp. 35-80.
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The Sunday before the last, Shachar Shemesh gave a re-run of his lecture about Wine to the Tel Aviv Linux Club. This time, the lecture was more polished than the time he gave it on Haifux. He threw a lot of funny jokes throughout the lecture and it was very entertaining. Shachar is a great lecturer.
Next I have a Perl-IL meeting, with presentations by three people including me. In the Haifux front, there was a meeting yesterday of a post-mortem to the Welcome-to-Linux series. I could not attend it because of an exam I had (see below). In any case, next week, Aviram Jenik will give a lecture about Spam, which I look forward to.
I had to hand out three statistics homework sheets yesterday. Two exercises gave me some trouble. One of them was tackled, but the other - a very similar one yielded a solution that was similar to the correct one but not identical. I ended up handing it as is because I could not find what the trouble was, despite the long hours of staring.
Otherwise, I had an exam in Thermodynamics yesterday at 18:30. It came out quite convenient to me because I study that day and plus my father had a conference at the Technion, so he could give me a ride there and back. I woke up early so I was quite sleepy throughout the day, but during the exam I was OK. The exam was not too hard, but I'm not sure I did all the exercises correctly. I'll see what my score is.
I finally got Yapcom to work. As expected it turned out to be a problem in which the E-mail could not be sent. After that was fixed everything worked. Still it is a bug.
Meanwhile, I bugged the other developers with comments about the PATH_INFO environment variable and other such things.
IGLU Jobs Tracker
I implemented an ad-hoc administration screen that so far only displays the records with some inactive links. Now I have to restrict it to a a certain logon, which would take some work. Having done it, I was glad I used Template::Toolkit because I was able to extend the template of the job to display the links.
I talked with Eran on the ICQ about it and he gave some useful commentary which I may choose to implement.
Read some more of "Extending and Embedding Perl". The book is not too interesting so far, but I suppose it can prove useful if I need to write a Perl extension.
I also read another chapter of Mary Poppins. Maybe I should get myself to read more fiction.
Another day - more pending links. Only this time, I was able to clean the pending links out of the User Groups category. Now, all I have to do is add all the remaining groups there. Guess, it's time for the editorial about it.
There was quite a lot of action recently in fc-solve-discuss. It started when Danny A. Jones posted some questions that were raised after he wrote a Breadth-First-Search Freecell Solver to find optimal or near-optimal solutions for Freecell. Then it took on a more active tangent when Eric Helser posted some question on how to actually write a solver, as he had problem doing so. So, the guys and I helped him.
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Description A brown seal with whitish ribbons around their head and flippers. Male is dark brown; female is lighter. The pups white coat is shed at 5 weeks for a gray coat that is bluish above and silvery below. More slender than other seals, with a long neck and flippers.
Dimensions 1.5-1.6m, 70-80kg
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Habitat Offshore waters
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Thursday April 26 marks the first mega-event of the campaign season: the Democrats' initial debate, to be held in South Carolina. Usually the media incorrectly analyzes these events, particularly if they are held early in the election cycle. To understand what the debate means and how to parse the proceedings, readers should bear in mind the following:
1) A mass debate diminishes everyone.
In a debate that includes seven or eight candidates, it is virtually impossible for anyone to stand out. No one gets enough time to speak, and the home viewers — to the extent there are any — tend to come away with an impression of the general field, rather than a sense of any particular candidate. Moreover, fringe candidates who have no chance of winning — think Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel — and therefore have nothing to lose, end up saying outrageous things that viewers will remember, thus obscuring the front-runners.
2) The key is to say things that will be highlighted on the local and national news.
Most viewers will see only snippets of the debate replayed on the news or discussed on talk shows. This puts the candidates under pressure to deliver a memorable sound-bite or to get involved in a much discussed confrontation — one that will likely include Hillary Clinton, because she is both the putative front-runner and has taken hawkish positions on the Iraq War that make her an easy target.
3) The goal for each candidate will be to do "better than expected" so the media will praise you.
Post-debate media analysis will determine the winners and losers. That means candidates for whom the bar is lower because expectations are lower — say Joe Biden or Bill Richardson — will come in with a slight advantage over Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
4) The debate means much more to second- and third-tier candidates.
The three front-runners are established. That means their primary goal in this outing will be to avoid losing ground or making a mistake. For the other five candidates, it's different: these debates offer their only real chance to break out in front of a media audience. They will have to find a way to perform far better than their opponents (which is hard when you have only about 10 minutes to speak) or to appear strikingly and refreshingly different.
With these considerations in mind, here are the prospects for each of the candidates' debate performances, in reverse order of their chances for nomination:
Mike Gravel: His goal will be to make the "highlight reel" by saying something extreme or picking a fight with Hillary. Chances are the media will ignore him.
Dennis Kucinich: He, too, will be aiming for the "highlight reel" and will try to rouse the few super-liberals he has left. He, too, will probably be ignored in post-debate coverage.
Joe Biden: This is Biden's opportunity to shine. He speaks well, and, if he can keep his remarks brief (admittedly a big "if"), he has a chance to impress. Look for him to come out of the debate as one of the media's favorite. It still won't be enough to lift him out of the second tier, but he has to start somewhere.
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I have a different view of walk ups. I certainly agree that they are a paperwork nightmare. But birds are typically ordered months in advance & the club is obligated to buy them way before entries close. Clubs use the birds they have (typically no shot flyers). These birds get thrown more than anticipated which affects quality. Other than started which should get the best birds, this really shouldn't bother a well trained dog. The walk ups certainly cause bird & paperwork issues.
Now on to the positive. Fixed expenses already being set, I look at walk up entries as profit. The extra entries can cause a club to break even or push on over into the black. There are many working men & women that cannot plan their work schedule weeks in advance. If they find themselves free one weekend & want to run a test then they can.
Started handlers especially have no idea what they are getting into. Many sign up Saturday only, then run Sunday if they pass. These people are the future of the sport & I want to remove any obstacles that prevent them from playing the game.
My viewpoint is different than most but I love the weekend HRC tests as they currently exist & do not want anything changed.


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(Or, I Never Met a Class I Didn't Dislike)
This entry attempts to document a programming paradigm I call Anal Programming (AP). AP represents nothing "new" in the way of programming design or theory, introduces no new buzzwords or acronyms (beyond AP), uses no fancy procedures or documentation, nor requires any adherence to any particular "style". AP is simply writing code in as straight forward a manner as possible with an emphasis on the combination of three universal aspects of programming:
- Efficiency
- Versatility
- Comprehension
The first thing to note about AP is that the three aspects must be taken (and used) together, in that code that is efficient but not comprehensible is not Anal. Code that is very efficient and extremely comprehensible would be an abject failure if it is not also versatile (as these terms are defined within the aspect of Anal Programming).
The Definitions of the three "Universalities"
Efficiency -- in the case of AP -- is not to be confused with minimumality, i.e. it is not simply least number of machine cycles, characters or number of lines. Efficiency, here, is all encompassing -- which is why, but not solely, it comes first in the list. Efficiency is the sum of the code taken in "block" size pieces and is a measure of code quality in the context of versatility and comprehensability. Efficiency is recursive but does not require recursion.
Versatility is a measure of how useful the code is as well as how easy it is to use the code and as well how easy it is for the code to be used. This last aspect -- "for the code to be used" -- is not a trite euphemism, but a requirement of Anal Programming. This triad of use -- Usefulness, Usage and Use -- will require more definition. Usefulness is self-explanatory; code that does something measurably useful to you. Usage is a measure of access, installation, configuration, modification, editing, and requirements. Use is the interface, the API, or even just the function list; think of this use as the programmer's use of the code. In larger abstract terms, one can think of PERL and PHP as Versatile programming languages in this regard as they generally meet all three elements of these definitions of "use". (PERL: "There is more than one way to do it." AP: "There should be enough ways to do it.")
Comprehension is last in the list because one might almost think of the formula Efficient + Versatile = Comprehsible. However, if one spends all his/her time and effort on efficiency (as the least amount of characters and expressions and blocks) and versatility (as complex classes, function overloading, etc) one can easy produce non-comprehensible code. In fact, it is all to easy to produce non-comprehensible code. Ideal comprehension means understanding at a glance. Though it can be difficult to achieve, it is hardly impossible. By working with E + V = C in mind one will find that producing Comprehension is achievable when Efficiency is combined with Versatility.
Where Anal Programming Fits with Regard to other Programming Paradigms
Sometimes someone needs to dash off some code to "scratch and itch". In that case, that someone should do what ever he or she wants to do to accomplish the goal. One would not use AP just to fix something.
Sometimes someone needs to adhere to an existing paradigm -- a driver, an extension of a class or library, and extension of a language, an add-on (or add-in) to an existing program. In all those cases one would not use AP.
AP is a discipline. AP is a discipline based upon practicality (and perhaps even pragmatism).
One would not use AP with OOP.
UML is the antithesis of AP.
The Drawbacks of Anal Programming
Before I get into actual coding and programming practices I must mention that achieving all three of the aspects defined above comes at a price: a lot of work. One must be willing, for AP requires it, to constantly re-think, re-examine and re-write his or her code. In fact, it might be that early purveyors of AP will be re-writing most of the time as old programming practices will get in the way (more on this later in "Actual AP Coding and Programming Practices").
Within the AP paradigm one would not hesitate to completely re-implement something -- the format of a configuration file for example -- right in the middle of a project, if in doing so would decrease complexity and increase either efficiency or versatility. One would do so even if the reduction would be just one global variable.**
Within the AP paradigm one would not simply choose one database (unless one had to for reasons mentioned in "Where Anal Programming Fits with Regard to other Programming Paradigms"), but would code so that ANY database could be used.***
Simply put, AP is a lot of work.
Actual AP Coding and Programming Practices
Before starting out on a road to Anal Programming one would have to throw away, forget, vanquish, utterly annihilate all high-falutin concepts such as "Reusability" and "Oriented" and "Elements" and "Patterns". One would never write "anchored exception declarations to solve problems with checked exceptions and reusable software elements" within the AP paradigm. One must remove one's "pre-programming" when implementing as AP. There is only one thing of utmost importance in AP - efficient, versatile and comprehensible code.
Here is a small example of an AP program. PHP Form Handler. (It is, as most AP projects, not finished and parts will be re-implemented at a later date.)
* In this preliminary post I leave out the critical examination of the example. A critical examination and analysis will, of course, be required. Perhaps I can finish this essay with a few months.
** I will concede already that AP would never be adopted in a corporate setting.
*** Within the AP paradigm one would not hesitate to have an "encapsulation of an encapsulation" to achieve this.


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Book Review: Crochet Saved My Life
Crochet Saved My Life. It wasn't until I first saw the title of this book that I realized all that crochet has done for me. Sure, I joke about being a crochet addict, but perhaps for me--and for others--crochet is just a little bit more.
In Crochet Saved My Life, author Kathryn Vercillo bravely accounts her decent through depression and how she managed to climb back out of it, crochet hook in hand. "I was stuck in between that proverbial rock and a hard place and my crochet hook served as a crowbar to begin prying me out of that difficult space," she details. It may sound corny to those removed from the yarn world, but what is crochet but a form of fiber art? How many artists of other mediums have found therapy in their work?
I know I have. It just never occurred to me until recently.
Those of you who have been long-time readers of Selena's blog know about my most recent battle with a pituitary tumor and infertility. I remember at one point being so devastated at the thought of not having a family of my own that I just didn't feel like crocheting anymore, and it was only when I made the decision to start living again that I picked up the hook and began to feel better. It's hard to believe that saga of my life began only three short years ago. So much has happened since then, but I haven't stopped crocheting. While I may still have the tumor, it isn't currently causing me any problems, and I now have the most precious baby girl to keep my mind off it for now.
But what most of Selena's readers don't know is how I came to be crocheting in the first place. It was 1996. I was twelve years old, just beginning that awkward and confusing journey into adulthood. My parents had just gotten divorced, and my mom moved my sister and me 1000 miles across the country to live with my aunt in Wisconsin until she got back on her feet.
To my twelve-year-old self, this was the end of the world. I didn't understand why I couldn't live with my dad anymore. I had to give up my two pet cats. And I left all my friends behind, including Nick, my then crush--the boy who I would marry 10 years later, who Selena refers to as The Animator. At the time I blamed the end of my world on my mom, and since my sister was only six, I didn't feel like I had anyone I could talk to (although my adult self is more understanding of the decisions my mom made).
It was one day during this time at my aunt's house that my aunt, a home ec teacher, was crocheting a baby blanket. I took an interest in what she was doing, so she taught me the basic stitches. I was immediately addicted. Once I got the hang of it, it was soothing to me to be able to sit and do something mindless while my brain sorted through things, while at the same time having something to show for myself at the end. And as I learned how the stitches worked together, I began to come up with my own creations. I didn't care that at the time it wasn't really a "young" person's craft. For me, crochet was a friend I could turn to during a lonely time in my life.
And I'm not the only one who has been befriended by crochet in this way. Kathryn Vercillo gives many accounts in Crochet Saved My Life of how crochet has helped others, from empowering a woman who was a victim of rape, to helping a woman who suffers from hallucinations keep her grip on reality, to comforting a woman who is going blind. This book is a must-read for any crocheter who has ever felt alone or like no one else understands. If you only have time to read one book this year, make it this one.
*Crochet Saved My Life is available in paperback and on Kindle.
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Thank you so very much for not only sharing my book but also sharing your own story! One of the many things I discovered as I did my research into this book was that people who find crochet to be healing often come back to it again and again to be healed in different ways, from different things, as you've described using it both your childhood and adult life. I'm so glad you found it when you needed it most!ReplyDelete
Where did you live in WI? I've lived here my whole life. Halfway between Madison and milwaukee.ReplyDelete
I learned to crochet, when I first moved here, from a tech college 1x class. I think I did it to make friends, or find myself. I ended up learning so much more. I enjoy making things for family and friends. I haven't made much for myself. I don't have much time to crochet and 2 toddlers keep me busy!Replies
It was in Monroe, about an hour south of Madison. My aunt still visits there for the Cheese Days festival.Delete


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Using a start-up grant of $200,000 from the State of Ohio, the Progress Fund is expanding its service area, currently encompassing 39 counties in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, into the 29 counties of Ohio's Appalachian region. The Progress Fund supports the niche industry of tourism businesses, including bed and breakfasts, brew-pubs, general stores, restaurants, museums, and similar small businesses that attract and serve visitors in rural areas. The Progress Fund is currently seeking investors to capitalize its Ohio expansion. Investors are asked to invest a minimum of $100,000 to help meet the organization's goal of a $5 million fund by 2007. Terms are flexible and negotiated individually with investors. Examples of previous investment terms have included a non-amortizing, 10-year loan at below market interest rates.
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