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Police are investigating after a woman gave birth to a baby boy in a Shirebrook warehouse on New Year's Day before abandoning it.
Staff at the Sports Direct Warehouse, contacted Chad to say that the woman, believed to be of Eastern European origin, gave birth in the toilets at the Brook Park East site.
It is not known who discovered the infant or how the mother was identified but paramedics were called who then contacted police.
The baby boy was taken to King's Mill Hospital before being transferred to a specialist neo-natal unit in Leicester, police said.
Police told Chad that the mother, a woman in her 20s, had also received hospital treatment.
A Derbyshire police spokesman said: "Police were called by the ambulance service at around 11.15pm on January 1st to reports of the birth of a baby in unusual circumstances at a business premises in Shirebrook.
"The baby was taken to a neo-natal unit where he remains. His condition is serious but stable.
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AUGUSTA — The Maine Senate has given final approval and sent to Gov. Paul LePage a bill allowing – but not ordering – higher speeds on Maine's interstate highways.
The bill, L.D. 654, authorizes the transportation commissioner to raise the speed limit to 75 mph on the interstates, where the limit in most areas is 65 mph. But it doesn't mean an automatic speed limit increase.
Before any change, the transportation commissioner and engineering staff at the Department of Transportation would have to determine if it's safe to raise the speed limit on a given stretch of highway.
The bill's sponsor, Saco Democratic Rep. Justin Chenette, said during a hearing in March that a number of factors would be taken into account before raising the speed, such as how congested an area is.
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All good things must come to an end … even a fabulous ski season.
Although we can expect to ski a lot longer in the western mountains thanks to copious, and recent, snowstorms, some skiers and boarders are thinking about hanging 'em up and transitioning to summertime pursuits. And before too long, all of us will have to.
Painful as it is to leave the slopes, the inevitable will soon be on us.
Now's the time, I'd remind you, to take all the necessary steps to assure that your gear will summer as well as you do, and that it will be ready when the lifts crank up again late next fall.
It's not only the best way to assure a smooth start to the season, it can also provide you the peace of mind to both know that everything's ready to go, and that you won't get caught up in a mad dash to make sure it is when snow again falls.
For those of us who hang around on the hills until spring skiing's last gasp, and maybe venture to New Hampshire's Tuckerman in May or even June to continue long-standing traditions, our skis will have been subjected to some considerable abuse: dirt, rocks and other impediments revealed by the melting snow cover.
As Lionel Hering, ski tuner extraordinaire and owner of Happy Tunes!! up in the Carrabassett Valley recently stated to me in the strongest terms, "Putting your gear away for the summer in such a state of disrepair is NO GOOD!"
Why not? First, the edges will rust if your skis are stowed away less than completely dry, or if you store them in a moist environment.
Additionally, the bases will dry out if left exposed to air, resulting in a drastic drop in performance. And even though many binding manufacturers will tell you there's no need to release the tension on your bindings, prudence — and Lionel — recommend that you do so, and recalibrate them at the beginning of next season.
Lionel's strongly held convictions, honed by more than 25 years of hands-on experience, inspire him to make the following recommendations in respect to assuring that your skis will be in tip-top shape when you mount up for the first day next season.
At the very least, dry your edges thoroughly with an absorbent rag or paper towel. Even consider wiping on a little motor oil to further assure they won't rust over the long summer.
You should also consider, he says, cleaning and waxing your bases before storing. You can buy base cleaners manufactured by wax companies that are gentle enough to avoid damage and will do the job. Then, says Lionel, "Follow up the cleaning by ironing on a thick coat of soft wax to prevent the base from drying out. Don't be afraid to let the wax coat the edges as well, as long as they're completely dry."
A word to the wise: Don't use an iron that you also plan to use on your clothes, as the wax residue will persist and is difficult to remove.
Finally, for complete peace of mind, either completely tune or, as is the case with many of us, leave that in the hands of the professionals that abound at specialty shops all over Maine.
That should include base repair of any scratches, nicks and gouges, and a thorough stone-grind of the edges.
A storage route that's growing in popularity is one instituted at Happy Tunes!! that includes not only a complete tuning package but storage as well for only $70 — worth thinking about. And I suspect other shops are providing this service as well.
The only reason, frankly, that I store my stuff at home is because I display my skis in my barn in close proximity to my canoe, kayaks, camping and fishing gear, bikes and motorcycle so that every time I make a decision about what summer diversion will occupy a particular day, I can be visually reminded that before too many months I'll be able to get back on them. Silly, perhaps, but it works for me.
A word of caution: The experts tell us not to hang skis by their tips, and not to store them in a ski bag over the summer, as moisture might cause some problems.
And don't neglect preparing your boots for the offseason, especially if you want them to fit properly for the next season. Needless to say, when you use your boots, moisture is created inside them. Left unattended, it can make your boots smell terrible or, even worse, mold may develop. I have a lifetime of ski seasons attesting to that.
Remove the liners and then clean the inside of the shells thoroughly with a damp cloth using mild soap and water.
Next, remove the insoles from inside your liners, then wipe them (top and bottom) to clean them. Try to avoid any repeated rubbing in one area, as this can damage your insoles and liners. Experience has taught me also to never put liners or insoles in the washer or dryer.
Let air dry for at least a day, then put everything back together and buckle or (for you traditionalists) lace them up. If you fail to do this, the material in your boots start to take on a different shape, which will mean they won't fit as comfortably next season. Buckle or lace them snug enough to keep them in the proper shape, but don't over-tighten as this can stretch the material.
You shouldn't store your boots on a basement floor, in a crawl space or an attic, or any environment that is damp or has high heat. They should be stored standing upright in a cool dry area of the house, like a closet to help keep them clean. It's also a good idea to put a plastic grocery bag loosely over your boots to keep out dust.
Following these steps before putting your equipment away for the summer will not only guarantee longer life, but a much easier transition into the 2013-14 season.
John Christie is a former ski racer and ski area manager and owner, a ski historian and member of the Maine Ski Hall of Fame. He and his son, Josh, write ski columns on alternating weeks. John can be reached at:
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ThunderMountainRide needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 99 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
The primary brand is the thunder-mountain-ride.com
John Coppock & Associates LLC is a consultant to R&S Promotions, who is the event promoter for the upcoming Thunder Mountain Ride motorcycle rally. Promotion will include placing the winning logo in all manner of promotional media, including print, television and Internet. Embode Corporation is providing functional design for the website, Internet marketing and social networking.
We are seeking a compelling logo design. A PDF of a promotional PowerPoint side-show describing the Thunder Mountain Ride in more detail can be found at:
Please also refer to our existing placeholder website:
The target market includes sophisticated adult social bikers from their 20's to their late 50's, with disposable income, together with legitimate vendors and sponsors.
The winning logo should convey the ambiance and excitement of a community-driven motorcycle rally event. The Thunder Mountain Ride motorcycle rally is hosted by the town of Payson, Arizona - Arizona's cool mountain town.
5,500 ft in mountains on top of Mogillon Rim horrendous thunderstorms
The Goal of the promotion behind this logo is to drive 4,000 new customers during October 7-10, 2010, to the Thunder Mountain Ride held in Payson, Arizona.
We will require contest submissions in vector-based PhotoShop file format on a transparent background including .jpg and layered .psd (RGB), with each design element on its own layer (for later stripping by us to css). All aspects of the logo design need to scale for applications from websites, to posters and print advertising, to billboards.
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PO2 (EOD2) Mike Monsoor, a Navy EOD Technician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for jumping on a grenade in Iraq, giving his life to save his fellow SEALs.
During Mike Monsoor's funeral in San Diego , as his coffin was being moved from the hearse to the grave site at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery , SEALs were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route forming a column of twos, with the coffin moving up the center. As Mike's coffin passed, each SEAL, having removed his gold Trident from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the wooden coffin.
The slaps were audible from across the cemetery; by the time the coffin arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it. This was a fitting send-off for a warrior hero.
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Tottenham Hotspur are pursuing the signature of Italian international left-back Domenico Criscito, according to reports.
The Daily Star claims Andre Villas-Boas is interested in bringing the defender to White Hart Lane amidst uncertainty over the future of Benoit Assou-Ekotto, who has been linked with a move to Fenerbahce.
It's not just Spurs who are keen on Criscito however, with Fiorentina eager to bring the Zenit St Petersburg star back to his homeland.
However, agent Andrea D'Amico insists his client is loving life in Russia, and is hoping to continue 'his experience' in the country after moving from Genoa in 2011.
"Those who have linked Croscito with Fiorentina have only spread rumours which are without foundation," D'Amico told Lady Radio in Italy.
"There is no truth in them whatsoever. Domenico will continue his experience in Russia, where he is very happy."
Criscito, who has spent time with Juventus during his professional career, would add some much-needed depth to the Tottenham Hotspur backline.
If Assou-Ekotto does leave Spurs, then Villas-Boas will be particularly stretched in the left-sided position, although plenty of work will need to be done to persuade the 26-year-old to leave his current home.


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The Illinois Department of Employment Security says a federal program that provided unemployment insurance beyond the state's initial 25-week coverage will expire December 29th.
The Emergency Unemployment Compensation program was extended earlier this year by Congress. But the extension included a provision to end the program later this month. The program has provided long-term unemployed people with benefits for 20 weeks beyond the state program financed by Illinois businesses. The program had been in effect under both President Barack Obama and President George Bush in response to high unemployment driven by the recession and economic slowdown of several years ago.
Illinois unemployment remained at 8.8 percent in October. That was almost a percentage point higher than the 7.9 percent national rate. The November rate will be released later this month.


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- Overall Length:7.125"
- Blade Length:2.875"
- Cutting Edge:2.56"
- Blade Thickness:0.09"
- Blade Material:VG-10
- Blade Style:Drop Point
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Satin
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:4.25"
- Handle Thickness:0.40"
- Handle Material:FRN
- Color:Pink
- Frame/Liner:Stainless Steel
- Weight:2.50 oz.
- User:Right Hand, Left Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Down, Tip-Up
- Knife Type:Manual
- Opener:Thumb Hole
- Lock Type:Lockback
- Brand:Spyderco
- Model:Delica
- Model Number:C11FPPN
- Country of Origin:Japan
- Best Use:Everyday Carry
- Product Type:Knife
DescriptionThis item has been discontinued by its manufacturer.
This Spyderco Delica 4 knife has a pink FRN handle and a full-flat ground VG-10 stainless steel blade that is satin finished with a plain cutting edge.
The blade on the Delica is premium VG-10 stainless steel from Seki-City Japan and features spine jimping that extends from the ramp to the top of the handle. The Spyderco original thumb hole on the blade allows ambidextrous one-hand opening for right or left handers and the phosphor bronze washers at the pivot make the blade action smooth. The Delica has a lightweight FRN (fiberglass reinforced nylon) handle with skeletonized stainless steel liners and a strong back lock mechanism. The handle features screw construction for quick, simple cleaning and adjustment. The FRN scales utilize Spyderco's patented Bi-Directional Texturing to keep your hand from slipping under pressure. The pocket clip is 4-way reversible for tip-up/down and left/right carry.
The Delica is a smaller version of the Spyderco Endura knife. Both knives have been extremely popular over the years thanks to their lightweight, high performance build and affordable price.


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Researching the Genealogy and Family History of Orphan Heirlooms
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Friday, November 30, 2012
1906 Graduation Photograph of Chester Ingalls Conn; Woburn, Massachusetts High School
From what is written on the reverse, I believe this is the high school graduation photograph of Chester Ingalls Conn, Class of 1906 at Woburn, Massachusetts High School.
From online research, hopefully correct: [corrections welcome]
Chester Ingalls Conn was born 24 May 1890 at Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Horace Nichols Conn and Marion I. (Smith) Conn.
His paternal grandparents were George Henry Conn and Mary E. (Nichols) Conn. His maternal grandparents were Rufus and Susan A. (Ingalls) Smith.
Chester graduated from Tufts University and at some point after 1910 and before 1920, moved to Portland, Oregon. He's mentioned in a 1916 Tufts catalog as being principal at a school in Hobart, Washington. Perhaps his stint at Washington allowed him to meet Winogene Jane Jones, whom he married at Pierce, Washington in 1914.
Winogene Jane (Jones) Conn was born about 1888 in North Dakota, the daughter of John Foulkes Jones and Mary Jane (Williams) Jones. Her family subsequently moved to Washington state.
The 1920 Census found Chester and Winogene at Portland, Oregon, with two children and Chester's sister Ethel living in the household. Chester was working as an accountant. He had apparently found his calling, as he was still working as an accountant in the 1930 and 1940 Censuses of Portland, Oregon.
Chester died in 1954.
If you have corrections or additions to the information above, please leave a comment or contact me directly. Thanks!
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Every now and then, Pam, you post a photo that just grabs me...this is one of them! Everything about him -- clothes, pose, expression, is just wonderful!ReplyDelete
The one that kills me is this fellow, who became a renowned admiralty lawyer with a very tough style, totally believable from the expression he chose for his Hebron Academy graduation photo. If I was suing or being sued, and this fellow walked in to represent my opponent, I'd just pack it in...ReplyDelete


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'European Football Weekends is a perennial source of pleasure' The Guardian
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Paul Hayward - The Observer
2 comments:
- Danny Last said...
A couple of things to add here. Firstly, Mr Hayward emeithered into EFW Towers today with this:
Hi Danny
Good to hear from you. Your site looks better than ever and I can see you're really on the march.
Very kind of you to reproduce my Lewes interview. Relieved that the Rooks have been saved from insolvency.
See you soon, I hope
Top man - as we already knew!
Secondly, with regards to the interesting debate about paying for online media; here is the view of Satirist and author Will Self:
The problem is that sooner or later the public's going to wake up and realise that they don't want to know the opinions of Gary Down The Pub - there is something that professional journalists bring to the equation that isn't supplied promiscuously by the internet. The model for money to be made through the internet by journalism hasn't arrived yet and we're in a very difficult position because we're going to lose newsgathering operations. I find it very worrying, actually. Once they're gone it'll be very difficult to get them back again.
There you go folks - Paul Hayward and Will Self in one comment. All for free.
- 13 January 2010 at 16:30
- Lanterne Rouge said...
Fascinating stuff - a real coup to get this interview - there should be more interviews in the blogosphere. This inspires me to track down some ex Championship stars for our own blog
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The "clock is ticking" for Australia to address the explosive costs and inadequate productivity impeding its oil and gas sector or it risks losing out on $180 billion in fresh investment over the coming years, warn industry participants.
"Our ability to capture the second wave of liquefied natural gas (LNG) investment is at serious risk from rising competition in the global marketplace," said David Byers, chief executive of Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) - an industry association representing companies which explore and produce oil and gas in the country.
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"If we're able to remain competitive and attract capital needed to develop these projects we have to reduce the cost of doing business in this country," he said on the on the sidelines of the APPEA conference in Perth.
The oil and gas sector is an important pillar of the economy, creating significant wealth for the country through employment, export income and tax revenue. The sector contributed $8 billion in tax revenue in the financial year ended June 2013, which is set to grow to $13 billion by 2020.


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State Bar Association
Formed at Grafton Yesterday - The Officers Elected.
July 9, 1886
State Bar Association
Formed at Grafton Yesterday - The Officers Elected.
Special Dispatch to the Intelligencer.
GRAFTON, July 8. - The West Virginia Bar Association was organized here to-day. About seventy members of the profession, representing eight judicial districts, were present, and met in the Court House at 11 o'clock this morning. Joseph Spriggs, of Hardy county, called the meeting to order and delivered an address. A temporary organization was effected with W. P. Hubbard, of Wheeling, as chairman, and Joseph Marum, of Grafton, secretary.
A Committee on Constitution and By-Laws was appointed, consisting of Joseph Spriggs, chairman; J. J. Davis, of Harrison county; John W. Mason, of Taylor; Judge C. J. Faulkner, of Berkeley; John Haymond, of Marion; S. L. Flournoy, of Hampshire; Frank Beckwith, of Jefferson; W. P. Hubbard, of Ohio; George C. Sturgiss, of Monongalia, and J. D. Ewing, of Ohio.
A recess was then taken until 2 o'clock.
Upon reassembling the committee presented their report which was adopted. The constitution provides for the election of a President, a Vice President from each district, a Secretary and Treasurer.
The officers elected were as follows: President, James Spriggs, of Hardy county county [sic]; Vice President, First district, Robert White; Second, Second, [sic] James Morrow jr.; Third, B.. F. Martin; Fourth, L. G. Bennington; Fifth, W. W. Van Winkle; Eleventh, C. C. Higginbotham; Twelfth, Judge Armstrong; Thirteenth, Judge Charles James Faulkner; Secretary, W. T. Willey, of Monongalia county; Treasurer, F. M. Reynolds, of Mineral county.
An Executive Council composed of the following gentlemen was also elected: J. J. Davis, of Harrison county; John A. Hutchinson, of Wood; A. F. Haymond, of Mason; W. P. Hubbard, of Ohio; Frank Beckwith, of Jefferson. The Association then adjourned to meet at the call of the Executive Council.


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The Mets were 70-92 last season, 11 games off the pace to finish .500 and 22 behind the wild-card Colorado Rockies. For the record, they were 23 games behind Philadelphia in the NL East.
They have done precious little this offseason to make anybody believe they will cut substantially into those deficits. At least, little in comparison to the front office comments spouted by Jeff Wilpon and Omar Minaya in the immediate days following the end of the disastrous 2009 season.
Because they know it won't go over well in selling tickets and creating goodwill, the Mets can't articulate that their plan is to bring back their pieces intact and hope for the best.
With each passing day that becomes clearer and clearer. Let's try to put numbers to their thinking.
With the healthy comebacks of Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran, and return to power for David Wright, the Mets picture 85 victories, going under the assumption each player individually accounts for five more wins over the course of the season. That's roughly three more victories per month.
That's doable. It gets them over .500, but still out of the wild card picture.
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Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code allows a non-corporate taxpayer who has held "qualified small business stock" (or "QSBS") for more than five years to exclude a portion of the gain recognized on a sale of the stock. For stock to be QSBS, it must have been acquired upon original issuance (or by inheritance, gift or, under certain circumstances, distribution from another who acquired the stock upon original issuance) from a C corporation that, among other things, satisfies certain "qualified small business" and "active business" requirements. The "qualified small business" requirement limits the applicability of Section 1202 to stock issued by corporations with aggregate gross assets of $50 million or less. The "active business" requirement limits the applicability of Section 1202 to corporations most of whose assets are used in one or more "qualified trades or businesses" (which exclude, among other things, providing services such as health, law, engineering, accounting and actuarial science). In addition, the corporation may not have redeemed more than de minimis amounts of its outstanding stock within specified periods of time before or after the issuance of the stock in question. "Look-through" rules can allow an S corporation or partnership to pass the benefits of Section 1202 through to its owners.
Since the enactment of Section 1202 in 1993, the maximum excludible portion was 50%. Unfortunately, the non-excluded portion has generally been taxed since 2001 at a 28% rate. In addition, a portion of any excluded gain has generally been a preference item under the alternative minimum tax. Given the rate at which the unexcluded portion was taxed, Section 1202 lost much of its luster in 2003 when the maximum rate generally applicable to long-term capital gains from stock sales was reduced to 15%. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 breathed some new life into Section 1202 by increasing the maximum excludible portion to 75% for QSBS acquired after February 17, 2009 and before January 1, 2011.
Under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, the maximum excludible portion of the gain on the sale of QSBS acquired during the period from September 27, 2010 (the date of enactment of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010) through December 31, 2010 and held for more than five years was increased to 100%. In addition, no portion of the excluded gain was treated a preference item under the alternative minimum tax. Thus, gains of eligible taxpayers on sales of QSBS acquired by December 31, 2010 (and after the date of enactment of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010) and held for more than five years was not subject to tax under the regular federal income tax or under the federal alternative minimum tax. The 2010 Tax Relief Act extended the 100% exclusion to stock acquired on or before December 31, 2011.
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, signed by President Obama on January 2, 2013, again extends the 100% exclusion of gains of eligible taxpayers on sales of QSBS and it does so retroactively. Thus, gains on the sale of QSBS acquired by an eligible taxpayer during the period from September 27, 2010 through December 31, 2013 and held for five years may be eligible for 100% exclusion. With respect to QSBS acquired after December 31, 2013, the exclusion will revert back to 50% of eligible gain and a portion of the gain will again be included in income for alternative minimum tax purposes.
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Lebanon's state-run news agency says the brother of a Lebanese Cabinet minister has turned himself in after being named in an arrest warrant that links him to a medicine scandal.
The National News Agency says a judge issued the arrest warrant on Friday against Abdullatif Fneish, who is charged with importing counterfeit drugs into Lebanon with forged stamps. It's unclear when he will go on trial.
He is the brother of Mohammed Fneish, a Hezbollah official and Minister of State for Administrative Affairs.


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See the slideshow of the national Journalist Award winners !
The European winner and two runners-up will be chosen by a jury made up of European experts in the field of poverty and social exclusion as well as editors or journalists.
The awards ceremony will take place at the 2010 European Year Closing Conference on 17 December.
More information on the selection criteria.
|1st place: "A school for hope" by T. Herrero and E. de las Heras shown on RTVA Canal Sur (Spain)
Teresa Herrero has a degree in Journalism (Complutense University – Madrid). After working in radio and press offices, she began working for Canal Sur News in 1989. Until 2001, she worked in the Culture and Society section; from 2000 to 2009, she has been responsible for the international section of Canal Sur TV. Since February 2009, she works as an editor in the program Europa Abierta, a weekly program about the European Union.
Evangelina Las Heras has a degree in Psychology and Audiovisual Communication (University of Salamanca). She has worked as a teacher at the University of Sevilla. Since 1990, she works as a producer for Canal Sur, collaborating in various programs: Solidarios, Tierra y Mar, Al Sur. She belongs to Europa Abierta team since 2005, where she works as a director.
2nd place: "Poor salaries" by Delphine Kluzek shown on TF1 (France)
Delphine Kluzek holds a Masters in History and a CAPES (secondary school teaching qualification) in history and geography. She taught history for two years in college before turning to the field of journalism. Graduate of the elite Journalism School of Lille in 1997, and she joined TF1 in June that year after having won the Bouygues Award. She has a 12-year career with TF1 TV news, 2 years with the General Information section, 8 years as a reporter for economy service economy, then chief of the Social Affairs section, and two years as assistant chief of society section. In 2007 she presented a news talk show on LCI TV channel (channel belongs to TF1). Double winner of Dauphine Award for the best economic report "Finland, champion for senior employment" in 2004, and "Companies who don't relocate" in 2005.
|3rd place: "Endless journey" by Gabriel Butnaru shown on Radio Europa FM (Romania)
Gabriel Butnaru started working in 1991 at Radio Terra Piatra Neamt. From 1993 to 1996, while studying journalism in Bucharest, he wrote for some newspapers, before returning to audiovisual media, as a news editor of Radio Contact. In 1997, he went to the Romanian military camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina, to help building the first private Romanian radio station abroad. One year later he returned to Radio Terra as Editor-in-Chief and local correspondent for BBC Romania.
He moved to Europa FM in April 2000; since 2005 until October 2010, he was Editor-in-Chief and also conducted two educational programs: "Europa FM & JTI Scholarship" and "UBB Radio".
1st place: "The meltdown of a nuclear city" by Steffen Stubager published in Indblik (Denmark)
Steffen Stubager is a 23 year old student at the Danish School of Journalism. Previously he has worked for one and a half years as an Intern at the Danish daily Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, and also at the public organisation Region Syddanmark.
Currently Stubager is on sabbatical from journalism school in order to travel the world and write articles of varied topics. During these travels he has worked for a short period with the national Ghanaian newspaper, The Daily Graphic.
Stubager's articles have been published in Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, Politiken, Århus Stiftstidende, JydskeVestkysten, various smaller magazines, and most recently in the Daily Graphic (Ghana) and The Sunday Island (Sri Lanka).
2nd place: "Debt: is it your own fault?" by Martine Hemmer published in Telecran (Luxembourg)
Martine Hemmer was born in 1977 in Luxembourg. She studied politics, media and German at the Univeristy of Trier. During this time she worked as a freelancer for the daily paper "Trierischer Volksfreund" and for different print- and TV editorial teams, for example with the ZDF in Mainz and Paris. Martine then worked on the academic staff for print and online media for the University of Trier. In 2005-2006 she completed a journalism traineeship with the "Saarbrücker Zeitung". In 2007 Martine worked on a regional development strategy for the "Lëtzebuerg West" in the framework of the European LEADER programme. Since 2008 Martine is editor of the Luxembourg TV programme "Télécran".
3rd place: "The big cleanup of the homeless" by Petr Tresnak published in Respekt (Czech republic)
Petr Třešňák was born in 1976 in Prague. He graduated from journalism and Western European studies at the Charles University in Prague. For a short time he worked at ecological NGOs on projects related to the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union. Since 2001 he has worked at Respekt (weekly magazine) where he has managed the cultural section. Today, he mainly dedicates his work to the topics of social affairs, health and historical subjects. He has also written a script for the film Člověk proti hysterii (Man against hysteria) which is about Czech-German relationships, and has authored a preface to the memoir of the photographer Jan Reich. Since 2009 he has been vice editor-in-chief of Respekt.


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We made a trip to Istanbul to participate in Grid Festival together with great people as Serial Cut, Evan from Nexus, Illia from R/GA or Si Scott.
We did a presentation over there and we had also sometime to walk the city, a huge city. We wish we could stay there for one more week. During our walks we setup an instagram competition between each other. The one that gets more likes, wins. Then we decided to post all of them to our Instagram account (Follow us!).
These are some of the results, and I will reveal my favourite picture at the end of this post.
We love giving workshops, and that is what we did at Elisava School in Barcelona last december. We had the opportunity to share with the students one week working on a film specially done for the presentation event at the end of that week.
Some months ago, Simpl3, an audiovisual collective based in Caracas, invited us to take part of an exhibition about typography, Simple Tipo Gráfica. Their purpose was to enrole 38 artists, both renowned names of the graphic design world but also newcomers and assign each one them one character that they could re-design with total freedom.
We don't normally receive proposals that gives us the opportunity to work with typography and graphic design, so we thought: why not?
We landed number 8 and this is what we came up with:
I consider this book that Teo took me a couple of months ago as the inspiration that never was. Back in the begining of 2012 we worked in the opening titles of a film called Animals. The basic idea on the titles was the intersection between animal and human life, the dangers in between. The photographs by Barbara Norfleet seem like taken from my mind while we were preparing the opening titles but in fact I saw those pictures months later when Teo came from NY with this book in his hands.
These are some of those pictures.
This is something I came across some time ago and I was super amazed by how cool-creepy the idea was and how beautiful-eerie turned out.
I had an amazing breakfast watching this.


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COVER- The detector: Why it couldn't save a firefighter in his own house
Few people could have been more familiar with the terrifying danger of a house fire than 60-year-old Kenneth Watson. In his nearly three decades of service as a firefighter for the Roanoke Fire Department, Watson battled countless blazes, saved victims from burning homes, and consoled grieving relatives of those who'd perished in fires. He also, according to his colleagues and family, tirelessly advocated for smoke detectors, promoting the devices to the public through his work and, on his own time, lovingly pestering his friends and relatives to check their detector batteries.
It's no surprise then, that when a fire broke out in Watson's own home in Vinton, Virginia in the evening hours of December 13, his own smoke detectors functioned as designed, sounding an alarm so loud that the next door neighbors heard it.
Inside the house, however, the detectors were less helpful. The retired firefighter died in his recliner, a victim of smoke inhalation.
At a press conference three days after the tragedy, fire officials from the Roanoke County Fire Department revealed that an autopsy showed no sign of a heart attack or other natural event, and they hoped their investigation would reveal why Watson "reacted inappropriately" to the detectors' alert.
It's no mystery at all to Jay Fleming. A Deputy Fire Chief in Boston, Massachusetts, Fleming contends that the only thing inappropriate about his reaction might have involved the detectors themselves.
A Hook investigation reveals that Watson's home, like most American homes, was likely equipped with ionization detectors– a type of technology that some safety advocates call "defective."
Repeated testing, including a test conducted jointly in July by local fire officials, Fleming, and the Hook, found that the ubiquitous ionization detector fails to detect smoke from smoldering fires, the ones associated with most home fire deaths.
Last year, the International Association of Fire Fighters passed a resolution condemning ionization-only detectors because of their failure to sound an alert until residents have already been incapacitated by smoke and carbon monoxide.
Several states have already changed their laws to require that the prime competing technology, photoelectric detectors, be placed in all new residences. Now, a class action suit filed against the smoke detector industry aims to make sure no one else dies because their ionization detectors didn't alert them in time.
The suit asserts that ionization detectors fail to offer adequate protection, but it goes a step further, alleging that since the late 1970s the public could have been alerted to the danger by industry officials.
"Thousands of people have died," says Fleming, "because the public hasn't been told the truth."
A faint beeping
It was just after 9pm on Saturday, December 13 when Candith Bruner returned home to Claiborne Avenue in Vinton, a working class town of less than 8,000 people in Roanoke County. She and her husband and their three children had been attending a pre-holiday evening visit with nearby relatives.
A well maintained street of modest ranch style houses, Claiborne Avenue, says Bruner, is a friendly street where retirees and young families know each other by name. The temperature that night was hovering in the upper 30s, and a slight breeze was blowing as the family climbed the stairs leading to the front door of their brick home.
As the family stood on the front stoop unlocking the door, the wind changed direction, says Bruner, and briefly she heard a "faint beeping" and smelled a mild burning scent, a smell she describes as "hot electric."
After carrying their youngest child to bed, Bruner says, she and her husband set out to find the source of the sound and smell. They didn't have to go far.
Next door, a Jeep Cherokee was parked in the driveway of a vinyl-sided rancher, suggesting their neighbor and friend, Kenny Watson– "Mr. Kenny" to the Bruner children, who enjoyed jumping in the leaves he'd rake each autumn– was at home.
As Bruner walked through Watson's front yard, she says, she heard the sound again– and when she tried to peer through the blinds covering Watson's living room window, she says along with the beeping sound, she could hear the faint strains of Christmas music. She could also see an orange glow.
"I knew it was on fire," she says.
As Bruner's husband came around to the front of the house, the full force of the blaze was revealed.
"He saw the blinds in a side window suddenly melt," says Bruner. "We were screaming to each other."
While her husband banged on the windows and doors hoping to rouse Watson, whom they couldn't see but believed to be inside, Bruner ran home to call 911, sending her children across the street to another neighbor's house. Terrified that the fire would ignite a low hanging tree and the leaves on the ground between her house and Watson's, she raced back outside to watch for signs that the fire would spread before help could arrive.
"There's no doubt that fire would have spread from his house to ours," she says.
The fire department arrived in minutes, sparing Bruner's house. For Watson, however, it was already too late.
If there is a hell, it may look like the inside of a house that has burned. A once cozy living room is turned into a scene of blackened devastation. Furniture is reduced to its frame, electronic equipment– televisions, stereos, telephones– melts into unrecognizable rivulets of plastic and metal.
Whether from heat or the water used to extinguish the flames, drywall collapses from above leaving piles of debris. And a chemical stench lingers long in the air.
Despite such apparent chaos, for fire investigators, there are clues among the ruins.
At Watson's house, investigators pointed to a blackened "v" pattern on the wall in the living room adjacent to the reclining chair where Watson perished. During a December 16 press event designed to raise public awareness of fire safety, Roanoke County Fire Marshal Gary Huffman led reporters through Watson's house and explained that that "v" reveals the fire's point of origin.
According to Huffman, investigators believe that Watson was smoking and accidentally dropped his cigarette into a crevice in his recliner.
Improperly discarded cigarettes are a frequent cause of fatal fires because they don't typically ignite immediately. Instead, they can smolder for upwards of an hour, releasing toxic chemicals from the synthetic fabric in furniture, including carbon monoxide and cyanide, that can quickly incapacitate anyone present.
The particles released by such smoldering fires are larger than those released by flaming fires, and while they are quickly sensed by photoelectric detectors, which activate when such large particles interrupt a beam of light, ionization detectors, which use a small amount of radiation, may not sound an alert until the first flames appear.
By then, as victims have been overcome by toxic gases, it's often too late.
In the smoke detector test instigated by the Hook in June, ionization detectors never sounded when exposed to smoldering smoke– even when the smoke was thick enough to obscure visibility and require those present to don oxygen masks. That result matched numerous other smoke detector tests conducted by fire officials across the country.
Did Watson have an ionization detector?
According to Huffman, the home's first floor detector had been mounted on the ceiling in a short hallway connecting bedrooms to the living room, where Watson had been sitting about 20 feet away from the detector. It was impossible to know for certain which type Watson had had, Huffman explained, because the detector was gone– discarded, he said, by the company hired to clean up the property.
Watson's daughter, Kim Taylor, however, offered clues, describing her father's dedication in keeping his smoke detector functioning.
"It would go off at the slightest thing," she says, citing steam and cooking as two frequent sources of false alarms for the hallway detector. Watson, she says, would fan the air around the detector to silence it, but would never remove the battery– and he instructed her to do the same, since detectors that have been disabled after such false alarms are frequently forgotten, leaving residents unprotected.
Such false alarms, however, are another dangerous hallmark of ionization detectors. According to one Alaskan study, ionization detectors are as much as eight times more likely to produce nuisance alarms, and are therefore more likely to be disabled.
But the Hook would not have to rely on anecdotal evidence to determine which type of detector was present in Watson's home.
As two reporters finished interviewing Watson's neighbors on the day of the press conference, fire officials departed. Jeffrey Jones, a representative from Consolidated Waste Removal, the clean-up company, was on his way out after boarding up the house. Asked if he knew where the detector could have been taken, Jones reported that, in fact, the detector was likely still inside, buried under soggy, blackened detritus.
Jones permitted the reporters to reenter the property armed with a flashlight. After less than one minute of digging through wet debris on the floor in the darkened hallway, the detector was discovered– melted but recognizable.
The Hook provided photographs of the damaged detector to Don Russell, an electrical engineer at Texas A&M University, who ran a smoke detector testing facility at the university for a decade and has served as an expert witness in dozens of court cases.
He points out the "dark metal grated object" visible in the pictures as the ionization chamber. He also mentions the detector's "relatively small mass," which he says means it is unlikely to be a combination detector, the slightly larger type that includes both ionization and photoelectric technology.
"That," says, Russell, putting his confidence level above 90 percent, "is an ionization detector."
Class action
Part of Russell's calculation is based on the fact that an estimated 90 percent of American homes are equipped with ionization-only detectors. Both types of technology have been available for decades, but ionization became the favored technology and– bolstered by a lower price tag borne of mass production– is often the only type carried in most hardware stores, where people typically purchase their detectors.
Yet a class action lawsuit filed last June in Massachusetts U.S. District Court alleges that fire officials and smoke detector manufacturers have known for more than 30 years of the alleged superiority of photoelectric technology.
The suit names four manufacturers– Kidde, First Alert, BRK Brands Inc., and Invensys Controls– and claims that misleading packaging on ionization detectors has prevented consumers from making an informed decision. According to Boston-based Ed Notargiacomo, lead counsel on the suit filed by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro law firm, if the case is victorious, each class member– anyone who purchased an ionization-only detector since 2000– will be entitled to court-ordered reimbursement.
Notargiacomo says it's "impossible" to know the size of the class at this point, but with 90 percent of all American homes– an estimated 126 million according to 2006 U.S. Census numbers– equipped with ionization units, it's possible the class could soar into the millions.
The suit states that "the mere presence of ionization-only stand-alone smoke alarms on the market" without sufficient warning of their failings is "fraudulent, unfair, deceptive and creates a real risk of harm to consumers."
The suit further claims that the manufacturers learned of ionization's failures no later than 1978, when an English study showed that photoelectric detectors responded anywhere from one hour to two hours and 20 minutes faster than ionization detectors in a smoldering scenario.
In 1980, the suit alleges, the International Association of Fire Chiefs recommended photoelectric only detectors. (According to Boston Deputy Fire Chief Jay Fleming, it was actually a subcommittee of the IAFC that made that recommendation, and he doesn't believe the full organization ever endorsed photoelectric only. Fleming says he believes the IAFC may have resisted the recommendation because at that time, not all photoelectrics could operate on battery power. That problem was fixed by the mid-1980s, he says.)
Only within the last several years has the IAFC formally endorsed combination detectors, which use both types of technology.
The Hook's call to the IAFC was not returned.
Tom Russo, spokesperson for BRK Brands, which owns the First Alert name, declined comment on the lawsuit but claims that the company "is definitely pro-photo" and supports state legislation enforcing photoelectric technology. The company, he says, simply follows the recommendations of the standard making bodies– the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Underwriters Laboratory– both of which conduct tests, and both of which currently maintain that either type of detector is suitable for dwellings.
Kidde spokesperson Heather Caldwell also declines comment on the litigation, but says that for at least the past three years, all Kidde smoke alarms have come with the printed recommendation that "both ionization and photoelectric alarms be installed."
Representatives from Invensys did not return the Hook's call for comment; however the company's website states that both ionization and photoelectric detectors "are effective means of sensing smoke in residential environments."
Notargiacomo says he is preparing to file an amended complaint in the next few weeks, and he hopes to see the case move forward in the next several months.
Tide turning?
Fleming would also like to see that case go ahead. He has spent more than a decade trying to convince smoke detector manufacturers and legislative bodies that ionization detectors have a fatal flaw. He estimates at least 10,000-15,000 people have died unnecessarily in smoldering house fires since 1990 because they relied on ionization detectors.
Last year, he finally began to see his message take root. Massachusetts and Vermont changed their laws last summer to require photoelectric technology in new residential construction and whenever a house is sold.
Vermont's law followed a particularly wrenching incident. A fatal fire in that state killed five members of a family: a mother and her four young children. When firefighters arrived on the scene, the ionization detectors in the family's smoke-filled home were silent, although later testing proved they were operational.
In June, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) sent a scathing letter to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, demanding to know why that oversight body hasn't required manufacturers to take ionization-only detectors off the market or to issue stronger consumer warnings.
The Hook's messages left with the office of CPSC Chairperson Nancy Nord were not returned by press time.
In addition to Vermont and Massachusetts, at least five other states are considering legislation regarding photoelectric detectors. (Virginia, however, is not one of them.)
A trip to the Charlottesville Lowe's store shows that while the message is sinking in with some legislators, it hasn't yet reached the smoke detector market. Of the approximately dozen different smoke detector models available on Lowe's shelves, all but one are ionization-only. That other one is a combination detector (the type handed out by Charlottesville and Albemarle fire departments through their free smoke detector programs.)
According to Lowe's Charlotte-based spokesperson Karen Cobb, the chain is aware of the difference in detectors but believes either type is effective in both smoldering and flaming fires. In addition, she says, every Lowe's detector display features a laminated information sheet explaining the difference between detector types.
While this reporter noticed that display on a recent trip, the information contained suggested that either type of detector would be sufficient. None of the local Lowe's sales associates approached could answer questions about the difference in detectors or any danger posed by ionization-only.
Cobb had not responded to several follow-up questions by presstime, including whether Lowe's would consider adding photoelectric models to its offerings and whether it would consider issuing harsher warnings to customers about the risks of ionization-only detectors.
If the big box hardware stores are resisting, Charlottesville's locally owned hardware stores are a different story. Martin Hardware on Preston Avenue now carries photoelectric detectors with a sign on the door alerting customers to their presence inside. Hanging by the detector display is a copy of the Hook's most recent article on this subject ["Alarming: Most smoke detectors don't detect deadly smoke," July 10, 2008].
Meadowbrook Hardware also began carrying photoelectric detectors when customers started requesting them following the Hook's last article, according to a store employee.
Legacy of safety
Could a photoelectric detector have saved Kenny Watson's life? It's an answer that may never be known. Roanoke County Fire spokesperson Brian Clingenpeel says the toxicology report on Watson has not come in, and could take several months. That report would reveal, among other things, his carbon monoxide level at the time of death. Clingenpeel, however, says even when it is complete, it may never be made public.
However, Watson's daughter, Kim Taylor, a nurse who is currently working on her master's degree, anticipates what the report will reveal.
"We know he died from inhaling combustible materials," she says, citing the official autopsy report released soon after his death, "so we can assume [his carbon monoxide level] will be high."
Taylor says she and her father were "very close" and that he raised her alone with help from her grandmother after her mother died 23 years ago when Taylor was just 10.
Even as a child, Taylor says, she knew how important her father's work was to him– and she knew how he suffered when someone died in a fire he'd fought.
"It would bother him, you could tell, if there had been a fatality," she says. "He fished a lot. He played banjo. He had ways of coping for what he dealt with."
And even when he was promoted to Captain, a position that for some firefighters means an end to charging into burning buildings, Watson never stopped.
"He said, 'If my men are going in and putting their life on the line, I'm going in with them,'" his daughter recalls.
Watson's fire department colleague and longtime friend Ronnie Renick, who was Watson's partner in a painting business the two ran in their off hours, also recalls Watson as a dedicated fire fighter who looked out for his crew.
"The district had a lot of fires, lots of calls; and he always conducted himself in a professional manner," says Renick. "He was very respected."
Watson retired in 1999, long before the controversy over detector type erupted. Taylor says whatever information comes out about detectors and fire safety in the future, she believes her father would want the public to be educated– and to be safe.
The painful irony of her father's death isn't lost on her, and she hopes that his legacy of saving lives will continue.
If his neighbor Candith Bruner is any example, Watson's legacy is already living on.
"The fireman in him saved us that night," says Bruner, citing the fact that because he'd maintained the battery in his detector, she was able to sound an alert before the fire could spread to other houses. "That," she says, choking back tears, "is something we're never going to get over."
She says she'll also spread Watson's fire safety message with her own friends and family– but with an added piece of critical information.
"Check your smoke detector batteries," she says, "but make sure you have the right kind of detector, too."
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My God Bless his family. I myself am I firefighter in the Rhode Island. I am on a mission to help people understand the different type of smoke alarms. Please feel free to visit my website at www.pers1.com
God Bless everyone and may we all return home after each and every fire.
It sucks to loose on of your own, as a Volunteer Fireman Myself, I have been beating this into the guys at my sataion for well over a year now.
When the tragedy Struck in Barre City, VT, those individuals did not stand alone. And through their efforts, VT now has a new Photo law.
It's funny how First Alert is now Pro Photo or combo when you talk to them about detectors. This is since they lost a landmark appeal case (Hackertt) where they were ruled liable from a defective Ion only alarm.
It was also funny how Kidde was fighting against a Photo only law in TN stating that it would hurt sales, and new ion technology. They also released a statement when the IAFF promoted Photo only stating that Combo alarms are recommended, and each Technology has it's advantages, and disadvantages. This info was released on their web page, and on the smoke alarm story from channel 5 in TN.
It should also be mentioned that Kidde has just recently purchased Firex, so now that leaves only 2 major players.
Look at Kidde's web site, go to battery Residental alarms, what will you find? over 10 Ion Only units, 1 Photo only, and 1 combo.
However none of the manafactures state that ion only alarms can have serious delays when it comes to smoldering fires, or may not sound until flames appear.
With this new class action, something will hopefully be done. I still doubt we will get an "Apology" from the manafactures, but I see a pattern about to develop, a whole new wave of "Dual Detector" sales.
This is shaping up to be the next Big Tobacco in terms of litagation.
Boston Chief Jay Flemming also points out in the NIST report that if you read carefully, burried in there, it states that Ionization alarms may not warn in time of a smoldering fire, and that persons with disabilities may not have time to escape. It also states on the same page, that it may not alarm at all, even with smoke present.
WOAH!!! Wait a minute, why was that not published on the first page or in the conclusion? Jay Flemming wanted the same answer. I don't think he ever got it.
Let me be clear, NOBODY knows what could have happened if Kenny Watson had a Photo or Combo unit in his home, but as a betting man, I would say that he would be here talking to us about his close call.
God bless him and his family.
Kim I am proud of you for all that you have done since your Dad has passed away. I know that you and the rest of your family mourne. Education on fire safety is a HUGE thing. I hope that this article will help to save the lives of others. I know that your Mom and Dad are dancing in heaven together. The dove and the black crow was definately a symbol of leaving behind the old and approaching the new with purity. Love you girl!
Greetings from Australia
Our Australian Fire Fighters are now finding out the truth about these dangerously defective ionization smoke alarms thanks to new, Australian government, scientific evidence proving ionization smoke alarms should NEVER have been allowed to be sold to the global public.
For more information, go to:
Thank you.
Adrian Butler
The World Fire Safety Foundation
Queensland, Australia


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gmproperty necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 104 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Glass Meares Property Consultants
We are a small commercial and industrial real estate agency that sells and leases offices and modern factories. We operate in Sydney Australia. We want to appear corporate and modern. We need a new design for the signs that we put in front of properties that we have for sale or for lease.
Businesses looking for commercial office space or industrial space to buy or rent. Most of our customers are executive types.
We have a signboard layout that we have been using for seven years. By signboard we mean an advertising sign going on the front of office buildings, advising that we have space for lease or for sale.
We feel that our current design has become stale and dated. We would like it modernised while still incorporating our corporate colours which are Reflex blue and a strong bright orange.
Please see the attached sample Glass Meares sign which is our current design. Also attached are two photos of our competitor's signs.
When printed, the signs are generally in one of two sizes:
6 feet tall and 4 feet wide
8 feet tall and six feet wide.
I assume that for the design contest you will just provide a small scale design that our signwriters can copy or upsize. If possible we would like the file in Adobe Illustrator CS2, however if this is not possible then a pdf file that we can copy.
Please feel free to put in new ideas. Some key points to consider:
1. Our phone number 9418 6555 needs to be large
2. All fonts need to be large and easy to read.
3. We are looking for a slick, modern, corporate feel.
6. We want the sign concept to be striking and easy to read because often people only get a brief look at the sign as they drive or walk past. Anything cluttered wont work.
If you have any questions, please let me know.


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Paula Radcliffe is undoubtedly one of England's most famous and successful female athletes of all time –and not just for that incident in the 2005 London marathon (I won't go into it here, but it has a paragraph devoted to it on her Wikipedia biography).
She has won more marathons than I've probably eaten (vintage chocolate joke for you there, admittedly it would be wittier if they hadn't changed their name to Snickers).
Paula is currently the world record holder for the marathon with a time of 2 hours, 15 minutes and 25 seconds. She has won the London marathon three times, the New York marathon twice and the Chicago marathon once. All this is even more amazing when you learn that she suffers with asthma.
When I was selecting who to write to for my Famous Faces feature, I tried very hard to ensure a good balance of celebrities, politicians, sports people, journalists, musicans etc but, have to admit, I didn't expect an athlete to eat cake...let alone have a favourite! Paula's choice of raspberry and almond cake is a choice very close to my own heart as it's a combination I love too.
I decided to pick this bakewell cake recipe as it is packed with raspberries; so often bakewell tart recipes use jam rather than fruit but in cake form the fruit works better. The rich, soft almond cake contrasts so beautifully with the sharp, squidgy pockets of baked raspberries. The flaked almonds on top add some crunch but mostly this is soft, indulgent comfort baking at its best.
NB. I know I say in the recipe that the batter is very thick and don't panic, but here's some photographic proof!
210g unsalted butter, at room temperature
210g golden caster sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon almond extract
210g ground almonds
210g self raising flour
325g raspberries
3 tablespoons flaked almonds
To serve: dusting of icing sugar, thick cream
Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/gas mark 4.
Line a 20cm springform round tin with baking paper.
Beat together the butter and sugar until it is light, pale and fluffy; as you are using golden caster sugar it won't turn as pale as ordinary caster sugar but you will notice the batter change as you beat. Take your time over this stage as this is where you get the air into the cake.
Gradually beat in the eggs, followed by the almond extract.
Fold in the ground almonds.
Fold in the flour.
Spoon a generous half of the mix into the prepared cake tin and level the surface. Your batter will be quite stiff but this is necessary to support all the raspberries which will collapse and ooze juice on baking.
Scatter over all but a scant handful of the raspberries then spoon the remaining cake batter on top. Take care, when levelling the surface, not to disturb the raspberries.
Gently press the remaining raspberries into the top of the batter.
Scatter over the flaked almonds.
Bake for approximately 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
Place the cake, still in its tin, on a wire rack and leave to cool. I find almond cakes are very soft and vulnerable to break when warm so I advise de-tinning only when the cake is completely cool.
Store in an airtight container until ready to serve. Don't panic if, overnight, it looks like your cake has sunk a little in the middle – the almonds release oil, and the baked raspberries get squidgy and this seems to concentrate in the centre. Your cake will be all the more delicious for it!
Serve with a dusting of icing sugar and some thick cream.
Bask in the glory of the wonderful thing you have created.


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An Option for Type 1 Diabetes
The goal in diabetes management is to provide insulin therapy in a way that mimics the natural pancreas. The closest therapy available at this time is a pancreas transplant. When successful, a pancreas transplant cures diabetes, as blood sugar levels become normal because the new pancreas produces insulin.
A pancreas transplant is a surgical procedure to place a healthy pancreas from a deceased donor into a person whose pancreas no longer functions properly. Almost all pancreas transplants are done to treat cases of type 1 diabetes.
Pancreas Transplant Surgical Options
- Simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant (SPK)—Because most people with type 1 diabetes who meet the criteria for pancreas transplantation also have some degree of kidney disease, simultaneous transplantation of both a pancreas and a kidney is often performed. Learn more about SPK at Methodist Transplant Institute.
- Pancreas after kidney transplant (PAK)—In this procedure, a pancreas is transplanted into a person who has already received a kidney transplant. This procedure generally has a success rate near that of SPK procedures.
- Pancreas transplant alone (PTA)—In this procedure, only the pancreas is transplanted. This type of procedure is done less often, and generally has a lower success rate than the other procedure types.


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Can you make money buying hidden treasures at yard and garage sales, then reselling them? The experts say you can, but don't expect it to be easy. Some advice from the pros:
•Focus on a particular type of item. "Start with something you really like and have a strong interest in," recommended Aaron LaPedis, author of "The Garage Sale Millionaire." "This will ensure that the treasure-hunting process will be much more fulfilling, as well as more profitable for you." Research your specialty to see which items are most in demand.
•Check newspapers and Craigslist for sales listings, looking especially for neighborhood-wide sales where you can shop at multiple sites in a small area. "Plan your route to visit sales close together," advised Karen Harden, author of "Treasure Hunters' Guide to Yard Sales." "You do not want to run all over town backtracking and covering the same area over and over."
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My favorite part is when the eggs hatch because it is sweet and cute. The chicks are my favorite characters because they look adorable. This story relates to my life because I see geese at the park. The pictures help me understand the story because they show what is going to happen next.
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Every pregnant mom has one irrational fear throughout her pregnancy: the fear that her water will break somewhere awkward. And when it comes to awkward, it doesn't get much worse than a 24-year-old cop at McDonald's delivering your child.
Yet that is exactly what happened to one mom in Newark, New Jersey. Did McDonald's induce her labor (are they good for something??) or did she merely just have some bad luck? Officer James Kniepp delivered the baby boy Wednesday afternoon in the bathroom. He had been driving by when someone flagged him down to help. He met the mom-to-be in the bathroom and coached her into staying calm while he successfully delivered her son.
Now, the baby was 8 weeks early, but is said to be doing fine. Even still, what a delivery!
She has no other choice but to name her son James. Or maybe Ronald (for Ronald McDonald).
Honestly, it's hard to imagine a place I would rather deliver my baby in less than McDonald's. That greasy smell, the dirty bathroom, a very young cop. This poor mom was in most other moms' worst case scenario for delivery.
That cop, of course, is a hero. Even still, that poor woman must have had about 100 people she would have preferred be with her at such an intimate moment. In the end, the baby is healthy and mom is OK, but what a beginning.
At least he will have a story he can tell the rest of his life. My guess is there are a lot more people conceived in McDonald's bathrooms than born in them on a daily basis.
Where is your worst place you can imagine delivering?
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The scrapbooking world is emerging from a barrage of Christmas projects just in time to start crafting for the next holiday: Valentine's Day! Believe it or not, it's time to start thinking about what paper line(s) you're going to use for your Valentine's Day cards, since the big day of all things pink, hearted, and mushy is a mere six weeks away! Be sure to give yourself plenty of time to shop for your supplies and make your cards without feeling rushed.
After my roundup of Christmas scrapbooking lines went live here on Scrapbook Update, I received many, many requests to do a similar article for each holiday. I can't promise that I'll do one for every special day on the calendar (there just aren't that many paper lines for Talk Like a Pirate Day, you know?), but when there are enough themed lines to warrant a roundup, I'll be sure to post them to keep you all informed!
As with the Christmas roundup, I'm listing all the Valentine's Day paper lines that were released either at or after CHA Summer 2011 and have scoured the vastness of the interwebs to bring you representative photos of each. They're listed in alphabetical order, and, since there aren't nearly so many of them as there were Christmas lines, I'll also give a little commentary on each.
Ready to start seeing pink? Let's get going!
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Kissing Booth is a mix of basic patterns (I spy doilies and herringbone in the mix) and sweet watercolor images. This line uses brown as a contrast color and is one of the few cream-based collections in the roundup.


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2013-01-12 • Vashti T Murphy . History
Start: 21:41:12
HistoryBuff: Hey Daviss. How are you?
Daviss: hello there HistoryBuff! I am good HB, what about you?
HistoryBuff: I am good also, thanks. I was reading an interview transcript for the late Frances Murhpy II, a Murphy legacy publisher of the Afro-Am Newspaper.
Daviss: Ah, sounds like it would be interesting
HistoryBuff: I started out researching Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. history.
Daviss: Is he in your line or justa good read for you?
HistoryBuff: She was not related to me, but she was the granddaughter of the Founding Publisher, John Henry Murphy, a former USCT from Baltimore, MD I am seeking information about her connecction to AME Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie who is a granddaughter of a Delta founder Vashti Turley Murphy.
Daviss: Is there a national registry of who was a Delta
HistoryBuff: Possibly, but I know that all three were Deltas.
Daviss: That would be a good thing to know and to have
HistoryBuff: V.M. McKenzie is still living.
Daviss: Especiaaly regarding those from yesteryear
HistoryBuff: I was reading an extensive interview transcript of Frances Murphy II.
Daviss: ok
HistoryBuff: I realized that Bishop McKenzie's name sounded familiar to me and that Frances Murphy's mother was a Delta founder with a familiar sounding name so I've curious.
Daviss: What about your own research, how is that going???
HistoryBuff: Well I've been on hiatus waiting for the 23andme analysis, plus I need to reorganize my computer space to install the RootsMagic 6 software.
Daviss: lol when is 23 supposed to come in?
HistoryBuff: I expect them in about 3 weeks. Meanwhile, I'm still trying to contact my nearby Jordan-Linton Clan consider to exchange family group history.
Daviss: I see.. Have you asked others to take the dna test
HistoryBuff: I did ask another Hughes Clan Cousin. There are others yet to ask. How about you?
Daviss: I have asked everyone but so far no takers.. kind of irritating but nothing I can do about it It would sure help out if some of those cousins would do it
HistoryBuff: That does remind me to ask a list of cousins to take the DNA tests.
Daviss: Where do your folks come from?
HistoryBuff: On the other hand my curiousity began due to Delta Centinnial(sp)on celebration kick this weekend. Their 100 year founding is tomorrow. My parents are from Arkansas and their parents are from Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, South Carolina and Georgia.
Daviss: where in Ark I am looking around in Helena for Cryors/Cryers and Mitchell I have Jefferson in Tn but no idea what county
HistoryBuff: Brickeys, Marianna,Fordyce, Magnolia, and Camden. I have a Heyward County, TN. TN on my father's paternal side of the family.
Daviss: lets Lets see i do have a last name Zypher/Zepher in Ms unkn County I wish they would have put in the city or county of their parents in the census lol lol
HistoryBuff: My paternal grandmother was born in Smith or Sunflower County, MS. I know her father was born in Smith County, MS. Yes that would help But maybe the address- Rte # is included in the nearest post office location listed somewhere.
Daviss: Lol Smith is rather hard to search like Jones
HistoryBuff: The thing is, I'm working on building up my own confidence in my research skills. There's so much to learn and I running out of time to research.
Daviss: I need to get a windfall.. That would help me to hit every courthouse i could find lol well HB why do you need to build up confidence...You take the bitter with the sweet when you do this
HistoryBuff: I take the land inventories are in the courthouse.
Daviss: Researching is a life long passion Now if you want to go in it for the money and make a living out of it then thats different
HistoryBuff: I'm good with that. I just lack confidence in imparting info to others. I don't consider myself a teacher, but sometimes sharing is teaching.
Daviss: teaching others takes time
HistoryBuff: I eventually want to perform genealogy research for a living.
Daviss: and yes sharing is teaching..and remember their may be others that don't love it the way you do
HistoryBuff: It would make sense to prepare prior to retiring from my current vocation although, the university's massive budget shortfall could lead my dismissal. They are required to cut personnel by 20% in each department.
Daviss: how much time do you have do they cut by senority
HistoryBuff: Sorry about that. Yes they plan to cut by senority and I am the last one hired in my unit.
Daviss: wb
HistoryBuff: thnx
Daviss: mabe they will see if they can cut back by those who want to retire first
HistoryBuff: It looks like folks are trying to hold out a little longer. It would be good if I could get another job. I hate working there any way. There's no future of mobility for me there any way. So I cant shed tears when they cut me.
Daviss: I hear ya HB.. Sometimes the way is brighter than it seems
HistoryBuff: Indeed. So where are you in your research?
Daviss: say your prayers at night, by day do whats right, and you will see the light that is shining bright is what i say
HistoryBuff: Makes sense to me. I'll try the meditation route. Have the films, Lincoln and DJango Unchained, yet?
Daviss: My research is on the standstill
Khathu: Hello everyone
HistoryBuff: Hey Khathu.
Daviss: Hi khathu! Surprised to see you here
Khathu: I saw Django twice and Lincoln at a special screening
Daviss: mabe you are a late bird like us
Khathu: Why are you surprised?
Daviss: late in the night I would say
HistoryBuff: Did you Khathu? What led you to watch DJango Unchained twice. ?
Khathu: I enjoyed it
Daviss: Both I want to see
Khathu: @Daviss, I lost track of time would have logged on sooner
Daviss: I think i would have stayed with you and watched again Khathu
HistoryBuff: What's holding you back, Daviss if I may ask?
Khathu: I spent the day looking at deeds and divorces records
Daviss: We just got a car HistoryBuff so now i am ready to roll again where Khathu
Khathu: And I accidentally located a divorce record for my gg grandmother and one of her husbands
HistoryBuff: Oh Okay. go as soon as you can.
Daviss: thats great Khathu.. were you at the archives
Khathu: I say accidentally because I have not been able to locate a marriage certificate for this marriage And family members questioned if she was actually married to Lucius Potts even though she carried the surname
Daviss: see lol
HistoryBuff: Wow, accidentally and interesting!
Khathu: I was at the Family History Center is Kensington Well she had four children by four different men before actually getting married
Daviss: sign of the times I would venture to say Khathu
Khathu: I guess Mr. Potts tried to make her an "honest woman" before divorcing her.
Daviss: When was she born
Khathu: 1864 in Van Zandt County, Texas
Daviss: ok so I still say sign of the times then
HistoryBuff: So did you find this information in Maryland State records or which jurisdiction?
Khathu: I meant 1872 No I was at the FHL
Daviss: Did the Divorce state when they got married? and where?
HistoryBuff: Hey Khathu, define "honest woman"?
Khathu: It was just the decree now I need to obtain the actual divorce case. a married woman
HistoryBuff: Just curious LOL So was the decree the same as a listing or something different?
Khathu: It is funny because in the 1910 Census she is listed as a widow even though the divorce did not occur until 1911 huh? not clear on your are asking
Daviss: not unusual though khathu married or not when someone is not living in the household
Khathu: I guess out of sight out of mind
HistoryBuff: Okay what is a divorce decree?
Khathu: I also located some decrees for my gg grandparents and some ggg grand uncles
Daviss: even when the man went to another town to work and it was several years before they were able to come back
Khathu: my grandparents were married twice and divorced twice. The first time she divorced him and then he divorced her okay
Daviss: The decree is the final HB When my x and I got divorced it was not legal until a year had passed
HistoryBuff: I'm just trying to understand in what type of document format the 'decree' comes in.
Daviss: then it had to be filed in the courthouse... If not then you were still married
Khathu: it is just a document granting the divorce
HistoryBuff: okay.
Daviss: you really had to be on your toes to file the original after the year was up lol now in these days you don't have to wait the year
HistoryBuff: I understand now. Thank you.
Daviss: yw
Khathu: I have to order some more micro film from Salt Lake I have a lot of research in Georgia these days
HistoryBuff: So Khathu, do you think Spike Lee ought to go see DJango Unchained?
Khathu: I really don't care about whether he sees it or not He is the spoken person or authority for Black people
HistoryBuff: I need to conduct some research for Georgia but I have no idea where in Georgia.
Khathu: I am at the point in my research where it has taken be to Georgia on several lines
HistoryBuff: No he isn't, but I am just curious about your take with Spike Lee's comments on it.
Khathu: Brewsters, Darsey and Hardin/Vickers I have no opinion about Spike Lee's comments because it is a non issue to me
HistoryBuff: Georgia for me involves Cummings, Scotts and Averys. I understand now.
Khathu: Well I am tracking the slave holding families who migrated from Georgia into Texas
Daviss: I have not seen the movie History but as a researcher I have a different view than he (spike) does...Some can't get over slavery and as a researcher we may get p'od about it but we gather all the info we can to find our folks I think that is the difference
Khathu: I am researching Laurens, Coweta, Walton, Fulton, and a few other counties in Georgia
Daviss: are those all slave holding families khathu or all those who migrated in your family to those counties
Khathu: All slave holding families The Darseys moved around a lot during the early 1800s
Daviss: Oh that will be quite the chore.. Are you limiting the amount of slave some families only had from 1 - 3
Khathu: My Brewster ancestor was sold several times within Georgia before moving to Texas
Daviss: Lots of Brewsters in marshall and in longview
Khathu: I am related to some of them especially those in Longview
Daviss: I talked to a Brewster woman last year from Longview..I lost her number. I think then she was in her late 70's or early 80's she was a pleasure to talk with
HistoryBuff: That's good, Daviss
Daviss: In fact this lady went to RedOak Baptist Church and that was my initial need to talk with her
Khathu: I'm not familiar with that church
Daviss: Its a rather large one now Khathu but my Uncle Leslie was one of the ministers years ago
Khathu: Okay I am currently reading Uncle Tom's Cabin
Daviss: ah ha!
HistoryBuff: Is this your first time reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, Khathu?
Khathu: I also located a pro-slavery critique of the book published in 1852 Yes
HistoryBuff: Oh okay. Sometimes I get encouraged to re-read some classic literary works. What is your comparison between the two publications so far?
Khathu: i haven't read the critique yet
HistoryBuff: Would you be willing to share the citation for the 1852 critique?
Khathu: The book is at the office but once I get it sure
Daviss: I am stuck on books just about Texas lol
Khathu: I am all over the place :0
HistoryBuff: Thanks. I'm trying to think of the historical 19th newspaper title who published literary criticism of the time.
Daviss: my brain waves say Texas
Khathu: I'm scratter brain
Daviss: lol
HistoryBuff: I'm the scatter brain. I have the most trouble keeping up.
Khathu: so I end up reading five books at once which are not related in any shape form or fashion
HistoryBuff: As I was telling Daviss earlier, I got interested the history of a Delta Sigma Theta founder.
Khathu: ok
Daviss: well I better head out now.. time to hollar at Tyler lol lil boys hate to take a shower
HistoryBuff: I was trying to see if A.M.E Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie is related to the Afro founder. Cya next time Davisss.
Khathu: okay, good night
Daviss: ok HistoryBuff and you too Khathu take care
Khathu: ttyl good night
HistoryBuff: okay


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I've been making use of my high school drawing classes skills and putting together a corset dress pattern for children's sizes 2T-6. Yes, I know there is already a free tutorial, but this is actually the bodice pattern piece, full instructions, and doodles of butterflies. Butterflies, people! Mostly it's a trial run with the pattern zine format before I put out my fair weather jacket pattern. And a million other ideas I have that simply must stop bugging me, leave my brain and go have a life of their own so I can get enough space up there to ponder more profound thoughts like, 'what should we have for dinner?'
So, with all of this, I really haven't thought terribly hard about tutorials lately. However, if y'all want to give me a hand, I will get a tutorial up next week. All you have to do is give me some ideas of what you would like to see here. Maybe serger techniques (faux pintucks, flat locking), pattern alterations (how to make a puff sleeve from a regular sleeve?), a dress or something you've seen on my other blog. Whatever you want to know. Leave a comment with your idea/request.
In exchange for your ideas, I will do a random number draw to declare someone a winner and send them a copy of my first born pattern zine. I hope to get it from the printers on monday, so I will make the draw on sunday night about 9:00 my time (that's would be about the time the kids will finally be in bed).
Okay, next will be back to our regularly scheduled programing. Looking forward to your suggestions!


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So, apparently wet nurses are on the rise. For those of you unaware of what a wet nurse does, here's a quick job description: They're a person who breastfeeds your baby. Obviously, wet nurses, like anything related to breastfeeding and parenting, are controversial. And every person, depending on their experiences, varies on how they feel about them. But as for me? I could never do it.
Some women, sadly, have trouble nursing. I know this. And these moms want to give their sweet babes the absolute best nutrition. They don't want to resort to the "dreaded" formula. But, I don't know, I would just find it strange and uncomfortable, seeing my own child suckling at another woman's breast. Pumped breast milk is one thing, I suppose. But full-on nursing? That's just too weird for me.
I certainly don't think that moms who breastfeed have any stronger of a bond over moms who don't -- all mothers have strong bonds with their children. I feel just as strong a bond with my daughter giving her a bottle now as I did when I was nursing. But when you're nursing -- and nursing only -- you're both a source of food and comfort to the child. There would likely be many times in which your child would prefer to another person to you. It would feel a bit odd to witness something like that after being pregnant for nine months and giving birth.
Every parent wants what's best for the child. Of course. And some moms simply cannot bear to not give their child breast milk -- I totally respect that. But wouldn't it make a little more sense to simply have pumped breast milk out of a bottle for the baby instead of hiring someone to do the actual nursing for you? If we've heard it once, we've heard it a thousand times: Babies don't care where they get their food from. They just want to eat.
Would you ever hire a wet nurse?
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