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Conference Call Quote Sheet: U.S. WNT in Glasgow
Conference Call Quote Sheet:
U.S. WNT in Glasgow
July 20, 2012
U.S. head coach PIA SUNDHAGE
On France, the USA's opponent in the first match of the Olympic Games:
"Yes, we've been scouting them and yesterday we watched the game France against Japan. I had one of our scouts there watching and I got a report from them. This year (because they've seen France play a few times) it's a little bit easier to be honest to play France the first game instead of North Korea (the USA's first game in the 2011 Women's World Cup and a team they knew little about) just because we know how they're going to play and how they've been playing and we've been able to give enough information to our players' so that they can prepare for that game. Their strength is the attack. When they get comfortable with the ball in the attacking third they are unpredictable so we need to stay tight and our back four with the midfielders need to be compact and control the game by doing some good defending."
On Alex Morgan earning a starting role after being a reserve at the 2011 Women's World Cup:
"She provides speed with Abby up top and those two play very well together. This team is a little bit different than the World Cup. We played a similar system but have a few different players out there and the way Alex Morgan has been playing lately not only gives her confidence but the entire team including myself."
On the goals for this tournament:
"I would say we always look at the next game and want to play well. And if we always win the next game we're going to win the gold medal, but I'm not talking about the gold medal that much, I'm talking about the next game. I think that it's exciting because if you look at our group we have France first and they play very different than Colombia and Colombia plays very different than North Korea. So I'm excited about different styles of soccer and we will make sure that we prepare for the next game and we really want to win the next game and go all the way to the final."
On how confident this team is going into this tournament and the comfort level playing in the technical style that some European teams play:
"When we look back on the World Cup, we take out the best part of it and the fact is that we played the best soccer in the final when it mattered and that is something to be said about the team….So it's a little bit about our defending style to be able to be physical and compact and not give a technical team a lot of space and time. But more so, the best defending is to keep the ball and we will keep the ball in many different ways. It could be by knocking it around or big balls. So we have the personalities on the field and we are very confident that we'll go into this tournament to do our very best and bring out the best performance."
On the possible lineup for the France match:
" I think we have different personalities and players like (Lauren) Cheney that can read the game well and play in different positions. What I am really happy about is if you look at the backs we do have different options and that makes coaching so fun…With those kinds of options it's a little bit about the individual player but also the relationship between who she is playing with and this team can play well together. So I'm really excited about the different starting lineups that we could have going forward."
On Hope Solo and how she's improved her game:
"She has more experience than she had in 2008 and she has gone through ups and downs because of injuries so forth. I really appreciate the game with her feet that will be very important in this tournament. Right now she is in a good place and it will be important that she plays well."
On the evolution of the team in her tenure and how different this team is than the last Olympic team:
"I'm happy about that question because that's something I really appreciate with this team. In 2008 (after she took over as head coach), it was eight months and then here we go. It took while to get to know the players and Abby got injured just before the Olympics and here we are and I think we are a much better team. Everything we've done is better than in 2008. The thing I like the most about this team is the different personalities, so it looks different depending on who's playing in the starting lineup. If you look at the women's game in general the game is different. Speed of play everything is so much better and we're talking about just four or five years and you can imagine in the next four or five years it will look different because the improvement on the women's side is really fast right now. For me it's a privilege and I really want to emphasize that, to be around good players in 2008 but even better in 2012."
On the lack of a Women's Soccer League in the U.S. and how that affects their preparation:
"As soon as we found out that there wasn't a league this year we changed the schedule a little bit and we added many days (of training) to this team. The only thing that has been a little bit stressful is amount of games. You can imagine players play in the league they could get six, eight or 10 more games and playing games is very important. However, we've been playing against boys in scrimmage and right now with all the days we've been together and the games we've been playing I think we are really ready for the Olympics."
U.S. forward ABBY WAMBACH
On being a young player at the 2004 Olympics and now playing with a young Alex Morgan in 2012:
"I think Alex definitely brings a total different skill set than I do. She is a very speedy, fast forward who gets behind back lines and defenses and maybe I was doing that in my 22, 23, 24-year-old time but I am more of a target forward that stays central to get the ball through me so we can move up the field. Alex is definitely surprisingly very strong on the ball. When she has the ball and has the chance to score it takes a lot to knock her off the ball. I think one thing that I remember in 2004 is that Mia and I complimented each other and I think that's what Alex and I have now. I remember when she first got on this team, being pleasantly surprised with the talent and confidence talent that this young women has…I just hope she continues to perform and score goals at the rate she is doing and giving our team a better chance of winning games. She takes a more little bit more attention off of my back and I know that she's making a name for herself and the World Cup was just the beginning for her. Hopefully she can continue on through these Olympics."
On following up the World Cup with the Olympics:
"Well there is no better motivation than losing in my opinion. We did a lot of really cool things last summer in Germany and we got a lot of people excited about the women's game again and truthfully throughout my career I wasn't sure it was going to happen. I believe this team has something to prove. I know that a lot of us are competitors through and through I mean we're competing when we're playing ping-pong on our team floor. Whatever it is, we want to win and because we got so close and lost in the most dramatic way you can lose soccer game, a soccer tournament, not to mention the World Cup, adds even more fuel to that fire. We had a short time from the World Cup to prepare and I think that it's important that the freshness of that loss is stuck in our minds and honestly in our hearts because what's in the past is in the past but this team still has something to prove. This team is different than the teams that have won gold medals and we hope to continue on the tradition that they set for us."
On the style of play Sundhage has brought to the U.S. WNT:
"I think what we have all come to realize that the physicality and mentality in the way we play is a USA engrained culture. It's who we are. When Pia got on board she definitely wanted to focus more on possession and keeping the ball and changing the point of attack. I think what we realized in the last year is that combining the two is very important. We know that we have this winning mentality, a never quit mentality, and if you can combine that with the possession style that Pia would love us to play, that's a team I would fear. I think any team in the world would agree that we're definitely fighters and play hard and bringing on the philosophies that Pia has brought and implementing that into our game makes it a deadly combination. I feel like we do combine that and I feel that Pia has given us a lot of different things, a lot of different tactics to think about. We've gone through different formations this year and we have a few things in our back pocket in terms of what we can bring to a game. In the end, yes, tactics and technique and coaching and players and output and execution is all important but I'm pretty clear that if we had a chance to get into that gold medal game in the waning minutes it's about who wants it more… everybody's done the work, everybody's good enough, everybody's done everything that they possibly can to win that gold medal and for me it's about who wants it more."
On how she feels physically:
"Physically speaking I am way more in a pain free place than I was a year ago even. I've done a lot of different kind of therapies in the last six months, whether it be holistic methods or trigger point therapy or doctor prescribed medications and obviously the physical therapy I've been enduring for last two or three years. I feel strong, I feel healthy, I feel as good as I felt in a long time so it's good news."
On whether she will play in a foreign league after the Olympics:
"First and foremost our whole national team has been working tirelessly this year to hopefully bring home this gold medal so that we can solidify a league in the United States for us. That's our number one priority and if that weren't to come to fruition, then yeah there will be other opportunities around the world; Japan, France, Sweden, Germany, and recently since Japan won the Word Cup there has been interest there to get their programs even more up and running. We have to play and we have to get games in. I know that is going to be important for the next national team coach whether it's Pia to continue on or another one. I know that it's going to be very important to us to stay involved in playing the games. You can't just be going into training camps and get better. We want to keep evolving with the game and unfortunately if there isn't a league next year then a lot of us are going to have go to different places to do that."
On Alex Morgan's progression as a player:
"I think Alex has had probably the most improvement on her confidence. I've told her that time and time again when she scores a big goal that wins us the game. Obviously, scoring in the World Cup final and scoring against France (in the World Cup semifinal), those are goals that you put in your back pocket. Like I say for every forward, when you go through tough times not scoring goals you have to remember the times when you did especially the biggest ones and her confidence has been the turning point in Alex's career much like my confidence after the '04 Olympics did a huge service in my career. I think Alex will continue to grow, she's had a fantastic year, she's our leading goal scorer and I continue to support her and she will continue to support us because team accolades are what it's all about. I told her a couple weeks ago, you know I've scored a lot of goals in my career but to me it's more about championships than scoring goals and she is in her part of her career where it needs to be a little more goal focused. If she's focused on scoring goals she's helping our team win championships."
On Megan Rapinoe and her game:
"Well Megan is one of those players on our team who has the ability to change the game. She can come on and be the best player on the field. Her biggest challenge is probably herself and I think she has done such a great job this last year since the World Cup, working hard on getting back into the starting lineup…When she's one hundred percent focused on the game and one hundred percent involved, she plays better soccer. When she keeps the ball and when she shares the ball is when Megan Rapinoe plays her best. In the game against Canada a couple weeks ago, she was the best player. She served me some balls that I will even say out loud that I should have finished and I apologized to her after the game because very often forwards are always complaining about service and she put some balls that we needed to finish away to give us a better lead against Canada. Megan has a chance to be a breakout star. She plays a specific role on this team and she can stay within the confines of playing in that role she's going to be one of the next big stars of this team."
On Great Britain's star Kelly Smith's game and the interest of soccer in the UK:
"First off Kelly Smith has been on my timeline one of the best players in the world. She's had to deal with a bunch of injuries as of late as we grow older things starts to hurt more than they did when we were young. She is one of the work horses of her team, she's their quarterback, and she's the person they want to get the ball to. I've always been a really big fan of Kelly even when she was at Seton Hall. We were talking about it the other day even though the rest of her (college) team may not have been at her quality she's such a quality player. She's someone who has come to the United States and supported the women's league in the United States and yes it is surprising that the game has taken a little bit longer to evolve in England being that England has such a rich history in football. I know they are trying to do something right now to change that fact. Obviously hosting the Olympics will be a big deal for them."
U.S. defender CHRISTIE RAMPONE
On this being possibly her last major tournament:
"My plans are up in the air to be honest. I'm committed to this journey here in the Olympics and we'll reevaluate after the Olympics and win or lose I don't think I'll be making the decision until January. With that said, I still need to be called in by the head coach so I don't see myself denying a call-in but I will have to sit the family down and kind of see where we're at come next year."
On Hope Solo's form heading into the Olympics:
"She is right on right now you know her body's feeling good, she's mentally in a good place, and Pia said her footwork is faster than ever. I think she's really settled in the last month and a half and back to her peak form, focused and ready to go."
On a women's league in the U.S.:
"I think the challenge is getting more 90-minute games in, more so for the non-starting eleven because they're not getting those 90 minutes consistently. But as far as being together more and having that consistency with the team and playing a lot of scrimmages against other teams against youth men's teams, we've been getting the 90-minute games in. Obviously our focus is doing well in the Olympics but we also haven't forgotten about the league and our goal coming through the fall is to make sure we try to get this league going so that we do have another option to play in America and not have college soccer (and the youth national teams) be our only feeder system into the national team. We want to make sure we stay on top of the national team and making sure to be the best in the world and that's having a pro league on our home soil in our back yard."
On the defensive tactics going into the Olympics:
"I think the back four has been getting stronger each game, and yes we've had break downs but we haven't had that much time together. We always talk about relationships on the field with your partner next you and in front of you and I think over the last two months the team defending has gotten so much better and a there's been more of a focus on making sure our spacing is correct between our backline and our midfield and taking more responsibility with that. Part of my job is making sure that spacing is correct and Shannon Boxx's job is making sure that spacing between her and the forwards is correct. So that's something that is ongoing throughout the game. But overall I think defensively we're trying to put the other team under as much pressure as possible and at times making it a footrace in the back as well as we're always trying to dictate the tempo as a back four against the other opponents, the forwards, making sure they're not comfortable and that they're not dictating our line but we are we're dictating their line."
On the evolution
of the game
since the last Olympic games:
"Looking back at some clips from the '08 Olympics I do think this is probably the biggest four years where the level of the game has risen. The awareness and more so the speed of play and the decision making of players has really risen and I think that is also attributed to the technical side of the game getting better which allows the speed and fitness to improve but I do think it's the biggest jump. Seeing younger players being able to come into the game and really make a difference more so than trying to build through experience. Experience does help but you're seeing a lot of younger flare and personality shining through with the younger players. I feel like I am always trying to stay one step ahead knowing what's out there, making sure I continue to stay mentally focused and fit and taking every day for what it is. I think being able to compete at practice with an Abby and an Alex makes me better every day so when I do step on the field against the opponent I know I've seen pretty much everything at training. They give me the confidence to step on and be the leader out there it's more of a mental game than it is a physical game these days because it's more about my voice and direction and leading the team through all my experience. I think the combination of both has helped me stay around."
On this Olympic team compared to other Olympic teams she's been on:
"I think when any team goes through a tough time, and I say that more in a positive way because we experienced so much through World Cup preparation, the highs and lows as well as making it to a final and not finishing off our goal, that we just need to stay committed. I think this is the first time you've seen a full squad go into two world championships back-to-back with the exception of one new face in Sydney Leroux. We have dealt with the emotion together and gotten stronger and I think we've been really committed. We're all on the same page leading into these Olympics. We know we have the offensive flare it's just sharpening up our commitment as a team defensively and I give a lot of credit to Alex Morgan who's made a huge transition from the World Cup to the Olympics in not only her confidence but how she handles herself with her obligations off the field as well. On the field, she is staying fit and focused and being very consistent through her training sessions and that's awesome to see."
On the key to slowing France down:
"The first thing is weathering the nerves and emotion that you have within yourself because it's the first game in the Olympics. The quicker we can come together as a team and work off each other and work through those emotions and put France on their heels, the quicker we'll get into this tournament and into these games. France is a very good team that we highly respect we have to make sure we don't let them out of our USA mentality."
On playing in her ancestral homeland, home to her great-grandfather on her mother's side:
"It feel's great. I've had such an amazing welcome here in Scotland. They really have taken me under their wing as one of their own and it's been great having my great-grandfather play here for ten years and kind of getting a little bit more of the history."
On the group stage:
"I'll be honest with you, my focus and I would say that the team's focus is really just on France. But we also do have in mind that next game is going to come quick and then two days recovery we're on to Colombia. We know that playing Colombia and North Korea in the World Cup so both are great teams in their own way. Colombia is definitely young and they're athletic so they're definitely going to bring it. They won't have as many nerves as they had in the World Cup but I'm sure that they're getting better. North Korea we don't know a lot about them and haven't seen them since the World Cup so the only thing we can off on is the way they played in the World Cup. They're definitely always a team in my career that has always been strong. Obviously in the third game when legs are a little more fatigued, at that moment it's definitely going to have to be more of mental game and making sure were committed to staying focused for that entire game."
On Kelley O'Hara and the back line:
"Some of the great defenders on this team have started as a forwards early in their careers and made their way to the back. So I think a left back position for Kelley is a great spot for her and she goes forward very well and she gives our offensive attack a lot more flare. She's really coming into her own defensively, on one-to-one defending she's doing real well and I think she's learning her role of connecting with the back line. So I'm really confident in the way Kelley's playing and looking forward to seeing how well she does here in the Olympics. I think we've been working with the same players but rotating in different positions in the back so yes it does get a little choppy at times and the flow isn't as great but now that we're close to the Olympics and staying with the same back four I think it's been working out really well. I think we've had some great communication watching film and realizing where our mistakes are coming from and our spacing. We have a great leader behind us in Hope who is also directing traffic and that ties the back four into a five."
U.S. goalkeeper HOPE SOLO
On the competition getting better in women's international soccer:
"The gap has definitely lessened and I assure you that is what makes the game a lot more fun. When we do win, knock on wood, it's going to make it all the more worthwhile because the game has changed so much over the past decade. It's come a long way. No longer can we rely as a U.S team on our strength, on our athleticism, on our speed. You have to be able to play the game and play it in a beautiful way. The way Brazil has always been known to do and the way Japan does so well. So it's a better game, it's more entertaining for the fans to watch but you see the French team possessing the ball, you see the even Swedish team changing their style of play. In order to compete to be the best team in the world you can no longer rely on the athleticism in the long run anymore."
On her emotions after surrendering a goal:
"I am never happy after a game if we've given up a goal. With that said, I have to balance it because I am really proud of our team when we play a hard fought game and we come out on top. Hence the quarterfinal game against Brazil last Olympics, obviously my happiness trumped every other emotion that went on in that game and there were a lot of emotions, anger for letting a goal go in, anger towards the refs, anger at the penalty kicks. There were a lot of emotions but when we win my happiness trumps everything. With that said, I am a goalkeeper and my job is to keep the ball out of the back of the net so when the ball makes it to the back of the net I'm not doing my job and I take responsibility for that and take it incredibly personal but the best defenders in the world take it just as personal as I do."
On balancing off-field activities with on-field training:
"I get that question quite a bit and it's easy for me to answer because all my life since the time I was little has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength, it's given me a lot of fortitude, a lot of challenges that have given me the opportunity to really cut out those outside distractions. I've been able to do that and I think from the time I was little all of my freedom and happiness, all my fight came from playing the game that I love and that's what allowed me to be the best at what I do and allowed me to get as far as I gotten. I'm grateful for those challenges I've had off the field. You fast forward to after the World Cup and we're talking challenges like Hollywood and challenges like a dance show and all these can be perceived as distractions to certain athletes. But all my life I have been able to handle them and it only gives me that extra fight to keep pushing and prove everybody wrong so trust me, I am ok with the challenge."
On playing club soccer in France earlier in her career and facing France in group play:
"I think they are going to be here for a long time to stay for a long time. When I played in France quite some time ago, they didn't have the respect that they have now as a nation and as a national team. The club team I played on had a handful of players that played for their full team and even back then they had some of the most skilled players that I had ever seen. However, there was something missing, they had the ball skill, they were technically savvy on the ball, but three was something missing and I think it was putting it all together. Having 18 quality players or 21 quality players like in a World Cup kind of spurs the brilliance. But now to see the longevity the consistency I think they're here to stay. It's a highly respected team by everyone who plays the game and I think the outside people are starting to realize that it could be one of the next best teams."
On what she can still improve on:
"As an athlete we evolve as years go by and I have different focuses as years go by. In last year's World Cup I was coming from severe shoulder surgery and it took a lot more to get back than people realize. My entire focus was having the confidence to land on my shoulder over and over again, having the confidence to carry the ball with one arm, throw the ball, trying to gain strength back into my shoulder but not overdo it. All of my focus was geared to my upper body and my shoulder and everyone knows my strengths are my kicking, my distribution, my feet and to be honest the last year I was probably the worst I had ever been with my feet. I didn't have the time to put into it because of all the time I put into rehab with my shoulder. For the last year after the World Cup, I feel like myself again before my shoulder surgery and I wasn't quite myself in the last World Cup. Right now I am starting to feel well-rounded again, I've gotten my foot skills back, I've gotten my distribution back and my shoulder feels great. I'm feeling real good right now because I'm getting my footwork back and that's what I'm known for."
On playing for her hometown team Sounders Women:
"My experience with Sounders Women was everything I thought it would be. I knew the organization was as professional as any professional team I've ever played for. I knew that this city was invested in growing the women's game and there was no other club team that I would rather have played for in my hometown of Seattle and trying to build the game. So it was everything I could have imagined, we had some sold out crowds, great fan support, and we put some quality soccer together."
On her off-field activities and being in the environment of a world championship:
"This is what my life is all about, this is where my heart is, and this is where my passion lies. All the other nonsense is all the bells and whistles but it doesn't make me who I am, it's not a part of my lifestyle and it doesn't breed happiness. Getting back here in an environment like this and I'm talking about the main stage, a big tournament where you feel the nerves, the positive energy, you feel the tension that can rise and now we're five games out from that big game. That's what I live for and that's what I know and I love so of course it feels good to be back but to be honest I never really left."
On Christie Rampone and her veteran leadership:
"It's not only the fact that she plays at a high level but she's well-rounded. She has a good mind on the field and she can read the game, she's a great captain, she's a great leader. She's fun and fun to be around. She's not a captain that people are afraid to be around, she's very approachable. I gained respect for her of course for her quality of play but also for everything that she puts on her shoulders and carries. I mean she's carrying the weight of the team, the weight of the country, the weight of the sport. She puts a lot of pressure on herself and she handles it well and you can't see it affect her play and that is what I admire the most about her. She's just a great teammate and not to mention one of the best center-backs I have ever played with."
On the balance of young players and veterans on the Olympics Team:
"Every team has to have a balance between youth players and veterans, although I'd rather say experience. I think experience breeds a veteran outlook so you have someone like Lauren Cheney, people think that she's probably the youth of the team but she's actually a pretty experienced player now after playing a ton of minutes and being crucial player last year for us in the World Cup. So if you want to go by veterans, which to me means age and how long they've been on the team, or you want to go by experience, whatever it is every championship team needs to have a perfect balance."


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Please welcome guest blogger, veteran military spouse and BSF Advisory Board member, Sheila Casey.
I have been a military spouse for 39 years. During that time I have experienced all the same things each one of you have…raising a family, moving, deployments, reintegration, children changing schools, volunteering and making lifelong friendships. It has not always been easy but I would not change a moment of it. I say that now although there were days when I thought differently. When military life became difficult it was easy to think "enough" but then I would figure my way through it and get on with life.
What I realized is that I needed something that was mine. I could not live my life through my husband and I needed something in addition to the Army. I knew that one day my husband would retire and that the military part of my life would end. I needed something that would continue. The big question was what. Continue reading
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Policía científica
Forensic expertise and the exchange of forensic data is vital to international investigations.
At INTERPOL, we maintain databases of fingerprints and DNA profiles, allowing police across the world to make connections between crimes and crime scenes. We also provide training to police in our member countries, to ensure that frontline officers have the knowledge and skills necessary to assess, preserve and share evidence in line with best practices.
Our three main areas of forensic expertise are:
- 1 Fingerprints
- 4 Facial recognition
- 5 Forensic Symposium
Disaster Victim Identification (DVI)
The process of identifying victims of major disasters such as terrorist attacks or earthquakes is rarely possible by visual recognition.
Comparison of fingerprints, dental records or DNA samples with ones stored in databases or taken from victims' personal effects are often required to obtain a conclusive identification.
As people are travelling more and more, there is also a high probability that a disaster will result in the deaths of nationals from many different countries.
International coordination
When a major disaster occurs, one country alone may not have sufficient resources to deal with mass casualties. In some cases, the incident may have damaged or destroyed the country's existing emergency-response infrastructure, making the task of victim identification even more difficult.
A coordinated effort by the international community can significantly speed up the victim recovery and identification process, enabling victims' families to begin the healing process and societies to rebuild, and, in the event of a terrorism incident, assisting investigators to identify possible attackers.
A range of support
Member countries can call on INTERPOL for assistance in disaster victim identification (DVI) immediately in the aftermath of a disaster. The services offered by INTERPOL include:
- Assistance from the Command and Coordination Centre at the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon, France, to send messages between National Central Bureaus 24 hours a day in Arabic, English, French or Spanish;
- An Incident Response Team to provide further assistance upon request, such as on-site investigative support or connection to INTERPOL's databases.
Multi-dimensional approach
INTERPOL's DVI activities are supported by a INTERPOL Disaster Victim Identification Conference and the INTERPOL Working Group on Disaster Victim Identification, both of which are made up of forensic and police experts. The Working Group on DVI formulates INTERPOL DVI policy and strategic planning while the DVI Conference meets regularly to discuss improvements to procedures and standards in DVI matters. Policies and guidelines have been produced in the following areas and are backed up by training programmes:
- Victim care and family support;
- Occupational care for DVI teams;
- Compliance with international standards and forensic quality assurance controls;
- Information-sharing and exchange;
- Operational assistance to countries which lack DVI capacity.
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After 40 years of "Momo" her magic ist still unbroken. What better occasion than this joyous anniversary to give Michael Ende's website a commemorative, yet fresh new look?
Stay tuned for more news on "Momo"'s anniversary as well as event information and a fantastic announcement!
Football fans might know it already: From this season, FC Augsburg play in the Bundesliga – the top league! And it is not only the club that was promoted but Jim Button as well. After every goal Augsburg score the tune "Eine Insel mit zwei Bergen" ("An Isle with Two Mountains"), will be played, the song from "Jim Button", the famous classic from Augsburger Puppenkiste. In the ARD sports programme "Sportschau" on 6 August, the Jim Button puppet was even shown after a goal by Augsburg! Jim Button became a symbol and mascot for FC Augsburg when the club started cooperation with the puppet theatre of Augsburger Puppenkiste, probably the most famous attraction of the city. Jim and Luke are thrilled. And so are we!
Dear Fans of Michael Ende all over the world,
Because of the huge interest during the last few months, we have decided to translate our Website about the life and work of Michael Ende into English and go online with it under the address "www.michaelende.com".
This means that for the first time comprehensive information about the fantastic storyteller and explorer of inner worlds are available in English.
Where current news is concerned, this will in future also be translated into English and published on the English website as quickly as possible.
We hope with this step we have helped all the fans of Michael Ende who cannot read German to satisfy their curiosity.
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February 6, 2019, 10:15 pmNikola Jokic - C - Denver Nuggets
In a tough loss to the Nets on Wednesday, Nikola Jokic recorded his 10th triple-double of the season with 25 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists, a trey, one steal and one block in 34 minutes.
At the rate that Jokic has been playing, he's making a strong case to finish as a top-5 player in 8/9-cat by season's end. Just sit back enjoy the ride as he does his darndest to carry his Nuggets team.
Fantasy News
February 20, 2019, 8:28 pmTrey Lyles - F - Denver Nuggets
Trey Lyles hobbled off the court during the Nuggets' practice on Wednesday, so consider him questionable for Friday's game vs. the Mavs.
Lyles has not held much value while Paul Millsap is healthy and active and this news does not help his short-term outlook. You can consider dropping him in deep leagues for a more promising FA.
Source: Harrison Wind on Twitter
February 20, 2019, 8:22 pmGary Harris - G - Denver Nuggets
Gary Harris, who has missed the Nuggets' last seven games due to a right adductor strain, is available to play vs. the Mavs on Friday.
Harris has had a rocky 2018-19 season to say the least, dealing with an assortment of injuries that have kept him off the floor for multiple games. Hopefully, he can finally stay healthy for the second half of the season. He has a top-30 upside when at 100 percent health, so feel free to slot him in your active lineups.
Source: Christian Clark on Twitter
February 20, 2019, 8:16 pmEmanuel Terry - PF - Miami Heat
The Heat have signed undrafted D2 All-American forward Emanuel Terry to a 10-day contract.
Terry played in nine games for the Heat's G-League affiliate, the Sioux Falls Skyforce this season and posted averages of 16.4 points, 9.2 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.1 blocks per game. He's currently not someone worth picking up in fantasy leagues.
Source: Anthony Chiang on Twitter
February 20, 2019, 7:50 pmTroy Brown Jr. - F - Washington Wizards
According to Candace Buckner, Wizards rookie Troy Brown Jr., who missed the last several games due to an ankle injury, has been looking "fresh and spry" while going through a shooting drill.
Brown has not made much of an impact in fantasy this season, but with the Wizards out of the playoff race, we could see Brown get some run. He's worth keeping an eye on in deep leagues for now.
Source: Candace Buckner on Twitter
February 20, 2019, 7:42 pmEmmanuel Mudiay - G - New York Knicks
Coach David Fizdale said that he's open to Emmanuel Mudiay (shoulder) and Dennis Smith Jr. together in the backcourt.
This would make for an interesting albeit the most inefficient scoring backcourt in the league. Even if Mudiay does share the floor with DSJ, he's not going to bring enough fantasy juice to worth an add outside of very deep leagues.
Source: Ian Begley on Twitter
February 20, 2019, 7:38 pmRobin Lopez - C - Chicago Bulls
Coach Jim Boylen said "We have not discussed a diminished role for him at all" in reference to Robin Lopez, who was shut own post-ASB last season.
Lopez looks like he'll be sticking it out with the rest of the Bulls starters until further notice. He's good for some points and boards with reasonable field goal shooting but that's about it. As long as you're not expecting to be wowed, Ro-Lo is a decent pickup in 16-team leagues or deeper. Cristiano Felicio is a drop as he won't hold value while Lopez is in play.
Source: KC Johnson on Twitter
February 20, 2019, 6:42 pmKris Dunn - G - Chicago Bulls
Kris Dunn (back contusion) is on track to play on Friday after going through Wednesday's practice.
Dunn missed the last game before the All-Star break but wasn't expected to miss any further time. Ryan Arcidiacono will move back to a bench role going forward.
Source: Mike McGraw on Twitter
February 20, 2019, 6:40 pmEmmanuel Mudiay - G - New York Knicks
Emmanuel Mudiay (strained left shoulder) will return to the lineup on Friday against the Wolves.
Mudiay won't be usurping Dennis Smith Jr.'s starting role, so he'll likely have to settle for battling with Frank Ntilikina for backup minutes. He's safe to cut in the vast majority of fantasy leagues.
Source: Zach Braziller on Twitter
February 20, 2019, 6:34 pmFrank Ntilikina - G - New York Knicks
Frank Ntilikina (groin) is scheduled to be re-evaluated on Friday.
It sounds like Ntilikina will not suit up on Friday. He'll be fighting with Emmanuel Mudiay for backup point guard minutes when he does get back on the floor, and while he might be able to get an edge there with Mudiay headed for free agency there isn't enough to warrant attention in fantasy leagues.
Source: Ian Begley on Twitter
February 20, 2019, 6:04 pmAron Baynes - F/C - Boston Celtics
Aron Baynes (left foot contusion) will not play on the Celtics' upcoming road trip, which means he'll miss at least three more games.
Danny Ainge said that Baynes may not return until early March, so this isn't too surprising. Daniel Theis gets at least three more games of fantasy appeal.
Source: Jay King on Twitter


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Hostages: How Much Life Is in CBS' New "Limited Series"?
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They started out life as that extra yarn my advisor gave me. A box-full of Cascade 220 in various heathered shades … one or two skeins of each color, so not a lot to work with in terms of cardigans or large projects or what have you. I dithered. Finally, last week it hit me: socks! Cozy, woolly, slouchy worsted socks.
The King of Socks, if you will
And I decided to get stripy with it. Kind of a melting transition pattern from the main color into the contrasting color, which is how they got their name: turtle + celery. They are quick, easy, cheap, and totally addictive. My pair for ladies' feet took less that one skein of two colors.
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Let's go for a walk, hobbits.
According to Variety, Warner Brothers and J.R.R. Tolkein are talking to Amazon Studios to make a series based on the 'Lord of the Rings' books.
While working toward a perspective series, it's hard to know what direction it would go in. If it would be spin-offs of what was in the books, (because let's face it, there's a ton of material), or if it would be revisiting the same world that Peter Jackson has worked with.
It's not finalized as of yet, so those headlines that it's ALREADY HAPPENING are false, but CEO Jeff Bezos is personally involved in the negotiations, so that's gotta be pretty legit.
So, pack your bags because it's time to "Ramble On."
"I'm Going on an Adventure!"
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|Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's outpost of Tarfa. Kincaid volunteers to lead nine other Legionnaires on a mission to delay Hussin's attack till reinforcements arrive. When he discovers that Hussin plans to marry Mahla, a girl from a rival tribe, in order to build a coalition against the French, Kincaid kidnaps Mahla. Hussin forcefully takes her back, but by now his planned attack on Tarfa is crumbling and Mahla has begun to fall in love with Kincaid.
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So here's the story: After we chose Caleb and Bethany to come shoot with us, we get this email from Caleb asking: would it be ok with us if he pops the question during our photoshoot? Um….YES!!!! So we concocted a plan and were all giddy all day since everyone but Bethany knew what was going on (though none of us more than Caleb who had a ring burning a whole in his pocket!). By the time we got to our last location (the location) he just couldn't wait any longer…. "Do you have the note? Do you have the note? Can I ask her now???"
she said yes :)
Photography by Jose Villa
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This is simply beautiful! Bethany you look amazing… awesome shots!
Love, love, love!
Congratulations to Caleb and Bethany!
Ohhhh this is so sweet and romantic!!!!
How sweet! They should have just married right then and there -they had most of the important ingredients lol – a bride, a groom, a ring, a dress, and location… on the spot I would have done it! Congrats!!
oh my goodness, that last pic is priceless.
congratulations, you two!!!
Too cute!
This is so sweet! Love it!
this is ever so sweet. her dress is gorgeous too!
Oh my god, this has to be the most adorable thing ever… congrats to the happy couple! And of course the photoshoot was flawless and gorgeous! So jealous!
wow, how beautiful! Congrats to Caleb and Bethany!
So so so sweet. Just the most wonderful little story.
so so sweet! congrats bethany! gorgeous photos!
That is SO adorable! They look like they're from a fairytale. So precious.
Absolutely adore this post! Thank you so much for sharing! Definitely brightened my day!
awww, so sweet, this just made me tear up a bit.
oh this is just too sweet for words!
talk about inspiration to reality! love this story, shoot, and photos! so special.
So beautiful! Congratulations to the very seemingly happy couple!
I'm tearing up big time!
Amazing story
Amazing pictures
Amazing couple
Awww, omg, I got CHILLS! What's better than that?! :)
That last pic is BEAUTIFUL! And it's a great story, but, seriously, what is he wearing?!
LOVE when a fella puts some thought into a proposal without going over the top. So sweet :)
My favourite he when she is reading the note- AMAZING
This is so romantic…awww…
Jose… always amazing. Love the light!!!
what a gorgeous shoot! Congratulations!
Adorable! Congrats!
She looks so, so gorgeous!!! Congrats to them both!! Such a cute photo shoot.
That is SO precious… Congrats to the gorgeous couple!
Cutest thing I've ever seen!
Goergeous ! Jose Villa is so talented ! <3
Oh my! What a stunning couple
Oh, how precious. This guy gets serious points! Way to be loving! :D
Absolutely beautiful! So excited to shoot their wedding in a few weeks :)
ohhhhh so amazing! does anyone know where her dress is from?!?!?!?!?! :)
nevermind my question about the dress….saw the "ebay" answer on the other post :) not fair, not fair at all haha
the story is so cute…and pics are amazing…
Absolutely adorable and special!!!
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AURORA, Colo.—Police say two people have died after shootings at an Aurora home, and a suspect is in custody.
Aurora police say the shootings happened Tuesday just before 3 a.m. when two people entered a home and a struggle ensued. Police say one of the suspects was killed inside the home. The man who lived at the house left but was shot outside. Police found him in a nearby alley, and he was later pronounced dead.
A woman inside the home was also shot, but her injuries are not life threatening.
Police say the shooting suspect left the home in the resident's Cadillac. Police arrested the suspect in Denver. Authorities say they're not releasing his name because the investigation is ongoing.
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The long awaited Shattered Worlds Freelancer mod has been released. A talented DevTeam from over 6 different Freelancer communities have gathered to work on this ambitious project. Collectively, the team combined modding knowledge and lessons learned from numerous mods/servers, they picked the best concepts from other mods; which were implemented, improved and further expanded. The entire game has been overhauled from the ground up to create a cutting edge balance scheme. The DevTeam also added hundreds of weapons/equipment items, and many new ships, with over 160 individual craft at present, many of which are exclusive to the mod. The end result is one of the most balanced and highest quality Freelancer modifications ever conceived. If you are a new player or an old player tired of normal Freelancer mods, Shattered Worlds has something for you. Come, try it for yourself. When you undock, you will see the next evolution of Freelancer!
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I am currently teaching 3rd grade. Before this year I spent 8 yrs teaching Kindergarten and one year teaching 4th. I have been teaching 18 years and have taught 5th & 6th as a writing specialist, 3rd and preschool as well. During some of that time I taught part time and had a private preschool in my home.
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Radial nerve dysfunction is a problem with the radial nerve. Damage to the radial nerve leads to problems with movement in the arm and wrist and with sensation in the back of the arm or hand.
Alternative Names
Neuropathy – radial nerve; Radial nerve palsy; Mononeuropathy
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Radial neuropathy occurs when there is damage to the radial nerve, which travels down the arm and controls movement of the triceps muscle at the back of the upper arm. It also controls the ability to bend the wrist backward and helps with the movement and sensation of the wrist and hand.
Causes are:
- Injury
- Improper use of crutches
- Broken upper arm bone
- Long-term or repeated constriction of the wrist (for example, from wearing a tight watch strap)
- Pressure caused by hanging the arm over the back of a chair (for example, falling asleep in that position)
- Pressure to the upper arm from arm positions during sleep or coma
- Pinching of the nerve during deep sleep, such as when a person is intoxicated
Long-term pressure on the nerve, usually caused by swelling or injury of nearby body structures
- Lead poisoning
In some cases, no cause can be found.
If other nerves are also affected, the health care provider should look for a medical problem that can affect nerves. Medical conditions such as diabetes and kidney disease can damage nerves.
The following symptoms may occur:
Abnormal sensations
- Hand or forearm ("back" of the hand)
- "Thumb side" (radial surface) of the hand
- Fingers nearest to the thumb (2nd and 3rd fingers)
Difficulty straightening the arm at the elbow
- Difficulty bending the hand back at the wrist, or even holding the hand
Numbness, decreased sensation, tingling, or burning sensation
- Pain
Signs and tests
The doctor or nurse will examine you and ask questions about your symptoms and medical history. You will be asked what you were doing before the pain started.
An exam of the arm, hand, and wrist may find:
Difficulty straightening the arm at the elbow
Trouble turning your arm outward
Difficulty lifting the wrist or fingers
- Muscle loss (
atrophy) in the forearm
Weaknessof the wrist and finger
Wrist or finger drop
Tests may be needed. Tests for nerve dysfunction may include:
Blood tests
EMG MRIof the head, neck, and shoulder to look for other causes Nerve biopsy(rarely needed) Nerve conduction tests
- Ultrasound of the elbow
The goal of treatment is to allow you to use the hand and arm as much as possible. Your doctor or nurse should find and treat the cause, if possible. In some cases, no treatment is needed and you will recover slowly on your own.
Surgery to repair the nerve or remove something that is pressing on the nerve may help.
Medical causes such as diabetes and kidney disease should be treated.
Medications may include:
analgesicsor prescription pain medications to control pain ( neuralgia)
Anticonvulsant medicines (phenytoin, carbamazepine, gabapentin, and pregabalin) or tricyclic antidepressants (amitriptyline) to reduce stabbing pain
Steroid (prednisone) injections around the nerve to reduce swelling may help some patients.
Other treatments include:
splints, or other devices to help you use the hand in severe cases
Physical therapy to help maintain muscle strength
Occupational therapy and vocational therapy or counseling to suggest changes at the worksite may be needed.
Expectations (prognosis)
If the cause of the nerve dysfunction can be found and successfully treated, there is a good chance that you will fully recover. In some cases, there may be partial or complete loss of movement or sensation.
Nerve pain may be uncomfortable and may last for a long period of time. If this occurs, see a pain specialist to ensure you have access to all pain treatment options.
- Mild to severe deformity of the hand
- Partial or complete loss of feeling in the hand
- Partial or complete loss of wrist or hand movement
- Recurrent or unnoticed injury to the hand
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if you have had an injury to the arm, and you develop numbness, tingling, or weakness.
Avoid prolonged pressure on the upper arm.


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Virginia Anne Davis Carson, 76, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at Hinkle Hospice House, surrounded by her family.
Virginia Anne Davis Carson, 76, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at Hinkle Hospice House, surrounded by her family.
Virginia's request was to have a private family service at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel, by the Rev. Dr. Ray Howell III. Inurnment will be in the columbarium at Salisbury National Cemetery.
There will be no public visitation.
Virginia was born in Davidson County on Aug. 25, 1936, to Alonzo Lee (Lonnie) Davis and Virginia Everhart Myers Davis. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She was an active member of First Baptist Church of Statesville, where she also served as a kindergarten teacher. She was preceded in death by her parents.
Virginia is survived by her husband, William Jones Carson; daughters Wendy Carson Dawson and husband Robert of Parrish, Fla.; Kristy Carson Reavis and husband Robert of Land O'Lakes, Fla.; son William Jones Carson Jr., and wife Joni of Lake Norman; two grandchildren, Carson Lee Reavis and Jake Grey Carson; sisters Mary Hedrick of Winston-Salem and Saundra Westervelt of Greensboro; brothers Lonnie Davis Jr., and Michael Phillip (Mike) Davis, both of Lexington and Dan Davis of Cary; stepmother Jeanne Saunders Davis of Lexington; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Hospice of Davidson County, Hinkle Hospice House, 200 Hospice Way, Lexington, NC 27292.
Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.


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The first incarnation of HoseMaster of Wine, the one with the nudie cuties, has vanished into the great Internet Cloud. But I saved a few of those posts. Here's one from more than two years ago, without the photos...
I'm not really used to predicting trends, I usually set them. I am so often credited with creating the whole wine blog concept that it has become somewhat embarrassing, especially given how out of hand the whole wine blogging thing has become. I recently read a frightening statistic:A new wine blog is created every 15 seconds and the word "splooge" appears in them an average of twice. But 2008 is coming to a merciful close and so I'd like to highlight some of the year's top stories and emerging trends. This has been done to death on other wine blogs, but splooge on them.
One trend that hasn't changed--Parker followers line up for wines scoring more than 95 points. What the flock, these sheep dips have mutton to lose.
William Foley Buys More Famous Names
After acquiring Firestone and Sebastiani (Wow, way to go after mediocre wineries, Bill, what, was Korbel not for sale?) billionaire William Foley is about to announce the acquisition of another famous name. HoseMaster of Wine has learned that Foley has purchased James Laube. The price is rumored to be somewhere in the neighborhood of eleven dollars but may be as high as seventeen. Negotiations have been under way for some time now but the downturn in the economy sealed the deal. "I was going to purchase James Suckling," Foley was quoted as saying, "but, frankly, I didn't want to take on all the little Sucklings. I think James Laube got out at the right time and I'm happy to have acquired him. These kinds of critics only come up for sale every so often and I think it's imperative you own a couple when you're in the winery business." James Laube will be fully refurbished; his column in Wine Spectator, always for sale, was included in the deal.
Wineries Turning to Biodegradable Farming
First it was Organic, then it was Biodynamic, now the trend that appears to be the next logical step in viticulture is Biodegradable. Created by a cousin of Rudolf Steiner, Henny Steiner, the fundamental tenet of Biodegradism is that vines grow healthier and produce better grapes if you constantly degrade them. Vineyard managers spend a few hours each day belittling the vines using eight basic "tease." "You call that fruit, you piece of mutant genetic material," one such tease goes, "I've seen better set on a twelve-year-old girl." Followers believe the vines respond to these jibes, that it adds to the plant's stress, and they then feel the need to produce better fruit. "It's amazing," says famed vineyard manager Phil Oxera, "just weeks after I told my vines, 'You louse-infested pieces of garbage wouldn't even make a bonfire good enough to warm Robert Parker's ass,' the little shits started producing the most gorgeous clusters." Biodegradism also believes in using a lunar calendar to determine what days are best for insulting the plants. "It makes no sense," writes Henny Steiner, "to give the vines the finger during a new moon. No, a new moon is when you urinate into a cow horn and pour it over their fucking heads."
Wine Vessels
Bottles are so last year! Corks are so last year! Last year is so last year! In their never ending search to improve wine quality and figure out ways to fool Alcohol Control Boards in non-reciprocal states, wineries are experimenting with many new and different containers. "Most consumers, frankly, are sick of the problems glass can cause in their expensive wines," says consumer expert Frank Lee Bloated. "Once you've had a bunch of 'glassed' wines you start looking at alternatives." Aside from the jejune boxes and cans, wineries are looking at several other possibilities. A couple of French biodynamic wineries will soon be packaging their wines in goat bladders. "At first we just made the goats drink 750 ml of wine then butchered them and, voila, the wine was in its vessel," says winemaker P. Chevre, "but then we figured out it was easier to kill them first." As a bonus, the bladders are reusable as party favors. Other wineries are looking at giant latex condoms. "My wines smell like mercaptans anyway," says longtime winery owner Kult Winery, "so the condoms make it seem normal." One drawback--they always burst when you least want them to--ain't that how most of us got here? Look for wineries to keep looking for new vessels for their wines in 2009, perhaps even cloth bags similar to the ones all the self-righteous people haul into supermarkets!
Wine Bloggers Continue Self-Deception
I call it the Blogger Bubble. As wineries become more and more desperate to sell wine in a struggling economy, even the most ridiculous ideas take hold. Hoping that wine blogs will one day actually sell wine rather than solicit it, winery marketing directors have encouraged bloggers to believe that their recommendations, based essentially on their stupid opinions, have commercial value. This in turn convinces bloggers that what they've long wished for may actually be coming true, which leads to endless posts about the power of the new media (roughly equivalent to the power of gerbils in an exercise wheel), which makes wineries nervous that it just might be true so their marketing people pay even MORE attention to bloggers...and, well, that's how the Blogger Bubble inflates. Watch for this bubble to get bigger than Gary Vaynerchuk's stubbly head in 2009, but disappear in a resounding crash in 2010 that will make the 45,000 wine bloggers and their 38 accumulated readers gratefully vanish.


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The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of York, Princess Beatrice of York, Princess Eugenie of York, the Earl and Countess of Wessex and The Lady Louise Windsor attended a traditional Easter service at St George's Chapel this morning at around 11am.
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall were not present also at today's service. Traditionally, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall rarely attend and spend the day in private at either Clarence House or Highgrove; along with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, who also haven't attended the service for the past few years.
The Press were invited to the Lower Ward of Windsor Castle this year to photograph the traditional church appearance, the only public appearance of Easter for Her Majesty and most members of the Royal Family.
The Queen was present, as usual, for what is known as 'the Matins service' at St George's Chapel,which was conducted by the Dean of Windsor, the Right Rev David Conner.
Members of the public also gathered outside to see The Queen and the Royal Family.
No royal engagements are planned now until Tuesday 2nd April, when HRH The Duke of Edinburgh will attend the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Launch at the University of Cambridge.
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Jiyan necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 137 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
On Sharperoo, homeowners can browse through over two million profiles on licensed contractors throughout the United States. These profiles combine third-party data on contractors, with consumer feedback and information from the contractors themselves, to provide homeowners with a comprehensive and authoritative resource to help them make decisions on home improvement.
In addition to serving as an informational resource for homeowners, Sharperoo also serves as a marketing tool for contractors. Contractors can claim their profile for free and share information about their business including special offers and pictures of work they have done. By purchasing a subscription, contractors can create enhanced profiles, gain additional on-site exposure in designated sponsorship sections of Sharperoo.com and appear in more geographical and industry-based places on Sharperoo.com.
Audience 1A: Homeowners who are looking for home improvement / construction contractors. There are over 70m homeowners in the US today who all are potential site users. For homeowners, we should be a brand that communicates trust, authority, and innovation in the home improvement space.
Audience 1B: Contractors who are looking to market their business. For contractors, we are a product/company that will help them drive business in the era of online. Yet we shouldn't be too techie because it is traditionally a pretty non-techie audience.
We are currently in Beta at http://www.sharperoo.com so you can see what our current logo and color scheme look like.
We are completely open on color scheme, font, logo, tag-line, etc.
Our focus is on the home improvement vertical however and that is not likely to change.
Things we would like the brand to communicate:
1. A sense of trust - At the end of the day we are about creating trust and accountability between homeowners and contractors.
2. Our long-term strategy is to stay vertical (in home improvement / construction) so it is fine if the brand communicates something about this (the existing logo contains a house).
3. We don't want anything too sophisticated, stylized or cartoon-ish. We are a mass consumer product so it should speak to a very broad audience.
4. We want something relatively simple, friendly, approachable.
5. We are an online-focused startup so it would be good to have something that seems a bit more contemporary or Web 2.0 (shudder).
Note: Remember to play with different colors, black, white and grey. The logo doesn't need to completely match the layout to the Website, it just needs to be similar enough to look sophisticated, fresh and fitting. We want variety. If we like certain aspects of different samples, that is an easily remedied problem.
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bruce block
Films are inherently constructed of visuals. Sound design is incredibly important, but is also a "cheap thrill." Just watch a few horror movies and see if they are scary with the sound off. Some will be, some won't depending on the quality of the visuals. If you find a scene that really gripped you or blew your mind, try watching it with the sound off. It will help you focus in on the visual constructs and why they work.
Performances are secondary in formal analysis: Great performances make or break a film. They are incredibly important. They often work in tandem with great visuals. Try to break apart the visuals and then determine if they enhanced or brought down the performances. Roger Deakins is a master of this.
Reference Materials
The Visual Story by Bruce BlockThis was probably my favorite book on Cinematography that I ever read in Film School. If you read just one book, read this one and absorb it.
Cinematic StorytellingThis book is not "very deep" and is more of a coffee table book than anything else, but it has a lot of great examples of script to screen visual translations. If anything, just watch the great examples from the book and and come up with your own conclusions
Every Frame a PaintingFor the visual type (who reads books anyways) Tony Zhou's great Vimeo series "Every Frame a Painting" give you NPR quality voice recording and awesome analysis of film form. You may have seen his work frequently posted on NoFilmSchool (a great website by the way). Every video thus far has been enlightening and he has great insights and great taste to boot.
I will use examples and knowledge from these books and others to deep dive through some of my favorite films and try to crack the visual code of these films.
P.S.: Sorry for the intro post, I realize this doesn't really contain any content, but when I start to break down films hopefully we can learn some things together!


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There's more than one way to crab, and season is open
California is home to a variety of crab. The two primary species are red rock and Dungeness.
The always-awaited season for Dungeness crab, the largest of all species off the coast, opened Nov. 3.
My experience with the red rock species is that they inhabit shallower regions closer to shore. You can often find a wayward Dungeness in closer, but generally they're much smaller than what you'll find in deeper water.
To get to the larger crab, it will take a boat. There are party boats in every port that will have crab pots set out to pretty much guarantee you a limit.
If you take your own boat, there is no limit on the number of crab pots you can set in deep water. You're allowed to keep 10 Dungeness crab. If you ride in a party boat, the limit is six south of Mendocino County.
The recreational size limit for a Dungeness crab is 5¾ inches. Measure across the shell, directly in front of and excluding the lateral spines. From a party boat south of Mendocino County, a crab must measure at least six inches.
Some people crab from docks and piers. A fishing license isn't required, but the fisher-person can use a maximum of two traps.
While closed pots are the most common, especially in deeper water, some anglers prefer ring units. Just know you have to check the hoop ring unit at least every two hours.
Another method for taking crab is by using a snare, though you have to be extremely patient, as the catching is slower. I have a number of them and have used them with fair success at the entrance to Noyo Harbor, off the jetty at Fort Bragg.
The snare is meant to be used from shore with the use of a fishing rod. It's a square wire mesh box you can load with bait. There are a maximum of six heavy monofilament legs with loops attached to the side of the box.
To use, coarsely chop something like a couple of anchovy and stuff the wire box. Snap the box onto your line with a snap swivel. No weight will be needed, as the weight of the bait-stuffed box is more than adequate.
Cast it out as far as you can reach. When it reaches the bottom, pick up the majority of slack in the line and anchor your rod.
Your rod won't bobble like it will when you get bit by a fish. A crab will try and walk off with it so it will take subtle dips. Slowly reel in the unit. Hopefully, a crab is tangled and caught in one of the loops — but not always. Sometimes, the crab is holding onto the unit and when you attempt to bring it out of the water, the crab will let go and drop off. You can beat the potential loss by sliding a long-handled trout net under the crab.
You can put your catch in a bucket of water, but an easier way is to put the crab in a gunny sack. Tie the top of the sack with a rope and keep it in the water until you leave.
All that's left is the cooking and great eating.
Current fishing
Local salmon: Part of the river is now closed to fishing to protect non-hatchery salmon to spawn naturally in the river. Basically, the closure area — until Jan. 1 — is from the gauging cable just below Ancil Hoffman Park upriver to the Hazel Avenue Bridge. Fishing can be great below the closed section, as fresh fish continue to arrive. Get them now before the runs are over.
Collins Lake: Trout plants are underway despite the lake being nearly 40 feet down. This round of plants will continue until Thanksgiving. They'll take a pause through the winter and resume planting in February. Hopefully, we'll have received a lot of rain by then to raise the water level. For those going now, the spillway region is yielding nice stringers of rainbows for those slinging Power Bait from shore. Use a sliding sinker. Trollers also are scoring. A threaded crawler always works, and a flashy little spoon will fool a trout.
Lake Pardee: The lake is closed and will reopen in February.
Lake Amador: Think 1,000 pounds of trout a day will do any good? That's what they're putting in the lake, Monday through Friday. Trollers are nailing nice, big cut-bows that average two to four pounds. Bank slingers traditionally do well off the dam and spillway regions. The trick is, don't go to the bottom. Suspend your Power Bait, salmon eggs or a crawler under a bobber or cast-a-bubble. Use one rod that way and cast-retrieve a lure with the other. You can hammer big trout here.
Ocean: In July, you could hardly get a ride on a party boat, as they were booked well in advance with the salmon bite so hot. Today, there is still salmon biting outside the gate, and the boats are hardly full of people. It's a good time to consider a trip out of Berkeley or Emeryville. If not salmon, consider a trip for rock cod. The bottom fish bite in most ports, especially the Bay Area fleet and Bodega Bay. Limits remain the rule with good numbers of lings in the sack. Most boats are offering combo trips. After the limits of rock cod are obtained, they'll pull their pots and everybody also comes home with a limit of Dungeness crab.
Lake Berryessa: This lake is almost like Folsom Lake. The closest place to launch would be Markley Cove. Right now, it's bass, bass, bass — largemouth, smallmouth and spots. OK, you have to drop to 40 feet, but drop-shot or spoon and you'll hammer bass to four pounds. They're munching on massive schools of shad, so be sure whatever you use can look like a wounded shad.
Camp Far West: The good news is the lake hasn't dropped anymore. With last week's rain, it actually has risen a little, and as long as you aren't towing the Queen Mary, you can launch at the North Shore. Bass fishing has been outstanding with bass found in 10 to 12 feet and many weighing more than two pounds. Work the rocks around the dam and throughout Rock Creek and you should have a good day.
Contact George deVilbiss at email@example.com.


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A lot of things are 'rangeable'. Anything that has a logical 'next' to it can be a range. Since you can get an integer from a character by calling
int on it, that applies to them as well. Thus, I wrote a char-range function that was promptly (and understandably) denied: http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-717
Stu makes some good points here:
- Performance. I'm not all that great with squeezing every ounce of performance out of things, thus my char-range function is probably the best you'll get from me. I don't know the real performance implications.
- If many things can be rangeable, they should probably be polymorphic.
- Are there things that might need to be rangeable in more than one way?
I have some design ideas of my own:
- Should char-range's upper bound be exclusive? How intuitive and easy would that be to work with? It would mean that, to get the lower-case alphabet, you'd have to do
(char-range \a \\\{)rather than
(char-range \a \z). That is awkward and unreadable. Ultimately, it's a difficult decision to make between consistency and usability.
- char-rang should be as flexible as possible. The priority should be on ultimately flexibility and not how easy it is to get a range of lower-case and upper-case letters.
Sorry for the first example's curly bracket not coming out right. It appears to be impossible to escape it and show a backslash in this markup language. If somebody else can manage it, please do so.
My implementation is of a very Haskell-like range. In Haskell, to get a string of the lower-case and upper-case alphabet, you'd use two ranges.
Prelude> ['a'..'z'] ++ ['A'..'Z'] "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
And following that, my implementation was this:
(defn char-range "Returns a lazy seq of chars from start to end (inclusive), by step, where start defaults to Character/MIN_VALUE, step to 1, and end to Character/MAX_VALUE." (\[\] (char-range (Character/MIN_VALUE) (Character/MAX_VALUE) 1)) ([end] (char-range (Character/MIN_VALUE) end 1)) ([start end] (char-range start end 1)) ([start end step] (map char (range (int start) (inc (int end)) step))))
The above Haskell example translated to Clojure using char-range:
user=> (concat (char-range \a \z) (char-range \A \Z)) (\a \b \c \d \e \f \g \h \i \j \k \l \m \n \o \p \q \r \s \t \u \v \w \x \y \z \A \B \C \D \E \F \G \H \I \J \K \L \M \N \O \P \Q \R \S \T \U \V \W \X \Y \Z)
I did a little research into Ruby's ranges, and they appear to be extremely flexible (too flexible?) polymorphic ranges. Documentation is here: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Range.html


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iceshadow needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 28 designs submitted by 2 freelance designers.
We are an online aviation social networking / recruitment service and we now want to make a splash with our newsletters.
We like designs that are cool, moderns, simple but stand out from the rest. We have a great looking website and now we are looking for a great email newsletter template to wow all our subscribers.
Aviation professionals
Job seekers
Potential Employers
A design template for an email newsletter.
It should have:
a section for a teaser of our latest jobs can be listed
an area for a teaser of job / aviation related articles with a link through to the site (see http://www.flightcrewfinder.com/articles for some potential articles)
something to attract employers to the site - a banner, ad block - something creative to get employers to list their jobs on the site - to see the employer benefits click on the "employer" tab on the home page slideshow at http://www.flightcrewfinder.com
It should be eye catching and different from your standard email templates. Think more Apple type styling.
That is pretty much it - no coding - I will take care of that.
PSD or layered PNG preferred.


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Dance. Rebel Marie Chouinard pays tribute to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring together with the Göteborg Opera Orchestra. The evening begins with another of the choreographer's virtuoso and anarchic master pieces.
"This is the best modern dance company in Sweden right now" Svenska Dagbladet
"The Göteborg Opera dancers do it again - reaffirming their quality..." Göteborgs-Posten
"I have seldom felt so charged with movement and pure physicality after a dance performance" Dagens Nyheter
"Igor Stravinsky's music is fundamental, resounding passionately from the orchestra pit..." Göteborgs-Posten
Watch a film clip from The Rite of Spring
Watch a video clip from bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS act 1
Watch a video clip with Marie Chouinard
Rebel Marie Chouinard is an icon within modern choreography. An astounding multi-faceted artist who is fascinated by the poetics of the body. As a choreographer she has won numerous awards and is in demand internationally. The Rite of Spring and bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS are her best known works.
In the renowned bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS act 1 she gives the dancers pointe shoes and crutches, aids which both fetter and free them. The beauty of dance meets its discipline and its demand for submission
In spring 2013 it will be 100 years since Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring had its world premiere in Paris and created a scandal. Chouinard's avant-garde choreography for this ground-breaking music is regarded as being her masterpiece. In her hymn to life, the dancers are transformed into animals in a symbiotic relationship with Stravinsky's music. The Göteborg Opera Orchestra takes on this work with all its might under the leadership of Henrik Schaefer.
To Marie Chouinard the dancer's body is just as much a part of the movement as the movement itself; the skin, the spine, the sweat – everything is part of the artwork. "Covering the body is like putting a screen in front of a painting", she says.
We recommend that vistors to this performance are of 14 years of age or more.


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Wildlife Health
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Attention Hunters
Be Aware! Rules and regulations prohibit the transfer of certain game animal parts across state borders. See the CWD page in your Regs booklet or RCW 77.15.290 and 77.15.160.
Please help WDFW monitor the health of our deer, moose and elk populations by reporting animals that appear sick.
For more information on CWD and hunting, please click here.
Texas and Missouri report positive CWD results.
-Sep 2012
Hunters take note: Law restricts
game carcasses from out-of-state
-Aug 2009
reminded to review safety procedures, state rules before heading
-Oct 2008
officials urge hunters to follow rules on import of bone-in
deer, elk carcasses
-Sep 2005
could face penalties on import of some bone-in deer, elk carcasses
- Aug 2004
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal illness of deer, elk, and moose. The disease is caused by prions (mutated proteins), which can be transmitted between animals through their saliva, urine, and potentially feces and bodily fluids. CWD has not been found in Washington's wildlife, despite having tested thousands of animals since 1995. However, the disease can be brought to new locations through the movement of infected animals or animal parts such as bone, organs, and bodily fluids. Once present in the environment, the prions can persist for many years and are very difficult to deactivate. CWD has been found in animals in 27 different states and provinces in North America. Please see our Frequently Asked Questions webpage for more information.
Chronic wasting disease has not been found in Washington, and there currently is no scientific evidence of CWD being transmitted from animals to humans. However, hunters who wish to take additional precautions may choose to avoid consuming the brain, spinal cord, eyes, spleen, pancreas, or lymph nodes of harvested deer and elk, since the CWD prion accumulates in these tissues. As always, WDFW advises hunters to avoid harvesting any animal that appears sick or is behaving strangely, to wear rubber gloves while field dressing game, and to thoroughly wash hands and equipment after processing carcasses. For more information on CWD and hunting, click here.
About WDFW
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E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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After two extensive searches for a body that a man reported seeing in a cave near Red Rocks Amphitheatre last week, the Jeffco Sheriff's Office is questioning the credibility of the report, sheriff's spokesperson Jacki Kelley said Tuesday.
"Our witness has been very uncooperative and untruthful about some of the things he shared," Kelley said.
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