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Angel Island Immigration Station
Judy Yung and Erika Lee
The Angel Island Immigration Station (1910–1940), located in San Francisco Bay, was one of twenty-four ports of entry established by the U.S. government to process and detain immigrants entering and leaving the country. Although popularly called the "Ellis Island of the West," the Angel Island station was in fact quite different from its counterpart in New York. Ellis Island was built in 1892 to welcome European immigrants and to enforce immigration laws that restricted but did not exclude European immigrants. In contrast, as the primary gateway for Chinese and other Asian immigrants, the Angel Island station was built in 1910 to better enforce discriminatory immigration policies that targeted Asians for exclusion. Chinese immigrants, in particular, were subjected to longer physical exams, interrogations, and detentions than any other immigrant group. Out of frustration, anger, and despair, many of them wrote and carved Chinese poems into the barrack walls. In 1940, a fire destroyed the administration building, and the immigration station was moved back to San Francisco. In 1963, the abandoned site became part of the state park system, and the remaining buildings were slated for demolition. Thanks to the collective efforts of Asian American activists and descendents of former detainees, the U.S. Immigration Station at Angel Island was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997, and the immigration site, including the Chinese poetry on the barrack walls, was preserved and transformed into a museum of Pacific immigration for visitors.
Anna May Wong and Asian American Popular Culture
Shirley Lim
Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905–February 3, 1961) was the first Chinese American movie star and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Wong broke the codes of yellowface in both American and European cinema to become one of the major global actresses of Asian descent between the world wars. She made close to sixty films that circulated around the world and in 1951 starred in her own television show, The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, produced by the defunct Dumont Network. Examining Wong's career is particularly fruitful because of race's centrality to the motion pictures' construction of the modern American nation-state, as well as its significance within the global circulation of moving images.
Born near Los Angeles's Chinatown, Wong began acting in films at an early age. During the silent era, she starred in films such as The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first two-tone Technicolor films, and The Thief of Baghdad (1924). Frustrated by Hollywood roles, Wong left for Europe in the late 1920s, where she starred in several films and plays, including Piccadilly (1929) and A Circle of Chalk (1929) opposite Laurence Olivier. Wong traveled between the United States and Europe for film and stage work. In 1935 she protested Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's refusal to consider her for the leading role of O-Lan in the Academy Award–winning film The Good Earth (1937). Wong then paid her one and only visit to China. In the late 1930s, she starred in several B films such as King of Chinatown (1939), graced the cover of the mass-circulating American magazine Look, and traveled to Australia. In 1961, Wong died of Laennec's cirrhosis, a disease typically stemming from alcoholism. Yet, as her legacy shows, for a brief moment a glamorous Chinese American woman occupied a position of transnational importance.
Japanese Immigrant Gambling in Early 20th-Century California
Chrissy Yee Lau
Gambling was a central facet of life for Japanese male laborers in early 20th-century California. From the late 19th to the early 20th century, labor contractors and Chinese gambling dens offered gambling to Japanese laborers to maintain a consistent cheap labor force and large consumer pool. Many laborers approached gambling as a form of leisure, an opportunity for getting rich quickly and building a sense of community. After the Gentlemen's Agreement was passed in 1907–1908, Japanese elites led anti-gambling campaigns aimed at Chinese gambling dens in their larger project to build the empire abroad and acquire domestic civil rights. By the 1920s, Japanese-run gambling dens became more established, but the hardships of Japanese immigrant wives prompted collaboration with the Japanese Associations of America to address gambling among married men. The larger community memory around gambling is often told from the wife or children's perspective, recounted with pain and suffering over how gambling tore families asunder.
Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationality in the U.S. Occupation of Okinawa
Mire Koikari
After World War II, Okinawa was placed under U.S. military rule and administratively separated from mainland Japan. This occupation lasted from 1945 to 1972, and in these decades Okinawa became the "Keystone of the Pacific," a leading strategic site in U.S. military expansionism in Asia and the Pacific. U.S. rule during this Cold War period was characterized by violence and coercion, resulting in an especially staggering scale of sexual violence against Okinawan women by U.S. military personnel. At the same time, the occupation also facilitated numerous cultural encounters between the occupiers and the occupied, leading to a flourishing cross-cultural grassroots exchange. A movement to establish American-style domestic science (i.e., home economics) in the occupied territory became a particularly important feature of this exchange, one that mobilized an assortment of women—home economists, military wives, club women, university students, homemakers—from the United States, Okinawa, and mainland Japan. The postwar domestic science movement turned Okinawa into a vibrant theater of Cold War cultural performance where women of diverse backgrounds collaborated to promote modern homemaking and build friendship across racial and national divides. As these women took their commitment to domesticity and multiculturalism into the larger terrain of the Pacific, they articulated the complex intertwining that occurred among women, domesticity, the military, and empire.


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A variety of factors, such as the growing rate of non-English-speaking families in the schools, changing family composition, poverty, and family mobility, require that PIRCs be creative and persistent, especially in their efforts to connect with educationally and economically disadvantaged parents. Per the requirements of PIRC grants, they must find ways to assess the communication needs of their constituents and address them through a variety of strategies. Though PIRCs in general have been focused most intensely on reaching parents, they recognize the need to communicate as well with teachers and other educators, which can be an equally challenging proposition, although for different reasons. For example, some site administrators may assume that they and their staff already know as much as they need to know about NCLB or already have sufficient parent involvement, so they see no reason to allocate limited staff development time to these issues. To help address such barriers, PIRCs like the Indiana Center for Family, School, and Community Partnerships (referred to hereafter as the Indiana Partnerships Center), based in Indianapolis, and the Family Works, based in Gaithersburg, Md., began working directly with district- and state-level education agencies, respectively. The trust developed through such relationships can yield greater access to staff (including but not limited to teachers), both for training purposes and for distributing materials (e.g., NCLB guides) to educators and, through them, to parents
Although, as suggested above, PIRCs have been making inroads in communicating with educators, this section in particular reflects the primary focus of their activities, which has been helping parents understand key issues related to their children's schooling, chief among them, NCLB.
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For the many school districts across the country that are serving growing numbers of non-English- speaking families, successful communication with parents requires translating materials and using interpreters. But as the amount and kind of education-related information that parents need continues to grow, some schools and districts have been unable to keep up. The highlighted PIRCs have been able to help in this area by taking advantage of economies of scale; for example, whereas one school or district might need to hire a translator to prepare materials for just 50 or 500 families, respectively, a PIRC can hire someone to translate the same or similar materials and then expect to distribute them through multiple schools and districts to 5,000 families. The Indiana Partnerships Center now offers all key parent materials and services in both English and Spanish. In recently updating its Web site, this PIRC added a Spanish language interface, which can be accessed by simply clicking an "Español" link. Through this link, the site also offers a page of resources specifically geared to families with limited proficiency in English.
The PIRC program operated by the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA), based in San Antonio, Tex., also provides most materials and services in both English and Spanish. Although IDRA's initial PIRC grant supported only three full-time staff members, the organization has used others on its staff for PIRC activities as needed. Because the majority of its staffers are fluent in both English and Spanish, staff presenters and facilitators at PIRC-produced meetings, workshops, and other gatherings for parents have been able to use what they call "simultaneous translation." In this communications approach, a speaker or presenter effectively serves as his or her own interpreter, speaking for a couple of minutes in one language and then repeating the same thing in the other language. Staff find this preferable to presenting in one language while a second person interprets, which invariably leaves one segment of the audience feeling like they have to "catch up," is more time-consuming, and can lead to participants losing interest. They also find it preferable to having separate sessions for parents based on their language. The point, they say, is to have all parents begin to feel comfortable working together irrespective of their languages and cultures. One focus group member who had participated in a session utilizing simultaneous translation noted that she had never before been to a parent information gathering where the audience included both fluent English speakers and those with little or no English, where two languages were used so naturally, and where, in this case, Spanish-speakers were made to feel so at home that they were not afraid or too embarrassed to actively participate.
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Big East Morning Five: 01.27.12 EditionPosted by Patrick Prendergast on January 27th, 2012
- Many dishonorable things happen on the recruiting trail. Much like in politics, coaches sell the positives of their programs as much as they attempt to create negativity around that of their competitors. There are few bullets left unfired, and it can get personal. Therefore it comes as little surprise that St. John's head coach Steve Lavin's continued recovery from prostate cancer is being used against him. Lavin's Red Storm team has been short-handed this season both on the court and on the sideline. They employ just seven scholarship players and Lavin has not been able to coach the team during games since early in the season due to the physical demands involved. To Lavin's credit, he has met the challenge with honesty and positivity. The approach recently paid dividends as Lavin landed Jamal Branch, a transfer from Texas A&M. Lavin spoke about the process that brought Branch to Jamaica, New York: "Naturally in recruiting he's going to hear from all the other schools, speculation, innuendo and rumors, so my inclination is to take that head on and just lay it out. We were able to convince Jamal that this was a great situation in spite of the fact that I'm currently recuperating from prostate cancer."
- Since Louisville was dismantled by Providence two weeks ago to cap off a stretch where the Cardinals lost four of five games, the Cardinals have won three four to stabilize its season. The turn-around can be attributed in part to some soul searching that started with a team meeting after the Providence game. In a delayed celebration of Festivus, grievances were aired and it appears the open communication, along with some much needed practice time, have relieved some stress. Head coach Rick Pitino has been vocal about the team's need for practice, while others criticized the alleged over-intensity of Pitino's training sessions. Despite unconfirmed fake rumors, started by unknown people who may or may not be writing this Morning Five right now, that Rick Pitino has been seen working out material at the Comedy Caravan, Pitino has never been confused with Shecky Green. Yet, there are reports of laughter coming out of Louisville practices. And now Pitino finds himself cracking a smile as the newly found levity around Louisville has translated from practice floor to the main stage.
- Syracuse and basketball coach Jim Boeheim are looking to get out of the city. However New York apartment hunters will be disappointed to learn that this is just a bit of legal maneuvering. Syracuse and Boeheim are being sued for defamation by two of former Syracuse assistant coach Bernie Fine's accusers. Fine has been accused of alleged sexual misconduct with minors but has not been charged. However when the allegations surfaced Boeheim made comments in defense of Fine that referenced the accusers may perhaps be lying and looking for personal gain. The suit was brought in New York City and lawyers for the defense have filed a motion to have the case moved to Onondaga County given that is where those involved reside. The accusers counter argument is to have the case in Onondaga County would not be fair due to Syracuse and Boeheim's high profile in that area.
- You know how in professional sports when an owner comes out and gives his or her coach or general manager a vote of confidence it usually means said coach or general manager better dust of the old resume? Well, the Big 12 expansion committee met on Wednesday and yesterday the conference's associate commissioner for communications, Bob Burda said of the proceedings, "There is nothing imminent with regard to expansion." So, taking Burda at his word, Louisville and Brigham Young University are apparently on, or back on, the Big 12's wish list as the league ponders a 12-team membership. This is fresh off locking up current Big East participant West Virginia. Regardless of further expansion, the Big 12 remains in near-term flux as West Virginia's departure date from the Big East is being litigated as the school is challenging the 27-month exit clause they had previously agreed to in the Big East bylaws.
- Brooklyn's James Buchanan High School turned out no notable basketball products, despite some promising moments from Freddie 'Boom Boom' Washington. However, this is not an item about letters of intent. For this is an item about letters from Epstein's mother. Those letters allowed Robert Hegyes (a.k.a "Juan Epstein") to avoid many a detention session, or other such disciplinary action at the hands of Mr. Kotter. Of course Epstein's mother and her famed pen were no match for mortality as the "Welcome Back Kotter" star, and Sweathog point guard, died of a heart attack yesterday at the age of 60.
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Craaazy Cookin' Fool
I'm cookin' all morning!!! So why the heck not?! Don't you have 'lazy' days where you go, "If only there was something in the freezer I could pull out so I don't have to exert energy and get up off this dang couch..."? (that's me like every day.) I'm out of my 'lazy' food that I usually have on hand, so today is sort of a re-stocking day. I'll work my keester off but it's going to be worth it not having to come up with dinner stuff now that school has started and life got busier. I despise coming up with dinner ideas. It's just TOO much brain strain for me.
So here we have meat sauce for Giada's lasagna rolls, cooked chicken in broth for whatever I decide later, and Paula Deen's white bean chili! I'm actually excited about that one - its my favorite thing with a homemade tortilla, which we'll make later on today. Geeze, I'm starving now.
...Let's not forget my favorite cooking companion...my beloved DP...nectar from heaven. I love you, DP.
Oh, and what of that 800 loads of laundry I had to do on account of everybody being "out of clothes" or something. whatever. I can't wait until my kids start doing their OWN laundry. I'll just put that lazy kid right there to work, that's what I'll do.
19 comments:
- The Garden of Egan said...
Looks like you are a busy woman today! The lasagna rolls look divine!
Thanks for sharing.
- September 10, 2009 at 8:37 AM
- Domestic Goddess..Diva sometimes said...
Busy morning! I am waiting for my bread dough to rise so I can make dinner rolls for freezing. Never made Giada's meat sauce. Is it good?
- September 10, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- Lynaya said...
I love to pull things out of the freezer and have dinner ready in a flash. My other favorite is when my husband puts something for dinner in the crock pot before he go to work. It is so nice not to have to cook a lot after a long day of running errands.
- September 10, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- Amy said...
great idea- I've been meaning to do this and never take the time. I'm not a fan of planning dinner either so this would work great for me. I've been wanting to try that white bean chili- I think you've given me the extra push of inspiration.
And laundry- why is it that just as I think I've got caught up I realize I have like 10 loads left?! UGH!
- September 10, 2009 at 11:04 AM
- Reece's said...
I have a cooking blog w/my amazing cousin! Check it out, solves dinner problems fast!
- September 10, 2009 at 11:21 AM
- Shelly said...
I do this almost every weekend for the coming week. It is a pain when you are doing it, but it pays off. It's no fun to be zooming home from work with no plan for dinner! It also helps that my oldest daughter is a fabulous cook who is always willing to help.
- September 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- Ammie said...
:) Great idea. I am not the organized type of meal planner. However, to my credit, I do cook big meals, and then we enjoy lovely left overs!
- September 10, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- Liz said...
Pulling dinner out of the freezer sounds great! When I had my children, friends of ours got together and brought us dinner every night for a week. That was heavenly.
- September 10, 2009 at 5:26 PM
- Michelle Ross said...
how do you get traffic to your blog?
I want to start making a similar blog such as yours and would love some pointers
- September 11, 2009 at 12:11 AM
- valerie said...
I try to do this every so often too. Most times I just make extras to whatever I'm making for dinner and then put in the freezer. It's a life saver once the kids start sports. I love Paula Deen. Might have to try her chili. :)
- September 11, 2009 at 6:42 AM
- Annie said...
It is like we are living parallel lives! The cooking (or lack thereof), the laundry, etc! Thanks for great post and for adding a bit of humor buried under all my laundry!
- September 11, 2009 at 2:57 PM
- robyn said...
OMG...I did 800 loads of laundry today too! ;-) LOVE that you stocked your freezer...you smart cookie!
- September 11, 2009 at 3:44 PM
- Terri said...
Not only are you adorable, but so very funny. Love peeking in at your blog, thanks for the giggle! Terri
- September 11, 2009 at 4:15 PM
- KiwiLisa said...
I can't wait to try the PD chili. I love your blog, and your great ideas.
- September 11, 2009 at 4:59 PM
- Cara said...
You go girl!!! Making dinner and having fun. Maybe I should make dinner every once in a while (wink)
- September 14, 2009 at 9:01 AM
- Rebecca said...
Ooo! That's just what my 19-year-old looks like....in his room...surrounded by all of his laundry...watching movies. He'll usually do a load when he has absolutely nothing else to wear. :D
- September 22, 2009 at 8:43 PM
- enelybur said...
Lasagna is my favorite but do not know how to cook a tasty one. Anyway, let us wait 5 or 10 years from now so your son will be the one to do some house chores especially doing the laundry. Melbourne jobs
- September 29, 2009 at 2:37 AM
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Diet Pepsi is, indeed, sweet nectar however I have a pressing question.
Where did you get that font for the captions on your photos? Don't even tell me that's your natural handwriting because I will have to virtually smack you in the head and then beg you to make it a font that I can buy.
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- September 30, 2009 at 3:32 AM
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to my girl "Cardiogirl" - HAHAHA! It's totally not my handwriting, but that would be so rad if I could write like that! It's a font and I can email it to you if you email me first with your addy. I'll take your $10, too - I won't argue with you on that. haha! justkidding.
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Hi everyone! I wanted to encourage you all to have a little fun with your style so I am sharing the look below. I always ensure my styling clients first of all understand their body type and dress accordingly and secondly encourage them to never be afraid of experimenting with new styles. With so much inspiration accessible through social media and fashion blogs/sites, we are exposed to new ideas and interpretations of trends everywhere we look. I think my obsession with fashion stems from the creative process of pulling together looks and expressing a point of view through the visual aesthetic. Your style can separate you from others.
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For nine seasons, John Fox was the Carolina Panthers coach. He took them to playoffs four times, to two NFC championship games and one Super Bowl (XXXVIII).
But after a roster reconstruction led to a 2-14 finish in 2010, Fox's contract was not renewed with the team. He has spent the past week saying Sunday's affair in Charlotte, N.C., was no big deal, that it was "just another game."
But his players don't really believe that nor do many people in the league who know him.
So, with a three-game winning streak in hand and Peyton Manning behind center, here's how Fox can bring the Broncos home with the win he wants too.
• Keep the Panthers away from Manning. Much like the Bengals, the Panthers haven't always looked efficient on defense, but they can get after the quarterback.
They are tied for seventh in the league in sacks with 24 — with the Broncos and Minnesota — and have done some of their best work against the better teams they have played. They sacked Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan seven times and got Chicago's Jay Cutler six times.
They usually rush four in most cases, but the offenses that haven't handled defensive tackle Dwan Edwards have allowed Greg Hardy and Charles Johnson too much room on the outside.
They also surrender some big plays. Ryan still threw for 369 yards and three touchdowns in a Falcons' win despite the pressure, while the Panthers held Cutler in check a little better until he threw for 104 of his 186 passing yards in the fourth quarter of the Bears' comeback win.
• Throw out of the heavy formations. The Panthers try to rotate their safeties, depending on down and distance, with Haruki Nakamura coming out on passing downs and Sherrod Martin going in on passing downs.
A team that can line up heavy — two tight ends or two backs — and throw the ball efficiently, as the Broncos can, could find itself throwing against formations built to stop the run, with the better coverage players on the sideline.
So, if the Broncos flip the script, throw some on early downs, get a little play action, they could find a big play or two down the middle of the field. The Panthers also start a rookie at cornerback in Josh Morgan, who figures to get some attention from Manning from time to time.
The Panthers do prefer plenty of zone coverages, so Manning will have to show a little patience along the way and take the underneath routes when available.
• Keep Cam Newton in check. The Panthers have used Newton out of a read-option look a little less in recent games, but the threat is there and the Broncos must play with discipline.
Especially linebacker Von Miller and defensive end Elvis Dumervil. They have to hold the edges and trust the players behind them will take the running back.
Newton had a 40-yard run against the Saints earlier this season when both Saints defenders went for the pitch man, which left Newton free to cut up the field for the big gain.
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Despite turning the ball over 28 times and shooting 2-for-16 from beyond the arc, the ETSU women's basketball team battled past a stingy Jacksonville club by hitting 27 of its 30 free throw attempts en route to 77-72 Atlantic Sun Conference victory on Monday night inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center.
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With the win, ETSU improved to 4-4, 2-0 in Atlantic Sun play; while
"Anytime you are playing at home, you need to step up your game and win," commented head coach Karen Kemp, who saw her Lady Bucs improve to 10-1 lifetime over the Dolphins. "It's really important to protect your home floor, so this win was key for our team. However, if we don't step up our game defensively, we won't a lot of ball games. Right now we are just trying to outscore teams and not playing well on the defensive end."
After shooting a season-low 56-percent at the free throw line in its five-point loss at Appalachian State last Thursday night, ETSU stepped up and won the game there tonight. The Lady Bucs sank 10 straight free throws in the final 2 minutes, 29 seconds to remain perfect in conference play. ETSU set season bests with its 27 made free throws and 90.0 percentage clip at the charity stripe.
"Since the Appalachian game every player probably put up 500 free throws," commented Kemp. "The team wasn't happy coming in and putting up 100 attempts every day, but it made a difference tonight."
With ETSU leading by six at the break (38-32), both teams started the second half trading baskets until
Jacksonville never managed to take the lead following that jumper, but the Dolphins hung around until ETSU moved its three-point lead back up to seven, 67-60, when Tara Davis (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) connected on two of her eight free throw makes with 4:26 showing on the clock. The Dolphins continued to fight their way back into the contest, and made it a three-point affair, 69-66, following Abril Peoples' jumper with 46 ticks remaining. Fortunately, for the Lady Bucs, they learned from their mistakes in Boone and sank eight consecutive free throw shots in the closing 32 seconds to secure the victory.
For the game, ETSU shot 39.3 percent from field (24-61) and 12.5 percent from beyond the arc.
Joining Evans and Wiles in double figures were Davis and sophomore Gwen Washington (
In the first half, the Lady Bucs jumped out to a hot start thanks to a 50-percent shooting clip in the opening six minutes, as ETSU grabbed an early 14-6 lead, forcing
ETSU dominated in the paint as the Lady Bucs held a 22-8 margin in that category; however, the long range shot was not kind to the Blue and Gold in the opening 20 minutes. After Evans began the game with a 3-pointer at the 19:27 mark, ETSU missed its final eight attempts from beyond the arc.
Prior to the game Wiles was given a special game ball, after becoming the 17th Lady Buccaneer player to reach the 1,000-point club back on Nov. 22 at Arkansas. Following Wiles' 21-point effort tonight, she ranks 14th all-time with 1,103 points.
The Lady Bucs return to action on Monday, Dec. 28, when ETSU travels to the
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Spinney was born in Waltham, Massachusetts and was an accomplished artist before he started working as a live performer. He attended The Art Institute of Boston's College of Art & Design. While in the military, he created a comic strip under the name Ed Spinney. In the early 1960s, he created an animated cartoon series called Crazy Crayonunder the same name.
In 1955, Spinney headed to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he created the show Rascal Rabbit.[3] He returned to Boston in 1958, appearing in the summer series The Judy and Goggle Show as a puppeteer opposite Judy Valentine, performing Goggle the bird.
When Judy and Goggle was moved out of its slot for station WHDH-TV's returning programming, both Spinney and Valentine were offered a berth on the Boston broadcast ofBozo's Big Top in 1959. Spinney played a variety of hand-puppet creations, usually in one-off skits, and also played Bozo's grandmother Grandma Nellie (in full clown-make-up) and several recurring costumed characters. These included Flip-Flop the Rag Doll, Kookie Kangaroo (a failed boxer), and Mr. Lion, "the fastest draw alive." The latter role combined Spinney's performing and cartoonist skills, creating quick sketches for the kids.
In the 1960s, Spinney created two puppet cats, Picklepuss and Pop, who he performed in various venues, including stage shows and some Bozo broadcasts. Picklepuss and Pop would later go on to perform with the Muppets just once, in the 1988 Jim Henson Play-Along Video Wow, You're a Cartoonist!. In 1969, Spinney met Jim Henson at the Puppeteers' of America Festival in Salt Lake City, following an ambitious experimental presentation (hosted by Picklepuss), which combined different live-puppetry techniques with film projections. The show went awry due to various technical issues and other problems, but afterwards, Henson told him that he "liked what you weretrying to do." Henson then asked Spinney if he wanted to work with him on a new children's show being developed.[4]Spinney went on to star as the man behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
As Big Bird, Spinney traveled the world -- in the TV specials Big Bird in China and Big Bird in Japan, and in special Sesame Street episodes that took him to New Mexico and Hawaii. He has also starred in a feature film,Follow That Bird.
Spinney has guest starred as his characters on many other programs, including The Flip Wilson Show, Scrubs, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, 1 vs 100, The Muppet Show, and over 141 episodes of Hollywood Squares.
Spinney wrote a 2003 autobiography titled The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers. Caroll Spinney also wrote and illustrated How to Be a Grouch, a 1976 picture book that explains the world from Oscar's point of view. Spinney also drew the picture of Mr. Hooper that Big Bird drew after Mr. Hooper died, and designed one of his characters, Bruno the Trashman. His artwork was featured in a 2010/2011 exhibit at ToonSeum. A documentary about Spinney titled I Am Big Bird is slated to premiere in Spring 2013.
Muppet CreditsEditEdit
- Sesame Characters: Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch,Baby Monster, Beautiful Day Monster, Bruno the Trashman, Granny Bird, Hippie, Lefty the Salesman(occasional), Shivers the Penguin (early 80s), variousAnything Muppet characters (including Yellow Submarine Pumpkin pilot and Bennett Snerf)
- Wow, You're a Cartoonist!: Picklepuss and Pop
- See also Big Bird Filmography and Oscar the Grouch Filmography for films, guest appearances and specials
- Spinney explained in a 2007 interview that when there's a scene with both Big Bird and Oscar that "if I'm doing the Bird, I'll have my assistant move Oscar, but I'll do both voices. Usually, we pre-record the one that my assistant is moving. Once in a while, if it's Oscar's scene and he has a lot more words than Big Bird, then I have my assistant stand in for Big Bird and I record Big Bird's voice, digitally. That way, they can be talking to each other."[5]
- While Sesame Street was still in planning stages, Caroll Spinney suggested to Jim Henson that the show have unscripted conversations between Muppets and real-live children.[6]
- Spinney almost left Sesame Street before the second season, due to a low salary, the expense of living in New York, and an offer to produce his own Picklepuss show in Boston during the break between seasons. However, Kermit Love convinced Spinney to give the show another month before deciding to quit, and soon decided to stay on the show.[7]
- For some time, his name was spelled as Carroll Spinney, with two r's in his first name.[8]
Awards & HonorsEditEdit
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- Spinney has earned four Daytime Emmy Awards, two Gold Records, and two Grammy Awards.
- As Big Bird, Spinney was honored with a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- As Big Bird, Spinney was awarded the Library of Congress Living Legend Award in April 2000. According to the Library of Congress website, "the award is selected by the Library's curators and subject specialists to honor artists, writers, activists, filmmakers, physicians, entertainers, sports figures and public servants who have made significant contributions to America's diverse cultural, scientific and social heritage." [9]
- Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award
- Outstanding Performer In A Children's Series (tie): Kevin Clash as Elmo, and Caroll Spinney as Oscar the Grouch (transcipt)
External linksEditEdit
- Official site
- Official Fansite
- Fansite
- NPR Interview
- Tribute song to Caroll Spinney
- New Yorker interview with Caroll Spinney
- Sesame Workshop Blog: An Interview with Sesame Street's Caroll Spinney
- ↑ "He's happy being Big Bird", Ellen Simon, The Washington Times. June 19, 2008.
- ↑ The Muppet Show Fan Club Newsletter volume 3, number 6, page 4
- ↑ Street Gang, pages 101-102
- ↑ Spinney, Caroll The Wisdom of Big Bird, page 21-25.
- ↑ Twardzik, Cathleen. Meet the man behind Big Bird, Parents and Kids. February 19, 2007.
- ↑ Spinney, Caroll. The Wisdom of Big Bird, page 132.
- ↑ Spinney, Caroll. The Wisdom of Big Bird, pages 63-65.
- ↑ Jim Henson's Red Book entry, 8/1969 – P. of A. Festival. Salt Lake City – met Carroll Spinney. Asked him to join us.
- ↑ Library of Congress website.


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The event is sponsored by a generous gift by Elisabeth W. and Henry A. Morss Jr., which established a fund at WHOI to support public colloquia on issues of global importance that are connected to human society and involve some aspect of science. It will take place 1 to 5 p.m., Oct. 31, 2006, in the Lillie Auditorium at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
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Coming from, say, an enterprise-level Microsoft .NET shop and crossing over into the world of open source is like stepping out of an office building into the street during a parade. Clowns and bands and floats roll by as you tighten up your necktie and try to remain distinguished. But you know you really want to join the folks pulling the giant Batman float.
You'll be entering a world of languages such as Ruby, Python and even something called Go (which is rapidly rising in popularity). There are projects with names that are meaningless, obscure or quite "punny" (e.g. gophercloud, which is — oh boy — "Go" for "Cloud"). There is a NoSQL database (SQL Server DBA: "Huh?") called CouchDB and a testing tool called Cucumber. Coming from a world of Visual Studio and SQL Server, these names just seem weird.
That's okay. Open source software attracts a lot of "coding cowboys," those who prefer to go out and do something on their own, stand out from the crowd and embrace creativity and the occasional Nerf gunfight. They're not in it for the money, they're in it to do something.
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Open source software (OSS) is defined in Wikipedia as "computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software at no cost to anyone for any purpose."
Many use the term "open source" in reference to a specific licensing model of OSS, that of free and open source software (FOSS). FOSS allows the user to not only use the software, but also make changes, submit changes to be included and use the software in or for a commercial product.
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Let's take OpenStack, for example.
OpenStack is an open source project that provides APIs to allow a developer to work with cloud computing networks. It is sometimes referred to as a "cloud operating system".
For .NET developers, the OpenStack SDK for Microsoft .NET allows you to use your C# or VB (or, really, any other .NET language) skills within the Microsoft .NET development stack to control the cloud. Create virtual servers, upload files, create a network to deliver those files … all the cloud goodness we know and love.
But what if that's not enough for you? What if you want to actually help create or improve the SDK? In that case, welcome to open source development.
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Let's say you are using the OpenStack .NET SDK and you want to improve it. Maybe fix a defect, add a feature, improve performance, what-have-you. How do you do this?
(deep breath…)
You create a Git account, fork the SDK to your account, clone the forked code to your local machine, make the change, test it, debug it, make sure it works, test again (and again and again…) then submit the code with a pull request.
Let's break that down.
Git is the standard distributed version control system that is used by practically all open source projects. Visit GitHub and you'll find nearly eight million (and counting) projects. Microsoft's Team Foundation Server supports Git. There's a Git client, including a Bash shell for Windows. If you're experienced enough (nice way of saying "older") or are working in a, shall we say "vintage" shop, you might be familiar with Visual SourceSafe. To keep it simple, Git is the open source version; it's where you store your source code.
(It's not exactly, of course, but that's for another blog post)
To keep it very simple, think of a fork as your copy. There's more to it with forks and branches and merges, but, again, that's another blog post. When you fork (a verb) the project, you're getting a copy for yourself. You can do whatever you want. You can customize for your particular situation if you want.
Typically, you're forking a project because you have something to add to the effort.
Pull Request
This is where the magic happens. This is where you become the coding all-star in your organization.
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Keeping it simple, think of a pull request as the action where you submit your code to the project to be included. In other words, think of it this way: you're asking that your code be pulled into the project and made a part of the project.
Your code will be reviewed — park your ego at the door for this part — and if it passes the criteria (Does it work? Does it meet the style for this project or language? Is it worth doing? Et cetera…), it will be accepted as part of the project.
Congratulations! You've just contributed code to an open source project. Your code might be running on millions of machines around the world. That's pretty cool.
That's It?
Yes. It can really be that easy to get involved in an open source project.
In fact, if you want to contribute in a big way and don't have the technical skills, submit something that every project you've ever worked on could use more of: documentation. Submit good documentation and you'll not only immediately contribute an oft-needed part, but you'll learn as much as possible as quickly as possible.
There's more, of course, including code reviews and "who decides what gets accepted?" and on and on. Open source is a parade of opportunity into which you can involve yourself at your own liking or pace. But if you like to code or write, and want to improve a project, open source presents a huge window of opportunity.
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CHONGQING, China (Jan. 23, 2011) – The U.S. Women's National Team got itself back into contention for the title at the 2011 Four Nations tournament with a 2-1 victory against Canada as Lauren Cheney and Lindsay Tarpley scored second half goals.
"You have to look at two things from the game, attitude over 90 minutes, which we emphasized after the Sweden game, and I think we brought that to this game, but also smartness," said U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage. "We kept possession with our two center midfielders. Carli Lloyd and Lori Lindsey did a good job at times and eventually we created chances and eventually we put them away as well."
China PR defeated Sweden 2-1 in the first match of the evening, meaning all four teams in the tournament have a win and a loss, three points and a goal difference at zero. China and Canada sit in a better position by virtue of scoring four goals each, one more than the USA and Sweden.
In order to win the tournament, the USA must defeat China and hope Sweden and Canada tie their last match, or that the USA comes out on top in the tie-breakers against the winner of that match, which are: 1) goal difference, 2) goals scored and 3) head-to-head result.
U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage changed seven players from the starting lineup that lost to Sweden on Friday, switching out both outside backs, a center-back, both flank midfielders, a center-midfielder and one forward.
The match marked the first career starts for defender Brittany Taylor, midfielder Kelley O'Hara and forward Alex Morgan, who earned their second, fourth and 10th caps respectively. Defender Becky Sauerburnn earned just her fourth cap and made her first start since she debuted at the Four Nations Tournament in 2008. Twenty-two-year-old midfielder Meghan Klingenberg earned her first career cap when she entered the match in the 78th minute for O'Hara.
The first half was mostly uneventful with each team creating just one legitimate chance. The USA's came in the 38th minute as Amy Rodriguez darted free into the left side of the penalty area and hit a high shot toward the near post that Canadian goalkeeper Karina LeBlanc had to push away for a corner kick on a flying dive.
Canada's came in the 44th minute when its star forward Christine Sinclair burst into the right side of the penalty area with Christie Rampone on her hip. U.S. goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart was quick off her line to stuff Sinclair's shot, which spun away for a corner.
The USA did have several other looks at goal before the break. In the 17th minute, Alex Morgan dribbled almost all the way to the left post and slid a ball through the goal mouth, but no one was inside the six yard box to finish. In the 34th minute, O'Hara got under a long free-kick from Stephanie Cox, but her volley flew wide left.
Canada did well to earn seven corner kicks in the first half and the USA was perhaps a bit fortunate as the Maples Leafs sabotaged their own chances with numerous poor services.
Canada created the first chance of the second half off yet another corner kick as the ball flew from the left side to Emily Zurrer at the far post, but she shanked her wide-open shot high and wide.
Sundhage had sent on Lindsay Tarpley just 31 minutes into the game for Megan Rapinoe and also inserted Lauren Cheney on the forward line for Amy Rodriguez at halftime. Those two players would trade goals and assists to give the USA the win.
Before the goals, the U.S. was the aggressor, playing much better in the attacking third than in the first half while also connecting through the center midfield via Lloyd and Lindsey, and then later Yael Averbuch after she came into the game.
In the 50th minute, Morgan got in behind the Canadian defense off a Lloyd pass down the right wing. Her cross was deflected up in the air by a defender and fell just inches from the crossbar. LeBlanc got her hands on it to push it back up off the crossbar. The ball bounced down, if not over then line, then halfway, before the Canadians could clear as Cheney's desperate attempt to bundle it home went wanting.
Just a minute later, Tarpley powered shot off the cross bar and a rebound chance was cleared out of the goalmouth.
The U.S. pressure finally paid off in the 54th minute as O'Hara made a run down the left wing, cut back away from the goal and spun a cross to Tarpley in the center of the penalty area. With her back to the goal, Tarpley deftly flicked the ball first-time into Cheney's path near the left-side of the goal box and she gracefully lifted the ball over LeBlanc and into the net from about seven yards out. The goal was the 12th of Cheney's international career.
Canada roared right back with Sinclair finding some space deep into the right side of the U.S. penalty box. Her cross on the ground was stabbed by Barnhart, who then jumped on the rebound.
Barnhart couldn't save Canada's quickly-earned equalizer in the 56th minute as Melissa Tancredi got behind the defense off a pass from Kaylyn Kyle, drove into left side of the penalty area and rolled a 16-yard shot just inside the right post.
The USA continued to pound away and in the 59th minute a two-shot flurry saw LeBlanc make a save and then a defender clear a ball out of the goal. Cheney forced another Canadian clear out of its six-yard box just a minute later after some nice work in tight space near the right post.
Cheney was the fulcrum of the USA's counter-attack that produced the winning goal, driving the ball toward the Canadian defense before playing a rolling pass to Tarpley into the left side of the box. She hit an inch-perfect shot with her left foot that snuck just inside the right post although LeBlanc seemingly had the angle covered.
It was Tarpley's 31st career goal, moving her past Brandi Chastain into 11th place on the USA's all-time scoring list. It was also Tarpley's first goal since May 25, 2009, when she scored against Canada in a 4-0 win in Toronto. Tarpley tore an ACL at the end of the 2009 WPS season was playing in just her second international game since the injury.
The USA almost had a clinching goal in the 86th minute as Morgan burst past Zurrer up the middle while chasing a skipping ball and was taken down from behind just at the edge of the penalty area by substitute Carmelina Moscato, who was fortunate to just receive a yellow card. The USA pounded the ensuing free kick into the Canadian wall.
Canada pushed hard in the last 15 minutes for the equalizer, but the USA defended well and got a fantastic game in the middle from Sauerbrunn who hadn't started for the USA since the Four Nations Tournament in 2008.
Sinclair earned her 150th career cap on the night and almost all of the Canadian danger came from her dribbling, passing or shooting, including a golden chance in stoppage time as she crushed a full volley that was headed into the right side of the net were it not for a flying save from Barnhart that pushed it away and preserved the win. Seconds later, Barnhart followed up her world class stop by rushing out of her goal to sweep a ball away with her legs from the onrushing Sinclair.
The victory for the USA ended Canada's team record 11-game unbeaten streak in what was the first meeting between the long-time rivals since the summer of 2009. For the second game in a row, Sundhage used all five substitutes, also sending on Rachel Buehler at halftime for Rampone.
The USA is at the start of six months of preparation for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup that will take place from June 26-July 17 in nine venues across Germany: Berlin, Frankfurt, Mönchengladbach, Sinsheim, Wolfsburg, Augsburg, Bochum, Dresden and Leverkusen.
The 16 nations competing are: host Germany, Korea DPR, Japan and Australia from Asia and Sweden, Norway, France and England from Europe, New Zealand from Oceania, the USA, Canada and Mexico from CONCACAF, Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea from Africa and Brazil and Colombia from South America.
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Match: U.S. Women's National Team vs. Canada
Date: Jan. 23, 2011
Competition: 2011 Four Nations Tournament
Venue: Yongchuan Sports Centre Stadium; Chongqing, China
Kickoff: 7:05 p.m. local / 6:05 a.m. ET
Attendance: 7,000
Weather: Cold, haze – 39 degrees
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
USA – Lauren Cheney (Lindsay Tarpley) 54th minute
CAN – Melissa Tancredi (Kaylyn Kyle) 56
USA – Lindsay Tarpley (Lauren Cheney) 70
USA: 18-Nicole Barnhart; 25-Brittany Taylor, 22-Becky Sauerbrunn, 3-Christie Rampone (capt.) (19-Rachel Buehler, 46), 14-Stephanie Cox; 21-Kelley O'Hara (27-Meghan Klingenberg, 78) 16-Lori Lindsey, 10-Carli Lloyd (4-Yael Averbuch, 66), 15-Megan Rapinoe (5-Lindsay Tarpley, 31); 8-Amy Rodriguez (12-Lauren Cheney, 46), 13-Alex Morgan
Subs not used: 9-Heather O'Reilly, 11-Tobin Heath, 24-Ashlyn Harris, 26-Sydney Leroux
Head Coach: Pia Sundhage
CAN: 1-Karina LeBlanc; 7-Rhian Wilkinson, 9-Candace Chapman (4-Carmelina Moscato, 64), 13-Sophie Schmidt (19-Desiree Scott, 73), 20-Marie-Eve Nault; 6-Kaylyn Kyle, 82-Emily Zurrer, 8-Diana Matheson, 16-Jonelle Filigno (23-Jodi-Ann Robinson, 81); 14-Melissa Tancredi (10-Christina Julien, 67), 12-Christine Sinclair (capt.)
Subs not used: 3-Melanie Booth, 5-Robyn Gayle, 17-Brittany Timko, 21-Laura Chénard, 22-Stephanie Labbé
Head Coach: Carolina Morace
Statistical Summary: USA / CAN
Shots: 12 / 8
Shots on Goal: 8 / 5
Saves: 4 / 3
Corner Kicks: 8 / 10
Fouls: 11 / 5
Offside: 7 / 5
Misconduct Summary:
CAN -- Candace Chapman (caution) 61st minute
CAN – Carmelina Moscato (caution) 85
USA – Lauren Cheney (caution) 94
Referee: He Jin (CHN)
Assistant Referee 1: Fang Yan (CHN)
Assistant Referee 2: Wu Chun (CHN)
Fourth Official: Qin Liang (CHN)
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Photos from the 15 miles we shopped
Keely and I spent most of Saturday visiting a small portion of Kentucky's 400 Mile Yard Sale along Highway 68/80. We got started about 8:00 a.m., and before we drove out on Highway 68/80, we went to a few yard sales around town.
I photographed these lovely hydrangeas while we were at an estate tag sale. The lady who was running the sale had marked each item slightly under its appraised price, and she was reluctant to negotiate. The house was crowded with shoppers, but everyone was leaving empty-handed.
Well, enough of that! We decided to hit the highway!
This hilltop sale, a few miles east of Hopkinsville, had some interesting items. Several antique and flea market dealers (including Butler Antiques of Hopkinsville) sell at this site every year. Last year, I bought a chest of drawers here for Isaac to take to his school apartment. This year, I bought a sturdy hand-made, hutch-style cabinet that I'm going to put in my utility room.
We stopped next at the Eastview Baptist Church, about halfway between Hopkinsville and Fairview. It's always a busy marketplace with lots of people buying and selling, good off-road parking, and restrooms (always a nice amenity). We have always found some bargains there, and this year was no exception. Keely got a Hunter ceiling fan, new in the box, for $5.00.
A few miles farther down the road, we pulled over for a sale in the driveway to someone's hilly pasture. Several families had set up sales there. If I were going to spend several days camped along the highway selling my junk, I think this would be a good place. On the north side of a steep hill, it was shady even in mid-day, and on the asphalt, the ticks and chiggers probably weren't as bad as they might be on grass.
The only problem with this site was that the tables weren't visible to cars coming from the west, The sellers solved that problem by parking their vehicles in plain view along the highway. (A cluster of cars? 400 Milers know it must be another yard sale!)
A hand-lettered sign pointed the way to the residence of someone who lives somewhere up the hillside. The hand-lettered sign, the product for sale, and the small, two-track trail leading off the asphalt and into the bushes were strong hints that a horse-and-buggy Mennonite family lives there.
Just west of Fairview, we stopped at a yard sale at the house that's associated with this barn. I've admired this big old barn for years. Its broad, rather flat design and stone construction are not commonly seen in Christian County. I seized the opportunity to get a fairly good photo of it without stopping on the highway or deliberately trespassing.
The folks at this sale were using a farm trailer as a giant yard-sale table. I took a picture of the tractor that was attached to the trailer because I knew it had been a few years since Case made tractors like this. (According to TractorData.com, the Case SC was built between 1941 and 1954.)
We stopped at several yard sales in "downtown" Fairview. Some ladies who were doing a yard sale for the Humane Society had some Coca Cola and Campbells Soup cups and glasses. They asked if we had any pets and gave each of us a sackful of treats for our cats and dogs. Across the street, a couple of horses were enjoying their hay.
I remembered one of the yard sales east of Fairview from other years. I refer it to as "the place with the daylilies," and you can see why! At this sale, they had five or six farm trailers pulled into the yard and piled with stuff from several families. It was surprising, but fun, to see a pair of country hams among the things they were selling.
It seemed impossible that seven hours had flown by and we were only 15 miles from Hopkinsville. But it was time to turn around and head back. It's a good thing we weren't doing the whole 400 miles of the sale. At our speed, we would have needed a couple of weeks.
When we went back through Fairview, we stopped at the Dutch Kuntry store (formerly the Penny Saver) and bought some cheese. Outside the store, these ducks were getting a drink. Like most animals, they have an instinct that running water is best, even if it's just a drip. The pipe is probably connected to one of the coolers inside the store.
I wish we could have one of these yard sale extravaganzas again in the fall. I enjoy them!


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Description: HipShotDot, is an exclusive powered red dot sight attachment for first person shooter games, which works with every popular gaming console. It's USB-powered LED aiming is a device that attaches temporarily to a gamer's screen. In first-person shooter video games, where the environment rotates around a static aim point, the HipShotDot enhances the user's vision of their crosshairs, making aiming faster. In first-person shooter games, every split-second counts, whether it's to beat a difficult level in a campaign or earn extra points in multi-player matches. The HipShotDot is now available online at airdropgaming.com and through several national retailers with an MSRP of $29.99. Learn more about HipShotDot on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HipShotDot and Twitter: https://twitter.com/hipshotdot.
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The Funky Flower rug from the impressive lineup of Harlequins kid rugs collection is a circular cut out of petal flowers brilliantly arranged using combinations of different colors making it strikingly beautiful and suitable for any girl. This rug is anti-static, comfortable and guarantees durability, strength, and flame resistant since it is hand tufted from pure 100% wool.
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Total Grip is a reversible rug pad that may be used over Carpet floors. It provides a firm base to your rug and keeps it from slipping. Great for high traffic areas and under heavy furniture. Total Grip can be cut with scissors to any size or shape for unlimited uses around the home, car or boat.
Here we're going to talk about the bedroom area and how the size of the bed will affect the rug size.
There's two main reasons for this, being look and comfort!
Look - The "illusion" tip below applies greatly to this space, so pay close attention. In a bedroom, the central focus of the room is normally the bed and for that reason you have a lot of power and control over this central focus. The size of the rug will be an eye catching point that can't be ignored easily and a bed that appears small compared with the size of the rug will create the illusion of space for you.
Comfort - It's a good idea in all of these setups to have a generous rug length at the foot of the bed. It looks great, but also feels great to be able to get out of bed and then walk around a bit without moving off of the rug!
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The bedroom is a place of comfort, relaxation, and your sanctuary.
Most people will opt for more calming design in the bedroom. Maybe a single neutral colour, floral, or even simple geometrics. You probably want to leave the flashy stuff for the lounge room! That being said, the bedroom isn't exempt from the general rules of rug spacing and positioning so let's have a look at a few examples of the best ways to space your rug in the bedroom.
Twin beds are small, so make sure to take into account the size and positioning of the beds in relation to where you want to place your rug. You probably have a set position for the twin beds already, and that's great. To cover the area of both the beds and leave enough spacing on the edges of the beds, the foot, and between the beds - we'll almost always be recommending 330 x 240 or 400 x 300.
The thing about twin beds is that having them stand alone in a room can create a disjointed feeling. A rug perfectly solves this problem! If you prefer different designed bed sheets per bed, you're definitely going to want to go with a neutral colour and design.


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Rainmaker Developer API ChallengeTim Falls
Do you love hacking on APIs? Are you tired of your address book contacts being out of date? If so, we've teamed up with our friends over at Rainmaker to introduce the Rainmaker API Challenge. The Rainmaker API Challenge is a month-long (well, now it's a half-month:) contest where developers can win part of a $30,000 prize package which includes $2500 cash, an iPad2, and some free SendGrid credit!
The rules are simple: Build something incredible using the Rainmaker API and submit it to the contest by June 30, 2011.
I realize you only have two weeks left, so get on it this weekend!


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Skype, launched in Europe in 2003 but acquired three years ago by eBay, offers free voice and video calling between Internet-connected computers running the Skype software and equipped with microphone and speakers or a plug-in telephone headset.
The Skype software is also an instant messaging (IM) client similar to Microsoft Windows Live or Yahoo Messenger, delivering presence information showing which of your contacts is online and available.
Low-cost Calling
The company makes money by selling premium services, such as voice mail, SkypeIn (a number that people with regular phones can use to call you on your computer via Skype), and very low-cost calling from computers to regular landline phones and cell phones (SkypeOut).
A SkypeIn number, available for 45 U.S. states and 20 other countries, costs $18 for three months or $60 a year, with 50 percent off if you also buy a SkypeOut subscription.
Skype for Business
Skype was originally designed for individual use, but the company also offers Business Control Panel, an online utility that makes it easier for a company to provision and manage SkypeOut and SkypeIn accounts for multiple employees.
Third-party suppliers also offer appliances for integrating Skype with an existing office phone system. And now Skype itself is jumping into this market.
The company is currently beta testing technology that will allow an IP PBX (private branch exchange) that uses the session initiation protocol (SIP) to route calls made on a regular phone in the office over Skype.
Skype likes to point out that more than 30 percent of its global user base uses the service for business. However, its likely that a greater proportion of business use is overseas and that a much smaller percentage of business users have integrated Skype with their office systems, or use it for most of their calling.
I think a number of small to medium-size companies are leveraging Skype in limited capacity, said Jayanth Angl, a senior research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group Inc. But in most cases, its not a core service that the enterprise relies on.
Still, in a 2007 survey by Skype of 250 companies using the service, 95 percent claimed to have saved on telecommunications costs and 80 percent said using it increased employee productivity. A majority also agreed that using Skype helped them communicate better with customers and to work more closely with colleagues.
A Strategic Tool
Skypes unified communications capabilities mean it can make sense for other reasons as well. For example, at Brightstorm Inc., a San Francisco start-up that produces distance learning videos for high school SAT and ACT students and streams them over the Internet, Skype is a strategic tool. Its not the only phone service they use, but its vital.
Brightstorm recruits charismatic, personable classroom teachers from all over the country to teach its video courses. With prospects outside the Bay area, the selection process culminates in a Skype video call in which the teacher auditions.
You can imagine the investment of time and dollars if we had to fly to Boston or Denver to meet these people in person to evaluate if they were great teachers, said co-founder and CEO Jeff Marshall.
Its more than just cost avoidance, though. In-person is not the medium in which we want to test them, Marshall points out. Its how well they do on camera. We use pretty high-end video cameras to shoot the lessons, but a Web cam is a better proxy of that than doing it in person.
Brightstorm also works with outsourced software engineers in Costa Rica to build its slick Web site. The companys chief technology officer in San Francisco is in constant contact with them using Skype IM, and occasionally voice and video.
The company estimates it saves between 30 and 70 percent by using off-shore programming talent. For a company like ours, where the technology build is a non-trivial undertaking, its a pretty significant savings, Marshall said.
And having Skype available to smooth communications is critical. Often the challenge with outsourcing overseas is that cultural barriers, language barriers and time-zone barriers outweigh benefits, he said. Any tool that helps mitigate those risks is very, very valuable.
Whats the Catch?
So if Skype is such a great free or very low-cost tool, why arent more businesses using it? Skype works over the open, often congested, Internet and employs peer-to-peer technology that involves other Skypers computers to help route calls.
For this reason, call and connection quality are not always as good as they are on the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or even on VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) services that use some of the same IP voice technology as Skype, but run over private networks. Security is also a concern.
Skype does not offer a service level agreement (SLA), which many other business telecom providers do, warranting that service will be available and quality good, often at risk of financial penalties to the provider. Skype in effect guarantees only best effort.
Good Enough?
For small, budget-minded companies, using Skype some of the time may be a risk worth taking. Even if it is a little glitchy or static-y, were used to making compromises, Marshall said of his young company. If the voice connection is less than perfect, thats not what were most concerned about.
In fact, Skype has worked well for Brightstorm. Hes not among the front-line users in his organization, Marshall said, but he does not hear complaints about Skype from those who are. Its meeting the need.
What are the possible downside risks for other organizations? There are a few.
On a bad Skype call, voices may break up, occasionally to the point of not being able to continue the conversation. And sometimes there will be latency a noticeable lag in the signal reaching its destination, which makes for awkward, stilted conversations.
That said, on good Skype calls, voice quality is in fact better than on a regular phone call because Skype uses wide-band technology that sends twice as much audio information as the PSTN or most VoIP services. Voices sound fuller, less tinny, more realistic.
And many people and even some critics are often surprised at how good and consistently good Skype has become. Connections so poor that intelligible conversation is impossible have become much rarer.
Skype is attractive because it is very good quality compared to other similar services, noted Angl. (Hes referring to services such as Gizmo5, Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger with voice.)
Security and Reliability
Angls firm, however, has more often urged clients to exercise caution when considering using Skype. Another reliability concern, he said, is that the service could go down completely. It has happened before, he pointed out, referring to a two-day outage in August 2007. It could happen again.
The far greater concern is security. Its not so much the risk that Skype conversations could be intercepted and proprietary information divulged. Its more the threat that the IM client could infect a company network with malware, Angl said.
Allowing a public instant messaging application on user workstations may conflict with corporate policy, he pointed out. Many companies have already banned Skype for that reason, similar to the way theyve blocked Windows Live [Messenger] or Yahoo Messenger. Skype represents another threat. I cant overstate that concern around security.
Not that Skype in particular has often been implicated in malware attacks the contrary, in fact. But it is a program outside the control of the organization that crosses its firewall.
If that wasnt enough for IT professionals to want to err on the side of caution, the fact that Skype also could use their companys computing and network resources to route other users calls clinches the case even if, as Skype insists, its use of any one users computer is minimal.
Skype for PBXs
Can you somehow avoid these security concerns but still get at least some of the benefits of Skype? You can, said Angl.
Use the new Skype SIP technology, or a third-party solution such as a Skype PBX gateway appliance from VoSKY. (ZiPCOM Co. and others also have gateway appliances, and Skip2PBX has a software gateway solution.)
With this approach, you dont install Skype software on each users desktop, you connect an existing IP PBX to the gateway and then to the open Internet and Skype.
This allows you to provision Skype trunks for long distance calling using SkypeOut. Instead of dialing 9 from a regular phone to get an outside line, an employee might dial 8 for a Skype trunk.
The Skype SIP technology and at least some of the other solutions also support SkypeIn. You could have a click-to-talk button at your Web site that allows customers to call you on Skype and then route the call through your PBX to a contact center agents desk phone.
This approach eliminates the malware risk because users dont have the Skype client on their desktops. But it also means they dont get the benefits of presence, instant messaging and video calling.
I dont think theres enough value in the long distance savings [to make it worthwhile] for most companies, Angl said. But it might be for small organizations that have a high volume of overseas calls.
Bottom Line
Is Skype for business an idea whose time has come? It depends entirely on the business and its tolerance for risk. Proceed with caution.
Article courtesy of Small Business Computing.
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City of Lincoln
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng will unveil the Star City Treasures Oral History Project at a breakfast at 8 a.m. Thursday, June 29 at the "F" Street Recreation Center, 1225 "F" Street. The project is an effort to record stories of today's city residents to share with others now and in the future.
"Lincoln is an international city, where people from many different countries live, work and study," said Mayor Seng. "I want to thank those who are willing to tell us their stories so future generations can learn more about the spirit of the people who live in Lincoln today."
Star City Treasures is an AmeriCorps project funded through the Corporation for National and Community Service and administered by the Nebraska Volunteer Service Commission and the City Parks and Recreation Department.
City AmeriCorps Oral History Project Coordinator Candy Beach said the City commissioned a similar project 25 years ago. At that time, neighborhood volunteers interviewed older residents, and the recordings are stored at the Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS). Beach said most of the 200 individual stories recorded through the previous project came from Volga Germans, who described how their families came to Lincoln as well as school and church activities, traditions, holidays and life in Lincoln. City Parks and Recreation Manager Sandy Myers proposed the idea of the current project while researching her own family history.
"The last two and half decades have brought more than 30,000 refugees and immigrants to be resettled in Lincoln," said Beach. "Their life experiences are unique. Documenting some of their oral histories allows us as a community to learn about the larger world – a world that often times is filled with tragic separations of families, the deaths of beloved relatives, perseverance in the face of war, ethnic cleansing, famine, disease and man's inhumanity to man."
Through the oral history project, AmeriCorps members identify Star City Treasures – individuals and families with compelling life stories. About 25 subjects will be selected, interviewed, photographed and recorded. Their stories will be available through the City Web site, lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: library) and eventually archived at the NSHS.
One of the stories is that of Hoa Tran, who escaped South Vietnam the day before the fall of Saigon in 1975. He escaped on a fishing boat and was later rescued by the U.S. Navy. Once in the U.S., he moved to Lincoln to join other family members. Here, he has obtained citizenship, married and raised a family. He works as a translator and liaison for Lincoln Public Schools.
More information on the oral history project is available by contacting Beach at 441-4911.
The City manages 19 full-time AmeriCorps members and numerous part-time members. Half of the members are assigned to minority-based community centers, the Lincoln Literacy Council and the Lincoln Arts Council. The remaining members work at City Recreation Centers and Community Learning Centers. Members work with minority and low-income children and their families, providing after-school academic support, holistic family services and recreational opportunities. More than 1,000 children receive services annually.


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benditcycling.com necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 84 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Bend It Cycling
Our site and its products will be dedicated to recumbent bicyclists that are looking for products, apparel and advice that are 100% from the 'bent riders perspective. Bend It Cycling is owned and operated by devoted recumbent cyclists that demand high performance from our machines, and also believe it shouldn't be too difficult to find practical apparel and products made specifically for bent riders. No more will you have to sift through products at your local upright bike shop looking for items that, if tweaked enough, may just work on your recumbent. If we carry it, one of our competitive recumbent pilots depends on it. - Team Bend It
Recumbent cyclists who wish to make a statement about their passion for their cycles.
Bend It Cycling would like to commission a design for a new t-shirt. The
theme is "Evolve Your Ride" with the core idea being based upon the evolution of mankind's methods of locomotion. We like it to be based upon, in part, the following graphic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:H…scheme.svg.
However, this would be a bicycle-themed progression with the idea of promoting the recumbent bike as the more 'evolved' form of transport.
We would like to have the following progression (in silhouette form):
1) early man on all fours
2) early man on two feet
3) modern man on two feet
4) Draisine bike (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D…ne1817.jpg) which is regarded as the earliest form of two wheeled transport
5) High-wheel bike (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thu…icycle.jpg)
6) Standard (upright) bike (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:K…_large.jpg)
7) Recumbent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NazcaFuego.JPG)
The items portrayed would all be 2D silhouettes.
Please include the catch phrase "evolve your ride" as well as our company name (Bend It Cycling). You are free to use the font of your choice for the catch phrase but use the font type "space age" (http://www.dafont.com) for our company name.
You are free to, if it isn't too cluttered, to exercise some creative freedom to include more 'evolution' steps. Also, we'd like the recumbent to be distinguished in such a way as to make it the obviously more 'evolved' locomotive method.
Best of luck designers!
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Awards Chapel Caps Year of Academic Achievementby Howard W. Hewitt • April 27, 2007 Share:
The end of the school year is marked with farewells and tradition. Among the oldest and most anticipated tradition is Awards Chapel.
Students and faculty are honored for achievement, involvement, and contributions to the College. Awards Chapel was held April 26.
One of the top honors each year is awarding of the George Lewes Mackintosh Fellows. The winners were: Brandko Alvanja, Crown Point, In., Adam Hawkins, Indianapolis, Steven D. Rhodes, West Lafayette, In., Trent Rogers, Frankfort, In., Clarence I. Shelton III, Seymour, In., Gregory J. Strodtman, Indianapolis.
A senior and junior are honored each year with separate awards. Brett Gann Jr., Bartonville, Il., was named Senior Award of Merit. The award is presented by the Student Senate in conjunction with the National Association of Wabash men. The recipient must demonstrate achievement in scholarship, service, and extra curricular activities.
The Lewis Salter memorial Award was presented to junior Jesse J. James, Sullivan, In.. The Award is presented to a junior who best exemplifies scholarship, character, leadership, and service Dr. Salter embodied as a Wabash faculty member and as the College's 12th president.
The Hurt All-Around Freshman Award was given to Brock Graham, Alto, Mi.. The award is presented by the Dean of Students from nominations submitted by all living units.
Two students were honored with the Community Service Award for Outstanding work. Tony Caldwell, Washington, Ia., and Jason Siegel, Fort Wayne, In., were honored. The award is presented for community service to Wabash, Crawfordsville, and Montgomery County.
The Phi Beta Kappa Prize, with a cash award, was presented to Ross Dillard, Hendersonville, Tenn., and Brett Gann. The award is given by the Wabash chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to that undergraduate who is judged to have produced the most original and meritorious piece of work, whether artistic and analytical.
The Malcolm X Institute Merit Award was given to Keith Clayton II, Colorado Springs, Co. The Indianapolis alumni Student Athlete Award was shared by Nathan Bates, Ossian, In., and Patrick Millikan, Newburgh, In. The Pete Vaughn Outstanding athlete award was presented to wrestler Keith Garrard, New Castle, In., and middle-distance runner Geoff Lambert, Chesterton, In.
Two faculty members are honored each year. The McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching award went to History Professor Stephen Morillo. Morillo's award was drawn much like his own weekly cartoons for The Bachelor. The McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Research Scholar honor was presented to Associate Professor of Chemistry Ann Taylor
In photo: Above, James receives Salter Award from Dean Gary Phillips.
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