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Note: The code in this article is out of date; the current code is hosted on GitHub.
WPF is a great technology, but sometimes it seems to be missing some really basic features… A frequently mentioned example is the lack of support for animated GIF images. Actually, the GIF format itself is supported by the imaging API, but the
Image control only shows the first frame of the animation.
Many solutions to this problem have been proposed on technical forums and blogs, usually variations of the following approaches:
- Use the
MediaElementcontrol: unfortunately this control only supports URI like
http://, not the
pack://URI schema used for WPF resources; this means the image can't be included in the resources, it has to be in a separate file. Furthermore, transparency for GIF images isn't supported in
MediaElement, which makes the final result quite ugly
- Use the
PictureBoxcontrol from Windows Forms, via a
WindowsFormsHost: I personnally dislike using WinForms controls in WPF, it really looks like a hack…
- Create a custom control that inherits
Imageand handles the animation. Some solutions take advantage of the
ImageAnimatorclass from
System.Drawing(GDI), others use a WPF animation to change the current frame. It's a rather "clean" approach, but it forces you to use a specific control for GIF images. Also, the solution using
ImageAnimatorturns out not to be very smooth, the animation is quite jerky.
As you might have guessed, I don't find any of these solutions really satisfying… Furthermore, none of the implementations I've seen of the third approach handles the duration of each frame properly, they only assume that all frames last 100ms (which is almost always true, but almost isn't good enough IMHO…). So I kept the best ideas from each approach I've seen, and I came up with my own solution. Here are the goals I set to attain:
- No dependency on Windows Forms or GDI
- Display the animated image in a standard
- Use the same XAML code for normal and animated images
- Support for transparency
- Correct handling of frame duration
To achieve this result, I started from a very simple, even obvious idea: to animate the image, all you have to do is apply an animation to the
Source property of the
Image control. WPF provides all the necessary tools to do that; in this case, the
ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames class fits the bill perfectly: it allows to specify at what exact time a given value should be assigned to the property, which makes it easy to take the frame duration into account.
The next problem is to extract the frames from the image: fortunately WPF supports this natively, and the
BitmapDecoder class provides a
Frames property to do exactly that. So, no big difficulty so far…
Finally, last obstacle: extract the duration of each frame. It's the part that took me the longest, because I needed to do some research… I first thought I would need to read the file manually and decode the binary data myself. But eventually the solution is quite simple, and takes advantage of the
BitmapMetadata class. The only difficulty has been to find the "path" of the metadata that contains the delay, but after a few minutes of trial and error, here it is:
The final solution is implemented as an attached property named
AnimatedSource, that applies to the
Image control, and can be used instead of
<Image Stretch="None" my:ImageBehavior.AnimatedSource="/Images/animation.gif" />
This property can also be assigned a normal (not animated) image, it will be displayed normally; therefore this property can be used without worrying about whether the image to display will be animated or not.
So in the end, all the goals have been achieved, and we even get some icing on the cake: this solution also works in the designer (at least in Visual Studio 2010), so the animation is immediately visible when you set the
AnimatedSource property 🙂
Without further ado, here's the complete code:
public static class ImageBehavior { #region AnimatedSource [AttachedPropertyBrowsableForType(typeof(Image))] public static ImageSource GetAnimatedSource(Image obj) { return (ImageSource)obj.GetValue(AnimatedSourceProperty); } public static void SetAnimatedSource(Image obj, ImageSource value) { obj.SetValue(AnimatedSourceProperty, value); } public static readonly DependencyProperty AnimatedSourceProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached( "AnimatedSource", typeof(ImageSource), typeof(ImageBehavior), new UIPropertyMetadata( null, AnimatedSourceChanged)); private static void AnimatedSourceChanged(DependencyObject o, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e) { Image imageControl = o as Image; if (imageControl == null) return; var oldValue = e.OldValue as ImageSource; var newValue = e.NewValue as ImageSource; if (oldValue != null) { imageControl.BeginAnimation(Image.SourceProperty, null); } if (newValue != null) { imageControl.DoWhenLoaded(InitAnimationOrImage); } } private static void InitAnimationOrImage(Image imageControl) { BitmapSource source = GetAnimatedSource(imageControl) as BitmapSource; if (source != null) { var decoder = GetDecoder(source) as GifBitmapDecoder; if (decoder != null && decoder.Frames.Count > 1) { var animation = new ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames(); var totalDuration = TimeSpan.Zero; BitmapSource prevFrame = null; FrameInfo prevInfo = null; foreach (var rawFrame in decoder.Frames) { var info = GetFrameInfo(rawFrame); var frame = MakeFrame( source, rawFrame, info, prevFrame, prevInfo); var keyFrame = new DiscreteObjectKeyFrame(frame, totalDuration); animation.KeyFrames.Add(keyFrame); totalDuration += info.Delay; prevFrame = frame; prevInfo = info; } animation.Duration = totalDuration; animation.RepeatBehavior = RepeatBehavior.Forever; if (animation.KeyFrames.Count > 0) imageControl.Source = (ImageSource)animation.KeyFrames[0].Value; else imageControl.Source = decoder.Frames[0]; imageControl.BeginAnimation(Image.SourceProperty, animation); return; } } imageControl.Source = source; return; } private static BitmapDecoder GetDecoder(BitmapSource image) { BitmapDecoder decoder = null; var frame = image as BitmapFrame; if (frame != null) decoder = frame.Decoder; if (decoder == null) { var bmp = image as BitmapImage; if (bmp != null) { if (bmp.StreamSource != null) { bmp.StreamSource.Position = 0; decoder = BitmapDecoder.Create(bmp.StreamSource, bmp.CreateOptions, bmp.CacheOption); } else if (bmp.UriSource != null) { Uri uri = bmp.UriSource; if (bmp.BaseUri != null && !uri.IsAbsoluteUri) uri = new Uri(bmp.BaseUri, uri); decoder = BitmapDecoder.Create(uri, bmp.CreateOptions, bmp.CacheOption); } } } return decoder; } private static BitmapSource MakeFrame( BitmapSource fullImage, BitmapSource rawFrame, FrameInfo frameInfo, BitmapSource previousFrame, FrameInfo previousFrameInfo) { DrawingVisual visual = new DrawingVisual(); using (var context = visual.RenderOpen()) { if (previousFrameInfo != null && previousFrame != null && previousFrameInfo.DisposalMethod == FrameDisposalMethod.Combine) { var fullRect = new Rect(0, 0, fullImage.PixelWidth, fullImage.PixelHeight); context.DrawImage(previousFrame, fullRect); } context.DrawImage(rawFrame, frameInfo.Rect); } var bitmap = new RenderTargetBitmap( fullImage.PixelWidth, fullImage.PixelHeight, fullImage.DpiX, fullImage.DpiY, PixelFormats.Pbgra32); bitmap.Render(visual); return bitmap; } private class FrameInfo { public TimeSpan Delay { get; set; } public FrameDisposalMethod DisposalMethod { get; set; } public double Width { get; set; } public double Height { get; set; } public double Left { get; set; } public double Top { get; set; } public Rect Rect { get { return new Rect(Left, Top, Width, Height); } } } private enum FrameDisposalMethod { Replace = 0, Combine = 1, RestoreBackground = 2, RestorePrevious = 3 } private static FrameInfo GetFrameInfo(BitmapFrame frame) { var frameInfo = new FrameInfo { Delay = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100), DisposalMethod = FrameDisposalMethod.Replace, Width = frame.PixelWidth, Height = frame.PixelHeight, Left = 0, Top = 0 }; BitmapMetadata metadata; try { metadata = frame.Metadata as BitmapMetadata; if (metadata != null) { const string delayQuery = "/grctlext/Delay"; const string disposalQuery = "/grctlext/Disposal"; const string widthQuery = "/imgdesc/Width"; const string heightQuery = "/imgdesc/Height"; const string leftQuery = "/imgdesc/Left"; const string topQuery = "/imgdesc/Top"; var delay = metadata.GetQueryOrNull<ushort>(delayQuery); if (delay.HasValue) frameInfo.Delay = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(10 * delay.Value); var disposal = metadata.GetQueryOrNull<byte>(disposalQuery); if (disposal.HasValue) frameInfo.DisposalMethod = (FrameDisposalMethod) disposal.Value; var width = metadata.GetQueryOrNull<ushort>(widthQuery); if (width.HasValue) frameInfo.Width = width.Value; var height = metadata.GetQueryOrNull<ushort>(heightQuery); if (height.HasValue) frameInfo.Height = height.Value; var left = metadata.GetQueryOrNull<ushort>(leftQuery); if (left.HasValue) frameInfo.Left = left.Value; var top = metadata.GetQueryOrNull<ushort>(topQuery); if (top.HasValue) frameInfo.Top = top.Value; } } catch (NotSupportedException) { } return frameInfo; } private static T? GetQueryOrNull<T>(this BitmapMetadata metadata, string query) where T : struct { if (metadata.ContainsQuery(query)) { object value = metadata.GetQuery(query); if (value != null) return (T) value; } return null; } #endregion }
And here's the
DoWhenLoaded extension method used in the code above:
public static void DoWhenLoaded<T>(this T element, Action<T> action) where T : FrameworkElement { if (element.IsLoaded) { action(element); } else { RoutedEventHandler handler = null; handler = (sender, e) => { element.Loaded -= handler; action(element); }; element.Loaded += handler; } }
Enjoy 🙂
Update: the code that retrieves the frame duration only works on Windows Seven, and on Windows Vista if the Platform Update is installed (untested). The default duration (100ms) will be used instead on other versions of Windows. I will update the article if I find a solution that works on all operating systems (I know I could use
System.Drawing.Bitmap, but I'd rather not depend on this…)
Update 2: as pointed out by Klaus in the comments, the
ImageBehavior class didn't handle some important attributes of the frames: the diposal method (whether a frame should entirely replace the previous one, or be combined with it), and the frame position (Left/Top/Width/Height). I updated the code to handle these attributes properly. Thank you Klaus!
Update 3: a commenter on the French version of my blog pointed out a problem when the AnimatedSource is an image in a resource dictionary; the UriSource wasn't correctly interpreted when it was a relative URI. This problem is now fixed. Thank you, "anonymous"!
Update 4: uploaded an example project to demonstrate the code.
Update 5: yet another bug fix, for when you use a
BitmapImage initialized from a stream. Thanks to Mizutama for spotting this one!
Update 6: rather than posting improvements to this blog post, I eventually created a project on
CodePlex GitHub where this class will be maintained. You can also install it using NuGet, the package id is WpfAnimatedGif. Thanks to Diego Mijelshon for the suggestion!


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A man named Johnny Dixon complained to the Washington Personalized License Plate Committee about the Spinal Tap-homage vanity plate GOES211 on Tony Cava's BMW. Dixon thought Cava was boasting about his penis length. The DOL let Cava keep the plate.
A man identifying himself as Johnny Dixon wasn't thinking "Spinal Tap" when he spotted the plate.
Last October, Dixon emailed the Department of Licensing: "I find it in poor taste that the great state of Washington would issue a plate that allows a driver to insinuate in public that his penis grows to 11 inches in length. The rest of the citizens of Washington should not be subjected to this vulgarity."
And so the case of GOES211 ended up before something called the DOL's Personalized License Plate Committee. Bureaucracies like committees, and lists.
...Asked for comment about his complaint, Dixon emailed back, "What exactly is it that you want to know? I find it disturbing that you can access my emails to the DOL."
Vanity plates: some take too much license [Seattle Times/Erik Lacitis]
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Two teams that are desperate for wins will go at it Sunday in Tampa, as the 1-3 Bucs play host to the 1-4 Chiefs, a team that will have a different look under center Sunday.
The Chiefs will have Brady Quinn at QB Sunday, as usual starter Matt Cassel is on the bench after a concussion last week in a 9-6 loss to the Ravens at home.
Quinn will be making his first start in almost three years, the last of which when he was in Cleveland playing with the team that drafted him, the Browns.
After winning three of its final five games to salvage a 7-9 record last year and with key contributors Jamal Charles, Cassel and Eric Berry healthy to open this season, Kansas City expected to start strong in 2012.
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1859: Colonel Drake Strikes Oil
"Colonel" Edwin Drake, one-time railroad conductor, drilled the first commercial oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania. By the 1880s, the commercial potentialities of oil were just beginning to
be realized. In two decades, oil production grew to the point where more than 80 percent of the world's petroleum consumption was supplied by Pennsylvania oil fields.
1863: The Teamsters & Pipeline Gathering
The first discoveries were transported to rail stations by Teamsters using converted whiskey barrels and horses. From the very beginning, transportation was essential with the Teamsters holding the first regional monopoly position. They charged more to move a barrel of oil 5 miles by horse than the entire rail freight charge from
Pennsylvania to New York City. Despite considerable ridicule, threats, armed attacks, arson, and sabotage, the first wooden pipeline, which was about 9 miles
in length, was built in 1862; in essence bypassing the Teamsters.
1879: Tidewater - The First Trunk line
Independent oilmen, in a desperate effort to compete with Rockefeller's position in transportation, built the first crude oil
trunk line called Tidewater in 1879.
Within a year, Rockefeller owned half of Tidewater and was busily laying pipelines to Buffalo, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and New
York. Rockefeller looked to export his kerosene lamp oil production to Northern Europe and Russia.
1880-1905: Gushers and Refineries
Refineries sprang up near oil fields, and new markets, with the largest being Rockefeller's venture on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, in Whiting, Indiana. By the turn of the century, oil was discovered as far west as California.
This timeline represents an edited version of text obtained from the book, The History of The Standard Oil Company, written by Ida M. Tarbell in 1904.


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Samsung Promising Twice The Speed in New SSDs [Hard Drives]
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Sammy just took the lid off of a set of new solid state drives that promise a significant speed boost from their already peppy previous line of SSDs. They look good enough to eat.
The new 830 series will utilize SATA Revision 3.0 technology, which will give it potential speeds a face-melting 6 gigabits per second. This effectively doubles the speed of Samsung's previous drives, the SSD 470 series. Other than the speed boost and some gussied up looks there's not much different, but who cares? To quote the movie Jerry Maguire, "You had me at 'twice as fast.'"
The drives will be available this October in capacities of 64, 128, 256 and 512GB. They can fit in 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch drive bays, and you can get an adaptor kit so it can be used via USB. No word on pricing yet.
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Since Apple investor David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital threatened to sue Apple over its failure to offer investors some of its huge stock pile of cash, there has been some speculation as to whether Apple can return anything to investors; what the company might have planned for the money; and what the huge pile of cash could actually represent to ordinary people.
Should Apple return some money to shareholders? Can the company even access the money to return any to investors? Should Apple continue to sit on its cash with the world's economic problems intensifying? Would Apple be wise to acquire Facebook and other big companies? Should Apple invest more into research and development? Should Apple invest in the facilities of its partners? Or should Apple foot the UK defence bill and the interest on our national debt?
We look at what Apple could do with the money, and what Apple won't be doing with the money.
[Background: Einhorn wants Apple to return some of it's $137b (£87b) of cash to investors via a perpetual preferred stock with a 4 percent yield. He accused Apple of trying to get investors to pass a proposal that would prevent the issuance of preferred stock. Apple responded with a promise to "thoroughly evaluate" the proposal, and claimed that Proposal #2 would only prohibit the issuance of such stock without a vote by shareholders.]
Why Apple can't return the money to shareholders
Apple Insider notes that around 70% of the $137b is held overseas."Bringing all of that money back to the US would be a costly move," claims that site.
RBC Capital Markets analyst Amit Daryanani explained that bringing the money back to the States would cost Apple $33 billion because the cash would be taxed at America's 35% rate.
According to the report, Apple has $43 billion in cash in the US. This Daryanani believes, along with another $45 billion in annual free cash flow, could be returned by investors by Apple.
Jobs wanted to hoard the money
According to Seeking Alpha, Steve Jobs consulted with Warren Buffett on what to do with all of Apple's cash. Buffett recalled the conversation in an interview with CNBC last year. Buffett said: "It was an interesting conversation because I hadn't talked to him [Jobs] in a long time. He said, 'We've got all this cash. What should we do with it?' So we went over the alternatives. It was kind of interesting."
Buffet claimed Jobs was concerned that Apple wouldn't "have the chance to make big acquisitions that would require lots of money."
Buffet suggested to Jobs that he felt that the AAPL stock was undervalued then a buyback is a good move. Jobs admitted he felt that his stock was undervalued.
However, Buffet reflected: "He didn't do anything, and of course, he didn't want to do anything. He just liked having the cash."
Why it's better to sit on the cash
As we noted in a report last week, Apple is one of the companies best prepared to weather any economic slowdown because it has so much money in the bank. It is for that reason that some analysts are recommending it as a buy.
What Apple could do with the money
The obvious areas where Apple can invest its money is in its operations, specifically in R&D as it develops the next big thing, and in improving the facilities of its manufacturing partners as it seeks to loosen its ties with Samsung.
The company is already paying back some money to shareholders in the form of dividends – the next dividend payment will be this Thursday.
Acquisitions is another area where Apple could spend the money. A ZDnet report suggests that Apple could "acquire Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, Netflix, Pandora, Research In Motion (Blackberry), Yahoo, Yelp, Zillow and Zynga - and have more than $2 billion left to spare."
That report makes some other suggestions that will be closer to home to American readers:
- Foot the bill for US federal spending on education for two years
- Double US foreign economic aid to the developing world for three and half years
We had a look at the UK figures for equivalent government spending. With its £87b in the bank Apple wouldn't quiet have enough for pay for the following (as per the 2012 budget).
The welfare state, which cost the UK around £207 billion in 2012.
Health care costs, which for 2012 were budgeted at £130 billion.
Education costs, which were budgeted at £91 billion in 2012.
However, Apple could easily cover the UK's Defence bill for 2012, at £39 billion.
As well as that, Apple could help out by paying the interest on the national debt, at a cost of about £46 billion for 2012.
Thanks Apple. We'll take a cheque.
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Dave Beson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 28 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
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I am a real estate sales speaker, consultant and writer. Since 1974 I've spoken to over 3,000 audiences, written or created a dozen products, including LetterWriter, a product for automated customer follow-up and prospecting. My passion is to help real estate salespeople, brokers, managers, and leaders to "BRING SUCCESS TO LIFE." That is the mantra for my company and my LIFE SUCCESS SYSTEMS logo which appears on most of my coaching products, printed products, etc.
Real estate agents are mavericks. In normal times, they are ordinary people, with a few STARS who earn 4-10x as much as the average earner. During 2000 to 2006 many real estate agents saw their incomes triple as home prices doubled. The equity explosion lead to wealth for homeowners and those involved in building, mortgages, title insurance, and home furnishings. Now the implosion of values has rolled back prices by 30% or more. Sales are off, profits are non-existent, and the STARS are dim, by comparison. My most popular topic for presentations during this tough time has been "How to Survive, Thrive, and Prosper in a Competitive (Tough) Market." I'm seeking to turn up the energy and vision of recovery with the new title "BOOM, BUST, BOUNCE." The subtitle of How to Profit from the Recovery Starting Right Now! is hyping, but we need adrenaline!
This book, ebook, and DVD will be viewed by newer agents, experienced residential real estate agents, brokers, managers, industry leaders and some of the curious public who are buying homes, selling homes, building homes, etc. They are likely in the 30-65 year old age range. Thousands will read an ebook summary and hundreds will order the book. 90% of the reader will be real estate professionals looking for WHY the BOOM and BUST occurred, and more importantly, WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW TO GET READY TO PROFIT, or TO PROFIT FASTER.
The image created will be portrayed on our company website, in book reviews, in email promotions, and in any media which can get more viewers to see HOPE in the RECOVERY which has been doubted by many in the media for many years. Still, media talks of a W or U shaped recovery and another dip in real estate values. There will not be another dip. We are on our way UP! -- But only if we prepare for recovery and lead the charge with vision, values and velocity!
I've tested the simplified title THE BOUNCE. It works for a seminar. I am open to visuals which can portray the BOUNCE with that key word as the title. Subtext may payoff the Boom, Bust, Bounce and How to Profit ....
Prefer vivid colors and bold graphics which tie the themes of housing, recovery, profits, and positivity into a graph, logo, stylized text element with art, or whatever will boldly reveal the title, subtitle and tone of the text in a visual way.
The project is cover art for a book, however the image will be used in a number of layouts. a look that will have high enough resolution for print on a 5" x 8" book cover, spine and back cover. Additionally the DVD case, DVD disk, and all ebook or ebook summary products will bear the logo, look, or theme of the cover art. No cartoons, please.
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Qt Software has released Qt Jambi 4.5.0_01, the most recent version of bindings the Qt application and UI framework for Java. Following a maintenance period of one year, Qt Jambi will be discontinued to focus resources on the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework. To ensure continuity of the Qt Jambi implementation, it will be hosted on the qt.gitorious.org site where the community can continue its development.
Qt Jambi 4.5.0_01 provides bindings of Qt 4.5.0 to Java, and includes all the new features released with Qt 4.5, including performance improvements and an upgrade of the Qt WebKit Integration. The newly added Qt 4.5 support for 64-bit Qt-based Mac applications on top of Apple's Cocoa framework will not be provided in Qt Jambi.
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Big project, little project, poem, story, novel, song lyrics: what are you currently writing and what's it about? What inspired it, or was it just spur of the moment, or is it part of a collaboration with someone? Does it fit somehow into your long-term goals as a writer (e.g. practicing a particular aspect, like description or dialogue), or are you just doing it for fun?
Talk about your projects here.
I'll start: from now until the foreseeable future, I'm focusing on editing (which is really re-writing at this stage) my big novel project (currently untitled). The novel follows Qiitsneh, a fox with a bad name, trying to learn more about mysterious ancient ruins that are scattered all over the world. He's hampered by everyone else's disinterest, but he believes many of the seemingly random events in his life preventing him from achieving his goals are also being influenced by an enigmatic being he calls the Imp, which comes every now and then to speak with him and try to persuade him into leading a normal, work-a-day life like everyone else. So he pushes forward, spurred on only by the desire to know something no one else knows.
I've been writing this novel off and on for somewhere around a decade, now. This is the fourth or fifth re-write (I can't remember which anymore), which I'm going to force myself into saying is the final one. This means that after it's done, I'm going to attempt sending it out for publication, in which case my focus is on making it as solid and well-written as it can be. This is a long process: line-by-line, word-by-word editing, choosing playful but sensible language, maintaining a consistent tone across the whole body, filling in plot holes, etc. It may be becoming a whole lot of arthouse nonsense, but that's what I find amusing at this point in time, so that's what I'm turning it into.
If, in the end, someone reads it and finds it cohesive and thoughtfully put together, whether they enjoy reading it or not, I'll have achieved my goal.
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Friday, November 30, 2007
Ugly as Hell
I've been asked it a lot: what does cancer look like? The questions don't usually refer to the microscopic view, of which the above is a good example: big and dark and variable size and shape of vacuolated nuclei, discohesive, not much cytoplasm. People want to know what I see when operating.
Our apprehension of beauty has much to do, I'd guess, with the expected physical attraction to our own form. Smooth and supple, graceful curves. (Is there anything more lovely than the female breast?) And if most people are repelled by the sight of viscera -- as well they might be, spilled in some tragedy -- the essence of that beauty is still there. Our innards have the same characteristics: glistening smooth surfaces, slippery, fine edges, gentle transitions. Those organs that are solid have a cushiony firmness: there's give, there's welcome. And their shades are of the earth: ruddy, fall colors, comfortable ones, like autumn leaves, sleepy and warm.
Cancer is many things, but it's none of those. Arising as it does in every different organ, it has varied forms. It's not one shape or size or color or even texture (although mostly it's hard as bleached bone); but without fail it's ugly. Ugly as hell. And I don't think it's just because of what it signifies, or because of the hollow hole it forms in the gut of the surgeon who sees it where s/he didn't expect it. It's because of what it does to that sculptural perfection. Cancer is Lazlo Toth to the Pieta.* It's warplanes to a rice paddy.** Like a gnarly claw, cancer grabs tender tissues and pulls them toward itself. It distorts and discolors; it pocks, it kinks, it bends and it cracks. As it insinuates inward and hauls back, it transforms the sensuous and the smooth and the curvaceous into the discontinuous, the asymmetrical, the knobby, the pustular, the sudden. When you see it, you know it; when you touch it, there's no mistaking.
In the liver, cancer is a pallid and spidery pucker. The normally purplish smooth surface is studded with gray and hard nodules which, when below ground, pull inward and form jagged depressions. When originating elsewhere, the liver lumps are round but imperfect, like a dirty snowball. In bowel, when advanced and at its worst, cancer glues itself to surrounding structures, dragging them in like a vortex: other loops of bowel, omentum, all tugged and knotted together radially, like arms reaching in desperation out of a whirlpool. Inside, on the inner surface, it rises like an eruption, up-heaved and rolled edges, cratered down in the center, stealing the red and making it into a mucoid leer. Sometimes, as it outgrows its blood supply, cancer putrefies in its core, conferring the sensation of rotten fruit. Usually, though, it's hard in a way that our tissues are not: there's no give, none of the fluid turgidity that feels like life.
Of course, it does have meaning beyond mere sensation, and that is part of the perception. It's not possible to recognize cancer without being impacted by its portent; and that most certainly confers much of its repulsiveness. To operate with intent to cure, and to find those unmistakable signs that it's gone beyond is to have sorrow become physical and palpable. There's no way to count the times I've examined a woman with a lump in her breast and known with near certainty within a second of laying on my hand. In that moment, for me anyway, it's not possible to pretend. I know what's inside: that spiculated gristle, gritty and hard, pus-colored. If there's time, we'll be okay. But it's still ugly as hell.
*An artistically blindered science major, I stopped in Rome on my way to a research summer in Yugoslavia, during medical school. A friend of my family -- a priest, later a bishop -- happened to be there, and took me on a personal tour of the Vatican. Seeing the Pieta was stunning, broadening. That a person could have wrought such beauty from a piece of rock... I detoured to Florence just to see more of Michelangelo's work. And it was not very long after I was there that Lazlo Toth -- whose name has stayed with me ever since -- wreaked his destruction.
**I saw that, too.
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- rlbates said...
Dr. Sid, very nice post. I really like
Cancer is Lazlo Toth to the Pieta.* It's warplanes to a rice paddy.** Like a gnarly claw, cancer grabs tender tissues and pulls them toward itself. It distorts and discolors; it pocks, it kinks, it bends and it cracks. As it insinuates inward and hauls back, it transforms the sensuous and the smooth and the curvaceous into the discontinuous, the asymmetrical, the knobby, the pustular, the sudden. When you see it, you know it; when you touch it, there's no mistaking.
But oddly enought that picture of the microscopic cancer would make a beautiful fabric print. I found that thought disconcerting as I read your post. But I would buy the fabric and make beautiful quilts of it.
- Chrysalis said...
Dr. Sid - can you recommend a site where we can see cancerous tissue, the view that a surgeon has when it is discovered?
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- Terry at Counting Sheep said...
You are quite articulate with your description. I always just sum it up as hideous looking. And it really is.
- Sid Schwab said...
Anonymous: I don't know of one site. If you do an image search for various types, you can come up with pictures like this or this. What a surgeon sees depends on the stage at which it's found, which type, etc.
(Is there anything more lovely than the female breast?)
As if this really needed a response, but the short answer is "No" and the long answer is "Hell no."
Sorry, your little aside made me lose my concentration as I started reading. I'll go back and read the rest of the post. I'm sure it's good.
I've missed your writings. Hopefully, this break is temporary.
Come back. I need more of your blood and guts writings.


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Missing the glaring similaritiesMarch 23rd, 2009
It's sometimes surprising just how narrow the focus of some people can be, when they compare themselves, or a group they identify with, to people who aren't them.
People will tend to expect others to see them in a much better light than they would themselves see other people placed in the same situation. Or than how they would expect other people to see other people in the same situation.
An obvious, and loaded, source for examples around here (Israel) is how many Israeli citizens see the neighbouring Arabs and Muslims. All too many times people react quite severely to bad/improper/unacceptable behaviour from them, while fully admitting they'd behave very similarly in the same situation. And they don't see a problem, because it's different. Somehow. In a way they can rarely articulate.
I'll probably, laziness permitting, write a lot more about quite a few conversations like this that I had in the past. But this particular post is about a single issue, though I did talk with several different people who feel the same as the single example I'll present here.
This one is not about any issue specific to Israel, but rather about the rise in Islam, or in the amount of Muslims, in Europe.
I was talking with this person, an Israeli Jew, and he mentioned reading about the "problem" of Muslims in Europe. He kept on for a while about how the Europeans[1] are having a problem, how it's becoming a large issue there, and how it's going to end in riots and violence.
So far nothing you can't find in the headlines of a lot of newspapers, though his opinion was certainly on the anti-Muslim side.
Then he went on to explain that he completely understands why the Europeans don't like the Muslims . It's because they live in their own segregations, keep their own different culture and their own different customs, dress differently, and generally try to keep themselves different and unique instead of trying to completely blend in and assimilate themselves in the local culture of the country.
Funny that. Seems to be nearly identical reasons for Anti-Semitism against Jews. Let's say circa World War II ? Separate communities? Check. Keeping their own different culture? Different religion? Different rituals, special days, behaviour codes? Check. Different cloths? Check[2].
But according to him (another reminder, this "him" is actually several people), not liking Muslims because of these reasons is fine and understandable. Not liking Jews because of these reasons, though, was/is bad, racist, and completely unjustifiable.
I was already staring incredulously while listening to this, when I was exposed to another gem. It's not just that these Muslims keep themselves different, you see. It's that they plot to make everyone be like them, to take control of Europe by any means necessary, and then take over the rest of the world.
Seriously? All these people, many regular everyday people, all planning together to control the world?
No, I was told. Of course it's not all of them. But they do what their elders and religious leaders tell them to. And those, who lead them, they have a plan, and are driving towards it.
Ahem. Right. I heard about that somewhere. A while ago. I think it was a little bit different when I heard about it, though. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, anyone?
After being persecuted and attacked by people believing such nonsensical hoaxes, I'm talking to Jews (some religious, some old enough to have personal experience) who have no problem believing the same things, based on the same proof (none whatsoever), because it is about some other group that they don't like.
And no, I was told, of course it's not the same. How isn't it the same? Because The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are vicious lies, but these Muslim leaders really are out to control the world.
I admit that as a Jew living in Israel I'm not feeling very happy about growing percentage of Europe's population being Muslim. Especially since the lack of love really does go both ways, and most of them are maybe being taught to hate me a lot more than I personally don't like them. But this sort of tortured logic (or lack thereof), wild accusations, and outright hypocritical nonsense… appals me.
You don't like people because of who they are, or what they believe? Fine, that's your right. But be frank about it. And stop it there. For someone who has been, or whose parents have been, in the exact same situation, and thought it horrible, to now be on the complete other side? And to feel fine and justified about it? Not to notice the similarities? Not even after they're pointed out to you, though it's obvious enough that it shouldn't be required? Enough to get me depressed about humanity.---


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First published September 27, 2011.
These days autism appears to be the disorder du jour and headlines about the newest autism breakthroughs are everywhere. Sometimes filled with jargon or unfamiliar references, scientific news reports can make families feel as if they are listening to Charlie Brown's teacher. In the face of such an incredible amount of noise, how does a concerned layperson know whether a reported discovery is significant?
Below are four quick things you can do to begin to put autism research headlines into perspective:
1. Pause: The first thing you may want to do is take 30 seconds to reflect on how far we've traveled as a community. Regardless of the importance of the specific results, the fact that any autism story is in the press is a remarkable thing. Every "discovery" about autism means there is someone, perhaps even half way around the world and speaking a very different language, that is working to help you. Contrast this to when your child was diagnosed 10-15 years ago—there were but a handful of dedicated scientists working on autism and there were practically no press reports about autism research. The autism community can take responsibility for this remarkable change. It is through the efforts of families and advocacy groups that autism has reached the general public's awareness, more dollars are fed to autism science, and autism publications are now deemed worthy of widespread press coverage. The sudden deluge of reports on autism research is also indicative of the influx of federal and private research dollars that occurred five to 10 years ago—the prolonged life-cycle of research means that projects begun several years ago are finally beginning to pay off. So when hearing about any new research discovery, it's worth stepping back and recognizing how far the world of autism science has come. Allow yourself the time to say a silent hallelujah.
2. Check the source(s): The source of a press report can sometimes provide clues to the importance of the results. Often you are reading a "press release" prepared by the institute that sponsored the work. Keep in mind institutional press offices are (understandably) under constant pressure to put out press releases to publicize the work done by their scientists, as this brings the notoriety that begets more research dollars. Unfortunately, the standard short format of press releases, along with the false belief that the general public cannot stomach scientific detail, usually results in the omission of the detailed back story, or scientific context, which is the very thing that will help scientific outsiders judge the importance of the new results. Together this has the sad side-effect of appearing to inflate the significance of the findings, with the press release punch line inevitably reading: "The Scientist from So & So discovered X, which may one day provide us with a cure for autism." You should therefore always check the source of what you are reading and preferentially look for reports of the story from outside sources. Moreover, if multiple media outlets are dedicating column length, air time, reporter hours or crawl space to the story, chances are greater that the discovery is of significance.
3. Find the context: Above all else, you should seek out credible news reports from trained science writers that take the time to provide the context of the new research findings. What was the particular scientific problem that the researchers decided to tackle? What was already known when they started? What did the results add? Exactly how are they related to an improved chance of helping someone with autism? Without answers to these questions, you'll be hard pressed to decipher the true significance of the research. One particularly good outlet for reporting the context of new autism findings is the Simons Foundation website. Autism Speaks also maintains a blog on recent science news usually prepared from the What-Does-It-Mean-To-Me perspective. As an added bonus, they sometimes have the scientists responsible write about the discovery in their own words—even if these may sometimes veer into more complicated concepts, they can be the most engaging reports of all because they are less filtered through the lens of publicity. Finally, several journals are experimenting with podcasts directed toward wider audiences to help in understanding the real-world significance of research findings. The research journal Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice has a new podcast series, for example.
4. Inform yourself: If you are especially motivated to learn about the specific merit of a news report, the best way is always to obtain the original science publication. The National Library of Medicine maintains an index of biological and medical journals called PubMed. Type in keywords and/or the last name of the lead scientist mentioned in the press report. (Press coverage is sometimes given prior to the actual release of the publication, so you may have to wait until PubMed has had the time to add it to its database.) If you find the paper, you can click on the title to get to the science abstract. These are freely available so you can print it out and bring it to your doctor or any scientifically-knowledgeable person to help you understand the technical details. To access the full research publication you can click the icon(s) to the right of the abstract (above "related citations"). Unfortunately, the majority of time free access to the full text is blocked by publisher copyright and you'll be required to pay for the article—note that it's precisely for this reason that Autism Speaks adopted a "public access" policy requiring its grantees to make the full text of their research publications available for free in a public repository called PubMed Central—although exceptions to this rule can be found by paying special attention to any additional links that say "Free Article." An alternative to the PubMed database is the website of the science journal that published the research. The name of the publishing journal should be in the press report you read initially. This is very important. If there is no reference to the publication of the discovery, this is a big indication that the press is reporting preliminary findings, perhaps announced at a research conference, which are not yet fully-developed or scientifically-vetted. Always treat the significance of such reports with healthy skepticism!
The previous sentence is perhaps the most germane of all—the best way to navigate the sea of TV and Internet headlines is to think like a scientist and become a skeptic. Scientists are trained to be critical and have faith only in peer-reviewed published data (and even then, the data must be considered intriguing at best until the results are independently replicated). If something someone is claiming seems too good or too simple to be true, it probably is.
However, as a non-scientist, just because something you read has yet to impact your day-to-day, you must not immediately assume it isn't relevant. Although a lot of us are waiting for an explosive result, in reality, well-done research is mostly an iterative process, with every published finding, no matter how little or how big, illuminating a next step. And that's what the headlines are really telling us—that after a decade and a half of waiting, those steps are FINALLY coming fast.


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Glamourous Gray's
Hello lovelies, welcome back to my home and garden blog. Standing in the paint aisle staring at the endless sea of colors in front of you can becoming more tiring each and every trip. You will flip flop between so many colors and shades that the store will start charging you for sample sheets, and you still might not have picked up the best choice. When you get home with buckets in hand you might realize that your new paint color doesn't truly reflect the tone of your room or that it throws out the rest of the mood you have worked so hard to culminate. But worry no longer, as I have compiled a list of some of my favorite gray paints. These paints have all been tested by my amazing self, and if that is not enough then you can leave. Read more
Upgrade your life in a new House
Hey readers, welcome back to another post about improving your life on my home and garden blog. The first time you move into a real adult house marks many changes in your life. These can be extremely expensive sometimes, which is why I am always browsing http://www.used.forsale/ for the latest deal on some cheap goods (#Frugal life) so that I can improve the quality of my life at without decreasing my bank account too much. There are so many things that you take with you into adulthood that you can leave at the door (literally and metaphorically) and replace with something else that will fit your adult life much better. Here are some easy things that you can upgrade in your house that will upgrade your life. Read more
Set up Your Home Office
Hey everyone, welcome back to my home and garden blog. You might remember from a previous post that I do about 90% of my work at home. For some people this can be a terrible idea, as they have a very difficult time separating their work life from their home life. Sometimes I struggle with this as well, which is why I am now going to be setting up my home office. Here are a couple of the tips I am trying to keep in mind when setting up my home office. Read more
The Perfect Home Bar
The Perfect Home Bar
Hello everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend! Today I would like to welcome you back to my home, house and garden blog. As you all know, summer time is cocktail time. What is better then laying on a sunny, lazy Sunday afternoon outside in your garden and enjoy a refreshing, cold drink.
Nowadays, for most people it is very convenient to have their own home bar. But where to get started and what equipment to buy? So here are my thoughts on how to built up your perfect home bar. Read more
Magic Bullet recipes
Hi everyone! How are we all doing on this fine sunny spring day? I've been keeping myself busy learning all about the new kitchen appliances I mentioned in my latest blog post. My favourite appliance is obviously the Magic Bullet, and I've been raving about it ever since I tried it out. Read more
Kitchen Appliances that Save you Money
Hello everyone, welcome back to another exciting post on my home and garden blog. Me and my partner recently upsized our living conditions, and as such we have been looking for more 'things' to fill the house with. The first place that I thought needed filling up was our kitchen, up to this point we had only a toaster, blender and microwave. I wanted some more appliances and gadgets to fill the counters and help keep costs down, so I went over to my favourite website for used goods, http://www.used.forsale, and found some great deals on kitchen appliances and gadgets. Here are some of the ones I think will end up saving me money. Read more
Feng Shui - fact or nonsense?
Feng Shui - fact or nonsense?
The exact meaning of the words Feng Shui are wind and water but is better known as an ancient Chinese philosophy. Many people believe in the theory that making your living environment harmonized using Feng Shui brings your home good fortune. Others simply believe it makes their home more comfortable and relaxing. Read more
Ways to make your house smell more Christmassy
Ways to make your house smell more Christmassy.
Flower Fairy
Flower Fairy
Hi guys and welcome back to my Home and Garden blog. Read more
Creative uses for a Kenwood K - Mix
Creative uses for a Kenwood K - Mix
Hi all and welcome back to my home and garden blog. I've recently redone my kitchen and one of the things I was really excited to buy a KitchenAid or a Kenwood K Mix. Seeing as we'd already spent a lot of money on the redesign and decoration of our new kitchen, we couldn't afford to buy a brand new mixer, or the famed KitchenAid. Instead we had a look on my favourite second hand online classified ads website, www.forsale.co.za where I managed to scoop up the Kenwood K-Mix in Raspberry for an incredible price, and it came with some of the great attachments including the Spaghetti pasta cutter and the Flat Pasta Roller, although I have a feeling there's still lots of attachments I would like to purchase! Read more
Living the Life
Living the Life
Fairy Cottage
Fairy Cottage
Hi folks, so Viv here again. So sorry for the lack of updates lately, but I've been madly gardening in the beautiful spring time, getting ready for summer. My sister and her two girls have recently moved into my neighbourhood and we have discovered that my garden is a mystical wonderland inhabited by many fairies, so we have created a little village of fairy cottages for them all to live. Thankfully there was a good supply of second-hand fairy cottages available online, so it has been a fun and cheap exercise. Read more
Growing Lilies
Growing Lilies Read more
Homegrown Veggies
Homegrown Veggies
Welcome back folks. Today I wanted to share with you a big project I'm currently working on and the steps I need to complete before I achieve it. The main goal is to build a veggie garden and while I'd love to say that's the essence of the project I'm currently working on, the truth is that for the moment I'm just laboring: cutting, clearing, weeding and pulling. The notion of planting and edging the garden seems a lifetime away at this stage. I cannot believe how rapidly, in just a short period of time, things can grow here in the tropics. I live up in the jungle next to the National Park so the variety of life here is wonderful. I'm literally surrounded by a million different shades of green. It feels like paradise, but along with it comes a lot of effort. Read more
IPhone (Apple)
IPhone (Apple) Read more
Singing in the Shower
Singing in the Shower
Art Collage
Art Collage Read more
Juicer and Juicing
Juicer and Juicing
Hey there folks. I've been feeling a bit run down of late which is why I have been a bit quiet here on the blog. I have been burning the candles at both ends and not maintaining the healthiest of diets if I am being honest. So I have vowed to make sure that I get a good seven to eight hours uninterrupted sleep a night from now on and take better care of myself. I'm going to also address my diet and get on a bit of a health kick. I'm going to do this by going on a juice diet for a week or so. That is right! I am going to officially be known as a juicer! I am going to use this blog post as an opportunity to delve a little deeper into the world of juicers for sale and the benefits that it offers. Is it for everyone? Is it even as healthy as everybody says? Let's do a little research and find out. Read more
A new found love - espresso coffee
I know this is a bit of a move away from the norm but I have already spoken about my new interest in coffee and after having a play with my friends new bespoke coffee machine I thought I would discuss espresso coffee. Now this really does involve a scientific mind and an artist's touch! I'm not saying I have quite mastered those two things but practice makes perfect! Anyway, what makes the perfect espresso and how do you achieve it? An espresso coffee is a strong, short shot of coffee with a well-balanced flavour. It is knowing how to create this balance that really does create the perfect espresso. Read more
Bespoke coffee machines
Hi there its Viv here again! Keeping very busy as usual! I always have time to write my blog posts though as it really is a great way to de-stress and organise all of my thoughts! It is really great reading all of your comments too, I have picked up a lot of great ideas and its lovely to know that people find my writing interesting. Read more
Cafes and Candy Floss!
Hi there. Welcome back to my Blog. Hope you are all well! Life is pretty hectic at the moment but I am having a really great time. I told you recently that I was helping my friend set up a new café. Well I have really immersed myself into the role – I don't think my friend was expecting me to do so much but she has been really thankful for my help and loves all of my design ideas. I am actually thinking about taking this up as a regular thing. I have a lot of friends in the area who are always looking for interior designers to help with design ideas for their homes and businesses so I think I would be able to find a fair bit of work. Word of mouth is obviously really important so if my friend is happy with everything I do (which she definitely seems to be so far) then I know this will get passed onto other people. Anyway, let's see what happens…don't want to run before I can walk! Read more
70's style
Hi there its Viv again, another hectic few weeks have gone by but lots of exciting stuff I would like to talk about! Read more
My Friend's Birthday Surprise
Hey its Viv and I'm back for another chat. I've been a bit busy over the last week or so, so it's been a while since the last time I got a post up. You know how it goes, another week goes by in the blink of an eye and you're wondering where it went. I'd been doing trips backwards and forwards to my mother's house as she hasn't been well. I've been getting her shopping, cooking her food, there's been trips to the hospital and all this whilst trying to fit in a job and some me time. Well things have thankfully calmed down a bit now. She's back on her feet and feeling much, much, better so I'm back to just looking after myself. Read more
3D Printing
3D Printing Read more
Art Deco Posters & Prints
Art Deco Posters & Prints Read more
Hello everybody, this is Viv, welcome to my Arts blog. Happy to talk about any other hobbies, especially hobbies to do with collecting. I'll be back in a short-while with the first subject of discussion so take care and I'll see you very soon.


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Technical Paper
Characterizing Vehicle Occupant Body Dimensions and Postures Using a Statistical Body Shape Model
Reliable, accurate data on vehicle occupant characteristics could be used to personalize the occupant experience, potentially improving both satisfaction and safety. Recent improvements in 3D camera technology and increased use of cameras in vehicles offer the capability to effectively capture data on vehicle occupant characteristics, including size, shape, posture, and position. In previous work, the body dimensions of standing individuals were reliably estimated by fitting a statistical body shape model (SBSM) to data from a consumer-grade depth camera (Microsoft Kinect). In the current study, the methodology was extended to consider seated vehicle occupants. The SBSM used in this work was developed using laser scan data gathered from 147 children with stature ranging from 100 to 160 cm and BMI from 12 to 27 kg/m2 in various sitting postures.


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New Google 'puts Bing in shade'
Yup we knew that was coming !
Although still in the testing phase, the firm says it is the "first step in improving the speed, accuracy and comprehensiveness of search results".
The new engine will replace Google's current one after tests are complete.
Martin McNulty of search marketing specialist Trafficbroker said the upgrade threatened to put Microsoft's new engine, Bing, "in the shade".


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The domain www.brudertoys.com is unfortunately unavailable at the moment
The service will be available again in the beginning of June.
In the meantime you can check the following links:
For consumer-information: www.activetoys.com
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international website of BRUDER (www.bruder.de).
Please note, that the international assortment may
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THE COVETED SMALLS COLLECTION IS HERE!!! Each 12x12 painting has been painted, bedazzled, resined, wired and hand signed by me with ALL THE LOVE. The size of canvas is perfect for a bookshelf, tabletop or hanging in your favorite spot. These are EXTREMELY special pieces of art and only come out twice a year!!! This is an exciting opportunity to become a collector of my work or to add to your existing collection. COME GET YOU ONE!
12"L x 12"W x 3"D Acrylic and mixed media on canvas covered in heavy resin.


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ATLANTA (AP) — Parts of the Southeast were digging out Friday from a winter storm that dumped snow around the region and played a role in at least one death.
In Virginia, the areas hardest hit Thursday and Friday were in the southwest, where the National Weather Service says 13 inches were reported in Giles County, while Grayson County and the Galax area received about a foot.
Road crews in that part of the state were out in force early Friday to plow and treat roads. Hardest hit was Interstate 77. The highway still had snow cover and there were reports of disabled vehicles along the roadway.
While the winter storm wasn't as severe as initially feared, icy roads remained a concern Friday morning and some school systems decided to open late.
Parts of Mississippi saw 2 to 4 inches of snow on the ground Thursday. In Lowndes County, Highway Patrol spokesman Cpl. Criss Turnipseed said Johnnie A. Matthews, 64, of West Point died when his car collided with a downed tree about 5 a.m. on Mississippi Highway 50.
Turnipseed says the large pine tree in the roadway appeared to have been uprooted by wind and ground saturation due to excessive rainfall. The winter blitz follows days of heavy rain across much of the Southeast.
No other fatalities were reported but thousands lost power.
Virginia State Police say they were swamped with calls at the height of the storm. Dispatchers fielded more than 760 calls reporting crashes and disabled vehicles.
In Bland County, Virginia, heavy snow, downed trees, disabled vehicles and numerous crashes partially closed I-77, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller. Traffic was moving slowly Thursday night and Geller said officials would work through the night to reopen all lanes.
In Alabama, scores of schools, businesses and government offices as far south as metro Birmingham pushed back their opening times for Friday because of the threat of icy roads after freezing temperatures overnight.


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I am a retired Home Economics teacher, still teaching two days a week on a supply basis. I started Patchwork and Quilting City & Guilds level 3 in January 2011 with Loch Lomond Quilt Show Group at The Studio, Dumbarton. Just to put the finishing touches to my final quilt. I am a member of my local Community Quilt group in Dunoon, Argyll, Scotland. I have been very busy with my coursework and miss walking, sketching, photographing which I hope to get back to this spring.
2018 Update. January. Started Diploma Patchwork & Quilting at The Studio, Balfron with Gillian Cooper. More time to quilt less of the teaching.


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Traditional and elegant, this crib bedding features soft pink toile with cream accents. The toile bumper is made out of natural chenille piping and pink stripe ties. A gathered pink stripe crib skirt with pink toile hem and button detail rounds out the set. And one pink gingham fitted sheet creates the base of the set. A pink gingham changing pad cover is available as an additional accessory. Other additional accessories include a crib blanket, a toy bag and a diaper stacker.
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