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Remember the first Irises top? I decided to redo it to fit me, since the other one shrunk a lot and is only fit for the manechin. I will be listing the small version on my Etsy store.
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Irises Top Take 2March 4, 2009
Sewing with Nature ContestFebruary 1, 2009
Felt inspired one day remembering these iris flowers in from of my apartment building where I grew up. I knew that once they bloom spring time began.
Memories and nature inspired me to make a flowy silk blouse with embroidered iris flowers. My blouse is a mixture of natural materials (silk and alpaca fibers) with different techniques combined (felting and free motion embroidery).
I found the fibers at a World Market store, not in a crafts shop. They are naturally dyed, 100% Alpaca fibers, very soft to the touch.
The silk organza is from fashion fabrics club. I bought it online and was surprised as always with the great quality. It is sheer and crinkles when washed. The color is a light olive green.
I have made the felt in a non traditional way (not with felting needles), I used a variegated thread and sewn in free motion over the natural alpaca fibers.
How to:
Pre-treat your fabric like you will when the final project is worn. Wash it by hand in warm water with mild soap and line dry. This will make the fabric shrink and crinkle. You can iron it a little on low temperature before cutting out the pattern. Lay your pattern pieces over the fabric and allow enough fabric for seam allowances (see the tips and tricks on working with silk first).
You will need a free motion foot or darning foot attached to the machine. Drop the feed dogs. This will allow you to move the fabric in any direction you want, just keep it at a steady pace, to make equal stitches in length.
Create your sketch on drawing paper. Use colored crayons so you'll know what color goes where.
Iron on tear away light stabilizer on the wring side of your fabric, where the application will be. Do this after the pattern pieces were cut out and before they are assambled for sewing. Try to do this on a scrap piece and see if you can rip it off easily, without damaging the fabric. On my organza, I could tear it away by pulling grain wise. Pulling cross grain would tear my fabric also.
Trace the drawing on the right side of your fabric. Use an embroidery transfer crayon or chalk. I used a piece of dry soap to trace and it will come out easily with water when washed.
Hand form the shapes of the flowers according to the drawing. Mix in different colors for shadows and highlights.
Use the variegated thread to free hand embroider. Do the contour first and then fill out the center parts, moving the fabric with your hands back and forward so that you go at least twice over every stitch and allow the thread to accumulate. Directions in which to move your fabric depend on the drawing, try to imagine the lines. You can incorporate bead, sew over yarns and ribbons, use your imagination. I wanted to keep it kind of simple.
When the embellishment is finished, continue sewing the garment.
For this project I used a serged narrow rolled hem with the variegated thread.
Wash it again under warm water and try to felt the portions with the fibers. This will create a less tidy look and it will enforce the fibers to mix together creating a stronger fabric.
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P.S. I have entered this top under the Sewing with Nature contest from Craft magazine. Go to the flickr group to see all entries. Good luck everyone!


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My youngest grandson, Tyler, has unfortunately been in Starship Hospital since last Wednesday with parapneumonic effusion caused through pneumonia. What was initially thought to have been a bad case of influenza ended up being something more serious. He has been in hospital having intravenous antibiotic treatments and we are still waiting to hear whether it will be necessary for him to have his lung drained. Hope not!!
Here is a picture of him with his mates Wayne and Astro.
Took him some soup up earlier today (Sunday) and he was thankfully a lot better and his temperature had stayed stable overnight so that is a good sign that the antibiotics are finally kicking in. It has taken nearly five days though for this to happen.
Our family has certainly had its share of hospitals over the past year or so. Just hope that things get better from now on.
He has been such a brave and good patient but is now anxious to get back home again. My daughter has stayed with him at the hospital the whole time and is looking very tired, so hopefully she can get home and have a good night's sleep herself.

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Today I was reading Genesis chapter 3 and this is where Adam and Eve were tempted and gave in to temptation. It is the fall of mankind from a life of eternal fellowship with God to one of separation from God and the beginning of humanity's struggle to accept God's word for what God intends it to be and what we want it to be. Genesis 3:1The snake was more clever than all the wild animals the LORD God had made. He asked the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must never eat the fruit of any tree in the garden'?"
The argument of what God really says or really means is as old as mankind. Because we were given free will, we are unlike any other creature that God put on this earth. We have the choice obeying or disobeying. We can choose to believe in God or not. He will never force us to believe. God wants us to believe that He is our creator and that we are precious to Him and that He loves us. He wants us to love Him and love can never before forced. Free will is our blessing and our curse all rolled into one. It is what allows us to choose to believe in this loving God and accept His provision for forgiveness or chose to believe that we can do it ourselves.
Satan, in whom I also believe in, is a master of deception and a master of twisting God's words. That is how he works and how he got Adam and Eve to fall into sin. It is because Satan knows that we are prideful and pride causes us to think that no one can do it better than we can. No one can love me like I love me. But this is not true. No one knows me better or loves me better than God, our Creator. But Satan twisted that truth and had Eve questioning the truth of God's word with a little jealousy to stir the pot. Between our pride, jealousy, and nowadays our lack of reading the Bible completely to know the truth, Satan finds it really easy to get us to ask, what did God really say?
Satan told Eve that God just didn't want us to have this great knowledge of right and wrong and if we did obtain it, God would be jealous that we would know what He knows and that we would be like God. And, like most kids who are far smarter than their parents, she believed that.
Christians are quick to accept the forgiveness and the gift of eternal life, but then we find loopholes and cause for doubt when we read or hear that the Bible tells us not to do or to do things that we don't feel good about. Feelings, unfortunately will cost many Christian to miss out on many blessings. These same feelings will cause many who are not Christians to miss out on forgiveness and all the time blame God for sending them to Hell.
God does not send people to Hell no more than people get themselves into Heaven. God simply tells us the truth and we use our free will to believe God, who made a simple and complete way of forgiveness and eternity in Heaven, or to not trust God because we think we know better. And all along the way, Satan is there to encourage us to not trust God.
Here are a few things that God says and you can decide what to believe:
Romans 3:23Because all people have sinned, they have fallen short of God's glory.
Sin is anything that you think say or do that goes against God. This means we have all missed the mark. Most of us don't have a hard time believing that we have sinned. We just have a hard time believing what will happen to us because we have sinned.
Romans 6:23 The payment for sin is death, but the gift that God freely gives is everlasting life found in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God told Adam and Eve that they would die when they disobeyed Him. This is a spiritual separation and yes, the physical death is part of the curse. We deserve it because God is God and we are not and we were told to obey Him. His rules, not mine or yours. This is not what God wanted nor wants now, so He gave a solution to our sin problem in Jesus Christ. It is a total gift. This to is not open for our ways to override God's way.
Romans 10:13 So then, "Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
You must exercise your free will to call on Him or not. But whoever does, will be saved from their sin problem. Again, simple, singular (in that Jesus is the only way) and our choice. God will not nor can not force us to love Him or accept His love. He wants us to know Him and learn to love Him just as a child learns to love his parents.
Romans 8:1 So those who are believers in Christ Jesus can no longer be condemned.
Just as God took care of Adam and Eve after they disobeyed, He will take care of us. When we trust God's word for forgiveness, we get God's word for eternal protection and eternal life. But if we chose not to believe God, then we chose to find out the hard way that God does not lie. And when this life is over, we will all meet Him. Some will meet Him as Savior, some will meet Him as Judge, but all will meet God one day.
Romans 14:11For it is written, "As I live," says the Lord, "to me every knee shall bow, And to God shall every tongue confess."
On that day, we will not get the option to ask…Did you (God) really say…?


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The change in venue from an airport hotel in Portland to an independent hotel in Tacoma, which showcased the work of Northwest glass artists, helped make this year's Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association three-day show (Oct. 13-15) particularly vibrant. Booksellers and librarians were buoyed to meet more than 100—including many children's and YA authors and illustrators, from Jon Klassen (This Is Not My Hat) to Miriam Forster (City of a Thousand Dolls), Justina Chen (Return to Me), and Rosemary Wells (Max and Ruby's Treasure Hunt).
The show drew a number of new booksellers like Todd Halbert, who opened a used bookstore, Finally Found Books in Black Diamond, Wash., this summer in the same location vacated by Baker Books when it closed in April. He is devoting a portion of the space to new titles and about 25% of the inventory and sales are children's and YA, he told PW.
In addition to new retailers, at least one longtime bookseller was back in a new role. René Kirkpatrick, who worked for many years at the now closed All for Kids Books & Music children's bookstore in Seattle, attended as a new partner at 43-year-old Eagle Harbor Book Co., on Bainbridge Island, Wash. Altogether, though, bookseller attendance was down slightly with representatives from 90 stores out of 155 member stores. But the exhibit hall was busy both days. "Vendors said it was the best show in a couple of years. The attitude [on the floor] was fabulous," said PNBA executive director Thom Chambliss.
Financial concerns about the organization itself, which had been bubbling up since last year's annual meeting when PNBA announced a five-figure loss for the year, were mostly relegated to the back burner. But the lack of printed programs, one of many ways in which the group tried to cut costs, caused some difficulties when attendees were unable to access the organization's server in the run-up to the show and during the first day. At this year's annual meeting members were heartened to learn that PNBA will likely break even in 2012. Still, Chambliss said that he has begun conversations with the board about his job, since staff is one of the biggest line items on the PNBA budget.
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Educational programming was in no way diminished by straitened circumstances and included sessions ranging from Pick of the Lists for New Children's Books to Building Community and E-Books and Independent Bookstores. "PNBA's more helpful than ALA and PLA," said Lisa Oldoski, who buys YA and adult nonfiction for Pierce County Library in Tacoma. While Oldoski spent much of the education day sitting in on rep picks, other librarians participated in a special track of programming geared to them with sessions on Forging Better Relationships with Publishers and Adult Storytimes.
Susan Richards, who just completed a thousand sq. ft. expansion of Inklings Bookshop in Yakima, Wash., from 3,100 to 4,100 sq. ft., credited part of her store's success to the programming at the trade shows. "We made it so far because of education," she said. Her new space includes a greatly expanded children's section, which more than doubled, from 600 to 1,000 sq. ft. "There are children born every day who need picture books," said Richards, explaining her decision to focus on kids' titles.
ABA's Joy Dallanagra-Sanger led one of the stand-out educational programs directed at children's booksellers, called Meeting the Literacy Needs in Your Community. Panelists Kirkpatrick, Mary Bristow, president of Northwest Literacy Foundation, and Sarah Hutton, children's book buyer at Village Books in Bellingham, Wash., offered suggestions for raising literacy, especially for impoverished children. Hutton encouraged all booksellers to create a Giving Tree this holiday season to encourage people to give books to children who otherwise wouldn't have them. "It's an amazing driver," she said. "Last year we met the wishes of 1,200 kids." Village Books also sponsors an Anniversary Literacy Run on the anniversary of the store, a Literacy Breakfast with big names in the book world like Nancy Pearl, and fields a team for a Trivia Bee. It even has a free tutoring space in its reading gallery.
Culling ideas from All for Kids, Kirkpatrick recommended introducing parents and teachers to music as "another kind of literacy" and donating galleys to schools in need to raise literacy rates for both parents and children. She's also found that early parent programs in which the staff reads picture books to adults can be especially effective. Together with Bristow's organization, Kirkpatrick has created pocket libraries for teens in shelters. Audience members added their own suggestions, including how to get value out of silent auctions for schools. Sue Nevins, a children's bookseller at Mockingbird Books in Seattle, said that her store values an overnight event at $1,000 or more. She finds that as long as a teacher and a parent stay along with a staff member, there are enough adults to make an overnight work for children between the ages of 8 and 12. Not only do the kids have fun, but it makes money for the schools and she can sell between $200 and $300 worth of books that evening and again the next morning.


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Topic: McQuarrie Concept Art
so is anyone else like baffled by the mcquarrie concept art for star wars? i know i am. i managed to find this page (it's all in russian, but that's not what's important) chock full of mcquarrie concept art, and it is balls awesome. see for yourself.
the page has a lot of stuff on it, so it might take a bit to load. still worth it.


text: Schedule of the week The programme of the StartWeek is diverse and demanding. The new students arrive at the University of St.Gallen on Monday, 7 September 2020. Depending on the group the students are allocated to, the StartWeek either commences with the Opening Event, which takes place in the Audimax or the Aula, or finding their group first. The students who need to find their group first will be welcomed by their tutors who lead their group throughout the week. Afterwards, a challenging and exciting schedule will be completed. Each StartWeek group receives an individual group plan for the week, which outlines the course of the week. This includes the administrative introduction consisting of induction sessions to the Library, InfoTools, campus tour, study and examination requirements, as well as acquisition of first-semester reader and group photo. In addition, time will be allocated for the work on the case study. The group-specific plan is complemented by plenary sessions such as keynote presentations, a group-specific evening programme, as well as the Closing Event as the highlight of the week. On Thursday morning, the induction sessions are completed by then and the groups will add the final touches to their case study outputs. The results will be presented on Friday morning to a preliminary committee, which selects the 12 finalist groups sending them through to the final. During the big Closing Event, the finalist groups hold their presentations in front of a large audience. The winning group will be selected by a judging panel of four experts.


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Historical Park
Historical Park Reservations
Call 831-636-4170 for reservations (4 sections available). If you would like to reserve the entire park, please call for special procedures and fees.
Click here to see a map of the Historical Park barbecue sites.
1. A user fee of $50.00, CASH ONLY applies for a maximum of 75 people at each shelter.
2. No refund of $50 rental fee due to rain or cancellation of reservation.
3. No live or amplified sound. Excessive noise at any time may be subject to arrest and/or citation as per Section 415(2) of the California Penal Code.
4. Park closes at sunset. Permittee shall ensure that activities cease and everyone leaves the park.
5. Trees, plants, soil, and shelter facilities are to be left clean and undamaged.
6. Permittee must provide a generator for jumping houses. There is currently no electricity available at the Historical Park.
Organizations requesting a shelter for fund raising and/or open to public invitation must abide by the terms below and also provide liability insurance of no less than $1,000,000 and naming San Benito County as additional insured. Please call for details.
For more information or to make a reservation call the Public Works Office at 831-636-4170 or e-mail us at email@example.com


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"That's the Bread Hotel," my friend Per tells me, when we drive past the bland facade of a Stockholm building. "They claim it's a five-star hotel."
It doesn't look like one. In fact, it looks a bit blank and shabby, less five-star landmark than the sort of place where drunks go to sleep it off.
It isn't until I wander into the hotel on my third day in Stockholm that I realize my mistake. This is, it turns out, such a luxe retreat that, according to manager Åsa Johanson, each guest is guaranteed "love and attention," though she admits the five-star hotel designation is a bit of a joke. That's because the property is really a bakery, and all the coddled "guests" are actually starter loaves of bread—dropped off by Stockholmers too busy to cook, secure in the knowledge that their batch will be stored in a cozy jar and fed the daily rations of water and flour which ensure a fine sourdough baguette.
"Every dough," Johanson tells me, "has its own character." That Stockholm can claim a bread hotel, and see something soulful in the eyes of a seeded loaf, evokes the city's maternal devotion to cultivating seriously pedigreed cuisine. And it says something about the New Nordic Kitchen. While the seductive kitchens of southern Europe will always get the gastronomic heart thumping, it is the frozen bloc of Nordic countries that is emerging as Europe's most exciting culinary center. At the 2011 Bocuse d'Or, the fiercest of the global culinary competitions, a Scandinavian triumvirate cleaned up: Denmark took gold; Sweden, silver; and Norway, bronze.
Sweden may come as the bigger surprise now that Denmark can claim the very visible Noma restaurant (which flaunts enough press clippings to qualify as ElBulli North) and since Sweden, extending into the Arctic Circle, has especially frigid odds to overcome. Start with its larder. Why have gastronomes traditionally headed to the Mediterranean? Because birch sap, musk ox, Arctic bramble, beetroot, and herring (even, or especially, herring served twenty-five different ways) are a tougher sell than olive oil, foie gras, and Valencia oranges. Reindeer and elk tend toward the gamey; lichens and nettles, ripped out of the earth, make for a withered cookbook. If southern Europe is one sunny, relentlessly ripe fruit bowl, the scrappy Swedish terroir can look like a bona fide terror.
Add the intensity of the Nordic seasons and things seem even worse. The mythic five-month winter is Sweden's prevailing, inescapable fact. Whatever crop did bloom, until recently, was a complicated harvest that seemed to offer little in return for so much work—all the busy pickling, curing, smoking, and preserving that kept mouths chewing through the annual big chill.
So how did the prickly country surface as one of Europe's surging culinary stars? I'd come to Sweden to find out, and the best place to start was in Stockholm, at one of Mathias Dahlgren's eateries. But Dahlgren—the country's granddaddy of top chefs at the tender age of forty-three—doesn't want to meet at his kitchen. He wants to drive me out to Rosendal's Garden, ten minutes from Stockholm's center, and when we get there I can see why. Who says the earth is bald up here? The fruit orchard is thick with apple trees, the rose garden is wafting perfume, the greenhouse café is serving fresh-baked bread, and the whole blooming utopia looks like a vindication of the revolution Dahlgren helped launch, in September 2004. That's when he signed the New Nordic Food Manifesto, along with eleven other Scandinavian chefs, including Noma's René Redzepi and Claus Meyer. The main tenet of this culinary declaration is simple: "Chefs should dig wherever they are standing," Dahlgren explains, "and use as many local ingredients in season as they can. The only next trend in gastronomy is whatever is growing next season."
This of course is the locavore rallying cry that has become almost hectoring by now. But it still sounded radical in Scandinavia in 2004, and the happiest shock was how much the Swedes found once they began recovering their neglected bounty. The more than fifty species of wild berries alone—cloudberries, blackberries, bilberries, lingonberries—came tumbling out; the buried treasure of all the Scandinavian root vegetables suddenly demanded respect. But Dahlgren—who grew up in a small village of five houses, total, in northern Sweden—always knew what was growing under his feet. "We were copying for a while, but now we are creating our own language out of our own roots."
If Dahlgren makes the point at Rosendal's, he underscores it when he drops me off at his Matbaren food bar, overlooking Stockholm's central harbor. The casual brasserie, sitting across a foyer from the chef's more formal, sedate Matsalen dining room, is buzzing; there is a horseshoe bar in the middle, and the red-painted wood chairs are draped with wool blankets. Per Styregård, the editor of the White Guide—Sweden's homegrown answer to Michelin—joins me, and together we plow through the menu, paying special attention to the section proudly labeled "Produce & Products from Our Country."
"It's not just the focus on what we already have here at home—the lean reindeer and elk meat, the crayfish from the lakes, the apples from Skåne instead of oranges from Spain," Styregård notes. "The best Swedish chefs are also exploring a flavor profile that's entirely new to the world, a different, exciting experience people aren't used to—the concentrated taste of moss, forest, lichens, wild herbs, and woods."
Granted, that can sound like a mouthful of mulch. But in the hands of local chefs, it makes for a pristine plateful. The proof is our dinner: Östermalm venison paired with boar sausage and spicy cabbage; sweet Sankt Anna Archipelago perch poaching its deep, woody flavor from a forest mushroom emulsion. Even the Matjes herring materializes as a bright sunny bowl, an egg bleeding its very yellow yolk over beets, capers, and sliced potatoes. I am, it turns out, an easy convert.
That first meal, though, resonates in larger ways. The dinner's sheer exuberance—turning herring into something downright seductive is no easy trick—says something about the Swedish sensibility. The intensity of the seasons, that grim winter leading to the sudden euphoria of summer, breeds a split personality, the defining clash of sober and sensual, melancholic and whimsical, that I start to see everywhere.
But I'm already prepared for that split because my twin spirit guides are that pair of doppelgängers Ingmar Bergman and Pippi Longstocking. Bergman, who is ripe for a revival, evokes abiding Nordic gloom; he too often gets reduced to an almost comically bleak punch line—death playing chess on the beach—while his happy, sensual midsummer romances are overlooked. Pippi, on the other hand, counters with buoyant Swedish joie de vivre. I thought I understood her well, having read all of Astrid Lindgren's books as a boy because I appreciated the fact that Pippi, like any dedicated enfant terrible, teaches what to do by refusing to do it. Call her the forerunner and muse of that other best-selling Swedish sprite, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. But the next morning, I discover a story I don't remember when I pull a volume from the shelf of a bookstore where every other cover is emblazoned with an image of Pippi, her red pigtails sticking straight out of her head like bolts of sizzling, high-voltage energy. In Pippi Goes to a Coffee Party, the anti-heroine attends a formal tea and proceeds to consume the large cream pie sitting on the tea table in one indulgent moment. "Now you mustn't feel bad about such a little accident," she tells the tea party matrons when they confront her, pretending she isn't talking through a face dipped in whipped cream. "The main thing is that we have our health." The peerless line pretty much sums up Bergman's more nuanced Nordic themes too. If death is lurking and winter is working on its first blizzard, you might as well enjoy that momentary bliss of the enormous, beguiling cream pie. And don't just take a ladylike bite. Open wide and cram the whole thing in.
That's what everyone is doing, in some form, this day in May as I walk through Stockholm, the entire city giddy now that the sun is shining, preparing for the alfresco celebration that runs from summer festivals through long island weekends to the crayfish parties of August. Sunbathers are planting their white bodies along the harbor, down the strip of the café-lined Kungsträdgården (King's Garden). Men are casting long, delicately arched fishing poles off harbor bridges. And in the Gamla Stan, the medieval town that sits just south of the center, even the old stone houses seem flushed with joy. That's because all the facades lining the cobbled back alleys are washed in a shade of golden yellow designed to contain the dusk, so that the streets become one long, luminous sunbeam in the late-spring afternoon, as if lit from within.
Maybe the biggest part of the percolating early-summer party is the ravenous feasting. And what a lot of locals still want to eat is a cozy kind of Nordic soul food. The payoff is a country that offers a double treat. If you can sample the grown-up, pared-down elegance of contemporary Swedish cuisine, you get to eat your cake too—a really big sloppy cream one—and dine out on the childlike fun food that is the counterpoint to the New Nordic Kitchen. That's especially true at the Östermalms Saluhall, an enclosed market where I go to ogle classic open-faced shrimp sandwiches buckling under the weight of mayonnaise piled up like snowdrifts, and princess torte cakes bundled in green marzipan.
I'm tempted to pack a picnic. But I opt, my second evening in Stockholm, for a classic Swedish smorgasbord at Ulriksdals Wärdshus, a 19th-century gingerbread villa sitting on the grounds of the 17th-century royal Ulriksdal Palace. If the smorgasbord represents the ultimate spring splurge, it also functions as a lesson in Nordic restraint, because you can't just—and trust me on this point—approach the table randomly. There is a prevailing etiquette, which my waitress lays out: Start with the herrings (about fifteen kinds here, from fried to herb pickled to, my favorite, curry); keep your composure and move on to the salmon and cold fish; sample the cold meats (especially the pistachio sausage) and then the hot dishes (meatballs, minced elk, and the supernal anchovy and cream potatoes); and finish, like the controlled adult that you are, with a few sparing desserts. Don't, whatever you do, go back and repeat the process or your fellow diners will glance at you with looks of thinly veiled contempt (I'm just guessing).
The smorgasbord seems like good training for the multi-course tasting menus favored by the youngest front of the New Nordic Kitchen. There are a lot of contenders for the mantle of Stockholm's cutting-edge maestro, but the most passionately outspoken of them is probably Björn Frantzén, the co-owner, with Daniel Lindeberg, of Frantzén/Lindeberg.
"I hate herring," the 35-year-old wunderkind tells me, sounding distinctly unpatriotic, when we meet for lunch on my third day in town. His miniature restaurant, on a cobbled street corner in the Gamla Stan, is already wreathed with mainstream prizes (including two Michelin stars after two years in operation). And when he interrupts our conversation to take a call from his lead fishmonger ("We'll be serving perch just caught in Lake Mälaren tonight"), he is underscoring the point that drives the New Nordic Kitchen. As much environmental curators as foragers, the muscular neo-Viking chefs are dedicated to nurturing an ingredient if they can't find it. That passion has resulted in a network of artisanal specialty suppliers—bespoke farmers, line fishermen, breeders, dairy producers—and a mission to root out every last possible flavor from a stubborn ecosystem. The point is clearly made that night at the doll-size restaurant when I'm handed a manifesto instead of a menu. "The access of ingredients," the scroll of paper reads, "will decide and direct the evening menu. We are giving ourselves freedom to only use the absolute best products."
The 16-seat dining room is spartan because the attention is fixed on Frantzén (Lindeberg is off that night) and his fellow cooks, jockeying for room in the open kitchen. First, my very serious waiter brings a loaf of raw sourdough (later to resurface baked and crusty) in a miniature wooden coffin of a box. Next, a live langoustine lands on the crowded table, only to reappear in seconds as a glistening sashimi amuse-bouche, brightened by lavender, melted pork fat, almonds, Swedish seed oil, and a vinaigrette of apple cider honey.
That one bite, a flowchart of synchronized flavors, justifies all the self-conscious ceremony. So does Frantzén's signature 35-ingredient salad, which showcases everything plucked that day from the restaurant's two experimental gardens in southeast Stockholm (on this night, the haul ranges from white deadnettle and dried leeks to maple flower and yellow primula, topped by the crunch of sea bream scales). But it's the duck breast that makes the most dramatic statement, cooked in front of me while I consider diving for cover as my server blasts the bird with a blowtorch, shooting through white oak charcoal with the steady hand of a hit man. Who needs molecular hijinks and the affectation of complicated equipment when you can pare things down to the original, most organic form of cooking and work with an open fire (or wood-burning oven and grill)? "Then," Frantzén says, "you're mixing two living things—your ingredients and the flame."
That march back to the almost primordial—the open fire, the free-line fishing, and the foraged forest floor—suggests that Sweden's culinary revolution is anything but an urban one. Everyone I talk to recommends at least one kitchen somewhere outside Stockholm, so the whole country—which is long enough to stretch from Denmark to Italy's boot—starts to look like a snaking smorgasbord. There is Bastard in Malmö; Salt & Sill on the far western island of Klädesholmen; and 50 Kvadrat and Krakas Krog on Gotland, where you can catch the ferry to Ingmar Bergman's island of Fårö, framed by a haunting ring of jagged Ice Age rocks. But I choose Grinda for my first excursion, because the islands of the Stockholm Archipelago are the essence of the midsummer Swedish idyll, and Grinda, two hours by ferry from Stockholm, is the essence of the islands. Its only landmark, a butter-yellow villa, has been turned into the classic Grinda Wärdshus inn and restaurant. When I arrive, everyone is digging into a shellfish casserole capped with aioli and rhubarb crème brûlée, on the wide front terrace overlooking the Baltic Sea. Even here, though, in what should simulate Pippi's sunny Valhalla, a Bergmanesque sadness settles too.
"We have a ghost," the inn's owner, Jan Pfister, tells me. It is the spirit of Alfhild Santesson, the wife of the Nobel Foundation head who commissioned the circa 1908 villa and the mother of their four children. A Swedish Jew who discovered that her relatives had disappeared in the Holocaust, the distraught matriarch walked into the sea just outside the villa before the war was over. Her benign, comforting spirit, Pfister says, is visible only to children visiting the inn. Hanging on the inn's walls are photos of Santesson's own children, caught smiling in their bathing suits, perched on Grinda's rocks, lit by a golden summer light that won't admit defeat.
If Grinda is the summer pastoral, then Fäviken, 290 miles north of Stockholm, is the bleaker Sweden, the contrary landscape that seems to welcome winter and resist taming. But I make the trip (an easy forty-five-minute flight followed by a one-hour drive) because if you can make a meal out of this moody crop, you can fully vindicate the Swedish harvest.
And chef Magnus Nilsson does it handily. He's there to welcome me, after a drive that takes me past villages sprouting so many umlauts they look like target practice, where boys used to urinate into barrels of lake trout to ferment the fish. Even this far north, everything seems to be blossoming at the top of the world: the lambs gamboling in the fields; the perennially snowcapped mountains in the distance where the cloudberries grow; the lakes stocked with fat fish; and the meadow that Nilsson proceeds to farm as we walk, plucking a wild broccoli he claims never dies. "You can even pick it through the snow in December," he says, offering me a weedy bite. "This is one of Europe's largest remaining areas of unspoiled wilderness. If you go straight north, you reach the North Pole."
The generous landscape is what prompted Nilsson to move back to the area where he summered as a boy, on his grandparents' small sustainable farm, after cooking in Stockholm and Paris (at two three-Michelin-star restaurants, L'Astrance and L'Arpège). "I can get more good fresh produce here than I could any day in Paris," he says. Clearly that's not true of everyone. But Nilsson is driven by a personal search for authenticity that makes him as much cultural ethnographer as chef. He uses only the direct heat of the open fire or stove top, reserving the oven for steaming vegetables or baking bread ("No molecular cooking or water baths for me; I don't want to reduce a living thing to something you put in a bag"); he butchers and cures his meat on-site; he adapts old recipes rescued from crumbling cookbooks; and he produces fresh ice cream in a wooden bucket he found on the estate, in homage to the nineteenth-century dairymaids who inhabited the inn's refurbished guest rooms and whose photos hang on the restaurant foyer's walls. (My favorite: the dairy school's class of possibly 1895—it's hard to make out the date—who sprawl on a forest floor, wearing bleached bonnets and very white gowns, looking variously like tipped milk bottles or seriously overdressed wood nymphs.)
Dinner is in the 18th-century granary, painted red with oxide, and I feel like I've been dropped into a full-scale Norse saga. This is the real thing: the sprigs of dried herbs hanging on the raw timber walls of the double-decker dining room; the joints of pork belly and dried cod dangling from the beamed ceiling like an organic necklace; the two-man saw and a very shaggy, scary wolf-fur coat.
The only thing missing is Thor's hammer. But Thor would probably have relished Nilsson's multi-course supper that, like Frantzén's oddly flamboyant rendition of dinner theater, approximates an animistic ritual. We start with an amuse-bouche of fermented char and sour cream, served in a long carved wooden spoon, followed by wild trout roe cradled in a crunchy croquette of dried pig's blood. There are dueling lichens—a reindeer lichen topped with dried grated trout roe, and an Icelandic lichen wrapped in a cloudlike frizzle of egg. Cod paired with slow-roasted turnips is followed by a beef broth. The undiluted flavors—the uniquely exciting profile Per Styregård had promised, pushed to the limit—are something I've never tasted before. They are woody, mineral, a bit funky, hitting the palate with a wildness that first tastes raw and then, after a minute, utterly refined.
Just when you think dinner couldn't become any more of a primal grunt, Nilsson comes out, places a mammoth cow bone on a butcher block, and saws through it, his long blond bangs flying, part Viking lumberjack and part shaman. Then he scoops out the marrow and mixes it with raw cow's heart and freshly grated carrots. I'm almost relieved to see that dessert is a relatively restrained lingonberries and cream.
How do you top that kind of roiling culinary drama? You don't even try.


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Johann Sigmarsson-Somethingregal Handmade Desk
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Interview with Johann Sigmarsson : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Johann Sigmarsson : The bed I designed. It's no screws in it. You can puzzle it together in two minutes. I wanted to do a similar desk, but it was more complicated. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Johann Sigmarsson : I just wanted a desk a beautiful item I could be proud of, my own desk. I didn't expected to be awarded internationally for it. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Johann Sigmarsson : I really don't know. The whole thing is so new for me, but it's going to be a part of some exhibitions. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Johann Sigmarsson : It have been going on for two years with pauses. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Johann Sigmarsson : In the beginning I had no clue that I could design, create and built furniture. It surprised me and other people that know me well. The idea for the Equator Memorial Project had its genesis in a bed I designed and made in 2011. Friends and acquaintances showed immediate interest and I was soon commissioned to make another one as a wedding anniversary gift. I went on to build shelves, an armchair with leather seats, and a desk with leather trimmings. Word got around about my furniture making and eventually a small group of people began to form around the current project. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Johann Sigmarsson : I have produce few myself, but the intention are to exhibit it with some other art pieces. If I get some good offers I can't say no, or can I? .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Johann Sigmarsson : No. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Johann Sigmarsson : Its more collectable pieces in very limited amount, but some collectors and companies have bought the pieces. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Johann Sigmarsson : I think it's the wood from the harbor. It gives the piece more character and a bit of romance. It's beautiful to see the old holes from the bolts and the oil from the ships harmonizing together. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Johann Sigmarsson : The idea comes from a famous winner race horse named Somethingroyal. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Johann Sigmarsson : Freehand and photoshop, then I was designing it while I did the prototype. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Johann Sigmarsson : I'm always learning. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Johann Sigmarsson : I was doing it at three studio on that time. It was a company which did the leather and colored it after my order, but I upholstered it. It was another company which was cutting the glass and the third company drilled out the stone knobs after my sketch. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Johann Sigmarsson : I sketched it up and finished the design in two prototypes in 2012 and 2013. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Johann Sigmarsson : I watched my bed I had design and wanted to do some design like it, but the design on the bed is influenced by (semi) Japanese bed I had once. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Johann Sigmarsson : Everything in life has challenge which you have to overcome, accept or leave. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Johann Sigmarsson : I was just looking on google and decided to take a part. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Johann Sigmarsson : That I can do it. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Johann Sigmarsson : That's fine. .
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Pampers is a brand of baby products marketed by Procter & Gamble. Pampers were first introduced in 1961.
Muppet Babies Dolls
In 1984, Hasbro produced a set of two Muppet Babies plush toys as a premium for Pampers diapers, featuring Baby Kermit and Baby Piggy.
Sesame Street
Pampers has been marketing diapers and other baby products with Sesame Street characters on them since 2000. The diapers originally came in 16 designs, featuring Big Bird, Elmo and Cookie Monster.[1]
Pampers Baby Dry began sponsoring Sesame Street and Plaza Sésamo in 2005.[2] Pampers began sponsoring the Sesame Street Podcast in 2007. To launch their 3-Way Fit diapers in 2011, they held a Facebook contest called 30 Days of Play & Giveaways; the new diapers included images of Oscar the Grouch, for the first time ever.[3]
Pampers products featuring Sesame Street characters include:
Plaza Sésamo CDs
In 2007, Cosar Editores produced a set of six CDs for Plaza Sésamo as a premium for Pampers diapers in Chile.
Other connections
The stage show Iftah ya Simsim: Treasure Hunt, in Saudi Arabia, was sponsored in part by Pampers.
- ↑ "Licensing Deal Puts Muppets on New Pampers Diapers", Brandweek. August 21, 2000.
- ↑ "Pampers Baby Dry Brand Signs On As A First-Time Sponsor of Sesame Street and Plaza Sésamo on PBS Kids", Sesame Workshop press release. September 2005.
- ↑ "Pampers Takes a Walk Down Sesame Street with Improved Diaper Designs Brought to Fans by the Letter "P"" Pampers press release, September 29, 2011.


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This derivative Canadian thriller plays like a distaff version of Samuel Fuller's cult classic Shock Corridor fused rather crudely to a standard mad-slasher plot. The story takes place primarily at the country villa of a sleazy horror film director (scenery-chomping John Vernon), where auditions for the title role of his new film Audra are taking place. The casting session is called after the film's intended star had herself committed to an asylum in order to properly research her Frances Farmer-type role, then found herself unable to get out. It comes as little surprise, then, that the six actresses vying for the plum role in her absence are not long for this world, as a witch-masked marauder is wandering the premises with some well-honed implements. This film's surprisingly stylish look is probably due to the initial direction of acclaimed cinematographer Richard Ciupka, but the film was actually completed by a pseudonymous replacement. (The credited director, Jonathan Stryker, is actually the name of Vernon's character.)
- Genre: Drama, Horror
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AS China prepares for a leadership transition next month, problems are mounting: slowing economic growth, the political fallout from the Bo Xilai affair and destabilizing social problems. Chinese leaders find it hard to know what ordinary people really think.
For four years, I tried to answer this question, as I traveled to and from the foggy, industrial megacity of Chongqing as a visiting professor. I spent months teaching and studying in communities without foreigners around, where state-run factories had closed and where landless ex-farmers now live in barren blocks of apartments.
I wanted to find out what was on the minds of ordinary people. What did they talk to one another about? So in 2007, with permission of the authorities, I put up billboards featuring images of trees, like the "wish trees" in Daoist, Buddhist and Confucian temples, where people tie notes about their private desires to the branches, hoping that the wind will blow their prayers to heaven. Chongqing residents stuck hundreds of their leaf-shaped notes onto the branches of my "trees."
Their wishes and worries were candid, heartfelt and startling: people had lost their optimism and were yearning for security and freedom from anxiety. Income is a primary worry for those who have lost their jobs or land. Pensions and social welfare payments are almost nonexistent. People struggle to pay for education. They can't afford medical treatment; clinics and hospitals require patients to pay cash in advance. A serious illness can spell financial ruin for an entire family.
China's one-child policy has turned family life from a source of solace to a font of anxiety. Parents now get just one chance for a child to succeed and to support them in their old age. Single children carry an unbearable burden of parental and grandparental expectations.
In sum, a spiritual hunger has taken hold even as physical hunger has receded. Anxiety and resentment are turning people inward; the Chinese are being consumed by anomie, a listless sense that life has little meaning.
In the late 1980s, Deng Xiaoping's reforms raised living standards and ended the frightening chaos of the Cultural Revolution. Things were looking up for almost everyone. But a further wave of reform in the 1990s closed factories and devoured farms, heralding a storm of new anxieties for many ordinary people.
Chongqing, which for a time during World War II was China's capital, had engulfed surrounding agricultural land. As compensation for lost land, farmers received a cramped flat and a small cash payment. "I'm a citizen at the bottom of society," one wrote for my wish tree. "We would like to punish those who have taken away our land."
In another community, built around a huge but now closed tire factory, one man hung this message: "When the factory went bankrupt, my length of service was one year short and my age was one year short of retirement. I worked for 29 years. What can I do with my life when they closed the factory and my daughter is studying in university?"
Rubbing her stomach, an old woman from the same community told me: "My daughter is far away in Guangdong. I am sick. I've had this lump for a long time. I think it's cancer. I can't afford to go to a doctor, and I haven't told my daughter. I don't want to ruin her life."
The one-child policy has meant a proliferation of "bare branches" — men cast aside as a result of China's skewed gender ratio (six men for every five women). In a culture with a strong preference for boys, parents often use ultrasound and terminate pregnancies for sex selection. Fearful about their chances, even schoolboys worry about marriage.
One undeniably ambitious 11-year-old said he wanted to lead a flying squad, China's equivalent of a SWAT team; another boy, age 12, wanted to be a "trillionaire." But both feared that they would never get a wife. Young women, by contrast, can be picky and state openly that only a rich husband will be acceptable.
I told the officials who gave me permission to put up the wish trees about these anxieties. But in their authoritarian, bureaucratic mind-set the reports were taken as early warnings of social tension rather than grievances to be redressed.
Many people are turning to Taoist and Buddhist traditions, Christianity or newfangled religions and cults. Virulent anti-Japanese nationalism is also on the rise, especially in cities like Chongqing that were major bombing targets during World War II. So are prostitution, gambling and suicide.
In their quest for old certainties, ordinary people are enthusiastically talking once more about Confucius. Prosperous families send their children to classes to learn about the philosopher's "great harmony," and China is creating hundreds of Confucius Institutes around the world. In January 2011, a large statue of Confucius appeared unannounced near Tiananmen Square. It remained for three months but suddenly disappeared without explanation; placing a statue of the sage in central Beijing was evidently a step too far.
The incident is a fine symbol for the true battle for China's future. It is not an argument between Communism and Western models for society. It is a search for the Chinese soul and for an alternative to a tortured contemporary psyche.
When the now disgraced leader Bo Xilai became Chongqing's mayor he immediately spearheaded a popular campaign against organized crime and corruption. Mr. Bo tried to ease the shortage of low-cost housing and to improve the lot of impoverished migrants to the city. He also began a Maoist campaign, encouraging the singing of "red songs" and sending SMS messages of Mao's sayings to millions. This propaganda was designed to attract the support of hard-line factions in Beijing, but ordinary people reacted more cynically. Most people I knew just laughed and shrugged.
But Mr. Bo's high-profile campaign fell apart when his police chief sought sanctuary in the American consulate in Chengdu, complaining that Mr. Bo was riding roughshod over the rule of law.
Although his wife, Gu Kailai, has been convicted of the murder of Neil Heywood, a British businessman, Mr. Bo's whereabouts and future remain a mystery. The "Chongqing model" — Maoist propaganda, handouts for the fractious poor and ubiquitous control of all public institutions, including the police and courts — has been a threat to the Beijing leadership but seems to have collapsed with Mr. Bo's fall from power.
China's export-led boom is fading. Potential economic stimuli might backfire and overwhelm state-owned banks with bad loans. Crony capitalism and corruption are endemic. Extremes of wealth and poverty, as well as multitudes of public grievances against officialdom, are all continuously fueling social discontent.
The anxieties highlighted on my wish trees — the one-child policy, urban migration, health care, educational costs and unemployment — are intractable.
Beijing needs to become more comfortable with decentralizing power, but local government is too often corrupt and incompetent. And at the top, the Communist Party is divided. Its highest priority is the survival of the one-party system, and for now, it seems to have decided that authoritarianism is the best bet. The remaining options for ordinary people are despair or dissent.


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Home pages for portals and projects should be designed so that they strike a balance between dense content and attractive, easy-to-understand presentations.
We also want home pages to provide good promotion and highlighting of central resources, while at the same time also having dynamic, constantly updated content that makes people feel it is an alive site, as well as giving them something new of interest each time they come to the site. In terms of dynamic content, we want to have content that is automatically changing by virtue of automated systems, as well as things that require manual intervention by editors, but which they can easily do through Wikis and simple Web interfaces without requiring the intervention of High Priests of Technology. The rest of this page provides various ideas and design principles we are exploring. It provides principles on how to make a portal from a more content perspective – the various possible ideas, resources and designs to draw upon.
Every portal's top central section has two headers - "Introduction to XXX" (this is an introduction to the content of the site; it is not an introduction to the project itself), and "Project Overview" (this is an overview of the project; it is not an introduction to the content of the project) - with each having opening lines from respective wiki pages and "read more" links. The opening lines are automatically extracted from the Wiki pages, and the read more opens up the full wiki page. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ONLY FOR THE PORTAL HOME PAGE - SECTION HOME PAGES WITHIN THE PORTAL ONLY HAVE A TOP CENTRAL INTRODUCTION; SECTION HOMEPAGES DO NOT HAVE BOTH AN INTRODUCTION AND AN OVERVIEW.
The central top area of the web page should NOT have another header saying "Sera Monastery Project" and so forth. Instead it should have a left hand side image, and then a small header inline that says "Introduction to Sera Monastery", and a second small header inline that says "Sera Monastery Project Overview". Both have sucked in a few lines from the appropriate wiki and then READ MORE links. For the Tibetan Literary Encyclopedia, it would say "Introduction to Tibetan Literature" and "Tibetan Literary Encyclopedia Project Overview". That way people are directed to an introduction to the subject matter, and an introduction to the project. Underneath that is a standard button that says "ABOUT US" which links directly to the Participants wiki.
Project Overview: The opening sentence should name the project and its subject matter and approach to it. The second sentence should refer to the general participants. The rest of the opening paragraph then should detail the nature and significance of the subject matter. The second paragraph then details the actual scope of the project. It does NOT deal with status issues or how to use the project (those are separate info-pages), but links to both of them. The third paragraph then deals with the actual components and resources of the project, organized by the actual sections of the web site. A fourth paragraph might talk about the value of this approach the project is taking to document such a subject matter. It then concludes with a brief mention of the participants (and link to the Participants Page) and gives clear indication of whether any additional collaborators or help is being sought. This should throughout have links to all the other info-links for the project – status, participants.
Subject Introduction: Every portal should have an introduction of between one and five pages that introduces the subject matter of the portal and attempts to give a general, synoptic introduction, along the lines of what you might find in an encyclopedia. This essay will be highlighted in the top center of the portal page – the first few lines will be shown, and then a "read more" link goes to the rest of the essay. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS "READ MORE" LINK MAY GO TO A WIKI OR TO A XML ESSAY - BUT IT WILL ALWAYS SAY "READ MORE" AND NOT "EXPLORE". The portal page will not say "Introduction" or have any header – but when you read the whole essay, it will be headed by "Introduction to Sera Monastery" or whatever. The opening sentence should name the project, refer to the general participants, and name the subject matter since that is what must appear on the portal page in this central area. However, NOTHING else about the Introduction should concern the project or portal – it should be entirely devoted to the subject matter.
Section Homepage The homepage of a section of a project (such as the Activities section of the Sera Monastery Project) only has one box, and it is titled "Introduction".
Determining the Type of Portal: Section or Project?
If the resource is a stand-alone project, such as Drepung Monastery, then it is a project portal. However, if the resource is not a clear-cut project like Drepung but can stand alone but is on a topic that can be introduced separately from THL, then it also should be a project portal. An example of this is the Transliteration-Transcription portal within the Reference domain. While not a large-scale project like Drepung or Sera, the transliteration and transcription of Tibetan and other Himalayan languages can stand by itself as a topic, unlike Research Finding Aids, which are a tool but not a stand-alone topic.
Domain homepages do not have the two headered sections in the top center. They have a single section that contains the overview of the domain. The eight domains are:
Individual Encyclopedia: these have both the "Introduction to XXX" and "XXX Encyclopedia Overview". Example: the Tibetan Medicine Encyclopedia has both the "Introduction to Tibetan Medicine" and the "Tibetan Medicine Encyclopedia Overview" in the top center of the page.
You do not have the two sections when there is not a clear subject distinguishable from the work being done on that subject (that is, the "project"). So for the Domain homepages, these do not have a clear subject distinguishable from the work being done on that subject. The individual encyclopedias, however, do have a clear subject distinguishable from the work being done on that subject, so they have the two sections in the top center.
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Portal sites published by THL should have their own distinctive banners. This means a background image that is distinctive to the site in terms of contents, as well as a potentially unique font and location for the title of the site printed on the banner. The design of the banner should be relevant to the site's content. For example, a site on Cultural Geography might have faded out maps; a site on Tibetan language learning might be a combination of faded out letters and images of people in conversation; or a site on a monastery might have a montage of temples and debating monks. Other ideas are to use Tibetan line drawings as a faded background on a solid color background. In general, the background should either be faded out or of a solid color where the title occurs, so that the title of the website is prominent.
Images must be chosen very carefully. Use small images unless the content of the image is important information, and depending on the size of the image vary your jpg compression from 50-75 in general.
This provides automated content that is constantly changing so that even when editors are busy, people will each day find new content on the site and thus see it as dynamic and a site of learning without effort. This goes through a given repository, and randomly chooses an item, or several items, at midnight each day to present under a header which says "XX of the Day". We need to now explore technical solutions for how that random generation happens, as well as decide precisely what content is exposed and how it is visually formatted. Each item will have a link to "View more" which will then bring up the resource in question with all of its detail from whatever application is providing that content. For example, "term of the day" will provide into the box a term, and the initial definition, while the "View more" link will then open the full study of that term from the Dictionary application. Likewise "Video of the day" will show a thumbnail of the video, its title, and the first words of its description; clicking on the "view more" will then open up the full video and its transcript if available.
The following are our current plans:
"Recently Updated Content": this goes through a given repository, and presents the last X number of items that have been recently modified. It shows a specified amount of data from them, and provides links with the words "More details" to see the full entry.
"Recently Added New Content": this goes through a given repository, and presents the last X number of items that have been recently added – i.e. not updated but added from scratch. It shows a specified amount of data from them, and provides links with the words "More details" to see the full entry.
These items require an editor to actually change the content, but provide easy to use interfaces for that change to be done. Some of these simply involve the use of Wikis in Collab worksites. If others require more than that, then we need to figure out a simple Web interface that Editors can do with no help or assistant from staff.
Please note that all use of Wikis on Portal home pages draw from Wikis in the "About THL" worksite. For example, all "features and spotlights" should be registered under the "Features & Spotlights" wiki page following the models you will find there, including a final link to an "archive" of past postings. Same for "Read more" from blurbs (INTRODUCTIONS), and so forth.
Features & Spotlights go in the framed boxes with scroll work colored headers. We do not want the portal pages, or portal section home pages, to start to resemble a laundry list of items. These are NOT intended to be comprehensive indexes of everything in the portal or section. That is what the primary and secondary navigation menus are for. Thus six is the absolute upper limit for numbers of distinct content areas you can put on a home page – i.e. the distinctly headed boxes or open areas. "Features" & "Spotlights" are strictly separate in function. A "Feature" has only the text you see in the box, and concludes with the hyperlinked word "Explore!" which directly links you to the resource in question. A "Spotlight", in contrast, is descriptive and has the initial textual content from the corresponding Wiki, and then links to the rest of the text with a concluding hyperlinked "Read More". Nomenclature:
Spotlights can be on Staff (title: Staff Spotlight), Contributors (title: Contributor Spotlight), Organizations (title: Organization Spotlight), Projects (title: Project Spotlight). A given thing might be subject to a Feature or a Spotlight, if it is something like Sera Monastery which also has its own Website published by THL. But the Feature would link directly to the website, while the Spotlight would go to a descriptive page ABOUT the project. In the latter case, make sure to prominently give the relative link(s) at the top of the page so that users looking for it don't get frustrated!
In the open areas with solid blue headers with no scroll work, we generally want to have items that are either "news" oriented or "…of the Day" Items which feature randomly changing content each time a user comes to the page.
"News": this can be used to call attention to new developments in the project/web site, including things like getting a grant, a new project being planned, etc. I think we should use the "status" pages for these, and just have as a convention putting the top section of the status pages "New Developments", when is kept fairly short.
"…of the Day": these should be titled "Image of the Day", "Oral Commentary of Day", and so forth. They are feature randomly changing content each time a user comes to the page as automatically generated. The content of these boxes then is completely supplied by the program in question. No wiki page is involved.
If in some cases we want to have more "….of the Day" features and less features/spotlights, we could use the headed boxes for "… of the Day features. Likewise, if we have an extra "solid blue headed open area" space for use, we could put a "Featured" or "Spotlight" item in there – but we should use the words "Featured" and "Spotlight" just like above.
This section specifies how to name boxes and other areas in a THL Portal home and section home pages.
The main point is that the titles should be short and should not reduplicate the name of the portal in question. Side boxes with blue or gold headers generally have the word "Spotlight" at the end of their title, whereas the centrally place content areas with light blue headed titles usually do not. However, use your intelligence! Please note that these titles are always drawn in directly from the Wiki page in question.
New examples should be posted here so that eventually the examples are robust enough to provide adequate guidance.
All pages should have search boxes if this is relevant. No one should have to go to a separate page to do a search. If relevant, the searching may have advanced controls right on the page, or there may be a separate link that says "Advanced Search".
For some resources, browsing may be a central feature. If so, it needs to be highlighted on the home page, and possibly incorporated in some fashion so that users can go directly to the browsing as they want. For example, the Place Dictionary home page begins with a browsing view of the Gazetteer.
This is the paradigm to follow for wiki page names as well as the proper title for each, with Sera Monastery as an example:
(wiki page name - "page title")
From top on down, put all the options and suboptions that are going to be used regularly for navigating this portal and its various contents. The right-hand secondary navigation menu is divided into two parts – an upper part that has menu options specific to the portal in question, and a lower part headed with "General Links" that lists out general THL links that are not specifically part of the Portal.
The topmost option in the upper part should be the set of links which are the core components to which this portal page is giving access. This set of links is by default open when a user first comes to the portal, so that the user clearly sees these resources to which they can navigate. The label for the top set of links in the right-hand secondary nav is the homepage for the portal section in question.
A Project: for the Tibetan Canons Project, which is a section of the Literary Encyclopedia, the secondary nav has "Tibetan Canons Project" as the name of the top set of links.
For the Sera Monastery Project homepage, the secondary nav has "Sera Monastery Project" as the name of the top set of links. Note: if the name runs over the right side border of the right-hand nav column, then shorten the name. For example, shorten "Drepung Monastery Project" to "Drepung Project"
A Section of a Project: do not include "Project" in the name of the top set of links. For the Activities section of the Sera Monastery Project, the name of the top set of links is "Sera Activities"; it is NOT "Sera Monastery Activities"
An Encyclopedia: do not include "Project" in the name of the top set of links. For the Literary Encyclopedia homepage, the name of the top set of links is "Literary Encyclopedia".
Individual Links in the Top Set of Links
If the portal is a section of a project, there is a second set of links in the upper section of the right-hand navigation above the "General Links" header. This is the set of links with the name "XXX Project" – the same set of links that appear at the top of the right-hand navigation on the homepage of the project. These links provide access to information pages about the project – Project Overview, Intro, Status, Help, and so forth. Example: for, the Sera Monastery Project, the homepage of the "Activities" section has at the top of the right-hand navigation the set of links with the name "Sera Activities". Below this but still above the "General Links" header is a second set of links, named "Sera Monastery Project"; the individual links are "Project Overview"; "Sera Intro"; "Status"; "Help"; and so forth.
For a THL Domain homepage, the name of the first set of links in the top section of the right-hand navigation is "THDL [Domain Name]" and the links are the content of that domain.
Example: the Places domain homepage, the name of the first set of links is "THDL Places" and the links are:
Places Dictionary
Maps and Models
The City of Lhasa
Sera Monastery
Drepung Monastery
Meru Nyingpa Monastery
The second set of links are named "About [Domain name]" and the links are: "Overview"; "Status"; "Help"; and so forth. Example: "About Places" is the name of the second set of links on the Places domain homepage right-hand navigation; "About Encyclopedias" is the name of the second set of links on the Encyclopedias domain homepage.
In the lower part of the right-hand navigation, under the header "General Links," the first set of links is for the Domain in which the portal in question is included. The links in this section are the links found at the top of the right-hand navigation on the domain homepage, with the addition of "[Domain name] Home" as the first link.
Examples: the Sera Monastery Project is included in the Places domain. Therefore, under the "General Links" header, the first set of links is named "Places" and the individual links are "Places Home", "Place Dictionary", "Maps and Models", and so forth (this is the top set of links – with the addition of "Places Home" – in the right-hand navigation of the Places homepage).
Below the set of links for the THL domain of which the portal in question is a part is a second set of links. This set of links occurs on every page. The name of the set of links is "THL Global" and the individual links are "THL Home"; "Projects"; "Collections"; "Places"; "Encyclopedias"; "Reference"; "Education"; "Community"; and "Tools" (the top set of links from the right-hand navigation of the THL homepage with the addition of "THL Home" as the first link).
The second group of right-hand nav links should be named "About X"
Example: for the Encyclopedias homepage, the header for the first group of links is "THL Encyclopedias"; the header for the second group of links is "About Encyclopedias"
This is a simple list of items that you want to call attention to in a perfunctory way with no further descriptions or images.
Right now this is addressed in terms of the Geotourism site. Once that is implemented, we will change the particulars to abstract descriptions of each component of these types of pages, and point to the Geotourism URL as an example of its specific implementation for a given portal.
The right hand side is the persistent navigation of that site.
Header that says "About Us" in large decorative font.
Hosting Institutions Machik, University of Virginia. Put logo in for each, and hyperlink name to participant entry form.
UVa - mark I got the logo off the www.virginia.edu web site - namely the picture of Rotunda and uva written in decorate font. I don't know how to save that as an image file that can be uploaded into the resources folder on this worksite and then embedded here. Please do it for me.
machik མ་གཅིག་. They don't have a logo, so put name in large centaur font, and Tibetan script in similar size after it as a substitute logo for the moment.
Editorial Board: David Germano, Losang Rabgey, Tashi Rabgey, Wang Songping.
History: The founding partners of the Tibetan Geotourism portal are the University of Virginia and Machik (HYPERLINK BOTH TO RESPECTIVE HOME PAGES AS SECOND WINDOW LINKS – WWW.VIRGINIA.EDU AND WWW. MACHIK.ORG). We are currently in discussion with several other institutional partners to help with the co-hosting of the site overall. The Tibetan and Himalayan Library is the site's publisher. The portal is intended as a collaborative space in which many individuals, institutions, offices, and communities can publish and distribute resources on Tibetan tourism, especially with the motivation of supporting tourism which is beneficial to local Tibetan communities.
Participating Institutions: Kham Cultural Library, Rabsel, Thanglha Tsewang. As this and the next one get longer will eventually make so you click to expand list out. These should eventually have their logos associated with each, and make their names hyperlinked to participant entries in THL.
Participating Individuals: Angluo, Tsering Gyurme, Tsewang Gyurme, Khenpo Puntsok Namgyal, Tsering Perlo, Lodro Phuntsok, Dorje Tashi. All names should be linked to THL participant forms when they exist


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LEZYNE Lever Kit Received the Best Result in a Comparative Test of Repair Kits
The German cycling market is really coming into their own. They are certainly enthused about testing things and giving results out, which is lucky for us.
Our Lever kit is a pretty all inclusive and functional kit, so well done Bike. Cheers.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 7, 2014) - The ETSU women's soccer team enjoyed a successful, and high-scoring spring campaign. Competing against teams from across the regional area, the Bucs posted a 3-1-1 record in spring competition, outscoring their opponents by a combined 34-4 margin.
ETSU began spring play at Tusculum College, with the Bucs advancing to the semifinals of the indoor tournament. Later in the spring, the Bucs defeated Tusculum at Summers-Taylor Stadium, 7-0.
Saturday, March 29, the Bucs played host to some of the top teams in the region, welcoming Virginia Tech, Clemson, and Vanderbilt to Summers-Taylor Stadium. ETSU played ACC opponent Clemson to a 2-2 draw before suffering a narrow 2-0 setback to Vanderbilt of the SEC.
The Bucs then wrapped up spring play with a pair of dominating performances, outscoring Brevard College and Carson-Newman College by a combined 25-0 margin. ETSU handily defeated Brevard, 10-0, before beating Carson-Newman, 15-0.
On spring objectives: "Firstly, part of our philosophy is to be tactically flexible, and we adjusted the shape and system of the team in a couple of different ways. This was relatively successful. As we expected, there were many positive aspects, but also some issues that will require more work. The change in systems affected the shape of the midfield significantly, and the players adapted to the new roles very well. We asked Emilee Englehaupt to play an unfamiliar role compared to where we have asked her to play the last few years, and she was great. Emilee is what we would term an unsung hero, so to speak. Given the position she plays, statistically she is rarely going to be given credit for the job she does – she plays very deep, and so is rarely far enough forward to be involved in goals or assists, and then doesn't get credit defensively as she is a deep-lying midfield player, rather than a member of the back four. But she is invaluable for us in the role we ask her to play, and doesn't get the credit or recognition she deserves. She does so much work consistently well throughout the game. Similarly, we saw Cecelia Re back to her best this Spring. She did very well in the Fall, while she was returning from a serious knee injury, and progressed very well. That progression continued into the Spring, and she demonstrated how she can control the tempo of the game from a deep position. She is a first-class player."
On rising sophomore Hannah Short: "We moved Hannah Short into a striking role. She has played there briefly for us before, but during the Spring games we played her in that position much more. And she showed what a lethal finisher she can be. She is a naturally talented and intelligent player, so her movement and decision-making was good from the start, but the amount of her chances that she finished was quite remarkable. 15 goals in total. Very impressive."
On starting strongly: "We also chose to focus on how well we start games, our tempo, attitude, concentration, and decision-making during the first 10-15 minutes of each half. This improved as we progressed through the Spring. Additionally, we wanted to increase the percentage of our chances that we take, and decrease individual errors, both of which I think we accomplished."
On returning talent: "Simona Koren scored her first few for us this Spring after a long time battling an injury, and they were some very well-taken goals. Summer Peterson did well at center back. Molly Collinson played a few different positions and did well. Jas Dutton performed consistently well at left back too. And Sarah Zadrazil maintained her usual high standards, again combining good performances on the field, strong academic work, and returning to Europe to play for Austria multiple times. There were many good performances from lots of players in addition to those mentioned. We are all thoroughly looking forward to the Fall and getting started with pre-season training in August. There is a lot of potential in the team. It is very exciting."
Receive live game updates and behind-the-scenes access of ETSU Women's Soccer by following the newly-launched Twitter handle, @ETSUWSoccer.


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Mauldin: Markets Cede Control to Central-Bank Policies
Mauldin Economics president John Mauldin explains how central banks have taken on so much influence and power markets seem to be surrendering to them. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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At The Plate – Iowa didn't really have a lot going offensively, but they didn't need it as the one run they scored in the second inning was enough for the win. Brent Lillibridge was 1-for-3 with a walk in the win. Dave Sappelt, Brian Bogusevic, and Josh Vitters all had base hits in this one. Donnie Muphy had the biggest one, a run scoring single in the second, he finished the night 1-for-2 with said RBI.
On The Mound – Matt Garza is just about ready to return to the Cubs and he showed it tonight. Garza was brilliant going six scoreless innings giving up two hits while striking out six, he threw 75 pitches, 53 for strikes. Brooks Raley took it from there as he worked three scoreless inning out of the pen for his first save of the year, he gave up two hits while walking one and striking out three.
At The Plate – The Smokies broke through with two runs in the sixth inning to break a 4-4 tie, and eventually win 6-4, the win pushes them one game over .500 on the season. Arismendy Alcantara was 2-for-4 with a double and a runs scored in the win. Ty Wright had a huge night for the Smokies going 2-for-4 with two home runs, four RBI's, and two runs scored, Wright came into this one with no home runs on the season. Jonathan Mota was 2-for-4 with a run scored, while Rafael Lopez was 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored.
On The Mound – Matt Loosen never really found his command in this one as he worked four innings giving up four runs on three hits while walking six(!), and striking out five. Then the bullpen took over for the Smokies and won the game. A.J. Morris was perfect going three scoreless innings while striking out three to get his second win of the season. Marcus Hatley worked a scoreless eighth inning giving up one hit. Frank Batista worked a scoreless ninth to earn his fifth save of the season while striking out one.
At The Plate – The Daytona bats finally woke up, unfortunately that wasn't enough to win tonight as they drop another disappointing one to Charlotte. Daytona scored seven times but left a lot out there as they were only 3-for-15 with runners in scoring position. Dustin Geiger is putting together a solid season and had another good night going 3-for-5 with his fourth home run of the season, a double, an RBI, and two runs scored, he is now hitting .298 on the season. Ben Carhart was 1-for-4 with a walk, and two runs scored in the loss. Huge night for Chadd Krist, he went 3-for-3 with a walk, two doubles, and five RBI's, not bad for his second game with Daytona.
On The Mound – Probably the worst outing you will ever see P.J. Francescon have, he had nothing. Francescon went five innings giving up ten runs, eight earned, on nine hits while walking five and striking out three, his record fell to 3-3 on the season. Jeffrey Lorick was decent out of the pen going 1.2 innings giving up one run, unearned, on one hit while walking one and striking out one. David Cales was okay out of the pen going 1.1 innings giving up one run on one hit while walking one and striking out one. Hunter Cervenka worked a scoreless inning giving up one hit, he has a sparkling 1.62 ERA on the season.
At The Plate – Game one was all Cougars, they didn't break it open until late but they only needed one as they beat the Chiefs in game one 5-0. Pin-Chieh Chen was 2-for-3 with a walk, an RBI, and a run scored from the lead-off spot. Gioskar Amaya had a big game going 3-for-4 with a double, three RBI's, and a run scored. Dan Vogelbach was 1-for-4 with a double, and an RBI in the win. Willson Contreras is locked in right now, he was 2-for-3 with a walk, he is now hitting .307 on the season. Marco Hernandez was perfect in game one going 3-for-3 with a double, and two runs scored.
On The Mound – Brian Smith was awesome for the Cougars, in fact he was almost perfect. Smith worked four scoreless, and hit-less innings while walking two and striking out two. Eddie Orozco took over and was very good, he worked two scoreless innings giving up one hit while striking out one to earn his second win of the season. Jeffry Antigua came on to close this one out, he worked a scoreless inning while striking out one.
At The Plate – The Chiefs got payback in game two as they routed the Cougars 8-2, the Cougars could only manage three hits in this one. What's worse is they committed six errors in seven innings, that usually doesn't end well. Jeimer Candelario was one of the few Cougars who had a strong game two at the plate, he was 2-for-3 with two doubles, he also committed three errors. Marco Hernandez proved to be the only offense for the Cougars going 1-for-3 with his first home run of the season, two RBI's, a run scored, and you guessed it, an error.
On The Mound – As you could imagine the Cougars pitching didn't get a lot of help from their defense. Michael Heesch got the start and took the loss, he worked three innings giving up six runs, two earned, on four hits while walking two. Steve Perakslis was solid out of the pen working three scoreless innings giving up three hits while striking out two. Bijan Rademacher, the Cougars starting right fielder, worked one inning giving up two runs, unearned, on two hits while walking one.


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CASE33434: Horary consultation concerning Agnes Armstrong (PERSON21867)
Question asked by Mrs Elizabeth Rawnson (PERSON25022) on 7 May 1608 at 14:45
GJ Agnes Armestrong of Stony stratford 20 y. Maij 7 ♄ ho. 2. 45 p. m. 1608
[Astrological Chart]
Mr Rawsons servant the Cooke hath bene heertofore troubled wth the mother. once in 2 moneths had no fitt this quarter of a yeere but very sickly.
Quærit dna ejus vtꝝ sit gravida concubuit cū Marriot a mercer b|a| batcheler of the same towne. /
Transcribed entry from MS Ashmole 229, f. 114r (upper right part of page)


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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Sweet Home...Alabama?
I must say, we've exhausted the entire northwestern quadrant of the country for places to live...I'm excited for a little change of scenery. And I'm ready for a little sunshine.
13 comments:
- Kathleen said...
Wow! Congrats to Tony! Busy times ahead for you all...but busy is good, right?? So, will you be saying "Roll 'Tide"?? :-) You'll "only" be 18 hrs away from here!
- October 23, 2010 at 8:55 PM
- Heather said...
That's exciting! Josh's brother spent a year there doing the same and they enjoyed a lot of fun BEACH time! Congrats!
- October 23, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- Leenz said...
Wow! Congrats Tony! A new adventure and area to explore will be fun.
- October 23, 2010 at 9:23 PM
- Jeni said...
How exciting!!! I think you are in for a treat. Dang you move east right when we will be moving west (Beale AFB, Sacramento area).
Our movers just dropped our household goods off here last month just to come back the first of June to take them to California. Same thing happened in Germany and Mississppi. We just have to keep our cool!
I really am excited for you guys.
- October 23, 2010 at 10:20 PM
- Jeni said...
p.s. I was very nervous about going back West and North I didn't care for it before but Sacramento has the same weather as Atlanta...0" of snowfall, sunny, warm very seldom gets below freezing.
Madi and I are going to be California Girls :-)
- October 23, 2010 at 10:25 PM
- Madeleine said...
Congrats Tony. I think you will enjoy it there. The elementary school on base is great.
- October 24, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Franklin Fam said...
My hubby is at Maxwell right now going to OTS... Congrats!!! How awesome for your family. The base is so pretty! Enjoy it!
- October 24, 2010 at 2:06 PM
- Camie said...
Oh my goodness..."on the road again." It seems like it was yesterday we were all hanging out in Papillion and now you are on move numero two since then. Good luck to you and all the comes with movig...the people of alabama are lucky to have such a great family.
- October 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- Nicole said...
Way to go Tony! You have such a good attitude, Amber, about moving again.
- October 24, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Jeni said...
FYI There ain't no sittin' on the fence...Auburn or Alabama? You gotta pick one if you're gonna live there.
My family moved from Ft. Sill, Okalahoma to Ft. Rucker, Alabama January of my 11th grade year and I graduated from Enterprise High. I remember we had to pick and boy is it fun during football season!
- October 25, 2010 at 9:03 PM
- Jenn said...
Wonderful! Never lived in the south...sounds like a nice change. Wish it were here though.
- October 26, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Eloise said...
Wow, Amber! Look what happens when I get behind on reading blogs!
Can't believe you're moving again already, but what an exciting opportunity for Tony!
I hope you like Alabama. I think you'll find the people very friendly.
Keep us posted on the "home hunting" and the move. What do the kids think?
- October 26, 2010 at 10:54 PM
- Kyndra said...
WOW! That's exciting. I once attended 4 elementary schools in one year (Idaho, northern California, Southern California and France) so I know how exhausting military moving can be. But it makes the kids stronger and better friends with each other, and it is always a good adventure. That's very exciting for Tony. Congrats! Maybe our paths will cross at some point in time...
- October 27, 2010 at 11:22 AM