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The announcement of the Asus Transformer Prime sparked a fond memory in most of us, as the name is shockingly similar to that of Transformer Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. As most of us expected, Hasbro did not stay quiet about this one, and filed a lawsuit against the Taiwanese manufacturer. But the court has oddly sided with Asus on the issue, so the Transformer Prime will keep its name.
After trying to convince the judge that the Tegra 3 tablet was seen as a usurper of the alien robot, he found that such was not the case. Other than the name, there is nothing relating the device to the Transformers saga. He believes there is no real evidence that customers will confuse one company's products with the other. The judge had this to say:
There is nothing gimmicky about the Eee Pad Transformer or the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, nor can it be said that there is any similarity in the use or function between Hasbro and Asus's
Furthermore, the Asus Transformer name is justified by the fact that the device can literally transform into a laptop by docking into a keyboard. And the word "Prime" is simply a word that derives from Latin, defined as something that is first in excellence or quality.
Regardless, we can't say that the issue was not to be expected. The name is very similar, and Transformers have been around for quite some time. Now that the court has made its decision, Hasbro walks away with a loss under their belt, but they claim the war is not over.
Hasbro strongly disagrees with the Court's decision not to preliminarily enjoin Asus' use of those marks, however we were pleased with the Court's views on the strength of Hasbro's TRANSFORMERS and TRANSFORMERS PRIME marks. While the case proceeds toward trial, Hasbro will continue to actively pursue this matter and will take all steps necessary to protect its globally recognized and established marks.
For now, the Asus Transformer and Transformer Prime will keep their respective names and will remain un-banned. Until Hasbro makes its next move, we'll just have to hope that Optimus doesn't get too trigger happy around the Asus headquarters. More on this as it develops.
So what do you think? Should Asus rename the Transformer line? Drop a comment below!
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Yesterday The Pederson Benefit Run took place at Afton State Park. 'This Benefit Run was created to support our friends Colleen & Larry Pederson, who sustained a tremendous amount of damage to their home during the recent flood in Zumbro Falls, Minnesota. After the flood, many people who were able to do so, volunteered to help Colleen & Larry with cleaning up the mess & the damage left behind after the water receded. The work seemed endless, with many hours spent cleaning, tearing down walls, ceilings, pulling out the floor and the fireplace, before rebuilding could begin. Still many, especially those who were not able to be there in person, asked what more can we do? As trail runners we thought let's do what we do best…Run! And the idea for the benefit run was born.
Over the years Larry and Colleen have become familiar faces in the Trail Running Community, dedicating countless hours of their time so that runners may enjoy the sport they love so much. Each year some of the fun that we get to experience on the trails because of them are The Fall Superior Races, Zumbro 100 & In Yan Teopa. Larry also founded the Upper Midwest Trail Runners Association'
The schedule of events slated were as follows: 1)Run either a 7 AM or 9 AM start, depending on mileage 2) Silent auction 3) Pot luck
What a great day!
I left home by 530, then stopping for gas, making my commute long enough to miss the 7 AM start. My plan was to run 6 hours, more of a time on feet than a total mileage run.
As I pulled into the lot I saw a group of 7:00 ers on their way out. A few stragglers made their way to the course start as I lubed up and added layers. My car said 6F so I put on a heavier shirt, knowing I'd be back in the lot after the first 25K I could change again if necessary.
I had consumed berries and cream at home, sucked back a VESPA enroute, grabbed Hammergel Espresso for my pockets, filled my handheld bottle with water and removed myself from the car.
Half way to Afton I wondered about the trail conditions. Were they snow covered, ice covered, should I have screws or snowshoes? It was too late. My Gortex Inov-8 winter shoes were probably fine.
As I began my run I was relieved that the trail only had about an inch of snow. Enough to make the run slower than usual but not a big deal. The tread on my shoes was enough to keep me upright. In the first mile I ran past Afton Ski Alps base hill and they were making snow. The snow was floating across the trail and here I walked as the snow was a good 4" deep. I was thankful I wasn't going to be running through that all day sans snowshoe!
I followed the trail and noticed a fat tire track from a bike and some yak track tracks amongst a few other tracks of runners somewhere in front of me. I turned to take a right up a steep hill and was surprised to see that the trail was closed due to erosion. Hmm..I trotted back onto the main trail and ran along. Pretty soon I noticed arrows pointing me to take the trail to the right. WOW, trail markings to mark the 50K course. How awesome was this! I noticed that the trail marker had a big railroad tie spike holding it upright. It had to be tough to drive that nail into the frozen ground-and the ground was rocky here. I said a thank you to the one who marked the trail.
Since I was running solo I was really paying close attention to the trail and made a point to look for these nifty arrows on the ground and each trail intersection. What a blessing.
About 4 miles into my run I came running down the hill and there was a big cooler of water at the first 50K aid station when the summer Afton Trail Race is held here. What a treat. My bottle was frozen up and the water was more ice chunk than water. I smacked my bottle on the table and filled it up with the warm water, gulping it down before it froze. Wonderful. Filled my bottle back up, said thank you to the water deliver-er and headed off.
I was so happy to be out running, to be enjoying this wonderful day. It was sunny, not much of a breeze, the day would warm to mid 20's. Perfect.
I kept marveling at the fact that here I was, running solo, and enjoying the winter run. I was comfortable in 2 pr of gloves, hat, neck gaiter, my Patagonia heavy pants and jacket. I like my pants and jacket so much for winter running. I'm always comfortable. I've had this set for 4 years and almost think I should buy another because as soon as I get a hole or tear and need another..Patagonia will have discontinued the items. I loved my Houdini jacket and lost it at a race..now I can't find another! The jacket they market as a replacement is not as light.
As I was saying, I was totally enjoying this run. I felt awesome, the sun was shining on my face, I felt as though I was in meditation.
As I came up near mile 9 I saw the bike I had been following leaning upon the bridge but couldn't tell who was near it. A water station was set up here so I cracked my bottle on the bench, emptied out the ice and refilled with water, sucked it back and refilled again. I looked up and there was Don Clark.
I should have figured it was him. He is Chief Course Marker and I did see his name as one of the entrants for Arrowhead 100 in the bike category. Here he was, out on the course, riding and marking. I thanked him and gave him a huge hug and stood there, yakking at him for a long time. Finally I pulled myself away from our conversation and continued my run, smiling all the way. So good to see and talk with Don. Pretty soon I hear something coming down the path. Don yells 'hey, you are running faster than I can ride this thing!' I ran with him biking along the trail for some time. What a treat.
A few miles prior to the finish of my first 25K I spotted a pair of runners ahead of me. I trotted on and came upon Tom and Carl. It was good to say hello. Tom and I began to run toward the Visitor Center. We had plenty to talk about as we rounded back into the parking lot. Tom was finished with his run, headed back to the Visitor Center and I headed to my car for a refill of VESPA, grabbed a few gels changed into a lighter shirt to wear under my jacket.
During my second 25K loop I didn't see a soul. I don't know if everybody ran 25K or less or if I was just missing everyone. It was warming up, I noticed my water was no longer freezing and my gels were no longer the consistency of frozen frosting! About 4 hours in I began to feel like I was urinating too often. I was paying close attention to how much I was drinking and then realized I hadn't taken any S-CAPS. I dug into my handheld pocket looking for some but they were not there. I couldn't help but think of my first 50K, also at Afton, where I bonked and blacked out, pretty much having Don carry me off the trail. That was 7 years ago!
I began to feel a bit loopy but nothing to fear. I ate two gels to see if that would put my mind at ease. It did. I only had two hours left to run and felt in good shape. Because I didn't stop to chat with anyone during this lap I ended up running it faster than the first.
Pretty soon I was back to the lot, then decided to walk through the picnic area for a cool down. I've noticed that walking before and after running seems to help recovery for me more than stretching does.
What a great run. I stopped at my car, collected a bag of warm clothes and headed to the Visitor Center. It was just full of people wanting to support and give to Larry and Colleen. Amazing. There was hot coffee, pop, tables of food. Tables of silent auction items and just a feeling of compassion in the air.
I quickly changed into dry clothes and began to visit. What a great group of people. Larry and Colleen didn't feel deserving of this treatment and that is because they are so humble and so giving of themselves. They couldn't get over the fact that we were there for them and we were all so happy to be able to help them out.
After a few hours of visiting I had to say my goodbyes to get on the road for home and evening plans.
Thanks to all who turned out yesterday. Together we can do anything!

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RICHMOND, VA — Decreasing revenue and memberships at Robious Sports & Fitness during the past five years didn't stop a private equity firm from purchasing the Richmond, VA-based fitness and wellness center last month.
CJW Medical Center, which is a part of the Hospital Corp. of America, sold Robious to Boxwood Partners, Richmond, VA, for an undisclosed price. The county in which the club is located assessed Robious' land and buildings at $7.4 million earlier this year, according to RichmondBizSense.com.
CJW approached Boxwood about the purchase, according to Patrick Galleher, principal at Boxwood. A statement from CJW Medical Center indicated that the company wanted to focus on its core service of delivering health care.
Revenue and memberships have dropped in the past five years at Robious, according to Top 100 club forms submitted by the company to Club Industry magazine. In 2008, the company reported $3.4 million in revenue and 2,639 memberships compared to $4 million and 3,500 memberships in 2004.
Galleher says that competition has increased in the area, creating an oversaturated market.
The club's main competitor recently renovated its facility, which caused some members to transfer, Galleher says. He also says that the 20-year-old Robious is "a little tired and needs a new face." His group plans to invest between $1 million and $1.5 million in upgrades, including new furniture, carpet, tile and perhaps two more indoor tennis courts. He plans to offer more yoga, Pilates and group classes than the club offers now and to continue with racquetball offerings for the 200 to 300 active racquetball players who are members.
The 70,000-square-foot facility sits on almost 11 acres in the Richmond suburb of Midlothian, VA.


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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Herding Cats and 12 Other Reasons I've Not Posted About Education Lately
1. Momma said, "If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all." That kind of says it in an abbreviated version. Things have been tough lately in elementary world, and I just didn't feel like airing my dirty laundry at the time.
2. My trip to Mississippi of course diverted me from my end of the year frustrations, and it has been fun so far to write about the things I saw.
3. I've been exhausted lately…..now that the big test is over students think school is over and how can we tell them otherwise when we have day after day after day of "activities" such as "Thank God the Big Old Test Is Over" Celebration, Career Day, Field Day, Accelerated Reader parties, and "You Have Amassed a Collection of 10 Great Behavior Slips Over a 9 Week Period" Party. I'm not knocking these these…..I'm just saying it's hard to comply with an administrator's directive to maintain order and structure when kids are are fliting about hither and yon. It makes for a crazy, confusing, exhausting day. One student had it right yesterday when he said…."When are we going to talk about history again. I miss it." Gee little buddy, I do too. I showed my kids my Mississippi pictures today and we discussed how plantation owners lived. They were amazed.
4. Awards……Just like Santa I've been checking my list twice….trying to see who has been naughty and nice. I know to a non teacher type filling out award certificates seem like a no brainer, but this is a high stress part of my job. If I miss one kid…..if I misspell one name…..if I use a middle name instead of a given name…a given name instead of a nickname…..get the picture?
5. End of the year letter……I still haven't printed these out. I must do this tomorrow. You can see my letter here. My letter is a tradition I have with all of my students. As of Friday 463 children will have received my letter. My high school intern was in my class when she was in the 5th grade, and she brought me her copy of my letter for my students to see the other day. They are now anxious to get theirs. I usually try to write a little personal note on the letters, and I hand them out when we are doing our awards ceremony in the classroom. I have 83 to complete by Friday.
6. I'm not sure why but Dear Hubby and I decided to begin yet another renovation project in the kitchen. Every dish, spice container, can of food, glass, and every other object in my cabinets is now spread about the house, and the cabinets are waiting patiently for a good sanding and paint job.
7. Test score analysis---------scores came in last week. Mine were great. I'll post more about it later, however, as team leader I was asked to figure out our team's high spots and low spots. I've been up to my elbows in long division and percentages…not my forte by any means.
8. A good portion of yesterday was spent taking up textbooks, checking them to make sure the numbers matched the ones I issued, and making sure there were no damaged pages. Loud Mouthed Boy better bring his math book to me tomorrow or I'm going to have to resort to filling out all sorts of required forms and will send home the letter informing Mom how much she owes. Why I have to go through this labor intensive exercise I don't know…..Loud Mouth Boy's Mom will never pay and it will never be brought up again.
9. Fights. Some kids have simply had it with each other by this time of the year. One of my sweet boys served three days detention because of a shoving match with another young man. Even our girls have had some problems. The stress of remaining vigilent every educational moment is draining the life right out of me.
10. Frustration……….We give awards for all As all year, all A/Bs all year, most improved, all As all year in each subject area, citizenship, and perfect attendance. We found out last week that administrators were directing us to make sure that every…..EVERY….student left school on Friday with an award. I cannot even begin to post here my opposition and total aversion to this practice. I am not alone in how I feel. Many at my school are also fuming. We began the year advertising the awards that would be available, and we discussed goals and benchmarks to reach the levels to receive these awards. I find it repulsive that the hard work of many students will be made so little of by also awarding students who have done only enough to get by. Do we think the children who work hard don't notice this? As a parent I would consider it an insult if my child received an award they did not earn. I tell you….we had a hard time figuring out how we would meet the administrator's directive. The main reason this is so hard to comply with is the directive isn't to motivate those who didn't make the cut……it is simply a diversionary tactic so that administrators can avoid those certain parent complaints that are inevitable as they wonder why there baby didn't get an award for all As……gee, get a clue. Did you see any As on the report card all year? Where were you when we called you for a conference? Why did you hang up on me when I called to speak with you?
11. 178 days on the same roller coaster. I'm ready to get off the ride.
12. Herding cats….that's what I have been doing for the last several days….and as I told someone today….we are attempting to herd a group of cats, and they are all distracted by a constant supply of lint blowing around on the floor. There is simply no way to maintain any semblance of classroom decorum at this point. Hmmmmm…….I wonder if I could manage to get everyone on the floor tomorrow, assume the lotus position, and chant for awhile. Ommmmmmmmmm…. Well, it was just a thought.
13. I'm tired, I'm brain dead, and I'm almost catatonic. I simply don't have it in me to banter about educational issues because at this point I think I'm about as done as the cats, er……the kids.
Two more days with students and three additional with administrators and then…..elementaryhistoryteacher will be doing the happy dance once again.
16 comments:
- Dewey said...
I totally agree with you about number 10.
And I saw my last students today. I have two more days of work, but finals are over! Time for a much-needed break.
::herding cats::
as an almost-40 college student hoping to be a teacher I am shuddering in fear LOL
Mama Kelly
my 13 are up
Let me tell you that I understand your frustration. They should only get the awards that they earned. My main frustration is with the lack of discipline....which is definitely needed at the end of the year. This was my worst year in 10 years....I'm hoping that a change in grade level will make a difference. Just breathe....it will be over soon. I feel so much better..today was my last day...until August! happy tt!!
- Judy Callarman, Scrabble Has-Been said...
I teach English in a junior college, and I can see the results the last five years or so (getting worse, too) of the babying children get in public schools. Your #10 is a good example of how kids are almost encouraged and taught to think they are "entitled," without deserving anything. My last couple of TT items are related! What's to be done about it? They have to be taught accountability.
- pussreboots said...
My MIL is also a teacher. By this time every year she's completely spent and doesn't want to talk about school. Happy TT.
- HappyChyck said...
Oh my dear! We are totally on the same page, but I still have ten days of school. The awards issue is terrible, and I would be so irritated. The REAL awards won't be as valuable. I hope that the students who worked hard to earn the rewards can still be proud of themselves. To frame it for them, it's about personal goals, not what's fair--that's for sure!
My husband's a teacher and he just went off on a tirade about #10.
He quoted The Incredibles
"When everyone is special, nobody is."
It's just wrong!!!
His last days are sucky too.
Hats off to you! You have one of the hardest jobs in the world and I am very grateful for teachers.
Enjoy your summer.
- Lee Dixon said...
Hang in there.
We patiently await your return.
- Christina (BookTasty) said...
Ya know, this was my first year and the end of the year was definitely filled with excitement and stress and lots to do!
- Christina (BookTasty) said...
The end of the year is exciting mixed with stress and lots to do!
- NOLADawn said...
Awards are the toughest part. As a teacher, I try to think of the positives for every child. As a parent, I must say I was disappointed that neither of my children got an award from their teachers....
I love your letter, I am stealing that!!
- Stephanie said...
Sounds like you are ready for summer vacation!!
Have a nice one!!
- Mrs. Bluebird said...
ARGH! I so totally agree with you on number 10. We went through that same nonsense with our Title 1 program...it absolutely infuriates me!
- Harriette Jacobs said...
Me thinks you need a week long uninterrupted sleep-in......and then some!
Bless your heart - I hope Summer is lllllooooooonnnnnngggggggg.
Oh, I so hear all of you when it comes to this. I have 4th grade and I have felt exhausted all week long. My last day with the students is Friday! Then I have 4 workdays. I'm so excited!! Hang in there everyone, it's almost over!


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Matthew Kneale is the authorof the novel When We Were Romans, the short story collection Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance and the novel English Passengers, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He is a keen traveler who has lived in Japan, Canada, and Italy, and has journeyed extensively across the globe, visiting seven continents and walking in mountains from New Guinea to Ethiopia, Patagonia to Pakistan. Kneale lives in Rome, Italy, with his wife and two children.


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For the last few weeks, I've been trying to get the hang of using Weland. However, there has been a consistent and extremely annoying bug when I use the program. When using Weland, I will often encounter an "Unhandled Exception" pop-up that forces Weland to close. It seems this pop-up only appears when drawing polygons, but will not appear if I am doing something else with Weland (Such as assigning ceiling heights or filling in polygons for example). The bug seems to appear at random, as sometimes I can use Weland for +10 minutes just fine while other times I will encounter the bug just seconds after launching the program.
I apologize if perhaps there a simple oversight on my end that is causing this issue, but I have skimmed all over and can't seem to find a solution. I have .NET framework 4.7 and GTK# installed, and if it matters, I'm using Windows 10. I would appreciate any help with this.
EDIT: I would like to report back that I have seemingly fixed this issue by uninstalling GTK# and installing a previous version of GTK# in its place. Weland has crashed only once in many hours since I have done this so I think this issue is resolved.


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Hi Everyone!
I just wanted to share with all of you what the Genealogy Program Flyer looks like that we pass out to inquiring patrons at our reception desk in the central library to anyone inquiring about what our library offers for genealogy.
I think it looks very good!
You can see it here:
Genealogy Program Flyer for STDL
Tony Kierna
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Schock hints he'll run for governor, slams Dillard
Congressman Aaron Schock hasn't formally confirmed a bid for governor yet, but he's already come out swinging at the wide field of likely GOP primary candidates.
"I've watched cycle after election cycle, Republican horses trot out on the track and show nothing," the Peoria Republican said in an indirect slam at state Sens. Kirk Dillard, of Hinsdale, and Bill Brady, of Bloomington, who made unsuccessful bids for governor in 2010.
He also took a more direct shot at Dillard, who indicated shortly after the Nov. 6 election that he will be making a bid for governor in 2014.
"There was one guy who announced two months ago," Schock said. "You can hear crickets," he said of excitement over Dillard's bid.
Schock, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, described a "world of hurt" for the debt-laden state of Illinois.
Schock, 31, gave a firm "yes" to questions about whether he is considering a bid but wouldn't give a timetable on his decision.
"Any serious candidate will announce within the next six months," Schock said.
Schock, whose views include opposing gay marriage and abortion, nonetheless stressed his electability across the state and said he would have "no problem competing in the suburbs" as he has performed well with moderate voters, women, and young people in past races.
Schock, however, would not comment on the state's GOP leadership and a move by some GOP leaders to oust state party Chairman Pat Brady of St. Charles for his statements supporting legalized same-sex marriage.
"I"m not telling the state central committee what to do," Schock said.


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Danau Maninjau is the most famous lake of visit in West Sumatra. The word Maninjau means 'view over' embedded in a crater of seventeen bij eight km, and surrounded by steep 600 meter high forest covered borders. Danau Maninjau can compare itself with Danau Toba ('Lake Toba'), only it's a bit smaller. On quiet days the surface is almost like a mirror; the lake if full with fish, which shoot up to the surface whenever they think there is something to eat. An ideal space to relax or to enjoy nature. There are nice swimming facilities and paths for walking, hotels, restaurants, boats and even water-skiing is possible.
The journey of two hours to the lake is an experience on itself. Take the main road towards the south from Bukitt Tinggi and turn right after five km. This road runs along the foot of Bukit Kapanasan, through the small city of Matur, then crosses a forested valley and runs from the crater-edge towards Embun Pagi ('Morning Fog'). The view is breathtaking (altitude 1097 metres).
Ask the driver to make a photo stop over here. There also is a small hotel. In the early morning small children sell brightly colored handy-crafts of straw. From Embun Pagi the road descends in 44 sharp turns towards the village of Minijau (on 470 meters), at the border of the lake.
Puncak Lawang, another, higher viewpoint, is north of Embun Pagi. From here a walking path runs towards the crater edge and the lake near Bayur, a village four km north of Maninjau. Take for Puncak Lawang the northern route (right) near Matur to the village Lawang, a distance of about five km. A sign points towards the lake on the left side, near the toll gate.


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The indie drama "Fruitvale Station" isn't about a cause, a movement, a policy or an agenda, but it is about change, both for those who see it and for those who made the film.
Written and directed by first-time helmer Ryan Coogler, "Fruitvale Station" dramatizes the real-life 2009 story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old African American resident of Oakland, California, a parolee released after a pair of brief stints in state prison for assorted felonies.
After celebrating New Year's Eve with friends and the mother of his child, Grant was returning home on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train where a fight broke out, and as a result Grant was detained at Fruitvale Station by BART officers and in a subsequent altercation, an officer intending to taser Grant fatally shot and killed him.
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Witness reports and cell phone video of the incident suggested that, even if Grant's death was accidental, the officers' response had been out of proportion to the circumstances. Controversy and public outrage ensued – including protests and rioting – over police brutality in the region.
"I discovered the story the same way as everybody else in the Bay Area," says Coogler, then an Oakland native and the same age as Grant. "I happened to be home when Oscar was shot, and I found out about it through word of mouth first because they shut down the BART station. People were saying, 'This boy got shot in Fruitvale.' And then the next day, it was all over the news.
"Everybody in the Bay area was deeply affected by it. People got their feelings out through different ways and picked sides. It became very political, very fast. In that process, I saw people ignoring the fact that this guy was a human being, and he didn't make it home to the people who he mattered to. That got completely ignored…And for me, that happens so often: people like Oscar – people like myself – aren't looked at as full human beings. And that's why I wanted to tell this story."
Coogler's film follows Grant in his final days, creating a sympathetic portrait of a young man struggling to put his troubled past behind him but deeply loved by his mother, his girlfriend and their then-four-year-old-daughter.
The movie quickly began collecting significant accolades at high-profile festivals – including Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the Sundance Film Festival and Best First Film at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie's leads Michael B. Jordan and Melonie Diaz have emerged as breakout stars, and Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer is already being shortlisted for another bid for Oscar gold.
Spencer was almost the one that got away. After her heralded performance in 2011's "The Help," the actress was collecting trophies on the awards circuit when Coogler's agent suggested that she might be perfect for role of Grant's mother Wanda.
"We needed somebody great," he says. "She's somebody who's very important in the film. She represents Oscar's past. This is the person who holds him accountable, and she's the one who's most impacted by what happens. And it's such an important role for me because she speaks for so many moms that go through that."
Coogler assumed landing Spencer would be an impossibility. "I'm like, 'No, man – she just won an Oscar. Are you crazy? I'm about to be shooting this movie in a month at my grandma's house.'"
He was almost right. On a tight schedule due to her skyrocketing career, Spencer bypassed reading the script and instead learned about Grant's story through a documentary account, which infuriated her. "I turned it down initially because of what I saw, and I said, 'You know, all I'm going to bring to this is anger, and anger is not the right emotion that this story needs at this time,'" recalls Spencer, whose agent urged her to read the script nevertheless.
It swayed her – and offered an unexpected surprise when she learned Coogler was a black filmmaker. "I was like, 'Oh my God - I'm so enlightened right now because I assumed that he was a young Jewish guy," she chuckles, "because he took such an interesting and positive way to tell the story. We know the outcome, but he could have come from a place of anger and chose not to. What he told and what he was able to do is restore some of that humanity that we never got to see with Oscar."
Coogler happily conceded to Spencer's one caveat – she didn't want to play "old" (the actress has frequently been cast in roles older that her 41 years). This suited Coogler's vision perfectly. "When I met Wanda I was taken aback by her youth – like, 'Is that you?'" he says. "I realized this is a young woman who had to go through the most intense pain a human being can experience. And that's how these moms are: they're burying their kids out here that young. I wanted to embrace Octavia's youth on this role."
Spencer became passionate about the project – she came aboard as a producer after early financing fell apart, securing additional funds and luring additional name actors – including Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray and Ahna O'Reilly – to take on supporting roles. "That was how much she rolled up her sleeves," says Coogler, who saw that her participation in the film was igniting similar fervor among the cast and crew. "When she acted, she stepped everybody's game up, everybody from the supporting cast to the technicians to everybody around. It's like a jet pack hooked up to something."
Leading man Jordan was coming off of buzz-building TV stints on "Friday Night Lights" and "Parenthood" as well as the feature film "Chronicle," and was looking for a challenging project that would put his name first on the call sheet – but even as he fulfilled his ambition he realized just how daunting a task he'd accepted in playing a real person. "I'm thinking, 'Okay. His mom's going to have to see this. One day his daughter is going to watch this movie. Everybody in his family's going to have to see this project,'" says Jordan. "So it just added pressure."
Jordan turned to those closest to Grant for help in realizing who the young man was at the core. "I relied so much on talking to his friends and getting whatever information I could from the family and the people that knew him the best," says the actor.
One of the most difficult days for the actors was shooting the scene in which Grant is killed, in the same spot in the actual train station where his real death occurred. "Going through those emotions as somebody's about to die, it's pretty scary, especially being shot right over the brick where he was actually shot," explains Jordan, "The bullet hole is still there in the ground. Going through those moments and knowing he was laying right there where I was at – I definitely prayed a little and talked a lot to him during that time."
"It's changed me in a way in that it's it's not just making a movie," adds Jordan. "Being part of a bigger picture, of a movement, something that's going to hopefully spark conversations and change within people and how we treat one another. It happens way too often. Is it ever going to stop? No, probably not, but if we can have people start questioning themselves and how they can be better people and how not to be so quick to judge. I think I was part of something special. And I'm kind of living with Oscar now."
Spencer agrees the experience was transformative. "I wanted to do this film for my nephews – because I'm not a mom, but I'm an aunt. And I know that if I feel this way as an aunt when my nephews – not my nieces, only with my nephews – leave to go out and hang out with their friends: that moment of panic that you never articulated. I did it because I don't think any mother or any aunt or any sister or any woman of color should have to go through that just because their loved one leaves the house for a moment."


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Miscellaneous thoughts about miscellaneous matters
In the past, it seemed like most people used facts as the bases of their opinions; Marketers usually based their campaigns in fact; even politicians worked from facts. And people who disagreed usually started from contrary facts. Recently, it has seemed like most people ignore facts, just saying what their fantasies dictated.
It might be that I was deluded in the past, and it could be that I have been mistaken more recently, but I think it would be safe to say that even opinions
In Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius, Niccolò Machiavelli went on at some length about how elders have been complaining about the younger generation and younger people have been complaining about the elders for thousands of years. His thought was that the degeneration was exaggerated, because humanity would have fallen into savagery long ago if the generations were progressively that degenerate. Or I might have made that up to try to make Machiavelli look even better. But even the
Voter fraud has been common in some times and places, but it mostly went out of style many decades ago, Candidate fraud is perhaps even more popular now that it was in the past.
It used to be that politicians in the U.S.A. were some of the best people in the country, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, and so on. But that came to an end in the 1820s and 1830s, when people like Andy Jackson started doing well in elections. There had been a few populists and demagogues before that,
I was working on a work of fiction, when I realized that what I had one character complain about was a major problem in today's world. The character was talking about setting up a school that would teach the basics of Rhetoric and Logic, so that the graduates would later be able to make better arguments and to detect fallacious arguments. The problem is that most people never learn the basics of argumentation and logic, so they can't tell when someone is using a logical fallacy, and much of the
Beyond fake news and other forms of lying we find marketing puffery:
The FTC stated in 1984 that puffery does not warrant enforcement action by the Commission. In its FTC Policy Statement on Deception, the Commission stated: "The Commission generally will not pursue cases involving obviously exaggerated or puffing representations, i.e., those that the ordinary consumers do not take seriously." e.g., "The Finest Fried Chicken in the World.


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As soon as this week's free pattern was completed, Meg and I both cast on the Splash of Color cowl, one in each new colorway (12 new colors are being released this spring as part of our retailer subscription program). Meg's is in Berry Brambles, mine is in Golden Pagoda. The colors are bright, but what a great way to add an accent color to your outfit.
If you love cowls, this pattern from Kelly J. Knits, the Key to Warmth Cowl, knit here in Liberty Wool Solids and Prints, is brilliant.
We also dressed up our office with Liberty Wool Print. Machine-knit, the installation is 60' total length in 20 colors of Liberty Wool Print...overall 8900 yards and 8 pounds of wool with 73 color changes!
|Putting the Liberty "knitdown" on foam core for our office decoration.
|Finished! All 60 feet of it!
Downtown Knits in North Carolina has another beautiful display idea using the Molly scarf, one of our best selling patterns. Owner Michele Riggs knit one ball of each color into a scarf, and as new colors are released, she just adds a little more to it.
Betsy, the owner of Classic Elite Yarns, knit up a Log Cabin blanket (with the help of the Mason Dixon ladies) in multiple solid and print colorways of Liberty Wool.
Hub Mills Store here in N. Billerica knit up a chair cushion in each color to soften up the chairs for Knit Night. You also catch a glimpse of the Aldred scarf over the chair, an independent design that uses Liberty Print's color variegation very cleverly.
How do you use your Liberty Print?


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Statement from House Democratic Leader Sam Singh (D-East Lansing) on the House Republican 'Action Plan':
Thursday, February 16, 2017
"Republicans never run out of ideas when it comes to making life more difficult on hardworking middle-class families. What's worse is pushing a tax plan that will require drastic cuts to our public schools, road funding and local police and firefighters. It's time we retired this sad old playbook and put building a strong middle class first again."


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PFRH Special Studies in Public Health Practice
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Provides students with the opportunity to receive academic credit for direct involvement in public health practice activities such as: on-site placement with a public health agency, community organization, or academic center involving active participation in public health practice activities; Development of public health practice or policy recommendations based upon current research findings (translation); advocacy activities, for example, testifying in the legislature, and presenting data for the purpose of influencing public health policy or practice; preparation and conduct of a presentation related to a public health problem for a broad audience, including public health practitioners, community members, and other professionals; and direct participation in the activities of community boards or advisory groups.
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Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
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Tagged: Joseph Kony
The Filibuster
Simplistic campaigns to hunt down public enemies (like Kony 2012) are all the rage these days. When will you all be launching Selig 2012?
Annapolis, MD
It is no secret that the authors of these pages hold no love for the staunch bureaucratic policies and seemingly never-ending reign of King Bud the Nosepicker. Indeed, we've ripped the man's decisions in every which way and have even gone as far as to say that George W. Bush would make a perfect Commissioner in comparison (no joke here, we really do think Dubya would be perfect for the job). But to compare Bud Selig to the heartless, maniacal, baby-raping mass murderer Joseph Kony? Um… that's a bit much.
But just a bit.
The good news is, people are getting educated on Kony's crimes. And they're doing something about it (unless *this* derails it). However, when it comes to the tyranny of King Bud, we already know about the bevy of shenanigans. There's just nothing we can do about it.
If I may break from the usual 'ol crotchety me for a moment, I would like to point out that, in my opinion, the overall state of our national pastime is as good now as it's ever been. Seriously. If you turn your head from the silliness that is King Bud's All-Star Game, and if make yourself forget about that whole Ryan Braun cheating thing, and pretend like the overall muscle bulge of the 90s and early aughts was caused by "supplements" that can easily be purchased at your local GNC, then you might conclude that, indeed, baseball's vibe is very good right now.
The networks are fighting to get in on the expanded playoffs. Parity is slowly squeezing its way into all divisions. And the Pirates still suck!
More than that, people are still paying money to watch Adam Dunn play. Erin Andrews is still showing up in dugouts. And Tampa Bay seems to be in the playoff picture every year now, despite the fact that no one in Tampa Bay seems to care.
But most importantly of all, the St. Louis Cardinals are World Champs!
So for now, I can take a couple more years of bassackwards politickin' from the usurping Milwaukee millionaire.
But I swear, Brad, if he reigns for more than two more years, you, me, Mr. Krause and the entire baseball universe are taking to the streets with Louisville Sluggers and Molotov cocktails (not to be confused with pet names for Kevin Millar).
Hate me. I don't care. Just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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SINKING SPRING, Pa. -- Municipal officials in southeastern Pennsylvania are spooked over a Halloween attraction's plan to let guests go through one of its haunted houses in the buff.
The Shocktoberfest seasonal attraction in Berks County had been advertising what organizers billed as the "Naked and Scared Challenge." They planned to allow guests 18 and over experience a haunted house nude.
The popular "scream park" occupies parts of Spring Township and Sinking Spring borough. Owner Pat Konopelski says officials in both communities expressed their opposition to the Naked and Scared Challenge, so he's going to alter the event and require people to wear underwear.
He says he hopes to work with officials and offer a fully nude option next year.


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It was cute enough for the kids, fun enough for the average joe and just enough of the right stuff for the die hards.
*sigh* Yes... everyone thinks Bumblebee being a Camaro was a mistake. What can you do? At least he was yellow and at least he didn't die... like poor Jazz. :(
The special effects were PHENOMENAL!!! I sorta felt that some of the shots were a bit too tight and I couldn't really see what was going on when they did close ups of the transformations. That could have been the theatre that I was at though.
The robots movements were so fluid and human- like. This was one of my favorite things about the movie. The robots had just the right amount of personality. It was a perfect blend of human and machine; they were even funny. I must say that these robots were very sexy. I had a total fan girl panting session. I'm in love with Optimus Prime. *purge bad thoughts, purge bad thoughts, purge bad thoughts*
The product placement was a bit much. GMC over did it. It was so over done it was disgusting. It wasn't even cute like when the Mountain Dew machine turned into a robot.
I've never know enough about the Transformers story and their origin to nitpick what was in the movie. It was enough set up for me.
Now about the humans:
Everyone did a great job.
The film stars Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky, who has the map to the Allspark, an object at the center of the war between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons.I'm impressed with Shia. When I heard that he was going to be in the upcoming Indian Jones movie, I nodded my head. I can totally see this. He's funny, he had weird, cuteness about him. John Turturro was also another favorite. Gosh that man is funny. He had a weasel-ish thing about him that was delightful. Some of the human scenes went on for too long; the car malfunction thing, the parents house thing. I wanted more robot action but it won't stop me from buying the DVD or anything.
Hugo Weaving was the voice of Megatron. Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime in the 1980s cartoon, reprised the role for the film.I didn't know this before the movie but these two guys did a damned fine job.
I also heard that there are more films in the works. I say great but I want more about the homeworld and the saga of the Transformers themselves. I liked the human interaction but I want to know more about our heroes.
On a side note. The ending scene with Sam and Mikaela making out on Bumble Bee was a bit weird. Let's not have anymore of that. ;)


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Steelers sign Plaxico Burress
Wide receiver returns to Pittsburgh to add depth
Plaxico Burress is back in town, ready to get to work for the team that drafted him 12 years ago -- and he said he'll be ready if his number is called Sunday.
"I feel pretty good. I've been training for several months now," Burress said Wednesday, after his first practice with the Steelers. "You can never really simulate the physical part of football, and obviously being out there in practice and games. But I've been playing a while, so I have a couple tricks up my sleeve where I can kind of get in there and make some plays, so we'll see what happens."
It's only a one-year deal, but the veteran wide receiver is excited just to be back on the field. He says he has plenty of football left in him, and he'll wear his old No. 80 jersey once again.
"I still have some true Pittsburgh fans around here, and that's one of the reasons why I went back to my old number, so they would not have to go out and buy a new jersey," Burress said.
While the number is the same, the 35-year-old man who's wearing it is no longer a brash rookie. He's older now, having experienced the highs of a Super Bowl victory with the Giants and the lows of a two-year prison stint for illegal gun possession in New York.
"I'm an old man -- wife, family -- so my life is a total different direction, and I'm just happy to be out here playing football," Burress said.
Pittsburgh was in need of a healthy, experienced receiver immediately. Jerricho Cotchery is out after suffering multiple rib fractures against the Ravens, and Antonio Brown, who has missed two games with an ankle sprain, is questionable for Sunday.
"He knows how to catch the ball," said quarterback Charlie Batch. "He has been very successful in this league -- Super Bowl champion. No one is expecting anything less. I know seven years ago, nobody wanted to see him go. That is just part of the business."
The Steelers expressed interest in bringing Burress back after he was paroled in 2011. At that time, a WTAE.com poll with nearly 5,000 votes showed fans were 68 percent in favor of not signing him. By Wednesday afternoon, the tally had changed to 53 percent pro-Burress.
"I do know that a lot of the pieces are in place, and the goal when you walk into this building is to win a world championship," said Burress. "I just want to come in and have an impact."


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Cutting a new bike chain to the correct length for installation and removing a damaged link for an on-trail chain repair are essentially the same job. Make life easier: Use a full-size tool at home and save the compact tool for mid-ride fixes. Here's how to fix your chain no matter where you are.
Fix your chain at home: You'll need a quality chain tool such as the Pedro's Pro 2.0. Line up the tool's pin with a pin on the chain. (If it's a Shimano chain, do not remove or replace the Hyperglide pin; use a new Hyperglide pin and in a new location on the chain.) Tighten the tool until its pin puts light pressure on the chain's connecting pin. Crank the handle, making sure the tool's pin stays straight. If it twists, stop and realign everything so as not to bend the tool's pin. If you bend it, most tools have replaceable pins available; some even come with one inside the handle. Then push the pin far enough through so you can remove the extra links.
Fix your chain on the trail: If your chain breaks mid-ride, use your multitool's chain breaker to remove the damaged link. For SRAM chains, reconnect using the reusable Powerlink; for a Shimano chain, you'll need a new Hyperglide pin. If you don't carry an extra one, you can use an existing pin to reconnect the chain. Just don't drive it out completely (the mushroomed end of the pin gets rounded off upon removal); leave it in one side plate. The connection will be weak and the chain will be shorter, so pedal home gingerly and replace the damaged chain before your next ride.


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Anonymous hackers have defaced the home page of Alpha Unmanned Systems, a company based in Spain which claims to be:
experts in designing simple and portable Flight Control Systems. The company is based on over 25 years of combined experience in the field of aircraft control systems. UAV Navigation designs and manufactures the most advanced Flight Control Systems (FCS) for UAV and General Aviation on the market.
At the time of this writing the front page displayed the following message:
This is just another covert corporation funded by the CIA.
And just as uavnavigation.com you have been hacked. Manual remote control of the UAVs plus the video
transmission, both without a proper encryption? Are you serious? Guess some border patrols and law
enforcement fags will soon miss some drones…LULZ, YOUR LEVEL OF FAILURE IS OVER 9000!!!
STOP THE TORTURING AND KILLING of peaceful people in Syria and Bahrain!!!
STOP ATTACKING peaceful "occupy" protesters in USA, Canada, Germany, and all over the world!!!
And for god's sake, stop that Orwellian INDECT bullshit NOW!!!
Guys like you are nothing but tools of the terrorists of this world.
Terrorists like Bashar al-Assad (regime of Syria), Barack Obama (regime of USA) and King Hamad (regime of Bahrain).
And once more, for god's sake:
FREE BRADLEY MANNING, finally!!!
We are Anonymous,
we are legion,
we do not forgive,
we do not forget,
you should have expected us!
The final taunting paragraph will probably get some IT guys in trouble and cause some massive havoc:
Oh…Your password for the admin panel was not safe, so we allowed ourselves to change it.
The other files from this server were wiped, so feel free to restore the backup from the NAS,
it may or may not contain a trojan… FOR THE LULZ!!! Power to the people! Hack the planet!
The Anonymous hackers' reason for taking over the site, as explained in the video posted on Alpha Unmanned Systems' home page is:
Since 2009, the EU has been subsidizing the INDECT project with millions of Euros.
Even though several media outlets have already reported about this networked surveillance technology, only few EU citizens know what it is supposed to be.
The application of INDECT aims to analyze conspicuous behavior to prevent crimes, in virtual life as well as in real life, before they actually happen. Not only does this sound crazy, it is cutting deeply into our basic right to privacy, because those cameras will be able to replicate scanned personal biometrical features with existing digital files about persons in databases such as social networks. Hence, every person could be retraced and supervised, anybody who says or does anything "abnormal" or anything which the system considers to be "threatening" both on the internet and in real life, is potentially suspicious….
INDECT is a European Union project which:
aims at developing tools for enhancing the security of citizens and protecting the confidentiality of recorded and stored information as well as the privacy of involved persons. INDECT targets threat detection in both real environments (intelligent cameras) and virtual environments (computer networks, especially Internet).
The five-year project began in 2009, at which time the Telegraph UK, which deemed the project "Orwellian," reported that the project received £10 million in funding from the European Union and that the EU had already increased the crime fighting budgets 13.5% to £900 million. The newspaper further reported:
The European Commission is calling for a "common culture" of law enforcement to be developed across the EU and for a third of police officers – more than 50,000 in the UK alone – to be given training in European affairs within the next five years.
According to the Open Europe think tank, the increased emphasis on co-operation and sharing intelligence means that European police forces are likely to gain access to sensitive information held by UK police, including the British DNA database. It also expects the number of UK citizens extradited under the controversial European Arrest Warrant to triple.
Stephen Booth, an Open Europe analyst who has helped compile a dossier on the European justice agenda, said these developments and projects such as Indect sounded "Orwellian" and raised serious questions about individual liberty.
"This is all pretty scary stuff in my book. These projects would involve a huge invasion of privacy and citizens need to ask themselves whether the EU should be spending their taxes on them," he said.
"The EU lacks sufficient checks and balances and there is no evidence that anyone has ever asked 'is this actually in the best interests of our citizens?'"
On May 16, UAVnavigation, another Spanish company specializing in unmanned air vehicles, was hit by Anonymous. UAV Navigation produces one of two flight control systems capable of handling unmanned helicopters. A Google search shows that UAV Navigation's main site is still down and Twitter has Anonymous taking credit.
From SpainTechnology.com:
The Spanish company UAV Navigation is positioned at the highest level of this competitive field, thanks to its systems for both unmanned aircraft and helicopters. In fact, because of the complexity of the latter, there are only two flight control systems in the world capable of handling them. And the system from UAV Navigation is one of them…
The company has created the unit UAV Navigation Inc in the United States and recently opened an office in Manassas, Virginia, in order to increase its penetration in the North American market.
UAV Navigation's US website is still up.
Here's a partial screenshot of Alpha Unmanned Systems' home page as of this writing:


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Fans of NBC's thriller series "Hannibal" were in for a real treat Thursday when the cast and crew of the show hosted a lively panel at San Diego Comic-Con.
It's safe to say not a single fan of the show – or "Fannibal," as they're known in the world of pop culture fandom – left the panel unsatisfied, as the hour-long Q&A session served up plenty of juicy tidbits about the show.
The NBC drama, which just wrapped its freshman season, centers on psychiatrist-turned-serial-killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter (played by Mads Mikkelsen) and William Graham (played by Hugh Dancy), a criminal profiler who's on the hunt for a serial killer with the FBI.
Dancy, along with "Hannibal" creator and executive producer Bryan Fuller, took the spotlight at the Comic-Con panel Thursday. They were joined by executive producers Matha De Laurentis and David Slade.
Actor Aaron Abrams, who plays Brian Zeller on the series, introduced the panel to a packed house and set the tone for an hour full of laughs and thoughtful questions from die-hard fans.
At once, Abrams began with the "Hannibal" puns, saying he was merely an "appetizer" before the main course. He thanked Fannibals for being deeply devoted and downright "ravenous."
The panel was then introduced – to loud cheering – as the cast and crew of the "best damn cooking show on TV."
What followed was an interesting conversation about the show – both where it came from and where it's headed.
Creator Bryan Fuller spoke often of "Hannibal" siblings, such as Thomas Harris' novel, "Red Dragon," and the Academy Award-winning film, "The Silence of the Lambs."
Though inspired by both cult classics, Fuller said he considers the "Hannibal" TV series a "re-imagining" of the Dr. Hannibal Lecter story.
He credited much of the show's fresh take on a classic story to Mikkelsen's portrayal of Hannibal Lecter. The cast and crew agreed that Mikkelsen plays sick and sinister extremely well on television.
"Mads really owns the role now," said Fuller, as fans screamed reassuringly.
After a clip of the show and a few moderated questions, it was the fans' turn to take the spotlight and address the cast with more questions.
One fan asked Dancy what he does to clear his head of the sick and twisted storylines he reads and acts out at work.
To that, Dancy simply and honestly replied: "I find a beer helps. That's it."
Fuller later reassured fans that season two is well underway, saying the story arc has already been crafted and, in his words, "It's a doozey."
He said fans can look forward to a "scrappy, feisty" Will Graham leading the second season, which is slated to premiere on NBC in 2014.
The cast and crew were delighted by fan questions, and the many "Hannibal" inspired costumes in the crowd.
Many panel attendees wore flower crowns on their heads – a symbol synonymous with the show. One fan even gave Fuller her pretty pink flower crown, which he happily wore for the remainder of the panel.
Another fan -- Meg Downey of Toledo, Ohio (pictured right) – thoroughly impressed the panel with her elaborate costume. She showed up dressed as the recurring stag, or "ravenstag," that often shows up in the show.
Fuller asked Downey if he could take a photo with her after the panel, to which she happily obliged.
After the panel, Downey told NBC 7 that meeting Fuller and Dancy was the ultimate fan experience. She said she's been traveling to San Diego for Comic-Con for the past five years, and her moment at the "Hannibal" panel was unforgettable.
After many questions, the panel wrapped up with an exclusive "Gag Reel" featuring outtakes from the series. Watching the actors break character in the middle of gruesome and extremely serious scenes was the cherry on top for fans, whose laughter shook the room.
After the panel, Fuller and Abrams took the time to show their appreciation by signing autographs and taking dozens of photos with Fannibals.
It was the perfect end to a scrumptious panel that undoubtedly left Fannibals hungry for next season.
NBC's "Hannibal" at Comic-Con: A Feast for Fans
Fans of NBC's thriller series "Hannibal" were in for a real treat Thursday when the cast and crew of the show hosted a lively panel at San Diego Comic-Con.


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A Peek at Madewell Spring 2011
>> Madewell transformed their New York showroom into a newsstand yesterday, serving up free coffee and doughnuts, gum, and lip gloss during their Spring 2011 presentation. Why? "We're absolutely in love with street style in New York," Kin Ying Lee, head of design for the label, explained, so she wanted to set the same stage for the collection.
While the label is pushing forward for Spring with high-waisted trouser denim and longer silk skirts, Lee also noted that she didn't want to push too far ahead in the manner of fast fashion — brand identity is important, too: "We have a couple of things that we go back to every season: the striped t-shirt, the chambray shirt, and rugged looks but in new ways that they can be incorporated into individual wardrobes."


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have many strings to (one's) bow(redirected from has many string to our bows)
have many strings to (one's) bow
To have many reliable opportunities, skills, or resources at one's disposal. With more than two decades of decorated service in the military, Colonel Hicks has many strings to his bow as he enters civilian life. My mother trained in various fields all over the world, so she has very many strings to her bow.


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House of Cards is currently filming its Season 2 finale, but will that also be the political drama's series finale?
Co-executive producer Rick Cleveland seems to think so. "House of Cards is only going to go a second season and I think that's it," he said at the Vancouver International Film Festival last week, according to GoldDerby.com. "Kevin Spacey likes to do movies and Robin Wright likes to do movies."
Get the latest scoop on your favorite fall TV shows
When Netflix originally ordered the show to series in March 2011, it handed out a two-season, 13-episode order. Executive producer David Fincher, who won an Emmy for directing the pilot, is not returning for Season 2. However, both Spacey and Wright will be taking turns behind the camera to direct episodes this season, according to the website.
Both Spacey and Wright received Emmy nominations for their roles in the series, which was adapted from the 1990 BBC mini-series of the same name. The series earned a total of nine Emmy nominations, and took home three awards.
House of Cards will return in 2014.
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- Michelle Obama's speech to young African women leaders, one of our Famous Speech Friday posts, took the top spot in this month's popular posts.
- Do you under-explain? 3 ways to check whether you're saying too little focused on the speaker whose reticence might be holding her back.
- Why speakers should let audience members doodle, which includes a video of a TED talk on doodling and its impact on listening, also struck a nerve with readers--this post was widely shared on social networks.
- Do you end sentences with an upward inflection? 3 ways to sound sure of yourself considered a speaking habit many listeners find annoying--or worse, an erosion of your credibility. I offer you some practice tips for getting rid of this habit, and information on intonation to help you think it through.
- No projector? No problem--Use QR codes and SlideShare to share your slides offers a high-tech but simple way to recover when the projector breaks--or just isn't there.
- I declare: Use language to sound confident as a speaker helps you reorganize your sentence structure to come across confidently.
- Nellie McClung's "Should Men Vote?" was a popular Famous Speech Friday post about a funny, bold Canadian suffragette who turned the tables on detractors--and helped advance votes for women. A great reader suggestion led me to this post, which will make you laugh and learn at the same time.
- Lucille Ball's acceptance speech at her Variety Club tribute showed this funny lady striking a balance between humor and composure--and can teach you some tips for handling award acceptance speeches with style.
- Get insider tips on debating, moderating shared newsman Jim Lehrer's new book about his 11 turns as moderator for televised U.S. presidential debates. It's loaded with stories, tales of his and others' mistakes, and lots of insight and advice for moderators and debaters.
- Princess Diana and the ban on landmines, our final Famous Speech Friday for September, was quick to make this list. The post looks at a speech given three weeks before her death, in which she strove for--and achieved--a more serious, substantive look and voice.
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Just Finished Reading "Hitler: The Last Ten Days" #books
After having seen many films and read many books I expected that Hitler: The Last Ten Days, novelization by Warren Tute (originally by Ennio De Concini), would hold no secrets for me. Still as I opened the book and started reading the first page I was quickly drawn into a unbelievable story.
It's not very hard to paint Adolf Hitler as a looney, it is far harder to portrait him as the complex man deteriorating as a result of various mental and physical illnesses, compounded the people around him refusing to tell him the truth for fear of execution, causing his actions to seem borderline insane. Yet this novelization does exactly that, while still taking some liberties with the truth under the guise of artistic license. These factual inaccuracies do little to detract from the main story line.
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Google apologizes for "Hitler" name on maps
BERLIN—Google has apologized after a Berlin intersection accidentally regained its Nazi-era name, Adolf-Hitler-Platz, on the Google Maps service.
Google spokeswoman Lena Wagner said Friday the company quickly took down the name after the error was discovered. The intersection was relabeled with its proper name, Theodor-Heuss-Platz, after West Germany's first post-World War II president.
Google says it's not clear how the error occurred, but that "we apologize for this mistake." The erroneous name was visible only for a few hours late Thursday.
Scores of streets and squares were named after Hitler during his 1933-1945 dictatorship.
The intersection in question, in western Berlin, sits on what the Nazis envisioned as the capital's main east-west axis for a redesign of the city that was never completed.
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I did manage to finish hand-sewing the binding on to my Doll Quilt Swap 6 mini quilt while I was away! I'm head over heels in love with that little thing ... and my wife loves it even more than that! It is going to be tough to send it away, but I know it's headed to a good home. Pictures of that little quilt soon.
Oh, and before I move on to the pics for this post, I wanted to answer some F.A.Q's (frequently asked questions) that keep popping up in my comments. I would usually answer each one individually, but SO MANY of you have your profiles set to "no-reply". I figured it was just easier to answer them publicly.
Of all of the comments I receive, the questions I most frequently get asked are "how do you find the time?", and "how can I get involved in some of these swaps?"
The time question always amuses me because, as much as you readers tell me that I get a lot done, I always feel like I'm behind. I don't feel like my output level is nearly as high as y'all think it is, so it's nice to get such a positive reaction.
To answer the time question, 99% of my sewing and quilting gets done between the time the kids are asleep (usually between 8 & 8:30 PM) and the time I go to bed (usually between 11 & 11:30 ... sometimes earlier, but often later), typically 4-5 evenings per week. I just try to be as productive as possible during those hours, sometimes working straight through on a single project, sometimes just trying to get a lot of stuff done for multiple projects. For example, I might spend a whole evening doing the cutting for multiple projects, or the ironing.
I have, for the most part, forgone television (save a few choice shows), opting to catch up via my DVR on the nights I just don't feel like sewing. Right now, I have every episode of the current season of "Lost", my favorite show, but haven't been able to start watching it yet.
As for the swaps question, many of you know that I am a devoted follower of Flickr. My first ever quilt block swap was on about.com (and it was great) and I've done some Craftster swaps since, but I quickly converted over to the Flickr swaps.
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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1841. Humble-bees. Gardeners' Chronicle no. 34 (21 August): 550.
REVISION HISTORY: Scanned, OCRed, corrected and edited by John van Wyhe 2003-8, textual corrections by Sue Asscher 12.2006. RN5
NOTE: See manuscript drafts or notes on this item in CUL-DAR27.1.A1a,A1b-A8
Humble-Bees.—Perhaps some of your readers may like to hear a few more particulars about the humble-bees which bore holes in flowers, and thus extract the nectar.1 This operation has been performed on a large scale in the Zoological Gardens:—Near the refection-house there is a fine bed of Stachys coccinea, every flower in which has one, and sometimes two, small irregular slits, or orifices, on the upper side of the corolla near its base. I observed some plants of Marvel of Peru, and of Salvia coccinea, with holes in similar positions; but in Salvia Grahami they were without exception cut through the calyx, which is in this species elongated. The tubular corolla of Pentstemon argutus is rather broader than in the above flowers, and two holes are always bored in it by the side of each other, and just above the calyx. All these orifices are so small that they might easily be overlooked; I first noticed them a week since, when, from the brown colour of their edges they appeared to have been made some time before. The beds of Stachys and Pentstemon are frequented by numerous humble-bees of many very different kinds; at one moment I saw between twenty and thirty round a bed of the latter flower; they fly very quickly from flower to flower, and always alight with their heads just over the little orifices, into which they most dexterously insert their proboscis and in the case of the Pentstemon, first into the orifice on one side and then into the other, so that they thus extract the nectar on both sides of the germen.2 Besides the humble-bees, I saw some hive-bees on the Pentstemon; they were, however, much less dexterous, and generally alighted across the flower, or on the calyx, and thus lost time. The orifices in all the above-mentioned flowers are made on the upper side of the corolla: I was, therefore, surprised to find, close by, a large bed of the common Antirrhinum in which all the flowers had one or two irregular slits, or holes, on the under side of the corolla at its base, close to the small protuberance which represents the spur in Linaria, and therefore directly in front of the nectary at the foot of the germen. From the position of these orifices they cannot be seen without turning up the flower; but the humble-bees seemed to understand this method of picking pockets full as well as the other, and never hesitated where to go, but quickly flew from the under side of one flower to that of another. Now I can speak positively, as far as the experience of part of two summers goes, that country humble-bees are not so cunning, and invariably crawl into the flower by forcing open the elastic lower lip; and a very pretty spectacle it is to watch them. All the flowers of Salvia Grahami and the Antirrhinum, which I looked at in different parts of the garden, were bored; and out of the many hundreds in bloom in the two large beds of Stachys and Pentstemon, I could not find one without its little orifice, nor did I see one bee crawl in at the mouth. Nevertheless I found, and the fact appears to me very curious, two separate plants of the Stachys coccinea, and one large one of the Pentstemon argutus, with all their flowers unbored; from the scratches on the lower lip of the flowers of two former plants I have no doubt that many bees had entered in the usual way, and I actually saw one bee crawling into the flowers of the Pentstemon. One is tempted to conjecture that in these plants each humble-bee as it came, not finding a hole ready cut, thought it less trouble to extract the nectar by the mouth than to make one; but that on the beds of the same flowers, where very many bees were rivalling each other in getting honey, some few set to work boring holes, and others copied the example. From the comparative fewness of the hive-bees on the Pentstemon, their evident awkwardness in finding the orifices, and the smallness of their mandibles, I can hardly doubt they were profiting by the workmanship and the example of the humble-bees: should this be verified, it will, I think, be a very instructive case of acquired knowledge in insects. We should be astonished did one genus of monkeys adopt from another a particular manner of opening hard-shelled fruit; how much more so ought we to be in a tribe of insects so pre-eminent for their instinctive faculties, which are generally supposed to be in inverse ratio to the intellectual! Moreover, from what I have above stated regarding the Antirrhinum, I much suspect that the practice of boring holes in its flowers is likewise a piece of acquired knowledge, whether the Humble-bees do it instinctively or not in other cases. Although I have said that country humble-bees appear to be less cunning than London ones, yet I confess I saw this June, in Staffordshire,3 some in the act of cutting holes at the base of the corolla of the Rhododendron azaleoides; the greater number entered the mouth of the corolla, as indeed was evident from the quantity of pollen on the stigma, brought by the bees from neighbouring Azaleas—this hybrid not having a single grain of pollen of its own. One bee was seen which entered the mouth of some of the flowers and cut holes in others; this shows that the orifices are made simply to save trouble, and not because the bee cannot extract the nectar from the long tube. In the Stachys and Pentstemon it is also evident that the bees cut the holes because they can fly much quicker from the upper surface of one flower to that of another, than clamber in on the fringed edge of the lower lip. I have no doubt by this means they are able to visit twice the number of flowers in the same time. Your correspondent (p. 485)4 says that the Honeysuckle is sometimes bored; I never happened to notice this, but I have seen pollen-gathering humble-bees show much skill in forcing open the yet-closed mouth of the young flowers and extracting the pollen; flowers which had been open, apparently even for a day, they at once passed over, whereas the nectar-seeking humble-bees stopped at them. If the mouth of the flower was absolutely close, without any one segment having started, the bees from the difficulty of the attempt immediately gave it up. Your correspondent attributes the failure of his Bean-crop to the apertures made by the bees; but when we remember how the petals of many flowers may be manipulated in hybridising them, without preventing their fructification, we may well doubt this view. But I conceive they may be indirectly the cause of the crop failing, not by their making the orifice, but by their not extracting the nectar in the manner nature intended them; for I have observed that when papilionaceous5 flowers are mature, (and actually in the case of the Bean,) bees alighting on the wing-petal, as they always do to reach the nectar at the base of the standard-petal, depress the wing-petals together with the keel, by which movement the grains of pollen together with the stigma are forced out, and both rubbed against one side of the bee's body, already generally well dusted with the pollen of other flowers of the same species. If all those flowers, even hermaphrodite ones, which are attractive to insects, almost necessarily require their intervention, as is supposed with much probability by Christian Sprengel (Entd. Geheim.),6 to remove the pollen from the anthers to the stigma, what unworthy members of society are these humble-bees, thus to cheat, by boring a hole into the flower instead of brushing over the stamens and pistils, the, so imagined, final cause of their existence! Although I can believe that such wicked bees may be injurious to the seedsman, one would lament to see these industrious, happy-looking creatures punished with the severity proposed by your correspondent.7 Moreover, the florist, I believe, ought rather to praise them for this ingenious method of obtaining the nectar, instead of by the old-fashioned natural one; for let him look how torn and scratched the lower petals of some flowers are—for instance, those of the Mimulus roseus, and the wing-petals of some Everlasting-peas. The little orifice which the bees make, in order to avoid clambering in at the mouth, is hardly visible; whereas all the flowers in some beds of the Mimulus, at the Zoological Gardens, are sadly defaced. Let any one who doubts the use of bees in the fructification of hermaphrodite flowers, watch and admire the manner in which the flat surface of the divided stigma of this Mimulus licks the back of the entering bees, which is generally well-dusted already with pollen; and then how admirably the two divisions of the stigma, endowed with a sensitive faculty, close like a forceps on the included granules of pollen! I will only farther remark, that after the facts here noticed, one may well doubt C. K. Sprengel's view, that the streaks and spots of colour (soft-maal) on the corolla of most nectariferous flowers, serve as guides to insects, that they may readily find out where the nectar-vessel lies. I think the bees which flew so quickly from flower to flower on the under sides of the Antirrhinum, or those which bored the pair of holes on the Pentstemon, or those which bored through calyx and corolla in the Salvia, would tell Mr. Sprengel, that although he might want such aids, they did not. I know hardly any flower which bees open and insert their proboscis into, more rapidly, than the common tall Linaria, which has a little purplish well-closed flower; I have watched one humble-bee suck twenty-four flowers in one minute; yet on this flower there are no streaks of colour to guide these quick and clever workmen.—C. Darwin.
1 Previously discussed in Gardeners' Chronicle in 1841, see pp. 485, 517, 533, 548 and 596. This is the first of Darwin's letters to the Gardeners' Chronicle. He continued sending occassional letters for the next thirty-six years. Humble bees are large wild bees, of the genus Bombus, which make a loud humming sound = bumble-bees.
2 Ovary.
3 During Darwin's visit to Maer, 28 May-1 July.
5 'Of a plant or flower: having a corolla arranged in a form resembling a butterfly (as in many leguminous plants such as sweet pea, vetch, broom, etc.), i.e. with a large erect upper petal or standard, two lateral petals or wings, and two narrow lower petals between these fused to form a keel; denoting such a corolla.' OED
6 Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750-1816), German botanist. Sprengel 1793.
7 Ruricola recommended destroying 'the humble-bees' nests at the end of the summer, and for children to catch and kill the females...as soon as the first blossoms have expanded.'
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Why are the shittest telco getting all these exclusives? I was with 02 and they couldnt get my bill right. I am with orange now and they have no decent phones. None! Oooh a Nokia!
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O2 may have secured itself as the UK's exclusive Palm Pré distributor, it's been revealed. An unnamed source has told The Guardian that the network operator fought off fierce competition from the likes of Vodafone and Orange, and that the Pré will arrive here in time for Christmas. If the information's accurate then O2 will …
So you can only get a Pre from O2? So wheres the boo boys who usually hate on Apple for having an exclusive deal with O2? Or is that venom reserved for Apple?
More seriously it'll be interesting seeing the Pre go head to head with the iPhone on the same network in terms of performance and pricing.
If Palm had just released the Pré months ago, no-one would care, it would have just been another smart phone. By not releasing for so long Palm have had much more publicity for the thing. Not that I'm saying it was intentional, but all these delays have certainly helped raise the profile of the Pré.
If they have given O2 an exclusive deal, it will make comparing it with the iPhone much easier, presumably we can expect them to be on similar contracts. Will be interesting to see how this goes down.
Just to point out to the haters out there that if you provide your handset to a small (or single) provider, you can then get guaranteed service levels agreed. This although losing a small number of customers initially by people who won't change it will mean that your handsets get higher ratings as the customers with those will get higher rated customer service than the great unwashed.
Whether it actaually works in practice or not I don't know but it sounds right in theory.
A healthy company does not announce a new product until it is generally available, this not to cannibalize current products.
When Palm announced the Pre back around x-mas lots of customers put buying a Treo/Centro on hold until they could test the Pre. I believe most of them have moved away from Palm now.
With the new Jesusphone v3 around the corner, I believe the Pre will be outdated once it ships.
Why did they do that. Why stick your phone on the shelf next to the iPhone which get so much press and PR so which one is a lazy shop assistant going to push. Surley Orange who flogged the palm based Treo faithfully for years are a better bet. Also Orange have no exclusive smart phone as Voda have the Storm and O2 the iPhone.
I used to Love my old Palm Pilot, Palm V and Palm TX, but they have now been replaced by an iPhone, which (and dont hit me) I love like my first palm all those years ago (even though the diary is worse!)
And I still dont forgive palm for ditching graffiti and putting a keyboard on all their phones.
The main reason I've not signed up for an iPhone is because it would involve early termination of a long Vodafone Business contract and the porting of several numbers to those disorganised clowns at O2. It makes no sense from any perspective.
The principal reason I will not be getting the Pré is because it would involve... well, I think you get the idea.
Palm, why are you getting into bed with O2 when 75% of the market is signed up to their competition? Why are you locking customers to one mobile operator when that operator is already spending millions marketing your #1 rival?
Ah well, one less shiny new thing on which to waste money...
Perhaps this means O2 are losing their exclusivity of the iPhone..
Having said that i've been on O2, T-Mobile and Three over the last 5-6 years and O2 easily have the best customer service, signal strength and the widest range of handsets. T-Mobile were had good customer service but it just took them too long to get the latest handsets. And Three.. well ... I could never get reception in my house...
I'm expecting other carriers apart from O2 in the UK to start selling the unreleased refreshed iphone.
It may even be on sale by multiple carriers - Pre exclusivity may well be designed to go up against voda & tmob's gphones - with all uk networks able to carry iphones they need a new hook.
As others have pointed out, it makes absolutely no sense for Palm to get in to bed with someone who also has exclusivity on the i-phone.
On the other hand, I can't see apple renewing the exclusive deal with O2 if they start selling the Pre. Perhaps O2 already know that they are not going to stay exclusive on the i-phone indefinitely and are hedging their bets?.
Is the unlocked i-phone on its way?
So if o2 lose the iphone exclusive - does that mean I won't get my free upgrade when jPhone v3 is released?? :(
As for Palm going exclusive with o2 - I know a big bonus for using o2 with the iPhone is that it joins public wifi hotspots seamlessly when available, my experience with tmobile was the complete opposite - even with the username/password page popping up all the time, it rarely recognised the login and I couldn't use it (even though I paid so much more a month for data as well as normal contract).... so maybe Palm were given a presentation of o2's decent hotspot deals, whilst avoiding their p*ss-poor 3g speeds. Just a thought.
It's been a good move from tmobile to o2 for me... much happier now... each to their own I guess.
"... the Pré will arrive here in time for Christmas ..."
Pointless, utterly. By Christmas Palm will have so much other competition that it will be drowned out by the rest of the noise. No wonder the company is ailing - they can't get a simple bit of marketing and release right.
Palm Pre? Why? When there will be more than a dozen other devices to choose from.
Another case of missing the boat completely.
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How did it get to be the last day in November? Advent starts tomorrow and I am starting to panic. Cyber Monday came and went, I have a feeling this weekend will be my cyber moment, I really need to get cracking to ensure delivery. We are away for Christmas and the New Year so no tree but I will be putting festive touches around the house.
There has been much discussion on blogs regarding high street shopping versus on-line shopping, for me it's a no brainer, on my laptop, warm and cosy, dog at my feet, glass of wine by my side. Modern shopping centres or malls filled with all the usual suspects are my biggest nightmare although I will make an exception for this beautifully restored Victorian shopping arcade which is crammed full of wondrous, interesting and mainly independent boutiques. I will be visiting it shortly before Christmas, I will not be able to resist a few extra stocking fillers, there is no doubt they will be wrapped on Christmas Eve.
The Victoria Quarter, Leeds, Photo from flickr
MG has asked me what I would like for Christmas I have requested a wide angle lens for my camera... but then I saw some exquisite evening bags...
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