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We've leapt into Badge System Design in some earlier posts (1, 2, 3) and we'll be returning to it shortly, In the interim, I'd like to step back to consider a small number of basic Open Badges tenets. In this edition, we'll address our evolving lexicon and in particular the nomenclature of Earners and Issuers.
A common language
In addition to their ability to transcend physical boundaries, badges introduce many potential languages, e.g., visual, verbal, cultural, pedagogical, etc. Badges will activate these languages, sometimes one at a time, sometimes all at once. Each of these languages may speak to different audiences, and often to many audiences at once. As simple as we try to make our badges, they will be deeply influenced by our worldviews: imbued with our community's understandings, desires, and values—and those will be intertwined with the earner's understandings, desires, and values. In turn, those perceptual strands will be woven through the general public's social assumptions and cultural fibers. Teasing out a strand (or badge) will not reveal the germ of the process but it may help point toward some of what has influenced it. In short, badges can stand alone, but will remain bound into a complex sociocultural system.
Consequently, flexibility in our system design is key. As we attempt to build and rationalize an open badges lexicon, we recognize that a need for individuation, modification, or personalization will always exist. This is built into the OBI system. By designing an extremely flexible product, we've accommodated many different potentials.
What does all of this flexibility get us? For one thing, it opens the door to cultural interoperability. The ability to have the Open Badges system accommodate many different cultures, communities, and values. Given that badges exist as forms of cultural representation that interoperability is essential to a robust system. (We will, no doubt, revisit this concept in a later post.)
Along these lines, we began a document for people to share their ideas about Open Badges definitions of terms. In a nice turn of events, this open approach has lead to some fascinating questions about intent and prescriptiveness. Some questions raised in that document have yet to be answered: it's an ongoing discussion, one that requires back and forth, give and take. We anticipate that it will continue to raise questions, too. And we're excited about these provocations because they'll help us to better understand the ecosystem and improve upon our Open Badges system.
Earner vs. holder vs. owner
One question in that open google document queried our choice of the word, "earner." As with all things Open Badges, we arrived here after considerable thought—along with the aid of some legal help. (You can read more about our legal considerations here.)
A bit of background: we started with "learner" and ended up at "earner." Believe it or not, dropping the initial consonant involved quite a bit of in-depth thought. We wended our way around to that term after close consideration of the people who might come into possession of a badge. Even the term "earner" presents some weaknesses. Badges can be used to show affiliation, skills, competencies, associations, etc. Some of the folks we've spoken with have suggested that badges can and should be earned by organizations themselves. In point of fact, we don't know all the ways badges can be used, yet. That's the beauty of a flexible system.
We chose earner for fairly prescriptive reasons: because we'd like to suggest that badges must be earned, not simply received. However, as badge meaning is initially defined by the issuer, this moniker may change. The earner can be referred to in the way that makes sense to your group. It's worth remembering, though, that your earner/holder/recipient/whatever will be interacting in a broad ecosystem along with many Issuers, Displayers & other earner/holder/recipient/whatevers. They'll have an opportunity to speak for and about themselves and may choose their own sobriquet.
Because the earner exists as the hub of their own personal Open Badge ecosystem they wield quite a bit of power: power of self-representation, power of social contracts with Issuers, power of control with Displayers. Earners define their association with the entire ecosystem: what to earn, where to earn it and with whom, and then, ultimately, how to display what they've earned. As Erin Knight has said so eloquently about a personal collection of badges housed in a badge backpack, they can act as "a living transcript."
This one is pretty obvious as to why we chose it: these groups, organizations, individuals, institutions, corporations, etc., do the hard work of issuing badges. Not only do they create badges and badge system designs that transmit their values to badge earners, and a variety of additional publics (cf., Michael Warner's Publics and Counterpublics, much more on this in later posts)—they also build the criteria for those badges, develop badge progressions, create scaffolding opportunities, and undertake the difficult problem of assessment. Plus, they make the commitment to civic participation in the broader Open Badge ecosystem.
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In a future post I'll address Mozilla's approach to privacy, as well as explain our rationale for naming Displayers and Endorsers. Much more soon.
Warner, M. (2005). Publics and Counterpublics. Boston, MA: MIT Press


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No one in my family much feels like big celebrations at the moment but it feels wrong to let birthdays go by without at least a cake. The CCD (Caked Crusader's Da) is partial to coffee cake and, when I gave him carte blanche to select his birthday cake flavour, it was – predictably – his first choice.
I don't like coffee and what always surprises me is that when you say that to people (who like coffee), they will always respond with, "oh, but I bet you love the smell – that's the best bit". Er, no. It disgusts me just as much as the taste. I don't think people make that comment about any other food or drink; if you told someone you didn't like garlic for example, they wouldn't try and badger you into admitting you enjoyed its pungent aroma.
I stoked up the coffee element by using espresso coffee from Mr CC's Nespresso machine. I used 3 capsule's worth of coffee spread across the cake and buttercream. However, I know that most people probably don't have this option so the recipe below sets out instant coffee quantities. It does seem quite a 'punchy' cake and I think, from memory, uses more coffee than most similar recipes.
Happy birthday CCD!
2 tablespoons boiling water
175g unsalted butter, at room temperature
175g light muscovado sugar
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175g self raising flour
100g walnuts, finely chopped
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350g icing sugar
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Level the surfaces and bake for approximately 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the sponges comes out clean.
Place the cakes, in their tins, on a wire cooling rack and de-tin when they are cool enough to handle safely. The leave to cool completely on the wire rack.
Now make the buttercream: As before, make up the coffee with the boiling water in a separate bowl and put to one side to cool.
In a large bowl beat the butter on its own until it is light and whippy.
Add the icing sugar and stir, at first manually, to incorporate. When the icing sugar is mixed in you can use the electric mixer – taking this cautious approach stops your kitchen being dusted in a cloud of icing sugar!
Beat until light and whippy. A good test is to take a small amount of the mixture and press against the roof of your mouth – if it feels grainy it needs more beating.
When smooth, add the coffee and beat until the coffee is evenly mixed into the buttercream. (If you've made up Nespresso capsules and have any coffee left over, simply brush it over the sponges – waste not, want not!)
Place one of the sponges on the serving plate and spread a scant 1/3 of the buttercream over it.
Place the other sponge on top and spread a similar amount on top of that.
Use the remaining buttercream to cover the sides of the cake.
Scatter the chopped walnuts on top for decoration.
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I haven't written much about baseball lately. Truth be told, I haven't watched much since the Red Sox collapsed. Maybe I will write a post-mortem on their season, but what can I add that hasn't already been said? I have been reading about the World Series and it does sound like a classic. Albert Pujols evoked memories of Reggie Jackson over the weekend with his three homer game that was likely the best one game hitting display ever in WS history. Then, on Monday nite, there was the biggest telephonic mixup since last week when Derek Lilliquist misheard TLR. (I have a tendency to think of Carson Daly and Total Request Live when I see Tony LaRussa's initials.) I'm pulling for Texas to win. They've never done it before. They are the AL representative, and Saint Louis has one plenty of times; including five years ago. Bill Lee picked the L.A. Dodgers as the NL's answer to the Yankees, but I picked Saint Louis when I was in high school and had a fling with the Mets. They were a team to respect, but not like. (I was glad to see Whitey Herzog get inducted into the Hall of Fame last year.)
There used to be a chain of stores called Media Play that sold books, DVDs and CDs. I liked it, but it went out of business around the time Saint Louis defeated Detroit. Today, I wanted to highlight three former baseball players that personify that store's merchandise; an author, an actor, and a singer.
Before Jim Bouton, there was Jim Brosnan. Brosnan wrote two in-season diaries; The Long Season and Pennant Race. I have yet to read the latter, but I thought that the former was better than Ball Four once I finally read it. Plus, he didn't have to have Leonard Schecter help him write it. Bouton's book may have been more historic at the time he wrote it, but I didn't read it until at least ten years after it came out. Brosnan was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of Eternals four years ago. If you ask me, that is a higher honor than getting a plaque in Cooperstown.
Chuck Connors was an Eisenhower-era Man. He played baseball and hoops and was also Lucas McCain on "The Rifleman." I'm still in search of the elusive Center of the Entertainment Universe, but he might be it. Dennis Hopper appeared on that Western. And Hopper is The Center of The Hollywood Universe. Connors connects you to the NBA, major league baseball and the Pacific Cast League; which was still big back then. There's also a football connection. Sid Gillman appeared on the show. He was one of the most influential coaches in football history; practically invented film study. His coaching tree is like a sequoia.
Last but not least, I checked out Dave Marsh's New Book of Rock Lists the other day and came across Lee Maye. I had heard of The Rifleman even if the show was before my time, but I wasn't familiar with Maye at all. Phill Millstein argues that this doo wopping outfielder was the best combination baseball player-musical artist. Check the link out.
I was on Monday Night Sports a month ago and he suggested that the reason some players of that era moonlighted in other entertainment fields was because sports salaries weren't as high as they are now and they needed the money. He may have a point. Ironically, I was talking about Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax and their joint holdout. Chuck Connors helped act as an intermediary between the two pitchers and the Dodgers.


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orhunter wrote:Thanks. I like these personal experience field tests. Far better than some expert claiming this or that ammo should do a particular job as opposed to what it will do.
One important bit is shot choice. Only shoot at birds you can kill.
The one thing I take exception to is the killing ability of No. 2 steel. Although penetration tests say it's finished at 41 yards, being hit with something that large in diameter has a certain way of adding additional killing power. Well past 41 yards.... in my field experience.
stubblejumper wrote:I used the Kent Bismuth loads in my 16 gauge for hunting sharptails where non toxic shot was required. I didn't kill a lot of birds with them, but I saw no difference between the bismuth and lead with the birds that I did shoot.
blue04 wrote:stubblejumper wrote:I used the Kent Bismuth loads in my 16 gauge for hunting sharptails where non toxic shot was required. I didn't kill a lot of birds with them, but I saw no difference between the bismuth and lead with the birds that I did shoot.
Thanks stubblejumper. Bismuth is pretty good.
For those who may be interested, here's a quick overview of some common non-toxic alternatives to steel shot.
Bismuth was the only alternative to steel shot during the early years of the non-toxic shot era. It's not as dense as lead, but it's enough better than steel that waterfowlers took notice of it's knock down advantage over steel when it first came out. The knock on it at the time was the cost. It's now cheaper than most of the other non-steel options. It's also a lot softer than steel so (as you noted) it can be used in older guns. Currently about $1.60 per shell in 12 ga 2 3/4 MSRP in boxes of 10.
Kent makes a product called Tungsten Matrix that's about the same density as lead, and is soft enough to be used in older guns. It's virtually identical to lead in performance. Pure tungsten is quite a bit denser than lead, and too pricey to make shot out of it alone. They blend the tungsten with (believe it or not) plastic to get the hardness down to something that can be shot in older shotguns. This yields shot that is similar in hardness and density to lead. Currently about $3.80 per shell in 12 ga 2 3/4 MSRP in boxes of 10.
Hevi-Shot is a blend of tungsten, nickel, and iron. It's about 5.5% heavier than lead. In my experience, standard Hevi-Shot hits harder than anything I've used and patterns well in all the guns I've shot it through. Regular Hevi-Shot is too hard to be used in older guns. But they've more recently come out with a Hevi-Shot Classic Doubles line of shells that is more like Tungsten Matrix and is targeted at guns with softer steel barrels. Currently about $4.20 per shell for 12 ga 2 3/4 MSRP in boxes of 10 for standard Hevi-Shot waterfowl loads. Currently about $3.80 per shell for 12 ga 2 3/4 MSRP in boxes of 10 for Classic Doubles.
The Hevi-Shot folks also have a line of shells called Hevi-Metal that is a mix of standard steel pellets and tungsten+nickel+iron Hevi-Shot pellets (roughly 50/50 of each by weight). The advertised advantage of these shells is that the Hevi-Shot pellets are two sizes smaller than the steel pellets, which allows for matching of velocity between the two pellet types and also gives quite a bit more pellets per shell than standard steel. It can be considered a compromise to get some Hevi-Shot performance at a greatly reduced price. I have used these with good results on big Canada geese. There is no doubt in my mind that they hit harder than regular steel, but they're not as good as full Hevi-Shot or Tungsten Matrix. Currently about $1.04 per shell for 12 ga 3" MSRP in boxes of 25.
I presume since you're shooting Bismuth, you're using some fine older shotguns. If that's correct, you owe us some pictures of them
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Robert Pattinson Found Texts From Rupert Sanders To Kristen Stewart?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. That's likely the thought Rob is mulling over after reportedly finding texts from Kristen's ex-fling, Rupert Sanders, on her phone. According to a new report, Rob realized he can't trust K-Stew and that's why he moved his stuff out of her home.
Robert Pattinson certainly had an unhappy birthday. Not only did he and Kristen Stewart allegedly have a huge argument on his big day, but according to a new report, it was caused by a text exchange between K-Stew and her ex-fling Rupert Sanders.
Kristen Stewart Texts Rupert Sanders
"Rob was looking at her phone on the morning of his birthday as he wanted to take a picture of something when she was in the shower. Suddenly this message flashes up and it's not what he wanted to see. He got straight up and left. Despite Kristen's pleas, he told her not to come to his birthday party at a friend's that night. He's extremely angry and upset. No matter how many times she calls or texts, friends say he's had enough. After everything that happened and the hurt she caused, he's furious she'd be back in touch with him, even if she is saying it's completely innocent," a source tells The Sun.
HollywoodLife.com previously reported that the couple had a blowout fight on May 13, Rob's birthday, when he ditched out on the party that she planned for him. With The Sun's new report, it's evident that their feud was ignited by Kristen's torrid affair.
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Unfortunately, any hopes for a reconciliation may be dashed. The source continues, "It does look like this time it's over for good. He simply can't trust her."
Plus, Rob was already seen moving stuff out of Kristen's home on May 19.
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Pierre Cabrera-The Admiral Stand Lamp
At Design Interviews
Interview with Pierre Cabrera : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Pierre Cabrera : The idea comes from the bow of a sailing ship. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Pierre Cabrera : I wanted to stay with the nautical shape (or forms) and theme using the materials that can be found on a sailing ship. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Pierre Cabrera : I will continue to promote it through new shows and competitions. I am very happy of this award which should help me in this direction. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Pierre Cabrera : Two months (creation and realization). .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Pierre Cabrera : It is from a personnal inspiration. .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?. Pierre Cabrera : I am currently working on a limited series. The idea to work with a company is not exluded. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Pierre Cabrera : Certainly but unconsciously. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Pierre Cabrera : I would love to see "The Admiral" on a sailing ship. This lamp can also stay on land to be installed in a contemporary or classical universe .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Pierre Cabrera : The mix between sculpture and light. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Pierre Cabrera : The pride and elegance of the shape brought quickly to the name "The Admiral". .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Pierre Cabrera : Pencil, paper, plasma cutting tool, TIG welding tool, files, polishing tool, wood tools... and my hands. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Pierre Cabrera : The sculptural aspect. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Pierre Cabrera : I worked on my own. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Pierre Cabrera : I used low tension current (conveyed by the structure) and LED lighting technology which offers now more and more possibilities. .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?. Pierre Cabrera : I have inproved my skills on LED lighting technology. The lathed wood packaging I designed to present the lamp required some research on old sailing ship designs. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Pierre Cabrera : I had to really reflect and analyze the lighting shape and on the electrical connection to keep it simple with the structure that I wanted. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Pierre Cabrera : The time had come to promote my work and try to gain contact with other partners. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Pierre Cabrera : It was a joy to materialize this concept that was just an image and a feeling of the power of moving forward no matter what happens. .
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Dr. Robert Hickerson saw a lot of Chicago Cubs games at Wrigley Field during that infamous 1969 season. And he's seen even more since.
Dr. Robert Hickerson saw a lot of Chicago Cubs games at Wrigley Field during that infamous 1969 season.
The Knoxville, Ill., physician, now semi-retired, had bottles of champagne on ice in the stadium parking lot in Miami in 2003, waiting to celebrate the Cubs clinching the National League pennant.
Like a lot of us, Hickerson knows heartache, but for the 39th straight season, he'll be at Wrigley Field today for the season opener against the Milwaukee Brewers. It feeds an addiction that began when he saw his first Cubs game in 1944 at age 11.
"I think this is one of the best teams they've ever had," he said. "At least I think it is."
Hickerson gained some nationwide fame recently when a photograph of him passing a bottle of Drambuie at a pregame tailgate party appeared in a book by photographer Tammy Lechner titled "Our Team, Our Dream" a collection of photos depicting the team and its fans over a 15-year span starting in 1993.
But among die-hard fans here, Hickerson has been famous for years for his devotion to the Cubs and his generosity.
For a stretch of 15 years, he took an entourage of Galesburg-area fans to the home opener that included family, his office staff, nurses from the local hospitals and their spouses. They all gathered for a pregame tailgate party across the street from Murphy's Bleachers.
"I used go to Wrigley Field to get tickets when you had to buy them at the ballpark and stand in line," Hickerson said. "Then when Ticketmaster came, the day they went on sale, I would have my nurses at the office dial in so we could get opening-day tickets."
That was before he discovered he could buy group tickets if he bought more than 20. The group grew to as many as 75 people and would probably still be going today if not for a change in Cubs' ticket policies a few years ago.
"The Cubs cut us off and wouldn't sell them to us anymore," Hickerson said. "That's when they started selling out the season, and I don't know, they probably thought I was scalping them or something."
But that didn't put a dent in his devotion.
"I still go to opening day, but I get my tickets on the Internet," he said. "The $20 seats I got cost me $80."
Hickerson's personal highlight reel of Cubs games attended is rich and colorful. It includes seeing Jackie Robinson play in the late 1940s, Stan Musial's 3,000th hit in the late 1950s, the first night game at Wrigley, the 1969 home opener won by Willie Smith's extra-inning homer and Tuffy Rhoades' three-homer game in an opener in the mid-1990s.
"When I started going, people wore suits — coats and ties," said Hickerson, 73.
Hickerson's son, Steve, also earned a page in "Our Team, Our Dream", waving from a window on Waveland Avenue in an apartment he rented facing Wrigley Field in 1993.
Steve Hickerson then moved to Florida where his dad and mom, Sally, traveled in 2003 to join him to watch the Cubs play the Marlins in another infamous series. Tickets were a lot easier to get in Miami.
Hickerson still has some of that champagne he bought in Miami.
And there was a reason he drinks the Drambuie at every opener. The label reads "A link with the '45" (actually 1745), which Cubs fans interpret to mean 1945, the year of the team's last World Series appearance.
Like millions, Hickerson soon hopes to toast in 2008.
"If they don't have any injuries and some of them have career years, they can do it," Hickerson said. "If some things happen, maybe this is going to be the year they get in."
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This speech had competing goals that would be tough under any circumstances. It needed to thank volunteers and supporters and acknowledge their hard work. It had to reflect the disappointment, but move the crowd to support for Barack Obama, who would become the Democratic nominee. And it needed to reflect the historic nature of her candidacy, coming so close as it did to bringing the U.S. its first woman president. In this speech, she changed her standard answer about being a woman candidate:
....when I was asked what it means to be a woman running for President, I always gave the same answer: that I was proud to be running as a woman but I was running because I thought I'd be the best President. But I am a woman, and like millions of women, I know there are still barriers and biases out there, often unconscious. I want to build an America that respects and embraces the potential of every last one of us. I ran as a daughter who benefited from opportunities my mother never dreamed of. I ran as a mother who worries about my daughter's future and a mother who wants to lead all children to brighter tomorrows....You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.Here's what worked so well about this speech:
- She shortened the distance between herself and her audience: Clinton closed the gap in two ways, physically and with her words. In a hall with soaring ceilings, she chose the shortest possible podium and stood at a lectern elevated only slightly higher than the supporters on the floor. And knowing that the women supporting her saw something of themselves in her, she spoke to them as a friend, saying, "To those who are disappointed that we couldn't go all the way - especially the young people who put so much into this campaign - it would break my heart if, in falling short of my goal, I in any way discouraged any of you from pursuing yours."
- She let the audience participate, despite the size of the crowd: With a crowd this big, applause and cheers are the audience's ways to play along. Clinton let them express themselves. In paragraph three, she begins, "Young people....," and the young people break into a prolonged cheer. She smiles and gestures widely as if to say, "See, there they are."
- She was generous and positive: Concession speeches usually run the gamut from dry to less than effusive, and some candidates skip them altogether. Clinton was more than just diplomatic. She used the speech to make clear her support for Obama and to ask her supporters to do the same, and told them why they should. Even when describing her (and her supporters') disappointments, she kept the tone positive. It's why the speech works--not just for the audience, but in positioning her for her next steps.
- She drew a picture of the future and made a strong call to action to refocus the crowd: Refocusing the crowd was the order of the day. Clinton reminded them of the common cause they had with the rest of the party, and urged them to put their considerable energy into making that happen. No one left that day without an idea of what she'd asked.
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In a classic scene from the second season of "Mad Men," flip ad firm partner Roger Sterling clumsily attempts to console office bombshell Joan Holloway, who shows rare emotion after learning of the death of a far more famous curvaceous beauty: Marilyn Monroe.
"That woman's a stranger," he tells Joan.
"A lot of people felt they knew her," Joan replies. "You should be sensitive to that."
The exchange captures one of the many paradoxes underlying the mystique of Marilyn – a stranger who many felt they knew, or in Joan's case, saw in themselves. The scene, set very much in the moment yet written with the benefit of hindsight, underscores the enduring allure of Monroe, whose death 50 years ago this weekend ushered in the modern era of mourning fallen celebrities.
Sure, the Joan Holloways of the time had the benefit of watching Monroe explode onto the movie scene with unprecedented raw sexuality spilling out of her dress on a screen barely big enough to contain her. "It's just like Jell-O on springs!" Jack Lemmon's cross-dressing character in "Some Like it Hot" lustily gushes when he gets his first glimpse, from behind, of Monroe's greatest cinematic creation, Sugar Kane Kowalczyk.
Monroe oozed sensuality and vulnerability. She became the first major starlet to expose herself, in the pages of Playboy. Yet the woman born Norma Jean Baker was in many ways unknowable, as Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller and others who tried to get close to her learned.
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She exposed her troubled soul for all to see, but no one, least of all herself, could save her. Monroe died at 36, her career on the wane, before the time of Mrs. Robinson and all the cougars to come. If she somehow had survived her travails and was still with us, she'd be 86 – old enough to be Betty White's baby sister.
Monroe was born just weeks before silent film heartthrob Rudolph Valentino became the first major movie star to die young and suddenly, spurring hysteria. Just under three decades later, the death of James Dean, the brooding young actor who'd shot to superstardom with three hit movies in barely a year, ignited a cult of sorrow for what might have been.
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What protagonists would you most like to see in a cage match? Why? Who would win?
If this question was about villains, it would be a lot easier! There are so many protagonists that I like--some use their brains, some more brawn, some a combo.
But I think the ones I'd most like to see matched up would be those who are most passionate. I find that a lot of detectives are dispassionate--they're just doing a job. Yeah, it might be kinda personal, a case that's gotten under their skin, like when Sherlock Holmes goes after Moriarty or Nero Wolfe feels someone has insulted his cooking, but often it's just another day at work for them.
A little passion can spark a big fire in a reader. Take Carol O'Connell's Kathy Mallory. She's a sociopath (she admits it--she's proud of the fact that she doesn't let society's conventions get in her way). She's a computer whiz and reveals very little emotion. Other characters even wonder if she is a computer or at least Vulcan like Mr. Spock (jokes that Kathy soooo doesn't get).
Yet, the bad guys she chooses to go after, she is passionate about them. Not just bringing them to justice (although that will do in a pinch) but destroying them, eliminating them, squashing them like cockroaches under her bootheel until they squirm and cry out in pain that matches what they caused their victims....
Mallory thinks of nothing if she puts herself in danger along the way--she's expendable. She also often recklessly endangers the emotional well-being (and sometimes the physical well-being) of those closest to her because she's that blinded by passion. She's a force of nature.
So, in this corner, wearing designer bluejeans and a tailored jacket, Hurricane Mallory.
And going up against her? Well, I was going to send in someone like Reacher or Repairman Jack or maybe Spiderman or Archie Goodwin, just to see if he could make her laugh.....but then I remembered.
How could I forget? The guy who I fell in love with as a kid, the ultimate knight errant who also allowed himself to be passionate, to not only get involved or risk his life, but also reveal the depths of his emotions.
I'm talking, of course, about Travis McGee.
Now, I haven't read his books in decades, so maybe my memory is colored with sentimentality (hey, as a kid, I was in love with him--along with soooo many other heroes, anyone else remember Leslie Charteris' The Saint? Or Raffles? Or almost any of the guys from Ed McBain's 57th Precinct?)(yeah, I had a warped childhood, let's not go there, lol!) but I think Travis would make a good match for Mallory.
Hmmm....maybe afterwards, they might even get together? Who knows what could happen once that passion is sparked???
So who would you pair up--maybe not for a cage match, but as a fictional couple? Which duo do you think would have the most passion--in the bedroom and in the street, fighting crime?
Thanks for reading!
PS: We here at 7 Criminal Minds would like to nominate Jen at Jen's Book Thoughts for a Kreativ Blogger Award! Enjoy, Jen!!!
About CJ:
As a pediatric ER doctor, CJ Lyons has lived the life she writes about in her cutting edge suspense novels. Her debut, LIFELINES (Berkley, March 2008), became a National Bestseller and Publishers Weekly proclaimed it a "breathtakingly fast-paced medical thriller."
The second in the series, WARNING SIGNS, was released January, 2009 and the third, URGENT CARE, is due out October, 2009. Contact her at http://www.cjlyons.net


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I'm still so deliciously happy at properly getting rid of the cancer.
Yesterday I had more chemo as it was back to the business of keeping it beaten. Today I'm feeling oh so incredibly sick. I still have a few more months of treatment to go but at least I'm now officially half way through!
To celebrate here's a blow by blow account of what I go through every three weeks. There's much more to it than having a bunch of nasty drugs…
Tuesday 19th June – Preparing for chemo
9am: Wash my hair in tepid water so that it's ready for the frozen hat on chemo day. Depressingly loads of it comes out.
Sadly it's only non-alcoholic. I need to make sure I'm not dehydrated. Apparently it's good to drink milk. What's better than milk? Chocolate milk.
11am: Hypnotherapy at hospital. Once again I go to my imaginary tropical island and somehow it appears to work. The bad but bearable leg pain that I constantly get seems to go.
Lunchtime: Rest at Maggie's Centre. It's a beautifully modern building in the grounds of the hospital. Run by a charity, it's for people dealing with cancer. I curl up on the big sofa in the living room.
2pm: Get a taxi to a different hospital in another part of London. We drive past BBC TV centre. I really want to stop the cab and go to work. I could be starting a late shift rather than another round of medical appointments.
2.30pm: At the chemo unit I get given a pink laminated card and wait for blood tests. It's like a speedy boarding pass and means I can jump the queue. The tests will determine if I'm well enough for the horrible treatment.
The man taking the blood tells me I have chemo veins. They've gone into hiding but he manages to hit one first time. I accidentally watch as he wiggles the needle and then plunges it deeper into my arm to make the blood pour out. It's pretty gruesome but I don't actually feel anything.
3pm: Appointment with my lovely consultant, the Professor. As I wrote in my last post, he gives me all sorts of brilliant news, a big hug and sends me on my way.
4pm: My friend, Chantal the flower girl gives me a lift home in her big flower van.
On the way to my flat she has to make an emergency delivery.
5pm: Ring the hospital. Happily the results of the blood tests are good so chemo will go ahead. Rest on my own sofa.
10pm: Start the steroids. I have to take ten of these tiny tablets. They stop me from being sick but they make me feel wired.
Midnight: Still awake. The steroids also make me eat peanut butter on toast and ice cream.
Wednesday 20th June – Chemo day
7am: More steroids. Another ten tablets and I'm wide awake despite only having about three hours sleep
10am: Back at the hospital, this is where I have to sit. All day. I share the room with five others.
10.30am: I cover my hair in conditioner and the chilly hat goes on. My hair has to freeze before the chemo can begins. It hurts like hell.
A nurse puts a needle into a vein on my left hand. I'm attached to a drip that will deliver the anti-cancer drugs. First though I'm given even more steroids and other clear liquids to stop nausea, pain and any allergic reactions.
These make my face feel funny, like I've drunk too much vodka. As the dizzying drugs race around my body, I start to get a puffy face.
11.20am: The chemo finally starts. It's so toxic that my nurse use gloves to handle the clear plastic pouches. I have two types of chemo, this first one takes a few hours to slip into my veins.
I have to wear two wrist bands. White to say who I am. Red to make it clear that I have a drug allergy. That'll be the drug that almost killed me after surgery.
11.30am: Listen to my chemo mix tape and attempt to sleep in my chair under a white hospital blanket. I feel so tired and cold.
2pm: A friend comes over for a chemo coffee. She brings a big bag of sweets. I've eaten so much cake, chocolate and sweets since I started this treatment. Opps!
2.30pm: I get the second type of chemo; this is the most dangerous one. It makes your hair fall out among other awful things.
3pm: Sleep. As I drift off I try to dream of Daniel Craig and his army of James Bond cancer killers. But instead I keep thinking of the fantastic things I'm going to do when all this is over.
4pm: The last drugs pouch is empty and all the evil of chemo cocktail is now in my body. I'm unhooked from the drip. My hair is frozen to the cold cap so it has to stay on for a bit to allow it to warm up.
4.30pm: I have to go for a chest x-ray. Walking just a few metres makes me breathless so The Professor wants to make sure it's nothing serious.
5pm: The flower girl picks me up and I start the long journey back to the house where I grew up. My hair is still defrosting. You don't have to look too hard to see one of my bald patches.
I don't feel too bad considering but the side effects of the chemo are like a time bomb and you never know when they'll go off.
8.30pm: Still feeling kinda normal as I arrive at my parents' home in the countryside.
I know that I may not lose my hair.
But I don't quite believe it so again I've packed Barbarella just in case.


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What's Happening at Rio+20: June 16thby -
The Rio+20 informal sessions kicked off this week, and WRI's experts are on the ground for all the action. I just arrived in Rio myself this afternoon. It's a beautiful city--right on the water, with lots of mountains around. I'm looking forward to a very busy and productive week.
Each day, I'll bring you highlights of upcoming WRI events. Check out the details below on what we've got going on tomorrow. And be sure to visit the full list of all WRI events at Rio+20.
Coming Tomorrow: June 16, 2012
1) Workshop: Impact Entrepreneurship With a Focus on Sustainability
WHO: Marcelo Torres, Director, New Ventures Brasil (A WRI center for environmental entrepreneurship)
WHEN: Saturday, June 16 2012, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. BRT
WHERE: Forte Copacabana, Multi-Use Room 1, Praça Coronel Eugênio Franco nº 1, Posto 6, Copacabana Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil 22070-020
Register here
2) Sustainable Development Dialogues: Sustainable Development for Fighting Poverty
WHO: Manish Bapna, Interim President, WRI
WHEN: Saturday, June 16 2012, 6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. BRT
WHERE: Rio+20, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Riocentro Complex, Pavilion 5 Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Register here
3) The Green Economy: Driving Business Value and Competitiveness
This event features three panels focusing on the value of sustainability, green jobs and investment, and GHG Protocol tools for businesses and policymakers.
WHEN: Sunday, June 17 2012, Welcome and keynote address 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. BRT
WHO: Manish Bapna, Interim President, WRI
Panel 1: Demonstrating the value of sustainability and unlocking next practices. 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. BRT. Featuring: Peter Madden, CEO, Forum for the Future; Jennifer Morgan Director, Climate and Energy Program, WRI; and others
Panel 2: Achieving the promise of green jobs and investment. 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. BRT. Moderator: Manish Bapna, Interim President, WRI; Panel Discussion
Panel 3: GHG Protocol tools for businesses and policymakers. 5:10 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. BRT. Keynote: Carlos Klink, Brazilian National Secretary on Climate Change and Environmental Quality. Featuring: Wee Kean Fong and Kaleigh Robinson, GHG Protocol, WRI
WHERE: Rio+20, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Copacabana Fort Espaço das Ideias Circulantes Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Register here
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Why Sustainable Transport Needs To Be On The Rio+20 Agenda by Holger Dalkmann
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Ghana volunteer donates money for new orphanage roof
Projects Abroad - Ghana would like to say a massive thank you to Becka Jaroszevicz, who after volunteering on a Care & Community Project for three months in 2004 has been back to Ghana for six weeks this year to donate money she has raised since leaving Ghana. Becka donated money and materials to two orphanages, Osu Children's Home in Accra, where Becka worked as a volunteer and New Life International Orphanage in Cape Coast. At Osu Children's home money was spent on fixing the playground equipment where the children love to spend time with the volunteers. At New Life the money bought vital materials for the construction of a new roof for the main orphanage building.
Becka's first visit to Ghana had a profound impact on her, she told us:
"The children didn't realise how I needed them as much as they needed me, I miss them so much it hurts. They brought me so much joy. I just wish they knew how much I loved them and now miss them terribly. Priscilla asked me "Will you remember me?" they have no idea what an impact they had on me, to the point that I was considering adopting one child. They have so much potential which is wasted in the orphanage. If I had finished my degree, maybe I would have.
Going to Ghana was the experience of a lifetime, I learnt a lot about myself along the way, dealing with people I've never met and who are so different to myself, and trying to communicate with a language barrier, race issues and being independent for a long period. It has made me see life so differently, and how a country works that is so different from our own. I never compared it to England, because there was nothing to compare to!
Will I go back? Now if I could! I promised the children I would go back soon and the thought of seeing them again drives me forward. I would like to return in December and give them a Christmas that they would remember, but being a student funding a second trip will be difficult. I was worried if the children would forget me but they talked of past volunteers from 3 years before! I made my mark by painting a map of the world on the wall and marked 'Becky' across England.
In the future I want to do similar projects helping communities and children in other countries of need. Ghana is only the beginning!"
Becka travelled back to Ghana just over one year after she left and as she hoped, all the children remembered her. Seeing the money she raised put to good use and spending time with the children again made all her hard work worthwhile.


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It's too hard to eat and talk at the same time anyway.
It doesn't matter that you think I shouldn't talk and drive, because I can't talk and eat at the same time, and since I plan to eat, I'll end my call.
The "joke" is that talking on the cell phone while driving is dangerous, so is any form of distracted driving. Trying to eat while driving is just as bad, since you need to make sure your food doesn't spill and you're probably holding your food in one hand, so it's not available for the steering wheel if it's needed in an emergency.
So: I"ll stop doing this one unsafe behavior, but I'll start doing this other one. Ha ha.
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DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF COLLUSION-RESISTANT FINGERPRINTING SYSTEMS by Byung-Ho Cha A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Byung-Ho Cha
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|The design and analysis of a collusion-resistant fingerprinting system for traitor tracing applications in a large-scale distribution scenario is proposed in this research. One key issue in the fingerprinting system design is its robustness against the collusion attacks. Our main research stream exactly follows that the task of identifying colluders and their weights can be formulated as a user detection and channel estimation problem in a multiuser wireless communication. By exploiting this analogy, we extend our research to various directions, and those results are organized through six chapters.; In Chapter 3, we design good fingerprint codes that are effective in resisting collusion attacks in the fingerprinting system. Specifically, we consider a hiding code of MN bits, where M bits are used as the user ID (or message) and N bits are the length of spreading codes. Since each user is assigned one out of 2^(M-1) ID numbers and one out of N spreading codewords, the total number of users is equal to 2^(M-1)N. To accommodate even more users, we propose to reuse the same codeword via circular shift. By allowing P circular shifts, the total number of users increases from 2^(M-1)N to 2^(M-1)NP.; In Chapter 4, collusion-resistance can be achieved by choosing specific spreading codes followed by the multi-carrier modulation. Examples of spreading codes include Hadamard-Walsh codes and carrier interferometry codes. For this reason, our fingerprint codes are called multi-carrier collusion-resistant codes. It is proved that the multiple access interference of users with different spreading codewords can be significantly reduced. Second, we propose the use of channel estimation/equalization and advanced detection schemes to deal with a large number of colluders with weighted collusion attacks in the fingerprinting system. They include the frequency-domain equalization, the maximal ratio combining schemes for colluder detection in the same codeword group, and the multiuser detection techniques for colluder detection in different codeword groups. It is demonstrated by computer simulation that, as compared with previous work in this field, colluders and their attack weights can be found by the proposed fingerprinting system more accurately.; In Chapter 5, the design of robust fingerprinting systems for traitor tracing against time-varying collusion attacks in protecting continuous media, such as audio and video, is investigated. We first show that it can be formulated as a multi-user detection problem in a wireless communication system with a time-varying channel response. Being inspired by the multi-carrier code-division-multi-access (MC-CDMA) technique, we propose a fingerprinting system that consists of three modules: 1) codeword generation with a multi-carrier approach, 2) colluder weight estimation, 3) advanced message symbol detection. We construct embedding codes with code spreading followed by multi-carrier modulation. For colluder weight estimation, we show that the weight estimation is analogous to channel response estimation, which can be solved by inserting pilot signals in the embedded fingerprint. As to advanced message symbol detection, we replace the traditional correlation-based detector with the maximal ratio combining detector and the parallel interference cancellation multiuser detector. The superior performance of the proposed fingerprinting system in terms of number of users/identified colluders and the bit error probability of symbol detection is demonstrated by representative audio and video examples.; In Chapter 6, we analyze time-varying collusion attacks over continuous multimedia, e.g., music and movie contents. We introduce the concept of fingerprint-to-interference-plus-noise ratio. We also characterize the capacity of a host media with the just-noticeable-difference based on the human perceptual system model. Based on those formulations, we investigate the relationship between time-varying collusion attacks and multimedia distortions with the subjective quality measure. We analyze time-varying collusion attacks for a fingerprinting system using concepts of capacity and throughput. Continuous media provide a limited resource for data embedding, which is analogous to the capacity of a wireless communication channel. Furthermore, the collusion attack can be interpreted as a channel shared by multiple users. Based on this analogy, the colluder detection performance can be understood from the viewpoint of throughput. Specifically, we show how to determine instantaneous throughput using the fingerprint-to-interference-plus-noise ratio, and extend it to the total throughput and the averaged throughput over a time interval. Our analysis provides a good framework to the understanding of collusion attacks and ways to enhance the traitor tracing performance of a fingerprinting system.; In Chapter 7, an anti-collusion fingerprinting system is developed to protect media files against time-varying collusion attacks based on the scalar Costa scheme and colluder weight recovery. We treat the host signal as a parallel Gaussian channel and fingerprints as transmitted user signals. We decompose the Gaussian channel into multiple independent sub-channels, and assign different user messages to different sub-channels. Then, colluder weights in collusion attacks can be estimated using pilot symbols at the decoder, and all weights can be estimated and compensated. As a result, the decoding region on the parametric space can be recovered as an original format. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed fingerprinting system has excellent performance in colluder detection.; To preserve the tracing capability of media fingerprinting against various types of collusion attacks, the study of advanced detection and suitable media combining techniques is demanded. Our research can be shed lights on the practical and feasible solutions in the design of future fingerprinting systems.
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|DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF COLLUSION-RESISTANT FINGERPRINTING SYSTEMS by Byung-Ho Cha A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Byung-Ho Cha


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05 April 2012
Spring in My Backyard
The other day I wanted to try out my new 50mm f/1.8 lens (it's actually Tom's old lens) that I got to go with my new digital SLR camera. I didn't have to wander far to find somewhere to practice... our own backyard! Last year was the first time I'd planted anything in the previously barren space, so I was curious to see what, if anything, would reappear this spring. I was happy to discover lots of new growth peeking through the soil and new buds flowering here and there.
I'm never sure if you want me to bore you with lots of gardening talk, (seriously, I could go on and on about it) but here is a look into our little piece of earth. We have (starting at the top) creeping jenny, new blossoms on the blueberry bush, heuchera, mint & cilantro & basil in pots, green onions that somehow survived all winter, hostas, a cherry tree that will blanket the patio in pink blossoms and what's left of the two daffodil blooms we had this spring (last year there was only one - progress!).
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- KWu said...
I would be interested in more garden talk! I only have a small planter in my apartment which does include mint and basil at least the herbs would be directly relevant info for me.
- April 05, 2012
- Marlena said...
Ok that lens is aaawesome, I want one. Lovely pictures, and look at your garden grow! You must be so proud. the only thing I ever planted were cucumber seeds and they grew to the size of pickles :/ no green thumb over here.
- April 05, 2012
- Anonymous said...
Great photos! Spring is surely upon us.
- April 05, 2012
- Kaitlynn said...
These are lovely. I love 50mm lenses! They somehow manage to make everything look prettier.
- April 05, 2012
- Unknown said...
I am officially requesting garden talk. I started my first container garden on my itty bitty balcony this spring and I can't help but get giddy when I hear about other peoples' plants!
Pwetty pwease?
- April 05, 2012
- Anonymous said...
nice photos! i love gardening
- April 05, 2012
- Unknown said...
that lens is amazing -- such sharp and beautiful photos!
- April 05, 2012
- Emily Peebles said...
These photos are so beautiful! I wish daffodils lasted longer. And I can't believe your green onion lasted all winter!
- April 08, 2012
- Cel said...
I love hearing and seeing about your gardening :) Looks like you have a lovely green and lush place to relax.
- April 12, 2012
- Ingenue said...
Garden talk is always fun to hear about, and pictures are never wrong! Keep it up:)
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In an encrypted chat interview with The New Yorker (a sister publication of Ars Technica) on Tuesday, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden fought back against unsubstantiated allegations by members of Congress that he is a Russian spy or collaborator.
Over the weekend, Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican congressman from Michigan and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told Meet the Press that it was neither "coincidence" nor "a gee-whiz luck event that [Snowden] ended up in Moscow under the handling of the FSB," referring to the Russian intelligence agency.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who chairs the corresponding senate intelligence committee, also added: "He may well have [had help from Russia]. We don't know at this stage."
Snowden told The New Yorker: "[I] clearly and unambiguously acted alone, with no assistance from anyone, much less a government." He added, "It won't stick… because it's clearly false, and the American people are smarter than politicians think they are."
The whistleblower observed that if he were a Russian spy, why would he have turned up in Hong Kong, only to then be stuck in the transit zone of Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport for 40 days?
"Spies get treated better than that," he quipped.
Going it alone
In particular, Rogers said that some things Snowden did "were beyond his technical capabilities. Raises more questions. How [did] he arrange travel before he left? How he was ready to go? He had a go bag, if you will."
Addressing this point, Snowden told The New Yorker that he had a "go bag packed since 2007. It's not an exotic practice for people who have lived undercover on government orders."
"It's not the smears that mystify me," Snowden added. "It's that outlets report statements that the speakers themselves admit are sheer speculation."
He also pointedly criticized journalists that allow such allegations to go unchallenged:
"'We don't know if he had help from aliens.' 'You know, I have serious questions about whether he really exists.' It's just amazing that these massive media institutions don't have any sort of editorial position on this. I mean these are pretty serious allegations, you know? The media has a major role to play in American society, and they're really abdicating their responsibility to hold power to account."
Stuck in the middle
Snowden added that he never intended to end up in Russia; he only ended up there because he was stopped en route.
"I was only transiting through Russia," he wrote. "I was ticketed for onward travel via Havana—a planeload of reporters documented the seat I was supposed to be in—but the State Department decided they wanted me in Moscow and cancelled my passport."
So why doesn't Snowden simply leave?
"When we were talking about possibilities for asylum in Latin America, the United States forced down the Bolivian President's plane," he said. But if he could travel with a guarantee that the US would not interfere, "I would of course do so."
Snowden again underscored that "in nine months, no one has credibly shown any harm to national security" from his revelations, "nor any ill intent." Moreover, he pointed out that "the President himself admitted both that changes are necessary and that he is certain the debate my actions started will make us stronger."
Snowden concluded by saying that he "knew what he was getting into" when he set this entire operation into motion.
"At least the American public has a seat at the table now," he said. "It may sound trite," but if "I end up disgraced in a ditch somewhere, but it helps the country, it will still be worth it."


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Hot Air Balloons Brighten the Sky at Wellsville's Great Balloon Rally [PICTURES]
For three full days, it was balloons galore in Wellsville. A balloon bonanza, if you will — and not the balloons you can get at a restaurant after dinner or a "Happy Birthday" balloon you can find just anywhere. We're talking about hot air balloons, brightly colored and patterned, floating through the sky with grace.
The Great Wellsville Balloon Rally offered four hot air balloon launches and fireworks throughout the weekend (Friday, July 20-Sunday, July 22). Balloon rides were available for those in attendance, and there was even a "Best Pizza in Wellsville" contest. Take a look at the scene, captured in photos.


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