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Another day, another vitriolic attack from Times columnist Maureen Dowd on the Catholic Church comparing its treatment of women to Saudi Arabia. The Vatican has recently censured a 2006 book on sexual ethics by Sister Margaret Farley as "not consistent with authentic Catholic theology." According to a Times report Tuesday, the book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, "attempted to present a theological rationale for same-sex relationships, masturbation and remarriage after divorce."
Dowd responded in her Wednesday column, "Is Pleasure a Sin?" Ignoring questions of theology and Catholic teaching, Dowd simply called it another "thuggish" attack by a rigid male hierarchy against women, including the now de rigueur comparison to Saudi Arabia.
Just the latest chapter in the Vatican's thuggish crusade to push American nuns -- and all Catholic women -- back into moldy subservience.
Even for a church that moves glacially, this was classic. "Just Love: a Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics," by Sister Margaret Farley -- a 77-year-old professor emeritus at Yale's Divinity School, a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and an award-winning scholar -- came out in 2006.
The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, which seems as hostile to women as the Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, spent years pondering it, then censured it on March 30 but didn't publicly release the statement until Monday.
The denunciation of Sister Farley's book is based on the fact that she deals with the modern world as it is. She refuses to fall in line with a Vatican rigidly clinging to an inbred, illusory world where men rule with no backtalk from women, gays are deviants, the divorced can't remarry, men and women can't use contraception, masturbation is a grave disorder and celibacy is enshrined, even as a global pedophilia scandal rages.


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Early Childhood Ukraine Meets Early Childhood SUNY CantonFriday, March 2nd, 2007
Early Childhood students from two continents shared a lesson on literacy development at the same time through SUNY Canton OnLine.
When students in Maureen Maiocco's Early Childhood program came in early Monday morning, they were greeted by their peer students at Kherson State University in Ukraine. By using the video conferencing technology for online classes and a very busy translator, the two classes were able to share children's books and learning methods.
"The focus of the lesson was on language and literacy development and how active engaged storytelling promotes and enhances literacy," said Maiocco.
Ukrainian Professor Alla Vladimirova and her students presented a musical lesson based on the notes of the musical scale.
"We are going to see much more of this kind of collaborative cross cultural, cross-language learning as we continue to tie our SUNY Canton curricula with other universities around the world," said SUNY Canton Provost Jeremy D. Brown, who was with the Ukrainian class for the video learning session.
The students had numerous questions for their overseas counterparts about early childhood, student teaching, and their programs of study
SUNY Canton OnLine provides a collaborative convenient learning environment for students from around the world. Early Childhood is one of SUNY Canton's signature hands-on and highly visual programs that encourages a high-level of student interaction and participation.
"It is amazing that we could connect, communicate, share teaching methods, and engage with EC students so many miles away from our classroom," Maiocco said. "We hope to have more video exchanges in the near future."

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In the bash version 4.0, there is a new concept called coproc. This is very useful for some of the daily tasks.
co-process starts a process in the background, optionally with a NAME, with which other processes can communicate. This can be a very good substitution for pipes in lots of cases. You can learn more about coproc in the link below:
The coproc keyword [Bash Hackers Wiki]
From the man page for bash:
A coprocess is a shell command preceded by the coproc reserved word. A
coprocess is executed asynchronously in a subshell, as if the command
had been terminated with the & control operator, with a two-way pipe
established between the executing shell and the coprocess.
The format for a coprocess is:
coproc [NAME] command [redirections]
This creates a coprocess named NAME. If NAME is not supplied, the
default name is COPROC. NAME must not be supplied if command is a sim-
ple command (see above); otherwise, it is interpreted as the first word
of the simple command. When the coproc is executed, the shell creates
an array variable (see Arrays below) named NAME in the context of the
executing shell. The standard output of command is connected via a
pipe to a file descriptor in the executing shell, and that file
descriptor is assigned to NAME[0]. The standard input of command is
connected via a pipe to a file descriptor in the executing shell, and
that file descriptor is assigned to NAME[1]. This pipe is established
before any redirections specified by the command (see REDIRECTION
below). The file descriptors can be utilized as arguments to shell
commands and redirections using standard word expansions. The process
id of the shell spawned to execute the coprocess is available as the
value of the variable NAME_PID. The wait builtin command may be used
to wait for the coprocess to terminate.
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One could be forgiven for thinking the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) world has converted entirely to unstructured (or hybrid) meshing. Certainly, Pointwise has contributed to that impression with our emphasis on anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion (T-Rex), our highly automated hybrid mesh generation technique with near-wall boundary layer resolution.
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First settled by Polynesians sailing from other Pacific islands between A.D. 300 and 600, Hawaii was visited in 1778 by British captain James Cook, who called the group the Sandwich Islands.
Hawaii was a native kingdom throughout most of the 19th century, when the expansion of the sugar industry (pineapple came after 1898) meant increasing U.S. business and political involvement. In 1893, Queen Liliuokalani was deposed, and a year later the Republic of Hawaii was established with Sanford B. Dole as president. Following annexation (1898), Hawaii became a U.S. territory in 1900.
The Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, was directly responsible for U.S. entry into World War II.
Hawaii, 2,397 mi west-southwest of San Francisco, is a 1,523-mile chain of islets and eight main islands—Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai, and Niihau. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, other than Midway, are administratively part of Hawaii.
The temperature is mild, and cane sugar, pineapple, and flowers and nursery products are the chief products. Hawaii also grows coffee beans, bananas, and macadamia nuts. The tourist business is Hawaii's largest source of outside income.
Hawaii's highest peak is Mauna Kea (13,796 ft). Mauna Loa (13,679 ft) is the largest volcanic mountain in the world by volume.
Among the major points of interest are Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (Hawaii), Haleakala National Park (Maui), Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park (Hawaii), Polynesian Cultural Center (Oahu), the USS Arizona and USS Missouri Memorial at Pearl Harbor, The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Oahu), and Iolani Palace (the only royal palace in the U.S.), Bishop Museum, and Waikiki Beach (all in Honolulu).
Read this profile of Hawaii to learn about the state's history, points of interest, and government. Also find interesting facts about each state, including the state's motto, symbols, and when it entered the union.


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Central Connecticut softball junior Arielle Bruno and freshman Evie Rentzel were named to the NCAA Baton Rouge All-Regional Team on Sunday for their impressive performances in the Blue Devils' first ever appearance in an NCAA Regional tournament.
Bruno went three-for-seven at the plate over the weekend, including launching a solo blast over the left field wall to score against #10 LSU. She also belted a triple against Northwestern State on Saturday in the Blue Devils' 9-1 win. She scored three runs, stole two bases and exercised great discipline at the plate, earning four walks over the weekend. In Central's first game against LSU on Friday, the Blue Devils were struck out 15 times. Bruno struck out only once the entire weekend, registering a .429 batting average and a 1.143 slugging percentage. She also posted a .636 on base percentage.
Rentzel put on an impressive performance both at the plate and in the outfield. She went four-for-eight in the batter's box, scoring two runs and notching one RBI. The freshman also made several impressive diving catches in left field to register a total of 12 putouts on the weekend. Rentzel struck out only once over three games and posted a .500 batting average, .500 slugging percentage and a .556 on base percentage.
The weekend ends the Blue Devils' 2013 season and will go in the record books as the most successful season in the history of CCSU softball. For the first time in the 27 year division I history, the 2013 squad won an NEC Championship, made an appearance in the NCAA Regionals and won an NCAA Regional game.


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2008 was another banner year for new albums, bands from all different genres of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal released good albums this year and I was on the frontlines buying them up as they came out. There were definitely some bad ones too and I picked up a few of them over the course of the year also. Some releases were just plain bad, some were huge disappointments, some I just couldn't stand…..so here is my list of The 5 Worst Albums of 2008:
An easy choice for 2008's worst album. This was supposed to be a combination of Industrial and Melodic Death Metal and all that came out of it was a Nu-Metal sound. Once I heard the trendy down-tuned guitars, the synth and the samples I knew I wouldn't like it. Think Ozzfest bands like Linkin Park, Papa Roach & Korn minus the raps…..plain awful!
This is not a "real" new album. Of the 12 tracks, only three were brand new songs, the rest came from previous Bret solo records. So why does it get inclusion here if it's not a "real" album? That's how it was advertised to the fans: a brand new album of new material! I'll go officially on record saying that I like Poison, and I like Bret Michaels as a frontman, but to fleece the fans with false advertising can't be forgiven. At least Gene Simmons tells us that he's fleecing us! Musically, I can only take so much sad sack 'Something To Believe In' and 'Unskinny Bop' rehashing. If Bret went straight up Country he would be more credible.
The last time Don Dokken released a solo album we got the very good UP FROM THE ASHES (1990). On the eve of a new album by his main band, Dokken, Don decided to release this new solo record at his live solo shows and through his personal website. When you see the name Don Dokken on a CD, you know to expect melodic Hard Rock, this time around a nine song acoustic album that follows the "lost love" and "personal pain" themes. In all honesty, it's a decent acoustic album. I placed it here for the sheer disappointment with the entire project, definitely not Don Dokken's best work.
The Asia of the early '80s had big hits with 'Heat Of The Moment', 'Don't Cry' and 'Only Time Will Tell' because of their uptempo melodic hooks that made each song infectious. The opening track 'Never Enough' follows the same path but the band must have thought that was enough because every other song is either a ballad, mid-tempo, or a lengthy progressive number. The musicianship is great but there is no guitar…..well, it's there somewhere. What could have been a huge Melodic Rock record ended up being a bore.
Queen + Paul Rodgers – The Cosmos Rocks
This is the first Queen album WITHOUT Freddie Mercury (R.I.P.). That should say it all. I understand that musicians need to play live and stay creative but sometimes releasing an album of new material isn't the way to go. I saw the Queen + Paul Rodgers tour, it was phenomenal! Rodgers did his best to interpret and celebrate the Queen catalog and it worked…..live. The music on THE COSMOS ROCKS sounds forced, as if Roger Taylor and Brian May tried too hard to create the Queen sound. Or maybe they don't know any better! An album that shouldn't have been released, leave the Queen legacy alone. The only winner here was John Deacon.


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University of Maine bus crash passenger: 'We're blessed to be alive'
Players injured, driver remains hospitalized after Georgetown crash
A bus carrying the University of Maine women's basketball team ran off a highway north of Boston, leaving a player with a broken hand, the head coach with minor facial cuts and the driver seriously injured.
"We're really blessed to be alive and to all be here together," assistant coach Jhasmin Player said.
Images: Bus crashes after driver passed out
The University of Maine's women's basketball team will soon board a bus back to campus less than 24 hours after the one they were taking to a Boston University game suddenly crashed along Interstate 95 in Georgetown.
"We just heard the rumble strips on the side and then we were veering off to the left, and when I looked forward, you know, he was slumped over," assistant head coach Todd Steelman said.
The driver Jeffery Hamlin, 55, of Charleston, Maine, had passed out at the wheel.
"I tried to get up there, but I didn't make it to the wheel, which is a good thing because I wouldn't have survived," head coach Richard Barron said.
"We went across that median, then across the other side of traffic -- just praying, 'Please let no one hit us,'" Steelman said.
"Any other track that bus would have went on could have caused fatalities, not only for us but for oncoming traffic, so the bus whether it was God, fate, whatever, steered itself to the safest place possible," Barron said.
The bus ended up just a couple of feet into the woods. The coaches popped open the emergency windows, and the players shimmed down the trees to safety.
"I always known that my teammates had my back and that just reinforces it, that in a life or death situation my teammates will always be there for me," player Liz Wood said.
One player suffered a broken hand, and Barron suffered some cuts on his face from glass shards, But it's the driver who's on all their minds. He's still in serious condition.
"Just happy to be together, that everyone's safe and we're just sending prayers to the driver," Player said.


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By Bonnie K. Goodman
Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. Ms. Goodman has also contributed the overviews, and chronologies in History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2008, 4th edition, edited by Gil Troy, Fred L. Israel, and Arthur Meier Schlesinger published by Facts on File, Inc. in late 2011.
On this day in history… April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 people died. (NYT)
April 14, 1912: RMS Titanic hits iceberg… April 15, 1912: Titanic sinks
Source: History.com
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before.
On April 10, the RMS Titanic, one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built, departed Southampton, England, on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic was designed by the Irish shipbuilder William Pirrie and built in Belfast, and was thought to be the world's fastest ship. It spanned 883 feet from stern to bow, and its hull was divided into 16 compartments that were presumed to be watertight. Because four of these compartments could be flooded without causing a critical loss of buoyancy, the Titanic was considered unsinkable. While leaving port, the ship came within a couple of feet of the steamer New York but passed safely by, causing a general sigh of relief from the passengers massed on the Titanic's decks. On its first journey across the highly competitive Atlantic ferry route, the ship carried some 2,200 passengers and crew.
After stopping at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, to pick up some final passengers, the massive vessel set out at full speed for New York City. However, just before midnight on April 14, the RMS Titanic failed to divert its course from an iceberg and ruptured at least five of its hull compartments. These compartments filled with water and pulled down the bow of the ship. Because the Titanic's compartments were not capped at the top, water from the ruptured compartments filled each succeeding compartment, causing the bow to sink and the stern to be raised up to an almost vertical position above the water. Then the Titanic broke in half, and, at about 2:20 a.m. on April 15, stern and bow sank to the ocean floor.
Because of a shortage of lifeboats and the lack of satisfactory emergency procedures, more than 1,500 people went down in the sinking ship or froze to death in the icy North Atlantic waters. Most of the 700 or so survivors were women and children. A number of notable American and British citizens died in the tragedy, including the noted British journalist William Thomas Stead and heirs to the Straus, Astor, and Guggenheim fortunes.
One hour and 20 minutes after Titanic went down, the Cunard liner Carpathia arrived. The survivors in the lifeboats were brought aboard, and a handful of others were pulled out of the water. It was later discovered that the Leyland liner Californian had been less than 20 miles away at the time of the accident but had failed to hear the Titanic's distress signals because its radio operator was off duty.
Announcement of details of the tragedy led to outrage on both sides of the Atlantic. In the disaster's aftermath, the first International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea was held in 1913. Rules were adopted requiring that every ship have lifeboat space for each person on board, and that lifeboat drills be held. An International Ice Patrol was established to monitor icebergs in the North Atlantic shipping lanes. It was also required that ships maintain a 24-hour radio watch.
On September 1, 1985, a joint U.S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic lying on the ocean floor at a depth of about 13,000 feet. The ship was explored by manned and unmanned submersibles, which shed new light on the details of its sinking.
Source: The Sun, 4-14-12
- 9.45am: The ship approaches an area known for icebergs about 400 miles south of Newfoundland.
- 11.40pm: Iceberg rips open the side of the Titanic.
- 12.25am: Order given to put women and children into lifeboats.
- 12:45am: Lifeboat number seven is the first lowered – with only 19 of 65 capacity.
- 2:18am: Titanic breaks in two.
- 2:20am: Ship goes under.
Source for many of the links: NYT
- The Story of the Titanic, Encyclopedia Britannica
- RMS Titanic, Wikipedia
- Titanic for Dummies ArticlesDummies.com
- Titanica, National Museums of Northern Ireland
- Titanic Inquiry Project, Electronic copies of the U.S. and British inquiries into the disaster.
- Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
- Titanic 100, BBC
- Titanic Passenger Bios , Biography.com
From History.com
News Coverage
- Articles, Photos and Videos, BBC
- Discovery News
- "How The New York Times Invented Disaster Coverage With Titanic Sinking", The Poynter Institute, Apr. 9, 2012
- "Titanic Belfast Exhibit Opening Where Doomed Ship was Built", Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2012
- "Titanic Tourist Attraction to Open in Belfast" (Video), BBC, March 30, 2012
From National Geographic
- Titanic: 100 Years Site
- Building Titanic: An Interactive Timeline
- Titanic: 100 Years: The Ship That Belfast Built (Video)
- Adventure on the Titanic (Interactive)
- Titanic: Unsolved Mystery (Interactive)
- Photo Gallery: The Guarantee Group
- Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron (Video)
- Around the world, prayer, music and flowers remember sinking of the Titanic, 100 years on: In the birthplace of the Titanic, residents will gather for a choral requiem. In the North Atlantic, above the ship's final resting place, passengers will pray as a band strikes up a hymn and three floral wreaths are cast onto the waves.
A century after the great ship went down with the loss of 1,500 lives, events around the globe are marking a tragedy that retains a titanic grip on the world's imagination — an icon of Edwardian luxury that became, in a few dark hours 100 years ago, an enduring emblem of tragedy…. – WaPo, 4-14-12
- US, British ships to meet at Titanic sinking spot: Titanic fans aboard cruise ships are journeying to the spot where the great liner hit an iceberg exactly 100 years ago on Sunday, as somber ceremonies are held on land to mark the disaster.The anniversary has taken on an international character, with artists, scientists and museums engaged in months-long preparations for commemorating events in Britain, Canada, Ireland and the United States, with an emphasis on dignity.
The Titanic was built in Belfast, and sailed from Southampton toward New York, but it was from Halifax that ships were sent to retrieve the bodies. And 150 of the tragedy's 1,514 victims are buried here.
One century to the hour after the fatal encounter with an iceberg, more than 1,700 passengers on two cruise ships — the MS Balmoral from Southampton and the Azamara Journey from New York City — plan to meet at the site where the Titanic went down to witness a partial reenactment.
The ship's captain will announce a collision and a distress call will ring out.
Passengers then plan to throw wreaths into the sea at 2:20 am about 800 kilometers (500 miles) southeast of Halifax at the time and place the ship sank.
Some participants in the memorial events — many of them history buffs or descendants of passengers of the doomed voyage — came with personal stories about how the Titanic touched their lives…. – AFP, 4-14-12
- Titanic mystery: 100 years later, questions linger in NJ: On April 27, Bracken and Charles Haas of Randolph, president of the Titanic International Society, will gather with other members of the international group in Secaucus for the RMS Titanic Centennial Convention, for a candlelight service…. – NJ Star-Ledger, 4-14-12
- Remembering the Titanic in Southampton: A hundred years after the ship left Southampton, the port city marked the anniversary of the epic disaster with a recording of the ship's whistle…. – NYT, 4-10-12
- Halifax to remember the Titanic with Night of Bells ceremony: It was 100 years ago tonight that the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg and later sank about 700 kilometres from the port of Halifax killing 1,500 of the 2,200 people aboard.
The province of Nova Scotia is inviting the public to help commemorate the sinking and the lives that were lost at an event called Titanic Eve – Night of the Bells.
It will be an event rich in memory and symbolism, beginning with a candlelit procession that will start at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic on Lower Water Street…. – CBC News, 4-14-12
- Coast Guard cutter to spread 1.5 million rose petals atop the Titanic's watery grave: A Coast Guard cutter will depart from Boston to spread 1.5 million dried rose petals over the resting place of the Titanic, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking, the Coast Guard said today.
Crewmembers from the cutter Juniper will spread the petals atop the ship's watery grave on Saturday. Members of the Coast Guard-led International Ice Patrol will also cast five wreaths from an HC-130J Hercules aircraft based out of Elizabeth City, N.J., the Coast Guard said in a statement."I think it's important. It is a chance to experience 100 years ago — how things have changed with transatlantic voyages," said Petty Officer Rob Simpson, who will be on board the Juniper.
The wreaths and rose petals will be blessed at a ceremony at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Coast Guard base in Boston hosted by the agency, as well as the Titanic Historical Society, the Titanic International Society, and Titanic Museum Attractions…. – Boston Globe, 4-9-12
- At Sea on the Titanic a Century Ago: We may not know everything that happened that fateful night on April 15, 1912, but the ambition and folly of the Titanic's maiden voyage are still with us…. – NYT, 4-13-12
- Twists of Fate: The Titanic narrowly avoided a collision with another ocean liner, the New York, at the beginning of its ill-fated journey…. – NYT, 4-13-12
- Experts Split on Possibility of Remains at Titanic Site: In 1986, Congress passed a protective law known as the RMS Titanic Memorial Act, but officials at the ocean agency and elsewhere agree that it has no teeth…. – NYT, 4-14-12
- World's largest Titanic attraction opens in Belfast: Resembling both an iceberg and the prow of the doomed ship that sank on its maiden voyage, the $160 million, six-story Titanic Belfast has drawn more than 40,000 visitors since it opened March 31…. – USA Today, 4-12
- 'Titanic at 100′ at South Street Seaport Museum: Titanic-themed entertainment abounds this weekend, and not just on the screen but in the city…. – NYT, 4-12-12
- Titanic exhibit "Titanic at 100: Myth and Memory" — South Street Seaport Museum: A scale model of the RMS Titanic sits on display at the opening of the "Titanic at 100: Myth and Memory" exhibition on April 10, 2012 in New York City. The exhibit opened at the Melville Gallery, part of the South Street Seaport Museum, on the 100th anniversary of Titanic's launch on her maiden – and only – voyage. The exhibition features mayday communications from the ship, personal artifacts from survivors, production items from Titanic films and interactive multimedia tours through the ship. The British passenger liner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing more than 1,500 people on April 15,1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City…. – Times Union, 4-10-12
- History Lost And Found: A Letter From Titanic: Many famous names went down with the Titanic, like the American millionaire John Jacob Astor IV, the wealthiest person on the ship, and Macy's department store owner Isidor Straus.
But you may not know about one of the ship's doctors — John Edward Simpson. Aboard the Titanic, Simpson wrote a letter to his mother back home in Belfast. It was mailed from the great ship's last port of call before it made its disastrous turn across the North Atlantic.Over the years, though, the letter fell into the hands of a collector, and the Simpson family thought it lost forever — until now…. – NPR, 4-14-12
- Titanic Continues to Have a Long Afterlife – Advertising: Marketers and media companies are feeding an apparently ceaseless interest in the Titanic with an outpouring of TV programs, books, and many other collectibles…. – NYT, 4-12-12
- New Books About the Titanic and Its Passengers: Two books explore the doomed maiden voyage of the Titanic…. – NYT, 4-14-12
- Titanic, a story told in movies, plays and books: Mention Oreo cookies or the Girl Guides and no one's likely to hark back, almost without thinking, to 1912. Both came into being that year. It's the sinking of the Titanic that brings the time most readily to mind.
The disaster has entered the language: "Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" for any futile gesture that will fail to ward off impending calamity.
It's also become a cultural touchstone for any writer or filmmaker seeking to evoke the years immediately prior to World War I and symbolize the approaching death of a gilded era.The Titanic has featured most prominently in movies too numerous all to be mentioned here…. – Toronto Star, 4-14-12
- Deborah Hopkinson: 'Titanic' review: Gripping 'Voices': When the 'unsinkable' met the unthinkable:
TITANIC: VOICES FROM THE DISASTER, Deborah Hopkinson, Scholastic Press, $17.99, 304 pages
On April 15, 1912, 17-year-old Jack Thayer was returning home from a European trip with his parents. A first-class passenger on a grand new ocean liner, he enjoyed a lavish dinner. It was a cold evening, growing colder. "There was no moon," he said, "and I have never seen the stars shine brighter." Before the night was through, Jack Thayer would find himself in desperate trouble. His ship, the Titanic, struck an iceberg and began to sink.
"Titanic: Voices From the Disaster" is gripping from the first page. West Linn writer Deborah Hopkinson begins her history for middle grade and young adult readers by laying out the bare facts of the tragedy. The Titanic was an extraordinarily elegant ship, too big to sink. How then, could she have struck an iceberg? Why weren't there adequate lifeboats or a plan for using them? Hopkinson answers those questions and introduces a number of vivid characters: "a stewardess, a 9-year-old boy, a science teacher, a wealthy gentleman, a brave seaman, an American high school senior, a young mother on her way to start a new life, and more."…. – The Oregonian, 4-14-12
- Titanic: A ship full of myths: Probably the most outlandish belief ever about the sinking of the Titanic is that it wasn't the Titanic . . . .
British writer Robin Gardiner got three books out of his premise that it was actually sister-ship the Olympic that went to the bottom in a massive insurance scam gone horribly wrong.In Titanic: The Ship that Never Sank, The Great Titanic Conspiracy and The Riddle of the Titanic, the latter co-authored with journalist Dan van der Vat, Gardiner builds on a collision in 1911 between the Olympic and a Royal Navy cruiser, HMS Hawke….. – Toronto Star, 4-12-12
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Artist Willy Stoewer's vision of what the sinking must have looked like
- Survivors of the Titanic | Survivors from the famous shipwreck tell their stories: At 11.40pm on 14 April, 1912, the famously 'unsinkable' ocean liner, Titanic, struck an iceberg. Two hours and 40 minutes later she sank deep into the freezing Atlantic waters. Less than a third of the people on board survived.
Over the years, the BBC has heard from some of the men and women who lived through that 'night to remember'. Their memories, and internal BBC documents about the controversies that followed, are now gathered together to tell the true story of the disaster.
Hear the survivors describe a night they could never forget…. – BBC
- Titanic memories from Canadians: Titanic survivors with a connection to Canada were a mixed bag of infants to autocrats, with an equally mixed bag of stories as they disembarked in New York from the rescue ship Carpathia…. – Toronto Star, 4-13-12
- 'They watched the ship go down' — Toronto Star, 4-13-12
- Titanic: 'I heard the screams' recalls officerJoseph Boxhall Joseph Boxhall was aged 28 when he became fourth officer on the Titanic:
Joseph Boxhall, the fourth officer on RMS Titanic, was on duty the night the liner sank, but survived the disaster after he was ordered to take charge of one of the lifeboats.
In a BBC radio interview in 1962, the Hull-born officer recalled the moment the liner hit the iceberg on 14 April…. – BBC, 4-14-12
- Titanic 100: We survived: Just over 700 people escaped from the Titanic after it struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on the night of 14 April 1912. More than 1,500 others were not so fortunate.
The survivors scrambled into lifeboats or plunged into the icy water. In the years after the disaster, some of them spoke publicly about the Titanic's ill-fated maiden voyage.
Here, with the help of archive images and audio, listen to what happened through the voices of crew members Charles Lightoller and Frank Prentice and passengers Eva Hart and Edith Russell…. – BBC, 4-9-12
- The terrible cries for help lasted 20 or 30 minutes… then faded away – Titanic first class passenger John Thayer:
CLOSE to death adrift in the dark Atlantic, John Thayer watched as the Titanic slipped beneath the waves.The 17-year-old and his parents had been first-class passengers on the doomed liner 100 years ago.
Miraculously, John – heir to an American railroad fortune – survived the disaster with his mother and wrote a vivid first-hand account of the catastrophe 28 years later.
John committed suicide in 1945 and for decades A Survivor's Tale was forgotten – but it is now back in print to mark the centenary.
Here is an edited extract…. – The Sun, 4-14-12
- Titanic: Unlikely friendship in lifeboat eight: Able Seaman Thomas Jones and the Countess of Rothes became friends after surviving the tragedy
He was a crewman from Wales, she was a countess from London travelling first class on the biggest passenger liner of the time.
If not for one of the biggest maritime disasters in history, it is unlikely their paths would ever have crossed.
But aboard Titanic's lifeboat number eight Able Seaman Thomas Jones and Lucy Noël Martha, Countess of Rothes, struck up an unlikely friendship that would last for the rest of their lives.And now 100 years later their descendants have met for the first time.
Thomas William Jones was 32 years old when he boarded the Titanic as a member of the deck crew at Southampton.
The Countess of Rothes, who was "of independent means", was just a year older than the crewman when she boarded at the same port with her Scottish husband's cousin and her maid…. – BBC , 4-14-12
- Unsinkable Molly Brown's daughter chose Paris over Titanic: Helen Brown Benziger couldn't resist April in Paris. What 22-year-old socialite studying abroad could?
The City of Light, from its spring fashion shows to its blossoming boulevards, had a certain je ne sais quoi.
That magnetism, that state of mind, later romanticized in song, presumably altered the course of history for the only daughter of the heroine who came to be immortalized as "The Unsinkable" Molly Brown.
Benziger, who years later settled in Old Greenwich, chose Paris over the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
The year was 1912…. – Greenwich Times, 4-11-12
- 200,000 Titanic-related records are published online:
More than 200,000 records relating to the Titanic have been published online to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking on 15 April.
The documents provide information about survivors and the 1,500 people who died, including a number of wills and hundreds of coroner inquest files.
The collection has been gathered by the subscription-based family history website Ancestry.co.uk.
However, access to the Titanic records collection is free until 31 May 2012…. – BBC, 4-9-12
- The Titanic Sails Today: The White Star liner Titanic, the largest vessel in the world, will sail at noon tomorrow from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York…. – NYT, 4-10-1912
- Allan Liner Virginian Now Steaming Toward the Ship: A wireless dispatch received tonight by the Allan-line officials from the steamer Virginian states that the Titanic flashed out wireless calls for immediate assistance. The Virginian put on full speed and headed for the Titanic…. – NYT, 4-15-1912
- Latest News From the Sinking Ship: Dispatches from the Titanic to the Marconic wireless station in Cape Race, Newfoundland…. – NYT, 4-15-1912
- Noted Men on the Lost Titanic: Sketches of a few of the well-known people among the 1,300 passengers lost on the Titanic, including Col. Jacob Astor and his wife, Isidor Strauss and Benjamin Guggenheim…. – NYT, 4-16-1912
- Biggest Liner Plunges to the Bottom at 2:20 a.m.: The Carpathia found at daybreak this morning only the lifeboats and the wreckage of what had been the biggest steamship afloat…. – NYT, 4-16-1912
- Titanic's "C.Q.D." Caught by a Lucky Fluke:
By Harold Thomas Cottam, wireless operator on the Carpathia: Carpathia's wireless man had finished his work for the night, but going back to verify a "Time Rush," he caught the call for help…. – NYT, 4-19-1912
- Thrilling Tale by Titanic's Surviving Wireless Man:
By Harold Bride, surviving wireless operator on the Titanic: Wireless operator recounts the final hours of the ship…. – NYT, 4-28-1912
- Titanic: A century of fascination: Stephen Cox, a UC San Diego English literature professor who has written extensively about Titanic, including a book, has some ideas about why the tragedy retains its pull on the public's imagination, 100 years later and counting.
"It's a story about people, and it's a story about people who are like us," he said. "We're interested in thinking about what we would have done under those circumstances."
It took the Titanic two hours and 40 minutes to sink, roughly the time of a Shakespearean tragedy, Cox said. People had time to think about what they were doing, and why. The decisions they made — Get on a lifeboat? Go back for others? Sink or swim? — say something about them and their character. And, by extension, something about us…. – UT San San Diego, 4-13-12
- William Neill: Titanic 'disaster tourism' disrespects victims, academic claims: The city of Belfast has "coarsened itself" by exploiting the sinking of the Titanic to draw in tourists, an academic has claimed.
Titanic anniversary: Belfast's monument to the Titanic tale Belfast has spent £97m – Northern Ireland's biggest-ever outlay on a tourism project – on Titanic BelfastThe city is throwing a three week "festival" to mark the opening the Titanic Belfast museum and the centenary of the launch of the fated ocean liner.
William Neill, a professor of urban planning at Aberdeen University, said: "Belfast is unique in terms of the significance of the Titanic but the question must be raised as to whether that memory has been treated with enough respect.
"The city has lived with the shame of the sinking for many years. That has turned a corner and it is important that the role Belfast's great shipyard played in our maritime history is acknowledged.
"Whether what is now a mythic legacy should have been tied so closely to financial gain through selling 'infotainment' is more debateable."
Professor Neill is to address a conference on the phenomenon of 'disaster tourism' in Berlin. More than 1,500 people died when the RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 after striking on iceberg…. – Telegraph UK, 4-4-12
- Paul Heyer: Fascination with Titanic is unlikely to sink, prof says
Paul Heyer is a WLU prof who has just published a book called Titanic Century. He is in big demand these days as an expert on media coverage 100 years ago and Titanic myth-making.
It's downright painful for Paul Heyer to admit that he passed up on a chance to be an extra on the set of movie producer James Cameron's 1997 megahit Titanic.The professor of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University is an expert on how the passenger ship and its tragic story have been represented in all kinds of media.
He is the author of the just-released book, Titanic Century: Media, Myth and the Making of a Cultural Icon, an update of a scholarly work he published in 1995.
Heyer says he was teaching at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., back in the 1990s, when he was asked if he would like to spend two weeks in San Diego, Calif.
"Titanic was in production and they were looking for extras with some connections to the Titanic," Heyer recalls. "They wanted people who had written about the Titanic, or members of the Titanic Historical Society."
To this day — and maybe even more so now that the movie is back on the big screen in 3D to mark the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking on April 15, 1912 — Heyer regrets saying no…. – Guelph Mercury, 4-13-12
- 'The Titanic For Dummies' Written By University Of New Haven Professor Stephen Spignesi Covers Historic Disaster, Detail By Detail: Fact No. 1: There was nobody named Jack Dawson on the Titanic.
Fact No. 2: The man named J. Dawson who was among the passengers and died on the Titanic, and whose grave movie fans visit in Nova Scotia, was not Jack, the character Leonardo DiCaprio played in that 1997 blockbuster movie.
"The Titanic for Dummies" will teach you that, and thousands more facts about the legendary disaster.So if his first Titanic book was "complete," why write a new one?
"I was already a 'Dummies' author. I've written three of them," Spignesi said, referring to "Second Homes for Dummies," "Lost Books of the Bible for Dummies" and "Native American History for Dummies." "I had done the [Titanic] book in 1998. I had already put in the time to do the research and had a massive archive of books, articles, videos and facts."
With that research in hand, he persuaded Wiley, the publisher, to let him write "The Titanic For Dummies" on the 100th anniversary of the disaster, which happened on April 14-15, 1912. More than 700 passengers and crew members survived the sinking of the Titanic, but more than 1,500 died.
Spignesi, 58, who teaches English and history at University of New Haven in West Haven, said that "The Titanic for Dummies" is different in format from his previous book.
"'The Complete Titanic' was straightforward history, and the 'Dummies' books are very modular and nonsequential," he said. "They're meant entirely as reference books."… – The Hartford Courant, 4-8-12
- Morgan Woodward: St. Cloud historian has a Titanic love Woodward uncovers St. Cloud ship connections: "It teaches us about ourselves; you look at the Titanic disaster and it's the microcosm of Edwardian society — kind of this culmination of arrogance and hubris," Woodward said.
"The ship slipped below the waves in the wee hours of April 15; it's all over the front pages on the 15th, which was a Monday, so people knew about it right away," he said…. – SC Times, 4-13-12
- Crossing the Ocean, 1912 vs. 2012: THE 100th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy is being widely observed on both sides of the Atlantic, at museum openings, special exhibits and lectures, theatrical performances, concerts, readings and walking and graveyard tours. Guests at some events are invited to dress in fashions of the era, and Titanic-themed cocktails and re-creations of the elaborate first-class meal from the storied liner's last dinner will be served. Two Titanic Memorial Cruises to the site of the sinking are planned, and the ships are scheduled to be there on the anniversary, April 15.
But what was life onboard the Titanic actually like? Not much like taking a cruise today.
Traveling on the Titanic was a voyage of purpose, primarily to transport mail, cargo and passengers, many of whom were emigrating, as steadily and safely as possible.
Designed to withstand harsh seas and cut through water, the Titanic was built with efficiency in mind. Ships today are capable of traveling at speeds similar to the Titanic's but rarely do, as cruising is about pleasure, said John Maxtone-Graham, a maritime historian and author of the newly published book "Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner."…. – NYT, 4-8-12
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I've had thoughts on why many cling on to religion, even after constant debunking and debating. I think I may have a possible reason why some do not give them up.
Most religions all have some system of an afterlife. People practicing the religion believe that, if they follow their specific book and appease to their specific God, they get to go to a magical place where nothing bad happens and they get to live out their wishes and desires that were either impossible in their mortal life, or there life was too short to live it.
When someone suddenly suggests that such a concept does not exist, the believer becomes defensive. Death is a bitter result of life. We dread the day we where we breathe our last breath, or if our life was suddenly cut short. To us, the concept of an after-life is comforting, a God protecting us like a Dad telling his son everything is going to be alright, even though he knows the bitter end is near.
I think, while not the sole reason for many that hold on to their faith, a denial of a mortal death being a permanent death is what keeps them from swallowing the bitter pill of reality that life is not fair, and that shit happens and you may not get to do everything in life or you could drop dead the very next day.
I was born in Mississippi, and raised Baptist, although, my family was mostly lazy Christians who only went to church on around the Holidays. I had the hope as a small child to go to Heaven and be with Angels and no kids there would ever be mean to me again. The thought that I couldn't have any of that would probably have scared me back then.
I came to realize that it's for the best that there is no afterlife. Imagine what exactly you would be doing in an afterlife. As the eternity went on, you would grow tired of the same mundane things. Would you truly want to spend your mortal life appeasing some God, only so you can appease him the rest of your life? I can't think of anything else that would be so...well, boring.
In a way, I feel more confident in this life. It won't be okay if I skip out on opportunities, because I may not get the chance again. This is my one shot, and I don't want to blow it on wishful thinking.
How about you? If you were once religious and now Atheist, how did you overcome the hurdle of accepting there is no afterlife? Or, do you not believe in an afterlife, but in some way, wish/hope there is one? Has any of this changed your perspective on how you live your life than how you lived your life beforehand?
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Too true. It's arbitrary looking for reasons why someone would cling to religion. It would be easier to divide by zero. It's like trying to explain to someone how to look at one of those magic eye pictures so they can see the damned boat (I swear there is no boat, I swear!!!!). It's a way of looking at things that is entirely different. While one better reflects reality than another, that is simply not the perspective the other has.
Oh, so you know you've deconverted theists by offering scientific facts and syllogisms? I doubt it. No theory involved. In practice, theists as a rule don't give up religion because you showed them a fact or made a strong argument.
Who are you replying to, Unseen? The indentation appears to make your post a reply to mine but I haven't said anything that fits your words.
Regardless of who you're replying to, you're essentially calling your target a liar based on "theists as a rule don't give up religion because you showed them a fact or made a strong argument"
If you ARE replying to me, you should be grateful you're not near a dark alley with me.
I was saying that they are impervious to logic (even though they appear to try to use it) and you appeared (correct me if I'm wrong) to be arguing contrary to that.
I'll stay away from dark alleys for a while, and if you attempt to come near me, be forewarned I'm always armed with Silly String.
Okay, you made a brief comment to which I gave a brief reply:
When you argue with a religious person, you are just giving him/her a chance to prove how strong his faith is. Faith is strongest when it stands totally without intellectual support. Don't you get it?!
That's true in theory, Unseen, but in practice they crave evidence and logic. They'll say the most ridiculous things to give the illusion of evidence or logic. Poor things . . . if only they had one piece of evidence or a single valid argument, they wouldn't have to pretend so much.
And to that, you insultingly replied with:
Oh, so you know you've deconverted theists by offering scientific facts and syllogisms? I doubt it. No theory involved. In practice, theists as a rule don't give up religion because you showed them a fact or made a strong argument.
I let you know I'd love to have you in a dark alley. That was meant to impart to you the offense I took at your hubris. That kind of disrespect would get you bitched-slapped where I come from.
As a matter of fact, I've actually deconverted ONE person, years ago. Not that this has anything to do with anything I've said. It was on Yahoo Groups. I had a group called "Positive Skepticism". One Christian user started off hostile but was treated civilly in return (by me and other members). Over the course of a couple of weeks he sought clarifications of our comments and began responding less defensively and more rationally. Then he disappeared for awhile. Anyway, one day, in a message to the entire group, he said that he realized that we were right and credited, mostly, my best arguments. He ended by asking, "What do I do now?" We all replied to him but he never made another appearance.
This happened early in my online atheist "career", so I thought I could look forward to more deconversions. But years later it's proven to be the only one (that I know of) so far.
I credit that episode to the group rules I enforced. No name-calling. No threats. Try to be civil. Apologize if you fail. I also had a poem on the home page that went like this . . .
"Grist for the Sophist"
If you're not here to assist
But only someone's premise, twist
If you are a distortionist
The moderator will get pissed
If you insist or can't resist
Playing bully or chauvinist
Or asinine obstructionist
Then you should be a soloist
If that's the reason you exist
And after warnings, still persist
Despite the slaps across the wrist
You will certainly be dismissed
Why do I owe you any respect or you owe me?
Where I come from, people who get all huffy over being disrespected (as they perceive it) are regarded as insecure and as having self-esteem issues.
It is what it is.
Oh, so you know you've deconverted theists by offering scientific facts and syllogisms? I doubt it.
Not letting disrespect go unanswered is normal self-respect.
"Turning the other cheek is a sign of weakness" eh? That's the attitude of the gangbangster. Welcome to their club.
I'm an ex-Christian. I've tried the whole "Turn the other cheek" bullshit. Turning the other cheek just leaves a metallic taste in my mouth.
I've replaced that platitude with an attitude: Don't take crap from ANYBODY.
Atheist Exile - I agree with you. Disrespect is disrespect, a deliberate insult. If you let it go, their insult has succeeded. As for "crap", most of the time I prefer to let it go.
I like your de-conversion story, it's Christian in the best sense. Not that I'm into de-converting people - just trying to make them better Christians or Moslems or however they want to do it.
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Lois Downey
posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 5:31 pm
Our factor indicators are 11-category ordinal measures with only the extreme values defined: 0 = terrible; 10 = almost perfect. Almost all have significant negative skew. In the past, we have modeled them as categorical indicators and have collapsed values of 0 and 1 into one category to accommodate Mplus's 10-category limit. However, I'm wondering whether it might make more sense to model these indicators as continuous and use a robust estimator to circumvent the problem of nonnormality. Would this technique be justifiable, given that respondents are given only the anchor definitions and allowed to impose their own quasi-continuous scale between these extremes? Or should one have more than 11 values before calling something "continuous"?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 9:59 am
If you don't have a large floor or ceiling effect, I would treat the variable as continuous with that many categories. If you do have a large floor or ceiling effect, I would treat the variable as censored or do two-part modeling.
Lois Downey
posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:39 am
What percentage of responses at the minimum or maximum response option should one take as evidence of a "large" floor or ceiling effect?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:46 am
Twenty-five percent or more.
Lois Downey
posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 11:37 am
When one includes censored indicators, the tests of model fit no longer include those handy statistics like RMSEA that allow comparing the fit of models with different numbers of factors. If I run my 22-indicator model without defining any of the indicators as censored, I get inadequate fit with 5 factors, but adequate fit with 6 factors. (We expected 6 dimensions, based on our theoretical model, although not all of the 6 factors in the EFA look precisely like the dimensions we anticipated.) Can I use this information as a rough indication that when I redefine 10 of the indicators as censored from above, I should focus on a 6-factor model?
(p.s. -- Thank you so much for your help to date, and in the future.)
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 1:07 pm
Which estimator are you using?
Lois Downey
posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 1:40 pm
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 6:36 pm
I was thinking that you could use weighted least squares but I see that is not the case. I would not use fit statistics from treating the variables as continuous when some are censored. I would instead look at BIC. If you get six factors but they don't resemble what you expected, I might go back to the drawing board. It sounds like your items may have validity problems.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
A stitch or two will do
Today I've got a card for the new Stitch it Up Challenge over at Some Odd Girl. Yep, that's right... we want to see you make stitching a big center of attention on your card. It can be hand stitching, machine stitching, faux stitching, or heck a combo of them all! Just don't hide it!
Now guess which of the three ways of achieving this look I went with? Remember... I'm a laaaaazy crafter, LOL! If you guessed faux stitching then you get a gold star. Yep, believe it or not there isn't a single stitch of actual thread on this card. Instead, I raided my handy dandy stash of rub-ons and found these awesome 'stitched' pumpkins and alphas that I just knew I had to use for a funky Halloween card.
Being very much in the Halloween spirit of things I really wanted to color up Witchy Tia. She is an oldie but goodie digi image from Some Odd Girl but I had to have her for some of my cards this year. I just think that she and her kitty friend are totally adorable! I ended up printing them out a bit on the smaller side since so much of the card was already being taken up by my 'stitching'. But I think it gives them the appearance of flying past us at a distance. :)
Alrighty, time for you to pick up the needle and thread (or not heehee) and take on the challenge! You've got until September 20th to enter a card for a chance at winning a fab prize and while you don't have to use a SOG image to qualify, you do get an extra name in the hat come drawing time if you do. :)
Have fun and good luck!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
digi stamp- Some Odd Girl (Witchy Tia)
Colorbox black pigment ink
The Twinery twine
EK Success border punch
Autumn Leaves stitching rub-ons
Creative Cafe rub-on stitches
Kaiser Craft gems
Sharpie White marker
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- E31, e23, E57
eyes- YG03, YG95, YG99
clothes- W5, W7, W9, YR14, YR18, E19, V06, V09, YR21, YR24, YG25, YG67, Y38, YR04
cat- N1, N3, N5
broom- E55, E77, Y21
29 comments:
- chrilvian said...
oooooo she is cute
thanks for showing
i have some digies in my head, but didnt know about this one
hmmm think-im-going to shopppp
great card
- September 8, 2011 at 6:17 AM
- Chris_P said...
This is sooo cool!!!
- September 8, 2011 at 6:19 AM
- Liliya said...
Beauty!!! Very cute card! Love your colouring!
- September 8, 2011 at 6:35 AM
- Hlora said...
wow! Fantastic stitching! Maybe I will try to make the same oneday. Thanks for your creative works!)) Love your cards! The images are so cute! Love all of them! ))
- September 8, 2011 at 6:58 AM
- Heidi Brawley said...
Ohhh this card is Awesome!!! She is a cutie too. I am not a huge fan of Some Odd Girl but this Witchy Tia is very adorable!!! Your cards are always sooo inspiring too!
Hugs, Heidi B.
- September 8, 2011 at 7:19 AM
- Robin said...
Super fun card!!
- September 8, 2011 at 7:33 AM
- corryskaart said...
hoi amy
weer een prachtige kaart met dat borduursel maar zelf kan ik dat niet omdat ik maar een oog hebt:-))
groetjes van corry
- September 8, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- Shaela said...
This is sooo cute! Love that adorable witch stamp, and I would NEVER have guessed that the stitching wasn't real! :)
- September 8, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- RiNNE said...
Fantastic card, Amy! The stitching challenge was well executed! Those rub-ons came in handy! Witch Tis is adorable (can u say that about a witch?).
- September 8, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- Lau W said...
Oh this is creative, superb card with this sweet stamp, love the little cat :-))
- September 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM
- SuiLan said...
Wow your cards are soooo beautiful!
- September 8, 2011 at 8:38 AM
- Jenny said...
OMG- love this! AND I was totally fooled by your faux stitching!
- September 8, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- Cindy H. said...
Love this adorable card!! This sweet image and your gorgeous coloring - Wow! I was amazed that the stitching wasn't real.
- September 8, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- Danni said...
So very adorable!! and so clever to use rub-ons as they look so much like real stitching!!
- September 8, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Shazza said...
fab card, the image is so adorable x
- September 8, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- Anne said...
wow very cool Amy. A great card
Anne x
- September 8, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Elena said...
Oh Amy this card is super!! I love it, totally deeply love it! The sweet witch is soooo cute (it's on my purchases-list from the first visit on SOG) and the way you found to use stitching is... fabolous!
- September 8, 2011 at 11:18 AM
- Crafty Loops said...
Amy I would have sworn blind that you had stitched every bit on this card!! Those rub-ons are awesome, I have never seen any like those before. What a terrific card. Lee xx
- September 8, 2011 at 11:21 AM
- Mimi said...
Amy, I seriously thought it was real stitching, and in such a sweet technique! Adorable Tia couldn't be any cuter! TFS! ;)
- September 8, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- kris said...
this is waaaay cool!!! it really looks like you stitched the card!! how wonderful is that! i really like this... has a fun, kiddy feel to it!! =D
- September 8, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- Craftdee said...
Now this is REALLY my kinda stitching!! Don't even have to do all the little dashes, yay! The fact that it looks FAB is such a bonus :-) Love it, TFS, Dee
- September 8, 2011 at 7:02 PM
- gobeagirl said...
Amy I think I am brain dead today. I forgot that I actually got the chance to see this card this morning but had no time to tell just how cute I think it is. I love your sticker stitches. What a fun idea. I don't have any of the Odd girl stamps, but I love their eyes and I really need to splurg on some. lol... One of these days I will be a millionair and I will come and get you and we will fly to the Greeting Farm home office. lol and of course any where else you would like to go. heehee. I think I am tired. Have a great night. Hugs, Lisa
- September 8, 2011 at 9:03 PM
- Cor* said...
R U freakin kidding me! No thread. SHUDDUP!!! LOL this is totally wicked ! Great coloring! You? A lazy crafter? for real!?1!? You amaze me daily girl!
- September 8, 2011 at 10:53 PM
- Iverova said...
Oh, I love, love,love this card!!! It's gorgeous Amy!!!! Hugs!!
- September 9, 2011 at 3:44 AM
- Lou Mac said...
Rub-ons?! You gotta be kidding me. It all looks like THREAD!! Such a neat effect!!
I love the small size of Tia and your colouring is freakin' awesome - as always!!
I love the three little baker twine bows and the added bling!! So neat.
- September 9, 2011 at 5:05 AM
- Yani said...
Super cute!! What a fun idea!! Really, your card looks amazing :-)
- September 9, 2011 at 6:10 AM
- donna mikasa said...
What an adorable image! And I LOVE that faux stitching--that's my kind of sewing, too! The twine is a yummy touch! Love this!
- September 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM
- Vera Yates (Ling) said...
Amy, this is so cute! Love your stitched pumpkin!
- September 10, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Leanne said...
I was going to say, wow if you could stitch like that I'm throwing my machine away!! hahaha.. pure genius Amy! I think little Tia is adorable, with her cute little kitty friend just flying by on her broom. Fun card! ;)
- September 15, 2011 at 8:29 PM


text: National MS Society-Supported Researchers Report that Skin-derived Stem Cells from People Generate New Nerve-Insulating Myelin in Mice February 13, 2013 A team co-funded by the National MS Society transplanted stem cells derived from human skin into the brains of mice with a disorder that prevents them from growing new myelin, the insulating material that surrounds nerve fibers and which is damaged in MS. They found that the transplanted cells developed into myelin-making cells that formed new myelin quickly and efficiently. Su Wang, PhD, Steven A. Goldman, MD, PhD (University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY) and colleagues report their findings in Cell Stem Cell (2013;12:252). These early findings highlight a novel strategy that seems to reduce some of the risks of cell replacement strategies, but further research is necessary to establish the potential safety and effectiveness of this approach before it can be attempted in people with MS. Background: Myelin, the substance that surrounds and supports nerve fibers, is destroyed in the brain and spinal cord during the course of multiple sclerosis. In addition, the cells that manufacture, maintain and can repair myelin, called oligodendrocytes, are also damaged and destroyed. Young oligodendrocytes known as progenitors or precursors (OPCs) can naturally develop through a series of steps into oligodendrocytes, to repair damaged myelin, but they fail to keep pace with the damage in MS. One of several possibilities being explored for repairing myelin damage is to transplant cells that could supplement these OPCs. Researchers are searching for cell types that could be transplanted safely (without immune rejection or tumor generation), could serve as an abundant source of OPCs, and could migrate to areas needing repair. Over many years, the team led by Dr. Goldman has been exploring cell transplantation as an approach to restoring myelin in mice. The National MS Society has been supporting this work with the help of donors including the Alan Buegeleisen Fund, the Barancik Foundation, and the Society's South Central Region. Dr. Goldman was also a member of two teams that were part of the Promise: 2010 Nervous System Protection and Repair Initiative. His previous efforts led to successful recovery of myelin function in mice. This new study explores the use of adult skin cells as a source of cells for transplantation. The Study: The team used stem cells derived from human skin, and in the laboratory, developed a strategy for coaxing these cells to become OPCs. The strategy proved to generate sufficient numbers of OPCs for transplant. The researchers transplanted the OPCs into the brains of mice with a genetic disorder that prevents new myelin from forming. The cells traveled quickly and efficiently throughout the brain to produce myelin, and increased the likelihood of survival of the mice compared with untreated controls. No mice developed tumors during the term of the study, a potential side effect of stem cell treatments. Comment: These studies present a novel strategy for replacing cells that fail to repair myelin. Further research is needed to confirm these findings and to explore their potential safety and benefits for repairing myelin damaged during the course of MS. An attractive aspect of this strategy is that cells for transplantation could potentially be developed from a patient's own skin, reducing the risk of rejection by the body's immune system, although not eliminating it completely. Dr. Goldman is currently supported by the National MS Society for further work in this area. In addition, the Rochester team, along with the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse and the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, recently leveraged $12.1 million in funding from New York State Stem Cell Science for clinical trials of stem cell strategies. The first study is beginning in 2015 using another type of stem cell. According to a press release from the University of Rochester, Dr. Goldman anticipates that a trial of skin-derived cells will eventually be funded via this mechanism. Read more here.


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Analytical toolset to characterize polyurethanes after exposure to artificial weathering under systematically varied moisture conditions (2019)
Polyether and -ester urethanes (PU) were exposed to artificial weathering at 40 °C and artificial UV radiation in a weathering chamber. In 3 parallel exposures, humidity was varied between dry, humid, and wet conditions. Material alteration was investigated by various analytical techniques like size exclusion chromatography (SEC), liquid chromatography-infrared spectroscopy (LC-FTIR), thermal-desorption gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (TD-GC-MS), fluorescence mapping and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA). Our results show that depending on the weathering conditions, different degradation effects can be observed. By means of SEC an initial strong decrease of the molar masses and a broadening of the mass distributions was found. After a material dependent time span this was followed by a plateau where molar mass changes were less significant. A minor moisture-dependent degradation effect was only found for polyester PU. Fluorescence measurements on two materials revealed an increase in the luminescence intensity upon weathering process reaching a saturation level after about 500 h. The changes in the optical properties observed after different exposure conditions and times were very similar. The TD-GC-MS data showed the fate of the stabilizers and antioxidant in the course of weathering. LC-FTIR measurements revealed a change in peak intensities and the ratio of urethane and carbonyl bands.


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The slate of spring season coaches was approved by the Fayette Board of Education at the February meeting Feb. 13.
Paula Stambaugh will serve as head varsity track coach, assisted by Andy VanZile. Ryan Colegrove and Bruce Miller will work together as baseball coaches while Kelsey Spangler and Jenny Bates will lead the softball team.
In other personnel matters, Wendy Adams and Leslie Seiler were approved as substitute bus drivers, pending proper certifications, training and BCI checks
The retirement of Mary Bird was accepted for the of the current school year.
The board accepted six donations for various purposes:
• An anonymous donation of $1,892.50 will be used for special educational services.
• An anonymous donation of $48 will be use to purchase laminating film.
• A donation of $64.97 from the PTO will be used to purchase classroom markers for guidance groups at the elementary school.
• A donation of $500 from John Winzeler will be used for high school activities through the principal's fund.
• A donation valued at $100 from Carolyn Keys will be used to purchase notebooks, hanging file folders and page protectors for high school staff supplies.
• A donation of $100 from Karen Brown will be used for the Spanish Club Trip to Chicago.
AGREEMENTS—Board members approved a contract with Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center in the amount of $378,744 for the 2012-13 fiscal year.
The board amended the current credit card policy to include purchasing cards/debit cards.
The treasurer was authorized to enter into an agreement with The Huntington National Bank for electronic banking card services and other electronic banking services.
A three-year contract with Frontier Communications was approved for basic monthly telephone services for the district at a cost of $415, effective July 1, 2012
The contract with NwoESC was approved for technology services May 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013. The cost is not to exceed 40 percent of a full time equivalent salary, benefits and administrative fee.
A memorandum of understanding was approved with Defiance College for Fayette to accept education intern and practicum students through Feb. 13, 2013.
APPOINTMENTS—Treasurer Kelly Bentley will serve as representative for newly elected board members to attend the Ohio Public Record Training.
Board trustee David Brinegar to the bargaining team for Ohio Association of Public School Employees negotiations.
CALENDAR—The school calendar for the 2012-13 school year was approved, calling for classes to begin Aug. 22 and ending May 29. A Christmas break is scheduled from Dec. 24 to Jan. 2 and a spring break is planned from March 28 to April 1.
SENIORS—The senior class trip was approved for April 25-27. The students will travel to southern Ohio and also take a white water rafting trip in West Virginia.
CLOSED SESSION—The board met in a closed session for nearly 90 minutes. Kelly Mobley, a representative from the Ohio Association of Public School Employees, and staff member Marge Crowell were invited to attend a portion of the meeting.


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A$AP Rocky @ First Avenue
A$AP Rocky @ First Avenue Mainroom
October 13th, 2012
Saturday night at First Avenue's mainroom featured one of the most exciting hip-hop bills Minneapolis will see in 2012: Danny Brown, Schoolboy Q, and A$AP Rocky with the entire A$AP Mob. All are relative newcomers with few releases under their collective belts but all received substantial acclaim for releases in 2011 and 2012. Many were there to see Detroit native Brown, who played plenty of selections from his fantastically explicit mixtape XXX with such passion and energy that most around me agreed that he would probably be the finest performer of the evening. Schoolboy Q came out shortly thereafter and ran through a set that would be great by any other standard but paled in comparison to the ferocious performance before it. Shortly before 11 the house lights went dim for Harlem native A$AP Rocky in his first ever Minneapolis date. Two members of his crew, dubbed the A$AP Mob, entered the stage wearing gas masks. A figure in an orange facemask ran out and quickly rattled off a few verses before pulling the mask up to reveal that it was Rocky himself. The rest of the Mob emerged shortly thereafter and breezed through songs from the tepidly received mixtape Lords Never Worry, which generally failed to excite the crowd, who were primarily there to see the performer whose name was on the bill: Rocky. After clearing the stage for a brief interlude segment which continued the theme of warfare, Rocky emerged to finally perform some favorites off of his 2011 mixtape LiveLoveA$AP which finally ignited the sold-out crowd. Tracks like "Wassup", "Brand New Guy" and "Kissin Pink" sounded massive through the venue's new Electro-Voice sound system. There were a couple other choice cuts from the mixtape that were performed before Rocky left the stage and the house lights abruptly went up, making it apparent that there would be no encore. Rocky's set halfway delivered on what myself and the audience hoped for, and the unfamiliar material was at least performed with a lot of chutzpah, but it was difficult to stand up next to the brilliantly spirited set that began the evening from Danny Brown.
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KRETZSCHMAR, Louise. Towards a Christian ethic of work in South Africa. Acta theol. [online]. 2012, vol.32, n.2, suppl., pp.126-146. ISSN 2309-9089.
This paper draws on the academic field of Christian ethics and focuses attention on an ethic of work within the South African context. Key terms such as 'an ethic of work', 'a work ethic' and 'ethics at work' are discussed in relation to varied experiences of work. The issues of why one ought to work and what constitutes 'good' work are discussed with reference to current ethical and economic challenges. I argue that a Christian worldview, or understanding of reality, provides a much more credible contribution to an ethic of work than either a materialist view of reality or a system of patronage.
Keywords : Ethics; Work; Calling; South Africa; Etiek; Werk; Roeping; Suid-Afrika.


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Telstra is set to become the first Long Term Evolution (LTE) network operator in Australia, with plans to launch the technology publicly in all Australian capital cities and some regional centres by the end of the year.
The network will operate over the telco's existing 1800MHz spectrum assets and will fall under the company's Next G brand, but would not immediately replace the 3G/HSPA+ technologies currently used over the 850MHz in Australia.
Instead, Telstra is expected to continue upgrading its existing Next G network, with new HSPA+ technologies providing "4G-like" maximum downlink speeds of 84 megabits per second (Mbps).
Chief executive, David Thodey, used his keynote at Mobile World Congress in Spain this week to announce the project, which will use Ericsson over competing vendors to provide the back-end equipment.
"We see the integration of LTE technology into the Next G™ network as a way to continue to deliver high quality services and meet growing customer demand," he said.
The telco will offer dual-mode modems (pictured) supporting both technologies by year's end, providing similar options to current LTE deployments over carrier TeliaSonera in northern Europe.
The telco's LTE trials conducted with Ericsson last year yielded consistent speeds above 80Mbps.
Under the upgrade, Telstra will also upgrade its packet core network to suit the Internet Protocol-based LTE technology.
Telstra's deal could effectively prove the death knell for future agreements with competing LTE vendors Huawei and Nokia Siemens, with whom the telco has also trialed the mobile broadband technology over differing bandwidths. While trials with Nokia Siemens have so far been isolated to the 2.6GHz spectrum - the only spectrum currently ratified for global roaming over LTE networks - Huawei trials to date have used the same 1800MHz bandwidth agreed to under the new Ericsson agreement. Huawei equipment scored a high of 150Mbps during tests last December.
Huawei continues to have strong trials with other Australian carriers including vividwireless, which has considered upgrading its existing WiMAX network with TD-LTE technologies for average bandwidth of between 40 and 70Mbps. Optus has managed downlink speeds peaking at 50Mbps downlink speeds over Huawei gear during its first Sydney-based trials.
Vendors including Ericsson have been reluctant to quote possible bandwidth speeds over LTE networks in real world use, instead spruiking the upgraded technology's other benefits.
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Projects Abroad Human Rights Office – Cape Town, South Africa – Monthly Reports
Projects Abroad Human Rights Office - Cape town - Monthly reports - July 2011
Bonnytoun – This month Bonnytoun relocated to new premises. It is now much further away and volunteers must take time to travel there. The new premises are much more 'prison like' with the boys being placed in cells rather than dorms like the old building. They are now a lot further away from their families who are unable to visit as regularly because of the distance and many of the organisations that were also working with the boys have dropped out due to the distance. Despite this long journey we have decided to continue our work with them and have had a successful month with the boys showing a great willingness to learn. The boys have really started to open up and expressed to volunteers their fear of returning to their communities and being sucked back into the life they used to lead. These boys posses a real drive to change and know that there is no future in the life they came from, but they also know the difficulty of escaping a life of gangsterism, drugs and violence. Some even expressed a fear that they knew their lives would be in danger when they left Bonnytoun as there were people who would be looking for revenge.
The Women's Shelters: Sisters Incorporated and St' Anne's – This month there have been a number of different sessions planned with the women. Some of our American volunteers planned a cultural food exchange where they introduced the women to the typical American dish 'Sloppy Joe's'. Topics which were discussed this month include domestic workers rights and the Bill of rights with volunteers also getting some ideas of what other topics the women would like to discuss. At Sisters Incorporated, the women are introduced to jewellery making as a way of making income and they took time to share this skill and their work with the volunteers.
Free Gender – PAHRO are still assisting Free Gender with their upcoming conference at the beginning of August. Volunteers will be able to take part in discussions over the two days and many volunteers are excited about this opportunity.
Manenberg Girls – At Manenberg, volunteers organised a baking session with the girls. They also discussed relationships, basic women's health and sex education with them and spent a lot of time focussing on individual and group goals that the girls could set themselves for the future. The outcome of this goal setting seemed to focus around education and so we are now looking into organising further education for the girls. Some have not completed their high school studies so would benefit from being able to complete that and those that have finished would like to study something further which will give them a skill and enable them to get a job. There was also a trip this month for the women and their children to the aquarium in Cape Town, a place that none of them had been able to visit before. Volunteers have also been visiting schools and just speaking to the community in an effort to spread the word and recruit further girls for the groups.
YEP Clan – This month a number of activities took place with volunteers leading a discussion on health and feminine hygiene after which the girls taught the volunteers some traditional song and dance. A fashion show was also organised in which the girls were set a challenge of working in teams to create outfits from newspaper and other supplies. They were then to model these outfits in front of the rest of the groups. This allowed them to express themselves freely whilst also improving their ability to work together as a team with others.
Mock Trial/Debating Workshop – It was decided that the mock trial would need to be put on hold and it soon became a long term goal after meeting the children and realising that they were not comfortable and had never done any public speaking before. So the focus shifted to getting the group comfortable with speaking aloud and discussion regarding human rights topics were used in this respect. The group then did a debate in a TV format which was filmed by the volunteers. When this project began the children were on holiday from school and so time with them was more readily available. The children have now however gone back to school and so sessions with them have had to shift to a bit later in the day once they have finished school.
Sobambisana – Crossroads – This is a new project with focus placed on the youth and finding them careers. When this project first began, volunteers went door to door within the community to find out what it is that the community needs the most. It was found that the biggest need of the residents was employment and so volunteers have since been assisting with setting up a careers clinic. We are looking into a number of options to assist this community, one of which includes 'learnerships'. This is an initiative for workplace learning programmes, which allow young people to work whilst studying towards a nationally recognised qualification. As well as this, volunteers have spent much time with the youth at crossroads, even organising a day trip out to the zoo. This was a place that none of the children had been able to visit before and so they were greatly appreciative of the opportunity.
Communicare – Ruyterwacht – This is another new project and is based in a poor white community here in Cape Town. This month has involved getting to know the project partner and the community and the ways in which we are able to benefit them. Similar to the work taking place in Crossroads, we have found that a big problem is lack of employment and so we are again looking into a career clinic to assist the community in gaining employment to improve their standard of living.
Legal Services
Lavender Hill – This month volunteers have continued to attend Lavender Hill to provide legal assistance and advice to those who need it most in the community. We have taken on some interesting cases and volunteers are working hard to ensure that these clients are assisted.
Sobambisana Legal Clinic in Crossroads – This month saw the beginning of our process of getting a legal clinic set up in Crossroads. Our Legal Services Coordinator visited the community to meet with the organisation and discuss the next steps for implementing the clinic and ensuring that the community are made aware that this service will be available.


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A fellow Canadian blogger has started a new blog called The Rising Village and it's about her family – John and Lizzie McCluskey who settled in the St. Andrews East area of Quebec in the 1800s. Today the area is known as Saint-André-d'Argenteuil - just south of Lachute.
And she has started a new project to coincide with Canada Remembers – 30 Ways to Remember, and she is taking one person per day who is listed on the Honour Roll at Veterans Affairs Canada and is telling their story.
She is asking anyone who has more information on the people she has put on the blog to write her, and if you have information on her family to do the same – she would like to hear from you.
The address is http://therisingvillage.blogspot.ca/