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Bride and Groom 4.0 have traded wedding cupcakes for gelato. They departed for Venice (in what I can only imagine was a dazed stupor) at 7:30 on the morning after their wedding – what a whirlwind! As for me, I'm looking through photos from the big day (in addition to the photos here, Jonathan has posted a few sneak peaks on his Facebook page), reliving the joy, taking a few deep breaths, patting myself on the back for a job well done (it's important to do that periodically), and debating what cupcake I'm going to make next.
|I swear that I put on makeup for this photo.
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Remember how I joked about it snowing in my kitchen? Never did I imagine that it was actually going to snow on the wedding day! Bride 4.0 was a real trooper about it. It may not have been the Spring wedding that she dreamed of, but it was gorgeous!
Speaking of gorgeous, let's get back to the cupcakes.
Bride 4.0 purchased a wedding cupcake stand from The Cupcake Tower. The stand comes with a choice of ribbon so she was able to get red ribbon to go with her red and white theme.
She ordered red cupcake wrappers from Fancy Flours. I like the quality of their wrappers. As you can see, they hold their color after baking (unlike other wrappers that get all greasy, making me wonder why I paid extra for a pretty pattern that I can no longer see).
As you may recall, I made two kinds of wedding cupcakes, Piña Colada cupcakes and cherry Coke cupcakes. I dressed the Piña Colada cupcakes up with red and white paper straws from Bake It Pretty. I cut the straws into thirds and just stuck them into the frosting.
I decorated half of the cherry Coke cupcakes with maraschino cherries and the other half with my favorite decorating touch…
…custom bottle caps! The custom bottle caps were a gift from the folks at Crafty Caps. I told them the text that I wanted and that I was looking for something in a Coke font. They quickly got back to me with a bunch of creative design ideas and, after I selected one, they rushed the bottle caps my way. I'd recommend custom bottle caps as a party decorating idea for anyone who is a big beer or soda fan. You can use them to decorate cupcakes or just to throw on a table to make it look festive (we did some of that, too)!
To say that Bride and Groom 4.0 were excited about these cupcakes would be an understatement. Check them out as they attempt to tackle and devour the entire stand!
It was tough to get them to pause their wedding cupcake eating to take a photo, but we got them to do it.
Don't worry, I ate a wedding cupcake, too. It's just not in the photo. Besides, I'd been snacking on batter, frosting, and crumbs for three days.
|Photo stolen from Bride 4.0's Facebook page.
The dogs didn't get any cupcakes, but George and Julia (the little ones) now officially have a BIG brother (Titan). I'm so happy for Family 4.0 and wish them a sweet lifetime together!


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It felt so good to be on the bike again – my real bike, not my daughter's and definitely not the one that replaced the one that split in two as I was crossing the road last year – that I rode 45km along the Elbe just because.
Tuesday it will be three months since my ski injury, and only three weeks ago the physiotherapist at rehab said to me in a gentle, roundabout kind of way that my goal of getting back on the mountain bike would have to wait.
"I think we all knew that riding again by the end of your time here wasn't going to be," she said, "but I think by the end of the year you'll be ready."
The end of the year? Another seven months of taking the bus? I went home feeling despondent. I was making progress on getting the knee to bend more and more, so why such a long, drawn-out recovery? Maybe she was just trying to make sure I wouldn't get my hopes up too high for a quick return to full range of motion.
By some scheduling quirk they assigned me a different physiotherapist the next week. She's no better than the first one, but somehow she stretched me out one day so much, it made all the difference.
That same afternoon – the Friday of week three – I got up on the exercise bike, the real one, the one with the real crank and not the one you adjust shorter for those with limited flexibility – and gave it a turn. And another. And another. I could not believe it. It felt tight at the top of the circle, but I could do it just fine. I was so happy, I wanted to scream with joy. It was like climbing to the top of a ridge when you're heading for the summit and taking in an incredible view knowing that you're finally over the first big push. I clenched my fists, bowed my head, wanted to scream but couldn't, so it just happened – a gush of tears. I could not hold them back. I was so happy, so incredibly overjoyed at once again proving to myself my leg was going to get better enough to allow me to do this simple task once again. I tried to hide it by swiping my towel, taking in deep breaths, but it didn't work. It was like a release from weeks of frustration and doubt.
I looked over to my right to the desk at the corner of the gym and there she was, the physio who only two hours before had had both my legs stretched out on the table saying, "Gee, you're really doing this well."
I wiped off my face and walked over to where she was sitting, leaned over and said as sincerely as I could, "thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" She didn't know what I meant, but I pointed over to the bike and said, "over there, the bike – I can do it!"
I led her over and got back on and showed her, thanked her again, and kept on it for another 20 minutes.
Yesterday, after practising in the meantime on my daughter's bike, and the dreaded split-in-two bike, I took out my bike – the one I watched them build from scratch – and took it for a spin. The right thigh might still resemble a sausage with a slice down one end, but it bends and is getting stronger. It feels great.

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A PETITION has been launched by Essex uni students aiming to ban a song they claim glamourises rape.
It has attracted 37 signatures calling for Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines' to be removed from Student Union playlists.
The number one hit, which features Pharrell Williams and rapper T.I., features suggestive lyrics such as 'I know you want it'.
It has already been banned by Edinburgh and Leeds Universities.
It is not known which student created the petition.
Becky Fisher, president of the University of Essex Students' Union said they would review the students' concerns once student members return to University next week.
She added: "We've done a lot of excellent work in this area in recent years, including our zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment, the banning of lads mags and page three in the Campus Shop and not running theme nights or advertising that objectifies women."
Robin Thicke has defended the lyrics to NME magazine claiming they have been misconstrued.
He said: "We were just trying to put people on the dance floor and have a good time.
"If you listen to the lyrics it says 'that man is not your maker' so it's actually feminist movement within itself."


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Like you – I have noticed a pattern here – where I continually talk about sandwiches. Apparently they play a major role in my life…. what can I say.
When I was very young, my mother decided that I was quite independent and capable.
Upon discovering my love of "doing things myself," she rearranged her kitchen cabinets and moved all of the cereal to the lowest cabinet. She taught me how to pour milk and make a sandwich for lunch. Once the basic survival skills were mastered she informed me and my brother that she would no longer be available in the mornings.
From that point on, we were responsible for getting ourselves up in the morning, getting dressed and ready for school, making breakfast and making ourselves lunch, and getting to the bus stop on time. To our credit (and hers) we managed to do this pretty much without incident. We never missed the bus and I don't remember feeling neglected or abandoned in any way, even though the very first cereal I remember preparing for myself looked like this….
Fast forward to modern times when I have my own children and I have spent countless hours up at the crack of dawn preparing meals and snacks. Reflecting back on that time – it seems just a bit outrageous.
It's a topic of conversation that she doesn't enjoy, yet my brother and I bring it up constantly. It usually goes like this….
"Mom – remember when you announced that you were never waking up again – and we had to make our own lunch?"
She usually rolls her eyes….."Oh – like you had such a bad life? I think you're fine."
"Yes – I'm fine – but it was little ridiculous that you weren't up with us…"
"Oh, poor you…yes – you had it sooo bad. Did you have a good life? Did your father and I send you to college and give you a nice wedding?"
"Mom – that's not the point – I am just saying – it was crazy to expect us to do everything by ourselves….we were like 2."
"I was helping you to become more independent…..Like it's so hard to pour a bowl of cereal?"
"Well it's not – but when you are 4-years-old the gallon of milk is a little bit heavy."
Usually it's by this point in the conversation that she has left the room or hung up on me.
While I do think her morning routine was completely unacceptable, I am secretly envious of her 1970's "laid back" parenting style.
Imagine just simply not waking up in the morning and sleeping in with no worries about what your children will wear, eat for breakfast or eat for lunch? How luxurious!
While I know that those days of parenting are long gone – never to return, I received full confirmation this week when I opened my Pottery Barn Kids Fall Gear 2012 Catalogue.
To start off I should have known I was in trouble when the catalogue started off with a picture of a preschooler carrying a backpack.
The "Pottery Barn people" must have really brain-stormed to come up with an image of a child that everyone could relate to.
It was only logical that they decided on a photo of a small child carrying 250 pounds of school supplies in a bag that is as big as he is, outside on the grounds of what appears to be……Harvard?
OK – so on to the lunch bag section of the catalogue. Of course modern-day parenting dictates that all snacks and lunches must be presented to children in fancy canvas totes with their names on it in bold text accompanied by an image of Darth Vader or Spider Man.
Gone are the days of the brown paper lunch bag.
Also, in the classic style of Pottery Barn, who historically since its inception seemed to make its mission as a company to make housewives and mothers feel badly about the state of things in their home……the "Pottery Barn People" have presented their impression of what a child's lunch should look like.
Apparently their idea of a "lunch" drastically differs from mine.
Is this what my kids are supposed to see when they open their fancy lunch tote with 55 zippers and compartments?
Because that will never happen….
So …..here I am thinking I'm a great mother because I sometimes heat up Progresso soup in the morning and put it into a Batman thermos for Michael.
Once again – I am wrong. I am not mother of the year – in fact I might be the worst mother in America – according to Pottery Barn Kids.
As I kept reading – it became clear that I am, as I suspected, a very, very bad mother. I might as well just stay in bed like my mother…..because I have not once shaped sandwiches into a tic tac toe game smartly utilizing carrot shreds and pieces of grapes.
Just when I was about to throw the catalogue in the garbage something caught my eye.
Wait – could this be true?
I know that good mothers are ones that send in little notes with their children's lunch. I have been known to even send a note here or there.
But could it be possible that Pottery Barn Kids is SELLING IN THEIR CATALOGUE, something called "Lunch Box Love Notes."
So – if you are too lazy or dumb to write out your own note to your child – no worries!! Pottery Barn has done it for you!!!
Please notice the green note in the bottom right-hand corner.
So in case your kids is telling horrible stories at the lunch table – and the other kids are staring blankly at him – or saying something like "That story sucked," – your note will be there to save the day!!
God forbid the 6 hour school day goes by without these children receiving some undeserving accolades from their mother!!
I actually perused the catalogue for a minute – thinking it would be nice to have the notes ready to go in the drawer in the morning. Maybe I would buy some, but I searched through the whole thing and couldn't find any that were my kind of notes…..
I usually write things like:
"Hope you are having a nice day Michael – by the way the shirt you're wearing is from Nordstrom – so if you rip your clothes at recess again today you are punished for a week."
"Hi Love bug – don't forget – if that bully bothers you again remember how Daddy told you to punch him right in the face!! Have a great day :)"
"If your friend offers to share his fruit snacks today, you are not allowed to eat them. This is why he already had a root canal when he was 4 – you will thank me later :)"
I guess I will be writing my own notes this school year…..


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The price of gold has plateaued following a third-quarter rally in which it skyrocketed over 12%, in anticipation of looser monetary policy from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Indeed, the price of gold Tuesday is just dollars away from its $1,733 an ounce close on Sept. 13, the day the Fed launched its third round of quantitative easing.
As is ever the case in markets, opinion remains divided as to gold's future direction.
Some say the onset of Hindu festivals in India, the world's largest gold importer, will give gold a lift after an unusual period of weak demand caused by the strength of the rupee vis-à-vis the dollar this year. Others say a decline in Chinese imports along with weakening customer demand signal a cooling of the market for gold.
Yet London-based HSBC is now forecasting a gold rally it expects to last through the end of 2013, taking the price of gold up to $1,900 an ounce, based partly on renewed strength in the jewelry sector.
Meanwhile, a working paper by two IMF economists arguing for a new fiat-currency-based debt-repudiation plan continues to generate buzz, including a recent commentary by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard about the effects of legislating away bank-created money. What would that do for the price of gold and precious metals?
It would send prices considerably higher, according to Leigh Greenberg, a Los Angeles-based gold dealer who says that if history is a guide, our current money system is likely to give way to a new one.
In an interview with AdvisorOne, the principal of physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium business Universal Bullion says that money systems go through cycles lasting some 30 to 50 years.
Gold was used as money from the Civil War to World War I, a period lasting 46 years, he says. From the founding of the Federal Reserve system in 1913 to the end of World War II, a period lasting 31 years, paper notes were tied to gold through a fixed rate of exchange between the U.S. and foreign central banks.
Then came the Bretton Woods system, lasting 27 years, when international currencies were tied to the dollar through exchange rates while the dollar was backed by gold. The current system began in 1971 when President Nixon ended the convertibility of dollars to gold, and formerly fixed exchange rates become free floating.
That period has lasted 41 years, and contemporary monetary and fiscal challenges convince Greenberg that the current system will end by 2020.
"We're due for a new money system," he says. "It could be a basket of currencies, or three currencies—the euro, the dollar and an Asian currency—or something through the IMF."
A crisis—indeed, the current crisis—will precipitate the change in money systems, Greenberg suggests. "We have kicked the proverbial economic can down the road. At this moment in time the feeling is that the executive branch doesn't have that much control over the finances of our economy," he says.
The gold dealer fingers the government's loose monetary policy specifically as the source of the dollar's debasement.
"We're inflating the currency supply, and as a result prices rise. People are losing confidence in the currency and they want something with intrinsic value.
"Look, the dollar worked yesterday, and today, and for our entire lives," Greenberg adds. "But in our grandparents' lives it didn't work and in other parts of the world and at other times [currencies have failed]. At some point, we'll wake up and it won't work."
He cites Nixon's severing the dollar's gold convertibility as the most recent example, when the government was "printing more money to pay for the Vietnam War in August of 1971. France was making noise about wanting gold, not our dollars," so a new monetary system suited to a debased currency was instituted, Greenberg says.
Now, citing a litany of current troubles—the fiscal cliff, falling earnings, rising prices and a declining dollar among them—Greenberg thinks the system will buckle in some dramatic way.
"The stock market will drop 30 or 40 or 50%, paper [money] will be worthless, but gold and silver will [spike] in value."
Greenberg expects the secular upswing in gold to last another three to eight years. The bullion dealer says these days he even has investors purchasing physical gold and silver for their IRA accounts.
"At some point it will peak, then you exit," he says. "When everyone's going in, then get out and buy cash-flow real estate."


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News from the world of Maths
December 13, 2016
The twelve sides of the new £1 coin make it trickier than other coins.
November 23, 2016
Mathematicians have proved a new result in the field of combinatorics.
November 22, 2016
Music, cakes and mathematical horses...Alison Kiddle reports on this year's MathsJam.
November 11, 2016
A new institute on the maths of information has just been launched at the Faculty of Mathematics in Cambridge.
November 3, 2016
Clever geometry produces materials that shrink when heated.
October 28, 2016
The US election circus is in full swing. Here's a dose of election maths to help you through.
October 26, 2016
Computer scientists have made a breakthrough in the theory of cake cutting.
October 7, 2016
A series of free public lectures in London explores the relevance of maths to all our lives.


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DAVIE, Fla. – The Miami Dolphins introduced the team's big free agent signing Wednesday.
ESPN reports former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Mike Wallace signed a contact worth $60 million over five years, including $30 million in guarantees.
He was introduced during a news conference Wednesday and talked about playing with second-year quarterback Ryan Tannehill.
"It's going to be different playing with a guy who's actually younger than me," said Wallace. "Ben [Roethlisberger] always treated me like his little brother so actually being a big brother is going to be a little different, but I'm excited, I'm excited about the changes, so I know he's happy for me."
READ: Twitter universe reacts to Dolphins signings
Wallace said he and Tannehill had dinner together Tuesday night. The two apparently didn't discuss who would wear number 17, which both wore last season.
Wallace has caught 235 receptions for 4,042 yards and 32 touchdowns since he was drafted in 2009. He was also named to the 2011 Pro Bowl.
The Dolphins also announced the team resigned safety Chris Clemons and signed linebackers Dannell Ellerbe and Philip Wheeler.
The Dolphins also released linebackers Karlos Dansby and Kevin Burnett.


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The Atlanta Beltline will receive its own police force called the Path Force Unit. The police force was announced Friday during a press conference headed by Mayor Kasim Reed and Atlanta Police Chief George Turner.
The new officers, Atlanta Police Department (APD) patrol officers and mounted patrols, will keep an eye on the corridor's parks, APD Lt. Jeff Baxter told the AJC.
The beltline unit, funded by a $1.8 million federal grant, has been patrolling the Beltline since June when high profile crimes started to happen near the trail.
"The police got onto it pretty quickly," Kit Sutherland, president of the Fourth Ward Alliance, told the paper. "They did assign a new troop of officers and they are pretty vigilant. If I'm on the Beltline for 10 minutes, I will see either the mounted police or the police on bicycles."
There have been 12 ADP reports since the first half of the Beltline opened in 2011 as of this week. Cases included six robberies, two assaults, one burglary of construction trailers and three larcenies.
All reports happened on the 2.25 mile Eastside Trail that opened in October. The Eastside Trail extends from 10th St. and Monroe Dr. in upper Midtown to Irwin St. in Old Fourth Ward.
"Whenever we have people being targeted, some action has to be taken," Makeda Johnson, co-chair of the MLK Merchants Association told the AJC. "I don't ride bikes but my children ride bikes, and I would like them to be able to use the Beltline."


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Can You Say the Hardest Tongue Twister Ever?
It's time to put your mastery of the English language to the test.
Researchers from MIT have created what may be the hardest tongue twister ever in an attempt to learn how the brain processes speech.
Ready? Here it is:
Pad kid poured curd pulled cold.
Sure, maybe you can say it, but researchers asked people to say it 10 times. In a row. Fast. Now it's not so easy, huh? Several folks who took part in the study simply gave up and stopped.
Results of the study were presented recently at the Acoustical Society of America in San Francisco (yeah, we couldn't make it this year, either).
Now, if you'll excuse us, we're going to ring up our pal Peter Piper to see how he's doing.


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Forgive a momentary "I told you so" outburst because back in October 2009 as the tech world was dazzled by the Google Wave launch, I somewhat singularly wondered publically about whether it would succeed in a piece in Ad Age entitled: "Google Wave should beware of the Communications and Collaboration Pitch"
It was an unpopular position to take at the time; after all, Google "Anything" was considered magic. And after less than a year, being right like this is no fun actually because behind the failure are real people who invested a lot of heart and soul. It is a bitter pill to swallow.
History is a great teacher and in the Ad Age piece, I provide a history lesson on how "communication and collaboration" failed commercially utterly in the 1990s:
"Looking back at it now, I realize what we failed to do last time around is to symbiotically couple this whiz-bang technology with fulfilling a fundamental dimension of our humanity. Technology by itself is sterile and a communication and collaboration play was pretty sterile sounding."
I also generously give them the secret of how to get it right given what we learned in our previous failed attempts to market unified collaboration platforms:
"This time round, though, Google Wave really has a chance to get it right if it forges a tight symbiotic link between this technology and a core element of our humanity."
Finally, I gave them what I believed to be the secret to success with Google Wave. Clearly they ignored my sage advice (even if I do say so myself):
"It all comes down to understanding that Google Wave should be about the creation and management of our trusted communities. And if it can take those bonds and marry them with real-time, unified communications, the product has the makings of a technology milestone. But without the human dimension of community, "communications and collaboration" are just technologies. And technologies alone will not "connect" with Judy Consumer. At least it never has before."
Never to put too subtle a point on it, I expanded my arguments and provided even more detail in a post here entitled; "What might Twitter and Facebook teach Google Wave about market success." I fully explain why Google Wave has the potential to be a paradigm shift:
"Now I think Google Wave has the potential to be a technological milestone because it merges unified collaboration and communications (not new) within the fertile soil of a trusted community (this is new). "Pull" models coming online now enable this combination of dynamics to "gel" into a platform that can be vibrant and paradigm shifting. …"
I ended this piece in October 2009 hopeful; "I suspect that if anyone will know how to use this treasure it will be Google. I am rooting for them."
So much for a happy ending 😦 .
Judy Shapiro
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"Bright Lights, Big City is a brilliant and moving work—unique, refreshing, imaginatively powerful and authentically conceived."
—The New York Times
"Bright Lights, Big City defined, and even determined, the mood of this whole town."
—Vanity Fair
"Short, sleek and very funny…. Beneath it's surface, though, a heart's cry for a saner, sweeter, more thoughtful and restrained existence."
—Chicago Tribune
"Each generation needs its Manhattan novel, and many ache to write it. But it was McInerney who succeeded."
—The New York Times Book Review


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This month marks the 4-year anniversary of the founding of LastPass! We enjoyed a little treat in the office in celebration of our mile-marker.
We've loved the past four years of building our password manager and helping people better manage their online life. Here's to many more!
Thank you everybody!
The LastPass Team


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- Courtesy of: CoastalLiving.com
Thom Filicia: The Revivalist You knew him first as a designer and TV personality on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Today he is a fixture of the design world, with a galloping interiors practice and furniture and fabric collections. His signature style—clean, classic lines with a modern flourish—has earned him clients with bold-faced names like Tina Fey and Jennifer Lopez.
"I like to see design as personality driven," he says. "It should evoke the occupants. I try to create environments that are soulful and layered with that human element."
The best example may lie in Filicia's own vacation home on Lake Skaneateles, minutes from his hometown of Syracuse, New York. His recent book, American Beauty: Renovating and Decorating a Beloved Retreat, recounts the transformation of the 1917 camp into a showcase for Filicia's couture version of rustic Americana. —Michael Cannell
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Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the hit play "War Horse," the story of a boy and his horse torn apart by World War I, is a long slog of improbabilities, followed by a gorgeous 10-minute set piece, all wrapped up with an overlong coda that makes a blatant grab for the heartstrings.
Spielberg is an unquestionably gifted filmmaker, with a mastery of the medium's technical demands. While there's no single moment of "War Horse" that isn't expertly done, the sum falls well short of the whole of the parts.
Ted Narracott (Peter Mullan) is a hard-drinking man who, in a fit of pique, buys at auction a gorgeous thoroughbred, Joey, that is both way beyond his means and il-suited to the job of plowing a turnip field. It's soon left to his teenage son, Albert, to train the horse and convince it to till the rocky field. The success of this mission so grabs the imagination of the townsfolk that everyone comes out to watch how it goes—we won't spoil it for you.
But ultimately the horse is sold to Capt. Nicholls (Tom Hiddleston), who plans to mount the mighty steed and charge into battle against the Jerries. As the years pass, the horse encounters all manner of horrors, and eventually Albert finds himself joining the fight. Will the boy and his horse find each other?!?!?!
As is his custom, composer John Williams' has written a score that is the very essence of overwrought, swelling a handful of times before anything of note happens. The effect is to preemptively sap whatever power the music may possess long before the action calls for it.
And the cinematography of Janusz Kaminski is equally over-the-top. Kaminski must've spent the bulk of the shoot lying on the ground, or possibly hired the cast of "Somewhere Under the Rainbow" to man the cameras. Not since TV discovered the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have we seen so many low-angle shots setting the action against a backdrop of blue sky.
Like any war story, "War Horse" is ultimately out to deliver an anti-war message, and it does so beautifully. When young Joey gets entangled in barbed wire out in the middle of the battlefield, soldiers from each side of the fight meet in the middle to do what they can for the suffering beast. It's so well crafted that it could easily stand on its own as a short film. And that's a big part of the problem, as there's zero connection between it and the hour-plus that precedes it, to say nothing of the ensuing 20 minutes.
"War Horse" opens everywhere December 25th.


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By Brian Liskai
Attica, OH — (April 4, 2013) — Attica Raceway Park Officials have moved this week's racing from Friday, April 5 to Saturday, April 6 due to weather conditions.
"It's suppose to get down to the 30s Friday night while Saturday it's suppose to warm up to the 60s and only have a low in the 50s. We had Saturday as a scheduled rain date any way so we have moved this weekend's show to Saturday," said Rex LeJeune, Director of Operations at ARP.
Gates will open Saturday at 4 p.m. with racing under way at 7 p.m. with the O'Reilly Auto Parts 410 Sprints, Summit Racing Equipment UMP Late Models and Foster Auto Body 305 Sprints in action on Fisher Performance Night.
Adult general admission is $14; seniors $12; teens ages 11-15 are $10; and kids 10 and under are free. Pit passes are $25.
Go to www.atticaracewaypark.com for more information or like Attica Raceway Park on Facebook at fb.com/atticaracewaypark and follow ARP on Twitter at www.twitter.com/


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William Welden
June 12, 1809
May 30, 1893
A precious one from us has gone
A voice loved is stilled
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled
Buried Green Cemetery near Pinckneyville, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed and submitted by Marty Hodge of Marion, Kentucky.
An article about Pinckneyville in the 19 August 1879 issue of the Crittenden Press states the following: "It has a population of 50, the oldest of whom is old uncle Billy Weldon." "Uncle Billy" operated a store in Pinckneyville in the mid to late 1800s.
His obituary can be found in the 9 June 1893 issue of the Press. "It is our painful duty to chronicle the death of Mr. Wm. Weldon of Pinckneyville, which occurred at his home last Friday. Wm. Weldon was one of the few surviving early settlers of this section of Kentucky, and like most of them, he was a man of strong character and he placed his imprint upon the present generation. He was born in South Carolina in 1809 and in the thirties, probably 1832, he came to Kentucky, settling on a farm four miles south of Marion. Here he hewed a farm and went to work. For many years he lived there; many sons and daughters were born unto him, and today among our best citizens are found many of his descendants."
Buried beside "Uncle Billy" is his wife, Sally, who was born 1824 and died 1906.
Published 30 December 2013, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/


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Lawyers and legal scholars know all too well that low-income citizens lack speedy, efficient access to the justice system. Now, in an age when people from all economic levels own some kind of hand-held mobile device, legal service advocates believe smart, efficient Web-based technology can bridge that divide.
And so was born the first "Hackcess to Justice" competition, held by Suffolk Law School on August 7 and 8, in partnership with the American Bar Association Journal.
The effort was modeled after the popular hackathon concept, in which programmers and specialists in fields like medicine, education, and now law join forces for 48 hours to create free applications and other Internet tools aimed at making life easier for citizens and professionals from all walks of life.
"The noblest of ventures"
James J. Sandman, president of the Legal Services Corporation, kicked off the encoding effort by telling dozens of participants they were "about to embark on the noblest of ventures." In courts across the nation, he said, millions of Americans seeking justice lack representation, while funding for legal aid is waning. Technology, he said, is the greatest hope for those who seek basic courtroom access but do not have a lawyer by their side.
"Our goal is to help simplify the legal system," he said.
Focused on helping others
Participants, among them lawyers, software developers, and public service advocates, then charged ahead, creating an ingenious array of interactive tools while vying for prizes of $1,500, $1,000 and $500 for finishing first, second, or third in the eyes of a three-judge panel.
"To watch these lawyers who, on their personal time, are so dedicated to solving the problem of solving problems for others is just plain awesome," said Allen Pusey, editor and publisher of the ABA Journal.
Five finalists emerged at the end of the 48-hour techno-sprint, which left participants – many of them learning programming and coding on the fly – elated and exhausted. The top ideas, based on execution, innovation, impact, and overall creativity and appeal, were:
- disastr: A disaster-relief mobile app, inspired by lawyers who helped victims of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, that connects victims to a wide range of agencies that provide relief money, housing, insurance advice, and legal aid.
- Due Processor: An interactive tool that lets people calculate whether they qualify for government-funded legal aid, based on their income, and also lets defendants determine how much prison time they might face based on the crime and relevant sentencing guidelines.
- Legal Apptitude: An online role-playing game designed to help indigent defendants determine whether they have the skills to represent themselves in court.
- Divorce Decoded: A user-friendly Web site that guides individuals and legal advocates through the basic process, timeline and forms needed for obtaining a simple divorce.
- PaperHealth: An app that allows users to create legally binding health care proxies and non-binding living wills that can be saved online and sent as needed to medical providers, health care companies, and hospitals and made accessible to third parties via personal devices in cases of emergencies.
The teams behind the "top hacks" presented their ideas before the three judges and an audience of enthusiastic spectators, many from the Law School's nationally recognized Institute on Law Practice, Technology & Innovation.
Sandman hailed the innovators, saying: "You all demonstrated the ability to put yourself in the shoes of another person and figure out what they need and how you might help."
Winning entries
First place went to lawyer William E. Palin, a 2012 Suffolk Law graduate and health care advocate who created PaperHealth. Palin noted that many people have no plans in place for medical emergencies and said that helping them create simple signed personal documents can help bring down health care costs.
"We have to pull our industry further in the direction of online documents so we don't have to fill out a hundred million forms," Palin said. He said he plans to make the service available for free on Apple's App Store.
Second prize went to "disastr," conceived by Matthew Burnett, director of the Immigration Advocacy Network, and Adam Friedl of Pro Bono Net.
Third prize was awarded to Due Processor, built by David Zvenyach, a Washington lawyer, David Colarusso, an attorney with the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, and William Li, a computer science PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"Although technology in and of itself can't fully solve the access to justice gap, it is a significant tool that can make a real difference to many people, as evidenced by the projects that were shown at the hackathon," said Rochelle Hahn of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, who was on the lookout for new ideas for MassLegalServices, an online poverty law resource center.
Pusey said he was thrilled by the "astounding dedication" shown by the participants and looked forward to more legal hackathons.
"Really, it was one of the most inspiring events I've been associated with," he said.


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Don't Get Pinched: Clink a Pint and Do Some Good!
Okay, I'm not Irish. I'm Scottish. We make the whisky. But when it comes to beer, it just doesn't get any better than Ireland's very own Guinness!!! I'm assuming you already have a pint in your hand. If not, GET ONE!
And while doing so, please take a moment to join RSBS and Guinness in setting the world record for the largest St. Patrick's Day party on the planet! It's easy. Just go to Guinness.com, verify you're 21 years or older, then click "Join The Party." Just type in your first name, country and zip code and then in the "optional code" box, enter the code "REDS" and Guinness will send $1 to RSBS, a dollar which we'll be donating to Baseball Tomorrow Fund participant, Noble Network Charter Schools.
To show our appreciation, think on the following:
It also happens to be the combined blood alcohol content for the 2011 Red Sox starting rotation.
And the only active baseballers I can think of named Patrick right now are… none! Since Pat the Bat retired, I can't think of a single one player named Patrick.
So that would be right around the same time the Cubs celebrate 8,853 years without a World Series title.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!


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As you know, I have been reading Lori Smith's book, Following Jane Austen: A Journey of Adventure, Love, and Faith, with great interest. Two reviews already sit in my archives, and a third one is coming. Each review reflects my thoughts on the three sections in which the book is divided. Lori kindly agreed to be interviewed as well, answering my ten questions with such speed that I am able to post them just as her book becomes publicly available!
1. You wrote so much about your life, intertwining it with Jane's in the book. How close did you feel to Jane during your journey? Care to share a special memory that was not included in the book?
I felt so close to Jane during the trip. I felt a kinship with her already, which made me want to go, but to be studying her life and following in her footsteps, to be where she lived and walked and prayed — it was wonderful. I think I included pretty much everything in the book! But one of my favorite days was walking in the fields around Steventon, nearly getting lost, knowing that things must look something like they did when Jane was there, and then finally (because Phil and Sue Howe of Hidden Britain Tours helped me) being able to get to see the inside of Steventon church.
2. I believe you mentioned discovering Jane Austen in college. Which of her novels are your favorites, and why?
I love Pride and Prejudice — the first one I read. (Doesn't everyone??) But Persuasion is also a favorite. I love Anne, and it's a quieter and more reflective story, coming from an older Austen. Actually, depending on the day you ask me, my favorite changes.
3. Writing is a tough profession and not for the faint-hearted. What made you go for the "gusto" and pursue a career in this field?
I had been freelancing on the side for about five years, and had published one book (The Single Truth). I was traveling to do some speaking in support of that, and had tons of writing ideas I wanted to pursue. Eventually it got to the point that I couldn't continue to work all day and write at night and on the weekends — I just didn't have the energy. So I decided to go for it, for at least a year. (Being miserable in my job probably helped tip the scales.) That was two and a half years ago. Financially, it's incredibly difficult, and I kind of wouldn't wish it on anyone. I love it, though, and it was one of those things I knew I had to try.
4. It isn't easy to just get up and go on a long journey. You mentioned a period of transition in your life, including questioning where you were heading spiritually and quitting your job. Did you feel a sense of adventure as you embarked on this quest? Or were you afraid, and had no choice but to forge on?
It was all those things. I was terrified and thrilled. I could easily have not done it, have decided it was too much to attempt, but I hate to think of my fears holding me back, so I went. I had been struggling with depression, and I think in some ways that helped to push me. I wanted to reinvent things and forge a new life — begin to live again. In terms of adventures, this one was fairly tame, but for me it required some bravery and a willingness to push myself a bit outside my comfort zone.
5. You spoke about taking along a backpack. Did this include a laptop, or did you jot down notes? How did you schedule a typical "workday?" Did you email back chapters for someone to proof read as you went along? Or did you write down your recollections after you returned?
I expected to have time to write on the trip, but didn't really. If I had it to do over again, I might make the trip a bit longer so I could write more, but money was tight, and a month felt extravagant already. I took a notebook with me and wrote detailed notes about every day–on the train, in the evenings, over tea. (It's now one of my most treasured possessions!) I had a little word processor, and did some writing on that, but not too much. Some of this writing made it almost directly into the book, but most of it was unpublishable — a simple record of what happened and what I was feeling.
Actually, the reason I kept such detailed notes was because of a rejection I'd recently received from The Washington Post Magazine. I was doing a piece for them about a beach trip, but because I hadn't kept a journal, it didn't have enough emotional immediacy. The editor was kind enough to give me that feedback (often a rejection letter offers no explanations), so I decided on this trip I needed to keep a notebook and keep track of things. I wish I could thank that editor in person! (She's since moved on, I'm not sure where.) Without that rejection, I'm not sure this book would ever have come to be.
6. Which came first? The book contract or the book? Did you pitch the idea before you went on your journey, or did you have faith that the book would find an interested publisher?
I hoped the trip would turn into a book, but I had no idea and tried hard to view the trip just as a time to explore, so that it could be a success regardless of what came out of it. Had I been a more established writer, I could probably have gotten a contract prior to traveling, but that wasn't the case. And I wasn't quite sure what I would find or if I'd really have enough material. I did the trip in July of '05, and we actually didn't pitch the book until March of '06. It took me a while to get enough together for a proposal and figure out how to structure it. After that things went fairly quickly for the publishing world. So, it's been a two-year process.
7. Have you kept in touch with the people you encountered during your trip?
Not so much. There are a few I hear from from time to time, and there are several I'll definitely see again if I go back to England.
8. You oversee two blogs, own a house, actively pursue a demanding career, and are about to embark on a whirlwind series of publicity appearances. How do you find time for self-renewal, or a quiet series of moments to write?
I hope there's a whirlwind of publicity! (Every writer's dream!) For me I find that writing goes in phases. I love the marketing/publicity phase almost as much as the quiet of writing, and I have a hard time doing both at the same time. Living by myself still gives me a lot of quiet time, but I feel like I need to do a better job of finding space to write, pray, and just be, in the midst of the marketing craziness.
9. On your journey, did you glean any wonderful insights about Jane that are not in your book?
As I reread her books after coming home, I realized that there's actually a lot of grace in Austen's writing — the idea that we all fail miserably (to whatever degree) and generally are incredibly blessed (whatever form those blessings take). I think there's a direct correlation there to what Jane felt about her own life. She knew her failures, and she knew (regardless of financial struggles or the fact that she didn't marry) that she was really rich. She had nothing to do, but like Catherine in NA, "Forgive herself and be happier than ever." That's comforting to me.
10. Any other special memories?
I think that's it… I hope readers can relate to it, and that it will inspire a few to take Austen pilgrimages of their own.
Thank you for answering my questions, Lori. I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying your book. (Yes, I still have to finish Part III, and will post the last of my thoughts just as your book becomes widely available this week).
- Find Lori's two blogs, Following Austen and Jane Austen Quote of the Day by clicking on the links.
- For my other reviews on Lori's book, click here.
Lori's photos of her trip (in the order shown):
- Magdalene College, view of the bell tower
- Lori's favorite spot at the bay window, Alton Abbey common room
- Chatsworth
- Fields around Steventon (actually, this one is between Ashe and Deane)


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The "James Bond" star, who will make his Broadway debut alongside fellow film heavyweight Hugh Jackman in this fall's "A Steady Rain," has signed on for "Dream House," Access Hollywood has learned.
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Brain Circuits in Schizophrenia and Smoking
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01369966
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 9, 2011
Last Update Posted : April 5, 2018
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- Smoking is associated with serious health risks. People who have mental illness are more likely to smoke. Researchers are studying the brain circuits linked with smoking and nicotine craving. This study will look at whether a specific brain circuit can explain the high rate of smoking in people with schizophrenia.
- To study brain activity in smokers and nonsmokers with and without schizophrenia, as well as their family members.
- Current smokers (at least 100 cigarettes in the past year) and nonsmokers between 18 and 62 years of age in one of the following groups:
- Have been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
- Family members of those with schizophrenia.
- Healthy adults with no history of severe mental illness or brain trauma.
- Family members of the healthy adults.
- People in the study will be screened with a physical exam, medical history, questionnaires, and blood tests.
- They will have up to three visits: the screening visit and two study visits (each given 1 year apart).
- At the first study visit, those taking part will be trained in the tests they will do during the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. Then they will have the MRI scan.
- After the first study visit, current smokers will receive phone calls from the study researchers every other month for 1 year. They will be asked about their smoking habits.
- At the second study visit, current smokers and some nonsmokers will have another MRI scan and the same tests as before.
- Current smokers will receive a final phone call 1 year after the second study visit. They will be asked to give information about their smoking habits.
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|Schizophrenia Smoking Cessation Nicotine Abuse
The health risk associated with tobacco use is high, and is even higher in people with severe mental illness. The underlying brain circuitry for smoking-mental illness comorbidity is unknown. Identifying brain comorbidity circuitry is important for new therapeutic development. This study will examine whether a specific brain circuitry can explain the high rate of smoking in patients with schizophrenia. Identifying the key brain circuits associated with smoking, especially smoking in a high risk population, will provide concrete biomarkers for new therapeutic development, and ultimately reducing the smoking related health burden.
Study Population
Schizophrenic patients and their family members, non-schizophrenia controls and their family members, including smokers and nonsmokers in each of the four groups will be included in this study.
- A cross-sectional study for all subjects at baseline. They will receive clinical and diagnostic interviews, functional, symptom, and cognitive testing, and MRI. They will also have blood drawn, to identify brain circuits and covariates associated with the severe smoking problem in schizophrenia.
- A prospective longitudinal study design where smokers will be encouraged to quit smoking and smoking cessation support is provided if needed, followed by retesting of imaging and some clinical assessments, to identify brain circuits associated smoking cessation or the difficulty of quitting in schizophrenia and non-schizophrenia smokers.
Outcome Measures
Combining event-related and resting fMRI techniques, we propose to test the hypothesis that an abnormal dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and ventral striatum (VS) circuit underlies the high prevalence of comorbid smoking in schizophrenia. We also propose to test specific clinical implications of this circuit including a within-subject event-related fMRI study to test the mechanistic implication of the rsFC signals, a prospective follow-up to test the circuit s predictive validity on smoking behavior change, and genetic studies to describe the path from genes to brain circuits to smoking behaviors.
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|Brain Circuits in Schizophrenia and Smoking
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|May 16, 2011
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|December 24, 2014
- Test the hypothesis that dorsal anterior cingulate cortex - ventral straitum (dACC-VS) resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) is related to smoking in NC smokers and NC nonsmokers.
- Test the hypothesis that dACC-VS rsFC is associated with SZ by comparing SZ smokers and SZ nonsmokers with NCs above. First-degree relatives of SZ smokers will be included to rule out medication effects.
- Examine the mechanistic implication of the rsFC measure using parallel resting & behavioral/cognitive task based fMRI; compare fMRI signals and test the hypothesis that reward/inhibition nodes/circuits and rsFC are associated with aspect...
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- Must have a DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophreniform disorder.
- Must be clinically stable in the opinion of the patient s treating clinician with no change in antipsychotic medications or any dosage adjustment for 2 weeks or more preceding study enrollment as well as 2 weeks or more prior to each of the MRI scans.
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- Substance dependence within 6 months or substance abuse within 1 month, other than nicotine or marijuana dependence.
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- Cannot refrain from using alcohol and marijuana for 24 hours
- Unable to safely undergo MRI scanning due to metallic devices or objects (cardiac pacemaker or neurostimulator, some artificial joints, metal pins, surgical clips or other implanted or non-removable metal parts), claustrophobic to the scanner, or unable to lie comfortably supine for up to 2 hours
- Cannot safely give 70 ml blood based on the screening evaluation
For family members:
Family members meeting exclusion criteria 1-5 above may participate in the study unless they cannot safely give 70 ml blood. Their participation will, however, be limited to research interviews and questionnaires and phlebotomy or saliva collection for genetic testing.
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|Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC) 55 Wade Avenue
|Catonsville, Maryland, United States, 21228
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|Elliot Stein, Ph.D.
|National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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VICTORIA — Striking truckers at Port Metro Vancouver will be back on the job Thursday morning, under a tentative deal brokered at the B.C. legislature.
Premier Christy Clark made the announcement after a flurry of negotiations in legislature committee rooms involving several Liberal cabinet ministers and representatives from more than 1,500 union and non-union truckers.
"This agreement means our port is now open for business again starting tomorrow morning," Clark said.
B.C. will now abandon its back-to-work legislation for the 250 unionized truckers represented by Unifor.
"You shouldn't have a fight if you can get a deal," said Clark. "We got a deal instead and we're delighted by it."
Truckers who go back to the job will soon get more cash for moving containers. The federal government agreed to boost trip rates by 12 per cent over 2006 rates within 30 days. The rates apply to all moves of containers, whether they're full or empty.
The Government of Canada also agreed to regulate a benchmark minimum rate for hourly drivers — anticipated to be $25.13 for new hires and $26.28 for drivers with one year of service.
Truckers will also gain from a new escalating fee arrangement for wait times at the port. After 90 minutes of waiting, owner-operators will be paid $50. By two hours that fee increases by another $25. At two-and-a-half hours another $25 will go to the drivers, and every half-hour after that they'll receive $20.
Clark said all parties had to sit down and look each other in the eye to realize ultimately they weren't far from a deal.
Unifor president Jerry Dias said truckers came to the legislature on Wednesday with the intent to announce they would defy back-to-work legislation. But over the course of six to seven hours managed to hammer out a deal.
"The outcome is an outcome we'd been looking for all along," said Dias. "It's not just a solution for the short term, it's a solution for the long term."
Mediator Vince Ready now has 90 days to meet with each of the parties to review and finalize the terms.
Clark said many of the issues on the table, including waiting times at the port, were under the responsibility of the federal government, but B.C. felt it had to get involved to bridge the gap.
Dias blasted Ottawa and federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt for not helping.
"They weren't going to find the solution," he said. "Their solution was take it or leave it. It's very important the government here today stood forward and took a leadership role because if we were waiting for the feds to find a solution the port would still be down tomorrow."
There were no details on how long the deal would be for, with that to be hammered out by Ready.
The tentative deal addresses "all the contentious issues," said Dias.
Raitt said in a news release the federal government is "pleased that truckers have agreed to get back to work."
"Our economic prosperity, competitiveness and ability for our products to reach new markets depends on a well functioning port," she said, adding that the government would work with the province and the port to make sure "truckers get back to work and keep our economy on track."
Port Metro Vancouver issued a statement Wednesday afternoon, before the deal was announced, hailing the plan as the best way to end the dispute.
"There are financial wins in the plan for truckers," port CEO Robin Silvester said in the statement. "It is in all of our best interests that truckers come out of this dispute with their issues resolved because disruptions like this hurt each of us."
Under the 15-point deal, drivers who had their licences suspended during the 28-day strike but who were not criminally charged will get back their papers. That point covers at least some of the 34 drivers who had their licenses revoked for acts including blocking the port during the strike, said John Parker-Jervis, a spokesman with Port Metro Vancouver. Parker-Jervis said he did not know how many of those drivers were charged after their actions.
Port Metro Vancouver also agreed in the plan not to take any further action against drivers who had participated in the job action, but who return to work Thursday.
B.C. and Port Metro Vancouver will create by June 15 a whistle-blowing mechanism to report safety issues or issues of
intimidation or harassment, something that non-unionized drivers told The Sun last week was rampant in the business.
The port will also start by March 31 an "extended-hours pilot project" that would be based on expected volume forecasts at each of the terminals. Port officials also committed to restructuring their trucking licensing system to make it more stable and agreed to work with the federal government to outfit the trucking fleet with GPS devices.
The province will expand and strengthen its auditing powers to cover all trucking companies for both union and non-union drivers. The plan provides for severe penalties for the wrongdoing of drivers and their companies, including cancelled licenses.
Trucks account for about half of the traffic in and out of the port, with the other half moving by rail.
Earlier in the strike, the port said truck traffic was at about 10 per cent of normal levels, though it had increased to about 40 per cent last week.
With files from Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press
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Celebrated in books and boasting the establishment of the first Bird Observatory in Britain, Skokholm Island is a bird sanctuary island administered by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales.
Three miles off the Dale Peninsula on Pembrokeshire's beautiful west coast, the books written about it and the founding of the observatory in the 1930s are both attributable to the late Ronald Lockley, the naturalist and author, who lived a somewhat spartan life there as a young man. He went there in 1927 and stayed for 12 years, farming, studying the wildlife, keeping sheep and writing natural history books and novels.
Like that of most of the other islands and villages around this rugged coast, Skokholm's name stems from the time when marauding Vikings haunted this seaboard. They would have found a rich source of food on Skokholm and the other islands, for they were farmed from early times, and there are prehistoic remains there as well as more modern manifestations of farming such as lime kilns. Coastal vessels would have landed limestone and anthracite on the islands to enable the kilns to produce lime, not only for enriching the soil but also to produce lime mortar and stone for building. There would have been cattle, sheep, fowl and rabbits to sustain the marauders, for the lack of predators and the rich soil would have produced good stock and healthy crops while thousands of seabirds and their eggs were also used for food until modern times. The people living on the mainland at Dale and Marloes, many of them fishermen, regularly collected seagulls eggs as well as catching lobsters and crabs and several varieties of fish for the table.
Unlike neighbouring Skomer Island, three miles to the north, Skokholm does not welcome day visitors, but serious students of nature, and those prepared to stay for at least a week, can enjoy a break there.
The island has a flourshing population of Manx Shearwaters, puffins, the usual auks, like razorbill and guillemot, and is noted for its storm petrels. The Edward Grey Institute of Oxford University ran a long-standing research programme into the Manx Shearwaters and Storm Petrels and other species of seabirds on the island.
Two years after Ronald Lockley went to live on Skokholm, a 3,800-ton cargo steamer, Molesey, ran aground there during a 70-mile an hour gale. The Cardiff-based ship was on voyage from Manchester to Cardiff in ballast when she fell victim to the storm and, following heroic work by the St Davids and Angle Lifeboats and some brave fishermen from Marloes, 28 of her crew were rescued. Sadly, though, six crew members and the wife of the Chief Officer were lost in mountainous seas soon after the vessel foundered. Ronald Lockley, who put out with the Marloes men, was passing in his boat when he heard a faint call and himself took off a Maltese fireman who had managed to scramble ashore onto the rocks on nearby Midland Island.


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The Sydney Opera House. The Great Pyramid of Giza. The Enzo Ferrari. Some of the most beautiful and revered art in the world is the work not of master painters, sculptors, or crafters, but of artists dedicated to expressing themselves through engineering, architecture, and design! Skilled engineers, architects, and designers know as well as any artist or appreciator that line, color, and form are delights that improve and enrich life for us all. The work of these skilled artists, however, contrasts with that of famed masters such as Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, and Jack Kirby in one key respect: The art of engineers, architects, and designers is intended to be just as functional as it is beautiful.
This important twist on the notion of art makes engineering, architecture, and design unique media with their own rules and conventions. Indeed, there is an entire globe's worth of incredible creations that aren't likely to be found hanging in any museum. It's a world of creation covered in any number of books and media on countless topics. But engineering, architecture, and design also constitute a world that can be explored through MisterArt.com!
Due to their twin goals of form and function, engineering, architecture, and design require tools, materials, and resources not found in other disciplines. This guide is intended to help you become more familiar with these forms of art and the instruments that inspire them. The more you know, the better-informed decisions you'll be able to make when purchasing with MisterArt.com.
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Color wheels are reference tools used by artists to illustrate the relationships between colors. The traditional color wheel for light features the colors magenta, yellow, and cyan arranged across from one another in points that form an equilateral triangle when connected by straight lines. Another triangle is created by the alignment of the colors red, green, and blue. Connecting all 6 of these points forms a hexagon, and each color is arranged in a circle.
Colors are divided into four categories: primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors, and complementary colors. Using many color wheels, an artist can line up a primary color on the dial with any color on the outside wheel. The mixed colors appear in a window. These guides provide a handy reference for designers on how primary, secondary, and tertiary colors relate and look when placed next to one another or mixed. Color wheels and guides are especially useful for designers interested in seeing how bold or exotic colors will interact with one another within a space or object.
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Drafting, or technical art, is an artistic style of creating mathematically accurate plans or representations of architecture, engineering, and design projects. It's crucial that drafting illustrations be precise and reproducible; for this reason, there are many specialized tools used by drafters in the pursuit of geometric perfection.
Along with a flat surface to draw on, the t-square is perhaps the most basic and essential tool used in drafting. By tracing the t-square's edge, drafters can draw perfectly straight vertical and horizontal lines. By lining a triangle tool along the t-square's edge, the artist can also draw perfect angles. Scales and rulers help drafters ensure that the lines and angles contained in the spaces and objects that they're drawing stay in perfect proportion to one another.
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In order to give their clients the best possible presentations of their ideas, engineers, architects, and designers often build models. Models can provide a three-dimensional example for builders to follow as well as show potential financiers a smaller-scale version of what they could expect for their money. After drawing their idea on paper, the next step for many artists involved in engineering, architecture, or design is to model it.
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Engineers, architects, and designers create a lot of detailed drawings so that their ideas can be accurately translated from the page to the real world. Reprography refers to the quick, repeated reproduction of these often-large drawings and plans. Reprography is commonly used in catalogs and archives, as well as in the architectural, engineering, and construction industries.
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Balsa and basswood are two lightweight woods with a high strength-to-density ratio. They can be easily cut using a hobby knife and can be stained to represent any kind of wood in a model. Typically, balsa and basswood are available in sheets, blocks and sticks.
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According to numerous reports via Twitter and the blogosphere, fans who collected proofs-of-purchase for the 2010 mail-away Boba Fett are now receiving them just in time for the holidays.
Jayson at YakFaceForums.com spoke with someone at Hasbro about incidents of figures arriving damaged in the mail. The official response to this, "[y]es, there will be changes. We have started shipping Boba Fetts in a white mailer outer box for extra protection, and this will influence the way we handle mail-ins in the future."
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An article on "Racial Prejudice in College Students: A Cross-sectional Study" written by Penn State Shenango associate professor of human development and family studies (HDFS) William McGuigan has been accepted for publication in The College Student Journal.
The article was co-authored by Breanna Gassner, a recent Shenango campus HDFS graduate, who is currently attending graduate school at Bowling Green University. The article revealed how completing the four-year HDFS program at Shenango campus significantly reduced the student's racial prejudice.
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Bonnie Prudden, a fitness champion whose efforts helped inspire President Dwight D. Eisenhower to create the President's Council on Youth Fitness (now the President's Council on Physical Fitness, Sports and Nutrition), died on Dec. 11 at her home in Tucson, AZ. She was 97.
Per her wishes, the family did not hold a funeral or memorial service. Instead, family and friends spent time with Prudden before her death celebrating her life with her, says John Spannuth, president and CEO of the United States Water Fitness Association, Boynton Beach, FL.
"The people who were friends of hers were not crying; they were celebrating her life and feeling good," Spannuth says. "There are not too many people who leave us that way."
Spannuth met Prudden about 30 years ago after reading one of her books. She later spoke at many of the association's conferences, as she had developed a method to teach infants how to swim and was an advocate of swimming for exercise.
"My feeling is that she was the mother of fitness in the country," Spannuth says.
Prudden was born Jan. 29, 1914, in New York, studied ballet, performed on Broadway as a dancer and became a rock climber and skier. She took up the cause of promoting fitness in the 1940s after watching her daughter's gym class, which she found lacking in true physical conditioning. Using her ballet and fitness background, she put together conditioning classes for the neighborhood children to supplement their gym classes. She tested the neighborhood children using the Kraus-Weber test.
Later, she worked with Dr. Hans Kraus, who was one of the creators of the Kraus-Weber test, to test the fitness level of thousands of children in the United States and Europe. Those tests revealed that U.S. children were less fit than European children. When presented with these findings in 1955, President Eisenhower decided to establish the President's Council on Youth Fitness.
Prudden appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1957 to launch a series of fitness articles she wrote for the magazine. In 1968, she filmed 35 episodes of "The Bonnie Prudden Show," a syndicated TV fitness show. She was a guest on radio talk shows, a regular contributor to "The Today Show" on NBC, wrote books and articles, and invented exercise equipment, including one of the first climbing walls.
In 1976, she developed the myotherapy method for relieving muscle pain by pressing on trigger points in the body, later writing a book on the topic. In 1980, she started a school to teach people how to become myotherapists. In 1993, she moved to Tucson and opened the Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy clinic.
She married Richard S. Hirschland in the 1940s, and before their divorce in the 1950s, the couple had two daughters, Suzy and Joan. Suzy Prudden is a motivational speaker and author. In addition to being survived by her two daughters, Prudden also is survived by four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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