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Elizabeth Eisenstein wrote a scholarly two-volume tome on the printing press as an agent of change. For this class, we decided to look at how paper was also an agent of change, by researching various papermaking methods as paper moved from its beginnings in China to the rest of the world. By making paper themselves, the students developed a new understanding of the complexities of papermaking: gathering the pulp, figuring out how to fibrillate it, experimenting with several kinds of moulds and even hand-beating of the pulp with rubber hamamers. In this way, students' attitudes about paper in general, and about the paper we would be using for the book, were changed. As a result, they decided to develop the theme of paper and ideas for this semester-long book project. To deepen their understanding, we invited John Risseeuw to give the Frederic W. Goudy Lecture in September on how paper has meaning. He demonstrated in the workshop how the even the choice of pulp can impart meaning to the paper. Snippets of the students' own handmade paper are presented on the Rives BFK paper that wraps each of their sections.
Fourteen students developed the ideas for this book. The texts and images were printed on Rives Heavyweight using four Vandercook presses. Images were hand-cut into linoleum, or paper itself was added to act as an image. Drawings and cuttings were added to enhance meaning. Each student chose a typeface to present their ideas. The front and back matter are tyepset in 12 and 14 pt. Ehrhardt Roman and Italic. The binding continues the theme of paper and ideas by using Rives BFK gray wrapper paper to complete the covers. A Coptic-style sewing pattern was used to hold all the sections together using linen thread. The class was effectively aided by teaching assistant Chris Yuengling-Niles. Size: 9.5 x 5.5 inches. The book was printed in an edition of 105 copies.
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Beating its self-imposed deadline, the Senate passed by a 19-0 vote on third reading on Wednesday night its version of the Bio-Fuel Bill requiring a minimum 5 percent bio-ethanol fuel by volume to be blended in all gasoline sold in the country within two years upon its enactment into law.
It also mandates a 10 percent blend of bio-ethanol gas sold at pump stations within four years upon effectivity of the proposed law.
Senate President Manuel Villar said a bicameral conference committee will work on reconciling conflicting provisions in the Senate and the House-approved bio-fuel bills during the three-week recess in the hope that they could ratify the final version and submit this to President Arroyo for signing into law shortly after Congress resumes sessions on November 6.
In voting for the measure, Senate minority leader Aquilino Pimentel said studies by energy experts show that at a 10 percent mandated ethanol blend, the country can reduce its gasoline importation by as much as 100 million liters annually, that will translate into a $100-million savings in foreign exchange yearly or $1 billion in 10 years.
Under the Senate version of the bill, the importation of machinery and equipment to be used exclusively for the production of bio-fuels shall be exempt from import duties for a period of five years from the date the companies were accredited by the Department of Energy. Likewise, bio-fuels shall have a zero specific tax.
All investments in the production, blending and distribution of bio-fuels and adoption of bio-fuel compliant vehicle technologies shall enjoy the applicable fiscal and non-fiscal incentives as may be provided for under the Omnibus Investment Code. As provided in the bill, government financial institutions, such as the Development Bank of the Philippines, Land Bank of the Philippines, Quedancor and similar other government institutions shall accord high priority to extend financing to entities that shall engage in the production, storage, handling and transport of bio-fuel including the blending of biofuels with petroleum.
The Senate version of the proposed Biofuels Act will grant state incentives to manufacturers of ethanol, diesel and other forms of so-called green fuel that will lessen the country's dependence on oil and other fossil-based fuel. Incentives will also be granted to makers of flex-fuel vehicles. Noting that the country imports $3.9 billion worth of crude oil and petroleum products a year, Pimentel said the shift to biofuels will not only save enormous amounts of foreign exchange but also alleviate pollution and provide cleaner oil for the people to breathe.
Sen. Edgardo Angara, a cosponsor of the biofuels bill, pointed out that a country like the Philippines that imports 94 percent of its annual oil requirements is "one that is at the mercy of constant world price hikes."
Angara added that this year alone, domestic consumption of oil is expected to reach 126 million barrels. Based on Department of Energy figures, 52.2 percent of total energy supply comes from oil and coal; geothermal power 21.1 percent; biomass 16.8 percent; and natural gas 4 percent.
However, energy sourced from renewable sources like ethanol, coco-diesel, solar, wind and hydroelectricity accounts for only 0.8 percent.
Angara said not one country dominates the biofuels market. "This is all the more reason why we need to realize that increasing usage of bio-fuels, including diesel and ethanol, is feasible. It is inexhaustible, and the technology being developed for its utilization would allow conventional sources to be replaced in full across the entire range of energy sources."
"The Biofuels Act of 2006 is timely because it can serve as the official policy for alternative sources of energy in the transport sector, even if faced with a variety of challenges, like environmental concerns," Angara asserted.


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Extending along the foot of the cliff, this cobblestone pedestrian alley was de-veloped in the 1680s. First known as Rue De Meulles, the street was renamed Rue du Petit-Champlain (Little Champlain Street) when the larger Boulevard Champlain, situated parallel to it along the river, was created during the 19C. The early wooden dwellings along the street were inhabited by craftsmen and labourers until the 19C, when Irish immigrants who found work associated with the port moved into the district. Much of the neighbourhood fell into decay in the early 20C as a result of the economic decline of the port, but recent restoration work has transformed the street into a festive district enlivened by restaurants, boutiques and art galleries.
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March 2, 2012
Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI's morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data – because what doesn't liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? Here's an idea to mull over this weekend (particularly if you live in the Pacific Northwest): would you like to live in your own mini-Ikea? Sure, Ikea can be living hell, but without all the people around, your neat little pre-fab Scandinavian domicile could be positively serene. Just make sure they're not asking you to be in the catalog.
If you missed it, check out Dr. Robert P. Jones' latest offering for "Figuring Faith," his Washington Post blog. This week, Dr. Jones unpacks some of the challenges that anti-Shari'a legislation is likely to face over the coming weeks and months.
The Senate threw out the Blunt Amendment, a bill that would have allowed any employer to deny medical coverage for services they objected to on religious grounds. The debate over whether employers should be required to provide no-cost birth control through their insurance, however, doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
At the New Yorker, John Cassidy analyzes the battle for Michigan and concludes that Santorum might just have blown it. Among his "eminently avoidable blunders": Santorum's unforgettable declaration that John F. Kennedy's landmark speech on separation of church and state made him want to "throw up."
Silly me – I thought the Occupy Wall Street movement was, for the most part, over. Turns out it was only hibernating. According to student activists, the protesters have been reflecting and planning through the cold winter months. This week, they'll be back, with protests for education reform across the country. The question, of course, is whether these protests make as much of a splash as last fall's original OWS movement.
We've been hearing a lot about Catholics and the contraception mandate, so here's a change of pace: at Tablet, a magazine about Jewish life, Liel Leibovitz urges readers to "embrace Judaism's nuanced approach."
A new study from Pew has some fascinating findings on Americans' attitudes toward college (Rick Santorum's emphatic opinion is here). According to Pew, conservative Republicans are skeptical of colleges' effects on the country, even though Americans as a whole think that colleges and universities have a positive impact.
In New York City, an atheist group is targeting Jews and Muslims with billboards written in Hebrew and Arabic. It's worth noting that while 19% of the adult population identifies as religiously unaffiliated, only about 3% say they are atheists.
And because the internet was particularly generous with its gifts today, some links for the weekend, in no particular order: Mitt Romney has been stocking up on guns, there will soon be a cupcake vending machine in Beverly Hills (and because I know you were worried, you can get a cupcake for your dog there too), Nicolas Sarkozy had to hole up in a bar to escape egg-throwing protesters, and apparently Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school.
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The reader who opens this book will be greeted by a photograph of Zabdiel Boylston Adams. It shows him as a mature physician, one who demonstrates understanding, compassion, and a trace of melancholy, but who still peers into the future with optimism that the world may be improved by his own actions. It is an appropriate introduction to a superb, intimate text by Dr C. Newton Peabody, who elaborates on these and other characteristics of this unusual Yankee physician, who survived the Civil War and returned to practice in a small Massachusetts town until the close of the century.
Born into a famous Boston family in 1829, "Zab" not unexpectedly developed strong loyalties to Harvard (despite the fact he was asked to leave because of certain peccadillos), to Bowdoin, and to Harvard Medical School. He was stimulated by such great French physicians and surgeons as Louis and Nelaton during a
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In the Surfs Up Xbox 360 game, how do you do 'stoke tricks' successfully?
I have had the game two weeks and I am struggling with Stoke tricks. I press Y when it appears but I'm only successful 30% of the time. :(
I can't answer your question but seeing you ask about this game, made me think when I rented it, thinking it'd be easy. Uh NO! I don't know what it was but for me, it was HARD!!! I ended up taking it back the next day.
I did Google this and found this answer...
Triple tap RB, Double tap B, Quadrillion tap X then button bash.
Hope it helps.
If you don't land the tricks you probably need to go a little higher on your jumps. I can't think of anything else.
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Learn about Jewish summer camps nationwide that welcome interfaith families.
This colorful booklet will give all the basics about this holiday which combines elements of Halloween, Mardi Gras and the secular new year. It is a holiday not only for children who know immediately that anything with a costume will be fun, but for adults too.
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Surprise--the holidays are rapidly approaching! It may be mid-summer, but it's already time to start preparing for the Jewish New Year. Start out by learning the basics with our holiday cheat sheet and high holy days booklet. And get some reading ideas for your kids from our new book columnist, Kathy Bloomfield. Let me know if there's anything we can do to help you get in gear for the earlier than usual holidays this year!
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On the Wedding Blog, learn how Matt deals with interfaith arguments and getting through "narrow places" with his fiancé.
On the Staff Blog: Ari from Chicago urges educators to "keep it real." Responding to a recent article suggesting that we should embrace gay married Jews but not intermarried Jews, CEO Ed Case says we need to do both.
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Once again the 2011 Matraville Christmas Carols was a huge success with our audience serenaded by performances from local talented dancers and singers, primary schools and high schools and delicious food supplied by many stall holders.
Each year the Matraville Precinct and Matraville Chamber present this special community event which brings us together to celebrate and share the joy of the festive season. But it doesn't happen without a lot of hard work and many many hours of volunteered time. Everyone is welcome to help organise this event and indeed we welcome all enthusiastic contributions.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.
-- Travis Air Force Base in the 1960s was home to an "aircraft revolution" of modernization.
Turbine driven aircraft, such as the C-130, C-141 and C-135, soared over the Solano countryside.
The base also tended to various humanitarian and support operations, in addition to military ones such as the Vietnam War.
The 1970s brought a winding down of the Vietnam War, the cresting of racial tensions on base, the arrival of another new aircraft, Cold War struggles in Europe and South America, and, again, countless and various unique humanitarian and support missions.
The decade started out with a hefty addition to the Travis AFB fleet.
On Oct. 24, 1970, the first C-5 Galaxy arrived on station. This monstrous aircraft had an empty weight of almost 374,000 lbs. Its massive fuselage could carry any feasible Army equipment, including the M-1 Abrams tank or any high caliber howitzer. The aircraft could also be modified to carry and mid-air launch a Minuteman inter-continental ballistic missile. Each month more and more C-5s arrived at Travis until the summer of 1974 when the 36th and last C-5 was accepted. The aircraft continues its service here today.
The dazzling arrival of the Galaxy, however, could not hide the growing racial tensions on base.
During four days in May of 1971 a riot erupted in the 1300 dormitory complex on base. The original altercation was over a minor noise complaint, but soon enveloped the whole dorm complex and pitted black versus white.
Black service members had a long list of grievances, including unequal pay and leave authorization. During the riot 30 personnel were injured and more than 100 were detained by the dozens of local police officers that were called in for help.
The incident was countered by the base commander's commission of a Human Relations Council. In fact, the incident had brought the issue of race to the forefront throughout the whole Air Force.
Cultural sensitivity courses were held throughout the whole branch which aided in the cooperation of the various cultures and in the mitigation of racism.
The racial tensions in the service were partly caused by a conflict that was finally winding down; the Vietnam War.
Travis cargo and passenger statistics from 1970 to 1975 highlight the drawdown of American forces from Vietnam.
While 1965 to 1970 saw more than 5 million personnel go forward from Travis, the following five years saw only a fraction of this number.
Nonetheless, the aerial port did not get a break nonetheless. In January 1973, following the Paris Peace Accords, American prisoners of war (POWs) began to come home during a special operation labeled Operation Homecoming.
Within a few days of the accord three Travis C-141 aircraft were enroute to Hanoi to retrieve the first 116 POWs.
On Valentine's Day, 1973, the first group of 20 service members, those that had been in captivity for many years, stepped off a 60th Military Airlift Wing C-141 to a welcoming crowd of Travis family and friends. This historic event provided a degree of healing for the nation.
The United States not only retrieved our own POWs, but also attempted to help as many blighted Southern Vietnamese as possible.
From April to May 1975, 60th MAW forces took part in operation Babylift, which rescued nearly 3,000 orphans and brought them to America. With operations New Life and New Arrivals nearly 150,000 Vietnamese were granted refuge in the United States. Although Military Airlift Command operations consisted of the bulk of operations at Travis in the 1970s, Strategic Air Command forces on base, the KC-135, still contributed greatly.
From April to June 1972, Travis KC-135s from the 916th Air Refueling Squadron provided refuel support to SAC forces over Vietnam with operation Bullet Shot. Strategic bombing forces over Vietnam were conducting operation Linebacker II, a massive blow to the North Vietnamese which, in fact, precipitated the 1973 Paris Peace Accords.
However, these wartime operations were, however, just a fraction of the base's efforts worldwide.
In 1970 the 60th MAW directly supported the infamous Apollo 13 mission by retuning the crew to Houston, Texas inside a quarantine capsule within the aircraft.
When the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973 President Richard Nixon responded to Israel's request for support by ordering a massive military and medical equipment resupply. Operation Nickel Grass' C-5s and C-141s from the 60 MAW flew 143 sorties into Tel Aviv, which provided critical tanks, artillery, and ammunition to our besieged ally.
In a morbid tasking in 1978 C-141s from Travis flew to Jonestown, Guyana, to return the remains of more than 900 Peoples Temple Cult members who had committed mass suicide.
The 60 MAW continued to fly humanitarian missions throughout the world, including Antarctica, Ceylon, Africa, the Middle East and, in 1979, to Three Mile Island, Pa., to help clean up a nuclear mishap.
Furthermore, Travis directly supported the ongoing operation REFORGER, a show of force that demonstrated NATO's right to aid and reinforce Berlin, Germany.
The 1970s saw a constantly vigilant Travis around the world. Its new arsenal of C-5s, coupled with the C-141s and KC-135s, ensured that the base would continue to be called on by the nation.
Next week, with the 1980s, we will see Travis in Grenada and Panama, partnering with the Soviet Union and again providing ready support to those who needed it around the globe.
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William Earle Drake, retired assistant professor of cultural foundations of education, died on October 25, 1989. He was 86.
Professor Drake was born on September 25, 1903, in Asheville, North Carolina. He earned bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees at the University of North Carolina in 1924, 1928, and 1930, respectively.
Dr. Drake served as an administrator of public schools in North Carolina and taught at the University of Missouri and Pennsylvania State University. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1957, where he served as department chair from 1959 until his retirement in 1969.
Professor Drake was a specialist in the history and philosophy of education. His publications included The American School in Transition, Higher Education in North Carolina Before 1860, Intellectual Foundations of Modern Education, and Sources for Intellectual Foundations of Modern Education.
During World War II Professor Drake served on the National War Labor Board. In 1945-46 he taught at Shrivenham American University in England under auspices of the War Deparment.
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Biographical sketch prepared by Teresa Palomo Acosta and posted on the Faculty Council web site on February 16, 2001. Additional biographical sources can be found in the Barker Texas History Center. A Formal resolution was prepared by the
The following note was added after the distribution of the biographical sketch on February 16, 2001. A resolution prepared by a special committee can be found on page 1217 in the bound volume of the Documents of the General Faculty for 2000-2001.


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Call of Mini - Zombies is the first Android port of a Triniti Interactive game, and the company chose well in making their first impressions, bringing us this colorful and action-packed, if somewhat shallow, third-person shooter. Yes, in the end, this is just another shooter with zombies in it, but the charming and unique visuals kind of make up for that fact. It's not a very deep game, but it's packed with content and a perfect way to get your action fix on the go. Read more at AndroidApps.com »


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leading up to – and in the immediate wake of – the SCOTUS decision in support of marriage equality in all 50 states, a number of religious and faith community leaders contacted me asking, 'how should we respond?' the majority of these requests came from pastors and churches who are currently unable to support same sex relationships, based on their conservative biblical interpretation and theological perspective – yet almost all recognize that their religious communities have historically not been very welcoming to the LGBTQ community.
they also realize, along with many others, that the journey of faith is a matter of being willing and open to having a relationship with God – and that each and every person is welcome under the banner of the unconditional love and radical hospitality of jesus christ.
this tension in which many religious folks live is a real one – and has been heightened by the culture war rhetoric reaching an almost fever pitch in the anticipation and aftermath of this weekend's ruling.
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This is a promotional video for Freemasonry showcasing the more esoteric side of the craft. Through a virtuous education you will elevate your mind. For this video, I gathered public clips of movies, videos and my own videos to sort of mash up into an exciting video which I hope excites the viewer to think about Freemasonry in a new way. Enjoy!
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Single-Pass video conversion for Rockbox
Rockbox RVF conversion in one pass
(c) 2004 Jörg Hohensohn
The attachment contains:
To use it, copy the content of the .zip files into seperate directories on your harddrive, whereever you'd like them to stay. Then run the "install.bat" script in each of them to register the components to the system. Before removal, do the reverse by running the "uninstall.bat" for each.
The normal "user" way for conversion is the RockVideo tool. The GUI should be self-explaining. It is using the DirectShow components internally.
GraphEdit is a developer tool. It can be used to construct the right dataflow as long as there's no application to do this in a nicer way. You can e.g. have a look what the Media Player does behind the scenes. Start GraphEdit, then select Graph -> Insert Filters... Unfold DirectShow Filters, then select File Source (Async.) You may cross the checkbock "Favorite Filter?" to shortcut this next time. (The same goes for the other filters we're bringing in next.) The filter now prompts you for the input file, select which you like. You should be able to use anything you can view in Media Player. The next filter is "RVF Mux", my one. It will ask you for the output filename, give it the desired new name. It will stupidly add .asf to the name, you'll have to rename the result file later. The third filter is optional, only necessary if the input file contains no MPEG soundtrack and we need to recompress into mp3. Add the "Lame Good Edition".
We now have all components, you may close the filter selection box. Right-click on the output pin of the box representing your input file, and select "Render Pin". Now the boxes and some new filter(s) get connected in a way that all should end up in my RVF Mux filter. If the Lame encoder is not needed, you can delete it from the graph. If it is used, you can right-click on it and adjust parameters. If either audio or video doesn't end in my filter, the formats are incompatible and I need to work on it, if I can resolve it. Now press the green play button and wait for the silent playback to finish. It will make a .rvf file for you. When done, you can close the whole thing. No need to save the graph into file.
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From A Poet's Glossary: Saudade
In April 2014 A Poet's Glossary by Academy Chancellor Edward Hirsch was published. As Hirsch writes in the preface, "this book—one person's work, a poet's glossary—has grown, as if naturally, out of my lifelong interest in poetry, my curiosity about its vocabulary, its forms and genres, its histories and traditions, its classical, romantic, and modern movements, its various outlying groups, its small devices and large mysteries—how it works." Each week we will feature a term and its definition from Hirsch's new book.
saudade, saudades (pl): A Portuguese and Galician term that suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. Aubrey F. G. Bell described saudade as a "vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future" (In Portugal, 1912). It is not just a nostalgia for something that was lost; it can also be a yearning for something that might have been. The feeling can be overwhelming, and the Portuguese also speak of the desire to matar as saudades ("kill the saudades"). The word saudade is found in the Cancioneiro de Ajuda (Ajuda Songbook), a a collection of poems written in Galician-Portuguese and dating from the end of the thirteenth century, and in the Cancioneiro da Vaticana (Vaticana Songbook), a compilation of troubadour lyrics in Galician-Portuguese from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. One especially hears saudade in the Portuguese fado and in Brazillian music. Tom Jobim's "Chega de Saudade" ("No More Saudade," 1959) was the first bossa nova song. Whereas we tend to consign nostalgia to the all-encompassing dustbin of sentimentality, the Hispanic sensibility has saved it as a poignant and durable feeling relating to the transitoriness of life.
Excerpted from A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch. Copyright © 2014 by Edward Hirsch. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.


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One of the most creative and most effective marketing strategies I ever did was to create a graphic 'blog roll' page on my blog called 'My Tribe.'
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Earlier this last summer I finally came to the realization that I was going to start a blog. I had put off this concept for over 3 years. Many people would tell me to "Just start one." "You need a blog to get your message out there." "There's a lot of money to be made by blogging." All good points but I had my doubts.
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As I was looking around at many different blogs I realized that some were just empty. There was no life, no energy… no community. I knew that I would face the same issues. How to get traffic? So I figured that if I had these questions, others did as well.
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March 15, 2013 06:46 AM by Donna W. Martin
On tonight's episode of Project Runway, the eight remaining designers faced their toughest challenge to date. Not only did they have to create menswear for the beefy Thunder From Down Under dance team, the garments had to be tear-away too, and the winning look would be worn in one of the dance team's opening routines. Whose design rose to the challenge? And whose was a total flop? Take the jump to find out!
Before the challenge even got started, the judges decided it was time to switch up the teams. They designers were divided into two teams of four.
Team Shades of Grey – Patricia, Daniel, Michelle, and Stanley
Team Slick and Hip – Richard, Layana, Samantha, and Amanda
Each team was responsible for creating three cohesive tear-away costumes. The Thunder From Down Under Dancers were both the clients and models for this week's challenge. The clients explained that at least one of the outfits needed to be a suit and all the garments needed to be suave, sophisticated, and masculine while being flexible and sturdy to stand up during the performance.
The teams had 30 minutes to consult with the dancers and sketch their designs before going to Mood where they had a budget of $750 per team and 40 minutes to shop. The designers only had one day to complete this challenge.
Back in the workroom, the designers divided the work and got busy on their garments. A little later, Tim came in to check on their progress. He told Layana of Team Slick and Hip that her jacket lapel was too skinny and that she shouldn't feminize the garment. He said it looked like the designers were not weighing in on each other's work, they were not coming together to sort things out, and that wasn't good. Then he moved on to Team Shades of Grey. He told Michelle her vest looked better without the buttons and that Daniel's trench coat sounded too clergy.
As Tim was leaving, he told the designers they would have until 1 a.m. to work. Layana went to the other team to get some advice from Stanley on her jacket. Then the models came in for a fitting.
The next day, there was still a ton of work to do and the designers struggled to get it all done. Then the models came back in for their final fitting…but there were problems! Michelle helped Stanley with one of his shirts but instead of sewing the Velcro tear-away strip in the shirt, she hot glued it, which didn't work. Amanda's pants were too short and way too tight. Plus the sewing machine ripped the collar off of one of Richard's shirts. But there was no time to recover and fix the problems; it was time to hit the runway. Uh-oh!
Team Slick and Hip were first to walk the runway. The clothes didn't fit the models. The pants were too short and the shirts were too tight. But at the end of the dance performance, the tear-away feature of the garments worked properly and right on time.
Then Team Shades of Grey was up. Michelle's vest was too short but overall, their clothes fit the models better than the other team's. However, there was a big problem at the end of the performance…the clothes didn't tear-away properly, which was a disaster.
When it was all over, Heidi told the designers she was real excited for this challenge but it was a real let down because they weren't very creative and both teams had a lot of construction issues. She said they should have thought more outside the box…bad designers!
If it were up to Heidi, she said she would wrap the show early and all the designers would be out! But since they couldn't do that, she declared Team Slick and Hip the losing team and Team Shades of Grey the winners by default.
Team Shades of Grey was up first for critique. Heidi said the garments needed to look more interesting and show off the guys' great bodies. Nina agreed saying this was their moment for fun and fantasy but the trench coat looked like a beauty smock. Guest judge, Emmy Rossum said she liked the idea of the office theme but that the vest look wasn't cohesive with the other garments; it looked more gas station. Zac said the vest was the most inventive and fun piece in the collection.
Then the judges talked about Team Slick and Hip. Nina quickly became distracted as one of the models pants slowly inched open. She laughed and told the designers she didn't understand why they had done this to themselves. The shirts are too long, the collars are a problem, and the jacket looked like it was for a woman. Emmy said she liked the converse look but wasn't crazy about the paneling. Heidi said she felt bad for the models because they had to wear the clothes and then she polled the team to see who they each thought the weakest link was. Samantha and Richard said it was Amanda, and Amanda and Layana said it was Richard.
After the judges talked privately among themselves, they called the designers back to the runway to deliver their decision. And boy, was it ever a shocker! In a Project Runway first, there was NO Winner!
Heidi told all the members of Team Shades of Grey they were safe and could leave the runway. Then she told Samantha and Layana of Team Slick and Hip they were safe. That left Richard and Amanda as the bottom two.
Heidi said this had been a hard decision because both garments were poorly made, ill fitting, boring, and uncreative. In the end, she told Richard he was in and told Amanda she was out.
What did you think of tonight's episode? Did you like any of the garments? And were you surprised that there wasn't a winner? Sound off in the comments and let us know!
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I think this is the first time ever in the show that there were literally no good outfits. I never enjoy the men's wear outfits and usually it is the weaker outfits – they should allow an extra day if do another men's wear.


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NEW YORK Matt Barkley and Tate Forcier are freshmen standouts but in college football today, you can hardly call them precocious.
A couple of cool, California teenagers leading two of college football's most prestigious programs, Michigan's Forcier and USC's Barkley are part of a generation of polished passers who are arriving on campus better prepared than ever to play.
Between private tutors, passing camps, more advanced high-school offenses (and defenses) and early college enrollment, Barkley, Forcier and other elite quarterback prospects are practically being engineered to play the position.
Make no mistake, while there are plenty of well-schooled quarterbacks being pumped into college football these days, what Barkley and Forcier have done is exceptional. It's just that after two straight sophomore Heisman Trophy winners, Tim Tebow and Sam Bradford, the idea of a freshman quarterback hauling off the big bronze statue one day doesn't seem so farfetched anymore.
The 19-year-old, blonde-haired Barkley has led No. 3 Southern California to a 2-0 start, including an 18-15 victory at Ohio State on Saturday in which he directed a brilliant game-winning drive late in the fourth quarter.
The recruiting experts pegged him as the top quarterback in his high school class and he has the look of a future high NFL draft pick: 6-foot-2, 230 pounds, strong and accurate arm – a great match for the Trojans' prostyle offense.
Forcier, also 19, has lifted spirits at Michigan following a miserable 2008 season. He engineered his own memorable comeback victory Saturday, throwing a touchdown pass with 11 seconds left to beat Notre Dame 38-34, and has the 25th-ranked Wolverines (2-0) looking like Big Ten contenders again.
Forcier was a blue-chip recruit coming out of high school, too, but is different model than Barkley. Undersized (6-1, 188) but multidimensional, his quickness and speed make him a perfect fit for the Wolverines' spread offense.
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"His make up is suited perfectly for that position," Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez said.
Talent helps, but both have been raised to be exactly where they are.
Barkley went to Mater Dei High School, in Santa Ana, Calif., the powerhouse football school that produced USC Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart. He also studied under Steve Clarkson, one of the first and most famous personal quarterback tutors in the country.
Clarkson, a three-year starting quarterback at San Jose State in the early 1980s, has worked with Leinart, Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Notre Dame's Jimmy Clausen.
Forcier is from San Diego and playing quarterback is a family tradition – one older brother was a backup for Michigan, the other for UCLA.
He has been training with Marv Marinovich, father of former USC quarterback Todd Marinovich, since before he reached his teens. Home-schooled, he played at Scripps Ranch High School, running a spread offense.
Like most young talented quarterback prospects, Barkley and Forcier have spent their youths constantly honing their skills.
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As you are no doubt aware, our fair towns will be hosting the Major League Baseball All-Star Game within a few short weeks: July 11–15, to be exact. You know what that means, don't you? Besides the pomp and glory of seeing our towns broadcast in all their blue-glass, lake-decked, Mississippi-lovin' splendor, it means visitors.
People from all over the country will be flying in to sample the goods that make up the Twin Cities. Some of them might be attached to you through marriage or college or work, and when coming to your town, they will ask you a very important question: where should I go to eat? Now you're wearing a pair of my shoes.
Oh, the pressure of a recommendation. How can you pick something that will represent? You'd want to send them to Matt's for a Jucy Lucy, but would they get it? Might they bite too quickly, get burned by the cheese, and miss the beauty in the vinyl walls? Maybe you think Heartland, where Midwestern modern is executed on the highest level, but what if they don't understand rabbits are for eating? What about Murray's for a butter knife steak? Butcher & the Boar for bourbon and brats? Izzy's for ice cream? Chef Shack for donuts?
Don't worry, we got this. The trick is to find out what they like and show them how we roll. Do they love their Chinatown? Stroll them up and down Eat Street with a stop at Harry Singh's for roti, Pho Tau Bay for pho, and Black Forest for spaetzle—because we don't limit to one country. If they mockingly ask for hotdish, take them to HauteDish and watch them with superiority as they lick the plate clean of tater tots that redefine the word.
In the end, we're here for you.
Check out our online database of almost every eat and drink shop in the metro or just send us an e-mail (firstname.lastname@example.com). We won't fail you, we won't fail them, we won't fail these towns.
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Entering year two in Rex Ryan's defense, there is a newfound commitment to perform and excel after the men on defense learned a hard lesson in 2015.
LeSean McCoy joins Richie Incognito and Sammy Watkins on the NFL's Top 100 list after appearing on the countdown on NFL Network Wednesday night.
Sammy Watkins won't be getting reps on the field coming off of foot surgery, but the Bills believe they'll be able to manage his lack of availability prior to the regular season.
Who is making good first impressions, who is back to 100 percent health and who was labeled a super sub? It's all in our OTA notes.
Bills second-round pick Reggie Ragland signed his rookie contract on Tuesday.
In a radio interview Tuesday, Bills GM Doug Whaley explained the decision making process in having Shaq Lawson undergo shoulder surgery.
Shaq Lawson is only a week removed from surgery, but the physical setback hasn't altered the expectations for his future in a Bills uniform.
The Bills begin their first set of OTA practices today. Here are some items we'll be tracking as the week unfolds.
Here is the news of note for the Bills for May 21st.
Here's the Bills news of note for May 20th, 2016.
With one open roster spot at their disposal, Buffalo hosted free agents Andre Roberts and Jamari Lattimore Thursday evening.
The Buffalo Bills will begin their 17th annual training camp at St. John Fisher College on Saturday, July 30.
On Wednesday, May 18 the Buffalo Bills and the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County came together to raise awareness for their Character Playbook program.
A quick look around the AFC East to see who is doing what and if it makes Buffalo's annual divisional battles any tougher.
Awarded the waiver claim for RB Dri Archer last week, the speedy return man has yet to report to the Bills.
Here's the news of note surrounding the Bills for May 18th.
Adolphus Washington was the latest Bills draft choice to sign his rookie contract Tuesday.
|Released CB Merrill Noel, C Ronald Patrick and DE Jarius Wynn.
|Released TE Jacob Maxwell and LB A.J. Tarpley.
|Released LB Tony Steward.
|Released DB Cam Thomas.
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The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) announced at Greenbuild 2014 held this week in New Orleans that it has published a comprehensive set of industry average environmental impacts for concrete to help its members address the movement toward product transparency in LEED v4.
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Buying fuel at the lowest possible price is difficult in volatile fuel markets that can swing 10 cents or more in a day. Here is advice so you can have control over these large outlays.
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|Spoken English Fluency Exercise 2.3:
Type I and Type II verbs
(Refer to lesson 1.0 for information on type I and II verbs)
|There is one exception when making questions using the Type
I/Type II explanation provided in Lesson 1.
The words "who" and "what" can be used as subject.
Here are some examples to illustrate the difference.
Who as Subject: Who is going to talk to her?
Who as Object: Who is he going to talk to?
What as subject: What is causing the problem?
What as object: What is the traffic accident causing?
It is important to recognize this distinction because the form for
asking questions with Type II verbs is different when "who" or
"what" is used as the subject. Here are some examples.
As you can see, when "what" or "who" is the subject of a
question, it doesn't require the question word "do". The question
word takes the place of the subject and no more steps are
necessary. Below is the transcript for audio lesson 2.3.
english-fluency.com English Lesson 2.3 Subject versus object
Wh- questions
You will be given a sentence and prompted to make a question.
You must use the appropriate question form depending on
whether the question involves a subject or an object. As usual,
you will be given a brief period to reply and then the correct
answer will be modeled for you.
1. They eat fish on Friday
Who (subject) What (object)
2. The hurricane causes damage in the city.
What (subject) Where
3. She plays music with friends.
Who (subject) Who (object)
4. Car accidents create congestion on the expressway.
What (subject) What (object)
5. She complains to the manager about the policy.
Who (subject) Who (object)
6. Rain leaks through the roof all the time.
What (subject) Where
7. They put him in charge of the project.
Who (subject) Who (object)
8. The tragedy left us mystified.
Who (subject) Who (object)


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PALO ALTO, Calif., May 23. IS she America's next Golden Girl? Mary DeScenza certainly is swimming like a superstar, as her results at this weekend's Stanford Invitational will attest.
A little more than a month after a strong showing at the United States World Championship Trials, DeScenza won five events at the Stanford Invite, including two on Sunday, the final evening of action.
After taking first place in the 200 freestyle (2:01.60), DeScenza bested the competition in the 100 butterfly with an effort of 1:00.18. Those victories complemented earlier triumphs in the 100 free, 200 butterfly and 200 backstroke.
A key player in Georgia's run to the 2005 NCAA Championship, DeScenza is poised for a spectacular World Championships, slated for the end of July in Montreal. DeScenza is expected to contest both butterfly events and the 200 free, and will play key roles in American relay action.
While DeScenza highlighted the women's action, Michael Phelps was the headliner among the men, as he won two events for the third consecutive day. Phelps opened with a 54.92 clocking in the 100 back, ahead of the 55.03 by Randall Bal, and capped the weekend with a triumph in the 400 individual medley (4:17.06).
Ariana Kukors completed an individual medley double for the women, as she took first place in the 400 I.M. in 4:48.59. A night earlier, Kukors edged Natalie Coughlin in the 200 I.M.
The men's 100 butterfly saw Club Wolverine's Davis Tarwater narrowly defeat Peter Verhoef with a swim of 54.91. Verhoef, representing the Athens Bulldogs, checked in at 54.98. Other winners were Brooke Bishop in the women's 100 backstroke (1:03.60) and Dominik Meichtry in the men's 200 free (1:49.95). Jayme Cramer touched second in 1:50.09.


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The ECB's Scary Carry Trade, Or How The ECB Will Forego Greek Bond... PROFITS?
From Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors
The ECB's Scary Carry Trade
According to the WSJ, the "ECB is willing to forego profits on their Greek bonds".
That statement strikes me as one of the scariest things that a central banker could say (and there is some tough competition for that one).
Forego profits? Here is the chart of a typical Greek bond over the past 2 years. The ECB started buying Greek bonds in May 2010, and stopped sometime in 2011.
How do they possibly have "profits" to give up?
They have "profits" because they live in an accrual accounting world. They buy bonds, don't mark them, and accrue the interest. The accrued interest counts as "profit". That is the carry trade. That is what everyone is so excited about for the banks. Banks can buy bonds, not mark them, and book the interest accrual (and payments) as profit.
The problem with accrual accounting is when a sale is forced. Whatever the reason for the sale (in this case, a restructuring/default by Greece), the accrual accounting game is over and you have real profit or loss. The "profit" is the total proceeds received for the sale, versus total purchase price, plus any coupon payments received, minus costs of carrying the position.
Some entity is taking the real world loss. These bonds were bought at prices far above their current value. Since most Greek bonds only pay interest annually, there may be a lot of accrued, but unpaid interest that will also be lost.
It strikes me as very scary that the central bankers seem more comfortable in an accrual accounting world. It is also scary that all future policies seem to be based on an attempt to show that all prior policies worked whether or not they did in reality. It also explains why they are so comfortable with plans out to 2020 when Greece just missed their projections for January by €1 billion.
Can't wait to see the details of this plan, but can't imagine that we won't be discussing a second round of restructuring or default before long.
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I've lately started to have a feeling that we're not living in real world anymore, rather in some sort of computer game or a movie. Do you guys have the same feeling?
Yes, Neo. There is no spoon.
Aye, and with the low volume and limitless supply of cash its really getting on my tits how they seem to be able to put a floor in the FTSE every 25 points and then run it up 50-75 in a heartbeat when seller fatigue develops. Talk about a grind.
@ilion - spot on, and have felt it since late 2010. there is a lot of maneuvering going on everywhere. politicians, businesses, individuals. it feels fake somehow, more like a computer game then a movie. not sure what it all means though.
Were the Mayans on to something? oh oh.
Not a feeling, a fact. Once your printing is not limited to paper bits, but computer bytes and pixels on a screen, you are in a computer game, con game that is.
Maybe you all don't understand "central bank logic"...
"Profits" are a guarantee...it all depends how much they "print" to create the "profit".
Here...I'll make it easy: If you were broke, had a money printer in your basement, what's your next move?
Can someone please explain when greece's time is up ?? i thought their payments due on March 20 needed to be setup 6 weeks prior ?? that would make today the final day to get this resolved ????
No, but this meatloaf is delicious. The decorative horn on top was a nice touch by the chef.
markets are way overdue for a correction. it will happen just hard as hell to keep watching my short position. live by the sword die by the sword
Just make sure you put that stop loss in place in case the exact opposite happens. I have a feeling many ppl are waiting to jump into the market, so correction might be very little, especially with another ltro the end of this month and low valuation.
Greece "the country that never knows when to just default". GET ON WITH IT ALREADY FOR CHRIST SAKE YOU DOUCHE BAGS!!!!!!
Short belgian catering firms
Elements of this deal come from a fantasy world as are highlighted below in a thoughtful article that compares all these manipulations to a giant game of pass the parcel.
Yes you have it some of the worst bond purchase decisions in the modern era (current price 20 or so and claimed (note the claimed please) purchase price of 70 to 75) only seem to have "forgone profits". And the losses please? This type of accountancy would save the world an enormous amount of red ink before it tipped into an abyss.
As I type this I am trying to remember the name of the computer leasing company which collapsed in the UK because it accounted for its profits and income up front and parked losses in the future. This was considered quite a scandal by the sort of people who are making this proposal……..And the difference is?
Scary??? Does he forget what planet this is? this is not Earth...its The Bizarro World; Htrae...where everything is backwards...
unemployment by the million is employment for the millions,
bankrupt countries are profitaable.
Bad Bank of last resort...
...added bonus -- can also cover it's losses either by dipshit accounting or CTRL-P.
You must not have been around for a little bit. Money "vaporizes."
Magic Bitchez.
You won't see the details of this plan. There is no oversight, anywhere, because no one wants to see and do the real "marking to market."
Bankrupt is as bankrupt does.
It is definitely your fault, Tyler. Bloomberg changed the graph settings today morning from "price" to "yield", because the Draghon wanted it this way – so there are huge paper profits on their positions…
I keep hearing about this recovery in the US, but my email inbox is empty of work related emails. Service sector is dead since fall of 2011... and 2011 was worse for me than 2008. Greece now missed their targets, so seems like the same except much worse. Seriously, can someone explain where this supposed recovery is? Do I need special glasses or something? Please? I want to be in the game, or see the secret picture or whatever. Can someone tell me where it is????
I guess I can go be an enforcer for the feds or something, hunting down sovereign citizens, whatever those are. This whole economy has become absurd.
Clearly you don't understand how the magic works yet. Let me break it down for you...
1. Council decides "recovery" good for profit.
2. Spokesman for council calls mouthpeice at media hdqtrs and informs them of said recovery.
3. Media informs public of recovery.
4. Public knows deep down there is no recovery, but believes media anyways and dusts off the credit card for debt based spending spree
5. Council members happy
Number three is the most important part of the equation, but in a nutshell that is how a magical "recovery" works. Getting people to believe the lie is magic, not potions and spells or dried chicken bones or tarot cards.
So like a good citizen, I should conclude it is just me and get on with it?
I got a haircut and I paid with a credit card. Check off #4.
I guess, but the fact you read and post on this site probably makes you a sovereign in the eyes of the fibbies, or al the very least not a brainwashed subject/citizen,so I wouldnt count on a position hunting them down. You and I, along with all the rest of ZH readers, are probably on the same reeducation list, so if I dont see ya at the re-ed camp, excuse me "school" its probably because I went down fighting/protecting my family from fed/U.N. home invaders or something along those lines. I just hope the use a cool sounding missle like a hellfire or a MOAB, and not a DUMB bomb guided to my newly minted census coordinates
1. Buy Bonds
2. ??????
3. Profit
They can try every paper trick knwn to man and in the end it will ll count for nil in the absence of jobs with a level of pay that enables a dignified existence.
All these central banks can do s create and shuffle debt whilst favouring banks and governments at the epense of the worker and the middle class.
Greek debt and soon other debt will be wheelbarrowed from bank to bank and scheme to scheme like some unwanted foster child until we either lose sight of it or until we gag on the debt when someone tries to cash it in.
I could be wrong, but isn't this a power grab only. The "money" was all fake, so isn't the "debt"? Does the U.S. owe northwards of 13 Tril? Just what IS that number and who gets it all?
Corrupt central bankers have us all bamboozled. I signed no piece of paper that makes me responsible for that. Of course, they'll use men with guns to "get their payments" from me anyway.
Greece is being stolen from its people. If this "experiment" works. Watch everyone fall, one by one.
There IS an answer. "The People" are still standing on the sidelines.
Better get in the game before the score gets out of hand.
"Better get in the game before the score gets out of hand."
- sadly, you are more than 100 years too late. Get back on that wheel and run, there is interest that needs to be paid to the central bankers.
"Some entity is taking the real world loss." That would be the Euroland standard of living, from the playbook of the Fed and the US Treasury.
CB SCARY language is a product of its own : relinqishing profits means accepting losses; accruing liquid assets means printing money; and providing a financial backstop called EFSF means having a pierced barrel of fiat liquidity; what comes in vapourises instantly.
Now lets talk about other possible SCARY language, the new upcoming legislation in Eurozone which could be a cut and paste "terrorist" legislation imported from USA, on a FED/ECB swap line type basis. I'm sure Merkozy have given it their green light! Sarkozy has already said : O'bammy the man to follow. He should know, they are both in election year. To blunt the National Front far right vote he has got his team talking like them. Its already gotten scary; clash of civilization stuff to stigmatise certain ethnic groups. Also, Merkel said two days ago ON FRENCH TV she supports him all the way ON ALL SUBJECTS!!! CARTE BLANCHE!!
So O'bammy, Sarkozy, Merkel are on same page, like FED/ECB, probably also to lie by minimising on fall out of ponzi bubble; can kicking now joint EURO-USA policy. And why not on other issues which are contiguous to spin and lie on banksta crisis and say "alles ist gut!" ?? Why not institute common legislation against upcoming social troubles; anticipate it in election year instead of defending against it. Take the initiative and scare the shits out of the would-be protestors, like ANonymous guys et al. I'm sure they are looking for a lead from USA to follow.
Anonymity and criticism could now be a luxury in first world. Logical collateral damage to already financially inflicted debt infested future : don't talk about it or you're in trouble! Accept your medicine, you are now in security controlled drone infested zone. Athens has to keep its hooligans in place; there is financial contagion we know but there is worse, for TPTB; there is social contagion. Can't have that! Worse than banks going belly up.
When I said that China looked as if it would be our first world future geo-political model, I didn't know it was a cat already out of the bag wearing seven league boots! We are in election year and all is possible, but maybe in pre-empt mode!....It makes me feel cold, this race to bottom emulation.
when you print the principal out of thin air............its all profit
The "profit" is the total proceeds received for the sale, versus total purchase price, plus any coupon payments received, minus costs of carrying the position...
... plus the monopoly money printed and entered in the books along with the other hopium-induced numbers.
It's Orwellian blackwhite doublespeak from the "Ministry of Wealth", aka "Miniwealth".
It's all pretend and fantasyland.
Has no bearing whatsoever on reality except to those who incur the losses while mentally incompetant to make a finicial decision.


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For the last 10 years, I've known exactly what tattoo I would get if I ever decided to get one. I had the design in my head for years, occasionally thinking about it and wondering if it was still what I would want. I never wanted anything different, I just couldn't bring myself to get it done.
Recently, I was reading my friend Becky's "40 before 40" list she made. It reminded me that I myself wrote up a "30 before 30" list when I was 28. At the age of 35, I am still crossing things off that list. Becky's list inspired me to go back and try to finish what I had started. I had 13 things remaining before Tuesday. Now, there's 12. This is the story of me getting my first tattoo.
I decided to get my work done at 5 Point Studios in Clive. My friend from high school, Jen, and her fiancé own the shop and I knew I could trust her. I knew that Craig was one of the best artists in town and that I wouldn't have to worry about the quality of work, especially since it was a design I've had in my head for 10 years. I didn't tell many people what I was getting beforehand. I didn't want people to judge what I was getting and somehow talk me out of it. I had come this far, I wasn't turning back.
Tuesday night was my appointment. It was to last just 2 hours. I was feeling good as I sat in the chair. I had two friends, Z and Brea watching over as the process began. I decided to get the tattoo on the side my left calf. As the first needle strikes began, I thought to myself, "Wow, this does kinda sting, but nothing I can't handle."
About 5-10 minutes into the session, this woman comes into the shop and wants to talk with Craig while he's working on me. She's had some bad experiences at other tattoo shops in town and she's pretty distraught about it. When I say she's distraught, I mean the woman broke down crying half a dozen times. She was talking with Craig so much and freaking out so much about the work she had done that she was starting to stress me out. Craig had told me in the beginning that I needed to be calm, breathe, and don't tense up while he was working. Tensing up would make it more painful, he said. Despite my efforts to not tense up, this lady was making me very, very tense. After about 15 minutes of this, she finally leaves. But I'm not doing well.
Right at this point, my wife arrives to check on the progress. I'm tense and getting really hot. I ask for a glass of water. Craig asks me if I'm feeling dizzy. I'm not, but I noticed that not only am I hot, I'm a bit nauseous. Then, there it was. I was dizzy. Craig put a cold towel on my neck. I was breathing heavy. I was a great candidate for passing out right there. Wait, no. I'm not going to pass out.
I'm going to throw up.
Craig puts a trash can in front of me, but my pride won't let me throw up in front of anyone. I dart for the bathroom with my wife in tow. I sit down on the toilet and let the room spin like I was back on the Silly Silo. After a few minutes, I get my equilibrium back and things seem well. I'm still drinking my cup of water when my hand forgets how to be a hand and the cup falls, right on to my shorts and underwear. They are now soaked.
It looks like I've peed my pants.
This is not the manly tattoo appointment I had envisioned. I've nearly passed out, nearly vomited, and now it appears that I've wet myself. Ladies, the line forms to the left.
After drying myself the best I could, I reemerge to have my work finished. Craig forces me to chug a can of Mountain Dew. As a guy that quit drinking caffeine, this sounds like a stellar idea. Craig goes back to work and I seem to be doing much better. That is until the caffeine starts to take effect. My leg starts to randomly shake for no good reason. Luckily, Craig is just finishing up. He was going to put a white outline around my design to help it pop, but decided against it because my leg was shaking so much. Welcome back to my body, caffeine.
At shortly before 8:00pm on Tuesday, my first tattoo was finished. The tiger paw is that of my beloved Valley High School. Crossing through the paw is a banner with the frequency "88.7." It's the frequency of the Valley radio station, KWDM. KWDM was my very first radio station more than 21 years ago. That station gave me the start to the career I have today and this was my way of showing my eternal gratitude.
I already have plans for my second tattoo to honor my other school, Iowa State. But that will come a ways down the road. And hopefully, without passing out.


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The National Council on Disability (NCD) will hear presentations on emergency preparedness for people with disabilities at the New Orleans Marriott Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 29, 2008.
The primary focus of these presentations will be to gather information and listen to presentations from stakeholders and professionals as well as to receive public comment on emergency preparedness, homeland security, and other issues of importance to people with disabilities. Under the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill (H.R. 5441) signed by President Bush on October 4, 2006, NCD was assigned key responsibilities for disability-related issues in homeland security.
Speakers include:
- Charles Tubre, Systems Advocacy Specialist, Advocacy Center, New Orleans, LA
- Sandra Bookman, Executive Director, Houston Center for Independent Living, Houston, TX
- Christy Dunaway, Executive Director, Living Independence For Everyone (LIFE) of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
- Kay Wilkins, CEO, Southeast Louisiana Chapter, American Red Cross, Metairie, LA
- Michael Hawley, Major and Area Commander, The Salvation Army, New Orleans, LA
- Rebecca Floyd, Executive Director, Mississippi Protection and Advocacy System, Inc., Jackson, MS
The discussion will be followed by a question and answer session.
In 2003, NCD committed itself to evaluating the Federal Government's role in the areas of homeland security, emergency preparedness and disaster relief, as they relate to people with disabilities. This commitment occurred, in large measure, as a result of the man-made terrorist events of September 11, 2001, and the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. NCD's first evaluation findings were issued in April 2005 in the report, Saving Lives: Including People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning.


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Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Qiang Yang, Hui Zhao, and Zheng Chen
We propose to use the n-multigram model to help the automatic text classification task. This model could automatically discover the latent semantic sequences contained in the document set of each category. Based on the n-multigram model and the n-gram language model, we put forward two text classification algorithms. The experiments on RCV1 show that our proposed algorithm based on n-multigram model can achieve the similar classification performance compared with the one based on n-gram model. However, the model size of our algorithm is only 4.21% of the latter one. Another proposed algorithm based on the combination of nmultigram model and n-gram model improves the micro- F1 and macro-F1 values by 3.5% and 4.5% respectively which support the validity of our approach.
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