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As seniors age, steps may become more uncertain, grips may weaken, eye sight may dim.
These changes can turn familiar surroundings into frustrating challenges and dangerous snares, but small investments of foresight, money, and elbow grease can keep seniors living at home safe and productive.
The first step is looking at every part of the house and furnishings with new eyes, North Central Kansas Flint Hills Agency on Aging information and assistance supervisor Karen Mayse said.
"Check to be sure everything is in good repair. We always have something broken we tend to ignore," Mayse said. Pay attention to loose railings and steps that might have been neglected in the past. Many repairs can be done cheaply by family members or friends, Mayse said.
Lighting changes can accommodate changes in routine as well as vision.
"Lighting is a huge problem for people over 65 who don't have the vision they did when they were younger," Mayse said. "Seniors tend to be up more in the middle of the night. They don't have the same sleep cycle as people that are younger."
Installing night lights is an easy fix. Illuminated light switches stand out in dark rooms and hallways. Lamps can be fitted with touch-sensitive switches to make turning them on easy.
"Have lights that can be on at night, or lights that can come on automatically," Mayse said.
Even a well-lighted room can create problems if there isn't much contrast between colors.
"If you paint the walls white and put a white carpet on the floor it can cause them to lose their balance because they can't distinguish the difference," Mayse said. "Have good contrast between walls and floors."
Falls are a leading cause of emergency room visits for seniors, and area rugs can be accidents waiting to happen.
"We have a physical therapist that we work with who says they're called throw rugs for a reason – they throw you," Mayse said.
"So many of them don't like to move that rug because it's been there for so many years," Marion County Home Care Patient Care Manager Mary Ann Conyers said. "You get your feet caught in there if you drag a foot. If you have a walker, it would be very easy to push it, ripple it, and trip."
Bathrooms present numerous potential difficulties as strength, mobility, and balance change, but simple assistive devices can minimize the hazards. Mayse and Conyers both recommended grab bars to provide support for getting up and down.
"I recommend they talk with family members, because often they can install them," Conyers said. "People from church are often willing to help, too."
The combination of hand-held spray showers and bath benches makes standing for showers unnecessary. Bathtub transfer seats that fit on the edge of the tub and swivel provide an intermediate step that eases getting in and out of a tub.
A hazard elsewhere, a non-slip throw rug may be useful in the bathroom, Mayse said.
"The one place you may want to have a rug like that is in the bathroom, to avoid slipping when you're getting out of the shower or tub," Mayse said.
As mobility becomes more of an issue, families should consider rearranging or eliminating pieces of furniture to create paths for wheelchairs or walkers.
Homes may need more extensive work to accommodate wheelchairs.
"Often doorways are not wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs," Mayse said. "When you're contemplating a modification, think about which of those doorways you want to widen. You don't need to do every room in the house.
"Ramps can be built out of wood, and you can get aluminum ramps. You want to be sure you have the correct slope so a person with wheelchair can actually use it and be safe."
Ridged knob covers make doorknobs easier to turn, and knobs can be replaced with handles.
"Anyone with arthritis, it's hard to turn that knob," Conyers said. "We've never had to have anyone change, but a suggestion for anybody building a new home is to have the handles."
A team approach that brings together seniors, family members, and professionals such as occupational therapists works best to design and put in place modifications that will keep seniors living at home longer, Conyers said.
"You have to be ingenious dreaming up some of these things with what folks have in their existing homes to get it to be safe, and that's the key word — safe," Conyers said.


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Maybe it was stage fright wot caused it. If comedians Amy Poehler and Billy Eichner came charging up to you on the streets of New York dressed in Dickensian attire and demanded you sing Christmas carols on camera (well, offered you a dollar to do it), would you rise to the challenge or choke on that partridge in a pear tree?
The two ran around New York last week trying to find willing participants to sing along with their Christmas carols, and sadly, ended up keeping most of those dollars. For example, one poor guy could only belt out the first line of "Joy to the World," and then another kept singing "Dashing through the no." "Twelve days of Christmas?" Fuggedaboutit. Here's the hilarious video:
Of course, this isn't the first bit of proof that many of us are secret failures in the Christmas-carol department. (Mouthing along in church? You know who you are). Last month, Keith McMillen Instruments published the results of its quiz of more than 2,000 Americans about the top Christmas songs-gone-wrong that they've heard. The "Twelve days of Christmas" was the most misheard, winning 23% of the votes. It seems people stumble over that "colly bird," thing. It's not "calling bird," but refers to a type of blackbird. Who knew?
Are we really expected to know these ancient yuletide terms? And for that matter, "bells on cocktails ring," seems intrinsically more able to make your spirits brighter than "bells on bobtails ring." Cocktails or some poor animal that's had its tail bobbed? No contest.
Christmas carols aren't the only songs where the words go wrong, and there's even a name for misheard lyrics: "mondegreens," according to Snopes.com, which cited American writer Syvlia Wright as coming up with the term in a 1954 Harper's column. Snopes has a running collection of its own misheard holiday tunes from a collection of Internet sites and reader emails. Among these is the second line of "Hark! the Herald Angels sing": "Glory to the newborn king," is turned into "Glory to the New York king." (New Yorkers, again.) And someone, somewhere actually thinks this is a line in "Silent Night": "Stabbing fight, hold the knife."
Another blooper from the Keith McMillen quiz, misheard by 14%, was "Deck the Halls", which brings back memories of this holiday classic and "bows of fowry":
"Frosty the Snowman" was messed up by 12% in that poll, and to this I can personally relate. I was recently teaching my five-year old how to sing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (another one that's often mucked up). He's had his own version of Frosty the Snowman down since last year. It goes like this: "Frosty the Snowman, was a scary happy soul…" Attempts to correct just sent him into a rage, so I decided it was cute and left it at that, and gave him free artistic license on Rudolph.
But someday he may not thank me. Fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra.
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François Morellet
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Jazz Line, Neons, Strip-Teasing and other findings of the artist between 2006 and 2008
21 November 2008 – 7 February 2009
Galerie m has been accompanying the career of world-renowned French artist
François Morellet
ever since it began 40 years ago simultaneously with the beginning of the gallery. Morellet derives his formal vocabulary from Concrete Art, views himself as belonging to the realms of Minimal Art and Conceptual Art, and is also quoted in the context of Op Art. His oeuvre runs the gamut from panel painting and graphic art to architectural art and lighting installations, defiantly resisting all attempts at categorization.
As early as the 1960s, Morellet enlisted the industrial character of neon light as a way of reducing his subjective gestural signature and developing a sober and rationally comprehensible perspective: "Because neon light is hard, pure, without shadows or reflections" (François Morellet). Instead of reflected light, the light source itself is the focus. Art objects display only what they are. Neon tubes can be arranged into clear-cut forms, wild rhythms or flowing lines in a way that can be by turns graceful, astounding or serene.
In his paintings, Morellet's vocabulary focuses on basic geometric shapes. He breaks open and loosens these up according to mathematical laws, yet with a playful lightheartedness. Square and circle are the leitmotifs of the exhibition, continually reappearing in different guises. This confounds our viewing habits and delivers some surprising effects. For example, the artist chops up a big circle into numerous segments, putting them back together again in a seemingly random and absurd pattern. The circle is alienated. Or squares are stood on their heads, so to speak. Once we have come to the realization that behind every one of these compositions, no matter how spontaneous it may seem, there is a carefully calculated system, we feel compelled to seek out the secret code behind each work. In the process, our eyes always follow artistic rules situated somewhere between accident and order.
Notwithstanding all their rational precision, Morellet's works triumph with both their poetic aesthetic and astute humor; whether based on an ordering principle or on chance, his systems are never an end in themselves. Instead, the artist ironically undermines his own systematics – for example in the titles he gives his artworks. A neon work is dubbed
Lunatic Weeping and Neonly
; the image summoned here of a moody, weeping moon contrasts sharply with the geometric, minimalist look of the piece before us. The group of works exploring lines and bands is called
. Here the verbal joke opens up intriguing associations; we imagine the artist both coaxing out the possibilities of and stripping bare his linear compositions. In Morellet's world, reason and irony are closely intertwined.


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However, the City's Economic Development Committee, backed by powerful interests like the Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Madison, Inc., proposed changes which would allow funding for projects that would happen regardless of tax financing and could weaken the benefits gained through our TIF system.
We, the undersigned, believe that our tax dollar should only fund projects with direct public benefit that wouldn't happen without public financing. We believe projects should address the needs of the community for affordable housing and jobs that pay a family-supporting wage.


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A mixed media painting.
Measurements: 30x40cm in standard size, easy to frame.
Paper type: watercolor paper 300g/m²
The combination of different techniques: acrylic, watercolors, pencils (crayons).
Fixed with a protective varnish, in order to protect the color.
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Ballerina in yellow (2016)
Gouache painting by Aleksandra Galas
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- Signed on the front
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: People and portraits
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Ahoy from London!
Naturally, I will be blogging my London adventures here whenever time allows me to. Outfit posts will probably be rather scarce in the future since I was able to bring a very limited amount of clothing with me, and I no longer have anyone to photograph me on a regular basis. Instead I will focus on writing more about the magical city itself, the events I attend, vintage shops I visit, the finds that I make, perhaps write more about the films I see as well. I hope you stay tuned for all of that!
PS. Speaking of events, would any of you Londoners by any chance like to attend Erotica with me in November to see the lovely Dita Von Teese perform her Opium Den show?
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Thank you, darling! :)ReplyDelete
you're in london now?? we need to hang, miss! i haven't seen you in like.. seven years, maybe more. i'm gonna be in london to watch a roller derby bout next saturday, we should hang before or you could come along if you want. xxxxXReplyDelete
ps. you still gonna make a film of my unfinished teenage lesbian novel?
Tukru - YES! We MUST hang out! What time is the roller derby bout on Saturday? I'm going to attend a vintage fair on that day but we could definitely meet up afterwards. Would be so lovely to meet you!ReplyDelete
PS. Hell yes! You just finish it first and then we'll start shooting! :P
Woahh, you are already in London?! I had no idea! How's it been so far? I'm so jealous! Well, I probably wouldn't want to live in London but in the UK ;) xReplyDelete
See you there, in few weeks i hope! :)ReplyDelete
derby starts at four. i could probably come to the vintage fair too, if i may. i've never been and i do like the vintage. xxxxReplyDelete
I cant wait for your vintage shopping-posts in London :DReplyDelete
We have been thinking about moving to England aswell, and I am pretty sure that now when your blog is going to turn into London-blog, my moving fever is going to rise way up high :)
Kati - I am, indeed! It has been good so far, thank you for asking. I'm slowly getting settled here. :)ReplyDelete
Fiona - That would be so wonderful! Do you think Halloween would work out?
Tukru - I tried calling you but you must have changed your number. Could you give me a ring? Number is the same as before, just replace the last 8 with a 9.
Rhia - Yay! I hope you guys will move to England sometime soon. It is a lovely country and it would be fun to see you more often.
i'm sure i've still got the same number.. it should be ending with 2152. not that i can remember when we last spoke, i dont think i've lost my phone in about four years now.. xxxReplyDelete
Tukru - The number I have ends with 8670 so it is a different one. :( Could you email me your current number? Any idea when you will be in London next?ReplyDelete
Now you have me thinking of all those great London songs -- not just "Waterloo Sunset," but "London By Night," "A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square," and so on.ReplyDelete
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Tom Cruise blows up the moon
They took out the moon?
I just watched a new tv spot for the upcoming Oblivion and I think Morgan Freeman says they took out the moon. Has Michael Bay ever taken out the moon? Is this a Michael Bay movie? What IS this movie???
Tom Cruise's Oblivion opens on April 19. He really has to start selling it now. Because, as Sarah noted in the previous article, Jack Reacher wasn't exactly a big win. And Tom Cruise needs a win. Gerard Butler finally got a win this weekend with a $30 million opening weekend. There was once a time when Tom Cruise would only have to grin and he could open at $30 million. As you know, these days he has to work a lot harder. The good news is he doesn't seem to have much competition that weekend, or the one before, or the one after. But that only makes it worse if he doesn't deliver.
Will Oblivion deliver?
Right now they're selling you on the mystery angle. No one really knows what it's about only that Morgan Freeman seems to be running things. That's not a bad start. Also, Tom Cruise must learn the truth and even if Jack Nicholson's not the one telling it to him, some people might respond to that? Am I reaching? Are THEY reaching?
Here's Tom in Buenos Aires yesterday beginning overseas promotion for the film which is probably where it matters most. If Hansel & Gretel can get greenlit for a sequel on the strength of the foreign movie market, you would expect that Tom Cruise taking out the moon would coast over there too, non?
In the end though, what will the world be if Tom Cruise can't open bigger than Spittle Gerard Butler? Gulp. Impossible, right? Right!?


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By Piya Sinha-Roy
LOS ANGELES, Aug 7 (Reuters) - R&B; singer Robin Thicke
landed his first No. 1 album on Wednesday as his latest record,
"Blurred Lines," topped the Billboard 200 album chart, led by
the single of the same name that has become one of this summer's
biggest hits.
Thicke's sixth studio album sold 177,000 copies in its first
week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. The album
features collaborations with rappers Kendrick Lamar, T.I. and
singer/producer Pharrell Williams.
The album's lead single, "Blurred Lines," featuring T.I. and
Williams, spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100
singles chart this summer.
Thicke, 36, son of Canadian actor Alan Thicke, first emerged
a decade ago with the album "A Beautiful World" and reached a
new level this year with the catchy, raunchy hit "Blurred
Lines," which also yielded an eyebrow-raising, nudity-filled
The single also climbed back to No. 1 on Billboard's Digital
Songs chart this week after being knocked off by One Direction's
"Best Song Ever" last week. "Blurred Lines" sold 400,000
downloads this week, bringing its total digital tally to 4.2
million since its release in March.
Rock band Five Finger Death Punch entered the chart at No. 2
this week with its latest album, "The Wrong Side of Heaven and
the Righteous Side of Hell: Volume 1," selling 112,000 copies.
It came ahead of rapper Jay Z's "Magna Carta ... Holy Grail,"
which dropped one spot to No. 3.
Other new entries in the top 10 on this week's Billboard 200
album chart include indie rapper Tech N9ne's "Something Else" at
No. 4 and boy band Backstreet Boys at No. 5 with "In A World
Like This."
Backstreet Boys, one of the biggest U.S. pop bands of the
1990s, are staging a comeback with all five original members and
embarked on a world tour with another 1990s boy band, New Kids
on the Block, in 2012.
"In a World Like This" is Backstreet Boys' ninth album to
make its debut in the top 10 of the Billboard 200.
Pop rockers Emblem3, one of the runners-up on Fox reality
talent show "The X Factor" last year, entered the Billboard
album chart at No. 7 with their debut record, "Nothing to Lose."
Overall album sales in the week ending Aug. 4 totaled 5.1
million, down 3 percent from the comparable week in 2012.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Eric Kelsey and Bill


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Thanks for this, Frank. IoT is a hot topic these days (I feel like I'm seeing more and more articles on the front page of InformationWeek every day), and it's easy to see why. It has the potential to positively affect our everyday lives... and negatively affect them, as you rightly point out, which gets people passionate and talking about it. It also lights our sc-fi loving nerd hearts on fire with all the crazy possibilities that could happen, which doesn't hurt. Still, there are very real and practical concerns that bear talking about before we get in over our heads, not after.
In my humble opinion, regulations are an inherently iffy topic when it comes to IoT. After all, all 'IoT' really means is 'an internet-connected computer inside a device that's not a computer' (or, devices that don't already normally have computers in them). So that brings up the questions of:
1) How can you regulate that? You can't really tell manufacturers what they are and aren't allowed to ship for IoT any more than anywhere else. It's up to the consumers to buy it or not.
2) Who's to say existing laws/regulations don't already apply to these devices - and, if so, who decides which ones and how they're adhered to?
3) Why would manufacturers do any more work than they have to? Pontificating that 'we shouldn't cut corners' never really caused anybody not to, did it? They're trying to get stuff to market ASAP... and many won't do anything not absolutely required.


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A child taking a syringe to Marion Elementary School led to the drug and child endangerment arrests of two Marion residents Monday.
Ninety minutes after school officials reported the syringe, which Police Chief Tyler Mermis said tested positive for methamphetamines, a search warrant was obtained for the child's home at 319 S. Cedar St.
Mermis didn't know why the child took the syringe to school. School administrators declined to comment on why the syringe was taken to school or how it was discovered.
Police reported finding a few grams methamphetamines, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.
Shanna Zampieri, 42, and Robert Hicks, 22, were arrested on possession and child endangerment charges. Five children were taken into protective custody. They await placement, Mermis said Thursday. Zampieri and Hicks remained in jail without bond on Friday.
It wasn't the only drug case Marion police made arrests on recently. In an unrelated case, two additional children were taken into protective custody and placed with family members after two other Marion residents were arrested April 19 on charges of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Mike and Chelsea Darrow, ages 28 and 27 respectively, were arrested after a search of their home at 502 S. Freeborn St.
Chelsea Darrow was released the same day, and Mike Darrow was released the next day, both on $2,500 bond.
The children taken into custody in the two cases were between the ages of 2 and 17.
Despite an official request from this newspaper under the Kansas Open Records Act, police initially refused Tuesday to release the names of those arrested.
An earlier story said that eight rather than seven children had been taken into protective custody in the two cases. The error was because of a lapse in memory by Mermis, who wasn't looking at the files at the time.
Names of those arrested were obtained from the Marion County Jail roster, which under state law is freely available for inspection by reporters and members of the general public.
The roster was inspected after the newspaper contacted a Topeka attorney retained by the Kansas Press Association to help ensure open access by the media and public to government meetings and records.
This story updates a version published in our April 24 edition.


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A Time To Mourn, A Time To Dance
Humans are on a journey called life. It is full of change, and we are wise to realize and accept that fact. If we don't accept that change is inevitable, we get stuck, and become unhealthy and unproductive people. In fact, we can become heartsick if we do not accept change.
Christians ought to realize this as much, if not more, than any people group. The Bible declares to us that this world is not our home, therefore, we realize that someday we will die, and go to our heavenly home. (See Philippians 3:20)
For many of us, this reality is all too real, and all too painful, as we just experienced the death of our friend Petey Kim. His passing was especially shocking to our emotional systems, because he was only 36, and died suddenly. Not only that, but he was so full of life, and then suddenly, he was gone.
We who believe the Bible, also believe that Petey is alive with Jesus. Nevertheless, we suffer loss here, and that is what I wish to address. Here's my story.
When I received the word that Petey was "down", I had a strong sense that he had gone to be with God. As the next few hours played out, it was confirmed that Petey had departed from this life, and had moved on to the next.
My experience was to first "take care of business", but then I moved on to grief. It was deep grief. For two days I felt as though I had been given a shot of Novocaine that numbed me from head to toe. I stayed up late looking at pictures online, reading people's memories, etc. The sorrow was felt deeply in my body. I know that many of you experienced the same thing.
After two days, and through a set of circumstances that took place, God spoke to me strongly. It was as if God said, "Bill, I have given you two days to weep, mourn, and experience this sorrow. You have had two days of which I have asked very little of you, but it is time to 'turn the corner'. It is time to gather yourself in Me, receive my strength, and prepare to minister to the many that are still grieving".
God had indeed given me two days where I was away from the public, and dealing only with a few things, but the time had come to "turn the corner". By God's grace, I accepted that 'word', and re-focused. It may sound harsh and unloving to some, but I "had a job to do". My time for deep, uninterrupted grieving was to come to an end.
Moving forward from deep grief to a "normal" life does not dishonor the memory of my friend and comrade in ministry. He and I and many of you agreed to follow Jesus, and so we are called to move forward. We still feel grief, we still cry, we still laugh when we think of Petey's laugh. We experienced a very special season of life with a very special saint of God. Now it is time for me to reflect upon all the ways that God used Petey in my life, and to be a better man, and to follow Jesus more closely. That time will also come for you, if it hasn't already.
We take away from the people God brings into our lives. We learn from them, we enjoy them while they are here, and then we let them go.
Sadly, I have seen some who have never accepted the fact that life is full of change. Some experience sorrow, and for some reason, never move forward in life. There is an interesting verse that deals with this truth.
Psalm 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my hand was stretched out in the night without ceasing; my soul refused to be comforted.
We have seen people that never seem to recover from great loss, and yet the Bible tells us that this life is but a vapor, and if our life is but a vapor, then the seasons of our lives are less than vapors. The seasons of our lives are to be lived out fully, to be enjoyed, to be maximized, but then they are to be released, that we may move forward in life, and eventually, may enter into the presence of God.
Dear fellows pilgrims, we have a home in the heavens, eternal, not made by hands, but made by God. This life is a journey towards a destination. May we live for Jesus well. May we realize that the journey is not the destination, but the journey indeed has much beauty in it…and if the journey has beauty, imagine the beauty yet to be discovered when we arrive at "eternity's shore".
Until then, receive the words of God through Solomon…
Ecclesiastes 3
1 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:
2 A time to be born, And a time to die;
A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted;
3 A time to kill, And a time to heal;
A time to break down, And a time to build up;
4 A time to weep,And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, And a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to gain, And a time to lose;
A time to keep, And a time to throw away;
7 A time to tear, And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;
8 A time to love, And a time to hate;
A time of war, And a time of peace.


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Technology, sound and lifestyle unite at Gibson during the International CES 2013 from January 8-11th. Long celebrated for creating iconic guitars, the ever-growing Gibson family of brands will be on display at the Gibson tent (CP-30) showcasing innovative additions to the consumer electronics industry.
The tent will offer visitors the chance to mix and mingle with celebrity guests, jam with legendary performers and experience how Gibson fills your life with music and amplifies your world. In the past, such notable celebrities as Kevin Costner, Peter Frampton and Joan Jett have graced the stage of the Gibson tent. 2013 brings even more to the table. This year, scheduled to perform or appear for autographs are the talented Felicia Day, Rick Harrison of Pawn Stars, DJ Ashba from Guns N' Roses, B-Side, Frankie Moreno, Jason Hook from Five Finger Death Punch, Carrot Top, Kelly LeBrock and many more!
Gibson ProAudio brands encompass a wide range of esteemed musical instruments and consumer electronics, including Onkyo, Stanton, Cerwin Vega!, KRK, Baldwin Pianos, Slingerland Drums, Epiphone Guitars, and others. All will be on hand to showcase their latest offerings – most notably:
- Onkyo USA will debut its new line of headphones
- Cerwin Vega! will present the revolutionary new P‐series speakers
- Gibson will be unveiling the Min-ETune™ – the hi-tech wonder that keeps your guitar in tune.
Throughout the show, guests will have the chance to win legendary Gibson guitars along with other prizes and giveaways.
In addition, Gibson will offer guests the opportunity to tune up and wind down daily at its legendary 4–7 pm Happy Hour & Jam Party, where the drinks are on us.
Gibson is also pleased to participate in the Living in Digital Times FashionWare show. The event will take place 1/10/13 at 7PM in the Venetian Ballroom. Onkyo's new line of headphones will be on display.
The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show takes place from January 8-11th in Las Vegas. To schedule press meetings for Gibson guitar, please contact Jamie Joffe email@example.com or Fred Yager at email@example.com. For more information or product images on any Gibson ProAudio brands, please visit www.gibson.com.
Founded in 1894, Gibson is a global musical and lifestyle-oriented company based in Nashville, Tennessee, that creates products that enrich the lives of musicians, fans and consumers alike. Gibson is known worldwide for producing classic models in every major style of fretted instrument, including acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins and banjos. Run by technology visionary Henry Juszkiewicz, the company has been at the forefront of innovation since its inception, the latest of which is the Firebird X robot-guitar. Through the Gibson Foundation, Gibson has become known for its philanthropic efforts on behalf of music, education, health and human services. Gibson's family of brands encompass some of the most widely known and respected in the music and entertainment industries, including Epiphone, KRK, Stanton, Onkyo, Cerwin Vega!, Dobro, Kramer, Steinberger, Tobias, Echoplex, Electar, Flatiron, Slingerland, Valley Arts, Maestro, Oberheim, Baldwin, Sunshine Piano, Take Anywhere Technology, J&C Fischer, Chickering, Hamilton and Wurlitzer. For more information visit: www.gibson.com, www.facebook.com/gibsonguitar, www.twitter.com/gibsonguitar.
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NEW ORLEANS -- President Obama vented his frustration with his broken healthcare insurance website Friday, joking that he "wanted to go in and fix it myself but I don't write code."
"We've had this problem with the website," Obama told a crowd during a visit to the Port of New Orleans. "I'm not happy about that but we're working overtime to make sure it gets fixed. I promise."
The president's brief comments on his struggling healthcare law came amid a call for bipartisan cooperation on his economic proposals. Obama argued that investment in roads, bridges and ports should gain broad support among Democrats and Republicans seeking to create new jobs.
But he also acknowledged his overhaul of the healthcare system was "controversial." Republicans are going to continue to fight the law, Obama said, "until it's working really well and then they're going to stop calling it Obamacare. They're going to call it something else."
PHOTOS: The battle over Obamacare
Despite the remarks on the troubled law, Obama's visit was largely an attempt to press pause on steady criticism that has been sinking his approval ratings. Surrounded by cargo containers with massive cranes looming above, Obama used the port on the Mississippi River as a model for infrastructure investment leading to economic growth.
More than $1 billion has been invested in expansion and dredging projects in recent years, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said, preparing the port to double its capacity when the newly expanded Panama Canal opens in 2015 and supertankers gain access to southern ports.
Most recently the Obama administration awarded the port $16 million to upgrade its rail system, part of $417 million in grants awarded to ports in the last five years, the White House said.
Obama has asked for much more to improve bridges, roads and ports around the country. In January he called on Congress to approve $50 billion to begin working through a backlog of infrastructure projects. But most of his economic agenda – including a proposal to raise the minimum wage – has gotten little traction in Congress, where the primary focus has been fighting over how much to cut the budget.
PHOTOS: 2013's memorable political moments
Speaking to 650 people, Obama blamed Washington's "manufactured crises and self-inflicted wounds" for stifling growth, noting the recent shutdown's toll on the growth.
The president called on Congress to pass a budget, a farm bill and begin upgrading ports, bridges and highways.
"We should be building not tearing things down," he said. "We're falling behind."
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Feb. 27, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A national-leading three MIT student-athletes were awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships following the 2008 fall season. Football standouts James Oleinik and Thomas Franklin, and men's cross country senior Jake Ruzevick, earned scholarships totaling $22,500.
The one-time, non-renewable grants are awarded annually to students who excel academically and athletically, and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition. Only 29 scholarships for men and women are available for each sports season (fall, winter and spring).
The student-athlete also must intend to continue their academic studies as a full-time or part-time graduate student. Candidates are nominated by the school's faculty athletics representative, screened by regional selection committees, and the recipients are selected by the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee.
As a four-year starter at tight end, Franklin developed into an outstanding blocker during his career and helped guide the Engineers to the ninth-best rushing attack in the nation this past season. Selected to the Academic All-District Second Team in 2007, he was named CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America First Team following a tremendous senior year. He was one of only two players from District I picked to the College Division national first team.
In addition to his football commitments, Franklin is also a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars as well as the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. Set to graduate with a perfect 5.0 grade point average in Aerospace Engineering, he is a recipient of the Society of Flight Test Engineers Scholarship.
Oleinik leaves behind a rich legacy as an MIT football player, capping his career as one of the greatest offensive lineman in program history. Adding to an awards-filled postseason, Oleinik was recently selected as the 2008 Nils V. "Swede" Nelson Award winner which is presented to the "very best, and most academically talented" college senior in New England, playing at the Division II and III levels by the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston.
Oleinik started all 10 games for the Engineers this past season, and was the dominant force behind MIT's impressive running game. As the starting right guard, he helped produce a rushing offense that average 275.4 yards per game, while the Engineers as a group yielded just six sacks. Oleinik was named the New England Football Conference (NEFC) Offensive Lineman of the Year for the second straight season in addition to First Team All-Division plaudits. A 2008 team captain, he was also a semifinalist for the coveted Draddy Trophy and was named d3football.com Honorable Mention All-American.
In the classroom, Oleinik has maintained a 4.6 grade point average while pursuing a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
Ruzevick has enjoyed a highly successful career as a member of the MIT men's cross country team. Earning plaudits as the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Runner of the Year for the second straight season last fall, he is also a two-time team captain.
A four-time All-New England selection, Ruzevick won two major invitationals during his career while qualifying for the NCAA Championships as an individual in 2006. Set to graduate with a degree in Brain & Cognitive Sciences with a minor in Biology, he has also been the recipient of numerous academic awards. The past two years, Ruzevick was selected to the NCAA Division III Cross Country All-Academic Team as voted by the United States Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association, while he is a three-time Academic All-Conference honoree.


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Installing Street Scene's Rear Roll Pan And Hidden Trailer Hitch Kit
You can do a lot to your truck to improve its looks, but for a cost-to-results ratio, it's hard to beat ditching the rear bumper for a roll pan. Traditionally, bumpers are a classic example of function over form; they're really good at doing their job, but they don't look all that great, although we must admit that has started to change in the last couple of years. Even so, a roll pan gives the rear sheetmetal a clean, finished look you can't get with the stock bumper in place.
Roll pan designs are fairly simple, and a lot of companies make them for Rams and Dakotas. When it was time to clean up the back of our Dakota, we chose Street Scene's because it was the only one we've seen that looked as if it was designed specifically for the Dakota. The bottom of the pan has a scallop-or flair-that mirrors those found at the top of the tailgate and on the body sides. We also ordered their hidden receiver hitch kit to mount behind the license plate for towing and to hold Mopar Accessories' bike carrier.
The hitch kit mounts to existing holes in the frame with six bolts, so no drilling or welding is required. However, one thing we weren't expecting with the hidden hitch was the interference it caused with the spare tire. The stock spare won't fit with the hitch in place-the tire contacts the hitch frame by 2 inches on each side. One solution is to buy a new, smaller-diameter tire and mount it on the spare's rim. A potential problem with this is in case of a flat, you could end up with two different-diameter rear tires, which the differential probably won't like for too long. This is why "Dinky Doughnut" spares recommend 50 mph for no more than 50 miles. Other solutions include throwing the stock spare in the bed, or joining AAA. We've done the latter two, but aren't happy with those solutions. We'll probably mount a smaller-diameter spare, put it on the carrier mount under the truck, and hope we don't have to use it.
Another point of interest in our installation is that the Street Scene roll pan has the appropriate holes molded into it for the spare-tire winch crank, and what we believe is a hole to route any trailer wiring through, though we're not certain. We dropped the roll pan off at A Perfect Image to be painted, and asked shop owner Mike Volpe to 'glass over the holes and clean the roll pan further. This is where we learned the trick about leaving the gas filler door with the body shop, so they can match the paint. Removing the mystery hole doesn't present a problem, but access for the winch no longer exists. We're planning on shortening the shaft that drives the winch, and welding an old socket to the end of it, then operating it with a ratchet if the need ever arises. But the totally smoothed-off roll pan-sans holes-looks great.
Installation of the roll pan and hitch kit is fairly straightforward, and Street Scene provides a highly comprehensive set of instructions. One thing we would do differently is mount the roll pan before we had it painted, then remove it to have it painted. Although we didn't hurt the paint, installing the roll pan with the gelcoat finish the first time would have alleviated a lot of stress.


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In 1954, Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago, Illinois. She and her six brothers grew up in Mexico and Chicago. Cisneros earned a B.A. in English from Loyola University of Chicago and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.
Her books of poetry include Loose Woman (Knopf, 1994); My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1987); The Rodrigo Poems (1985); and Bad Boys (1980).
She is also the author of Caramelo (2003); Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), which won the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award; The House on Mango Street (1984), which won the American Book Award in 1985; and a bilingual children's book, Hairs: Pelitos (1994).
Among her honors are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation.
She has taught at many colleges and universities, including the University of California, University of Michigan, and the University of New Mexico. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.


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Video Player wanted with elegant yet simple and clear design. Readers of this page are between 25-45 years old so all proposals have to consider this situation when preparing easy to 'read and click' buttons. Players we like are vimeo.com player, vpod, http://publico.es and http://video.flamencoexport.com.
One of the key issues of the requested design is that the actual 'skin' should be made of or appear to be like a real television set (without aerial, legs or any other bulky feature). A video gallery with related videos should also be embedded in the player. An example of this can be seen here: http://minilink.es/7m6k.
Player will be provided (preferably in AI) otherwise PSD will be ok, with a clear layer separation and JPEG explanation of every different status of the player. All required buttons *layers( will be provided by designer, including:
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Samurai Sword Master Slaughters 81 Water Bottles
We've never been more relieved to not be a bottle of water than right now. Granted, we never thought about it until we saw this video of a guy messing up with his collection of swords and knives, but yeah, definitely don't want to be a bottle of water around this guy. Of ANY size. Or even a bottle that used to contain another kind of liquid but is now full of water. THIS GUY HATES WATER. STAY AWAY FROM THE WATER!


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Gerard Butler On Why 'Machine Gun Preacher' Took Away -- and Restored -- His Faith in Humanity (Blog)
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In 'Machine Gun Preacher,' Gerard Butler plays a former junkie biker who finds God, then becomes a savior to children in war-torn Sudan and Uganda. Sounds far-feteched, but it's all based on the true story of Sam Childers, a tough character who cleaned up, started his own church and then decided to go to the Sudan and save as many of its orphans as he could. The atrocities depicted in 'Machine Gun Preacher' make it a hard sell, but Butler's been crossing the country in support of the film, which he also co-produced. He talked to Moviefone about playing a gun-toting preacher with a messianic complex and how the movie changed his life.
What kind of research did you do for this movie?
For a year after I first read the script, we did a lot of sessions, myself, [director] Marc Forster and Jason Keller the writer. We'd lock ourselves in a room for 9 to 12 hours and just work through the script. It was always great, but it needed a lot of finessing and cutting down.
How did you get a handle on playing Sam?
I had to break down the components of Sam: There was Sam the biker, so I got all these books on bikers and watched all these biker movies and documentaries. I went out a couple of times -- I don't have a Harley, but I went out with a biker gang.
Then there was the preaching. I went crazy on Youtube watching preachers and getting their style. And I actually went to Sam's church in Pennsylvania and I got extra footage of him preaching.
Then there was obviously, the Sudan, that situation. There's just a huge amount of information and you work from that. And more than anything, just time spent with Sam and his book of course. It's a bit dry, really (mocking tone): "I watched a lot of documentaries." The rest of it is a journey in your own mind. That's where most of the work goes on, getting the swagger and starting to think like him and getting to the same emotional space.
He's a controversial character. Did you have any qualms about playing a man who shoots child soldiers?
I did have qualms, but not so much about that, because that's all part of the story. The qualms were more, 'Could I pull it off?' It felt like a big role to take on. I loved the emotional parts. They hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt if that's what I experienced, how amazing to make other people feel even one tenth of that. But we always had to be careful how much we went into the violence and how it was told, but the violence per se didn't put me off playing the role.
How hard was it to film scenes where you're witnessing these horrible atrocities against children?
To me, strangely enough, that was the most rewarding about it. The more you put into it emotionally, the more reward you get out of it. I felt we had to earn it. But without a doubt, I spent a lot of time going into dark holes. Those documentaries I would watch and the reading was all about heartbreaking, disastrous, awful human situations: people being beaten to death and kids mutilated, mass graves, mothers with babies and knapsacks on their back, all cut down. I went into the darkest parts of my own life to get yourself to that space that you have to be in, when you sit in front of 14 kids burned alive or holding a kid blown in half in your arms. They were tough and I would get very emotional even at times I wasn't supposed to, it would just come up and kind of grab you. When I started doing this press junket, that happened in talking about the movie, having spent so much time around that story. These people, these children, you imagine being one of them and it just really starts to become part of your DNA.
Where did you film the movie?
The worst parts of Detroit. A lot of the story takes place in trailer homes and crack houses. And then we went to South Africa, to the countryside, outside Johannesburg. It's very sparse out there but beautiful. It was a great setting for Sudan and you just get lost in how epic these landscapes were.
Did you meet any refugees from the Sudan?
We actually had a couple on the movie and we had a dialect coach from there as well. Her sister had her lips cut off by the LREA [cruel rebels, known as the Lord's Resistance Army, an incident that happens to one woman in the movie]. They literally left her for a few minutes and when they came back, she'd lost her lips. And one of her security guards had fought for the Sudanese People's Liberation Army and he had a lot of incredible stories too. They all have these stories, like children who've killed 60 people. This is why I love this movie, though. You can say that and it's just a number, but when you watch this movie it all becomes real.
So what did you take away from this movie? How has it changed your life?
I'm actually really proud and honored that I took this on. We were taking a risk by making a movie where a white man goes to Africa and saves black children. You're putting yourself up for a lot of criticism. But I do believe everyone made it for the right reasons and it is a true story and it is an inspiring story. I've sat through screenings all over the country and it's been incredible, how much it moves people. It reaffirms my belief in humanity. The movie and this story in some ways damaged that, to see humans do this to each other. It does leave you really depressed and despairing. And then you make this movie about somebody who stood against that and you see how people react and how much compassion and humanity it brings up in them and that has been a really joyous experience for me. If you go to a cinema, pretty much everyone has the same reaction. They get past the cynicism that certain people would have, like the reviewers [the movie has a 22% critics' store on Rotten Tomatoes], and they feel very strongly and that has made all of this so worth it for me.
Do you think you might want to do something lighter next time?
There's only so many 'Machine Gun Preachers' in me. But I have to say, there's actually a lot of light moments in it. Sam is a funny guy, so even in a darker movie, you get the lighter moments in. But I want do to some lighter movies, I want to do action, thrillers, maybe space out a another musical, I'm doing another animated movie. I want to keep challenging myself and keep doing new stuff. I have a Shakespeare coming out ['Coriolanus' with Ralph Fiennes]. I don't want to ever, I hope, make it too easy for myself.
You play a soldier in 'Coriolanus.' Why are you so drawn to -- or so good at -- these military roles?
I don't know. I didn't even thinking of it like that. I never saw Sam as military in my head, I see him as a preacher who just carries a gun. I didn't even realized 'till you said it. I guess I'm a guy, I'm a guy's guy. Those questions are hard to answer because it's like saying, "Why did you get cast in the movie?" And there's no way to answer it without singing your own praises: "Well, because I'm a tough sonofabitch and I'm a badass like nobody else." I'm joking, of course. And it goes into print and people are like, "Oh yeah, great, listen to him."
'Machine Gun Preacher' is currently in theaters.' 'Coriolanus' is set for a January 2012 release. We'll have more of Butler's interview about working with Ralph Fiennes in 'Coriolanus' soon.


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I had a lot of fun knitting this textured shawl recipe by orlane over on Ravelry. It is just a normal triangular shawl, two garter stitches on each side and left/right increases instead of yarn overs.
Pattern: Textured Shawl Recipe by Orlane
Yarn: Cascade Pastaza (colorway 077), Cascade Jewel Hand Dyed (colorway 9888)
Needles: US 10 1/2
Started: January 25 2009
Completed: January 27 2009
The textured stitch pattern was extremely easy and adds a lot to the shawl. I made my first shawl a few months ago for my mom that used garter and stockinette stitch and some yarn over rows. I like the simplicity of these triangular knits and the stitch variations that make them interesting.
The last picture is a variation of the Simple Yet Effective Shawl by cosmicpluto.
Both yarns were so nice to work with. I love the colors in Cascade Pastaza, especially this heathered mustardy yellow. It makes an even dense fabric that gives the piece good drape. The charcoal Jewel Hand Dyed is very interesting with its light and dark shades gray. It's a squishy thick & thin yarn. I only had to use two skeins of Pastaza and one of the Hand Dyed.
I have figured out a few ways to wear this shawl and it is very warm so that's good for these cold winter days. I have scarves and other things for my neck too, but I wanted to make a shawl anyway. I had just enough yarn and when I don't wear it, I like looking at the wonderful fabric hanging in my room.
I just started another triangular shawl in stockinette stitch with several garter ridges in a gray tweed. They are so easy and enjoyable to knit and make great FO's.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
6 comments:
- Cassiemarie said...
That looks great, you can't go wrong with the yellow and grey combo!
- January 28, 2009 at 10:37 PM
- Nutsue said...
I've just found your blog through ravelry and I've really enjoyed reading your posts. In them it seams so easy to knit a pullover...congratulations, you are doing a great work!
- February 17, 2009 at 10:06 AM
- CelticCastOn said...
Love the simplicity of the knit, paired with a yummy colour combo equals one awesome knit!
- March 1, 2009 at 1:42 PM
- About Balls of Yarn said...
great blog. just added you to my 'comrades in yarn' list.
- March 28, 2009 at 7:00 PM
- mail said...
i like it. very nice.
- March 29, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- crochetgurl said...
Your textured shawl looks great. I recently made one too inspired by yours and other ones I've seen around the web.
Since you used large needles, does the fabric come out thicker? Also, what were the finished dimensions of your shawl after blocking? :-)
- May 19, 2009 at 4:28 PM
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Series: (Series 177, Territorial Governors' Correspondence, 1820-1845)
Page 1 of 2
Pensacola October 31st 1831.
In obedience to a resolution of the Board of Alderman of the this City I have the honor to enclose to you a copy of a resolution of the Board requesting your earliest interposition with the Government to preserve the aid of some troops in this vicinity to repress the apprehended insurrection of people of color in this part of the Territory and neighboring State of Alabama.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Peter Alba
Memorial sent to the War Dept
DuVal Signature
Resolved that the Governor of Florida be requested to make application to the General Government for one or two companies of Infantry to be stationed in or near Pensacola for the protection of the people of Florida against any insurrection of slaves or free negroes in the vicinity.
Board of Alderman of the City of Pensacola. October 31, 1831.
Extract from the minutes
Saml Fry
The original sent to War Dept
Duval Signature