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Spanish Year Collaboration Javier Garcia-Martinez | added on Nov 30, 2009 In 2007, Spain celebrated its Year of Science honoring Mendeleev in many different ways and choosing the Periodic Table, Mendeleev 's iconic legacy. This was an excellent opportunity to raise public awareness and promote science and technology.
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It was either Edward Banfield or James Q. Wilson—I forget which, but it doesn't matter since they were both giants of political science who thought in similar ways—who once told another political scientist: "Stop trying to predict the future; you can't even predict the past!"
This lapidary epigram came to mind recently when all the usual people (meaning liberals and the media) got their knickers in a twist when those no-nothing "anti-science" Republicans on Capitol Hill moved to cut or restrict National Science Foundation funding for academic political science. The media-academic complex went into full swing to defend their oxygen supply. From the outcry you'd have thought Republicans were proposing to cut off taxpayer subsidies for avant-garde art through the National Endowment for the Arts or something.
So kudos to Jacqueline Stevens, a professor of political science (tenured, I assume) at Northwestern University, who took to the New York Times a few days ago to point out that academic "political" science has a terrible track record:
It's an open secret in my discipline: in terms of accurate political predictions (the field's benchmark for what counts as science), my colleagues have failed spectacularly and wasted colossal amounts of time and money. The most obvious example may be political scientists' insistence, during the cold war, that the Soviet Union would persist as a nuclear threat to the United States. In 1993, in the journal International Security, for example, the cold war historian John Lewis Gaddis wrote that the demise of the Soviet Union was "of such importance that no approach to the study of international relations claiming both foresight and competence should have failed to see it coming." And yet, he noted, "None actually did so." Careers were made, prizes awarded and millions of research dollars distributed to international relations experts, even though Nancy Reagan's astrologer may have had superior forecasting skills.
There's more good stuff in the article, but suffice it to say that if academic political science, especially government-grant funded studies, were subjected to any kind of quality control test, most of it would be regarded as a more scandalous waste than those legendary $800 Pentagon toilet seats.
PAUL ADDS: When I was studying law at Stanford, I audited a class in modern Soviet history taught by a distinguished specialist in the field. He noted that neither he nor his peers had predicted the fall of Nikita Khrushchev. He added, however, that since Khrushchev himself had not seen his fall coming, it was unreasonable to expect specialists, who had less access to the facts on the ground, to have predicted it.
It's an interesting argument, but not ultimately a persuasive one, in my opinion.

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3 Minutes to 3 Terabytes: VIA ARTiGO and FreeNAS Store Terabytes in a Shoebox
3 Minutes to 3 Terabytes
It truly is a beautiful thing when something just works. This is especially true with computers. High capacity storage has become almost a commodity with the price of an external 1 TB USB hovering around $100. All you have to do is plug in the power and connect the USB cable, and you've got instant storage expansion. Works great for a single computer, and you could even unplug it from one and plug it into another. While that does work, it tends to get old after a while, and if you're using that method for backups, you will more than likely end up forgetting or just quitting altogether at some point.
Network Attached Storage (NAS) is one answer to sharing large storage devices over a network. You could buy a NAS device from your favorite local or Internet supplier, but chances are you'll wind up with
something less than what a "real" NAS has to offer. That's where VIA's ARTiGO A2000 comes in. The A2000 fits a full-featured computer with space for two 3.5" SATA drives in a package about the size of a shoebox. Add to the hardware the FreeNAS open source software and you've got a really capable storage solution.
Assembling the hardware couldn't be simpler. The ARTiGO A2000 has one screw on the rear of the box holding the case shell in place. Once that's out you can remove the front clip-on cover with two fingers. That exposes two slots for SATA hard drives and the CompactFlash slot. The hard drives slide easily on the rails and plug right into a connector at the back of the drive bay. Tighten two screws on each side to secure the drive to the frame, and you're all done. We used two Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB drives for this review.
Getting the software up and running is a little more involved but not much. Step one is to download the FreeNAS software image from the project download page. The one you want is the latest FreeNAS Image file. For the VIA ARTiGO you'll need the i386 version. While you're on the download page you can also get a copy of the Quick Start Guide and User Manual. Once you have the image downloaded you must write the image to a CompactFlash (CF) device. The image itself is a little under 30 MB, so you could use an old 64 MB device if you happen to have one lying around.
Writing the image to the CF disk requires root privileges. The trick is to know that the .img file is actually compressed, requiring a gunzip command before writing to the disk. You can do it with one command as follows:
paul@paul-ubuntu:~/ gunzip -c FreeNAS-i386-embedded-0.69.4276.img | sudo dd of=/dev/sdc
The key here is the name of your CF device. In our case we used a small USB multi-card reader which assigns a unique device name for all the different slots. The CF slot shows up as /dev/sdc. With that piece of information you're ready to blast your image using the command line string above. You can also use the dmesg command to check yourself after inserting the CF card as in:
paul@paul-ubuntu:~/ dmesg | tail -n 24
That will show you the last 24 kernel messages and should contain a few lines that indicate the device name of the card you just attached.
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theNorm needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Looking for a logo to represent our service.
A basic description you can find at http://www.pokerstatscheck.com
The service has a tested market is proven to have steady interest, it is a startup and the market is competitive!
Our service is basically analyzing numbers, data submitted by our clients. And we give recommendations on to how improve their game to achieve long term results and see a positive improvement in the overall performance and their Expected Value.
- male ages 18-30
- The target audience are regular online poker players, that have invested time and money in improving their game and are looking to further improve. They don't joke around and play 100 hands of hands, they are regulars that play 1000s of hands in one sitting on multiple tables. Some earn a living doing this. They can process a lot of information quickly and to do this clean and simple design representing information are desired.
- they are very familiar with pokertracker.com and holdemmanager.com. And of course any large online poker site such as Pokerstars or fulltilt
- Logo needs to be on a white background
- Simple Clean design
- a sort of stock market graph line (obviously going up) has been suggested by a friend, this could work.
- card symbols are welcomed. Don't have to use all in the logo, you could simply use one and center the design around that. (spade, diamond, club, heart)
- colors of preference: green, black, red
- we're not too fixed on our brand name, we're looking for a logo/ symbol to represent the brand. So don't feel obligated to use the name: "pokerstatscheck.com" in your design.
- don't use alot of colors. Stick to 1-3 colors.
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- cartoons
Exception: cartoon.. a figure cutting up or eating a fish - as in poker slang a fish is a weak player - if you actually have the time to make this work then you also may use more colors. But don't sweat it, I'm a detail oriented person and prefer clean and simple.
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Happy Valentines Day! Today I am celebrating by participating in an auction for my wonderful friend, Jenny Reeder who is fighting cancer. As a PhD student obviously funds are tight and some friends of hers have put together an auction to raise money for her cause. Because it's our cause too. Because we love our Jenny and we want her around for a very long time.
I have donated three items to be auctioned:
AND a CUSTOM baby quilt made with your choice of colors, fabrics and simple design.
100% of the money donated goes directly to Jenny's cancer fighting.
I will cover the costs of shipping the quilts.
There are lots of other great items as well, including other quilts by:
and Christine.
I was so touched by Christine's donation. She doesn't even know Jenny, but heard about her story and the auction and made a lovely contribution. Thanks again, Christine!! (And thanks to the rest of you who have expressed love and support for someone you don't even know. I'm touched by your kindness.)
Aunt Spicy even donated one of her adorable Scotty Dogs and a Nicey Jane quilt.
And there is SO MUCH more. Hats, photography sessions, jewelry, carseat covers, nursing covers, and the list goes on. The Auction will go through tomorrow (Feb 15) at 10:00 EST. (bidding instructions here).
Paypal accounts required. Donations are also accepted using the DONATE button on the Auction Blog – even just $1 makes a difference, right?
Thanks for indulging me in sharing my love for my sweet friend on Valentine's Day. Other happenings around here include, 1st grade valentines party – where I'm supposed to bring a game and I still don't have that all ready to go (eek!), follow-up doctor's apt for my husband, a fun visit from my father-in-law who is in town for one night and maybe we'll squeeze in some Rubio's take-out with the family as our romantic Valentine's dinner. Happy love day folks!


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World Summit on Food Security | Summit Declaration
From November 16 to 18, more than 150 nations came together in Rome, where delegations endorsed a declaration that serves as a dramatic shift in the way in which we, as a global community, address the challenge of ensuring food security. The nations that signed the declaration pledged to put developing countries in the lead in terms of planning and implementing national food security strategies, with donors playing a supporting and complementary role.
The U.S. delegation, led by Alonzo Fulgham, Acting Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development and Vice-Chair of the Summit, advocated vigorously for a Summit declaration that not only acknowledged the critical problem of hunger and food insecurity, but also articulated solutions rooted in a focus on country-led programs and strategies. We underscored the need for a significant change in approach to the challenge of food security and were pleased when this was embraced by our colleagues from around the world.
Patrick in Maryland writes:
Hello, Gentlepeople of the States Department. :)
I hope everyone is having a good week . I'v been trying to keep up with everyone's views, on different subjects. Everyone has a very special view of different events, which makes, what you write very helpful to our perspective of the events that are discussed and committed on this site.
Anyways ,i think it's great that their having a meeeting about (Food Security), because there is almost nothing as important, as the "Growing of Food in our Future". :)
Eric in New Mexico writes:
"In 1941, following a speech by the African American civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph, President Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked, "You know, Mr. Randolph, I've heard everything you've said tonight, and I couldn't agree with you more. I agree with everything that you've said, including my capacity to be able to right many of these wrongs and to use my power and the bully pulpit. ... But I would ask one thing of you, Mr. Randolph, and that is go out and make me do it."
Industry groups spend vast sums of money to affect policy in ways that serve their own interests, regardless of whether the greater public good will be served. While it's easy to be cynical about politics in the United States, it still holds true that citizens, when we organize and speak with one voice against social and economic injustice, also have tremendous influence. Average citizens have far more power than we sometimes realize to influence what policymakers are willing to do.
Every member of U.S. society, including people who do not see themselves as leaders in a traditional sense, can play a role in holding government and other institutions accountable to moral standards. An individual may feel isolated, but working together with like-minded people across the nation and the world multiplies oneãs impact. Participating in building the common good can also be personally satisfying and contribute to one's own sense of wholeness, community, and spirituality."
-from the conclusion of the following;
While I agree with the above wholeheartedly, and it illuminates why Dipnote came into being on a philsophical level, as a practical tool for public engagement;...Why is it I find myself occasonally compelled to remind my government that you folks work for us, the public?
Don't make us make you do the right thing, that's what we elected folks to do for us.
Although I gotta say, I doubt that the current president will be want to say, "Make me." anytime soon, as he seems pretty motivated by public support as it is.
As is USAID and STATE on these issues.
Thanks for showing the love of humanity, for humanity.


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Sharks, Kings are very familiar playoff foesNHL.com @NHLdotcom
The Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks met last season in the Western Conference Semifinals, with the Kings advancing.
They meet again in the first round of the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Last season, the teams played a classic seven-game series. The Kings may have advanced, but overcoming the mental and physical fatigue that set in during the course of the grinding, tight and low-scoring victory was too difficult for the Kings.
In the series, the teams played five games decided by one goal, including one in overtime. Games 6 and 7 finished with 2-1 scores with the Kings benefitting from home-ice advantage to win Game 7.
The toll, however, proved too much. The Kings would win one more game in the playoffs before falling to the Chicago Blackhawks, the eventual Cup champion, in a five-game Western Conference Final.
So much remains the same this time around, although San Jose has the higher seed by their second-place finish in the Pacific Division. It still expects to be a no-quarter-given, low-scoring, tension-filled series.
Home ice meant a lot in the regular-season series between these California rivals. The home teams went 4-1-0 with the Sharks owning the lone blemish, a 1-0 loss at SAP Center on Jan. 27.
Like their playoff series last season, the games in the regular season were tight; one goal was the difference in four of them, including two that went to overtime and one into the shootout. Los Angeles took the season series by earning seven out of a possible 10 points (3-1-1). The Sharks went 2-2-1 to earn five points.
Eight Kings combined for 12 goals against the Sharks, including two apiece from defenseman Drew Doughty and center Anze Kopitar. The Sharks had eight goals by five players, led by forward Joe Pavelski's three.
Kings goalie Jonathan Quick went 2-0-0, including one shutout, a .930 save percentage and a 1.46 goals-against average in two appearances against the Sharks. Los Angeles used three goalies in five games, including Martin Jones and Ben Scrivens, and combined they had a .941 save percentage and 1.60 GAA.
Sharks goalie Antti Niemi got the bulk of the work against the Kings, with two wins in four starts with a .910 save percentage and 2.67 GAA. Alex Stalock started against L.A. on Jan. 27 and gave up one goal on 21 shots in the 1-0 loss.
Even though it wasn't represented in their regular-season series, the Sharks scored more goals and had a better power play during the regular season. Each team thrives off the puck-possession game. The Kings were better than the Sharks when they went head-to-head.
Can they be again?
San Jose should feel comfortable matching its top two lines against any in the NHL. The group looks even better with rookie Tomas Hertl able to return for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, even though expecting too much out of him wouldn't be wise considering he's never been in the NHL postseason and he's coming off a major knee injury.
The Sharks' dynamic group of Joe Thornton, Joe Pavelski, Brent Burns, Patrick Marleau and Logan Couture will pose problems for the Kings with their speed, power and hockey sense. They might be one collection of forwards able to stop the Kings from playing their possession game.
Thornton is an assist machine. Pavelski had the best regular season of his career. Burns has transformed into a legitimate and productive power forward after playing as a defenseman for so many years. Marleau is still one of fastest players in the League. Couture hasn't skipped a beat since returning to the lineup following a 16-game absence (Jan. 7-Feb. 7) because of surgery on his right hand.
Tommy Wingels and Matt Nieto can play in the top six if necessary. They provided secondary scoring and exceptional speed this season. James Sheppard and Andrew Desjardins add to San Jose's experience and depth down the middle. If Raffi Torres is healthy, the Kings will obviously have to be leery.
Martin Havlat is capable of being a dynamic scorer but has been streaky at best. In the penultimate game, he scored a natural hat trick, but that came after sitting out as a healthy scratch earlier.
The Kings again struggled to find scoring in the regular season, but the addition of Marian Gaborik gave them an effective top line with Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams. Gaborik didn't produce immediately but his skating and offensive instincts give opponents matchup problems.
Kopitar made his best case yet for the Selke Trophy as the League's top defensive forward and was by far the Kings' most consistent two-way forward. He led the Kings in scoring for the seventh straight season. Williams is one of their better puck-possession forwards. Jeff Carter, who owns one of the more lethal wrist shots in the game, needs to score more timely goals.
The Kings didn't have much depth after the top line. Mike Richards had a disappointing regular season and was demoted to the fourth line, away from Carter. Captain Dustin Brown was a non-factor. He was broken up from longtime linemate Kopitar and relegated to the third line.
Dwight King had a career high in goals and is part of why the Kings are among the biggest teams in the NHL. Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson were given larger roles and contributed intermittently. Fourth liners Trevor Lewis, Kyle Clifford and Jordan Nolan had stretches of effectiveness.
The Sharks coaching staff does a masterful job managing ice time to keep the defensemen fresh. San Jose doesn't have anyone averaging more than 22 minutes per night, but it does have one of the deepest blue lines in the League and one of the best units at transitioning out of the defensive zone.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic likely won't win the Norris Trophy, but he's put himself among the elite defensemen in the NHL. He's one of the top two-way players at the position in the game and leads San Jose's quick transition game. Vlasic isn't a numbers guy, but he's as reliable in all areas of the ice as anyone in the League.
Dan Boyle is an elite puck-mover and a threat on the power play even if he does not skate like he once did. Justin Braun and Jason Demers have added energy and depth to the blue line. Scott Hannan and Brad Stuart remain the rock-solid, stay-at-home players they have been throughout their careers. Matt Irwin provides some added spark to the offense and is a threat on the power play.
The Sharks led the NHL in shots on goal this season, averaging approximately 35 per game. Their seven defensemen played a big role in that, combining for nearly 800 shots on goal. In turn, that helped San Jose limit its opponents to approximately 28 shots per game.
There's not much new with the Kings, who can roll out the heaviest and most stubborn defense corps in the NHL. Robyn Regehr, Willie Mitchell and Matt Greene play a physical style suited to the postseason, and Alec Martinez provided needed offense in place of Greene toward the end of the regular season.
Mitchell came back from a potentially career-threatening knee surgery and formed a regular partnership with Martinez. Regehr quietly provided a stay-at-home, hard-hitting presence to balance his partnership with Slava Voynov.
Jake Muzzin fights inconsistency but has grown with Drew Doughty as his partner. Muzzin has a big body and a big shot but will need to cut down his mistakes. Voynov is, at times, high-risk but his offensive upside manifests itself on the power play.
Doughty remains the driving force on defense and displayed arguably his best all-round season since 2009-10. He has embraced more two-way responsibility since last season and has shown why he's the best defenseman on the best defensive team in the NHL. He also raises his game when the stakes are high, whether it's the Olympics or the postseason.
What looked like a position of stability for the Sharks may not be anymore. Niemi is the No. 1 goalie, but his struggles toward the end of the regular season left coach Todd McLellan in a difficult position of having to choose between Niemi and Stalock.
After pulling Niemi from a 5-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks last week, McLellan would offer a lukewarm endorsement of the former Stanley Cup-winning goalie with the Chicago Blackhawks. He said Niemi is "one of our guys going into the playoffs, yup." That's not exactly great praise for Niemi, who had allowed three goals on 19 shots.
Niemi has been the Sharks No. 1 goalie since arriving from Chicago following the Blackhawks' Cup run in 2010. He was a finalist for the Vezina Trophy last season and had a strong start to this season, but lately hasn't been at his best. He was 2-1-1 with a .910 save percentage and 2.67 GAA against the Kings this season.
Stalock was superb in his backup role with a sub-2.00 goals-GAA and a save percentage comparable to other backup goalies with at least 20 appearances. He lost in his only start against the Kings this season, allowing one goal on 21 shots.
It would be shocking if Niemi isn't the Sharks No. 1 heading into the playoffs, but McLellan obviously has him on a short leash.
Quick not only came back from a groin injury that caused him to miss 24 games in November and December, but he played in the 2014 Sochi Olympics and got better in the second half of the season. Quick routinely made highlight saves in the final weeks of the regular season to show why he's the goalie no opponent wants to face in the first round.
Coach Darryl Sutter is known for riding his No. 1 and he didn't let up with Quick, who sat out three games from Jan. 4 through March 31. Quick became the Kings' all-time winning goaltender in his sixth full season. His next playoff game will be No. 51 of his career.
Jones won't see any action in the postseason unless Quick gets injured. But the way he grabbed the No. 2 job was a highlight of the season. Jones tied the NHL record with eight wins to start his career and was the first goalie in League history to allow an average of fewer than one goal per game in his first eight games.
McLellan has the Sharks in the playoffs for a sixth straight season after they reached 50 wins again. He has been one of the top coaches in the League since 2008-09, his first season behind San Jose's bench. He led the Sharks to back-to-back Western Conference Finals in 2010 and 2011. They lost to the St. Louis Blues in the first round in 2012, and to the Kings in a seven-game, second-round series last season.
San Jose general manager Doug Wilson gave the team what he called a refresh last season when he traded Ryane Clowe, Douglas Murray and Michal Handzus before the NHL Trade Deadline. The goal was to become a faster team. McLellan has made it work as San Jose was back among the best possession teams and one of the highest-scoring in the League this season because they were faster and thus harder to defend.
They were in the bottom-third in goals last season, but back in the top 10 this season despite not having a top-10 power play for the first time in McLellan's tenure.
Few teams can score so few goals and be so feared in the playoffs as the Kings. Sutter had to work through another offensively challenging season when Richards and Brown never were able to produce at expected levels.
Sutter benefitted from remarkable goaltending in Quick's absence. Jones and Scrivens each allowed one or zero goals eight times after Quick went down. Sutter's defensive structure again provided the foundation, and he helped the Kings rebound from a 1-8-1 slide in January and February.
Sutter is 72-67 in the playoffs and has won six series the past two seasons. He has been through two Stanley Cup Final series, in 2004 and 2012, and there is no reason why he can't guide the Kings through another long spring.
The Sharks traditionally have had one of the NHL's best power plays, but that was not the case this season; they finished below 20 percent for the first time in six seasons with McLellan in charge. The Sharks never seemed to get their second unit to click. Pavelski, Marleau, Thornton, Boyle, Burns and Couture were effective, but there was a big drop in production after that.
San Jose made up for some of its deficiencies on the power play with a strong penalty kill for the second straight season. San Jose's PK dipped well under 80 percent from 2010-12, but it has been back in the mid-80s the past two seasons. Pavelski, Marleau and Couture are among the top penalty-killing forwards in the League.
The penalty killers were tested mightily because the Kings were one of the most penalized teams in the NHL, but Quick is the backbone and Los Angeles finished in the top half of the League for the fourth straight season. Richards, Carter, King and Lewis are shorthanded threats.
The power play still doesn't pose as much of a threat as it should considering it features Doughty, Voynov, Kopitar, Carter and Richards. The Kings went through a stretch of eight games and two five-games stretches without scoring on the power play. Martinez thrived on the man-advantage late in the season.
Joe Pavelski -- He has been the Sharks' most important player all season. That won't change now.
He has been Mr. Clutch this season, scoring the majority of his goals when the Sharks were either trailing by one or tied. He scored three goals in five games against L.A.
Pavelski is San Jose's top player on the power play and one of the first forwards over the boards to kill penalties. He is the Sharks' best option in the faceoff circle.
He likely won't win an end-of-season award, but he should be in the discussion for the Hart Trophy and the Selke Trophy.
Marian Gaborik -- He's not the 40-goal scorer he used to be, but Gaborik is still a threat who was brought in precisely to contribute at this time of year. If he can provide another dimension similar to what Carter brought two seasons ago, the Kings will be much more formidable.
Sharks will win if ... They beat the Kings at controlling the puck. San Jose and Los Angeles are two of the best teams in the League at winning battles in all three zones. They drive possession and take a lot of shots. If the Sharks are going to win this series, they will have to dominate possession because the Kings will grind them down if they don't. Goaltending in particular will be huge because the Sharks know scoring more than three goals a game on Quick will be difficult. They scored eight goals in five games against the Kings during the regular season.
Kings will win if ... They can find that extra goal to support their playoff-ready defense and goaltending. The reason no team wants to play Los Angeles is because the Kings are built for postseason play. They thrive in low-scoring games with their suffocating defense. Los Angeles is one of the best closing teams in the NHL despite some late-season lapses.


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Alzheimer's is diagnosed through a complete medical assessment. If you or a loved one have concerns about memory loss or other symptoms of Alzheimer's or dementia, it is important to be evaluated by a physician.
Steps to diagnosis
There is no single test that shows a person has Alzheimer's. While physicians can almost always determine if a person has dementia, it may be difficult to determine the exact cause. Diagnosing Alzheimer's requires careful medical evaluation, including:
Having trouble with memory does not mean you have Alzheimer's. Many health issues can cause problems with memory and thinking. When dementia-like symptoms are caused by treatable conditions — such as depression, drug interactions, thyroid problems, excess use of alcohol or certain vitamin deficiencies — they may be reversed.
Learn more: What Is Alzheimer's? and Other Types of Dementia
What to Expect
Take our interactive tour to learn what to expect when being evaluated for memory and thinking problems.
Finding the right doctor
Places to Start
Experts estimate a skilled physician can diagnose Alzheimer's with more than 90 percent accuracy. The first step in following up on symptoms is finding a doctor you feel comfortable with. Many people contact their regular primary care physician or internist about their concerns regarding memory loss. Primary care doctors often oversee the diagnostic process themselves.
Your primary care doctor may refer you to a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Specialists include:
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Join AlzConnected, our message boards and online social networking community, and learn strategies from others to effectively communicate with doctors to get the best care possible.
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Although the onset of Alzheimer's disease cannot yet be stopped or reversed, an early diagnosis allows people with dementia and their families:


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I have decided to focus mostly on my dad's side of the family for these posts since my maternal grandmother is already covering that side of the family.
I really enjoyed listening to my grandma Katie tell me how her town celebrated Christmas at school. It felt particularly significant once I made the connection that her memories speak of a time before integration.
She grew up in a rural area of Mississippi during the thirties and forties. School celebrations turned into town celebrations inviting everyone to participate. Each family would contribute a few items to the after school party to make for a wonderful gathering. My grandmother's family liked to bring pecan pies and cookies. Her brothers would climb up the pecan trees and shake the branches until pecans rained down upon the girls below. The girls would then pick up all the pecans and carry them home. At night they would stay up and shell the pecans, so their mother could bake with them during the day. My grandmother's mom (aunt) would chop all the nuts and turn them into delicious treats. They even grew their own peanuts, which they would make peanut brittle with and take to the party.
At the party everyone enjoyed the many delicious Christmas delicacies but the real fun was in the socializing. They participated in several different types of competitive games led by the teacher. They played games like potato sack race, family
board games, and this game where they would have to push an egg from one point to another with their noses. Apparently, games like the egg game were mostly for the boys because the girls were decked out in beautiful dresses. These dresses were handmade and consisted of very heavy fabric. In the absence of polyester, they would use a special kind of brocade silk and cotton to make beautiful winter dresses to adorn the girls with for this special occasion.
As for me, my earliest memories of school holiday celebrations are from my time living in Germany. We would celebrate Sankt Nikolaus day in early December. We would listen to the story of Sankt Nikolaus and leave our shoes lined up in the school hallway. Later when we went to get our shoes Sankt Nikolaus would have filled our shoes with candy and trinkets.
As I got older school holidays were getting phased out, so I don't have too many memories of school holiday celebrations. I do remember that some of the schools I went to had a special store that the kids could go into and buy presents for family members. The gifts weren't anything extravagant and were actually on the cheap side, but it made us feel happy to pick out gifts all by ourselves.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Advent Calendar: School Celebrations in Rural Mississippi and Germany
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Labels: Advent Calendar, Christmas, Family history, Genealogy, Germany, Mississippi, Sankt Nikolaus, St. Nicholas
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Imagine if you did not have a country to call home. Imagine, not being able to legally get a job, marry, or own land. Forget about trying to travel. And if you had children, what legacy would you leave for them?
Statelessness impacts as many as 12 million people around the globe. Often, this under-recognized human right, the right to a nationality, can increase the risk of exploitation and abuse, including forced migration and trafficking in persons. Women and children are particularly vulnerable.
That's why the U.S. led resolution, along with Botswana, Colombia, Mexico, Iraq, Turkey, and Slovakia, passed at the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva today is so important. "The Right to a Nationality: Women and Children," is a first for the HRC.
This resolution, addressed the issue of discriminatory nationality laws targeting women, which can lead to statelessness. In total, there were 49 co-sponsors supporting the resolution, with representation from every geographical region.
The resolution focused on the issues of protecting both a woman's and a child's right to a nationality, with the goal of reducing statelessness. The equal right to a nationality for women, including the ability to acquire and retain nationality and confer it on their children, reduces the likelihood that they will become stateless and vulnerable to serious harm.
While recognizing the right of each State to determine by law who its nationals are, the resolution urged States to refrain from enacting or maintaining discriminatory nationality legislation and to reform nationality laws that discriminate against women, consistent with Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this regard, the United States recalls our own history of seeking to achieve equal nationality rights for women.
This resolution supports the Secretary's initiative to promote women's equal right to nationality, which emphasizes that women's rights are human rights.
This video tells the stories of those impacted.
Related Content: Statement by Secretary Clinton on the Resolution on the Promotion, Protection, and Enjoyment of Human Rights on the Internet


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Car Salvage: Affairs Your Damaged Car Salvaging cars is one of the a lot of affluent industries in this time and age. The industry mainly revolves about giving humans an aperture area they can advertise damaged cars and it aswell sells repaired vehicles. In some cases, sellers will be accustomed to put up additional locations for sale, abnormally if the absolute car can no best be repaired. Oftentimes, a aggregation who buys damaged cars will be accommodating to acquirement cars of any cast or model. Whether your car has continued been bound up in the barn or it was damaged afterwards a crash, these companies will be accommodating to altercate agreement and appraisement with you so you can get banknote for damaged cars. The car doesn't accept to be a absolute blend afore it can be sold. You can get a appropriate bulk from a rain-damaged car or one that has basal damage.
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I'll be moving into my new house this week and — more importantly — I'll be inheriting another's appliance choices.
Right now, that consists of:
- a loud 15-year-old 18 cu. ft. top mount refrigerator
- a smelly plastic tub dishwasher (whose vinyl-coated racks show the beginnings of rust)
- a self-clean gas range with the tiniest oven window you've ever seen
- a decent OTR microwave
- a (gasp!) top-load washer and its matching ancient dryer
One by one (or two), I'll replace each of the appliance, either to improve efficiency and performance or because one simply konks out. And in the case of the fridge, that could be sooner rather than later…
Appliances don't come cheap, and though I get a discount on them, they're still an investment. So I'll have to decide where to spend my money and where to save.
Because it's dominating my thoughts the last few days, I'm going to channel my forthcoming appliance purchases into a series of blog posts called "Things I Want." I'll write them based on what I'd pick if I were going shopping today.
My criteria considers performance, features, aesthetics, durability, efficiency, price and warranty — not equally, however. And they all must be sold at Warners' Stellian, obviously. But there's really nothing I'd want that we don't sell.
I'll split it into two categories, one aspirational and the other more achievable. I'm trying to think of what to call each category, and I keep thinking I'm ripping "Desired/Acquired" from something. But until I find out for sure…
Look for the first "Things I Want" post Monday.


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Apple released iOS 7 on Wednesday of last week, and now more than 200 million devices are already running the new version of the operating system. The news came as part of a press release announcing the sale of 9 million new iPhone 5s and 5c models. That's quite an uptick from last year, when Apple announced - along with sales of 5 million iPhone 5 phones - that 100 million devices had been upgraded to iOS 6.
iOS 7 is the most ambitious update to iOS since its first release. In addition to a singificant overhaul to the user interface, getting rid of most of the skeuomorphic elements that were the hallmark of ousted Apple VP Scott Forstall, iOS 7 also makes many under-the-hood changes like improved multitasking, incorporating new features like AirDrop, Control Center, and more.


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Silk fabrics, sell by the yard
Price is per yard. Edges not processed unless requested by customer.
Color: white
Width: 90cm (35.4 inches), 114cm (45 inches) or 140cm (55 inches).
Thickness: 4.5mommes, 5mommes, 6mommes or 8mommes.
*Please select width and thickness from the drop list at the top right corner.
Please note:
1~Due to the lights and different angles of camera, the same fabric may turn out different colors. The brighter photos are closer to real.
2~Photos are for showing colors. Fabric in different thickness appear different under close up.
3~What does "mm" stands for?
"mm" is a measurement for fabric's thickness. It is short for mommes. 5mm silk uses less silk threads than 8mm. 5mm veils are lighter and floating, while 8mm silk veils are stronger and more powerful. 5mm veils are more widely used.
Here is what we do for different veils
4.5mm~making fans, streamers.
5mm~rectangular veils
6mm~double veils and wings. Also good for making costumes.
8mm~double veils and wings. Also good for making costumes.
4~Not all colors in all width and thickness are available. If you need, we can also custom make. Takes about 10 days. Please contact me for custom orders.
5~Unless it is white fabric, do not wash. Color will run out.
The store only accepts on-line payment by paypal. Other off-line payment methods, like Moneygram or Western Union are also accepted. Please feel free to contact us.
Default shipping is free by registered mail, which takes
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Russia, Central &South America, others
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*Please note you may have to pay taxes when your order arrives by DHL. We are not responsible for Customs taxes.


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aguilera brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 64 Designs von 17 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Pujalia is a new lowest-unique bid auction site. Bids are placed via SMS or web and the lowest unique bid at the end of the auction wins. Site will allow users to make unbeatable deals and receive exclusive products for very low prices.
Please, see detailed brief for more information.
Good luck!
Pujalia - Pujalia.com
In seven words, we are looking for a vectorial, simple, memorable, innocent, fun, unique and exclusive logo.
We want all the designers to have fun with this contest!
Vectorial: This is a must. No bitmaps. No photos. No fancy wordart logos.
Simple: Just one phrase, keep it simple.
Memorable: We think we have a great domain (in Spanish it's great) and need a memorable logo so users can remember and recognize it.
Innocent: As the reverse auctioning model is complex to understand for the user, we need the logo to transmit innocence so users can trust us.
Fun: We are proud making people have fun and dream about getting incredible stuff for very little money.
Unique: Please, avoid look-a-likes and generic-logo-templates-customized.
Exclusive: Logo should suggest that this is an exclusive site, not a bargain site (although it isn't a luxury site).
(By the way, we would like a little web 2.0 look but not too obvious as it should last in time once the 2.0 thing ends).
We want to include a memorable and unique graphic to the right or left of the logo or even better, something unique or modified on the text itself like this (http://99designs.com/contests/9879/…ies/689453) or this (http://entries3.99static.com/contes…ies/275996).
Either way, think fun! We want this unique text-modification or graphic to be related with the fact that this is a social bidding website, where users can get great items by low prices. Some ideas are an ant or some ants carrying something really weight (as with just a small bid, you can win great items) or anything related with "less is more" and "the power of small things", but we are completely open to ideas related to the name or the site.
Please, let your mind fly here. (But don't be eclectic :-).
Submit variations. We love blue, yellow/orange, green and grey, but feel free to submit your proposals. Ideally, we will like one single color logo or a pair of a soft/strong colors so we can use soft color as base and strong color as call-to-action in our webpage. Feel free to use cool gradients for the web version of the logo if you like, but please, don't use reflections.
Pujalia is a mix of words in Spanish that means social bidding, bidding community or bidding land (puja is the Spanish word for bid).
Logo may include a short tag or no tag at all, it's up to you.
Logo must be suitable for web and printing in full colour, greyscale and B/W.
Logo must be suitable for dark and light backgrounds.
Logo must scale well, both, small and large so it can be used in web, print, t-shirts, etc.
Final work must be provided in PSD/Illustrator/Freehand format with all layers editable.
Work must be original and ALL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS of the winning design will be transferred to us at the moment of payment.
(Fore more information on reverse bidding take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_bid_auction or see some similar auction sites at http://www.bidster.com and http://www.playlimbo.com.au although we don't really love their logos.)
Here you can find some logos we like http://www.slideshare.net/guest24cd…lia-logos/. Please, take this a a list of logos we like and not as logos we want to copy. We like specially the Snap logo (makes smart use of flash icon mixed with letter to explain what snap does). Of course, we also like the Amazon logo (again, smart use of icon mixed with text). Also, for the web version of the logo, it will be ok to use some gradients in some surfaces like Tractis or Zookooda do.
We don't want any Spanish flag/flamenco/bull… The scope of this site is Spain and the whole world. (And, by the way, lots of Spaniards hate bullfighting and flamenco).
We don't want to split the name in two parts (i.e. PujaLia).
We don't want too many colors and/or fonts.
We don't want anything too generic or look-a-like.
We don't want bitmap/wordart/3D logos.
We don't want overly complex logos, please, keep it simple.
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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O'Neill, the original California surf, snow and lifestyle brand, was founded in 1952 when a young man named Jack O'Neill took his unstoppable passion for surfing and used it to beat Mother Nature at her own game. Pioneering the world's first neoprene surf wetsuit, Jack had successfully found a way to extend his surf sessions in the bone-chilling breaks of Northern California. He opened up the garage doors to his first surf shop soon after. While many things have changed since those humble beginnings, Jack's initial vision of producing functional and innovative board riding products continues to inspire people and empower them to do what they love doing most.
The oceans and mountains have always provided riders an infinite field to progress and pursue their passions. Those who live the lifestyle are gifted with welcome release from everyday pressures. Giving back to our most magical playground and creating ways to produce in more sustainable-ways are needed to preserve the environment, the people and the sports we love.
At O'Neill we strive to find ways of reducing our impact on the environment through manufacturing processes and give something back to our culture and global community through social & environmental initiatives. We also provide a safe, healthy and inspiring working environment and we invest in employees and create development possibilities.
Whilst no brand, including ourselves, can claim to have perfect practice from an environmental point of view, we do have a large criteria of standards and regulations in place that help steer us in a more sustainable direction. We are constantly and proactively looking to improve and increase our efforts across all levels of Corporate Responsibility; social, environmental and economic.
In August 2009 O'Neill Europe B.V. became a member of the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI). The BSCI is a European initiative of brands and retailers which is a business-driven platform for the improvement of social compliance in the global supply chain (www.bsci-intl.org).
The BSCI Code of Conduct is based on the most important international labour standards protecting the workers' rights such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions and other important Declarations of the United Nations, the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises and the UN Global Compact. Since 2009 O'Neill Europe B.V. has instructed suppliers to join and comply with the BSCI Code of Conduct. The goal is to improve working conditions for all people who work on our products; this is an ongoing process. We request all our suppliers to submit their factories to the auditing process. This goes beyond the requirements of BSCI, where only our direct suppliers are required to be included in the system. We request that all our suppliers complete a list of their factories, including agents and importers.Orders can only be placed in factories approved for production by O'Neill Europe B.V. We will continue to monitor and strive for improving conditions amongst our suppliers.
Countries where O'Neill Europe B.V. produces their garments are: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam. We have contact with 36 suppliers, which have in total 50 factories.
71% of our production was compliant (53% in 2012)
15% in process (23% in 2012)
14% not yet involved (24% in 2012)
By reducing the number of suppliers, we can become a larger and better partner for those suppliers who understand our sustainability work and who wish to contribute to our sustainability goals. We began in 2012 with 68 factories and we have reduced this to 50 factories by the end of 2013. A reduction of 36%.
In April 2013, an eight story factory building collapsed in Bangladesh and more than 1,100 workers died and many were injured Although O'Neill Europe B.V. had no products manufactured in that specific factory, the accident reminded us of the fact that our work about ensuring safe and reasonable working conditions at the factories can always be improved, and that we must take on an even broader responsibility in this sense.
After this accident O'Neill Europe BV signed the international Accord on Fire & Building Safety, an agreement between international and national unions over 150 brands and retailers to improve fire and building safety in Bangladesh. The goal is to improve the sustainable labour conditions of the employees in the factories in Bangladesh. Please read the content and progress of the accord here!
O'Neill Europe B.V. is aware of the reports about the widespread use of forced child labour in Uzbek cotton production. Despite assurances from the Uzbekistan government that forced child labour was outlawed in 2008, further evidence has been obtained of forced child labour continuing to be used during Uzbekistan's 2012 cotton harvest. Therefore our suppliers have agreed not to use cotton from Uzbekistan.
No cotton yarn from spinning mills with 'Sumangali' are to be used by O'Neill B.V. suppliers. Sumangali is a form of child labour which, although forbidden is practiced in India. In the scheme, a girl is hired on contract for three to five years, during which she earns a wage, and after which she is paid a lump sum to pay for a dowry.
O'Neill Europe B.V. suppliers have also agreed not to use sandblasting. Sandblasting is a technique used to make new jeans look previously worn. It is a highly dangerous procedure for the workers involved as it can cause severe lung problems.
We do not accept that animals under any circumstances are harmed for the producing our products. For that reason we do not use:
Real fur in our products.
Leather that is not a by-product from animals that have been bred for the food industry.
Leather obtained from live-skinning or live-boiling.
Feather or down from birds that have not been bred and raised for the food industry.
Feather or down from greylag geese due to the risk that they have been force-fed for the production of foie gras.
Feather or down from birds that have been live-plucked. Suppliers are expected to declare their suppliers of feather and down.
Angora wool from rabbits that have been live-plucked.
Materials derived from species which are on the CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) list or IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) lists of endangered species.
Additionally, we require that any materials derived from animals used in our products are from animals that are treated humanely and according to animal welfare laws and recommendations.
Jack O'Neill initiated the Sea Odyssey – a non-profit organization in Santa Cruz, California. It provides students from disadvantaged backgrounds with hands-on lessons on marine environment and the relationship between the oceans and environment. The program provides a free education course to fourth-sixth grade students.
O'Neill's key team rider and brand advocate Jeremy Jones, founded the organization Protect Our Winters . POW's mission is "to unite and actively engage the global snow sports community to lead the fight against climate change." O'Neill donates 5% of all sales from its Jeremy Jones range to POW.
O'Neill supports team surfer Jordy Smith's ambassadorship at Umthombo Street Children in Durban, South Africa.
O'Neill yearly organizes the event "Out of Bounds" to learn blind kids to surf and give them an amazing experience they will never forget.
Currently O'Neill is working on extending its project team on CSR to create collaborations with organizations to grow our sustainable working methods and reduce our footprint. O'Neill will work to further improvement on sustainability, further increase of awareness throughout our supply chain, and extend monitoring on increased objectives. We realize there is still a long way to go and we commit to continuing and expand our CSR activities in the coming years. Transparency and integration are the key to the future.
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Confirmed: Iran assisting Taliban
From ABC News:
NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.
"It is inconceivable that it is anyone other than the Iranian government that's doing it," said former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stopped short earlier this week of blaming Iran, saying the U.S. did not have evidence "of the involvement of the Iranian government in support of the Taliban."
But an analysis by a senior coalition official, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, concludes there is clear evidence of Iran's involvement.
"This is part of a considered policy," says the analysis, "rather than the result of low-level corruption and weapons smuggling."
Iran and the Taliban had been fierce enemies when the Taliban was in power in Afghanistan, and their apparent collaboration came as a surprise to some in the intelligence community.
"I think their goal is to make it very clear that Iran has the capability to make life worse for the United States on a variety of fronts," said Seth Jones of the Rand Institute, "even if they have to do some business with a group that has historically been their enemy."
The coalition analysis says munitions recovered in two Iranian convoys, on April 11 and May 3, had "clear indications that they originated in Iran. Some were identical to Iranian supplied goods previously discovered in Iraq."
The April convoy was tracked from Iran into Helmand province and led a fierce firefight that destroyed one vehicle, according to the official analysis. A second vehicle was reportedly found to contain small arms ammunition, mortar rounds and more than 650 pounds of C4 demolition charges.
A second convoy of two vehicles was spotted on May 3 and led to the capture of five occupants and the seizure of RPG-7mm rockets and more than 1,000 pounds of C4, the analysis says.
Also among the munitions are components for the lethal EFPs, or explosive formed projectiles, the roadside bombs that U.S. officials say Iran has provided to Iraqi insurgents with deadly results.
"These clearly have the hallmarks of the Iranian Revolution Guards' Quds force," said Jones.
The coalition diplomatic message says the demolition charges "contained the same fake U.S. markings found on explosives recovered from insurgents operating in the Baghdad area."
"We believe these intercepted munitions are part of a much bigger flow of support from Iran to the Taliban," the message says.
The Taliban receives larger supplies of weapons through profits from opium dealing, officials say, but the Iranian presence could be significant.
"It means the insurgency in Afghanistan is likely to be prolonged," said Jones. "It would be a much more potent force."
If Iran's not careful, they're going to find themselves in a world of hurt by...dare I say it?...being on the business end of a...gasp!...a sternly worded UN Resolution! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Apple Retail Stores have replaced the iMacs that traditional served as their "kid's table" with iPads. The tables, which had previously been decked out with a quartet of iMacs, now sport 4 iPads instead.
Like the previous iMacs, which were set up with educational and game programs, the iPads had a variety of child-friendly apps. I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but I noticed it for the first time today when I visited my local store to pick up a repaired Mac. My 3 years godson, who was with me, took only a couple of moments to adjust. He launched a book app and began playing, just as he does at home. It was much easier for him to find an app and use the iPad than it had ever been to handle the iMac and mouse, so that was a huge win.
I'll miss seeing those big screens around the kids table, but iPads are clearly Apple's future, and nothing makes that clearer than how they're deploying them for future generations of Apple customers.
Apple previously replaced in-store display cards with interactive iPads, and replaced the MacBook Pro computers at the Genius Bar with iPads. Apple Store concierges also use iPads to handle appointments.
There's no sign yet that they'll start replacing the actual Geniuses (or other staff) with iPads... but it can't be long now, can it?


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How can we "green" our schools to make them more environmentally sustainable?
On a glorious day several weekends ago, my wife and I hiked up Panther Mountain in the Catskills.
This month Dutchess County released its 2010 Natural Resource Inventory.
In our research sites at the Cary Institute and throughout the Hudson Valley, we are seeing acorn production of unprecedented proportions.
Dave Strayer and Gary Lovett sounded a warning about the looming local extinction of ash trees. This almost certain event is because of the spread of the emerald ash borer.
As you drive around Dutchess County this fall, try to get a look at the dusky yellows and purples of the ash trees, because they won't be around much longer.
A place-based curricula developed by Cary educators engages students in their local water cycle and teaches them how human activities and land-use can affect that cycle.
Our forests provide a wide range of ecological, economic, and aesthetic benefits.
While most ecologists conduct field work in natural settings, Cary Institute scientists have pioneered the inclusion of urban and suburban landscapes in ecological research.
Thanks to the efforts of committed environmental groups, government organizations and individuals, the Hudson Valley is poised to position itself as a model for melding environmental and economic interests.
As we approach the cold and flu season, a few of our nearby streams and rivers are just now getting over some serious congestion.
The issue of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits has become increasingly difficult to ignore.
Oil: We're running out of it. It makes our country vulnerable to foreign powers. Burning it causes irreversible harm to our environment.
West Nile virus is a human health risk because it can cause sickness and death when mosquitoes transmit the pathogen from an infected bird to a person.
If you ran a tourist agency for time-travelling, intergalactic visitors, what attractions do you think would bring aliens to Earth in 2010?
When we think about the water cycle, most of us remember the diagram we were taught in third grade.
When we see where the water meets the land, how many of us have considered how different types of shorelines influence the plants and animals residing in the river?
The joy in seeing the first flowers of spring is always countered by dismay over the reappearance of mosquitoes
A class of second-graders at St. Joseph School, Millbrook, gathers around a study plot in the grass of their schoolyard, marked by four pink flags in the shape of a square.
Losses of our local fish have been so severe that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has completely closed commercial and recreational fishing for American shad in the Hudson River.
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Jelco ATA Shipping Case
Part #: JEL215HDWL | Mfg #: JEL-215HDWL
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If someone could shove a stick into the machinery of free agency right now – and the Milwaukee Bucks could bring back point guard Brandon Jennings on the one-year qualifying offer price of $4.3 million – both the team and the player would be well-served.
Of course, the gears will keep turning, teams will assess and re-assess, someone will panic, someone else will blink and Milwaukee general manager John Hammond probably will be faced with matching a multi-year deal for Jennings. Hammond's preferred choice at point guard, Jeff Teague, was snatched back Saturday by the Atlanta Hawks, who chose to match the restricted 25-year-old's four-year, $32 million offer sheet from Milwaukee.
As eager as Teague was to continue playing for former Hawks coach Larry Drew in his new gig with the Deer, Atlanta wasn't willing to lose an asset such as Teague for nothing in return. As the proprietor here at HTB, Sekou Smith, notes, the Hawks' backcourt is too thin and Teague is too consistent a performer to have picked off, especially by a middle-of-the-pack rival in the Eastern Conference.
That leaves the Bucks and Jennings staring at each other, perhaps to make nice now that their options are dwindling, perhaps to glare a little and scramble like mad to avoid what might be less than a warm-and-fuzzy reconciliation.
It didn't sound as if Hammond and Jennings would be running slow-motion through a sun-drenched meadow to embrace, in the immediate aftermath of Atlanta's Teague decision, as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Charles F. Gardner reported it:
Bucks general manager John Hammond got the news after his flight landed in Las Vegas, where Milwaukee plays its first NBA Summer League game on Saturday night.
"Now we have to move forward with the job before us," Hammond said. "We have some work to do."
The best thing for both sides, it says here, would be to re-up with each other for a year on that $4.3 million qualifying offer. That would allow Jennings to become unrestricted in 2014, freed from the Bucks forever if he truly wants a bigger market or bigger money (and can find someone to offer either or both). It would benefit Milwaukee, too, because they would have a highly motivated point guard, presumably eager to address some of the significant flaws in his game. Like his shot selection. Like his shaky work facilitating teammates. Like his poor percentages finishing at the rim. And like his deteriorating defensive play.
Obviously it would be risky for Jennings to forsake guaranteed money over multiple years if someone offers it. Then again, he has taken the road less traveled before, heading to Europe for a season rather than spending one year at a college campus in the U.S. prior to the 2009 Draft.
His development on the court has stalled because his maturity off it has been playing catch-up. Yet it's unlikely Hammond and Drew want to go through the season with only newly-added Luke Ridnour, O.J. Mayo as a combo option and raw backups Ish Smith and rookie Nate Wolters at the point.
Jennings, almost as a tease but also in response to a talk last season with interim head coach Jim Boylan, produced a striking month's work just after the All-Star break. Over 13 games, he averaged 15.5 points and 9.9 assists while shooting 44.8 percent from 3-point range (while reigning in his attempts a bit). Six of his 13 double-double games and seven of his 13 double-digit assists performances came during those 13 games, and the Bucks went 7-6.
It seemed like a salary drive, only it didn't last. Over Milwaukee's final 15 regular-season games, Jennings averaged 14.4 points, 5.1 assists and shot 35.9 on 3-pointers, jacking them up at a higher rate again. The Bucks closed 5-10.
Milwaukee, if it's going to bring him back at all, needs the good Jennings, the motivated Jennings, for most or all of its 82 games, not just 13. Jennings needs to demonstrate his market value, because the gap between what he think he's worth and what he's being offered at the moment scarcely could be greater.
Going all in for one year would be best for both sides. Even if it's unlikely to happen.


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In spring 2009, after working on his feature film C RED BLUE J (screened at SFMOMA Fall election 2008), Chris Sollars returned to his playful street studio practice of intervention. Starting with performances of washing trash Street Clean 1997, kicking soccer balls through San Francisco in Cityscapes 2000 (collection Berkeley Art Museum), and sitting and walking as a Pile of Trash 2002 & 2006. Returning his attention to a sculpture practice and lack of space and materials, Sollars started taking walks and making public sculptures with trash and debris on streets of his San Francisco Mission neighborhood, taking a photo, and leaving them.
This summer I invited Sollars to use SFMOMA as a site for art-making. As a parameter the artist used only materials on hand in the museum itself, from paper products, posters, bottles, debris left behind, to the shirt off his back. At no point was his project made official to the staff of the museum, similar to working in his neighborhood, Sollars came and went and made pieces while integrating himself as an everyday museum guest. The images posted within this post are his results.
In November 2009, we collaborated on a series of sculptures used in our Arthur Allan exhibit at his space 667Shotwell. As a part of this process I invited the artist over to Hallway Projects for a One-Day Artist Residency in which he reacted to my domestic gallery space, through hiding around the apartment in a series of short video still life's; Behind, Beside, Inside 2009. These still life's of the Hallway Projects apartment would slowly reveal Sollars hiding behind a chair, beside a couch, or inside the fridge were then re-projected at 667.
In January artist and curator Abner Nolan invited Sollars to A NEW MUSEUM on 24th Street in the Mission create series of sculpture window displays for 2929 Double Take; using ready-made-trash and debris of the neighborhood and pegboard backroom of the storefront as a studio for sculptures that were rotated into the windows over the course of the two weeks.
During Art Fair week in NYC, unable to resist, Sollars showed me a series of works titled Small Fires made during a late night session within the Independent art fair installations at the former DIA in Chelsea. Further confusing the Independent's lack of traditional gallery booths, Sollars made successful works while complementing the "Unmonumental" tendencies of scheduled and planned fair participants.
He relates this urge to intervene, to when he was 10 in 1986 walking through his father's Indianapolis IBM office, and after finding a Hey Verne its Ernest mask in a cubicle decided to find the highest office and place it on his desk. After sharing this accomplishment with his father, Chris had to write an apology letter that his father hand delivered the following Monday.
Most recently continuing this reaction to different environments Sollars opened a solo exhibition of sculptures, photographs, and videos installed in and around the apartment gallery Glitter Box Oakland, run by artist and curator Ian Colon. At Glitterbox, Sollars mined Ian's collection of works, objects, and archive into an exhibition that creates portrait of the artist, the owner and his space.
Later in the month we will announce a release of 3 bags with a selection of works made by Chris Sollars during this unauthorized SFMOMA residency. This transaction will allow someone to have a SFMOMA collection of works in their home. The date, time, and conditions for this exchange will be announced soon. So check back here on Open Space, and we suggest you become a fan of SFMOMA on facebook.


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Major Coolant Leak
Slyatslys posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubMk2 (07 plate) 100K 1.8 TDCi My wife was driving my car when suddenly the temp gauge hit the red and the displayed referred to overheating plus usual selection of dash lights. She stopped and waited until we arrived. We added more water and noted it appeared to be leaking out even as we were filling it up. The leak appears to be on the drivers side and is being splashed around by the pulley system so it is very hard to see where the leak is from the top as you get a face full of spray. This happens when the car is cold or hot and looks like it is well beyond my fixing capability on the drive. I don't think it is the thermostat housing as I read that this is normally more obvious an issue when the engine is hot but I could have misunderstood. Seems more like the coolant pump or something in that area? Is this a common issue? This did not seem to be in the common issues thread but then I might have missed it as I was running through it. I am after some ideas as to what it is likely to be so that when the garage come back with their assessment I am at least semi informed.
Ford Focus 1.8 Tdci Sport S - 07 Reg - Engine Systems Fault
Slyatslys replied to Slyatslys's topic in Ford Focus Club... or a Ford main dealer
Ford Focus 1.8 Tdci Sport S - 07 Reg - Engine Systems Fault
Slyatslys replied to Slyatslys's topic in Ford Focus ClubI have to say that since they sorted out the seals on the fuel filter it has been fine. I left it for 3 days facing up hill on the drive and it started even on a very cold and frosty morning without any problem. There definitely appears to be a fuel filter/fuel system standard issue with the 1.8 TDCi. I would not say that a local garage is any worse than a main dealer as the main dealer changed the instrument panel on mine before they fixed the real issue with the fuel system having a small leak of air into the system so they clearly were in the dark too. I have read other forums where the fuel filter was the cause of similar problems so it does not seem that uncommon and it was the first suggestion made above too ...
Ford Focus 1.8 Tdci Sport S - 07 Reg - Engine Systems Fault
Slyatslys replied to Slyatslys's topic in Ford Focus ClubWell after returning it to the garage and it being sent back to the Ford Main Dealer again, they have now "found a 2nd fault" (I admit to being sceptical as the symptoms were identical and this turned out to be similar to the issue the AA man said it was). According to the dealer, the AA man damaged the seals on the fuel filter when he was trying to prime the system and so air was getting in thus draining the fuel lines. (Does the pump not self prime afterwards?) I was also told that the "road side diagnostic tools" would not have picked up the fault code from the immobiliser so that (AHEM!) "still needed to be changed" ... They have now "changed the seals" and are checking it starts reliably. The true test will be when it is back on my drive.
Ford Focus 1.8 Tdci Sport S - 07 Reg - Engine Systems Fault
Slyatslys replied to Slyatslys's topic in Ford Focus ClubThanks, I had a horrible feeling you might say that ...
I recently bought a Ford Focus 1.8 TDCI Sport S (2007/07) after many happy years of driving a 1.8 TDDI Ghia until the fuel pump ECU failed. Anyway, 2 weeks ago I got into the car and it started, sounded "lumpy" then stalled and then refused to start. It turned over but would not start and the lights came on etc (lots of stuff that flattened the battery) and then a "Engine Systems Fault" message appeared along with a red light on the right of the display. I called the AA and they got it to start by forcing fuel through but it would not keep running and there were no error codes stored. Some more trying and the diagnostics then said "low fuel pressure". I then got towed to the garage where I bought it who then apparently took it to the local Ford dealership who got it running and said it was the immobiliser. Specifically that it was the key pick up at fault and I needed a new instrument unit. Being as I really had no choice I agreed and had it replaced and it took 2 weeks to get this sorted. I got it back yesterday and was assured that the fault was fixed and it was definitely going to be OK. I took it for a spin and noticed that the acceleration was different, it was much quicker and less lagged. Not having had this model before I did not really notice there was anything wrong but the comparison tells me that there was. Having read other posts on "Engine System Faults" this seems to imply there was potentially an underlying fault when I got it. So I got in it tonight (not having used it today) to go and get some fuel but guess what? ... you guessed it ... same fault!! Has anyone got any ideas? I am only glad I was at home when it went wrong!! Another point is that the car is parked on the drive with the engine "up hill" from the tank. The AA man said that their is a fault on Transit Vans where a small pin hole appears in the fuel pipe that feeds the fuel pump from the filter and so syphons out the fuel from the filter back into the tank. Anyone come across this before? Not sure why this would cause "Engine Systems Fault" unless it was too clever for its own good!! Any thoughts?


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Buffett's metric says it's time to buy
According to investing guru Warren Buffett, U.S. stocks are a logical investment when their total market value equals 70% to 80% of Gross National Product.
(Fortune Magazine) -- Is it time to buy U.S. stocks?
According to both this 85-year chart and famed investor Warren Buffett, it just might be. The point of the chart is that there should be a rational relationship between the total market value of U.S. stocks and the output of the U.S. economy - its GNP.
Fortune first ran a version of this chart in late 2001 (see "Warren Buffett on the stock market"). Stocks had by that time retreated sharply from the manic levels of the Internet bubble. But they were still very high, with stock values at 133% of GNP. That level certainly did not suggest to Buffett that it was time to buy stocks.
But he visualized a moment when purchases might make sense, saying, "If the percentage relationship falls to the 70% to 80% area, buying stocks is likely to work very well for you."
Well, that's where stocks were in late January, when the ratio was 75%. Nothing about that reversion to sanity surprises Buffett, who told Fortune that the shift in the ratio reminds him of investor Ben Graham's statement about the stock market: "In the short run it's a voting machine, but in the long run it's a weighing machine."
Not just liking the chart's message in theory, Buffett also put himself on record in an Oct. 17 New York Times op-ed piece, saying that he was personally buying U.S. stocks after a long period of owning nothing (outside of Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) stock) but U.S. government bonds.
He said that if prices kept falling, he expected to soon have 100% of his net worth in U.S. equities. Prices did keep falling - the Dow Jones industrials have dropped by about 10% since Oct. 17 - so presumably Buffett kept buying. Alas for all curious investors, he isn't saying what he bought.


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Michael Hirsh of the National Journal reports that the White House is having second thoughts about nominating Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense:
Besieged by criticism from right and left, and considerable skepticism from his former Senate colleagues, Chuck Hagel appears to be following the path of Susan Rice as a trial-balloon nominee who finds himself quickly losing altitude in Washington. And as happened with Rice, the White House is now signaling that it may soon puncture Hagel's hopes.
Just as occurred with Rice, the U.N. ambassador whose prospective nomination as secretary of State—leaked to the media—flamed out in the face of widespread criticism of her, President Obama appears to be rethinking his choice for Defense secretary.
A senior administration official told National Journal on Sunday that it was "fair" to say Obama is considering candidates other than Hagel for Defense secretary, in particular Michele Flournoy, who was under secretary of Defense for policy in Obama's first term, and Ashton Carter, the current deputy Defense secretary. Only a week ago, Bloomberg News reported that Hagel was Obama's top choice.
Hirsh attributes Hagel's problems to "his bluntness and bravery in advocating unpopular positions during his 12 years in the Senate," including his "gutsy and prescient stand against his own party and President George W. Bush in the run-up to the Iraq invasion—and his criticism of the war's management afterwards." But Hagel was not sufficiently "gutsy" or "prescient" to vote against invading Iraq. And Hagel wouldn't be on President Obama's radar screen absent Hagel's criticism of the war.
Hagel's problem isn't that he's gutsy or prescient. It's that his positions on key issues such as Iran, Israel, sequestration, and gay rights fall, in the words of Lindsey Graham, "out of the mainstream" and, in some cases, "well to the left of the president."


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Game On! Sports Schedule for February 8-10, 2013
This weekend marks the first weekend in months without football of some sort, but there are plenty of indoor sports to keep you entertained.
In the NBA, the Miami Heat get a double dose of the City of Angels when the Lakers and Clippers each visit. In college basketball, top-ranked Indiana, coming off a loss to Illinois, faces a major test when it travels to Ohio State. In the NBA, Tampa Bay visits Boston in a meeting of two of the Eastern Conference's top dogs.
Friday, February 8
Brooklyn at Washington 7 p.m.
Los Angeles Lakers at Charlotte 7 p.m.
Toronto at Indiana 7 p.m.
New Orleans at Atlanta 7:30 p.m.
San Antonio at Detroit 7:30 p.m.
Orlando at Cleveland 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Clippers at Miami 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Golden State at Memphis 8 p.m.
Portland at Houston 8 p.m.
Phoenix at Oklahoma City 8 p.m.
New York at Minnesota 8 p.m.
Chicago at Utah 10:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Anaheim at Dallas 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 9
Denver at Cleveland 7:30 p.m.
Charlotte at Philadelphia 8 p.m.
Detroit at Milwaukee 8:30 p.m.
Golden State at Dallas 8:30 p.m.
Utah at Sacramento 10 p.m.
NCAA Men's Basketball Top 25
Mississippi State at (2) Florida 5 p.m.
(3) Michigan at Wisconsin 12 p.m.(ESPN)
(5) Kansas at Oklahoma 4 p.m. (ESPN)
Loyola Marymount at (6) Gonzaga 8 p.m.
North Carolina at (8) Miami (FL) 2 p.m. (ESPN)
Louisville at (25) Notre Dame 9 p.m. (ESPN)
(12) Michigan State at Purdue 7 p.m.
Iowa State at (13) Kansas State 6 p.m. (ESPN2)
(14) Butler at George Washington 2 p.m.
(15) New Mexico at UNLV 9 p.m. (NBC Sports Network)
Illinois State at (16) Creighton 10 p.m. (ESPN2)
(23) Pittsburgh at (17) Cincinnati 6 p.m. (ESPN)
Utah at (19) Oregon 8 p.m.
(20) Georgetown at Rutgers 12 p.m.
Ole Miss at (21) Missouri 1 p.m. (CBS)
(22) Oklahoma State at Texas 1:45 p.m.
DePaul at (24) Marquette 2 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Boston 1 p.m.
Pittsburgh at New Jersey 1 p.m.
Carolina at Philadelphia 1 p.m.
Winnipeg at Ottawa 2 p.m.
Edmonton at Detroit 2 p.m.
Phoenix at San Jose 4 p.m.
Toronto at Montreal 7 p.m.
Buffalo at New York Islanders 7 p.m.
Florida at Washington 7 p.m.
Anaheim at St. Louis 8 p.m.
Nashville at Minnesota 8 p.m.
Calgary at Vancouver 10 p.m.
Sunday, February 10
Los Angeles Clippers at New York 1 p.m.
Los Angeles Lakers at Miami 3:30 p.m.
Denver at Boston 6 p.m.
New Orleans at Toronto 6 p.m.
Portland at Orlando 6 p.m.
Minnesota at Memphis 6 p.m.
San Antonio at Brooklyn 8 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Phoenix 8 p.m.
Houston at Sacramento 9 p.m.
NCAA Men's Basketball Top 25
(1) Indiana at (10) Ohio State 1 p.m. (CBS)
(4) Duke at Boston College 6 p.m. (ESPNU)
California at (7) Arizona 7 p.m.
St. John's at (9) Syracuse 3 p.m. (ESPN)
Illinois at (18) Minnesota 6 p.m.
Los Angeles at Detroit 12:30 p.m. (NBC)
Edmonton at Columbus 6 p.m.
Boston at Buffalo 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at New York Rangers 7:30 p.m.
New Jersey at Pittsburgh 7:30 p.m. (NBC Sports Network)
Chicago at Nashville 8 p.m.


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I only found the Persona 2 fans -- specifically, the Innocent Sin fans -- to be really unbearably elitist.
Go right into it. You'll see why immediately. They flow beautifully together, and EP is twice as good.
EP was definitely a much better game, however, EP is close enough to IS that you might get burnt out. It doesn't really play differently but it's much better balanced, especially wrt card getting iirc.
The thing with IS's final dungeon is that based on a dialogue choice halfway through, the remainder of the dungeon will either be short, medium, or long. I played the import and overthought it, so I ended up picking the longest and most tiresome path.
And lastly.... I'm not even kidding about the tattoo... anyone have any ideas or suggestions?


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Like many family members of murder victims, Joann Amaro was frustrated that men who must have known who fatally shot her father on June 17, 1980 refused to speak up.
A few days later, frustrated that no arrest had been made in her father Simon's death, the then 17-year-old girl had an idea how to help witnesses overcome their reluctance to say what they know.
She drove to her father's house, retrieved something from inside the home, got back in her car and set the thing beside her. Then she headed for Richie's Bar near the intersection of West 26th Avenue and Federal Boulevard.
That was just like Joann.
She'd never been a shrinking violet. Joann was a bit of a tomboy. It was how she tried to lessen her father's disappointment about not having the son he always wanted.
Joann was an only child. In some ways she was very spoiled. But her dad also didn't coddle her.
Simon wanted to steel her for life, which at times could be very difficult.
Sometimes tragedies happened or there were bumps in the road of life, like getting fired from a job. Simon always told his daughter that's why she needed to be prepared for hardships – always have a fall-back skill.
For example, when his wife pushed him to move inland from the California coast where Simon had a high-paying undersea welding job to Colorado where all her family lived he simply found a new welding job at Asamera Oil Refinery in Commerce City and started working on the side as a landscaper.
"My dad was a manly, macho man," Joann said. "I was a tomboy. I hung out with my dad all the time."
When Joann was very young, Simon took her to fields and helped her get a job harvesting vegetables. It wasn't easy work. She toughed it out, working even when she got blisters and was exhausted.
When he asked her to drive a large pickup to tree farms to pick loads of trees to deliver to landscapers, she put her gloves on and did what she could.


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SOURCE: Allstate Insurance
January 14, 2014 09:00 ET
Insurance Company Seeking 25 New Agency Owners and 50 Licensed Sales Professionals
Insurance Company Seeking 25 New Agency Owners and 50 Licensed Sales Professionals
PHOENIX, AZ--(Marketwired - Jan 14, 2014) - For those who want to start a new career in the new year, Allstate Insurance Company is looking expand in Arizona. The company plans to appoint 75 new insurance agents in 2014.
"Arizona's strong economy is fueling this expansion plan; we target cities and areas that show growth and increasing demand as a part of a broader strategy to expand Allstate's presence in Arizona," said Grant Wood, Allstate's Arizona sales leader. "We are aggressively targeting qualified professionals. If they don't have an insurance background, we'll provide them with comprehensive education and the resources to help them get off to a strong start."
Allstate is looking for mid-career, mid-level managers who want to own and operate their own business in Arizona, specifically in the Phoenix and Tucson areas. The addition of the new agencies will have a compounding effect on the Arizona job market since each new agent typically opens with a minimum of two employees to help ensure customers are served with courtesy and efficiency. Of the 75 insurance agents, 25 appointments will be agency owners and the remaining 50 will be licensed sales producers. Existing agency owners are also seeking licensed sales producers.
To help with the recruiting efforts, Allstate is offering a $6,000 award to anyone who refers a qualified candidate to Allstate. The referral award is payable upon of the appointment of the candidate as an Allstate agency owner.
Allstate agency owners can leverage one of America's most recognized brands without ever having to pay a franchise or licensing fee. The capital invested in the business goes directly toward the success of that agency.
"Allstate is unique among all other insurers because its exclusive agents own the economic interest in the business," said Wood. "Allstate agency owners can sell the economic interest in their agency. No other branded insurer has this option."
Candidates interested in becoming an Allstate agency owner need a minimum of $50,000 of liquid capital to invest in their agency. This money does not go to Allstate; it helps ensure the agency can successfully fund the normal day-to-day costs associated with opening and running a business. Licensed sales producers do not need liquid capital to apply.
To learn more about becoming an Allstate agency owner, visit AllstateGoodLifeAZ.com or call 1-877-711-1006.
The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) is the nation's largest publicly held personal lines insurer, serving approximately 16 million households through its Allstate, Encompass, Esurance and Answer Financial brand names and Allstate Financial business segment. Allstate branded insurance products (auto, home, life and retirement) and services are offered through Allstate agencies, independent agencies, and Allstate exclusive financial representatives, as well as via www.allstate.com, www.allstate.com/financial and 1-800 Allstate®, and are widely known through the slogan "You're In Good Hands With Allstate®." As part of Allstate's commitment to strengthen local communities, The Allstate Foundation, Allstate employees, agency owners and the corporation provided $29 million in 2012 to thousands of nonprofit organizations and important causes across the United States.
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We'd love to see your submissions for Christmas Card-a-Day as well. Please click here for details on how to submit your card idea. See all previously featured cards here. Now, here is day 6's edition!
Today's card was created by Pam Sparks, from Iowa, USA. Please read below for details on how she made her card:
"I used Marianne Design dies to create my card. The woodgrain frame is a tree die that I cut and embossed three times on the big shot, then cut and used the pieces to make the frame. A heart die for the curtain, the top of the heart, turned upside down! The candle die is new… sparkled it with stardust Stickles. The sentiment, ticket, pine branches, holly and poinsettia are all dies too. I used Adirondack Core'dinations card-stock so when I sanded the embossed details would show. The pieces are all edged with coordinating Distress inks and the ink blending tool."
Thank you, Pam! Please check out her blog here.