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On Thursday, November 5th, Slow Food Seattle and FareStart will be hosting a special dinner to raise scholarship funds for the 2010 Slow Food Youth Workshop at the Quillisascut Farm School for the Domestic Art in Rice, Washington.
Guest Chef Kären Jurgensen of the Quillisascut Farm will prepare a three course meal of seasonally available ingredients with wine pairings to bring the taste of the Farm to the dinner guests in Seattle at FareStart. Featured will be the traditional farmstead goat cheeses from the Quillisascut Farm.
A slide show and presentation on the 2009 Slow Food Youth Workshop at the Quillisascut Farm will be presented by Danny Barksdale, Adriana Rose Taylor-Stanley and Amy Grondin.
What: The Slow Food Seattle Quillisascut Farm Student Scholarship Fundraiser
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Slow Food Youth Workshop at Quillisascut Farm School of the Domestic Arts, August 6-12, 2009
By Amy Grondin
I was fortunate to have been invited by Lora Lea Misterly to assist her in leading the first Slow Food Youth Workshop at the Quillisascut Farm in the second week of August. Lora Lea and I met each other for the first time in October of 2008 at Terra Madre. Terra Madre is Slow Food International's biennial meeting that brings together international food communities, cooks, academics and youth delegates for four days to work towards increasing small-scale, traditional, and sustainable food production. In Turino, Italy during the fourth week of October, the third edition of Terra Madre hosted representatives from over 150 countries. The guests together were human links in the food chain, supporting sustainable agriculture, fishing, and breeding with the goal of preserving taste and biodiversity. Once back home in Washington, Lora Lea's idea to host the week long Slow Food Youth Workshop at the Quillisascut Farm was her way of sharing our experience at Terra Madre with young people who are interested in small scale and sustainable food systems. On the farm 13 youth had a chance to experience life on a working farm. While those attending were all considered youth, between the ages of 18 and 29, they were from varied backgrounds, communities and levels of education. The commonality that brought them all together was a passion for food, a desire to learn about how we produce what we eat and a willingness to open themselves to a completely new vision of what it meant to be part of a food community.
For most people, food is what they purchase mindlessly from the counters of a grocery store, neatly wrapped, packaged and portioned. Little or no thought goes into where the food is from and how it came to be available to go home in the trunks of cars and find its way to dinner tables. The week on the Quillisascut Farm gave each student a chance to experience milking goats and then creating cheese from the milk in the buckets that were carried from the barn. Vegetables tended in garden were harvested in the morning, washed and chopped in the afternoon to be cooked lovingly for dinner that evening. On goes the list of food that was produced on the farm and prepared with all our hands to nourish us that week - eggs, chickens, apricots, honey, goat - all products of earth and hard work that rewarded each of us with full stomachs and the knowledge of how our meal made its way to the table.
This knowledge also reminded us of our role as members of a food community. We were reminded that as consumers we are not removed from but active participants in our food community. The more educated we are on where and how our food is produced, the more we can support all in our food community - the farmers, harvester, distributors, grocers and other consumers. By making informed purchases we can help to keep the greater communities we live in economically strong and environmentally healthy.
Each day on the farm offered not only education from working with our hands but also from daily discussions based on powerful words: sustainability, respect, biodiversity, community, grateful and enough. The hour long talks around the 15' long common table in the Quillisascut Farm's kitchen invited all to reflect and share how these words are used in our culture and how the meanings of these words could guide us as we develop our own value systems that will lead us through our lives. Each day brought the students greater trust in each other through the shared tasks of farm work. That trust was revealed daily as the students shared more freely of their thoughts during the morning meetings. By the end of the week the 13 strangers who had arrived on the farm had become a community of diverse individuals bound together through shared experiences. They understood that while community is often a place based thing, a community could also be formed by individuals who share common goals, work or ideals.
In an effort to continue to share the lessons learned on the Quillisascut Farm, plans are in the works for the students to make presentations for their local Slow Food chapters based on their experiences from the week. Local Slow Food chapters sponsored half of the tuitions for the students to attend. Reporting back to the local chapters will encourage more sponsorship for future Slow Food youth groups to travel to the Quillisascut Farm.
One such presentation will be led by Danny Barksdsale, a Seattle based chef/instructor at FareStart, and Adriana Rose Taylor-Stanley, a University of Washington student and member of the UW Farms Program. Both individuals were sponsored by Slow Food Seattle to attend the Slow Food Youth Workshop on the Quillisascut Farm. Their presentation will be part of the November dinner prepared by Chef Karen Jurgensen at the FareStart facility in Seattle. The dinner will be held to raise scholarship funds for the 2010 Slow Food Youth workshop. With slide show to offer images of farm life, Danny and Ariana will tell of their shared week on the farm and do their part to add two more youth's names to the growing community of attendees to the Quillisascut Farm School for Domestic Arts. Additionally, Danny has proposed that he and I work on planning day trips to farms in the Seattle area for the students he teaches at FareStart. FareStart is a nonprofit that helps homeless and disadvantaged individuals achieve self-sufficiency through life skills, job training and employment in the food service industry. Danny wants to somehow share his Quillisascut experience with his Seattle students who most likely have never seen a farm.
I could go on for many more pages about the powerful time that was shared with the students who formed the first group attending the Slow Food Youth Workshop this past August at the Quillisascut Farm. Much more could be said about the beauty of the land and generosity of
Lora Lea and Rick Misterly in opening their home to strangers and for giving us a glance at what they have learned from 30 years of farming. But the best thing would be for Slow Food members to join Danny, Ariana and me at FareStart on November 5th for dinner and conversation about our week on the Quillisascut Farm in Rice, Washington. We invite you to have dinner with us and learn more about the lessons learned on the farm that will help us support and form our own communities, from place based to food based and all in between.
Here are some links for further reading:
Terra Madre: http://www.terramadre.info
Quillisascut Farm: http://quillisascut.com
FareStart: http://farestart.org
UW Urban Farm: http://students.washington.edu/uwfarm


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The Internet Didn't 'Kill' Carly Rae Jepsen's Career
from the LEAVE-THE-INTERNET-ALONE!-*sob* deptThe Internet gets blamed for so much. This loose collective of millions of users and websites is blamed for everything from killing off major industries to turning the world's children into short attention span txt fiends. The Internet will kill art via piracy, we are assured repeatedly. A new generation of children will be raised by the wan glow of LCD monitors and nurtured by thousands of ethereal Facebook friends.
Now the Internet is being charged with filicide. In a post titled "How the Internet Killed Carly Rae Jepsen," Katherine St. Asaph applies her detective skills in order to solve the mystery of why Jepsen's new album has been met with large quantities of indifference. First, she chronicles the swift rise of "Call Me Maybe," the inescapable phenomenon that entertained us briefly between Rebecca Black's "Friday" and Psy's "Gangnam Style."
Tastemakers heard it, then moguls who were de facto tastemakers, and it spread to listeners who knew nothing about the singer except this beautiful thing she'd written. They fell in love at first listen. They gushed. They sang along. They recorded karaoke videos and public swoon mobs and re-enactments of its summer-love video. They sent it to No. 1 for seemingly the entire summer and sent its singer to what looked an awful lot like dazed stardom.Doesn't all of that sound absolutely horrible? Apparently St. Asaph would prefer Jepsen wallowed in obscurity so that she never had to be disappointed by the fact that she had and lost fame. Instead, it's better if she never had it, if I'm following the logic here correctly.
Jepsen and her two bandmates recognized it was best to strike when the iron was still tepid and ventured into the studio with enough co-producers and songwriters to choke a "Tribute to Lou Perlman" compilation. Jepsen's debut album was released and promptly fell off the public radar, failing to surpass 100,000 sales. This sort of situation is hardly unique. Plenty of big hits have been followed by a loud sucking noise as fans rush off to examine the Next Big Thing, creating a temporary vacuum in their wake.
St. Asaph discusses the internet's well-chronicled role in Jepsen's rapid rise to fame, though, it's not so much the rise to stardom that concerns St. Asaph (and leads toward murder charges being brought against the Internet). It's what happened during the rise. In her estimation, the homicidal Internet took the spotlight off of the talented Jepsen and shone it on itself, taking something vital away from the actual artist with the endless stream of remixes, lip dubs, image macros, covers and other forms of audience participation.
This sounds counterintuitive; shouldn't it help Jepsen for thousands of people to remix, recreate and otherwise rejoice over her song? But the meme's not about Jepsen; it's about her song, and she is secondary... This is the problem Carly Rae Jepsen's facing: loving "Call Me Maybe" as a meme hasn't made people invested in her as a musician.That may seem unfortunate, but it's hardly unique and it's hardly new. It certainly isn't an "Internet" problem. In fact, throw quotes around "problem" as well. Super-popular pop stars are rarely embraced as artists. They're embraced as temporary phenomena, a momentary distraction to be enjoyed until the next groundswell displaces them.
Long before the Internet was meming artists to death on a regular basis (and in broad daylight!), people were picking up and discarding pop phenomena nearly as quickly. (If you don't want a bunch of horrible songs stuck in your head, you might want to skip ahead to the next paragraph.) Remember the "Macarena?" Did anyone ever care about the musicians behind the devilishly circuitous hook or the "choreographer" that crafted a dance so easily emulated your grandmother has probably attempted it? How was the album, I ask rhetorically, as if anyone outside of the artists involved have ever listened to the entire thing? How about Right Said Fred, whose "I'm Too Sexy" took clubs by storm for an entirely unreasonable amount of time before vanishing into the pop ether? Lou Bega, temporary mambo king who finally hit it big with his 5th attempt? How about Jesus Jones, who had two singles hit the US Hot 100 but managed to leave the charts untroubled for the next four albums? Chumbawumba were a frickin' anarchist collective, and yet, all anyone in the US knows is they cranked out the perfect drinking song about drinking. The list could go on and on and that's only covering a small part of a single decade.
The Internet doesn't split the artist from their creations. It certainly provides more avenues for interpretation but it doesn't change anything about humanity's relationship with charting artists. Very few artists enjoy continued mainstream success, no matter how artistically valid their non-hit offerings are. To lay this at the feet of an inherently participatory culture that was previously limited to drunkenly bellowing their 75% correct karaoke interpretation or drunkenly performing a 75% correct interpretive dance is to take a few steps into elitist territory and chastise people for only liking the "hits." The tool set the Internet provides may bring a much wider variety of participation (and bring it much faster), but it's not anyone's "fault" that Carly Rae Jepsen's album isn't racking up hundreds of thousands of sales. That's simply the nature of pop culture. The phrase "15 minutes of fame" has been around since before you had an internet connection.
And while you're fitting the Internet for a Murder One charge, you might want to step back and consider that Jepsen's rise to superstardom, however brief, was largely due to this very same Internet. While it's true that the Internet wears many hats -- some white, some black -- you can't just hold it responsible for destroying artists and ignore its star-making power.
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Bird is the Word
Poor Big Bird. He's a beloved childhood icon, he's turning 40 next week, and he gets no respect in the baking world.
It's one thing to rip the poor guy's beak off, but then to sign your name (illegibly) in its place? For shame, Halko! Or maybe Nillo...Mouo? Dang, this Wreckerator must have written code for the NSA in a former life; I have no idea what that says.
Guys, it's a sad, sad day on Cake Wrecks when a dreaded CCC is the "best" of the bunch:
Although I don't recall his beak being quite that...Popsicle-y. Hang on, lemme go grab a reference photo. [furious clickety-clicking]
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Like Warren Buffett so often says, sometimes it pays to be greedy when others are fearful.
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The sell-off may seem somewhat counter-intuitive. Domino's Pizza second-quarter profit rose 19 percent as sales grew in established stores and the pizza chain opened new locations outside the U.S.
"However, when you have a turbocharged stock that has doubled over the last twelve months, you have to knock the ball out of the park. Domino's didn't do that," Cramer explained.
Looking at the numbers a little more closely, Domino's earned $33.3 million, or 57 cents per share, for the period ended June 16. Analysts, on average, expected earnings of 56 cents per share, according to a FactSet poll.
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The new website www.ifametv.com now features a live stream play-out which airs both online an the ROKU. It also shows of their large amount of content ranging from movies, TV shows, music videos, concerts, comedy clips, and more.
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Still, if chromatic avatars cannot choose abilities outside of their specialties, what choice would that possibly leave them?
Further, what about Red Rider's horse? No one was more purely Red than he, yet a horse is not inherently inclined toward shooting like another gun would be, and in fact can be employed well as a close combat weapon. Surely he had the option of improving his horse rather than his firearms or gunplay.
This is assuming that he even started with the horse, rather than gaining it through a bonus. Granted, his name is Rider, but his avatar is explicitly themes as a "Cowboy". Between that and his color, he had to start with at least one gun. A gun and a horse, and a special move... seems a bit much for a Level 1. Or else it was a somewhat whimpy horse.
As a Green avatar, Ash Roller might have had the option to improve his own personal armor.
As to accuracy, we have no idea if Pile was aiming for center mass, the head or some other vital point, or actually intended to hit a ridiculously tricky spot like the elbow.
One stance or the other doesn't truly matter. He can slide a foot back or forward and quickly change his torso's direction... Except when using Lightning Cyan Spike, which anchors his feet.
The issue is that he needs to get his stake out of the way, either by waiting for it to retract, or swinging the whole ungainly extended thing out of Splash's firing zone.
Firing at the same time is foolish, but a rapid combo ought to be possible.
However, if the Splash is actually a special rather than normal attack, that changes things somewhat.
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About abilities within abilities, this is most likely the case. Eg. Black Lotus got her Death By Embracing at level 8, which was after 8 levels of pumping her bonuses into her sword limbs.
Rider probably never even had the horse, remember he had Arms Creation doing all the work. As an Enhanced Armament, there's probably very little potential left for a horse, even with zero offensive ability? A horse, like Ash's bike, still has some capacity to deal damage by blunt strikes, i.e ramming, trampling the opponent.
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That it might have had no offensive abilities but was there for either cosmetic purposes or to make travel in the Unlimited Field faster?
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Besides, I'd like to think that the horse was often equipped with artillery much too heavy for a pure Red weakling to lift and control. Side-mounted railguns and missle pods!
[Reds have to be the physically weakest of avatars to counterbalance their range advantage, and Rider was apparently built lightweight for speed (on foot or horse). Armor and muscles are heavy.]
Who knows? Maybe WC started as a Level 1 avatar with purely defensive powers and a special ability to automatically win any duel in which she took no damage (as opposed to facing a Draw)?
Also, interesting fact: The Pile Driver has an independent "energy gauge" like the Gale Thruster, which limits how soon Cyan Pile can fire off the next shot.
I bet Cyan Pile could have devoted bonuses to increasing the energy pool or reducing the charge time. I'm guessing that Fuuko could have done the same with the Gale Thruster, but she was obsessed with attaining the greatest height possible, and so focused entirely on the distance and power of a single burn. According to the LN, if it weren't for IS, she could only use the booster every ten minutes (which is not even enough for three activations during a normal 30-minute duel).
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Taking a short look through this thread, I see numerous statements that White Cosmos has "no offensive ability" / "is incapable of direct attacks". May someone tell me where this idea comes from?
From volume 12, KYH on White Cosmos:
"I knew she had no physical attack power whatsoever, be it close or long range"
It seems reasonable that White Cosmos has some beam/spiritual/magic/whatever means of attack. It would be unnatural to have the word "physical" there if that were not the case.
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Not to mention all the other legionaries except Lotus were not pure colours and thus had access to a range of options. Did the LN specifically mention 'COLOUR specialties' or was it simply 'specialties'?
As for Scarlet Rain, I already addressed this in a previous post.
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His chest is an outwards V shape. The spikes curve inwards to shoot straight.
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Dude, please contain that picture within spoiler tags. You're stretching the page.
LNs confirm that the clippers and tentacles ARE enhanced armaments, not body parts. They and Pyro Dealer kept their original colors, and perhaps forms. Gale Thruster was also a sky blue.
Only the wings were not an enhanced armament, so it makes sense that therefore they would be the only thing stolen which would change to match Dusk Taker's appearance.
Which further suggests that the Sacred Arcs will not change color or appearance based on their owner.
Logically, the armaments that Taker stole cannot be the initial equipment of his victims, or else they'd demand storage space comparable to Cyan Pile's Pile Driver. Noumi simply didn't have the option of dropping his stolen equipment to take the Pile Driver; it was bigger than all three (or more) of them combined.
The Pyro Dealer was a strong weapon, and furthermore one that Taker hadn't stolen until he gained the power of flight.
The clippers and tentacles might have been secondary weapons gained through bonuses, or bought from the shop. But what about the Pyro Dealer? An enemy drop?
But a much bigger question: According to the LNs (and maybe the anime, I don't remember), Dusk Taker didn't have Demonic Commandeer at Level 1. He had to gain various levels AND recieve training from the Research Society first.
I recall that Haruyuki didn't discover Aviation until his second/third fight, and that it apparently didn't register on his menu. But Headbutt did, and Commandeer is a special move like that.
Where was Dusk Taker's power? It couldn't really have lacked ANY ability.
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The evidence is that Taker banishes the tentacles along with the clippers when he gives the vocal command to store all of his equipped enhanced armaments.
But anyway, how seriously are we supposed to take this idea that Dusk Taker had no special move or ability -- no way to spend SP at all -- until after he leveled up a few times? Even Silver Crow had Headbutt before he knew about Aviation.
Equally preposterous: With no ability and no equipment, just how was he able to scrape together enough victories to pay points to his brother AND collect enough to level up for himself?
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But Noumi said Dusk Taker had no power other than Demonic Commandeer.
The glowing claws were an Incarnate Skill. The normal claws would have been no more impressive than a basic punch attack (and less impressive than Silver Crow's Aviation-assisted punches.)
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Especially since, as I said, he would have no weapon or special ability, whereas everyone else DOES.
Reds would shoot him. Blues would dominate him. Yellows would confuse, bind or poison him and then kick him while he's down.
Dueling really depends on your avatar's potential somehow being equal to that of anyone else of the same level, so that you can win on something more than dumb luck and determination.
Honestly, I'm not sure why Aviation wasn't on Silver Crow's moves list. Especially considering that it was the one ability that the entire avatar was built around, so that it had no potential for anything else.
Just imagine if the Pile Driver had been hidden in Cyan Pile's storage, and with no moves visible on his status menu to indicate that it even existed. It's absurd!
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Yes, but that's exactly what I'm saying. Dusk Taker is at a severe disadvantage to most other avatars until it could Commandeer a couple of Armaments and/or special moves. He can steal those too.
Silver Crow had to win his fight against AR the second time by both dumb luck and quick thinking. He practically burnt off his feet waiting for a chance.
Aviation would fall under avatar movement control, there should be no need for moves describing exactly how your avatar can move, methinks?
About the pile driver...well, either it was equipped by default, or Taku guessed the rest of his moves were locked up in an armament or an upgrade he'd get later.
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Art House hosted an event titled Sketchbook Project at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn on Saturday that included thousands of tiny sketchbooks by thousands of artists. If you're not familiar with their site check out this link and read about it. They assemble gigantic art projects from all over the world that include thousands of online entries inviting anyone to join in, which is always cool, but it makes for a cluttered art experience. I'm not sure you would call this type of event. Free Art Party? Free Crafts Party? An installation? Think huge piles of tiny sketchbooks everywhere that you could pick up, read, pass around and take with you. The event was a bunch of fun and it was interesting to see how people treated seemingly endless amounts of art (I saw a huge turd on one book in the toilet). There was plenty to see, hear, and drink. Thanks Art House :)
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NASA is once again listening for any signs that its Phoenix Mars Lander has resurrected itself after the long Martian winter, but so far, the frozen lander has remained silent.
The space agency is using its Mars Odyssey orbiter to scan for any beeps of life Phoenix may send in the off-chance it has survived the red planet's winter. The listening campaign is NASA's second for Phoenix and slated to last about a week.
Phoenix landed on Mars on May 25, 2008, and operated successfully in the Martian arctic for about two months longer than its planned three-month mission to dig for buried water ice on Mars near the planet's north pole.
But once the sun and temperatures dropped and winter set in, the spacecraft didn't have enough power to keep going. The lander went silent in November 2008.
Phoenix's landing site is now in mid-springtime, and the sun is above the horizon for about 22 hours each Martian day (a Martian day is 40 minutes longer than an Earth day). The amount of light falling on Phoenix is about the same as the spacecraft experienced a few weeks after the completion of its three-month primary mission.
Phoenix was not designed to withstand the extremely low temperatures and the ice load of the Martian arctic winter. But in the extremely unlikely event that the lander has survived the winter and has enough energy, it would operate in a mode where it periodically wakes itself up and transmits a signal to any orbiter in view.
Odyssey conducted its first listen for signs of life from Phoenix in January. This second attempt began on Feb. 22 and will continue through Feb. 26 with 50 flights over the Phoenix site. A third campaign to check on whether Phoenix has revived itself is scheduled for April 5-9, when the sun will be continuously above the Martian horizon at the Phoenix site.
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The legislation, passed just before Congress left for summer recess, is intended to clear months-long wait lists for healthcare appointments at VA hospitals and clinics. News that the agency was covering up the delays led to the ouster of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki in May.
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LILLEHAMMER, Norway (Dec. 7) – Sadie Bjornsen (Winthrop, WA) delivered another breakout result Saturday in the Lillehammer 10k classic World Cup, where she skied into seventh and matched her career-best individual result set just a week ago in Kuusamo, Finland. Bjornsen posted the top result for the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team and even sat in the leader's chair for a few minutes before Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk sealed the victory. Sunday the men and women take on the 4x7.5k and 4x5k team relays.
Sadie Bjornsen delivered another breakout result Saturday in the Lillehammer 10k classic World Cup, where she skied into seventh and matched her career-best individual result set just a week ago in Kuusamo, Finland. (Sarah Brunson/U.S. Ski Team)
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Working right from the start I tried to remember to ski my own race today and to warm into harder courses. At one point one of the coaches was cheering at the bottom of the hill and I smiled and I thought 'OK, this is going to be a good race if I can smile 2k into it.' From there I just worked where I knew I could work and tried to not load my legs on the second lap.
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SpongeBob Brings Families Together at SeabyLuisa Frey | Sept. 13, 2009
Nickelodeon launched its first family cruise the summer of 2008. Due to its success, there were two Nick Family Cruises this summer.
"Family togetherness is the crux of what we are all about," voiced Stuart Rosenstein, Senior Vice President of Resorts & Live Theatricals for Nickelodeon Recreation, in regards to this summer's two Nick Family Cruises aboard Royal Caribbean International ships.
While all family cruising affords parents, kids, tweens and teens coveted bonding time together that is not usually found amidst their busy schedules at home, Nick Family Cruises bring this concept to new heights. According to Rosenstein, 90% of the Nick entertainment aboard ship was enjoyed by parents and children together. From poolside shows to "Slime Time Live" and Nick character Meet and Greets, Nick Family Cruises offer a plethora of entertaining family activities that foster family bonding.
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A Nick Family What? For those who haven't heard, Nickelodeon launched its first family cruise the summer of 2008. Due to its success, there were two Nick Family Cruises this summer. In July, there was a seven-day cruise from Long Beach, CA to the Western Coast of Mexico (known as the Mexican Riviera) aboard Royal Caribbean International's 3,100-passenger Mariner of the Seas. Similarly, in August, RCI's 3,700-passenger Freedom of the Seas was host to Nick's seven-day Caribbean cruise from Port Canaveral. That cruise set a new record for the most kids ever on a Royal Caribbean cruise, totaling 1,800.
"The only difference between the two - other than the ships and itineraries - was that we had different talent on board each," Rosenstein said. The West Coast cruise featured iCarly stars Jeanette McCurdy and Nathan Kress while the Caribbean cruise hosted the three teen stars from the Nick show, "True Jackson, VP" including: Keke Palmer, Matt Shivley and Ashley Argota.
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"Having talent on board in the flesh that families only otherwise see on t.v. was great," Rosenstein noted. "It's what makes us unique," he added. All passengers aboard each cruise received a scheduled time in which they could get the stars' autographs and pose for a photo with them.
Family Entertainment Galore Nick knows not to mess with a good thing. Thus, it retained classic Royal Caribbean International entertainment such as its ice and stage production shows, while supplementing with Nick branded family activities and characters.
Rosenstein noted that last year, character Meet and Greets on board were a bit frenzied. This year, all families received a timed ticket packet upon boarding which lessened past crowding issues greatly and also allowed parents to plan their activities during the week better. The highlight for most families was their timed photo session with SpongeBob and Patrick, as well as Dora and Diego. After the pictures were taken, families happily proceeded to get slimed. (For the curious, sliming took place in Studio B ice skating rink in a well-covered area.)
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"What's most memorable for families is that they could experience iconic Nick characters and events in person," Rosenstein said. "We found from our Orlando Nick Family Suites resort that it's a badge of honor for most families to be slimed so we offered that option to everyone on these two cruises." If little ones were apprehensive about being slimed, they could instead pull the cord which dumped the slime on their parents and older siblings. As evidence of how popular slime is with families, a whopping 3,800 gallons were used in a mere week.
Something for Everyone There were a number of Nick specific activities for tots aboard both cruises. Every day, there was Nick story time which culminated in the appearance of a character who appealed specifically to Nick Jr. viewers. In addition, Nick staff set up a Nick Jr. playroom in one of the lounges with lots of big Fisher-Price toys to play with and climb on. Parents had to accompany their little ones and stay there with them while they explored the Nick Jr. playroom. A headliner activity for the younger set was Dora's Sing-A-Long Adventure.
The median age of children aboard ship was eight years old. According to Rosenstein, six to 12 years old is the prime age span for "core Nickers." One of the highlights for this age group was the live stage show by Tom Kenny, the voice behind SpongeBob. Kenny and company catered to this group with a Q & A and mini concert (top hits from the "Yellow Album" - parents, think the Beatles' "White Album" coupled with SpongeBob's classic color). In addition, a never-before-seen Sponge Bob episode was shown.
Spotting the Nick stars of ICarly and True Jackson around the ship and getting their autographs were highlights for tweens and early teens. With approximately 150 older teens, aged 15 to 17 years aboard ship, Nick staff left most of the traditional RCI teen activities intact "because they do it so well," Rosenstein voiced.
The well-known stand-up comedian, Chris Hardwick -- who is also the voice of Otis in Nick's "Back at the Barnyard" t.v. show -- was on also board. For the kids, there was a daytime screening of "Back at the Barnyard" along with a Q & A with Hardwick. For those 18 years and older, Hardwick performed in a late-night comedy show.
Other Nick entertainment highlights included: Nick fall shows which premiered in the theatre and included Glen Martin, DDS; Club Nick deck party, which was in lieu of traditional midnight buffets and a lot livelier; daily character breakfasts in the main dining room; Nick Live Poolside, which featured stunts by Nick entertainment staff; and a Nickathlon.
The Nickathlon was good family fun similar to "The Amazing Race." Families competed against each other in a variation of a scavenger hunt which lead them throughout the ship and prompted them to perform all sorts of antics. The families who knew the ship's layout best were fastest and ultimately winners. Bet you can guess how the winning family was honored - by being slimed!
Sailing Towards a Bright Future Nick is presently in discussions with Royal Caribbean International regarding the number of cruises it will offer in 2010. Wise move to continue the momentum, since as children grow older each year, they move from being a participant at the Nick Jr. story time, to proudly being slimed, and to being "wowed" by Nick tween/early teen talent such as the stars from iCarly and True Jackson VP. Once plans are finalized, Nick will post the 2010 sailing schedule on its website: www.nickfamilycruises.com
According to Rosenstein, Nickelodeon continues to take small steps towards building its family travel presence. This summer, it unveiled Nick Getaway packages at five Marriott resorts domestically. In partnership with Marriott, Nick is providing family programming on weekends at five domestic Marriott resorts that have family-friendly facilities and are located in vacation spots such as Phoenix, Marco Island and Miami. The programming includes character breakfasts, poolside shows, arts and crafts themed around Nick characters, and Nick movies shown on a big screen outside.
"We want to be where families are," Rosenstein noted.
And for the most part, where families want to be during their precious, hard-earned vacation time is together, and Nick is tapping into just that.
"Anchors away," SpongeBob, Patrick, Dora, Diego, Mom, Dad and the kids!


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Last month, as content producers and Apple consumers memorialized Steve Jobs, I watched thousands of people seize on a thought he'd once shared with Wired's Steven Levy. "I'm a big believer in boredom. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity."
Last week, sorting out some thoughts on Occupy Wall Street, I grazed a few back issues of Adbusters, the magazine that called the players in this street theater of protest to the stage. "APOCALYPTIC BOREDOM" blared the headline of its July/August issue, describing, perhaps without intention, a condition necessary for a certain sort of youth revolt.
Last Monday night, I was stuck in an underground elevator. There was no need to panic—oh, how we longed for a rousing dose of panic!—and I continued gathering a few idle thoughts. With seven weeks left until the ball drops in tiresome Times Square, I am antsy to suggest that 2011 has been a fascinating year for boredom.
The Wall Street Journal set the monotone late in December with reporter Gautam Naik's dispatch from Boredom 2010, a London conference where speakers delivered papers including "Like Listening to Paint Dry" and "The Draw in Test Match Cricket." The piece noted that boredom "has become a serious subject for scientific inquiry." Indeed, take a look at recent academic studies indebted to the Boredom Proneness Scale and the legitimate nutritionists advocating "meal monotony" as a way to get thinner. Surely such topics will be much in the fetid air later this month when Boredom 2011 unfolds at a snail's pace.
What sort of weather should we wish upon the attendees? A classic drear of English rain would seem to have a nice pathetic fallacy to it, but a small meteorological catastrophe could also be thematically appropriate. Boredom is among the happier fates that very exciting weather can visit upon you. The blizzards of 2011 encouraged the maturation of a new subgenre of YouTube clips. Call it snowsuit exhibitionism. Themes common to such micro-documentaries include shaky surveys of blank landscapes, moaned reiterations of restlessness, and the overall oversharing of a snow-day dull haze. Give or take the lively Snowpocalypse clips that find dudes diving headlong in snow banks, these short films share a listlessness. Weather-enforced torpor is deeply lyrical.
I can already hear some readers scoffing, "Wait! You're arguing that it takes a real poet to do boredom justice? P-shaw!" Well, that's funny, because I happen to have a real poet right here. After Hurricane Irene, on the blog of the New York Review of Books, Charles Simic wrote of experiencing "a kind of high school reunion with boredom" while his power was out for three days. Simic goes on and on about how much he owes to his teenage boredom: "Drowning in it, I came face to face with myself as if in a mirror. I became a spectator of my own existence, which by turns struck me as being either too real or totally unreal. I recall one day being absolutely sure that time had stopped, despite the loud ticking of the clock in my room."
There are a few ways to respond to this: A) You can perk up. B) You can zone out. C) You can compare it with one's own Irene experience. For instance, we unsatisfied customers of New York City's Time Warner Cable have a channel called City Drive Live, which airs static black-and-white live footage of major arteries across the five boroughs, and there was a sublime dullness, during the Irene, to watching rain drum on empty grey roadways. It was like watching paint not dry. D) You can pose Simic the impertinent question that one commentator did when the Guardian reposted his piece: "Have you tried class-A drugs?"
"Drugs and their comforting spirituous oblivion have always been one of the most efficient means for ridding a person of a bad dose of boredom." So wrote Peter Toohey in Boredom: A Lively History, published in May by the Yale University Press. This was quite a thoughtful book, one which took care to distinguish "common boredom" ("the result of predictable circumstances that are very hard to escape") from "existential boredom" while tracking the field of boredom studies out to the endless horizon. Fans of the Royal Wedding's "frowning flower girl" should check out Toohey's riff on the commonest visual signs of boredom, chief among them being "elbows that rest on flat surfaces" and "hands that support heavy heads": "If you are having a cup of tea with someone who has slowly sunk into this posture, then don't ask them what's wrong. Stop talking about yourself."
Boredom is none too dull, despite Toohey's occasional attempt to give his subject a mimetic treatment. For instance, he takes the position that boredom is, like disgust, an adaptive emotion designed to warn us away from poisonous situations. Thus, on Page 15, he writes, "disgust is an inherent aspect of the boredom brought on by predictability and repetition." And later he writes that boredom "protects us in the same way that disgust does." And later he writes, "disgust and simple boredom both keep people clear of toxins." And later he writes, "Boredom, as has been seen, is an emotion connected to the primary emotion of disgust." And later he writes that boredom, "like disgust" is "an adaptive emotion." And so on, ad nauseam.
In my own field of journalistic criticism, people are doing unspeakably dull things all the time, and they always will, but Dan Kois added a new wrinkle in late April with a New York Times Magazine essay confessing his fatigue with attempting to enjoy long, slow movies. The piece reverberated for weeks in many ways, most of which will put most noncritics to sleep. For a quick overview of the matter, listen to this NPR segment, titled "Celebrating Boredom." Public radio is obsessed with boredom, as this Apr. 1 Marketplace story about ennui attests. Make of that what you will.
Perhaps the biggest event to rock the dull-as-a-stone world this year was the publication of The Pale King, the uncompleted David Foster Wallace novel. Among its theme, according to a note left with the manuscript, is that bliss "lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom." I would dwell upon the subject, but there is evidence that Slate's readers are fed up with our discussions of Wallace's talent and his legacy. They have experienced "the boredom of surfeit" (to quote the philosopher Lars Svendsen), and they have expressed it in our comments section. Not incidentally, I will observe that leaving comments on the Internet has an aspect of graffiti-writing to it, and that according to Toohey, one important early mention of boredom occurs in a graffito scratched on the walls of Pompeii: "Wall! I wonder that you haven't fallen down in ruin, when you have to support all the boredom of your inscribers." Blah blah blah blah blah.


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Since its launch this week, Google's Buzz project, an alternative to Facebook, has generated plenty of, ahem, buzz.
Not all of it, however, was positive.
Productivity junkies almost immediately posted a tip to keep Buzz notifications out of your Gmail account, to which Buzz is tied. And users pretty much had to figure out for themselves how to turn Buzz off.
It was also discovered that by interacting with other users, you could accidentally expose the email addresses of your own contacts to others -- not to mention your business contacts.
But the real problem is in how Buzz tied together your Google contacts in Gmail with its other products, like Google Reader and Google Profiles.
One woman, Harriet Jacobs, wasn't please to discover that after Google's algorithms went through her email list, it assumed that the people she most wanted to hang out with online were the people she emailed most.
I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother. There's a BIG drop-off between them and my other "most frequent" contacts. You know who my third most frequent contact is? My abusive ex-husband.
Thanks to Google, said abusive ex can now read her comments in Google Reader and browse her Google Profile. Yikes!
She also discovered that the system to block contacts has fundamental flaws. For instance, you can block people in Buzz, but not in Reader. "I can't block these people, because I never made a Google profile or Buzz profile, due to privacy concerns (apparently and resoundingly founded!)."
Meanwhile, many of the same tech reporters who buzzed about Buzz found their hyperconnected ways exposed by Forbes.com's Taylor Buley, who used Buzz's privacy flaws to find out who emailed whom among Silicon Valley's inner circles.
Funny, you'd think a company full of talented but socially awkward geeks would be sensitive to real-world privacy problems when automating social interactions. Kidding! Nobody thinks that.
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cocshirts needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
A logo for a College community web store.
I am thinking a new age logo. This is for College Students. I want to make it different. I was thinking maybe a shirt with people revolving around it, or a bunch of people coming together to form the shirt. When people see the logo I want them to think people coming together, or a community. I am going to sell shirts that I am designing. The site will be based
around a community theam. You will get a digital copy of the shirt and
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MySpace and Facebook to show off your shirts. The site is all based
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Researchers at the School of Physics and Astronomy are trying to solve a thirty year old mystery: what causes high-temperature superconductivity? Guichuan Yu is a postdoc in a lab that is entirely focused on the problem. Yu has been with Martin Greven's superconductivity laboratory since he was a graduate student and has spent the past ten years refining the technique of creating one class of materials, Mercury Barium Copper Oxides. As a postdoc he is now in charge of growing the single crystal samples the group uses in their experiments.
These materials are arguably the most ideal for studying high temperature superconductivity. "One member of this particular material family has the highest transition temperature known so far," Yu says. They also have a relatively simple crystal structure which makes them ideal for study.
Superconductivity was first discovered in 1911, when physicists first liquefied helium. This allowed them to cool materials to temperatures close to absolute zero. They found that ordinary metals like mercury lost all resistivity when cooled to these temperatures. It wasn't until the 1950s that the quantum phenomenon that drove superconductivity were fully understood. In the 1980s it was discovered that certain ceramic materials, previously thought to be insulators, were superconducting at temperatures about half-way between absolute zero and room temperature. "The transition temperature is way too high for the classical theory to work," Yu says. "In a classical superconductor there are crystal lattice vibrations that attract the electrons together to form pairs and those pairs of electrons move without resistance. In high temperature superconductors, people have never confirmed what exactly is causing those electrons to pair up."
Thirty years later with more than 200,000 research papers published in this field, physicists still don't understand what causes these materials to be superconducting. The technology has a host of potential applications in the power industry as well in industries that require extremely powerful magnets, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). High temperature superconductors still require being cooled with liquid nitrogen to work which makes them less desirable as devices. In order to create a superconductor that works at room temperature, scientists need to figure out what causes the phenomenon in the first place.
Part of the Yu's job is to create superconducting materials that are doped with extra charges at different levels. This way the material can be tuned to show various kinds of exotic properties. To try to understand these properties the group takes their samples to x-ray scattering and neutron scattering facilities. "We shoot the neutron or x-ray beam into the sample and look at how it scatters the beam. It gives us a picture of the sample properties." Neutron scattering is used to understand the magnetic properties of the materials and X-ray scattering helps them understand how the charge organizes in real space.
The group has come up with some exciting results. A paper published last year showed charge waves in their materials. A recent paper showed that certain magnetic waves which had frequently been seen with high temperature superconductors, was not present. This would seem to suggest that charge waves may play a part in driving superconductivity but magnetic waves probably do not.


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Dorset Public Meeting Report Stalbridge 25th May 2016
DBBW's public meeting at Stalbridge last night was a great success. Because we were attempting to get pro- as well as anti-badger cull people along we were taking a bit of a chance, and really weren't sure how many people would turn up!
Stalbridge is in the middle of the North Dorset culling zone and the venue – the village hall – was not exactly high profile but we had around 70 people attend, including farmers. Our panel finally consisted of: Peter Martin (Badger Trust), Melvyn Seddon (Dorset badger vaccinator), Pauline Kidner (Secret World), Mark Jones (Born Free) and Trevor Cligg (Chair of Dorset NFU). We also had Sergeant Ross Brown, the Bronze Commander of our police liaison team, who was accompanied by one of our wildlife officers.
They were all given just 5 minutes to explain their position on badger culling, except for Mark who did a PowerPoint presentation on the science and needed a bit more time. Ross spoke about how policing the cull worked, and Trevor, who has a dairy farm, badgers, is under restrictions because of bovine TB explained how having TB in the herd affects farmers in many different ways.
This was followed by a long Question and Answer session, with people wanting to know more about the science. This was where all the information came pouring out, with speakers fully engaged with the audience and each other. As Chair, I found myself shuttling the microphone backwards and forwards between the speakers, while Rainbow was busy passing the roving microphone to people in the audience.
It was all good humoured and everyone was respectful of others' opinions. There were no rants or angry speeches – but I had warned people that the police would deal with any bad behaviour! Questions seemed to be equally shared between farmers and badger people.
One subject dominated the conversation – cattle vaccination. Why were we still waiting for this to happen? Trevor said that it couldn't happen without a DIVA test, and there wasn't one. Pauline said there was, and explained it had been successfully tested in Ethiopia but that the EU wanted it tested under our climate conditions. Defra had called for farmers willing to take part in field trials, but nothing appears to have happened.
And Trevor came up with something which we didn't know – Defra is planning to test some of the badgers killed in this year's culling for bTB. However, the testing will not be done by an independent body, which was not well received! Although we may not have changed people's minds, everyone was much better informed and left with plenty to think about.
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Today, CPTE is one of the largest independently owned and operated physical therapy practices in the Nashua/Manchester area, we have been serving the area for 25 years.
We offer a comprehensive array of rehabilitation and fitness programs, with the latest in physical therapy services, techniques, and equipment employing a highly skilled staff in a friendly and caring atmosphere. Our five clinics accept most insurances providing the convenience you need. Ours is an uncompromising commitment to excellence.
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Amongst the recalls and rumors, here it is almost Thanksgiving and I don't have too much nice to say about the turkey industry, I'm very sorry. I know that the poultry industry really started out with good concepts, but it truly has gotten out of hand. Antibiotics were once used to treat infection; not prevent it. Hormones are a dangerous thing no matter how you look at it. If they are medically called for as is sometimes the case in the aid of recovery for human beings and they should be scrutinized very carefully. But who in their right mind wants to eat that stuff??? Not me.
The more I read, the more it convinces me that I am doing the right thing by raising our own food (or even hunting) , trying to buy local whenever I can and to really notice where my food comes from if I do have to buy it from the grocery store. There are a lot of ways to go local folks; even at 9,000 feet in elevation. You don't necessarily have to grow the stuff yourself.
You can buy direct from the farmers, at a drastically reduced price. You can go online and buy from someone like Door to Door Organics; which obviously brings the stuff right to your door. Or there are a couple of great websites dedicated to the eating local movement. Eat Local Challenge is "a group weblog focusing on the importance of locally and sustainably grown food". But the best one to get the whole family involved in is Eat Local. It has a great animated feel to it that the kids will love and a down to earth way of explaining why it is so important to buy locally.
So come on Rebels and GSO readers, let's send those government cronies a message and tell them we chose to eat locally and sustainably. Let them hear your message through your purchases, tell your friends to do the same, that is where we hit them the hardest...in the wallet; quiet and peacefully.
Have a great day!


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Since its foundation in 1998 RCV has continued to develop and refine its unique 4-stroke engine technology. The real-world advantages of the RCV design give it a unique combination of high performance, fuel economy, multi fuel tolerance, economic manufacture, reliability and durability. Many 1,000's of hours of development and testing has refined the technology to the level where it meets the demands of today's small engine users across a range of applications, from high specification aerospace to professional forest and garden products.
RCV is partnering with international companies to bring this exciting technology into today's market place.