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LAKE FOREST – A man died Thursday after being thrown from an SUV when the driver lost control of the vehicle on southbound I-5, authorities said.
Officers responding to reports of a crash involving a Ford Expedition shortly after 2:30 p.m. found a man lying in the middle lanes of the freeway, CHP Officer Troy Christensen said.
The man was taken to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, where he was pronounced dead. Orange County coroner's officials Thursday identified him as Charles Holguin III, 41, of Los Angeles.
The SUV was traveling southbound in the carpool lane of I-5 near El Toro Road when the driver lost control of the vehicle, CHP officer Chris Goodwin said.
The SUV rolled multiple times before coming to rest on its wheels. Holguin, who was believed to have been in the front passenger seat of the vehicle, was thrown from the SUV.
The driver, a 23-year-old Glendale man, was taken to Mission Hospital with "major" injuries, Goodwin said. A 35-year-old Highland Park woman who had been sitting in a rear seat was reportedly taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
A dog was taken to a veterinarian's office for treatment, Christensen said.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash, authorities said.
Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash but don't believe that speed was a factor. Investigators believe Holguin was not wearing a seat belt when the crash occurred.
The crash initially blocked all southbound lanes of the freeway. The roadway was reopened by 4:45 p.m., but traffic was backed up for miles.
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Nominee for Slow Food USA's Ark of Taste: The Sugar Hubbard Squash
Slow Food's Ark of Taste aims to rediscover, describe and publicize forgotten flavors around the world. Through the Ark of Taste program, Slow Food USA has a catalog of over 200 delicious foods in danger of extinction. Since 1996, more than 800 products from over 50 countries have been added to the international Ark of Taste. By promoting and eating Ark products we help ensure that they remain in production and on our plates.
The mission of the Slow Food Ark of Taste is to preserve traditional tastes and to celebrate them, by introducing them to the Slow Food membership and then to the world. All of the foods on the Ark of Taste are heritage products that have real economic viability and commercial potential for the communities that grow, produce or harvest them.
Since it's inception, Slow Food Seattle has successfully boarded four regional food products onto the Slow Food Ark of Taste including Olympia Oyster, Marbled Chinook Salmon, Geoduck, and Makah Ozette Potato (our only Presidium product). Slow Food Seattle's latest Ark of Taste nomination is the Sugar Hubbard, a sweet heirloom winter squash with a unique Puget Sound heritage. Former Slow Food Seattle Co-Chair, and Puget Sound Food Network Project Manager, Lucy Norris, recently wrote about this important heirloom in the winter 2010 issue of Edible Seattle.
Read the full story in Edible Seattle, or download a PDF version.
Sherman's Pioneer Farm Produce in central Whidbey Island grows the only commercial crop of Sugar Hubbard in the country. It is the result of combining traditional blue Hubbard and Sweetmeat squash, inheriting the best flavor and texture characteristics of both. The Sugar Hubbard is a nutrient dense, starchy squash (with a high glycemic index), but also very high in vitamin A, exceeding USDA requirements for Beta Carotene. Most winter squash varieties are interchangeable in recipes, and the Sugar Hubbard is nutty-sweet and the colored deep orange like a marigold. Try it in a favorite recipe that calls for winter squash, and you'll be impressed.
The Sugar Hubbard has an excellent flavor, and it's uniquely local to Puget Sound, with a strong family heritage. It has every asset required for boarding onto Slow Food's Ark of Taste. Slow Food Seattle's interest in boarding this product on the Ark of Taste will send a signal to conscientious consumers and help boost market demand in our area. Voting with your fork helps food producers like the Sherman's remain profitable in the business of farming in our region. Only the best tasting endangered foods make it onto the Ark, and we think the Sugar Hubbard is a great fit.
Find the Squash
Peeled squash cubes are available at all Whole Foods locations in Oregon and Washington as long as the supply holds out. Liz and Dale continue to look for additional retailers for their squash. Sherman's Pioneer Farm Produce is located at 46 South Ebey Road, Coupeville, WA. Contact Liz or Dale Sherman at 360.678.4675.
Looking for recipes?
Spice Loaf - by Editor, Edible Seattle
Chili Stew - by Lucy Norris, adapted from an original recipe by Liz Sherman
Excerpts with permission from Edible Seattle.
Lucy Norris is Project Manager for Puget Sound Food Network, a project of the Northwest Agriculture Business Center, former co-chair of Slow Food Seattle, and author of Pickled: Preserving a World of Tastes and Traditions.


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text: Home / Art / Bill Farr Jewelry / Handmade Fine Art Jewelry by Bill Farr: Fabric Series 019F Handmade Fine Art Jewelry by Bill Farr: Fabric Series 019F$245.00 This unique one-of-a-kind "wearable sculpture" is constructed from sterling silver, fabric, turquoise cabochon and cultured fresh water pearls. — OR — Add to cart SKU: BFJ019F Categories: Art, Bill Farr Jewelry Description More Bill Farr Reviews (0) This large one-of-a-kind hand made jewelry is constructed from a sterling silver frame with three fabrics mounted to an archival core. A clear turquoise cabochon is set in sterling silver and mounted on the hot pink fabric. At the top of the piece, three cultured fresh water pearls are featured on polished sterling silver. Size is approximately 5 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches. This "wearable sculpture" has a comfortable fabric back and is lightweight. Accommodates necklace or neck ring. Use your own or choose a necklace in the Jewelry Accessories Section. Click on product image above for a slideshow of this artwork. Click on the tabs for a video and additional information about artwork and the artist. Bonus… along with your handmade jewelry, we will include a copy of the artist's sketch that was made for his personal records and to show the materials used. It's an interesting "reference sheet" and "certificate of authenticity" for you. Important… it's not possible ensure exact color accuracy or show detail and textures perfectly with today's web technology. Silver, which is a frequently used component in these pieces, is particularly difficult to render correctly. That said, most of the images will be close to the original on a decent monitor or tablet, but we can't guarantee an exact match. What we can guarantee is that the "real thing" far exceeds the digital representation. And perhaps that's a good thing, because if you like what you see here, you are going to be completely wowed by the actual piece of wearable sculpture! Necklaces Although you can purchase most of Bill Farr's wearable sculptures without a necklace, a high-quality sterling silver snake necklace or neck ring is the perfect addition to your wearable artwork. These are available in the jewelry accessories section. About the "Fabric" Jewelry All of the "F" series wearable sculptures utilize fabric as a base material. It has a few advantages and it is one of the elements that makes Bill's fabric-based wearable sculptures highly unique. The primary advantage, of course, is artistic freedom. Fabric opens up a large universe of color, patterns, and textures. It is also light weight which makes for comfortable wearing and allows a larger "canvas" to be used. Each fabric jewelry piece begins with a sterling silver frame. Fabric is then mounted on an archival core, treated with a protective coating, and fit into the frame. Other elements are subsequently added to the artwork to complete the jewelry and create a stunning design. Note that every piece of Bill Farr jewelry is handmade and represents an artistic journey. There are no pre-made plans, molds, or forms. The final artwork reveals itself as it is being made and no two "journeys" are alike. This process makes each work highly unique and never to be duplicated. Each piece of handmade silver and fabric jewelry will be delivered to you in a gift-quality box. The jewelry itself will be enclosed in a reusable tarnish resistant paper pouch. About the pricing and Availability Please note that availability is extremely limited. Bill Farr's wearable sculptures are unique one-of-a-kind items never to be duplicated again. When you acquire one of these pieces, you will have the only one. And since the wearable sculpture series itself is extremely limited, you will be one of the very few on the planet to have any of the pieces in the series. Bill Farr's original wearable sculptures have sold for $900 and up. Because the fabric series is new and not quite as time consuming and costly to produce as his earlier pieces, they have been favorably priced. The current pricing, however, can't, and won't, last. When you consider the lifetime of artistic experience, the time and materials that are invested in each piece, it is quite apparent they are undervalued at the current price levels. We will, therefor, be raising the prices as the series sells out. Bottom line… if you're truly interested in one of these wearable sculptures, the best advice would be to act now while the item is still available. There will never be another one like it and the price will never be lower than it is today. Resale of items shown but not available in the store As noted above, all of the Bill Farr items are one of a kind, so once a piece is acquired, it's gone, and probably gone for good. We do, however, facilitate a secondary market. So if you wish to buy a piece that is no longer available from us, let us know, and we will attempt to contact (no guarantees) the last known owner with your offer. Likewise, if you're interested in reselling a piece you acquired from us, we will offer it in the store on a consignment basis. About Bill Farr Bill Farr has had a long career in both commercial and fine art. Born in 1923, he began drawing at age 8 with a supply of spare newsprint given to him by a local printer. Those were depression days and materials were hard to come by. At the ripe young age of 10, Bill upgraded his tools with an oil painting kit he purchased with money earned by selling magazine subscriptions. Paintings at the time included Holiday greeting cards he sold door-to-door in his neighborhood. Bill continued to develop his art abilities throughout high school. He also worked at some art-related jobs including painting billboards for the 1939 Worlds Fair, working for a jeweler, and the job that would change everything… designing and cutting stencils for cosmetic and cigarette cases. Coming from a family that had struggled through the depression, Bill had no thoughts of be able to go to college. Bill's boss, however, noticed his talent and told him about The Cooper Union which specializes in art and architecture. The Cooper Union ~ rich or poor ~ is free if you can get in, and the only way you can get in is by demonstrating ability. Bill passed a battery of tests, was accepted, and attended night school until World War 2 interrupted his studies. He was sent to Italy and assigned to the ?? Photo Recon. After the war he married his current wife Barbara Storm Farr and finished his 2-year degree at The Cooper Union. Since The Cooper Union did not have a 4-year degree at the time, Bill continued his studies and received his BFA from the Art Institute in Chicago. In 1955, Bill took a job at that era's retailing giant Montgomery Ward. His career at Wards would span 30 years and take to the top design spot as corporate design director managing a creative staff of ?? people. During this time, Bill did not ignore the fine arts. He was very active creating freestanding sculptures and sculptural pieces that are hung on a wall. Since retirement from Wards in 1985, Bill has continued to produce fine art, and in the more recent years, has concentrated on the jewelry you see in this store. Handmade Fine Art Jewelry by Bill Farr Wearable Sculpture by Bill Farr Even a quick look at the wearable creations of Bill Farr will tell you they are very unique items. Each is a one-of-a-kind handcrafted work of art in materials that include sterling silver, exotic woods, stones, gems, fabric, "found objects," and more. What you won't find here is a piece that exists solely because of the value of the materials. Let me explain… Jewelry, in many cases, tends to be evaluated by the cost of materials… how big and expensive the "rock" is in the setting, or how many gems are encrusted in some precious metal, rather than the level of artistic design. Artistic design, however, is where the true value of art lies. For example, a great painting that sells for millions has very little "materials value." The dried paint, in fact, has almost no value since it can't be reused. The entire value a great painting is in the artistry… the intangible insights it gives us, and the way it makes us feel. The jewelry of Bill Farr is very much the same way. Which is why we like to call it "wearable sculpture." Yes, some of the materials used ~ silver, stones, pearls, etc. ~ have significant value. But like any fine work of art, the real value is how they are used in the design of the artwork and the creative journey that resulted in the final piece. And the creative process used is an important part of the "back story" on these pieces. Bill Farr has a long history of creating fine art, including full-sized sculptures which you can see in his sculpture gallery. The handmade fine art jewelry ~ aka "wearable sculptures" ~ you see on this site are an extension and miniaturization of that sculptural process. A Dual Function You can wear these works of art. And if you are able to acquire and wear one of these pieces, be prepared to attract some attention and receive lots of compliments. This, by the way, has been thoroughly tested… wearing a piece of Bill Farr jewelry opens up conversations, spreads enthusiasm, and displays the love of life that is a part of every Bill Farr wearable sculpture. But also keep in mind that these are museum-quality pieces and you may want to display them in a shadowbox hung on the wall or on a shelf when not in wearable use. More Resources Learn more about Bill Farr and see more art at artbyfarr.com. Explore the book on Bill's World War 2 experiences. Reviews There are no reviews yet. Be the first to review "Handmade Fine Art Jewelry by Bill Farr: Fabric Series 019F" Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a review. Related products Handmade Fine Art Jewelry by Bill Farr: Fabric Series 013F0 out of 5 $245.00 Add to cart Handmade Fine Art Jewelry by Bill Farr: Fabric Series 036F0 out of 5 $245.00 Add to cart Handmade Fine Art Jewelry by Bill Farr: Fabric Series 022F0 out of 5 $245.00 Add to cart Sold Out! Handmade Fine Art Jewelry by Bill Farr: Fabric Series 016F0 out of 5 Read more


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An electronic ID tag from a rare shark spotted off the county's coast in June has popped to the surface near Hawaii, providing local marine researchers with an unprecedented look into the long-distance movements of the second-largest known fish.
Basking sharks have almost disappeared from the West Coast, but biologists at the National Marine Fisheries Service in La Jolla found two last year and outfitted them with satellite-based tracking devices in hopes of learning more about where they roam. One tag fell off after several days but the other lasted eight months — enough to provide the first long-term track of a basking shark moving across the Pacific Ocean.
"It's a big gold mine," said Heidi Dewar at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center. "Now we know for sure that our animals can go to the central Pacific."
The long-distance tag, which surfaced on Feb. 2, uploaded long streams of data about where the shark traveled, water temperatures it encountered and the animal's depth as it traveled.
"We can look to see how the habitat use changes as it moves from coastal habitat to offshore habitat," Dewar said. "That becomes important in the context of management and conservation."
Agencies in Canada, Mexico and the United States are trying to safeguard basking sharks, which once gathered near the coastline by the hundreds or thousands. In recent years, however, sightings have dwindled and biologists have speculated that as few as 300 swim along the West Coast.
While basking sharks have gaping mouths and can grow up to 40 feet, they aren't a threat to people. They are filter feeders that consume large volumes of zooplankton. As their name implies, basking sharks spend a lot of time at the surface — at least when they are near the coast — and are notably docile when researchers approach.
Still, they once were targeted for eradication off Canada because they got snagged in fishing nets. The population may also suffer because the sharks don't appear to be frightened by oncoming boats enough to get out of the way.
At the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, executive director Sean Van Sommeran said he started receiving data from a basking shark tagged near Pacific Grove in August. The tag -- part of a project with NOAA, Stanford University and the foundation -- released from the shark hundreds of miles off Baja California, providing researchers with a treasure trove of travel information.
"I would characterize it as an avalanche of data," said Van Sommeran said Monday.
He compared the current advancements in basking shark research to similar breakthroughs for white sharks about a decade ago. Both species were once thought to stay primarily along the coast.
"They are moving farther and wider than was previously understood or believed," Van Sommeran said.
Dewar said new data about the basking shark's trip to Hawaii is both exciting and daunting, because it means that effective protections must account for international waters. That's difficult because basking shark fins can fetch tens of thousands of dollars for an Asian soup that some consider a delicacy.
Dewar and her colleagues ramped up an outreach campaign about basking sharks last summer in hopes of getting real-time tips from divers, boaters and others who see them. The researchers have two more satellite tags they are hoping to deploy in late spring, when basking sharks tend to be spotted in local waters.
This time, Dewar plans to program the tags to stay attached longer than eight months in hopes of determining what basking sharks do after they reach the central Pacific. Do they keep going to Indonesia? Do they turn around? Do they roam there for years?
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Inspired by Jolly and Bright from designer Linda Lum DeBono
Quilt tester: Laura Boehnke
3⁄4 yard total assorted red prints (blocks, sashing, appliqués)
3⁄4 yard total assorted blue prints (blocks, sashing, appliqués)
2—1⁄4-yard pieces and 1—1⁄3-yard piece assorted light prints (appliqué foundations)
1 yard blue damask (blocks, sashing, appliqué, border, binding)
1-1⁄3 yards backing fabric
39x46" batting
Lightweight fusible web
Finished quilt: 30-1⁄2x37-1⁄2"
Finished block: 6" square
Yardages and cutting instructions are based on 42" of usable fabric width.
Measurements include 1⁄4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated.


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Most races involve horses or cards, but in Elfenland players control young elves, who must traverse their fantasy land with all sorts of strange transportation such as giant pigs and unicorns. Each player must visit every city on the map and seek to find the best route for the modes of transportation that they use, while attempting to hinder the others in this light, interactive game. Players place tokens on routes with restrictions because of terrain and then use cards to attempt to finish quicker than the other players.
Winner of the 1998 Spiel des Jahres, Elfenland has been played for years as a top-rated family game.
Product Awards
Family Strategy Game Nominee, 1999
3rd place, 1998
Game of the Year, 1998
Product Information
Alan R Moon
Midgaard Games
Doris Matthaus
Year: 1998
Players: 2 - 6
Time: 60 minutes
Ages: 10 and up
Est. time to learn: 10-20 minutes
Weight: 1,432 grams
- 6 elf boots
- 120 town pieces
- 48 transport counters
- 12 town cards
- 72 travel cards
- 6 transportation charts
- 6 obstacles
- 4 round cards
- 1 starting player card
- 1 game board
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Average Rating: 4 in 36 reviews
Few recent boardgames took on the status of cult classic as this game has. First, Alan Moon published it in a different form with a limited number of editions available. Word of mouth an cyberspace had this as a closet masterpiece to be enjoyed by a few lucky collectors. Then it won the 1997 game of the year. Despite this, I never saw the game played or even on sale at any game store.
Well, being such a fan of Alan Moon's games, I put it on my Christmas list and was glad to get it. I first played it as a two player games. It looked like a good game, but I was never sure if I was playing it well or messing up. There was a lot of thinking and planning. (Not to mention a cutthroat obstacle token). Luck did have a significant part.
The second time I played was with three players, and I really got the feeling I was involved in a great game. It is playable, has a good part luck and strategy and has a high "fun factor".
The more I've played it, the more I like it. It is slowly creeping to be a favorite. For the artwork, production and gameplay I have to give it the highest rating. Like Modern Art and Duel of Ages, I can see that a game can be great, but not everyone's cup of tea.
Elfenland is a wonderful game of strategy, player interaction, and a little luck. When I first saw this game I was not real sure what to think, but when I opened the box I was first impressed by the quality that was inside. My favorite part of a new game though is the ability to be able to get into the game and teach others to play. Rules are straightforward with the main areas of question highlighted. Needless to say my family enjoys this game and I am sure yours will too.
Elfenland is a beautifully produced journey game by Alan Moon (Ticket to Ride, Santa Fe Rails, Diamant and many more). Elfenland is a gorgeous game with wonderful stylised artwork, good quality components and one of the best map/boards in any game I have ever seen. The quality of the components makes Elfenland a real joy to play, and the Elf boots (the player pieces) add more than you might think to the feel of the game. The cards that come with Elfenland are some the highest quality cards I've used, the tiles are cute and easy to manipulate, the tokens are nice and made of wood and the box fits everything away very neatly and nicely.
In Elfenland the players compete to be the Elf that manages to visit the most Elfen cities in the land. The game runs through many phases every turn, players are dealt cards depicting the various methods of transport, players must then select a series of tiles (again depicting various types of transport) that must be placed on the planned routes. The cards represent (in my mind) the currency required by the various transporters while the tokens represent the availability of that type of transport on a particular route.
In order for a player to move from one city to the next they must use the cards to pay for the transport type available on the route they wish to use. Players take turn laying transport tokens on the routes, the key to this, and the element that adds all the fun and tension, is that only one token may be placed per route and if someone lays their token there first you must either work with it or find a new way. Once all the tokens have been laid, players move their Elfs along the various paths by paying the appropriate type and amount of cards to each of the transport types. This game plays very well with any number of players up to four, and though it can be played by as many as six my own opinion is that the games works best with four.
One very good addition to the basic game is the inclusion of city cards, using this advanced rule each player will be dealt a city card at the beginning of the game, at the end of the game the player's score will be the amount of cities they have visited minus the minimum amount of roads between the Elf and their city. This advanced rule compounds the problem posed by the base game, adds a heap of tension and means that players really need to plan well from the beginning. It also means that the 'Trouble Counters' (counters placed that make routes more expensive to use), if well placed, can cause some serious problems for your or your opponent's plans.
There are some great variants available online, including a great one for a two player game, in which the two players play the game on half the board. Elfenland is a very attractive game that appeals aesthetically to children and adults, it is also one of those rare games, that once grasped, can be played across such age gaps, and provides enough fun to engage young gamers, and enough tension and thought to keep older gamers at the table too. All in all Elfenland is a great game I am happy to own, it has a style unmatched in my game collection and is always fun to play.
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In 1992, Alan Moon released the game Elfenroads through his company White Wind. The production run was limited to 1200 copies. Alan's commitment on his limited edition games was that he would never reproduce a game without changing it in some way to ensure the investment of collectors. As the years passed since the release of Elfenroads, it became one of the Holy Grails of game collectors. Copies showed up on the Internet once in a while and fetched triple the original price or higher. People were dying to try the game that many considered one of the best games of all time. There was much rejoicing when Amigo announced that it was doing a simplified version of Elfenroads (as Elfenland). This year at Nuremburg the game was finally released.
As a bit of background, I was a member of Alan's White Wind club and got a copy of Elfenroads a short time after it was released. I felt then and feel now that it is one of the best games I've ever played. The interplay of the different systems made it a very enjoyable game. Even my parents (who aren't big game players) love the game, and bought a copy. However, the one drawback was that the game could run pretty long. The game took at least two hours, probably longer depending on your group's tendencies to sit and think everything out, kibitz, etc. Elfenland was specifically designed to streamline the game, one whole element was removed (money was used in the original to auction movement counters), and the number of turns was cut from eight to four.
In Elfenland, the idea is to travel around the map (beautifully rendered by the fantabulous Doris Matthäus) and visit as many of the twenty cities depicted as possible as part of a coming of age trial for young elves. The map shows a network of interconnected cities with varied terrain (woods, grasslands, mountains, rivers, desert and lakes). There is a set of transportation counters in a number of different types, and a deck of cards which depict the same transportation. The counters and cards are used in combination to travel around the board. There is also a set of markers in six colors and pawns (actually little elven boots) in those same colors.
The markers (which for some reason Amigo produced as little cylinders that roll all over rather than the ubiquitous painted wooden cubes) are placed on the map (one in each city for each player in the game), and the boots are placed on the starting city. Each player also receives a trouble counter which increases the cost of moving along a particular route and a card depicting one of the cities on the board as their secret destination (there is one card for each of the cities on the outer edges of the board). If a player reaches all of the cities by the end of the third round, then they win, otherwise the fourth round is played out and the destinations are checked. The distance from your destination is subtracted from the total number of cities you have visited and the player with the highest total wins.
From here, the rounds are identical in nature. Each player gets a number of cards (the number of cards is a bit in dispute, but I'll get to that later), and one transport counter face down. Five counters are then placed face up and the players choose one at a time (either one of the face up counters or one from the face down pool) until everyone has chosen three. Each player in turn may then place one counter at a time on the board or pass. The counters go on the paths connecting the cities and there may only be one counter between any two cities (aside from a trouble counter which is in addition to any transport counter). All players may use any of the transport counters on the board, provided they have the necessary cards. Once all players have passed in turn, the placing ends and the players play cards to move around the board. This is the heart of the game. Different transport methods are better in different areas and some can't even go in some areas (for example, the giant pig can only go through grasslands or woods, a unicorn only costs one card to use in the woods and mountains, but two in the desert). Trouble counters increase the number of cards needed by one. A player plays cards and moves as far as they like, picking up their markers to show that they have reached the different cities visited. If a player doesn't have the necessary cards for a particular leg of their journey, they can opt to caravan (provided a counter exists on the route), by discarding any three cards from their hand. After all players have moved, the counters are removed from the board and the cards are reshuffled. You may only hold four cards and one transport counter from turn to turn. Any extras are turned in to be reused on subsequent turns. Any trouble counters played on the turn are removed from the game. After this, the next turn commences with the dealing of cards and so on, and that's basically the game.
The allure of Elfenland (and Elfenroads) is in solving the traveling salesman problem that is constructed each turn by the interaction of the players. You must try to be as efficient as possible in moving around the board, and all your planning can go out the window when someone plays a giant pig on a piece of your route when you don't have a pig card in your hand. In my mind, Elfenland has highlighted the route solving portion of Elfenroads in the streamlining process. Instead of auctioning counters, and choosing cards you're forced to deal with what cards you've gotten and work with those rather than tailoring both your cards and counters together and going head to head with someone else to try to get that one dragon that came up. I feel that the original game is still worth playing due to the increased player control, but that the trade-off in time (since the new one clocks in at an hour to an hour and a half) probably means that Elfenland will come off the shelf a lot more than Elfenroads did. I wouldn't be unhappy playing Elfenland, but I know that occasionally I'd like to have the other to play.
One of things I had to deal with in writing this review was differing rules sets. Alan Moon posted his version of the rules on the net, and it turns out that they are slightly different from the rules that Amigo published. The main difference is that in the Amigo rules, you would receive enough cards to fill your hand back to eight, and in Alan's rules you would get eight cards no matter what. I played the game both ways, and it does make a difference in feel. When only filling to eight cards, I felt more pressure to make things work out right and burn through my cards (especially if they didn't look like they'd fit with the terrain I would end up in). Alan's rules gave me a lot more flexibility, and everyone made it to all of their cities or were only one short rather than up to two cities short for the Amigo version. The other change Amigo made was to make crossing both lakes cost the same (rather than one costing twice as much). I'm not sure of the effect of that since I didn't try the Amigo version, but I have a feeling it wouldn't make a big difference one way or the other.
All in all, I feel that Elfenland does a good job in taking the core of what made Elfenroads compelling and making a good game that takes half the time to play. For people who never got a chance to play (or even see) Elfenroads, it's a fine game and well worth having in your collection. Alan even provided the information people would need to try playing Elfenroads with the Elfenland set in his posted rules, and with a little DIY, you'd have both the games for the price of one.


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Missing Cross parents
Where were the following Cross children born, and who were their parents? Osmond (? ? before 1824), Samuel (1765 ? 1840), Joseph (1767 ? 1824), Elizabeth (1770 ? 1844).
I have the least information about Osmond. In the Will of his brother Joseph (1824), he is referred to as the late brother of Joseph. The Will of Joseph Cross left money to the two children of his brother Osmond. Their names were John and Elizabeth Cross. I have found the Will of John Osmond Cross, proved in London, 23/7/1845. The executor of the Will is Thomas Hebditch (builder of Tabernacle Walk, Lambeth), husband of Elizabeth Hebditch, who I believe is the sister of John Osmond.
The only plausible wedding found for Osmond Cross is to Jane Hebditch on 22 July 1787 at Sherbourne, Dorset, the daughter of Thomas Hebditch and Sarah. I can find no possible matches for his death.
The IGI has a reference for John Osmond Cross. Birth 7TH of October 1794, christened 26th of July 1824, St Giles Cripplegate: Parents; Osmond/Jane. This Jane could be the Joan Hebditch of Sherbourne, given in the wedding of Osmond Cross above.
Elizabeth Hebditch (nee Cross) was born about 1790 in Bruton, Somerset; and died September 1853, St Luke Finsbury.
Joseph Cross died at Evercreech Somerset , and was buried in St Peter, Evercreech on the 16th of July 1824. He married Mary Boyce of Evercreech, at St Peter on the 8th of June 1794. Joseph was of St Luke, Old St Middlesex at the time of his wedding .From his marriage, and death records, I believe he was born in approximately 1767.
From details in his extensive Will, he had 2 brothers; Osmond and Samuel, and a sister Elizabeth, who married Thomas Robins of Bruton. His Will also names a surviving uncle, James Cross, and sister-inlaw; Maria Gane, as well as a bequest to the Bruton Church (Parish of Evercreech).
Joseph Cross must have owned the freehold of his residence as he left it to Hannah Burnoll, wife of Edward Burnoll, Baker of Wells.
Also I give and bequeath unto my brother Samuel Cross of Lambeth in the County of Surrey, Timber Merchant, and my good friends Richard Curll of Sutton Street Soho, in the County of Middlesex, wheel manufacturer, and Philip Upstone of Sutton Street Soho, wheel manufacturer the sum of four hundred pounds sterling upon
Samuel Cross was married on the 4th of December 1797 in Saint Giles, Cripplegate, London to Rachel Elmes of Church Knowle, Dorset. Samuel and Rachel had 9 children, all born in London/Surrey. Samuel died on the 29th of November 1840 in Swanage Dorset. Once again his marriage and death details suggest he was born about 1765.
Samuel also left an extensive Will. As he was the executor of his brother Josephs? Will, there is mention of investments and chattels left to the children of Samuel, his brother Osmonds? children, Elizabeth and John, and Mrs Gane.
Apart from the large amount of money, chattels and property left to his family, he made the following interesting bequests:
Rachel Peryer Cross: ?for a keepsake and may she read it to profit in Harvey?s meditations among the toombs?
- Joseph Cross: 6 volumes ?of Josephys?
- Samuel Job Cross: 2 volumes of ?Preestly Bible?
- Ann Eliza Cross: my book of psalms for a keepsake.
- Thomas Elmes Cross (son): rest of furniture to the benefit of him and sister ?M.P.Cross?.
- Rachel Ann Cross: 2 volumes of life of Mrs Fletcher and my hymn book
- Samuel (son): pair of pictures that was his late uncle?s the Sailors Farewell and Soldiers Return,
Elizabeth Cross died on the 13th of May 1847 at 5 Tabernacle Road, Finsbury, Middlesex (The home of her niece Elizabeth Hebditch). Her death Certificate states that she was the Widow of Charles Robins, a Gentleman. The Informant was Thomas Hebditch, who was present at the death. I can find no records of her marriage to Thomas or Charles Robins. Her age at death infers that she was born about 1770.
Her Will, which was proved on the 16th of August 1847 gives the executor as Thomas Hebditch (husband of her niece Elizabeth Hebditch).
Charles (Thomas) Robins died on the 4th of May 1846, at Bruton, Somerset. Death details inferring he was born about 1768. His Death Certificate states that he was formerley the Superintendant of a Silk Factory. His Will confirms that he married Elizabeth Cross of Bruton. Perhaps his full name was Thomas Charles Robins. The Will leaves some money to his friend, William Skinner of Bruton, a Minister.
It would appear that Charles and Elizabeth did not have any children, as there was no mention of them in either of their Wills.
There seems to be other connections of the Hebditch and Cross families. Samuel Cross refers to a Mr Hebditch, to whom he had lent money in his own Will (1840 Swanage).
A Baptism at the Union Chapel Bruton for, "Elizabeth Robins Hebditch" - birth -8/3/1827, Baptism 3/9/1827. Father was Thomas Hebditch, and mother Elizabeth Cross. (In a footnote - maiden name Cross; born in Mill St, Lambeth Walk, in the Parish of St Marys', Lambeth, in the County of Surrey).
When one considers the origin of this family it is difficult to imagine a particular County as their birth place, however the trail continually leads back to London, as highlighted by the following time line.
1808 Joseph Cross - Annual PO Directory - Vine St
1810 Insured: Joseph Cross - Vine St, Narrow Wall, Timber Merchant. Also Stangate Wharf, Stangate St, Lambeth.
1811 Holdens Directory: Joseph & Samuel Cross, Timber Merchants, Vine St, Lambeth.
28/5/1821 - Guildhall Library - Records of Sun Fire Offices : Joseph Cross - Insured - Vine St Narrow Wall - Timber Merchants.
24/8/1821 - Notice is hereby given, that, Mr. Joseph Cross, of Narrow-Wall, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, Timber-Merchant, has this day declined the said business in favour of his brother, Samuel Cross; and that all debts due to and owing by the said Joseph Cross will be settled by the said Samuel Cross.
NOTICE to CREDITORS - All Persons having any CLAIMS on the Estate of Mr Joseph Cross, formerly of Pedlar's Acre, Lambeth, timber merchant, and afterwards of Evercreech in the County of Somerset, deceased, are requested to send the particulars to Messrs Saunders and Hadley, 11 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, on or before the 1st day of February next, that they may be investigated; and discharged; and all persons indebted to the estate are requested to pay their accounts to Messrs Saunders and Hadley, previously to the 1st of February, as on that day the affairs of the estate will be wound up.
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CEW Canada needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Roasted Acorn Squash with Fig Fennel Onion Jam
This is a hearty vegetarian main dish, but you could also serve it with roast pork, chicken or turkey. The fig jam works well with each of these meats. Any leftover jam will keep in the refrigerator for a week. It's also great spread on crusty bread.


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On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs downgraded Apple by removing the stock from its exclusive "Americas Conviction Buy List."
And this is causing tons of confusion about how Goldman really feels about the iPhone maker.
Here's the key excerpt from their note:
Despite our optimism on this front, we believe the stock's outperformance over the next 12 months will be more closely tied to whether or not the company's next product cycles can reinvigorate market share momentum and installed base growth. We are optimistic in this respect, but there is still considerable uncertainty around the timing and impact of these product refreshes (we discuss our views on this in the body of the note). Until this uncertainty is resolved, the stock's upside potential should be more limited than we previously anticipated.
Bill Shope, Goldman's Apple analyst, slashed his price target to $575 from $660.
So, that sounds pretty bearish.
Here's where it gets confusing.
Apple closed at $429 on Tuesday, which means Shope sees a massive 34 percent upside opportunity in the stock.
Tuesday afternoon, Goldman's equity strategy team published its Monthly Chartbook, which included a list of stocks with the biggest upside opportunity (see below). To be clear, this list was based on March 28 prices and targets, which means it was before Goldman slashed its price target to $575.
Still, with a 34 percent upside, Apple is still one of the 10 cheapest stocks in the entire market.
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This is in response to your letter, dated May 13, 2004, in which you asked for confirmation of information I provided to you in a telephone conversation earlier that day. You called to ask whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) required that you notify your employees that a coworker has Hepatitis C. Alternatively, you inquired whether it would be a violation of the ADA if your firm disclosed to its employees that a coworker has Hepatitis C. You are concerned that the employee with Hepatitis C might have transmitted the virus to coworkers if they shared the same plate or drinking glass.
The ADA contains no provision requiring employers to notify employees that a coworker has a disability. To the contrary, it prohibits employers from disclosing medical information about applicants and employees. [See 29 C.F.R. §1630.14(b), (c).] This information is considered confidential and an employer has an obligation under the ADA to safeguard it. The ADA lists several instances when an employer may share confidential medical information with others, for example, a supervisor may be told about a disability if there is a need to provide reasonable accommodation, or first aid and safety personnel may be given medical information if an employee's disability might require emergency treatment.
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I am enclosing materials from the CDC's website that explain how Hepatitis C is and is not transmitted. I am also enclosing the ADA regulations and the EEOC Enforcement Guidance on Disability-Related Inquiries and Medical Examinations of Employees Under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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The author was a district officer in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.An account of life in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
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The author was a district officer in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.An account of life in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
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A study of Chimbu conjugal relationships, 1972, together with research papers on nutrition and marriage in Papua New Guinea.
In the 1960s Joan Dirkone Johnstone (as Josephine Whiteman) worked as a nutritionist with Susan Holmes and Susan Parkinson in the South Pacific Health Service in PNG in the 1960s and did significant work in this field (working with Dr K. Vern Bail...
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New Hebrides Mission Lantern Slides, 1890-1945
This is a collection of 180 images of the New Hebrides mission in Vanuatu. The images were created by digitising magic lantern slides. Magic lantern slide shows were used to promote the work of the Mission. The islands featured in the collectio...
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New Hebrides Mission photograph album, 1898-1914
86 black and white photographs taken by Reverend T Smaill in the New Hebrides. Subjects are varied, with photographs captured on Epi, Erromanga, Nguna, Paama, Santo, Tangoa,and Tanna. The majority of these images feature missionaries or their fami...
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These photographs are associated with the Department of Communications of the Overseas Mission Committee for the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. The images date from 1950-1978. Photo subjects include Onesua High School, the Boys Brigade, and c...
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Louis Budérus, Photographs of Samarai, British New Guinea [Papua New Guinea], c.1900.
Collection of 24 photographs taken on and around Samarai island, south-east Papua New Guinea. The images were captured by Louis Budérus, a professional photographer based in Queensland who was active around 1889-99. By 1900, Samarai was part of Br...
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Papers on town planning in Bougainville and Honiara, and provincial administration in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, including PNG Constitutional planning committee papers
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studio55 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Congratulations on having completed high school. Now it's on to real life, and it is largely what you make it. Because we wish you well, here are ten bits of advice from our editorial staff. Not all are original thoughts. Some are common advice we felt it was worth repeating.
• Gaining opportunities is like catching fish: you may not get anything for a long time and then get more than you can handle all at once. Before you turn down or squander any job/scholarship/offer, be aware the next good chance may not pop up for a year.
• "Gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret," – Proverbs 11:13. Keep this in mind as well when you use social media. What's online is way more public than something chatted about at a party.
• Think long and hard about tattoos. Maybe they can be removed later, but it's a pain literally and financially. What you think looks cool at 21 years old and after a 12-pack may not sit well with a future spouse.
• Use sunscreen and condoms as needed.
• Listen to your mama, unless she's a nut. And in that case, just love her anyway.
• In adult life, no one cares why you are late or miss work or college classes. They only care that you were not where you were supposed to be.
• Do what you love to do – The iconic writer and lecturer Joseph Campbell encouraged all his students to follow their bliss. Find what you are passionate about and work toward making that a viable life for yourself. If you love what you do, it shows. You will be happy, and that happiness will hopefully rub off on those around you.
• Don't spend every penny you make – However large or small your salary ends up being, learn to live below your means. We recommend a good dose of Clark Howard or Dave Ramsey every now and again.
• When you start finding national news interesting, we suggest you pepper your serious print and television media preferences with a good smattering of satirical news––for perspective, we're saying. We like The Onion and The Colbert Report.
•Surprise yourself - Make a conscious decision to take risks, meet new people and learn new things. Surprising yourself with your own accomplishments can be extremely rewarding and may inspire you to do even more.


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Siemens Healthineers at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Thoraxchirurgie
DGT Kongress 2018
September 13 – 14, 2018
Congress Center Rosengarten
Mannheim, Germany
Countries are starting with lung cancer screenings so that more patients with small pulmonary nodules of unknown dignity are diagnosed. This trend demands for minimally invasive therapies. Recently novel approaches have been developed to treat these findings through minimally-invasive image-guided thoracic surgery.
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ARTIS pheno with PURE
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Engineered to be truly patient-oriented, ARTIS pheno is a unique floor-mounted robotic C-arm system for individualized preprocedural planning, intraoperative guidance, and immediate checkup – regardless of patient condition or procedure complexity. Furthermore, it also helps you maintain a clean work environment.
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The training provides basic knowledge and practical skills to perform such procedures (CATS). In a real hybrid OR the participants will learn step-by-step how the procedure is performed and which elements are critical for a good outcome. The training is conducted by Eric Roessner, MD, Mannheim and Siemens Healthineers.
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Inspired by "Skylight Stars" from designer Avis Shirer of Joined at the Hip
Quiltmaker: Laura Boehnke
1/8 yard orange tone-on-tone (blocks)
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8" square green tone-on-tone (blocks)
1/4 yard orange print (blocks)
5/8 yard black tone-on-tone (blocks)
6" square teal tone-on-tone (sashing)
1/4 yard orange-and-red stripe (inner border)
2-3/4 yards backing fabric
49" square batting
Finished quilt: 42-1/2"
Finished block: 10" square
Quantities are for 44/45"-wide, 100% cotton fabrics.
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Ryder System Service Writer in RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, California
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The Customer Service Coordinator/Service Writer will perform tasks related to parts inventory, scheduling and processing orders in a fast paced maintenance facility.
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This position will also assist in scheduling shop workload
Additional duties are required on an as needed basis by supervisor
Ryder is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
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This prefabricated mountain modern home incorporates touches of heavy timber to blend with its surroundings in Truckee, California. This striking home has been designed by architecture studio sagemodern, with 3,170 square feet of living space, the home was designed to blur the boundary between indoor and outdoor living. The functional floor plan maximizes common areas and bedrooms to accommodate family and friends. There is 1,700 square feet of exterior deck space of Ipe and copper-gray slate tile that is perfect for outdoor functions.
The residence includes five bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms, with a fresh, clean design. With designer fixtures and finishes throughout, the home features sustainably harvested hand scraped hickory and copper-gray slate tiles with radiant heating on the floor. The exterior facade is comprised of hot rolled steel, cedar channel siding and board formed concrete with heavy timber and trellis details. Energy efficient features include thermal insulation of walls, roofs and floors, energy efficient windows, sun protection and bioclimatic architecture and solar water heaters.


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André Robé
Babyfoot rougeAbout this photograph
These photos are of table soccer players in the 1950s-60s and were selected for their evocative power. The weight of the years and the hundreds of matches that they've played have disfigured them in some way, allowing them to acquire their own identity, which differentiates and humanizes them. The table soccer players have a soul that has eventually been revealed over time.Read more Read less
The photographs are carefully packaged in order to ensure their optimal protection during transport.
Since 1997 the collector André Robé has bought slides from the personal archives of private individuals. It was not enough for André Robé to simply buy and collect. He built up sets of carefully thought out images. Stylistic coherence, combined with iconographic research, formed a corpus raisonné. In turn, the collector André Robé created a body of work akin to it. He saved photographs, lost in the oblivion of the privacy of people's homes, which became icons.


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I came up with some of these just for fun. This is either going to go over well, or totally get me banned on the FP.
Andrew "One Bad Mutha Trucka" Collins
Mate "The Hungarian Hoon" Petrany
Zac "Best QOTD Ever" Estrada
Micheal "Bristol Blasphemer" Ballaban
(new) Travis "Taken" Okulski,
Jason "The Flowchart" Torchinsky, Jason "The Beetle" Torchinsky, Jason Tartarsauce
Aaron "Detroit Detective" Foley
Sir Patrick "Deep Cover" George or Patrick "Dirty Love" George
Raphael "Whole lotta" Orlove, Raphael "Flippin' dem ditches" Orlove, (new) Raphael GIFs O-Love
Stef "Porschetard" Schrader
Doug "The Flambe" DeMuro or Doug "No Pants" DeMuro
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Matt "The Hardibird" Hardigree


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Race IT utilizes a unique combination of strategic thinking, creative vision and technological experience to provide a powerful online registration platform. We have a true understanding of the needs of our clients, while providing our clients with the most current technologies available, supported by the highest level of customer service in the industry.
Participants will experience the easiest and most secure event registration available, while paying less than other registration providers. Race IT equips our clients with a free custom design template to make the overall registration process completely seamless.
The Race IT design team can add flair and effectiveness to your current website. We can add key features that you may not have been able to add yourself. Let our design team do the work for you so you can spend more time managing your event
Our marketing packages will efficiently and effectively spread the word about your next event. Your event can be entered into our innovative search engine, where thousands of people come to find their next race.
With four pre-built templates to choose from, event directors can easily customize a registration form that best represents their branding, including colors and fonts. Both Mobile and Desktop previews will be available to provide further insight into the look and feel of the registration path.
Block pricing allows event directors to set a price based on the number of units sold, not just certain dates. Each of these price bands is considered a "block". Upon the expiration of a certain block due the number of registration sold, the next block's pricing then begins automatically.


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Don't be put off by the strange title, which Jeffrey Eugenides plucked from the Latin poet Catullus's verse bemoaning having to share his lover's attention with her pet sparrow. It's the only off note in this otherwise irresistible anthology of 27 love stories sure to make hearts flutter well beyond Valentine's Day. My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead was edited by Eugenides at Dave Eggers's behest, to benefit the Chicago chapter of 826 National, his writing programs for teens, a cause as worthy as amour.
Eugenides's point is that love stories – as opposed to love itself – thrive on obstructions: sparrows, dead or alive. As he explains in his introduction, they "depend on disappointment" and "nearly without exception, give love a bad name." What he doesn't mention is that reading love stories thrillingly combines the pleasures of prurience and schadenfreude.
Unlike Zadie Smith, who commissioned new stories by hip young writers for "The Book of Other People," her anthology for Eggers's literacy project, Eugenides sought suggestions rather than submissions from contemporary authors.
Although some of Eugenides's featured writers – Harold Brodkey, Mary Robison, Vladimir Nabokov, William Trevor – also appear in Roger Angell's 1997 anthology of love stories from The New Yorker, "Nothing But You," there is, remarkably, no duplication of stories. Eugenides's collection tucks many old favorites together between covers for the first time.
What a treat to reread William Faulkner's Gothic tale of perverse attachment, "A Rose for Emily." Or Bernard Malamud's beguilingly cagey give-and-take between a young rabbi and his matchmaker in "The Magic Barrel." Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with a Little Dog," one of the best stories ever written about how even illicit, initially cavalier, love gets under your skin, is another welcome classic. My only complaint is that the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, responsible for the acclaimed new translation of Tolstoy's "War and Peace," replaces the familiar pampered "Lapdog" of the title with the more literal but less resonant "Little Dog."
Eugenides also shows unerring taste when cherry-picking from more recent story collections. Deborah Eisenberg's "Some Other, Better Otto" movingly captures the domestic dynamics between a curmudgeonly lawyer and his "sunny, his patient, his deeply good" longtime better half, William. Alice Munro's heartrending story about a woman with Alzheimer's disease, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" – the basis of the film "Away From Her," starring Julie Christie – is a nuanced portrait of a marital connection that transcends transgressions.
Equally well chosen are the unfamiliar revelations. In "Red Rose, White Rose," Eileen Chang spins a subtle morality tale about a Chinese businessman in simple, unaffected prose. After sleeping with a friend's flirtatious wife, "It was as if he'd fallen from a great height. An object that falls from high above is many times heavier than its original weight."
Adultery is a perennial fascination. Vladimir Nabokov's "Spring in Fialta," an exquisite elegy to a doomed extramarital affair, concerns a woman who, for 15 years, "Again and again ... hurriedly appeared in the margins of my life, without influencing in the least its basic text."
More ferocious – and funny – is Lorrie Moore's "How to Be An Other Woman." This second-person tour de force captures the desperation of being pulled into a hopeless romance. "When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet," she writes. "Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet."
The vulnerability of first love is another object of writers' affections. It is often filtered through what Nabokov calls "memory, that long-drawn sunset shadow of one's personal truth."
David Mezmozgis's "Natasha" presents a fresh voice set among recent Russian immigrants in Toronto's suburbs. His horny 16-year-old narrator's dismaying relationship with the prematurely hardened young daughter of his uncle's Russian mail-order bride provides "connection to a larger darker world."
Stuart Dybek's "We Didn't," about a couple who miss their moment, is mesmerizingly beautiful: "But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard ... because of fate, karma, luck, what does it matter? – we made not doing it a wonder...."
The wonder of "My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead" is that it manages to capture a deep as well as broad range of this funny thing called love, without succumbing to the laundry-list effect that afflicts anthologies that try to be all-encompassing: adultery, check; lesbians, check; May-December romance; check. By focusing on literary merit, Eugenides has produced a treasury worth holding dear.
• Heller McAlpin is a freelance critic in New York.


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Market Technical View is a blog that mostly concerns the technical analysis of different financial instruments like indices, commodities, stocks, ETFs and currencies.
All the posts are structured in 3 main chapters that can be found in Content, in the upper right-hand corner of the blog.
Market perspective. The technical approach consists of chart patterns and important support/resistance zones. The purpose of this section is to give directions of the price on short and medium term (a few days up to a few months).
Trading setups. The analysis posted here will provide trading scenarios based on different technical tools.
Romanian Market. This is a section dedicated to Romanian stocks and indices.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
DJIA analysis
Very strong resistance for DJIA at 13.300. Technically, this should be a short opportunity BUT the main thing that moves the market theese days will be the FISCAL CLIFF.
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National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
The Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year (NESSPY) is an award given by the National Eagle Scout Association. The NESSPY is meant to "recognize valuable service of an exceptional nature by a Scout to a religious institution, a school, community, or other entity."
Award Levels
Council Award
Each local council, through the local Council NESA Committee, will choose one council-level winner. This winner must be selected by Janaury 21 of each year. The council-level winner will receive a certificate and a bronze device for the Eagle Scout embroidered knot from the National Eagle Scout Association.
Region Award
Each Region will will select a region-level winner on or before March 31 each year. The three regional winners who do not win the national award will receive $500, to be available for their future educational purposes or to attend a national or international Scouting event or facility. Regional winners will receive a certificate and a gold device for the Eagle Scout embroidered knot.
National Award
A national winner then will be selected from the four regional finalists by April 15 of each year, in time to be announced at the National Annual Meeting in May. The national award winner will receive a certificate, a silver device for the Eagle embroidered knot, and a cash award of $2,500 that will be available for educational purposes or for him to attend a national or international Scouting event or venue.
Council Awards
The home Council of the Eagle Scout who receive a Regional or the National award will receive an award. The local councils of the three regional winners will receive a $500 award. The national award winner's local council will also receive a $2,500 award.
An Eagle Scout, his parents, or any registered BSA volunteer (with the Eagle Scout's permission) may submit his Eagle Scout leadership service project for consideration. The Scout must have passed his Eagle board of review in the prior calendar year (January 1 to December 31).
Submission Guidelines
The nomination shall be submitted to the NESA committee of the council in which the service project was completed on or before January 21 of each year. The submission must include the application (found on www.nesa.org), a name and summary of the project,and the Eagle Scout's contact information. A complete duplicate copy of his Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project Workbook (previously submitted by the Scout to his Eagle board of review committee) must be attached to the application.
Evaluation Criteria
Each local council NESA committee shall select one service project of the year from among those meeting the submission guidelines.
External Links
- National Eagle Scout Association – Official BSA website
- NESSPY Application - The application for the NESSPY award.


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Here are a set of new commercials for Pokémon Black And White 2, the latest games in Nintendo's popular monster-catching series. Seems like Nintendo is really playing up the new: understandable, considering they have the same names as the last two games, and considering they're on a system that has been obsolete for almost two years.
Pokémon Black And White 2 is out October 7 for DS. (Yes, DS. You can, of course, play them on your 3DS too.)


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Sustainable Foods Summit
Featuring Danielle Nierenberg
Worldwatch Institute Senior Fellow and co-project director of Nourishing the Planet
Climate-Change Strategies, June 23, 2011 2:00-6:00pm
About the panel:
Although climate-change is now high on the international agenda, few organisations are taking steps towards a low carbon economy. This sessions explores some of the practical initiatives food and ingredient companies can undertake to measure, reduce and offset their carbon emissions.
With livestock comprising the majority of agricultural greenhouse gases, case studies of given of dairies operations that are leading the way in carbon measurement and reduction. Another paper looks at the challenges food & beverage companies face when implementing climate change strategies. Other papers look at methods to offset carbon emissions, with case studies given of brands that have become carbon neutral. The session adjourns with a panel discussion on the prospects for a low carbon food industry.
About the Sustainable Foods Summit:
The Sustainable Foods Summit is a series of summits that focuses on the leading issues the food industry faces concerning sustainability and eco-labels such as Organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, etc.
The European edition of the Sustainable Foods Summit will take place in Amsterdam on 23-24th June 2011. Key topics on the summit agenda include food security, generating positive impacts by product design, carbon footprint measurement, biodiversity preservation, sustainable supply chains, climate change strategies, and marketing & distribution innovations.
For more information visit: www.sustainablefoodssummit.com


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About RobM
More nonsense about letting corporations suck the life out of regular Americans. Sad. I thought TechDirt was better than this.
So that geodesic sphere at Epcot is now a Death Star.
I haven't been inside it in 30 years, so I guess they added a few tweaks?
Dyslexics of the World, Untie!
"The MPAA views the end user the same way as all corporations do: a consumer. If you ask me "consumer" is an insult and anyone who calls me one needs to be punched in the mouth"
1000 x this
"...Brown said that the bill could "divert attention" away from a true emergency by requiring that government agencies apply for a court order within six hours of a service shutdown. The democratic governor encouraged the bill's author, Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of Los Angeles, to bring amended version of the legislation forward next year."
At least get the whole story.
"Child, who died in 2004, had a Thermador oven in her Cambridge kitchen. It's now displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington."
"This is the highest density of non-biological data ever encoded by DNA, and a gram of material could store 455 exabytes of data."
Future Headlines:
1 All biologically stored data Mostly Spam
2 MPAA/RIAA claim infringement on anyone with genetic material
You cannot trademark Squat™ these days.
My traditionalist sect uses Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins. Or are we 'orthodox'?
"What if Melchert-Dinkel had just sent Nadia an mp3 file with Ozzy's Suicide Solution?"
Wouldn't that mean millions of dollars for infringement?
Some VP, or Exec VP, or even Senior VP of Marketing wants to be Proactive before Year-End and get the word out on the brand and ... has no clue, but doesn't even care.
USA, LTD. a wholly owned subsidiary of MegaGinormiCorp™©
"piracy for private use"
No such thing. Impossible.
Corporations have been usurping the public's rights.
Copyright is NOT an inherent right but something GRANTED by the Constitution, for a limited time.
So the temp that a paper book burns at is relevant to those reading an e-book how?
"False claims, especially those made with intent to hurt a business or cause it problems, would certainly be actionable - and potentially even criminal."
See, "especially a business" just shows what this whole law is about. A business, not the public, not society, only business.
Open kimono there.
"Prime Minister David Cameron suggesting that those who are suspected of rioting be banned from social networks"
Like that is gonna work.
Aside from the Catholic Church, I can't think of another entity that has ruined more lives than Britain. From India, Ireland, Africa, and the Middle East, all the other bits. Albeit they did draw the line in 1940.
Hey, even a blind squirrel...
Marcus Carab posted
"Lawyers have been doing stuff just because they think they can get away with it for a long time. At this point, lawyers are educated by lawyers who were educated by lawyers who did that. Simply put, it's part of the culture, and I think there are a lot of lawyers who view that as their job."
Add to that, lawyers are also probably a majority of the Lobbyists, Legislators, and Judges.
Nice Tidy package, isn't it.