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Eight years ago, Katherine Wright and Jennifer Judd took their interest and skill in preserving beautiful clothing and launched a new business: Heritage Garment Preservation. They came to the business with extensive experience in preserving bridal gowns and have spent much time researching and applying methods for garment preservation used by the Smithsonian and Victoria and Albert museums.
When they launched their business, their goal was to provide museum quality heirloom garment preservation to the San Francisco Bay. Since then, they have expanded their business online and now provide both Museum Method professional preservation and guides and supplies for those would like to do it themselves. Both women give of their time to help their customers make the right decision for their garments. When Miranda Munro decided to be wed in her grandmother's wedding dress, she turned to Heritage Garment Preservation to make that dream a reality. The dress had been worn three times before and each time became a bit more fragile—but also a bit more laden with history.
Here are the dress' stories:
Barbara: Fifty-two years ago, I began a search for my wedding dress. I was quite young and had a small amount of money, which I had saved from after-school and summer jobs. I had completed two years of college and expected to complete two years more after marriage. I lived with my parents in Los Angeles and I loved window-shopping at a store called Bullocks. I was there one day when they were having a sale on bridal dresses and there it was—the dress. It called to me. I loved it. It was perfect and it was on sale at half-price, making it marginally and magically affordable. With some support from my parents, it was mine. I don't recall it needing any alterations. I just loved wearing it at my wedding and am still married to the same guy.
Marcia: Before my wedding, I tried on many dresses, without really knowing what I wanted. None felt right until I put on the dress my sister had worn. It was the most comfortable and made me feel beautiful. You might think that a dress would look the same, no matter who wore it. But I never felt that I looked like my sister in the dress, rather it made me feel like myself. I loved the dress, too, for its sense of history and continuity. My sister's wedding was some years before my marriage, so the dress represented the constancy of marriage as well. And now, after forty-four years, that constancy continues into the next generation.
Patricia: My mother has always looked young and slender and my father has always adored her. As a child, I was plump and couldn't believe that anyone would ever adore me in the same way. In college, I lost weight and found someone who loved me with all my imperfections. Shortly after Dave and I announced our engagement, my mother took me up to the attic, where as in most Midwestern attics, assorted books and outgrown clothes and toys lay scattered about. What I had never realized was that in a back corner, the wedding dress lay carefully wrapped.
The dress was a symbol of the passion that always existed between my parents and I took it downstairs with some awe. I couldn't imagine it would ever fit me, but when I stepped into it, its curves fit mine almost perfectly. And, when the day of the wedding came, I fit into the dress as though I had been poured into it. The dress only fit for a day—but the love it represents endures and strengthens with every one of our twenty-eight years of marriage.
Miranda: My first experience with the dress was shortly after Daniel and I became engaged. My grandmother sent me and my sister to clean the attic, one of many similar cleaning missions. After looking dutifully through the storage boxes, I noticed a dress-shaped storage box in a corner of the attic. Sure enough, it held the wedding dress. Over my sister's objections, we took the dress out and I tried it on then and there. The front fit perfectly, but the back wouldn't close. Even so, from that moment on, I knew that was my wedding dress.
Two years later, as the wedding loomed closer, I tried the dress on again. Despite having lost quite a bit of weight, my ribcage was just too big and I couldn't button up the back. I imagined that there was a solution to the problem, but I didn't have the skill to make it happen. I needed someone who was skilled in working with wedding dress restoration, alteration, and preservation.
I found Heritage Garment Preservation online and made an appointment with Katherine to discuss both restoration and alteration. The dress had yellowed over time and there were thin spots, as well as places where the lace had ripped. Kathy and I discussed how she would lighten the dress, and repair the lace. First, she worked very carefully to determine the kind of fabric and the appropriate cleaning technique. Kathy was informative and helpful in explaining what would be done with the dress and what other things were and weren't possible. Visiting her was always relaxing, reassuring, and helpful. She is wonderful to work with because she's very knowledgeable and clear about what is possible.
The dress emerged a few weeks later as a very light ivory color—almost the shade of natural silk. She carefully tacked the ripped lace to the tulle, which gave it stability. Finally, to allow it to fit around my back, she removed the buttons and replaced them with laces, then inserted a piece of silk in the back.
My wedding was just a few weeks ago. My grandmother, my great-aunt, and my mother all watched as, wearing the wedding dress, I circled Daniel to create the walls of our home to be. The dress has been worn by four brides. Each one has taken the family heritage, but also made it her own. Whether it is worn again or not, I hope its history inspires others in our family.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Allergic reactions to soy may be a cause of asthma symptoms in some workers at soy processing plants, a new study suggests.
Soy is among the most common sources of food allergies, and some studies have found that people who work in soy processing have higher-than-average rates of respiratory symptoms such as wheezing.
Those findings raised the question of whether breathing in soy "dust" may lead to airway inflammation and asthma in some workers.
For the new study, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessed employees at a Tennessee soy processing plant, at the request of workers who believed that their respiratory symptoms were related to workplace exposures.
They found that the 281 workers they interviewed had higher-than-average rates of wheezing and current, doctor-diagnosed asthma. Nine percent had asthma — 70 percent higher than the rate among U.S. adults, based on a national health survey from the early 1990s. In addition, 29 percent had suffered bouts of wheezing in the past year, double the prevalence among U.S. adults.
Blood tests further showed that the workers were more likely to have immune system antibodies against soy, when compared against 50 healthcare workers used for a "control" group.
Twenty-one percent had IgE antibodies against soy, versus 4 percent of the control group; IgE antibodies are involved in triggering allergic reactions. Employees with IgE antibodies against soy were three times more likely than their co-workers to have asthma or asthma-like symptoms.
The findings are the first to show an association between soy allergy and asthma symptoms among soy workers, according to lead researcher Dr. Kristin J. Cummings, of the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
They suggest that such allergies are responsible for at least some workers' asthma, she said in an interview.
The plant her team studied was responsible for taking crushed soy "flakes" and further processing them into soy powder products. Cummings said she and her colleagues believe that airborne soy dust was responsible for some workers' allergy development and respiratory symptoms.
"We recommend reducing workers' exposure through engineering changes, better ventilation and respiratory protection," Cummings said.
She also suggested that soy workers who think they have respiratory problems related to their job discuss it with their doctors.
Cummings noted that not all workers with asthma and asthma-like symptoms had antibodies to soy. But that, she said, does not mean that their problems are unrelated to their jobs. Other workplace exposures — to mold, for example, or high levels of dust in general — may contribute to asthma in some people.
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European Respiratory Journal, online April 22, 2010.

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A Haskell API for Cryptographic Algorithms
August 23, 2010
Haskell has a moderate history and collection of cryptographically related libraries. For simple hashes and short-message encryption the Crypto library filled many needs. Higher-performing needs for SHA2 and MD5 were supported by pureMD5 and SHA. Gradually the AES, SimpleAES, TwoFish, RSA, ECC, and cryptohash packages appeared, most providing FFI to C implementations, which seemed to solve most users needs for individual low-level algorithms. Unfortunately, none of these gives developers a uniform interface with which to access any of a class of algorithms. To fill this gap I've been discussing / developing the crypto-api package.
Crypto-API is an interface to four classes of algorithms plus related helper functions. The four classes include hashes, block ciphers, stream cipher, and asymmetric cipher while related modules includes testing, benchmarking, platform-independent rng, cipher modes, and hash based message authentication codes (hmac).
NOTE: Crypto-API isn't on Hackage yet, but will be soon. This post is intended to facilitate discussion and motivate package maintainers to write instances.
The BlockCipher and Hash classes are the most stable. The interface for Hash is:
class (Binary d, Serialize d, Eq d, Ord d) => Hash ctx d | d -> ctx, ctx -> d where outputLength :: Tagged d BitLength -- ^ The size of the digest when encoded blockLength :: Tagged d BitLength -- ^ The size of data operated on in each round of the digest computation initialCtx :: ctx -- ^ An initial context, provided with the first call to 'updateCtx' updateCtx :: ctx -> B.ByteString -> ctx -- ^ Used to update a context, repeatedly called until all data is exhausted -- must operate correctly for imputs of n*blockLength bytes for n `elem` [0..] finalize :: ctx -> B.ByteString -> d -- ^ Finializing a context, plus any message data less than the block size, into a digest
That is, the hash algorithm developer only needs to build the most basic definition of a hash including initial context, update routine, and finalize. It is the responsibility of the higher level routine to obey certain semantics, such as only providing bytestrings that are a multiple of the block length to the update function. Users don't need to know any of this – all they should care about is:
hash :: (Hash ctx d) => L.ByteString -> d hash' :: (Hash ctx d) => B.ByteString -> d
… hashing strict or lazy bytestrings.
hashFunc :: Hash c d => d -> (L.ByteString -> d) hashFunc' :: Hash c d => d -> (B.ByteString -> d)
… obtaining the function that produced a digest.
hmac :: Hash c d => B.ByteString -> L.ByteString -> d hmac' :: (Hash c d) => B.ByteString -> B.ByteString -> d
… or computing an HMAC of a key + message.
I'd call this a simple interface and one that satisfies the majority of users. There was a comment about including 'hash' and associates in the class interface so FFI implementations could override the default for performance reasons. A few optimizations closed the gap significantly which is why these functions remain separate so far. The gap could probably be closed further if ByteString.Lazy would read in chunks of a size modulo 1024 bits (instead of 32KB – 8 bytes, which is a piddly multiple of 64).
Hash instances were made for cryptohash and pureMD5. So far consumers include DRBG and the algorithm specific tests.
Block Ciphers
The BlockCipher class is:
class (Binary k, Serialize k) => BlockCipher k where blockSize :: Tagged k BitLength encryptBlock :: k -> B.ByteString -> B.ByteString decryptBlock :: k -> B.ByteString -> B.ByteString buildKey :: B.ByteString -> Maybe k keyLength :: k -> BitLength -- ^ keyLength may inspect its argument to return the length
Again, this is intended to capture the essence of block ciphers. Also, a smart constructor 'buildKey' is provided so the implementation can weed out weak keys. A non-ideal instance for SimpleAES (see appendix to this blog) was made so I could run benchmarks and mode tests. Crypto-API includes an extensive test framework for AES + modes which is built around parsing NIST KAT files. Note the modes are not finished, not optimized, and only ECB CBC and OFB are tested (I've been programming during cocktail hour…).
I've yet to include modes as overridable routines of BlockCipher (see above cited comment). This is partly due to a lack of evidence showing a (very likely) performance gain that generalized routines can't match. Once I see that evidence then I'll be more likely to make the change.
As with hashes, most users won't use the class interface but rather the higher level functions provided by Modes.hs (getIV, cbc, unCbc, etc).
The platform independent RNG is backed by urandom on *nix and the WinCrypt API on windows. My thinking here is any user of /dev/random (on *nix) must be so concerned about security they are carefully controlling most aspects of the platform, thus the non-portability of directly reading /dev/random is inconsequential; e.g. there's no need to bother with a library to access /dev/random.
The interface: (untested on Windows! If you care about windows please test and debug!)
getEntropy :: ByteLength -> IO B.ByteString openHandle :: IO CryptHandle hGetEntropy :: CryptHandle -> Int -> IO B.ByteString closeHandle :: CryptHandle -> IO ()
If you rarely need quality entropy (ex: just for a quality seed to a PRNG) then use 'getEntropy'. Frequent users can amortize some handle opening costs by explictly managing their resources and calling the other three functions.
Stream Ciphers
Stream ciphers are assumed to be much like a block cipher in 1-bit CFB mode:
class (Binary k, Serialize k) => StreamCipher k iv | k -> iv where buildStreamKey :: B.ByteString -> Maybe k encryptStream :: k -> iv -> B.ByteString -> (B.ByteString, iv) decryptStream :: k -> iv -> B.ByteString -> (B.ByteString, iv) streamKeyLength :: k -> BitLength
A simple instance would be:
data Xor = Xor B.ByteString instance Bin.Binary Xor where get = undefined put = undefined instance Ser.Serialize Xor where get = undefined put = undefined instance StreamCipher Xor Int where buildStreamKey = Just . Xor encryptStream (Xor k) iv msg = (ct, (B.length msg + iv) `rem` B.length k) where ct = B.pack $ zipWith xor (B.unpack msg) (drop iv $ cycle $ B.unpack k) decryptStream = encryptStream streamKeyLength (Xor k) = 8 * (B.length k)
Asymmetric Ciphers
The asymmetric cipher instance currently doesn't fit any of the available algorithms as it is generalized over random generators. It also is the most likely to change – there are
things I'd change about it right now, but its best to leave the more irk-some aspects to motivate some of you readers to contribute / comment ;-)
class (Binary p, Serialize p) => AsymCipher p where generateKeypair :: RandomGen g => g -> BitLength -> Maybe ((p,p),g) encryptAsym :: p -> B.ByteString -> B.ByteString decryptAsym :: p -> B.ByteString -> B.ByteString asymKeyLength :: p -> BitLength
In Closing
1) If you use or develop cryptographic algorithms then join the discussion. I might not use your input but I will carefully consider all comments. Discussion has lead to substantial changes already (thanks guys!). I'm particularly keen on input from stream or asymmetric cipher users.
2) If you maintain any crypto packages then please update to include the correct crypto-api instances. If your package is a block cipher then make sure you're exporting a pure interface in addition to particular modes.
3) If you use Windows then please help shore up the System.Crypto.Random module – I know it needs work!
4) If you use crypto packages please don't make an instance or only do so to submit them upstream! Instance belong with the algorithm implementation!
5) Everyone else who wants to help feel free to write modes (XTS, GCM, CTR, etc), make fixes & optimizations, add tests (cipher properties, known answer tests), fix ByteString.Lazy.Internal.defaultChunkSize or export hGetContentsN, and add Data.Crypto.Padding (ex: pkcs5). If none of that interests you but the general topic of cryptography in Haskell does then consider working to improve hecc, add TLS or digest-auth to HappStack, write an IPSec implementation, make a pfkey2 package, improve GHC optimization of the algorithms, or make more fitting primitives!
Appendix on SimpleAES:
SimpleAES exported sufficient constructs with which to build an instance but it isn't very clean. The main issues are:
1) Building a key can throw exceptions (when it should use Maybe or Either) and the result of key expansion (a costly operation in AES) isn't stored but recomputed each time.
2) A properly sized IV is required even for ECB mode – which doesn't actually use an IV. Worse, the "encryptMsg'" function will actually expand the size of data even when using ECB mode.
3) The key isn't it's own type, which is a good practice in addition to being needed to make an instance. This ties back to the smart constructor concept of #1.
10 Responses to "A Haskell API for Cryptographic Algorithms"
August 23, 2010 at 5:48 pm
It's a bit odd that the type signature for hash depends on the ctx parameter. That internal detail shouldn't be visible to users without good reason.
Also, don't use RandomGen for your asymmetric PRNG. The default implementation in System.Random gives absolutely disastrous performance, and the typeclass is just misdesigned (the split function shouldn't be present).
August 23, 2010 at 5:50 pm
With all that crypto stuff, I wonder why there's still no working HTTP client library that supports SSL. :)
August 30, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Sometimes "initialCtx" may be too expensive (like allocating additional memory with FFI) so you may want to leave "resetCtx" for re-using. As well using initialCtx as your only way to allocate ctx is somewhat too restrictive (i.e. you can't do local memory allocation or something like that). I'd add something "withCtx :: forall a . (ctx -> a) -> a" but that will result in potential leak of ctx outside (there was an article in some blog about that).
What I've thinked not so long time ago is about using Monad abstraction. So you will not see ctx at all, but at the low level you'll manipulate with updateCtx and others which transform some ctx passed to them from "runHashing :: HashMonad m => m a -> a" or something like that.
September 2, 2010 at 7:48 pm
[…] these reasons I have been convinced that building the new crypto-api package on RandomGen would be a mistake. I've thus expanded the scope of crypto-api to […]
September 3, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Yeah, initialCtx is just a lazy value, which will be calculated (with allocating data) once someone will try to get inside of it (and re-calculated if RTS will decide to forget this value). In case if your context is something that have representation in Haskell data and updateCtx forms the new Ctx (which is mostly not true for non-pure implementation) than it will be fine (if that will be FFI that update structure, you'll just do a clone). But that wouldn't be so simple once you'll have to work with something that you can't bring into Haskell (pointers to unknown structures, session id for some crypt hardware, crypt service etc). I think most of C libraries will require work with IO monad and pointers/ids.
September 7, 2010 at 8:25 pm
[…] blogs on crypto-api have discussed its design and the RNG interface. These were to aid design discussion, so note the code there won't work […]
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About the only people gnashing their teeth are short sellers, the investors who make a living betting that stocks will fall in price rather than rise. Short-selling hedge funds are down nearly 15% from the start of this year through October, according to hedge-fund tracker HFR.
Last week was another miserable one for those hedge funds and other grumpy investors who are skeptical of the market's rise. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose for the seventh week in a row, finishing at 16064.77. On Friday, the S&P 500 closed above 1800 for the first time.
There are few investors dedicated to wagering against stocks. James Chanos of Kynikos Associates runs a hedge fund that largely places short wagers, but there are only 24 other such firms, HFR says. Overall, these shorts manage about $6.3 billion, down from a peak of $7.8 billion in 2008.
But many more investors place bearish bets as part of their overall investing strategy. There are nearly 3,700 "long-short" hedge funds that invest in stocks, managing a total of $686 billion. Lately, these traders have had to adjust their strategies in significant ways to squeeze out returns during the market's rally, or to just keep themselves going.
"Clearly, there's been a tremendous amount of pain on the short side, and people are giving up on shorting individual stocks," says Alan Fournier, who runs Pennant Capital Management. The hedge fund manages $6.5 billion, buys and shorts stocks, and is up more than 10% so far this year, according to investors.
Pennant has profited from shorts against BlackBerry Ltd., which has faced pressure on sales, and developer St. Joe Co., which has tussled with short sellers over the value of land holdings.
"Funds that are dedicated to short selling are closing, and others are starting long-only funds," which buy shares but don't short them, Mr. Fournier says.
Some bearish investors are exiting short positions more quickly than usual when their bets turn negative, trying to keep losses to a minimum. Others are reducing wagers they had placed against the broader market, to avoid further pain if the rally continues. Some of these investors continue to maintain bearish bets on individual companies they suspect will run into trouble. Still others are shifting to shorting emerging-market stocks and pockets of weakness in the U.S.
In any case, these investors have been licking their wounds.
"Being bearish in the bull market has been, thus far, a mug's game and a hedge against profits," says Douglas Kass, who runs hedge fund Seabreeze Partners Management in Palm Beach, Fla., and has been wagering against the market.
Lately, Mr. Fournier of Pennant has been avoiding using futures, options or other instruments to bet against the broader U.S. market. He dabbled with some of these bets in June but exited them when he saw indications that the market's strength would continue.
Some market skeptics see signs their fortunes could be changing for the better. They point to the 37% drop for electric-car maker Tesla Motors since the beginning of October as a sign that some stocks that look expensive relative to their earnings are finally are coming back down to earth.
But other money managers who do their fair share of shorting say the market could grind higher for the next several months, amid continued low bond yields and the Federal Reserve's pledge to keep interest rates, now near zero, low for a long time.
John Burbank, who runs Passport Capital in San Francisco, which has $3 billion under management and is up 18% this year, says U.S. stocks aren't expensive relative to corporate and government bonds, which are in a "bubble." He argues that U.S. companies are doing a better job allocating capital and returning cash to investors, in part because of investor pressure.
That is partly why Mr. Burbank has been wagering against emerging-market stocks, which have done poorly over the last year, rather than the broader U.S. market. Passport is buying exchange-traded funds that will do well if emerging-market companies run into trouble. The hedge fund also is shorting metals stocks, steel companies and others that could do poorly if growth in China or other emerging-market countries slows.
Mr. Burbank is shorting "old tech" stocks that could be hurt by upstart tech companies. He believes stocks like International Business Machines, Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard are vulnerable.
Though Passport's overall portfolio is positioned to benefit from a continued rally in stocks, Mr. Burbank is holding on to some broader wagers on a decline. These hedges have become more inexpensive as the market has climbed, as have investments that figure to rise in value if the market's volatility grows. He worries that banks don't play as large a role in the markets as they once did. So if bad news hits the market, a sudden and sharp tumble could ensue.
Many bears say they aren't throwing in their towels, adding that the market is due for a big correction when the Fed begins to scale back its easy-money policies. Many economists and analysts expect the Fed to reduce its bond-buying program next year.
For now, however, shorts aren't having much fun, says Mr. Chanos of Kynikos, who nonetheless is trying to stick with his strategy.
"We are attempting, as always, to short stocks that will go down," he says. "This is proving to be a bit difficult."
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Hundreds of thousands of fired-up Giants fans cheered their Super Bowl champions in a parade up Manhattan's Canyon of Heroes and in a raucous rally on their home field Tuesday as beaming players thanked them for their neverending support.
"This is an incredible finish to an amazing season," Coach Tom Coughlin told the crowd at MetLife Stadium. "It puts us right back to the Super Bowl."
Eli Manning told fans: "You cheered us all the way to Indianapolis."
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Players, coaches and dignitaries rode on floats up Broadway in Manhattan as fans went wild below on the street and tossed confetti from up above, out the windows of office buildings. On one float, Manning clutched the Vince Lombardi Trophy, hoisting it over his head at times.
Mike King, 16, of Wantagh, N.Y., and seven school friends got up at dawn to join the crowds packed behind police barricades lining Broadway. He attributed the Giants' win to the stellar performance of Manning and the hold-your-breath catch by Mario Manningham that led to the game-winning drive.
"It was one small step for the Giants, and one giant leap for the fans and the nation," King said.
After the parade, the players received keys to the city at a City Hall ceremony open only to the lucky 500 people who received tickets through a lottery on Monday. The mayor handed the keys to the team members on stage, where Victor Cruz did his signature salsa before receiving his.
Running back Andre Brown reprised his now-famous song seen in a cell phone video taken on the Giants plane, singing "I got a ring" as fellow teammates joined him on stage.
Coughlin told the crowd that "it's wonderful that we've returned the Lombardi Trophy to exactly where it belongs -- right here in New York," he said.
Three large screens set up around City Hall allowed members of the public to watch the ceremony.
Coughlin spoke with President Barack Obama by phone just before the parade, he said. The president sent his regards to the players and invited the team to the White House.
"He was very gracious -- he praised our football team, he praised our mental toughness, our resilience, our leadership," Coughlin said. "But the key thing was to remember this: that all things are possible for those who believe."
The Giants returned home Monday, welcomed by fans after another thrilling win over the Patriots, just four years after they accomplished the same feat.
About 1 million people were expected to witness the parade spectacle Tuesday. The procession started at Battery Place and Washington Street and continued up to Worth Street.
One fan from Brooklyn said the weather may be a little cold and windy, but added: "I have so much adrenaline pumping, I'm not feeling it."
The city said school attendance dipped slightly, from 91 percent on a typical Tuesday to 89 percent on the day of the parade. On the day of the Giants parade in 2008 it was 87 percent, officials said.
Gov. Chris Christie attended the MetLife Stadium rally, and Naughty By Nature performed.
Sunday night's win was the Giants' fourth Super Bowl title.


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Wallace is the wrong SF for Deron & JJ .. they need a Granger or Josh Smith to keep the winning consistent
We have to keep a close eye on Blatch
Better then the Knicks
Not even a playoff team
Good team but not on our level
Beyonce needs a tic tac
Nas > Jay-Z
The MeloMafia ruined the rep system and I still hate you
Knicks will have Nets face down on the court like Marquez did to Pacman
This is basically an exhibition game against a D League squad
Knicks = Championship team, FagNets = 1st round Exit
Beyonce could still get it
Wallace is the wrong SF for Deron & JJ .. they need a Granger or Josh Smith to keep the winning consistent
We have to keep a close eye on Blatch
I'm not impressed..We need to step up on D..
awful start, anyone got an msg feed?
It looks like we're trying to make this as easy on this overrated Brooklyn squad as possible. So far our guys looks like they can't even pick up a basketball, let alone put it in the hoop. C'mon. Let's go Knicks!
3:9 for BKN, seriously? WTF are we doing out there?
Brooklyn are playing very well here. It's gonna be hard to win if they keep this up.
Another classic KO.COM gamethread!!!! Stuck at work with DVR on Go Knicks!!!
Blatche is from Syracuse but still...
Is this really happening? What is going on out there with our guys?
We being blown out of Brooklyn.
Not for nothing, but they're beating us 21 to 5 and that crowd is barely a whisper. Barclay Center being less than half Knicks fans is a joke. That's our building, too.
What the hell, Knicks. Wake the **** up.
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We struggled both offensively and defensively against average Bulls and Nuggets and now we're litterally getting ass raped by the Brooklynettes? 5 points within nearly 8 minutes? WTF?
No worries. Woodson is submisive. He likes to getting spanked by a bitch before he rape her anally.. This is just a part of the plan...


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In response to the Internet-wide blackout in protest of the gagging SOPA/PIPA bills, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) – a major backer of these bills – has issued a statement claiming that the sites that protested had made their users corporate pawns and abused their power to arm-twist the US Senate to reconsider what may be one of the most important bills for the country. Chairman and CEO of the MPAA, Senator Chris Dodd issued a statement which is on the official MPAA website. The statement is bereft of any real logic and is instead full of contorted facts that paint the MPAA as an honest and upright association that only serves the US citizens and not its own pockets.
Initially, I did not believe it. Actually, I still cannot believe it. I cannot believe that the CEO of the MPAA actually thinks that the general public can actually buy what he is saying:-
It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today. It's a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests.
A so-called "blackout" is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals. It is our hope that the White House and the Congress will call on those who intend to stage this "blackout" to stop the hyperbole and PR stunts and engage in meaningful efforts to combat piracy."
How is a user-supported protest – like that on Reddit – and a community-driven protest – like that on Wikipedia – a "gimmick"? Perhaps it is time to go back to the boardroom and find out what exactly is the problem with a bill that is receiving so many negative reactions throughout the country as well as across the world. Maybe, just maybe, these bills are a gateway to the Land Without Free Speech Or Information.
Has the MPAA's CEO and Chairman thought about that? I think not.


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Email has become a reliable and ubiquitous communication medium for information workers in organizations of all sizes. Messaging stores and mailboxes have become repositories of valuable data. It's important for organizations to formulate messaging policies that dictate the fair use of their messaging systems, provide user guidelines for how to act on the policies, and where required, provide details about the types of communication that may not be allowed.
Organizations must also create policies to manage email lifecycle, retain messages for the length of time based on business, legal, and regulatory requirements, preserve email records for litigation and investigation purposes, and be prepared to search and provide the required email records to fulfill eDiscovery requests.
Leakage of sensitive information such as intellectual property, trade secrets, business plans, and personally identifiable information (PII) collected or handled by your organization must also be protected.
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The following table provides an overview of the security and compliance features in Exchange Online and includes links to topics that will help you learn about and manage these features
Archive mailboxes (called In-Place Archiving) let people in your Office 365 organization take control of messaging data by providing additional email storage. People can use Outlook or Outlook Web App to view messages in their archive mailbox and move or copy messages between their primary and archive mailboxes.
In-Place Hold and Litigation Hold allow you to preserve or archive mailbox content for compliance and eDiscovery.
In-Place eDiscovery allows authorized compliance officers in your organization to search mailbox data across your Exchange organization, preview search results, copy them to a Discovery mailbox or export them to a .pst file.
You can preserve the contents of deleted mailboxes indefinitely by using inactive mailboxes. You can make an inactive mailbox by placing an In-Place Hold or a Litigation Hold on the mailbox, and then deleting the corresponding Office 365 user account. In addition to preserving mailbox contents, administrators or compliance officers can use In-Place eDiscovery to search the contents of an inactive mailbox.
Data loss prevention (DLP)
Data loss prevention (DLP) helps you identify and monitor sensitive information, such as private identification numbers, credit card numbers, or standard forms used in your organization. You can set up DLP policies to notify users that they are sending sensitive information or block the transmission of sensitive information.
You can use the auditing functionality in Exchange Online to track changes made to your Exchange Online configuration by Microsoft and by your organization's administrators, and to audit mailbox access by persons other than the mailbox owner. In Exchange Online, audited actions are recorded and available to view in an online report or export to a file.
Messaging records management (MRM) helps your organization manage email lifecycle to meet business and regulatory requirements and reduce the legal risks associated with email. In Exchange Online, you can use In-Place Hold or Litigation Hold to preserve email and Retention tags and retention policies to archive and delete email.
Information Rights Management (IRM) helps you and your users control who can access, forward, print, or copy sensitive data within an email. IRM can use your on-premises Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) server or Azure RMS.
Office 365 Message Encryption allows you to send encrypted messages to people inside or outside your organization, regardless of the destination email service—whether it's Outlook.com, Yahoo, Gmail, or another service. Designated recipients can send encrypted replies.
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) allows email users to help protect sensitive information by sending signed and encrypted email within their organization. As an administrator, you can enable S/MIME-based security for your organization if you have mailboxes in either Exchange 2013 SP1 or Exchange Online.
Journaling can help you meet legal, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements by recording inbound and outbound email communications. In Exchange Online, you can create journal rules to deliver journal reports to your on-premises mailbox or archiving system, or to an external archiving service.
You can use transport rules to inspect messages sent or received by your users and take actions such as blocking or bouncing a message, holding it for review by a manager or an administrator or delivering a copy to another recipient if the message matches specified conditions.
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Last Sunday I joined a throng of nearly 4,000 other runners for the annual Hershey Half Marathon. The opportunity to join in this massive road race became available about four days before the race – and after some internal wrangling (two beers) I decided to jump in with both feet. My "training" this year has been loosely focused on ultras, mainly just plugging away miles without regard to pace, and certainly no speed work.
The Hershey Half represented three first-times for me: It was the largest race I've ran, the farthest road race, and most definitely the earliest race. The gun goes off at 7:30 AM to ensure traffic flows and park visitors can return to normal by the afternoon. Logically, this make sense…but when the alarm goes off at 5:00 it's hard to agree with their reasoning. Luckily the part of your brain which recognizes decisions you might regret generally isn't operating that early, so when I rolled out of bed I was still feeling pretty good about the race.
My impression was that the course was pretty well designed. There is a wide start line just outside the football field, with markers for your expected pace. There is a predictable hike to the actual start line when the gun goes off (I crossed the START line at 1:30) but it breaks up relatively quickly after that. After weaving around the massive coliseum that is the Hershey Entertainment complex, the route enters the park and winds through some of the coasters and my personal favorite as a kid – the waterpark. There was a live band in the park still dutifully playing us through as I passed. The course then shoots through the town, the local golf course, and I think some property which belongs to the Milton Hershey School. Lots of support & fans along the way.
While I didn't win any awards on Sunday, there a few groups of folks worth mentioning:
1. Best Signs: There were some creative folks out there on Sunday. My favorites included a bearded young man with a scully cap and a serious expression holding a sign that said "Worst Parade Ever". At mile 11, a beaming white haired woman with a red vest held an encouraging sign "Forget the Pace, Forget The Race, Let's go Drink a Case!".
2. Best Fans: I'm sure they are a normal phenomenon at these types of races, but I haven't seen them before. The Team-In-Training folks were out in force! Every few miles there seemed to be a sea of purple complete with noisemakers, balloons and costumes. They were cheering full-bore every time I ran past. That organization does a great job of supporting its athletes/fundraisers.
3. Worst Fellow Runners: I try not be evangelical about my running behavior. I'll do what works for me – you do what works for you, everybody runs happy. But I got stuck with a group of runners who were constantly checking their GPS, and complaining at nearly every mile marker that course was poorly marked, since it was off by .1 or .2 miles from their GPS. If you have something positive to say, by all means speak up, but if you are just complaining about something trivial, please keep it to yourself. The plus side? My annoyance gave me enough umph to run faster and leave 'em in the dust.
All in all, this was a successful race and a great experience. I finished strong, didn't get injured, and put up a respectable time. If road half marathons are your bag, put this one on your list. If the chocolate aid station wasn't sweet enough – race entry comes with two free Hershey Park Tickets!


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Kagan Liveblog 6/28/10
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12:36 – Senator Leahy is giving his opening statement to a completely packed Hart Senate Office Building Room 216. Not saying anything remarkable right now–of course, not much remarkable gets said by anyone at these things. So for the moment, I'll busy myself admiring the suspendered-reporter sitting directly in front of me who must have just blasted to the future straight from the Brandeis confirmation hearings.
12:45 – Senator Sessions begins his own opening statements. Here come the march of serious concerns. First mention of the Warren Court's activism. Looking forward to see him go toe-to-toe with Leahy's references to Citizens United and Vermont Marble.
12:50 – The Kagan Nomination has emerged as the only area Congress feels free to criticize any aspect of Israeli law and politics. Sessions has repeated his problem with Kagan's admiration for former Israeli Chief Justice Aharon Barak, who sessions has called the most activist judge ever.
12:55 – Herb Kohl (D-WI) has fired the first shot against last year's Robo-Soto performance and 2005's Roberts hearing. Paging Justice Souter: "We hear the over-used platitudes from every nominee, that he or she will apply the facts to the law and faithfully follow the Constitution. But, deciding Supreme Court cases is not merely a mechanical application of the law…You will not merely be calling balls and strikes."
1:08 – Senator Feinstein (D-CA) notes Kagan's firstiness as a female Solicitor General. There have been five SG's to be SCOTUS justices. "Nearly every SG" has endorsed her. Bork hasn't.
1:11 – Feinstein mentions that Rehnquist and Warren were not judges. "Extremely dismayed" to hear about McDonald – that they "disregard the precedent of 71 years embedded in United States v. Miller" – except that Miller was admittedly opaque by all. "As a former mayor," she says, she's aghast by these cases' tossing aside of state and local regulatory control.


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Killed in Iraq
•April 9, 2004
Steven Scott Fisher, a civilian from Virginia Beach, died when his convoy was ambushed near Fallujah.
•April 24, 2004
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Michael J. Pernaselli, 27, and Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher E. Watts, 28, were killed by a suicide bomber as they were boarding a suspicious boat in the Arabian Gulf. The two sailors were based at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach.
May 10, 2004
Army Pfc. Andrew L. Tuazon, 21, of Chesapeake, was killed by a sniper in Mosul. Tuazon was assigned to the Georgia-based 293rd Military Police Company, 3rd Infantry Division.
May 16, 2004
Army 2nd Lt. Leonard M. Cowherd III, 22, of Culpepper, was killed by a sniper. His wife, Sarah, lived in York County.
June 16, 2004
Army Spc. Jeremy M. Dimaranan, 29, of Virginia Beach, died in a mortar attack. He was assigned to the Fort Eustis-based 302nd Transportation Company, 172nd Combat Support Group.
Aug. 1, 2004
Robert Wagner, a private contractor and former Marine who most recently lived in Newport News, died while leading a convoy carrying materials for reconstruction efforts.
Aug. 5, 2004
Army Spc. Raymond Faulstich Jr., 24, a truck driver with the Fort Eustis-based 89th Transportation Company was killed by small-arms fire when insurgents attacked his convoy near Najaf.
Nov. 5, 2004
Army Sgt. Carlos Camacho-Rivera, 24, of Ft. Story's 11th Transportation Battalion, died of wounds suffered in a rocket attack in Fallujah.
Nov. 12, 2004
Marine Lance Cpl. Brian A. Medina, 20, died from enemy action. Medina's mother, Lolita G. Converse, lived in military housing at the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station.
Jan. 15, 2005
Marine Sgt. Jayton Patterson, 26, from outside of Wakefield, was killed by a roadside bomb while he was on patrol in northern Iraq.
Jan 26, 2005
Marine Lance Cpl. Darrell J. Schumann, 25, from Hampton, was one of 31 troops killed when a helicopter crashed in a sandstorm in western Iraq. Schumann's parents, both career Air Force members, were stationed at Langley Air Force Base.
March 18, 2005
Army Pfc. Lee A. Lewis Jr., 28, a 1994 Kecoughtan High graduate, was killed by enemy small-arms fire in Sadr City. Lewis was a medic.
April 14, 2005
Marine Capt. James C. Edge, 31, a Virginia Beach native and Virginia Military Institute graduate, was killed by small-arms fire in Ramadi.
Aug. 3, 2005
Sgt. Bradley J. Harper, 25, was killed near Haditha when his vehicle was attacked by a homemade bomb. Harper, a Virginia Beach policeman, was assigned to Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base's 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Corps Reserves.
Sept. 22, 2005
Army Spc. Kevin Jones, a 21-year-old transportation specialist and machine-gunner from North Carolina, was killed by a roadside bomb. His father, Kenneth M. Jones, commutes from the family home in North Carolina to work at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton.
Nov. 4, 2005
Marine Staff Sgt. Jason A. Fegler, 24, a Yorktown resident from March 2000 to June 2001, died in Baghdad, in what the Army investigated as a possible friendly fire incident. Fegler was serving with the 101st Airborne Division.
Nov. 16, 2005
Marine 1st Lt. Ryan McGlothlin, 26, a 2001 graduate of the College of William and Mary, was killed in a shootout with insurgents near the Syrian border in Ubaydi.
Jan. 7, 2006
Marine Lance Cpl. Kyle W. Brown of Newport News died when he was shot by a sniper in Fallujah. He was 22.
Feb. 7, 2006
Marine Lance Cpl. Steven L. Phillips, 27, of Chesapeake, was killed near Al-Qaim when the Humvee he was driving swerved on a road, overturned and crushed him.
Aug. 22, 2006
Navy Chief Petty Officer Paul J. Darga, 34, of Norfolk, was killed by a homemade bomb in Anbar province. He was assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2 in Virginia Beach.
Aug. 28, 2006
Army Cpl. Shannon L. Squires, 25, of Virginia Beach was hit by a roadside bomb on April 21. It was his second tour in Iraq. He died Aug. 28 at Brooke Army Medical Hospital in Texas from his wounds.
Sept. 16, 2006
Navy Petty Officer Dave Roddy, 32, of Hampton, also a member of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2, was killed by an improvised explosive device while responding to a report about another bomb.
Oct. 14, 2006
Air Force Airman 1st Class Leebernard Chavis, 21, of Hampton, was killed by a sniper while on patrol with Iraqi police near Baghdad.
Dec. 3, 2006
Marine Cpl. Joshua Sticklen, 24, of Virginia Beach, died in a helicopter crash. He was stationed in Hawaii.
Dec. 10, 2006
Army Pfc. Shawn M. Murphy, 24, a 2001 graduate of York High School whose father was stationed at Langley Air Force Base, was killed by a roadside bomb.
Jan. 7, 2007
Army Spc. Eric Thomas Caldwell, 22, a combat engineer from Gloucester, was killed by small-arms fire.
Jan. 20, 2007
Virginia Army National Guardsman Staff Sgt. Daryl Booker, 37, of Richmond, died in a helicopter crash outside of Baghdad. His father lives in Surry County and he has relatives in Smithfield.
March 3, 2007
Army Sgt. Michael C. Peek, 23, of Chesapeake, was one of three soldiers killed by one roadside bomb. Peek was assigned to the 630th Military Police Company, based in Germany. His family lives in Smithfield.
April 5, 2007
Navy Petty Officer Second Class Joseph C. Schwedler, 27, a Navy SEAL based in Virginia Beach, was killed in the Al Anbar province during a skirmish with insurgents. Two other SEALs were wounded.
April 19, 2007
Army Chief Warrant Officer Dwayne L. Moore, 31, of Williamsburg, was killed near Baghdad when he came in contact with enemy forces using indirect fire. His family said it was a rocket attack.
May 6, 2007
Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Kiernan, 37, of Virginia Beach, was killed in Baghdad when his unit came under attack with small arms fire while on a combat patrol.
May 17, 2007
Army Pfc. Aaron Gautier, 19, of Hampton, was killed south of Baghdad when his mounted patrol came under fire by small arms and a roadside bomb. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.
June 1, 2007
Army Sgt. Bruce Edward Horner, 43, of Newport News, was killed in Iraq by a sniper while serving with his military police company.
July 6, 2007
Three sailors from Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek were killed in Iraq when an IED detonated near their Humvee while conducting combat operations in Baghdad.
Killed were first class petty officers -- Jason Lewis, a 30-year-old SEAL with a wife and three children in Virginia Beach; Steven P. Daugherty, a 28-year-old cryptologic technician with a son in Virginia Beach; and Robert McRill, a 42-year-old combat photographer with a wife and three children in York County.
They were all assigned to an East Coast SEAL team.
July 26, 2007
Army Sgt. William R. Howdeshell was in Saqlawiyah when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. The 37-year-old was from Norfolk.
Aug. 14, 2007
Army Chief Warrant Officer Jackie L. McFarlane Jr., 30 from Virginia Beach, was killed when the helicopter he was piloting crashed. The CH-47 Chinook went down in Al Taqqadum, an air base west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the Alaska-based 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, Task Force 49 and was on a routine maintenance flight.
Oct. 5, 2007
Army Cpl. Jason Marchand, 26, of Newport News, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Baghdad. His unit had just entered a house when a vehicle drove up next to it and exploded. He was assigned to the Germany-based 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment.
Nov. 14, 2007
Virginia Army National Guard Sgt. Derek R. "Bam" Banks, a 2001 Bethel High School graduate, died as a result of injuries from a roadside bomb attack that occurred in Baghdad on Oct. 25, 2007. He was flown to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and later to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Banks was a combat engineer of the Virginia Army National Guard's 237th Engineer Company, based in West Point. The roadside explosive also killed Spc. David E. Lambert of Cedar Bluff in western Virginia and injured three other soldiers from Hampton Roads: Sgt. James "Andy" Corbett of Poquoson; and Pfc. Eric T. Holt and Spc. Joshua G. Primm, both of Williamsburg.
Nov. 16, 2007
Army Sgt. Mason I. Lewis, 26, of Gloucester, was killed in a noncombat-related training accident. According to his mother, he was on a roof preparing to train Iraqi troops when he lost his footing and fell. Lewis deployed on his second Iraq tour in May 2007 with the Fort Stewart, Ga.-based 26th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.
Dec. 11, 2007
Navy SEAL Mark T. Carter, 27, of Fallbrook, Calif., was killed during combat. Carter was a Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer. He was a Virginia Beach-based Navy SEAL.
Jan. 9, 2008
Army Staff Sgt. Jonathan K. Dozier, 30, of Chesapeake was killed during combat operations in central Iraq. The sniper team leader was one of six soldiers killed when a house exploded from booby traps set by insurgents.
Feb. 4, 2008
Two Hampton Roads-based Navy SEALs -- Chief Petty Officers Nathan H. Hardy and Michael E. Koch -- were killed by small arms fire in Iraq while conducting combat operations. Both were 29.
Feb. 7, 2008
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Louis A. Souffront, a 25-year-old explosive ordnance disposal expert attached to a Hampton Roads-based Navy SEAL team, was killed in Iraq on Thursday when a bomb detonated during combat operations.
Six Navy SEALs from Hampton Roads were also injured in the blast, according to Lt. David Luckett, spokesman for Naval Special Warfare Group Two, headquartered at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach.
March 12, 2008
Two soldiers and one reservist were killed in a rocket attack on Tallil Air Base in southern Iraq. The soldiers were from Fort Eustis. Among the killed were Army Staff Sgt. Juantrea T. Bradley, 28, who left behind a wife and four children in Newport News.
April 30, 2009
Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler J. Trahan, 22, of East Freetown, Mass., while conducting combat operations in Fallujah, Iraq. He was an explosive ordnance disposalman assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Twelve in Norfolk but was deployed with a SEAL team based out of Virginia Beach.
May 7, 2009
Shawn Dante Sykes, 28, an Army soldier from Portsmouth, was killed in an accident while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Killed in Afghanistan
May 29, 2004
Petty Officer 1st Class Brian Ouelette, 37, a Navy SEAL from Virginia Beach, was killed by an explosion while patrolling in a Humvee.
April 6, 2005
Army Pfc. Pendelton L. Sykes II, 25, of Chesapeake, was one of eight troops killed, and six left unaccounted for, in the crash of a CH-47 helicopter in Ghazni, Afghanistan.
June 28, 2005
Navy Lt. Michael M. McGreevy Jr., 30, Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny Dietz, 25, Chief Petty Officer Jacques J. Fontan, 36, Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen, 33, Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey A. Lucas, 33, and Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey S. Taylor, 30, were killed in a helicopter crash. They were Hampton Roads-based Navy SEALs.
March 21, 2008
Air Force Tech. Sgt. William H. Jefferson, Jr., 34, of Norfolk, Va., died near Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 21st Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Air Force Base, N.C.
•Aug. 16, 2009
William B. Woods Jr., 31, an Army Special Forces National Guard soldier from Chesapeake, died of wounds sustained when he was shot Aug. 14 while on patrol in Ghazni, Afghanistan.
•Aug. 19, 2009
Paul E. Dumont Jr., 23, a Fort Eustis-based soldier from Williamsburg, died from injuries suffered in a non-combat related incident in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
•Sept, 8, 2009
Marine 1st Lt. Michael E. Johnson, 25, a Chesapeake native, died while supporting combat operations in Kunar province, Afghanistan.
•Sept. 21, 2009
Pfc. William L. Meredith, 26, of Virginia Beach, Va., died Sept. 21 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 569th Engineer Company, 4th Engineer Battalion, Fort Carson, Colo.
•March 18, 2010
Adam Lee Brown, a Navy SEAL who lived in Virginia Beach, was killed during a battle with armed militants.


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Well, when I say "neatly," I mean neat from the outside... when the doors of the armoire are closed. When you open the doors it looks like this:
Monday, July 1, 2013
A Thrifty Way to Make Craft Supplies Accessible
We have a wonderful armoire that we got from a yard sale. My husband added some additional shelving to the inside, and now we use it to neatly house all the wonderful art and craft supplies that help nurture my kids' creativity.
Well, when I say "neatly," I mean neat from the outside... when the doors of the armoire are closed. When you open the doors it looks like this:
Well, when I say "neatly," I mean neat from the outside... when the doors of the armoire are closed. When you open the doors it looks like this:
My kids often struggle to find basic supplies like scissors, glue, and crayons (despite my numerous and varied attempts to organize this cabinet). I'm always having to help them dig, or sometimes they just don't even bother trying and give up on crafting for a different activity.
I want to make creativity easy for my kids to do and enjoy. This storage idea kind of happened by accident, but I love how it turned out.
Several months ago I bought a magnet board really cheap at IKEA. What I had planned to use it for didn't work out. Then I saw an idea on Pinterest for spray painting aluminum cans and storing crayons and markers and such in them. My wheels started turning and I figured I could add magnets to the cans, and stick them to this magnet board that I didn't really have a use for anymore.
The result was that I ended up with a great way to make our family's frequently used craft supplies accessible to my kiddos, and it barely cost me a thing!
I decided to use chalkboard spray paint because it would give me an easy way to label what each can was for (I primed my cans first with some extra primer we had laying around our garage).
I found that more than just one magnet was needed to be able to load the cans with supplies and have them stick to the board without slipping. You can find magnets like these at craft stores like Michael's and Hobby Lobby (remember those weekly 40% off coupons).
The idea worked out great. We attached the magnet board to the side of the armoire, and it's just so handy! Honestly, I myself love being able to grab a pair of scissors without even opening the cabinet. I love that My Little Reader can reach all the stuff he uses the most and take the crayons or markers over to the table to use whenever he wants without calling to me for help. And putting it all away is so easy, just stick them back on the board!
These cans could also work great on a refrigerator! I still haven't decided what supplies will go in some of my cans. I might have a few that I rotate what's kept in them, kind of like we do with our toys. This way my kids can be surprised and inspired every week or so with some fun craft supplies that they forgot we even had!
A good read often inspires a fun craft at our house. So I'm glad I found a way to make the crafting just a little bit easier for my kids!
Do you have a handy way you store your art and craft supplies? Share in the comments!
Posted by Amy @ Literacy Launchpad at 10:23 AM
Labels: At Home Activities, crafts, organizing
3 comments:
- Ms. P. said...
I think this is a great idea! I think it would work well in the classroom too for community student supplies. Thanks for sharing. :)
- July 1, 2013 at 3:02 PM
- Unknown said...
This is what i have been looking for and you have done a great job. Thank you so much for sharing such a nice idea.
- July 27, 2013 at 6:33 AM
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Arlo Guthrie's wife, Jackie, loses battle with cancer
Wednesday October 17, 2012
WASHINGTON, Mass. -- Jackie Guthrie, who met folk singer Arlo Guthrie on tour in a famous L.A. club in 1968 and knew then she would marry him, died Sunday from an inoperable liver cancer at their winter home in Sebastian, Fla.
The 68-year-old was surrounded by her family and a few friends. Her death came five days after Arlo and Jackie marked their 43rd wedding anniversary.
"There are loves, and there are LOVES. Ours was and will continue to be what it has always been -- a very great love," Arlo Guthrie posted on his Facebook page.
On Tuesday, Guthrie's label, Rising Son Records, released an obituary reflecting on the wife, sister of three, mother of five, and grandmother of 10. The story of Jackie and Arlo is a cross-country American road trip of love and devotion to family, friends and community.
Jackie Guthrie, the former Jacklyn Hyde of Salt Lake City, Utah, was born on July 25, 1944. She grew up on a horse farm in Malibu, Calif., and later her beauty and charm would earn her the title of "Miss Malibu" at age 17.
Jackie met Arlo Guthrie in 1968 while she was working as a cashier in a famous Hollywood club, The Troubador, where he was touring.
During that time and before they were introduced, Jackie reportedly walked into the dressing room and told Arlo's stepbrother, Richard Cooper, "You know, I'm going to marry your brother."
The premonition came true on Oct. 9, 1969, against the backdrop of fall foliage and a hot, sunny day on the 250-acre estate in the Western Massachusetts town of Washington, which Arlo purchased in September after playing Woodstock. The property remains the family homestead in the Berkshires.
Jackie, 25, and Arlo, 22, wore crowns of flowers in their hair and shared a chocolate wedding cake made by Alice Brock, for whom Arlo Guthrie's iconic film "Alice's Restaurant" (re leased in November that year) and song is named.
The marriage made headlines, with pictures of their wedding published in newspapers and magazines around the world, including National Geo graphic. The ceremony as "Woodstock and 'Romeo and Juliet' all rolled into one," a Berkshire Eagle reporter wrote at the time.
Through the years, they raised four children -- Abe, Cathy, Annie, and Sarah Lee -- who would all grow up to become entertainers in their own rights.
Jackie, Arlo, and their children were connected to Kashi Ashram -- an interfaith spiritual teaching community, founded in Sebastian, Fla., by their guru and dear friend, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, who passed away in April.
The Guthrie Center Interfaith Church in Great Barrington still serves as an extension of Kashi and Ma's teachings. For the past 25 years, Jackie and Arlo would accompany Ma on her visits to hospitals, nursing homes, and other health-related facilities to bring cheer and kindness.
Jackie was considered a crusader for social causes, mostly health care issues as a breast cancer survivor of more than 12 years. She wrote extensively on natural foods and medicines, encouraging people everywhere to pursue healthier lifestyles, and also helped to organize charitable events in Berkshire County.
"She was a wonderful woman," said Alan Chartock, president and CEO of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, a friend of the Guthrie family who happens to share the same birthday as Jackie. Chartock described her as one who was "fiercely devoted to her children" and served as a "mother to all."
Over the last few years, The Guthrie Family toured together with all the kids and grandchildren while Jackie assumed the role of videographer. She filmed every show and posted more than 250 clips via her "Mrs. G's Videos" YouTube channel, which can also be viewed on the family's company website RisingSonRecords.com.
This past summer, The Guthrie Family went on tour celebrating the centennial birthday of Woody Guthrie, Arlo's father.
While touring, Jackie became weak. Barely able to handle the cameras, she reportedly refused to leave the road and seek medical attention. But as the summer tour came to a close, she was scarcely able to walk, and her cancer diagnosis came in early September.
"We want to acknowledge the doctors, nurses, and caregivers whom she befriended; the thousands of known and unknown friends from all over the world who prayed and wished us well, and mostly our children who attended her so gently and beautifully as she prepared to leave this world. We are grateful for our life together and thank ful for the moments we shared," Arlo Guthrie said in a statement.
Jackie is survived by her husband Arlo; her children, Abe, Cathy, Annie, Sarah Lee with Arlo, and Erika, her daughter with singer David Crosby; her grandchildren, Krishna, Mo, Serena, Jacklyn, Olivia, Marjorie, Sophia, Roberta, Jorge and Alexa; her brother, Berkshire-based metal sculptor Robert Alan Hyde; and her sisters, Juanita Zaderecki and Shirley Spurlin.
On his website, Arlo Guthrie announced his is taking time off the road this week to be with his family to honor the life and mourn the death of his wife. Guthrie's website says he's canceling or postponing some upcoming shows, including those scheduled this week in Ohio, and will begin a planned tour in Canada next week.
Funeral arrangements were not made public on Tuesday.
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City survive scare to win
Manchester City began the defence of their EPL title the way they finished off last season.
LONDON - It was deja vu for Manchester City and their breathless fans on Sunday as they began the defence of their Premier League title the way they finished off last season by battling back to win 3-2 with time ticking down.
Midfielder Samir Nasri struck the 80th-minute winner against Southampton after the City faithful had been dragged through the wringer yet again, in contrast to Chelsea fans who saw their new signing Eden Hazard engineer an easy 2-0 win at Wigan Athletic.
The game started badly for City when their top scorer last season Sergio Aguero, who netted the dramatic late winner as they beat Queens Park Rangers 3-2 to win the title in May, was carried off with a knee injury early on.
A tired-looking David Silva then had a woefully weak penalty saved before a slimline Carlos Tevez, having won the spot kick after a good turn foxed Jos Hooiveld, avoided the offside flag to score at the near post in the 40th minute after Nasri's pass.
Tevez fell out with coach Roberto Mancini last term after refusing to warm up as a substitute in September but was drafted back in towards the end of the campaign and has lost weight during pre-season to look extra sharp.
City's defence was far from it after the break and promoted Southampton, back in the top flight for the first time in seven years, found themselves in front after carbon copy sidefoot finishes from substitutes Ricky Lambert and Steven Davis.
Abu Dhabi-backed City, who spent millions to help secure their first top flight league title since 1968, handed a debut to new signing Jack Rodwell from Everton but his mistake set up a counter-attack for Davis' goal.
Edin Dzeko, just like he had done against QPR three months ago, grabbed City's equaliser following a corner and poor defending from the visitors allowed Nasri to slam in the winner.
"It's like the last game of the season so we started the same and I hope at the end it will be the same result for us," a smiling Nasri told Sky Sports.
"It was a difficult game against a good squad in Southampton who played really good football."
The opening weekend of the Premier League has been packed with excitement to silence those who thought the recent successful London Olympics would dull the impact of soccer's return to the English consciousness.
Chelsea's Hazard, widely hailed as the next big thing, lived up to all the hype inside the first seven minutes of his league debut by setting up both goals.
The Belgium playmaker, who joined the European champions from Lille in the close season having turned down City and Manchester United, quickly proved wrong any doubters who suspected England would be far tougher than the modest French league.
First he expertly turned marker Ivan Ramis to release right back Branislav Ivanovic, who ran in and coolly slotted home in the second minute having been allowed to play despite a red card in the 3-2 Community Shield loss to City last Sunday.
Hazard then danced his way into the box and was carelessly upended by error-prone Wigan debutant Ramis, leaving Frank Lampard to slam in the seventh-minute penalty.
Like the hit-and-miss Fernando Torres, Hazard's level dropped after the break and he was replaced by fellow new signing Oscar of Brazil.
"Yes very happy, my first game, win. OK," man of the match Hazard, 21, said in broken English.
Roberto Di Matteo's side, only sixth in the Premier League last term despite their Champions League triumph, strolled through the rest of their season opener as Wigan's Chelsea target Victor Moses barely troubled goalkeeper Petr Cech.
Manchester United and their new striker Robin van Persie open their campaign at Everton on Monday (8:00 p.m).
On Saturday, Liverpool's new boss Brendan Rodgers got off to an awful start with a 3-0 loss at West Bromwich Albion while Arsenal missed Van Persie in a 0-0 draw at home to Sunderland.


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Norman artists Carolyn Faseler, Corazon Watkins and Betty Wood will present a collaborative exhibit of works exploring "Dreams" in the Depot Gallery, 200 South Jones Ave., Norman. A reception for the artists will be held in conjunction with the 2nd Friday Circuit of Art on March 8, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. The exhibit will run from March 5 through April 28. Admission is free.
The artists will make a presentation at both 7:00 and 8:00 during the opening reception, with a brief talk and question and answer session exploring the topic of "Dreams" and discussing their works interpreting those dreams.
"The subject matter for this body of work resulted from discussions with fellow artists about dream interpretation." says Betty Wood. "My dreams are convoluted; that is, bits from the past are interwoven with current activities, and nothing usually makes much sense.... As an artist, my attempt to visually interpret dreams turned out to be extremely difficult."
Carolyn Faseler agrees. "When this series was begun, I thought it would be easy to paint my dreams -- but it wasn't! Originally, I wanted to paint what I actually saw... But most of the time I couldn't remember enough details." Faseler did remember color though, and when she eliminated realism she said "the work flowed".
Corazon Watkins based her dream interpretations "on the existing state of my life both physically and mentally, and how my waking life 'writes the script' of my dreams." The resulting images are "surrealistic in style, using mixed-media, oil, and/or any objects that helped me express the dream more vividly and, hopefully, give some semblance of sense."
Faseler holds a Master of Arts degree from Fort Hays Kansas State. Watkins and Woods both earned Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Oklahoma, where both have also served as adjunct professors. All have shown extensively in Oklahoma and beyond, both individually and together.
Depot Gallery hours are 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Tuesday through Friday and 10:00 to noon on Saturday. Performing Arts Studio gallery exhibitions are made possible in part by a grant from the Oklahoma Arts Council, and by individual donations. Phone 405 307-9320 for additional information.


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The Many Motivations Of Movie Piracy (Notably Absent: 'I Want Everything For Free')
from the copy-culture dept
In the recently released Copy Culture In The US & Germany survey report from the American Assembly (for which we provided the design & layout work), one small but especially interesting component is the list of reasons given for downloading TV shows and movies. The American responses were pretty evenly distributed among the various key reasons, and serve as a laundry list of things that piracy does just slightly better, or slightly more permissively, than most legitimate sources:
While price was one of the top three reasons, this hardly paints a picture of penny-pinching freeloaders—rather, it shows emerging trends in media consumption that distributors and rightsholders simply can't keep ignoring. Absolutely none of these responses are surprising, because they are exactly the way people have been interacting with the majority of content online for years now. They share, they use multiple devices, they expect comprehensive access and a choice of sources, they want access as soon as possible, and they are put off by obtrusive advertising.
Of course, that last item is a bit of an oddity. The knee-jerk reaction among most people is that all advertising is bad, but that seems to underestimate the amount of stuff that advertising pays for or subsidizes, and that most of us happily enjoy on a daily basis. Advertising is one of those things that only ever gets badmouthed, because you only focus on it when it's bad — when it's good it doesn't register as advertising because it doesn't register as intrusive. The perennial buzz around Superbowl commercials and the 44-million views on Old Spice's famous viral ad support this notion pretty strongly.
In the world of online television, I think there's room for both subscription models and advertising-funded models — and even some combinations of both if balanced correctly. But until content providers start tackling the overall problem by catching up to pirate sources in the many areas where their services fall short, no model is going to succeed in defeating piracy.
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Or Mummy Dogs
These are fun and easy fare for the kids this time of year. (I make them anytime of year that the mood strikes me.)
You will need:
1 tube of refrigerated crescent rolls (or one recipe baking soda biscuits, which follows)
1 package hot dogs
baking sheet
Preheat the oven to 375.
1) Open and unroll the crescent rolls (if using baking soda biscuits, roll quite thin - about 1/4").
2) Working on wax paper, cut crescent dough into narrow strips.
3) Wrap crescent dough strips mummy style around each hot dogs, leaving a "face" exposed.
4) You can cut X's for eyes before baking, if you like.
5) bake at 375 for about 15 minutes. Once the dough is golden, the dogs are done.
Baking soda biscuits:
2 cups all-purpose flour
4 T shortening
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
- Sift flour baking powder and salt together.
- Using pastry knife or two butter knives, cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Stir in milk.
- Turn out on floured surface. For use with mummy dogs, roll out 1/4" thick. Cut with floured knife. (There will be excess dough. Make biscuits that can bake alongside mummy dogs by cutting and shaping at 1/2" thick.)
To make this a complete meal, serve it with Green Goodness Smoothie.


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Funck, Heinrich (d. 1760)
Heinrich Funck (d. 1760), a European Mennonite settler who located along the Indian Creek in what is now Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Philadelphia. He married Anne, daughter of immigrant Christian Meyer and they became the parents of ten children, including Preacher Henry Funck and Bishop Christian Funk (1731-1811), the latter being the founder of the Funkites, who withdrew from the Franconia Conference in 1778 because they favored recognizing the independence of the American Colonies before the end of the Revolutionary War. Funck was a farmer, miller, and bishop. He wrote two books, Ein Spiegel der Tauffe (Mirror of Baptism) in 1744, and Eine Restitution, Oder eine Erklaerung einiger Haupt-puncten des Gesetzes (Restitution, or an Explanation of Several Principal Points of the Law), the latter being left as an unpublished manuscript at his death in 1760; his children arranged for its publication in 1763. Funck collaborated in sponsoring the publication of the 1748 German Martyrs' Mirror, and he and Dielman Kolb read the proofs page by page as they came off the Ephrata presses. Funck was the most important writer among the Mennonites in Colonial America. His grave is lost, but it is known that he was intimately associated with both the Salford and Franconia congregations of the Franconia Conference.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 17.
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Wenger, John C. "Funck, Heinrich (d. 1760)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 4 Aug 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Funck,_Heinrich_(d._1760)&oldid=145204.
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 418. All rights reserved.
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Well, I'm confident all of you have heard by now how stats are being changed around come cataclysm but in case you missed it
In World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, there are plans to streamline the statistics found on items. We want to remove all unnecessary stats, make all existing stats understandable, and make all "core" stats more appealing. Here are some examples of such plans.
•MP5: This will be removed from items and replaced with Spirit. All healers will be given a meditation-like ability.
•Spell Power: Spell Power is being removed from items as well. Don't panic, we'll be improving Intellect so that it provides mana and Spell Power.
•Attack Power: We're removing Attack Power from items as well. Instead, we're allowing Agility to provide the necessary Attack Power for leather and mail wearers. Strength will provide the appropriate amount of Attack Power for plate wearers. This means leather and mail items will no longer be desirable for plate wearers.
•Defense: The Defense statistic is also being removed from items so that players no longer have to worry about juggling around "the cap." Tanks will receive the necessary anti-crit from talents, like Survival of the Fittest.
•Armor Penetration: This ability is too confusing and "mathy." It is being replaced with Mastery, a stat that makes you better at what you do. More on that later!
•Haste: Will also increase the rate at which you gain energy, runes, and focus. Retribution paladins and Enhancement shaman will have a talent that allows them to take advantage of this benefit.
•Block: Block Value is being removed. Blocking will now always mitigate a percentage of damage.
•Stamina: Players will notice more Stamina on gear as Defense, Spell Power, Attack Power and Armor Penetration are removed.
Lots of changes here, but let us focus on the ones that affect us the most. First on the docket is MP5.
MP5 Is currently one of the prime stats for Restoration Shamans, so this change frightens me a bit I'll be honest. There is just something dirty about the possibility of Mail caster gear having spirit *shudder*. That's neither here nor there however. This will be the first time that Restoration Shamans will be stacking something for mana regen OTHER then pure mp5. We'll be getting something like Mediation for all classes. it's uncertain at this time whether this will show up as a new talent , or if it might show up in the new mastery system that has been talked about (more on that later). The stat will still be present on the character sheet, but will no longer be seen on gear.
Spell Power is also one of those prime stats for us. Expanding INT to be the root of spell power is interesting, but it does make a certain amount of sense. It does offer a boost in spell power right now as well as in crit and it does affect your mana pool size. Right now we stack it to take full advantage of Replenishment effects. Seeing spell power removed from gear though is going to be interesting in and of itself. A lot of on the fly gear choices can be boiled down to how much more SP it gives you over your current piece (assuming similar stats in other regards). I'm certain that they will add an item to the tooltip noting how much SP an item is worth similar to how Druids see Feral Attack Power listed on items when everyone else doesn't.
Haste will continue to affect us casters as it does now. Blizzard is happy with how haste worked out for us so you wont see much if any changes there.
Defense and Block, now I'm sure you're asking yourself "how does this affect us, we are healers?" well I can assure you it does. Changing Defense to no longer be a geared stat is huge, and in my opinion a very welcomed change. I can tell you that there have been several times I've pugged a group and found the tank not defense capped, or defense capped but having rather dismal health pool. This change will help alleviate that. By letting tanks get their crit immunity through talents, it leaves them free to gear up stamina. This will also give some added mitigation from block which as it stands is convoluted and a stat that, to my understanding, is largely ignored by tanks. After talking with my guilds main tank and guild leader, most tanks gear for effective health. As a healer I appreciate this, letting more tanks do this without worrying about losing a few points in defense is a HUGE boon to not just raids, but pugs and heroics as well.
Stamina for everyone! This is good for us as healers, I remember having to have stamina sets for certain fights just to be able to live through certain effects. Those days should be long gone. Effective raid health should go up and through the roof and our jobs as healers should get just a little bit easier. I look forward to not seeing mages and other clothies getting one shotted by some trash mobs *cough* The Descent into Madness *cough*
My concerns though, are for how gear will be distributed. Currently if a piece of Leather Spellpower gear drops, there is not really any question who it goes to. But if we are gearing up for all the same stats, how much blurring of lines will there be? I remember a time when I saw Paladins running around in cloth because it had better stats for healing. I don't know if we can rely on things like haste and crit to separate that either, as now most of the healing classes tend to stack both (yes some more then others). I'll be interested to see how this plays out. I eagerly await the changes if nothing else just to see how my gear is going to look before I put it on and look at my stat sheet.
So, what do you think? Excited about the changes? Hate them? Concerns or ideas?
That's it for today. Until next time, Happy Healing!


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Asus' next Lamborghini-labelled hardware is likely to be a mobile phone, company moles have claimed.
So said DigiTimes tersely today, providing no further details beyond Asus' alleged desire to take the Lamborghini brand into the consumer electronics arena. Almost two weeks ago, Asus announced plans to produce a pair of Lamborghini laptops, though it didn't say when the machines will ship.
Asus' rival, Acer, has a similar deal with Ferrari. It already offers Ferrari-branded notebooks, and it has been claimed that the company is working on a Ferrari PDA. ®


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Using data from 126 Freedom Of Information requests, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust came top for clamping.I wonder what US hospitals are bringing in? When a hospital owns 4,734 spaces, I bet they're doing pretty well.
Over a year the hospital clamped 1,671 cars and made nearly £2m profit.
Leeds General Infirmary issued the most parking tickets - over 10,000, generating £142,000 profit.
The Royal Derby was the target of the most criticism - it received 82 complaints in 2008-09.


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CNN host fails to respond to challenge
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
January 14, 2013
CNN host Piers Morgan has seemingly chickened out of a second clash with Alex Jones on gun control, refusing to respond to a challenge by Jones that would have seen the two square off in a moderated debate.
On Wednesday, Jones challenged Morgan to another face-off that would follow classic debate rules, be overseen by an independent moderator and allow an equal amount of time for each speaker.
Despite the fact that Morgan has addressed Jones directly in a number of tweets since the challenge was issued, he has failed to respond to the challenge itself five days after it was made.
Whether or not Morgan is being prevented form having Jones back on the show by his CNN bosses remains to be seen, but Jones stipulated that the debate could also take place on his syndicated radio show or at a neutral venue.
During the 2013 Golden Globes last night, Morgan again chided Jones by joking, "the British really ARE coming again," in reference to a large number of the award winners being British. During his volatile appearance on Morgan's show, Jones made the point that the second amendment was primarily added to the Constitution by the founders as a safeguard against government tyranny in the aftermath of the revolutionary war against the British.
The CNN host has made similar haughty sideswipes in the past, previously bragging that he was, "Born (With Natural British) Supremacy."
Over the weekend, immigration group ALIPAC called for Morgan to be fired by CNN for making on-air death threats against Alex Jones as he joked with guests on the Tuesday edition of Piers Morgan Tonight.
While debating Morgan's contentious interview with Alex Jones, author Buzz Bissinger remarked, "But what do you need a semi-automatic weapon for? The only reason I think you'd need it is, Piers, challenge Alex Jones to a boxing match, show up with a semi-automatic that you got legally and pop him."
"I'd love to see that," responded Huffington Post's Abby Huntsman, adding, "In uniform."
"I'll borrow my brother's uniform," Morgan responded.
Morgan's supporters followed up by expressing their desire to see Alex Jones shot dead because of his pro-gun rights stance.
Despite Morgan's repeated claims that his gun control views are shared by a clear majority of Americans, a rally in support of the CNN host held at CNN center in Washington DC last week was attended by just four people.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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