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Directed by Luis Mandoki in 1994, When a Man loves a
Woman stars Andy Garcia and Meg Ryan. It tells the story of an
airline pilot, Michael Green, and his wife, Alice, a school
counsellor, who seemingly have a wonderful life living with their
daughters in San Fransisco, until the truth about her alcohol
dependence reveals itself and threatens to destroy everything.
What is especially interesting about the film is that it is
based on the actual experiences of one of the two writers, Al
Franken, who is now a United States Senator from Minnesota. His
wife struggled with alcohol dependency whilst their two children
were young and he supported her through some very difficult
times. This was publically revealed in a
campaign Ad made by Franken in 2008, which
featured his wife talking about her addiction.
The film opens with a playful scene between
Alice and her husband in a bar, clearly fuelled by the effects of
alcohol on Alice. Soon afterwards, an anniversary dinner leads to
some late night, disinhibited, public disorder as Alice eggs a car
whose alarm keeps going off outside their home. In these various
introductory sequences, we also see the role that Michael has
within their relationship as the strong, capable partner, who often
steps in and takes over, even in Alice's role as mother to
daughters Jess and Casey.
The problems first surface when Alice goes out
for a drink after work with a friend who needs to talk, completely
forgetting that Michael has a flight and must leave that evening.
When confronted about this by him, her irritability soon dissolves
into despair about the loneliness of her situation when Michael is
away flying. Her secret drinking is soon uncovered and she
confesses to having vodka bottles hidden in various places around
the home. As Alice's behaviour becomes more painfully disturbed and
openly drunken, the effect on the children takes centre stage. This
situation is brought to a dramatic head after she hits her eldest
daughter shortly before falling through the plate glass shower
cubicle in her bathroom, where she then lays unconscious on the
floor. Her daughter Jess frantically calls her Dad, who is away at
the time, to tell him that she thinks that Mummy is dead. He
finds himself organising emergency help from a distance in an
extremely poignant scene. This episode leads directly to Alice
being admitted, for 'detox', into an inpatient unit, where we
follow her progress and that of the family.
The second part of the film focuses on Alice
and the family after she has stopped drinking and is in recovery
back home, attending regular Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. We
watch the change in the balance of the marital relationship brought
about by Alice's new found 'true self' which threatens to tear them
apart. The film illustrates the increasing emotional strain placed
on Michael as he struggles to make sense of those changes and to
understand his own part in their failing marriage whilst, at the
same time, seeking some stability in his life again. The scenes
between Michael and his daughters when he tells them that he is
finally relocating to Detroit are a painful reminder of the effect
that parental separation can have on children, and how the age of
the child commonly determines their response.
The ending is not completely negative, but
leaves open the possibility of something good ultimately developing
between two individuals who have learned a lot about themselves and
their relationship through an incredibly challenging experience.
Although there is a more positive tone to the ending, When a
Man loves a Woman succeeds in communicating the vulnerable
situation experienced by every recovering alcoholic as they set out
to live one day of their life at a time.
When a Man loves a Woman provides us with a platform to
explore not only the general topic of alcohol addiction, but in
particular the specific issues relating to women and alcohol. It
reminds us that it is impossible to tell who may be drinking
excessive amounts of alcohol in our communities and that we must
always ask about alcohol consumption when taking a medical or
psychiatric history. The BMJ has recently reviewed the NICE
guidelines on Diagnosis, assessment and management of harmful
drinking and alcohol dependence; Stephen Pilling et al (BMJ 2011;
342:d700) and alongside this, in the
same issue of the journal, there is an account by a 78 year old man
of his experience with alcoholism, written with his GP, Dr Adrian
Raby, entitled A Patient's Journey: Alcoholism
342:d956) that highlights, in particular, the
effect that his excessive drinking had on his wife.
For similar reasons, I believe that this film is especially
valuable in its portrayal of the effect that Alice's alcohol
addiction has on her marriage and on her children. The anguish,
confusion and hurt that we observe in her older daughter, as she
becomes aware of her mother's problem, are at times almost too
painful to watch. These scenes place us directly into the
battleground so often described by families struggling to cope with
a relative's alcohol dependence. The effects on Alice's marriage to
Michael are also fully explored and a glimpse of their marital
therapy help to remind us of the complex work that usually needs to
be done by a couple struggling to make sense of the causes and to
repair the damage that so often accompanies alcohol addiction.
When a Man loves a Woman follows all members of Alice's
nuclear family closely, giving us a powerful reminder of the
consequences that one person's mental ill health can have on their
loved ones, especially any dependent children.
As the film focuses on Alice's journey through detoxification
and on to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, it highlights the
important role of advice and support that individuals need to deal
with their addiction. This might help to illuminate and support the
argument being made in a recent
report by Alcohol Concern that more alcohol
health workers in hospitals and GP surgeries, offering counselling
and advice, would ultimately save the NHS money. As alcohol misuse
has created a steady rise in costs for the NHS through an increase
in alcohol related illnesses, there is an urgent need to recognise
it as a major health priority.
Recent media attention has highlighted the
particular risks facing middle class, professional woman who seem
to be consuming more alcohol on a regular basis than other females
Telegraph, March 2011). The Institute of
Alcohol Studies has produced a number of very informative factsheets
about alcohol consumption in the UK and in particular one on women
and alcohol, which may be interesting to read in conjunction with a
viewing of this film. The
NHS web pages on Alcohol and Drinking have a number of
useful links (including to a downloadable Alcohol tracking app for
iPhone or desktop) and a
Carer's story, written by a husband about his
alcoholic wife, which provides an account which describes some
similar issues to those portrayed in When a Man loves a
I would highly recommend this film for anyone
seeking to work in the field of alcohol or addictions as well as
for those involved in family therapy. But for a wider mental health
audience, When a Man loves a Woman reminds us that alcohol
dependency is no longer the preserve of any one particular group in
our society alone.
Minds on Film is written by Dr Joyce Almeida.
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chocolate crinkles!
Chocolate Crinkles
1/2 c vegetable oil
4 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
2 c sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 c rice flour mix
1/2 t xanthan gum
1/4 t salt
1 t baking powder
confectioners sugar
Mix oil, chocolate, and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing thoroughly between each. Add vanilla. Measure flour by "dip-level-pour" method. Stir into chocolate mix along with salt, xanthan gum, and baking powder. Chill several hours or overnight. Heat oven to 350. Form dough into balls (it will be stiff) and roll in confectioners sugar to coat. Place about 2" apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake about 10-14 minutes.
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Those sure do look good. My grandmother used to make something like that (not GF, but the chocolate crinkles thing). Haven't had them in years - that may soon change.ReplyDelete
mike - my mom made these a lot when we were kids, they're an old family favorite. Def try them, theyre so good!ReplyDelete
ma - i undercooked the first batch and they were fudgy and delicious! could you send me the recipe for the molasses cookies we used to eat so I can try to make those? I love you too!!!
These look awesome! I like the whole fudgy idea too.ReplyDelete
mrs gf - they're definitely better left a little fudgey if you intend on eating any the next day. I just ate some and I'd baked half of them longer and half less and the ones I baked less were best.ReplyDelete
d - my rice flour mix is on the lefthand side of the main page. 2 c rice flour (either, I mix) and 1/3 tapioca and 2/3 c potato starch. dip level pour is just what it sounds like. no sifting. its moms recipe!
AND, yes, totally soft the next day. I just ate 3. mmmmmmm! too bad you're not coming over for a long time to have any!
I would cut down the sugar, maybe to 1 c? You'll still need some.ReplyDelete
This recipe is great for Passover too -- I used all potato starch for the flour, and it turned out great. I've been using a couple of techniques to make the baking process faster. First, after mixing up the dough and before chilling, I shape the dough into long thin logs, the diameter of the final ball, and wrap in wax paper. After the dough has chilled, you simply slice pieces off of the log, and shape slightly to create the balls of dough. Second, I've been putting the confectioners sugar in a small baggie, then dropping several dough balls into the bag and shaking. This coats the balls quickly. Thanks for a great recipe -- everyone at the seder loved them.ReplyDelete

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I though I would share my latest robotics project. Im building a robot tank. I was planning to be able to remotely control the tank either using a normal radio control handset or with a wireless network.
I built a pair of Electronic speed controls for the tank tracks using Picaxe 18 Microcontrollers. The speed controllers take in standard 1-2ms PWM signals and convert them into output PWM drive signals for the motors lasting between 0-18ms.
There are lots of analogue circuit diagrams on how to do PWM motor control for radio control type stuff but not much in the way of microcontroller based projects I found, so I just did it myself and it worked.
I would definatly use picaxes to do PWM motor control again, even though the BASIC interpreter is a bit slow the chips are more than fast enough to do motor control.
I have a picaxe.net server and I was planning to use that as an onboard computer but Im afraid it just isnt man enough for the job. I was planning to use the I2C output from the board to control extra I/O by sending the Picaxe.net server TCP/IP commands but it just didnt work out. - Not a problem Im going to use a SheevaPlug server to do that job instead..


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Dell OpenManage Power Center enables monitoring of the current or historical temperature of the data centers in Power Center. This can help you understand the temperature status and identify hot spots in the data center.
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Law schools need to wake up to the idea that "we need to transform how we educate the lawyers of tomorrow," Suffolk Law Dean Camille Nelson writes in an editorial for the ABA Journal.
In an article that attempts to chart a way forward for law schools in a changing marketplace, Nelson writes "we are in the midst of a technological renaissance" and that law "is not immune from technology's reach."
"The digital generation is now coming of age and entering the work world, including the legal profession. And what do they find? They find us steeped in tradition and conservative by design," Nelson says.
But Nelson—who is Suffolk Law's first female and first black dean— notes that with change comes opportunity.
"To my mind, the confluence of a technological revolution and a crisis in education is ultimately a time of opportunity, if we remain awake," Nelson writes.
As an example, Nelson points to the launch of Suffolk's new Institute on Law Practice Technology & Innovation, which offers programs, courses and lectures about technology's transformation of the practice of law and the delivery of legal services.
In addition, Suffolk Law offers courses related to law practice technology, including "Lawyering in an Age of Smart Machines," taught by legal tech pioneer Marc Lauritsen, and "The 21st Century Legal Profession," by Jordan Furlong. Both classes seek to teach students to use and design technology to make legal practice more efficient and effective. Another Suffolk course offers an ethics simulation in which students operate a virtual law firm and solve problems using a virtual law practice management system.
Nelson notes that tech-savvy law students are more marketable to employers. Again, she points to Suffolk Law's expanded internship program intended to ensure law students obtain experience in nontraditional legal employment settings, such as electronic discovery and automated document assembly companies.
"There is now a vibrant conversation in the world of practice, in legal academia and administration, and in the legal services industry more generally," she writes. "It would seem that the "crisis in legal education" has provided just the kick in the pants for much-needed dialogue, exchange, and collaboration. It's a start—the right start."


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Here's What the ECB Predicts For Next Year
Although the European Central Bank kept interest rates on hold at 0.75 percent on Thursday, the bank debated cutting rates this week and considered a cut for next year if the euro-zone economy does not pick up.
"If the situation does not improve, and there is relatively a small chance there will be a significant improvement, it is possible to expect a move in interest rates next year," said Jozef Makuch, one of the ECB's Governing Council members, to Reuters.
The ECB's interest rate decision came one day after the bank lowered its forecasts for next year's growth. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said that the euro zone's economy is expected to shrink by 0.5 percent this year, a greater contraction than the 0.4 percent decrease the bank predicted in September. In part, the bank based its weaker growth prospects on the lowered expectations given by the bloc's core countries: Germany, France, and the Netherlands.
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Germany's Bundesbank has predicted that the economy will grow by 0.4 percent, down from a June forecast of 1.6 percent, and Austria's central bank decreased its growth forecast from 1.7 percent to 0.5 percent.
Although Germany is an important growth driver for the euro zone, which is in its second recession since 2009, it could enter a recession of its own. As Reuters reported, "the country's resilience to the crisis is wearing thin and the central bank's new projections reflect this." In particular, German industry has suffered, with industrial output and exports falling in recent months. According to Economic Ministry data seen by Reuters on Friday, industrial production fell more than expected in October, decreasing by 2.6 percent.
However, the German government remains optimistic.
"We have no doubt that we are still growing," Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters. "There are many indicators and they don't all point to a recession."
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What Women Want In Bed
Romantic Atmosphere
Women love romance. Words and gestures of romance not only make her comfortable, but will also turn her on. Lighting candles, playing her favourite romantic melodies and sprinkling bed with flower petals are all conventional acts, but a sure shot gateway to her heart. Live and enjoy the moment, jumping too far will create an environment of displeasure. Confluence of effective communication and romantic environment fosters the sexual experience.Loading...
Bedroom Talks
Most of the times, men hesitate to talk about preferences in the bedroom, i.e. the position or anything related to what goes on between a 'much-in-love' couple. Key to healthy physical relationship is communication. It is quite important to communicate about sex issues, without any hesitation with your partner. Any kind of abusive remarks should be avoided unless your partner does it herself in some situation. In order to communicate freely with your partner, bring up something from your physical relationship such as 'I love it when you...'
Smooth, Slow & Passionate Act
Women don't acknowledge a minute-lover, rather want things slow and smooth. Get acquainted with the situation, devoting time to caress and fondle, and all of these things that will make her happy. Moreover, hold her while gazing deep in her eyes. In a nutshell, one must involve her mind, body and spirit into the pursuit.
One of the crucial aspects of sexual act is foreplay. Foreplay is a ust because otherwise it will seem as if you're making a leap to climax and don't bother about her desries. Foreplay can be verbal too so experiment all you can; begin with kissing, softly caressing her body, teasing her and trying to talk about what's going to happen next.
Surprise her! Women love surprises, so why not surprise her in bed. The surprises will contribute to the cause of spicing physical relationship. Therefore, one must have some tricks up in their sleeves to delight their lady luck.
To Take the Charge
Yes, women too want to take charge! Let her be in charge, make her feel as though she's is leading the act. Tell her that what she's doing is really working for you. Sometimes, it is better to give control and relax.
Cuddles and More Cuddles
Women complain that men tend to get lost in their own world, they want what they want. Everything comes in pairs; men shouldn't forget what their partner wants. To please her, it would be nice if you do cuddling for a while.
Tease and Tickle
It's a part of foreplay. Sometimes, those light touches and teases can electrify the act. Tease her with an object such as feather. It can tickle the sensitive part of her body and get you into the act.
We all are vocal beings. Tell them how you like it and what you love about her. Be more open than you are about lovemaking with your partner. Don't let your ego get in the way; it will better your connection with her.
Roughness, Aggression
If everything has been working fine for you, even then it is okay to venture into this slightly darker fantasy. You don't necessarily have to be the aggressor on every occasion but a little adventure on bed sometimes is what she wanted.


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Despite recordings available online, there's still a demand for official Grateful Dead releases by those seeking high quality sound and distinctive packaging. Dead archivist and producer David Lemieux brought that to the ultimate level last year with a Europe '72 box set that included all 22 shows from the legendary trek overseas. The longtime Deadhead brought up the idea a several years before but Rhino Records, which releases the band's albums, wasn't thrilled about putting out a 72-disc set.
Pointing to the success of previous multi-disc sets such as the 10-CD Fillmore West 1969: the Complete Recordings set, he eventually convinced them that there was an audience for such an endeavor. A limited edition run of Europe '72 sold out in less than a week. The music-only box set and individual shows are now available at www.dead.net.
During the second part of my conversation with him we discuss the formation of this massive release as well as its companion piece, a two-CD compilation, Europe '72 Volume 2 and the return of Stanley Mouse to add his artistic vision.
JPG: When you were talking about the sound and about people having favorite eras, favorite years and stuff like that I remember when I first started collecting tapes and I really didn't like the late '70s because the way the tapes had this very AM radio sound quality. It didn't sound so strong, especially when you started getting into the later '80s tapes where there was a very heavy muscular feel to the sound on those tapes. So, for years I never really cared for the late '70s but now I've heard better recordings and I've come to appreciate those years a whole lot more.
DL: I hear ya. This comes down to listening experience, where it can be a great show and if it's not fun to listen to and you have to wade through some bad mix or maybe too much audience or whatever it is, it detracts from it. Going back to your earlier question, that's why we do pay a lot of attention to the listening experience we give to the Dave's Picks buyer because, ultimately, we want them to enjoy it. The music is first and foremost always but there's been plenty of releases that have been mixed based on subpar tape quality, where the engineer listened and like, "Look, I can't get any bass out of this" or "Bob Weir's guitar is not in the mix." Things that I know and I notice this when I listen but I always figure, "Oh, they can fix it in mastering." And now I clearly know they can't [fix] a lot of these things when it comes down to a two-track mix. It's a many person process. There's a lot of checks and balances and certainly Jeffrey Norman is one of the major checks and balances because he's the engineer that's got to make this stuff sound good.
JPG: Speaking of sound, I reviewed the two-disc compilation Europe '72 Volume 2. Was everything on that and the entire Europe '72 box set from two-track tapes or multi-tracks?
DL: Those were all multi-tracks, 16-track recordings, when they did that. The entire tour, all 22 shows were recorded to multi-track. Going back to earlier, talking about fixing things, occasionally we did have to fix things because they weren't running two machines. There's no overlap. So, when a tape ended in the middle of a song it takes them 30 seconds to put the new tape on. So, you're missing 30 seconds of music on the multi-track. Fortunately, for the most part, they were recording two-track recordings as well. And so we would fix with those. Yeah, 99.5%, maybe more, 99.9% of that box set is from the multi-track, which is to say of the 71 hours in there, we're talking a few minutes, a couple minutes from the two-track, where you won't notice it unless you've got the headphones on and you know what you're looking for. Again, that's kudos to Jeffrey and David Glasser, the mastering engineer on that project for making these fixes so perfect.
JPG: From what I've heard it sounds astoundingly good.
DL: Make sure you put that statement into this printed piece because I agree and Jeffrey who spent almost a year working on this stuff. You get so close to it, you forget how good it sounds. I agree 100%. I listen to this stuff at least a couple of times a week and I've been listening to it now for a year-and-a-half. I'm just blown away by how great everything sounds. And again, Jeffrey's mix and David Glasser's mastering, a really absolutely spectacular combination.
JPG: Bringing up my review's last paragraph, "It should also be pointed out that both discs sound amazing! One expects good things from the folks at Grateful Dead Productions but the clarity of these tapes is really a treasure. Even if you were never there, you can still feel as if you're reliving the moment."
DL: And the nice thing is no matter what you're listening on whether it's in your car or a mediocre home system or a huge studio version of a home system, it just sounds great. You've got perfect balance of the instruments. And you've got the nice bottom end keeping things down between the kick drum and the bass but you get defined bass as well. That's the great thing is that you get the bottom end Phil's putting down but you do get to hear every individual note that he plays, which is the unique thing about Phil. He's constantly playing melodic lines that you want to hear as opposed to just keeping the rhythm down. Yeah, I agree 100 percent. I'm glad you said that.
JPG: I mentioned in the review about clearly hearing Pigpen's organ fills on "Not Fade Away" and stuff like that. Maybe I didn't notice it so much on other recordings but it was just really a cool thing to hear going on here.
DL: Yep. Agreed. And that's something that Jeffrey was very conscious of doing, making sure that the nuances of the things that you might not have heard before. He wanted to make sure that that stuff all came through clearly. Not accentuating anything unnaturally, but like you say, when Pigpen is doing an organ flourish at the end of "Not Fade Away" or doing the vocal at the end of "Not Fade Away," he wants to make sure that that is heard because they, obviously, did it for a reason onstage. So, it certainly should be heard. The word 'nuance' of what Jeffrey was doing in the mixes came up many times during the mix and there's a version of "Loser" on that compilation and it's the same thing where you really hear the nuances of what Bobby's doing on guitar and, of course, what Jerry's doing. But it's just that you really hear everything. Kudos to Jeffrey once again. He brought these 40-year-old tapes to life. Now we get to hear them forever. So, it's great.
JPG: Speaking of Pigpen, when putting together the compilation, was it an accidental set of circumstances or was it always an idea of making disc one highlighting Pigpen and disc two focus on lengthy jams?
DL: Not really. We knew that we wanted to make disc one similar to a first set and, generally, a first set on this tour would have three or four Pigpen tunes. So, we got those ones on there. We got "Next Time You See Me," "Good Lovin'" and "Chinatown Shuffle." We knew that we wanted those. And, obviously, we didn't want to repeat any song titles that were also on "Europe '72," the original one. That's why you don't see "Mr. Charlie" or "It Hurts Me Too" on there.
Disc two, there really weren't any Pig tunes that we hadn't already released from the tour that were the exceptional versions. So, we definitely wanted disc two to be focused on a major jam, either "Dark Star" or "The Other One." Fortunately, we got both. And then, we wanted to end it with the typical rockin' ender of the tour, which in this case was "Not Fade Away">"Going Down the Road">"Not Fade Away."
It wasn't by design like, "This'll be the Pig disc and…" It was more playing it like a show. The versions of "Lovelight" on the tour, there are only a couple. We've released them. So, there were no other versions of "Lovelight" to put on there. And in terms of doing a "Caution," the only way we could have done a "Caution" is…the "Caution"s came out of "Sugar Magnolia" and there's already a "Sugar Mag" on the original album. So we didn't want to do one of the "Dark Star">"Sugar Mag">"Caution"s. There was definitely thought in terms of all that stuff. A lot of things that maybe you don't think about, but then you realize, "Oh, it would have been great to have a "Dark Star" and "Caution" on that disc, too," but they all came out of "Sugar Mag," which meant that we would have been repeating "Sugar Mag," which we didn't want to do.
So, it wasn't by design. It just happened that way. What we ended up with we were very satisfied with. We originally thought about doing this as a three-CD set and then when it was decided to do it as a two-CD, it became very exciting because you're really getting it packed with the important songs from the tour and great versions of them all. It worked out well.
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How to Make a Blank Slate Bulletin Board in One Hour
We appreciate instant gratification, so a project that takes an afternoon or less is a winner in our book. With one free hour, a cheap cork board and a scrap of canvas, we whipped up this tack board to show off our yummy new push pins and inspiration items.
When we received our fabric covered button thumbtacks from The Dove Tree, we knew it would be wrong to use them on a fussy bulletin board. We needed a blank slate, so we upgraded an inexpensive cork board to a tabula rasa.
With canvas as a background, you can literally do anything to enhance the appearance of a tack board (hence, the blank slate). We painted a set of black brackets, wrote words with charcoal pencil, attached a bulldog clip to the top, and added small nails to hold a ruler. You could paint more, sew on patches, embroider designs, stencil shapes, collage images, hot glue buttons or Legos, use fine markers to add text, and so on -- endless options.
Materials Needed:
Any size cork board (with a wood frame)
Natural canvas fabric (larger than board)
Staple gun and 5/16" staples
Ruler and pencil
Acrylic paint and small brush
Hammer and short nails
How to Make a Bulletin Board:
1. Before you start, you might want to wash your canvas to make it softer. We like the canvas to be less perfect and slightly wrinkled, similar to a crumpled piece of paper that has been flattened out. If you prefer no texture, keep the canvas rolled after purchase to avoid any creases. Also, remove the attached hangers from the frame of the corkboard. Save them for later.
2. Lay the canvas out on a table and center the corkboard face down on the canvas. Measure a 2" border around the board and trim the canvas.
3. In the middle of one side, fold the canvas edge over once and then wrap it around the edge of the board. Secure with a staple and then do that again on each side in the center. Turn the corkboard over to make sure the front side looks good before continuing with the rest of the staples on back.
4. Double fold each side of the canvas and pull it tight while stapling it to the back of the cork board wood frame (leave the corners undone).
5. Trim the bulky fabric at each corner in order to have clean, finished edges.
6. Fold the remaining corner fabric into a triangle and then neatly over the edge (like wrapping a present).
7. Securely staple each corner, making sure all the edges are smooth. Flip the board over and it should look like a blank artist's canvas. Before you continue, fasten the hangers to the back again using strong glue or small nails.
8. Use acrylic paint to add embellishments on the front.
9. Write on the canvas with charcoal pencil or permanent marker, if you wish. Add a bulldog clamp for attaching things "clip board style" or staple on a small envelope for tiny trinkets. Just play with the canvas and make it as simple or as elaborate as you want.
10. Final option, hammer nails through a ruler and into the wood frame of the board. Oh, and don't forget to find some unique pushpins or even make your own.
That's it-- one hour later you have a personalized tack board that perfectly meets your needs. This is truly one of the easiest DIY projects that anyone can do. For more bulletin board ideas, take a peek at these former posts:
How to Reuse a Coffee Sack as an Office Board
DIY Keyboard Thumbtacks
Bulletin Boards: Funky, Fancy and DIY Round Up


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Home Improvement
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Before we started home improvement this was where our front lawn used to be. Now it holds a porrta-potty and a rubbish heap.
New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) March 15, 2014
Research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Specialty Day in New Orleans highlights evidence that insurance type, household income and age at injury are significant, independent predictors of the rate which Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgeries occurred in kids. Researchers also noted that a delay in pediatric ACL surgery of more than five months correlated with increased severity of other knee injuries in the future.
"In our study, ACL surgery occurred more rapidly among pediatric and adolescent subjects who were more affluent, covered by commercial insurance and who were older when first seen. It was also interesting to note that ethnicity, gender and obesity did not show a significant correlation to time of treatment," said Justin T. Newman, MD, lead author of the study and Orthopaedic Surgery Chief Resident from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "According to most recent research, treating pediatric ACL injuries in a more timely manner leads to better outcomes and a quicker return to sports," noted Newman.
Researchers identified 272 individuals who underwent primary ACL reconstruction at a single, large volume tertiary-level pediatric hospital between 2005 and 2012. Demographic, clinical and socioeconomic variables were retrospectively collected from all patients less than 19 years old at time of injury. Socioeconomic variables included household income and insurance type. Household income was based on median income associated with each of the subject's home zip codes. Insurance type was classified as commercial, government issued or uninsured.
Patients in the study who had a commercial insurance plan underwent ACL surgery at a rate that was 63% faster than patients with Medicaid, government assisted insurance plans or no insurance. In addition, differences in the time to ACL surgery were significantly different, with commercial plan individuals obtaining surgery in 1.5 months compared to 3 months for non-commercial. Patients whose household income was greater than the 75th percentile underwent surgery at an average of 1.2 months, compared to 2.2 months.
"Insurance type may delay the time from injury to surgery and consequently this delay in surgery could result in an increased chance of knee injuries requiring additional treatment. However, it is also important to note that often times the delay to have surgery is driven by the patient and family members rather than orthopaedic evidence and research," said Newman.
The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) is a world leader in sports medicine education, research, communication and fellowship, and includes national and international orthopaedic sports medicine leaders. The Society works closely with many other sports medicine specialists, including athletic trainers, physical therapists, family physicians, and others to improve the identification, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of sports injuries. AOSSM is also a founding partner of STOP Sports Injuries, a national education program to prevent overuse and traumatic injuries in kids. For more information on AOSSM or the STOP Sports Injuries, visit http://www.sportsmed.org or http://www.stopsportsinjuries.org.


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In the sublime "Any Given Day," Linda McLean captured the perverse way tragedy coexists with joy. In the terrifying "Strangers, Babies," she unraveled the enigma of how the past shapes the future. Now in "Every Five Minutes," in its world premiere at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, she explores the fault lines of a fractured mind.
The Scottish playwright has a gift for unlocking the magic and horror lurking within the ordinary, the way that life can zoom from silly to shocking when you least expect it. In "Every Five Minutes," vibrantly directed by Loretta Greco, she turns the passage of time into a jigsaw puzzle in which we never quite figure out how the pieces snap together. If this intriguing 90-minute drama lacks the shattering emotional power of "Any Given Day" and the taut suspense of "Strangers," it's still a provocative odyssey through the elusive nature of identity.
McLean's plays are always essentially mysterious, partly because of her savagely dark subject matter and partly because she experiments with the connection between form and theme. Here she thrusts us deep into a spiral of memory and meaning that's always twisting out from our grasp.
At the core of the uncertainty is Mo, a tormented fellow played by the always magnetic Rod Gnapp. Draped by his lovely wife, Sara (Mia Tagano), catered to by his close friends Ben (Sean San José) and Rachel (Carrie Paff), Mo is a broken man, dogged by voices only he hears, plagued by nightmarish visions that threaten to drag him into oblivion.
While the narrative slips and skips back and forth in time so that we are never quite certain where these characters are in the long history of their relationships, it soon becomes clear that Mo has only recently been freed from a long imprisonment.
Seized from his home without due process of law, he has been tortured, deprived of sleep and taken to the brink of madness time and again for 13 years. When he returns home, he thinks he is finally free, but redemption proves to be an unattainable state of mind. He can never truly inhabit his own homecoming dinner party because the past won't let him go.
Ironically, Mo's eerie navigation between the real and the surreal, although etched with clarity by Gnapp, is never quite as gripping as it should be. Although it's shot through with explosive video projections and whimsical musical interludes, the play falls short of capturing the free fall of mental fragility. The ambiguity would cut closer to the bone if Mo's torment were more palpably evoked. The limbo of isolation doesn't generate enough dread here.
The specters that taunt him, including Bozo the clown (Patrick Alparone), Harpo Marx (Jomar Tagatac) and the Almighty himself, lack enough menace to be consistently unsettling. Of all the bizarre, shadowy apparitions that circle Mo, only a few, such as the towering ghost of his father, a coal worker black with soot, make a visceral impact. Certainly the subtitles, elliptical phrases that hint at what is now and what is then, distract as much as they illuminate.
The most evocative elements of this psychological thriller concern the more mundane lives of the people left back at home. Sharply observed and emotionally rich, the banter between Ben and Rachel, who go from frazzled parents of a toddler to shellshocked parents of a teenager, revels in great intimacy and grit. San José, Paff and Tagano ground the epic leaps in style and tone with penetrating performances.
The unknowable may be the heart of this drama, but it's the everyday that truly grabs the imagination in "Every Five Minutes."
Contact Karen D'Souza at 408-271-3772. Read her at www.mercurynews.com/karen-dsouza.
By Linda McLean, presented by Magic Theatre
Through: April 20
Where: Magic Theatre,
Building D, Fort Mason
Center, San Francisco
Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission
Tickets: $20-$60,


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The 21st Century Photo Book
Next week, Paris Photo will start and take me away in its frenzy. The fair itself has a sizeable photo book section, and beyond the confines of the Grand Palais, Offprint is very happening. For this occasion I will take an unusual look at the independent photo book, in the hope that this new? angle on things will bring us closer to understanding the hype that has grown around the photo book, the sheer endless number of book fairs, the awards, the photo book blogs like the one I run with Joerg Colberg, the Facebook groups, the strings of independent publishers, the apps for iPad and internet, down to the involvement of Blurb, Issu and Adobe Lightroom or even Fedrigoni.
I have found this unusual perspective on what drives us to collectively engage with the photo book in a lecture by Bruce Sterling, held eight years ago already at a Siggraph conference.
SIGGRAPH is the name of annual conference on computer graphics and Bruce Sterling is a science fiction writer and design instructor. Bruce Sterling is a guy who introduced me to the world of blobjects and spimes, something I will always remember him for. I never did read any of his books, maybe I should.
So before I start talking about photo books, I have to give some extracts from Bruce's lecture called "when Blobjects rule the earth." To make things ultra-clear: Bruce never spoke specifically about photo books, but about computer graphics and design, about a future relationship between humans and objects. Bruce says exciting things like:
"You see, the future is already here, it's just not well distributed yet."
In my grand vision, there's a history of the relationship of objects and human beings. It goes like this. Up to the present day, during previous history, we humans have had, and made, four different classes of possible objects. These classes of objects are called, in order of their historical appearance, Artefacts, Machines, Products, and Gizmos.
The lines between Artefacts, Machines, Products and Gizmos aren't mechanical. They're historical. The differences between them are found in the material cultures they make possible. The kind of society they produce, and the kind of human being that is necessary to make them and use them.
Artefacts are made and used by hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers.
Machines are made and used by customers, in an industrial society.
Products are made and used by consumers, in a military-industrial complex.
While Gizmos are made and used by end-users, in whatever today is – a "New World Disorder," a "Terrorism-Entertainment Complex," our own brief interregnum.
An end-user is the historically evolved version of a consumer.
A Gizmo is not manufacturable by any centrally planned society. A Gizmo is something like a Product, but instead of behaving predictably and sensibly for a mass market of obedient consumers, a Gizmo is an open-ended tech development project.
In a Gizmo, development has been deputized to end-users. End-Users, who are people like practically everybody in this audience, do a great deal of unpaid pro bono work in developing Gizmos. The true signs of a Gizmo are that it has a short lifespan and more functionality crammed into it than you will ever use or understand. A Gizmo is like a Product that has swallowed a big chunk of the previous society, and contains that within the help center and the instruction manual.
A Gizmo, unlike a Machine or a Product, is not ef?cient. A Gizmo has bizarre, baroque, and even crazy amounts of functionality. This Nokia that I'm carrying here, this is a classic Gizmo: it's a cellphone, a web browser, an SMS platform, an MMS platform, a really bad camera, and an abysmal typewriter, plus a notepad, a sketchpad, a calendar, a diary, a clock, a music player, and an education system with its own onboard tutorial that nobody ever reads. Plus I can plug extra, even more complicated stuff into it, if I take a notion. It's not a Machine or a Product, because it's not a stand-alone device. It is a platform, a playground for other developers. It's a dessert topping, and it's a ?oor wax.
It's because a Gizmo is delicately poised between commodity and chaos.
It is trying to cram as much impossible complexity as it can, into an almost usable state. It is leaning forward into the future.
"Leaning forward in to the future" – I like that.
Bruce continues:
"The next stage is an object that does not exist yet. It needs a noun, so that we can think about it. We can call it a "Spime," which is a neologism for an imaginary object that is still speculative. A Spime also has a kind of person who makes it and uses it, and that kind of person is somebody called a "Wrangler." At the moment, you are end-using Gizmos. My thesis here, my prophesy to you, is that, pretty soon, you will be wrangling Spimes.
The most important thing to know about Spimes is that they are precisely located in space and time. They have histories. They are recorded, tracked, inventoried, and always associated with a story.
A true Spime is going to get ahead of the curve by bringing you inside the tent of the designers and developers and engineers, and the sales and marketing people. A true Spime creates spime wranglers.
A spime is a users group first, and a physical object second."
Mark these words: "A users group first."
We follow Bruce for a little while longer, but we're almost there :
In the future, an object's life begins on a graphics screen. It is born digital. Its design specs accompany it throughout its life. It is inseparable from that original digital blueprint, which rules the material world. This object is going to tell you – if you ask – everything that an expert would tell you about it. Because it WANTS you to become an expert. If you become an expert in wrangling that object, then you will contribute to the advancement of the industry. The object will evolve faster, the industry will evolve faster.
So – as long as you could keep your eyes open – you would be able to swiftly understand: where it was, when you got it, how much it cost, who made it, what it was made of, where those resources came from, what a better model looked like, what a cheaper model looked like, who to thank for making it, who to complain to about its inadequacies, what previous kinds of Spime used to look like, why this Spime is better than earlier ones, what people think the Spime of Tomorrow might look like, what you could do to help that happen, the history of the Spime's ownership, what it had been used for, where and when it was used, what other people who own this kind of Spime think about it, how other people more or less like you have altered or fancied-up or modified their Spime, what most people use Spimes for, the entire range of unorthodox uses of Spimes by the world's most extreme Spime geek fandom, and how much your Spime is worth on an auction site. And especially – absolutely critically – where to get rid of it safely.
By making the whole business transparent, a host of social ills and dazzling possibilities are exposed to the public gaze. Everyone who owns a spime becomes, not a mute purchaser, but a stakeholder. And the closer you get to it, the more attention it sucks from you. You don't just use it, any more than I can pick up this Nokia and just make a simple phone call. This device wants to haul me into the operating system; I'm supposed to tell all my friends about it. We're all supposed to become its darlings and its cultists, we're all supposed to help out. Sometimes we do that willingly, sometimes we just fight for breath. We're not customers. We're not consumers. And with spimes, we're not even end-users. We spend our time wrangling with the real problems and opportunities of material culture. We're wranglers."
Books as we know them now, from a printing press and mass produced, stem from a time when there were products and customers. These were the heydays of the publishing houses churning out products for the masses that were clamoring for books, novels to read, to spread their ideas in, to educate their children with.
Photo books also stem from a time when it became easier to reproduce photographs mechanically. The reason we like modernistic looking books, is that photo books were born and became popular at the same time as modernism started to happen.
The other day I read in an online article in Smashing Magazine:
"Despite not being particularly famous for it, one important part of the Swiss Style is its remarkable use of photography. Following the modernist ideas in which photography was a much better tool to portray reality than drawings and illustrations, the Neue grafik magazine, a very important Swiss graphic design publication at the time, dedicated a big part of its content to photography and its application in design."
Photo books have moved through the era of Gizmo's relatively unchanged, give and take a few gadgetries here and there, maybe because the time wasn't quite right for it yet. Now we've landed on the doorstep of the Spimes and the phenomenon is ready to explode. So what happens to the photo book in the age of the Spime and its wranglers? What are the consequences of that?
We see massive shifts in the publishing industry, which is understandable insofar as they belonged to an era of product and consumers. Many companies are now dead or have re–invented themselves as end-users and wranglers. We see a myriad of smaller publishing houses springing up, operating on different financial models based on distribution, channelling the books to the end users.
More importantly: we have become a user group, photo book geeks, nerds, cultists. The internet with its capacity to collaps geographical distances has allowed us to do so. We feel connected, through blogs, facebook groups, flickr, festivals, whatever. We tell each other how great it is to make and sell photo books, we discuss its future, its past, the highs and lows, we make books on collectible books sold on eBay, we make non-existent photo books and sell them to the group, we exchange tips and tricks on where and how to print, what device to calibrate your monitor with for the best color results, we meet in book fairs, we exchange our books, we collect lists of independent publishers worldwide, we self-publish, we teach ourselves photoshop, indesign, lithography, we acquire intimate knowledge of different printing techniques, paper type and how they behave, we join workshops, we make endless amounts of dummies.
In short, we're sucked up in a permanent state of wrangling with photo books, and we occasionally even make one, but almost as a by product, or in small numbers to share in our support groups, or with our fan base, our kickstarter backers. In short, we are called upon to become experts in wrangling the book as something that is part of an increasingly digitalized industrial process. Some do this better than others.
For instance, Blurb is very much part of this Spime world, although it kind of sits on the other side room than the independent photo book professional. Blurb has recently made a deal with Adobe, or so I heard, which allows the user to directly upload his book design (all made on a computer screen of course, based on pre-formatted templates downloaded from Blurb or elsewhere) from Lightroom to the Blurb interface, where the book can be printed, ordered and distributed – at costs that are often higher than when you would go to a local offset printer. Geek wranglers of photo books tend to eye Blurb with suspicion, but also knowing they somehow are doing something right, judging by the massive platform it has created – by eating up part of the previous order of things: printers, publishers, distributors, books shops and now designers.
The one thing it cannot dispense with it the distribution, the logistics of getting the book from A to B, from factory to customer. Here is a bit of the old production process that won't go away just yet. I think they're working on that. Probably by making it possible to print and bind books at home, with materials supplied by the local branch of the Blurb shop. And we will do that, because we're wranglers, we're end users who are involved in our products in ways our parents never were.
What's more: in line with Sterling's prediction, the photobook has become transparent for us. You see it in the colophon mostly. The other day I found a book (only saw it on the net) that was so spimey, that it listed not only the usual suspects, like printing and binding, but also what paper was used, what number in the edition it was, and the date when it went to print! Why would I care about the date?!
Elisabeth Tonnard has made a book that is so transparent, that it wasn't even visible anymore, yet it was a huge success in her community of wranglers, and it allowed them to exchange thoughts about the photo book as an object and a subject of commerce. It was brilliant in that it was a real Spime, where the user group came first, and the physical object came second, became irrelevant.
Looking at the photo book industry with Spime glasses gives us many new handles to tackle the phenomenon of the photo book in the digital age. For instance, why we are urged to publish our photo books as apps, or to create interactive visual narratives that engage the audiences – and invites them to become a stakeholder in your story and to do some wrangling themselves.
Or why it's quite useless for a photographer to market himself as a brand, because brands and brand names are a thing of a bygone era of products and consumers. Establish brand names costs too much effort and money before it takes an effect. It's better to focus on creating a spime of your work, one that other people can wrangle with and that taps into their time, attention and money.
However, the one thing that all wranglers run into when it comes to photo books is Logistics and Distribution. Those two are the kings in the land of Spimes – because physical objects still have to travel this exact geographical distance that the internet has made to collapse. Here is where the real innovations have to be made, is the feeling of anyone who publishes a book. (It is no surprise therefore to read about increasing revenues for parcel delivery companies.)
I would like to put this issue on the table, here and in Paris next week. Think of it when making a book, take it into consideration, account, calculation. Decide not to think about it, to make a huge and impractical but gorgeous books. Or think how to make a book outside the Matrix world of Spimes, single issues, unique copies, books that break the mould. Think if you can make money with it, or if that is not an issue. Whatever. But think beyond the photographs and the design that have to meet in heaven. Stop being romantic, start being sharp.
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Landri's playing time in defensive line coach Jim Washburn's defensive tackle rotation seemed to increase with each game. As a result, Trevor Laws saw less action. The signing of Landri makes it all but certain that Laws' days with the Eagles are over.
The Eagles now have five defensive tackles under contract -- starters Cullen Jenkins and Mike Patterson, Landri, Dixon and Cedric Thornton. Patterson had surgery on his brain to correct an AVM this off-season. He is expected to make a full recovery by the start of training camp.
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The court-ordered two-day review of the November Cape Coral mayoral election ended Wednesday at the Lee Elections Center in South Fort Myers, with former mayor John Sullivan's team looking over the results from 11 election day precincts where the election day and early voting results differed greatly.
The review of the absentee and provisional ballots was completed downtown late Wednesday morning before reconvening at 1 p.m. at the election center with a look at the Election Day ballots from precincts 28, 29, 35, 92, 99, 103, 109, 110, 113, 114 and 116.
Sharon Harrington, Lee County Elections supervisor, said things went well on her end.
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Sullivan said the selection of those precincts were no accident.
"There were things we looked for as far as the numbers that were abnormal. We looked in areas where the numbers were strange," Sullivan said. "The early voting was out of whack and the mail and election day ballots were different. I don't know if we'll ever figure out why."
There were 3,208 ballots in the 11 districts in question. Current mayor Marni Sawicki won eight of them in Election Day voting. The final count was 1,647 for Sawicki, 1,552 for Sullivan, a margin of 95 votes.
When looking at those same precincts in early voting, the numbers in those 1,145 votes are even more stark, according to David Carr, who is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit pertaining to the election.
Sawicki won early voting in those districts by a combined 707-438 margin, with 61.7 percent of the vote. Sullivan won just one district, with Sawicki winning several by a nearly two-to-one margin.
Overall, Sawicki won in early voting by a 2,033 to 1,562 margin, collecting 56.5 percent of the vote, according to Lee Elections numbers.
Not only did the numbers show a wide disparity for Sawicki, Carr said, but also showed an unusual amount of early voting activity, especially in areas near the polling place and around city hall.
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Sullivan was very happy with the way the process was handled, adding he didn't know for sure where the process goes from here.
"It went pretty smooth. The employees here were very organized and did a great job. My volunteers worked with them," Sullivan said. "We haven't looked at the numbers yet and we'll see what happens. I'll talk to my attorney and see what he says and I'm sure the other attorneys want to get together as well."
Despite her confidence in the way her office did their job, Harrington said she still expects the case to go to trial on Feb. 12 and 13, where Sullivan will seek an official recount.
"I think they still want to pursue it. I haven't heard anything differently," Harrington said. "It would be nice if we didn't have to, but we're ready for it."
Harrington said Sullivan's camp wanted to know about voter history shortly after the election, which is done on an entirely different machine. She also said the Sullivan camp was concerned how the canvassing board was composed.
"Results of voter history doesn't take overvotes and undervotes into consideration. We have a person who voted, but it may not have counted," Harrington said. "Some have their address withheld on their file, like firefighters and police."
Sullivan lost the overall election to Sawicki by 121 votes. According to Harrington, Sullivan won the absentee ballots and Election Day voting, but lost in early voting, prompting him to seek a recount through the courts on the grounds of possible improprieties.
Sawicki was present for the review briefly on Tuesday. She was not present Wednesday and did not return calls for comment.
Since Sullivan lost the election by more than the half-percentage point necessary to trigger and automatic recount, he would have to pay for the recount himself, as well as the review he has undertaken.


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