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Sean McCaffrey and Andy Thompson successfully navigated their share of ups and downs during four seasons as St. Charles lacrosse coaching cohorts.
McCaffrey assisted Thompson with the St. Charles boys co-op during their first three springs together before filling the same role last season once Thompson opted to coach St. Charles North when the co-op split.
Now that the men have flip-flopped roles – Thompson ceded control of the North Stars in late fall – they have neither envisioned nor experienced any awkwardness.
"It's kind of nice to have your mentor as your assistant," McCaffrey said, "so that's an easy transition."
Thompson, a 1999 St. Charles High graduate, enters the upcoming season with a decidedly smaller profile than usual. A former player who coached St. Charles to four successive IHSLA Final Four appearances from 2007-10, he cited family concerns in a letter addressed to North players and their families.
"With my growing family and growing business, I do need to make sure that my family comes first and that I spend my time outside of practice and games being with and supporting them," Thompson wrote.
Thompson is a co-founder of the Naperville-based New Wave Lacrosse club, as well as the organization's director of club coaching and director of high school programs.
McCaffrey, a marketing data analyst at DeVry University, was a Geneva senior at the time he and player parent Tammy Marcozzi started the Geneva club program in November 2004. A few months later, Thompson coached against McCaffrey the player before helping McCaffrey train to land an eventual spot on the St. Leo (Fla.) team.
The latest arrangement of their association finds McCaffrey considering "the administrative side" of securing field times and finalizing parents' meetings to be the biggest difference from the past.
Thompson will serve as the team's offensive coordinator on a team that returns much of its core from 2012.
Additions to the lower-level coaching staff include Hunter Shodeen, McCaffrey's former Geneva teammate who will guide North's inaugural freshman team. Cam Caruso, a St. Charles East product who starred at NCAA Division III Babson (Mass.) College, rejoins the program as a JV assistant.
"That's kind of how far our program is going now," McCaffrey said. "We're very pleased to see that alumni are attracted to come back and coach with us."
Switching fields: Football and lacrosse occasionally dovetail for athletes, as the latter maintains just the right contact quotient for those looking to be chippy during the spring.
For Matt Lally, a Marmion senior from St. Charles, lacrosse is about to serve as a barometer.
After suffering separate ankle and leg injuries in his final two football seasons, Lally joined the Cadets lacrosse team to test his preparedness for physicality and a possible college football career.
"I just finally wanted to get that whole team mentality back," Lally said. "I don't really remember what it's like, so I want to play another contact sport. Lacrosse has been good so far."
Lally, a defender, progressively has learned his new craft alongside veteran Cadets longpoles Connor Boyne and Sam Tonner. Lally missed all but the final game of the 2012 football season after breaking his leg in August. Lally said he's leaning toward the University of St. Thomas, an NCAA Division III school in Minnesota's Twin Cities.
"Every time I hit somebody, it makes me feel like football, so it's really going to help me with my college decision," Lally said.
Home turf: Geneva's March 16 "Battle of Burgess" preseason tournament will provide the Tri-Cities lacrosse community a good look at the new artificial turf surface at Burgess Field.
Ground-ball pickups and shots ought to play considerably different than during past games on Burgess' shoddy natural grass, which was converted as part of a $1.1. million renovation completed before the 2012-13 school year.
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The body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il lies in state at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang in this still picture taken from video footage of still images aired by KRT (Korean Central TV of the North) on Dec. 20, 2011.
The Associated Press reports from PYONGYANG, North Korea:
The body of North Korea's long-time ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a memorial palace Tuesday as weeping mourners filled public plazas and state media fed a budding personality cult around his third son, hailing him as "born of heaven."
Indicating the leadership transition in the world's only communist dynasty is on track, Kim Jong Un — Kim's youngest known son and successor — visited the body with top military and Workers' Party officials and held what state media called a "solemn ceremony" in the capital, Pyongyang, as the country mourned.
The Korean people were in "deep sorrow at the loss of the benevolent father of our nation," Ri Ho Il, a lecturer at the Korean Revolutionary History Museum, told The Associated Press in Pyongyang.
"He defended our people's happiness, carrying on his forced march both night and day," Ri said.
Korean Central TV of the North via Reuters
Medals belonging to Kim Jong Il are displayed as he lies in state at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace.
Still images aired on state TV showed that the glass coffin holding Kim's body was surrounded by his namesake flowers — red "kimjongilia" blossoms. He was covered with a red blanket, his head placed on a white pillow.
The coffin was in a room of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, a mausoleum where the embalmed body of his father — national founder Kim Il Sung — has been on display in a glass sarcophagus since his death in 1994.
The state funeral is to be held at the palace on Dec. 28. Read the full story.
Korean Central TV of the North via Reuters
Kim Jong Un pays his respects to his father lying in state at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace.
As the body of North Korea's long-time ruler Kim Jong Il lies on display in a glass coffin, the world is trying to figure out what direction the secretive nation will take now. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
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On the evening of the Media Association of Pittsburgh's 22nd annual Outstanding Achievement in Media Awards presentation, guests of LeMont Restaurant saw a slightly different view than the city's skyline — they also took in the sight of many of Pittsburgh's media stars shining brightly. This year's honorees included KDKA-TV's Jon Burnett, Clear Channel Radio's Anthony Alfonsi, and Elisco Creative Café's Ben Elisco. Don Brocket was posthumously awarded The Thomas J. MacWilliams Lifetime Achievement Award, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ed Bouchette was honored with the OMNI Award, and RJW Media's Julie Smith claimed the Art Stein Memorial Award.Read More
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(RNN) – Jerry Buss, legendary owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and self-made millionaire real estate mogul, has died at the age of 80.
Buss had been hospitalized for the past few months at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles undergoing treatments for cancer, according to USA Today.
It would be easy to make the argument for Buss as the most successful owner in professional sports history.
For the past three decades the Buss name has been synonymous with the Los Angeles Lakers. His teams have won 10 NBA championships and set the standard for perennial success in professional sports. No single owner in any of the four major sports has ever matched that number of titles.
Buss bought the team in 1979 when he was 46 years old, and his management helped turned the Lakers into a winning machine in virtually no time.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson was Buss' first draft pick as owner, and the superstar's presence set the tone for what the sports world knew as "Showtime." Their flashy, up-tempo style and ability to get top notch players, coaches and front-office personnel combined to form a dynasty that ruled the NBA throughout the 1980s.
The Lakers' championship in 1980 was the first of five the team won in the decade. After a 12-year drought, the team has won five titles since 2000.
A who's who of all-time greats have worn a Lakers uniform during that time – including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Karl Malone, Dennis Rodman and others – as well as hall-of-fame coaches Phil Jackson and Pat Riley.
Buss was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 for "building one of the most successful organizations in the history of professional sports," according to the Hall of Fame's website.
Buss also assumed control of the WNBA franchise Los Angeles Sparks when the league formed in 1997. The team won back-to-back championships in 2001 and 2002 before he sold it four years later.
The career of one of the most successful owners in sports began as far away from a basketball arena as a person could imagine.
He originally worked as a chemist for what is now the Mine Safety Health Administration and also worked for the aerospace industry after earning his bachelor's degree from the University of Wyoming. He obtained a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Southern California.
His initial foray into real estate investment turned profitable. He went into the business full-time and eventually became a multimillionaire.
Buss was also a high-stakes poker player who made appearances on the World Series of Poker, World Poker tour and various game shows.
But it would be unfair to say that Buss gambled with any decision he made. Whether it was running a team, his real estate business or a card table, Buss was usually the most well-informed and composed man in the room.
"He's just extremely, extremely smart going about it," Bryant told the Los Angeles Times. "It's very rare to find that kind of owner than can seemingly not make any mistakes. It's pretty impressive."
His purchase of the Lakers in 1979 was at the time was the largest transaction in sports history. Buss bought them – as well as the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and the teams' former home venue, The Forum – for more than $67 million. The deal also included a ranch, all of which he bought from Jack Kent Cooke.
"The Lakers are a good, ordinary investment – nothing spectacular," Buss aid at the time of the purchase in an interview with Sports Illustrated.
The Lakers and Kings alone only made up $24 million of the total deal. That seems like peanuts considering the return on his investment and Forbes' current estimate of the Lakers' value at $1 billion.
Running the franchise has been a family affair for several years, so much that Buss fully intended to leave the Lakers in control of his six children.
All of them – Johnny, Jim, Jeanie, Janie, Joey and Jesse – have worked for their father's organization at some point. Jeanie is the team's vice president of business operations. Jim, a longtime assistant general manager, had been considered the likely replacement for his father. Johnny directed operations for the Sparks for eight years, including their championship seasons.
"I'm totally comfortable with them taking over," Jerry Buss said in a 2009 Los Angeles Times interview.
No matter who takes over, it will be hard even coming close to the type of leadership that gets a team to a championship nearly 50 percent of the time. The Lakers have gone to the NBA Finals 16 times in more than 30 years under Buss.
Gerald Hatten Buss was born Jan. 27, 1934 in Salt Lake City, UT. He grew up in Kemmerer, WY. His mother was an accountant, and his father was university professor of statistics.
He initially dropped out of high school to work for Union Pacific, and then went back to high school, graduated and earned his bachelor's in 2 ½ years.
After working various jobs, Buss and another chemical engineer invested in a Los Angeles house. They worked their way up the ladder until they started a firm that grew to a worth of more than $350 million at the time he bought the Lakers.
He was previously married to JoAnn Mueller and had his youngest two children with ex-girlfriend Karen Demel.
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"Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is flaring up again. Previously, Torvalds has said that Linux users should switch to KDE instead of GNOME because of the GNOME team's 'users are idiots' mentality. Now he has 'put his money where his mouth is' by submitting patches to GNOME in order to have it behave as he likes. This week, on the Linux Foundation's (formerly OSDL) Desktop Architects mailing list, the two sides are going mano a mano." Can I interest you in a pair of these and these?
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This week my CSA share provided me with two pounds of delicious pears. They are currently ripening on my counter, and in a few days I'll have to decide what to do with them. Poach them with some honey? Mix them into pancakes? Bake them into a skillet cake? I'll likely turn to one or more of these recipes for inspiration when that time comes:
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Houston Dynamo goalkeeper Tyler Deric has been loaned to the San Antonio Scorpions for their weekend match against the Puerto Rico Islanders. Deric, in his fourth year with the Dynamo, has not seen any first team minutes in 2012, but has started all six Reserve League matches this season. He is 4-1-1 in the Reserve League with a 0.83 goals against average.
In his Dynamo career, the Klein High School-product has two starts with two wins, both coming in 2010.
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- Aortic stenosis (narrowing of a valve in your heart) or
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Intruder: Director's Cut (US - BD)
Gabe calls in a clean up on aisle two...and aisle three...and aisle four...
Intruder isn't a good film by any measurable means, but it's an inspirational film. It's a testament to the will and ingenuity of young filmmakers, and the fact that it doesn't suck is more or less a ringing endorsement. The story behind Intruder outweighs most of its other attributes. Before they were world famous for creating the Evil Dead series, Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell made a series of Super 8 shorts with their friend Scott Spiegel. One of these shorts, which starred Raimi, was called Night Crew, and followed the late shift at a grocery store as a mad slasher picked them off. Years later, following Evil Dead II (which Spiegel co-wrote with Raimi), Spiegel was approached dancer-turned-film producer Lawrence Bender to turn Night Crew into a feature length film (that's the plot, by the way, night shift being offed by a mad slasher). Spiegel took advantage of his relationship with the Evil Dead II crew to bring many of them onto the feature length Night Crew, later retitled Intruder by distributors. The film's graphic gore effects were cut to ribbons by the MPAA, and the film was dumped straight to video, much to the chagrin of everyone involved. Word spread through fan magazines like Fangoria and Gorezone, though, and a cult was built around the film, leading eventually to an uncut DVD release. The postscript of the story sees Spiegel introducing Bender to his friend Quentin Tarantino, and Tarantino and Bender making a series of films together including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds.
Spiegel clearly learned a little something working with Raimi over the years (not to downplay his given skills), and despite his modest surroundings and script manages to capture some high-energy, wacky style in his directorial practices. His wide and varied tricks include especially amusing P.O.V. shots, like a shopping cart's P.O.V., a rotary phone's P.O.V., a pile of swept dirt's P.O.V., a twisting door knob's P.O.V., and a bucket of water's P.O.V. as a tear trickles into it. His transitions are consistently clever too, especially in montage form (the broom wipe being a sort of highlight). Spiegel also does a good job establishing a reasonably creepy tone. I wouldn't exactly call Intruder scary, but again, based on what little he has to work with (and the fact that he's not trying to make an oppressively grim film) there's a decent degree of dread throughout. There's also no denying that this cast is better than the usual body count flick movie. Non-horror fans will simply notice that the performances are above type, but those of us in 'the know' appreciate the film on a different level for its casting. Coming off of Evil Dead II Spiegel snagged Dan Hicks and both Ted and Sam Raimi for relatively major roles, as well as Bruce Campbell, producer Lawrence Bender, and Spiegel himself all appearing in cameo roles (Campbell's name often appears on advertising materials, which is funny since he doesn't show up until the last two or three minutes of the film).
There's a general sense that the dialogue here is being made up as the filming commenced, but this also lends a general sense of natural discussion to the mix. The story, as it were, can be summed up quite quickly, and the bulk of these 88 minutes are made up of unimportant character development and discussion filler, but the down time is rarely boring, and the characters are actually pretty engaging. Some of the best filler here is a series of expertly cut montages of people going about their business, most of which act to foreshadow violence. You see, the fun of a slasher is in often in the kills, and these kills are all based around objects found throughout the grocery store. I happen to relate to this quite a bit. As a horror movie fanatic that was bored with my dead-end, copy-boy job I created many a slasher movie scenario in my mind using the various dangerous tools around the shop. They always say you should write what you know. The gore effects here are the huge draw, and supplied by a very young Howard Berger, Robert Kurtzman and Greg Nicotero, only a couple of years out from their first major collaboration on Evil Dead II, and years before they'd formed KNB Effects. In fact, one could argue that Intruder is KNB's first effects reel, and the quality of the effects aren't only beyond the usual zero-budget slasher, but some similar big budget releases from the era.
There are so many classics still not available on Blu-ray, and while these masterpieces dwindle, a little $130K anti-masterpiece has been given the full 2K digital restoration by the fine folks at Synapse Films. Some would call this an injustice, and be offended by the prospect. The rest of us chuckle at those people. Based on the nearly unwatchable state of Wizard Entertainment's 2005 DVD I had assumed that Intruder had been shot on 8mm film, or at best 16mm, which made an HD restoration kind of a joke, but apparently it was shot on good old 35mm, and this new transfer looks a whole lot better than I expected. We're not talking full-on revelatory levels of amazing, but there are major motion picture releases that don't look this good. The general palette is natural, evoking the slightly soft look of a fluorescent light-lit grocery story. Skin tones are warm, black levels are relatively deep, and some of the more poppy hues (usually supplied by product labels), especially reds and blues, are respectfully vibrant and consistent. Detail levels come and go depending on lighting, but the depth of field is impressive when Spiegel isn't using short focus, and some shots are relatively complex in terms of the number of elements clearly represented. Fans are also allowed to revel in the gore effects now. The Wizard DVD was basically a series of light spots in a sea of darkness. Film grain is obviously present throughout the entire film, and tends to increase based on the lighting, but there's very little in terms of print damage outside of occasional flecks of artefacts and a few tracking lines.
Synapse has done well by not wasting anyone's time with some kind of elaborate 5.1 remix. This disc features an uncompressed, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono soundtrack, and despite its general lack of frills, it sounds pretty good. The lack of stereo enhancement makes for some overly busy sequences, but the basic sound design is thin and natural enough for the mono to work. There's definitely some high volume distortion on the track, and this is the only real notable shortcoming. The problem arises when characters scream, or when the music, which I believe is mostly made up of copyright free library recordings, hits a particularly strong note. The heavily aspirated 's' sounds are also a bit hissy.
Extras begin with an audio commentary featuring writer/director Scott Spiegel and producer Lawrence Bender. This is a pretty jokey track, with a fun tone, but it's all a little unfocused. There's some good information, most of it coming from the slightly more professional Bender, but a lot more in the way of congrats and back pats. Next up is Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder (38:30, HD), a relatively full-bodied retrospective featurette including interviews with friend/actor Bruce Campbell, director Scott Spiegel, producers Lawrence Bender and Charles Band, actors Elizabeth Cox, Burr Steers, Craig Stark, Danny Hicks, Ted Raimi, cinematographer Fernando Arguelles, and effects supervisors Greg Nicotero, Robert Kurtzman and Howard Berger. Subject matter follows the film's birth as a 8mm short, early production, finding a location, stocking the location, casting, shooting, Spiegel as a director, the gore, and the truncated straight to video, R-rated release. Next up are a series of extended kill scenes from the work print version of the film (10:30, SD), followed by outtakes from Night Crew, the original Super 8mm short version of the film shot several years earlier (6:50, SD). The Slashing of Intruder (3:30, HD) features filmmaker Vincent Pereira ( A Better Place) describes the film's heavy censoring for an R-rating, which prompted him to write a letter to Gorezone (I have the issue), which prompted Spiegel to send him a VHS copy of the uncut film. The disc is completed with original cast audition footage (11:00, SD), a behind the scene still gallery (4:10, HD), a trailer, and the Night Crew trailer.
This Blu-ray release of Intruder doesn't quite have me jumping up and down with joy, but the quality of this release is so brilliant I find myself reevaluating the overall quality of the film for the positive. I can only imagine fans saddled with years of R-rated VHS copies and ugly unrated DVDs will be ecstatic. The image quality is way beyond anything I expected, the sound is good enough for the material, and the extras are about as inclusive as we can expect from the material. Highly recommended for the film's fans.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality, but were taken from the included DVD, so they are a good indicator of the image improvement over the Wizard release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Is this uncut, please?
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
It's kind of in the title...
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Dude, it clearly states: "Director's Cut"
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Disc Details
Release Date: 13th December 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono English
Subtitles: None
Extras: Writer/Director and Producer Commentary, Slashed Prices: The Making of Intruder, Extended Murder Sequences, Outtakes from the Original Short Night Crew, Cast Audition Footage, Behind the Scenes Still Gallery, Trailer, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Scott Spiegel
Cast: Sam Raimi, Ted Raimi, Danny Hicks, Bruce Campbell, Renee Estevez, Elizabeth Cox
Genre: Horror
Length: 88 minutes
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Found this beautiful old calendar on our local internet sell-all site, and with some help from fellow "8 pack" member Blaine, and using some of the most helpful tips on his website http://earlycoke.com/
I was able to verify that this was an original.
This books at $800 in mint condition, which this is not by far, but it still displays very nice, is my first Coca-cola calendar, and was well worth the $43 including postage.
I'm going to bet the framing will cost me a lot more!!


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hinomars19 wrote:Why do they cost so much? Or am I just seeing inflated import prices? Over £30-£40 for each bot on Kapow. Haven't searched ebay.
I think I can guess at part of the answer to this.
They're Takara exclusives, so far. That automatically bumps them up an extra ten-twenty quid over a normal toy. They're also pretty big. Each one looks to be around Voyager height. And...Kapow. Sometimes the price you pay for someone else importing stuff is an inflated retail price, but you do get the guarantee that that's all you'll pay, as opposed to importing from elsewhere in the world and possibly getting customs charges on top of much, much higher postage fees.


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Hearing Aid Dispenser Job, Bracknell
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adj. A contraction of snotty and horrible. A person who is snotty and horrible or horribly snotty.
A: Can you believe that kid? He spilled coke all over me and didn't even apologize.
B: What a snottible little brat.
B: What a snottible little brat.
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Saving with your Checking account.
#1 I do the same thing but I also started to "pay myself" by writing in a smaller amount for deposits (such as my pay) than the actual amount. I am horrible at saving so my listing $150 less a paycheck as available funds puts the money out of sight. I keep looking at the total available in my savings account and it seems I find ways to spend it. But with the checking account, I keep reminding myself that I don't know what has cleared the bank so I should use my own figures not what is listed on the account.
Hozzászólás írásához jelentkezz be Bejelentkezve itt


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Cook second—by one-hundreth of a second—in Super G Nationals at Squaw Valley
Ross wins at Squaw, Mancuso third
Mammoth Olympic ski racer Stacey Cook ran a great race last week at Squaw Valley, but came up short by the merest of margins.
Racing on Friday, March 22, Cook crossed the line just one one-hundreth of a second behind winner Laurenne Ross.
"It wasn't a feel-good run at all," Cook said, "but it's the time that matters in the finish. I think you could have made one-hundredth up in a lot of places. That's about as tight as it gets, maybe a few inches.
"But Laurenne has been so good all year, and also Julia Mancuso. Anyone who beats Julia in Super G right now is capable of a podium because she was there all year. So that's pretty special. I'm very happy to be with my teammates. I don't necessarily need to be on top."
Thousands showed up on a bluebird spring day at the home of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games to watch the top U.S. ski racers compete. Among them were fans of hometown hero Mancuso, who finished a strong third despite skiing on borrowed equipment.
The challenging Super G course starts in the shadow of the fabled KT22 and bends down Julia's Gold, named after Mancuso.
It was a bumpy course with a tricky jump toward the finish. Mancuso, who raced on borrowed skis, explained the circumstances surrounding her equipment by saying,
"You have to always have a good run. Super G can be a little intimidating when you're not ready and my skis didn't make it. They went on a little trip around California so I borrowed someone else's. So that's always tough, too. I brought my GS skis and my coach brought my Super G skis and they didn't make it. Thanks to Chelsea Marshall for letting me borrow a pair of hers."
As far as the course on her home mountain, Mancuso said, "There's some difficult turns on top and it was still bumpy from the new snow we got, but it was still a lot of fun. I wanted to make it to the finish and win, but our World Cup team is super tough, so it isn't a surprise that Laurenne and Stacey were faster."
"Goofs" Fun Race
The annual Geoff "Goof" Carreiro Memorial Race was held at Mammoth Mountain on March 20. Skiers and snowboarders from both Mammoth Elementary School and Mammoth Middle School were scheduled to take two runs, but partway through the second run, the event was called due to severe weather conditions, making the event a one-run race. Top three results for each division:
MES Ski Ladies: 1 Stella Anderson; 2 Jamie Peabody; 3 Ella Thompson; Men: 1 Tom Graham; 2 Merty Morgan; 3 Trent Presson.
MES SB Ladies:1 Zeia Rose; Men1 Max Maniaci; 2 Ricky Johnson; 3 Jonathan Hernandez.
MMS Ski Ladies: 1 Makenna Smith; 2 Anya Feeney; 3 Haven Peabody; Men: 1 Damon Kraft; 2 Max Boyer; 3 Lucas Strazzere.
MMS SB Ladies:1 Maya Tubbs; Men: 1 Jose Alejandre; 2 Kevin Garcia; 3 Michael Gibson.
U10 Ladies:1 Erica Lynch; 2 Bryn Urdi; 3 Madison Jayne; Men: 1 Sage Boyer; 2 Bjorn Karlen; 3 Aiden LeFrancois.
U16 Junior Championships
Ten ski racers from the Mammoth Mountain Ski Team were part of a group of 49 athletes, nine coaches, and an entourage of parents from the Far West division to travel to Alyeska Resort, Alaska, for the U16 Junior Championships, March 19-21.
A trip to Alaska may seem like a long way to go for racers who are 14 and 15 years old, but according to the athletes interviewed they would do it all again in a heartbeat.
Mammoth Results, March 19:Women-GS: Brown 42; Hannah Everson 46; Elisabeth Heit DNF-1; Maidman 37.
Men-SL:Alex Colby DSQ; Logan Deangelis 35; Zac Kelly DNF; Lucas Underkoffler 61; Justin Wallasch 48; Kevin Wolfe 51.
Mammoth Results, March 20:Women-SL: Brown 41; Everson 42; Heit 52; Maidman 38. Men-GS: Colby DNF-2; Deangelis 36; Kelly DNF-1; Underkoffler DNF-1; Wallasch DNF-2; Wolfe 42.
Mammoth Results, March 21: Women-SG: Brown 44; Everson 42; Heit 62; Maidman 23. Men-SG: Colby 42; Deangelis DNF; Kelly 7; Underkoffler 38; Wallasch 70; Wolfe 67.
Junior Village Championships wrap up for the season
The final Junior Village Championships race of the 2013 season was held on Sunday, March 24.
The race was sponsored by Roberto's Café and was won by the Beachmint Bombers. The event was also the race that determined the Championship team and in a surprise turnaround, the Beachmint Bombers took the title away from the Kittredge Kruisers, who had won the first two races.
But, on this day the Kittredge team was only able to place fourth, allowing the Bombers to move into first, Petra's was second and John's Pizza Works, last year's champion team, took third.
Individual results are as follows:
U10 Ladies: 1 Jordan Whistler; 2 Erica Lynch; 3 Chaney Szeto.
U12 Ladies:1 Evin Haworth; 2 Kendall Lach; Cheyenne Assil.
U14 Ladies:1 Sarah Ellis; 2 Delaney Kearns; 3 Mack Carkeet.
U10 Men:1 Liam Gooch; Aiden Lefrancois; Leo Sarvey.
U12 Men:1 Charlie Regelbrugge; 2 Elan Preis; 3 Lance Davenport.
U14 Men:1 James Gooch; 2 Barrett Calvin; 3 Ryan Foulke.
SNOWBOARD and FREESTYLE
Sun Valley Revolution Tour
Eleven Mammoth Mountain Snowboard Team members traveled to Idaho to compete in the Sun Valley Revolution Tour, March 18-22.
Their results are as follows:
March 19 Ski Ladies halfpipe: 5 Carly Margulies; 8 Sierra Bowman.
March 20 Ski Ladies slopestyle:6 Carly Margulies.
March 21 SB Ladies halfpipe: 3 Kelly Berger.
March 21 SB Men halfpipe:3 Brandon Davis; 19 Drayden Gardner.
March 22 SB Ladies slopestyle: 17 Danika Duffy.
March 22 SB Men slopestyle:48 Jedediah Sky; 31 Seb Judge; 8 Brandon Davis; 57 Jordon John Rayward; 26 Hugh Marsden.
Three named to 2013 FIS Freestyle Junior World Championship team
On March 21, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association named a group of 35 talented athletes to compete at the 2013 FIS Freestyle Junior World Championships March 26-31 at Valmalenco, Italy.
Three of the athletes have Mammoth connections including: Madeline Riffel (Crowley Lake) who recently took second at the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix, USANA Skicross and the U.S. Champion title at Canyons Resort; Tyler Wallasch (Mammoth) who took second for the men at the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix, USANA Skicross at Canyons Resort and Nicolo Monforte (Olympic Valley) who trains with the Mammoth team as a drop-in athlete. Monforte just finished competing at Mt. Hood Meadows where he placed fifth in the skicross event.


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November 02, 2012
The Placer County Board of Supervisors will resume the public hearing on the appeals of the proposed Orchard at Penryn project at 1 p.m. Tuesday, November 6, 2012, in the Board of Supervisors Chambers at the County Administrative Center, 175 Fulweiler Ave. in Auburn.
The Board commenced the public hearing on the project during a three-hour special meeting held Oct. 11 and listened to presentations by Planning staff, the appellants and the applicant and began the public testimony portion of the proceeding. The Board heard from more than 20 people before moving to continue the public hearing to Tuesday's meeting due to time constraints and a long list of individuals signed up to provide testimony.
The Orchard at Penryn project was approved by the Placer County Planning Commission on June 28, 2012. The project proposes 150 multi-family residences on a 15-acre site at the west side of Penryn Road just north of Interstate 80. The Town of Loomis and an organization known as Stop 150 Apartments Group filed separate appeals of that approval and the certification of the project's final environmental impact report.
At Tuesday's meeting, the Board is scheduled to finish hearing public testimony before beginning its deliberations on whether to uphold or overturn the Planning Commission approval of the project.
In other business, the Board will consider a two-year work program to update the Sheridan Community Plan. Sheridan, located in western Placer County, has had recent water and sewer infrastructure upgrades, seen the opening of the Highway 65 Bypass, and has had changing community interest. The Sheridan General Plan was adopted in 1976 and has not been updated since that time. The update would provide a long-range vision and a land use strategy to guide growth and development in Sheridan through the Year 2030. Funding for the update will be allocated to the preparation of an environmental document and a master Sewer and Water Plan.


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Pat Powers - FAQ
Q: What is the recommended age of participants?
A: Age 11 ~ Adult. Volleyall skills clinics are different than camps. Participants learn skills. We do not play against each other all day. Two hours into the clinic, players are divided up based on how hard they hit. For me it is a safety issue. Safety of all participants is my primary concern.
Q: What if I feel my skill level is not good enough to participate?
A: Relax. Most of the time we learn skills and do drills. Skill level and age are not an issue. The second hour of the clinic we separate out players by how hard they hit. I do not mix skill levels when we play. It is a safety issue. 20 minutes into the clinic, you will feel fine.
Q: What if I am a good player, will I learn anything?
A: The participants who get the most out of the clinic are advanced players and coaches because they understand the game better and have a greater appreciation for the instruction.
Q: Adults and juniors volleyball players together? How does that work?
A: Great! In fact I rarely do clinics of just adults or just juniors. Again, we separate out players by how hard they hit and how well they play. I have found the best ratio for clinics is: 40% junior girls, 30% junior boys and 30% adults. Junior players listen better when adults are in attendance and adults last longer on the court when junior players are playing with them.
Q: How old are "junior players?"
A: Age11-18 years old.
Q: How many participants are at each event?
A: Usually 55-65. It depends on the location.
Q: How many instructors at each clinic?
A: No less than four (including myself) and usually five. I do all the instruction at all events. The assistants are prepped in advance on how and what to teach.
Q: What is the format for the clinic?
A: I teach skills a little different than most coaches: I advocate passing the ball low instead of high. I am a big fan of snapping the ball instead of hitting it. Because of this, I have a successful teaching manner: theory, demonstration, "Over-Correction," drill, next skill. Then we play "Survivor."
Q: What is "Survivor?"
A: Survivor is where we put everything together. The first part of the clinic is where we establish the rules and teach you how to play, the last part of each day is when we make you play by the rules…or you go to the end of the line. Very effective!
Q: What happens if I am put on the waiting list?
A: I will send you an e-mail telling you the clinic is currently full and what number you are on the waiting list. I release the list 7 days prior to the event
Q: Can parents watch?
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Supporting MPI collective communication operations with application bypass
Principal Investigators: D.K. Panda, P. Sadayappan, P. Wyckoff
Duration: 5/6/03 -12/31/2003
Description: For large-scale parallel systems supporting MPI, it is desirable that the MPI implementation ensures `progress' in order to achieve good performance and scalability [1]. Currently, collective communication operations in MPI are implemented by explicit send/recv calls by the processes. However, if a single node gets delayed (say an intermediate node of a broadcast, reduction, or barrier operation), the whole operation gets delayed. This leads to increased execution time for applications and limited scalability. Modern interconnects are supporting new communication mechanisms such as remote memory operations (RDMA Read and RDMA write). Similarly, modern NICs are providing programmable interface and memory to support collective communication operations with minimal interaction from processors [2,3,4]. These advances allow communication operations to be implemented without explicit use of send/recv calls by the processes. This leads to the following two open challenges:
- Can we implement MPI collective operations with application bypass by taking advantage of RDMA operations and NIC-level support?
- How much performance benefit can be delivered to applications with this bypass property?


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jeidsath wrote:My email to Oxford University Press customer service:
jeidsath wrote:I was told that the book wouldn't be in print if they hadn't done this.
R.W. Chapman (1881-1960), "Old Books and Modern Reprints," The Portrait of a Scholar and other Essays written in Macedonia 1916-1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1922), pp. 48-65 (at 50):
It is a melancholy and humiliating truth that the history of printing is a long decadence. Even in the mechanics of printing we cannot to-day surpass the pioneers of the fifteenth century. We cannot achieve a finer paper or a cleaner impression. Our best types are modelled on theirs; and in the use of our tools, in all the rules of the art, we toil painfully in their wake. A great scholar and accomplished collector used to say that his study of early printing had cured him of the vulgar Radicalism of his youth. The early printers had the tradition of the scribes in their souls, and so the new art found its perfection at a spring. It has been in a slow decline for four centuries; and the best that we can do now is to follow the old models, and adapt the old methods, with what intelligence we may command.
jeidsath wrote:R.W. Chapman (1881-1960), "Old Books and Modern Reprints,"
It is a melancholy and humiliating truth that the history of printing is a long decadence. .
Scribo wrote:beaten by people themselves holding sacks full of OCTs. IUSTITIA.
Paul Derouda wrote:My advice is to avoid reprints and get the originals when possible. Often they are actually quite readily available.
Victor wrote:If I may be allowed to say so, whilst some valid points about the history of book production have been raised in this thread, some wild generalisations have been made too; given the magnitude of the subject, I suppose that's excusable.
"Many old books are now brown due to the acid in the paper while most of my new books are on acid free paper."
It depends what you mean by old, Daivid. Up until the end of the hand-press era, a point which roughly coincided with the advent of machine-made paper (around the second quarter of the 19th century), the overwhelming majority of books were printed on handmade paper, which, unless it has been stored in a harsh environment or subject to rough usage, will generally have lasted extremely well.
daivid wrote:The one reprint I do have is Smyth's 1956 edition. Overall the quality isn't bad but it is far from perfect. Looking at it closely, the faults seem to me clearly to be from the original rather than shoddy scanning. For example the numbers of section 888 bleed into each other which looks the result of too much ink.
daivid wrote: They do tend be quite badly cut though those rough edges kind of add to their charm.
Victor wrote:Could I ask who the publisher of your reprint is, Daivid, and the year of publication? My Smyth was published by Harvard UP in 1984, and is also a reprint of the 1956 edition. The standard of legibility is not perfect (partly because the Greek print is so small), but there is no problem with the numbers of section 888. It has to be said that there are some scathing reviews on Amazon of certain reprints of Smyth.
Victor wrote:daivid wrote: They do tend be quite badly cut though those rough edges kind of add to their charm.
A fashion for cutting only the top edge (the "head") of books came in in the late 19th century and it prevailed in certain quarters for many decades after that. It reflected a growing bibliographical purism, characterised partly by a desire to preserve as much of a book's margins as possible. This was itself a reaction to the long-standing practice among binders of closely trimming all three edges of a book, sometimes to the extent of cropping away part of the text. The reason for this binding practice was simply that binders could sell any trimmings to paper-makers, and the heavier the bundle of trimmings they could sell the more money they earned.
When you say "rough edges", though, you may be referring to edges that have actually been cut. Sometimes edges of books were cut very roughly, and it's usually because they were cut not in a "plough", as they should have been, but with a knife crudely bolted to the edge of the workbench. It was a much quicker, and sloppier, method..


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Bruce Aldrich Jr. has picked up where he left off. After spending most of the year at his new home track, Saratoga Raceway, Aldrich has returned full time—at least while the Spa City oval is closed—to the Monticello Raceway where he won more races than any other driver during the first decade of the 21st Century.
At the Mighty M on Tuesday, December 18 Bruce Aldrich, Jr. scored his second consecutive five-bagger. The previous day he also won five races.
Aldrich's first victory on Monday came behind Kelly Roland's Camwiser ($4.80) in 2:00.4 and win number two came in the fifth race with S & P Racing's, No Gin ($12.00) in 1:57.4. Aldrich came right back and won the sixth with Mr. Delite (12.60) in a 1:59.2 clocking. Oddly, Aldrich's victories with No Gin and Mr Delite came after they started from the eight-hole.
He then won the ninth race with Norman Bradbury's , J's Foxy Express, ($9.90) in 2:01 and Aldrich's final victory for the afternoon was behind Paul Feisher's , Multiple Choice ($4.40) in 1:58.4.
Aldrich also had four seconds and one third place finish to go along with his five driving victories on Tuesday.
"I feel real comfortable here at Monticello and I think I know this track as good as anyone ," a mud-caked Bruce Aldrich Jr. said after his five-win afternoon competing over the muddy racing surface. "But I had a lot of power today and got lucky a couple of times, too."
When Aldrich wasn't winning races that afternoon, Jimmy Marohn Jr. was. The talented youngster, who is poised to win his first Monticello Raceway driving title, added four more wins to his seasonal total here.
Two of Marohn's wins came from the Dan Gill barn. With Marohn's driving prowess Gill is currently in a three-way tie for leading trainer honors with Gary Messenger and Peter Pellegrino, each with 113 winners.
Billy "Zeke" Parker Jr. missed the first three months of the season after prostate cancer surgery and spotted Marohn some 70 wins before he got his season underway and little by little he worked his way to challenge Marohn. A week ago Zeke was just six wins behind Marohn but the youngster has had a hot- hand of late and now leads the veteran winner of 18 driving title here, by 13 wins.
"Whenever you get even close to Billy (in wins over a year) you've accomplished a whole lot," Marohn said. "He didn't get lucky to win (almost) 11,000 races. And if I win the (driving) title beating him I'll feel I really accomplished something."
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Dear Amy: My sister has been emotionally abusing her husband for years. Recently, I learned from my brother-in-law that she has started to physically abuse him by slapping, biting and punching him. She expects my brother-in-law to meet unrealistic expectations, and when he does not meet them, she lashes out at him.
Whenever we have tried to talk to my sister, she becomes defensive and thinks we are blaming her.
We suspect that she may have a mental disorder. She blames my brother-in-law for the entirety of their problems and refuses to go to counseling, even though my brother-in-law is about to start going to counseling himself.
I am worried that my sister is escalating her violence toward her husband, and I also worry about their two young kids.
How can we encourage her to admit that she has problems and go to counseling, and how can I best support my brother-in-law and the children?
— Worried
Dear Worried: You may not be able to talk your sister into counseling, so you must focus your concern onto your brother-in-law and the kids.
They are victims of her rage and violence, and they need protection. Your brother-in-law should be prepared to take the kids and leave the home.
Counseling for him is a great idea, certainly if it helps clarify that he is a victim of domestic violence, but it might be too late to save this relationship. He should be counseled to call the police if his wife becomes physically violent. You should offer him emotional and other support to leave this dangerous relationship.
Counselors at the National Domestic Violence Hotline are available for all of you at 800-799-7233. Read more on the organization's Web site: ndvh.org.
Dear Amy: In fall 2008, I started a new job working part time. I received a letter of agreement stating that I would receive two weeks of vacation annually.
Now my boss says she made a mistake and meant to write "one week" in the agreement. She says that in 2010 I should only receive one week off.
While I understand that she cannot do this legally, as we have a contract, my concern is diplomacy.
How can I best communicate with my boss — without creating a wedge between us — that our original agreement needs to stand?
I love my job, have a relatively good relationship with my boss and don't want to rock the boat during these economically challenging times.
— Seeking Diplomacy
Dear Seeking: Unfortunately, in professional as well as personal dynamics, when a person makes a mistake that adversely affects someone else's life, the person who made it will sometimes proceed to penalize the innocent victim further to prove that the mistake was somehow justified.
Realistically, there may be no way for you to win redress from your boss, even though you have a contract. You'll have to assess the dynamic carefully. You could be delicate and diplomatic, but your boss could still find a way to retaliate because no matter what you say, she will feel cornered.
If you choose to discuss this, you should start by asking a question: "Could you clarify for me what's going on with my vacation time?"
If she repeats that she made a mistake and doesn't offer to rectify it, tell her that you shouldn't be penalized for it and ask if there is another solution.
Your boss's error could be a bigger problem for her than you realize. Her own boss — if she has one — won't be thrilled at this pesky contractual problem.
Either she will find a way to make this right — or she'll make the problem go away by trying to make you go away.
You should proactively look for another job — just in case.
Dear Amy: "Disturbed" was upset by the "cougar" craze.
Not all women who date younger men are cougars.
I am a 55-year-old widow, and when I began to date again I was never approached by any men my own age.
I was asked out by younger men often, and although I was at first reluctant, I finally succumbed.
Love doesn't always have perfect timing.
Fortunately, I met a marvelous man whom I will marry soon and, yes, he is 23 years younger than me!
— More Kitty Than Cougar
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Joseph G. Lehman
Joseph G. Lehman is president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, an independent, nonprofit research and educational institute in Michigan. The Mackinac Center is one of the largest of 65 independent think tanks across the country that focus primarily on state-level policies that affect peoples' freedom and quality of life.
Lehman first joined the Mackinac Center in 1995. He later became vice president for communications at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., before returning to the Mackinac Center as its executive vice president. He became president in 2008.
Lehman's commentary on public policy has been carried by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, National Journal, National Review, Investor's Business Daily, Wired magazine and nearly every daily Michigan newspaper.
He has addressed audiences at the National Conference of State Legislatures annual meeting, the Detroit Regional Chamber's annual Mackinac Policy Conference and gatherings of economists and policy experts in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
He is vice chair of the National Taxpayers Union.
Lehman is a leader among state-based public policy experts. In 2013 the State Policy Network recognized him with its Roe Award for leadership, innovation and accomplishments in public policy. He has trained more than 600 think tank executives from nearly every state and more than 50 countries in strategic planning, communications and fundraising. Lehman is the leading instructor on the Overton Window theory developed by late Mackinac Center vice president Joseph Overton and has trained people around the world to understand this model of policy change.
Prior to his public policy career, Lehman was an engineer and project manager for nine years at The Dow Chemical Co. He graduated from the University of Illinois College of Engineering and is a registered professional engineer.
Lehman and his wife, Karen, are the founders of Midland County Habitat for Humanity. He twice received the Dow Chemical Vice President's Award for Community Service. He is an ordained deacon in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
From Joseph G. Lehman
An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibility
In addition, Michigan is not immune to the gradual erosion of equity and basic human freedom that accompanies a steady growth in the power and scope of government.
Related to this, our government's ability to properly perform many critical functions, including education, has been jeopardized by policymakers' attempts to do too many things. This lack of focus has even led to confusion among policymakers over whether government exists to serve the people or vice versa.
There's a lot of work to do to reverse this, but there's good news. Once growth- and freedom-friendly policies are in place, recovery is likely to occur much more quickly than most people imagine.
For policymakers and voters serious about restoring freedom and economic vitality in the Great Lakes State, the Mackinac Center presents the following 101 recommendations.
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I just wanted to thank you for the definition of what "speech marks" are.
I started to think that I was the only one who got pissed off when people does this "quoation move" with their fingers.
I'd chop them all!
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Phoenix Art Museum Exhibits Internationally-Acclaimed Halle Collection of Contemporary Latin American Art
Order, Chaos, and the Space Between on view February 6 - May 5, 2013
Jan 16, 2013, 05:16 ET
PHOENIX, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Phoenix Art Museum presents Order, Chaos, and the Space Between: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, beginning February 6, 2013. This expansive exhibition features many of the most cutting-edge contemporary works produced in Latin America today and is drawn from the Halle Collection, internationally renowned as one of the most significant collections of art of this region. It includes more than 50 works from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Helio Oiticica, and Doris Salcedo, as well as many other innovative artists whose works figure prominently in today's global art scene.
The Halles' dedication to building a compelling, impactful collection of photography, sculpture, paintings, and installations will come to life on the walls of the Museum. One of the most striking installations—the 30,000 individual black paper moths and butterflies that comprise Carlos Amorales' (Mexico) Black Cloud, will be installed by the artist and will weave its path through the Museum and lead visitors to the exhibition.
The exhibition features a wide range of artworks created after 1945 that push the limits of how the creative process itself can be conceived in expressive, conceptual, abstract, and ultimately, groundbreaking forms. The exhibition, like the Halle Collection itself, seeks to broaden the community's understanding and awareness of Latin American art. In this way, the exhibition occupies a kind of 'space between,' juxtaposed between what is familiar, our preconceived ideas of Latin American art, and the reality and future of this art.
"We are thrilled to present this visually rich exhibition to our visitors, who will gain great insight into Latin America through the dialogue created by the innovative installation. These artists are among the finest working anywhere in the world today," says James K. Ballinger, the Museum's Sybil Harrington Director. The Museum will also present a variety of educational programming, including lectures by featured artists and a rich film program.
This exhibition is co-curated by Beverly Adams, Ph.D., Curator of the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, and Vanessa Davidson, Ph.D., the Museum's Shawn and Joe Lampe Associate Curator of Latin American Art. Drs. Adams and Davidson edited a 245-page, full-color catalogue of the exhibition, which includes essays by Robert Storr, artist, critic, and curator who currently serves as dean of the Yale University School of Art, and Dr. Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art at New York University. It also features a conversation between Diane Halle and art advisor and gallery owner, Roland Augustine.
About Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix Art Museum has provided access to visual arts and educational programs in Arizona for more than 50 years and is the largest art museum in the Southwestern United States. Critically acclaimed exhibitions are shown alongside the Museum's collection of more than 17,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit PhxArt.org.
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Deep Blue Couture
Added Feb 17, 2013
Luzern, Switzerland
The field Project Description is always soo hard for me to fill up because i could tell a Roman about it but i am sure noone would reals pages long of a descriptions maybe it would be funny or amusing because of my english mistakes hahahahah :) but anyway i try my best to keep it short and intense everyone can ask me then specifik questions wich i would loove to explain :)
this client is for me the best one to work with because she has got a great personality and when she arrives its like BAAAAMMM because she is soo disciplined person… i am sure u know what i am trying to tell. and because of that she shows the dress the best and she can wear simply everything!!!
this dress was designed for an special event from a organisation and they celebrated the 10th year the organisation fights for the deep sea creatures wich are dieng out … so i tried to bring the meaning of the organisation in that dress and i thing i could manage that pretty good :D
By the way in the last picture u see the head of the organisation and she is wearing Yildirim Mayruk wich is a really famous Couturier in Turkey
Material Notes
I used for this dress a special processed Shantough for the top part and Pure silk wich silk Chiffon for the Skirt but this isnt a 2 Pieced dress, its only 1 piece.
i coloured all the fabrics by my own by mixing blue with a tighny bit of Purple and a little bit of black to achieve this beautiful blue colour.
as like always this dress has also a special construcktion of an Corset inside,
For the beading i used Authentic Swarovski with some Sequenses
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Feb 18, 2013, 08.33 PMby Linda74Sews
Wow! An impressive dress. The work is beautiful and so interesting.
Feb 18, 2013, 06.25 PMby martinK
realy nice design!
Feb 18, 2013, 05.00 PMby Irene Jones - Arias
Such an elegant dress, your client must be very happy, she looks wonderful!
Feb 18, 2013, 01.47 PMby Jeyco
the drapes are so beautiful!
Feb 18, 2013, 01.16 PMby Elena Perletti
grand soirèe!
really stunning!
Feb 18, 2013, 12.12 PMby kisses
Gorgeous…nice neckline
Feb 18, 2013, 09.21 AMby Mary Athey
Gorgeous dress. The colours lovely x
Feb 18, 2013, 07.32 AMby vinia789
This is absolutely gorgeous.
Feb 18, 2013, 05.19 AMby Zsuzso
Wow. So beautiful.
Feb 18, 2013, 02.11 AMby rokc
just WaW!
Feb 18, 2013, 02.01 AMby ariation
A piece of art! Great job
Feb 18, 2013, 12.22 AMby freakusbzzz
Just gorgeous, you can see the effort you put into it.
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Bon Appetit Amy!
Monday, February 13, 2012
Paris My Sweet
Bon Appetit Amy!
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How sweet it is, having the cake and then eat it!ReplyDelete
Riding the bike around town probably is essential to escape ballooning and drifting away over the rooftops of Paris as a montgolfière.
A truly sweet Monday, Carol, and your watercolor puts one immediately into the right mood. Merci! :-)
I agree the watercolor sets the mood right away..ReplyDelete
My friend took photos of rooftops also..I loved the trees in Paris in January.They are so beautifully skeletal against the old backgrounds of buildings..The book sounds good!
I wouldn't even need a croissant to lure me up to the 6th floor if the view is like that! And to think, I was so sorry for you the time you rented the 6 floor walkup...I had no idea the roofs were so beautiful.ReplyDelete
Delicious treat! Thank you.ReplyDelete
Love the watercolor, Carol. Did you illustrate her book? I couldn't see it large enough to see if it looked like your work. Charming. Happy almost Valentine's day, Carol.ReplyDelete
the chambre de bonne/maid's' rooms were always at the top a hellish climb for them and for moi
Great views though..
Carol, we have different rhythms and routines, but at the end of the day, we'd both climb 20 flights of stairs for visions of Paris rooftops and croissants - preferably from Pierre Hermé or Sadaharu Aoki!ReplyDelete
Merci for the lovely post and memories! xo
Carol, I am laughing as I realize that those Georgetown Cupcakes are not very far away from where I spend my working days.ReplyDelete
All the same, what I think I really, really want to do is to mix up some batter, bake some cupcakes of my own and then ... figure out what icing to slip on the top.
I am still obviously trying to figure out how to make best use of my extra day off each week. This week it was a visit to the dentist for some filling repairs/icings.
Best wishes to you and Bear. xo
Love the watercolor. What a great view for sketching the rooftops up there. Since I have a fear of heights I could never get up those steps to even view it.ReplyDelete


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