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NEW BEDFORD — This month, Bank of America awarded United Way of Greater New Bedford with a $15,000 grant to fund nonprofit programs throughout the SouthCoast. The check was presented at Damien's Family Pantry in East Wareham, just one of many recipients of United Way funding. Bank of America is a top corporate supporter of United Way of Massachusetts Bay and many other United Ways across the Commonwealth.
NEW BEDFORD — This month, Bank of America awarded United Way of Greater New Bedford with a $15,000 grant to fund nonprofit programs throughout the SouthCoast. The check was presented at Damien's Family Pantry in East Wareham, just one of many recipients of United Way funding. Bank of America is a top corporate supporter of United Way of Massachusetts Bay and many other United Ways across the Commonwealth.
FALL RIVER — American Blanket Company, founded late last year, is expanding, launching a new line of bedding including blankets, throws and baby blankets, and the company expects to double its work force in the coming year.
Each blanket is brushed and sheared meticulously, on both the face and back half a dozen times, eliminating the chance for shedding or pilling. The blankets are stitched using a multi-needle, top and bottom, cover-stitch machine for enhanced durability. All blankets can be machine-washed and dried and are warrantied for life.
According to Rick Lotuff, founder of American Blanket Company, "American Blanket Company is dedicated to offering the kind of quality consumers don't see anymore. Our products are created to stand the test of time." Lotuff continued, "We search the world for the highest quality fibers and fabrics, and we are committed to investing in American manpower for producing all of our finished products."
Available online at www.americanblanketcompany.com, blankets retail from $24 for a baby blanket to $79 for a king-size bedding blanket. For more information, consumers can speak with a customer service representative at 877-750-5331.
NEW BEDFORD — dressbarn is teaming up with the non-profit organization, Dress for Success, to gather 60,000 articles of clothing, as part of its S.O.S. - Send One Suit — Weekend® donation drive, March 7-10.
This year's clothing drive marks the 11th year dressbarn and Dress for Success have partnered to help women in need receive professional business attire. All 830 dressbarn stores including Wareham and Dartmouth sites, across the country will serve as drop-off sites for new or gently used professional attire including suits, dress shirts, blazers, pants, dresses and shoes that will be used to benefit women seeking to transition into the workforce.
All of the collected professional items will be given to the international non-profit organization, Dress for Success, which will then distribute the articles nationwide to women looking to gain a job or trying to re-enter the workforce. Dress for Success promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
dressbarn stores will offer donors an additional 15% total purchase savings in gratitude for their generosity. A complete list of stores can be found at www.dressbarn.com.
FALL RIVER — The Southern New England Entrepreneurs Forum (SNEEF) will present "Legal and Tax Strategies for Startups" on March 14, 5:30-8 p.m., at the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center, 151 Martine St.
James Ernstmeyer, a patent attorney and industry veteran, will speak, and Neil McLaughlin of the Boston law firm Prince, Lobel & Tye, will moderate the program, covering the legal issues facing entrepreneurs involved in or contemplating, a new venture. They will be joined by panelists who have faced legal brambles, and who overcame them.
Become a SNEEF member for $75 and attend free; event non-member cost $20 in advance, $25 at door, includes dinner. Register at www.sneef.org.
Cash flow is more than just revenues and expenses; it's the timing of collections and disbursements. Every business needs to manage its cash flow. The Fall River Office of Economic Development is sponsoring a workshop which will help you control, budget and manage your company's cash to get the most out of your company's financial performance.
This free event will be Tuesday from 8:30 — 11:30 a.m. at the Cherry & Webb Building, 139 South Main St. — 4th floor. The workshop is geared toward existing businesses, not start ups. Space is limited. Register on line at www.msbdc.org/semass and click on event calendar or call us at 508-673-9783 x 10.
The MA Small Business Development Center Network (www.msbdc.org/semass) provides free and confidential business advice to existing or prospective small business people. We also offer training seminars on a variety of topics, including starting a business, financial planning, government procurement, marketing, social media, and international trade assistance.
DARTMOUTH —The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces former New England Patriot star Ty Law will be the featured speaker at its 13th annual Celebrity/Scholarship Dinner April 10 at the Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea.
Guests will have dinner at 6 p.m. and will have the opportunity to hear Ty Law speak about his life and career experiences. He will also take questions from the audience. Dinner tickets are $75 each ($750 for a table of 10). Pictures will be available for purchase and autographed by Law. There will be a silent auction of autographed Ty Law football memorabilia at the dinner and photo opportunities will be available.
To purchase tickets, or obtain more information, contact Ava Lescault by phone at 508-910-6435 or email to email@example.com.
DARTMOUTH — The adoption of blogs by the Inc. 500 has increased five percent in the past year as more CEOs provide content for them. At the same time, there is new evidence that social media results in a financial return on investment by way of the recruiting effort. These were among the key findings of the latest benchmarking study conducted by Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes and Ava M. Lescault from the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Barned is also senior fellow and research co-chair of the Society for New Communications Research.
The new report is the outcome of a study of the 2012 Inc. 500 list which examined these institutions to quantify their adoption of social media tools and technologies as well as plans for investment, monitoring and measuring their online strategies. This is the sixth year that Barnes has tracked social media usage by this sector.
The research also shows that:
The use of blogging jumped to 44 percent, increasing by five percent after remaining stagnant for years. Sixty-three percent of CEOs report contributing to content.
The platform most utilized by the 2012 Inc. 500 is LinkedIn with 81 percent of companies using it. It has replaced Facebook as the tool of choice for these fast growing companies.
A full copy of the new research report and infographic can be downloaded at:
Barnes can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and Lescault at firstname.lastname@example.com
FALL RIVER — The Advanced Technology & Manufacturing Center of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth presents: "Massachusetts Recycling Loans for Recycling and Re-Use", a program by: Nancy M. Gibeau of BDC Capital March 13 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at 151 Martine St.
Administered by BDC Capital, and funded by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, the Recycling Loan Fund is a way to obtain financing. Loans range from $50,000 to $500,000, and are used to help Massachusetts businesses active in recycling-related activities obtain the capital needed for any reasonable business purpose. These loans have terms up to 10 years and can be used for permanent working capital, refinancing, and real estate, machinery & equipment, and acquisition financing.
Recycling companies, subsidiaries or units that qualify are those whose primary purpose involves:
Collecting or separating recyclable materials for resale,
Reuse, processing, composting or converting of recyclable materials into marketable products,
Manufacturing products that use recycled materials,
Wholesaling or retailing of recycled feedstocks or products containing a significant percentage of recycled materials.
Gibeau is Vice President of BDC Capital and covers the state of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. She has more than 14 years of experience in banking and lending. She most recently served as the senior manager of lending services for the New Bedford Economic Development Council. Prior to that, she was a small business lender for Compass Bank for Savings.
PORTLAND, Maine — TD Bank has announced that it has joined with the International Franchise Association and a pilot group of franchises to help United States veterans become franchise owners.
Across TD Bank's Maine to Florida footprint, franchises such as Dunkin' Donuts, Domino's Pizza, Baskin-Robbins and Papa Murphy's will be able to offer a streamlined loan application process, a packaging fee waiver, and lower interest rates from TD Bank for U.S. military veterans.
"A military background provides veterans with important skills and traits that we see in small business owners," said Rich Bradshaw, head of Small Business Administration (SBA) Lending at TD Bank, who is also a retired Navy Reserve intelligence officer. Participating franchises will be able to offer veterans information about financing with TD Bank when a veteran approaches them about becoming a franchisee.
TD Bank is headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J., and Portland, Maine. To learn more, visit www.tdbank.com. Find TD Bank on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TDMoneyLoungeUS and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TDBank_US.


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"Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, said in a statement to the press on Friday he said the problem with the brothers is a result of what they learned in the United States.
"The Tsarnaev brothers allegedly carried out their terror because of "their education, not ours," clearly referring to the United States.
"They (the brothers) grew up and studied in the United States and their attitudes and beliefs were formed there," Kadyrov said, according to Reuters. "Any attempt to make a connection between Chechnya and the Tsarnaevs is in vain."

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From Interstate 85 north of Salisbury take exit 79. Turn west following the brown signs to Salisbury Avenue. Make a left; the entrance is approximately one-half mile on the left. Travel time from Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Statesville is less than one hour.
Guided school programs are offered with a variety of themes and grade levels on different subject matters. Space is in high demand during school months. Church groups and home schools are encouraged to visit after lunch. Call (704)636-2889 early for reservations and group rates. No charge for school programs (excluding train/turntable). Self-guided tours of the museum's three exhibit areas are available daily.
A 25-minute ride around the 57-acre museum property is available. See fees below. The train ride schedule is:
April 1 through Labor Day (diesel Mon.-Fri.; steam on weekends)
September through mid-December (diesel only)
We ask that groups make reservations in advance.
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This is the first in a series of posts about the results of my survey of Wikipedians who have translated content for the Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia). Because I've already submitted an article analyzing the survey, these posts will be less analytical and more descriptive, although I will be able to discuss some of the survey questions I didn't have space for in the paper. This post will look at the profiles of the 76 Wikipedians who responded to the survey (and whom I'd like to thank once again for their time).
Survey Methodology
I wanted to randomly invite Wikipedia translators to complete the survey, so I first consulted various lists of English translators (e.g. the Translators Available page and the Translation/French/Translators page) and added these usernames to a master list. Then, for each of the 279 languages versions on the List of Wikipedias page*, I searched for a Category: Translators page for translations from that language into English (ie. Category: Translators DE-EN, Category: Translators FR-EN, etc.). I added the usernames in the Category: Translators pages to the names on the master list, and removed duplicate users. This process led to a master list with the names of 1866 users who had volunteered to translate Wikipedia content into English. I then sent out invitations to 204 randomly selected users from the master list, and 76 (or 37%) of them responded. A few caveats: additional Wikipedians have probably translated content for the encyclopedia without listing themselves on any of the pages I just mentioned. Moreover, anyone can generally edit (and translate) Wikipedia pages without creating an account, so the results of the survey probably can't be generalized for all English Wikipedia translators, let alone Wikipedia translators into the other 280 languages, who are not necessarily listed on the English Wikipedia pages I consulted. Finally, although 76 Wikipedians may not seem like many respondents, it is important to note that many of the users on the master list did not seem to have ever translated anything for Wikipedia: when I consulted their user contribution histories, I found that some Wikipedians had added userboxes to their profile pages to indicate their desire to translate but had not actually done anything else. I was interested only in the views of people who had actually translated, so the 76 respondents actually represents a much larger share of actual Wikipedia translators than it appears.
The vast majority of the respondents (64 respondents, or 84%) were male and most were 35 years of age or younger (57 of the respondents, or 75% were under 36). This result is not surprising, given the findings of a 2008 general survey of more than 176,000 Wikipedia users, where 50% of the respondents were 21 years of age or under (in all, 76% were under 30) and 75% were male.
When respondents were asked about translation-related training, most (51 respondents or 68%) responded that they had no formal training in translation. Here's a graph with a breakdown for each response:
Given that respondents were generally young and usually did not have formal training in translation, it's not surprising that 52 of the 76 respondents (68.4%) had never worked as translators (ie. they had never been paid to produce translations). Only 11 respondents (or about 14%) were currently working as translators on a full- or part-time basis, while 13 (or about 17%) had worked as translators in the past but were not doing so now. So it's not surprising either that only two respondents were members of a professional association of translators.
Finally, when asked about their current occupations, respondents reported working in range of fields. I've grouped them as best I could, using the Occupational Structure proposed by Human Resources and Development Canada. Two respondents did not answer this question, but here's an overview of the 74 other responses:
|No. of respondents
6 High school students
4 College/University students (languages)
17 College/University students (other fields)
|Works in IT sector
|Works in language industry
|Works in another sector (e.g. graphic design, law, education)
|Works in business, finance or administration
|Unemployed/stay-at-home parent/retired
|Works in sales and service industry
Later this week (or early next week), I'll look at the types of crowdsourced translation initiatives the respondents were involved in (other than Wikipedia, of course), and the roles they played in these initiatives. After that, I'll discuss respondent motivations for volunteering and the impact their participation has had on their lives.
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Now to be fair, it was ultimately the utterly foolish choices Mrs. Cleary made that destroyed her marriage, but one has to wonder what posesses a person to subject themselves to this. I'm almost hesitant in posting this, because it's so awful to watch, but here goes:
Part of me wonders if she wanted to get caught. To risk all that for $200,000, and blow it? I don't think she could hide her guilty conscience. OK, I'm feeling leery even talking about this any further.


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DMG Information Ltd / Sitescope Ltd
OFT closed case: Anticipated acquisition by DMG Information Limited of Sitescope Limited.
Affected market: Environmental risk reports
No. ME/1286/03
DMG Information Ltd (DMG) is the parent company of EDR Landmark Ltd (Landmark) which acts as a holding company for Landmark Information Group Ltd and Prodat Systems Plc. Landmark provide a range of services to the UK property industry including environmental risk reports; distribution of large scale mapping from Ordnance Survey; and bespoke mapping and data capture services. In the year to 30 September 2002, Landmark's turnover was [see note 1] of which [see note 1] related to environmental risk reports.
Sitescope Ltd (Sitescope) is an English registered company which is controlled by its senior management. Its primary activity is the provision of property and environmental information services to conveyancers and solicitors in the UK for both commercial and residential property transactions. In the financial year to 31 March 2003, Sitescope's turnover was [see note 1].
DMG proposes to acquire the entire issued share capital of Sitescope for approximately [see note 1]. The parties exchanged contracts on 16 July 2003. Completion is conditional upon confirmation from the OFT that the transaction will not be referred to the Competition Commission.
The transaction was notified by DMG on 17 July 2003. The 40 working day administrative deadline expires on 12 September 2003.
As a result of this transaction, DMG and Sitescope will cease to be distinct. The parties overlap in the supply of environmental risk reports for both residential and commercial property to legal and property professionals, local and central government and environmental consultancies. The share of supply test in section 23 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (the Act) is met. It is therefore probable that a relevant merger situation will be created.
Product market
For many years, end users have collated environmental data from original sources, such as HM Land Registry, Local Authorities, the Coal Authority and the Environment Agency, and drawn their own conclusions, taking expert advice as necessary, as to the potential existence of any environmental risks.
More recently, users have been able to purchase environmental risk reports, such as those produced by the parties. Providers of the reports collect the relevant data and add value to it by clarifying the data and setting it out in a single report. The report often concludes with the opinion of an environmental consultant on the environmental risks disclosed by the data. One advantage of these reports is that they are a one stop shop so that customers do not have to obtain separate reports from a variety of data providers.
Suppliers of environmental risk reports for either commercial or residential property can easily switch to producing the other because they provide a similar service in their respective sectors and the information needed to supply all types of environmental risk reports comes from the same data sources. For this reason, environmental risk reports for residential property and for commercial property are considered to be supply side substitutes.
There is a possible further category of environmental risk report. Environmental consultants also supply environmental risk reports for commercial property. They use data from one or other of the parties' reports for incorporation into their own reports. However, these reports are more detailed and considerably more expensive than the parties' products. End users have stated that they do not view them as an alternative to the parties' reports and environmental consultants have indicated that they would not switch to supplying the kind of reports provided by the parties in the event of a 5-10 per cent increase in the price of reports of the sort that the parties produce.
In this case, the most suitable frame of reference would therefore appear to be the supply of environmental risk reports for commercial and residential property excluding detailed reports for commercial property supplied by environmental consultants.
Geographic market
It appears that residential and commercial environmental risk reports can be supplied from anywhere in the UK. Therefore, the most suitable frame of reference would appear to be the UK.
Market shares
The sector's annual turnover is considered to be around [See note 1] across the UK. It has not been possible to obtain reliable share of supply data in this case. However, post merger, the parties will be the largest supplier of environmental risk reports in the UK and it is estimated that they will have a combined share of sales of around 58 per cent with a 22 per cent increment. Their two remaining competitors will be Groundsure, which entered in 2001, and the Environment Agency. The Environment Agency is an original source of data on environmental risk. It has been providing hard copy environmental search data for many years. Earlier this year, the Agency introduced a new environmental risk report which will shortly be available on line. This report is expected to compete with the parties' reports.
As noted above, environmental risk reports are a relatively new product. Landmark was the first supplier of these reports in 1996 with Sitescope entering two years later. The parties state that demand for environmental data has increased significantly in the past few years leading to 45 per cent growth in the sector since 2001. This is largely due to increasing awareness of environmental risks associated with purchasing contaminated land. In the future, the Law Society may introduce a new conveyancing search form under which environmental information relating to a specific property can be requested. In addition, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is considering introducing a Home Information Pack which vendors must produce when selling their property. This pack may contain an environmental risk report. These factors suggest that demand for environmental risk information is expected to grow further in the future.
Barriers to entry and expansion
To start supplying environmental risk reports, a new entrant would need access to environmental data. This can be obtained direct from the relevant public body for a fee and also under licence from the parties' historical mapping and landfill databases. The parties' databases have been created by digitally scanning maps.
Some third parties have suggested that to compete in the market it is necessary to have access to historical mapping and landfill data. Both Landmark and Sitescope own such databases; therefore, the merger would reduce the choice of where to obtain historical mapping and landfill data from databases (rather than from the primary sources of data).
Even if the parties were the only owners of historical databases, there are no intellectual property rights attached to the data and the maps required for digital scanning to create a database can be obtained from the various sources including libraries and Ordnance Survey. It is estimated that it would cost less than £1m and take between one and two years to create a database from scratch. The parties both created their databases from scratch and other businesses are known to be developing their own databases. Sitescope has cited one example of a company which currently licenses historical mapping data from it in order to create its own database.
A new entrant would also need a means of reaching customers in the market. Environmental risk reports are available through a number of routes to market. The National Land and Information Service (NLIS) is a new electronic service set up by the Government as a means of distributing environmental data from Government entities and other data providers to the market. Currently, the three NLIS channels all offer the Environment Agency's new report; two of them offer Landmark's report and one offers Sitescope's report. Reports are also sold direct to end users as well as indirectly through exclusive and non-exclusive arrangements with resellers and agents. Overall, although some exclusive arrangements exist, effective distribution channels would be available to a new entrant.
Buyer power
Some third party resellers and agents believe that they have significant negotiating power to obtain lower prices because of the threat of switching and the fact that they buy in large volumes. A few of them were concerned that this would diminish if the parties merge.
No vertical competition issues arise.
Many third parties were unconcerned. In particular, agents and resellers welcomed the opportunity to sell both parties' reports as currently many of them are under exclusive arrangements. Nevertheless, some concerns were raised such as Landmark's strong position in historical mapping data; the parties' ability to align prices and to stop licensing their databases post merger; the lack of actual competitors of scale in the market; the fact that the parties would be the largest supplier; and concerns that they would no longer have the incentive to engage in product development.
The transaction qualifies in respect of the share of supply test of the Act. The parties overlap in the supply of environmental risk reports for both residential and commercial property to legal and property professionals, local and central government and environmental consultancies.
Until recently, all end users seeking to obtain environmental information would source the data themselves direct from the original data provider. Now, however, it is possible to obtain all the necessary information in one single report from environmental risk report providers who therefore provide a value added service.
Although there are few existing competitors to the parties in this young sector, the Environment Agency has recently developed a product which is expected to compete with the parties' reports. In addition, environmental data is publicly available and there appear to be no barriers to a new entrant setting up its own database of historical information and distributing its product either directly or indirectly to end users. Having regard to Government and Law Society respective proposals on the Home Information Pack and the new search form, future demand for environmental data may well increase substantially. This might lead to set up costs diminishing relative to the value of the market. Besides prospective competition from the Environment Agency, market growth might stimulate further new entry. On balance, therefore, the merger does not appear to result in a significant prospect of a substantial lessening of competition within a market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services.
This merger will therefore not be referred to the Competition Commission under section 33(1) of the Act.
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Divine right should not be considered a sufficient form of government solely due to the possibility of corruption. To my knowledge, divine right basically passes down authority through the family, as this family has the "divine right" or authority. It is very difficult to place my trust in this type of system. Simply because the father of a family was a suitable leader, does not validate his/her entire bloodline. That power should remain with the people.


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The 16-Bar Theatre Audition - Baritone/Bass
100 Songs Excerpted for Successful Auditions
Vocal - Difficulty: medium
100 Songs Excerpted for Successful Auditions. Edited by Michael Dansicker. Vocal Collection. Broadway, Movies and Pop. Songbook. With vocal melody, lyrics, piano accompaniment, chord names and introductory text. 172 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.740256).
Item Number: HL.740256
ISBN 0634064436. 9x12 inches. Compiled and edited by Michael Dansicker.
Most large audition calls for musical theatre, both professionally and in larger school situations, specify that those auditioning bring in a 16 bar excerpt. The professionals in musical theatre often complain that singers don't know how to construct an appropriate 16 bar audition, either in choosing a song or in editing an excerpt. With this new series, that problem is solved forever! Editor Michael Dansicker, a composer/producer/music director, is a seasoned musical theatre veteran, with 100 Broadway credits. He brings his expertise and broad knowledge of the literature to this series. Each excerpt has been given a thoughtful, graceful and effective form. No more illegible scribblings for the poor audition accompanist! An enormous variety of literature is represented, from old standards to movie songs to the latest Broadway and Off-Broadway material. With 100 songs per volume, any singing actor, whatever his or her talents and strong suits, will have many choices. In the preface, the editor gives valuable pointers on the nature of a good audition and some factors in choosing songs.
- If I Can't Love Her From Beauty and the Beast
- Me From Beauty and the Beast
- The Kite You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- Out There From The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Heaven's Light From The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- All I Care About From Chicago
- All I Need Is The Girl From Gypsy
- loving you From Mame
- Someone Like You From Do I Hear a Waltz?
- Come Back To Me From On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
- Once In A Lifetime From Stop the World- I Want to Get Off
- All Of You From Silk Stockings
- Who Do You Love I Hope Annie Get Your Gun
- Santa Fe From Newsies
- Alone At The Drive-In Movie From Grease
- Somebody Loves Me From George White's Scandals of 1924
- When She Loved Me From Toy Story 2
- 'Til Him From The Producers
- Haben Sie Gehort Das Deutsche Band? (Have You Ever Heard The German Band?) From The Producers
- Anywhere I Wander From Hans Christian Anderson
- Being Alive From Company
- Blow High, Blow Low From Carousel
- C'est Moi From Camelot
- Can't Help Falling in Love From Blue Hawaii
- Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? From Cinderella
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore From Sophisticated Ladies
- Empty Chairs At Empty Tables From Les Miserables
- A Fellow Needs A Girl From Allegro
- Get Me to the Church on Time From My Fair Lady
- I Can See It From The Fantasticks
- I Could Write A Book From Pal Joey
- I Don't Remember You From The Happy Time
- I Have Dreamed From The King and I
- I Met A Girl From Bells Are Ringing
- I Wish I Were In Love Again From Babes in Arms
- I Won't Send Roses From Mack and Mabel
- I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise From George White's Scandals; An American in Paris
- I'll Never Say No From The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- If Ever I Would Leave You From Camelot
- If I Loved You From Carousel
- The Impossible Dream (The Quest) From Man of La Mancha
- It Only Happens When I Dance With You From Easter Parade
- It Only Takes A Moment From Hello, Dolly!
- Jackie From Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
- Jailhouse Rock From Smokey Joe's Cafe
- Joey, Joey, Joey From The Most Happy Fella
- Kansas City From Oklahoma!
- Let Me Sing And I'm Happy From Mammy
- Lonely Room From Oklahoma!
- A Lot Of Livin' To Do From Bye Bye Birdie
- Love, I Hear From A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Luck Be A Lady From Guys and Dolls
- Make Someone Happy From Do Re Mi
- Man Of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote) From Man of La Mancha
- My Defenses Are Down From Annie Get Your Gun
- My Name From Oliver!
- My Romance From Jumbo
- Nothing Can Stop Me Now! From The Roar of the Greasepaint- the Smell of the Crowd
- Old Devil Moon From Finian's Rainbow
- On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) From On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
- On Broadway From Smokey Joe's Cafe
- On the Street Where you Live From My Fair Lady
- Once In Love With Amy From Where's Charley?
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Social norms and religious teachings have taught us that killing is a sin worthy of condemnation. Taking a life in one's hand is something unforgivable and something unjustifiable both in the rule of law and in the eyes of God. Deciding on other people's death and/or life is never on the hands of mere mortals like us. It is decided by fate and by an almighty God who chooses who lives and who perishes.
But for some who are blinded by hate and ego, killing in massive proportions gives them the justice, the joy and the overwhelming recognition and affirmation of their strength and power making them "demons" in the process.
This top 10 biggest massacre in the world list exemplifies how the evils of men create a blot in history. A blot that signifies the lives lost a blemish that will ever be remembered in history as a moment of great terror, an instance to remember.
1. The Nanking Massacre
2. Babi Yar Massacre
3. NKVD Prisoners Massacre
4. Katyn Forest Massacre
5. The Massacre of Elphinstone's Army
6. The Batak Massacre
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Back home, Back to reality, Back to the good old photos next to my garden gate.
No messing around with me. Got back from holiday on Saturday and went to work Sunday, 7-6 and again Mon-Wed, 7-4's. We are moving around the entire shop so we are re-merchandising everything (which simply means, a lot of work for me) V.M'ing is amazing, but it is so tiring and you cannot imagine the amount of bruises I have on my legs from constantly bashing them. Not that I'm complaining! Dressing mannequins and putting trends together is the best job ever!
MOVING ON. This isn't what I wore today, I literally haven't had a second spare to take any photo's, but this is what I wore before I went on holiday and didn't get round to blogging about!
What I Am Wearing
D.I.Y. Shorts - created by yours truly
Floral Shirt - Charity shop - £3
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Pretend Converse - New Look - £12.99
If you are new to my blog, (Hey) & you haven't heard of my D.I.Y Shorts then click HERE (it is an old post so is probably all over the place.) But to make a long story short I basically cut up a pair of old jeans and bleached them to create these babies.
I really need to start doing some more D.I.Y's . I have a load of material upstairs waiting for me to attempt to make a few skirts out of, and maybe, Just one day, I might ATTEMPT to make one! :')
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Route 66 Adventure Handbook: High-Octane 5th Edition
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Route 66 Adventure Handbook is your personal guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity.
For this updated and expanded fifth edition, Drew Knowles has included it all: magnificent architecture, natural wonders, Art Deco masterpieces, vintage motels and cafes, unique museums, offbeat attractions, fascinating artifacts and icons, and kitschy tourist traps. The addition of city maps, showing the multiple paths of Route 66 and displaying the exact locations of points of interest, is a major improvement over the already critically acclaimed fourth edition of the book. The fifth edition also includes hundreds of beautiful new photographs and the addition of dozens of new attractions.
Additionally, GPS coordinates have been added for virtually all of the photos, so that travelers can plug the information into their smartphones and other navigation devices and instantly determine where each photo was taken and compare it to the condition of that particular site at the time of their visit.
Filled with wonderfully quirky side trips and fun bits of trivia, Route 66 Adventure Handbook is the most authoritative resource for anyone looking to explore the Mother Road. Fasten your seat belts!
is a photographer and writer with an insatiable interest in ruins, ghost towns, cemeteries, automobilia, and Route 66. Knowles has contributed articles to the National Historic Route 66 Federation News, and is a member of the Texas Photographic Society, the Society for Commercial Archaeology, and the Garland County (Arkansas) Historical Society. He is the author of Route 66 Quick Reference Encyclopedia.
"Quirky roadside attractions and facts you won't want to miss."
"This is the one book to keep handy on your road trip. For [author] Knowles, the journey becomes the destination—stopping along the way is as important as reaching a specific point."
"A must for the car's dashboard or glove compartment on a Route 66 road trip! Highly recommended, especially for travelers (or armchair travelers) of America's most iconic highway."
—Midwest Book Review
"A by-the-mile guide to the road, with photos, information and trivia as to what can be seen along the way."
—Salt Lake Tribune
"I thought I knew just about everything there was to know about Route 66, and then along comes Drew Knowles and his Route 66 Adventure Handbook. If you want to tap into a wealth of useful and fascinating Route 66 knowledge, you need to buy this book. The good news is Drew has made it as delicious as a blue plate special. Don't be caught without a copy in your glove box. This book is essential for every bona fide Road Warrior."
—Michael Wallis, author of Route 66: The Mother Road
"An uncommonly detailed and helpful handbook to guide drivers exploring unmarked stretches of the fabled U.S. Highway 66. . . . It definitely belongs in the library of every Route 66 fan. It also belongs in the glove box when armchair travelers take to the road."
—Mary Kate Tripp, book editor, Amarillo Globe-News
"Drew Knowles has written a Route 66 travel guide for those with a sense of adventure. He makes the reader want to be a detective. The commentary about sights to see along the way is particularly helpful."
—Tom Teague, executive director, Illinois State Historical Society
"Drew Knowles has crafted a much-needed addition to the literature of the Mother Road. In the Route 66 Adventure Handbook, he takes us on a complete tour of lesser-known but fascinating icons and attractions, from one end of the great highway to the other. Add to the mix a strong flavor of historical facts and anecdotes, and it becomes a book no 66er should be without."
—Jim Ross, author of Oklahoma Route 66
"If you read and use this guide, there is a very good chance you will change your attitude towards motoring. Rather than simply driving to a location, your trip will become the destination."
—David Knudson, executive director, National Historic Route 66 Federation
"There are a few reasons to buy a book: to add to your collection, to read, and/or to use. The Route 66 Adventure Handbook fills all three categories. Whereas a map shows you how to get from one place to another, this book tells you why you want to go from place to place. It is just as important in planning a trip as any map—maybe more so."
—James M. Conkle, executive director, California Route 66 Preservation Foundation
"Just when you think you know all there is to know about the most famous roadway in America, along comes this expanded edition of Drew Knowles's phenomenal guidebook with more offbeat attractions, a host of vintage motels and cafés, and a plethora of fascinating historical (and apocryphal) anecdotes. His guidebook makes a great read, whether or not you have ever put your pedal to the metal."
"For those who dream of traveling this steeped-in-romance, two-lane byway, Knowles's opus will provide a good overview of what is there. . . . The author's collection of black-and-white photographs is excellent, and the well-chosen typeface means a passenger can easily read the book aloud while traveling. Route 66 Adventure Handbook is part road guide, part history lesson, and part cultural exploration. . . . For the price, this book is an outstanding value and a terrific resource for anyone interested in Route 66, whether traveling by car, RV, motorcycle, or armchair."
"If seeing Cars has gotten you yearning for a journey down America's highway, then the new expanded edition of Drew Knowles's Route 66 Adventure Handbook is your perfect guide, detailing the roadside attractions, motels, eateries, and natural wonders that will make your trip one to remember."
"After I saw Cars, I toyed with the idea of doing a road trip on Route 66, as it was so wonderfully depicted in the movie. Then I realized we don't have a vehicle that could even get us as far as Barstow. But then, the next best thing arrived on my desk: Route 66 Adventure Handbook, the updated and expanded edition, by Drew Knowles. Organized in an easy-to-read way, the writing is fun and informative. I had no idea, for instance, that Route 66—once the main road going from Chicago to Los Angeles—was replaced by five modern highways."
—Contra Costa Times
"The release of the movie Cars has certainly increased interest in Route 66, the classic 'Mother Road' pre-Interstate highway that stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles. Though the road no longer officially exists in the U.S. highway lexicon, many of the tourist sights, motels, and roadside diners along the way have been preserved. Knowles's fifth edition offers insights into offbeat roadside attractions, vintage motels and cafés, natural wonders, and quirky side trips. The book covers a town-by-town description of Route 66 in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, as well as the history of the road and how to find it in places where it might have disappeared. Don't expect to find the Cars town of Radiator Springs, however. It is a fictional amalgamation of many Route 66 places."
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...It's Just The Way It Is
Remedy's head of franchise development, Oskari Hakkinen, has suggested that although the company do of course care about the issue of PC piracy, it's not one that the studio will be losing too much sleep over when it comes to the PC release of Alan Wake.
"You can't fight it, really," he said. "It's just the way it is. Of course I hope people go on Steam or get the retail copy. But if they don't, they don't. I'm not going to get a stomach ulcer from it. It's just the way it is."
In Hakkinen's eyes, it would certainly seem that he'd far rather the studio concentrated on giving their paying customers the best experience possible. He's not taking anything away from the argument, though, and acknowledges the difficulties piracy poses to such a relatively small studio as Remedy.
"Of course we care about it," he told Eurogamer. "We spent five years creating this game and went through a lot of blood, sweat and tears. Hopefully people see it's a cult classic. We're a small team of 60 people. But some people are going to pay for it and some people aren't. At the end of the day for us it's about entertaining as many people as possible."
But Hakkinen hopes that even if people do pirate the game and like it, they might find themselves legitimately purchasing Alan Wake content in the future, comparing such a process to the freemium model exhibited by such titles as Tiny Tower.
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#BBCtrending: Four top April Fools Day trends
Even on a normal day, social networks are awash with rumours, gags and elaborate hoaxes. So come 1 April, when pranksters are offered a free pass to wreak havoc online, they are only too happy to oblige.
Each year, use of the hashtag #AprilFoolsDay has climbed ever higher on Twitter, as its membership has swelled. It's been used more than 400,000 times in the past 24 hours, and shows no signs of abating. Here are five of BBC Trending's favourite stories that were shared widely online.
Companies have been quick to tap into traffic generated by the trend and Vegemite - Australia's answer to Marmite - was no exception. The company behind the salty spread chose today to "launch" a new energy drink, prompting imaginary delight for some, but disgust for others. The image has been shared almost 8,000 times on its Facebook page.
Facebook's next billion dollar acquisition was announced by Account Killer, an online service that helps people permanently delete their Facebook accounts, and other social media profiles. According to a post on the Account Killer website, Mark Zuckerberg himself explained the decision. "Researchers predicted that we would lose 80% of our user base by 2017, so we might as well adapt swiftly," they said he said.
In Turkey, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz chose a strange moment to make what some assumed must be an April Fool's joke, but in fact appears to be genuine. Answering journalist's questions about widespread power cuts during vote counting following Sunday's local elections he said: "A cat entered a power distribution unit. It was the cause of the blackout and it's not the first time that it has happened." Twitter users took the bizarrely timed comment in their stride, however. "Just caught the cat," said one, posting a picture of his cat beside the requisite tools.
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Last name, First Name. " Title of Article." Name of Journal Italicized Volume number. Issue number if given (year): inclusive pages.
Thus, with the punctuation highlighted in blue:
Nickel, Terri. "Pamela as Fetish: Masculine Anxiety in Henry Fielding's Shamela and James Parry's The True Anti-Pamela." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 22 (1992): 37-49.
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There is no punctuation between the journal title and the volume number.
Any works cited entry ends in a final period.
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Tolson, Nancy. "Making Books Available: The Role of Early Libraries, Librarians, and Booksellers in the Promotion of African American Children's Literature." African American Review 32 (1998): 9-16. JSTOR. 3 April 2008 <http:/www.jstor.org.serach>.
A book chapter, formula:
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The mammoth field has meant that we've had to hold the field at HS22 & HS18 today in the name of horse (and rider) safety. With the top riders having travelling over 750 kilometres the rest should come as a welcome surprise.
The times the riders arrived at the hold points have been recorded and they will be released tomorrow in the same order. In addition any penalties accrued will be served at HS22 instead of at HS24
The launch intervals for the leaders tomorrow are as follows:
1) Sam Jones
2) + 0.50 Robert Skinner
3) + 1.00 Jamie Peel / Chris Maude
5) + 2.50 Brent Albuino*
6) + 3.10 Bonnie Hutton / Barbara Smith*
8) + 3.40 Catherine Stott
9) + 4.40 Mary Lee
Brent, Bonnie and Barbara are all serving penalties tomorrow. Brent has a two hour vet penalty while Bonnie and Barbara have a one hour penalty for assistance in retrieving horses.
Sam Jones (AU)
Brent Albuino (AU)
Chris Maude (UK)
Jamie Peel (UK)
Robert Skinner (UK)
Catherine Stott (UK)
Mary Lee (US)
Barbara Smith (US)
Bonnie Hutton (US)
Madison Kauffman (US)
Lisa Youngwerth (US)
Courtney Davis (NZ)
Anita Aradottir (IS)
Rose Sandler (US)
Sylvia Simonin (CH)
Chris Berkers (ND)
Heather Russell (US)
Krystal Kelly (US)
Between 17 & 18
Antoine Carle (FR)
James Mitchell (AU)
Mikael Eriksson (SE)
Wendy Chung (UK)
Katja Joachim (BE)
Musse Hasselvall (SE)
Andrew Mobey (UK)
Adam Perlman (US)
James Griffiths (UK)
Simon Lukas (UK)
Roisin McCourt (IE)
Stephanie Murray (US)
Claudia Vincente (UK)
Jess Kwong (HK)
Matthew Pearce (UK)
Vikki Wojicek (UK)
Between HS16 & HS17
Ann Therese-Helgesson (SE)
Jade Sevelow-Lee (US)
Michelle Jarvis (NZ)
Alison Wilson (NZ)
Amy Wallace-Whelan (US)
Per Michanek (SE)
Anna Chistina De Jonquieres (DK)
Emile Colling (SE)
Alex Piltz (DE)
Katherine Peters (US)
Jessica Kipp (US)
Loden Burton (US)
Luke Berry (UK)
Sarah Cuthbertson (CA)
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text: The Maggini Quartet are delighted to announce that Ciaran McCabe is joining them as second violin. An experienced performer and founding member of the Cavaleri Quartet, he is well known and respected on the chamber music scene and has also worked widely as a soloist and orchestral musician. He has already played with the Magginis in recent concerts, including their highly successful tours in Norway and Denmark.


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Summary: If you live long enough… love (and danger) will find you.
Seventeen-year-old Charity regularly changes her town and her name, with hopes to begin a new life. But it's impossible to fly under the radar in tiny Telluride, Colorado. When fellow newcomer Link enters her life, her plan to start over with a clean slate unravels. Charity soon realizes that you can never truly leave your past behind, while Link discovers that mortals are not the only beings to walk this earth.


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All Films.All Above Board.NOW INCLUDES TV SHOWS & TV LISTINGS
First five episodes of the Japanese anime series about a group of futuristic bounty hunters. Cyborg ex-cop Jet teams up with former mafia gangster Spike, now captain of the ship 'Bebop', and along with the robot dog Ein they travel the galaxy taking on jobs and hunting criminals. Episodes are: 'Asteroid Blues'; 'Stray Dog Strut'; 'Honky Tonk Women'; 'Gateway Shuffle' and 'Balad of Fallen Angels.'


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Steve Finegan is writer living in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of INTO THE MIST: SILVER HAND, the first book in a two-part series (the second book is due out next year) that features Gabe, a young hero with epilepsy, whose best friend Ellie thinks his "weird brain" gives him supernatural powers. This novel explores the hidden gifts and abilities many of us possess, as well as the misty border realm between fantasy and reality.
I reviewed Into the Mist: Silver Hand a little while ago (click the link for my review) and I've just enjoyed a fascinating visit to Steve Finegan's website (http://www.stevefinegan.com/). Meanwhile, I really enjoyed this guest post from Steve. I hope you will too. Over to you Steve...
Taking the Fantasy Proneness Plunge
"An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem." – Gaston Bachelard
Think about this for a second: there are people—kids especially—who can venture into other worlds in much the same way Alice plunges down the rabbit hole into Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland), or Lucy climbs into that old mothball-smelling wardrobe and walks straight into Narnia (The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe).
The real-world people who can do this kind of thing are called fantasy prone, a psychological condition said to be behind everything from imaginary childhood friends to grand adventures in fantastic realms and even mystical experiences.
The whole idea that some people might be considered clinically fantasy prone was the brainchild of psychologists Sheryl C. Wilson and Theodore X. Barber, who came up with the concept while studying hypnotic suggestibility back in the early 1980s.
Wilson and Barber observed that their research subjects often showed an over-the-top tendency to fantasize. This got the two so excited that they sat down with these folks and picked their brains about everything from their childhood beliefs in fairies and other imaginary creatures to the number of hours a day each of them spent daydreaming, and much more.
From these interviews, Wilson and Barber developed a list of 14 characteristics of the fantasy prone personality. The two psychologists considered anyone having six or more of their identified characteristics worthy of being called fantasy prone.
Do you think you might be fantasy prone? To find out, see if you match up with six or more of the following traits...
1. Being an excellent hypnotic subject.
2. Having imaginary playmates as a child.
3. Fantasizing frequently as a child.
4. Adopting a fantasy identity.
5. Experiencing imagined sensations as real.
6. Having vivid sensory perceptions.
7. Reliving past experiences.
8. Claiming psychic powers.
9. Having out-of-body or floating experiences.
10. Receiving poems, messages, etc., from spirits, higher intelligences, and the like.
11. Being involved in "healing."
12. Encountering apparitions.
13. Experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations (waking dreams).
14. Seeing classical hypnagogic imagery (such as spirits or monsters from outer space).
I didn't quite make it over the bar. All I can say for certain is that I fantasized a lot as a child, and part of this was pretending to be various characters out of the books I read. I especially enjoyed playing Alexander the Great and conquering the world with my broomstick spear and garbage-can-lid shield, but that was more playacting than it was adopting a fantasy identity. The terrors of the night were more likely to conjure up fantasies in my young mind. There was this hat rack in the hall outside my bedroom door that used to stalk me at night, and I heard whispered voices and footsteps in the attic above my bed, but I think this sort of thing is pretty typical.
How'd you make out?
Turns out a number of studies have found an overlap between certain types of mental illness (e.g., dissociation disorder) and fantasy proneness. Of course, like many so-called disabilities, fantasy proneness also might be considered an ability or gift. It has been suggested that people who are predisposed to be fantasy prone also demonstrate high degrees of creativity and include actors, artists, and writers.
Merckelbach, H., Horselenberg R., Muris, P. (2001). The Creative Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ): a brief self-report measure of fantasy proneness. Personality and Individual Differences, 31 (2001) 987-995.
Novella, Steven (2007, April 3). The Fantasy Prone Personality. Message Posted to http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=84
So, are you fantasy prone? I think I almost am. Thank you for introducing me to the concept Steve nd for visiting my blog--oh, and for letting me read and review your book!


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Thai Chicken Red CurryFrom trevorst 11 years ago
- 1 chicken breast shopping list
- 1 Can coconut milk (thai) shopping list
- 1 Cup chicken stock shopping list
- 1 Large carrot shopping list
- 1/2 red pepper shopping list
- 1/2 large onion shopping list
- 2 - 3 Tbls fresh red curry paste (see my recipe) shopping list
- Large hanfull fresh green beans shopping list
- 2 Tbls Thai fish sauce shopping list
- 1 Tbls palm sugar or brown sugar shopping list
- 1 Tbls corn starch shopping list
- 1 Tbls dry sherry or rice wine shopping list
How to make it
- Slice the chicken breast into thin strips across the grain (about 1/16 inch),
- Mix 1 Tbls of Fish sauce, 1 Tbls Dry Sherry and 1 Tbls Corn Starch together until smooth in a bowl just big enough to hold the chicken.
- Add the chicken and mix until all the chicken is coated. Set in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Slice the carrot into 1/8 inch rounds, chop the green beans into 1 inch pieces.
- Par boil the carrots and beans for a couple of mins and cool in ice cold water.
- Slice the onion and red pepper into bite sized pieces.
- Add a little oil to the wok and heat until just starting to smoke. Add the chicken snd stir fry until all the pink just dissapears from the chicken.
- Remove chicken and set to the side.
- Add a little more oil to the wok and add the onion and red pepper. Stir fry f or a couple of mins then remove and set aside.
- Add a couple of Tbls of the heavy cocunut cream (from the top of the can) to the wok.
- When the Coconut cream has turned to oil add 2 - 3 Tbls of fresh curry paste and stir fry untl very fragrant (3 - 4 mins).
- Add the Chicken stock and remainder of the Cocunut milk to the wok and bring to the boil.
- Add the sugar and 1 Tbls of fish sauce stir.
- Add the chicken, onions, Red Peppers, Carrots and Green beans to the Wok.
- Simmer while stirring for a couple of mins.
- Serve over Jasmin rice.
- The curry can also be made by simmering all ingredients in the coconut milk but I find individual cooking produces a much better curry.
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Quilter's Newsletter Magazine May, 1983 part 2
I hope your enjoyed my first blog about my vintage magazines. As time goes on you will find that I will make changes as I learn more how to post blogs and add content to them.
The last half of the magazine has a few more patterns for blocks. The first one is called Gemini Gem. I am kind of partial to this block since I am a Gemini. It is very neat and I haven't seen this block anywhere except on a quilting board where someone posted a picture of one she did and that was in 2008. She paper pieced it and it looks like she did a great job. http://www.quiltingboard.com/pictures-f5/paper-pieced-gemini-gem-block-t11755.html. The article gives us patterns to use and they show 2 different blocks one with double triangles the other with single triangle but that is a lot of cutting and there are
great tools out now that might make it easier.
The other pattern is called Springtime Blossoms. They also called it Hearts and Gizzards or Martha's Choice. I did look around for the title of springtime blossoms but couldn't find anything but I did find info under Hearts and Gizzards. I found a website that sells mini quilts and the quilts are exact replicas that is shown in the article. http://miniquiltkits.com/mini_quilt_kits_hearts_gizzards_quilt.htm. I also found a great youtube tutorial by Kaye Wood. She calls her quilt pinwheel hearts. It is the same quilt and she made it out of black and white fabrics. You can view it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WUIEvQGkYc.
There is an article on Doris Hoover who proclaims to be self-taught (which I do the same). She like to print her own fabrics and there is another article following this one on how to make your own prints. She describes on how to make your own prints the same way we do it today.
To finish up the magazine there is an article call
ed Quilting Bee. It is letters to the editor Bonnie Leman where some r
eadershare their quilts. There are pictures of some great quilts. There is one thing I have noticed in reading all these magazines. Quilter's never run out of ideas. There are so many different quilt designs shared in these magazines as well as my current collection where I don't think I have seen a duplicate quilt. I just get amazed and am in awe of the people who design these every time I look at them.
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A Mondrian dress by iconic French designer Yves Saint Laurent was snapped up on Thursday, star lot of a vintage sale held half a century after his fashion house was founded.
A Mondrian dress by iconic French designer Yves Saint Laurent was snapped up on Thursday, star lot of a vintage sale held half a century after his fashion house was founded.
The slate-blue crepe dress worn in 1933 by Eleanor Roosevelt at her husband's inauguration ball and Michelle Obama's white silk chiffon gown are among treasures on display at a new first ladies' exhibit in Washington.
Once fashion accessories rather than tools for confronting the weather, fans and gloves as old as 700 years are getting their day in the sun with a new exhibit at Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts (MAK).
A collection of dresses and other wardrobe treasures worn by Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn -- along with the scooter she immortalised in her breakout role in "Roman Holiday" -- goes on display Wednesday in Rome.
The dress worn by the former Kate Middleton when she married Prince William fueled a surge in regal tourism with 600,000 flocking to see the gown on display at Buckingham Palace, it emerged Tuesday.
"Let them eat cake," Marie Antoinette is famously quoted as saying, but the 18th century fashionista, had she lived today, may well have said, "Let them wear Lacroix."
Italian fashion label Gucci, marking its 90th anniversary, inaugurated a museum in Florence Monday, showcasing the luggage and high-end clothing that have fueled the company's success.
Byron Yiu once eked out a living by hawking sunglasses at a Hong Kong street stall, but has made his fortune by turning traditional shopping habits around and re-selling rich women's luxury handbags.
North Korea's imports of luxury goods for its ruling elite have surged in recent years despite chronic food shortages and international sanctions, a South Korean lawmaker said Monday.North Korea spent $272.1 million in 2008, $322.
Those whose idea of ultimate luxury is a Ferrari car or a Louis Vuitton bag may have to add a green paradise, vials of cosmetic treatments and a Barbie doll to their wish list when they visit a Milan show this week.
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired 69 original photographs by noted fashion photographer Herb Ritts, a collection valued at nearly $1 million, the museum said Thursday.
An exhibit in New York of the works of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide last year, will close this weekend at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a smash-success run.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is extending the hours of its wildly popular Costume Institute exhibition featuring the work of late designer Alexander McQueen.
It was the best kept secret of the royal wedding, but now the Alexander McQueen dress worn by the former Kate Middleton when she married Prince William is being put on public display for all to admire.
A pleat is just a pleat -- unless, of course, your name was Madame Gres. Some 80 flowing creations from the artist, who died in 1993, are on display this summer at the Musee Bourdelle in the French capital.


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Congratulations Madam, it's a phone
Now that the cat is out of the box, I can finally tell you a bit more about this project. You probably have seen all the press releases, so I don't need to recap what you can expect out of it as a user. This is about what's in for you as a developer, because this is what has attracted me so much as well. Please note though that I'm not speaking officially for FIC here — this is my personal take on the project.
For years, the embedded open source community has been lusting for a hackable phone. A lot of (more or less successful) open source efforts went around putting Linux on hardware running WindowsCE based operating systems. All in all most of these were frustrating experiences, because reverse engineering is just a terrificly time consuming approach and by the end of the day, it's of questionable legalty as well. If you really manage to put Linux on a phone without the help of a manufacturer it will take you so long that by the time you're done, it has been already obsoleted. This has happened a lot of times in the past and we want to change it — since although the work being sort of educating and fun (at times), it's a lot of wasted effort that most of us would rather spend working on actual applications.
Up to today, there is nothing like an open phone available. Instead, most of the so-called "open source friendly" manufacturers are trying to lock you out — by using SElinux, booting signed kernels only, etc. The FIC Neo1973 is different.
The partnership with FIC is a unique opportunity for developers who care about projects like GPE, Opie, OpenEZX, XanaduX, and friends, since it enables us to make a phone software stack done exactly the way we like it — "bottom-up" standardization instead of doing it "top-down". The OpenEmbedded community has quite a lot of experience when it comes to integration issues and this is why the OpenMoko distribution will be an OpenEmbedded derived Linux distribution.
GUI-framework wise, it has been an easy choice. Most of the application hacker momentum is focused around X11-based frameworks like Gtk+, Qt, wxWidgets, fltk, fox, and the like. There is absolutely no reason to not base your phone GUI framework on one of those toolkits and this is why we chose the X11/Matchbox/Gtk+ combination for this phone platform. Being a strong supporter of C++ and Qt though, I'm very interested in getting this effort to a point where it's possible to write e.g. Qt phone applications that run inside the Gtk+ based UI framework and don't look alien.
Consequently, given a GObject-based C framework, adding language bindings should be a straightforward task as well. FIC has understood that this will be an iterative process. We don't expect to present a fully featured phone when we start shipping it in Q1/2007, but we rather adhere to releasing "early and often". By working together with the open source community guys right from the start, I believe in FIC's smartphone division establishing a solid and healthy relationship. This will hopefully include device discounts for developers as well as listening to us about future hardware platforms. If we manage to make this a successful proof-of-concept open source device, we might be in a position where our wishes about the shape of things and the type of hardware to include in future devices might reach very open ears.
Update: Some clarifications, since I've seen a couple of wrong facts on various sites:
- It got a micro-SD-slot and a SIM-card slot (of course, hey… it's a phone)
- It's got a headphone socket.
- The only proprietary bits are the GSM modem part (which is not even running on the application processor, but on a seperate certified TI module) and something for the assisted GPS. We have Harald 'Mr. GPL' Welte on board, so rest assured that everything that can be open actually _is_ open.
- I am 'a' (aka one of three) founder of OpenEmbedded, not _the_ founder.


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The Golden Trowel is a Lodge's formal recognition of a Brother for his devoted service to Masonic principles in general or to his Lodge. It is intended to recognize the Brother who, year after year, quietly, but actively demonstrates his devotion to the teachings of Masonry without thought of recognition or special honors.
Every Lodge has such members. They spread the living cement that builds our Fraternity into a true brotherhood. You will find them at labor in the kitchens, on the work committees, in public office, on community projects, in service clubs, heavily involved in their church activities and in schools – anywhere that a true and steady hand of assistance is needed.
It is those Master Craftsmen that the Golden Trowel Award is designated as the highest Award a Lodge can bestow an individual member. Only one Golden Trowel Award can be bestowed each year if there is a deserving Mason. This year, we honor one such deserving Mason, Brother Sam Tiner.
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